Evening star., 1948-06-28
|Bernadoffe Submits
Palestine Peace Plan
To Jews and Arabs
by the Assoeiatsd Press

RHODES, June 28.-JeWS and
Arabs received from Count Folke
Bernadotte today his proposals for
peace in Palestine. Count Berna-
dotte is the United Nations medi-
ator who brought about the current
four-week armistice.
The suggestions, which the medi-
ator called a basis for further dis
cussion," were not published.
premier Jamil Mardambey of
Syria said in Damascus the pro-
posals will lin no way modify our
attitude of rejecting partition
and q Jewish state in Palestine"
Jews are just as insistent that
the new state of Israel must
continue to exist
Arabs and Jews Leaving.
Jewish experts few from this
Greek island to Tel Aviv this morn
ing with the proposal. Arab experts
are flying to Cairo late today. Paul
Mohn of Sweden and Constantine
Stavropoulos of Greece will accom-
|pany the Arabs and explain the
Counts peace plan to an Arab
League subcommittee meeting in
Cairo tomorrow night. Both are
members of the U. N. mediator's
staff. John Reedman of South
Africa, also one of Count Berna-
dotte's aides, is to present the pro-
posals in Tel Aviv to the Israeli
government.
CAT the U. Ms Lake Success
headquarters, both the Berna-
dotte formula and the reaction
of the disputing parties are ex-
pected to be known before the
end of the week.
Count Bernadotte indicated his
proposals are not hard-and-fast,
take-it-or- -leave-it peace plan. He
said, Both parties have the right
to come forward with counter
suggestions.
Count Bernadotte has undertaken
negotiations during a four week
truce that runs out July g. He told
reporters he could not say whether
his discussions will result in pro-
longationS of the truce"
Egypt Pledges Inquiry.
Count Bernadotte said the Egyp-
tian premier has promised a thor
ough investigation of the incident in
which an Egyptian Spitfire shot at
a U. N. plane m Palestine last Fri
day.
The premier told him, Count
Bernadotte said, that "if the results
show the Egyptian pilots had not
acted according to orders they will
be punished"
He said he has asked Jewish
authorities to answer some ques-
tons on how his truce observers
came to be barred from beach near
Natanya when Irgun Zvai Leumi
tried to land munitions there last
Tuesday over Israeli government op-
position.
Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv last
night freed Monroe Fein, 25, Chi
cago war veteran and captain of
the landing ship which tried to
unload the munitions. His release
was apparently conditional. He was
arrested Tuesday. Charges against
him have not been made public
He said three of his crew were killed
when Israeli government forces fired
on his ship. Besides Fein, go other
men of combat age, presumably
from the ship, also have been
arrested.
The Israeli army began to throw
off its secrecy. The army was to
swear allegiance to Israel today.
High officers took the oath yester-
day before Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion. Others were sworn in
Jerusalem. The chief of staff was
disclosed to be Yaakov Dostrowsky.
The World Jewish Congress
opened its second plenary session
yesterday in MontreauX, Switzer-
land. Delegates on hand from so
countries included 35 Americans.
The president, Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise of New York, voiced hope
Britain will recognize Israel soon.
King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan
was on his way to Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, to visit King Ibn Saud in
the latters capital. The Cairo news
paper AL Ahram reported he spent
the week end in Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia.