Lebanon for Direct Peace
Negotiations- With Israel

Arabs Charged With 52 Truce Violations: Irgun Broadcast
Exposes Glubb-Bevin Deal; Weamanns Get First Passports;
Arabs Defeated in Attempt to Bar Israel From Red Cross

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Leba-
nese government-controlled ra-
dio, in a ' statement monitored
here, said that direct Arab nego-
tiations with Israel might bring
a "reasonable solution" of the
Palestine problem. This is the
first official statement of any
Arab League state on the matter
of direct negotiation.
The Lebanese broadcaster,
speaking in Arabic, declared that
"the Arab leaders should decide
without western pressure either
to open direct negotiations with
the Jews or to fight for the oc-
cupation of all Palestine. The
Arabs cannot lose by direct ne-
gotiations," he stressed.
The commentator said that if
the Arab leaders decide upon
negotiations they would not be
betraying their people, but
would be trying to save life
and restore the rights of the
Palestine • Arabs. The other al-
ternative, he warned, was war
in an attempt to occupy all
Palestine at a cost of many
Arab lives.
The UN Palestine • mediator's
chief of staff was .reminded by
the Israeli Foreign Office that an
Israeli request for information
regarding the posting of UN
truce observers • in Arab coun-
tries has gone unanswered. The
reminder note pointed out "al-
though we are now in the sixth
week of the second true, we still
know nothing of truce supervi-
sion in the Arab countries."
The mediator's - chief of staff
also received a message from the
head of the Israeli liaison mission
to the UN, calling the UN's at-
tention to six reports emanating
from various military quarters
concerning Arab preparations in
violation of the truce agreement.
An Irgun radio broadcast
said: "Our informant in Lon-
don has advised us that Brig.
John B. Glubb Pasha, Apab
Legion commander, met with
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
and has .been appointed to a
high poSt as Bevin's adviser.
Glubb told Bevin that the war
in Palestine will start again
soon. Then, Bevin's advisers
asked what weapons were
needed by the Arabs. "Glubb
•replied—one squadron of fight-
ers, one of seaplanes, 2,000
trucks, and 20 to 25 105 mm
cannon with 500 shells each."
The Legion commander then
advised that if it is impossible
to ship arms via Turkey,
"Britain should send -the arms
to British stations in the Suez'
zone from where they will be
turned over to the Egyptians
for forwarding • to the other
Arab states," the broadcast
added.
A motion recommending
that the World Zionist Organi-
zation should represent all
JeWs throughout the world re-
siding outside of Israel was
defeated at a meeting of a sub-
committee appointed by the
Zionist Actions Committee to
deal' with organizational af-
- fairs.
It was officially announced
here today that the Jews detain-
ed in Cyprus have notified the
British authorities there that they
will declare a hunger strike in
protest against a seven per cent
.cut in food rations. They empha-
sized that the present food ra-
tions are already at a minimum
level.
At the meeting of the Zionist
Actions Committee Premier
David Ben Gurion, in a speech
analyzing the situation in
Israel and in the World Zionist
Organization, demanded that
there be no separation between
the Zionist movement and the
government of the Jewish
State, and that Cabinet mem-
bers be permitted to serve on
the Jewish Agency. Asserting
that Palestine is the natural
center of Zionist activities, he
opposed moving the headquar-
ters of the Zionist movement to
the United States.
The speech had little effect on
the American delegates, who
continued to hold to their de-

mand for separation.
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, British
Zionist leader, continued to de-
mand separation. In this he was
joined by Dr. Arieh Altman, Re-
visionist Party head.
The Israeli Government took
control of millions of dollars of
property when the former Man-
datory Government's office of
the Custodian of Enemy Prop-
erty moved from its present
headquarters in Jerusalem to . .Tel
Aviv.
The first Israeli passports
were issued here over the sig-
nature of Foreign Minister
Moshe Sher tok. Passports
numbers one and two were
made out to Israeli President
Dr. Chaim Weizmann and his
wife while passport number
three was stamped for Israeli
envoy to Russia, Mrs. Golda
Mierson.
A serious shortage of coins is
now developing throughout Israel
as a result of the goVernment's
decision not to issue banknotes of
small-denominations after calling
in- all such notes issued by the
former Mandatory Power. Res-
taurants and stores in Tel Aviv
are meeting the situation by is-
suing chits. An official announce-
ment said today that the govern-
ment intends to import metals to
mint coins.

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THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Book Month During 5709 to Honor
Important Jewish Anniversaries

Friday, September 3, 1948

Red Cross Protection
Asked in Race Violence

NEW YORK—Commemoration
of significant Jewish literary an-
niversk.ries, of Renaissance schol-
STOCKHOLM, (JTA) — The ars. modern poets and writers as
World Jewish Congress submit- well as Je-wish cultural groups
ted a memorandum to the In- and organs, will highlight the ob-
ternational Red Cross conference servance of Jewish Book Month,
being held here suggesting that Nov. 26 to Dec. 26, under the
the scope of the present conven- 4 auspices of the Jewish Book
tion on the protection of civilians Council.
in wartime, which is being over-
The anniversaries and birth-
hauled, be extended to cover days of living writers to be cele-
emergencies caused by violence brated include: 100th anniversary
or disturbances against national, of the birth of the 19th century
racial or religious groups even poet, Emma Lazarus, whose work,
when these disturbances do not "The New Colossus," is inscribed
assume an international char- on a plaque at the base of the
acter.
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Red Cross Rejects Demand
To Bar Israeli Delegation
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — The
standing committee of the Inter-
national Red Cross conference
here—which is meeting under
the chairmanship of. UN Palestine
mediator Count Folke Bernadotte
—unanimously rejected Egyptian
and Syrian protests against
Israel's admission to the parley.
Although the two Arab delega-
tions threatened to withdraw
from the meeting, they did not
carry out their threat.
Earlier,- a Brazilian resolution
calling for the abolition of all
emblems except the official Red
Cross by members of the inter-
national body was unanimously
defeated. Dr. A. Katznelson, of
the Jewish National Council of
Palestine, recommended main-
taining the Israeli Shield of Da-
vid for the Red Mogen David
organization.

Test Case on Cyprus
HAIFA, , (JTA) — A dispatch
from Cyprus reported that a test
case to examine the legality of
Britain's continued detention of
more than 11,000 Jews on the is-
land opened in a Famagusta
court. A writ of habeas corpus
was asked in behalf of a 25-year-
old Jewish camp inmate, Arieh
Zizenski, by one of the island's
best-known attorneys. The de-
tainee has been imprisoned on
the island since May of last year
following his forced deportation
to Cyprus aboard the British ves-
sel, Runnymede Park.

Arab Truce Violations
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A list
of 52 Arab truce violations in the
Jerusalem area during the last
three days was submitted by the
Israeli military governor, Dr.
Bernard Joseph, to . American
Consul General John J. McDon-
ald, who is also chairman of the
UN Consular Truce Commission.
Simultaneously, the Israeli mili-
tary authorities reported that
Ramath Rachel, northern Tal-
pioth and the Mea Shearim quar-
ter were shelled by the Arabs.

Uruguayans See Israel
Flag for First Time

MONTEVIDEO (JTA) — The
Israeli flag flew from the Parque
Hotel for the first time in Uru-
guayan history. The banner was
hoisted in honor of the arrival
of Dr. Moises A. Toff, Under-
Secretary for Foreign Affairs in
the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Dr. Toff was greeted at the
airport by Sr. Fermin Carlos de
Yeregui, Minister of Protocol,
and Dr. Jacob Hazan, Israeli rep-
resentative in Uruguay.

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70th birthday of Alexander Marx,
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the Jewish Theological Semin-
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