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Israeli Proposal on DPs, Arabs,
Cyprus Internees, OK'd by UN

Missions of Peace, Learning

Weizmann Gets Arab Pledge,
'Creates Hebrew University

On Nov. 2, 1917, while a 43-year-old chemist paced the corridors
outside, the British Cabinet issued the Balfour Declaration endors-
ing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The man waiting was Chaim
Weizmann. In previous installmettts, the author traced the birth
and early'.years of Dr. Weizmann in anti-Semitic Russia; his college
years in Germany where he met Theodore Herzl, founder of mod-
ern Zionism; his chemistry work in England, where Prime Minister
David Lloyd George sought his help in World War I. Dr. Weiz-
mann discovered a process for manufacture of acetone, vitally
needed in the war. Asked to name his reward, the scientist asked
_none for himself, but a homeland for his people. The fifth
installment follows.

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By GEROLD FRANK

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In March, 1918, in the last days of World War I, Dr. Chaim
:Weizmann, as head of a Zionist Commission, went to Palestine
as liaison between the British and the Jews of Palestine to
prepare the ground work for. the Jewish National Home. He
stayed in. Jerusalem, at the headquarters of General Sir
Edmund Allenby, Commander of the Allied Forces fighting
the Turks in Palestine.
Among other things, two great tasks lay before him. One
was a meeting with Emir Feisal, spokesman of the Arabs, to
arrange an understanding between Jews and Arabs. The
second was to lay the cornerstone of , the Hebrew Uniyersity
on the summit of Mt. Scopus.
He-set out to meet Feisal. The Arabianprince awaited him
in his tents at E Quweira, near Akaaba, in Transjordan, then
a part of Palestine, now the domain of King Abdullah.
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LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (JTA)—At the extraordinary session of the United Nations
Security Council on Monday, Israeli delegate Aubrey S. Eban scored a triumph for Jew-.
ish claims when a proposal made by him was adopted.
At the outset, action by the IN at Monday's meeting was of a delaying. variety. First,
the British raised the question of Arab refug ees, offering to stipply $400,000 towards a UN
fund to care for what they estimated to be between 250,000 and 500,000 Arab refugees.
Israeli delegate Eban then proposed that the Arab refugee problem be handled to-.
. gether with the Jewish DP problem, and that the question of the Cyprus detainees should
be included in the consideration of the issue. The Cyprus issue thus .would be placed on
the Security Council agenda. _
After the Israeli plan received Russian-Ukrainian support, the Security Council
adopted 1Vtr. Eban's suggpstion without a vote. The State of Israel was ordered to
make a report one Jewish DPs in Europe and the Arabs on the Arab refugees, and
Cyprus was placed on the agenda. It was stipulated that -no •portion of this set-up
may be handled separately.
UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte r eported to the United Nations from Amman,
capital of Transjordan, that both the Jews and Arabs - will accept the demilitarization of
Jerusalem.
Crimes of violence in Israel are 30 pert ent lower than a year ago in towns and 50
percent fewer in rural areas, according to the first report of Minister of National Minor-.
ities Bechor Shitreet,
Issue Over Jerusalem's Future
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Col. Moshe _Dayan, Jewish commandant of Jerusalem, told all
inhabitants to be prepared for an unprovoked Arab Legion attack at any time He order•
ed Israeli troopS to be prepared for "any eventuality."
Dayan's call followed a heavy Legion shelling of Jewish-held Sheikh Jarrach quarter,
Two UN observers- were wounded when the Legion attacked the UN - escorted Jewish
supply convoy for Jerusalem.
Dayan warned all inhabitants not to sign the petition to the Israeli Government ask...
ing for the annexation of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. Irgunists are circulating such a
petition. Prof. Joseph Klausner, who previously publicly supported the Revisionists in
this demand, on Monday broadcast withdrawal of his support for the "referendum" re.-
gardinct the future of—Jerusalem as demanded by Irgun.
The first supply convoy to pass along the main route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
during the second truce arrived in Jerusalem Sunday after an uneventful trip via . 1,a•

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THE VOICE OF ISRAEL—Drawing by Burris Jenkins
"There tis The sands of The desert I was pleading with. a Prince of Arabia and all at once I felt that
was no longer I who was speaking. but in me spoke Moses, and the Prophets . • a"—Dr. Weizmann.

