Evening star., 1948-05-02
Jewish Agency Urges
Quick U. n. Action 10
Halt Arab Invasion
BY the Asseeiotsd Press

by rne StSoctored FFet&
LAKE SUCCESS, May 1.-The
Jewish agency appealed tonight to
the United Nations Security Coun-
Gil to act quickly to stop the reported
invasion Of Palestine by Arab forces.
Moshe Shertok, chief of the
agency's political department. said
that unless the Security Council
intervened large-scale warfare was
inevitable. This, he said, would lead
to major confiagration with in
calculable consequences"
Mr.. Shertok's telegram was sent
to Alexandra Parodi of France,
president Of the Security Council. It
recounted reports from Palestine of
Arab forces crossing the border and
said:
Jewish defense forces (are) de-
termined (to) resist this new phase
(of) invasion at all costs"
we appeal to you as president"
Mr.. Shertok concluded, ito promote
appropriate action with greatest
urgency"
AIustCcShIp II ldH G1its
Earlier the Jewish agency lam
basted anew proposals for trustee
ship in the Holy Land.
In slashing attack on both the
United States and the U. NJ, the
agency warned that Palestine Jews
would fight to the end rather than
accept the American-sponsored plan
for trusteeship.
It called on the General Assembly's
58-nation political committee to
toss out the trusteeship plan now
and recognize that the partition of
Palestine was an accomplished fact
The agency's representative,
Aubrey Eban, addressed the COM
mittee after most of a two-hour
emergency session had passed with
out any reference to the growing
violence in the Holy Land.
After listening to Syrian delegate
Faris Ell Khoury 60 through point
by-point analysis of Arab objections
to the trusteeship plan, Mr.. Eban
assailed the committee for engaging
In what he called academic and un-
IedllSIlC Ql5CuSSlOnS.
Called Waste of Time.
Mr.. Eban declared further debate
on the trusteeship plan was a waste
OF time, since the project was based
on the assumption that 1t would
work only with Jewish and Arab
cooperation.
He said the Jews certainly would
not cooperate and, in his view, the
Arabs also would refuse to accept
the plan when it came to a final
showdown. In any event, he said,
more troops would be needed to
enforce trustee5hip than to enforce
partition.
Mr.. Eban was the only speaker
who referred to the fact that Brit
aims mandate comes to an end TWO
weeks from today.
While none of the delegates men
toned the reports that invading
Arab armies already had moved into
Palestine from adjoining countries,
many of them asked newsmen about
late developments in Palestine.
Debate to Resume Tomorrow.
Arab country delegates said they
had no knowledge of any invasion,
but Mr.. Ell Khoury said action would
not be surprising He said the Arab
countries could not stand by idly
and see Palestine Arabs killed by
the Jews.
Despite Mr. Eban's warning that
the approval of the trusteeship plan
would not intensity the Holy Land
conflict. the committee went ahead
with its discussions of the Amer
lean proposal.
Debate on the trusteeship plan
will be resumed Monday, it was an
nounced at the end of today's ses-
sion. A spokesman for the Amer
ican delegation said hopes for
Jewish-Arab cooperation mad not
been abandoned.
Meanwhile, the U. N. Trusteeship
Council also will meet Monday to
continue debate on an American
proposal for an emergency trustee
ship regime for Jerusalem. The
delegates were studying the proposal
over the weekend