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Launch Allied Jew Campaign May 6

Extra UN
Session on
Zion Near

British Guns Over Jerusalem

The Allied Jewish Cam-
paign in Detroit will run
from May 6 to 16 and Fred
M. Butzel, venerable com-
munal leader, will again head
the drive, this year for
$5,335,000, it was announced
at a dinner of the advance

U.S. Denies Plea
for New Delays

LAKE SUCCESS, L. I. —
(Special)—A special session
of the United Nations Gen-
eral Assembly sometime in
May or June to deal with the
Palestine problem seemed as-
sured this week when the
United States officially denied

that it had asked Britain for a
postponement so that it can try
.once more for a unilateral solu-
tion.
United Nations officials have
convinced Secretary General Tryg-
ve Lie that his proposal that a
committee study the problem and
report to the assembly in Septem-
ber is of doubtful legality.
The special session, the diplo-
mats say, will be an answer to
the U. S. insistence that Britain
must be more specific in outlining
to the UN what the issues are
before it can agree to a procedure
for handling the question.
Indications are that Britain is
looking favorably on the sugges-
tion for a special session. In the
meantime, discussions are going
on between the State Department
and the Foreign Office and British
delegates here believe that a de-
cision on the special meeting will
be forthcoming soon.

* * *

Softer Zion Policy
Studied by Britain

JERUSALEM (Special) — The
sudden departure for London of
Lt. Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham,
high commissioner for Palestine,
was interpreted here as an in-
dication that Britain is studying
a softer interim policy for Pal
estine which may bring peace to
this harassed land.
Despite Colonial Secretary Arthur
Creech Jones' denial that immigra•
tion quotas were to be raised, there
Is still a strong belief that the
British are about to offer some
increase in the monthly quota.
Cunningham does not share the
fears of other Britishers that the
Arabs will rise in arms it a few
concessions are made to the Jews
in the .interests of peace in Pal-
estine, He is convinced that if
partition had been imposed up to
two months ago there would have
been little trouble from the Arabs.

Heads Campaign

gifts division Tuesday in the
Hotel Statler.

This scene is symbolic of the measures taken by British troops to
enforce military rule in Jerusalem. Two men were arrested in
Buffalo, N. Y., recently for allegedly smuggling Bren guns to
Palestine extremists. It is not known if the insurgents have re-
ceived the weapons but it is certain, as this picture indicates, that
the British army has made much use of Bren guns in the Holy
land.

700 More Join British, to Free
Zionist Ranks U.S. Crewmen
on 'Ben Hecht'
Sign Up Z-Day,

to 'Fight Bevin'

Over 700 new members have
signed up to "Fight Bevin" by
joining the Zionist District of De-
troit as the result of a one-day
canvass of Jewish neighborhoods
on "Z-Day" last Sunday.
Many scores more are expected
to join as a result of talks with

Jews to Die,
Syria Warns

JERUSALEM (Special)—Syria's
13,000 Jews were warned that they
face death sentences unless they
publicly repudiate Zionism and
surrender all Jewish refugees at-
tempting to reach Palestine thru
the overland route from Europe.
Death was also threatened for
all captured refugees.
Premier Jamil Mardam Bey told
the Jews that legislation making
such activity punishable by death
had been drafted and would be
submitted to Parliament. Death
would also be meted out to Srians
who sell Palestine properties to
Jews, he said. The measures will
be submitted definitely next weir,
he .warned, unless an anti-Zionist
declaration was forthcoming.
The Jews of Syria, observers
say, have no alternative but sub-
mit. They are a helpless lot, and
are frequently subject to attacks
without warning by Arab nation-
alists.
In the meantime, the Palestine
Arab Executive Committee warned
the Big Four ministers in Mos-
cow of Impending disturbances in
all the Middle East.

Fred M. Butzel to Lead
Drive for $5,335,000

BARTLEY C. CRUM

enthusiastic workers who went
form door-to-door to enlist more
Detroit Jews in the active Zion-
ist ranks.
Bartley C. Crum, former mem-
ber of the Anglo-American Com-
mission on Palestine, will be the
speaker at an open meeting of
the district at 8:30 p. m. Monday,
April 14 in the main auditorium
of Congregation Shaarcy Zedek,
Morris M. Jacobs, president of
the district, has announced.
"The results of the drive Sun-
day were gratifying," declared
Dr. Phillip Lachman, membership
chairman. "We expect that when
the full count is in, we may have
1,000 new members as a result of
the canvass alone.
"The most heartening thing
about the drive was the magnifi-
cent response from Zionist mem-
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NEW YORK — Confirmation
that the crew members of the
refugee ship "Ben Hecht" will be
released by the British and are
expected to sail for the United
States on the army transport
"Marine Carp" about March 30
was received by the law firm of
Bennet, House and Couts, New
York City, according to the Amer-
ican League for a Free Palestine.
Among those who will be freed
is Edward Styrak, 23, of Mt.
Clemens, Mich.
19 ARE AMERICANS
The 19 American and two Nor-
wegian crew members of the Ben
Hecht were jailed three weeks ago
by the British after bringing 910
Jewish refugees to Palestine.
Confirmation of their release
came in a cablegram from Joseph
Kaiserman, Haifa attorney en-
gaged by the Tyre Shipping Com-
pany of New York, owners of the
Ben Hecht, to defend the crew.
Kaiserman also reported that his
action to get the return of the
ship is "under consideration" by
the Palestine government.

SPONSORED BY LEAGUE
The Ben Hecht was bought by
Tyre with funds raised by the
American League for a Free ral-
estine, and chartered to the Heb-
rew Committee of National Liber-
ation to run Jews through the
British blockade. Its crew were
volunteers serving without pay.
Pressure by congressmen and
advertisements were credited by
the League for its victory.

Maurice Aronsson was named
chairmh of special gifts.
In response to an appeal by
Abraham Srere for increased con-
tributions because of doubled de-
mands from Europe and Pales-
tine, many of the community lead-
ers present doubled their 1946
pledges. At the suggestion of Max
J. Zivian, steel executive, who
more than tripled his 1946 contrib-
ution, additional pledges were
made by many of those present in
honor of the approaching seven-
tieth birthday of Butzel.
$800,000 CONTRIBUTED
Because of illness, former Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman of New York
was unable to attend the dinner.
Samuel Rothberg, dynamic your
businessman from Peoria, Ill., na-
tional vice-chairman for trades
and industries of the United Jew-
ish Appeal, was the evening's
speaker. .
Roth,berg explained why he had
contributed $100,000 to the 1947
campaign though he had origin-
al/ opposed the giant $170,000,000
quota for 1947. His gift in 1946
was $50,000.
SEES FOR 1115ISELF
"I am not a humanitarion," he
told the assembly, "but rather a
hard-headed businessman. I
thought the goal was much too
high and when challenged flew
over to Europe to see for myself.
"The misery and despair that I
witnessed and the confidence that
the DP's showed in American
promises convinced me that the
goal was hardly enough and that,
come what may, it must be at-
tained, so that we shall not need
to hang our heads in shame."
TEXT OF TELEGRAM
Gov. Lehman's regrets were
voiced in a telegram to the din-
ner. The text is as follows:
"I am terribly gorry that I am
prevented from being with you
tonight as I had planned. As I
have explained to you, however,
the exceedingly bad storm has
made it Impossible for me to risk
traveling with a severe cold from
which I have been suffering for
several days. I can assure you
that it would have been a great
pleasure to • have been with you
and to have joined you in our
common undertaking.
"I am speaking from personal
knowledge when I say that the
need is greater than it has ever
been. The fact is that except for
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FRED M. BUTZEL

Agency Charts
UN Program

Door Left Open
for Coinpromisc

•
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jew-
ish Agency will go before the
United Nations with demands for
a Jewish state and unlimited Im-
migration into Palestine, but will
not close the door to other solu-
tions "which would safeguard
Jewish rights," it was revealed
with the release of the resolutions
adopted at the week-long Agency
meeting which concluded last
Sunday. .
The following resolutions were
adopted: 1. The Agency will sub-
mit to the UN and to its member
states the program adopted by the
last Zionist Congress. 2. It will
insist on full implementation of
the Mandate as long as the Brit-
ish remain the rulers of Pales;
tine. 3. The Agency will be wil-
ling to explore other solutions
safeguarding the rights of the
Jewish people to free immigration
and large-scale settlement, and
ensuring the establishment of a
Jewish state, without committing
the movement in advance to their
acceptence.
Declaring that the moment the
Palestine problem is placed before
the United Nations It no longer
remains an issue between the
Jews and Britain, but becomes
international, the Agency state-
ment said it will make every ef-
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Passover Story Intrigues DP Tots

Quota Increase

Called 'Unlikely'

LONDON (Palcor)—The British
Colonial Office has denied the
statement of Dr. Stephen S. Wise
that an increase in the monthly
Jewish immigration quota for Pal-
estine has been decided upon, ac-
cording to the diplomatic corres-
pondent of the Daily Telegraph.
He added that such an increase
is "unlikely" before a decision is
made on the Palestine problem
by the United Nations.

•••••••••
1 ABBI EZECIIIEL LANDAU explains the significance of Matzoh
to three young DP sisters, who along with some 200 other new-
comers to this country, will attend the Sedorim at the IIIAS
quarters in New York. The tots were separated from their father
when Hitler invaded Poland. IIIAS helped to reunite them.

