Evening star., 1947-08-30
Split Palestine,
End Of Mandate,
U.N.Unit'sP AN
Majority Will Urge
Independent Jewish
And Arab States
BY the Associated Press

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 80.
The United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine was re-
ported ready today to recon-
mend that the British mandate
over the Holy Land be ended as
soon as possible, with a majority
in favor of splitting the country
into independent Jewish and
Arab nations.
Members of the committee said
last night that its report to- the
55-nation General Assembly, to
meet in New York September 16
was nearly completed. They said
majority and minority recommenda-
tions would be embodied in sepa-
rate sections of the report.
(The U. N. secretariat in Lake
Success, N. Y, said it expected
the report tomorrow night
These committee members indi-
Gated that the 11-nation group was
agreed that Britain's 25-year- old
mandatory rule should be wound up,
though this opinion implied no
criticism of British administration.
They reported general agreement
too, on a two-year period of transi-
tion to self-government under
some administrative power, not
named, which would be answerable
to the U. N.
Division on Home Rule
Seven nations in favor of estab-
lishment by September, 1949, of in
dependent Jewish and Arab states
cooperating in economic affairs
through joint council. In the in
terim, the administrative authority
would let 10000 Jews into the jew
ish area.
Three nations in favor of a fed
eralized Palestine divided into Jew
ish and Arab areas and ruled by a
legislature of two houses, one elected
on racial parity and the other on
a proportional basis, and by an
overall arbitration council on which
Arabs would outnumber Jews four
to three.
One OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
no preference for either partition or
federation.
Nations for partition were report
ed to be Canada, Czechoslovakia,
Guatemala, the Netherlands. Peru,
Sweden and Uruguay; for fedora
ton, India, Iran and Yugoslavia.
The infornants said both groups
were for giving the Jews the CEN
tral Palestine coast, including Tel
Aviv and Haifa, and the Arabs in
land territory of similar extent.
Not Agreed on Exact Area.
They added, however, that though
the federationists were recommend
ing fairly detailed boundaries, the
partitionists still were not agreed on
the depth of the Jewish coastal strip
and the division of Galilee in the
north and the Negeb (desert) in the
south.
The committee informants report
ed agreement on these points:
% Palestine alone cannot absorb
all the hundreds of thousands of
Jews that want to leave Europe
y Any government or govern
ments to be set up in the Holy Land
should guarantee peaceful settle
ment of disputes under the U. N.
Charter.
90 Guarantees should be given
for the protection of the rights of
minorities, of all religious COM
munities and of holy places of
Christians, Moslems and Jews, and
the religious arbitration authority
now held by the British high COM
missioner for Palestine should be
retained by the succeeding author
ity.
"a The economic unity of Pales-
tine should be maintained.
The committee, set up by the
General Assembly in special session
last May, toured Palestine and sent
a subcommittee to interview dis
placed Jews in Germany and Aus
trla before writing its report here.