Show holyland HOLY LAND what nom in its first positive action since the U S backed away from its stand favoring partition the united nations ti oas ons se security c u vit rit y coonc council il i issued assue d a ca call cali ll 11 to t 0 both jews and arabs to stop fighting in g in palestine it probably was a gesture of impotence rendered even more impotent by the fact that the security council although it laid down specific truce directives to both factions decided against sending a UN corn commission mission to the scene of trouble to check on compliance rus rua russia zia sia continuing to favor the partition plan pian refused to support the truce proposal but atthe at ahe the same time andrei andrel gromyko soviet delegate refrained from applying russia s big power veto and thus pern permitted acted the agreement to be concluded there was no assurance that either jewish or arab forces would aree agree to a united nations truce and lay down their arms well aware that the truce proposal had little or no significance in the pattern of the holy land tragedy I 1 U N delegates shook their he heads rids gloomily and wondered if it the un united cited nations not yet three years om might not be a blue baby it was clear that the U N Ns s lack of elan vital in the palestine problem stemmed directly from the decline of american prestige and leadership ih the world organization after having pushed the partition plan through the U N by the sheer weight of its apparent conviction the U S suddenly abandoned its support ot partition in order to dabble in power politics with middle east oil all as the stakes instead of partition U S leaders advocated a temporary united nations trusteeship I 1 B but u t they failed to indicate what kind of trusteeship or exactly how they thought it should be enforced while the american U 4 N del dei delegation ega was playing hard to get git other delegates were asking what are we here for unofficial explanation was that the U S was trying through secretary of stat state e george marshall in bogota g ot a Colom colombia bla bia to get some south ame american r nations to offer to supply the troops that will be needed to enforce a trusteeship |