Evening star., 1948-04-29
British Artillery Bombards Jews
Holding Battered Area Of Jaffa;
Arabs Reject Police for Jerusalem
Voice Objection
To Foreign Units
In Holy Land
BY the Assoeioted Press

BY the Assoeiotsd Press
LAKE SUCCESS, April 90
The Arabs today rejected a
French proposal for an interna-
tional volunteer police force for
Jerusalem.
The Jews agreed to the proposal
for 1.000-man elite force to safe
guard Jerusalem's holy places un-
der proposed truce. but the Arab
rejection dashed hopes for it's es-
tabliShment.
Jamal Husseini, vice chairman of
the Arab Higher Committee for
Palestine, told the United Nations
TrusteeShip Council the Arabs OBJ
ject to foreign troops being sent to
our country He said the term
troops also meant police.
Won't Oppose Police Force.
Husseini added that the Arabs
would not resist the proposed po-
lice force, but would never agree
to it.
Moshe Shertok, head of the Jew
ish Agency's political department.
said the Jews definitely agree to
setting up u N. force for Jerusa-
lem.
In response to a question, Hus-
seini said:
I'VE will not shoot at them Cthe
proposed police force but We will
not cooperate
French Delegate Roger Garreau
told the Council the Arab state
ment was not satisfactory. He said
that if he could not get cooperation
from both the Arabs and Jews he
would prefer to withdraw his pro-
posal.
The complications over the police
force came less than "a hours after
Arab and Jewish representatives
here had agreed to a truce plan for
the old walled portion of Jerusalem.
This truce was proposed as a pre-
liminary to setting up the police
force.
Appeal for Trusteeship.
The United States renewed it's ap-
peal, meanwhile, for quick U. N.
approval of the American plan for
U. N. trusteeship over Palestine.
The American delegation did not
refer directly to published reports
that the s United States was con-
sidering new shift in policy. But
American Delegate Philip C. Jessup
told the 58-member Political Com
mittee of the special U. N Palestine
Assembly there had been no change
in the American position.
DR., Jessup said he felt the Amer
lean views could be summed up this
way:
l. The United Nations must be
prepared to accept full responsible
lty for Palestine when the British
mandate rule ends May Is.
2. A temporary trusteeship ap-
peared to be the proper way for
the United Nations to discharge
these responsibilities.
Clarification Asked.
Earlier spokesman for the
American delegation had denied the
speculative reports of a shift in
Palestine policy. The reports, pub
llshed in New York this morning,
caused a number of delegates to
approach the American representa-
tives for clsrifcation.
The reports followed the appoint
ment yesterday of Maj Gen. John
H. Hilldring as special assistant to
Secretary of State Marshall in
charge of Palestine affairs.
The United Nations Trusteeship
Council meanwhile resumed its
efforts to set up a 1,0OO-man elite
volunteer police force to safeguard
the holy places of Jerusalem.
j. Fletcher-Cook, one of Britain's
Palestine experts, told the Council
the creation of such a force involved
serious difficulties. He said that,
in effect. Britain was no longer in
control in Jerusalem. Only 23I
British officers were left in the Holy
Mr.. Fletcher-Cook said the situa-
ton in Palestine and Jerusalem had
deteriorated rapidly in the past two
days. He expressed doubts that the
U. N. would be able to get outside
police into Jerusalem if such
force were established.
Broadened Truce Unlikely.
Little hope was held for broa den-
ing a Jewish-Arab agreement in
tended to spare the sacred walled
city of Jerusalem from destruc-
ton.
Representative of the Jewish
Agency and the Arab Higher Com
mittee to the United Nations agreed
yesterday that all military oper-
atlons and acts of violence in the old
city section should cease immedi-
ately.
The Arabs said they could accept
a truce covering the larger new
area OF Jerusalem only if it is
widened to take in all of Palestine.
Repeated efforts to enforce a,
country wide cease-fi fire have stalled
over the issue of partition.
The Arabs stress daily here that
no overall truce is possible unless
the Oartition cpbepe ic dronpod