OIL INTERESTS BLAMED FOR SOMERSAULT

Chronicle (Levin), 23 March 1948, Page 5

OIL INTERESTS BLAMED FOR SOMERSAULT

Received Monday, 9.50 a.m. NEW YORK, March 22. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency, declared today that plans for a United Nations- trusteeship over Palestine meant that United States troops would have to fight the Palestine Jews. "It is unthinkable, but I have seen unthinkable things happen in this crazy world of , ours."' Dr. Silver, who was addressing the Administrative Council oi/ the Zionist Organisation of America, said the trusteeship plan could be carried out only by force, and the United States wouM have to assume the major responsibility for this. If a United Nations force were sent to Palestine — and it would have to be sent if the trusteeship plan were adopted — the United States would be in it and Russia would be kept out. "Whether the soldiers un'der the new regime wear French, Chinese or American uniforms won't make a particle of difference. The opposition will still j)e there. The only question will be: Who is on

the other side of the barbed wire?" Dr. Silver alleged that the Ameriinterests who saw their interests endangered because of Arab opposition to partition. The cil companies organised a systematic campaign to get the United States to alter its 'deeision on Palestine." can reversal of policy was "the result of powerful United States oil