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. • • • 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. • • 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. • Eth.,a-Lt .Teuri4 frz, GET OUR GIANT HRON'ICLE Vol. 50, No. 131,€Z1). 52 Friday, April 16, 1918 PASSOVER EDITION NEXT FRIDAY! 10c a Copy $3 Per Year Priadassah Hospital Chief Killed in Battle • • . IS-p,erty Declaration Proclaimed in Zion Victim of Arabs • 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 . 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 (Continued on Page 2) 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.