Page Two
Friday, May 16, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Film Stars in WA Broadcast
The Palestine Scene
50 More Jews Deported
to East African Prison
to Monsky's Death
593 Jews Imprisoned by British
Without Hearings Before a Court
JERUSALEM (WNS)—Fifty Jewish resistance members
have been flown to the British internment camp in Kenya,
Africa and another group of Jewish underground leaders is
expected to be flown there this week.
The official disclosure of the deportations referred to the
50 Jews as suspects "of complicity in terrorist activities"
and justified the transfer on the
of a recurrence of another prison
Nations Indorse
Agency Views
break such as occurred two weeks
(Continued from page 1)
ground of the interest of public
security." But the action was be-
lieved to have been based on fear
ago in the Acre prison.
Palestine as an independent
country.
3. Britain will not be on the
The group that was transferred
commission and will thus not be
to Kenya included Moshe Gold,
in a position to exercise its in-
head of Betar, the Revisionist fluence with regard to numerous
youth movement, Joshua Bar, said issues on whch Jewish and British
to have been the head of the interests clash.
Irgun Zval Leumi branch in Jeru- U.S. FOR PARTITION
BETAR LEADER
salem. Nathan Kalbfus, who was a
German prisoner of war for three
years after capture in Greece
while serving with the British
forces, Jacob Hardof, who form-
erly served in the British mer-
,chant marine and whose wife and
child are now living in the United
States, and Itzhak Zator, an al-
leged participant last year in the
attack on the King David Hotel.
In a move to induce surrender
of the escaped Acre prisoners, the
authorities offered them freedom
from prosecution if they surren-
dered before May 16. Only six
Arabs returned to Acre. No Jew-
ish prisoners have surrendered
since the prison break.
593 JEWS 11ELD
The British revealed that alto-
gether 593 Jewish political prison-
ers were being detained in Kenya
and in two Palestine prisons. Of
these 312 are in Kenya, including
the 50 deported this week.
The National Jewish Council
assailed the Kenya deportations
as contrary to the spirit of the
mandate.
The Revisionist paper "Hamash-
kit" asked: "Why are Jews who
were never tried by law courts
detained
for
so many years?
Moreover, why have 330 Jews most
of whom were horn in this coun-
try been deported to foreign coun•
tries? Even at this hour when
the elementary rights of Jewish
citizens in Palestine are trampled
upon, we cannot observe silence in
regard to these cruel deporta-
tions."
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nationwide dramatic broadcast on behalf of the $170,000,000 cam-
paign of the United Jewish Appeal from 10:30 to 11 p.m. Sunday
over WWJ. "The Right to Live" is the title of the drama.
report to the Assembly in Sep-
tember.
2. That the inquiry commis-
sion should visit Palestine where
it will be able to establish how
Jewish achievements have been of
benefit to all elements of the pop-
ulation.
3. That while in Palestine the
inquiry commission should con-
sider the potentiality of the coun-
try if properly developed.
4. The commission should also
inquire, while in Palestine. into
"the real causes of the tragic un-
restrained violence which today
mars the life of Palestine where
the Jewish pioneers came not with
weapons, but with tools."
5., The commission should in-
vestigate how the Mandatory has
carried out its obligations under
the Mandate with regard to en-
couraging settlement of Jews on
the land.
6. The commission should visit
displaced persons camps in
Europe, and pending its report,
displaced Jews should be allowed
to immigrate in substantial num-
bers to Palestine.
The Agency would have pre-
ferred to have the United States
on the inquiry commission, since
it is known that the United States
favors partition as a solution of
the problem, but is refraining
from saying so now in order not
to prejudice the finding of the
commission.
The political committee heard
U.S. alternate delegate Herschel
Johnson oppose inclusion of the
question of independence in the
terms of reference of the inquiry
committee, on the grounds that
it would prejudice the findings of
the body.
Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko
reiterated his support of the pro-
posal that the committee be in-
JERUSALEM (WNS)--At a re-
structed to include the question cent official press conference here,
of independence in its delibera- Richard Stubbs, public informa-
tions, but did not press the point tion officer, was asked what as-
too strongly.
sistance the government was pro-
The U.S. and Soviet represen- viding for the laying of irriga-
tatives also clashed on the ques- tion pipes in the desert areas of
tion of whether the committee is the Negev in Southern Palestine.
to have "various other issues" in-
"The Government," Stubbs re-
cluded in its instructions, the plied, "is granting the license."
"other issues" being the questions
of the displaced persons. Johnson
opposed including "other issues,"
while Gromyko favored it.
Newsmen 'Stunned'
by British 'Generosity'
Policy Unaltered;
Marshall Asserts
(Continued from page I)
of State asserted that it was pre-
mature for the United States to
announce its Palestine policy at
this time and that no decision
could be mane by the United
States regarding a Palestine
trusteeship before the mandatory
power has requested such a
change.
Marshall's letter elicited wide
criticism in Jewish circles as well
as in government circles. The
American Zionist Emergency
Council issued a statement in
which Marshall's letter was char-
acterized as "shocking."
Referring to the Congressional
resolution of December, 1946 the
statement said that the Marshall
letter "can only be viewed as a
further step backward by our ad-
ministration."
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WASHINGTON, D. C. • Tremen-
dous gains in membership and
service to the nation highlighted
reports to the more than 4(10 dele-
gates assembled here at the tri-
ennial convention of Bnai Brith,
May 11-14.
In a solemn atmosphere due to
the death of Henry Monsky, presi-
dent of Bnai Brith, who died nine
days prior to the convention, the
delegates reported the activity of
their organization for the past
three years and mapped an in-
tensified drive for continued ser-
vice in the future.
The report of the president of
the order was given by Frank
Goldman, vice president. In con-
cluding the reading of this report,
Mr. Goldman summarized the
work of the order by quoting a •
statement by Henry Monsky:
"Though rooted in a fundamen-
tal policy, Bnai Brith has been
sufficiently flexible to make its
program conform to the changing
needs of the times. Because of
this well-controlled, though un-
fettered approach, and its fore-
sight, the Bnai Brith program
kept pace with the problems of
the nation and the Jewish people.
"Though guided by tradition,
tradition has been no restraint in
discarding activities that have
outlived their usefulness. Avoid-
ing the pursuit of activities al-
ready effectively executed by oth-
er agencies, Bnai Brith has re-
mained dynamic by meeting the
needs of the Jewish people as
they arose."
Reports revealed that, as of Jan,
1, 1947, the membership strength
of Bnai Brith men totalled over
200,000 in 812 lodges. Coupl5d with
this was a report which indicated
that the distaff side of the order
had grown to a membership of
more than 95,000 in 466 women's
chapters.
Rabbi Amram Prero, national
director of the Bnai Brith Youth
Organization, reported that there
are now 1,200 units in 285 com-
munities located in the United
States, Canada, England, Austra-
lia, China, France and Palestine
with an aggregate membership of
29,028 young people.
•
SILVER MAKES PLEA
In an impressive half-hour ad-
dress, which pleased most of the
United Nations delegates because
of its moderate tone, Dr. Abba
Billet Silver outlined before a full
session of the political commit-
tee the views of the Jewish Agen-
cy with regard to the instructions
to be given to the UN fact-finding
committee.
This was the first official ap-
pearance of the Jewish Agency
before the United Nations. Dr.
Silver, heading a seven-man dele-
gation, was seated at the big
horse shoe table between the dele-
gations of Cuba and Czechoslo-
vakia. Their official admission
was announced at the opening of
last Friday's morning session of
the political committee by chair-
man Lester Pearson of Canada.
In his speech, the Zionist lender
emphasized that when the Jewish
Agency speaks of a Jewish state
it does not have in mind any
racial or theocratic state, but one
which is based , upon full equality
and rights for all inhabitants with-
out distinction "and without dom-
ination or subjugation." He ad-
vanced the following proposals
with regard to the terms of refer-
ence of the projected inquiry com-
mittee.
Breaking the eight-day lull in
Palestine, underground fighters
,killed two British criminal intelli-
gence operatives in the heart of
the Jerusalem district .
The attack postponed the im-
pending end to the ban on British
troops entering Jewish shops,
cafes and movies.
In a broadcast boasting its
achievement in effecting the Acre
prison break, Irgun Zvai Leumi
accused British soldiers of delib-
erately torturing and murdering
three Jewish prisoners who failed
to get away. The radio warning
that "this barbarous act will not
be forgotten nor forgiven" is be-
lieved to foreshadow another at-
tack.
JEWISH PROPOSALS
The announcer referred to the
1. That the inquiry committee
prison break as one which "will
be recorded in the history of our should ask Britain for "an ac-
count
•of it's stewardship" on the
people as one of the greatest ac-
tion typifying the Hebrew brain Palestine Mandate and itself con-
and the Hebrew spirit of battle." sider this account instead of wait-
ing until Britain submits such a
CYPRUS COMPLAINTS
In the wake of reported mis-
conduct by British troops, the
British commander appointed a
liasion officer to deal with corn-
plaints by the Jewish community
against the conduct of British
troops.
At the same time reports reach-
ing here from Cyprus reported
that the condition of the Jewish
internees there has become so de-
teriorated as a result of British
mistreatment that a committee of
Jewish internees has been forced
to appeal to the International Red
Crofts to survey conditions through
as inVaartigation commission.
Bnai Brith Tells
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