THE JEWISH NEWS
Israel Prepares to Admit
Families of Arab esidents
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Friday, July 15, 1949
Iraq Imprisons Jews
On Charge of Zionism
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JERUSALEM, (JTA)-Reports
Since the proclamation of Is- the convoys prior to their de- reaching Jewish Agency head-
quarters on the situation of
rael's statehood, Harzfeld con- parture from the Holy City.
Gen. William Riley, chief of Jews in Iraq state that hundreds
tinued, 107 colonies were found-
ed, 20 of them in the Negev. the UN staff here, took, a per- of Jews in that Country have
"The Negev today needs 10,000 sonal interest during his visit been imprisoned on charges
housing units," he declared, to Jerusalemn last week to ex- that they are Zionists. Because
adding that by next spring 500 plore the root of the dispute, corporal punishment is now ille-
irrigated dunams of land for which lay in Transjordan's re- gal in Iraq, prison offitials there
each 'Negev settlement will be fusal to adhere to paragraph are instigating Moslem inmates
VIII of the Israeli-Transjordan to attack the Jewish prisoners.
in existence.
The Congress is considering armistice agreenient signed on Since only the affluent Iraqi
Jews are able to bribe the jail
problems. of agricultural settle- the island of Rhodes.
An urgently-summoned Mapai wardens to permit them to re-
ment for the absorption of large
conference here heard that main unshackled, the majority
numbers of immigrants.
workers' wages in Israel will be of the imprisoned Iraqui Jews
cut in order to reduce. the high are in chains. and their condi- -
Israel Ready to Admit
cost of living. The wage cuts ton is generally worse than that
Arab Wives, Children
The Lebanese Government are scheduled to go into effeCt of the Moslem prisoners.
was the first Arab state to _ac- on Friday, which was described
cept a proposal made by the here as a "turning day" in , the statements were denied, t h e
Government of Israel for the Jewish state.
Foreign Office declined to indi-
Mapam and Communist: cate these and added that it
return of displaced wives and
children of Arabs now in the parties are vigorously opposed considered the incident closed.
Jewish state. Similar proposals to any Proposed reduction in - The Foreign Office's lame de-
have been made by Israel to the wages. Communists have threat,- nial seems to have convinced
governments of Egypt and ened to call a nationwide strike the Arabs that the News Agency
on Friday. Minister of Food and report was essentially accurate
Transyordan.
The ISraeli Government had Rationing Dr. Dov Joseph an- a n d altogether encouraging,
appealed through the armistice nounced that the first trainload while Israeli circles in London
commissions to the three. Arab of commercial goods will arrive now assume, on its basis, that
governments. "asking their co- in Jerusalem Aug. 5.
the forthcoming conference will
One Israeli soldier was killed accordingly not lead to any ma-
operation to facilitate the speedy
return of the wives and children when members of the Arab Le- terial Change in British, policy.
of Arab citizens, who will ob- gion opened fire -on Israeli po-
sitions in the southern section
tain 'a permit to enter Israel."
The statement said that Arab of Jerusalem.
citizens in Israel could apply for
entry permits for their relatives. Palestine Issue May Not
Such applicati6ns would be ac- Appear on UN Agenda
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)-The
cepted by district commissioners
in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Lyd- Palestine question as a whole
da and Ramleh, as well as by may not be raised at the forth-
military governors in each of coming session of the UN Gen
these zones. Entry permits eral Assembly in September un-
would tie granted only to wives less the three-man Conciliation
and children under 15 years of Commission, appointed to nego-
tiate an Arab-Israeli peace, spe-
age.
The estimated number of per- cifically requests the Assembly
sons likely to be involved was to put it on' the agenda, it was
not disclosed, but it was believed emphasized by Andrew Cordier,
.to be -between 10,000 and 15,000. Assistant UN' Secretary-General.
Syrian and Israeli negotia- However, he pointed out that
tors reached agreement July 10 the Assembly was bound to give
on the full text of the proposed attention to the Jerusalem as-
armistice pact between the two pect of the Palestine issue.
Acting UN Secretary-General.
!countries. Barring unforeseen
difficulties, it is hoped that the Byron Price denied that the
final armistice agreement will UN received a request from_ the
Swedish Government to take
be signed this week.
The military section of the action on the unsolved assassi-
agreement provides . for t h e nation of the late Count Folke
`withdrawal of Syrian forces Bernadotte.
from territory west of the for-
mer Palestine mandate border, Arab News Agency 'Leak'
while both Israeli and Syrian Embarrasses Foreign Office
LONDON, (JTA)-The forth-
troops-at a fixed date-will be
evacuated from the final armis- coming visit to London of King
tice lines. A. nominal contingent Abdullah of Transjordan is
of soldiers from both countries "purely social," a British
.will, however, be deployed along eign Office spokesman asserted,
adding that the King's arrival
the lines.
The Syrians are scheduled to and that of Emir Abdul Illah,
withdraw from the settlemeni regent of Iraq, during the Mid-
of Mishmar Hayarden, as well as dle East conference here, was
.areas east of Lake Tiberias. All "purely coincidental."
On the eve of Britain's all-
evacuated areas will be pro-
claimed demiltarized zones and embracing Middle Eastern con-
neither side will be permitted ference, the Foreign Office has
been greatly embarrassed by one
to station troops there.
cif the worst cases of "leakages."
A week ago, Sir William Strang,
Israel Denies Breakdown
permanent Undersecretary of
- In Monastery Peace Talks
JERUSALEM, (JTA)-Dr. Ju- the Foreign Office, called to-
dah Maimon, Minister of Re- gether a group of British diplo-
ligion, denied recent Vatican matic correspondents for a
City assertions that negotiations background talk on his recent
had broken down between the tour and on the forthcoming
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Benedictine monks for the re- meeting was a representative of
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turn to them of the Dormition the British-owned and conduct-
ed
Arab
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which
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payment of damages. T h e was closely linked to the Foreign
America Has
church is now within territory Office during the war.
To the complete consterna-
occupied by Israeli forces.
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A Ministry spokesman also tion of the Foreign Office, the
Arab
News
Agency
issued
an
ac-
denied Vatican City reports that
negotiations had been inter- count of Sir William's off-the-
Here is the bdok that
rupted with the Franciscans for record talk to its Arab subscrib-
has
helped millions to
the return of the Caenaculum ers, which appeared in full in
solve the perplexing
of Mount Zion. The Israeli gov- "Al Ahram," foremost news-
problems of every-day
ernment officially admitted that paper in Egypt, on June 30. That
living -and now you
some looting of holy vessels in report quoted Strang as say-
can read it serially.
Dormition and the Caenaculum ing that Israel "was a menace
•had taken place in the first to the Arab states," and that
phase of the fighting last year,. it would be necessary to keep
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the 'Dormition's valuable paint- purported views of Sir William,
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It now appears that there was
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of the Holy Virgin during the Arab News Agency. report. The.
severest fighting in the region. Foreign Office has not issued
The two-week-old dispute re- any convincing denials but has
garding the dispatch of Israeli confined itself to the publica-
relief convoys to the Mt. Sco- tion of a note to Arab editors,
pus area was settled at a meet- indicating that there were sev-
ing of Israeli and Arab Legion eral inaccuracies in the Arab
officials, who agreed to permit News Agency dispatch. When
whether any specific
UN representatives to search asked
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