Friday, November 21, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS,

Many Boundary Changes
Made by UN Committees

Jews To Get Lydda Airport; Jaffa To Go To The Arabs;
Galilee Compromise Possible; British Won't Obstruct
UN Palestine Decision

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., (JPS)—Substantial agreement
in the four power working group on implementation, and
notable success for the Jewish Agency in gaining adoption
of its proposed modifications to the UNSCOP boundary recom-
mendations, high-lighted last week at the UN, which was
climaxed by the long awaited British statement of her
intentions in Palestine.

Sir Alexander Cadogan, Chief
British delegate, appeared in
Sub-Committee, and in a brief,
though nebulous, statement, said
that Britain can completely evac-
uate Palestine by Aug. 1, 1948, but
that British forces in the in-
terim will not be available to en-
force implementation of a UN de-
cision on JeWs and Arabs. He in-
dicated that Britain will main-
tain military rule, apparently
- with no civil administration, in
regions still under her occupation
from the time of a UN decision
until the last British soldier is
out of Palestine.
Confronted by demands for
clarification from Guatemalan
delegate Granados and U. S. del-
- egate Johnson, both of them
members of the hard-working im-
plementation group, Codogan said
that his government would not
act counter to a two-thirds de-
cision by the General Assembly
and that it would not obstruct the
setting up of shadow govern-
ments, local militia, immigration
or land purchases as decreed by
the General Assembly.
Cadogan Ambiguous
Cadogan's ambiguous statement
did not come to the Sub-Commit-
tee as a surprise. Having been ap-
prized in advance of British in-
tentions the four power group—
U. S., U. S. S. R., Guatemala and
Canada—drafted terms of refer-
ence for the proposed implemen-
tation commission designed • to
diminish British responsibility as
much as possible. It may be nec-
essary to give the UN commission
even greater authority than now
contemplated so that it can ne-
gotiate with Britain subsequently,
in the name of the General As-
sembly, in order to• clarify many
points in Cadogan's statement
which were not explained and
which may remain unexplained
until after the General Assembly
adjourns.
The implementation working
group agreed that Provisional
Councils of Government should
be set up in Palestine by July 1
and that the UN Commission
should consult with democratic
parties and organizations in set-
ting up these councils. Not later
than a half year after their for-
mation, elections for constitution-
al assemblies are to be held.
Boundary Discussions
While the implementation group
was in session, the boundary
working group worked diligently,
almost 12 hours a day and often
into the night, with the resultant
agreement on boundary modifica-
tions which give to the Jewish
State a total, so far, of 365,000
dunams more than was allotted to
it by the UNSCOP. At least
250,000 dunams, however, are un-
cultivated desert.
The Jewish Agency had propos-
ed 11 modifications to the
UNSCOP boundaries, on all but
two of which there has already
been agreement or compromise.
A major victory for the Jewish
Agency last week was inclusion
in the Jewish State of part of
the Qalqiyah area, embracing im-
portant Lydda Air Port, Sarafand
military camp and the suburbs of
Rishon LeZion, all of which has
been included in the Arab State
by the UNSCOP map. Another
important gain for the Jewish
State was the west shore of the
Dead Sea, linking the northern
and southern plants of the vital
Palestine Potash Works.
Other' major points *were: the
transfer of the Jews of some
22,000 dunams of land, the site of
the only reservoir of winter wat-
ers for irrigation of the Negev;
extension of the Haifa Bay area
to include land and water re-
sources usable for industrial pur-
poses, and an offer to cede some
eastern strips of Western Galilee
to the Jewish State.

ed around Jewish claims for all
of Western Galilee, in return for
which Moshe Shertok, chief of
the Jewish Agency's Political De-
partment and the Agency's
spokesman on all boundary ques-
tions, said the Jews are willing
to give the Arabs several strips
in the Negev. The future status
of the predominantly Jewish
town of Safad, in Galilee, was also
debated at length, with Mr. Sher-
tok pointing out the close Jew-
ish historical and religious ties
with that town. It was tentatively
agreed also to allot the southern
town of Beersheba to the Arab
State and give the Jews Aqaba,
site of an ancient port on the gulf
of Aqaba, which is actually the
eastern arm of- the Red Sea. De-
velopment of this spot would give
the Jews a direct outlet to the
Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf
by-passing the Suez Canal.
Status of Jerusalem
The status of Jaffa, as an Arab
enclave in the Jewish State, was
mutually agreed upon, although
there is still some question over
the status of the Jewish quarters
of the Arab town.
Th estatus of Jerusalem is still
under discussion. A suggestion
was made by Dr. Fabregat of
Uruguay, to give the Arab sec-
tions of the city to the Arabs, the
Jewish sections to the Jews and
place all holy plaCes, including
Bethlehem, under a special ad-
ministration by representatives of
three faiths. The so-called "parti-
tion" of Jerusalem was opposed
by U. S. delegate Johnson on the
grounds that such a plan might
encourage religious jealousies and
would stymie the city's com-
mercial development.

Remnants of Israel

Page Three

Partition Will Not Reduce
High Economic Absorptivity

NEW YORK (JTA)—The eco-
nomic absorptivity of Palestine
will not be reduced by partition-
ing of the country, Robert Nathan,
prominent economist and co-auth-
or of a work on Palestine's econ-
omy, declared' at a press confer-
ence arranged by the American
Palestine Trading Corporation in
connection with a luncheon which
the organization will hold Sun-
day.
He said that within the next
10 years at least $3,000,000,000
will be needed for investment in
Palestine, whose economy he vis-
ualizes as half capitalistic and
half "cooperative." He also pre-
dicted that 1,000,000 immigrants
Twenty thousand Jewish chil- would flock to the proposed Jew-
dren were brought to Palestine ish state within the next decade,
under the auspices of the Youth bringing. the population total to
Aliyah movement of which Ha- 2,000,000. The immigrants will
dassah is the American repre-

sentative. Like most of them, these
two boys spent years in concen-
tration camps and wear, branded
upon their arms, the numbers by
which they were known.

Assembly Won't Adjourn
FLUSHING MEADOW, (JTA)

—The current session of the UN
General Assembly will not ad-
journ without taking a final de-
cision on • Palestine, Chairman
Dr. Oswaldo Aranha assured
Jewish Agency leaders.
While the delegates of Poland
and Uruguay pleaded for inclu-
sion•of the Jewish section of Jer-
usalem in the Jewish state, the
American, Canadian, South Afri-
can and other delegates urged in-
ternationalization of the whole
city under a UN trusteeship.

Defense Sabotaged
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Pal-
estine government is sabotaging
Jewish defense by refusing to
allow replacements to fill vacan-
cies in the ranks of the Jewish
Settlement Police, according to a
source connected with Jewish
security agencies.
Sixteen people were killed in
Palestine in last week's flareup
and the Irgun's retaliation against
the British who attacked an Irgun

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Stand on Partition

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Warn-•
ing that the Arab states surround-
ing Palestine are preparing to
fight the establishment of a Jew-
ish state, Congresswoman Fran-
ces P. Bolton, Ohio Republican,
told the House of Foreign Affairs
Committee hearing on foreign
aid that the U. S. stand backing
partition had created general "dis-
satisfaction" in the Middle East -
It was the responsibility of the
U. S., Rep. Bolton said, to take
note of the Arab attitude which
she asserted had little airing
in this country. She said the
Mufti was growing in popularity
and power and that zenophobia is
"very much on the increase" in
all the countries of the Near and
Middle East, "undoubtedly subtly
fostered by the Kremlin, but in
the Near East openly led by Mufti.
He is a power and his announce-
ment that all in disagreement
with him will be liquidated does
not help the peaceful solution of
the partition plan should action be
definitely taken up by the UN."

Defense and Administration
LONDON, (JPS-Palcor )— The
Jewish State is fully capable
taking over complete administra-
tive and defense fuctions within
its own borders even if Britain in-
sists on washing its hands of Pal-
estine without formally handing
over control to some other body,
writes Geoffry Hoare, Jerusalem
correspondent of the News Chron-
icle.
Recruiting is -still going on in
Britain for the Palestine Police
Force, but candidates are being
told that there are no prospects
for a career there owing to the
uncertain future of the country.

CHILDREN'S IMPORTED

DPs Ask UN to Speed

FRANKFURT (JTA) — More
than 100 representatives of Jew-
ish DP camps in the American
zone, assembled in the local Jew-
ish community center, addressed
an appeal to the United Nations
to adopt as soon as possible a
solution of the Palestine prob-
lem which will allow The dis-
placed Jews to immigrate there.
The appeal pointed out that the
DPs are facing their third winter
in Germany and that the hope of
settling in Palestine is all that
is left to them. Speakers repre-
senting the Army, the Military
Government, the Central Com-
mittee of Liberated Jews and the
voluntary relief agencies also
called for a prompt solution of
the Palestine problem.

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