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VOL. 48, NO. 31
Recommendations
On Palestine to
Follow Sessions
By OTTO SCHICK
LONDON, (JTA)—The British
Government will probably not at-
tempt to act on the recommenda-
tions of the Anglo-American con.
ferees until after conclusion of
the projected round-table discus.
sions among the 'British, the Jews
and the Arabs, which will prob-
ably be held here within the next
four or five weeks, ft was re-
ported here.
It is learned reliably that no
"aolematic invitation" to attend
the conferences will go out to the
Jewish Agency, and it is consid-
y ered doubtful in informed quar-
ters that the Agency will be in-
vited. However, that probably de-
pends on events of the next few
weeks.
The Arab Office here has issued
a statement reiterating Arab op-
position to any solution based on
partition. The statement said the
recommendations of the U. S..
British experts were not satis-
factory.
The Paris radio' said this week
that several Jews have been ar-
rested in Damascus after a po-
lice raid on the Jewish quarter.
They will be tried for it1SVIntain.
Ing "illegal relations" with Zion.
fists, the broadcast said.
Lehman Switches
To Education in
His New Role -
I
NEW YORK.—Former Governor
Herbert H. Lehman has accepted
the office of honOrary president of
the American Association for Jew.
Ish Education, according to an an-
nouncement this week by Bernard
Semel, honorary secretary of the
organization.
This is one of the first com-
munal posts assumed by Governor
Lehman since his resignation as
director general of tho United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration and his return to
private life,
The American 'Association for
Jewish Education is a national
coordinating and service agency
which helps local communities in
providing religious education for
their children.
Lehman has also consented to
servo as a member of the board
of directors of the Jewish Theo.
logical Seminary of America, it
was announced. In 1941 he re-
ceived an honorary degree of
Doctor of Letters from the Sem-
inary.
and
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British Clamp Rigid Curfew
On Tel Aviv: Roundup Begins
Discuss Plight of European Jewry
200,000 Placed Under Virtual
House Arrest as Troops Search
City for ArMs and Terrorists
JERUSALEM — Tel Aviv's 200,000 residents were
placed under virtual house arrest at dawn Tuesday as
British troops combed this all-Jewish city in an attempt
to round up the persons who bombed the King David
Hotel here last week.
A 22-hour-a-day curfew was slapped on Jerusalem,
and residents were forbidden to leave their homes ex-
cept under the authorized two-hour period for purchas-
ing necessary commodities.
Reports said that about 1,000 persons were arrested,
Polish, Jewish Groups
In Detroit Ask Support
Of Poland Government
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of Detroit, president of the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women, is shown (at left above) in the organization's
National OfIkies in New York City, discussing with Miss Cella 13Ioom,
the maintenance of the Council's first home for unattached Jewish
women in Europe. Miss Bloom, who lives in Rochester, N. Y., is now
in Athens, Greece, where she is director of the home, formerly oper-
ated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Gurion Tells Press.
Agency May Publish
Book of British Crimes
PARIS, (JTA) — The Jewish
Agency may soon publish a
"Black Book" listing crimes of
murder 'and terror committed by
the Palestine administration
against the Jews of Palestine.
David Ben Gurion, chairman of
the Agency executive, told news-
men this week at a press confer-
ence here.
The Agency has not published
such a listing earlier because it
did not wish to further embitter
Byrnes Says Partition Plan
Originated in Great Britain
By BEATRICE HEIMAN
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Tho partition plan fot
Palestine which has been recommended to the Ameri-
can and British governments by the Anglo-American
relations between the Jews and
the British Government, he said,
adding that "ultimate responsi-
bility for sabotage, murder and
lawlessness in Palestine will rest
on the British Government," which
during the past seven years "set
an example of lawlessness and
breach of faith in Palestine."
In the first public statement by
an * individual member of the
Agency executive, Ben Gurion.
second ranking member of the
Agency, denied the charges of
the White Paper. British Middle
East circles, hating and fearing
the existence of the progressive
Palestine Jewish community in
the Middle East, are attempting
to destroy it, he chargeti.
Refers to Telegrams
Referring to th e telegrams
quoted in the White Paper, he
declared, "I do not say that all
these documents are forged, but
such cases are known in history,"
and recalled that the British Gov-
ernment has upon occasion used
false documents to compromise
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conferees, who have just com-
pleted their discussions in Lon- Mr. Byrnes replied that he did
don, Is of British origin, Sccre- not want to be secretive, but that
tarY of State James F. Byrnes he had not read in full the last
said this week. He Indicated that installment received by the State
o final decision has been reached Department, which presumably
Y this government. contains the crucial recommenda-
\_ He disclaimed knowledge of au- tions.
fi
ISAAC FRANCK'S STATE-
Mention 100,000
thorship of the idea, but empha-
MENT ON LAST WEEK'S
tically said that no direction of The Secretary of State said that
EDITORIAL
any kind was given by anybody the admission of 100,000 European
Numerous communications on
in the United States Government Jews to Palestine is mentioned in
the front-page editorial, "Is
to the American representatives the report of the conferees. How-
In London to suggest any such ever, whether this question is to Detroit Too Poor to Keep a
Good Man! Or Is Detroit Just
plan. be considered together with the
Plain Blind!" which appeared
The Secretary said that the partition plan or separately de-
In last week's Chronicle, have
plan has the approval of the Bri- pends on what the full Cabinet
tish Cabinet. He added that he Committee and the President will been received. Among them is
one by Isaac Franck, executive
considered it necessary to point say, he added.
Mr. Byrnes did not know, he director of the Detroit Com-
out that the report is not a joint
munity Council, who is resign-
one but has the unanimous sup- said, whether this government
ing his position to take a sim-
Port of 'the three American as would be represented at the Arab-
well as the three British repre- Jewish conference which the . Bri- ilar post in Brooklyn. They
sentatives. tish Government has called to will appear in next week's edi-
To a question as to whether the take place in London for further tion of the Chronicle.
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plan actually proposed partition, Palestine discussions.
The first joint Polish and Jew-
ish action for support of the Pol-
ish government- was formulated
at a meeting July 26 at Jericho
Temple by representatives of Pol-
ish and Jewish organizations.
The meeting, initiated by the
Michigan Jewish Labor Council
and attended by representatives
of the Council, the City Commit-
tee of the Jewish Peoples Fra-
ternal Order, Federation of Polish
Jews, American-Polish Democrat-
ic Connell, Rebuilders of Poland,
American Slav Congress and Glos
Ludowy, elected Harold L. Sha-
piro and Senator Stanley Nowak
as co-chairmen of the provisional
committee.
The immediate plans of the
committee call for mass protest
meetings in the Jewish and Pol.
Ish communities on the recent
pogroms in Poland. The first of
these will be at Jericho Temple
on August 21. The committee will
also issue a call to Jewish, Polish
and labor organizations for a dele-
gated conference at which plans
will be made to develop moral
and economic support to the Pol-
ish government.
The conference will also set up
a permanent organization to corn-
bat the attempts of reactionary
elements here and in other coun-
tries to revive anti-semitism in
Poland and use it as a weapon to
prevent the reconstruction of that
country on a democratic basis.
Including men and women who
had been under police supervi-
sion. In Haifa, about 50 men and
women who had been released
from interment camps in Eritrea
earlier this year were re-arrested
and Bent to Latrun prison:
Lieut. Gen. Sir Alan Cunning.
ham, British high commissioner
in Palestine, said the British had
"clear evidence of the existence
of terrorists in Tel Aviv and that
some, if not all, of those who took
part In the Jerusalem crime came
from that town."
Sir Evelyn Barker, British com-
mander-in-chief In Palestine, has
issued a letter to all units in
which he charges that all Jews in
Palestine are equally guilty of the
Mktg David bombing. Explaining
his reason for ordering all Jew-
ish business, places of entertain-
ment and homes out of bounds
for British soldiers, Barker added
that "this race" should bo made
to feel British loathing and con-
tempt through the most effective
means — their pockets. Barker
added that expressions of regret
by Jewish institutions must be
treated as "hypocritical," Binae
they do not cooperate in eradi-
cating terrorism.
Tel Aviv probably will be un.
der rigid curfew for several days
while soldiers and Palestine po•
lice carried on the house-to-house
search, a high-ranking officer
said. The city has been trans-
formed into a virtual ghost town
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Army Halts Large Transports
Of D.P. Jews from British Zone
By ROBERT GARY
BERLIN, (JTA)—The U. S. Army has begun halt-
ing large transports of Jewish refugees arriving from
the British zone, although permitting the entrance of
small groups, it was learned here.
It is known that Army officials at Mariendorf, a suburb of Ber-
feel that the British are failing lin, to relieve the congestion at
to shoulder a fair share of the the Duppel camp here. The new
-efueee burden and are seeking a camp at which the first group of
clarification of the entire problem. 500 displaced Jews arrived this
This new policy may explain week, consists- of more than a
the halting and turning back of square block of three-story apart-
a train with 600 Jewish refugees ment houses with a capacity of
from Eastern Europe at Gies- 4,000 persona.
A personal inspection by a Jew.
sen, 40 miles east of Frankfurt,
earlier this week. When the Jews fish Telegraphic Agency corres-
learned that they were being sent pondent established that th/Ma-
back to the British zone, a num- riendorf center, which formerly
ber of them abandoned their bag- housed American occupation
gage and fled the train, making troops, is one of the most com-
their way to Frankfurt lade. fortable camps in the entire U.S.
pendently. After the train arrived zone of Germany. The first grodp
at a British depot, another group of DP's were delighted to find
fled and headed for the American that the rooms at the new camp
were standard size with large
zone.
windows and, in some instances,
The office here of Rabbi Philip large balconies, permitting them
Bernstein. adviser on Jewish af- to enjoy normal family life.
fairs to Gen. McNerney, is Inves-
At present it Is planned to bil-
tigating the Giessen incident, it let four people in a room, but
was reported.
this figure is expected to vary in
Meanwhile, the Army has opened proportion to the arrival of other
another displaced persons camp refugees from the East.