U.S. Press Brands Arabs Aggressors Asks Penalties
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NEW YORK (WNS)—The American press, com-
menting editorially on the resumption of hostilities
la Palestine and the refusal of the Arabs to accept
an extension of the truce order, urged the Security
Council to "implement the one brake that can be
applied on the Arabs" by evidencing readiness to
move for invocation of sanctions.
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The New York Times, pointing out that Israel
"heeded the appeals of the United Nations and readi-
ly agreed to an extension of the truce," declared that
the Arab states, which refused the truce extension,
are responsible for the resumption of warfare and
"have assumed a grave responsibility before their
own people and before the world."
Now that the- Arabs have defied the world, the
paper stressed, they must be branded as aggressors
by the Security Council and adequate sanctions must
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Holy Land.
The paper called upon the Security Council, which
must now consider "this challenge", to find "the
courage to deal with it as it deserves" and live up
to its own declared resolve, "even though previous
attempts to invoke stronger measures than words
have fallen short of necessary support."
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The Detroit News held that "it seems clear" that
the Arabs are in the position of aggressors and that
"a failure to extend to Israel the protection intended
by the Charter would be gravely damaging to the
UN."
It said the Palestine situation was analagous to
the one which faced the League of Nations when
Mussolini proceeded against Abyssinia and that "the
test faced by UN should be equally determinative
of its future."
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The New York World-Telegram was of the opinion
that the situation "in Palestine is not as hopeless is
it seems." No one, the paper declared, expected
Count Bernadotte to effect a permanent settlement
in less than 30 days. But the four-week truce, it
stressed, did alter the situation conceivably.
In the first place, the paper noted, Israel grew
in stature and demonstrated to the world that it is a
"responsible regime." Secondly, there is now evident
a rift among the Arabs themselves and a change in
British Palestine policy.
' If there is close Anglo-American cooperation on
the Palestine issue, the World Telegram declared,
another truce can likely be secured and perhaps even
eventual settlement.
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U. S. Plan Puts Off Sanctions
Darn* at Degania
Some of the buildings of Degania, oldest Kvutzah in Israel,
were severely damaged when the Jordan Valley was invaded
by Syrian tanks. The embattled Jewish farmers held out and
broke the power of the Arab attack.
Huge Supplies of Vital Goods
Shipped to Israel hy Hadassah
Through the generosity of in collected by the following: Mes-
dividuals, retail merchants and dames Louis Kepes, Maurice
organizations, Detroit Hadassah Riegler, Richard Kline, Sam
has been able to ship thousands Berkowitz, Abe Miller, Sam
of pounds of new clothing, 1344 Feldman and Manuel Engel.
linens, blankets and other des-
perately needed goods to Israel,
Mrs. Harry Jones, chapter presi-
dent, revealed.
Thirty to 40 boxes are packed
here and sent off every week,
she said. Mrs. William Nelson,
2750 Webb avenue, whose phone
is TO. 7-0110, receives contribu-
tions.
At a recent luncheon and
garden party at her home, Mrs.
Morris Sklare entertained friends
and neighbors who contributed
supplies to Israel.
She was assisted by her daugh-
ters, Mrs. Sander Hillman, Mrs.
Henry Brentman and Mrs.
Charles Jacobs, and by Mrs. I.
A. Liebson, Mrs. Sam Munch
and Mrs. Sam Stocker.
At an evening of games, medi-
a/Al supplies for Hadassah were
FFI Join
Israeli Defenders
Jerusalem (Special)—As Arab
artillery resumed shelling the
Jewish section of Jerusalem
when the truce ended, word
came of an agreement between
Israeli army leaders in the city
and Irgun and the Fighters for
Freedom of Israel (Stern Group).
All three fighting forces are
operating together against the
Arabs. The city is not part of
the State of Israel and Irgun
and the FFI have operated in-
dependently here.
Dem Plank Asks
Lifting of Embargo
Jews Take _Israel Seen Crippled
4,500 in
by Renewal of Truce
Victories
Tel Aviv (Special)—Israeli
armored and infantry units won
their most spectacular victory
of the war by capturing the
town and airport of Lydda and
the strategic town of Ramie,
thus ending the long-standing
Arab threat to Tel Aviv.
From-3,000 to 4,000 Arab men
of fighting age are held cap-
tive in Ramie's central mosque
and another 1,500 are jammed
into barbed-wire inclosures.
We favor the revision of the
arms embargo to accord to the
State of Israel the right of self-
defense. We pledge ourselves
to work for the modification of
any resolution of the United
Nations to the extent that it
may prevent any such revision.
In Israeli Post
CIVILIANS TRAPPED
The Israeli army estimated
that 40,000 Arab civilians were
caught in the Jewish encircling
operation which brought about
the capitulation of Ramie and
left only a small pocket of re-
sistance at Lydda.
Huge quantities of enemy
ammunitian, heavy guns and
airplane engines, armored cars
and airplane engines fell into
Israeli hands.
The British-armed Arab Le-
gion contingent at Ramie with-
drew in the face of the Jewish
enveloping movement. Indica-
tions were that King Abdullah
was reluctant to meet the Jew-
ish forces in battle because of
his apparent intention to ap-
prove a resumption of the truce.
PHILADELPHIA (Special) — POPULACE STUNNED
Lydda was taken when a Jew-
In a more favorable plank than ish column raced through its
that of the Republicans, the main district with machine guns
Democratic platform urged that
the arms embargo be revised
in favor of Israel. The
text is
as follows:
We pledge full recognition to
the State of Israel.
We approve the claims of
the State of Israel to the boun-
daries set forth in the United
Nations resolution of Nov. 29
and consider that modifications
thereof should be made only if
fully acceptable to the State of
Israel.
We look forward to the ad-
mission of the State of Israel
to the United Nations and its
full participation in the interna-
tional community of nations.
We pledge appropriate aid to
the State of Israel in develop-
ing its economy and resources.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. (Special)—Ignoring the recom-
mendations of their mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, that
the Security Council immediately invoke the UN Charter
to forbid further fighting in Palestine and impose sanctions
against Arab states to make sure the Council is obeyed,
blazing. •
"Apparently stunned by the
audacity of the Jewish thrust
from the village of Ben Sliemen,"
said Kenneth Bilby of the N.Y.
Herald Tribune, who is at the
front, "Lydda's populace did not
resist when infantry units swept
in after dark behind an ar-
mored spearhead."
Ramie, with its modern
stone buildings "surrendered
with astonishing rapidity," Bilby
said. "Its outdoor prison cages
were jammed with young Arabs
whose listless demeanor showed
that they had no stomach for a
fight."
IIOLD COASTAL PLAIN
With the capture of Lydda and
Ramie, all of the coastal plain
from Haifa south to Isdud is
in Israeli hands.
The Jewish forces now have
a formidable spearhead pointed
ai Latrun and their victories in
Arab territory of central Pal-
estine have given them terri-
torial possessions which will be
a valuable bargaining point at
the peace table.
MAJ. REUVEN DAFNI has
been appointed representative
of the Israel defense ministry
in the Israeli office of informa-
tion in New York. Dafni spoke
in Detroit several months ago
on behalf of the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
the Council studied a U. S. reso-
lution which only threatened the
application of sanctions.
The American plan provides
that fighting stop within three
days and that both parties con-
tinue to work with Bernadotte
for a peaceful settlement during
a truce which would continue in-
definitely.
UN WOULD CONTROL-
Observers pointed out that un-
der the proposal, if the Jews and
Arabs failed to come to some
agreement, the Security Council
would control Palestine through
its mqdiator.
Israeli spokesmen said that the
plan would penalize Israel which
had agreed to prolongation of
the truce, while the Arabs who
rejected it should be solely liable
to penalties because of their de-
fiance of the UN.
The Israelim pointed out that
the proposal would impose an-
other world embargo against Is-
rael since the . UN mediator
would be given control over
arms importations and over im-
migration as in the original truce
setup.
BOMB IIAIFA AGAIN
Waited 4 Years
to Be Buried
With His GI Son
NEW YORK (WNS)—A four
and a half year vigil, during
which Jacob H. Halsbond wait-
ed patiently for the return of
the body of his 29-year-old son,
Maj. Myron R. Halsbond, killed
in action during World War II,
ended when the elder Halsbond
and his beloved son were buried
side-by-side in the family plot
in Beth David Cemetery.
Maj. Halsbond, a physician in
the Army Medical Corps, was
killed in England when German
planes bombed the hospital in
which he was stationed.
His father's one desire, there-
after, was to witness the return
of his son's remains to the U. S.
and, after his heart began to fail,
to be buried side by side with
his son. Last week the body was
brought home from Europe and
shortly after Jacob Halsbond,
who had entered the hospital
for a cher , died.
Meantime, fighting continued
on a large scale in Palestine.
Haifa was bombed again, and
Egyptian planes on one of their
periodic raids on Tel Aviv took
the lives of 14 Jews and wound-
ed 50.
An Israeli dispatch reported
that 1,000 Arab irregulars were
repulsed with 90 killed In an
attack on the isolated Jewish gar-
rison at Segera in northern Pal-
estine.
An Egyptian communique
claimed that Egyptian mobile
forces attacking south of Jerusa-
lem penetrated Jewish lines in
the Katamon, Mekor Chaim and
Alamein Camp districts. There
was no confirmation.
Telegrams to Truman
and Marshall Urged
Saul Gottlieb, director of the
Zionist region here, asks all De-
troiters to wire telegrams
mediately to President Truman
and Secretary of State Marshall
in Washington urging them to
lift the arms embargo and to
back sanctions against the Arab
aggressors at the UN.