Confidential U.S. state department central files [mikroform] : Palestine United Nations activities, 1945-1949 : Decimal numbers 501.BB Palestine and 501.MA Palestine.

Confidential U.S. state department central files
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
M/0323-7
Eser Adının Farklı Biçimi
Palestine United activities, 1945-1949
Yayın Bilgisi
Frederick, MD : University Puclications of America (UPA), [t.y.]
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 mikrofilm makarası (1039 poz) : pozitif ; 35 mm.
Genel Not
Bu seri 14 makaradan oluşmaktadır.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Mikrofilmin indeksi A.VIII/2032 yer numarasında kayıtlıdır.
İçindekiler Notu
► International conferences cont. -- 0001 : Israel appoints Dr. Bernard Joseph as military governor of Jerusalem, Palestine. In UN Security Council session British offer to start relief fund for Arab refugees. King Abdullah says both Jews and Arabs should consider compromise. Israel demands that British release 11,000 Jews from Cyprus. Israel invites all Arab league states to open direct Holy Land peace discussions.They submit their request to Count Folke Bernadotte. Count Bernadotte recommends that UN Security Council affirm right of Arab refugees to return to theirformer homes in Israeli territory. Israel objects. Count Folke Bernadotte conveys Israel's message to Arab league. Before he had conveyed message, Egypt had already denounced it because Moshe Shertok, Jewish agency, opposed readmitting 250,000 to 300,000 Arab refugees to Jewish-controlled areas in advance of a peace settlement and had refused to discuss demilitarization of Jerusalem with Arabs. UN relief expert Sir Raphael Alento says Arab refugees are now as much a UN problem as were the Jewish displaced persons in Europe. U.S. says it will support Israel's application to UN next month. Count Folke Bernadotte insists that Arabs and Jews stop new flare-up of fighting in Jerusalem. Latrun, Palestine, pumping station is blown up. Britain says it will donate $400,000 of tents and medical supplies from Middle East military stocks to any suitable international organization that will use the supplies for the relief of Arab refugees. Israel demands that UN fix a time limit for truce. Egypt tells Count Folke Bernadotte that Israel's offer of direct talks is rejected. They refuse to discuss any plan which would partition Palestine. Israel demands that Bernadotte take action against Arab attacks. New Israeli pound is offered by government. Arab league fires on UN truce team jeep in Latrun, Palestine. U.S., France, and Belgium decline Count Folke Bernadotte's request to send large forces to Palestine. Secretary of State George C. Marshall suggests that truce teams be doubled. UN Security Council warns both Jews and Arabs against breaking Holy Land truce. Count Folke Bernadotte reports that clashes in Jerusalem, Palestine, are getting out of hand. Aubrey S. Eban asks all UN nations to support Israel's admittance to UN. Arab League leaders meet. Brigadier John Bagot Glubb seeks aid for Arabs in London. Sir Alexander Cadogan refuses Israel's request for admittance to the UN. Israel proposes that it hold peace talks with each Arab country. Zionist general council meets. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver says that he hopes President Truman will give political and economic support for Israel. World Jewish Congress asks that UN consider Egyptian treatment of Jews. Jews claim that 150 Jews were murdered and hundreds wounded in Cairo, Egypt, during June and July. Egypt invades Jewish-held Talpioth, a Jerusalem, Palestine, suburb. Israel releases five leaders of Irgun who were arrested in June for truce violations. Two French UN observers die when their plane is fired on near Gaza. A French observer is wounded during Arab shelling of Jewish lines in Mount Zion. Israel demands that UN protect Jews who abide by the truce. Egypt agrees to let Israel send convoys to 35 isolated Negeb settlements, August 1948.
► 0384 : State department refuses to permit emigration of men aged 18 to 45 to Israel from U.S.-controlled displaced persons camps in Germany and Europe, except in cases approved by Count Folke Bernadotte. State department orders Czechoslovakia to halt movement of fighter planes and weapons to Israel because this is a violation of Palestine truce. Export-Import Bank of the U.S. postpones action on $100 million loan to Israel due to "unsettled political conditions." World Zionist Organization Committee ends session. They reject a demand by U.S. delegates that all Israel cabinet members withdraw from the executive. The ministers, however, do resign. Jewish agency for Palestine decides to spend funds only for charities not for security, political, or propaganda purposes. American Red Cross agrees to survey Arab refugee situation. Jews and Arabs agree to create second neutral UN-Red Cross zone. This agreement is brought about by General Aage Lundstroem, chief of staff to UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte. UN announces that Bernadotte's appeal for relief of Arab refugees has been answered by 14 countries and many relief agencies. Paraguay recognizes Israel. Count Folke Bernadotte tells an American delegate to the UN that the General Assembly must take up the Palestine question because hostilities will resume. He intends to withdraw as mediator if hostilities do resume. Count Folke Bernadotte orders Israel to readmit 8,000 Arab refugees driven from three villages near Haifa, Palestine, by attacks which had violated the truce. In Rhodes, Greece, Count Folke Bernadotte completes work on his UN report. He calls Jerusalem "a trigger-happy city. "Arab-Jewish artillery duels in Jerusalem. Jews had not wanted demilitarization of the city for fear of the Arab armies surrounding it. El Salvador recognizes Israel. Count Bernadotte is assassinated in Jerusalem, Palestine,allegedly by Stern Group. Andre Pierre Serot, chief of the French UN truce observer team, is also killed. Israel orders roundup of Stern suspects. UN secretary general Trygve Lie demands that UN stop procrastinating and raise an international guard to protect peacemakers. Hazit Hamoledet (Homeland of Fatherland Front) claims responsibility for assassinations. Hazit Hamoledet is branch of Stern Group which commits acts of violence to avoid implicating Sternists. They claim that Count Bernadotte was working for British, and they had boasted that they would kill UN emissaries to prevent an Arab-Jewish compromise. Sternists are also against demilitarization of Jerusalem, which Bernadotte had sought. Sternist leader Nathan Friedman Yellin and his political adviser Dr. Israel Scheib flee from Palestine. Count Folke Bernadotte's body is escorted to Haifa, Palestine, by Israeli guards. Ralph Bunche is appointed by Security Council as temporary successor to Count Bernadotte. Bunche tells Foreign Minister Moshe Shertokthat Israel must take full responsibility for assassination as a breach of truce. Israeli officials protest; they say they are rounding up suspects. Jewish Jerusalem is under curfew. Irgun denounces assassins. James G. McDonald, special U.S. representative to Israel, is warned by terrorists that U.S. is not wanted in Israel. Arabs claim Bernadotte's death is proof that Israel cannot control Jewish extremists. Secretary of State George C. Marshall says that efforts to make peace will continue, that the world will not permit a new outbreak of general warfare in Palestine, and that the assassination will not affect U.S. support to Israel. UN secretary general Trygve Lie calls on security council to organize UN guard force to protect truce observers. Jacob A. Malik of Soviet Union condemns killing and suggests that UN enforce 1947 partition plan. Count Folke Bernadotte's and Andre Pierre Serot's bodies are flown from Haifa, Palestine, to Paris, France, for memorial service. Irgun and Stern Group announce their dissolution. Members will join the Israeli army. Irgun and Stern Group deny any part in Count Folke Bernadotte's assassination.Count Bernadotte's last paper is published in Paris. Paper calls for recognition of Israel, but parts of Bernadotte's plan displease Jews and Arabs: Israel now exists, a fact Arabs cannot change; Israel cannot annex Arab territory; Israel will be admitted to UN. Plan also calls for merging of Transjordan and Arab Palestine. Transjordan will be admitted to UN. Haifa harbor (Jews) and Lydda Airport (Arabs) will be considered free ports. Jerusalem will be international city. Arab refugees should be allowed to return to their homes or compensated for their losses. Plans are made to expand provisions for refugees. It is reported that during seven weeks of truce, there were 288 complaints of violations (183 against Jews, 105 against Arabs). Arabs approve Bernadotte's relief program, but criticize UN for creation of refugee problem. Israeli cabinet adopts emergency regulations for prevention of terrorism. Irgun surrenders military supplies stolen from British. Three hundred suspected members of Hazit Hamoledet are arrested. Arab League announces it is establishing an Arab government for Palestine in Gaza. King Abdullah of Transjordan bars Gaza government from operating within security zone of his government. Secretary of State George C. Marshall and British foreign minister Ernest Bevin support plan. Arabs reject plan; they insist on no partition of Palestine. Jews accuse Arabs of attacks near Latrun, Palestine.Israel announces it is willing to discuss Count Bernadotte's proposals. Main objections are to the surrender of Negeb, an area planned for large-scale development, and to internationalization of Jerusalem. U.S. orders Greek Aid Mission to send food to Middle East refugees. Arabs accuse Jews of shooting down Arab airliner. Dead include two British reporters. Memorial service is held for eight UN representatives killed in Palestine. Twenty-six Sternists escape, but 25 are recaptured. Andrei Vishinsky of Soviet Union blames U .S. for ruining 1947 partition plan. Count Folke Bernadotte is buried in Stockholm. UN mediator Ralph Bunche demands that Israel and Transjordan stop fighting along Israel's "Burma Road," a road going to Jerusalem from Latrun, Palestine, area. Israel admits that Arab plane was shot down, but claims that plane had violated Israeli-held Upper Galilee. Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin el Husseini returns to Gaza. Nathan Friedman Yellin and his aide Matiiyahu Schmurkwitz are captured by Israeli police in Tel Aviv, Palestine. President Chaim Weizmann of Israel arrives in Israel after recovering from an operation in Geneva, September 1948.
Reprodüksiyon Notu
Mikrofilm. Frederick, MD : University Puclications of America (UPA), [t.y.]. 1 mikrofilm makarası : pozitif ; 35 mm. 1945-1949.
Kurum Adı
United States. Department of State.
University Publications of America (UPA)