Arabs. Massing Troops in
Effort to Seize Jerusalem
Glubb Pasha Reappears on Transjordanian. Scene; U.
Consul-General's Attack on Dr. Joseph Condemned
By Abba Eben Before UN Security Council_
To Install Veterans
THE JEWISH NEWS--S
Friday, October 22, 1948
Congress Unit Demands
U. S. Fulfill Promises
The following telegram has
been sent by Zeldon S. Cohen,
president of the Detroit Business
and ProfeSsional Chapter of the
American Jewish Congress to
President Truman:
"On behalf of our members
I urge you to reject the Berna-
dotte proposals to cede the Negev
to the. Arabs and to sever Jeru-
salem from Israel. I further urge
our government to grant full de
jure recognition to- Israel and to
extend loans and economic . as-
sistance immediately. From an
idealistic or practical viewpoint
our government can and should
take no other :position which is
in accordance with your own
MEYER DORFMAN of St. Paul,. pledges and promiseS."
Minn., newly-elected national
commander of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United -States,
will install the officers of Detroit
Post No. 135 of the JWV at 8:30
p. m, Monday, Oct. 25,, at Beth
Jericho Hall, 11331 Linwood.
Arthur M. Lang is commander of
WE MAKE 'EM
the Detroit' Post. The public is
invited to the installation'.
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Reliable the 'organization will soon be-
reports said that the Arabs can- come an instrument of peace in
centrated a total of 15,0.00 regu- Israel's development.
The Communist newspaper
lar and irregular . forces around
Jerusalem, in an attempt to 4cap- "Kol Haam" (Voice of the Peo-
ture one of the hills near Ein. ple) reported that the Jewish
Karim. In their first assault they Communist Party of Palestine
suffered heavy casualties inflicted and . the Arab. League for ,Na -
FURS
by the. Israeli Army. At ' least tonal Liberation had merged. In
Repaired, Remodelled, Reasonable
four " Jewish soldiers were re- a joint declaration, the paper re-
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ported, the two groups said that
ported wounded.
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the merged movement supports
(Israeli authorities in Haifa
FOREST
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seized more than 400 cases of
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two separate states in Palestine
signed to the Syrian Defense
bound together by - economic
Ministry aboard 'the American
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Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, UN Hears Bunsche Charge
PARIS (JTA)—Jewish author-
former commander of the Ttans-
jordan Arab Legion, visited the ities in Jerusalem were charged
Old City quarter of Jerusalem, at the .-U• Security Council with
examined the positions of the "negligence" in taking precau-
Legion there, and generally tions which might have prevent-
looked over the present military ed the assassination,. of the late
UN Palestine mediator Count
situation.
Jewish observers ascribed his Polke Bernadotte.
declared, rightfully resisted this
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The charge was made by Dr. attempt and is defending the
visit to purported Legion prepa-
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rations to attack the Jewish po- Ralphe Bunche, acting UN medi Negev, which, he added, is and
sitions in the Holy City as well 'atm% "Had the main precautions will _ remain an integral part Of
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as to the increased animosity be- been taken, the crime could not Israeli territory.
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- tween the Legion and the Egyp- have been committed," he told
The Israeli delegation applied
the Security - Council. He empha-
tians. *.
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Representative Will
to the UN •General Assembly's
As a result of that hostility the sized that no protection was pro- Political COmmittee for perntis-
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Legion's new commander, Ab- vided for Count Bernadotte by sion to participate fully in that
the
Jewish
authorities"
onhis
last
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dullah el Tel, has prohibited
body's deliberations' on Palestine.
Egyptian troops from entering visit to Jerusalem, despite dem- The Political Committee is ex-
the Old city. Meanwhile, reports onstrations 'against him on a pre- pected to take 'up the Bernadotte
from Amman assert that the vious visit.
report tomorrow.
A demand that the present
Transj ordan Government has for-
truce
in
Palestine
be
replaced
bidden Egyptian planes from fly-
by a treaty involving the with-
ing over the Palestine area oc-
drawal of the invading Arab
cupied by the Legjon.
armies and the initiation of
One of the chief reasons for
direct Arab-Jewish peace ne-
Arab quarrels is the establish-
gotiations was ' voiced at the
ment of the Palestine Arab
Security Council by Abba
government at Gaza, which is
Eben, Israeli representative to
now recognized by some of the
the United Nations.,
Arab states, although net by
King Abdullah. In a holiday
The Israeli representatiVe em-
address Abdullah declared that phatically protested against the
"we cannot permit the estab-
"intemperate language" used by
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consul-general in Jerusalem, in
without consulting the Pales-
his capacity of chairman of the
tine Arabs."
UN consular truce commis-Sion in
British-controlled - Near East a message to the Council regard-
Arab radio station quoted "top ing the assassination of Berna-
British political circles" as com- dotte and the inference in it
menting that the Palestine Arabs against Dr. Bernard Joseph, Is-
have nothing to win and plenty raeli Military Governor for Je-
to lose by the formation of the rusalem.
Gaza regime.
Emphasizing 'that the Security
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Egyptians Shell Negev
to bring the Jews and the Arabs
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TEL AVIV (JT,A)—The only to a round-table conference, Eben
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military activity during Yom said that "territorial improvisa-
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shelling of the settlement of tegrity of the existing state of
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Beeroth Yitzhak, east of Gaza, in Israel are doing little -but harm."
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A military court investigating the assassination of Bernadotte,
the Sternist jailbreak in Jaffa Dr. Bunche told the Security
found a number of Military Po- Council that he still has no offi-
lice officers and NCO's guilty cial information as to the , prog-
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of derelictiOn of duty and ordered ress of the investigation which
them dishonorably discharged the Israeli authorities started in
from the Israeli Army. The M. connection with the assassina-
P.'s will stand trial before • a tion. "It would be advantageous
court martial. -According to un- for the United Nations to have a
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sination of. Count Bernadotte.
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