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An Open Letter:
Partitioned Palestine Will Not End
Jewish Homelessness, UN Warned
(Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles by Zalman
Berul in the form of an open letter to the United Nations
demonstrating the illegality of Britain's action in dividing
Palestine at the Jordan River and in setting up Transjordan
as an independent state. The creation of a Jewish State from
Jewish areas of Palestine and certain parts of Transjordan is
proposed in this second article. For the second time within a
year, Transjordan's request for admission into the United
Nations was rejected last week when Russia refused to recog-
nize the legality of its establishment as a separate state.)
Gentlemen:
On March 22, 1946, just a few days before the report of the
Anglo-American commission of Inquiry on Palestine (formed on
British initiative) was to present to the British government and
the President of the United States its recommendations for an
immediate and long-term solution of the Palestine problem, the
British government sliced off the
Transjordan region of Palestine, fully effected. ► • •
. prising more than three-
ths of Palestine's territory, BELONGS TO JEWRY
A PARTITION OF the whole
turned it into an independ-
Palestine territory including
ent Arab kingdom.
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Transjordan irto Arab and Jew-
ish halves would permit both
TERMED ILLEGAL
THIS ACT IS patently invalid, peoples more "lebensraum" with
for while Britain is surely priv- many major problems solved.
Most of Transjordan is un-
ileged to form any kingdom
within her own boundaries, she inhabited, non-cultivated and
ought not to be permitted to promises to remain a stretch of
do likewise to a territory given desert for many centuries and
to her only temporarily as a
mandatory over which she had
no sovereign power.
The British intention, of
course, was to place before the
world a fait accompli. Legally,
the action is nothing more than
a brazen breach of law and
trust.
even millenia to come unless
Jewish vision and enterprise
can take it over. We ought not
permit three-fourths of the Holy
Land historically and legally
belonging to the Jewish people
to remain barren forever with
Jewish survivors of Hitler's gas
chambers being driven back
from the shores of their Prom-
ised Land.
To bring about a rightful solu-
tion of the Palestine problem,
the UN ought not to leave the
question of the validity of the
amputation of 35,000 square
miles of Palestine up to Britain
alone.
If Britain received a mandate
in 1922 over a land of 45,000
square miles, the UN ought not
to permit her to hand over to
UN authority only a residue of
10,000 square miles when a full
and honest solution of the whole
problem lies in a program which
envisages the division of the
two areas among the Jews and
Arabs alike.
S. T.
of the Swedish embassy during
the itlar,'wat 'ever on Soviet soil
after the liberation of Hungary
by the Red army.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Vishinsky, said that the
young diplomat was probably
killed in battles at Budapest two
years ago, or by the pro-Nazi
regime in Hungary prior to
liberation.
Anti-fascist organizations with
a membership of more than a
million Swedes have indicated
that Vishinsky's statement does
not satisfy them. They insist that
a statement on the case „should
come from Premier Stalin.
India Jews Hopeful
Over New Regimes
BOMBAY, India (JTA) — The
Jewish Central Board of Bombay,
the leading Indian Jewish organi-
zation, has pledged its allegiance
to the new Indian government.
Special services were held in
Synagogues throughout India in
behalf of the new dominion.
The board reported that the
Jewish community was hopeful
about its future under the new
regime, particularly in view of
recent assurances extended by In-
dian leaders concerning the status
of minority groups.
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GENEVA (JTA) A warning that the Jews in the DP
camps of Europe may resort to violent outbreaks this win-
ter if nothing is done to alleviate their situation is con-
tained in a report of the sub-coinmittee of the United Na-
tions Special Committee on Palestine which last week
completed a tour of the DP camps in Germany and Austria.
Meanwhile, it' was announced
that the three working groups
into which delegates of UNSCOP
were divided in order to facilitate
consideration of various aspects
of the Palestine problem have
completed their studies and will
report to a plenary meeting of
the committee.
The DP sub-committee's find-
ings, declares that the problem of
the displaced Jews is a com-
ponent part of the larger prob-
lem of Palestine. The "over-
whelming sentiment" found
among Jews in every camp vis-
ited is in favor Df going to Pal-
estine, the report says.
LONDON, (JTA)—The Jewish
community of Liverpool is in its
fourth week without kosher meat,
;
Radom, Bialystok
Dead Memorialized
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for Seeking a Refuge in Palestine
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UN CHALLENGED
IF THE UN finally subdivides
the western remnant of Palestine
into two or three states, the
decision 'will surely be one
based on provisions of interna-
tional law and justice. Yet the
action would be ,.marred by the
black chapter of the illegal
British act of ceding 35,000
square miles to a satellite Arab
emir.
With these 35,000 square miles
able to play a great part in
solving the Palestine problem,
the perplexing question arises,
why did the UN permit the
amputation of the Transjordan
to pass as a fait accompli?
The partition df the western
remnant, even if the Jewish
people were granted a few thou-
sand miles for an "independent
state," will inevitably leave the
basic problem of Jewish home-
lessness unsolved. Consequently
such partition would rather
serve as the excuse for new
trouble. But if law is applied
and the legal basis of the Trans-
jordan annexation is ascertained,
a true partition ,of the Holy
Land can be honorably and law-
where Jews from Bialystok now
reside.
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