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l fully agree with the a~swer the President has given to the representative of the United Kingdom. However, in view of the ext;-eme importance of the answers that General Bennike may he called upon to give to questions put to hirrl, v;G~dit not be advisable to agree beforehand that the General would not be obliged toanswer atonte? 4. The PRESIDENT: l think itgoes withoutsaying thatthe General may answer at once if he feels hecan

l think that would be a very good procedure. , 7. Sir Gladwyn JEBB (United Kingdom): The first question l wish toask is the following: On 19 October 1953, the Prime Minister of Israel broadcast a statement on the Qibya incident in which he denied that 600 men of the Israel defence forces took part in; the action against the village and said that investigation showed that not a single a..-my unitwas a.bsent from its base Olt the night in question. Has General Bennike any comments to make on that statement? 8. Question No. 2: Two nights 1>efore the Qibya incident, alleged infiltrators kiiled. woman and two children by throwing a hand grenade mto a house in the Israel village of Yahud. It has been alleged that this may have provoked the retaliatory raid on Qibya, Would General Bennike tell us what l'teps were taken to clear up this earlier incident and whether the Jordan authorities were co-operating in any way? 9. Ouestion No. 3: General Bennikehas remarked upon....the efficacy of the local commanders' agreement. Would he say if this i5 considered by bath sides to be of val!1e? 10. Question No. 4: Would the Chief of Staff say that, since this agreement was signed early in June 1953, there has been until recent1y and on the whole an improveÏnent in the situation in the Jordan-Israel boundary areas? 11. Question N0.5: l understand that the local commanders' agreement is for three months only and can be denounced by either sidewithout notice. Does General Bennike consider that it would be useful for the agreement to form part of a more permanent system; in particular, that the Mixed Arri1Îstice Commission should be consulted before its denunciation or non-renewal by either side? 12. Ouestion No. 6: In bis statement, in paragraph 40 of thë630th meeting of the Security Council, General Bennike said that no deta.iled arrange1llents were made at wo meetings of police officers held in July. vVhat importance does he attach to improved contacts between the police on either side of the border? ~ 13. Question No. 7: Would General Bennike explain exact1y how the observer corps at· his disposaI works? Docs--he believe that there are enough observers? Have they adequate transport and communicap.on? Are they based in Jerusalem or do theycover the whole frontier? Could the Chief of Staff say whether in ms view the observer corps could suitably be stt:engthened and, if so, how? ' -

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l should be glad if the procedure followed in respect of the questions asked by Sir Gladwyn Jebb could also be followed in respect of mine, and an e~act interpretation gi,ven of each question as it is put. 17. The PRESIDENT: That procedure' will be followed. 18. Mr. HOPPENOT (France) (translated from French): l should like to ask General Bennike some questions ~f a rather more general nature that t..lIose put by the United Kingdom representative. It is quite possible that the replies to several of these questions niay be found i~ the copious, documentation on the Israel problem which all the delegations have at their dis"osal, but these replies may be scattered over a la.o • number of documents and a number of years, and 1 think it would be most helpful if General Bennike could give brief replies to these questions and even relate them to some extent to the events which have led to this meeting. 19. My first questionis :Can General Bennike tell the Couneil, \Vith a iew details, how the various bodies subordinate to the Truce Supervision Organization, in particular the Mixed Armistice Commissions such as the Jordan-Israel commission, are operating at present? ' jordano~sraélienne? 20. nous désirer s'il réforme 21. dire ment sont particulièrement ment 22. partie J comment la trêve, quel est le peuvent et ces s'ils la 23. que notre janvier certainement, sous tiques eu contexte bien 20. My second question is: Could General Benllike inforin us whether in his opinion there is anything lacking in the operation of the various organs and whether he could make any suggestions with a view to improving their organization? 21. Third question: Could the General tell us to what "extent the parties are com"lying with the commission's decisions of which they have been notified? Needless to say, l am leaving aside the particularly serious cases to which it hq.s been possible to draw the Council's attention directly. 22. My fourth question is very similar to the last one asked by. Sir Gladwyn Jebb. My delegation is very anxious to know how the s~pervision of the truce is actually organized, how many obsenrers are at General Bennike'sdisposal, what active measures these observers can themselves take, how soon after an incident has occurred these observers are able to intervene, and whether they always receive from the local authorities the assistance and co-operation to which they are entitled. 23. Fifth and ( last question: The statistics which General Benuikeh~provided in his report cover only the period frotI! 1 January to 15 October 1953. l think i!t wouldcertainly be in the Council's interest to have In a shorter and less detailed fonn statistics relating to the truce violations which have occurred during the preceding years to which we must more or less c10sely relate the events which have been 'dèscribed to us. In' particular,.could General Bennike tell us the number of truee violations whichhave been reporte4 to the com-

I sup?ose that Major General Bennike will request the same delay with rt''3pect to the answers to these questions because they are similar in nature. '; 25. Mr LODGE (United States of America): I also have a few questions that I would liketo ask: 26. First, cou1d General Bennike describe more fully the operational procedures which are followed under the local commanders' agreement? 27, Second, can General Bennike supply information indièatffig the extent of the material damage Israel has suftered from infiltration? 28. (fhird, does the Truce Supervision Organization have:information as to the extent of the organization of infiltration? 29. Fourth, what material damage was there ta the village and its inhabitants as a result of the Qibya incident? 30. Mr. KYROU (Greece): I have only one question to put to the Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. My question enlarges somewhat upon the seventh question put by therepresent.ative of the United Kingdom and refers to the ~dvisability of strengthening the observer.corps. Wou1d General Bennike find it advisCiole ta strengthen this corps in such away as to permit it ta play a preventive Tole? In other words, 1 wonder whether the presence ofobservers at certain psychological1y dangerous points along the frontier might not prevent possibleirontier fuddents. 31.Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): In view of the Targe number of questioîls to which we have just heen tteated, it will he difficu1t to askcompletely newquestions~ Howe'ler, 1 shal1 begin my expression of interest in this matter by putting three preliminary questiblls to General Bennike and his organization. 32. My first questionis very simple: Has the life of General Bennike or any of his col1aborators been threatened? 33. My second question is: Have General Bennike and his organizationbeen prevented.from performing their functipns? If so, when, how and by whom? 34. My third and lastpreliminary question is: Would General Bennike and his organization be kind enough ta give us thenumber of Arabs that have been expe1led from Israel since 1948? 35. The PRESIDENT: 1 do not know whether General Bennike wants to reply.to any of these. questions now. 36. Major General BENNIKE (Chief of Staff aUhe United Nations Truce Supervision Organization): 1 beg to be allowed ta wait,

As no other member of the Council wishes to speak now, l can on the represeutative of Israel, who has 'asked for the floor.

l should like to address the Security Council at an early meeting, if it is convenient, on the wholè subject of Israe1's security situation. The abject of my questions now is only to complete and to clarify the record on the matters contained in General Bennike's report presented at the.630th meeting of the Security Counci1. 41. My first question relates to appendix III, subparagraph 3 of the report. In listing complaints in the Hashemite Jordan .Kingdom-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, the report·states: "And in addition 191 complaints against Jordan were settled without discussion by a resolution that inc1uded the following: " 'The crossing of the line by civilians i8 inconsistent with article IV, paragraph 3 ot the General Armistice Agreement.' " 1 42. The paragraph which l have quoted Gounds as if the resolution gave no indication of whether the 191 complaints agàinst Jordan were valid or Ilot. l tnerefore ask whether the Chief of Staff can confirm that the aforesaid resolution induded some acknowprésentées .de .. ledg~ment by Jordan of the validity of Israel's complaints, by saying in its principle clause: "The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan de1egation regrets the crossing of the demarcation line by civilians as reported in the above complaints.· It reaffirms that it. is taking aH possible measures to preVent such illegal crossings ofthe line in the future, as they are against the interests of both parties and inconsistent with article IV, paragraph 3, of the General Armistice Agreement." 43. Are my. records co'rrect in sh6wing that this i5 part of the same resolution referred to in appendix III? 44. Myother questions arefuuch more brief and f'.qually specifie. The report under discussion by the Security Councilrefers to the ·period. since the beginning of the year, which l would understand to be frolU 1 January 1953. Howevel', the first incident mentioned is that of falameh-Rantis on 28-29, January. l wonder whether'we could have information on the border incidents w!J,ich took place in the early weeks of January, prior ta the Falarneh-Rantis incident; and ,which' resulted inwhat. ,the report describes as three weeks ofrapidly deve10pirig tension. My question relates ta information on border incidents ,between 1 January and 28 January 1'953. 45. My third question refers to para.graph 42 of ~~neral Bennike's reportat the 630th meeting,whel.'C It 1S stated that theattack 011 the Israel village of Yahud on 12-13 October which caused the'death of two small -S'l Se~ Official R~~~~ds ofth~Security Council,Fourth Year, pecial Supplemeltt No; 1... '. . 47. l have a question of fact relating to paragraph 48 where General Bennike states that Israel airplanes attacked Arabs and thel!' herds of camels and goats. l believe the referenceis to the south of the country. Neither Inor any of my colleagues have heard anything ofthis. Therëfore, cou1ct we please have the full text of the Mixed Armistice Commission's resolution on tms matter? '" 48. l refer again to the Israel-Egyptian Armistice situation, in which connexion the Chief of Staff in bis report quotes a resolution adopted by the Israel-Egypt Mixed Armistice Commission on 2 October 1953, regarding alleged military activities'in the demilitarized zone of El Auja. In accordance with article X of the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement, 2 l understand that a dedaion of the commission is not final, if it is appealed, until the Special Committee has taken a decision on the appea1. Am l right in stating that there is an appeal which was submitted on 2 October, and would it be correct to deduce that this resolution is therefore still sub judice and that a meeting of the Special Committee will be convened as requested by Israel in order to examine this appeal? 49. Paragraph 34 of the report in which It is reported that the talks between high-ranking military commanders proposed by Israel at the end of January did not take place. Can we be informed why these high level talks did no'i: take place? 50. In paragraph 39 there is a description of the differences between the responsibilities of the Israel Government and the Jordan Government in respect of infiltration. The report states: "Jordan is taking measures against' infiltration and will continue to do so. Israel will co;.operate by supplying information to Jordan on infiltration." . . ", 51. Have the meaSll:i.'es which the Jordan Government maintains it has taken resulted in fact in any reduction in the number of infiltration cases or in their grave nature? 52. l now have a question on the geography. of the situation. Is it correct to say that the greatestnumber of armistice violations ascribed to Jordan, in accordance with the findings of the Mixed Armistice Commission, have come from the area Tulkarm-Qalqiliya-Jerusalem, 53. My n~ ~ question refers to the local ':ommand.ers' meetings. l should Hke to ask whether the Chief of Staff cau give us his experienced opinion on whether west: meetings of junior officers could do more than they have until now, namely deal in. a Hmited way with sorne of the technical matt-rs that arise after incidents have occurred, such as the return of cows, flocks and small parts of stolen property. Does he believe that the local conunanders' meetings or agreements could go very much beyond the scopeof those operations? 54. My last two questions refer to some of the more general observations in the Chief of Staff's report. The Security Council, in its res.olution of 1 September 1951 [S/2322], has canfirmed that since the armistice regime is of a permanent charac~er, the parties to it cannot assert that they are actively belligerent. l wonder whether the Chief of Staff shares the view that a belief by any party in its rights to consider itself a belligerent might ha.ve an adverse eftect on the op,eration of the armistice system? 55. Fina11y, but l think most important, on the subject of the meaning of 'the, Armistice Agreements, we note that the Armistice Agreements are described in their own texts and in Security Council resolutions as a transition to a permanent peace.. May l ask whether the Chief of Staff wouldlike to say whether he regards this as a very fundamental part of the armistice system. Would he regard the acceptance of this concèptàs something which would alter the security situation? Finally, has the Truce Supervision Organization recently taken al1Y steps to remind the parties of th,s objective which they have signed in the Armistice Agreements? 56.Mr. ZAFRULLA KHAN (Pakistan).: With reference to the last question proposed by the representative of the State of Israel, may l be permitted to observe that of its three parts, the first appears to me ta be a question of opinion, the second may or may not be a question that is relevant, and the third part appears not to relate to the functions of the commission at a11. 57. l merely want this observation to De on the record. Iam not proposing a debate on the nature of the question.

l have no more speakers on my list. The question to be decided is when our next meeting on this item will take place. Tomorrow.a:fternoon, there willbe·a meeting of the Council on the complaint by Syria against Israel concerning work on the west bank of the River Jordan in the demilitarized zone. 59. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): Obviouslythe questions that have been put today to the General who is the centre of our attention at the present moment are very important questions, and he undoubtedly is going to think them ovèr and preparehis replies tous. These questions have been.put as follows: some by the United Kingdom, some by the United States, some by France, one by the representative of Greece and three

l am quite sure that the Council would have asked me ta invite the representative of Jordan to take a place at the Security Council table if, as is the procedure, he had submi.tted a written request in this regard. This has not happened. However, l know that the representative of Jordan is present. If the Council is agreeable to the idea, l shaIl invite him ta the table and allow him even today to put the questions he would like to ask. 62. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): Mr. President, it is very kind of you to press for these questions now and l think it is perhaps your duty as President to do so. But, as l indicated, the representative of Jordan may not want to put his questions now and l think it would still be proper for him to put them to the General when we meet again. 63. The best thing is to decide this question at the next meeting on this item. However, if a compromise solution is d~sired, the representative of Jordan, between now and the next meeting on this item, might prepare his questions and hand them to General Bennike in writing so that the General will also be thinking about thern as well as about the ones that he heard today. The text of the questions that Jordan will put to General Bennike will also go to the members of the Council. -64.· If that meets with the desire of the President to expedite our business, l think it could easily be arranged. If, however, the President has no objection to the representative of Jordan taking his time and waiting until we meet again to put his questions, that also would be agreeable. Either one of these two solutions would be agreeable. However, with aIl due respect to the desire of the President to expedite our business, just as l said at the beginning, the representative of Jordan has not ~c;;ked to be here today.

Should we now simply decide that at our next meeting we will invite the representative of Jordan to be present andfollow, at that time, the same procedure, with respect to the questions that the representativeofJordan wants to put, as we have fo1l6wed tor the athers? 66. l recognize the representative of the United Kingdom on a point of order. 67. Sir Glad,ryn JEEB (United Kingdom): l think it might save time if thé· President, on our behalf, were

As 1 understand it, this is not going ta he a real point of arder, but a suggestion. l will therefore first caU on the representative of France.

l \Vas going ta say exactly what Sir Gladwyn Jebb has just said. It is my opinion that the general debate cannat begin until aU the questions have been put to General Bennike by the various members of the Couneil or by the invited delegations, and until General Bennike has replied to them. In arder to save time, in the present instance at least one meeting, 1 think it would be better if the representative of Jordan would submit his questions in writing, a procedure to which Mr. Malik does not appear to have objected. 70. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): 1 think that is a perfectly acceptable procedure. 1 suggested it myself as a compromise. As 1 said, the same set of questions could also he circulated among the members of the Security Council in the meantime, so that everyone will be apprised of them, and not only General Ber.nike. Therefore, I suggest that the Council should accept that procedure and that the representative cf Jordan should be asked to submit his questions in writing as soCin as possible between now and our next meeting. May l inquire, Mr. President, when you envisage that the Security Couneil will meet again on this question?

I have asked to speak on a point of clarification. Am 1 correct in understanding that the President isapplying rule 14 of the rules of procedure, namely that we are inviting a representative of Jordan to come to our table although, if l am correct, the representative of Jordan has until now not submitted a request to that effect? May l at the same time emphasize that my delegation thinks that the presence of the representative of Jordan would not only be advisable but very helpfuI. 72. Mr. HOPPENOT (France) (tmnslated from French) : Might 1 also suggest that the President should give it as his opinion that if there are any delegation members who have not yet put questions to General Bennike but who, in the light of today's meeting, would like to do so, or if there are any of us who wottld like tG put additional questions, we may do sa in writing before the Council's next l:neeting? . 73. The PRESIDENT ~ l think we can easily arrange 73. the matter as we wish. We will maintain our deeision pense to invite the representative of Jordan to appear at our comme . ~ext meeting. l think everyone is agreed on the décision ùïlportance of that prqcedure. 1. have not been able to de a.çt upon it because until today l have received no Tous written request, which is the usual procedure. But . procédure. we cau take this decision. l think: we are aIl in agreeque ment that the question is very important, and it is écrite obvious that one party should .he represented as weIl soient as the other. In those circumstances·, 1 hope that the cette 74. At the next meeting the questions will be read and the replies giveu by the General so that they will he on record. 75. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): For my part, l quite agree with this procedure. But 1 think that neither the President nor Mr. Hoppenot, the representative of France, have in mind that there will no further questions put ta the General beyond these written ones. 1 take -it that it will still be possible for us to ask questions at any time during the consideration of this matter. 76. The PRESIDENT: That goes without saying. The item remains on our agenda and not only the members of the Security Council but the two parties, Israel and Jordan, will be within their rights to put questions before the Council.

Since Mr. Malik has asked for my opinion, l shall tell mm that a definite limit should be set on the time allowed for questions on General Bennike's Teport itself. We cannat keep on questioning and cross-examining the General, throughout the debate, on matters connected v,rith his report and asking him for explanations concening it. Tf subaequently we need GeneFal Bennike's opinion on any particular point as the debate proceeds, delegations will, as a matter of course, be entitled ta put questions ta him. _ 78. Mr. VYSHINSKY (Union of Soviet Socialist Repuhlics) (translated fram Russian): l should like to ask the President whether we could not receive writing the texts of the questions put here today, and of the answers to be prepared by General Bennike, before the Security Couneil g')e5 on, t6 hear those answers at its next meeting. 79. That would help members of the Security Counèi1 ta acquaint themselves more fully with those questions. They would think about them, appraise their significance, grasp the full import of the answers,7hich would of course be extremely useful to our work. sa. The PRESIDENT: The questions :put today willbe in the record of tbis meeting and in the hands of the members tomorrow. It would he difficult indicate when the answers will he ready. The normal procedurê, as was·· the case with General Bennik~'s predecessor,is that the answer-s' are put hefore the Counail and thenappear the next day in the minutes of the meeting. 81. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): I wish to revelt for one moment to what the Mr. President and Mr. Hoppenot have said. l quite recognize that there sho?ld be some kil1d of aJ..1 end.tD. the questions we are gomg S2. The PRESIDENT: l do not think that the Security Council should take any decision now as to whether we can proceed with further questioning. That will come about as a result of the discussion. 83. cialistes pas préparer cela difficile 84. chargé réponses des sans vœu réponses d'en à nous le nous veau entendu toute d'exprimer 85. s'efforcent d'éviter du 86. que blablement les fût-ce membres nent rerions est de 87. qu'U dire qu'il que de taine être questions gnements. à nos chaine tantes, croÎf contenter ...• . 11

l am not raising the question of when General Bennike can prepare and submit ms answers. That of course depends on many factors and is difficult ot decide on now. 84. But, since the Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization, General Bennike, will prepare his answers in writing, since it is impossible to answer twenty or more questions without notes, without having the answers in written form, l should like to propose that, as soon as General Bennike has prepared his answers, they should be circulated so that we can study them before the present item is discussed further <in the Security Council. Otherwise we shall find that, when General Bennike has read out his answers, we shall have to suspend the meeting again, since it will he impossible to express an immediate opinion on the substance of answel"S given orally by General Bennike on a large number of varied and complex questions. 85. l note the general endeavour to speed up consideration of the question and to remove every possible cause of de1ay. l should also like to make whatever contribution l can to that end. 86. l think it would be most helpful if memhers of the Security Council could have at least twenty-four hours in which to exawJne the answers which General Bennike will probably prepare in written form. This would facilitate and accelerate the Council's work. But if for some reason, that cannot be arranged, l shall not, of COUI"Se, insist.

l think it must he impossible for General Bennike to tell us now when he will be 1 ~feady 'since he .has n()t even received all the' questiollJS. 1 We know that there vvill be a list of questions from • the representative of Jordan. We cannot say whether the answers to these questions will rquire informatioJ.1 from Palestine, or whether some of the other questions might require such information. l think it is rather " ~ifficult for the General to say now whether he will lie able to answer aIl questions tw,pnty-four hours ~~fore our next meeting. After alt, .the questions are unportant, and sorne may be more important than others. 1 think that the first time we meet we must accept the fact that 'Some questions are not at the stage in whieh they can be answered fully. 89. Moreover, it appears to me ta be rather difficult to fix today the date on which ,\Te should meet to deal with these questions. Tt might be better to agree that the President in office next month should convene the Council twenty-four hours after General Bennike's replies to the questions put to him have been circulated to the memhers of the Couneil, so that the Council is able to study those replies the next day. 90. Mr. Charles MALIK (Lebanon): l think it necessary to set a tentative date even now, it being l.1nderstood, of course, that the date cottld be postponed a day or so if necessary. But we ought to have sorne idea when. we are going to meet again on this very important question. To that end, and keeping in mind aIl the suggestions that have been made and the difficulties in the way of preparing these answers, and so forth, l suggest for the consideration of 'the Security Coullcil, as a tentative date, next Wednesday afternoon. 91. Mr. VYSHINSKY (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (tra:nslated frO'»ll Rwssian): If we adopt Mr. Malik's proposal, this will mean that the Council's next meeting will beheld five days after today's meeting.We shall have four days in which ta receive Gen.eral Bennilœ's replies to our questions. 92. l think that General Bennike will he able give us those replies twenty-follr hours earlier than that, on 2 November, so that we may discuss the matter without having to postpone it to sorne later meeting, as Mr. Hoppenot has rightly observed. 93. l should like to point out once again that if we do not receive VeneraI Bennike's replies in writing before we meet on. 3 November, we shall undoubtedly have to eut that meeting short by confining ourselves merely to hearing his replies, and we shal~ have opportunity to continue our work. l should like inquire beforehand of General Bennike - although admit itwill he difficu1t for him to tell me in advance -- whether he will, he ready in time, inasmuch as the Council has asked hirn many questions .and everything cannat be dear to him at present. 94. If, however, we bâveto' postponethe meeting for twenty-four hours Ido not·think that anyone will object. In the final analysis we shaH still gain timeif 95. I have confined my remarks to this matter and have said nothing whatsoever about the date. I do not say that we must deeide that General Bennike must answer us within twenty-four hours. 011. the contrary, 1consider that we should arrange ta meet twenty-four hours after reeeiving his replies; tbis ilS what Ml', Hoppenot suggested and I am very grateful ta bim for this suggestion. I am in full agreement with him and I consider that this will faeilitate our work. 96. ThePRffiSIDENT: Before this entire discussion on written questions and written replies started, I had started to speak ta the Council about our next meeting but I did fiat get further than tomorrow afternaon's meeting, which· has been fixed and wbich concerns work on the west bank of the River Jordan. It was my intention then to remind the Council that it will meet again on Monday on the question of Trieste. On Tuesday, the Cauneil has to meet at 10.30 a.m. hecause the meeting for the election of a member of the International Court of Justice bythe Security Council will have to take place at the same time as the meeting of the General A'Ssembly on that matter. Since we have to meet at 10.30 a.m. on that day and since the deeision regarding the member of the Inter- .national Court of Justiee will probably he taken very quickly, we could have this item that we are diseussing today 'as the next item. However, as the question has been raised as to whether the answel"S of General Bennike ,should be submitted twenty-fourhours before the meeting and it will not he possible'to have answers to the questions of the representative of Jordan until they are raised, I wonder whether it would not be the best solution ta leave it ta the new President, who will assume office on Monday, to find out when it will he possible to have the next meeting on this question. Then, if everything is ready, it will be the appropnate time to distribute the agenda as well as such replies as the General can ,present in writing.

1 have no objection to the President's proposal that the date of our next meeting should be fixed by the new president, the next in rotation. 1 understand that the next president will he Mr. Hoppenot. This will mal\:e matters easier, 'since he hirnselfholds the view that written 'answers should be available hventy-four hour,s before the date of the meeting. 98. 1 would again earnestly beg the CouneiL ta have 98. regard to my desire that we should not meet on3 membres November. Whether wemeeLon,20r 4 November is pas a matter of .indifference, but 1 should like to have importe Genera!. Bennike's written answers in my hands bèfore je the date of the meeting and, as Mr. Hoppnot proposed, Bennike twenty-four hours in advance. et,comm,e L '1Jl>.' . .13quatre

1 should first like to tell Mr. Vyshinsky that, next month, the President of the Counci1 will have use every endeavour ta forget his personal prefer~ces as the representative of France, and not to let them prevail over the wishes of the Council. 102. ActuaUy, l think this discussion is rather pointless. We have in any case to meet on Tuesday morning, 3 November, to elect a judge ta the Court ....

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