Israel Cabinet Turns Down
Garreau's Jerusalem Plan

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, February 10, 1950

ZOA Ups Membership
In Detroit; Pays Dues

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Israel Cabinet rejected the
modified plan for the internationalization of Jerusalem pre-
sented to the UN Trusteeship Council in Geneva by Roger
Garreau, Council president, However, the Foreign Ministry
will send a • delegation to Geneva with limited credentials to
explain Israel's attitude toward the plan to members of the

Trusteeship Council.

(Reports from Amman in-
dicated that King Abdullah of
Jordan would break off his
peace talks with Israel if the
Jewish state should agree to
the Garreau p la n. Israel's
consent to this plan, it was
indicated from Amman, would
place Jordan in a disadvan-
tageous position in view of the
fact that the bulk of the Holy
Places which M. Garreau pro-
poses be put under UN juris-
diction are located in territory
now held by Jordan.)

The Cabinet, meanwhile, au-
thorized its Ministerial Commit-
tee for Religious Education to
devise a system for religious
education in t h e immigrant
camps acceptable to all religious
groups in the country, thus
making an effort to resolve the
problem of religious education
in the reception centers. At the
same time the Cabinet approved
an Israel-Uruguayan barter
agreement.

Garreau Misguided
In New York, the American
Zionist Council issued a state-
ment through its chairman,
Louis Lipsky, predicting that
the Jerusalem issue will have
to be reconsidered at a special
session of the United Nations
General Assembly. "The ef-
forts of M. Garreau to find a
solution f o r the Jerusalem
problems a r e deserving of
commendation, but he is la-
boring under the mistaken
notion that by reducing the
area of internationalization,
he will be able to rid the
scheme of its unworkability,"
the statement said. "The im-
practicability of the plan in-
creases with the diminution of
the area."

Another Israel-Jordan agree-
ment was signed, subject to
approval by the UN armistice
commission. The pact fixes the
number of 48mm artillery guns
for both sides as follows: eight
for Jerusalem, four in the Heb-
ron-Dead Sea area, 12 for the
southernmost sector of the Ne-
gev desert and 20 for the "Arab
triangle" region.

Tumult in Israel Parliament

The Israel parliament wit-
nessed another stormy session
when Communist deputy Meir
Wilner proposed that the Knes-
set agenda include discussion of
the "situation in several agricul-
tural settlements whete Corn-
munist settlers have been sub-
jected to economic and political
terror."
Wilner called for a parliamen-
tary investigation of police con-
duct in the quelling of the Com-
munist demonstration in Tel
Aviv. Mapai deputy Shmuel
Dayan proposed that the de-
puties immediately take up the
items on the agenda. without
considering inclusion of Wilner's
proposals. The Mapai deputy
declared that "each settlement
has a perfect right to live in
ideological unity," adding that
"the Tel Aviv police's conduct
was correct."
After the proposal of the
Communist deputy was defeat-
ed, Police Inspector-General
Behov Shetreet took the floor to
declare that "two policemen and
, •three demonstrators were in-
jured in the clash in Tel Aviv
in which Wilner himself de-
livered an inciting speech to
the crowd." Wilner immediately
sprang to his feet, demanding
that the Israel police official
withdraw his remarks, but She-
treet refused. The Communist
deputy thereupon continued
shouting on the floor of the
Knesset. The stormy exchange
lasted 15 minutes.

Garreau Defines
- Jerusalem Boundaries
GENEVA— (JTA)—T h e "cor-
pus separatum," proposed by
Roger Garreau, would be es-
tablished within the boundaiqes
envisaged by the UN General
Assembly decision to interna-
tionalize Jerusalem. It would be
under an international regime

which would ensure the demili-
tarization and neutralization of
the area.
In addition, the territory
would be constituted as an eco-
nomic free zone with neither Is-
rael nor Jordan having any
power to collect duties on goods
entering or leaving any part of
the zone. Freedom of movement
and access to the Holy Places in
the territory would be guaran-
teed.
Under Ambassador Garreau's
plan practically the entire new
city would pe placed under the
authority mid administration of
Israel, together with the central
railway station and the Jeru-
salem-Tel Aviv railroad. Two
Arab quarters of the Old City,
together with the Harem Al
Sherif, Wadi el Joz and Ab el
Zahira sections, as well as the
entire American Colon y, the
Jericho Road, the Nablus Road
to the north of the Sheikh Jar-
rach quarter and the Hebron
Road to the southern portion of
Bethlehem would be placed
under the authority and admin-
istration of Jordan.
The sector under UN admin-
istration would embrace an area
taken in almost equal part from
armistice - defined o c c u pation
zones held by Israel and Jordan
Included in this area would be:
the Wailing Wall; the Church
of the Holy Sepulchre; all of
Mt. Zion; the Mount of Olives;
and, Mt. Scopus, including the
road to the height and the Ha-
dassah hospital a n d Hebrew
University.
The State Department is at-
tempting to convince the Israel
Government to accept the Gar-
reau plan, promising that far
reaching changes will be made
in it.
Under the plan, the inhabit-
ants of the "International City"
could either . retain their pres-
ent nationality or opt for citi-
zenship of the "International
City." They would elect, by uni-
v e r s a l suffrage, a municipal
council whose composition would
be determined in such a man-
ner as would ensure equitable
representation of the various re-
ligions, and which would ad-
m i n i s t e r the "International
City" under the supervision of
the Holy Places Governor.

HERSCHEL AUERBACH
national director of member-
ship of the ZOA accepts a
check from regional president,

MORRIS M. J.ACOBS, covering
membership dues from the
Detroit district, representing
54 per cent of last year's total
and a 22 per cent increase in
new memberships.

Israel Children Plant
Trees on Arbor Day

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Three mil-

lion trees were planted in Israel
by thousands of children on the
occasion of Hamisha Asar b'She-
vat, Jewish Arbor Day. Saplings
were planted in the Jerusalem
area, western Galilee, eastern
Galilee and in the Beersheba
and Revivim areas of the Negev
desert.

AFL Charges USSR with Cultural
Pogroms; Asks Genocide Pact Okay

MIAMI BEACH, (JTA) — The
American Federation of Labor
appealed to the Senate to ratify
the United Nations Convention
against Genocide and charged
that the Soviet Union and Fast
European nations were practic-
ing "cultural pogroms" against
their Jewish populations.
The AFL also called for
prompt international action to
check genocide and the develop-
ments in the USRR. The state-
ment, issued by the AFL execu-
tice council, said:
"Behind the Iron Curtain—
and particularly in Soviet Rus-
sia — governmental authorities
have developed a fiendish plan
based on cultural grounds and
haire launched a terrific cam-
paign to wipe out entire groups
of their population.

"The new drive to make im-
possible the continued exist-
ence of Jews in Russia and in
satellite areas is going on un-
der the flag of a savage war
against socalled cosmopolitan-
ism.

"Their crime is that they
have, or might. develop, a cul-
ture different from the ultra-
nationalist a n d imperialistic
brand supported by the ruling
party, by the totalitarianist
dictatorship in Russia.
"A vicious campaign is afoot
to chase out all Jews from em-
ployment in occupations entail-
ing contact with the mass of
people in the USSR or with the
people of other countries.

from the Soviet occupation
administrations in Austria and
Germany. Jews are no longer
permitted to be members of
Soviet delegations and foreign
missions or to undergo train-
ing for diplomatic service.

"The door to employment in
the Soviet Ministry of Foreign
Trade has been slammed hard
in the face of Russia's Jews —
on cultural grounds. The same
process of elimination of Jews
continues ruthlessly in the
ranks of the ruling Communist
party and its government ap-
paratus.
"We must keep in mind that
in countries where the govern-
ment dictatorship is the sole
employer, such 'cultural' po-
groms against intellectuals and
their followers mean virtually
the sentencing of these individ-
ual human beings to death."

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ZOA Expresses Opposition
to Garreau Plan:

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A reso-
lution expressing "unalterable
opposition" to the Garreau plan
was adopted by the National
Administrative Committee of
the Zionist Organization of
America.
Daniel Frisch, ZOA president,
who recently returned from a
visit to the Jewish state, an-
nounced that his organization
had invited Israel Premier
David Ben Gurion to visit the
United States to attend the
ZOA's 53rd annual convention
to be held in June.
The ZOA president also ap-
pealed to American Jewry to
prevent any reduction in immi-
gration to Israel by "giving gen-
erously of their substance to the
United Jewish Appeal."

Federation, Member
Agency Staffs View
Community Relations

When professional staff mem-
bers of the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration and its member agencies
meet for the sixth session of the
In-Service Training Institute, at
8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the
Woodward Center, they will dis-
cuss "Community Relations."
Harold Weiss will serve as
chairman and discussion leader
for the session. Borris M. Joffe,
executive director of the Jewish
Community Council, will pre-
sent material on the existing De-
troit Jewish community rela-
tions program.
Anna Hersh, placement direc-
tor at the Jewish Vocational
Service, will act as recorder.

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