Editorial Note
Mr. Beeley, of the British Delegation at the United Nations on the morning of May 5, submitted to the United States Delegation a draft resolution proposing a provisional regime for Palestine. The draft was based on the assumption that truce efforts would not be successful, except for Jerusalem. It called for creation of a United Nations commission, with headquarters at Jerusalem, to be at the disposal of the Arabs and Jews for the purposes of controlling the administration of those central services entrusted to it by the two communities, serving as liaison between them in matters of common interest and mediating between them in order to arrive at an agreed decision on the future government of Palestine (telegram 577, May 5, 3:30 p. m. from New York, 501.BB Palestine/5–548).