The American Zionist Council today appealed to President Truman ” to rectify the injustice” of the U.N. Security Council’s order to Israel to suspend reclamation of swamps in the demilitarized zone of the Huleh area.
President Truman was urged to instruct the U.S. delegation to the United Nations ” to ensure that Israel will be permitted without delay to resume her constructive land reclamation program, free from threat and attack by the adjacent Arab states.” Suspension of the Huleh project, the Council pointed out, cannot be reconciled with the United Nations principles and declarations to promote the advancement of the living standards of underdeveloped territories.
The New York Times, in an editorial today, says that the United Nations resolution on the Huleh ” was not intended–and must not be taken–as a means of indefinitely deferring the reclamation of the Huleh marches.” The New York Jerald Tribune said in an editorial that the cessation of the Huleh project ” settles nothing” and should not be accepted as a vindication of the Arab position. The U.N. resolution ” must be used to help, not hinder, a speedy settlement of the Huleh swamp question,” the editorial states. It stresses the fact that ” Israel’s insistence on the drainage of the Huleh swamps” is prompted by a desire to promote the general welfare.”
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