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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 28, 1947

Armour, urging the Arabs to ac- in action at the UN sessions at
cept the UN Palestine pact, indi- Lake Success were: Moshe Sher-
cated that our government means tok, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
business and will back up the de- Emanuel Neumann, Dr. Jacob
cision. It already has been indi- Ribinson, Berl Locker, Rabbi
cated that our government will Wolf Gold, Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
support a very large international Dr. Bernard Joseph and many
others who are associated with
loan to the Jewish state.
Among the many prominent the Jewish Agen c y in this coun-
Jewish leaders who were seen try and in Palestine.

Jewish News Correspondent
Sees End of Statelessness

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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ -
(Continued from Page 1)

Arab problems, and by a working committee th at was selected from the first of these committees.
Only a week ago, the -working committee breathed a sigh of relief when all the great
powers, together with the smaller nations, reached a unanimous agreement on the proposals
for the establishment of two new states. The spokesmen for the nations of the world recog-
nized in the approval of the final draft- an occasion for mutual congratulations. It was the
first occasion on record at the present session of the UN General Assembly that the United
States and Russia agreed on the principles of a major issue—the occasion becoming most signi-
ficant because the Palestine problem was considered the most difficult to ,handle. Here was
an occasion for rejoicing.
Then came several obstacles: The United States delegates made it known that they reserved
the right to ask for the transfer of the Aqaba area in the southernmost' part of the Negev to
the Arabs. And the British threw a monkeywr ench into the machinery of the Palestine Ad Hoc-
Committee by declaring that they will refuse to abandon authority in Palestine to the UN
commission as provided in the partition propos al, but would do so on its own terms "when the

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time came."
Sir Alexander Cadogan made cisions. Uruguay and Guatemala, ficult tasks that lie ahead for our
it clear that his government through their spokesmen—Prof. people.
would not submit to the au- Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat and
Herbert A. Mowat of T oronto,
thority of the Security Council H. E. Sr. Jorge Garcia Granados assistant to the chairman of the
in the process of withdrawing its —who also were members of the, World Committee for Palestine,
civil and military authority from UNSCOP, were magnificent in was among the happiest men at
Palestine. A major crisis was their consistent battle in defense Lake Success, because of the
foreseen. It was believed that of Jewish right. There is reason - great role than was played by
Russia might insist on the ref- to believe that one of them will the Canadian delegation.
Christian leaders generally
erence to the Security • Council, be the chairman of the UN Com-
thus securing a place of author- mission and that both will occupy echoed the statement made by
former undersecretary of State
ity for herself.
places on the commission.
Russion Goodwill
Poland's delegate Ksawery Sumner Welles,' in the N. Y.
In the very short span of a few Pruszynski, who was the chair- Herald Tribune, that the Pales-
hours, however, Russia and the man of the working committee, tine solution "represents the first
United States again agreed to ac- was helpful and sympathetic. practical demonstration of the
cept the terms contained in the Places of high honor must go to capacity of the Assembly to solve
British statement. As in the in- two men for their aid in bring- a highly dangerous controversy.
stance of the internationalization ing about a satisfactory solution It shows that the United States
and the Soviet Union can cooper-
of Jerusalem, the Soviet delega- to the Palestine problem:
ate in making the United Nations
tion, in a spirit- of cooperation,
Canadian Friendly
submitted to the demand that the
Canada's Lester B. Pearson was work."
A statement made to the Pales-
Trusteeship Council rather than firm, practical, friendly and
the Security Council should be logical. On three occasions he . tine labor leaders, Joseph Sprin-
the recognized authority in the cancelled trips home and extend- zak and Z _ alman Rubashov, by
government of the newly-estab- ed his stay at Lake Success in Dr. Albert Einstein that for the
lished states.
order to help solve the Palestine present partition is a better solu-
tion than the bi-nationalism he
Deeply moved by Russia's spirit problem.
of good will, Jewish leaders went
Australia's Dr. Herbert V. previously favored, indicated that
so far as to declare that the Evatt, the chairman of the Ad many former opponents of parti-
Soviet spirit in dealing with the Hoc' Committee, was firm in op- tion now recognize that it was the
Palestine problem bordered on position to Arab efforts to start only way out.
The declaration made in New
the "miraculous" and that Rus- a filibuster and in demanding
York on Nov. 20, at the dinner of
sia's spokesmen—especially Sem- prompt action.
Arab-American Affairs, by As-
Dr. Fabregat made it plain,
yon Tsarapkim who was dele-
sistant ' Secretary of State Norman
gated to act on the 'Palestine Ad
in his usual eloquent manner,
Hoc Committee — share equally
that an historic occasion was
with the U. S. delegation in the
being enacted in the establish-
2' New Sensational
historic effort to re-establish the
ment of two new nationalities.'
Behind his calmness one could
Jewish state. ,
sense a deep emotion over the
Herschel V. Johnson and Maj.
share he had in the re-estab-
Gen. John H: Hilldring of the
lishment of the Jewish state.
U. S. delegation played a most
This must also have been the
Songs for Jewish Children
important role in the deliber-
feeling of the American dele-
ations, and their earnest requests
Sung By
gates and of very many UN,.
that an overwhelming majority
leaders who had a share in
of the UN should support the
Such Outstanding Artists as
speeding the realization of
plan at once will, it is believed,
Prophecy.
Ysaak Gladstone -
assure more than a two-thirds
Pakistan's bearded, charming
vote in favor of the majority
Isobel Walters, Saul Maisels
Sir M. Zafrullah Khan did his
UNSCOP proposals.
utmost to defend the Arab state-
Arab Report Shelved
Mascha Benya
The -Arabs had their say ment. As chairman of Committee
through Committee 2. They pro- No. 2 he fulfilled his task with
Available at
posed the establishment of a uni- dignity. But it was a task that
was
doomed
because
of
its
total
tary state in 'Palestine which, • in
effect, would mean the freezing unacceptability.
Jewish leaders, elated over_the
of the - Jewish, minority and rule
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by Arabs. They questioned the results, accept it in a spirit of
responsibility,
realizing
the
dif-
right of the UN to act in the mat-
ter and asked for the re-examina-
ton of the issue by the InternaL
tional Court of Justice. Their
lengthy report contained two
- maps which showed that there is
a small minority of Jews in
Palestine and that this minority
owns very little land in the
SeHOCKEN LIBRARY
. country. But it was a foregone
conclusion that this report would
- Just Published
be shelved.
8. The Maccabees, by Elias Bickermann.
The proposal for the estab-
6. Ten Rungs, by Martin Buber.
lishment of a Jewish state is
not free from heaftaches and
7. Parables, `..)y Franz Kafka.
serious difficulties. The Jewish
Recently Published
state will, in great measure,
have to finance the Atab.state.
I.
The
Language
of
Faith,
edited by Nahum N. Glatzer.
It will be a very small state. It
Galut,
by
Yitzhak
F.
Baer.
2.
was painful to study the maps
3. From the Land of Sheba, edited by S. D. Gaiten.
that were issued by Committee
No. 1, revealing the smitllness
4. Heinrich Heine: the Rabbi of Bacherach.
of the Jewish territory. But the
5. Solomon Maimon; an Autobiography.
"shehecheyanu" bleSsing which
ROYTE POMERANTSEN—Transliteration by Olsvanger
accompanied Jewish comments
I
PALESTINE PICTURE BOOK by Jacob Rosner
was. not diminished, in view of
the recognition that bargaining
POLISH JEWS by Roman Vishniac
for more territory 'might have
BURNING LIGHTS by Bella Chagall
cost the Jewish people the
entire stakes, and because of
Wide selection of books of Jewish interest available,
the realization that, for the first
both Adult and Juvenile.
time in 2,000 years, the world
a.cknowiedges the existence of
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