501.BB Palestine/8–2549: Telegram
The Consul at Jerusalem (Burdett) to the Secretary of State
532. Consulate General has not seen completed draft proposals (intel August 23, 10 a. m.1) for Jerusalem. From conversations with UN secretariat here, understands commissioner entrusted by Article 6 with ensuring protection of and free access to Holy Places and by Article 12 with exclusive control of Holy Places and routes leading to them. Because definite possibility of disturbances at Holy Places or routes leading to them, suggests Commissioner receive specific authority to call on local Arab and Jewish authorities to assist him in maintenance order should he consider this necessary. Commissioner should not be forced rely entirely on his own guards, which might well prove inadequate.2
ReDeptel 304, July 22:3 Would appreciate learning what procedure PCC proposed to adopt in determining delimitation of Arab and Jewish zones.
Sent Department 532, repeated Geneva 54 (for PCC).
- Not printed; this circular telegram summarized the substance of Palun 283, August 17, from Lausanne, p. 1321.↩
- The Department informed Lausanne on September 1 that it concurred in the suggestion made in telegram 532. (Unpal 230, 501.BB Palestine/8–2549)↩
- This was a repeat of Unpal 199, to Bern, p. 1245.↩