Friday, November 12, 1948

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Three

Strictly Confidential

Fears Bernadotte Plan Is Very Much Alive
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

his plan is very much alive. You will realize it in
the very near future.

ISRAEL IS UNITED on the Negev issue. There isn't
a political party or group in Israel that would dare
accept the Bernadotte plan. Yet the ZOA is afraid to
call for a mass protest against the
amputation of the Negev. Why?
Is it because Mr. Truman promised
to oppose the plan at the UN?
If he promised it, there is no evi-
dence of it. Britain is determined
to put it through. Only/loan aroused,
united American Jewry might be
able to stop it. Yet during the
election campaign, which was the
Trost propitious moment, diplomatic
approaches were substituted for
P. J. Him mass appeals. These tactics merely
resulted in postponements. Bernadotte is dead, but

Off the Record:

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THE ISRAELI office of information in Washington
just published a comprehensive leaflet on , "What the
Negev Means to Israel." The leaflet deals only with
the economic aspects of this issue. No political argu-
ment is put forward. And to emphasize the meaning-
lessness of the Truman recognition, the Israeli office
of information material had to be filed with the U.S.
Department of ,Ittstice, just like that of any foreign
agent.

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ORCHIDS TO Lillie Schultz for her article in the
Oct. 23 issue of the Nation. It is called "Who Wrote
the Bernadotte Plan?" And it should prove an eye-

opener to our Zionist leaders. Ernest E. Barbarash.
ZOA publicity head, now visiting Israel, will set up a
publicity office for Dr. Israel Goldstein, new treasurer
of the Jewish Agency. Dr. Goldstein does not wish
to be forgotten during his Sabbatical leave from his
congregation- in New York . . . 'Brotherhood Week"
material to editors is much less concerned with
brotherhood than with publicity for the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, its sponsors. .. The
friction between Henry Montor, former executive
director of the UPA, and the ZOA, as to the control
of the UPA is in many respects academic. The re-
cent Pittsburgh conference of the 80 Jewish com-
munity leaders "revealed" that the ZOA is in factual
control of the UPA, and has been in that position
for the last six years. Thus it is up to the ZOA to
relinquish or merely maintain this control. Inside
information' reaches us that: Henry Morgenthau is
backing Montor, and will not retain his chairmanship
of the UJA unless Montor is retained.

the few men who predicted Tru-
man's election. In fact, Backer
backed up his opinion with a
bet of several thousand dollars.
Ile told his friends that he be-
Leo Low, distinguished com-
lieved the middle class would
poser of contemporary Jewish
nation with anybody. Not all turn out a heavy vote for Tru-
music, will headline a concert.of
welfare funds are pressing for man and swing the vote.
the Halevy Singing Society of
a 50 percent representation. The
LZOA, Nov. 28 at the Labor
welfare groups are trying to
Zionist Institute.
mediate the differences, but not 90 Pet. of DP's Ask
as pressure groups.
The affair will celebrate the
It was Morgenthau who sug- for Homes in Israel
first anniversary of the UN
gested that Montor be permitted
MUNICH (WNS)—All but 10 declaration of the Jewish State.
to stay on until the end of this percent of the Jewish Displaced
Low will be presented the sec-
year.
Persons in the camps of the U. S. ond annual Max Levy Award,
The Progressive Zionists are zone of Germany have registered given for outstanding contribu-
split on the issue. Lipsky is for emigration to Israel.
tions to Jewish music.
hacking the UPA position. Abra-
ham Feinberg is about to send
out a call about the American
Israel Fund.
The Hilarious

Ilalevv Society
Awaits Composer

Truman to 'Dictate' on Israel

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
TRUMAN will
take a firmer hand in the
Palestine question. Now that he
is President in his own right he
will dictate rather than follow
policy.
Truman was too busy imme-
diately after the election to
study the implications of the
new American reversal at Paris,
His directive to Marshall a week
ago, when the Security Council
was considering the British-
Chinese sanctions proposal, was
clear. There was nothing in it
to warrant the interpretation
that the U.S. delegation was
free to re-reverse itself on the
day after the election.
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INIESIDENT

MRS. F.D.R. BITTER

DESPITE all denials Mrs. Roose-
velt and other Americans in
Paris are bitter over Marshall's
backing of the Bevin-sponsored.
and-inspired sanctions move. The
sanctions subterfuge is not Bev-
id's last card. His open admis-
sion that British army regulars
were still serving with Trans-
jordan forces tipped his cards.
Will this admission open the
way to a sanctions move against
Britain on charges of aiding an
aggressor?
From a source close to the
White House we hear that Mr.
Truman plans a conference with
Zionist leaders in the United
States. Emerging from the con-
ference will be a clear, firm and

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unalterable policy.
Close friends of the President
say he believes in the possibility
of a direct Jewish-Arab settle-
ment. One Washington source
believes Mr. Truman may make
a bold move soon.
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MAY GET TOUGH
THE PLAN, according to that
source, calls for the President
to give de jure recognition to
Israel and then invite the Arab
states to a round-table confer-
ence with Israel. If the Arabs
reject his proposal he will use
some pf the strong language he
showed himself capable of de-
livering during his effective
campaign.
There is a cooling attitude in
Washington toward the present
Chinese regime. Chinese officials
may be asked to explain what
is behind China's almost hyster-
ical alignment with Britain on
the Palestine issue. Is there a
British-Chinese political and eco-
nomic deal about which the U.S.
has been kept in the dark?
In view of our election upset
it would seem foolish to make
any predictions. Yet we are pre-
pared to go out on the limb with
the prediction that the Security
Council will not impose sanc-
tions on Israel.
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ON HOME FRONT
THE UPA HAS no intention
of negotiating the current con-
troversy over the Montor resig-

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