Friday, October 31, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

UN Sets Up 2 Committees Jews in Reich Establish 5-Man Committee
To Study Palestine Aspects

One Group Will Report on Partition, Another
on All-Arab State; Jewish Agency Gets
Right to Voice Jewish Viewpoint

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (JPS)
—Soviet accord on Palestine was
the key-note as the Ad Hoc Com-
mittee on the Palestinian Ques-
tion adjourned indefinitely last
week with: \ •
1) The appointment by Chair-
man Herbert V. Evatt, of Aus-
tralia, of two sub-committees
to work out a Palestine solu-
tion based on the UNSCOP
majority report, and No. 2,
made up of six Arab, two non-
Arab Moslem States and the
South American Republic of
Colombia, to work on' the Arab
proposals for a unitary (Arab)
state in all of Palestine.
2) Report that the United
States favors an implementa-
tion plan which would exclude
the use of,either U. S. of Soviet
troops in Palestine and possibly
avoid involVement of the UN
Security Council.
3) The granting of observer
status on the partition subcom-
mittee to the '
Agency
with the right to make sug-
gestions and comments on the
proceedings.
4) The failure of the Arab
subcommittee to prevail on
any other non-Arab, non-
Moslem State to serve, despite
the Lebanese delegate's offer to
step down in favor of one.
U. S.-Russian unity on Pales-
tine was demonstrated several
times during the week as both
nations opposed the establishment
of a subcommittee to consider the
Arab claims, thereby placing
theni on the same level with
the recommendations of UNSCOP.
With the support of Chairman
Evatt, however, the Arab sub-
63mmittee was adopted by a vote
Of 30 to 10. Both the Soviets and
the United States voted for two
proposals which were defeated. A
Soviet proposal that the Arab
claims should be voted on forth- -
with by the Ad Hoc Committee,
clearing them from the agenda
once and for all, and a U. S..-
Swedish proposal for the Ad Hoc
Committee to adopt partition.
Work of Sub-Committee
The partition subcommittee, be-
fore adjourning for the week-
end: ..1) elected as its chairman
Kaswery Pruszinski, of Poland,
a Zionist sympathizer; 2) post-
poned the setting of a deadline
for the end of the Palestine Man-
date; 3) unanimously adopted a
U. S. proposal to amend the

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UNSCOP majority report by de-
leting from Part A, Paragraph 2,
the words "upon its request," thus
enabling the UN to grant inde-
pendence to the Jewish and Arab
states, not when they request it
but when the world body deems
it desirable.
Jewish Agency observers were
admitted to the subcommittee and
granted the right to submit pro
posals whenever they wish. They
have the right to make state-
ments, once, on each item that
will arise in the committee dis-
cussions. The Jewish Agenc3r
representatives at the first ses-
sion of the subcommittee were
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, Moshe
Shertok, Dr. Nathan Goldmann
and David HOrowitz.
The countries on the subcom-
mittee besides the United States
and USSR are: Canada, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Uruguay, Vene-
zuela, Guatemala, Union of South
Africa.
Arabs Won't Cooperate
The subcommittee on Arab pro-
posals bogged down at its first
session after failing to get any
non-Arab or non-Moslem power
beside Colombia to serve. The
Arab delegates prevailed on Dr.
A. Fernandez Gonzalez, Colom-
bian delegate, to act as provi-
sional chairman. The subcommit-
tee split itself into three working
groups: 1) Yemen, Iraq, Egypt,
and the alternate delegate from
Colombia, to draw up' the con-
stitution of the proposed unitary
Arab State. 2) Lebanon and Af-
ghanistan to study a scheme for
settlement of DPs outside of
Palestine. 3) Colombia, Pakistan,
Syria _and Saudi Arabia, to study
legal aspects of the, UNSCOP
plan.
The French delegation is re-
ported dissatisfied with its in-
structions from Paris not to take
a stand on partition and the
French attitude is ' expected - to
effect Belgium and Luxembourg.
President Truman is "very
hopeful" that a peaceful solution
of the Paestine situation will be
reached and that -- the partition
plan will go through in the Gen-
eral Assembly, Rabbi Samuel
Thurman, St. Louis, told report-
ers after a call at the White
House. The President also told
him he was quite sure the Jews
and Arabs can live together har-
moniously, the rabbi said.

Remembering El-Alamein

Bevin Hails Arab War Aid',
Ignores Yishuv's Sacrifices

LONDON, (JTA) — Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin, speaking
on the occasion of the anniver-
sary of the battle of El Alamein,
significantly omitted all mention
of the thousands of Jewish troops
who participated in the battle nor
did he speak of Palestinian in-
dustry which helped turn back
the Nazi armies in Africa. He
paid tribute, however, to "Arab

generosity, hospitality and help
throughout the campaign" and
said that Britain must be mindful
of this in "this hour of decision."
The Foreign Office intends to
take no action in connection with
a statement by Ahmad Sharabat,
Syrian Minister of Defense, that
10,000 Syrian soldiers would be
sent to the Palestine frontier on
"maneuvers" within a few days,
a spokesman said.

Calories for DPs in Italy
Reduced By IRO to 1,400

ROME, (JTA)—The daily ra-
tions of displaced persons in
IRO-administered camps in Italy
have been cut from 2,400 calories
to 1,400 which is below the med-
ically accepted standard for sub-
sistence. The Central Committee
for Jewish Refugees has wired
William H. Tuck, executive sec-
retary of the IRO Preparatory
Commission, protesting the re-
duction.
In an attempt to avert disturb-
ances in the camps, the JDC is
distributing to every DP parcels
containing 9,000 calories worth
of food.

BERLIN (JTA) — A five-man
coordinating committee of Jewish
Communities of the four zones of
Germany was established, with an
office in Frankfort, prior to the
adjournment of the committee's
three-day conference.

The five will include one re-
resentative each from the four
zones and one from Berlin
In a resolution on religious mat-
ters it was ruled that with cer-
tain exceptions persons who in-
termarried may not hold com-
munity office. The exceptions
will be ruled upon by the rab-
binate which will also pass upon

applications to join the Jewish
community. There are three rab-
bis for the four zones and Ber-
lin.
It was reported that there are
1250 Jewi now residing in Han-
nover of whom one-fifth are of
German origin and the remainder
refugees from eastern Europe. In
the state of Niedersachsen, also
in. the British zone, there are
about 3,000 Jews, exclusive of
those in the Belsen camp.
A resolution calling the Atten-
tion of the Allied and local au-
thorities throughout Germany to
the fact that a new wave of anti-

Semitiim is rising in the country
and demanding that existing reg-
ulations outlawing racism be en-
forced rigidly, was adpoted..
Another resolution urged the
enactment of uniform four-zone
legislation for the return of Jew-
ish property.
The delegates also asked for
the immediate opening of Pales-
tine. The resolution pointed out
that "our general determination
to leave Germany is similar to the
attitude of Central European
Jewish people to emigration." It
also asked the countries of the
world to admit Jew s

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