Eleventh-Hour UN Truce Plan Doomed to Failure
Jews Refuse to Swerve From'
Declaration of n epen ence
New Plan Would Freeze Jewish Statehood Indefinitely;
Jewish Agency Denies Red Cross Claims of Agreement
In Jerusalem; Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Road Freed,
(By Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The JewiSh News)
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (JTA).—With less than. two days
remaining before Britain gives up. the Palestine mandate and
the Jewish community assumes charge of the goverpment of
the Jewish State, abortive attempts, to preVent prificlamation
of the Jewish State appear to be doomed to total failure due
primarily to the unworkability of the new United Nations
formula whichiis intended to de-
pend upon Arab-Jewish coopera-
tion. All indications are that
neither Arabs nor Jews will, bow
to an eleventh hour paper agree-
ment and the declaratidien made by
David Ben-Gurion that the Jew-
i'sh State will be proclaimed is
taken as a definite policy from
which Jews will not swerve.
The new formula placed before
the 12-country sub-committee pro-
vided for a five-member tempor-
ary commission for Palestine.
Jews and Arabs are asked to real
ognize- the commission, to • agree
to a truce and to suspend military
and political action that would be
prejudicial to the truce.
The Commission—to be com-
posed of the United States, Bel-
gium, France, Czechoslovakia and
the new, still-to-be-named, mayor
of Jerusalem—would try to pro-
tect Palestine's assets, study the
chances of a- permanent peaceful
solution and report its findings to
the next UN General Assembly in
Paris this fall.
Partition Recognized
While this formula recognized
de facto partition by asking Jews
and Arabs to build up adminis-
trative 'authority in areas they
control as of May 16, it sought to
freeze the de facto situation in-
definitely. For this reason alone
it was believed the plan would be
unacceptable to the Jews who
have enjoyed military successes
in Palestine and are on the -thres-
hold of statehood.
At the sub-committee's discUS-
sions, Dr. Karel Lisicky, chairman
of the UN Palestine Commission,
warned that partition cannot now
be undone without the U. of
fOrce. He also advised against
trying to regulate Jewish immi-
gration unless member states
were prepared to supply the
means of enforcement.
The same hands-off policy
should apply, Lisicky said, to land
purchase and arms importation.
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Red Cross Claims Denied
JERUSALEM (JTA).—Details
of unconditional surrender - of
Jaffa is contained in the official
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statement declaring that only
4,000 of the original 50,000 inhabi-
tants remain in the Arab port,
without a municipal council quor-
um and only one of original coun-
cillors left. He formed arr emer-
gency committee, appealing to the
British District Commissioner to
inform the United Nations that
Jaffa "no longer defended won't
be used for military purposes,"
and asked that the UN appoint
immediately a neutral observer
acceptable both to Jews and
Arabs to supervise the status of
the city and see that its "open
city" status is respected.
MeanWhile, the Jewish Agency
denied a statement by Interna-
tional Red Cross Representative
Jacques de Reynier that Jews
agreed to the plan to demilitarize
Jerusalem and to place the city
under Red Cross protection. The
Agency spokesman said: "We
haven't indicated our atfitude to-
wardS the Red Cross plan." The
Agency holds out for control of
the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road as a
condition of acceptance of the Red
Cross plan, observers believe.
Details of the long battle- for-
control of the Babelwad area on
the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road,
which finally has been freed of
Arab forces, was learned from
Haganah sources. Haganah sent
a scout force to survey Arab po-
sitions, then followed up with an
"attack" by several empty trucks
driven by one man each against
the strongest Arab positions. This
convinced the Arabs that Jews
would seek to break through at
these points, so they concentrated'
forces there, weakening other po-
sitions. The Palmach brigade
struck at Saris, where the British
were manning a pump4-ig station.
The Jews were halted by . 900
crack Syrian troops for 18 hours
at Saris until reinforcements sur-
rounded the village, forcing the
Arabs to decamp. The same tac-
tics worked against -Arab rein-
forcements from Ramallah, which
retreated as Haganah began the
encirclement movement.
Sen. Morse Tells Conference
U. St Middle East Policy Must Go
WASHINGTON, (JTA.)-
"America's current whirling der-
vish policy in the Middle East
must go," Senator Wayne Morse
of Oregon told foreign policy ex-
perts, legislators and civic leaders
at an "Emergency Conference to
Propose a United States Policy for
Palestine and the Middle East."
Senator Dennis Chavez, .of New
Mexico, said that he would oppose
the sending of any American
troops to keep order in Palestine.
He expressed concern lest the
killing of any American soldiers
in Palestine "would place a dan-
gerous weapon at the disposal of
all the-. anti-Semites in America."
Air Mail Service From Palestine
May Be Resumed Soon
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NEW YORK (JTA).—Ordinary
MAJOAL
air mail service from Palestine
HEBRON:a
will probably be resumed this
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TRANS-
week, it was stated by H. R.
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REER SHERA
Graetz, president of the Haifa
JORDAN
Chamber of Shipping, fp rior to his
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departure for Switzerland. Last
week, the UN Palestine Commis-
sion had reached an agreement
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with the Haifa Chamber of Ship-
—International Photo
Map shows how % Haganah ping for handling international
forces have cleared the Jerusa- mail in Palestine.
lem-Tel Aviv road, as a result
Haganah a Regular Army
of the battle between 2,000 Jews
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Declaring
and 7,000 Arabs 12 miles east
of the Holy City (arrow, upper that Palestine is on the verge of
map). British frontier guards are the third and most dangerous
reported to have withdrawn phase of the Jewish-Arab war,
from the • vital Allenby Bridge David Ben Gurion, chairman of
over the Jordan River (arrow, the Jewish Agency executive and
lower map), with Abdullah's Premier-designate of . the pro-
Transjordan troops in control of visional Jewish government,
warned the Arab states neigh-
both ends.
JERUSALEM
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boring on Palestine's borders transformed into a regular
that the Jews are determined to Jewish Army, while Jewish
go on-fighting until the end.
postage stamps, printed in
Addressing a session of the' 37- Hebrew, were issued by post-
member National Council of 'the
Jewish State here, Ben Gurion offices • in all Jewish areas for
stated: "The first phase of our domestic use. The first all-
fight for our position seems hope- Jewish train, manned entirely
ful. Not one Jewish settlement by Jews, has begun to operate
has been abandoned, while more between Haifa and Hadera. A
than 150,000 Arabs have deserted Jewish police force is being
their homes and. have fled to formed, and price control regu-
Arab cities and villages. Victory lations are already in effect in
is ours—both against the local the Jewish State.
Arab bands and against the in-
Jewish authori4Aes have or-
vaders."
ganized an import trade program,
A Jewish Agency spokesman including the issuance of import
revealed that Haganah is being licenses. They collect taxes from
Jewish citizens and are contem-
plating starting an' airmail serv-
ice abroad, in addition to the
domestic postal service which
the Jews are running at present.
Cigarette and other revenue tax
stamps; marked "Jewish- National
Treasury,'" also appeared.
Egypt Seizes Zion Goods
TEL AVIV (ZOA)—The Pales-
tine Government has confirmed
that 3,000 tons of goods for Pal-
estine have been seized in transit
by the Egyptian authorities.
THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, May 14, 1948
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