Council for Judaism Urges State Department to Oppose Palestine Partition

The American Council for Judaism, in a memorandum to Secretary of State Marshall, expressed disagreement with the majority recommendations of the U.N. Special Committee on Palestine urging the division of the country into Jewish and Arab states, it was announced today by Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the organization.

The Council advocated the early establishment of a U.N. trusteeship over the whole of Palestine, with self-government as a primary objective. Such self-government should be established as soon as there is agreement among Moslems, Jews and Christians in Palestine, it declared.

Other recommendations made by the Council provide: The Jewish Agency, as well as counterparts of Arab nationalism, must be liquidated; immediate provision must be made for the admission of 150,000 displaced persons of Jewish faith; subsequent immigration shall be determined by the then existing government of Palestine; special consideration should be given to establishing educational and economic equality between the Jewish and Arab groups; land reform laws should be provided to remove control and ownership from racial and religious entities and to make the land the possession either of individuals or of the national government.

Simultaneous with the solution of the Palestine problem the members of the U.N. are morally bound to absorb among them the remaining displaced persons of all faiths and national origins, the Council emphasized. It asks the United States to take the leadership in advocating this solution of the DP problem in the United Nations by a tacit pledge that “every possible effort will be made to secure necessary legislation to admit our fair share of DP’s into this country.”