Evening star., 1948-06-17
u, n. Mediator Leaves
Cairo for Talks With
zionists in Tel Aviv
BY the A,socioted Press

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Bernadotte took off for Tel Aviv
today to talk with Israeli leaders
about permanent peace plans
for Palestine. The first week of
a 28-day armistice ends tonight
Count Bernadotte, mediator for
the United Nations, has been talking
with Arab leaders here for the last
two days.
Just before he left, a letter he
wrote to Egyptian Premier Mahmoud
FANNY Nokrashy Pasha was made
public promising the military situa-
ton in the Holy Land will be re-
stored to what 1t was when the
truce took effect
Count Bernadotte's letter, in
response to Mr.. Nokrashy's COM
plants OF Jewish truce violations
on Palestines southern frontier,
said:
Il can give you formal assurance
that necessary measures will be
taken toward restoring the military
situation to what it was June II,
194s, at $500 G. M. T."
Arabs to Send Experts.
In Tel Aviv, Count Bernadotte
intends to ask Israeli authorities
whether they plan to send con-
sultants to his headquarters on
Rhodes. He said the Arabs have
promised to send four experts there
next Monday.
Ahdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, sec
retary OF the league, emphasized
that the experts will not represent
Arab countries, but merely will sup
ply Count Bernadotte with data and
documents he may need.
The mediator pointed out that
sending Of experts to Rhodes does
not mean there will be a round
table conference attended by both
Jews and Arabs. The Arabs already
have turned down any such talks.
If we get suggestions We think
are just, we will send them to the
different parties and they will study
them Count Bernadotte said.
He plans to return to his Rhodes
Oil Diversion Charged.
The Israeli government in Tel
Aviv, meanwhile, accused Britain
of diverting fuel oil to Arab states
by shutting of the pipeline from
Arab countries to Haifa A spokes-
man said Israel may appeal to tine
U. N. Security Council to prevent
the British from removing remain
ing oil reserves to reflneries in
Lebanon.
In a 2000-Ward statement con-
demning the pipeline shutdown, the
Foreign Office said the Israeli gov
ernment lis becoming more and
more convinced that what is hap
pening is not just commercial re-
adjustment, but a definite part and
parcel of a scheme to intervene, to
put it mildly, in the Jewish war eff
fort and to load the dice against
US
The statement declared the shut
down would have serious effect on
the European Recovery Program.
The oil involved is produced in
Arab countries and piped to Haifa
and Tripoli, in Lebanon. The Haifa
leg of the pipe was shut down after
the Jews seized Haifa
Americans Seek to Leave.
An American consular source said
about 10 to 100 American citizens,
now living in Jerusalem, want to
leave He said they have been
asked to register with the Amer
lean consul general and efforts will
be made to help them. although no
assurance can be given as to when
they will get transportation.
A delayed dispatch said Syrian
and Jewish Army officers met un-
Ger a flag of truce in a no-man's
land in Galilee Tuesday. They dis
cussed conflicting claims with u N
mediators. The main dispute was
over possession of the Jewish set
tlement of Mishmar Hayarden.
In Amman, capital of Trans-Jor-
dan. Jean Courvoisier, International
Red Cross representative, said last
night that LOO Arab women and
children will be released tomorrow
from Jewish custody. They now
are interned at Tantura, south of
Haifa.