PROPOSED PARTITION OF PALESTINE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25306, 4 October 1947, Page 9

PROPOSED PARTITION OF PALESTINE

Jewish Agency Announces Acceptance CO-OPERATION OFFERED IN ENFORCEMENT

'■N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (ReC - 9 P m ’) NEW YORK, October 2. of th^ a Tewteh b S r !Ve » ' hairlnan ° f the American section the ," ewls h Agency for Palestine, to-day told the Palestine Committee of the United Nations General Assembly that the tin e e n ?nfo W s± ?? r t luct * ntl >” a the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states in accordance with mLC:n J o r f lt in q X mniendatiOn ° f Nations 6

The minority recommendation for a federal state was unacceptable, even as a basis for discussion.

Rabbi Silver said that any solution of the Palestine problem would require enforcement measures. Palestine’s Jews were ready to defend themselves when they obtained independence, and would co-operate with any United Nations enforcement agency.

Acceptance of partition would entail a very heavy sacrifice by the Jews, and beyond that they could not go. Two features of the partition plan, he added, were open to objection. First, the exclusion

of western Galilee from the proposed Jewish State would be a grievous handicap to the development of the state. Second, the Jewish section of modern Jerusalem, outside the city walls, should be included in the Jewish state instead of being placed under international rule with the remainder of the city. The Palestine Committee adjourned until to-morrow, the chairman (Dr. H. V. Evatt) announcing that a full general discussion would begin then.