Arab states contemplating an invasion of Palestine in defiance of a possible decision by the United Nations approving partition will be warned by the United States tomorrow that the American Government expects them to observe the U.N. Charter to which they subscribed and to avoid violations ##fraining from threats to use force in Palestine.The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns authoritatively that this warning will be ##voiced by Herschel Johnson, U.S. delegate on the U.N. Ad Hoc Committee on Palestine, when he outlines the views of the American Government on the UNSCOP recommendations. It is understood that he will empahsize that the American delegation feels that the General Assembly must recommend a final solution of the Palestine problem at this session.The U.S. delegation, the JTA is informed reliably, will declare its support of the UNSCOP majority plan, which urges the partitioning of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. However, it will ask for some geographic modifications and for guaranteed access to ports and water and power facilities for Jews and Arabs equally in the whole of Palestine.
WILL AID FORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE TO IMPLEMENT U.N. DECISION
The attitude of the American Government with regard to implementation of the U.N. decision on Palestine will be outlined so as to leave no doubt that the United States is not only willing to participate in a U.N. program to meet economic and financial problems during the transition period, but also to assist in the formation of any international force which the U.N. may recruit on a volunteer basis to {SPAN}##{/SPAN} of any international force which the U.N. may recruit on a volunteer basis to maintain order in Palestine until the Jewish and the Arab states are established.
The Chinese delegation, which is also expected to submit its statement to the Ad Hoc Committee tomorrow, will oppose partition and favor Arab claims to Palestine the grounds of “history, law and equity.” It will express doubt as to the validity of the Jewish title to Palestine, and will urge U.N. action for a speedy solution of the problem of the displaced Jews.
The delegation will emphasize that only after the U.N. gives “due recognition” to the “special position” of the Arabs in Palestine, and after it has contributed to the solution of the Jewish refugee problem, will the General Assembly be in a position to request the Arabs to cooperate with the United Nations and with the Jewish Agency in fostering a national home for Jews in Palestine. China has no particular preference as to the form that national home should take, the delegation will point out. The statement will stress the fact that anti-Semitism never existed in China and that the Chinese do not understand Zionism and the complexities of the Palestine problem.
A six-point resolution concerning the transition period preceeding establisment of the Arab and Jewish states was offered at today’s session of the Ad Hoc committee by Dr. Jorge Garcia Granados, head of the Guatemalan delegation, who was a member of the UNSCOP majority which recommended the partition plan. The resolution proposes:
1. A maximum duration up to September 1, 1949 with either the Jewish or Arab state able, during that time, to ask for independence if it prove fulfillment of the conditions laid down by the UN.
2. Administration by the UN of Palestine during the transition period by means of a three-man body elected by the General Assembly from nationals of member states excluding the Big Five.
3. Establishment of an international military police force composed of military contingents of member states other than the Big Five, preferably to be volunteers but, until this is possible, to be chosen by the member states from their regular forces.
4. Fixing of the size and composition of the “International Police Corps” by the administering delegates after consultation with military and political experts provided by the UN Secretariat.
5. Payment of the expenses of the Police Corps, both of maintenance and for needed armaments and equipment, by the Big Five in proportion to their yearly contributions to the UN.
6. Measures by the member states of the UN against either Arabs or Jews should they try to disturb the peace, and also against any state or states “that from this day commit any type of aggression against either of the peoples of Palestine.”
BRITISH DELEGATION ASKS U.N. ASSEMBLY TO ACT ON REFUGEE PROBLEM
“Each member of the United Nations adopt measures for resettling a fair share of displaced persons and refugees in its country and inform the Secretary General without delay of the results of the consideration it has given, in implementation of the General Assembly resolution (of 1946), in conformity with the principles of the IRO and of its fair share of non-repatriable persons, and join with other nations through the IRO or its preparatory commission in the development of overall plans to accomplish this end.”
The British resolution, in a prelude to its recommendations, acknowledged that re-establishment of Jewish and non-Jewish DP’s in their present camps and areas would be “inequitable or impractical.” It recalled UNSCOP’s emphasis on the “extreme urgency” of alleviating the plight of DP’s and of the Palestine problem. It recognized that DP’s and refugees are unable to live normal lives and engage in settled occupations under these conditions, continuation of which is intolerable and unjust and results in enormous financial burden onthe governments concerned and expressed the belief that U.N. action could enable DP’s and refugees to build new lives and re-establish themselves “rapidly to the mutual advantage of themselves and their new homelands.”
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