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EMMl Nations Third! Power on Scene ff (Uneasy DsraeH-Joirdami AraasfiBce Br ELIAV SIMON UPI Correspondanl . Jerusalem- 0PD -When the ' British quit Palestine in 1948, the Jews established the State of Israel in part of the ter ritory and the Kingdom of Jordan annexed the rest. But at the same time a. third power came onto the , scene-the United Nations. Al though the physical area it controls extends for no more than a few hundred square yards, its authority affects both Israel and Jordan and ' its normal influence is per haps greater than that of any other power in the world. The world organization was the midwife of the 1947 de cision to solve the Palestine problem by partition. When, in 1948 the Jews and Arabs tested this solution by force of arms, it was the UN which stepped in to try to restore peace. Sill on Seen , inow, 11 years later, uie midwife is still on the scene, but in the guise of a guard ian to watch over the uneasy armistice on the Arab-Israel borders to see that, even if no official peace treaty has yet been signed, war does not flare into the open again. The nerve center of the UN Truce Supervision Organiza tion is a palatial building on the southern outskirts of Jeru salem which once was the residence of the High Com missioners in the days of the British mandate. Old 'tradi tions die hard In the Holy Land, and to this day it is still referred to as "Govern ment House." Sandwiched between the Israeli and Jordanian lines, the building is in neither country. The legend over the main gateway proclaims it to be the Headquarters of the United Nations Truce Super vision Organization in Pales-tine-probably the only spot in the whole country still of ficially designed as Palestine. Location Pointed Out Wags delight in pointing out that the geographic loca tion of the headquarters is on the Hill of Evil Counsel-the name being derived from an ancient tradition that the High Priest Caiaphas had a coun try house on top of the hill and that it was there that the plot against Jesus was hatch ed. Christian legend also has it that the repentant Judas deliberately selected a tree in the high priest's garden on which to hang himself. The headquarters staff are literally men of two worlds, and among the privileged few permitted to enter both worlds at will. One gateway out of Government House 1ari. intn Tra1 Vio nVtar into Jordan. The UN person nel, in white-painted "jeeps bearing huge UN markings on the sides and roof, are a fa miliar sight in both halves of divided Jerusalem. Altogether there are about 100 UN observers from 12 dif ferent countries, ranging from the U.S. to Ireland and from Belgium to New Zealand. But the majority of these are "in the field" and serve with the various Mixed Armistice Com missioners on Israel's borders with Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt, respectively. At Government House itself is the headquarters staff of some 10 officers, headed by UN Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Carl von Horn, of Sweden In addition to the UN observ ers, there are a number of personnel who serve in a purely administrative capac ity as secretaries, drivers, telephonists, etc. . Two-Year Duty The observers serve for a two-year spell of duty, on loan from the armed forces of their own countries. They draw the same pay as they would in their own army, but get an additional UN allow ance of $10 a day. There is also the advantage of duty free liquor and other goods provided by the UN commis sary. At present there are 32 UN observers attached to the Is rael-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission (referred to as MAC for short). This is based in Jerusalem and holds its meetings, attended by Israeli and Jordanian representa tives, in a shell-scarred build in a near the Mandelbaura Gate border, a few miles north of Government House. Biggest of the UN MAC staffs is on the Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commission- 45 observers based in Damas- MORE HOME BUYERS Chicago-UPD-More families plan to buy a house this year than in either 1958 or 1957, according to the United States Savings and Loan league. It cited a recent Federal Reserve Board study which showed that rougnly 9 3 per cent of spending units surveyed planned the purchase of a home thif year, compared with 7.5 per cent in 1958 and 8.7 P e te l957 - cut (Syria) and Tiberias (Is rael). The size of the Israel Lebanese MAC, which has only three UN observers, Is indicative of the peace and quiet on this border. The Israel-Egypt MAC has a mere seven UN members, but this is because its work is cur tailed due to the fact that Israel decided to boycott it some years ago on the grounds that Egypt was continually violating the armistice agree ment on which that MAC was based. The 10 officers headed by Maj. Gen. von Horn who are based at Government House in Jerusalem perform all the functions of a military head quarters. They keep in con tact with the UN representa tives on the Mixed Armistice Commissions and are-also in close touch with the UN Sec retariat in New York. To assist them on the spot are a handful of civilian ad visers and a press officer, Al bert Grand, of Belgium-one of the very few men in Jeru salem who has two tele phones on his desk linking him with two mutually hos tile countries. One phone con nects him with the Jordan exchange and the other to the Israeli exchange. Grand, in his charmingly accented Eng lish, is equally adept at fend ing off awkward queries from newspapermen on either side of the "line.". Observers Unarmed As men of peace whose job is to stop any fighting which might flare up, the UN ob servers are unarmed. They are familiar figures in Israel as well as in the neighboring Arab countries, but especial ly in Jerusalem itself, site of the Israel-Jordan MAC as well as the UN Headquarters staff. They have a choice as to which side of the line they will live on. If they choose the Israeli side of Jerusalem, they are assured of Western amenities and a varied social life-especially if they dare to drive the 50 miles down to Tel Aviv once in a while. If they live in Jordan-held Jeru salem, there will be fewer of these amenities, and less of a social life, but prices are cheaper and their pay will go further. Since they are per mitted to cross the border at will, many of them enjoy the best of both worlds with lit tle inconvenience. . But if the UN staff can be seen most .evenings in the lo cal bars and nightspots, their job is not without an element of real danger. Last-' year a Jordanian patrol fired on a group of Israeli policemen guarding the Old Hebrew University-Hadassah Hospital buildings on Mount Scopus, an Israeli enclave on the out skirts of eastern Jerusalem. The chairman of the Israel Jordan MAC, Col. George Flint, from Canada, went to the scene to try to arrange a cease fire. By the time the shooting had stopped, four Is raeli policemen had been kill ed. Next to their bodies was found that of Col. Flint, shot dead by a Jordanian bullet. Similiarly, on the Syrian Jordan border, another trou ble spot, UN observers, man ning observation posts along both sides of the frontier, have often found themselves literally in the middle of the shooting, with little more than a white flag with which to protect themselves." . Today, more than 10 years after the end of the Palestine War, there is still no peace in the Holy Land and the shooting may blaze up along the frontier for almost any reason-or for no reason at all. But until a proper peace is concluded between Israel and her neighbors, the UN will be around, in strength and on the spot, to put down the flames. g MAIL TRIBUNE, McdforJ, Or. A Thursdiy, Jul 16, 15t BUDGETS DON'T WORK Ithaca, N. Y.-DPD-"Average budgets made for average families don't work," says Dean Helen Canoyer of the New York State College of Home Economics. "If there were .a formula for budgeting family expendi tures, and if we at the college had such a formula, we'd have a line at our door as long as the line of family budgets which have been tried and discarded," she said. Dean Canoyer recommend ed that each family make its own individual man for the use of its income. 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