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Vol. 48, No. 43

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1946

British Due to Free
I:Agency Heads From
Latrun Prison Camp

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JERUSALEM (Special)--Informed circles here were
expecting today the "imminent release" of the three de-
tained leaders of the Jewish Agency executive and sevtn
other leading Zionists.
They have been held in the Latrun detention camp
since June 29 following a raid on the Agency offices here.

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Ellezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Agency executive, returned from week
that this was a prerequi-
London Tuesday after conferences site to Jewish participation In
in the Colonial Office. He was re_ the Palestine Conference, when
ceived by the high commissioner, it resumes on Dec. 16.
Lt. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham who Authoritative Jewish circles have
gave him permission to go to Lat- confirmed the Observer report as
run to see his colleagues.
"substantially correct."
He spent several hours at the
British armored reinforcements
camp but was non-committal on
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his return. It is believed that he
told the Agency leaders that they
were about to be released.
British planes, in the meantime,
were circling around a new camp
set up by a group of young or-
thodox pioneers in the Arab-in-
habited mountain region between
Bethlehem and Hebron. There
were no incidents.
The youths left Jerusalem Tues-
day night and after penetrating
the Arab region put up prefabri-
cated houses. The group offered
prayers as soon as the houses were
finished.

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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.--The 49th annual conven-
tion of the Zionist Organization of America opened here
today at the Hotels Breakers and St. Charles with 18 De-
troiters, headed by Morris M. Jacobs, as delegates. Jacobs
is president of the Detroit ZOA district.
Other Detroit delegates are Rabbi Leon Fram, Abe

MORRIS M. JACOBS

Kasle, Walter Field, Charles Wo-
lok, Louis Berry, Philip J. Gilbert,
Leon Kay, Sol A. Dann, Harold
Weisman, Goodman Rycus, Philip
Slomovitz, Milton R. Atlas, Sey-
mour Tilchin, Charles Rubiner, Sol
B. Edelman, Louis Cohane and
Ben Sidlow.
"The Detroit representatives are
keenly aware of the need for har.

Ben Gurion Seeks
to Return Home

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London Envisions
Leaders' Release

LONDON (JTA)—Although the
British government has given no
assurance to the Jewish Agency
concerning release of its impris-
oned leaders, it is expected to
free the detained men shortly,
the newspaper Observer has re-
Ported. It added that the Agency
spokesmen told Colonial Secre-
tary Arthur Creech-Jones last

At Service Meeting

Simultaneous with the hanging of the Nazi war criminals Oct. 10, a ceremony took place throughout
the United States intended to carve In history the record of fascist brutality. At 2 p.m. that day, dele-
gations representative of the people presented each of the 48 governors with a copy of "The Black
Book," a documented text of Nazi crimes against the 6,000,000 murdered European Jews. A delegation
from Detroit visited Gov. Kelly in Lansing. They are shown presenting' the book to the governor. Left
to right, Harry Nathan, president of the Detroit section of the American'Jewish Congress, Irwin Cohen,
Isadore Starr, Rabbi Joshua Sperka, S. Lifschitz, Gov. Kelly, Dorothy. K. Roosevelt, executive director
of the Michigan Citizens Commit ee,
Mrs. Rose Handelman, Alan N. Brown, of the, National Lawyers
Guild, Elias Rubenstein, and Rev Ellsworth Smith. director of the Church of all Peoples.

British Shift
Gen. Barker

LONDON—Lt. Gen. Sir Evelyn
Barker, who wrote an anti-Semitic
letter to his officers after the King
David Hotel bombing, has been
transferred from his post as Brit-
ish commander In Palestine, the
War Office announced Wednesday.
He will head the eastern command
in England.
Gen. Barker will be succeeded
by Maj. Gen. G. H. A. MacMillan,
now serving in the War Office.
The change in the Palestine
command was welcomed by Jew-
ish circles here, Barker was un-
popular with even moderate Jew-
ish elements in Palestine as a re-
sult of his frequent curfews and
other 'repressive measures.
Barker's removal is considered
by some sources as a concession
by Britain to induce the Jews to
join the Palestine conference.

`Fighting Jews'
Held Salvation
of Entire Race

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R. it BENSON SAKS, economist,
lager and welfare worker who
has just returned from Paris where
he served on the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, will be principal
speaker
at the founder's meeting
of the professional division and
echanical trades division of the
D
Metroit
Serhe
vice Group .Monday
night, at t
Jewish Conununity
Center. He will also speak at the
vle lorY stag dinner of the food
Service
council at 8 p. tn. Tuesday,
St
the Hotel Stotler.

NEW YORK, (Palcor) -- "The
salvation of all the Jews of the,
world is in that new fighting breed
of Jews in Palestine," writes Ed
Sullivan, Broadway columnist of
the New York Daily News.
Sullivan recommends the book
"The Story of the Irish Race," by
Seumai MacManus, to "all Jews
actively or passively engaged in
the Palestine fight . . . They too
(the Irish) were called terrorists,
but history reverses that verdict,
honored them as great patriots,"
Sullivan writes.

EDITORIAL, P. 4

Zionist Convention
Opens; 18 Detroiters
Attend as Delegates

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PARIS (JTM—David Ben Mini.
on, chairman of the Jewish Agen.
cy executive, wishes to return to
Palestine to help participate in the
Zionist Congress election cam-
paign of the Palestine Labor Par-
ty, circles close to him reported.
The elections for Palestinian del-
agates to the Congress have beer;
.postponed until Oct.' 28.
The Palestine authorities have
not issued orders for the deten-
tion of Ben Gurion, and should he
return to Palestine he will not be
arrested, a representative of the
Palestine government 'told a Jeru-
salem press conference last week.
He confirmed that censorship has
been imposed on mall from Jewish
internees in Cyprus as well as on
communications sent to them.

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PEACE IN ZOA

Goldman Aim 819 More Jews
Is a State With Sent to Cyprus
60 Pct • of an JERUSALEM—A Cyprus deten-

mony and unanimity at the con-
vention," Jacobs declared. "We
shall make every effort to foster
unity at the sessions."
ISSUES OF CONVENTION
The major items on the agenda
are the issues confronting the
forthcoming World Zionist Con-
gress scheduled to open Dec. 7 in
Switzerland, the stand of Ameri-
can Zionists on the latest develop.
ments in Palestine, and youth and
administrative problems in rela-
tion to the future of Zionism in
this country.
The formal convention sessions
will be ushered in tonight with
a dinner devoted to youth and
with brief addresses by leaders
of the Zionist youth organiza-
tions.
Following Sabbath morning ser-
vices, thm'e will be held, during
the afternoon, a Zionist war vet-
erans reunion, followed by an Oneg
Shabbat under the auspices of
Histadrut Ivrith.
ADDRESS BY SILVER
The presidential address by Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver will be delivered
at the Saturday evening session,
to be presided over by Dr. Eman-
uel Neumann, vice president of
the ZOA.
The morning session on Sunday
will be devoted to reports on ZOA
activities and the Palestine na-
tional funds, with Judge - Morris
Rothenberg, president of the Jew-
ish National Fund, presiding.
At the afternoon session the
election of national officers will
take place. Dr. Irving Miller will
act as chairman. The rest of
the afternoon and night sessions
will be devoted to discussion of
political affairs and the issues
before the World Zionist. Con- ,
gress.

The session devoted to the World
Zionist Congress will be under the
chairmanship of Dr. Silver. The
principal speaker will be Dr. Moshe
Sneh, member of the executive of
the Jewish Agency, who was per-
mitted to enter this country on
the order of undersecretary of
state Dean Acheson, after a visa
had been refused to him earlier.
BARTLEY CRUM TO SPEAK
Bartley C. Crum, member of
the Anglo-American Commission of
Inquiry, will be the princpial
speaker at the closing dinner ses-
sion on Monday night, at which
Dr. Israel Goldstein, former ZOA
president, will preside. Louis Lip-
sky, member of the Jewish Agency
Executive, and Henry Monsky, pres-
ident of Bnai Brith, will be other
speakers.
Judge Louis E. Levinthal, former
ZOA president, will preside at the
Monday afternoon sessions for re-
ports of convention committees.
The newly-elected national execu-
tive will hold its first meeting on
Tuesday morning:

tion camp was being made ready
WASHINGTON, (Special)—A liv- for the reception of 819 Jewish
ing Jewish State to include from refugees who were deported from
50 to 65 percent of Palestine is the Palestine Wednesday after having
least that world Jewry can ac- arrived on the blockade runner
cept, Dr. Nahum Goldman, mem- Bracha Fuld.
ber of the Jewish Agency execu.
The trans-shipment of the Jews
tive, said Wednesday at a press from the 400-ton wooden craft to
conference.
two British "Liberty" ships began
The alternative, he warned, is in Haifa at midnight Wednesday.
an outburst of unprecedented vio-
The Stern group's second manL
knee against Britain in the next
few weeks. If a settlement fails, festo in 48 hours on Tuesday
he declared, Jews will join Arabs threatened an intensification of
in the 1947 United Nations Assem- the mine war against the British.
bly in asking that the United Na-
tions end the British mandate.
Dr. Goldman declared that the
proposed Jewish State must in-
clude the Negev, the southern des-
ert section comprising about one
third of the land. The Arabs have
Amid applause that echoed his
no plans for this territory, he
Congress and with sadnesi in my
pointed out, and the Jews can re- prophecy, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise heart I am going to vote for par-
told an audience that jammed the
claim it with irrigation.
tition—for a viable Jewish State
The Palestine State should also Shaarey Zedek Synagogue Wed- and for control of our own Im-
nesday night that "I shall live to
Include the Galilee, the northern see
migration in an adequate area of
a Jewish State of Palestine." Palestine."
hills region, he proposed, and the
coastal plains that now have a Dr. Wise, president of the Ameri-
can and World Jewish Congresses,
The revered Zionist leader pre.
Jewish majority.
is 72.
dieted that President Truman will
He emphasized that this was
"When I grow disheartened," he take more definite action in the
not a hard and fast demand but
next * few weeks in persuading
a plan to be used as a basis for said, "I remember the words of
that king among men, the greatest Britain to permit greater Jewish
discussion.
huma n being I ever met, Th eodor e immigration Into Palestine.
Goldman declared the new Jew- Herzl. 'You
will live t o see the
"Britain cannot prevent Jews
Ish state must have immediately Jewish State,' he told me, and I
"full freedom of Jewish immigra- believe it for he was a Prophet." from coming Into Palestine," he
Lion directed by the Agency" if Dr. Wise reaffirmed his position thundered. "No Jew can be an 'il-
1,000,000 Jews are to be speedily in favor of partition of Palestine. legal immigrant' in his own coun-
settled there. He said this would "I hate the word partition," he try. The only 'illegals' in Palestine
solve the European Jewish prob- declared, "but I know now that we are the British officials who have
lem and provide a home for per- cannot get the whole of Palestine. violated the Balfour Declaration
secuted Jews in North Africa. "I am going to the World Zionist and the Mandate and hold Pales-
tine lawlessly."

Dr. Wise Predicts: Shall
Live to See a Jewish State'

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