U.S. PLAN FOR PALESTINE

Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1948, Page 5

U.S. PLAN FOR PALESTINE

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Reeeived Tlrarsday, Midnight. / NEW YORK, April 8. Foreign sonrees reported today that the American plan for & United Nations trusteeship over Palestine would exclude Russia from any voice in governing the Holy Land, says the United Press eorrespondent at Lake Suecess. .These sources said the United States was working towards a ■ programme whieh* woul'd^ place American, British and French representatives mi the prineipal governing hody for Palestine for a five-year period.' Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and another Arab State had indicated priv ately to Washington that they would accept the American formula. Diplomats prof essing to. know the American plan said it would set up a 14-member council .under a United Nations Governor- ({ eneral. This governing body would be composed of five Moslem Arabs, two Christian Arabs, four-Jews and representatives 'of theUnited States, Britain and Franee. To establish the legal groundwork for the -Western Powers ' participation it is said that the United States would refer to the deelaration of 1920 under whieh the Allied Powers in World War 1 set up the League of Nations' mandates system, and that Britain, the United States and Franee as the Powers whieh devised the mandate system were heirs to the-Palestine mandate when Britain ended the role of administrator. It is reported that the plan would let the Jews dominate 011 only 1700 squar'e miles against 5500 under the United Nations' partition plan. • _ .