Efforts to organize a protest strike among the Arabs in Jerusalem and on the West Bank today, on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations decision to partition Palestine and establish separate Jewish and Arab states, were described tonight as fruitless. Although leaflets calling for a strike were widely distributed, authorities said no disturbances had occurred.
The Damascus Radio, monitored here, reported huge demonstrations in the streets of the Syrian capital, denouncing the United Nations decision and repudiating the most recent Security Council resolution under which a U.N., representative is to visit the Middle East on a peace-making effort. According to the broadcasts, members of the Government and leaders of the dominant Baath Party participated in the demonstrations.
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