Editorial Note
The Fifth Progress Report of the Palestine Conciliation Commission, dated December 14, reviewed its operations from September 16 to December 9. The report reviewed the problem of Jerusalem and the Holy Places, the refugee question and the territorial question. It concluded, in part, that “the Commission considers that it has received from the General Assembly in explicit terms the powers and obligations to undertake in the present circumstances a procedure of mediation and in consequence, to submit compromise proposals to the parties concerned.… Therefore the Commission hopes to undertake this task with the interested parties and thereby bring to a successful conclusion the mission entrusted to it by the General Assembly.” The full text of the Fifth Progress Report is printed in United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Annexes, page 9.