UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (JTA)—The United States made , it clear before the United Na- tions Special Political Commit- tee — which :s discussing the Arab refugee problem — that contrary to the Arab insistence that repatriation of the refu- gees is the only solution to the problem, the U. S. Government sees the solution in a three- pronged program of repatriation of some of the refugees, reset- tlement of some in the Arab lands where they reside, and compensation by Israel of Arabs for property left in Israel. Ambassador Francis T. P. Plimpton, American representa- tive at the Committee, told the delegates of the 103-nation body that "the United States again affirms, as it has many times in the past, its firm support of the provisions for repatriation, re- settlement a n d compensation and its earnest hope for the early implementation eg those provisions." Plimpton pointed to the re- port filed by the Palestine Con- ciliation Commission as a result of the survey of the Arab refu- gee problem made recently by Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, presi- dent of the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace. He said that "the United States considers that Dr. Johnson has ably carried out the prelimin- ary phase of these exploratory discussions." Stressing the fact that Dr. Johnson has recommended that the Commission should be auth- orized to continue its efforts in the Arab refugee field for an- other year, Plimpton said: "Let me stress that we have here a potentially constructive, hopeful element such as has not been present for many years. Only through such sustained but quiet effort is there hope of advance through the maze of- controversy surrounding this problem. The expectations we entertain are limited and most cautious—but let us at least give them a fair chance to ma terialize." Apparently aiming at Dr. Shukairy, who had lashed Dr. Johnson and the Johnson report severely, Plimpton declared: "We cannot help but deplore any official statement or official public action whether past or present, making more difficult the effort of the Coinmission through the quiet instrumental- ity of a special representative" to make progress in regard to the refugee issue. Plimpton pleaded for an end to "the acrimonious and stormy debate." He said the United States is convinced that the work of the PCC if continued and intensified. is the best way to achieve prog- ress on the whole refugee problem. He told the Com- mittee that if the current de- bate proves conducive to a continuation of the PCC's en- deavors, "the United States Government would be pre- pared in conection therewith to support a limited extension of UNRWA's mandate this year." The present mandate of UNRWA is due to expire June 30, 1963. "We urge his Committee," the denounced the American posi- tion and the Johnson report as "a plot to liquidate the Arab refugee problem" by mention- ing the resettlement, intergra- tion and compensation as possi- ble alternatives to "repatria- tion." Earlier in the day, Saudi Arabian delegate Ahmad Shu- kairy delivered another lengthy anti-Israel diatribe and was an- swered briefly by Michael S. Comay, Israel's permanent rep- resentative. Outlining the main points of Israel's current posi- tion, Ambassador Comay em- phasized that the Arabs started the 1948 hostilities aimed at wiping out Israel and the Arab aggressions which created the refugee problem. Thilly-two governments pledged $32,500,000 for • the 1962 program of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at a' special pledging confer- ence held her by the General Assembly. The UNRWA tar- get for 1962 funds had been set at $40,000,000. Of the total pledged, yesterday, the United States, which has been providing 70 per cent of all UNRWA funds, pledged $24,700,000. The United Nations was urged by an African repre- sentative here to "do all in its power" to find a solution to the Arab refugee problem and take "complete charge of all efforts to this end.” The request was made by Sebastian Kapongo, delegate from the Congo (Leopoldville), the first of the representatives from an African country below the Sahara to participate in the debate on the refugee problem before the General Assembly's Special Political Committee. The refugee debate thus far heard only India and the United States aside from bitter Arab attacks against Israel. Kapon- go's pacifying speech came be- tween two anti-Israel attacks, voiced by representatives of Iraq and Libya. Both speakers representing countries that are members of the Arab League, voiced the now familiar attacks against Israel. In his speech, Kapongo also took the occasion to deny charges voiced here by Shu- kairy. - His government, said Ka- - pongo, has "no proof" that Kantangese rebels had used arms made in Israel. He as- sured the United Nations that then are " rel tio " be- tw t ongo n ov- er .11 MIL 11.11 .1.1 Val 111. Ghory, one-time secretary-gen- eral of the Arab Higher Com- mittee, took the floor on behalf of what he calls the "Palestine Arab delegation." Ghory, a col- league of the ex-Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a Hitler collaborator, times in the past week, that he is not an Israeli but a South African. Comay, born in South Afric , has been an Israeli citi- nce the birth of the Jewish to in 1948. GEORGE OHRENSTEIN Certified Master Watchmaker and Jeweler THE FINEST JEWELRY, WATCHES AND SERVICE OPEN MON., THURS. to 9 18963 LIVERNOIS UN 1 8184 South Of Seven - KAPLAN BROS. 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