501.BB Palestine/11–2547: Telegram
The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State
1257. Palestine [Ad Hoc] Committee on November 25 approved 25–13 with 17 abstentions and two members absent Subcommittee 1 report on partition with a revised Danish amendment.1 Six Arab states, Afghanistan, Cuba, India, Iran, Siam, Pakistan and Turkey voted against it. Paraguay and the Philippines were absent and Argentina, Belgium, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, UK and Yugoslavia abstained.2
[Here follow the text of the revised Danish amendment and information that it was approved 19 to 14, with the United States voting in favor and the Soviet Union abstaining.]
- According to telegram 1260, November 25, 11:55 p. m., from New York, this amendment was designed to strengthen the constitutional validity of the plan (501.A Summaries/11–2547). The Danish amendment and its revision are printed in GA (II), Ad Hoc Committee, p. 266.↩
- For the official record of the afternoon meeting of the Committee on November 25, see ibid., pp. 220–223.↩