Arabs Do Not Favour U.N. Volunteer Police Force
Received Friday, 11.45 a.m. NEW YORK, April 29. The Arab Higher Committee today refuted the idea of a United Nations volunteer police force for Jerusalem, but said the Arabs would not fire on members of the force if they were sent to the Holy City. The Jewish Agency endorsed the proposal but warned that it would require several thousand men to protect all of Jerusalem and its holy places. Today's discussion by the Trusteeship Council was aimed at broadening the Jewish- Arab
truce for Jerusalem's walled city, tc cover all Jerusalem. Jamal el Husseini, of the Arab Commitee, said: "We cannot rely on any assurance that foreign troops won't be used for political purposes outside of the protection of Jerusalem." In a further debate in political committee today, the United States denied reports that she was planning a new shift in Palestine policy and said she still favoured an indefinite trusteeship as the best solution for Palestine's problems. Iraq proposed that the trusteeship be" limited to one -or two years and that the vital question of Jewish immigration be held in abeyance until the trusteeship ended. Both the Trusteeship Council and the political committee adjourned till tomorrow.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 April 1948, Page 5
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