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Urge Action for Jews Council Spearheads Demonstrations
At Bnai Brith Banquet Against British Acts of Aggression
Harrison, Monsky Demand Entry of
100,000 Jews as Convention Closes
Detroit Jews Unite in Condemnation of British Violence
In Palestine; Combine with Bnai Brith on Resolution
Characterizing the policy of England as due more
to bungling than to actual anti-Semitism, Earl G. Har-
rison, member of the inter-governmental committee on
refugees, formerly President Truman's personal emissary
to ascertain conditions of DP camps in Germany and
Austria and author of the now famous Harrison Report,
urged that action be taken at once to enforce the recom-
mendation of, the Anglo-American Inquiry Commission
that 100,000 Jews be admitted to
Palestine. He also urged that
America break down all racial
barriers to immigration and nat-
uralization.
Harrison was the principal
speaker at the banquet which
marked the close of the 78th an-
nual convention of District Grand
HARRY YUDROFF
Lodge number six of the Bnai
Brith, comprisinrg eight states and
three provinces1n Canada.
"It makes my blood run cold,"
he said, "to realize that displaced
persons are still in those camps,
that these worst victims of the
most vicious persecution program
in all history are still compelled
to live, no, not to live but to
exist, on the German and Aus-
trian soil they loathe. What in-
justice!"
Henry Monsky, national presi-
dent of Bnai Brith and interim
president of the American Jewish
Conference, who was the other
main speaker at the banquet, ex-
coriated Great Britain for its
"duplicitous diplomacy." He con•
eluded with the statement, how-
ever, that "all questions concern-
ing the British loan have no re-
lationship to our rights in regard
to Palestine or to the attitude of
the British with respect thereto."
In combination with the Jewish
Community Council of Detroit, a
resolution was read to the body
by Mr. Monsky appealing to Presi-
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The Executive Board of the Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Detroit met in emergency session on July 3 and
mapped out a program of community-wide action in
vigorous condemnation of Britain's misdeeds in Palestine.
Working at lightning speed, the Community Council's ad-
ministration, committees, and staff, with the cooperation
of constituent organizations and many individuals, car-
ried out this program in the past week. The committee
charged with the responsibility of carrying out the Execu-
tive Board's decisions are the following: James I. Ell-
mann, Chairman, Rabbi Leon Fram, Benjamin M. Laikin,
Max Osnos and Charles Rubiner. Aaron Droock and Isaac
Franck, President and Executive Director, respectively,
were ex-officio members of the committee.
The protest program is as follows: (1) A vigorous
Resolution on behalf of the Community Council's 229 con-
stituent organizations was sent to the President of the
United States, the State Department, British Ambassador,
Michigan's two Senators and Detroit's members of the
House of Representatives.
(2) The text of the Community Council's Resolution,
with an appeal to all Detroiters to join in this resolution,
was published in the form of a three-quarter page ad in
Demonstrations on
A World Front
Denounce Britain
Reaction to British violence and
outrage in Palestine is being ex-
pressed on a world wide front. In
the United States, protest meet-
ings are being organized in prac-
tically every large city in the
country. Telegrams and petitions
are deluging the president and the
members of Congress.
In London, children who had
spent years in concentration
camps and be-ribboned veterans of
British campaigns from Dunkirk
to Arnheim were among the thou-
sands who marched in a protest
parade.
In New York, the Synagogue
Council of America, representing
all branches of American Jewish
life, sent 'a telegram to President
Truman and Secretary Byrnes ex-
pressing the Councils "deep sense
of horror and outrage over the
brutal and wanton aggression
against the Jews in Palestine."
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of
Palestine conferred with Prime
Minister Clement R. Attlee and
said at the conclusion of the in-
terview that the Palestine situa-
tion seemed difficult but "not be-
yond repair."
In Paris, David Ben Gurion,
chairman of the Jewish Agency
executive, demanded an impartial
investigation by representatives of
the "big powers" of the recent
British attacks on Palestine.
Speaking at an overflow mass
meeting, Ben Gurion asked that
the investigating parties include
neither Britons nor Jews.
A crowd in Paris, estimated at
more than 30,000, heard Leon
Blum say that immigration to
Palestine can be achieved if world
opinion favored it. It was the larg-
est Jewish mass meeting ever held
in Paris and the British policy was
denounced.
• In Prague, the British aggres-
sion in Palestine was condemned
at the first postwar Czechoslovak
Zionist Congress attended by 2,300
delegates from all over the coun-
try.
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Draws Convention Praise
The press and publicity report presented by Chairman
James Steinman of Chicago presented a resolution praising the
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE for its activities in behalf of
Bnai Brith. The resolution was approved and adopted on the
convention floor.
RESOLUTION
Whereas it has come to the attention of this committee that
certain Anglo-Jewish press in the district, especially the Detroit
Jewish Chronicle and the Chicago Sentinel, have been experi-
menting with a special project of dissemination of general Bnai
Brith news and in view of the fact that the committee feels that
it is a very important vehicle in the education of the Jewish
community in the meaning and purposes of Bnai Brith, therefore
it is recommended that in all communities where there are
Anglo-Jewish publications, that the lodges of those cities use
every effort to encourage these publication's to feature in their
papers regularly any news pertaining to Bnal Brith.
It is recommended that the publicity committee of the district
procure sample copies of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the
Chicago Sentinel and make these copies available to lodges where
there are Anglo-Jewish publications so that they may serve as
a guide to such actions.
ISAAC FRANCK
Veterans of World War II
Organize Protest March
NEW YORK—Thousands of vet. train and in busses will gather at
erans of Wold War II will partici- City Hall at 10:00 sun.
pate in a - tnarch on Washington
In Washington the delegation
on Sunday, July 14 to protest Bri- from New York will be joined by
tain's "shameful war against the other veterans from various parts
Jewish community of Palestine," of the country, and all will par-
it was announced today by the ticipate in a mass meeting which
Jewish War Veterans of the Uni. will demand that 100,000 displaced
ted States, which is sponsoring the Jews, whose immediate entry into
march.
In calling upon veterans to join
In the march, Maxwell Cohen, na-
tional commander, and William
Berman, national executive secre-
tary of the Jewish War Veterans,
issued a joint statement declaring:
"Veterans of World War II: You
defeated Hitler —but his war
against the Jewish people goes on.
The cast of characters may be dif-
ferent—the Brownshirts of the
Wilhelmstrasse having been re-
placed by the striped trousers of
Downing Street (Labor Party
style)—but the results are the
same: death and humiliation for
the Jews.
"Was it for this that our com-
rades bled and died? Did we rush
to England's aid in her moment
of greatest peril so that she shall
now imprison leaders of the Jew-
ish people, wage a shameful war
against the Jewish community of
Palestine and doom the survivors
of European Jewry to further
misery and death?
"Show that you won't stand for
it! Give expression to your sense
of indignation and outrage by
joining in the veterans' march to
Washington which will take place
on Sunday, July 14."
The Jewish War Veterans' office
announced that a long line of
automobiles carrying World War
II veterans will leave New York
City on Sunday morning and pro-
aced to Washington. Veterans
travelling by car will meet at
Union Square (16th Street side)
Palestine was requested by Presi-
dent Truman and unanimously
recommended by the Anglo-Amer-
ican Committee of Inquiry, be
transported at once.
Jews in Soviet
Zone of Germany
Get Good Care
By ROBERT GARY
BERLIN (JTA)—The handful of
Jews living in the Russian zone
in Germany in many ways enjoy
greater benefits than those in tha
American and British zones, Jew-
ish leaders told the correspondent
of the JTA during a ten-day tour
of Soviet-occupied Germany. None-
theless, nearly all Jews there said
they would leave as soon as Soviet
troops were withdrawn.
Every Jewish leader with whom
the writer spoke praised the Rus-
sian authorities, both when Rua.
scan officers were present at in-
terviews and at other times. Res.
titution of Jewish property has
been progressing since the Rus-
sians took over the area from the
Americans last July.
(3) The Community Council's
220 member organizations were re-
quested in a special urgent com-
munication to join in this program
and to send similar resolutions
and communications to govern-
ment officials in Washington.
(4) At the Community Council's
request, the closing dinner of
Bnai Brith's District Grand Lodge
No. 6 Convention on July 10 was
transformed into a joint protest
demonsfration. The entire Jewish
community, and specifically rep-
resentatives of affiliated organiza-
tions, were urged to attend thii
dinner demonstration, at which
the principal speakers were Earl
G. Harrison, Dean of the Law
School of the University of Penn-
sylvania and originator of the pro-
posal for the immediate transfer
of 100,000 Jews into Palestine,
Henry Monsky, National Pres!.
dent of Bnai Brith and Chairman
of the Interim Committee of the
American Jewish Conference, and
Aaron Droock, Jewish Community
Council President. At this dinner
demonstration, • the Community
Council's Resolution was again
adopted on behalf of the Bnal
representing
convention
Brith
eight states and three provinces
of Canada. -
(5) A special press conference of
Detroit's newspapers and of the
national press services was held
with Earl G. Harrison and Henry
Monsky on Wednesday morning,
July 10.
(0) A special radio broadcast
was arranged on Wednesday, July
10, at 10:45 p.m.. over WWJ in
which Early G. Harrison and
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Polish Premier Demands Execution
For Leaders of Kielce's Pogrom
WARSAW (JTA) —Polish Pre-
mier Eduard Osubka-Morawski
has demanded the death sentence
for the leaders and instigators of
at 9:00 A. M. on Sunday morning. last week's pogrom at Kielce dur-
Those going to Washington by ing which at least 40 Jews and
four Poles were killed. The trial
of the ringleaders opened in
Kielce early this week.
GLOSSY PAPER SHORTAGE
He declared: The "Kielce inci-
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regrets exceedingly that due to
the shortage of coated stock,
we are unable to continue
printing on our usual glossy
paper.
When the kind of paper we
have been accustomed to use
becomes available we will re-
turn to the use of a p5per
which has long been a favorite
of Chronicle readers.
Detroit's three newspapers on
July 10.
gling against Hitlerian disease. In
a democratic country there Is no
place for this."
The deputy militia commander
at Kielce has been arrested for
complicity inAtheAlots. It was re.
vealed that some of the Jews were
turned over to the mob by a num-
ber of men in official uniform.
The first ,nob assault on the Jew-
ish comstunity headquarters had
proved,Un.successful when a group
of Polish militiamen offered to
conduct the Jews through the an-
gry crowd. The Jews accepted the
safe-conduct offer and went out-
side where they were handed to
the mob which beat them to
death.
Jewish leaders pointed out that
virtually the entire Jewish popu-
lation of Kielce were victims of
the pogrom. Forty were killed and
60 injured of the town's 120 Jews.
From all parts of Poland re-
ports have been coming in that
Jews, particularly in small cities,
are afraid to leave their homes.
Foreign embassies here have been
swamped by applications for per.
mission to enter their country or
to receive transit visas which
would pern$ them to go to
France. Observers believe that the
Kielce pogrom will hasten legal
and illegal emigration of Polish
Jews, many ot whom are expected
to "infiltrate" into the British and
American zones of Germany.