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Snag in Peace Talks; Arab Rift
Caused by Mufti's Plea to UN

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Israeli negotiations with Lebanon and Transjordania have hit serious snags as a
result of Lebanon's refusal to compromise on boundaries and the seven-point program
drafted by Transjordania. The Transjordan program provides:
1. A permanent peace settlement for Jerusalem directly between Transjordan and
Israel; 2. Settlement of the Latrun pocket held by Transjordan on the Tel Aviv-Jerus-
alem road; 3. Settlement of the status of the Ruthenberg electric power stations on
Transjordan territory; 4. Freedom of movement on the Jerusalem-Jaffa .road, with free
port facilities for Transjordan in Jaffa. This point also presupposes the return of Lydda
and Ramleh to the Arabs; 5. Freedom of access to the Holy Places in the Old City of
Jerusalem; 6. Return of Arab refugees to Jerusalem and Israel; and 7. Compensation
for refugees not returning to their homes in Israel.
The main difference between Britain and Transjordan concerns the future of the
refugees and Jerusalem. The Transjordanians desire to press only for a token return
of refugees to Israel, preferring to settle the refugees within Abdullah's kingdom, which
would swell -the country's population and give it some claim on Israel for Arab repara-
tions and compensation.
The British fear that a separate agreement would isolate Transjordan from the
other Arabs and destroy the last ifnportant point which the Arab states have in common.
Over Jerusalem, the divergence is the same. The British fear Transjordan's isolation,
while the Transjordanians prefer to take the Old City, rather than gamble on getting
more by holding out.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Amin Haj El Hussein',
Federation Election,
former Mufti of Jerusalem, president of the Palestine
Address by Dr. Haber
Arab Higher CoMmittee, requested the United Nations
At Meeting on Sunday
Conciliation Commission for participation of his group
in "All discussions" relative to the Palestine Case.
Election of members of the
The UN body .replied that it was prepared to hear
boards of the Jewish Welfare
the views - of the Higher Committee or of any other
Federation and its affiliated.
agencies, panel discussioris-"'iiii
group wishing to cooperate and sending delegates to
major community needs and an
the Jerusalem Arab area or to the scheduled Beirut
address by Prof. William Haber
Conference now set for March 24 for non-governmental
will feature the annual Feder-
bodies.

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Israel in-
UN.

—International Photo

Israel's UN Representative ABBA
EBAN (left) is congratulated by Secretary General TRYGVE LIE
(right) at Lake Success, N. Y., after the 9 to 1 vote by the Security
Council in favor of Israel's admission to the United Nations. The

president of the Security Council, DR. ALBERTO ALBAREZ of Cuba,
loOks on. Egypt alone voted against Israel's admission, while Great
Britain abstained. Final approval for Israel's admission must be given
bithe General Assembly which will begin meeting April 5. The
rest ion adopte'diirthi Security Council, proposed by the United
States, recognizes that Israel "is a peace-loving state fully capable
of carrying out its obligations under the Charter."

Exclusive in. Michigan—Chaim Weizmann's Autobiography

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ation meeting on Sunday. Story
on Page 2.

Acetone in World War 1 and the Balfour Declaration

Around Dr. Weizmann, at Manchester, there developed a strong English Zionist movement. A sympathetic British government offered Jews an autonomous
territory in Uganda, East Africa; Dr. Weizmann led a bitter fight at the Sixth and seventh Zionist Congresses against Herzl and others, and won; Zionism rejected
Uganda and clung to Palestine. He worked for the idea of a Hebrew University in Jerusalem, enlisting the aid of such men as Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris.
Paul Ehrlich, the great .bacteriologist, and C,-P. Scott, influential editor of "The Manchester Guardian." He met Lloyd George, Arthur James Balfour and Herbert
Samuel, later to become first British High-Commissioner in Palestine. Then World War I broke out:

• By Chaim Weizmann

President of Israel

by the fermentation process. I do my work in a laboratory. I myself can't
even determine what will be required."
I was given carte blanche by Mr. Churchill, and I took upon myself
a task which was to tax'all my energies for the next two years, and which
wa., f.o have consequences whichI did not then foresee.
it meant. a great deal of pioneering in a field in which I had had no
experience whatsoever. First, we found a place where we could carry out
our first large-scale experiment. It was the Nicholson gin factory in Brom-
ley-by-Bow. It took us six or seven months to apply the process on a
half-ton scale fairly regularly and with consistently satisfactory results.
It entailed an enormous
amount of work. Finally,
under •the pressure of grain
shortages, production was
shifted to Canada and Amer-
ica—America had by this time
entered the war. Some was
manufactured in France, some
in India, from rice. The first
American plant for this
method of producing acetone
was built at Terre Haute,
Ind.
After the war my patents
were taken over by Commer-
cial Solvents, one of the great
chemical concerns of Amer-
ica. The government gave me
a token reward, amounting to
about ten shillings for every
ton of acetone produced, a
total of ten. thousand pounds.
The government built a lab-
oratory for me in 1916, and we
—International Radiophoto

My life became eXtremel3f complicated, for my manifold Zionist ac-
tivites were carried on side by side with an increasingly heavy schedule
at the university. The yaung instructors were gone, and I had to do part of
their work. On top of everything else - I enlisted in a training corps, and
lean- led to form fours. Much of the time, what with the travel, the inter-
views, the conferences, the correspondence; the laboratories and the lecture
locinS, I moved about in a sort of a dreamlike trance. It was threatening to
become more. than I could stand. Then suddenly, a drastic change came
into my life.
One day in March, 1916, I re-
turned from a visit to Paris to
find a summans to the British
Admiralty, where' I was to see
Sir Frederick L. Nathan, head
of the powder department. He
explained that there was a
serious shortage of acetone,
the solvent used in making
cordite. Without this solvent
it .would be necessary to make
far-reaching changes in the
naval guns. To finish the busi-
ness, I was brought into the
presence of the First Lord of
the Admiralty, Mr. Winston
Churchill.
Mr. Churchill'was brisk, fas.:.
cinating, charming and ener-
getic. Almost his first words
were: "Well, Dr. Weizmann,
we need thirty . thousand tons
of acetone. Can you make it?"
I was so terrified by his lordly
request- that I almost turned
A member of the Israeli delegation, WA LTER EYTAN (right), signs the armistice with
tail. I answered: "So far I
Egypt
which ended the fighting in the Middle East. Second from right is COL. YIGAL YADIN
have succeeded in making a
of Israel. the armistice signing ceremony to ok place on the Island of Rhodes under the
few hundred cubic centi-
meters of acetone at a time
leadership of Acting UN Mediator RALPH B UNCHE (left).

came to London. We took a house
at 67 Addison 13oad. It was not a
large place but it soon became a
center not only for the Zionists

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