UNITED NATIONS: Over to You

At U.N. last week, as the end of Britain's Palestine mandate approached, Zionists were like people waiting for New Year's. A good many U.N. delegates, on the contrary, felt more like Cinderellas waiting for midnight. For U.N., it turned out to be strictly mice and pumpkins.

For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine. Neither the Jews nor the Arabs (regardless of what they thought of partition) wanted that kind of postponement. Their common aim: to keep the talks going till the end...

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