Evening star., 1947-04-28
Palestine Jews Fear
Politics Will Obscure
Issues Before u. n.
BY The Assoeiofed Press

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today there was little optimism
among Palestine Jews over the
United Nations special session on
the Holy Land problem.
Many are expressing fear that
political interests of the day will
darken the basic ISSUE" the spokes-
man said. -
The possibility of a truce in the
Hciy Land while the U. N. debates
its future apparently was ruled out
by Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish under
ground organization. In a secret
broadcast yesterday Irgun repeated
demands for an end to Britain's
inundated government and military
occupation. Irguns announcement
said there would be no peace in the
country, the Middle East or the en-
tire world until the Palestine ques-
ton Is settled"
Troops to Be Transferred.
Reliable sources said advance ele-
ments of the former British LIST
Armored MAILED Fist Division had
arrived during the week end. 1t was
slated to be redesignated the 9Th
Arrnored and to be stationed near
coast near GAIA Units of the di-
vision, which has been in Italy
since the wars end, now are re-
ported to be in Egypt awaiting
gradual transfer here.
In new security measures against
possible outbreaks of violence, the
British have placed the United
States Consulate at the narrow end
of a 300-yard barbed wire corridor.
The Consulate Is located on busy
Mamillah road in the heart of Jeru-
salem, but the street now is closed
to vehicular traffic except consular
cars and those specially exempted
All others, including tourists and
visa applicants, must alight under
the rifles of Arab guards and walk
between the rows of barbed wire to
the consulate. The American Con-
sulate has protested, but the British
insisted on the security measure, de-
signed to protect the requisitioned
Palace Hotel, now housing govern
ment offices.
Discussing today's opening Of the
q N. session in New York. the off,
cial Jewish Labor Party paper,
Davar, said that. for us the funda-
mental question Is whether the de-
nland of whole people for national
recognition. national security and
freedom will penetrate into the dis
cussions."
Will Oppose Violence.
The liberal Hebrew Daily Haaretz
said that "the Zionist movement
need not hide its minimum de-
nlands: Immigration. colonization
and independence, If not in the
whole of Palestine, then in parti-
toned Palestine"
A Jewish Agency spokesman re-
affirmed the determination of the
agency and the National Council
(Vaad Leumn to fight underground
violence. The spokesman added,
however, that the agency was dis
uPbJllllCu bREt UllC IEAdDdI Oi Sk&f1G
government to grant a reduEsks FOR
the establishment of an additional
camp for yisaless immigrants on
Palestine soil. Uncertified immi-
grants now are sent to Cyprus.
An ofhcial British statementsSai
a 2f-year -old Jew was injured When
a grenade was hurled at police
truck on the Street of the Prophets,
Jerusalem's oldest Jewish quarter.
The truck was undamaged. The
source of the grenade was not i'm
n1ediately determined.
Threat of Punishment.
The special U. N. session was
called to consider setting up COM
mission to look into that question
complicated by ambitions of the
Jews for a national homeland In the
Holy Land and of the Arabs for an
independent Arab Palestine. plus
British strategic considerations.
The issue has been made urgent bv
Jewish underground killings OF Brit
ish soldiers and police.
A highly placed informant said
the executive of the Jewish Agency.
of11c1al spokesman for Pslestines
100000 Jews. had decided to issue
literature to impress on Jewry that
"muraer and bloodshed" would hurt
the Jews case before the General
Assembly.
Meanwhile. the British held a
threat of collective punishment for
underground action over the jew
lsh community and Irgun's smaller
of1shoot, the Stern gang, stepped up
Its propaganda.
Gen. Sir Alan Gordon Cunning
ham, British high commissioner for
Palestine, last night wrote Mayor
Israel Rokach of the all-Jewish city
OF Tel Aviv that when the next
post office vehicle is stolen, the
Jewish community must necessarily
suffer the loss of its postal services"
Drove Death Truck.
A stolen postal truck was Used
Friday to haul explosives that
killed five British officials and
wounded six others in police COM
pound at Sarona. Tel Aviv suburb.
In a communique sent later to a
Hebrew newspaper, the Stern gang
said its members had driven the
death truck.
In another communique Yesterday.
the Stern gang announced that IT
had carried out the fatal shooting
in Haifa Saturday of A. E. Conquest,
head OF the Haifa criminal investi- |
cation department. and in leaflets
passed out in all-Arab Jaffa 1t in |
vited Arabs to join in what it,
termed "the struggle against Brit
sh imperialism.
The informant in touch with the
Jewish Agency Executive said the
distribution of literature against
underground violence was part of
campaign the Executive had COM
pleted.
Patrols to BE Intensified.
He said the Agency also would in
tensify security patrols" of its de-
Tense force. Hagana, against the
extremist underground and would
carry on propaganda to steer Young
Jews. especially in the older oriental
Jewish quarters. away from this