Enforcement of Palestine Partition

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26616, 12 November 1947, Page 5

Enforcement of Palestine Partition

AGREEMENT BY AMERICA Rec. 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 10. The United States and Russia agreed “ in principle ” ' to-day on the Soviet compromise plan for the enforcement of the Palestine partition but there are still many details to be worked out and there is no indication that Britain will agree. The plan was submitted to a small working group of the Palestine Committee which has been meeting privately. The two main points on which the United States and Russia agree in principle are, first, the British mandate should end on May 1, 1948; secondly, that the Assembly elect a United Nations commission of three or five members, excluding the five big Powers, to supervise the administration of Palestine until the proposed Arab and Jewish States become independent. The Russians proposed, first, that British troops should be withdrawn by May 1, 1948; secondly, that the transitional period in which Palestine would be administered by the United Nations commission should end on July 1, 1948; thirdly, that the commission should be under the Security Council’s authority. The vital point at issue which still remains is the American objection to the third proposal. An American spokesman said after the meeting that the United States felt strongly that the relationship between the proposed commission and the Security Council should be explicitly defined beforehand and that the commission should not continually have to ask the Security Council for instructions.