Col. Alfred George Katzin, South African Jew who has been appointed United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie’s personal representative in Korea and head of the U.S. Secretariat in Korea, left Seattle today for Tokyo.
Col. Katzin was accompanied by another South African Jew in the U.N. service. He is George Movshon, a producer of the daily U.N. radio program “The U.N. Today,” who will serve as information officer of the Korea secretariat.
U.N. circles wore this week end anticipating replies from a number of nations, including Israel and most of the Arab states, to the U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations to give military aid to South Korea. The only Arab country to respond thus far is Egypt which also was the first nation to refuse military aid. Egyptian delegate Mahmoud Fawzi Bay said that Egypt would abstain because the U.N. had failed to act against the “savage aggression” of world Zionism in the Palestine situation.
(The Sunday newspapers in London today cited the U.N. solution of the Palestine war as an example of what the U.N. should do in the present Korean situation. One columnist, writing under the name of “man of the people,” declared that “what the United Nations did in Palestine where the blazing dispute between the Arabs and the Jews was eventually settled by the rule of law could be done again in Korea.”)
The Jewish War Veterans of the United States this week-end issued a statement pledging wholehearted support to President Truman’s “prompt action in countering the Communist invasion of South Korea.” The statement was signed by Jackson J. Holtz of Boston, Mass., national commander of the organization.
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