Friday, October 1, 1948 ••" Text of Bernadotte's Plan Submitted Before His Death PARIS — The following is the report on Palestine made to the UN General Assembly by Count Folke Bernadotte just before his assassination two weeks ago. Since I presented my written suggestions to the Arab and Jew- ish authorities on 27 June, I have made no formal submission to either party of further sugges- tions or proposals for a definitive settlement. Since that date, how- ever, I have held many oral dis- cussions in the Arab capitals and Tel Aviv, in the course of which various ideas on settlement have been freely exchanged. As regards my original sugges- ions, I hold to the opinion that they offered a general framework within which a reasonable and workable settlement might have been reached had the two parties concerned been willing to discuss them. • Page Forty-nine DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Bernadotte Plan Would Change This tween the parties concerned, or failing that, by the United Na- tions. • • • CONTINUOUS FRONTIERS (D) Adherence to the principle of geographical homogeneity and integration, which should be the major objective of the boundary arrangement, should apply equal- ly to Arab and Jewish territories, whose frontier should not, there- fore, be rigidly controlled by the territorial arrangements envis- aged in the resolution of 29 No- vember. 1St. A JoFFa iIKUSALIM Pooulatisa • Alan ow: loom Granados Visions Israel in the UN PARIS (WNS) — Dr. Jorge Garcia - Granados, Guatemalan delegate to the United Nations and author of the forthcoming book "Mt. Birth of Israel," de- clared that he hoped the UN General Assembly •would achieve, the two goals which he con- sidered "most essential for this sossion"—a lasting peace in the Middle East and the admission of Israel into the world orga- • • • nization. RIGHT OF REPATRIATION Dr. Granados predicted that (E) The right of innocent peo- some last desperate moves" will ple, uprooted from their homes be made at the UN session by the present terror and ravages to revise the Palestine parti- of war, to return to their homes tion decision, "especially in ref- should be affirmed and made ef- erence to frontiers," but, he fective with assurance of ade- added, "a fundamental revision quate compensation for the prop- will fail to win the necessary erty of those who may choose two-thirds majority." not to return. • Brandeis Women Give JERUSALEM • (F) The, city of•Jerusalem, be- Radios to Vet Hospital cause of its religious and inter- Two radios with underpillow national significance, and the complexity of interests involved, attachments were presented to should be accorded special and the Dearborn Veterans Hospital last week by the Louis D. Bran- separate treatment. deis Chapter, Bnai Brith. • • • The gifts were given in honor INTERNATIONAL of Mrs. Leonard Sims, president RESPONSIBILITY (G) International responsibilty of Women's District Grand Lodgs should be expressed where desir- No. 6. Mrs. Harriet Pritz is the able and necessary in the form of chapter's veterans affairs chair- international guarantees as a man. means of allaying existing fears and particularly with regard to Rosh Hashonah Greetings boundaries and human rights. • • • SPECIFIC CONCLUSIONS THE following conclusions broadly outlined, would, in my view, considering all the circum- stances, provide a reasonable, equitable and workable basis for settlement: (A) Since the Security Coun- 11501 LINWOOD cil, under pain of Chapter VIII Sanctions, has forbidden further, TO. 7-7300 employment of military action in (Continued on page 61) TURNED DOWN THEY WERE flatly rejected, 105,000 however, by both parties. Since they were put forth on the ex- plicit condition that they were purely tentative, were designed primarily to elicit views and counterz,snggestions from each party and, in any event, could be implemented only if agreed upon ARAB STATE by both parties, I have never PopulAtioti since pressed them. JEWS ARABS With respect to one basic con- 10,000 804,000 cept in my suggestions it has be- come increasingly clear to me that, however desirable a poli- tical and economic union might be in Palestine, the time is cer- tainly not now propitious for the effectuation of any such scheme. JEWISH POPULATION CINTEAS • 2 (Circlet are in proportion t• site of Jewish communities) I do not consider it to be with- Pti my province to recommend, to the members of the United Na- tions a proposed course of action on the Palest* question. That is a responsibility of the MY members, acting through the ap- propriate organs. The map above shows how Palestine would be divided up In my role as United Nations under the partition plan of Nov. 29. The late Count Berna- Mediator, however, it was inevi- dotte's new proposals submitted to the UN General Assembly table that I should accumulate just before his tragic death would give all the area on the information and draw conclusions map marked Negeb to the Arabs in exchange for the tiny from my experience which might northwestern corner of Galilee marked with vertical lines. well be of assistance to members In addition, Count Bernadotte proposed that Jerusalem be of the United Nations in charting given over to the UN and that Haifa, in the Jewish zone, the future course of United Na- be declared a free port. tions action on Palestine. • • • that military action shall not be estine and every feasible measure CAN'T FIND FORMULA employed by either party in the should be taken to insure that hostilities will not be resumed I CONSIDER it my duty, there- Palestine dispute. - It cannot be ignored that the and that harmonious relations fore, to acquaint the members of the United Nations, through the vast difference between now and between Arab and Jew will ulti- y • medium of this report, with cer- last November is that a war has mately be restored. tain of the conclusions on means been started and stopped and of peaceful adjustment which that, in the intervening months, THE JEWISH STATE ii (B) A Jewish state called Is- have evolved from my frequent decisive events have occurred. rael exists in Palestine and there consultations with Arab and Jew- 3 ish authorities over the past three The following seven basic pre- are no sound reasons for assum- and one-half months and from mises form the basis for my con- ing that it will not continue to do so. my personal appraisal of the clusions: • • • (C) The boundaries of this present Palestinian scene. new state must finally be fixed I do not suggest that these con- RETURN TO PEACE either by formal agreement be- clusions would provide the basis (A) Peace must return to Pal- for a proposal which would eas- - ily win the willing approval of both parties. I have not, in the course of my New Year's Greetings intensive efforts to achieve agreement between Arabs and Jews, been able to devise any such formula. I am convinced, however, that it is possible at this stage to for- mnlate a proposal which, if firm- ly approved and strongly backed by the General Assembly, would Reprosentatives in All Principal Cities of the World not be forcibly resisted by either CADILLAC 4450 side, confident as I am. of course, 519 FARWELL BLDG. that the Security Council stands firm in its resolution of 15 July • • • BRONER GLOVE CO. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS r- Weisman Motor Sales 1430 S. Woodward Ave., Royal Oak EL 6535 ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO THE ENTIRE JEWISH COMMUNITY . DAVID BADER BAG CO. 2516 PERRY ST. wane in Sweden : Sterling Secret Service — AT — • THE STOCKHOLM "Originators of Smorgasbord in Detroit" 1014 EAST JEFFERSON at RIVARD Greetings to my fellow Jews in all countries of the world. 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