Friday, October 10, 1947

THE

JEWISH NEWS

Page Five

EXCLUSIVE

Anti-Soviet Cordon Sanitaire'
Seen as UN Stumbling Block

(Special to the Jewish News)

By J. L. TELLER

Editor, Palcor and Jewish Press Service

Distressed by the widening gap and the growing antag-
onism between the United States and the USSR, a condition
that imperils the very existence of the UN, many member-
states are understandably annoyed with the bellicose pos-
turings of the smaller fry. That is why Jamal Husseini's
threat of war "to the last drop of our blood," should the UN

approve the UNSCOP majority
report, has not impressed but has
irritated the delegates, and has
prej udiced his future presenta-
tions.
Dr. Silver's moderate statement,
on the other hand, announcing
the Jews' readiness to abide by
the UNSCOP proposals if ap-
proved by the UN, however try-
ing it might be for them to con-
cur in another partition of Pales-
tine, has impressed the delegates
favorably because reasonable ar-
gument and a predisposition to-
wards concilia-
tion is just what
the doctor or-
dered to dispel
the gloom
brought on by
the petulant pig-
headed ness of
J. L. Teller
the Big Powers.
Having talked with members of
the Ad Hoc Committee on the
Palestinian question, your cor-
respondent can state confidently
that they were impressed also
with Dr. Silver's assurance that
the Jews are quite rely to de-
fend themselves and implement,
alone if need be,' a UN- decision
setting up a Jewish state in part
of Palestine.
The majority of the delegates
are pretty well convinced of the
justice of the Jewish case and the
moderacy of Jewish demands,
and the readiness of the Jews to
implement the decision them-
selves has served to allay fears
which the more conscionable ele-
ments within the UN have enter-
tained.
What interests the delegates
most, however, is not whether
the Jews can impose a UN de-
cision without outside aid, and
what the toll in blood would be
if the Jews were required to do
it alone. What the delegt.tions
that cast their votes as the
United States does are primari-
ly concerned with, is who will
constitute the anti-Soviet cor -
don sanitaire in that area if the-
British withdraw from Pales-
tine?
Ever since the termihation of
World War Two, British diplo-
mats have been insinuating in
Washington and other capitals
that the coincidence of her pres-
ence in Palestine has forced on
Britain the formidable burden of
"guarding" the interests of the
West in that area of the world,
and that if her sacrifices remain
unappreciated she will be com-
pelled to resign her gratuitous
task. Colonial Secretary Arthur
Creech-Jones' shrewdly qualified
announcement of Britain's
planned withdrawal .from Pales-
tine, helped dramatize the fiction
of her selflessness as proxy for
the West in the. Levant. '
The United States and her allies
in the UN how ask—who will
undertake the "burden" if Britain
withdraws? The Arab League's
threat that the Arab states will
throw their weight to the Soviets
if "let down" by the United
States, is discounted as mere
bluff; Britain's warning, however,
that her withdrawal from Pales-
tine would create a perilous

JNF Office Moves
To 11816 Dexter

The Jewish National Fund
Council's headquarters were
moved this we.ek to 11816 Dex-
ter, near Elmhurst. The tele-
phone number remains the
same—TO. 8-7384.
An invitation is extended to
the entire Jewish community
to visit the new office and to
continue to remember all
J. N. F. projects and thereby
to speed the redemption of
the Land of Israel.

vacuum has caused grave concern
in Washington.
Now that she has succeeded
in implanting a phobia in the
camp of the Western powers,
Britain has maneuvered herself
into an advantageous position
from which she can dictate her
own terms for continuing her
role in Palestine. The an-
nouncement that the Comintern
has been re-established. will
only increase Waskiington
anxiety over a possible vacuum
in Palestine. -
* * *
The contrast between the treat-
ment given the Palestine question
at the special Palestine session of
the UN last spring and at the UN
session currently under way, is
most strikingly revealed in the
tongue-tiedness of the members
of the Ad Hoc Committee on the
Palestinian question as compared
to the feverish volubility of the
members of the UN Political
Committee earlier this year.
The contrast is explained by
the fact that this time a definitive
decision is mandatory, and the
states that vote as America does
refuse to commit their views be-
fore the U. S. delegation has
spoken. The habitually enigmatic
Soviets also are waiting for the
American delegation to state its
views before they commit their
policy to public inspection. Thus,
the United States constitutes an
almost fatal clot impeding the
proceedings of the Ad Hoc Com-
mittee.
A more rapid pace is antici-
pated after Washington will have
spoken. (Perhaps by the time this
dispatch will appear.) Some ob
servers anticipate, however, that
Washington's statement, when it
does come, will do little to re/hove
the inhibitions that fetter the
tongues of the delegates, because
it will be provided with a com-
fortable margin for retreat and
recant.

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Jamal Husseini announced that
the Arab Higher Committee will
in no way cooperate in the UN's
discussions of the UNSCOP re-
port. The Arab Higher Committee,
he said, will offer its information
and views only with regard to
Item Three on the Ad Hoc Com-
mittee's agenda, namely — the
Iraqui-Saudi Arabian proposal
for the immediate independence
of Palestine.
This does not mean, however,
that the Arabs will not partici-
pate in discussions of the various
phases of the UNSCOP report.
They will participate by proxy,
airing their views through the
medium of the Arab. states.
There is a strong likelihood that
the Arab states will submit a
compromise that will be a hybrid
of their own proposals and the
UNSCOP minority report which,
while providing some ostensible
autonomy for the Jei,vs, has es-
sentially the same aims as the
Iraqi-Saudi Arabian Item Three.
Indications of a future move in
- this \direction could be sensed in
the address of Lebanese delegate
Camille Chamoun who directed
his criticism at the UNSCOP ma-
jority report, without touching on
the minority report.
The maneuver would be purely
tactical, to show the UN that the
Arabs, too, are conciliatory, and
to provide their friends in the
State Department with additional
opportunities for jockeying.

Egypt Declines Jewish. Help
In Fight on Cholera Epidemics
CAIRO (JTA)—An offer from
the Hebrew University of Jeru-
salem to send teams of trained
medical personnel into Egypt to
help fight the cholera epidemic
there was declined with thanks.
The government said that foreign
personnel were not needed at this

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