Israel's -Historic Day at the UN
(Continued from Page 1)
The final vote in favor of Is-
rael's membership was an-
nounced at the General Assem-
atbly meeting at Flushing Mea-
dows at 6:28 p.m., standard time,
Wednesday. There followed the
brief ceremony of welcome and
acceptance, the expression of joy
by the Jewish representatives,
press representatives and guests
and the broadcast of two brief
radio messages in Hebrew by
Abba Eban and Moshe Shertok
to Israel, over UN radio facilities.
Irsaeli leaders who were led to
their seats in the UN Assembly,
between Iraq and Lebanon, .after
Mr. Shertok's address, on May
11, included Foreign Minister
Sharett, Abba Eban-Even, Consul
General Arthur Lourie, Legal
Adviser Dr. Jaoob Robinson,
Moises A. Toff, director of the
Israeli Latin American Depart-
ment of the Ministy for Foreign
Affairs, Gideon Rafael, I. L. Ke-
nen and Tuovia Arazi, the col-
orful member of the Israel in-
telligence department.
The Final Vote
As Rapporteur for the Ad Hoc
Political Committee, Dr. Homero
Viteri-Lafronte of Ecuador pre-
sented the report recommend-
ing Israel's admission - Co the UN,
at the May 11 afternoon session
which began at 2:30 p.m. stand-
ard time. Then began a round
of speeches. Including Ecuador,
21 nations spoke-13 in favor of
Israel's admission, six in oppo-
sition and two who announced
that they would abstain.
Ecuador, Poland, the United
States, the Netherlands, Canada,
Guatemala, France, New Zea-
land, Uruguay, Bolivia, Cuba,
Iceland and Peru spoke for Is-
rael. The opposition was repre-
sented by Iraq, Egypt, Syria,
Lebanon, Yemen and Saudi Ara-
bia. El Salvador, which did not
vote in the Ad Hoc Committee,
and Belgium explained their
abstentions.
In the final vote, the Arab
forces won an adherent—Ethio-
pia. The 12 nay-sayers were:
Yemen, Afghanistan, B u r m a,
Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran,
Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi-
Arabia and Syria.
There were nine abstainees:
United Kingdom, Belgium, Bra-
zil, Denmark, El S a 1 v ado r,
Greece, Siam, Sweden, Turkey.
there was a period in the in- reached a high level. The mat-
terim when the one man who ter has been democratically
did more than any other person considered and democratically
to round up the votes—the bril- put to a vote.
"We 'welcome Israel as a
liant Australian leader, the Pres-
ident of the UN General Assem- member of the United Nations.
bly Dr. Herbert V. Evatt—was We shall accord to Israel
considerably worried about the friendship and co-operation in
vote. Many of the delegates were the achievement of the com-
at Lake Success, participating in mon purposes set out in the
committee meetings, and it be- Charter, and we know that in
came necessary to round lip the return we shall obtain of
Israel, this new member of the
votes.
At one point, Dr. Evatt insisted United Nations, loyalty to the
that the Polish delegates should . organization and co-operation
give up a dinner appointment with its members, all of whom
and remain in the Flushing Hall are working for the same great
to vote for Israel. During the objectives.
"I go further than that, and
final hour of the debate the Cu-
I am sure that what I am
ban delegate, Ramon Zaydin,
spoke for 50 minutes, in a sort about to say is the view of all
of fillibuster to permit the dele- members of the organization,
gates to come from Lake Success without exception. I look for-
—about a 20-m i n u t e ride to ward to the time when the
Flushing—in order to assure a wounds of the peoples in the
Middle East will be healed,
favorable vote.
when we shall find co-opera-
U. S. Delegate Warren Aus-
Arab sympathizers frequently
applauded the Arab spokesmen,
but the inspiring demonstrations
came when Mr. Sharett was pre-
sented to the Assembly by Dr.
Evatt as Israel's first spokesman.
Even the most dignified members
of the U. S. State Department
joined in the applause, and all
rules of protocol forbidding
demonstrations were wiped out
by common spontaneous consent
The opposition had temporarily
walked out of the hall by that
time.
Arab delegates who took the
walk began to return at the
evening session at which Israel
already was formally seated. In-
dia's representatives made it a
point to emphasize that they did
not walk out but had left the
Assembly to keep an appoint-
ment. Saudi Arabia's complaint
that its representative's car was
pelted with eggs brought an ex-
pression of resentment from
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, dur-
ing a session of the social com-
mittee. But after 6:30 pan.
standard time on May 11 all in-
The Honor Roll
terest was directed at the stand
Israel, however, won four new Israel would take on important
friends, Bolivia, France, South UN matters.
Africa and Luxemburg having
Israeli Foreign Minister
switched their votes to the Moshe Sharett formally named.
"yes" column. By lot, Soviet Abba Eban-Even as Israel's of-
Russia was chosen to cast the ficial representative at the
first ballot, and it was, of course, United Nations, in a letter to
in the affirmative. There were Trygve Lie, UN Secretary Gen-
37 votes in favor of Israel's ad- eral who, together with Dr.
mission-13 more than the re- Evatt and President Truman,
quired two-thirds. Here is the has been among, Israel's most
honor roll of the nations who consistent supporters. Israeli
supported Israel in the final assistants to Eban have been
stage of her admission to the named to all 4UN committees
UN:
and they are beginning to ex-
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, United States of
America, Uruguay, Venezuela,
Yugoslavia, Argentina, Austra-
lia, Bolivia, Byelorussian Sov-
iet Socialist Republic, Canada,
Chile, China, Colombia, Costa
Rica, C u b a, Czechoslovakia,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
France, Guatemala, Hait i,
Honduras, Iceland, Liberia,
Luxemburg, Mexico, Nether-
lands, New Zealand, Nicara-
gua, Norway, Panama, Para-
guay, Peru, Philippines, Po-
land, Ukrainian Soviet Social-
ist Republic, Union of South
Africa.
These bare facts must not be
interpreted as if a cut and dried
procedure was enacted at the
United Nations. May 11 and 12
were not without their dramatic
moments. While the entire de-
bate regarding Israel's entrance
in the UN lasted four hours,
tion and friendship and, in-
deed, comradeship between all
the peoples of the Middle East,
in accordance with the best
interests of that region and
with the great principles of the
Charter.
"Welcome to UN"
"It is therefore with great
pleasure that I welcome Israel,
through its Foreign Minister,
to membership in the United
Nations."
tin delivered a strong speech
in Israel's behalf. Sir Carl Ber-
endsen of New Zealand, in one
of the shortest addresses, de-
clared that New Zealand would
"of course" vote in favor of Is-
rael admission—and he re-
peated the "of course" with an
emphasis that sent a thrill
through the audience.
The backing of the United
States ; due primarily to the deep
interest shown in Israel by Pres-
ident Truman, was reflected in
the strong statement of U. S.
Delegate Warren R. Austin, who
asserted:
"Israel has solemnly pledged
its word to carry out the ob-
ligations of the Charter and
that pledge has been reiter-
ated by the representative of
Israel appearing before the ad
hoc political committee. My
Government believes that Is-
rael would be a valuable mem-
THE JEWISH NEWS-3
ber of the United Nations and
should be admitted to the Or-
ganization. The United States
Delegation will vote in favor
of the Resolution now before
the Assembly."
Friday, May 20, 1949
Great Britain, one of the ab-
staining voters, was silent
throughout the debate. All indi-
cations are, however, that good
relations between Israel and
Britain will be cemented soon.
The decision reached in London
this week by the British Foreign
Office and the Israeli mission to
' .3e the status of their diplo-
matic representatives to ranks
of duly accredited ministers, and
their offices to legations, is
proof of an improvement in the
two governments' relations. (Dr.
M. Eliash is the Israel Minister
in London and Alexander Knox
Hel, who has left for Tel Aviv,
is the British minister-desig-
nate.)
Working Member
The fact that Israel immed-
iately became a working mein-
ber of the UN is among the
significant factors in the new
situation which is so thrilling
to world Jewry.
(Israel's representative to the
United Nations, Aubrey Eban,
cast a negative vote at the 59-
nation Political Committee on a
proposal to place Cyrenaica un-
der long-term British trustee-
ship, but voted "yes" on a pro-
posal to place Somaliland under
Italian trusteeship. The Israel
vote was one of the 17 ballots
cast against Britain on the col-
onial issue. Cyrenaica was the
major objective of a United
States-British plan to achieve a
solution to the problem concern-
ing the status of the former Ital-
ian colony. Eban abstained from
voting on the plan as a whole).
(The names of members of Is-
rael's delegation to the current
Assembly session of the U. N.
announced at Lake Success are:
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett,
chairman; . Aubrey S. Eban, per-
manent representative and vice-
chairman; Ambassador Eliahu
Elath. Eban will have the rank
of envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary. Alter-
nate delegates are Consul-Gen-
eral A r t h u r Lourie, Gideon
Raphael and Dr. Moshe Toff. Dr.
Jacob Robinson was named as
counsellor and Tuviah Arazi, ad-
visor. Isaieh L. Kenen was listed
as director of information for
the delegation).
Scientific Conference
(U. N. Secretary-General Try-
gve Lie invited Israel to partici-
pate in a United Nations scien-
tific conference on the use and
conservation of world's resources.
This is the first UN parley t o
which Israel has been invited).
Israel has joined the Interna-
tional Labor Organization, a
specialized agency of the United
Nations).
Israel joined the majority in •
the General Assehbly, voting in
favor of UN, 'intervention in the
problem of racial discrimination
against the Indian population in
the Union of South Africa,
The Union of South Africa ex-
tended de jure recognition to
Israel.
Israel will be assigned of fi-
nancial obligations to the UN. It
is expected to be in the amount
of $200,000 and will reduce the
Arab assessments because Is-
rael's quota will be part of the
over-all Middle and Near East
charges. Until Israel's admission
to the UN, the Arab state's
shares in the UN expenses were:
Egyt, $328,774; Saudi - Arabia,
$33',294; Yemen, $16,647; Leba-
non, $24,970; -Iraq, $70,749; Syria,
$49,940.
President Truman's report t o
Congress for the year 1948 on
"United States Participaton in
the United Nations," released at
Lake Success on May 12, con-
tains a. lengthy chapter on the
history of peace efforts in Pal-
estine and on the U. S. partici-
pation in efforts to implement
the 1947 partition proposal.
ert important influence in the
deliberations of the world
The magnificent job in behalf
of Israel by Dr. Evatt gave him
the greatest satisfaction of
knowing that he had achieved a
major goal in the interest of
peace through the UN. Assembly
President Evatt's sentiments
were expressed in this statement
to the UN, before he introduced
Mr. Sharett:
"On behalf of the United
Nations and the General As-
sembly, and in accordance
with what I am sure would be
the wish of all who have taken
part in this debate and this
vote, I should like to extend
the welcome of the United Na-
tions to its newest member.
Very Important Debate
"The debate has been a very
important one. It has been
very well conducted and has
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