Palestine Issue Placed
Third on Agenda of UN

PARIS (JTA) • — An attempt
made by the delegations of Bri-
tain and the United States to
place the Palestine question first
on the agenda of the UN Politi-
cal Committee failed.
The proposal, presented by
British delegate Hector McNeil,
asking for speedy action on the
recommendations of the late UN
mediator Count Folke Bernadotte,
was voted down after a two-hour
fight by delegates of the USSR
and the Arab countries. Only 16
votes were cast in favor of the
proposal, while 21 were against
and 14 nations abstained.
Also voting against the British
proposal were a number of Latin
American countries. The Soviet
delegates were among those who
abstained. The proposal was then
relegated to third place on the
agenda, with first priority going
to the atomic energy question and
the second to a proposal by Soviet
delegate Andrei Vishinsky for a
one-third reduction of national
armaments.
Political Committee chairman
Paul-Henri Spaak predicted that
it may take at least 15 days, if
not more, to complete the atomic
energy and disarmament ques-
tions. The Palestine question will
thus not come up before the Poli-
tical Committee for the next two
weeks, he indicated. In a state-
ment to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Israeli delegate Aubrey
Eban said: "To us the third place
on the agenda is high enough. It
will give us time to prepare and
to study our case."

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, October 8, 1948

JDA Leaders

Physicians Give X-Ray Machine
To Israel Through Zionist Region

To Hold Parley

For the first time since Pales-
tine hostilities broke out, the
British have publicly advised
the Arabs to meet with the
. American
Jewry's
leading
Jews at a round-table confer-
fighters against anti-Semitism
ence to make peace, suggest- will conven.. in Cleveland, Nov.
ing that Count Folke Berna-
19 to 21, for the third annual
dotte's plan be used as a basis.
meeting of the national council
Reports circulating abroad that of the Joint Defense Appeal.
an attempt had been made on the
Michigan community figures
life of Premier Ben-Gurion were
.?:active in . t h e
officially denied here.
fight against bi-
An official communique issued
gotry will join
here today explained that an
hundreds of JDA
Arab plane was shot down by a
Council m e m-
Jewish fighter over Israeli terri-
oers expected to
tory when the Arab pilot refused
attend the ses-
to obey an international signal
sions in the Ho-
and a separate hand signal mo-
Lel Cleveland, it
tioning him to land.
w a s announced
Gen. William Riley, American
by Leo M. But-
UN truce observer, charged
zel and Aaro,n
Transjordan Arab Legionnaires
Droock of De-
with responsibility for the am- Aaron Droock troit, members
bushing of an unarmed Jewish of the Council's executive com-
convoy escorted by a UN ob- mittee.
server in a clearly marked jeep
The Joint Defense Appeal, cur-
and the killing of the convoy rently seeking a national goal of
commander and three passen- $6,104,540 is the fund-raising arm
gers. Riley labelled the killing a of the American Jewish Commit-
"massacre" and stated that it tee and the Anti-Defamation
was an "unwarranted attack" and League of Bnai Brith. The na-
a "most serious breach of the
tional meeting will seek to ham-
peace."
mer out the 1949 national goal
Egyptian forces shelled Hartuv, of combatting intolerance through
in the Latrun area, while Arab the agencies of the JDA, Butzel
Legion artillery units opened fire and Droock said in a joint state-
against Birmain.
ment.
Minister of Finance Eliezer
Kaplan submitted to the Israeli
State Council a proposed bud-
get. of 7,800,000 pounds ($31,-
200,000) for the six-month pe-
riod from July through Decem-
ber, 1948. This total does not .
Arabs Wanted Palestine to be
include the special appropria-
Placed 12th on the Agenda
tions for security measures.
The strongest speeches oppos- The Anglo-Palestine Bank's Is-
ing the proposal for giving prior-
sue Department announced that
ity to the Palestine question were more than 27,000,000 new
delivered by representatives of pounds have already been is-
Egypt and Syria who pleaded that sued and exchanged for the
they needed more time to study . currency of - the former Man-
the Bernadotte report. They urg- datory Power. Today is the
ed that Palestine be placed expiration date for exchanging
twelfth on the agenda.
these former British notes for
Ukrainian delegate Dmitri
the new Israeli currency.
Manuilsky c ontr as t ed the
Arabs' "frantic eagerness" to Israel to Make Demand for
Epstein
Nathan
settle the Palestine issue in re- Inclusion of Jerusalem
A National Conference for Is-
lation to the Arab refugees a
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is- rael "to map American Jewry's
few weeks ago with their pre-
sent reluctance. He said that raeli Government will make a participation in the prospective
strong demand for the incorpora- liquidation of the Jewish D. P.
Britain is now "more Egyptian
than the Egyptians" in pressing tion within the Jewish state of camps and the resettlement in. Is-
for haste with regard to the the city of Jerusalem as well as rael of the homeless Jews of
a corridor linking it with Israel, Europe and other lands" has been
Palestine question.
Dr. Bernard Joseph, Israeli mili- called by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
U. S. delegate Warren Austin tary governor, told the municipal
newly elected Treasurer of the
spoke in favor of putting Pales- advisory council.
World Zionist Executive and
tine first on the agenda. How-
Concluding his report to the United Palestine Appeal national
ever, he did not attempt to force
advisory council, Dr. Joseph said chairman.
the issue.
that arrangements were practical-
Under the sponsorship of the
Winding up the general debate ly completed for opening the
at the Assembly this morning, Hebrew University's academic UPA, the conference will be held
Ukrainian delegate Manuilsky year in facilities other than its at the Palmer House in Chicago,
said that the Palestine issue has own buildings, which are on iso- November 6th and 7th and will
feature as principal participants:
been clouded by the big powers' lated Mt. Scopus.
Major General John H. Hilldring,
struggle for oil. Edward Kardely,
The new chief UN observer in former Assistant Secretary of
Yugoslav Foreign Minister, said
that implementation of the UN Jerusalem, Col. M. Millet, was State and member of the U. S.
partition resolution of Nov. 29 attempting to establish a new delegation to the United Nations.
could have saved many lives in "truce within a truce" through- Dr. A bba Hillel Silver, chairman,
out the city, following an agree- American Section Jewish Agency
Palestine.
ment by the Arab Legion and
France, which has long been the Egyptian and Israeli com- for Palestine; Eliahu Epstein,
urging the United Nations to es- manders to cease firing while he Israeli Representative to the U.
tablish an effective international inspected all positions in and S.; Dr. Israel Goldstein, who will
regime is Jerusalem, is prepared around the city. At the end of preside; Dr. Emanuel NeumArm,
to back a ten-year international that period Col. Millet asked all president, Zionist Organization
trusteeship for the city when the three forces to continue the truce of America and member of the
World Zionist Executive; Robert
Assembly's Political • Committee indefinitely. '
R. Nathan, economist and former-
begins work on the Palestine
Israeli army officials in Jeru-- ly Deputy Director of the Office
question, it was learned from
sources close to the French For- salem rejected a proposal made of War Mobilization and Recon-
eign Office. At the end of the 10 by the Consular Truce Commis- version; Judge Morris Rothen-
years, Jerusalem inhabitants sion to create a "third neutral berg, president, Jewish National
would decide the city's political zone" in the city which would Fund; Charles Ress, president,
future by a plebiscite, according include the French and Ameri- Palestine Foundation Fund;
can consulates and the Y.M.C.A. Chaim Greenberg , member,
to the plan.
and King David Hotel buildings. World Zionist Executive; Rabbi
Nathan Friedman-Yellin, com- Max Kirshblum, vice chairman,
Ben Gurion Takes Over
mander of the Stern Group, was Mizrachi Organization of Amer-
Foreign Ministry Post
TEL AVIV (JTA)—When For- captured in Haifa. Arrested with ica.
eign Minister Moshe Shertok left him was one of his lieutenants,
for.Paris to assume leadership of Matatiahu Shuleviez, who es -
the Israeli delegation at the UN caped from prison during the Champaign Judge Bans
General Assembly, Premier Da- British Administration. Both men Religion in Public Schools
vid Ben Guridh assumed the For- were found in possession of
eign Minister's portfolio until forged Israeli Army documents.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (JTA)—All
Shertok returns.
religious education in the mu-
The Israeli Government was Bernadotte's Proposals
nicipal schools here was banned
asked to release all detained Do Not Guarantee Peace
NEW YORK (JTA) — Empha- by an order of Circuit Judge
members of the Stern Group and
to remove the stigma of terrorism sizing that the recommendations Grover Watson. This marked the
on Palestine submitted by the final victory for Mrs. Vashti Mc-
from the organization.
Max Seligman, an attorney, late UN mediator Bernadotte do Collum, of this community, who
wrote to the Defense; Interior not guarantee peace for that carried the fight against religious
and Justice Ministries urging that .country, Eliahu Epstein, Israeli instruction in public schools to
the Stern Group be registered as representative to the United the Supreme Court, which ruled
a. political movement. He denied States, told a press conference that such education was uncon-
that there was any connection that Israel cannot afford to give stitutional. The writ also pro-
between it and the group res- up any part of the Negev, which hibits the "use -of the state's pub-
ponsible for the slaying of Count was allotted to the Jewish state lic school machinery to enroll
Folke Bernadotte.
under' the UN partition decision. pupils in religious' classes."

DR, LOUIS BRAITMAN (right) of the physicians' committee
of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, presents the invoice for a
$4325 X-ray machine to MORRIS M. JACOBS (center), president
of the Michigan Zionist Region, who accepts it in the name of the
Israel Equipment Project of the ZOA. Looking on, left to right,
are SAUL GOTTLEIB, director of the Michigan region, and DR.
ARTHUR °GOLDBERG who, together with Dr. Braitman, was re-
sponsible for interesting a group of Jewish physicians in securing
the machine.

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