Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-23
opson Calls Bernad0tte Second Martyr to Peace During Past Ye
Lists Candhi
As First Martyr
OF This Year
DOROTHY THOMPSON

count Olke DeTndQOtte wa
the second martyr to peace dur
ing this year. In January, tn
man whose name had becom
synonymous with non-violenc
(but was never awarded tn
Nobel Peace price was murder
ed IN a prayer meeting of hi
followers. The bullet was fire,
by a fanatical Hindu Nationals
for whom India's liberation from
the British was not enough. TIL
British, who had often lmprison
ed Ghandi,' had treated him ev
en- under hose arrest will
highest respect, 1t was from hi
own people that his death came
Israel is creation of the
United Nations deriving its
clam to legal existence from
United Nations decision taker
against the opposition of tn,
whole Arab and Moslem world
Yet, according to official report.
to the Security Council, the tins
shot to be fired against the
United Nations as represented ii
the person of its Palestine medj.
ator was not by an Arab but by
an lsraelite. For neither lnur
der were single persons respou.
sible. Gandhi's assassin repre-.
sented group who probaol,
chose the assassin by lot; il 6
Sternist murdered Count Bern.
adotte the assassin acted by de.
cislon Of the gang.
c. L. Sulzberger reported in
the New York Times a CONVEX.
sation he recently had in TIE
AVN with Sternist who can
didly declared Sternist inten.
tons to kill Count Bernadottc
as they had previously shot the
British Minister of State, LORD
Moyne.
The Zionist terrorists .(Ster1
gang and Irgun) are not negli-
gible numbers. There are fully
10000 of them, mostly young
men and women. About one in
40 OF the Palestine Jewish popu.
latlon-counting the old, infirm
and children-belongs to one or
the other of the terrorist groups.
They are armed and disciplin-
ed in terrorist tactics from sa-
botage to murder-in the Stern
group by men who have learned
in European Communist under
grounds, in Irgun by former
leaders of resistance movements.
Their political theology is half
Fascist, half Communist. The
spiritual founder of Irgun was
Jabotinskyy now dead, founder
of the Zionist revisionists, who
was an ardent admirer of Mus
solini as was Abraham Stern.
These groups threaten the
present Israel state. 1t is ana
open secret that Chain Weiz-
mann, President of Israel, has
never set foot in Palestine since
his election, but has remained in
Geneva because the Government
has not felt able to protect him
against possible Arab assaults or
the bullets of Sternist or irgun
terrorists who call him a Pc
tain"
These gangs have never ac-
cepted the United Nations pal IT,
ton plan. They envision an all
Jewish Palestine and Trans
jordania. knowledge of this in
creases Arab resistance by con-
vincing them that partition
would be an opening wedge for
vaster Jewish expansion.
Among Palestinian Jews and
throughout the world they have
sympathizers who, while repudi-
ating them publicly, justify
them privately. The Israel Gov
eminent has been deferred from
taking drastic steps against
them by pressures within the
Government itself and upon it
from abroad.
The question now IS whether
the Israel Government will wipe
out these gangs which, if left TO
flourish, will eventually over
throw the present rulers. The
Israel Government knows who
the Sternists are. Correspond
ents have talked with their
leaders in Palestine and in Eur
ope. They had a delegation at
the Wallace convention and
held press conference without
being repudiated by Mr.. Wallace,
though they believe in murder
as an instrument of policy
But the United Nations also
must make up its mind either
to enforce its Palestine decision
or leave the Middle East to
chaos and war which the decis-
ion has contributed to stimulate.
The partition plan would have
to be enforced against both
Arabs and radical Jewish nation
alists. Count ,Bernadotte was not
ony a victim of Sternists. He
was the victim of divided Un-
tied Nations deepening wholly on
prestige for the enforcement Of
its decisions.