For Victory Buy U. S. War Savings Stamps and Bonds VOL. 3—NO. 20 E JEWISH NE S A Weekly Review 2114 Penobscot Bldg. RA. 7956 For Victory of Jewish Events Detroit 26, - Michigan, August 6, _1943 34 cnKela. 22 Buy U. S. War Bonds and Savings Stamps $3.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 10c Rumor U. S. and Great Britain Agree on Policy for Palestine Predict Arabs to Have Veto Powers; Shertok Says Political Liquidation Will be Resisted Warn of Arab-Jewish Clashes After the War IN ENS INIUM WASHINGTON (JPS)—The United States and Great Britain have agreed upon an interim policy for the Jewish National Home in Palestine, with the Arabs being given a virtual veto over that future, it was runored in authorita- tive circles here. The information on this imminent an- nouncement of policy had been available for some time in Washington but was touched off by a cable to the.New York Times from Cyrus L. Sulzberger in Cairo, who declared in an interview with Moshe Shertok, chief of the political de- partment of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, that "Britain and America after due consultation with 'their Allies are on the verge of publishing a concrete statement concerning their proposed policy regarding the Middle East and Pales- tine." Expected to be announced in Washington by the State Department and in London by the Foreign Office, the Anglo- Amel-ican policy, it is rumored, would consist of two major points: , The Two-Point Program 1; It would propose that the Ara:Es and Jews immediate- ly get together to resolve their differences and dedide upon a mutually agreeable policy for Palestine and the Middle East. The last time such a conference was held was at the Saint James Palace in London in 193« and its abortive re- sults were followed by the. Chamberlain White Paper Of May, 1939. 2. The statement of policy would call upon American Zionists to desist from any discussion of the future of Pales- tine policy while the war is still . in progress, the implication being that the discussion of Palestine's future would' bP considered militarily objectionable. - ••• —Photo by Isadore A. Berger Congress Leaders Mobilize Detroit Jewry for Post-War Defense Efforts Leaders of the Detroit Chapter of the American Jewish Congress this week mobilized forces to strengthen local ranks and to uphold the hands of national leaders in efforts for the protection 'of Jewish rights everywhere after the war. In this photograph are, left to right: Morris L. Schaver, Rabbi Leon Fram, Abe Kasle, vice-president of the local chapter and chairman of the membership committee; Leon Kay, president, and Irwin I. Cohn, the other local vice-president. Reviewing plans outlined by Dr. Stephen S. Wise after his recent inter- view with President Roosevelt, these leaders are issuing a call to Detroit Jews to enroll in the American Jewish Congress and to strengthen Dr. Wises's hands in the efforts in defense of the Jewish position through the American Jew- ish Congress. Establish U. of M. Hillel Scholarship; Delay Bnai Brith Centennial Fetes —Page 8 Polish Cabinet Told 1,800,000 Jews Murdered by Nazis Up to May, 1943 —Page 3 Anti-Semites in Quebec Terrorize Jews; Hoodlums Attack Servicemen —Page 9 May Influence Conference Agenda Note was taken of the fact here that Arthur Hays Sulz- berger, publisher of the New York Times and uncle of Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Cairo correspondent of the Times, has recent- ly assumed a vigorous interest in promoting his anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. Recently abroad on a Red Cross mission, he Met with British officials while in Cairo. In some circles it was intimated that the suggestion was made to the State Department to announce its contemplated policy as quickly as possible in order to remove the question of Palestine from the agenda of the American Jewish Con- ference, to be held in New York beginning Aug. 29. Jews Will Resist Political Liquidation NEW YORK (JPS-Palcor)—"It would be wrong to consider the Jews incapable of deeds of despair" if "a cruelly unjust policy' is enforced against the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it was declared by Moshe Shertok, political chief of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, in an interview given at Cairo to Cyrus L. Sulzberger, correspondent of the New York Times. Mr. Shertok also told Mr. Sulzberger that now that the Nar was moving toward a .conclusion, problems of the post- Continued on Page 10 * Other News In This Issue * Between You and Me.. 2 Center Notes 7 Children's Corner 4 Cigarette Fund 10 Classified 11 Deutsch's Column 2 Editorials 4 Feature Pages 2, 12 Film Folk 11 Humor 10 Jews in Uniform 8 Letter Box 11 Local Brevities 6 Music 6 News Review 3 Obituaries 11 Purely Commentary 2 Quotation of the Week 2 Society News G, '7 Strictly Confidential 2 Synagogue News 9 Talmudic Tales 4 Women's Clubs 6 Youth Listening Post 11