THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the United Nations in special
session on May 15, 1947, unanimously adopted the following resolution:
"The General Assembly calls upon all governments
and peoples, and particularly on the inhabitants of Palestine, to refrain,
pending action by the General Assembly on the report of the Special
Committee on Palestine, from the threat or use of force or any other
action which might create an atmosphere prejudicial to an early settlement
of the question of Palestine."
The search for a fair and workable solution of the
Palestine problem is one of the most difficult and important tasks confronting
the United Nations. It is in the interest of the United States as well
as of the United Nations that the efforts of the United Nations to solve
this problem meet with success. Activities calculated further to inflame
the passions of the inhabitants of Palestine, to undermine law and order
in Palestine, or to promote violence in that country are certain to
create an atmosphere prejudicial to an early settlement of the Palestine
problem and to render still more difficult the tasks which the United
Nations has before it.
I therefore urge every citizen and resident of the
United States, in the interests of this country, of world peace, and
humanity, meticulously to refrain, while the United Nations is considering
the problem of Palestine, from engaging in, or facilitating, any activities
which tend further to inflame the passions of the inhabitants of Palestine,
to undermine law and order in Palestine, or to promote violence in that
country.