Friday, April 25, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Two
The Palestine Scene
Jews Escape Dragnet
After Train Bombing
2 Youths Facing Execution Foil
British, Blow Selves Up in Cells
JERUSALEM—In an act of retaliation for the murders
of Dov Gruner and his three associates in the Jewish re-
sistance, extremists blew up an express train outside Re-
hovoth killing five British soldiers and injuring 23 others.
Three civilians also lost their lives.
Troops from an army camp nearby hastened to the
scene. A military cordon was thrown around the area to
prevent the extremists' escape, but a search of the orange
,
groves In the area failed to reveal
armpits. It was believed the bombs
a single underground fighter.
were smuggled to the men in
ONLY TROOPS SHOOT
hollowed-out oranges.
There were 500 British soldiers
From Cyprus came reports that
aboard the train. Although mili- a hunger strike of Jews in which
tary authorities reported that the even children participated ended
train was fired upon by the ex- Tuesday. The strike was called
tremists after the explosion, a Friday in protest against a reduc-
senior official among the pas- tion of the monthly quota of ref-
sengers said the only shooting ugees admitted to Palestine.
was done by troops.
SYMPATHY GROWS
The attack on the train came
Three persons died and nearly
shortly after Moshe Barazani and
Meir Ben Eliezer Feinstein, re- a score were wounded last week-
end as extremists retaliated for
sistance fighters, had committed the executions. Two of the dead
suicide in Central Prison, four
hours before they were to have were British military and pollee
personnel and the third was a
been hanged.
Jew killed by the British. His
body was later stolen from the
BURIED NEAR MARTYRS
The youths were buried on the morgue.
The recent executitins and sui-
Mount of Olives beside the graves
of 100 Jews killed in Arab at- cides have made large sections of
the Jewish community look with
tacks.
The youths had taken their lives great sympathy on the activities
by placing explosives under their of the extremists.
Detroit Rabbis, Zionist Council
Join in Blasting Gruner Murders
Nation Laments JWF Studies Chronicle's Offer
Death of Patriots to Supply All Publicity Gratis
(Continued from Page 1)
from the Mandatory's illegal poi-
icy in Palestine."
Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn,
chairman of the United Zionists-
Revisionists of America's execu-
tive board, charged that by re-
fusing to intervene on behalf of
Dov Gruner and the other con-
demned youths, the United States
State Department gave its "tacit
approval" to the hangings.
At the national headquarters of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica an impromptu protest meeting
was held. Dr. Sidney Marks, ex-
ecutive director, declared that it
was "clear that the executions
were intended to provoke out-
breaks, with the aim of prejudic-
ing the case of Jewish Palestine
in the eyes of the membership of
the United Nations."
But these executions, he main-
tained, "will have the reverse ef-
fect upon public opinion of the
world from that which was in-
tended. They will arouse the re-
vulsion of the civilized nations
and unmask the ugly fact of Brit-
ish military rule in Palestine."
Peter H. Bergson, chairman of
the Hebrew Committee of Na-
tional Liberation, describing the
hangings as "an act of premedi-
tated murder," warned that Brit-
ain would be responsible not only
for "the four young lives just
taken but also for the lives of
many Hebrews and Englishmen
that will he lost."
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whose evil deed has hardly de-
tracted from the victim's stature.
"And so let it be with Dov
Gruner; this valiant veteran of
five years' service in the English
army, now buried on a lonely
hillside near Safa; and so let It
be with his comrades, all cham-
pions of Hebrew freedom, buried
at the same place.
"As for the Jewish people, Dov
Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Eliezer
Kashani and Mordecai Alkushi
are more than symbols. Their
murder Is the opening of a new
offensive by the British empire
against us.
"It is another wedge driven by
the present successors of the
Nazis, the government of Eng-
land, calculated to further under-
mine the security of our people.
It behooves American Jews, par-
ticularly, to plan a counter-offen-
sive to be executed with care,
courage and determination."
Kashami and Mordecai Alkushi
(continued from page 1)
tion, has doubtless shocked the was an evil and cowardly act.
Only a regime in the last throes
civilized world. When the history of desperation and despair for its
of this period shall have been
written, Dov Gruner and his as- own existence could have been
sociates will be counted with the guilty of such atrocity.
"Six millions is the estimated
great martyrs of the past.
"The sacrifice of Dov Gruner toll of Jewish war dead sacri-
will become a symbol of Jewish ficed In the struggle against the
resistance to the long line of common Nazi enemy. It was left
British provocations, leading to for the British empire to become
the transparent intentions of the only remaining organized
Messrs. Bevin and Attlee to sa- power in the world to add to that
botage the Balfour Declaration awful toll.
"History proves that certain in-
and the Mandate and to liquidate
dividual lives may exert tremen-
the Yishuv in Palestine.
dous influence beyond their own
RESENTMENT AROUSED
age and place—an influence that
"The steady dissolution of Brit- dwarfs the remembrance of the
ain's will to abide by the terms power-mad governments that take
of the Mandate a process speeded such lives. In the year 39 ACE,
up at the very time when millions another Jew was executed by the
of Jews were being slaughtered, then high commissioner in Pales-
did not fail to arouse in Jewry tine, Pontius Pilate of Rome,
and In the whole world a wave
of resentment and disillusionment.
"And in Palestine, where almost
every settler has been bereaved by
the loss of close relatives in the
holocaust in Europe, resentment
against British perfidy permeates
the whole population.
"As each boatload of refugees
is denied entry into Palestine,
these outraged feelings are ex-
acerbated to the breaking point.
Acts of desperation under such
circumstances are to be expected
from red-blooded young men.
DIE FOR GREAT CAUSE
"The martyrs died for a great
cause. The Jews of Palestine will
be stirred to increase efforts to
thwart the evil decrees of British
statesmen. The Jews of America
have been shocked by these
events, and will respond in the
spirit of American traditions, of
fair play and justice to the under-
dog.
"The people of the Bible have
their ageless memories, of the
strength of the spirit, and the
eternal truth that brute force will
eventually destroy itself.
"The memory of the Martyrs
will stir Jews everywhere to re-
newed vigor to save the remnants
of European Jewry, and to build
up in Palestine a home from
aybe you've noticed some
whence the spirit of Israel will
cigarettes
reaching pretty far up into
draw continued nourishment.
"A chastened world will yet sus-
blue sky for reasons why you should
tain our pleas for survival and
smoke 'em.
find a just solution of the Jewish
problem." '
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uel Merzon, president, is as fol-
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And we sure are rigged to give you
"The judicial murder by the
that! With 200 years, almost, of
British rulers of Palestine of Dov
Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Eliezer
The offer of the Jewish Chron-
icle to supply full publicity serv-
ice to the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion without any charge is being
studied by a committee of the
Federation board of governors.
Julian Krolik, Federation presl•
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The Chronicle appeared before
the board to request the abandon-
ment of the subsidy to the Jewish
News for the same service.
LETTER TO BOARD
In presenting its offer, the
Jewish Chronicle summarized its
case in the following letter to
the board:
The Jewish Chronicle respect
fully submits the following argu-
ments in its petition to the Jewish
Welfare Federation for an end
to subventions to the Jewish
News. The Chronicle bases this
petition on principles of justice
and communal harmony.
The present ownership of the
Chronicle deplores the fact that
it has been discriminated against
by leaders of the JWF because
of the alleged sins and omis-
sions of its predecessors.
While loyalty to a friend for
past services is an admirable at-
tribute, the Chronicle submits that
such loyalty to the Jewish New..
ought not to take the form of
unjustifiable favoritism that dis-
criminates against its fair com-
petitor.
CHRONICLE'S AIMS
The Chronicle, in the year and
a half of its present ownership,
has made every effort to supply
the Jewish community with an
interesting, newsy and dynamic
newspaper. That the public is
pleased with the recent changes
in format and editorial policy, as
well as in the spirit and Vigor of
the paper, is attested to by the
fact that our circulation has
doubled in the past year and a
half and is increasing steadily.
The Jewish Chronicle maintains
that all papers have a quasi-com-
munity responsibility that re-
quires them to carry the news of
all communal groups and, parti-
cularly, the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration here; that the paper
should carry that news as a mat-
ter of public policy and without
the expectation of any subsidy
cr other monetary award.
The Chronicle believes that by
subsidizing the Jewish News, a
private enterprise, the JWF is
using trust funds, contributed ex-
clusively for charity, for a pur-
pose never intended by the con-
tributors.
CIRCULATION CLAIM
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the Jewish Welfare Federation of-
ficers justify the subsidy as com-
pensation for publicity which
would cost the JWF more to pre-
sent in another form, they un-
consciously lend themselves to a
subtle fraud perpetrated by the
Jewish News on the public when
it deliberately leaves the impres-
sion that it has a paid circulation
that approaches 20,000 because of
its so-called Federation issue.
Believing, then, that both the
Chronicle and the News should
give its services to the community
without charge and that a grant
of subsidy is repugnant to the
spirit of charity, the Jewish
Chronicle is ready and hereby of-
fers to the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration to give free and without
any obligation whatsoever all the
services hitherto given to the
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