Ambassador Roger Garreau, president of the U.N. Trusteeship Council, today informed the Council that he has received a threatening letter from a group calling itself the “Palestine Arab Terrorist Organization in Egypt,” and stating that he would be “shot like a dog” because of his attempt to modify the decision of the U.N. General Assembly to place Jerusalem under international trusteeship.
The letter, mailed from Egypt and decorated with a skull, charged Mr, Garreau with having accepted heavy bribos from the Jews. It gave him “fair warning” that unless he changed his tactics, he would be assassinated. The Egyptian delegate at the Trusteeship Council assured Mr. Garreau that there were no terrorists in Egypt but promised to have the letter investigated.
Addressing the Trusteeship Council today, Mr. Nolde, speaking on behalf of an American church group, urged that all property in Jerusalem belonging to the German churches on Sept. 1, 1939 should be returned. He estimated that property worth $38,000,000 had been seized from the Lutheran World Federation. Of this, he said, about $25,000,000 worth was in Jewish hands and the remaindor in Arab hands.
A spokesman for the Israel delegation termed Mr. Nolde’s proposal “a plea for re-Nazification.” Should this proposal be adopted and should the property now in the hands of the Custodian of Enem Property in Palestine be returned to the Germans, Palestine would then become the only country in the world where the Germans will obtain the return of their property even though no peace treaty has yet been signed.
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