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VOLUME 12—NO. 24
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Detroit 26, Michigan, February 27, 1948
Ambiguous U. S. Policy Delays
► Decisions on Palestine in UN
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LAKE SUCCESS.---A passionate appeal to the Security Council to send an adequate
— International Photo
Haganah on Guard:
Inside ,dewfsh settle-
ments in the Negev, the desert area of southern Palestine, Haganah
youths keep constant watch with their dogs to guard against Arab
atacks on outlying farms.
non-Palestinian armed force to Palestine to back the implementation of partion decision
of the General Assembly was made at the opening session of the Council Tuesday in a
half-hour speech by Karel Lisicky, chairman of the Palestine Commission.
Senator Warren Austin of the United States, on the other hand, proposed that the
Security Council immediately establish a committee of the Big Five Powers to look into
the question of a threat to the peace in Palestine.
He also suggested that the, Council "accept the tasks which the General Assembly
asked it to accept," and that it call upon all governments and peoples, particularly those
in and surrounding the -Holy Land, to prevent or reduce the present disorders:
His statement created a feeling of depression arming Zionist leaders who con-
sidered it a move to postpone actual decision by the Security Council through refer-
ring it to the Big Five.
The United States stands ready to act with the other 10 members to remove a threat
to international peace, Austin said. The Security Council, Austin emphasized, has the
power to take "forceful measures with respect to Palestine" to remove. such a threat to
peace "if the Security Council should decide that the United States "would be ready -un-
der the Charter to consult with a view to such action as may be necessary to maintain -
international peace."
He warned, however, that the Council is not empowered to enforce a political settle-
ment whether pursuant to a decision of the General Assembly or of the Council itself.
The chief United States delegate explained "what this means is this: The Council -
under the Charter can take action to prevent aggression against Palestine from the out-
side. The Council by these same powers can take action to prevent a threat - to inter,.
national peace and security from inside Palestine. The Council's action, in other words,
is directed to keeping the peace and not to enforcing partition."
Dr. Lisicky said in his address that establishing militia and sending A United Nations
Governor to Jerusalem would not be enough. The non-Palestinian armed force must not
be made available in symbolical form but in "effective adequate strength," he insisted,
dwelling lengthily on the security of 'Jerusalem,
Lisicky emphasized that even if the UN Governor will have at his disposal highly
trained, competent and efficient police corps when the Mandate terminates, it would
not be enough since Jerusalem depended upon the outer world. "Without free communi-
cation with outer world and without assured supply or primary necessities of life Jeru-
salem would be doomed even with a UN Governor," Lisicky declared.
"Free communication and assured supplies require effective control over a substan-
tial part of the area. Such control can be obtained only through efficient pacification of
the area in one way or another," Lisicky pointed out.
Reiterating the Palestine Commission's apprehension about the fate of Jerusalem
within the coming months, Lisicky said: "May I be allowed to close with a cry from the
heart 'lest we forget Jerusalem.' "
Outlining to the Security Council further aspects of the impossibility of implement-
ing partition without an adequate outside armed force, Lisicky said the establishment of
economic union similarly is impossible without cooperation of all three territorial entities.
Emphasizing that the Palestine situation requires either peaceful arrangement or im-
position of effective control by sufficient outside force "on highly inflammable spots,"
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—International Photo
NCCJI Donors Truman:
In recognition
of his efforts toward - racial and religious understanding, President
Truman was presented with a scroll by the National Conference of
Christians and Jews. Participating in the presentation on the White
House lawn are, left to right: Front row, Thomas E. Braniff, national
NCCJ co-chairman; President Truman; Robert P. Patterson, chair-
man of Brotherhood Week; back row, AFL President William Green;
Louis Nizer, NCCJ awards committee member, and Dr. Everett R.
Clinchy, NCCJ president. The citation pays tribute to the President
"for generous encouragement year by year of Brotherhood Week
and other causes of religious significance, for the forward steps
toward brotherhood envisaged by the reports of the President's
commissions on human right, education and atomic energy, for con-
sistently maintaining in all international councils the primacy of
spiritual values."
kaw , 440k m ft
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Hearty Welcome:
Although their "welkome" sign was
misspelled,
there was
no mistaking the sincerity of the reception given to the 28-person American United Jewish Appeal
delegation on its visit in the camp at Lechfeld, Germany. The 4,500 displaced Jews residing in this
camp cheered the American delegation on to success in its study of Conditions in Europe and in
Palestine. On the way to Haifa, the delegation escaped a hail of Arab bullets. Two of the members
of the delegation Louis Berry and Joseph Holtz man who returned to this country this week, will
report on their mission at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation, at Temple Beth El,
next . Thursday evening,
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