THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8 Friday, September 19, 1975 U.S. Diplomats Tried to Delay Israel Statehood, Kenen Says THIS WEEK ONLY Adler Satellite or SCM 7000 $249.99 Add 'n Type 342-7800 f 399-8333 , Editor's Note: The fol- lowing article is a posts- cript to "Truman, the Ar- abists, and Palestine: 1947-1948," by I. L. Kenen, editor emeritus of the Near East Report, reprinted in last week's Jewish News. By I. L. KENEN • Buy a ticket to Tel Aviv and get Europe free. The documents provide additional evidence that during the early months of 1948 the State Department was trying to convince the Jews to accept a truce in Pa- lestine and to delay state- hood. To support its position, the department tried to drive wedges into the Amer- ican Jewish community. American officials met fre- quently with Zionist leaders like Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Rabbi Judah Magnes in an attempt to influence these moderates to prevail over those who State re- garded as extremists, such as Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, the major Zionist spokes- man at the United Nations. Shortly after the pro- posed truce was rejected, a worried Dean Rusk, head of the State.Department UN Bureau, expressed deep concern about Ameri- ca's involvement in Pales- tine. Israel is a long way off. So it makes sense to make a stop on your way to Tel Aviv. And there's no better place to stop than the heart of Europe. Germany. You can rest, relax, shop, sight-see, even do a little business in Cologne, Munich, or Frankfurt. All for the price of a Lufthansa ticket to Tel Aviv. All of our flights serve fine kosher foods. Just place your special order when you make reservations. If you'd like further information on our Tel Aviv flights, call your travel agent or Lufthansa. G Lufthansa German Airlines 1243 Washington Blvd., Detroit, Mich. 48226 Tel. 961-9666 In a message to Under Secretary Lovett early in May (abstracted below), Rusk speculated that the Jews might become aggres- sors: Military operations after May 15 probably will be undertaken by Hagana and terrorist groups. If so, we will be confronted by a very anomalous position, the Jews will be the actual agressors against the Ar- abs. However, the Jews will claim that they are merely defending the boundaries of the state approved by two- thirds of the General As- sembly. The Security Coun- cil will have to decide whether Jewish armed at- tack on Arab communities is legitimate or a threat to international peace and se- curity as to call for coercive measures by the Security Council. Executives! High Cash Value Insurance Jordan Raider Manager Charles Dennis Manager This plan guarantees safety of your money for tomorrow, yet offers unusu- ally high cash value in the interim! 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It would be morally indefensible, al- most fatal, from the aspect of our relations with the Middle East and our broad security aspects in that region to put forces of the U.S. and possibly Russia against the governments of the Arab world. Suggesting a de facto par- tition, it was Rusk's view that King Abdullah of Transjordan would cut across Palestine to the sea at Jaffa, would give Saudi King Ibn Saud a port at Aqaba, and would appease the Syrians by some territo- rial adjustment in the northern part, thus leaving the Jews a coastal state run- ning from Tel Aviv to Haifa. Rusk believed that the UN could give its blessings to that deal. Fresh Air Annual Meeting Pays Tribute to Silverman A tribute to Nathan Sil- verman and the election of the Fresh Air Society's board of directors high- lighted the August FAS annual meeting at Camp Tamarack's Butzel Confer- ence Center. Lester S. Burton, Tamar- ack Hills Authority (THA) co-chairman with Bert L. Smokier, presented Silver- man with a resolution citing his contributions. Silverman is THA chair- man emeritus and former chairman for 25 years. Under his leadership, Camp Tamarack more than doubled in size to more than 1,200 acres and became one of the out- standing community camps in the United States. The Esther and Nathan Silverman Village in Orton- ville, named for Silverman and his wife and dedicated last summer, served nearly 100 emotionally disturbed children the past camping season. At the annual meeting, the following Fresh Air So- ciety directors were elected to serve a three-year term: `Isaiah' Dedication Due at UN Wall NEW YORK — Dr. Sam- uel Brown is finally going to get his wish — that the name "Isaiah" be appended to the quotation from that book in the Bible which ap- pears on the famous Isaiah Wall adjacent to the United Nations. Dr. Brown began his cam- paign and add the attribu- tion to the wall in April 1974. However, typical bu- reaucratic red tape — which UN or New York City agency held jurisdiction over the project — caused it to be delayed. When the plan finally reached the right agency — the New York Arts Commis- sion — Dr. Brown was told that, personal financing of the project rather than city financing would bring quicker results. Having raised the necessary funds — $650 — Dr. Brown is awaiting the dedication of the Isaiah attribution on the wall. The State Department papers also include several dispatches from Haifa in which the American Consul General, Aubrey Lippincott, declared, contrary to the conventional Arab propa- ganda, that the Jews were pleading with the Arabs to stay and opposed their pre- cipitous departure. On April 26, 1948, Lip- pincott cabled, "Local Mufti-dominated leaders urge all Arabs leave city and large numbers going." On April 29, 1948, he wrote that the Jewish leaders had organized a large-scale campaign to persuade Arabs to return. A dispatch from Philip W. Ireland, first secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, on April 28, 1948, quoted Azzam Pasha to the effect that "while the refu- gees create economic prob- lems for the Arab states . . . the absence of women and children in Palestine would free the men for fighting." Thus the documents pro- vide further evidence that it was not the Jews who created the Arab refugee problem, but, rather, the cynical Arab leaders who led the Palestinian Arabs from their homes. It's Nice To Deal With NATHAN SILVERMAN Mrs. Milton H. Goldrath, Dr. Henry Kaine, Sheldon Winkelman, Dr. Robert E. Singer, Henry Wineman II, Mrs. Jacob Alspector and Rabbi Seymour Rosen- bloom. Re-elected were Mrs. Samuel Chapin, Mrs. Rob- ert Slatkin, Stanley Mi- chaels, Jack Perlman, Harvey Gordon and Harold Weiss. Joe Slatkin's DEXTER CHEVROLET 20811 W. 8 Mile between Southfield a Tolegraph 534-1400 Our Promise To You: BETTER SERVICE! 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