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...only four years old but has started to play with fire again. Last week the UN General Assembly voted to put into action the third part of the 1947 Palestine plan. Under the program the Trusteeship Council will internationalize Jerusalem, with the U.N. in control. This is a proper solution to a peace-disturbing problem, if the UN can put the plan into effect...
When the assembly voted for this proposal it did go under rights granted it in the UN Charter, rights "to recommend measures for peaceful adjustment of any situation ... which seems likely to impair ... relations among nations." Jerusalem certainly presents such a situation. The Holy City, important because of its size and strategic position, is also held sacred by three religious groups. And two of them have armies with crusader complexes...
...argued. But that peace will last only until one of the armies decides it is the stronger. And there are always the bomb-planters who cannot wait for official shooting to start. Bi-lateral treaties, even if made with all sincerity by leaders, can never assure unmolested access to Jerusalem's Shrines. If nations are going to allow the UN to use its powers, they must let it decide what is "likely" to destroy peace and act accordingly...
Several antiquity authorities of Fogg Museum and the Department of Semitic Languages will be working for the next few months on the unrolling and translation of a leather parchment scroll brought to Cambridge this week by Archbishop Athanaseus Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Transjordan...
...four scrolls are now the property of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. Three others were destroyed by the finders before they realized their value...