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Last week, with thousands of pilgrims preparing to travel to Jerusalem during the Holy Year of 1950, Israel and Jordan reached a boundary agreement after lengthy talks. There will still be a frontier in the middle of the city, but, presumably, Christian pilgrims will now be able to cross the dividing line freely and safely...
Corpus Separatum. The Israel-Jordan agreement was spurred by U.N. action. On the eve of adjournment at Flushing Meadows last week, the General Assembly approved a plan to internationalize Jerusalem. By its terms the city would become a corpus separatum governed by the U.N.'s Trusteeship Council. The area would embrace the walled Old City, the bustling New City and such nearby holy places as Bethlehem...
...plan for Jerusalem had overwhelming support-38 nations for, 14 against, 7 abstentions. It was passed by an odd alliance of forces: the Catholic Latin American countries, which followed the Vatican line, voted with the Communist bloc, which wanted to win friends among the Arab states. The U.S., Britain and Sweden opposed the plan as- unrealistic because U.N. has no way of enforcing it against opposition from Israel and Jordan. The U.S. had favored a Swedish resolution-providing for more limited international supervision of the holy places-which had a clear chance of being accepted by Jerusalem's occupying...
...foreseen, Israel bitterly defied the U.N. action. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharrett announced that his government would never give up Jerusalem: "To the Jewish people [Jerusalem] has been and is the very heart-the symbol of its past glory, the lodestar in its wanderings . . ." Jerusalem's Israeli Mayor Daniel Auster warned: "We shall stand at the city's gates to keep out any pretenders." A spokesman in Tel Aviv threatened passive resistance: "I don't know if a U.N. governor will find a house to work in. If he does and sets about establishing public services...
...south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live in an area that normally supports 12,000. The one good road (10 minutes by motorcar) to Jerusalem is in Israeli hands; the only other road is hardly more than a tortuous trail through the desolate Judean hills...