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LEFTISTS AND Ik3UN BATTLE IN PALESTINE
Canton
Proposal
Spurned
Human 'Mine Detector' Finds Haven
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Bevin May Take
Zion Issue to UN
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LONDON (Special)—Jew-
ish Agency leaders met with
Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin and Colonial Secretary
Arthur Creech-Jones and re-
jected the British proposals
for a solution of the Pales-
tine problem. The Arabs had
already rejected the plan.
Bevin's answer was that the
British government would probab-
ly have to submit the whole Pal-
estine problem to the United Na-
tions.
He told Arab delegates to the
Palestine conference that he Could
see no use carrying the talks on
any further. A final meeting was
held Friday.
WANT WITHDRAWAL
The Arabs in their turn told
Bevin they would like Britain to
withdraw from Palestine alto-
gether and let them handle the
situation in their own way.
Moshe Shertok, head of the
Agency political department, ex-
plained the rejection of the British
terms by citing the -main provi-
sions. The plan envisioned separ-
on-contiguous semi-auton-
ate
areas for Jews and Arabs
orn,
under the British high commis-
sioner for five years.
Immigration which under the
Morrison Plan was fixed at 100,-
000 annually was sot at approx-
imately the same number for two
years.
MIGHT GO TO UN
The Zionists have asked the
British government to produce a
map showing the areas suggested
in the cantonment proposal. It is
reported that the map will show
more than 20 individual areas
planned in Palestine.
Shertok said that ''we consider
that our business in London is
practically finished." He added
that a session of the Agency
executives might be called soon,
saying that if Britain carries the
issue to the United Nations, the
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Council President
British Curbs in Zion
Called Sympathy Act
Britain Hedges
on 'Ultimatum'
Gruner Granted
Delay to Appeal
TEL AVIV (Special)—The
recent drastic British actions
in Palestine are intended pri-
marily to influence British
opinion and are not directed
against "terrorists," Gene
Currivan, special writer for
JERUSALEM (Special) —
Members of Hashomer Ha-
tzair, leftist labor group, and
of the Irgun Zvai_ Leumi
raided each others' camps in
the Tel Aviv area threaten-
ing to embroil the Jewish
community in Palestine in
the New York Times, asserted. It
is a question of policy, probably
long term, he said.
The British, he explained, are
seeking sympathy and nothing
could attract sympathy more
readily than sacrifice by them.
This explains, he said, the evacu-
ation of all British residents
deemed non essential and the dis-
ruption of homes.
Jerusalem is now divided into
three principal areas and no one
can move from one to another
without permission.
Viennese-born Walter Ivanyi, 37, one of the few survivors of the
Currivan's informant, a highly
Nazis' human "mine detector" battalions of Jews, is reunited
placed official, denied that the re-
through IIIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society)
cent demands sent to the Jewish
with his wife Fannie and three-month-old baby daughter Suzanne
Agency and the Jewish National
Carolyn, who arrived in New York on the S.S. Marine Marlin.
Council were actually an ulti-
Ivanyi was impressed from a Nazi concentration camp and forced
matum.
to act as a human shield for German panzer troops against ex-
It had been assumed that re-
ploding personnel mines on the Russian front. After seven months
jection of the ultimatum would
of this, Ivanyi, wounded, switched clothes with a dead Hungarian
mean more drastic action by the
soldier, took his papers and escaped.
government, but actually, said
Currivan's informant, this was not
the case and the ultimatum was
issued merely to know where the
Jews stood.
The British now know that the
Jews intend to do nothing about
the British demand that they turn
informers. No retaliatory steps
have been taken or are contem-
Brotherhood Leader
HAIFA (JTA) — The British plated, said Currivan.
merchant vessel Empire Heywood
Due Here on Feb. 22
left for Cyprus this week carrying
656 men, women and children who Resistance to British
Detroit will honor John G. arrived here aboard the blockade
Inevitable, Says Wise
Winant Saturday evening, Feb. 22, runner Negev.
as the highlight in its participa-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Brit-
One
of
those
wounded
during
a
tion in National Brotherhood
ish White Paper on Palestine "is
clash
between
the
passengers
and
Week, Feb. 16-23.
such a gross and lawless violation
a boarding party and a later fra-
Winant, national chairman of cas on the pier when the refugees of the Bal.t..wr Declaration and the
the observance and former U. S. were being trans-shiped, died British M ite for Palestine that
resistance .a inevitable," Dr. Ste-
ambassador to England, will ar- Monday.
phen S. Wise, president of the
rive in Detroit • from Cleveland
Prior to the departure of the American and World Jewish Con-
with Richard M. Kelly, director
of public Information for the Na- Empire Heywood, a Jewish Agen- gress, declared.
tional Conference of Christians cy spokesman, annealing to the
"A people less firmly grounded
and Jews. Kelly will join Winant government to allow the immi- ethically and spiritually than the
at a civic dinner in the Hotel grants to remain; said that "every Jews would have resorted long
deportation provides an atmos- before this to much graver and
Statler.
Many local functions are plan- phere on which terrorism feeds. more violent resistance to British
ned to make this 14th year cele- We cannot tell Jews to combat rule in Palestine and the terms
bration the most elaborate in his- terrorism when their suffering of the White Paper," Dr. Wise
brethren are deported."
stated.
tory.
Among the churches to hold
brotherhood prog
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will be
Trinity Methodist
.urch, High-
land Park; Calvary Presbyterian
Church, Central Methodist Church
and Hartford Avenue Baptist
Church.
Students of Durfee Intermediate NEW YORK—On a North River ported by the United Jewish Ap-
School will see 'The World We
pier when the S.S. "Marine peal, provided its corporate affi-
Want to Live In" Thursday after- Perch" arrived Tuesday a middle- davit as the basis for visas for 310
noon, and from 4:30 to 5 p.m. aged Philadelphian waited to wel- of the immigrants.
that day WJR will broadcast a come an orphaned refugee youth
Gold and his wife heard about
special program, "Music for World whom he is adopting to take the young Szerman through a sec-
Brotherhood."
olace of his son, killed in action in ond son, Lt. Col. Norman G.
Formal activities in Detroit will the U. S. Army.
Gold, .now with the American
culminate with a forum on
Jacob N. Gold had never seen army of occupation in Germany.
"Brotherhood- Pattern for Peace"
Col. Gold wrote his father that
at 7:45 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23, in Ben Zion Szerman, 22-year-old Po- he had hired a number of dis-
the Second Baptist Church, 441 lsh survivor of a Nazi concentra- placed persons as civilian em-
tion camp, his prospective foster-
Monroe avenue. -
child, but was able to recognize ployees for the army. Among
him instantly when he came down them was Szerman, in whom he
the gangplank — because he bears immediately saw a double for his
a striking resemblance to Gold's dead brother.
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own son, Berwin, killed in Frar
on Oct. 29, 1944.
REPLACES DEAD SON
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Leon Gellman, president of the
COL. GOLD ASKED his parents
Mizrachi Organization of America, AIDED BY UJA
whether they would consider tak-
will address /
achi here at 8:30
YOUNG SZERMAN is one of ing the boy into their home. Mr.
p.m. Monday
Yeshlvath Beth
721 "DP" immigrants who arrived and Mrs. Gold responded enthu-
Yehudah.
Gellman, a member of the world from Bremerhaven, Germany, siastically. With the help of Unit-
Zionist executive, has an urgent aboard the "Marine Perch." The ed Service for New Americans and
message for all Zionist groups. He ship is also bringing 87 orphaned the Philadelphia section of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
will report on recent emergency refugee children.
The immigrants, of all faiths and they made arrangements for young
sessions of the executive and on
problems taken up at the recent many nationalities, are coming to Szerman to come here as a quota
meeting of the world Mizrachi ex- this country under the quota laws, Immigrant. Asking Col. Gold to
in accordance with President Tru- discuss the plan with the American
ecutive in Jerusa!em.
A reception In honor of Gellman man's directive on immigration of consul in Munich, the father wrote:
will be held at Finkel's Restau- refugees. United Service for New "It is my hope that the boy will
Americans, whose work is sup- replace Berwin in our hearts."
rant at 6 p.m.
Winant Dinner 656 Shipped Off
to Cyprus; Jew
Heads Events Dies After Battle
civil strife.
A few hours after 10 armed
leftists had kidnaped an Irgunist
in Rehovoth, the Irgunists re-
taliated by snatching two mem-
bers or Hashomer Hatzair in Tel
Aviv.
The kidnapings marked the fifth
clash in four days between ex-
tremists. Tuesday night, Irgunists
tried to burn down the club-
houses of the leftists in Tel Aviv
and Rehovoth.
STARTED BY HASHOMER
The troubles were precipitated
when the Hashomer Hatzair, the
most outspoken and belligerent
anti-"terrorist" group, began tear-
ing down Irgun posters in Tel
Aviv. A gang of Yemenite Irgun-
ists tried to halt the activity and
and street fighting ensued.
The strife, fortunately, has been
confined to the Hashomer youths,
who number about 15,000 in all
Palestine, and the "terrorists".
In the meantime, Lt. Gen. Sir
Evelyn Barker, notorious anti-
Semitic - commander of British
troops, yielded his command in
Palestine and left for Cairo.
AN IMPROVEMENT
There is general feeling that
Barker's successor, Maj. Gen. G.
H. A. MacMillan, while little
known in Phlestine, cannot help
but be an improvement.
The British officially announced
the postponement of the execution
of Dov Bela Gruner, condemned
Irgunist, whose death sentence has
been a focal point of the current
tension in the Holy Land.
The postponement was granted
to allow Gruner's lawyers to ap-
peal to the Privy Council, Brit-
ain's highest court.
Informed circles said it would
take months or possibly a year
for the Privy Council to unties the
legal tangle.
About 1000 Bedouins, armed with
knives and a pistol, attacked the
Jewish village of Bnai-Geulim,
near Nathanya, in a land dispute
and wounded six settlers and kid-
naped one Jew when they re-
treated.
Gold Star Parents to Adopt DP
Restrictive Clause
Who Is a Double for Dead Son Ban Asked in N.Y.
•
STANLEY C. MEYERS of Mi-
ami was reelected president of
the Council of Jewish Federa-
tion and Welfare Funds at the
15th annual general assembly
last week. The delegates were
told by Sidney S. Cohen, execu-
tive director of the Boston Com-
bined Jewish Appeal, that Amer-
ican Jewry will be called upon
In 1917 to raise "close to $300,-
000,000 for its overseas, national
and local needs, including the
$170,000,000 United Jewish Ap-
peal campaign." Mrs. Joseph
Glogower of Detroit also urged
increased support to the UJA.
Gellman to Speak
to Mizrachi Here
NEW YORK (JTA)—A bill has
been introduced into the New
York State Assembly to outlaw
restrictive clauses prohibiting own-
ers of houses to sell or rent their
property to Negroes, Jews or mem-
bers of other minority groups.
Among the supporters of the bill
is the American Jewish Congress.
The state of New York is more
advanced in dealing with discrimi-
nation matters than any state in
the Union, Sen. Irving M. Ives
declared at a conference of the
Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League
her.
Asserting that neither the fed-
eral government nor any other
state has made the same progress
as New York in barring discrim-
ination in employment, Ives called
for U. S. legislative curbs.
Jewish Youths Build
4th Colony in Month
JERUSALEM—The fourth Jew-
ish settlement to be staked out in
Palestine this month was estab-
lished Tuesday on Jewish Na-
tional Fund land at Kfar Etzion
near Solomon's Pools. The set-
tlers are Palestinian-born youths.