Evening star., 1947-09-01
U. N. Fight Seen
Over Palestine
Division Report
Special Committee
Would Admit $50, 900
Jews in Two Years
BY the Associated Press

IA fight in the United Nations
General Assembly was in pros
pect today oyer a committee plan
to divide Palestine into Arab and
Jewish states and admit 10000
Jewish immigrants in the next
two years.
The 11-nation U. N. Special Com
mittee on Palestine last night unan-
imously recommended Holy Land
independence from Britain's 25-
tyear-old mandate "at the earliest
practicable date
A seven-member majority urged
partition of Palestine into Arab and
Jewish nations and an international
city of Jerusalem and admission of
10000 Jews into the Jewish terri
tory during the two-year transition
period.
A three member minority called
for federal Arab-Jewish state and
entry of Jews up to the "absorptive
capacity of the Jewish portion dur
ing transition period of up to
three years.
Allotment of Territory.
The majority would give the Jews
Eastern Galilee, the central coastal
plain, taking in Haifa, Jaffa and Tel
Aviv, and the Beersheba subdistrict,
including most of the Negeb-the
southern desert.
1t would allot the Arabs Western
Galilee, the Samaritan and Judean
hill country and the southern coast
from Isdud to the Egyptian from
tier. Haifa and Jaffa ports would be
operated "in the common interest"
under an economic union of the two
states. The minority division was
somewhat different
United Nations headquarters here
made public a 3,000-word summary
of the 50,000-word report, signed in
Geneva shortly before last midnight.
The 55 nation General Assembly,
which set up the committee in
special session last May, will take up
the report when it meets in New
York September 16
Arab spokesman promised that
the seven-state Arab League would
fight the report in the General As
sembly through its five United Ma
tions members-Egypt, Iraq, Syria,
Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. One
Palestine Arab threatened forceful
resistance to any partition plan.
Jewish spokesmen made no COM
ment.
Arabs Oppose Partition.
Both Jewish and Arab leaders
favor Palestine independence, but
only some of the Jews lean toward
partition. Arab politicians have been
solidly for an Arab Palestine.
Jews have demanded more. Jewish
immigration, Arabs none at all. The
British now limit this to 1,500 a
month. Under the committee ma
jority plan, it would be 10000 in
two years-6,250 month-for the
prescribed transition period and,
| if this took longer than two years,
0000 alyear after that.
In Jerusalem, Emile Ghoury of the
Palestine Arab Higher Committee
declared that no Arabs anywhere
would accept partition.
eff Great Britain tries to force it..
he declared, I'VE will oppose it by
force"
In New York, Abdul Rahman Az
zam Pasha complained that the ma
jority scheme. would leave the Arabs
no port nor other important town.
He said the report does not solve
anything" and Il do not think the
assembly will take it,"
Some committeeman themselves
declared in Geneva that they thought
the real battle was just beginning
though the chairman, Justice Alfred
Emil Sandstroem of Sweden, pro-
nounced himself happy with the re-
suits we have achieved"
The report, due by today, was
signed in a one-time League of Ma
tions committee room. Just before
{ the signing, the II delegations had
approved the last typewriter pages
rushed in by members OF the COM
! mittee's secretariat of so.
In the majority we're Canada,
! Czechcslovakia. Guatemala, the
Netherlands, Peru, Sweden and
Uruguay: in the minority, India,
(See PALEST slime, Page A-2D