A warning that violence, starvation and administrative anarchy will follow in the wake of a steadily deteriorating situation in Palestine in the absence of adequate forces to maintain law and order there, was made today by the U.N. Palestine Commission in a special report to the General Assembly Palestine session opening Friday at Flushing Meadows.
Admitting its failure and frustration to implement the Assembly’s partition decision, the Commission puts the blame for this condition on armed Arab resistance, British non-cooperation and the inaction of the U.K. Security Council. At the same time, it emphasizes that “the Jewish Agency cooperated with the Commission in its task ?f implementing the Assembly’s resolution.”
Pointing out that the Jews in Palestine are determined to ensure the establishment of the Jewish State as envisaged by the partition resolution, the report of the Palestine Commission draws the attention of the special session of the Assembly to the following problems, as requiring urgent attention:
1. Clear definition of the responsibilities of the British forces remaining in Palestine after May 15 and the disposition of arms and equipment of the Palestinian police force.
2. The continuation of services in transport, communications, government ?lies, hospitals, prisons and all government institutions.
3. The continuation of government administration and civil services.
4. Arrangements of food imports which the British refuse to undertake beyond June 30, except by an advance payment of $6,000,000.
5. Establishing a non-Palestinian police force in Jerusalem.
Representatives of Agudas Israel today told the Palestine Commission their organization will not participate in a Jewish government set up against the wishes of the United Nations. At the same time they declared themselves ready to participate in a Provisional Council of Jewish Government established by the Commission. Members of the delegation included Rabbi Glueckman Porush of Jerusalem, Harry Goodman of London, and Meier Schenkolewsky of New York, all members of the world executive of the Agudah organization.
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