10 Friday, December 31, 1976 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sabotage of Truman's Palestine Policies Outlined (Continued from Page 1) ing five weeks after the State Department re- leased its U.S. foreign re- lations volume for 1948 regarding the founding of Israel. Clifford declared "the facts totally refute the assumption" of a school of revisionist historiog- raphy which "argues that President Truman's Palestine policy was motivated entirely by purely political consider- ations of wooing the Jewish electorial vote." The revisionists' argu- ment "casts a shroud of suspicion over the Tru- man presidency, and por- trays the birth of Israel, one of the most seminal events of modern times, as somehow illicit and ig- GEORGE MARSHALL noble," Clifford wrote in his three years of per- his prepared statement. sonal diplomacy and 2 HOURS MORE 1.'4 /?..:%-- had the privilege of sheer human concern for OF SUNSHINE -..<.. PHOTOS _----- DAILY serving as White House a people who had endured • - ■ In Living Color ''''47, I k \\• W S til counsel during this period. the torments of the and I was in a position to damned and whose in- WHILE YOU WAIT observe the attitude of the stincts for survival and READY IN MINUTES GLATT _President and the role of nationhood still refused No Appointment Needed All STRICTLY the State Department to- to be extinguished." KOSHER HOTEL Types of identification photos. "Your Home Away From Home" Black and White or Color ward the Middle East. I am Referring to his claim No nearby buildings shade our gratified that my recollec- that the State Depart- Heated Fresh Water Pool, Patio BLOW UPS tions of that period are ment did not serve Tru- and Private Sandy Beach. UP TO APPROX. 18"x24" confirmed by documents man well, Clifford, who is Black & White-or color • Heated Therapeutic Whirlpool now available." now a Washington attor- • Tennis Available • Free Parking • Photo ID Cards Durino. 1947 and 1948, ney, said "Evidence, • Color TV and Radio • All Types of Photo • Air Conditioned & Heated Clifford said, "I heard which includes docu- Reproduction Work • Sugar, Salt & Fat Free Diets President Truman ex- ments that are not found" • Laminating Call FREE to Miami Beach press himself many times in the recently-released • Instant Color Portraits SOO •327• 8165 At These with reference to the 1948 volume include the OR SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT S.S. Kresge Stores Only Jewish problem. He had a recommendation to the Northland Entire oceanfront block Oakland deep, natural resentment United Nations Security Center 37th to 38th St. MIAMI BEACH Mall 569-1502 Phone: 1305) 531-0061 against intolerance of Council on March 19, 585-6200 VE 7-2431 SAM SC- IECHTER, any kind . . . the effort of 1948, by the then U.S. the revisionists to por- Ambassador, Warren Au- tray President Truman's stin. Travel With risking the welfare of his He said Austin's rec- country for cheap politi- cal advantage is bitterly ommendation, which came less than two months be- resented by all of us who fore the vote for partition, admired and respected to ISRAEL — and EVERYWHERE was that the partition him." move be suspended and BY Plane-Train-Bus-Ship Clifford recalled that the General Assembly' We Make HOTEL RESERVATIONS Truman envisaged the convene in a special ses- recognition of Israel "as sion to consider estab- 557-6750 Eve 559-7567 the logical culmination of lishment of a temporary trusteeship over Pales- tine. "The Zionists and their supporters, of course, were horrified," Clifford said. "They asked how the President could have • In Living Color abandoned partition • 10 Min. Del. when only the day before • Professional he had assured Chaim Quality Feb. 17-27, 1977 (10 Days) Weizmann (soon to be Is- • Call Today For Info Mar. 31-Apr. 14, 1977 (two weeks) rael's first president) of • Another Leo Knight continued U.S. support." Call For Detailed Brochure. FIRST But, Clifford noted, Other dates also available "Harry Truman had not abandoned support of call Reuven at 559-2770 partitition." He said the enemies of partition within the State Depart- ment believed that by 17520, W. 12 Mile Rd. PHOTOGRAPHY Pushing the trusteeship (one block east of Southfield Rd.) measure they could abort 26571 W. 12 Mile Rd. SOUTHFIELD, MI. 48076 Israel's birth. 352-7030 Clifford said that "this rationale" was rejected by the lawyers in the of- fice of State Department legal advisor Ernest Gross and Gross' opinion (French for not expensive) was confirmed by a group of UN Charter experts HERE'S WHAT YOU GET who met at the State De-. partment five weeks be- Packaged Heat fore Austin's speech. Dollar Savings "This caveat was ig- nored" by the depart- ment's NEA group, Clif- ford declared, "and to my knowledge was never passed on to the White for House." information Another example pre- sented by Clifford was and that the department's reservations Division of International Security Affairs said in February, 1948 that sev- eral Arab states were "conspiring and execut- ing a campaign of aggres- sion against. the Jewish community in Palestine" in Harvard Row Mall and "there is no basis at present for finding that Certified Travel Counselor . . . open Sundays 11 to 3 the acts of the Palestin- ian Jews constitute an at- Clifford's statement came in his presentation to a panel on "The Pales- tine Question in Ameri- can History" sponSored jointly at the Shoreham Hotel by the American Historical Association and the American Jewish Historical Society, meet- 'PASSPOR "I cv‘ec"-101A c) YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH INSTANT PASSPORT & I•D• PHOTOS SPECIAL GROUP FLIGHTS TO ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN TRAVEL SUNNY .. . NOT CHER and Call 353-5811 J ulia Nato* CTC LEO KNIGHT . tempt to alter by force the settlement envisaged by the General Assembly." The division also said, "Jewish immigration is il- legal only because it does not conform to the regu- lations of the mandatory power (Britain)." "This division then rec- ommended the imposition of an arms embargo against certain Arab states and the arming of a Jewish militia in Pales- tine," Clifford said and it contended the U.S. could "initiative" military, economic and diplomatic measures at the UN to "facilitate the implemen- tation of partition." This view, Clifford noted "like that of the legal advi- sory was to my knowledge, never presented to Secre- HARRY TRUMAN tary Marshall, let alone to dead. Instead, Truman the White House. Instead, told Clifford to prepare a Marshall was persuaded to statement that would seek argue the unworkability of to adapt the trusteeship partition in his meetings proposal to partition. with the President, and to "I doubt that the express this view • as statement satisfied though apparently it rep- either Jews or Arabs," resented the full consen- Clifford said. "In any case sus of the State Depart- the Zionist leadership in ment." Palestine categorically Truman had "a com- rejected any notion of pletely different concep- trusteeship and I suspect tion" of the speech Austin that Truman was pri- was to make, Clifford vately pleased by this un- said. He said Austin was equivocal response." to have proposed UN Clifford said the State trusteeship only under Department continued to three qualifications, oppose partition despite which the UN ambas- an order by Lovett not to sador did not make in his do so. He said that on May speech. 14 he and Lovett drafted When Truman learned a statement approved by the next day that Mar- Truman by which "the . shall and Undersecretary U.S. became the first na- Robert Lovett "had tion to recognize Israel known in advance of the some 16 minutes after it de facto reversal of the came into existence." Clifford said Lovett President's policy he was `simply confounded,' " persuaded Marshall to Clifford said. "He felt he "alter his attitude despite could not repudiate his the implacable opposition own secretary of state of the NEA to the very without appearing to end." He said Truman have lost control of U.S. was "deeply incensed at foreign policy. Yet he was what he considered to be entirely unwilling to re- the consistent attitude of verse his long standing obstruction on the part of commitment to parti- the State Department to his policy toward Pales- tion." tine. Clifford said Truman "He was angered even declared at the time that more at the innuendoes "they have made me out a and ultimately the spe- liar and a doublecrosser." cific charge by the de- A week later, Clifford partment that the only said, Truman at an reason for the President's emergency White House position was his effort to meeting "rejected" out of curry favor with the hand Henderson's conten- Jewish vote in this coun- tion that partition was try." Israel to Use Bussing Plan JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Education Ministry will use bussing to effect -better integration be- tween school children of Western background and those of Oreintal back- ground, !:]ducation Minis- ter Ahar)n Yadlin has in- formed tne IKnesset. "Our policy is one of promoting integration but executing that policy is ,a very delicate mat- ter," he said. He warned that if such measures' as bussing fail, he would in- troduce legislation to im- prove the situation. Yadlin said that wider regional registration may be introduced next year. He said the greatest re- sistance to integrated education came from the State-supported religious schools where 80 percent of the enrollment consists of children of Afro-As' – background. Almogi Invited to Visit Romania JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yosef Almogi, chairman of the World Zionist Or- ganization and Jewish Agency Executives, has been invited to visit Romania. The invitation is re- garded as significant be- cause Almogi is the first Israeli holding a strictly Zionist office to receive an invitation from that country.