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...gloomy fellow delegates: "What are we here for?" By week's end there had been no answer from U.S. Delegate Warren Austin, to whom the assembly looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could work, there must be peace in Palestine and a spirit of conciliation between Jews and Arabs. In Palestine, however, talk of truce sounded hollow. There the Jews were bucked up by a week of military successes, Arabs whipped on by a new sense of desperation...
...delegates on Long Island, unwilling to impose trusteeship by force, had less & less chance of getting a truce by agreement...
...interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
Harry Truman had agreed to the policy switch from partition to trusteeship apparently without realizing what the switch meant. An anguished Clark Clifford had pointed out to him that it was political suicide. But by that time the deed was done...
...United States," he read, "has proposed a temporary United Nations trusteeship for Palestine. . . . Trusteeship is not proposed as a substitute for the partition plan but as an effort to fill the vacuum soon to be created by the termination of the [British] mandate, on May 15. ... If we are to avert tragedy in Palestine, an immediate truce must be reached between the Arabs and Jews. . . . With such a truce and such a trusteeship, a peaceful settlement is yet possible...