Friday, Anglia* 22, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
An Open Leiter
Page Fifteen
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Transjordan Partition Void, UN Is Told
Division Proposed
Fram, Butzel Join Campaign
Alloting 2 Regions for Repeal of Callahan Act
,Among Jews, Arabs
(This is the first of two sections.of an open letter to the
United Nations suggesting a solution of the Palestine problem.
The second part will appear next week.)
A state-wide campaign to col-
lect 150,000 signatures to place
the controversial Callahan Act
on the ballot in the 1948 fall
election is -being pressed by the
newly-formed Committee to Re-
peal the Callahan Act, 2618 Bar-
ium Tower.
The Detroit Section, American
Jewish Congress, is an active
participant in the campaign to
solicit signatures.
80 REPRESENTATIVES
Others in the list of 80 repre-
sentatives of church; labor, and
professional organizations spon-
soring the campaign against the
Prove Stepinac
Link to Killings
(Continued from page 3) *
tanta, all men of goof: will to-
ematics as a Culture Clue, and
Other Essays," has just appeared.
Prof. Jekuthier Ginsberg, a dis-
ciple and admirer of the late
Prof. Keyser. is editor of the
project.
Ludwig
Lewiaohn's son
Gentlemen:
\
James. was Bar Mitzvah recent-
I am herewith presenting to you a memorandu m prepared by
ly. , .. James is a brilliant He-
Zalman Berul, former Russian lawyer, suggesting a solution of the
brew student, and may some day
Palestine problem. I believe that you gentlemen who have had
translate his father's books into
legal training, will agree that this is a brilliant and fair proposal.
Hebrew.
There prevails, Mr. Berul writes, a false impression that
One of the oldest Anglo-Jewish
lestine has already been partitioned by the act of isolating the
publications in America is for
ansjordan territory.
sale—but the publisher wants too
Nothing of the kind ever legally happened. Transjordan is
much money.
not a separate land. Transjordan is just a geographical term for
The Irgun is flooding the coun-
the eastern part of Palestine, because of geographical differences.
try with direct-by-mail propa-
So was it also in the Biblical era. The smaller western sector thus opening unlimited chances
was settled by the majority of
ganda from Palestine. . . . The
to all Jews to return to their
KURT ANDERSON
the tribes of Israel, while the the term "Palestine" as a geo- own Homeland if they prefer it
Palestine censor does not seem to
act
are
Fred
M.
Butzel,
Rabbi
mind. .
larger eastern area permitted the graphical and political unit, as to any life in Diaspora.
Leo Fram, Dorothy K. Roosevelt,
settlement of but two and a half a land not inferior to any land
David Bernstein, AJC emis-
Such lawful, simple and just Dr. Preston Slosson,• Hon. Henry
tribes (Reuben, Gad and Ma- on all five continents entitled partition doing away with all
sary to, Zurope, is the son of
S.
Sweeny,
and
Paul
H.
Todd,
nasseh.) • to its real boundaries recorded troubles to divide the western
Herman Bernstein, the late ace
historically, legally and polit- "notch," carries genuine political Kalamazoo manufacturer.
• . •
"Many prominent citizens have foreign correspondent and U.S.
ically.
peace; the present ruler over expressed their concern over the minister to Albania. Some day
TERMINATION DATE
This must be settled first, and
we'll tell the tragic story of Her-
HOWEVER, AS THE Mississ- decisively on full legal author- 300,000 Arabs will obtain over a abrogation of free speech and
ippi, the Thames or the Marne ity, permitting no mockery at million new people.
press possible under this blun- man, who was a wonderful
Also British aspirations in the derbus law," said Kurt Ander- character but didn't like to say
do not split the U.S.A., England law, and no diplomacy of power
"yes" to wealth.
Negev, as a strategic position, son, executive director.
or France into two politically politics of any kind.
may materialize if only in har-
separated lands, so also does not
"VAGUE DEFINITIONS"
Historically
SOCICICWominWoomiXIMMI
and
politically
the River Jordan divide Pales- Palestine has now been lawfully mony with the political interests
"The vague definitions of for-
RECEPTACLES
of
other
powers.
With
the
wider
tine into two separate lands.
restored to the Jews, as belong- Transjordan stretches in Jewish eign agents in this loosely-drawn
G.h.es, Ash sod Rubbhh
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Article 25 of the Palestine ing to none else but the people possession, the desert-like Negev, act are broad enough to include
Guaranteed.
Prtood Right.
Mandate proposed to "postpone of Israel.
will lose its present importance almost any individual or group
AMERICAN
or withhold" in Transjordan the
Disposing of the Turkish ter- as the Jewish ''Lebensraum."
which is critical of state or fed-
RECEPTACLE CO.
Jewish activities sponsored in ritories, the Allied conquerors
eral policies.
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the western region, because of of World War I had a perfect
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THE TRUTH MUST be looked erties lender this un-American +411119 ■ enemenareer
However this postponement or and historical reasons to grant
, withholding neither constitutes, Palestine politically to the Jew- straight in the face: It is only type of legislation. We believe
MONUMENTS
nor provides for any partition ish people in no less degree because of the major British the people of this state should
wrong
caused
to
the
Holy
land
of Palestine into two separate than to grant Iraq, Syria, Le-
have the right to express their
lands. To postpone or withhold banon, etc. politically to the territorially, that the Palestine opinion of this law which the
problem has become so knotty, legislature tried to prevent by
"the application of such pro- Arab, people.
visions of the Mandate as he
And returning Palestine to the end of insoluble complexity giving the Callahan Act imme-
(the mandatory) may consider Jews as their historic land, the How can those 10,000 square diate effect."
inapplicable to existing local nations did not fail to make cer- mitec gratify all three—the Jew-
conditions," has the meaning of tain that civil and religious ish rights, the Arab wishes and
a temporary measure dictated by rights are guaranteed to Arab the British "strategic must"?
The Well Known Rey.
To break up into three sep-
considerations of efficiency and and other inhabitants of Pales-
arate "lands" that little notch of
subject to termination in due tine.
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Hyman Schulsinger
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some 10,000 square miles is truly
time, which cannot be later
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beyond any conceivable political
of Cong. Beth Tefllo
than the termination of the JUST TO
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THE ARABS
Emanuel
intelligence!
Mandate itself.
IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE that
However, in the hour of judg-
Capable and
The termination of the Man-
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date was given , in Article 28, the mass of the Arab population ment all anti-Mandatory and
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providing that, "In? .the. event of of Palestine, if left to its own illegal acts of the. British are
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the termination bf the Mandate free will, may nrefer enjoying nothing but sub-legal and law-
Performed
• . . the Government of Pales- civil and religious freedom in a breaking events which can never
Services in English
tine will fully honor the financial progressive and democratic Jew- effect fundamentally the fate of
and Yiddish
obligations incurred by the Ad- ish state of a modern economy, the land under law and order.
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Having reached the bar of the
ministration of Palestine during rather than commanding polit-
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ical independence in a backward United Nations, Palestine stands
the period of the Mandate'
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Arabic state of its own.
territorially as the Holy Land in
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its
original
boundaries,
ready
to
However should a plebiscite
Cleaned and Repaired
MANDATE VIOLATED
bring
peace,
real
peace
to
all
reveal an Arab majority for
Rev. Cantor
THE SECESSION OF the political separation, it would be contending three, and to t •e
LINOLEUM
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Transjordan territory by the in the be interest of both the world. A piece of land will gra-
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British in 1946 and transforming Jew and the Arab to bring such tify the Arab community of one
Rog, and Pertutere
SURGICAL
it into a sort of kingdom, in separation into effect. But this and a half million aspiring to
MOREL
VENETIAN
BLINDS
open violation of Articles 25 and can be done only in the true independence; another slice in
Tears'
Drapery Hardware
Practice
28 of the Palestine Mandate Palestine, the land of over 40,- the Negev may quell British
e , orntnended by
Saki Quarters—Better Service
was an act not just of a holder 000 square miles, and not in thirst for their "strategic spot'
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of Palestine sovereignty!
and
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of
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that little "Palestine in Minia-
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as pure political fiction, having Procrustean bed of British di- fair chance to be "reconstituted"
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no place in any record of state- plomacy:
according to the original aspira-
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There is no reason in the
leadership, and the most solemn
from both divisions comprising
decision of the nations of the
world why such flagrant viola-
more compact Arab settlements world.
tion of law and trust with self-
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The question of partition of record esteemed by the Moslem
Palestine has been raised offi- world as well. Jewish Palestine
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sembly by the Soviet Delegate. Eretz Israel. The Land of Israel.
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