Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unsatisfactory. British troops still stood guard on the streets and rooftops of the Holy Land (though last week the first troops, some 300, were withdrawn). But the U.N. commission was not getting much British cooperation. In a series of messages which emasculated the commission's already feeble powers, Britain...
¶ To welcome the commission to Palestine before May 1, only a fortnight before it is supposed to assume responsibility for administering partition.
...commission talked back. Britain's warning that commissioners could not be protected if they came before May 1, it said, was "not satisfactory." Chairman Karel Lisicky, of Czechoslovakia, was considerably more explicit: "Britain is responsible for law and order so long as the mandatory regime is there. If we come in before May 15 [when the mandate ends], they are directly responsible for our safety...
Unseasonable. "We have no ambition to be either heroes or martyrs for the United Nations," added Lisicky. The commission appealed to the Security Council to provide an armed force. (The Security Council, as such, has no armed force to provide.) Finally, one day last week, with only 96 more to...
Died. John, Viscount Sankey, 81, retired Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1929-35); in London. Slow-moving, conservative Sankey, shocked by miners' working conditions, became a labor hero in 1919 when as head of a special Royal Commission he recommended the nationalization of Britain's coal mines. .