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- FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1946

‘Grand Mufti's Escape Adds

Pant v . -

_. Tension to Palestine Crisis

By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Staff Correspondent

Two developments have made the already critical Palestine. situation

One is the return of the exiled grand mufti of Jerusalem to his native habitat after his bizarre “escape” from Paris. The other is Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's exposition of the British position a the Labor party conference in Bournemouth,

The way things are going, it is

not impossible that the affair might 3

wind up in the reluctant hands of

not clear who would bring it up. Soviet Russia might do so, if it seemed to offer a chance of handicapping Great Britain's program in the Middle East, The pretext would: be a situation threatening world peace. British Appeal Unlikely

Britain could scarcely make the appeal, since it would in effect be an appeal against herself as incompetent to handle a situation which is primarily her responsibility. It is unlikely that the United Btates would take the step, unless privately asked to do so by Great Britain as a face-saving measure. Meanwhile, the return of the grand mufti, arch-foe of the Jews| in Palestine, is certain to stiffen the! Arab position. He is known in Pal-| estine under the title of “Seif-ed-

Haj Amin el Husseini . . . the grand mufti of Jerusalem. In exile | for seven years, he has returned

to Palestine.

| Bevin who tried to explain his outburst at Boarnemouth. They said the two contracting governments

STRATEGIC AREA

Afghanistan Returns Land Obtained in 1921.

LONDON, June 14 (U. P.)—Afghanistan has returned tof\Russia | the rugged border district of Kushka, on the ancient invasion route from the Middle East to India, under a Soviet-Afghan frontier agreement, the Moscow newspaper Izvestia announced today. Kushka lies at the strategic cor- | ner where Iran, Afghanistan and the extreme southernmost tip of the Soviet Union—a corner of the Turk-men-Soviet republic—meet, The district was awarded to Afghanistan in the Soviet-Afghan treaty of 1921, The new BSoviet-Afghan agreement, signed in Moscow by V. M. Molotov. and Afghan Ambassador Sultan Ahmed Khan re-defines one of the world's most remote yet potentially important frontiers. Along it Marco Polo explored and the armies of Ghengis Kahn and Tamerlane cut conquering paths, Izvestia called the new agreement | a milestone in the growth of friend-| ship between the Soviet Union and| Afghanistan, long a buffer state be{tween India and Russia, Treaty ‘Re-defined’ The newspaper announced that]

Din,” or “Sword of Religion.” If he has been under a great strain |asreed to regard as obsolete the |

the demands of the Arabs are not satisfied, the mufti could well be the focal point of a holy war which would embroi] the whole Arab world in the Middle East. Charge ‘Escape’ Faked

Britain is in an uncomfortable |

It has already been charged by the does not intend to admit 100,000 along the general course of the the Soviet zone in the north where| Survivors include one daughter, Zionists that Britain and France | Jews to Palestine, as proposed by Amu Darya river (formerly known most of Korea's heavy industry is Mrs. Dorothy ‘Pogue, Indianapolis; connived at the liberation of the President Truman and approved by| as the Oxus river) which it fol-located, said that although this in- two sisters, Mrs. Della Poynter,

from overwork, and was irritated |

| bag on the Palestine question with- |

out accepting a due share of the |

1 political or financial consequences.

sections of the 1921 treaty by which |

{ ghanistan.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

RUSSIA OBTAINS Famine Relief Fund Drive Passes $1200 Mark Here

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urer, Famine Emergency, 108 N. Indiana.)

Famine Emergency Committee

Inclosed please find my contribution of $0000 which is to be used to help buy food for those in famine-stricken countries.

(Contributions should be sent to Henry F. Schricker, treas-

Pennsylvania st, Indianapolis 6,

More than $1200 has been copntributed to the fund drive of the mayor's famine . relief committee since it opened Sunday. Contributions up to Wednesday at midnight totaled $959. Yesterday's contributions were: Mrs. O. 8. Runnels, Mrs.

Hugh Hanna and Alice B. Hanning ........cov0 eve, $ 5.00! Hallie Dickson ............. 25.00 William B. Gates .......... 10.00 | Mrs. Florence Root ..... 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Cochran 10.00 Ethel Coverston ........... 2.00 Dorothy Kothe ............ 25.00 | | Adaline Barnett Casi nuieny 5.00

SAYS FREER ACTION NEEDED BY KOREA

SEOUL, Korea, June 14 (U, P.).—

The Korean people will miss a great opportunity for economic and

by a feeling that the United States the Kushka district was incorporat- | political indepemdence unless the is trying to make Britain hold the|ed into northwestern corner of Af- 38th parallel division between the A native of Terre. Haute, Mrs.

{| American and Soviet zones of oc-

There was no immediate indica- | |cupation is remdved, Chief Ameri-|rion county 40 years. {tion of how much Afghan terri-| can Reparations Commissioner Ed-| member of the Brightwood Meth-

grand mufti for the express pur- | | the joint Anglo-American commis- | lowed in the 1821 treaty.

pose of creating a situation in| which Jewish demands could be! refused on the ground that a bloody war would result.

sion which spent four months | studying the proplem. The British government, in effect, will not accept the commission's re-

The Radio Moscow announcement mean that it was producing goods |lins, Indianapolis, and one grand-

said it also restated the boundary

along certain land sections and

provided for settlement of ‘certain

British official circles bitterly re-| port, at least without modifications. | other questions.”

sent the implication, but the Zion-|

That leaves the matter much as

Increased Soviet interest in Af-

ists and their Christian sympathi- it was before, with international|ghanistan has been evident for sevgers, especially in the United States, action looming as the only final so- | eral weeks, Premier Stalin himhave been thoroughly aroused. They | lution if an Arab-Jewish war de- self intervened in the negotiations,

think that Britain has acted in| every way to placate the Arabs and | sell out the Jews. Secretary Bevin added fuel to the | fires of Zionist wrath by his jibe | at Bournemouth when he facetious- | ly suggested that the agitation in! the United States for the admission |

{ velops or is plainly threatened.

SEES SALARY HIKE

IN STREAMLINE BILL!

WASHINGTON, June 14 (U. P.).!

| —Rep. Clarence Cannon (D. Mo.)

receiving the Afghan ambassador in the presence of Molotov. Afghanistan is a mountainous, {lldeveloped buffer state between the northwestern frontier of India and the southwestern frontier of the Soviet Union. Contact with the {outer world is mainly through

of 100,000 Jews to Palestine was (chairman of the powerful house | passes between 10,000-foot moun-

inspired by an unwillingness to take any more Jews in New York. Mr. Bevin's ill-timed remark was | not made to parliament, but to a! non-official gathering of his Labor party. Nevertheless, it was taken as an indication of government policy | toward Palestine. A United Press dispatch from | London quoted adherents of Mr.!

| appropriations committee, charges that the senate-approved bill to “streamline” congress was a “cam- |

ouflage” to hide a salary increase | for congressmen. “The whole thing is wrapped up

to raise our salaries,” he continued.

“It isn't a reorganization bill at all.”

tain peaks.

JAP LUXURY OPPOSED | TOKYO, June 14 (U. P.).~Myu{ichi Tokuda, Communist leader, | angrily walked away from the { luncheon table of Premier Shigeru

[in a package to give us a chance | | Yoshida today because, he said, he

| wouldn't eat luxurious meals while | the rest of Japan was starving.

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RITES SET MONDAY FOR NETTIE R. HAYES

Services for Mrs. Nettie R. Hayes, who. died last night in her home, 1124 N. New Jersey st., will be held at 1 p. m. Monday in Moore Mortu|aries Northeast chapel. She was 67, | | Hayes had been a resident of MaShe was a {odist church. Burial will be at Terre Haute.

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