Political Committee Sets Up
3-Nation Conciliation Group
The United Nations Political
Committee adjourned its Paris
meeting shortly after a surprise
vote had knocked out the props
from under the thrice-amended
British resolution on Palestine.
Israel opposed the major portion
of the resolution throughout.
The vote defeated Paragraph 4
of the resolution, which British
delegate Harold Beeley early de-
scribed as expressing the central
purpose of the resolution. The
paragraph, which outlined the
terms of reference of a proposed
conciliation commission, would
have instructed that the commis-
sion attempt to achieve a final
settlement of all questions out-
standing between the parties to
the Palestine dispute, including
those points raised by the Ber-
nodotte report. This is also the
section which would have forced
Israel to surrender some of its
Negev territory if it wanted Gal-
ilee or a territorial link with
Jerusalem.
The Committee voted to estab-
lish a three-nation conciliation
commission. This was a victory
for the Anglo-American bloc
which favored a small, powerful
body. The committee also voted
to turn over to the conciliation
commission the functions of the
mediator. This too was a British-
American victory.
The vote on crucial Paragraph
4 came like a thunderbolt to the
Anglo-American delegations, and
Dean Rusk, of the United States,
moved for adjournment so that
the two delegations could recon-
sider their position.
Even as the shaken British del-
egation met with the Americans
in an attempt to draft a new res-
olution and rally sufficient forces
to pull a victory out of this de-
feat, or at least to salvage part
of the program, informed Israeli
circles warned that a major polit-
ical battle still lay before the
Isrelis.
The United States delegate,
strongly urged the UN Secur-
ity Council to act favorably on
Israel's application for United
Nations membership so that
the Jewish state could be ac-
cepted at the current session of
the General Assembly. (Ex-
cerpts from his address will be
found on Page 1. ofthis issue.)
Soviet delegate Yakov Malik
supported Israel's application.
French delegate Alexandre Par-
- odi supported the suggestion that
the Israeli application should be
referred to the membership com-
mittee, but urged that no deci-
sion be taken before the Political
Committee had completed its
work on Palestine and before Is-
rael's reaction to the terms of
the resulting recommendations
were known.
Sir Aleacander Cadogan, speak-
ing for Britain, said: "I should
be lacking in frankness if I did
not say that my delegation con-
siders Israel's application both
premature and rather doubtful."
lie served notice that when the
matter was taken up by the
membership committee, Britain
would move that the application
be deferred.
Congressman Emanuel Celler
of New York told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he had
learned from the State Depart-
ment that U. S. consul general
in Jerusalem John J. McDon-
ald would not return to his post
in Israel. The State Department
said that McDonald's successor
had not yet been chosen.
Repayment of a $1,000,000 loan
made to Israel by the Interna-
tional •Ladies Garment Workers
Union, announced last week by
David Dubinsky, created a stir.
The check was delivered to Du-
binsky's union headquarters by
Dr. Israel Goldstein, Jewish Ag-
ency treasurer, and Gottlieb
Hammer, Jewish Agency comp-
troller.
Hadassah presented a $500,000
check to further medical and
child welfare work in Israel to
Mrs. Rebecca Shulman, Hadas-
sah liaison officer.
The Washington chapter of the
anti-Zionist Council for Judaism
has asked U. S. Attorney. General
Tom C. Clark to institute a Fed-
eration investigation into the ac-
tivities in this country of Mena-
them Beigin, former head of Ir-
gun Zvai Le The American
League for a Free Palestine, now
in process of liquidation, released
a statement taking issue with the
Council for Judaism. "We con-
sider it thoroughly impudent that
people whose record has been
one of anti-Zionism, if not anti-
Semitism, should concern them-
selves so intimately with the re-
ception given by Americans to an
Israeli statesman," Harry Louis
Selden, executive director of the
League, declared. "Mr. Beigin
came to his country at the invita-
tion of prominent Americans, not
ignorant of his record but thor-
oughly familiar with it."
British forces will be used,
if necessary, to protect the port
of Aqaba, in the southern part
of the Negev, "from aggres-
sion," Foreign Under Secretary -
Christopher Mayhew told Com-
mons. Mayhew said he was
aware of Jewish claims on the
port, but he did not know
whether the claims referred to
that portion of the Red Sea
port which lies within Trans-
jordan or other sections of the
coast.
Twenty-three Israeli soldiers,
taken prisoner by the Arab Le-
gion, in the Old City last May
28, were released to Jewish
forces in no-man's land in the
Latrun area. The Jews, overjoy-
ed at being back among their
comrades and at being on Israeli
soil for the first time, expressed
their gratitude for food parcels
and other supplies sent them by
the Israeli authorities through
the prisoner exchange service.
They described their treatment
at the hands of the Legion as
"good."
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Shertok presented his govern-
ment's viewpoint on the British
proposal for internationalizing
the city of Jerusalem, protection
of the Holy Places, the fate of
the area of Palestine assigned to
the Arabs under the partition
decision of Nov. 29, 1947, and the
Arab refugee problem, in a state-
ment to the UN Political Com-
mittee. Shertok insisted that Is-
rael could see no justification for
departing from the Assembly's
original partition decision, thus
giving the Arab part of the coun-
try to Transjordan: On the ques-
tion of Jerusalem, Shertok said
that the Israeli Government un-
derstands the desire for interna-
tionalization of the city, but, he
said, a year has passed and the
experiences of that period can-
not be ignored.
No Turkish Jews will be per-
mitted to leave the country for
any point in Europe if they in-
tend eventually to go to Israel,
the government indicated, fol-
lowing its recent decision to halt
direct immigration from Turkey
to the Jewish state. No official
statement has yet been made to,
explain the government's com-
plete reversal of policy in recent
weeks from encouraging immi-
gration to Israel to imposing a
complete ban on it.
Moshe Yuval, Israeli Vice Con-
sul in New York, arrived in
Shanghai to issue visas to 1,772
stateless Jewish refugees • who
are expected to sail for Israel for
resettlement.
Poland and Romania have
ceased issuing exit visas for Jews
desiring to immigrate to Israel,
while Yugoslavia indicated that
the authorities there insist on a
revision of the Yugoslav-Israeli
trade agreement before granting
some 5,000 Jewish applicants
their pending exit visas. Local
Zionist leaders were told that the
Polish Government would nego-
tiate directly with Israel on all
matters dealing with the trans-
fer of Jewish goods while the
present practice of the Zionist
Organization of handling immi-
gration at its own discretion
would have to stop. In Romania,
the discontinuing of issuing exit
visas for Jews came after the
Jewish Communist Party there
renewed its demand.to have the
sole right to pick the Jews to be
allowed to immigrate to Israel.
The same request was made three
months ago and rejected by the.
Israeli authorities who deal with
migration.
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Friday, December 10, 1948'
The New Israeli Road
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A new
road between Jerusalem and the
coastal plain was officially opened
Tuesday. The route replaces the
"Burma Road" around Latrun,
built during the height of battle
for Jerusalem and its approaches.
"Burma Road" was found to be
unsuitable as a permanent high-
way. The new road, 25 miles
long and at least 16 1/2 feet wide
throughout its length, was built
in eight weeks across a difficult
mountain terrain. It was decided
to build the new road 10 days
after the fighting broke out. The
route was blueprinted after con-
sulting aerial photographs of an-
cient camel tracks which crossed
the same area.
Arab-Jewish Peace Talks Continue;
Sternists' Trial Started in Acre
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manders to consider the question.
Meanwhile the Arab Legion com-
manders' telephone line has been
connected with the Israeli cen-
tral exchange and two command-
ers have been in telephonic
communication.
The Acre military court freed
unconditionally Editha BoraCova,
Czech airline hostess, who ad-
mitted to serving as messenger
between the Sternist leader,
Nathan Friedman Yellin, and
Czechoslovak Sternists. The
court's action followed the in-
tervention of the Czechoslovak
Jerusalem consulate here. Mean-
while six prosecution witnesses
have been heard by the Acre
court. They testified that Fried-
man Yellin and Matatiahu
Shmuelevitz were in possession
of forged permits to leave Israel
and forged Israeli army discharge
papers. The defendants admitted
that the documents were forged.
Egypt has released part of the
cargo seized from the American
ship, the Flying Trader, in res-
ponse to a protest made by the
United States Government, Un-
der Secretary of State Robert A.
Lovett told a press conference
in Wishington.
PreAdent Truman ,told a
press conference that there are
no new developments in his
Palestine policy.
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