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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 19, 1948

State Dept. Prevents US Steel
From Sending Plates to Zion

Hadassah in Jerusalem Asks U. S. Protection for Its
Hospital; Application Filed by Jews for $3000,000
Loan From Import-Export Bank

Zorach Warhaftig will represent Poale
Mizrachi and Gruenbaum, Bernstein
and probably Arieh Shenka• will repre-
sent the General Zionists, the labor
wing of the General Zionists Party
naming M. Kolodni. United Labor Patty
named Berl Repetur, Jacob Riftin. Zvi
Lurie, Aliya Hadasha, Dr. George Lan-
der; Revisionists. Dr. A. Altman and
Segal: Yemenite community, Moshe
Kabashi; Sephardic community B.
Shitrit; Agudas Israel, Levin; Poale
Agudah, Benjamin Minz; Communists,
Sholom Mikunis; Rabbi Meir Berlin and
Helena Kagan representing the Jewish
National Council.

Comthission Can Implement
Partition without Council Aid

to take "real action" to protect
the hospital, which they pointed
out is an American institution,
and continue it in service. The
cable gave details of the latest
battle and said that it was forc-
ing the hospital to suspend trans-
fer of supplies as well as sick and
wounded patients.
Three British soldiers were sen-
tenced to four years imprison-
ment each after a military court
had convicted them of selling
arms to the Arabs. British mili-
tary/authorities denied their own
previous reports that a Jewish
plane was fired on in the Jaffa
area. They declared that no planes
except a scout aircraft had oper-
ated in that zone and that it had
not been fired on.
An announcement by the
Palestine authorities that pos-
tal service, will be suspended
for the Jewish areas in the
country because of the "physi-
cal impossibility" of maintain-
ing such a service, was se-
verely criticized by the Jewish
Agency as a "unilateral and
vindictive measure." The
Agency will endeavor to estab-
lish its own postal service, it
was indicated. The Palestine
Postmaster General "ex-
plained" his announcement, de-
claring that "Jews are stealing
postal vans," making postal
operations difficult.
Dr. J. L. Magnes, head of
the Ihud group which favors
Arab-Jewish conciliation, de-

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The Mufti were removed from the
American Consul General Rob-
State Department this week ad- scene, influential Arabs who are ert Macatee visited the Jerusalem
. mitted that it had "advised" the now terrorized by him, would headquarters of the Palestine
U1 S. Steel Corporation against come forward and 'that a basis Arab Higher Committee to ask
taking an order for 400 tons of of negotiation could be estab- the Arab leaders to cooperate
. steel plate for shipment to Pales- lished.
with the UN Palestine Commis-
tine. The order was placed by the
sion. The Arab answer was a curt,
Palestine Electric Corporation List Provisional Cabinet
flat "No."
which needed the plates for its
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A 31-
The six members of the United
trucks and field equipment.
member Provisional Council of
Nations
Palestine Commission ad-
A spokesman for the depart- Government and a Cabinet of 13 vance party are "virtual prison-
ment told the Jewish Telegraphic for the new Jewish state was ers" of the Palestine government
Agency that U. S. Steel informal- named a„t, a meeting of the Jew- which has quartered them in Se-
ly inquired of the State Depart- ish Agency following protracted curity Zone B of this city. The
ment whether the plate would be negotiations among the various group has been unable to estab-
parties and political groupings in
: subject to an export ban. The
Department, he said, unofficially the Jewish community. The names lish contact with any Jewish,
advised. U. S. Steel that the con- of both the Cabinet and the Coun- Arab or official agency.
Haganah began a campaign of
templated plate shipment came cil were immediately cabled to
under the ban of Dec. 5 on the the Palestine Commission at Lake "sanctions" against all persons
who did not register for military
shipment of arms and munitions Success.
He mg the Cabinet as Premier is service in the "draft" carried out
to the Middle EaSt, inasmuch as
Gurion: chairman of the recently by Jewish national in-
it is a=rmor and not ordinary steel Day. Ben
.cy executive. Other members and
plates.
tk ,r profolios are: Moshe Shertok. stitutions. Haganah military pO-
.-w,reign Affairs; Eliezer Kaplan. Fin-
The American Consul in .nce; David Remez, Interior; Itzhak lice, wearing identifying arm-
Jerusalem has reported to the Gruenbaum, • Labor; Fritz Bernstein, bands, entered all public places
Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, ,Edu- and asked to see registration
State Department that 'he made Trade;
cation and Religion: Moshe Shapiro, cards. Persons who did not have
Immigration;
and Relic, Meir Levin,
• oral protests to the Jewish
The remaining four ministries their cards were warned not to
, Agency regarding alleged inter- Health.
were assigned — one to the General appear in public. Even American
ference with American citizens Zionists, two to the United Labor Party,
citizens, with the exception of stu-
to the Sephardic Community.
in PaleStine and asked that it, be ane
Of. the 31 seats on the Council 10
stopped. The consul's report char- were assigned to Mapal—Palestine dents, have not been exempted
acterized the interference as an Labor Party, to be filled by Ben from the work-fight conscription.
Gurion, Shertok, Kaplan Golda Meyer-
Leaders of the Hadassah organ-
attempted seizure of documents son,
Eliahu Dobkin, Remez, Abraham
Katznelson; Dr. Abraham Granovsky, ization in - Jerusalem cabled to
from an American citizen.
Mordechai and Shatner. Mizrachi seats Hadassah in New York asking
Rep. A. Somers of New York were assigned to Rabbis Fishman and
introduced a resolution in the Wolf Gold and Pinkas; Shapiro and that it urge the State Department
House to amend the Nptionality
Act of 1940 to preserve the citi-
zenship status of American citi-
zens serving as members of armed
forces or organizations establish-
ed to maintain peace in Palestine.
The resolution provides that no
citizen of the United States shall
lose his citizenship if he becomes
a member of any "armed force
made available to the Security
Council of the United Nations."
Senator Wayne Morse of Ore-
gon told the Senate that the U. S.
Government, "under clouds of
legal sophistry, has confirmed the
fears of many of us that the State
Department lacks the will to have
our government do its part to
make the Palestine settlement
work." He expressed confidence
that the Haganah can maintain
peace in Palestine "if we will sup-
port it with but a fraction of the
energy with which we are sup:
porting the Greeks." With proper
equipment and direction, Morse
.- contended, the Haganah would
need "only a minimum of outside
help even if the. Arab states should
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Rep. Ed. Gossett of Texas at-
tacked the American position in
the General Assembly regarding
Palestine as "wholly untenable,"
declaring that "95 per cent of the
Congress and of the American
people . • . are ready to admit
that we have made a terrible mis-
take." Asserting that the Arab
case was unknown, Gossett in-
serted in the Congressional Recorll
•
an address last week by Faris El
Khouri, Syrian delegate to the
Security Council, against parti-
tion.
Conciliation Not Possible
At Present Golda Meyerson Says
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She told her dinner audience
that attempted conciliation with
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the Arabs at this time would
result only in strengthening their
resistance to the UN decision on
partition, since they regard the
lack of firm action by the UN
as encouragement to proceed
with violence. "Conciliation is
not possible," she said, "so long
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nied reports from Cairo that
representatives of his' group
have approached the ex-Mufti
of Palestine regarding the pos-
sibility of a compromise in Pal-
estine.

Commission Can Implement
Partition Without Council
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA) — U.
N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie
released the text of a working
paper prepared by the Secretariat
for the Palestine Commission de-
claring that the Commission has
full power to implement the Gen-
eral Assembly's decision without
the approval of the Security Coun-
cil.
In a cover letter to Dr. T. F.
Tsiang, president of the Council,
Lie points out that the paper, en-
titled "Relations Between the
United Nations Commission and
the Security lcouncil," was pre-
pared in Compliance with a spe-
cific request for such a paper
while Lie was abroad.
Eduardo Morgan, Panamanian
member of the Commission, re-
vealed that the Commission is
preparing an application to the
Import-Export Bank for, a $30,-
000,000 loan to finance the Jewish
Provisional Government's first
steps toward full independence.

Nearly 23 persons out of every
100 of the nation's population
contributed to the Red Feather
Community Chest services in
1947.

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