U. S. Grants Full Recognition;
Israel Tightens Jerusalem Rule

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Vol. 51,. No. 5

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Delegation of AJC
to Meet Governor

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JAMES G. McDONALD

Progressives Rip
ZOA Leadership

TEL VIV ('WNS) — Prime
Ministe 'David Ben Gurion's
party, Mapai, has won 44 of the
121 seats in the Constituent As-
sembly, according to final results
of the first election held in the
State of Israel.
Mapai received 152,972 votes,
or close to 36 percent of the total.
Mapam won 18 seats and the Unit-
ed Religious ticket emerged third
with 12 seats. The combined total
vote of the two latter parties was
less than the total vote secured
by Mapai.
The Heruth party was fourth,
with something more than 11
percent, the General Zionists 5.7,
Progressives 4.14, Sephardim 3.51,
Arab Democrats 1.72 and Stern-
ists 1.24.

Li PERCENT VOTE
Close to 85 percent of the eli-
gible voters, or 427,027, cast their
ballots. The exact distribution of
seats among the various parties is
not yet known, since the election
was based on proportional repre-
sentation and pre-election agree-
ments among the parties to throw
votes to parties without sufficient
votes for representation.
Though the Communist vote
was only. 14,99,9 it is possible for
that party to gain four seats as a
result of an agreement with the
Arab Democrats.
The Revisionists failed to win
a single scat since their strength
had been sapped by the Heruth
party of Menachem Beigin, Irgun
commander.
It is believed there is distinct
possibility that Ben Gurion will
form a two-party government.
However, such a coalition with
Mapam, if made, would give the
government parties a total of 62
out of the 121 seats, an unsafe
margin in the event of a major
difference of policy.
Some opinion here veers to the
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Heads New Regime

WASHINGTON (Special)
—The United States ex-
tended full recognition to the

State of Israel on Monday in ful-
fillment of a promise by Presi-
dent Truman that he would grant
de jure recognition following the
Israeli elections.
Diplomats in both Washington
and Tel Aviv were talking of an
e:cchange of ambassadors. instead
of ministers which is a level be-
low. James G. McDonald, 62,
friend of the Jewish State, is the
U. S. representative in Israel. It
is expected that he will be Presi-
dent Truman's first ambassador
to the newborn republic.

PROBABLE ENVOY
The probable first ambassador
from Israel will be Eliahu Ep-
stein, 45, who has been in Wash-
ington for three years as Jewish
Agency and later as Israeli repre-
PREMIER BEN GURION
sentative. Epstein will be 4, De-
troit Feb. 28 to address the Eco-
nomics Club and a citywide Zi-
onist rally.
The White House ceremony at
which the President signed the
announcement extending de jure
recognition was witnessed by
Dr. David Petegorsky, national John W. Snyder, Secretary of the
executive director of the Ameri- Treasury, Frank Goldman, na-
can Jewish Congress, will make tional president of Bnai Brith;
his first appearance in Detroit Maurice Bisgyer, national secre-
under the auspices of the Busi- tary of the order; and Edward Ja-
ness and Professional Chapter, cobson of Kansas City, the Presi-
Wednesday, Feb. 23, at the North- dent's old friend and former war
west Hebrew Congregation. Zel- buddy and business partner.
den Cohen, president, will pre-
CABLE WEIZMANN
side.
Dr. Petegorsky graduated from
After the ceremony, the Presi-
Yeshiva College with a Rabbini- dent handed the several pens he
cal degree at the age of 21 and had used to Goldman, Bisgyer
later received a Ph.D. from the and Jacobson. Later the Bnai
London School of Economics under Brith officials and Jacobson went
Harold Laski, where he was to the Israeli headquarters to ex-
tend congratulations to Epstein.
awarded highest honors.
Goldman and Bisgyer sent the
Dr. Petegorsky's latest articles
on the future of the Zionist Or- following cable to Chaim Weiz-
ganization in America and the mann:
"Mazel Tov on historic day
place of welfare boards in the
Jewish community have elicited of America's de jure recognition
much discussion in Jewish cir- of Israel. Bnai Brith rejoices
with you and expresses confident
cles.
hope that Israel may develop in
Plot to Cut Off Negev peace the deathless ideals of
our faith".
Charged by Isacson
Mr. Truman's action brought
President Truman is plotting to 20 the number of govern-
with Britain to deprive Israel of ments which have granted de
the Negev, former Rep. Leo Isac- jure recognition to the new
son of New York charged here State. Eleven others, including
in an address sponsored by the Britain, France and their allies,
have accorded Israel de facto
Progressive Party.
or partial recognition. Another
10 or so are expected to follow
this week with either partial
or full recognition, leaving the
Arab and Moslem states and
perhaps China and India as the
only ones withholding diplo-
matic relations.
ARAB CONSOLATION
President Truman also re-
vealed the recognition of Trans-
jordan, British satellite state
established by Britain in May,
1946. The recognition of Trans-
jordan was intended to soften
Arab resentment against the U.
S. and to speed the joint Anglo-
American approach to Middle
Eastern problems now progress-
ing.

Dr. Petegorsky
Coming Feb. 23

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Quiet in Victory Is Tel Aviv

JWV Ball Rally
Slates Rosenberg

Harold Mora n, department
commander of the Jewish War
Veterans, announces that the Mil-
itary Ball Committee will hold a
rally Feb. 10 at the Northwest
Hebrew Congregation.
The guests of the evening will
be Aaron Rosenberg, noted Yid-
disn humorist, and Moe Kessner,
singer of happy songs.
All war veterans and auxiliary

Ceremony

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2-Party
Coalition
Wei0ed

NEW YORK (WNS)—A reso-
lution denouncing the leadership
of the Zionist Organization of
America for its "attack on the
Jewish Agency Executive" and
calling upon "rank and file Zi-
onists throughout the country to
unseat the present ZOA adminis-
tration," was adopted by the
Committee for Progressive Zion-
ism at a national conference.
The conference voted "loyal
support" and "confidence" in the
Jewish Agency •executive mein-
bers who have just arrived in the
United States. The resolution was
in reply to a statement issued
earlier by the ZOA which charac-
terized as "intervention" the pro-
posal by the Jewish Agency exe-
cutive, which is elected by the
World Zionist Congress, to come
to this country to discuss contro-
versial issues within the Zionist
movement.
The resolution charged that
"the present administration of
the ZOA bristles with antagon-
isms, resents and suppresses
rights to representative leader-
ship, has lost contact with the
government of the United States
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Gov. G. Mennen Williams will
meet with a delegation of the
Detroit division of the American
Jcwish Congress at 10:30 a.m.,
Thursday, Feb. 10 in Lansing,
Albert Silber, president, an-
nounced.
More than 100 members of the
Congress are expected to attend
the meeting when the delegation
will offer Gov. Williams support
for his civil liberties program.

members are urged to atten4.

116 Friday, February 4, 1949

Ambassador?

TEL AVIV (Special) --
Jerusalem's New City, built
and inhabited by Jews, be-
came a de facto part of the State

of Israel when military rule o f
the area ended Tuesday and civil
authorities took over.
The government denied that
this was an official annexation
contrary to the partition decision
of the UN General Assembly. A
foreign dice spokesman said
that the 1,tandard of municipal
services there was now the same
as that in other Israeli cities and
therefore no reasons remain for
military rule.
BACKED BY ABDUI.LAII
Jewish leaders were gratified
at King Abdullah's prompt in-
dorsement of UN Mediator
Bunche's invitation to all Arab
states to join the armistice talks
with Israel. They made it clear,
however, that there was no in-
tention of surrendering any part
of the Negev as proposed in the
"Bunche line' solution for the
Egyptian-Israeli deadlock.
Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion in his first post-election
statement declared that the new
government must seek an Arab-
Israeli alliance and must direct
its foreign policy toward coopera-
tion and friendship with both
Russia and the U. S.
FAVORS COALITION
Ben Gurion intimated that he
favored a government of several
parties rather than one made up
of the two labor groups which
do not see eye-to-eye on all
things. At the same time, he re-
iterated his determination that
labor elements must form the
Cabinet majority.
"Our goal," he explained, "is
the transformation of the Jew-
ish people in its own land into
a free cooperative commonwealth
of labor, liberated from the curse
of man's exploitation by man."
Any party which joins his vic-
torious Mapai in the cabinet
must concur in the principle of
ollective responsibility, he said.
Ben Gurion's advocacy of an
Arab alliance emphasized his as-
sertions in the past that the new
State was prepared to play an
important part in a Middle East

Bnai Brith

Leaders
at
IIIRONICLE

Concession
on .Negev
Is Rejected

Masons Elect a Jew
First Time in Century

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The sunny beauty of Tel Aviv, temporary capital of Israel, is shown in this photograph. London
Square, above, laid out during the war and named in tribute to blitzed London, is one of a score of
public gardens. The Mediterranean is to the left

HADDAM, Conn.—A Jew, Her-
mann Sondik, was named Worthy
Master of the Granite Lodge of
the Masonic order here for the
first time since the group was or-
ganized more than 100 years ago,
the Natiorial Jewish Post report-
ed.

