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DETROIT JEWISH.CHRONICLE
Friday, July 25, MI
Shertock Pleads with UN Body
to Visit DP Camps During Quiz
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The danger of this story is not
JERUSALEy, (JTA) — Con- be met by a federal arrange- in its facts but in its implica-
ment.
We
are
against
the
con-
cluding Jewish testimony before
the White Paper and "the op-
the United Nations Special Com- ception of a federal state, but portunity to establish the Jew-
we
are
for
a
federation
of
states.
mittee on Palestine, Moshe Sher-
ish state in our homeland." He
tok, head of the political de- We do not come here to be seg- appealed: "Help us establish
regated;
we
come
to
be
inte-
partment of the Jewish Agency,
contact with the Arab nations
appealed to the committee for grated.
"We do not believe in being as equals."
immediate emergency interim
of a state BEG TO GO TO ZION
recommendations calling for re- a component part •
which would rule over us. That
He declared that the Histad-
moval of al bans of the White
would mean a continual clash rut places itself completely at
Paper and for large scale ad- of divergent tendencies which
the disposal of the Jewish Agen-
mission of timeless Jews.
would pull the state structure to cy in the reception and absorp-
Shertok pointed out that the
committee not make its re- pieces. The third party—an um- tion of immigrants.
pire—would have the final say.
After reviewing the situation
port to the United Nations Gen-
He would be under constant of the Jews of Europe, he cited
eral Assembly for at least six
pressure from both sides. A new a survey among 8,000 Jewish
weeks, and then more time will
committee would then have to refugees now working in Swe-
elapse until a decision is reached.
den as to whether they desired
Meanwhile, Europe's homeless be appointed."
to remain there or go elsewhere.
Jews are facing their third post- ROOTED IN HISTORY
He said that he knew of no He said that only 53 desired to
war winter in camps.
remain while the other 7,947
"We ask you," he said, "to place in the world where there
begged to be allowed to enter
make emergency recommenda- exists two equally balanced
Palestine. He added that "an-
tions to the Assembly that, pen- communities set against each
other appeal for help" was com-
ding its consideration and ad- other. Speaking slowly and de- ing from the Jews in the Arab
judication of the major prob- liberately, he said: "Gentlemen.
countries.
lems, measures be taken for im- the question is not whether Jews
Discussing the prospects for
mediate alleviation of the situ- and Arabs can live togther in
Jewish-Arab cooperation among
the framework of a state. They
ation.
the working class Rub ash e v
do live together.
ASKS VISIT TO DP's
stressed: "We are not calling on
"The
question
is
whether
they
"Please visit the Displaced
anyone to reduce either the
can
operate
a
state
regime
by
Persons' camps," Shertok plead-
rights or requirements of the
pulling
equal
weight
in
its
coun-
ed. "It is their plight and the
Arabs in any shape or form' But
cils.
The
question
is
how
to
historic position of the Jewish
we ask you not to restrict our
people which made that plight make independence an instru- rights and not to prevent us
possible that is the real subject ment for development, not a from developing the untouched
of your investigation. Visit a strangehold on develop men t. and neglected parts of Pales-
few camps. Also visit at least Gentlemen, if you assign equal tine."
some of the Jewish settlements weight to dynamics and to
outside the camps whre the fu- statics, the statics will win out."
Summing up, he declared that Valuable Machinery
ture is just as bleak."
Shertok said there are two the Palestine problem Is - ac- Sent to Haifa Institute
fundamental events in modern tually only a function of the
New York — Laboratory
Jewish history—the extermina- Jewish problem. If there had equipment valued at $28,000 has
been
no
Jewish
problem,
you
tion in Europe and the renais-
been presented to the Hebrew
would not have a Palestine
sance in Palestine.
Institute of Technology in Haifa
"These were two poles which, problem."
by Alexander Konoff, New Jer-
He
warned
the
committee
that
between them, galvanized the
sey . industrialist and manufac-
Jewish national will into action. they "can't solve the problem if turer. The machinery was ship-
There cannot be permanent sta- you disregard its roots. in his- ped to Palestine last week on
bility in Palestine nor in the tory. You will not solve it if the S.S. Exporter.
vlorld, so far as the Jewish po- you restrict it to present-day
The addition of this machinery
sition affects it, without satis- (Palestine."
to the institute, the only engin-
fying the craving of the Jewish SPUR ARAB GROWTH
eering school in Palestine, will
people."
In answer to the government's prove a boon to the school's ex-
"I tell you that just as 650,000 charge that the disparity in the panding education program, Ju-
Jews are accepted by the Arabs living standards between the dah Wattenberg pointed out.
so will the Jewish State eventu- Jews and the Arabs was at the
ally be accepted. Arab fears base of the present state of af-
may, in the subjective sense, be_ fairs in the Holy Land, Shertok
CONGRATULATIONS
genuine but they are neverthe- told the members of the com-
to the
less irrational."
mittee that "there is no factual
or statistical proof for that claim
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