ABSTRACT

There were two meetings of UNSCOP in New York, Justice Carl Sandstrom of Sweden being elected chairman at the second of these on 2 June. At the same meeting, it was decided to extend invitations to both the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee to attach two liaison officers each with UNSCOP. The former did so with alacrity, appointing Eban and Horowitz. The latter refused, even though the Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, warned against adopting a negative attitude to UNSCOP. A meeting of the Arab Higher Committee and Arab states revealed Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia leaning towards co-operation with UNSCOP, and Iraq and possibly Syria favouring boycott.1