Proclaim Jewish State Today!
An - Editorial
The Jewish Agency must proclaim the establish-
ment of the Jewish republic in Palestine and the or-
ganization of its provisional government today.
It should not wait until May 15. It must act
while our legal rights remain unimpaired.
• It must act while the resolution adopted by the
General Assembly of the UN on Nov. 29 on the future
government of Palestine is still valid international
law.
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Only the General Assembly can revoke or modify
its previous decision.
By the terms of the Nov. 29 edict, a provisional
government was to be set up for the Jewish State
in Palestine by April 1, and a permanent government
constitutionally organized by Oct; 1.
By acting ' now with the requisite determination
to meet the existing situation, we will only be crys-
THIRD OF A CENTURY
CF SERVICE TO
DI.:TROIT JEWRY
tallizing a political right which inheres in the Jewisi. A _
Therefore, the Jewish Agency and the Vaad
people since April 1.
•3\-74., uni can no longer consider themselves bound by
The Jewish Agency and the Vaad Leumi,
44 \ 0S.c timetable set by themselves, namely to refrain
obvious effort to lean backward to meet the 06 -.1,
May 15 from establishing the Provisional Jqw-
tions of Great Britain and the misleading
ish Government.
of the U.S., voluntarily agreed in a joint ,.+4, 04in
Proclamation of the Jewish State prior to the
adopted on March 23, and duly commur - 4?;,, (3 ca t.- the meeting of the special session of the General Assembly
Security Council, to postpone the orgy
ejt,
,,f the is not intended to confront that body with a fait
provisional government of the Jewis'
.ot later accompli.
than May 16.
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Since the date of the policy agreed .pon by the
It is neither illegal or revolutionary in character.
Jewish leadership on March 23, a radical transforma-
It is specifically sanctioned by existing international
tion has taken place in the timetable as then en-
law.
visaged.
It is the Arab League, by its flagrant violation
The Security Council decided on April 1 to call a of international law, Great Britain by its non-coopera-
special session of the General Assembly to reconsider
tion and the U.S. by its connivance that are seeking
the future government of Palestine.
to nullify the solemn decision of the United Nations
The mere fact of reconsideration threatens a vio- by, confronting it with a fait accompli created by
lent and dangerous infringement of Jewish rights to illegal use of force, non-cooperation and submission
statehood.
to power politics.
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Priadassah Hospital Chief Killed in Battle
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IS-p,erty Declaration
Proclaimed in Zion
Victim of Arabs
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JERUSALEM (Special)—The world Zionist actions committee
issued a Jewish declaration of independence this week and af-
firmed the Yishuv's decision to set up a central Jewish govern-
ment to start functioning officially on May 15.
Until that date, the commitee will seek to obtain international
recognition of the provisional
Jewish government by approach- •-1
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ing individual states.
The world Zionist council re-
jected Palestine trusteeship in
any form, decided to float an in-
ternal loan of $20,000,000 for the
defense of the Jewish State and
Asks Community
ratified the unity agreement with
Irgun Zvai Leumi by a vote of
to Report Gouging
44 to 32.
BAGANAIR TO COMMAND
Jewish shoppers are asked to
Details of the accord were not communicate with the Commu-
disclosed but it was understood nty Council if they are charged
that the Irgun would be sub- what to them seems excessive
ject to the orders of Haganah's prices for Passover items, Louis
general headquarters. Units of Fraiberg, internal relations di-
the Irgun would retain their rector, said.
:separate identity but will co-
The Council office is at 803
ordinate their attacks with the
Washington boulevard. The
Jewish militia.
The campaign for the $20,000,- phone is CH. 1657.
The Council step was taken
000 loan will be similar to a
in face of reports that some
U. S. war bond drive.
Passover food prices are being
BRITAIN ASSAILED
The Jewish declaration of in- immoderately increased.
"The Council recognizes that
dependence denounced Britain
and appealed to the Arabs for extra costs in preparation of
some Kosher food are necessary
peace. It read in part:
'After 27 years of foreign and and that these increases are nor-
atrocious rule, which the man- mally passed along to the con-
datory power received as a trust sumer," a statement said. "How-
from the world to establish a ever there is a limit beyond
Jewish National Home and which price rises of this type
which it betrayed, the Jewish become unjustifiable."
nation will establish its State
The Council pointed to the
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jump of over 50 percent in the
price of certain kinds of fish
Dr. Haber in Reich
which took place just before the
holidays last year as an illus-
tration of price gouging.
"The Council calls upon mer-
chants to exercise restraint in
this situation," the statement
went on. "Jewish food mer-
chants are not simply sellers of
goods. They are also suppliers
of what for many is a religious
necessity. This places and im-
portant responsibility upon
them."
(Spe,lel to the Chronlele)
iouncil Watches
Passover .Prices
Tilchin to See Austin
at Lawyers' Be-hest
DR. WILLIAM HABER, U. of
M. professor who is adviser
on Jewish affairs to Gen.
Clay, watches a DP prepare
a pattern in a JDC workshop
in Germany.
Seymour Tilchin, president of
the Jewish Chronicle, has been
named one of three members of
a special committee of the Na-
tional Lawyers Guild to call on
Senator Warren Austin at Lake
Success.
The delegation will carry the
Guild's plea for justice to Jewry
on the Palestine issue.
Arabs Massacre 35
as UN Reconvenes
As the UN General Assembly prepared to meet today (Friday)
to bring "peace" to Palestine, Dr. Haim Yassky, director of Ha-
dassah Hospital in Jerusalem, and 34 other Jews were trapped in
three buses by Arabs on the slopes of Mt. Scopus and slain in a
seven-hour battle.
Casualties included Hadassalt
physicians, nurses, patients and
students at Hebrew University.
Red Cross emblems were ignored
by the attackers.
British armored cars opened
fire with cannon to halt the bat-
Rally Set for Monday tle after Jewish authorities ap-
for Zion Enlistments pealed for help.
FOOD, ARMS ARRIVE
Meantime, 600 tons of food
Recruiting for Palestine will
and
ammunition arrived in Je-
be stepped up in Detroit this
weekend. with the arrival of rusalem in the largest convoy
ever used in Palestine.
Major Samuel Weiser, com-
Returning from the meeting
mander of the Hebrew Legion
in England, and Barney Ross, of the Zionist Council in Tel
former welterweight champion Aviv, Dr. Emmanuel Neumann,
president of the ZOA, declared
and Guadalcanal hero.
They will address a rally at in New York that "the partition
8:30 p.m., Monday in the Cen- of Palestine is an accomplished
tral High School auditorium for fact." The Yishuv, he said, is
the purpose of recruiting youths going over from a peace footing
to join the George Washington to a war footing.
At Lake Success, the Palestine
Legion, sponsored by the Amer-
ican League for a Free Pales- Commission warned that troops
must be sent to Palestine to
tine.
keep order and to avert starva-
Weiser and Ross will be hon-
tion and massacre, no matter
ored at a reception Saturday
what decision the Assembly
evening at the Hotel Statler.
takes.
At 7 p.m., Sunday they will
be guests of honor at a dinner BRITAIN ASSAILED
In a report prepared for to-
in the Lee Plaza Hotel.
Dvora Tamari is the League day's session, the commission ac-
cused the British of actively
representative in Detroit.
hampering its work and assailed
the Arabs for massing armed
bands to block partition by force.
The commission condemned
the Security Council for doing
nothing more than making token
gestures on partition.
The U. S., meantime, proposed
in effect that the Yishuv halt
plans to take over the adminis-
tration on May 16 as part of a
plan to implement a truce by a
UN Commission.
RAMLEII INVADED
The Arab town of Ramleh, 15
miles from Tel Aviv, was in-
vaded by Haganah forces. In Je-
rusalem, the modern Jewish Re-
havia section of the Holy City
was shelled by Arab mortars. This
was the first time in history that
Jerusalem has been bombarded.
A Jewish plane was shot down
by British troops and the pilot
Weiser, Ross Due
to Recruit Youths
DR. HAIM YASSKY
Jewish Veterans
in Britain Can
`Outtalk' Bigots
LONDON, (JTA) — Adopting
new tactics to combat anti-
Semitism in this country, the
British Association of Jewish
Ex-Servicemen and Women have
embarked . on a campaign of
erecting its own speakers plat-
forms in all places where pro-
fascist and anti-Semitic street
speakers are accustomed to
holding meetings.
At several such street corners,
where hundreds have usually
turned out to listen to the in-
flammatory remarks of the anti-
Semitic speakers, reports indi-
cate that these same crowds are
now flocking around the Jewish
veterans' rostrums.
Vets Parade in Protest of Reversal
killed.
More than 40,000 Jewish veterans marched down New York's
Fifth avenue in protest against the U. S. reversal on partition
as 150,000 spectators looked on. At the end or the parade,
memorial services were held for Jews killed by Arabs.
The British government re-
jected pleas by British Jews for
legalization of Haganah and that
Arab invaders be expelled by
the British army.