294 6. recognition without relations- Debates CA (August 20, 1948), cols. 380– 381.
- Nehru, Letters to Chief Ministers, 1:275.
- Debates CA (March 9, 1949), col. 1400.
- Israel had originally applied for membership on November 29, 1948, and
in its meeting held on December 17, the UN Security Council rejected the
application by fi ve in favor, one against, and fi ve abstentions. On February
24, 1949, a day it signed the Armistice Agreement with Egypt, Israel ap-
plied for a second time. It was approved by the UN Security Council in
early March 1949 and was admitted on May 11, 1949. Israel and the United
Nations, 59– 60. - The Indian vote was attributed to the Arab factor, and a cable sent from the
Indian Embassy in Brussels disclosed that the Arab countries conveyed their
satisfaction and happiness at India’s vote against Israel’s admission to the
United Nations. Embassy to Foreign Offi c e ( M a y 2 0 , 1 9 4 9 ) , N A I , F - 3 2 ( 6) - 1 A /4 9. - Nehru, Letters to Chief Ministers, 1:363.
- E. Epstein to M. Shertok and A. Eban (September 28, 1948), Israel Docu-
ments, 1:653. - E. Elath to Ministry of Foreign Aff airs (May 12, 1949). Israel Documents,
Companion, 4:17. - Aide’s memoir of the conversation between Abba Eban and Rau (June 23,
1949), Israel Documents, 4:158– 159. - E. Elath to M. Sharett (September 30, 1949), ISA, 2181/6.
- E. Elath to M. Sharett (October 14, 1949), Israel Documents, 4:547– 548.
2 6. Debates CA (December 6, 1949), cols. 233– 234. - For the original invitation, see ISA, 71/14.
- C. Weizmann to Nehru (November 15, 1947), in Weizman, Letters and Papers
of Chaim Weizmann, Series A, 23:31– 32. - Both were members of the Indian delegation to the 1947 UN General As-
sembly session. - For Weizmann’s letter to Nehru (December 16, 1947), see Weizman, Letters
and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, Series A, 62; to B. N. Rau (May 23, 1948),
see ibid., 126 – 127; to Churchill (August 6, 1948), see ibid., 201– 203; to H. Z.
Cynowitz (March 4, 1949), see ibid., 261– 262. - K. L. Panjabi to H. Z. Cynowitz (March 26, 1949), ISA, 2555/5. Emphasis
added. - Minutes of the meeting between Y. H. Levin and H. Evatt on September 8,
1949. Israel Documents, 4:447. - Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, 3:117.
3 4. Debates PP (February 27, 1950), cols. 495– 496. - Personal conversations with Walter Eytan in Jerusalem in September 1988.
3 6. O ffi cial En glish summary of Eytan’s communiqué to Israeli missions abroad
(June 9, 1950), Israel Documents, Companion, 5:145. - Kumaraswamy, “South Asia and People’s Republic of China- Israeli Diplo-
matic Relations,” 131– 152. - ISA, 71/14b.