Evening star., 1948-04-26
Irqun Resumes Attack on Joffo:
y. n. Acts to Protect Jerusalem
As Battle for City Shapes Up
Trusteeship Group
Directed to Devise
Safeguards Quickly
by the Assof;oted pr.s.

bAhE OOCCEOS, April Zo.-Int
United Nations Assembly toda,
moved for immediate action tt
protect Jerusalem. The actor
was taken by 46-to-0 ballot in ar
emergency sitting of the Assem-.
bly, in plenary session.
The Assembly proper was in ses.
sion only minutes. 1t approved
a French-Swedish request callins
on the Trusteeship Council to devise
immediate plans to safeguard thu
Holy City and it's inhabitants.
The same 58 delegates sat a.
the plenary Assembly just after the
Political Committee had accepted
the plan, A to 3. Russia, the Soviet
Ukraine and White Russia votec
in opposition in committee on the
ground that the Assembly itsel1
should institute the measures. Ir
the final Assembly vote, Russia ab-
stained.
France Favors Special Force.
The Trusteeship Council was in
structed by the Assembly to prepare
Jerusalem in consultation with the
British, Jews and Arabs. Council
proposals would be submitted to the
Assembly within the shortest pos
sible time"
Francis B. Sayre of the United
States, president of the trusteeshir
Council, said he would summon the
group into session tomorrow morn
ing.
France was reported ready to ash
for creation of volunteer elite
police force of between 500 and 800
highly trained men to protect
Jerusalem. 1t was suggested these
might include 100 New York CITY
policemen and other volunteer.
from around the world.
1t was understood that France
already had consulted Jews anc
Arabs and had obtained tentative
acceptance. The sources egnpha.
sized that the program would fai
unless organized Jews and Arabs
agreed not to fight in Jerusalem.
The police would have to be spe-
cialists in the use of arms and have
heavy equipment such as tanks and
armored cars, it was said. This
probably would mean the use OF
war veterans -turned-policemen.
Appeal for Safeguards.
Concern for Jerusalem's people
and relics deepened here on the
basis of dispatches from Palestine
reporting a major battle was shap.
ing up for the Holy City. Jews anc
Arabs were reported massing forces
on the southern outskirts o1
Jerusalem.
American Deputy Delegate Philir
c. JesSup asked the Political Com.
mittee to vote Immediately an ap.
peal to the Trusteeship Council tc
provide safeguards for the Holy City
of three major faiths-Christian
Jewish and Moslem.
Russias Andrei A. Gromyko OBJ.
jected to passing the issue to the
Trusteeship Council. where the pro.
partition Soviet Union suddenly
ended her boycott yesterday. Rather
he said, an Assembly subcommittee
should study the immediate crisis
of Jerusalem.
Syria's Faris Ell Khoury, a lead
ing Arab delegate, told the commit
tee that he could accept the Jeru-
salem plan only if it was not tied
in any way to partition.
Interest in Oil Reports.
An American delegation spokes.
man showed interest in reports
from Haifa that Iraqi oil no Longer
flows into Haifa. the principal oil
port of the Eastern Mediterranean
now largely controlled by the Jews
The spokesman noted that much ol
this oil is allocated for the European
Recovery Program.
A three-line, one sentence note
from Mr.. Gromyko to Trygve Lie
U. N. secretary-general, gave the
signal yesterday that Moscow was
ending its 13-month boycott of the
Trusteeship Council.
Mr.. Gromyko merely said the
Soviet government has appointed
Semen K. Tsarapkin its representa-
tive on the Trusteeship Council.
Mr.. NTsarapkin. charge d'affaires
in the Russian Embassy In Wash
ington, was Soviet delegate to the
Dumbarton Oaks talks in 1914, to
the U. N. founding conference in
San Francisco in 1945, and to the
first special U. N. assembly on
Palestine last spring.