UNO PALESTINE COMMITTEE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 7

UNO PALESTINE COMMITTEE

BOYCOTT BY ARAB ORGANISATION JEWISH COUNCIL’S MEMORANDUM (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9 p.m.) JERUSALEM, June 9. Palestine’s Arab Higher Organisa.tion has decided to boycott the United Nations special committee on Palestine, which is due to meet this week. From New York it is reported that the American Council for Judaism submitted a memorandum to the United Nations yesterday claiming that the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine would be harmful to Jews throughout the world and would endanger the Holy Land’s peace and security. The council’s national president, Mr Lessing J. Rosenwald, said the Balfour Declaration had in effect sustained the “anti-semitic racialist He that Jews throughout the world were a separate national body.” Mr Rosenwald contended that Jews should seek their maximum integration in the countries in which they lived, and proposals identifying a state with a racial or religious segment of its population were contrary to democratic concepts. Mr Rosenwald claimed that the Jewish Agency had assiduously cultivated the idea that it was an authorised body speaking on behalf of all the world’s Jews. A report from Jerusalem says that the Irgun Zvai Leumi, in a secret radio broadcast, accused President Truman of "identifying himself with Britain’s bloody regime in his onesided appeaf to United States citizens to refrain from inciting violence in Palestine.” JEWS TURNED BACK BY ITALIANS ROME, June 8. Police to-day sent back a party of 65 Jews who had entered Italy from Austria with the intention of going to IJalestine.