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Vol. 49, No. 49 Ago.
Dream Realized
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Hagana14stnaces Mass,
Issue Ultimatum to Arabs;
Detroit Hails New State
First President of Jewish State?
THEODORE IIERZL
9 Blocks
, Burned in
Arab Riot
FLUSHING MEADOWS (WNS)--The day for which
Jews had been waiting for 1900 years came at last at 5:30
P.m!: Saturday Nov. 29, the 16th day of the Hebrew month
of Kislev.
At that hour the United Nations General Assembly,
meeting for its last session of the year, finally gave its
approval for the establishment of a Jewish State in a .part
of Palestine for the first time in 1877 years.
As the vote was announced, 33 to 13, more than the
necessary two-thirds, there was no applause, there was
onl• solemn, tense silence.
s the meeting neared its end Jewish rejoicing, in
the corridors of the Assembly as well as all over the world,
gradually became vocal and swelled to a crescendo. In
the corridors a Rabbi, echoing the sentiment of world
Jewry, repeated the Hebrew prayer:
"This is the day the Lord hath made: Let us re-
joice in it and be glad."
JERUSALEM (Special)—Haga-
nah, militia of the, Yishuv, came
out in the open for the first time
in eight years to help stem pil-
laging Arab mobs who went on
a rampage in Jerusalem and in
the Tel „Aviv-Jaffa border zone
in protest against the UN par-
tition plan.
At least 12 Jews are dead in
the rioting. Nine Jewish blocks
were burned down.
Iiaganah forces were massed
throughout the land to guard iso-
lated settlements pdl•icularly in
the Negev and in the Syrian bor-
der areas.
AVERT PITCHED BATTLES
In Jerusalem, Haganah mem-
bers armed with pistols rescued
Jews from buildings threatened
by Arabs and helped police to
restrain Jewish mobs from insti-
gating a pitched battle.
Officers of Haganah issued a
24-hour ultimatum to the Arabs
4o stop their attacks or suffer the
consequences. The ultimatum was
to expire Wednesday night. •
There was no evidence that
the Arab attacks were organized.
They seemed rather to have been
brought about by the call for a
three-day protest strike and by
their spontaneous indignation at
the UN decision.
POLICE ARE'SLOW
A rigid curfew was clamped
down on the Arab quarters of
Jerusalem. A barricade at the
entrance to the shopping district
of the city was manned by Ha-
ganah patrols. Behind it, Jew-
ish youths who attempted to
break into the Arab areas were
halted by the militia who insisted
that the police be permitted to
deal with the situation' until an
extreme emergency occurred.
4t first police took few pre-
autions to prevent Arab attacks,
'but they finally undertook
strong measures when the death
toll began to mount.
In the Chronicle
Bnai Brith
25
Editorials
4
JWV
27
Obituaries
31
Rothschild
28
Teen Age
27
Women's Clubs
31
Eretz Wildly Greets
Birth of the Nation
Yishift, Celebrates All Night and Day
DR. CIIAIM WEIZMANN
Permanent Jewish Body
Set Up by U.S. leaders
CHICAGO (JTA)—A perma-
nent organization to succeed the
American Jewish Conference as
the central representative Jewish
organization to act as spokesman
for the Jews of America on do-
mestic and foreign issues was
voted here by 435 delegates rep-
resenting 82 national Jewish or-
ganizations and hundreds of
Jewish communities throughout
the country.
of the new State, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise declared: "We go forward
to give help and counsel to our
Jewish brothers to build the
Jewish State, but we in Ameri-
ca must not dominate those who
have suffered and fought in Pal-
estine to build the Jewish state."
He proposed Dr. Chaim Weiz-
man as its first president.
The UN decision to set up a
Jewish state provided the neces-
sary impetus to win over waver-
ing delegates to support the idea
of a permanent Jewish organiza-
tion.
Statesman
Detroit's representatives were
Rabbis Joshua Sperka, Max
Wohlgelernter and Leon Fram
and Aaron Droock, Jewish Com-
munity Council president, and
Isadore Starr, Bnai Brith leader.
Among the important phases
of the scope of the new organi-
zation, which were adopted was
a proposal that on major issues
on the domestic scene, particu-
larly on fighting anti-Semitism,
the organization would carry out
its program through the estab-
lished civic defense groups.
Word of UN broke up the pre-
conference caucus meetings and
merged the Zionist and Ameri-
can Jewish Congress blocs, meet-
ing in adjoining rooms, in a
victory celebration pledging to
work together in a new area for
Judaism.
Proposing "Judea" as the name
There were embraces and kisses and tears and excited
laughter in the Assembly corridors.
In Palestine itself Jews were up all night celebrating
the arrival of their statehood after they received the
news from New York around midnight Palestine time.
Police armored cars, used recently in battling the
Jews, rolled through the streets with singing young peo-
ple on top, on the sides, wherever they could hang on.
Thousands milled in front of the Jewish Agency
building singing "Ilatikvah" and dancing the Hora• A
A Nation Is Born
IS jubilation in Israel, for Zion has been redeemed.
T HERE
On such a sacred occasion one can only bow to the
wisdom of the Psalmist who sang:
,"When the Lord brought back those that returned to Zion
We were like unto theniceiat dream.
Then was our mouth fill, pith laughter
And our tongue with singing."
Yet the occasion demands more than rejoicing. It re-
quires awe, silence, contemplation. For how can we, who
escaped the fate of the six million Jewish martyrs, dance
to the tune of cymbals without pausing to remember that
it was their martyrdom which gave life to our dreams.
But there is consolation in the process of history. Our
Jewish generation, which beheld a display of brutality un-
matched in the annals of mankind, has also been fated to
witness the great moment of deliverance from Galuth.
We, who not long ago faced the imminence of extinc-
tion, are on the threshold of national rebirth.
Our feet are standing within the gates of Zion.
"May they prosper that love thee,
Peace be within thy walls!"
DR. EMANUEL NEUMANN,
president of the ZOA, whose
statesmanship was largely re-
sponsible for the happy UN
outcome.
squad of British soldiers stacked their rifles, joined hands
with the Jews and danced around the weapons in the
street.
The crowds continued the celebration all day Sunday.
In Detroit, Wednesday night, a public meeting of the
Shaarey Zedek Men's Club to hear Dr. Stephen S. Wise
was converted into a spontan€ous community demonstra-
tion in honor of the creation of the Jewih State.
- A spirit of rejoicing and thankfulness stirred the
overflow. audience and there was much prayer and song.
"We are going to allow ourselves a short period of
jubilation, then go back to work to see this plan through
to fruition", Rabbi Morris Adler said earlier.
"The decision marks not only the beginning of a
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