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. A Gilt of Enduring Comfort and Charm! ROBINSON'S OPEN FRIDAY AND .MONDAY EVENINGS t_ :(1 SWEATER AND HOSE SETS •-• '''' '' WO HERE'S A NUMBER-ONE SUGGESTION FOR CHRIST- ' MAS GIFT SHOPPERS. SWEATER AND HOSE SET TO MATCH (AS PICTURED) OF SUPERB OUALITY WOOL AND CAMEL'S HAIR. 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