LAKE SUCCESS: Arab United Nations Delegates, presenting their Sub-Committee report on Palestine, called today [Nov 19] for a unitary state and declared that the United Nations had no legal right to partition the country.

These were the highlights of the report of the Sub-Committee which considered the case against partition. First, the partition proposal was `contrary to the mandate and a direct violation of the principles of the League and United Nations Charter`. Secondly, the Arabs `have first claim to Palestine by reason of centuriesold occupation and possession and right of indigenous population to self-determination`.

Thirdly, any doubt about the McMahon-Hussain correspondence (in which British promises to Arabs were alleged to be inconsistent with promises to Jews) should be settled by the International Court of Justice.