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Gen. Marshall's Plea Jolts
Palestine Resolution Hopes
Supporters for the Establishment of Jewish Commonwealth
Given Setback as Army Chief Is Reported Seeking
Postponement of Congressional Action
Friends of the movement for the establishment of a
Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine—Christians and Jews—
received a severe jolt this week when previous reports of
opposition to the pending Congressional Resolutions from
the War and State Departments were corroborated in Wash-
ington.
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota stated that Gen. George
C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, has given military reasons for
urging the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that action on the
Palestine Resolutions be postponed.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of War Henry
L. Stimson are said to be supporting Gen. Marshall's request, and
fear is expressed of disturbing Arab relations if the Resolutions
are adopted.
Many members of both Houses of Congress have expressed re-
sentment over intercession of the War Department in plans to provide
a home for Jews in Palestine.
Rep. Ranulf Compton of Connecticut on Wednesday delivered an
address in the House demanding an investigation of the elements
which have interfered with action on the Palestine Resolution. He
made the demand that Congress be given the full reasons for the
latest interferences.
Renewal of protests from Iraq, Transjordania, Yemen and
Egypt against the resolutions was accompanied by a warning froni.
the Iraq parliament that the resolution advocating that Palestine
be recognized as a Jewish national homeland is "tantamount to
request that the U. S. of America declare war on the Arabs of
Palestine."
In London this week, authoritative British circles denied
the allegation made in the United States that the governments
of Egypt, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon were inspired by the British
government to protest to the State Department in Washington
against the Palestine Resoluions.
Senaor Robert F. Wagner, co-sponsor of the Palestine Resolu-
tion in the U. S. Senate with Senator Robert Taft, and the American
Zionist Emergency Council have rebuked the Iraqi Senate and the
Egyptian Premier for their declarations.
Palestinians' Role in War Effort Cited
- The American Zionist Emergency Council's formal statement
declares:
"At the time that the German General RomMel was knocking
at the gates of Cairo and Alexandria and threatening to bottle up
Suez, the life-line of the British Empire, the Jews in Palestine were
giving their lives as combat troops. Men, women and children, and
the aged, were working in factories, manufacturing everything from
marmalade to munitions, to supply the British Eighth Army.
"At that time we heard of no protest either from Cairo or from
any Egyptian government official over the invasion of Egyptian
soil by Rommel. The Egyptian prime minister would do better to
concern himself with the contribution which Egypt might make
even now to the war effort of the United Nations. •
Wagner's Reply to Iraqi Parliament
The Congress of the U. S. has been able, for more than a century,
"to reach its own conclusions without advice from officials of foreign
nations," Senator Wagner advised officials of the Iraq parliament.
Senator Wagner's reply was addressed to Jamil al Madfai, Presi-
dent of the Iraq Senate, and Muhammed Ridha Shabibi, President of
the Chamber of Deputies.
Senator Wagner expressed confidence that "the Congress will, in
due course, act favorably upon my resolution, and such action will
be applauded by all freedom-loving 'peoples."
Egypt Admonished by Rep. Somers
Other Congressional reaction came promptly to the protest of
Egypt, the first of the Arab states to voice objections. Representa-
tive Andrew L. Somers (D. of N. Y.) suggested that Egypt would do
better trying to "learn about democracy from us instead of trying
to teach us.
Rep. Emanuel Celler (D. of N. Y.) called Egypt's action "an artful
dodge on the part of the British Foreign Office to support the White
Paper of 1939. What England fears to do directly, she does indirectly
through her tool, Premier Nahas Pasha of Egypt."
The New York Post, daily newspaper, editorially raises the same
question, asking: "Can it be that this statement was born in the
British Colonial Office?" And the editorial points out that "this is
the first time we have known Egypt to have a political idea on any
major subject."
Report Palestine on Agenda of Anglo-U. S. Talks
Palestine as a haven for Jewish refugees is likely to be on the
agenda of forthcoming Anglo-American talks in London, it was indi-
cated here. The discussions are due to begin within the next few
weeks.
•
Among the other topics slated is the problem of the Middle East
oil reserves which is said to be one of the factors holding up the
Jewish Commonwealth resolutions in both Houses of Congress.
The person who is expected to go to London as the U. S. repre-
sentative is Undersecretary of State Stettinius, who has been acting
as Secretary in the absence of Cordell Hull, who is resting in Florida.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the executive committee of the
American Zionist Emergency Council, has conferred with the Under-
secretary on several occasions in recent months.
Soviet, Refugee Rabbis Urge
Jews to Pray for Red Army
Joint Signed Statement Is First Ever Issued Out of Moscow
from Russian and Refugee Rabbis; Concentration
Camp Between Leipzig and Breslau Discovered
MOSCOW, (JTA)—Led by Rabbi Mordechai Nurok, a member
of the World Mizrachi executive and one of the leaders of the World
Jewish Congress, who escaped from Riga to Russia, 13 rabbis of
Russia and of Poland this week issued here a joint appeal to the
Jews of America and other democratic countries urging them "never
for a moment to forget your duty to help the valiant Red Army by
every means in your power."
This is the first time that refugee rabbis in Russia have joined
Russian- rabbis' in issuing a call to Jews in democratic countries.
"Remember that the destinies of the whole of freedom-loving hu-
manity are being settled for many years to come in the vast expanses
of the Soviet Union," the appeal emphasizes.
It calls for "vengeance and just retribution" for the hundreds of
Jews annihilated by the Germans, and urges that Jews throughout
the world offer a prayer for an Allied victory and especially "for
the complete and final victory of the heroic Red Army led by Stalin,
the messenger of God and the far-seeing captain of the Soviet
people."
Refugee rabbis who signed the appeal are, in addition to Rabbi
Nurow of Riga, Rabbi Berenstein of Pinsk, Rabbi Roguinski of
Visokolitovsk and Rabbis Friedman and Stizberg both from Ostro-
lVfazoweck. The Russian rabbis whose names appear on the appeal
include Rabbi Twerski of Moscow, Rabbi Grande of Moscow, Rabbi
Levin of Moscow, Rabbi Buchvarger of Kharkov, Rabbi Kolker of
OdesSa, Rabbi Sandler of Kiev, -Rabbi Gorodetski of Kiev and Rabbi
Kaputkin of Tashkent.
THE 'JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled F,om Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
OVERSEAS
admit weekly nine Jewish families and 150
Jewish children escaping from Nazi Europ©,
provided the Jewish Agency guarantees to re-
move them to Palestine "within a reasonable
time." This arrangement has been made by Ira
Hirschmann who is here on a mission for the
War Refugee Board.
Two Jewish battalions are fighting the Ger-
mans on the Italian front, the German DNB
news agency reports. It is known that Palestine
Jewish units are serving in Italy.
A club for Jewish soldiers and officers, with
the Jewish flag flying from a pole on its roof,
has been opened in a town "somewhere on the
Adriatic," according to a London Jewish Chron-
icle correspondent.
Thirty-six Jews, citizens of Turkey, arrived
at Istanbul from Rumania and Bulgaria where
they had been subjected to the same harsh
treatment as Jewish citizens of those countries.
It was only after intervention by the Turkish
consuls that their repatriation was arranged.
The Government of Turkey has agreed to
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PALESTINE
Jewish Palestine's National Council, the Vaad
Leumi, has declared its readiness to participate
in the World Jewish Assembly which is being
convened in the United States under the aus-
pices of the World Jewish Congress. It was also
announced that efforts are being made to as-
sure the participation of English Jewry in the
assembly,
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