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Exodus '47 Refugees Buffalo Rabbi Israel Raps Britain
to Take Pulpit
Flee Reich Camps, at
Bnai Moshe for Refusal to Free
Find Way to Israel
Men Held in Cyprus

TEL AVIV (Special)—Almost all of the refugees on the
legendary vessel Exodus 1947 have come home to Israel, the

N. Y. 119rald Tribune revealed in a copyright story.

Ruth Gruber, who reported the odyssey of the ship
which has become a
memorial to Jewish courage and British

savagery, told how the bulk of
the 4,500 Exodus people escaped
from British camps in western
Germany to find a haven at
list in the Holy Land.
•
Tile Exodus 1947 was the ves-
sel with which the British were
going "to teach the Jewish ref-
ugees a lesson"

Rabbi Moses Lehrman of
Temple Beth David, Buffalo, N.
Y., has been elected spiritual
leader of Congregation Bnai
Moshe. Rabbi Moses Fischer will
retire in September as Rabbi
Emeritus.
Son of the late Rabbi Abra-
ham Lehrman of Brooklyn, Rab-
bi Lehrman is the descendant

Israeli Navy Rips
Port in Lebanon

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. (Special)—As fighting eased
off on the various PAlestine fronts and the UN Mediator,
Count Folke Bernadotte began organizing his truce team
in Rhodes, Aubrey Eban, Israeli representative at the UN,
strongly condemned Britain's continued imprisonment of
9,000 Jews of fighting age in Cyprus.

600 DP's to Fly
to Israel Monthly

Cairo, Damascus

Eban also revealed that Israel
would not accede to a program
of limitation of immigration to
Israel during the truce as ens
visioned in the Security Council
truce resolution.

AIR RAIDS CEASE
British sailors loaded the Jews
Blasted From Air
OR three prison ships when the
Other developments were as
Prague-Haifa Run
follows:
Exodus. landed in Haifa and
(S1ecial to the Chronicle)
to
Be
Stepped
Up
The Security Council informed
Carried them back to their point
of embarkation in southern
Syria that it would soon con-
TEL AVIV—In their first ag-
sider the Arab League request
France to float for four weeks gressive action of the war, Is-
(Special to the Chronicle)
in the blistering heat.
to refer the Palestine question
raeli naval units shtlled military
PRAGUE—Israel plans to fly to the International Court of
installations at Tyre, Lebanon.
BACK TO GERMANY
from 600 to 800 Jewish immi- Justice at the Hague.
Three Israeli corvettes sailed
grants monthly from Czechoslo-
The French would not permit along the Lebanese coast and
The Egyptian air bombings
them to land in answer to Jew- blasted the port which is the
vakia to Haifa by September, it of Tel Aviv had apparently
ish pleas and the British shipped main supply depot and tranship-
was revealed by Ehud Ueberall, ceased before Wednesday and
the Jews to dreaded Germany ment center for • the Arab
Israeli minister here, the N.Y. the shelling of Jerusalem by
which they had fled in loathing guerilla forces of Fawzi Kaukji.
Herald Tribune reported. More British-financed Legion troops
several months before. The SCORE HITS ON CAIRO
than 250 Jews are already being was not resumed that day . .
flown to Israel monthly on reg- Sidewalk cafes in Tel Aviv
whole world was shocked by
The Israeli air force carried
ularly scheduled air runs.
this new exhibition of British the war to Egyptian soil with
were crowded and swimmers
RABBI MOSES LEHRMAN
• • •
brutality and callousness.
The Israeli government is ne- cnce again flocked to the
a daring raid on Cairo in which
But the Jews refused to stay direct hits were scored. Jewish of 10 generations of Rabbis and gotiating for., franchise for sev- beaches.
as prisoners of the British and bombeas also kept up a regular leaders in Israel.
eral twin-engined C-47 planes FOOD PLENTIFUL
in small groups escaped from shuttle over Majdal where
He received his secular train- owned by Israel to carry Eu-
In Jerusalem, Ruth Gruber of
the Engiish camps and went Egyptian units are concentrated ing at the City College of New ropean Jews over the Czechoslo- the N.Y. Herald Tribune re-
York and Columbia University vak Airline route to Haifa via ported, people began coming out
down to secret ports in Italy along the Palestine border.
and pursued his Rabbinical stud- Rome and Athens.
and France where they were
of their bomb shelters into the
In their first daylight raid on
picked up by Haganah fishing Damascus, capital of Syria, Is- ies in various New York Yeshi-
These planes would supple- streets to buy food which was
voth,
including
the
Isaac
Elcha-
boats and reconverted ships to raeli bombing planes battered
ment the regular three times a available in fair quantities.
pierce the blockade of Palestine. an airdrome and military in- nan Seminary. He was ordained week flights of the Czech line.
Monday, she reported, the
in 1936.
The war did not interrupt the home of Dr. Bernard Joseph,
Already, Exodus refugees have stallations.
hops to Haifa.
chairman of the Jerusalem
given their blood to defend their
In the last hours of the fight- COMMUNITY LEADER
For the next five years Rabbi
new Homeland. One of their ing before the new cease-fire
The cost for the trip is the emergency committee, was dam-
number, just a boy 16, was went into effect, Israeli forces Lehrman held a pulpit in Cedar- regular fare of $240 a person aged by an Arab shell. Dr. Jo-
killed in battle and a young continued to improve their posi- hurst, L.I., during which time he which must be paid in dollars. seph called a UN observer to
couple who enlisted the mo- tions. They opened a road entered the Jewish Theological The trip takes 36 hours with check the damage and asked
ment they stepped on Jewish across Galilee from Haifa to Seminary of America.
an overnight stop in Athens. him whether it was Jews who
soil also gave their lives for Tiberias and overran Arab vil-
Active in Buffalo communal Immigrants are not permitted had shelled his home in view
Israel.
lages south of Haifa on the affairs, Rabbi Lehrman was a to leave the plane while jn of UN charges that Israelim
coastal route to Tel Aviv.
member of the federation board Athens and are served their din- were responsible for breaching
VISITS THEM IN CAMP
the truce.
of governors and of the speak- ner in their seats.
JEWS SEIZE •PEAKS
Miss Gruber visited the Ex-
The Egyptian government
ers
bureau
of
the
United
Jewish
Jewish troops captured Bait
Ueberall reported that at-
odus people in a camp near
promised Washington that mem-
Nabala, southeast of Tel Aviv Appeal there.
tempts
are
being
made
to
pur-
Tel Aviv. She told how they
4 bers of the Cairo mob who
had
and seized nearby heights in the COLLEGE FOUNDER
chase several C-54's in the U.S.
rushed to their billets to show
He was chairman for four to carry immigrants to Israel stoned Stephen Haas, Jewish
Judean hills. On the Arab side,
her, with pride, the documents
years of the Jewish National from Czechoslovakia and France. communal leader from Philadel-
(Continued on page 2)
proving that they had been "Ex-
Fund and one of the founders He said that the planes would phia, to death would be pun-
odus refugees" and were thus
ished.
of the recently-organized He- not be used for military pur-
entitled to certain priorities.
U. S. SENDS NOTE
brew College of Buffalo.
poses.
The American government de-
"I could hardly believe the
He also was chairman of the
manded stern action in the in-
children were the same ones I
Bnai Brith interfaith commis-
cident in a formal note to Cairo.
had seen on the British prison
istrict 6 Organizes
sion, honorary chairman of the
Before Bernadotte's return to
ships," she wrote. "Last year
Buffalo Histadrut campaign and Is rael Aid Committee
Rhodes, Eben drew from the
they had been thin, sickly look-
NEW YORK (Special)—Strong was recently elected president of
CHICAGO — Establishment of mediator an admission
ing and covered with rashes. opposition to a socialist (labor) the Zionist district of Buffalo.
an Aid to the People of Israel British action alone kept that
Here they were husky, rosy State of Israel, has been voiced
Jews
Rabbi Lehrman is married to co
mmittee by Bnai Brith's Dis- behind barbed wire in Cyprus.
cheeked and playing like Ameri- by Dr. Israel Goldstein, chair- the former Rose Cherkas of
tri
ct
Grand
Lodge
No.
6
has
can children in a summer camp." man of the World Confederation Brooklyn. They have two daugh-
To justify their retention Sir
be en announced by Dr. Irwin A.
Alexander Cadogan expressed
of General Zionists.
ters, Miriam, 16, and Blossom, E
pstein
of
St.
Paul,
Minn.,
new-
doubt that Israel would keep
Rabbi Goldstein visioned a 12.
ly- elected district president.
the men out of the armed for-
General Zionist party in Israel
(Continued on page 2) .
"mindful of the place which la-
bor holds and , must hold in
WASHINGTON (WNS) — Loy every enlightened democracy,
W. Henderson, reputed to be the espousing the rights of trade
outstanding opponent of parti- unionism, but at the same time
tion in the State Department. opposing the idea of a socialist
Zionists-Revisionists of Detroit
has been named by President state".
have invited all Zionist groups
His viewpoint, he said, is
Truman as ambassador to India.
to hold a Town Hall meeting
premised on "the conviction that
As direistor of the office of
to air out differences in pur-
maximum absorptive capacity
Near Eastern Affairs, Henderson
suance of Dr. Emanuel Neu-
upon which maximum im-
mann's suggestion for a united
has been attacked on frequent
migration will depend, re-
occasions by Zionist leaders for
Zionist
body in America.
quires thi encouragement of
his pro-Arab position on the
M. Manuel Merzon, Revision-
private capital and private initia-
Palestine question.
ist president, suggested that a
tive".
day during the period from July
It is said the numerous shifts
27 to Aug. 5, the dates of the
of American policy on Palestine
Yahrzeits respectively of Dr.
were traceable to his influence Israel Opens Palace
and position.
Theodore Ilerzl and Vladimir
as Prague Legation
Jabotinsky, be chosen for the
PRAGUE (JWNS)—The luxu-
public meeting..
"Just to let you know rious 30 room Schwarzenberg
He suggested the period he
that I got a beautiful flat
palace in Prague was opened
labeled Zionist Brotherhood
and rented my room through
this week as the first Israeli
Week. .
your classified ads. Thanks."
legation. Ehud Ueberall, 31, for-
"It would be well, indeed,'
MRS. S. ROSEN,
merly with the Jewish Agency
Merzon explained, "if we in
3801 Elmhurst avenue
in Istanbul, will be the first
Soklien of Israel dance after recent victories over the
America could compose our dif-
minister to Czechoslovakia.
Arabs
ferences in the face of the
at Lydda and Ramle.
com-
mon struggle".

Dr.. Goldstein Cool
to Socialist State

Henderson Is Out
of the State Dept.

D

Joy After Victory

Urge Mass Meeting
for Zionist Unity

