BORNADOTTE'S REPORT TO THE UNITED NATIONS ON PALESTINE IS TOP STORY OF THE DAY. PRESS REACTION

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• Publication Date: September 21, 1948
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DAILY REVIEW OF THE ARABIC PRESS
For Distribution to U.S. Embassy Personnel only.
EMBASSY OF THE U.S.A., CAIRO-EGYPT.
P.' 0 RTI IN G
TU ; DAY Scntcn.ber 21st,, 1946,
Bornadotte's report to the United
Nations on Palestine is top story
of the day. Press reaction.
Bernadette's rcw'ort to the Uni-; e Nations on Palestine is
treated by s the ;?rabic press as top story of the day. lthou h
the .rabic ncwsp+:.^crs have had ro tiric to co.~.rient on the re-
port, t nay be Said,, jud lit from, th h dlinos _.nd Ill isrl'S
editorial, that their reaction is unf.avoraiolo.
` r ; s he r.dj_ in- rc ads U The ;.rab
1~1 ClchwalZ ~l :us1iriun p sl;~ssas'' hea~d~-
~~~~
countrc Ts-r jcc ~'rri~clos 'ro owls. J;1 h
line reads: 'Born .dot e asks the United PT . ti'ons d' i :.~.ose te
Jewish state on the ;rabs'',
T??is v ss editorial says 4 "Bcrn4.dottc's ,,ro}:owls are
b :sect on. partition and must therefore be ro3octed outri`;l~t.
This re ort is perhaps worse than his previous report ,rich
was submitted during; the first truce, scein; that he ab4nr
donod the idea of 0Stablishin, a federal union and proposed
partition ;_nstcad in its complete form. IIc also gave an un*
true picture o ' JcwiSh strength. Unfortunatel;r he was der
. da and boasting which made him
ccivcd ,-a an
by Jc~ris::a. 1-..0.
think that the Jews could. survive the Arab canp~.ign in Pales-
tine.
5The T. ecli.-.tor was wron ; in thinking this, for had the
truce on the abs,
Security, Council not hastened to i~.'.=ose
the y?rab forces would have de s tro-;; ed the Jewish gangs. It
is indeed a bad thin- that Bernadotte's life ended with this
roport which contains any fallacies and which will have the
saPi endin , as his l,q oviou5 prapo5als. t~
, a: ha's statement to
ibzzcu . P^.shc liccrct,.r-v Go;neral of th .rc.b League, was
asked by 4,,'l 1 T.:isri what he thou lit of -rnadot*c's _>rol~osals.
His rop y v~_:sa h4 eontonts o:r Count i3ornadottc's proposals
arc not sure ?isinw, I o1p~cctod this of li _r1 after ho r_-,.de
his iea in his f'i ?st report, Our attitude has not
changed. We rojoct his propose.]-s lock, .stock, and barrel. ,
.the *'raL~ countries are unanimous in their rejection of those
proposa l and ?_n the sups which will be taken to frustrate
any attempt to ha r .m a,rab Palestine.
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TUESDAY Soptonbor 21, 19;8.
The Irovisionlcl .rab govcrruAcnt of
Palestine
Al Misri remarks that the provisional ~,.rab ovcrnr: cnt
of P estine should have been -r)roclaizmmed, as it was on _;in-:lly
intended, before the U.K. 4:~ssombly :iootin The reason for
the delay, explains the daily, is that the head of the 1 ro-
visional - ovcrnment cannot invite the National llssc nblyr to
neat, nor can the proposed 1?r?ab cabinet function until the
14ation..1 'Isscrifoly accts a nd passes a vote of confidence in the
now cabinc t. It is therefore docidod that ldumod Hilr1y Pasha
should 1o to Gazza.a. today in his car 4city as head of the Exec-
utive body appointed by the -grab Loaruo sometime -,,o , to in-
vite the would-be member. s of the National -ssc;.:bl f to hold a
r:.ootin_; in the i i; odi^.to future to dccido whether the pro-
,osed r,rab 4Jovernr.cnt is worthy of their confidence or not,
The proposed N^tional {'ss(~r:.bly will b co :,posed, for the
time boin", of heads of the municipalities, and mayors of
Arab towns and vill.al es, and heads of the char;ibors of commerce
in Palestine. "Those contlor.en arc supposed to be ro 'ro-
sontatives of i`,rab Palestine so lon;; as it is difficult to
hold elections under the present circur