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1 pr~e that the Securlty Council will associate itself with Mr. Bemadotte's statement. In this connexion 1should like to put a question to the Mediator. As far as is known, the guard force which went to Palestine·consisted mainly of citizens of the l.J11ited States, France,BelgiUm and Sweden. How did Norwegiansbldierscoli)e . to be among them? The questionîs 'allthe m0l'e pertinent since, when we weredealfug withthe question of observe!::"we were told that fiveUSSR observers could not beadmitted because if they were, ather nations would make the same I;equest. Now it appears that other States.'are involved. How did that happen? • .. Mr. Hoo (Assistant Secretary-General' in charge of the Department of Trusteeship): Mr. Bakke, the deceased, was not one of those observers sent by thecountries·the President has me..l1tioned. He WaJ ,a memùer of the United Nationsguards, one of those fift}r guardswhohad volunteered and had beensent to.Palestine. He was a member of the staff of the United Nations long before he went to Palestine. He ,waS,.therefore, not one of those observ~ who were 'sent later. . General McNAUGHTON (Canada):. 1 should lïke. ta say a.few wordsin.regardto the report which has just been made by the Mediator, that a member of the United Nations guard, Mr. Bakke, was ..killedon. 13 July •. while on,·duty for theUni~ Nationson MOUIl!Soopu!.. ' . Ifee1 sure tJtatthe SeeurîtfCoùncilwill wish tel convey to Mrs. Bakke and'herfanilly our.de~p­ est sympathy. The SecurilYCot,meil,1 feel sure, will alsowishto registera deep sense ofgratittIde . ... for bis self-sacrifice in the cause 'oLduty to the United Nations. ' . . f~illy, of rival bullets in Palestine; and indeed the Council has a right to ir.sist that all concemed in Palestine should show at al1 times the highcst respect and concern witS regard to those who have !>een placed in autho..;ty by the United Nations for the purpose of restoring and maintaining peace. We must insist that the fIag and the persons of the representatives of the United N8Itionsbe given aIl respect in fact and at aIl tîmes. The PimsmÉNT (translated trom Russian): The Security Council takes note of fut:; statement of the representative of Canada;. but, as 1 have pointed out befoi"e, ït has already declared its views onthis matter. . 176. ContinuQtionof the dis(:ussion en the Palestine question Ma1uhoud Bey FAWZI (Egypt): l do not h~ve much to add to what 1 said yesterday [335th meéting]. First of all,".1 wish to speak of the amendment [8/895] presented by the United Kingdom ddegation to the proposaI made by the" United. States delegation [8/890]. "The Unifed Kingdom amendment, 1 am sarry to s:.'\y, has faults both of omission and COnnn.1ssion. Ou the one han.d, it fails to. mention anything about Zionist violations of the cea~e-fire. Th()se violations ~ only too well-kn.own to all pie.sent and represented here. . RonIy mentions what are purportedto be suc- ' cessive rejectionsby the Arabsof all the appeals of the Security Council and of,the Mediator for a renewaI. of the cease-fire. In that way,. itfails to maintain, asL respectful1ysubmitthat it ~ should, the necessary equilibrium which must be kept in mind when we, make a resolution, especiallyone of such irilportance ~ we have belore us now. Speaking. of the purported Arab rejeclions of arenewal of the cease-fire, Ipersonally knowof onIy one case in which the Arabsdeclined torenew or to accept a cease-fire. Itwasiather a matter of dela,yand not·r~y of rejectioll and' now,as 1said yesterday, the Arabs are still co~id­ ering their answer to the Mediator's appeaI for an um:onditional ce!lse-fire for ten days [8/878]. .The.Mediatordidnot gay in his statement on .thispomt that tlte Arabs had rejected,the appeal for an unconditionaI cease;,firefor'ten ~a'ys.' He i cannot speak on this point without mention-' ing again our difficulties in co~exion wi~ a renewal of a cease-fire. These difficulties cannot .he sufficiently emphasized. It is recognizedor, at lea.st, it should be recognized by all~·that if we are to ask the Arabs, in faimess, in justice and in. IJractical common sense, to accept the renewal of a cease~fire, we must make such acceptance within the range of possibilities. We cannot ask people to sit still with themhands and .feet , tied while their position deteriorates against their vital. interests. Until now, 1 have been waiting forsomecommentary, especially from the Mediator, in connexion with the ways and means by wl,ich'we can make a cease-fire, or·arenewal of a.cease-fire, just and practicable and qnpr.ejudi:- cial to either of the two sides. 1 have not even heard how we canin pracuce accomplish even an approacli to such an idea. 1 still will be very grateful tohear some commentary, and 1c-onside.r it very essential forany resolution t1}.at the Coun- 'cil:may venture to adoptin connexion with the cease-fire. We cannot do it before we know in our minds andin our hearts that this would be, at least r€latively speaking, a; fair cease-fire. Speàking from the Arab point of view, 1 .would· saynot only relatively speaking, but that we must do what iS practically the impossible in order to makè'it an aotuaUy fair cease-fire. Indications are, and fac~ are, that the Zionists havedefinitely 3.ndvery·substantiallyprofited by the.ceasé-fireof four weeks \Vhichhas just elapsed. It isreco~edthatas a result of their violations of the conditions of the cease-fire, they have intro-, ducedintoPalestine a very'trernendous ainount of war material andgreat nu.mbers of fighting' personllel. It isrecognized, for example, that the Altalena incident is probably--. or rather, certainly-. not·.an isolated incident,.and that it is a typic~ incident and an example of what h~ been taking place. Wesee theneWspapers of y~terday-.1•. do not take them as doc,u.ments whiclj. 1 iinpose or try.to W1pose on anyone, but merely as'a general indication-carrying statements {rom . the Jemsh side, fromthe Haganah~ and from spme Besides that, it is recognized' that at least 18,000 immigrants have gone to Palestine since the end of the Mandate. When 1 speak of 18,000, 1 say.at least that number, and 1deem that many more than that have gone to Palestine.' What . could be the special significance of this? 1 take as a measure ·of such :.;ignificance\the number of Jews in Cyptus. That number is not very great. There might l'lot he more than 25,000, but among .the 25,000 it is recogni7.ed tha<: there are at least 11,000 of military age. Therefore, when we-speak of. 18,000 goiug to Palestine, weare justified in saying thatprobably somewhere neal 9,000 or 10,000 of them are of militaryage. AIso, speaking of persons of military age, 1 must pause for a moment to say that it is not rèa1ly fair - it is not at aIl jùstto say that we should he s~tisfiedif they are put iuto camps or all0'red to go and work in cÏ'vilian trades, because every person who 'works releasesanother who fights. This is so evident that 1 do not need ta explain it in any detail. Yesterday, we even heard the Mediator ~>.:~s­ ing views.whÎch tended to relax the measures to be taken in the future regarding the control over persons of military age goiIig into Palestine [335th meeting.] This, ~. submit, would orny make matters still more difficult. 1.think that the . Security Council ought ta reaIize the great diffictùty the AIabs wotùd have in accepting a ceasetire uncl.er such .dïsastrous, conditions, disastrous· both to their vital interests and to the matter of peace in the whole'of the Middle East. It'Ïs our responsibility ta make Arab"acceptance of a renewal of the cease-fire possible; we have no,right to ask, and we cannot ask, the Arabs to agreeconsciously to commit suicide. We must ask theql to. co-operate; we are quite entided to do so. We must àsk them to sacrifice to a reasonable extent, even toeXtendthe spiritof co-opera- . tionand sacrifice to great limits; but we cannot . simply ask.tbem to commit·suicide. ,Arabes · Arabes Now 1 shall speak of the USSR amendment [8/896], and 1 shall do so very brieflyindeed. The USSR amendment and the statement made ?y therepresentative of the USSR [336th meetmg], go on as if nothing at all happened since 29 November of ~astyear, as if that resolutionl of $e,General Assemblyl had not'proved to ·be bath unf<irturaate,tû say the least, and unenforceable. TheSecurity Counèil itself has recognized that; bu.t ~till the representative of the USSR finds it posSIblel to assert· here that·we shotùd ae.t as if nothing\had 'happened since 29 November last [336ème s'était comme. si • n'avait fâcheuses, inapplicable. lui-même l'URSS que .nous passé ·s'il s'il ~ear, a:lif no bloodhad been shed, as if no strife nad tabn. place, as if theSecurity Council·had taken no d,ecisions later, either on 17 April It remaimfor me tospeak of the Chïnese ·amendment [8/897] to the resolution proposed hy the delegation' of the United States. This amendment,Tamglad to n<?te,gues in the right direction. It·is a constructive amendn:ient; it is a fair amendment; it is nota one-sidedamendment. 1 submit,.however, thit it·dofs notgo far enough in this proper direction...l mould have liked tosee·the.representanve of China go further in. hispious attempt tore~establishequiUibrium in the United Statesresolution. SpeakiIlg generally about. the whole posItion which we are fazing at,this moment, 1 should Iike to recall, ,and to remindeveryone cise if 1 may, that the so~called Government. or Jewish Government in Palestine 1S only a Jew weeks old andhas e.,'ililtedinonly a. desu1t0rY Uld.fragmentarywz..y. This is no basis, sinee injustice,. intrusion and aggression could not bebases underthe Charter, for esmblishinga Stite. It is.only too evident that what is' happening now, in Palèstine.is. the result of a world-wide Zionist conspiracyto wrest away, to taie by .force'and consolidate byintrigue à -State wmch has been raade out of nothingout of nothing,whenwe speakoi rightsand the hest interests .of peace .•and.' justice~ It is nota mere' handful of immigrants, of women and children, who are causingall the troublem Palestinè, who have beenbattling the. fotces. of •the Mandatory Power throughout the.quarter a!.a ceritury that the Mandate existed. It is. fightingpersonnel; .it , is war material; itis support ina tremendous way byworld-wideZionists who collect, espedally in the. United States, hundreds ofmillions of dollarsofpublicized aidfor the Jewsin Palestine. And the amount ofwar,matèï9.~·'andfighting' personnelthat is·not published Lu the papers.is very great indeed. Our difficu1ty .is notonlywith ' theJews!n Palestine; OUl' difficuîty is With world- . a,See ODicialllecorœ of thêSecondspetials~sion0' the· General AlSembly, Supp'ement N(). 2, Resplutions, No. ISE- (8-2). 'Résolutions, We cannot'look at the so-called Govemment which, in a fragmentary way 1 repeat, pretends to be estrtblished ID Palestine and just raise upour hands in despair or in abdication and say "Weli, this is the situation which we face". - In this connexion, permit me to look around the Security Council table. Whom do 1 see? With the exception of the representatives of countries of the two Americas, 1see here representatives of countries wmch during the war were invaded or about to be invaded, were overrun and ruled by Hitler and his gang. Fi'at"lCc, China, Belgiuni, the Ukraine, the USSR - they were an overrun by Hitler and his associates. All of thC;T' countries, or a great part ofthem, were ruled by the Nazis andtheir associates, not for days; not for' weeks or mon~, but for years; and,Hitler claimed tha1; he was going toset up not only a ruIe over Europe butover the whole ":VorId. Would it have been righrfor non':'participants in tlte struggle to recogni~e Hitler's domination over those lands? The United Kirigdom, if 1 am correctly informed, at one moment during the struggle had the intent~on of moving i1:3 forces to Canada. or ta SO!!le other wch place andfighting from there. Granted that my information is correct - and it mightbe Correct - would it have been right, just for argument's sake, làr outsiders to recognize Hitler'p :-,ûe over the United Kingdom? If tllli; 58 not true, would it have been right for them to recognize Hitler's ruleover France, over Belgium, over the Ukraine? That was no provisional Govemment; it was a rial Govemment. It' was compiete ,dominàtion and subjugation, especially. in such countries as Belgium and the Ukraine. Still, outsiders; in faimess, did not recognize any rule of the Nazis and their associates over anyland they conquered andruled. ... It,~ fair that 1 be. asked to offer '~cmething constructive and not mercly to cri~cize.Itisquite reasonable to ask this of nie. If 1 am allowed tv say ~methingabout the way in which we' havê beel]- hancllingthis, question in~e United . Nations~1shouldsay that 1think that although in somecases llvehaye oied to be anu have been constructivt;;;~ intrta,ny cases, p~rh~ps in. MOst c~es, wehavenot been constructive. 1 say this Wlth aRdue respectboth to the General Assembly a;nd the Secuiity Council. We have evaded ques~ tionsmore.,than we' have faced' them. In our hearts andminds" weknew very weIl that.' we could not build on inj~tice or short-sightednessy ona policy of merely sowing the sèeds of strife How can we say that, intemationaUy speaking, there is an aggression, before we decide whether there is aState against which aggression has been committed? How can we do it? By what right èan we do it? Speaking for the constructive side, one thing that we should do, and without any. hesitation, is to try our best to clarify our conception"of the present status of Palestine. We cannot proceed right away on the supposition that there is a State in Palestine against which aggression has been committed, before re!Ù1y knowing that such aState does actuaUy exista Our position - the Arab position - is as 1 have stated several times before, basèd not only on the fact that peace in the Middle East has been disturbed by Zionist aggression, but aIso and equa11y on the fact tbat we have been invited to extinguish the tire in Palestine. by t.'l1e vast majority of the lawfulpeople of Palestine. We did not go there merely of our own accord; we did not go there as intruders. We went ther~ upon the repeated and unequivocal invitation of the majority of the la'Wiul people of Palestine. How then can we be cai1~1 aggressors and disturbers of the peace, unless a decision has been taken on whether, :intemationa11y speaking, there is aState against which. an act of aggression has taken place? How then can one, in fainiess, justice and common sense, say that we went there to disturb the peace,.while our real intention and our continued intention is to do our duty regarding the re-establishment of order in Palestine. 1 .would repeat something which did not appeal to the Jewish side, but 'which, aU the same, is true. Tsaid before, and 1 say again, that when a house in the middle of our houses is burning" and the tire is spreading, we cannot afford to sit still while that is gÇling on and w,pile the United :t'~ations is hardly moving afinger to put out the me. That tire cl'ln only be put out if we . feel that the United Nationsis proceeding on the 1J.asis of justice.and fair play. I hope it will pmceed on such a basis. même résolution soient c:o;;er proposition de ment peuple protéger poursuit Elle nouvelle france For the time being we do'not wish to apply Chapter VII of the Charter. We are afraid that we may have to retrcat at the very moment when circumstances indicate an advance. We are therefore opposed ta çoercive measures. Moreover, we do not wish ta abandon the position which we adoptedin this matter from the beginning and which calls for the most complete impartiality. We have maintained that impartiality up to the present time and we shall continue to maintain it. But, we are opposed to war and we ~~ot refrain from votin,g once more in favour of a cessation of hostilities. To that end, and since we , do not wish to participate in the adoption of" ineasures authorized in Chapter VII, we request that the proposaI of +'~.; United States should be - put to the vote, paragraph by paragraph, and by' parts within each.paragraph.For that purpose we·shall iiubmit ta the Secretariat a copy of the proposaI in question, with indications of the division which we request shouldbe made at the time the vote is taken. . But before enrling this statement, 1 shouidlike ta refert~ i:wo points in particular. We fully support the proposal of the United States in so far as it concems the City of Jeru- ~ale~. We believe that we are expressing the feelingso~the peoples of Americ:am genetal, and of the Argentine nation in particular, when we ~.ta. save the Holy City from the destruction which. is taking place in the rest of the territory of Palestine.' Jerusalem héU! already undergone enough suffering . and any further:·. destruction caused by war would only add ta the suffering We be1ieve that the demilitarization proposed bythe United States coincides exact1y with the proposal of the representative of the USSR, since the demilitarization of Jerusalem requires the withdrawal of the forces of both parties. In the second place - and we should lite to emphasize this point - we should like to retain aU the provisions which have been subrnitted with a view to strengthening the authority of the Mediator. Not only do we consider it a duty to express our compk.te confidence in him, but also we wish ta put at bis disposal aIl the powers and the force necessary for the adequate fulfilment of the functions entrusted to him by the General Assembly on 14,May 1948. Faced with the concrete fact that it was imposcible to implement the. recommendation of 29 November 1947, the General Assembly, at its second special session, decided to entrust the possible solution of the conflict to the Mediator. As President of that last Assembly, 1 cannot aild ought not to vote in· favour of any resolution wmch .reduces the power of the Mediator and diminishes the possibility that the representative of the Uni~edNations, the Mediator, might attain the most complete success which will reflect not only on him but ~o on the Organization which appointed him. Previo1.1sly, in regard to Indonesia,: 1 stated that 1 ha';e greater faith in the good offices of a man or of a commission acting on the s!>'l)t than in the wisdom of th~ diplomats who art.~ membe7.'S of this honourable Council. In both cases world pèace is the aim;,but in this Council po1itic~ come into play and this may leàd us to negleG1: excellent 0pp<?rtpnities for success. In applauding the i.lpartial conduct of the Mediator and in supporting the maximum authority for him in bis future task, 1 cannot but add - for the last time 1 hope - that there is one way in which this conflict mightquickly come to an end. 1 take the liberty of recalling it today to the Council as the Qest expression of my deepest conviction. May Arabs and Jews reach an agreement, taking advantage of the good offices of the Mediator! Both sides would' reap the benefits. Let them not believe in the illusion of a possible triumph by force! Sooner or later the vittor, precisely because of bis victory, Will have to give account of the advantages whichhe obtained, for· which the vanquished will· never forgive him. 1 repeat: the worst ~ett1ement is preferable to the greatest triumph, because it will serve as the baSis for a just and therefore a lasting pe2:ce. The United Nations and the whole world will value the effort they exert if they reach seulement. Let them. not forget. that the United Nations and the whole world will IDways be more The Argentine delegation will therefore cast its vote on the various clauses submitted for our consideration in accordance with these directives which come from a Government which desires peace and \\ill work tirelessly to achieve a peace as just as possible. Mr. EL-KHOURI (Syria): When 1 asked to speak 1 had'not heard the speech of the representative of Egypt,. and in fact he has covered most of the points which 1 intended to raise. For this l'eason, 1 shaIl not repeat what he has said but shall simply refer to certain complçmentary platters which 1 think should now be known. ln the first place, 1 should like to refer to certain passages in the speech made yesterday by the repl'eser..tqtive of France [336th meeting], in which he said that my proposal [8/894] to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice was inadequate or unnecessary ln the . present stage of our business. He referred at the same time to tIle precedent established in August last year when a similar proposal [8/517] was submitted b,l' the representative of Belgium [193rd meetir~g] in the caJe,of Indon~ia. 1 should like to remind the representative of France that there are c~rtain differences and distinctions between i:he two cases. The first is that the representative of Belgium at that time wanted ta ask the International Court of Justice for an opinion on his contention regarding the competence of the Security Cauncil te deal with the matter; and the second difference 'is that in that case we were acting under Chapter VI of the Charter and not under C~apter VII. . avis Furthermore, at that time, we did not have the resolution of' the General Assembly concerning the use of t.lte lnternational Court of Justice' for the interpretation of the Charter and aIl· matters will. legal aspects. At that time, it is true, 'the BelgifUl proposaI was.defeated. But our case is not !he same thing. It is now intended that the Seçur- Ity Counc:il, for thefirst timesince it was constituted, should act under Chapter VII of the Charcer. There is a greatdifference between mediation, arbitratidn, consultation and other me:ms U1').de... Chapter VI of the Charter, md action· under Chapter VII bf the Charter. l'he, Indonesian ase did not inc!ude such important mattersanci. responsibilities as are to he undertaken by the Security CouncU in this case, the époque, sur le recours à même Charte dique'. Belgique chose de tion, agisse II mçdiation,l'arbl'xage, moyens d'une Ch~pitre ne . 1 say that the international status of Palestine .should he determined in sorne way before we act· in such a manner. Has the Security Couneil passed any resolution or tak"n any decision defin- ing the international status 01 Palestine? Has it ..taken any steps to find out wh~t would be in con- formity with the Charter and the functions of the Security Couneil? The Security Counèil has not taken any'decision in this ·matter. It has not cven diEcussed it. It has nQt even considered the question of the international status of Palestine, and it is absolùtely necessary for that to be known before we pass.on to other steps in the matter. Is Palestine to be considered as one State? Is it ta be considered as one sovereign State, or as a non- self-governing territory; or is it composed of two independent sovereign States? Is there any answer to that? If it is still a non-self-governing territory, re1inqu!shed by the Mandatory Power, the situa- tion differs. The question then becomes this: how to create a Government in Palestine and to what extent is the SecurityCouneil expected to deal with this matter? We must know these things. There is no resolution of the Security Couneil ç>r any other international organ which could beconsidered as a sound basis for saying that there is a Jewish State in Palestine with full sovereignty, powers of legislation and 50 on. On what basis is that being done? Palestine, as wc have said, was a non-self-goveming territory, mandated by the League of Nations. When the Mandate was temiinated, it should have been, quite dear that,automatically, the rightof self- determination should be resumed by the popula- tion of Palestine. In order to proceed along the right path, it is necessary that all thepG~tsbefore US shouldbe clear. The Intemational Court of Justice ought to be asked to give its opinion. As 1 said, we ought to put the question very simplY. Whatis the intemational status of'Palestine after . the termination of the Mandate, in view of. the facts that· it .was mandated territory und~ the Covenant of the League of Nations; and that we nowhave the Charter of the United Nations,'1:he ~o.l1tion,of the General'Assembly of 29 l':ioyçm". ber, and the.other resolution of 14 May, and that wehave .several resolutions of .the Security Couneil? Al1.o~these documentsshouldbe put l:kf()re~eIIlternationalCourtof justlcefor its legal.opinion on ..the actual intemational status of Palestine. ------ . Itcannot.be'said thatthere.isanaggression on the Parto! the Arabs, .becauseaggression· is.well definedinour Charter as the use of f~rce byone state against anotherstate..We must·know what the othersta"'~,'and what its legal and intema..; tional status 3JltlPosition is..We would not act wisely, '1 believe,werewe tonegleet tà .referthis The second point,I wish to make is the follow- ing: the first paragraph of the United States resolution [8/890] to which'1 ref~ed in a pre- vious statement [334th' meeting], considers the Arabs guilty of, declining to prolong th~ trucè period. I~aid, at that time, that they did not decline without reason. This,proposal, in all of its terms; did not take into consideration the reasons why the 'Arabs declined: Are they justi- fiedin decIining or are they to be blamed; are they to he considered guilty because they did not accept the prolongation of the truce? The Afedia- tor, in bis report [8/888], at least said that there were advantages to one side and that there have been incidents. ' . AIl of this oughtto be taken intq,consideration. We should notconsider the matter in this way, to the. excl~on. of the Arab point of view. At least, if the United States would be fair, it.would substitute for "Taking in~o c~nsideration ••.", the phrase, "Taking into consideration the report of the Meqiator" which comprises every$ing. The report is before us; it is well-known and has been well studied. In .general, we know that when' a physiciari. wishes to prescribe medicine for bis patient, if the dose is bitter and ,difficult to swallow, he ,will find a way to flavour thé bitter dose with other things in order ta make it palatàble. The physi- clan,does not add to. the bitter dosé more than is essential. 1 do not understand. It. is as,if they intend that the truce proposal should be rejected, and th~t they ar~ te1lirig the Arabs,. "Do, not acœpt thistruce;do not accept Qur proposal." Bygiving ordèr's like thatthey are· adding to i~ thîngs whiçh are unacceptàble and which are not consistent with· the provisions and wordings af the Charter. .' Why should it be done in thàt way? 1 do not be1ieve thatthe United Stfltes delegation·W: "'es iuo b~that way. As the representative of CL di sai.d yesterday [335th mee,ting], theresolution has that effectbutI hope that that was not the.inten- tion of the drafters of that resolution. Certainly; there isno reason for it to he·in matform. The iast pâragraphof the United Statesreso- lution reads:, . "Decidesthat, .sl,lbject to fûrther decision by theSecurity Councilor the General Asse'mbly, the tru~ shall remainin force, in.accordancewith the:: prt".'lentresolution. and witIitliat of 29 May In the present situation, l do not see what pressure is ta be put op. the Jews ta make conces- sions or ta compromise with the other party. There is nothing. They are saying that they exer- cise full sovereignty over legislatiun, immigration, etc. They are now in possession of more territory thanthey coveted or expected ta have under the Partition Plan, They now hold the big cities, and they would he allowed to continue ta do so, with- out being molested or opposed in any way., What would push them into making any concession or into coming ta an agreement or yie1ding in. any way? In the case of the Arabs, however, aIl their refugees are scattered here and there; their .coUntry is molested; aIl their rights are taken a'Yay; and they are told that they are simply ta have the chance ta look and seé what the Jews are doing and admire tbeir ability,and activity - and nothing eIse. Is it possible ta ask the Arabs to do that? Do you think you can convmce them ta accept such an idea? The representative of China gave ~ ~ SDL'\ll ray of hope, of confidence in this respect, when he stated [336th meeting] that one of the objectives of the Security Council should he that bath paJ;ties' should agree, with the aid of the Mediator, on a political solution of the Palestine question and on the question of impûgration. Thcse are points which ought to be Scttled. The Jews should be put on th~same level as the other side and pressed . to come ta a settlement. ' 1 do not think that it'is equitable for the United States dClegation to put its draft resol\ltion in its present forme There is no referenceat aIl ta tlie political solution of th~ problem' of Palestine in this resolution; only those words which ref~ tb the resolution of the Security Council of29 May. There is nothing in the last paragraph ta explaîn why they did not instruct bath partieS sa that, if no a:greement were reached in conjunctionwith . 1 do not think wc can entertain any hope that such a resolution will be accepted by the Arabs, à resolution which gives them orders aI}d treats them as aggressors. The Arabs believe that they are not aggressors, but they are defending their rights and they are attacking a certain aggression or invasion made against their territory. In the present situation, 1 can entertain no hope that there will be any result. If there were no result in response to this order, what next? What are we going to do? ' We have to think othis matter over and to see whethe.r we are empowered, ta use'force and coercionin.this calle.without ddining the interna- tional status of Palestine. Otherwise, we shalI be working in the dark and adopting a wrong course of action. This is. not the way' to establish or restore the confidencè of the world, especially of the small n~tions,in the justice of the attitude of the Security Couneil and in its desire carc:i'ully to keep within the provisions of the Charter. The S\'lcurity Council says tliat this is a violation of the Charter. 1 do not know how this can be a viola- tion of the Charter, nor do 1 wish now to repeat aU the other incidents occurring in the world todayin which violation of the Charter is evident.

The next meeting ,of the Security Council'will he held at 3.30 p.m. . . . ' The meeting rosellt 1.20 p.m. THREE HUNDRED ANDfHIRTY·EIGHTH ME~TING "eld at Lake SUccess~ New York, on Thursday, 15 July 1948,.flt 3.30 l'J.m. President:Mr. D. MANUILSKY (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). Present: The representatives of· the following countries: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, France, Syria, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of. Soviet Socialist ~epub1ics, United Kingdom, United States of America.' .