The Tribune · 27 May 1948
CP-1948-035
Parched Throats, Hungry Bellies Mark Bathless City of Jerusalem
Ask Council For ‘Terms’ In Palestine · Vow to Continue Battle as Long as Israeli Exists
Associated Press, Lake Success
Transcribed from the clipping
“We Won’t Stop Fighting—Arabs to UN. LAKE SUCCESS, May 26 (AP) —The Arabs rejected tonight a United Nations cease-fire order for Palestine. But they asked the Security Council to state promptly whether it could offer any acceptable terms for a political settlement that might stop their war with Jewish Israel in the Holy Land.
The result tonight of long conferences here and at Arab League headquarters in Amman, Trans-Jordan, is that the fighting goes on and the Jews have declared unacceptable the conditions laid down by Arabs for a truce. Israel replied — through the Jewish Agency for Palestine — that the Arab answers were a flagrant rejection of the Council’s appeal.
The Jews said if the Arab States want peace with Israel then can have it and if they want war they can have it. After hearing the Arabs and Jews, Warren R.
Austin, United States, said the situation is so serious that it needs the careful consideration of the American government… The Arab countries individually said they could not stop fighting as long as Israel claimed existence as a nation. They demanded also that the UN ban imports of arms to the Jews and limit Jewish immigration in Palestine… Dr.
Naji Al-Asil of Iraq read the Arab League reply to the Council. He said the arabs have no guarantee that the cease fire would stop Zionist violence.”
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Shares the front page with "We Won’t Stop Fighting — Arabs to UN" and a Carbondale railroader crushed under a freight car.
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"Parched Throats, Hungry Bellies Mark Bathless City of Jerusalem," The Tribune, 27 May 1948, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-035. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-035
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