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Vol. 50, No. 9 •• 52
Zionist Leaders at UN
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Arabs Set New D-Day;
China Blocks Decision
on Threat to the Peace
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fV,I0 Bans
Bias, Says
News Head
LAKE SUCCESS (Special
to the Chronicle)—While the
Yishuv faced a new Arab
D-Day before the end of the
mandate May 15, the Big
Guest Speaker
Four powers weighing the fate
of the partition decision con-
tinued to debate whether or not
the strife in Palestine constituted
a threat to' world peace.
Meantime, Arab leaders were
taking advantage of the western
world's fright over the expan-
sion of Communism by charging
in the Security Council that
American support of partition
would weaken the Arab coun-
tries' barriers against Commu-
nism.
In an informal statement to
the Jewish Community Council,
Members of the Jewish Agency executive are shown at the
recent sessions of the United Nations Security Council. In
the foreground are, left to right, Vassily Tarasenko, Ukrainian
delegate; Dr. Abba IIillel Silver, chairman of the American
section of the Agency; and Moshe Shertok, foreign secretary
designate of the Jewish State. Seated behind them are, left
to right, Ilayim Greenberg, Dr. Emanuel Neumann, ZOA
president, and Dr. Nahum Goldman. Shertok will be here to
speak at the formal opening of the Allied Jewish Campaign,
March 30 at the Hotel Statler.
Shertok, Lehman to Address
-Major Meetings of Campaign
Moshe Shertok, foreign minis-
In a special advanCe gifts
ter-designate of the Jewish State, meeting, Gov. Lehman and Gen.
and Gov. Herbert H. Lehman John H. Hilldring will address
will be among an imposing list leaders in the trade and pro-
of speakers who will help launch fessions divisions and in the
major activities of the $7,000,000 Women's Division, Tuesday,
Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign. March 23 at the Statler.
Shertok and Herman Gilman,
chairman of the Boston Combin-
Rabbi Max Kirshblum, na-
ed Jewish Appeal, will appear tionally known Zionist leader,
at the formal opening of the will be the guest speaker at a
campaign at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, mass meeting of orthodox groups
March 30 at the Hotel Statler. at 8 p.m., Sunday, March 28,
in Central High School audi-
torium.
Irgun-Haganah •
Merger Ratified
Jewish Cabinet's
Makeup Confirmed
Rabbi Kirshblum has just re-
turned from an extended tour
of Palestine and Europe. He is
executive vice-president of Miz-
rachi.
George Cushing, news editor of
WJR denied that his station ever
slanted its news to the prejudice
of Jews.
The statement followed the
publication of attested charges
in Billboard magazine that G. A.
Richards, president of WJR and
other stations in Cleveland and
Los Angeles, had ordered his
news editors in Los Angeles to
smear Jews as Communists and
to minimize the news from Pal-
estine.
RUSSIA FRIENDLIEST
As the big powers continued
. .
Cushing readily agreed to a Zionists to Hear
Community Council request that
,it$ news .broadeags of,, recent
months be made availible-to the Ex-Army-Officer
MAJOR SAM ALTMAN
AGREES 'TO CIIECKUP
Council for analysis.
Milton Stewart of the Ameri-
Altman to Address
can Jewish Congress, which has
made formal charges against
ZOD Political Rally
Richards before the Federal
Communications Commis sion,
Detroit Zionists will learn
will be in charge of the checkup what is behind the headlines in
here, Oscar Cohen, Council ex- Palestine at an open political
ecutive director, revealed. He rally Wednesday, March 24 at
will be assisted by Joseph Fau- Shaarey Zedek. .
man of the Council staff.
Major Sam Altman of New
York will be the speaker. Ile
HAVE JEWISH AIDES
Cushing told Cohen that one will bring to his audience the
third of the station's employes latest developments in the cru-
were Jews and that .a similar cial situation confronting the
proportion of the musicians at Jewish State and explain the
position of the General Zionist
the station were Jews.
Meanwhile, new charges be- movement.
Altman saw active service for
gan mounting up confirming
Richards' anti-Semitic bias and five years in North Africa and
his orders that news be twisted the European Theater. He was
in accordance with his racial in close contact with Jewish
refugees and the network of
and political prejudices.
underground operations speed-
In a deposition filed with the ing
the , – to Palestine.
FCC, Billboard reported, Mau-
Altr,
is a successful speak-
rie Starrels, former news editor
at Richards' coast station KMPC, er in Licnalf of United Jewish
swore that Richards had ordered Appeal and Zionist activities.
him to play up the fact that He is executive director of the
American Aid for Jewish Chil-
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dren of Europe.
Shertok, who will address the
formal opening meeting, has
served for the last 14 years as
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Full agree- head of the political department
ment on the composition of the of the Jewish Agency and has
visional Jewish Government been Palestine Jewry's chief
reached here at a joint spokesman at the United Na-
:ting of leaders of the Jew- tions.
-a Agency and the Jewish Na-
Gilman has been active since
tional Council.
1937 as a trustee of the Associat-
The agreement provides the ed Jewish Philanthropies of Bos-
formation ,of a 13-member ton.
Cabinet to include four members
Gen. Hilldring, a renowned
of the Jewish Labor Party (Ma- soldier, has proved himself a
pai); two members of the United friend of the DP's and his testi-
Labor Party, which- is comprised
mony before the UN on Pales-
of Hashomer Hatzair and L'Ach- tine has confirmed
Police Commissioner Harry S
Jewry's high
dut Avodah; two General Zion-
regard for him, Julian H. Krolik, Toy denied this week that he
ists; one Mizrachl, one Agudist, JWF president, said.
had made an anti-Semitic state-
one Revisionist, one Mizrachi la-
ment in a roundtable discussion
borite and one representative of
over the air as had been charged
the Aliyah Hadashah.
by various organizations and
The meeting ratified the pact
individuals.
between the Haganah and the
In a lengthy statement to the
Irgun, which was reached by
The next delegates meeting of Jewish Community Council, Toy,
representatives of both groups the Jewish Community Council former supreme court justice
after prolonged negotiations.
will take place at 8:15 p.m., and Wayne County prosecutor,
The first crisis in the Pro- Tuesday, in Workmen's Circle, explained that the remarks had
visional Government developed at which an election will be been misconstrued and that he
when the political committee of held to fill the vacancy on the had never in his public or pri-
the United Labor Party, recently executive board.
vate life practiced intolerance.
formed by a merger of the left-
Reports will be read on activi- CHARGE UNWARRANTED
wing Hashomer Hatzair and the ties of the Council's internal i.ep
The Council after a careful
L'Achdut Avodah, decided not lations, community relations and study of a transcript of the
to participate in the Council of cultural commission committees broadcast declared that the criti-
Government because of inade- and on efforts in behalf of dis- cism of Toy was not substan-
quate representation.
placed persons and progress in tiated.
The party was assigned three obtaining FEPC legislation for
The question arose over cer-
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Michigan.
tam remarks -by the commis-
to spar with the Palestine prob-
lem for a third week, it ap-
peared that Russia was the most
persistent advocate of strong and
swift action to carry out the
partition formula.
Early in the week, the United
States, France and Russia
seemed to be on the verge of
an agreement that Arab infiltra-
tion - had posed a threat to the
peace. The Security Council
would then have been asked to
demand that all non-Palestinian
elements be ousted from the
country.
A decision was blocked by
China which insisted that Jew-
ish immigration and arms trans-
portation also played a part in
the peace threat.
TRUCE CONDITIONS
Replying to the big powers'
appeal for a truce in the fight-
ing, the Arab nations said that
they would agree if the truce
was not based upon the carry-
ing out of partition.
The Jewish Agency said the
Jewish reply would have to
come from the Jews in Pales-
tine themselves.
The UN Palestine CommiSsIon
meantime in a report to the
UN, assailed Britain for refusing
to cooperate with the Commis-
sion and indicated that the
group would not be able to
establish provisional govern-
ments before the April 1 dead-
line.
AWAIT DRY WEATHER
Arab military leaders said that
they were awaiting the end of
the current wet weather to be-
gin full-scale warfare.
Haganah replied that the
Arabs would "face a surprise"
when the attack came.
Reports increased that the
stoner concerning Communist in-
Council Clears Toy
in Remark on 'Rabbis'
Council Slates
Delegates ,Meeting
filtration in the United States.
The statement made by Toy
was that some Communist agents
entered this country "who are
not Jewish but came as Rabbis
because there is no immigration
objection or rule against Rabbis
coming in. They came in as
Rabbis when they are not even
Rabbis or Jewish."
ATTACKED BY GROUP
The Michigan Committee for
Wallace for President charged
in a letter to Toy that his state-
ment "had the effect of arousing
anti-Semitic prejudices and of
creating a war atmosphere of
fear. You gave no authority for
your statement and we cannot
believe that, if there were any
truth to your charge, the fraud
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Arab army in the Nablus-Jenin
area had grown to 8,000 fighting
men.
Rabbis Summon
Jewry to Prayer
The Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis has called upon the Jews of
Detroit to express their solidar-
ity with the Yishuv on a day
of prayer, Wednesday, March 24.
Detroiters are •urged to attend
Mincha services that day, the
Fast of Esther, to implore the
Almighty for intercession in
view of the critical situation
in Palestine.
Rabbis will urge their con-
gregations to associate them-
selves in spirit and in deed with
the United Jewish Appeal.