Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-10-21
U. n. Council Clears
Decks for Inquiry
Into Palestine Issue


Oct. 21.-The U. N. Security
Council voted over Soviet oppo-
sition last night to hold off de-
bate on the Trieste issue and
cleared its decks for an exhaus-
tive probe into the explosive
Palestine situation.
The 11-nation Council faces
its next Palestine debate tomor-
row, when it takes UP. Syria's
plant that Israel is endangering
Middle East peace by diverting
the waters of the historic River
Jordan.
During two wrangling ses-
sions yesterday, the Council
pushed through a United States
call for a full dress inquiry into
the alleged border incidents be-
tween Israel and her Arab neigh
bors, including the recent Israeli
attack on the Jordan village of
Kibya in which Jordan claims
Sc persons were killed and the
village f1attened.
Gen. Vagn Bennike, chief of
staff of the truce supervision or
ganiZation in Palestine, has been
summoned to report on the gen.
eral Palestine situation. He left
Jerusalem by plane last night
and is expected to arrive hege
later this week.
Israel Makes Own Complaint.
The tense Middle East issue
was further complicated last
night when Israel fired off a
counter complaint, demanding
the Council take up a charge that
the Arab states violated the 1949
armistice agreements, engaged
in illegal blockade measures, and
refused to negotiate a peace.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli radio
reported a fresh incident last
night, claiming troops of Jordan's
Arab Legion fired across the
border at a group of Jewish rail-
way workers near the Holy City.
No casualties were reported.
Chief American Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, jr., told the Council
last night that the United States
is disturbed by reports of truce
violations along the Israeli-Arab
borders. He declared the Council
must act if these reports are
confirmed.
Israel has declared that the
raids were in retaliation for Arab
killings in which an Israeli
mother and two children per-
iShed.
Trieste Action Delayed.
At the close of it's double
header last night, the Council
Soviet Delegate Andrea
Vishinsky's demands for imme-
date action to internationalize
Trieste. It decided to postpone
the issue until November Q. This
delay would give the Big Three
time to try to settle Trieste's flu
ture through diplomatic moves.
At a Big Three foreign min
isterS' meeting in London last
week, Britain, France and the
United States invited both Italy
and Yugoslavia-the two Trieste
claimants-to a fve-power par
ley aimed at reaching a peaceful
of the Trieste issue
The Trieste dispute f1ared re-
Gently when Britain and the
United States announced they
would withdraw their occupation
troops from Zone A and turn it
over to Italy.
Yugoslavia, which controls the
territory's Zone B, protested Bit
and threatened to march
her troops into Zone A if Italian
set foot there.
Other Developments.
Elsewhere in the U. N:
The United States threw sup
port behind a plan to lay ground
work for a general conference On
revising the U. N. charter
plan which has been bitterly as
sailed by the Soviet bloc. Gov.
James F.. Byrnes of South Caro-
lima said his Government would
back a proposal to seek views of
states on the charter
review question scheduled for the
1855 Assembly.
The United States called on
fellow U. N. members to
pledge themselves to support an
international development fund
when sufficient progress" is
made in world disarmament to
unfreeze money for the project.