Evening star., 1949-09-14
U. n. Facing Trouble
On |nternationalized
Rule for Jerusalem
By the Associated Press

by me ASSocIoIeo FreSS
LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 14-The
new United Nations proposal for
international control of Jerusa-
lem appeared today to be headed
for trouble.
The plan was submitted yester-
day for consideration in the So
nation General Assembly by the
Palestine Cancellation Commis-
sion as a basis for peace in the
Holy City.
U. N. delegates were reluctant
! to comment on the plan until they
/ had time to study it more. but
informed quarters said bitter op-
position may be expected at least
from the Israeli government.
1t still was not known whether
the plan would meet the approval
of other vitally interested re-
ligioHs and political groups; Arabs
and the Vatican and other Chris
tian churches.
Plan Can't Be Enforced.
To become effective, the plan
must be accepted by Israel and
Hashemite Jordan, the two
countries now occupying Jerusa-
lem. The Assembly had no power
to enforce it's decisions: it can
only recommend-and use per-
suasive force.
The commiSsions blueprint
would preserve the Arab and Jew
ish sectors of the Holy City and
provide measure of self-rule for
each, but would give supreme au-
thority to a U. N. commissioner
named by the General Assembly.
Sources familiar with Israeli
policy pointed out that Israel al
ready had told the U. N. she could
accept no plan which recognized
an international regime as su-
preme in the Holy City. Israel
has suggested instead that the
U. N. set up a control over the
holy places without interfering in
local administration. =
An Israeli government spokes-''
man said in Tel Aviv last night
that the plan contains specific
proposals which the government
of Israel and the Jews of Jerusalem
cannot accept" He said ANY set
tlement that in any degree sewers
Jewish Jerusalem from the. living
body Of the Israel state would be
regarded as unacceptable. -
Vatican. for International Rule.
The spokesman charged that
the commission ignored the fun
damental problem of sovereignty
and without a positive solution
of that problem no stable regime
can be set up in the Jerusalem
area"
The Vatican, on the other hand,
has urged creation Of full inter-
national rule.
At present, Hashemite Jordan
troops of Arab King Abdullah
occupy the walled Old City and
apparently intend to stay: Israel
has the new city on the other side
of a narrow no-man's land and
claims Jerusalem is part of Israel.
1t had been hoped that the new
plan, drafted at Lausanne, Swift
zerland, would embody compro-
mise formula. It differed from
the 1948 trusteeship plan pri-
marily, however, in its recognition
of the existing division in the city
with the two separate local ad-
ministrations.
Assembly Twice on Record.
Under the new plan, these ad-
ministrations would continue but
the U. N. would create above them
a central government consisting
OF a commissioner, a 14-member
general council, an international
tribunal and a mixed tribunal of
local residents.
The General Assembly already
has gone on record twice as favor
ing the principle of an interna-
tional regime for Jerusalem. This
principle was embodied originally
in the 1947 partition plan. The
trusteeship council drafted a
statute to govern the city. but this
was discarded when the U. N. de-
cided it couldn't put the partition
scheme into effect.
The Assembly again at Paris
last fall indorsed the idea of an
international rule for the Holy
City when it directed the newly