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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 24, 1947 .
Baldwin Report Suggests
UN Establish Zion State ,
A meeting of leading members
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Joint
Anglo-Ainerican recognition of of the World Zionist executive
was scheduled to take place here
Palestine independence, compli- this week to map the basic de-
mented by a British-U. S. recom: mands on which the Zionist lead-
mendation to the United Nations ers will not compromise during
for inclusion of the new state in their %formal talks with repre-
the UN has been urged in a sentatives of the government
pending formal negotiations for a
report submitted to President solution of the Palestine prob-
Truman by former Rep. Joseph lem.
Clark Baldwin, administrative
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Amer-
chairman of the Political Action
Committee for Palestine, who re- ican member of the executive,
arrived here to participate in
cently returned from a month-
the meeting. Others who will
long visit to the Holy Land.
attend include David Ben Gurion,
The report also suggests the Dr. Moshe Sneh, S. Z. Shragia,
UN set up and supervise the Prof. Selig Brodetsky, Dr. Nah-
machinery for transformation of um Goldman and Berl Locker.
the mandate into an independent
Warns Against Hopes
state, and assume temporary con-
A warning against "high ex-
trol over land sales and military
matters. It says homeless Euro- pectations" concerning the in-
pean Jews should be considered formal talks between World
Palestinian citizens for purposes Zionist leaders and representa-
of political organization of the tives of the British government,
was voiced by Dr. Neumann,
new state.
vice-president of the Zionist Or-
"Impressed, Interested"
ganization of America and a
At a press conference, Bald- member of the World Zionist
win did not disclose the results of executive.
his talks with President Truman
Dr. Neumann doubted it would
and Lord Inverchapel earlier in
the day, except to say the Brit- be necessary for Dr. Abba Hillel
ish ambassador had been "im- Silver to come to London now.
No final decision with regard
pressed and interested" and Mr.
Truman wanted to take the re- to participation in the conference
has
been taken by the executive
port up with Gen. Marshall, new
of the Agudas Israel organization
secretary of state.
here.
Spokesmen of the organi-
Specific recommendations by
Mr. Baldwin include the calling zation were to meet this week
by the UN of a ' "Palestine Con- with Colonial Secretary Arthur
stitutional Convention" and sub- Creech..-Jones for informal talks.
sequent elections (with homeless
European Jews included as elec-
tors); termination of the British
mandate when the new Palestine
government assumes power; crea-
tion of a UN Palestine Land Com-
mission, which will supervise land
sales - so as to guarantee Arab
rights and, at the same time, se-
cure assignment to the new gov-
ernm%t of the land holdings of
the mandatory government; es-
tablishment by the UN of an
international military force to
replace the British forces until
a local army is trained or it is
decided that no military force is
needed; and, contingent on rec-
ognition by Transjordan and the
other Arab League states of the
proposed state, the U. S. Export-
Import Bank should loan $300,-
000,000 to several Middle-Eastern
states, "having particularly in
mind the use of the Jordan River
for industrial power and irriga-
tion purposes."
Shertok In Washington
Peace Treaties to Include Clause
For Return of Jewish Property
WASHINGTON, - (JTA)—Text
of the peace treaties with Bul-
garia, Finland, Hungary and
Romania, which contain clauses
obligating Hungary and Romania
Wins Merit Award
to restore heirless Jewish pro-
perty to Jewish communities or
organizations' and obligating the
ex-satellites to guarantee human
rights and basic freedoms regard-
less of race or religion, was re-
leased by the State Department
last week.
The clauses in the treaties read:
`1. Romania (Hungary, Fin-
land and Bulgaria) shall take all
measures to secure all persons
under Romanian jurisdiction,
MISS PAULI MURRAY, mem-
ber of the legal staff of the
Commission on Law and Social
Action of the American Jewish
Congress, won the 1946 Made-
moiselle Merit Award for signal
achievement in law. Miss Murray
is a graduate of Howard law
school. recipient of a Rosenwald
Fellowship and was deputy at-
torney general in California be-
fore joining tte Jewish Congress
staff in the fight against racial
discrimination.
without distinction as to race, sex,
language or religion, the •enjoy-
ment of human rights and of the
fundamental freedoms, including
freedom of expression, of press
and publication, of religious wor-
ship, of political opinion and of
political meeting.
'2. Romania (etc.) f u r t h e r
undertakes the laws in force in
Romania shall not ... discrimin-
ate or entail any discrimination
between persons of Roninian
nationality on the ground of their
race, sex, language or religion
whether in reference to their
persons. property, business, pro-
fessional or financial interests,
status, political or civil rights or
any other matter.'
The article on return of pro-
perty read:
'1. Romania (and Hungary)
undertakes in all cases where the
property, legal rights or inter-
ests in Romania of persons under
Romanian j u r i s d i c tion have,
since Sept. 1, 1939, been the sub-
ject of measures of sequestration,
confiscation or control on account
of the race or religion of such
persons, the said property, legal
rights and interests shall be re-
stored with their accessories or
if restoration is impossible, fair
compensation shall be made
therefore.
2. All property, rights and in-
terests in Romania of persons,
organizations or communities
which were the object of fascist
measures of persecution, and re-
maining heirless or unclaimed
for six months after the corning
into force of the present Treaty,
shall be transferred by the
Romanian government to organ-
izations in Romania representa-
tive of such persons, organ iza;
tions or communities.
Bnai Brith Dinner Honors
Congresswoman Rogers
WASHINGTON, D. C.—A te5ti-
moma1 Cinner honoring Congress-
woman Edith Nourse Rogers of
Massachusetts, newly appointed
chairman of . the House Commit-
tee on Veterans Affairs, will high-
light the annul joint meeting of
the National Post War Service-
Amencanism Commission and the
National Beterans Advisory Com-
mittee of Bnai Brith. The tribute
is scheduled for the first night
of the two-day Bnai Brith con-
ference he e. Feb. 17-18.
Store Hours E;1011. 9:15 to 5:30
Moshe Shertok, political chief
of the Jewish Agency, who has
arrived here to head the political
department of the Agency's
conferred
Washington branch,
with Under Secretary of, State
Acheson and other state depart-
ment officials. He also saw Brit-
EAst.vskatd Payments
4 d'aii*Pit
ish ambassador Lord Inverchapel.
Problem of State Frontiers
In Palestine Stumps British
LONDON, (JTA)—While the
majoiity oflothe British Cabinet is
reported to have swung around
to the belief autonomy for the-
Jews in Palestine—meaning par-
tition and a Jewish state—is the
only solution of the Palestine
question, the problem of the de-
lineation of Jewish and Arab
areas is considered an almost in-
superable obstacle.
To reduce Arab opposition, the
official view is the smallest pos-
sible Arab minority must be in-
cluded in the projected Jewish
state. This means the state will
be small, possibly no larger than
the Jewish territory envisaged in
the Morrison-Grady "federaliza-
tion" scheme.
Reduction of Area
militating
Another factor
against 'an adequately-sized Jew-
ish state is the insistence the
Arab state must also be a "viable
state," since the Husseini faction
among the Palestine A r a 11 s
b violently opposes incorporation
with Transjordan under the rule
of King Abdullah. This would
mean a further reduction of the
area to be incorporated into the '
Jewish state.
It is understood no suggestions
on frontiers are being advanced
by the British government to the
Jewish Agency. •
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