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Total Mobilization in Zion;
Jerusalem Statutes Drafted

JERUSALEM (JTA).—The total mobilization of Jewish manpower, funds, scientific skill
- and technical ability to prosecute and end the Arab war on the Jews of Palestine was de-
manded by David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency, at an extraordinary meet-
ing of the Mapai—Palestine labor party. He called for the fullest cooperation of all strata
of society in village and city in order to stret ch to the ultimate the meager supplies avail-
able to the Jews.
The Agency chief said that the first round of the war had ended in failure for the Arabs,
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but warned that they are preparing for renewed and stronger attacks.
ne 'charged British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin's policy as a "double-cross" and at-
. tacked those Zionists who "demand an orien tation to either bloc—East or West." These
groups, he continued, "undermine the very foundations of the Jewish state. The Jewish
people as an. entity must lean solely on the United Nations, which is the world's con-
science as well. as its hope for democracy."
At least eighteen Jews and Arabs were kil led last week-end in a number of Arab attacks
on Jewish traffic and Haganah operations against the hedquarters of Arab guerilla units.
Protracted - negotiations to proclaim Jeru salem' an open city have failed following rejec-
. 9 tion of such a proposal by Arab leaders, who feared that a truce would weaken the morale
of Arab fighters. A Jewish Agency spokesman di closed that Arabs had hidden 30 tons of
high explosives—enough to destroy the entire Old City—in Arab Holy Places in the city.
The explosives were taken from a military dump east of Latrun to Transjordan and returned
the next day to the Old City, he charged.

Statutes Drafted for Internationalized Jerusalem

. (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

—International Photo

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of the last offi-

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, as Army Chief
of Staff, was to greet COL. JULIUS KLEIN of Chicago (right),
national' commander of the Jewish War Veterans of the U. S.,
during the latter's visit in Washington to speak on a nationwide
hook-up together with other leaders of war veterans' organizations.

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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—The draft of the statute for an international Jerusalem regime,
submitted to the - UN Trusteeship Council meeting of Feb, 18, made • public here Tuesday,
provided that the internationalized city will be "Cyprus Separatum" under a UN adminis-
tration', acting through the Trusteeship Coun cil and a Governor to be appointed by the
Council.
Some of the provisions of the 19-page statute are
1. United Nalions would guarantee territ orial integrity pf the city and ,maintenance of
special international regime. In case of a threat of aggression "or any other attempt to
alter by force" the special regime, the Security Council would be informed.
2. The city • itself would be demilitarized with no "pars military" formations, exercises
or activities permitted within its border*. However, a special police force would be organ-.

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Plea to Marshall for
oilyU S Zion Polic

y

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

- (Copyright, 1948; Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Palestinians at Ferris:

Four Palestinian Jewish students have enrolled at

the Ferris Institute, Big' Rapids, Mich., to study pharmacy. The students are shown here with PRES-
IDENT BYRON J. BROPHY inspecting the new di ploma the school now issues to pharmacyAraduates.
The Palestinians are, left to right: ALEXANDER AIZENBERG, GREGORY WOLOSOW, AKIVA
PEREL and SHALOM KATZPROWSKY.
. The four Jewish students pointed out that it is about as difficult to get out of Palestine as it is
to get in. The last of 150 students whom the British would certify for foreign study and about the
last to get their names on the list, they declared they were required to submit evidence they would
not be able to secure the schooling they desired i n Great Britain.
It also is a matter of dollars, said Perel, who p ointed out: "The British must give us dollars for
our pounds before we can leave and they have very few dollars left. They prevent our leaving by
cutting off our supply of dollars."
The four young men were enabled to come t o the U. S. through family resources. They are
receiving numerous invitations from organizations t o tell their experiences in Eretz Israel.

A friend has just written the following letter to the Secre
tary of State which seems to me very much to the point now:
Dear Secretary Marshall:
The State Department, under your direction, has in the past
several- weeks issued two decrees: an embargo on arms to Pales-
tine and a ruling that Americans joining the Jewish defensive
forces in Palestine will lose their American citizenship.
In connection with these State Department rulings, Mr.
Secretary, I could not help thinking of an American of whom
I am sure you are as fond as I. As one who was born in Virginia,
I am sure you are doubly proud of him for he too was a Vir-
ginian. He was a tall, lanky red-haired man whose Americanism
has become a proverb and school children everywhere recite the
gems of his patriotic eloquence.
Yes, I am sure you know it was Patrick Henry. You remem-
ber that speech in which he urged Americans to take up arms
against . the British, who thought they had a mandate to tax and
rule America as they please. "They tell us, Sir," said Patrick
Henry, "that we are too weak, unable to cope with so formidable
an enemy, but when shall we be stronger? Will it be when a
British guard is stationed in every house. Shall we gather
strength by irresolution and inaction . . . Sir, we shall not fight
our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the
destinies of nations who will 'raise up _friends to fight our battles
for us."
Fortunately for Patrick Henry, fortunately for America,
there was no European embargo on arms to assist America.
. Mr. Secretary, I have read your wife's biography of you.
In it, Mrs. Marshall states that from childhood one of your idols
had been Benjamin Franklin. I liked you all the more, Mr.
Secretary, when I read that, because Franklin has also been one
of my idols. Indeed, he is an idol to all of America. John Adams
wrote that Franklin was the most acclaimed person in the world
of his day. Now, what did we do with that top American at the
time of the Revolution. We could think of no better service
for our very best product than to send him abroad—to help get
some of those foreign friends, who, Patrick Henry said, would
help us fight our battles.
\
Franklin went to Europe, and obtained ammunition, money
and men to help us fight. Yes, Franklin could amusingly say-
, he was always full of wit—that too many of those wanting to
help fight in Arrierica wanted to be generals, but Franklin was
the last person fb underestimate the assistance foreigners gave
'us in the fight against the British.
I am sure, Mr. Secretary, you do not underestimate this
assistance. You as a military man know how to appreciate, the
services rendered by such men as LaFayette, De Kalb, Kosciusko
and Von Steuben. Fortunately, the European state departments
had no such ruling as ours.
0 I need not tell you, Mr. Secretary, as a former military man,
of the battle of Yorktown, which was the decisive battle in de-
feating the British. You know as well as I that the number of
Frenchmen or foreigners fighting at America's side in that battle
equalled the number of Americans under Washington.
I hope, Mr. Secretary, American ideals as exemplified by
the State Department, will register a lofty note.
With assurances of my great esteem, I am

AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.

