COMPLAINTS OF KHASHABA PASHA REGARDING EGYPTIAN POLICY TOWARDS PALESTINE

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• Document Release Date: March 16, 2000
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• Publication Date: December 7, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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A. former Egyptian l-laison officer with a United Nations delegation
in Palest;,, Isx a:i1. Shemin, Bey, has just returned to Cairo from Par-.s.
Jpon his arrival he disclosed that, s4hasl:~aba Pasha Egyptian Foreign
f inist. r,, has compl fined "bitterly" in Paris that he has land no clear
directive on Palestine from his governr at. He considers &11 his recent
:ix; ;tr'uctions to have been contradictory, and he has repeatedly asked What
line he should follow, According to Ismail. Shemin Bey., Kha haba Pasha
was :: truc ved mere w to await the result of certain military or-: w atlons,
but none has developed.
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(Jo )lsi,nts of Khashaba Pasha Regarding
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In the opinion of Khashaha Pasha, the only course for Egypt and the other
Arab League states to follow is to accept the Borr nZotte Plan with some
proposed modification of the 11ejob boundaries. I haba indicated that
he would oppose the Bernadotte Plan in open, session of the United :lations,
but that privately ho would do his best to persuade the other Arabs to
,opport it.,
Istaai1. Shemin Bey s Oates that Khashaba Pasha has also coriaiained that
eba ase F rime A -:inist,er Iiiyad SuTh is doing his ut st to insure ? he
rejection of the Bernado to Plan, and that KhKashaba has seat emissaries
to persuade King Faruq that Egypt should undertake some military action,
E: a order to
raft- .Ain prestige for the Arabs,,
g y-ptian Foreign Minister.
As a result of l aahaba's messages, King Faruq has appointed a special
.ibco mi?tee, consisting of Price Minister Nugrashi Pasha; the- head
of the i.Ioya3. Cabinet' Abd-al-lladi; and the Minister of Defense, trailer d
Y ayciar, to study the situation and to submit proposals for Instructing the
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