While Palestine enters its ninth week the U.N. Security Council truce, the cease-fire has little meaning in Jerusalem here artillery and automatic fire is heard almost every day and where a large-sale duel yesterday between Arab and Jewish mortars and cannon resulted in a member of casualties. For the Jerusalem inhabitants the truce has been almost as mostly in lives, dislocation of everyday living and in economic losses as a full-ledged war.
A Sternist raiding party this week-end invaded Beit Iksa, an Arab village three miles northwest of here, and routed an Arab force which had been sniping on traffic in Jerusalem. The Arabs lost ten dead, but the Jews returned ## base without suffering any casualties. The Sternist radio was moved here from Tel Aviv last night, in order to operate outside Israeli territory. The editor and publisher of the Sternist newspaper Mivrak, who were arrested for censorship violations last week, have been released in $200 bail. The charges against them have been reduced to “contravention of a press ordinance.”
Bartley C. Crum, former member of the joint Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine and publisher of the New York Star, last night told a press conference that he believed that the United States will grant Israel de jure recognition and a $100,000,000 loan. He assorted that there is little difference between the two American major political parties on the question of supporting Israel’s application for membership in the United Nations.
Crum charged that there were a number of officials in the State Department and other American governmental agencies who “clearly collaborate” with Bevin’s disastrous and bankrupt policy” in reference to Palestine. He added that when he returns to the U.S. he will report, in the capacity of a private citizen, to President Truman on his tour of Israel.
Jewish schools here and throughout Israel will reopen tomorrow after a three-month summer vacation. Meanwhile, the Transjordan-controlled Ramallah radio announced that Arab schools will not reopen because of a shortage of funds.
The announcer also declared that a threat to the health of the population of the Arab occupied areas of Palestine is growing because of a serious shortage of food among the refugees in the Ramallah and Nablus areas. He also revealed that an additional 2,500 Arabs from northern Palestine have arrived in Damascus and have been sent to various camps.
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