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- “Congress Betrays Arabs,” editorial in The Dawn (May 5, 1947).
- He also acted as the agency’s liaison to the Special Session as well as to the
UNSCOP and subsequently became Israel’s fi rst envoy to the United
States. - Eliahu Epstein to P. S. Gourgey (January 19, 1948), CZA, Z-6/60. Emphasis
added. - “Memorandum on India Before the United Nations, 1950” (September 16,
1950), ISA, 2413/28. Emphasis added. Incidentally, at that time Das was a
member of the Indian delegation to the UN session. - Jawaharlal Nehru to Asaf Ali (May 1, 1947), in Nehru, Selected Works of Jawa-
harlal Nehru, Series II, 2:494. Emphasis added. - Jawaharlal Nehru to Asaf Ali (May 14, 1947), in ibid., 2:497. Emphasis added.
- Ibid. Notes.
- Note by P. A. Menon (May 13, 1947), NAI, F-2(16)- UNO- I/47. Emphasis
added. He added that Asaf Ali’s proposal for “the establishment without de-
lay of In de pen dent State of Palestine” went “beyond what was originally
contemplated” and hence “committed the Government of India to a view of
substance.” Initially, the draft read that Asaf Ali committed the government
“to a view of considerable substance.” While signing the note, Menon struck
off the word “considerable.” - Ministry of External Aff airs note (April 9, 1947), NAI, F-2(16)- UNO- I/47.
- Note by H. Weightman (April 10, 1947), NAI, F-2(16)- UNO- I/47.
- Ministry of External Aff airs to Asaf Ali (April 18, 1947), NAI,
F - 2 ( 1 6 ) - U N O - I / 4 7. - They were Canada, Czech o slo vak i a, Iran, the Netherlands, Peru, Sweden,
and Uruguay. - Guatemala and Yugo slavia.
- Note by P. A. Menon (May 13, 1947), NAI, F-2(16)- UNO- I/47.
- Asaf Ali to the Ministry of External Aff airs (May 12, 1947), NAI, F.46(1)-
AWT/47. Emphasis added. - In a detailed report, he remarked: “The feeling that India was defi nitely for
Arab, led the US Delegation to omit India from their original proposal re-
garding the constitution of the Special Committee.” Report by Asaf Ali on
the Special Session to Secretary, Ministry of External Aff airs (June 4, 1947),
NAI, F.2(21)- UNO- I/47. - It adopted a resolution to form an eleven- member Committee that would
not include the fi ve big powers by thirteen votes to eleven. As many as
twenty- nine countries abstained. - Asaf Ali to the Ministry of External Aff airs (May 14, 1947), NAI, F.2(16)-
UNO- I/47. Emphasis added. - Ibid.
- H. C. Beaumont to S. E. Abbot (May 22, 1947), NAI, F-2(6)- UNO- I/47. Em-
phasis added. - Abdur Rahman to Emil Sandstorm (July 2, 1947), UN General Assembly,
A/AC.13/35 (July 14, 1947), 1– 2.
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