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United Nations at Crossroads;
Palestine Vote Due Next Week

Weissmann, Shertok
Round Up Zion Case

Partition of Palestine is the only practical compromise
offering an escape from deadlock, Dr. Chaim Weizmann
told- the United Nations' Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine
last Saturday. Weizmann appeared as the final spokesman
for the Jewish cause after Moshe Shertok, political chief
of the Jewish Agency, had appealed to the committee last
Friday to support the partition plan and had assured the
committee that the Jews would not permit a governmental
vacuum to exist in Palestine in the event Britain refuses
to cooperate in enforcing a UN decision.

Weizmann declared that the proposed Jewish state would pro-
vide homes for all displaced persons in Europe and the Orient.
He added that the partition plan establishes the conditions of
equality which are necessary to Arab-Jewish cooperation and, at
the same time, fulfills Jewish aspirations.
The Jews must be given assistance in organizing a defensive
force, Weizmann said, urging at the same time creation of an inter-
national police force to maintain peace during the interim period.
Weizmann also touched upon Jewish requests for western Galilee
and the Jewish district of Jerusalem, but did not press these points.
Three courses are open - to the committee, Weizmann said: 1)
administration of Palestine as a trust territory; 2) placing the
Jewish community under Arab domination, and 3) Jewish self-
government. The first course, he said, has been universally dis-
carded and the second would be wrong on moral grounds.
Shertok reiterated the statement of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
chairman of the American section of the Agency; who told the Ad.
Hoc Committee early this month that the Jews will give the parti-
tion plan "full consideration" although Jewish sacrifices involved in
accepting this plan "cannot be exaggerated." He enumerated these
sacrifices as follows: .
"1. The Jews will have to give up one-half of the country.
"2. It will be a blow to Jewish feelings if Jerusalem is com-
pletely excluded from the Jewish state.
"3. Other areas and cities hallowed by sacred associations,
districts with rich potential promise, whole clusters of Jewish settle-
ments, have also been excluded from the Jewish state in the parti-
tion plan."
• Announcing that the Jewish Agency has definite proposals re-
garding the boundaries between the projected Jewish and Arab
states, Shertok expressed the hope that the Agency will be given
opportunity "to present and defend its case" at such sub-committees
as the Ad Hoc Committee may decide to appoint.
He said that the Jews do not regard a compulsory economic
union with the Arabs as essential to the well-being of the Jewish
state. Instead they would have preferred a series of voluntary
economic agreements between the states.
Shertok also termed a "myth" the allegation that Arabs were
rendered landless by Jewish land purchases. This, he said, has been
disproved by official inquiries. --
Shertok also took issue with the Arab allegation that Jews do
not employ Arabs. He pointed out that for every single Jew em-
ployed in Arab economy there are 100 Arabs employed by Jews.
Earlier, Jamal el-Husseini, vice-chairman of the Arab Nigher
Committee, read a -90-miribte statement in which he violently de-
, nounced the Jewish claims to Palestine and declared that the Arabs
were not prepared to "suffer the fate of the Red Indians- of
America."

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(By Special Jewish News Correspondent at the UN)

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—With the -hour of decision approaching, the
United Nations Gene/ al Assembly is preparing for a final vote on the
UNSCOP reports which call for the establishment of Jewish and Arab states
in Palestine.
The Ad Hoc Committee presently is acting on 16 proposals which in.
elude the suggestion of the United States delegation for the formation of .a
sub-committee to act on partition plans. With the sub-committee slated to re.
port to the Ad Hoc Committee on Monday, hope is mounting that Palestine's
doors will be opened for 30,000 children, as suggested by Uruguay, and
that large-scale immigration will be facilitated. El Salvador's suggestion for
an Arab-Jewish conference under UN auspices is receiving least` attention . be. 4
cause of its impracticability.

Claims made by Arab leaders that they have enough votes to defeat the partition
plans are being discounted by Zionist leaders who contend that the UNSCOP plan has
an excellent chance for adoption.
With 16 states favoring the establishment of a Jewish state and 12 nations—including
the Arabs—lined up in opposition, 29 states are yet to arrive at •a decision on the issues.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann's address was hailed by delegates as a "most beautiful speech."
Herschel V. Johnson, U. S. delegate, said it was. "a profoundly moving presentation, but
the Iraqian Foreign Minister Fadhil Jamali calle
d it "misleading sentimentalism."

France Wavers Under Arabs' Pressure

(Special Cables to The Jewish News)

PARIS, (JTA)—The French Foreign Office issued a special communique on the ques-
tion of Palestine. France, the communique says, has to take into consideration the wishes
of. the Arab population living in her North - African possessions. She therefore must reserve
her final decision on a partition of Palestine in oeder to safeguard Moslem interests.
(Earlier, it had been announced that France would vote for partition reluctantly.)
Reliable sources informed -JTA that France will most probably abstain from voting
in the Ad Hoc Committee:-
The French statement has caused great disappointment in Zionist circles. It is be-
lieved that the outcome of ,last week's elections in Algeria has influenced the new stand
of the French government. In this election, the Arab Nationalists won an overwhelming
victory. The second part of the French municipal elections to be held next Sunday will
also have a bearing on the final decision of the French government.

British Assure Jews of Protection

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The military commander of Palestine, Gen. Gordon Mac-
Millan, accompanied by high army officers, visited upper Galilee and met with Jewish
representatives to discuss measures of security. The Jews were told that there were no
grounds for fear of Arab attacks as long as B ritish forces remain in Palestine.
While Gen. MacMillan inspected Galilee, Haganah discovered a detachment of Syrian
troops crossing the border and entrenching themselves on Palestine soil. Informed about
this move, MacMillan rushed to the scene and ordered the Trarisjordan Frontier Force
to retake the territory occupied by the Syrians. The operation was carried out success-
fully, and 14 Syrian soldiers were disarmed and detained. -
If a Jewish state becomes a fait accompli, the Revisionists- will participate in the
government, Dr. Arieh L. Altman, head of the Revisionist Party, declared. He insisted,
however, that his party continues to oppose any partition scheme until such a time.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—The 66th convention of the American Federation of
Labor adopted a resolution calling for an early international decision for the partition.

Jewish State Given
Christians' Support

Members of the Michigan chapter of the
American Christian Palestine Committee
reaffirmed their stand in favor of the estab-
lishment of a Jewish State in Palestine after
hearing the moving story of the "Exodus
1947," presented in a stirring address at a
luncheon meeting at Hotel Leland on Mon-
day by the Rev. John Stanley„Grauel, who
was a member of the Exodus crew.

—Photo by Paul Kirsch

Left to right, seated: The Rev. Edgar M.
Wehlberg; Vincent Giuliano;,the Rev. Wal-
ton E. Cole, who presided; Julien Bryan,
world famous lecturer and documentary
film photographer; the Rev. Grauel; Mrs.
Josephine Gomon; the Rev. Rufus Jones;
Howell Van Auken. Standing: Dean Arthur
F. Neef of Wayne University Law School;
Morris Jacobs, president of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit; the Rev. George
Drew; George F. Pierrot; R. Van Zanen;
the Rev. Merrill Bates; John Paris, of the
American Federation of Labor; Benjamin
M. Laikin, president of the Zionist Council
of Detroit, and Sidney Shevitz, local labor
Zionist leader.

