Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/5–2748: Telegram

The United States Representative at the United Nations (Austin) to the Secretary of State

New York, May 27, 1948—9:48 p. m.

717. Following USSR proposal submitted in Security Council on May 27:

“Considering that the Security Council’s resolution of 22 May on the cessation of military operations in Palestine has not yet been complied with, considering that military operations in Palestine are increasing in intensity and that the number of casualties is growing; and considering that as a result of these events the situation in Palestine constitutes a threat to peace and security within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter of the UN, orders the governments of the states involved in the present conflict in Palestine to secure the cessation of military operations within 36 hours after the adoption by the SC of this resolution.”1

Austin
  1. For the revised text of the Soviet resolution submitted to the Security Council on May 29, see SC, 3rd yr., Supplement for May 1948, p. 101.↩