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't KY 21, 1947 10c a Copy; $3 Per Year
Caniv%jn
in Nation
Waits Gun
To Speak Here
Labor Indorses
Bevin Decision
Mrs. Levy Slated
for Parley Talk
Parley Appeals
for UN Action
WASHINGTON—The $170,-
000,000 campaign of the 1947
United Jewish Apppeal will
be formally opened at con-
ferences here this weekend
which will be attended by
more than 400 Jewish lead-
ers from all sections of the
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A
resolution calling upon the
United Nations to issue an
interim order—prior to con-
sideration of the Palestine
mandate free of all restrictive
enactments, was adopted here
at an extraordinary one-day
U.S. Sifts
Britain's
UN Policy
WASHINGTON (Special)—
The United States has asked
Britain to "clarify certain as-
pects of its plan to submit
the Palestine issue to the
United Nations," the State
Department has revealed.
The U. S. is "carefully con-
sidering what our approach to the
problems should be in the light of
developments," Secretary of State .
Marshall's communication told the
-IRA I. SONNENBLICK
British.
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In the meantime, in London,
Foreign Secretary Bevin received
the indorsement of the British La-
bor Party for his decision to turn
over the Palestine problem to the
United Nations.
BEVIN ASSAILED
Bevin was roundly criticized at a
party caucus for the decision to
present the problem to the UN
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one without any suggestions for its
of the world's great humanitari- solution. Members also criticized
ans, will occupy the pulpit of Tem- Bevin's refusal to promise that
ple Beth El at Sabbath services more than the current 1,500 Jew-
at 11 a. m. March 1. Mrs. Roose- ish immigrants a month would be
Ira I. Sonnenblick, former re-
velt, chairman of the United Na- admitted to Palestine pending the
gional representative of the Joint
tions commission on human rights, United Nations' decision.
Distribution Committee's East
The bitterness of some Laborites
will offer a brotherhood message.
Central Region, has been appoint-
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer will con- at Bevin's bungling was indicated
ed executive director of the De-
duct the service and an augmented by reports that they had told 'him
troit Jewish Home For Aged, My-
choir, under the direction of Jason that he had "filed his petition in", ,
ron A. Keys, president of the
Tickton, will sing. The public is political bankruptcy." Bevin re-
Home, has announced. Sonnen-
plied with some heat that the col-
invited to attend. •
blick, who succeeds Dr. Otto A.
Mrs. Roosevelt spoke at an in. lapse of negotiations with Arabs
Hirsch, will assume his new du-
-augural rally of the women's divi- and Zionists could be attributed
ties March 1.
sion of the United Jewish Appeal in large measure to the U. S.
A graduate of New York Uni-
of Greater New York Wednesday BLAMES U. S. ZIONISTS
versity and the School of Law of
and declared that the U. S. must
He blamed the pressure of Amer-
St. John's University, Sonnenblick
shoulder its full share of the cost ican Zionists on the U. S. for his
has also had an intensive Jewish
of world relief on the basis of its failure to reach a settlement, say-
education, having attended Herz-
ability to pay, if it is to maintain ing that had he had to deal with
liah Academy and the Hebrew
The Detroit Zionist district has
Union College. He has been active launched a large scale member- its prestige among the distresed British Jewry alone, he would have
been able to get terms which
in Jewish communal affairs since ship drive which will be climaxed peoples.
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The only reason why this coun- would have assured tranquility for
1924, first as director of the Heb- by a door-to-door canvass March
try has not taken action on the at least 20 years.
rew Educational Alliance, and as 23 and 24. Two thousand new
Palestine problem, she told tire
The decision to turn the matter
director of the Jewish Community members here are sought.
rally, is that the people have not over to the UN does not imply
Center of Long Island City before
told Congress what they want that Britain intends to surrender
On
March
24,
Dr.
Abba
Hillel
entering the JDC service.
her mandae or withdraw from
Sonnenblick served for 10 years Silver, president of the ZOA, will done.
"I felt sad," she added, "when Palestine, Bevin told party lead-
as teacher and principal in the address a meeting of workers and
I read that Britain is forcing a ers. The job of UN, he said, is to
schools of the New York commit- members. Volunteers for the drive
new postponement of a solution find a solution acceptable to both
tee of school extension, sponsored are asked to call the Zionist office,
for Palestine by asking the As- Jews and Arabs.
by the Union of American Hebrew CHerry 6559.
Later, he told the House of Com-
"Now when the Yishuv is fight- sembly to take it up in Septem-
Congregations, has been a leader
ing so valiantly," Morris M. Ja- ber. We should act on it today." mons that the problem would be
JERUSALEM (JTA)--Sensation- in the landsmanschaften program cobs, president of the Detroit dis-
referred to the General Assembly
al reports that King Abdullah of for the last 15 years and partici- trict, said, "American Jews are
when It reconvenes in September.
activities
interfaith
in
Transjordan proposed a new "so- pated
called upon to register their af-
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WHAT'S 12 MONTHS?
lution" of the Palestine problem through the Jewish Culture Foun- filiation with the Zionist move-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Ha-
In a sharp exchange with Win-
under which Arab desert forces dation.
A native of Poland, Sonnenblick ment. Few Jews can remain ne► ganah disclosed that it was re- ston Churchill, he conceded that
loyal to him would occupy sub-
tral or on the outside of the sponsible for the blasting of two
stantial areas of Palestine with has lived in this country since the movement in these breathtaking British vessels in Haifa harbor this meant a delay of at least an-
other year in the settlement. "Af-
tacit British agreement have been age of 14. He is married and has days."
last week.
ter 2,000 years of conflict, he said,
no children.
heard here.
"another 12 months will not be
The puppet ruler is said to have
considered a long delay."
proposed that his force of "two
But Zionists were dismayed by
battle-ready divisions" sweep into
Bevin's choice of the General As-
Palestine and occupy most of the
sembly rather than the Trustee-
country except Jerusalem and the
ship Council which is expected to
Mediterranean coast.
meet next month. Jewish Agency
The British forces now in Pal-
officials also expressed distress
estine, numbering more than 100,-
exhausted
they
were
brought
to
a
that in the interim, the immigra-
E"'YORK--An Irgun Zvai Le- nights, while in the hands of a
000 would, according to Abdullah's
nearby
police
station.
There
a
tion rate to Palestine would con-
umi communication describing wild soldiery, drunken with hatred.
proposal, remain "neutral" in the
military
doctor
was
sitting
and
af-
tinue at 1,500 monthly.
"With regard to a fifth man cap-
face of this friendly invasion and the treatment administered by
ter
having
examined
the
prisoners
tured at the same time there is
would pin dciwn the Jewish "ter- British troops to the three Jewish
no doubt that he was deliberately he asked the soldiers if they would
rorist" forces to prevent them underground fighters who were
murdered or tortured to death, as like to continue 'to play' with the
sentenced
to
death
and
the
fourth
from offering resistance.
the wound he received in the car boys. The answer was—of course.
The only opposition that could member who was sentenced to life
was very slight and he could with
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be expected would be from the imprisonment has just been re-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The status
normal medication treatment have
diehard, Husseiui faction, the fol- ceived through secret channels by
of Dr. Stephen S. Wise will be
been
saVed.
DOCTOR APPROVES
lowers of Haj Amin el Husseini, the American League for a Free
changed
from Rabbi to Senior
"The four above mentioned
exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, whose Palestine.
Rabbi in the Free Synagogue in
"THEN
THE
'Bergen
Belsen'
youths
were
brought
into
a
mili-
The three men condemned to
family feud with the Hashimites
doctor said that they would be April in connection with the 40th
death for alleged possession of a tary camp after having been
has existed for generations.
all right. The prisoners were anniversary of the synagogue of
beaten
with
rifle
butts
on
their
flogging whip and firearms are
which he was the founder.
hands,
faces,
legs
etc.,
with
run back to the camp and the
Eliczer Ben Zion Kashani, 23, Dov
The change will he made at the
tortures went on. The soldiers
Ben Salman Rosenbaum, 24, and furious cruelty, so that an arm
poured excrement on their request of Dr. Wise who will have
Mordecai Ben Abraham Alkachi, of one was broken, the nose
heads, cut their hair and or- completed 40 years of service as
21. Sentenced to life imprisonment bone of another broken and the
face of a third prisoner covered
dered them to sweep the floor rabbi of the synagogue. Rabbi Ed-
is Haim Gorovelsky, 17.
with it. 'Heil Hitler' accom- ward E. Klein, ordained by the
JERUSALEM—Fifty factories in
A fifth person, Shawl Misrachi, with blood."
Jewish Institute of Religion in
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panied this Nazi spectacle.
Tel Aviv were searched from top captured with the others, was
1940, will become the rabbi of the
to bottom Wednesday but British "deliberately murdered or tortured HACKED WITH RAZORS
"It is to be noted that officers congregation. He has been asso-
troops failed to find the arsenal to death," according to the Irgun
present in the torture cham- ciated in the rabbinate of the
were
"BUT ALL THIS was not
where the Jewish underground is communication, the text of which
ber. The men are now in Jerusa- Synagogue with Dr. Wise.
enough. The boys were put into a
making bombs and mines.
lem central prison and are hardly
follows:
room, chained and their clothes
•
•
*
The search was set off by the
hacked off with razor-blades- recognizable."
mining of two army trucks in
The American League vouches
together with the skin. Then they
DRUNK
IVITH
HATE
which four soldiers were injured.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Brit-
were left naked all the night and for the authenticity of the Irgun
"WE
1VISH
TO
bring
to
the
at-
The Jewish patriots kept up the
were compelled to touch the floor statement. Any questions relating ish plan to evacuate all Ameri-
tention
of
the
world
some
details
war of nerves by telephoning sev-
to it should be directed to Maur- cans from Palestine was prevented
their lips.
eral British firms that they were of the tortures to which the four with
"In the morning they were corn- ice Rosenblatt, executive secre- by U. S. Consul-General Pinker-
about to be blown up. No bombs youths arrested on the Lydda-Pe-
pelleino run wholly naked around tary, 25 West 45th street, New ton, who said the Americans were
were found after frantic evacua- tach-Tikvah road on Dec. 29 were the camp and when completely York 19, N. Y.
in no danger.
exposed
during
four
days
and
tions and searches.
Zionist conference called by the
American Emergency Council and
attended by 650 delegates from 37
states.
The resolution said that the Jew-
ish Agency expected to be given
representation in any of the United
Nations deliberations on Palestine,
and urged the UN to reaffirm
freedom of immigration to Pales-
tine and the establishment . of a
Jewish State in clear and precise
terms."
APPEAL TO U. S.
Another resolution called on the
United States government to as-
sume leadership in the new situ-
ation and to demonstrate its in-
tention to honor previously made
pledges. Pending a final solution,
the resolution urges the United
States to use its influence for an
interim policy based on the pro-
visions of the mandate, particu-
larly for immediate admission to
Palestine of the 100,000 homeless
Jews and removal of the discrimi-
natory land purchase restrictions
in Palestine.
The conference expressed con-
fidence in the leadership of the
Jewish Agency and the American
Zionist Emergency Council and
pledged the "full support of Amer-
ican Zionism to these leaders in
Hirsch to Quit
Home for Aged
JDC Regional Head
Is His Successor
country, it was announced today
by Henry Morgenthau, general
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal.
The conference will mark the
opening in 4,000 communities of
local drives in support of the
$170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal
campaign for the relief, rehabili-
tation and resettlement of Eu-
rope's 1,500,000 Jewish survivors.
The opening of the Detroit drive
will not take place until May.
In addition to Morgenthau,
speakers will include former Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman of New York,
former director general of UNRRA
who will discuss the effects of
UNRRA's liquidation on the re-
construction of the shattered Jew-
ish areas of Europe, and Mrs.
David M. Levy, chairman of the
national women's division of the
United Jewish Appeal, who re-
turned recently from a two-month
mission to Europe and Palestine
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MRS. ROOSEVELT
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Mrs. Roosevelt
Due at Beth El
Will Give the Sermon
at March 1 Service
Detroit Zionists
Set Goal of 2,000
Abdullah Plot
to Seize Part of
Zion Reported
Admits Blastin
British Barbarians Mutilate Captured Youths
Before Officers, Torture 5th Patriot to Death
N
Status of Rabbi Wise
at Synagogue Changes
Bombs Hunted
in Tel Aviv Plants
U.S. Balks British
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