1947 - Middle East: UN Plan for Holy Land Backed By US - USSR. Oct47

1947 - Middle East: UN Plan for Holy Land Backed By US - USSR. Oct47 Title. 23:21:00 Tugboat next to ship w/ banner or painted on: Hagana Ship - Jewish State; Northland. Very crowded, two former US vessels overloaded w/ Jewish refugees arrive in Haifa (Hagana ships) & guarded by British troops. Immigrants on board ship hold up dead baby which had suffocated on over-crowded ship. 23:21:26 Refugee being deloused w/ DDT. Jews disembark including women & small children. Sick carried on stretchers. Refugees transferred to other ships which will deport them to Cyprus detention camps. 23:21:56 Lake Success, New York, United Nations meeting in progress. MOS SOF; Herschel Johnson (sync): “The United States delegation supports the basic principals of the unanimous recommendations & the majority plan which provides for partition & immigration. We refer to assistance thru the United Nations in meeting & economic & financial problems & the problem of internal law & order during the transition period. Another problem might require the establishment of a special constabulary or police force recruited on a volunteer basis by the United Nations.” 23:22:42 LS Meeting around rectangular tables. Narration mentions Russia’s support for the plan. Immigrants; Dispossessed; Jews; Holy Land; 1940s; Post-WW2; Post-WWII;