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VOL XXXIU NO. 20 . FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1948 PROVIDENCE, R. L 7 CENTS THE -COPY Bernadotte's .Decis.iori, EnvoyI . Blasts Epstein /iccepts Gift of Supplies . NE w YORK-UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and the Arabs alike were castigated this week. by Eliahu Epstein, Israeli envoy to this country, for the terms of the latest truce agree­ ment in Palestine. • Epstein, who visited Mayor O'Dwyer at City Hall prior to ac­ cepting 18 carloads of supplies do­ nated by Americans for the Israeli government, declared: " We consider Count Bernadot­ te's recommendations a: departure from the original truce terms. We suggest that Count Bernadotte follow the original decision, in­ cluding no limitations to be made on immigration." Of the Arabs, he said that they "are going against the whole letter and ·spirit" of the original truce t;erms by inserting conditions in the new agreements. The Arab conditions, he warn­ ed, might "be only another way ,/ to torpedo the truce." He added that if the truce failed it would be the Arabs' responsibi,lity and pointe