AMERICA'S MOVE SURPRISES
NEW YORK, -March 20. An earlier message stated that in a
stirprise Inove 011 Friday, the United | States asked the United Nations to ■ shelve the plan to partition Palestine ind t.o call an iiiunediate session or Jie Gcneral Assembly to establish a temporary trusteeship for the Uoly Land. - j Ml\ Gromyko (Russia) immediateiy I assa-ilfid t-he proposal as a contradication j of tlie Assembly 's decision last year. lle said the Soviet could give neither direct nor indirect assent to the plani He- would aslt Moscovv for 111structions, 'and uutil he received them _ he could not diseusa the substance or the pl'oposal. The American plan was laid before a meeting of the Big Five.b.v -Mr. Warren Austin (United States). after, the Security Uouncil, "at a morning. meeting, had heard a report fr.om lmn that the United States, Russia, Uluna, and France considered the Couneit should act immediateiy t.o restore peace iti Palestine. France aud Uhina indicated t.hat they would agree xo the latest Auiericau proposal. Britain, who had not participated in the Big Power deliberations, had no comment to offer.
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Chronicle (Levin), 22 March 1948, Page 5
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