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LONDON (WNS)—The London conference on Pal-
estine, which was postponed to Dec. 16, is not expected
to resume before early in 1947, according to semi-official
reports.
The possibility of another postponement was indi-
cated by a foreign office spokesman, who said it was
doubtful that Foreign Secretary Bevin, who is attending
the United Nations Assembly sessions in New York, can
JERUSALEM (Special)—
One Jew was killed and two
others were taken to a hos-
pital Tuesday when 3,400
refugees violently resisted
their transshipment at Haifa
after landing on a blockade-
runner. Ten British soldiers
were hurt in the battle.
Jewish authorities asserted that
a second Jew had been fatally in-
jured.
The immigrants had arrived on
the ship Jewish Resistance. There
were 500 children and 100 preg-
nant women aboard.
The Jews were not subdued un-
til helmeted British troops using
fire hoses, tear gas and clubs
boarded the ship after having been
repulsed. The Jews threw every-
thing that was not attached to
the vessel at the invading British,
including cans of food.
BRITISH WARNED
While the battle was at Its
height, the passengers hung a huge
banner over the side of the ves-
sel. It read: "For every Jew mur-
dered or wounded aboard this
ship, you will pay in English blood.
You have been warned." It was
signed, "Commander-in-chief, Jew-
ish Resistance."
Fifty of the refugees leaped
overboard In their frenzy to escape
further wandering. All were re-
turned to the ship.
The deportation ships were to
wait at Haifa until the Palestine
High Court decides on a habeas
corpus application submitted on
their behalf by the Jerusalem
Community Council.
The habeas corpus order, issued
by Sir William Fitzgerald, Pales-
tine chief justice, called on the
authorities to show cause why the
Jews should not be allowed to
land.
In the petition for the writ, the
lawyers were reported to have
argued that the term "illegal" was
inapplicable in the case of the ref-
ugees since they were barred from
the country under a policy that
was itself 'illegal" and violative
of the Palestine mandate. The pe-
tition also raised the point that,
once having reached Palestine
waters, the arritrals were no longer
subject to deportation proceedings.
POINTS TO VISAS
The application to restrain the
deportation was made by a local
English Jewish attorney, E. D.
Gotein on behalf of the council.
He argued that the refugees should
receive an opportunity to appear
before the court and show they
were not "prohibited Immigrants
as some had visas that they had
been unable to use earlier because
of war conditions."
The tension in the country over
the recent bombings of railways
has eased somewhat, with no In-
cident reported over the week-end
except the killing of Fawzi Hus-
seini, cousin of the ex-Mufti and
a wealthy landowner. Husseini was
believed to have been killed by
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Vienna Jews Hit
Restitution Law
Warburg Tells
of Big DP Rise
Unable to attend the 61st annual encampment of the Jewish War
Veterans of the U. S. in Atlantic City this week-end, Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, chief of staff, gives his message to the convention
personally to Maxwell Cohen, national commander, whom he received
hi his War Department office. Paying tribute to the more than
10,000 Jews who died in service during World War H and noting
that 60,000 awards for valor were made to Jews, Gen. Eisenhower
said that "the patriotism and gallant performance of these men is
characteristic of the service Jewish soldiers have rendered in all
our wars."
Byrnes Sees
Silver, Wise
Zionist President
Meets Bevil' Twice
NEW YORK—American Zionist
leaders met and conferred with
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes, following two-._ meetings
held within the past week between
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
American Zionist leader.
The participants in the confer-
ence with Byrnes were Dr.
Silver and Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
joint chairmen of the American
Emergency Council, both of whom
are leaving shortly for the World
Zionist Congress. They were ac-
companied by Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, member of the executive of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
The two conferences between Dr.
Silver and the British foreign sec-
retary took place on Nov. 14 and
Nov. 20. Each discussion lasted
approximately one hour. Lord In
verchapel, British ambassador to
the United States, was the only
other person present on both oc-
casions.
Number Is Doubled,
Says JDC Chairman
•
Distortions
by Censors
Condemned
LONDON — The Conservative
Evening Standard bit terly de-
nounced the British censors In
Palestine for "stupidities, conceal-
ments and distortions."
The paper charges that the cen-
sors' actions were "manufacturing
uncertainty in Palestine and block-
ing efforts to restore peace."
The editorial quoted specific ex-
amples, starting with a ban on
Arthur Koestler's "Thieves in the
Night," a novel dealing with the
Palestine underground.
In one place, the censors slashed
out three quarters of an article by
an Englishman in the Palestine
Post on the indebtedness of Chris-
tiianity to Judiasm. The deletion
included: "Glory to God in the
highest and on earth peace to men
of goodwill," the paper asserted.
It added that one censor had
struck the word "Jews" from a
sentence to make it say that
"Arabs and others" lived in Pal-
estine.
NEW YORK—Displaced Jews in
Europe have doubled in the past
year and the number has risen to
250,000 or 20 per cent of the total
number of homeless persons, Ed-
ward M. M. Warburg, chairman
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, said on his return to the U.S.
Tuesday.
Warburg made a four-week in-
spection of Europe. On Sunday he
will report the results of his tour
at the Atlantic City conference of
the United Jewish Appeal.
RISE IS EXPLAINED
Warburg was accompanied by
Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European di-
rector of the JDC, and Henry
Bernstein, UJA co-director in New
York.
Asked the reason for the in-
crease in DP's, Dr. Schwartz de-
clared: -
"The chief cause is that people
are leaving their own countries for
lack of organized life and fear of
uncertain future.
"There are signs of economic
improvement in Belgium, Czecho-
slovakia and even Poland, but the
general situation is mixed, both
good and bad, because of general
political insecurity, hardships and
loss of life."
MOST IN U. S .ZONES
Discussing the figures compiled
on homeless Jews in Europe, Dr.
Schwartz said that of the 250,000
in displaced persons camps in
Germany, Austria and Italy, 153,-
000 were in the American zone In
Germany and 30,000 in the Ameri-
can zone in Austria.
He added that many of them
were "longing for opportunities to
migrate to Palestine."
Histadrut Sets $150,000 Goal Here
Delegates and key workers of .
the Detroit Palestine Histadrut
campaign have set a quota of
$150,000 as Detroit Jewry's share
of the $5,000,000 national Histad-
rut goal.
The following will represent De-
troit at the annual convention of
the National Committee for Labor
Palestine in New York this week-
end: Morris Ross, Louis Levine,
Dr. Eli Harelick, Sidney Shevitz,
Julius Honeyman, Harry Schumer,
Morris Lieberman, Alex Schreier,
Michael Teich and Sam Rabino-
vitz.
DELEGATES SUMMONED
A special meeting for organiza-
tions' delegates and campaign
workers will be at 8:30 p.m. Thurs-
day in the Rose Sittig Cohen audi-
torium. Detroit representatives to
the convention will give their re-
ports.
In announcing plans for the
opening of the Detroit campaign
with a city wide conference Sun-
day, Jan. 5, Schumer, campaign
chairman, said:
"A new era In Jewish coloniza-
tion work in Eretz Israel began
Oct. 6 when 11 new settlements
were established in a single day,
as a thousand pioneers poured into
the desert wastelands of the south
and rooted themselves into the
100,000 dunams of Jewish soil.
VIENNA (Special)—Vienna Jews
1,700 of them, held their largest
demonstration T uesd a y. They
shouted, "Never, never!" when Dr.
David Brill, head of the Jewish
community mentioned Austria's de.
sire to see the Allied occupation
army leave.
The meeting was called to pro-
test the restitution law which does
not provide for the return of
dwellings, places of business and
other property from which Hitler
ousted Jews. The meeting also
asked that properties of Jews who
died without heirs be placed in a
common fund to reimburse Jews
9 IN FEDERATION
whose property was destroyed.
"Histadrut members played the
Dr. Brill declared that Nazism
leading role in executing the en-
was getting stronger in Austria.
tzim and the funds necessary to
carry them through.
"Histadrut emissaries are active
in Europe guiding the endless
chain of uprooted Jews through
the "underground" to the Medi-
terranean. Histadrut volunteers ar-
range for the boats to bring ref-
ugees to the Homeland. This fleet
of life-saving craft must continue
to sail as long as there are any
Jews left in Europe who desire to
go to Palestine.
SUPPORT HAGANAII
"The Haganah, the Jewish self-
defense, whose actions in the past
few years have been closely as-
sociated with efforts to keep the
gates of Palestine open for Jew-
ish immigrants, has in its deve-
lopment been composed of and di-
rected mainly by members of Hil-
tadrut.
"The Kupat Holim, the Histadrut
sick fund, which provides medical
and social Service for more than
one half of all the Jews of Pal-
estine must be expanded to take
care of the recently arrived im.
migrants. The Histadrut coopera-
tive housing authority, which In
cooperation with other national
organizations undertook to pro-
vide low cost housing, requires
additional funds to build many
more thousands of houses.
IIARRY SCIIUMER
• • •
terprise and nine of the settle-
ments are part of the Histadrut
federation of collectives. Again,
the 250,000 men, women and chil-
dren who make up the Histadrut
demonstrated that the bulk of the
pioneering manpower comes from
its ranks.
"The $150,000 we have under-
"We must give our Palestine
taken to raise is modest Indeed pioneers the means so that they
when measured against the im- can build and defend our Jewish
mediate tasks before our Chalu. Home."
return in time for the meeting.
There are indications that Prof.
Selig Brodetsky, president of the
Board of Deputies of British Jews,
had suggested a postponement to
Colonial Secretary Creech-Jones
since the World Zionist Congress,
in Basle Switzerland , at whi h
Jewish participation in the parley
is to be discussed, might not in-
clude its sessions before the end
of December.
Although there has been no of-
ficial Jewish reaction to the re-
ported postponement, the move is
viewed in authoritative Jewish
circles as indicative of a desire by
the British government not to
proceed with the parleys before
the congress has had an oppor-
tunity to pass on the issues.
NO PARTITION DECISION
A foreign office spokesman
confirmed hero this week that
measures were. being taken to
augment the British military
garrison in Palestine. He said
the action was being taken in
anticipation of a move by the
British, regarding the Palestine
mandate, but denied that the
military precautions s t emmed
from an expected decision par-
titioning the country. - •
Active participation by Dr. Chaim
Weizmann in the Zionist Congress
was indicated by a report that the
president of the World Zionist Or-
ganization had arrived in Lugano,
Switzerland, for a conference with
Moshe Shertok, head of the politi-
cal department of the Jewish
Agency.
It had earlier been rumored that
because of ill health the veteran
world Zionist leader would not
actively participate in the sessions
beyond delivering the opening ad-
dress and attending the essential
caucuses.
INSISTS ON STATE IDEA
Rabbi J. L. Fishman, acting
chairman of the executive of the
Palestine Jewish Agency, declared
here that Jewish participation in
the conference would materialize
only if the principle of a Jewish
State were accepted. Ho stated
that if Britain is to find peace, the
Palestine question must be solved
on the basis of a speedy establish-
ment of a Jewish State.
Refusal by the British govern-
ment to make concessions on
Jewish immigration and on
transferring Cyprus deportees to
Palestine may influence the con-
gress Into reaching an adverse
decision on the question of Jew-
ish participation in the Palestine .
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Aid to DP's Asked
by Mrs. Roosevelt
NEW YORK—Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt u r g e d Sunday that
Americans show more responsibi-
lity for displaced persons abroad.
She said the problem should be
considered from an economic as
well as humanitarian angle.
"Great organized groups" will
defeat any government attempts to
ease immigration of refugees un-
less Americans showed more con-
cern, she said.
Mrs. Roosevelt is a member of
the United States delegation to
the United Nations General As-
sembly which is considering the
DP problem. She spoke at a meet-
ing marking the tenth anniversary
of the founding of Selfhelp of
Emigres from Central Europe, Inc.
Mrs. Roosevelt listed "labor and
veterans groups and some patri-
otic women's societies" as pro-
spective enemies of the announced
Administration intentions to admit
some displaced persons into the
United States.