Friday, November 26, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
`Deserters' Story
Brings Ban on 10
Palestine Papers
World Zionists Oppose
Palestine Partition Plan
Page
Five
House Group Hearings Begin
On Resolution to Save Jews
Details Not Disclosed, Reports JTA Correspondent in Suspended By Government; Foreign Affairs Committee Gets Telegram From Willkie
21 Jews, 11 Policemen
Cable From Cairo; Situation in Palestine Aggra-
Urging Wholehearted Support to Provide Haven
Hurt in Clashes
vated by Events in Lebanon
For 4 Million Still in Hitler's Clutches
•
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency's correspondent in Cairo,
Victor Bienstock, in a cable received this week, reveals that
a new plan is under consideration to partition Palestine into
Jewish and Arab territories. The plan aims at arriving at a
solution of the Arab-Jewish problem, but details have not
been disclosed.
The plan calls for the inclusion •
in the Jewish territory of the Governor General of Australia,
Negev, the southern undeveloped urged that the fight be abandoned
part of Palestine.
because Zionists are "playing
Plans for the partition of Pal- with fire." This aged Orthodox
estine originally were proposed in Jewish leader's warning was com-
1937 by the British Royal Com- pletely ignored.
mission, which was headed by
In London, the Chief Rabbi, Dr.
Lord Peel.
J. H. Hertz, took anti-Zionists to
Situation Aggravated
task for representing themselves
The situation in Palestine has, as Jewish spokesmen and he ac-
in the meantime, become aggrav- cused them of "cowardice and
ated by the events in Lebanon. treachery to the Jewish people."
The Arabs, encouraged by Leba-
At a mass meeting in Tel Aviv
nese troubles, have asked for an
last week, the Jewish National
independent national government,
in a resolution adopted at a con- Council's spokesmen declared
ference of representatives of the that it is a national duty to in-
Arab Chamber of Commerce in tensify voluntary enlistments for
Jewish units now fighting on the
Jerusalem.
On the other hand, the Arab Italian front. •
"The Jewish fighters," Isaac
leader, Issa Elisaa, editor of
Falastin, returning from Cairo, Ben-Zvi, president of the Coun-
urged an understanding between cil, declared, "will be the first to
Arabs and Jews in Palestine "in break down the ghetto walls in
order to successfully conclude European lands and to liberate
the talks for Arab unity which the remnants of the Jews there."
are now taking place in Cairo."
Zionist Council Demands
Arab News Agency
In London, an Arab news Withdrawal of White Paper
agency has been established and Assailing the Palestine White
has been registered as a private Paper policy as "a repudiation
company with a capital of $40,- of a solemn obligation," the
000. A protest has been cabled to American Zionist Emergency .
Secretary of State Hull by the Council demanded that the Brit-
Arab League of Cairo against the ish government abrogate the
pro-Zionist statements of Gover- policy, which bars all new Jew-
nor Dewey and Wendell L, Will- ish immigration into Palestine
kie, and emphasis was placed on after March 31.
the claim that "Palestine belongs
In a formal statement, the
to the Arabs alone."
Council declared that this policy
Concluding the American tour "remains essentially unchanged,"
with Emir Feisal, son of King despite last week's announce-
Ibn Saud, Sheikh Hafiz Wahba ment by British Colonial Secre-
made the statement in New York tary Oliver Stanley that immi-
that the British and American gration certificates for Palestine
governments would not attempt available under the White Paper
to impose the Zionist program for quota and unused owing to war
a Jewish State in Palestine upon conditions will be valid after
the Arabs.
March 31, 1944.
Internally, the crisis in the
Zionist Executive in Palestine re- Invites Yugoslav Jews
mains unsolved. Dr. Chaim Weiz- In Palestine to Return
mann has appealed to David Ben JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Yugo-
Gurion to withdraw his resigna- slay Jewish refugees in living in
tion as chairman. The Jewish Palestine were invited to return
Agency Executive in Jerusalem to their homeland after the war
has expressed the view that it is by Vladeta Millechevitch, MM-
vital that Dr. Weizmann should ister of the Interior in King
come to Palestine. Peter's cabinet. Millechevitch
"Playing With Fire"
told a meeting of the Yugoslav
The fight against implementa- Jewish Settlers Association that
tion of the White Paper con- "we will welcome Jews and their
tinues, but in Melbourne, Austra- talents will be fully appreciated."
ha, according to a JTA cable, Sir King Peter who is also visiting
Isaac Isaacs, 88-year-old former Palestine, received three Jewish
Suspension of 10 Palestine
newspapers—nine Hebrew dai-
lies and one Jewish periodical
published in German—was or-
dered by the government follow-
ing publication of accounts of a
earch conducted in Ramat Ha-
kovesh, a village on the coastal
plain.
Excitement was caused by the
search for certain Jewish deser-
ters from the Polish army and
the charge that Ramat Hako-
vesh was the training camp for
an illegal Jewish armed organi-
zation.
Hearings on the resolution to provide a haven for
4,000,000 Jews still suffering under Nazi persecution in
Europe are being conducted by the House Foreign Affairs
Committee in Washington.
In a telegram to the committee, Wendell L. Willkie
called for "the wholehearted support of every American" for
Plan Memorial
For Gen. Kisch,
8th Army Hero
• the resolution.
William B. Ziff, author and
publisher, attacked the British
policy on Palestine as "the true
obstacle to the solution of the
Jewish problem." Declaring that
he is pro-British, he stated:
"If the borders of Palestine
Gen. Montgomery Selected were
thrown open to Jewish im-
as Honorary Chairman
migration and if the laws which
It is reported that the male
prohibit the purchase of land
of Haifa Project
population was rounded up with-
in inside of a barbed wire enclo-
sure after the outbreak of vio-
lence between villagers and the
military units.
In Tel Aviv, demonstrations
in protest against the Ramat
Hakovesh search and the
suspension of newspapers re-
sulted in clashes in which 21
Jews and 11 British police-
men were injured.
refugee children from Yugo-
slavia, who described the plight
of the Jews and asked his as-
sistance. The King promised to
do all possible to assist the Jews
in Yugoslavia and stressed that
"all are suffering as brothers
in a common plight."
Zionists Reject Partition
Plan for Palestine
LONDON, (JTA) — Zionist
leaders are not prepared to ne-
gotiate the partition of Palestine
on the basis of the 1937 plan
offered by the Peel Commission
because the reasons for such a
partition no longer hold good,
Prof. L. B. Namier, political ad-
viser of the Jewish Agency,
writes in the Manchester Guard-
ian this week.
Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery
will act as honorary chairman
of an American committee to es-
tablish a memorial in Palestine
in honor of Brig. Gen. Frederick
H. Kisch, chief engineer of Mont-
gomery's 8th Army, trustee of
the Hebrew Institute of Tech-
nology at Haifa, and polittical
chief of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine from 1823 to 1931, it
was announced by Prof. Albert
Einstein, chairman of the com-
mittee.
The project is sponsored by
the American Society for the
Advancement of the Hebrew In-
stitute of Technology in Haifa,
154 Nassau St., New York.
Gen. Montgomery cabled his
acceptance to Dr. Einstein in a
message sent through Gen. Eis-
enhower from Algiers.
Brigadier Kisch was killed at
the height of the Tunisian cam-
paign in April, while leading a
party that cleared the land mines
in front of the British forces
at Bizerte.
there by Jews are abrogated, a
great part of this problem can
be solved."
Dean Alfange, titular head of
the Labor Party, expressed the
belief that the resolution "would
influence Britain to modify her
policy in Palestine."
Rep. Sol Bloom of New York,
chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, took excep-
tion to some witnesses' assertions
that it was necessary to create a
Presidential commission to ex-
plore the refuge problem, and de-
clared that such an organization
would be superfluous in view of
the existence of an inter-govern-
mental agency reviewed at the
Bermuda conference. Other Con-
gresmen disputed Rep. Bloom's
contentions.
DE GAULLE APPOINTS
2 JEWS AS SECRETARIES
ALGIERS (JPS)—Two Jews,
Philip Carrain and Alfred Men-
thoux, have been appointed by
General Charles De Gaulle as
his private secretaries.
Jewish Agency to Negotiate
Unity With Revisionists
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
executive of the -Jewish Agency
for Palestine this week decided
to appoint a special committee
to negotiate on unity with the
New Zionist Organization which
is outside of the official Zionist
movement and was opposed to
the creation of a Jewish Agency
with non-Zionist participation.
The newspaper Haboker, in re-
porting this development, says
that the Agency added the pro-
viso that the New Zionist Or-
ganization must first aproach it.
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