PARTITION PLAN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5

PARTITION PLAN

JEWS’ BELLICOSE TALK ROLE OF U.S. FORCES (N.Z.P.A.—Reuter— Copyright.) (10 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 23. The United Press reported that the Australian proposal regarding Palestine is assured of formidable backing from the Slav States and other small nations. i “United Nations' observers are agreed 'that, unless some United Nations’ member, aside from the Russian bloc, offered ( to join the United States in sending * troops to Palestine, the American —trusteeship plan is doomed,” the correspondent added. ]■- Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, the Jewish ', agericv representative, told the commit- . ~tee that the Jews intended to establish the State promised under partition as Isoon as the mandate ended, regardless ■' of what the . United Nations Assembly decided. Appeasing Violence Dr. Silver declared that the reason for the new United States trusteeship .proposals was to appease violence and „ reward aggression. Any attempt to V 1 .impose trusteeship would necessarily -rj'jinvolve a violent effort to suppress all i-.,forms of independent national life, Y “which the people will not relinquish '■;>-without a struggle.” _,’n„■ There was a flare-up just before the jfCpmmittee adjourned when Faris el Khoury. Syria, described the Jewish seizure of Haifa as an atrocious attack on defenceless people. He claimed that the Jews could not wipe out all Arabs in the territory allotted them under the partition plan. Senor Jose Garcia Granados, Guatemala, who is a keen supporter of partition, retorted: “We all know there is a war going on in Palestine. I would like to inquire whether, when the Arabs go into attack, they use flowers or breadcrumbs?” “There is yet hope for a peaceful world, ruled by law based on justice, honour, integrity and compassion,” says the strongly pro-Zionist New York Post, in a leader signed by its editor, Mr. T. O. Thakrey. “The United Nations’ concept has found champions among .the delegates,” the article adds. “If we achieve the world so desperately needed by all mankind, it will be because of the high moral courage, wisdom and dynamic leadership of such men as Sir Carl Berendsen, New Zealand, and his colleague from Australia, Mr. John Hood. They are not only making clear how crucial a prompt and just settlement of the Palestine case has become, but have ance again set forth the principles at stake and a clear programme for achieving victory.” Part of Joint Force President Truman later said that American troops would not be sent to Palestine to keep peace except as a part of the United Nations’ police force. That was the only way the United States was going to use her troops to enforce peace anywhere. President Truma n dismissed the suggestion that he might not have authority to order troops to Palestine with>ut Congressional approval, adding that le was Commander-in-Chief of the trmed forces and had ample historical precedent for sending troops overseas. • Informed sources told the Associated Press correspondent at Lake Success that the United States had abandoned its plans to call for a special police force to. augment the Palestine truce commission, but the American delegation is still prepared to press for the creation of a truce commission. The informants said that the new step represented no change in the American offer to send troops to Palestine with other nations if the United Nations decided that they were needed. |