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1. The Lebanese proposal submitted on 29 November 1947 concerning a federal state.

2. The report of the International Commission of Inquiry.

3. Placing Palestine under temporary trusteeship with immigration monitored during this period.

As for consultations between the permanent members and the Arab Higher Committee, he believed it was necessary and preferable for the Arab Higher Committee to accept the invitation.

A coded telegram arrived from Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, Egypt’s representative at the United Nations at the time, dated 15 March 1948 from New York. It referred to his recent discussions with several delegations and figures concerning the possibilities facing the Palestine question:

1. A unified democratic state.

2. The same state with autonomy for the Jews and the regions.

3. A democratic or regional state based on cantons, with a UN committee for monitoring but no administrative or political powers.

4. Trusteeship.

The telegram stated that the United States, which claimed not to want trusteeship, was accused of bias toward the Jews and was therefore no less dangerous than the other states. It mentioned a state whose name had not been expected in the discussion, Turkey. Fares Bey al-Khuri, it said, tended to prefer it, and had repeatedly shown me great interest in the Palestine question in general.

The Political Committee of the Arab League met and held several sessions between 16 and 21 March, during which it discussed the Palestine question in light of recent developments and adopted several decisions. Their stated aim was to help reach a just solution in Palestine that would make it a peaceful and secure country. It instructed Arab representatives at the United Nations to explain to the world that, although the Arabs were determined to resist partition by every means, they were ready to cooperate in anything that would bring Palestine to independence within one democratic state and establish peace and security. In this effort, they regarded the Arabs of Palestine as being in legitimate self-defense of their right to self-determination and their country’s right to unity and independence. If the United Nations wished to remove the terrorists