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ON BRITISH
Zionisis Gird to 'Fight Bevin' . Defy Army
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Detroiters ate exhorted to "Fight
Bevin" by signing up as members
of the Zionist Organization of
America in the campaign througn-
out the month of March to mobil-
ize the entire Detroit Jewish corn-
muniy in the ranks of Zionism.
"We must not forgeo this op-
portunity to prove to Ernest Bevin
that strong support of the aims
of Zionism is not merely restrict-
ed to the "Jews of New York,"
as he contemptuously claims," said
Morris M. Jacobs, Detroit district
president.
' "This callous individual who
supposedly speaks for the British
government must be made to re-
alize that he will encounter the
united opposition of American
Jewry and of all Americans of
goodwill to his nefarious tactics
of delay, abuse and disregard of
British pledges in dealing with
the Palestine problem and that
of the hundreds of thousands of
Europe's Jewish DP's who are
condemned to a living death by
his actions.
'We in Detroit must prepare
now for action. We must stand
up and be counted within the
ranks of the ZOA to strengthen
the hands of our legislators in
Washington in taking affirmative
American action on behalf of the
Jews of Europe and Palestine."
Jacobs announced that the mem-
bership drive would be under the
direction of Oscar J. Kritzer, who
represents the national office of
the ZOA. Kritzer is a former As-
sociated Press and Reuters cor-
respondent in the Middle East.
He will remain in Detroit the
entire month and will conduct
the campaign with the aid of
Dr. Philip E. Lachman, chairman
of the membership committee.
The drive, Kritzer said, will
culminate in "Z Day" on Sunday,
March 23, when hundreds of "Zion-
ist Minute-Men" will canvass the
Jewish community.
"We in America must overcome
our present complacency if we are
to save the surviving remnants of
European Jewry and give them
their just rights of statehood and
security in a Jewish national home
in Palestine," Kritzer said. "We
cannot continue to 'let George
do it.'
"We must make our strength
and our opinion felt in the coun-
cils of the United Nations. We
must demonstrate to our own gov-
ernmen in Washington that it has
the strong and united support of
American Jewry and Americans
of all faiths and political beliefs.
We must mobilize our strength
NOW."
Named FT Director
Snell. Demands
Complete Split
An Editorial
Your Community Calls
One of the duties of a good citizen in a community is
to attend meetings of its governing board, voice approval
or objections to its acts and help elect representatives and
able officers.
Detroit Jews will be given an opportunity to prove
their good citizenship by attending the annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation at 8 p. m. Tuesday, March
18 at the Hotel Statler.
The Jewish Chrorile urges every Jew who has his
.ttend this vital meeting. We ask
community at heart
this for two reasons.
It is well known that the Federation has been run,
somewhat arbitrarily, by the same small group year after
year. While they have made half-hearted gestures ' demo-
crat", processes and, on the whole, have done a fa, job, a
tint must come when new leaders, new ideas and new
lilt should be introduced among the oligarchic few who
running the Federation.
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Detroit Jews who want a change should nominate new
leaders and attend the annual meeting to vote them into
office so that democracy will prevail in the councils of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
In a certain measure, the meeting will also fire the
opening gun for the giant $5,335,000 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign in Dttroit.
The Jewish Chronicle asks everyone to support this drive
generously because, through it, misery and despair can
be greatly alleviated in Europe.
While the Jewish Chronicle knows that of every dollar
contributed, a small fraction is set aside to subsidize the
Jewish News and help destroy the Chronicle, for the sake
of harmony and because we desperately want the drive to
succeed, .we urge wholehearted support by everyone, big-
giver and little-giver.
We are willing to forget the fact that many thousands
of dollars of charity money are set aside annually to help
finance a private newspaper which is our rival.
We ask you only to remember the good works of the
J1VF and of the United Jewish Appeal.
We ask you to give to the Allied Jewish Campaign
unstintingly.
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30-year-old GI stood in a Mu-
nich street shortly after the
American occupation of the city
and vowed that he would help
some of the refugees start life
anew in America.
Recently, the ex-GI, Carl Tip-
ograph of New York City, with
The aid of United Service for
New Americans, saw the fulfill
mrnt of his pledge when two
Jewish refugee orphans, Leopold
Lieberfreund, 17, and Adolph
Lustgarden, 18, disembarked
from the S. S. "Marine Marlin."
when he entered shell-raked Mu-
nich in the early days of 1945.
Passing the museum in that city,
he saw hundreds of ragged young
survivors of concentration camps
walking aimlessly about. Among
them were Leopold and Adolph,
two refugees from Wadowitz in
Silesia.
Getting acquainted with the or-
phans, Tipograph obtained work
for them with the American mili-
tary authorities. When he was
about to return to the United
States, he promised Leopold and
Adolph that he would do every-
thing possible to bring them to
this country. Soon after he 1-came
home, he asked United Service for
help in arranging the boys' immi.
gration.
Leopold and Adolph, accom-
panied by Tipograph, told the
story of their survival and immi-
gration last week at the office of
United Service, whose work is
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supported by the United Jewish
Appeal.
WORKED AS SLAVES
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GERMAN-BORN, Leopold and
their families had been forced by
GETS YOUTHS JOBS
the Nazis to go to Poland before
TIPOGRAPH WAS attached to the outbreak of the war. When
the military intelligence documents
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section of Supreme Headquarters
Troops Bludgeon .
Jewish Civilians
End of Negotiations
with Bevin Asked
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Ex-GI Keeps Vo w, Aids Youths
to Quit Munich, - Settle in U.S.
Control in
Daily Raids
LT. COL. CHARLES I. SCHOTT-
LAND, chief of a section on Den.
Eisenhower's staff dealing with
displaced persons, was named ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish War
Veterans of the U. S., it was an-
nounced by Milton II. Richman,
national commander. Col. Schott-
land previously served as execu-
tive director of the Los Angeles
Federation of Jewish Welfare
Organizations
Bevin, Marshall
to Discuss. Zion
Global Lobbying
Mapped by Agency
PITTSBURGH (WNS)—A reso-
lution pledging "wholehearted sup-
port and the maximum resources
of American Jewry to the task of
continuing the stream of Jewish
immigration into Palestine in de-
fiance of the British blockade,"
was adopted here at a special ses-
sion of the national administrative
council of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.
Calling the immigration of Jew-
ish refugees into Palestine "a
great work of rescue and mercy,"
the resolution warned "we shall
not be intimidated by the attempts
of hostile British officials to label
the efforts of homeless Jews to
reach Palestine as 'illegal.'"
Dr. Moshe Sneh, Palestine mem-
ber of the Jewish Agency execu-
tive, charging that Britain's de-
cision to submit the Palestine is-
sue to the United Nations was a
"subtle trick to mislead the public
opinion of the world" and to
"strangle" the Zionist program,
demanded the breaking off of all
further negotiations between the
Agency leaders and the British
foreign secretary.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, ZOA
president, appealed to the United
States to use its weight in seeing
that Britain carries out the man-
date. The council adopted a reso-
lution urging the UN to issue an
interim decision requiring British
compliance with the terms of the
mandate.
LONDON (Special) — Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin this week
indicated to Jewish leaders that
he intends to discuss the Palestine
issue with U. S. Secretary of State
George C. Marshall when they
meet at the Moscow Conference,
which is to open March 10.
In Washington, it was revealed,
Marshall notified Britain that the
U. S. would favor some action to
bring the Palestine issue before
the United Nations before the next
scheduled meeting of the General
Assembly in September.
The State Department said that
Secretary Marshall's communica-
tion was sent shortly after the
British announced their decision
to take the question to the UN
and before President Truman's
rebuke of Foreign Minister Bevin.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, British
representative on the , Security
Council. conferred with UN Sec-
retary-General Trygve Lie on the
possibility of summoning a special
session of the General Assembly,
but the results of their discus-
sions are not known.
British representatives of the
Jewish Agency left here Friday
for a Palestine meeting where they
will help to map a technique for
lobbying on a global scale.
The agency has decided to work
out the types of appeals that it
will make to India, South Africa,
Australia and other members of
the United Nations to win support
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JERUSALEM (Special)—
Palestine insurgents stepped
up their "war" on the British
military in daily attacks.
They turned the Rehavia res-
idential section of Jerusalem
into a virtual battleground
Wednesday in an attack on
the British security zone in
defiance of the repressive
measures of martial law.
Most of the shooting In the 40-
minute Rehavia battle was done
by British troops after a few
bursts of fire from the rebels hid-
den in the same vacant lot holm
which the successful attack on the
Goldsmith officers club was made
last week. Two Jews were slightly
wounded. The insurgents withdrew
without loss.
TROOPS BEAT JEWS
Passersby who took refuge in
the Jewish Agency building charg-
ed that they were beaten by Tom-
mies when they emerged. Abraham
Rimon, a teacher, suffered a broken
shoulder and possible broken ribs.
When the firing ceased, the Brit-
ish raided a school near the scene
and rounded up 35 pupils 15 to
18 years of age for questioning.
Night attacks were reported
from the citrus plains. Near Rish-
on le Zion, two Jews riding in a
former British army truck were
killed by a road mine. Near Ha-
dire, insurgents attacked an army
camp for 15 minutes before with-
drawing.
BUILDING WRECKED
In Haifa insurgents completely
wrecked the government assess-
ment building with explosives.
Wednesday morning, in daylight,
they robbed the Orion Cinema in
the heart of Jerusalem.
Banks in Tel Avi reported less
panic than previously, but with-
drawals continued. Bankers were
gloomy over the prospects fearing
they would be forced to close un-
less the military government per-
mitted a flow of raw materials
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Truman, Urges Support to UJA
Describing the condition of the 1500,000 Jews in Europe as "ter-
rible," President Truman called upon all Americans to give their
fullest support to the $170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal campaign.
The President issued his statement following a special meeting. in
the White House with a delegation of UJA leadfirs headed by
Henry Morgenthau Jr., general chairman of the 1917 drive. The
statement said in part: "We have 217,000 Jewish refugees in the
American zone in Germany. We have been trying to arrange to
get 100,000 into Palestine. IVe are still endeavoring to get that
job done." Left to right are Herbert Lehman, former governor
of New York, Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of the women's
division, Mr. Truman and Morgenthau.