- For a recent discussion, see Ben- Dror, “The Arab Struggle Against Parti-
tion,” 259– 293. - UNSCOP Report, 1:13. Emphasis added.
- Abdur Rahman to Jawaharlal Nehru (July 15, 1947), NAI, F-2(16)- UNO- I/47.
- The UNSCOP recorded: “In times of crisis, as in 1936– 38... pressure has
taken the form of intimidation and assassination. At the present time, non-
conformity regarding any important question on which the Arab Higher
Committee has pronounced a policy is represented as disloyalty to the Arab
nation.... In the absence of an elective body to represent divergence of in-
terests, [the Arab community] therefore shows a higher degree of centraliza-
tion in its po liti cal life.” UNSCOP Report, 1:25– 26. - As a former U.S. State Department offi cial described: “So well or ga nized, in
fact, was the Yishuv that all of us who followed the Palestine scene knew,
long before the Jewish state came into being, that if the Jews were to secure
their state, Weizmann would be the president, Ben- Gurion the prime min-
ister, Shertok the foreign minister, [Eliezer] Kaplan the fi nance minister,
and so on; and this is what came to pass.” Wilson, Decision on Palestine, 33. - UNSCOP Report, 1:58. Emphasis added.
- Ibid., 2:45.
- Ibid., 2:42, 2:45.
- For a historical discussion, see Kumaraswamy, “The Strangely Parallel Ca-
reers of Israel and Pakistan.” - Nehru, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series II, 1:572n.
- Burke, Pakistan’s Foreign Policy, 66.
- The members were Canada, Czech o slo vak i a, Guatemala, Poland, South
Africa, the Soviet Union, the United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. - The members were Af ghan i stan, Colombia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Yemen. The only non- Islamic member, Colombia,
subsequently withdrew from the subcommittee. Horowitz, State in the Mak-
ing, 262. - Citing this reason, Yugo slavia, one of the signatories to the federal plan,
abstained during the fi nal vote on the partition plan. Garcia- Granados, The
Birth of Israel, 104. Moreover, on May 19, 1948, it became one of the fi rst
states to recognize Israel. - Vijayalakshmi Pandit to Bajpai (October 8, 1947), NAI, F-46 (1)- AWT/47.
- It was rejected by twelve votes in favor to twenty- nine votes against, with
fourteen abstentions. - Vijayalakshmi Pandit’s cable to Bajpai (November 27, 1947), NAI,
F-46(1)- AWT/47. - On November 28, Mrs. Pandit conceded that, afraid of the UN approval of
the partition plan, “Arab spokesman for the fi rst time showed anxiety for [a]
compromise solution.” Pandit, New York, to Bajpai, New Delhi (November
28, 1947). Ibid. - India, Constituent Assembly Debates, vol. 1, session II (December 4, 1947),
col. 1261. Emphasis added.
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