Office of the Historian

501.BB Palestine/7–748: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Egypt

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Washington, July 7, 1948—11 p. m.

942. The Security Council adopted today by a vote of eight to zero (USSR, Ukraine, and Syria abstaining) the following resolution on Palestine.

“The Security Council, taking into consideration the telegram from the UN Mediator dated 5 July 1948 addresses an urgent appeal to the interested parties to accept in principle the prolongation of the truce for such period as may be decided upon in consultation with the Mediator.”1

Marshall
  1. This message was repeated to Beirut, Jidda, Damascus, Baghdad, Haifa, and Jerusalem. The resolution was submitted by British Representative Cadogan and received the warm support of Mr. Jessup; see SC, 3rd yr., No. 93, pp. 11, 12.↩