Friday, Jun* 19, 1942

THE J-EWISH NEWS

PALESTINE ISSUE STIRS NEW
CONTROVERSY IN ENGLAND

Kurt Peiser Heads
Social Workers

Page Three

Dr. Magnes Pleads for Union
of Jews, Arabs in Palestine

Kurt Peiser, former executive Visions Great Federation Closely Linked to Anglo-American
director of the Jewish Welfare
World As Peaceful Solution to Problems; Says
-
War," Noted Philo-Semite Repeats Text of Broadcast;
Federation of Datroit, was elect-
Jews
Can
Help
ed president of
Is Supported by Lord Strabolgi
the National
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Dr. Judah L. Magnes, head
Conference o f
LONDON (Palcor) — Lord Wedgwood, veteran ad-
Jewish Social of the Hebrew University, has appealed to Jews and
vocate of Zionist aspirations in Palestine, who on June 9
Woek at the con- Arabs in Palestine to abandon their "miximalist aspira-
introduced and fought for a motion demanding a Jewish
vention held last tions" and seek to achieve a Semitic union closely linked
Army in Palestine despite a severe heart attack the pre-
week in Roches- to the Anglo-American world.
vious Sunday, was assailed by Government spokesmen,
ter, N. Y. Mr.
Asserting his belief that a peaceful solution of Arab-
notably Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne, for his recent
Peiser is now Jewish differences could be
broadcast to the American Pal-4'
the executive di- reached in an autonomous bi- financially and socially in indus-
estine Committee at Washington
rector of t h e national Palestine which would try and agriculture—to build up
in which he assailed the Pales-
Federated Jew- be part of a. wider Arab federa- an Arab-Semitic federation," Dr.
tine Administration as anti-
ish Charities of
tion which, in turn, would be Magnes asserted.
Semitic and urged that America
Kurt Peiser Philadelphia.
affiliated with the greater union
He proposed the immediate es-
take over the Palestine Man-
of the free nations of the world.
date if Great Britain could not
Dr. Magnes outlines the measures tablishment of a consultative
meet her obligations to the
he considered necessary for this body of 30 representative Pales-
tine citizens, over which the
Jews. Cranborne denounced the
First, he declared, since all British High Commissioner would
Labor Party leader for talking
Jews support the United Nations preside. This body would not
LONDON (JPS)—Dramatically
"nonsense" and as "encouraging
in this war and not all Arabs do deal with controversial issues
protesting the new Mogen David
civil war in Palestine."
so, the chief function of the Jews
symbols which Jews in occupied
GENEVA (JPS)—Since the oc- in the Near East is to help recon- such as immigration. land-sale
DEFENDS BROADCASTS
restrictions and constitution, he
In speaking on behalf of his France must now wear, a woman cupation of Warsaw, under- cile the Arabs with the Anglo-
motion emphasizing the impor- lawyer practicing at the Paris ground anti-Nazi papers in Po- American world. The first step pointed out, but with war-time
problems such as recruiting, sup-
tance of arming the Jews in Appellate Court appeared in land report, the Nazis have con- in this. he said, was to bring
plies and rationing. Jews and
Palestine, Lord Wedgwood de- court with the emblem and the fiscat-.d. 150 million dollars worth about Arab-Jewish union in Pal-
Arabs. he urged, also should be
voted himself chiefly to a de- word "Jew" emblazoned prom- o. - Jewish property. The seized estine.
appointed heads of non-contro-
fense of his radio broadcast to inently on her lawyer's robe. The goods include machinery, cloth-
He then urged the Arabs to versial government departments
the Washington dinner of Mt y act created a sensation in the ing, food and other valuable
25, which had resulted in a pub- Paris area, with Nazi-controlled goods, most of which, the papers hold the vision of a great Arab- as well as members of the ad-
Semitic union affiliated with the visory and executive councils of
lic rebuke from the British newspapers indignantly protest- add, was sent to Germany.
Anglo-American world, and from the Palestine government.
Broadcasting Corporation, which ing a "scandal at the courthouse"_
The
shift
from
the
former
Lub-
"This is far from an Arab or a
permitted the speech to go The lawyer was either Madame lin ghetto to the new concentra- this wider concept, to welcome
through. He took objection to Adelmanne - Levy or Simone tion zone at Maidan Tatarski has Jewish aid in the creation of this Jewish State, - Dr. Magnes corn-
mented, "or even a bi-national
the repudiation by the BBC and Weiller, the only two Jewish been completed, reports reaching Semitic federation.
state. but it is a beginning to-
read the text of his radio re- lawyers allowed to practice at here hold, with the figures of the OPPORTUNITY FOR JEWS
marks to justify his point of the Paris bar, both of whose hus- deported Lublin Jews totalling
"The Jews can help as no other wards union within a bi-national
view. Assailing the Govern- bands died in battle under French 68.000 souls.
people can or will—scientifically, state."
ments partiality as to radio Republican armies.
broadcasts, Lord Wedgwood
pointed out that, after the last
debate on Palestine in the House
of Lords, Foreign Office of-
ficials had arranged for a broad-
cast in. Arabic in which the
statement was made that Lord
Davies, who introduced the mo-
tion and who strongly defended
Jewish interests in palestine,
was "a former Commons man
and unimportant among the
peers."
Lord Cranborne, in one of the
strongest statements ever made
in the House in rebke of a
member, condemned Lord
Wedgwood for his broadcast to
America for having conveyed
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