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Vol. 50, No. 5

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Brotherhood in Practice

Phut. by Joe

Iligeltnan

Dr. Jorge Garcia Granados, Guatemalan delegate to the
United Nations, hailed the devotion of the Yishuv and urged
that it be amply armed in an address here Sunday. lie is
shown at the left with Senora Granados and Rabbi Jerome
Unger, acting executive director of the ZOA, as they arrived
in Detroit. (See story in column 3).

• • •

Arthur Lee Simpkins, Negro tenor, is presented a solid gold
Menorah, one of the top honors that can be conferred on an in-
dividual by a Synagogue, by Martin Bialosoff, president of the
Olympic Jewish Center of Los Angeles. The award was made
for "his outstanding contribution to the causes of brother-
hood and humanity."

U. S. Oil Interests Safe, Official Says

WASHINGTON — Dist u r b-
ances in Palestine will not af-
fect the construction of the
Trans-Arabian pipeline and it
is expected that it will be fin-
ished on schedule in 1950, B.
E. Hull, president of the Ara-
. bian American Oil Company,
said in a report.
Because of the disturbances
s ome construction personnel
have been transferred front Sy-

ria and Lebanon to Saudi Ara-
bia, the report states, but pro-
duction has not been seriously
affected since over 80 percent
of the pipeline lies in Saudi
Arabia and only s small part
of it in Palestine.
King Ibn Saud has assured
the company that commitments
to American oil companies will
be fulfilled, the report stated.

Friday, February 20, 1948

Granados
Urges Arms
for Haganah

The recognition of Haganah as
an official militia and the arming
of the Jews in Palestine was urg-
ed by Dr. Jorge Garcia Grana-
dos of Guatemala at the Simon
Shetzer Memorial Institute which
concluded the all-day conference
for the creation of the Michi-
gan Zionist Region last Sunday.
Dr. Granados, his nation's
delegate at the UN and member
of UNSCOP, spoke at the North-
west Hebrew Congregation. He
charged that Britain is doing
everything in her power to nul-
lify the UN decision and prevent
its realization.
ADVISES PRESSURE
He urged the 700 persons who
were present to help save the
Jewish State by exerting con-
tinuous pressure on Washington
to implement the UN Assembly
vote.
Rabbi Morris Adler gave a
eulogy of Mr. Shetzer, Zionist
and communal leader who died
last year.
Earlier in the day, at the De-
troit-Leland Hotel, delegates at
the first annual conference of
the new region passed a resolu-
tion stating that "the effective-
ness of the United Nations as
the only force capable of main-
taining world peace is directly
threatened by any attempt to
renegotiate a decision once it has
been reached," and called upon
the United States to insist upon
enforcement of the UN decision.
JACOBS HEADS REGION
Morris N. Jacobs, president of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit,' was elected first president
of the Michigan Zionist Region.
Vice-presidents are H. B.
Shaine, president of the Grand
Rapids Zionist District; Rabbi
Jacob flurwitz, president of the
Flint Zionist District; and
Charles Wolok, treasurer of the
(Continued on Page 2)

British Accused
in Slaying of 4

JERUSALEM (WNS)—In tak-
ing four Jews, who had been
picked up at a presumed gun-
post, into an Arab area and
then turning them loose, Brit-
ish troops were accessories be-
fore the fact of murder," the
Jewish Agency declared in a
statement after the dead bodies
of the Jews had been found
lying in the Old City.
The British claim they had
released the Jews after brief
questioning.

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Br;:1%:":„An Speed to Balk
t-e Army for Eretz;
Ilaiganala on Offensive

LONDON (Special)—Britain is out to.prevent at all
costs the sending of an international force to Palestine,
Frederick Kuh, Chicago Sun correspondent reported here
in a copyright story.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones has rushed to

New York to forestall such a
move, Kuh indicated.
The British action is based on
its fear that the Security Coun-
cil will decide to send a force
made up of big power contin-
gents. This would mean bring-
ing Soviet troops into the Middle
East, or perhaps troops Of east-
ern European countries allied
to Russia. This thought curdles
the spines of the British gov-
ernment, Kuh pointed out.
REPEATS TI1REAT
In Cairo, Abdul Rahman Az-
zam Pasha, secretary-general of
the Arab League, proclaimed
again that any armed force
which attempts to partition Pal-
estine will meet with armed
resistance.
He acknowledged the possi-
bility of defeat but declared
that the Arabs would attempt
another war within a few years.
Meantime, i n Washington,
Zionist leaders from all parts
of the country demanded im-
mediate lifting of the embargo
on arms, invocation of sanctions
against the Arab states for de-
fying the UN and the formation
of an international police farce.
BLOW UP BRIDGE
In a move to stem the infil-
tration into Palestine of Arabs
from the neighboring states,
Haganah forces took the offen-
sive in northern Palestine,
where they blew up three
bridges over which Arabs were
crossing into Palestine.
Eleven of the Arabs were
killed and many were wounded.
One of the bridges was blown
up by a driver who brought
his vehicle right to the center
of the span and set off an ex-
plosion which destroyed the
bridge. The impact of the ex-
plosion threw the driver into
the water where .he became a
target for Arab shooting.
30 DIE IN BATTLE
More than 30 Arabs were
killed and many wounded when
the Haganah decisively repulsed
an attack by 400 Arabs on the
Hapoel Hamizrachi settlement
of Tirat-Zvi, in the Belsen Val-
ley, near the point where the
Palestine, Syrian and Trans-
jordan borders meet.
In the four-hour battle which
opened at 3 a.m., the Jews
lost one man shot dead and
two seriously wounded.

Anti-Semitism
in the Soviet
Called Intense

NEW YORK (WNS) — "The
extent and intensity of anti-
Semitism in the Soviet Union is
surprising in a country that
boasts of its lack of racial preju-
dice," declared Drew Middleton,
former N. Y. Times correspon-
dent in Moscow.
As a result of this, there has
been a revival of "militant race
consciousness" on the part of
Jews who are now becoming
more interested than formerly in
the Jewish republic of Birobid-
jan, he said.
Popular sentiment in Russia
often blames Jews for food
shortages, and in government de-
partments and bureaus where
Jews were formerly influential
or numerous they are either be-
ing demoted or dismissed, ac-
cording to Middleton. Although
anti-Semitism is not an an-
nounced government policy, "it
is difficult to believe that it
could exist in so closely con-
trolled a police state if the gov-
ernment did not give its tacit ap-
proval," he said.
Middleton asserted that Jews
cannot now enter the principal
military academies in Moscow
and that their number is re-
stricted in the medical and law
schools in the university at Kiev
and in Moscow University.
The beginning of the present
antagonism towards them is
traced by Jews themselves to
the treason trials of 12 years ago
against Leon Trotzky and his
followers, many of whom were
Jews, declares the writer.

Write to Station WJLB
to Keep Jewish Hour

Detroiters wishing to keep
foreign-language programs on
the air have been urged to
write to Station WJLB, Bro-
derick Tower, urging the con-
tinuance of such programs. The
Jewish hour as well as all other
foreign hours are scheduled to
go off the air Feb. 28.

Truman, Marshall Pledges Ease Tension in Capital

WASHINGTON (Special)
Tv After two weeks of anxiety
over the reported plot to re-
verse the UN decision on Pal-
stine, an anxiety which at
times reached a point of panic,
the tension has eased a little
and the political situation in
the Capitol with regard to Pal-
estine seems to have bright-
ened considerably.
It is premature to say that
the danger of the plot has been
eliminated, but a few reassuring
events of an official and unoffi-
cial character have occurred
which clearly indicate that the
offensive started a few weeks
ago by the pro-Arab and pro-

oil interests against the United
Nations decision, has been re-
pulsed, to say the least.
• •
DENIES SHIFT PLOT
THE MOST IMPORTANT of
these events were the official
statements by President Truman
and Secretary of State Marshall
which categorically denied the
persistent rumors that the
United States was on the verge
of reversing its policy with re-
gard to the establishment of a
Jewish State.
Although Marshall refused to
be drawn into a discussion of
particulars, he nevertheless was
quite emphatic in his denial that

the State Department had in-
tentions of shifting, or even
amending its policy proclaimed
last November.
Another event, probably just
as significant, was the denial
by the Secretary for Defense,
James Forrestal, that he was
opposing the administration pol-
icy of supporting the partition
of Palestine.
It will be remembered that
Forrestal was described as the
central figure in the plot in the
numerous reports on the subject
during the last two weeks. It
was said that he had even
threatened to resign his cabinet
position, if the Administration

would proceed with the parti-
tion of Palestine.
His denial is therefore of
considerable significance, al-
though it was not made in the
same emphatic manner as that
of Marshall. Forrestal was
merely reported to have said
that he had enough to do with-
out interfering with the State
Department.
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MARSHALL QUIZZED
A THIRD FACT of signifi-
cance was a letter sent by a
group of 30 leading Republican
congressmen to Marshall on the
Palestine situation. The group
headed by Jacob Javits, the

young and progressive Jewish
Republican congressman of New
York, voiced the anxiety of
a considerable section of Re-
publican public opinion about
the rumors of a change in U. S.
policy.
The letter asked a few specific
questions of Marshall, including
such pertinent ones as whether
or not Great Britain is shipping
arms to Arab nations and
whether this does not interfere
with the carrying out of the
decision of the UN. Also, what
will be the instructions of the
State Department to the Amer-
ican delegate on the Security
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