Israel Rejects All German
Claims; Cites U. S. Stand
GENEVA (JTA)—The Israel
Government refuses to acknowl-
edge any claims on church or
secular property in which Ger-
many or Germans are benefici-
aries, Israel representative Au-
brey Eban told the UN Trustee-
ship Council in response to an
American proposal that German
church property in Jerusalem be
rturned to its former owners.
The proposal was made last week
by M. Nowle, in behalf of an
American church group.
Speaking with visible emotion,
Mr. Eban stated that Israel
would make full restitution of
all church property which it
now controls, except that of
Germans. The Germans in Pal-
estine were, in many cases, ex-
perts in the "grisly art of exter-
mination" of 6,000,000 Jews, he
charged. Israel will do all "in
her modest power" to prevent a
rebirth of German power. He
called on Britain, France and
Belgium as repeated victims of
German aggression to oppose
this proposal by the U. S. dele-
gate.
Mr. Eban recalled. that only
last week the U. S. Supreme
Court ruled that owners
of enemy property seized
by the U. S. during the war
shall not have any claim
against the U. S. Government,
even where the owners had
become American citizens.
Why, then, asked the Israel
diplomat, should the U. S. sin-
gle out Israel, of all countries-,
to make concessions to the
' Germans which the United
States itself is not prepared to
make. He called on the Coun-
cil president to rule the Amer-
ican proposal out of order on
the grounds that it is contrary
to the UN Charter which
states that the UN may not
interfere with any measure
taken by a member state
against an ex-enemy country
or its citizens.
.
Later, during a discussion of
protection of the Holy
Places, Mr. Eban interjected a
remark into the debate, point-
ing out that there should be a
difference in definition between
a' Holy Place and a religious
site. He again proposed a stat-
ute for the protection of the
Holy Places, at which point
Council president Roger Gar-
reau asked the Jordan repre-
sentative whether his country's
constitution guaranteed protec-
tion of the Holy Places.
Mr. Eban also taxed the Jor-
dan representative with the fact
that Jordan does not permit
Jews to worship at the Wailing
Wall in the Jordan-controlled
Old City, nor does it permit
Christian pilgrims to cross the
lines from one part of Jerusa-
the
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lem to another, despite the Jor-
dan-Israel armistice agreement
which guarantees such freedom
of - movement.
Ambassador Roger Garreau,
president of the UN Trustee-
ship Council, informed the
Council that he has received a
threatening letter f r o m a
group calling itself the "Pales-
tine Arab Terrorist Organiza-
tion in Egypt," and stating
that he would be "shot like a
dog" because of his attempt to
modify the decision of the UN
General Assembly , to place
Jerusalem under international
trusteeship.
p
ening
.
The letter, mailed from Egypt
and decorated with a skull,
charged Mr. Garreau with hav-
ing accepted heavy bribes from
the Jews. It gave him "fair
warning" that unless he changed
his tactics, he would be assas-
sinated. The Egyptian delegate
at the Trusteeship Council as-
sured Mr. Garreau that there
were no terrorists in Egypt, but
promised to have the letter in-
vestigated.
Israel Favors Holy Places
Safeguards by Agreement
GENEVA (ISI) — Israel re-
newed its assurances to the
United Nations that it is ready
to consult on the form and con-
tents which might be giVen to
a Statute for the Holy Places.
In a • statement to the Trus-
teeship Council, Aubrey S. Eban,
Israel's representative, rejected
the UN resolution for complete
internationalization of Jerusa-
lem.
"We are prepared to explore
with the Council and with other
parties concerned any avenue
which may lead to the effective
fulfillment by the United Na-
tions of its responsibility for the
Holy Places," he said.
He reaffirmed Israel's readi-
ness, apart from arrangements
for the Holy Places, to make
binding declarations or agree-
ments with the United Nations
assuring religious freedom and
full liberty for the pursuit of
religious education and protec-
tion of religious institutions. -
If Jordan, in whose territory
most of the Holy Places are lo-
cated, also accepts the principle
of direct UN responsibility for
their protection, "a process of
consultation between the parties
and the • Trusteeship Council
may lead to a satisfactory for-
mula being found," Mr. Eban
stated.
Mr. Eban argued that the
Charter does not sanction con-
version of Jerusalem into a trust
territory.
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