Details of the secret resolutions adopted last week by the meeting of the Arab League Council have been learned here. From them, it is possible to discern that the strategy the Arab states plan to follow shapes up as follows:
1. At all Arab military committee, comprised of representatives of all the Arab league states, is to be established, with headquarters in Syria.
2. Syria is to be the base of operations against Palestine partition.
3. Those operations are to be on two levels. There is to be widespread ter?sm by the gangs of Haj Amin el Husseini, exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, in order to di?upt and thin out the Jewish defense forces. And there are to be military opera? by an Arab volunteer army built up by volunteers from all the Arab states.
4. The regular armies of the Arab states are not to participate in any operations in Palestine if, after the British forces are evacuated, the U.N. Security Council sends an international police force to the Holy Land. The regular armies are to constitute a reserve of volunteers for the war in Palestine if the earlier contin? prove unable to overwhelm the Jews and if the presence of a United Nations force in Palestine makes the open intervention of the Arab states’ regular armies inadvisable.
5. Both permanent and mobile hospitals are to be set up in Syria and The Leban on to handle the Arab casualties incurred in Palestine. Also, Arab arsenals and training centers are to be set up in the aforementioned two countries which are adjacent to Palestine.
6. The seven Arab states are to raise the necessary funds with which to pur?se arms and medical supplies. In addition, all the Arab states are to guarantee the flow of food supplies to Palestine Arabs. For its part, the Palestine Arab Higher Excutive is to see that the economic and social ties with the Jews are completely severed. Also, the Arab states’ boycott of Jewish goods is to be tightened.
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN SYRIA MAY DISRUPT ARAB LEAGUE’S WAR PLANS
According to reliable information obtained by this correspondent, wiser counsel prevailed at the Arab League meetings when it was pointed out that to break off relations with the Western powers would cut off a source of dollars and armaments.
Meanwhile, the outbreak of cholera in Syria may disrupt all these plans. If the Palestine Government imposes the same sealing-off of the northern frontier, as it did in the south during the recent Egyptian cholera epidemic, the Arab volunteer forces would be hampered.
(A cable from Jerusalem received following receipt of this dispatch reported at Palestine’s frontiers with Syria and Lebanon have been closed to all persons not s?essing anti-cholera inoculation certificates.)
On the other hand, any Arab wishing to cross the Palestine northern frontier ? only the Arab Transjordan Frontier Force to contend with. It is not known today what extent Transjordan supports the Arab League’s plans. King Abdullah, who asres eventually to take over Syria and created a “Greater Syria.” is unlikely to favor? concentration of military power at Damascus.
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