UNITED NATIONS: Just Beginning

Last week the United Nations General Assembly, after much anxious hesitation, "settled" the 30-year-old Palestine dispute. They voted, 33 to 13, to partition Palestine into two states, Arab and Jewish.

"This is the day that the Lord hath made!" cried a rabbi in the U.N. delegates' lounge after the vote. "Let us be glad and rejoice therein!" One happy Zionist, Marcus Wulkin, rapturously bussed Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chief U.S. representative on the Jewish Agency for Palestine (see cut). But Arab representatives stalked out of the Assembly chamber, saying they would fight...

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