SMALL POWERS WANT TO SEE CLEARCUT PLAN

Chronicle (Levin), 23 March 1948, Page 5

SMALL POWERS WANT TO SEE CLEARCUT PLAN

Received Monday, *5 p.iu. NKW YORK, Ylarcb 21. The small Potters of United Nations nmy withliold support for the n:\\ Ameriean proposal for a Palestine tru.s teeship until tlie rnited States lays down a elear-cut plan for enforcing it. The move, it is reported, is being niade by a do/en or so small nation.-, which relueiantly voted for partition in the Ueneral Asseinbly in Novembo: beeause the I'nited States insisted tha partition was the only way out of th Hoiy Land dilemma. The i-ountries in Ivolved in the demand for fnll details o, {the Ameriean plan ntclude Kew Zea land, Anstralia, Biazil, the. Philippine-;, Belgiuni, Luxembourg and the Xetlmrlands. Thev are expeeted to mahe spe- ' eilic demands when the Generui j Asseinbly convenes — probablv in April j— to consider the Aineric.an proposal. | Ameriean otiieials were ronfident tV 'day of the eventual approval of their iuew jioliey and they appeared deter j miiied to pul it tli rough the Seeurit c jt'ouneil — where the Big Five veto applies — instead of skirting'a possible Soviet veto by appealing direetly to I'nited Nations members at a speci.il Assernbly meeting. It is eonsldered that, even if Russia vetoed a eall for au Asseinbly session and the proposal that the Palestine t 'piiuuission eease its work, the A nite-. 'States wouhl then invoke other articRs of the I'nited Nations ('barter and gain a speeial Asseinbly session.