-Pt ciay . , Apr; 7, • 1944
THE. JEWISH NEWS
Palestine to Defy White
Paper . Ban on Immigration
'Jewish Agency Prepares for New Colonization Plans;
Important Declaration Made by
Dr. Weizmann
Arabia haS informed the other
Arab states that they may
count onhim to use the oil deal
as a bargaining point against
the abrogation of the Palestine
White Paper, according to a
report in the London Daily
Sketch.
Permission for Jamal Husseini
and Amin Tamini, who had been
for their participation
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — With no indication of,,,A interned
in the Palestine disturbances of
reversal of British policy at the approach of April 1 when 1936-39, to proceed to Cairo im-
the White Paper is to go into full. effect, the Jewish Agency mediately to join in the inter-
prepared here, amidst rising tension, to defy the White mittent conferences of Arab
Paper's ban on Jewish immigration and to press in Washing- statesmen regarding problems af-
ton and London the demands for a Jewish Commonwealth. fecting the Middle East, includ-
ing Palestine, has been requested
David ben Gurion, chairman@
of the Executive of the Jewish Haydomowitz, who guarded the by Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Prem-
Agency, warned against "breach- but in which the taxi driver was ier, according to the Cairo cor-
es in our own ranks which are held, called out Schuster during respondent of the London Times.
He quotes the Egyptian Pre-
visible in the middle of our the night and shot twenty rounds
struggle, breaches pertaining to- of ammunition from a tommy
a separate war on the one hand gun at him. The defense had
and a separate peace on the contended that the sentry fired
ether."
at Schuster when he tried to
Mr. Ben Gurion spoke at a escape.
This is the climax of a number
session of the Smaller Actions
Committee. His references to a of "incidents" between Jews and
"separate war" were aimed at Polish military in Palestine. The
the Irgun Zvai Leumi, allegedly . Jewish community was aroused
a Revisionist military organiza- some months ago over the par-
tion, which has taken responsi- ticipation on November 16, 1943
bility for bombs planted in gov- of Polish military police in a
ernment offices recently i n British police and military raid
protest against the White Paper on Ramath Hakovesh during
which a resident of the colony,
policy.
Shmuel Wolinietz, *was killed.
The "separate peace" charge
was viewed here as aimed at The British explained that they
a number of groups, such as had been searching for arms
while the Poles were seeking
the Hashomer Hatzair organ-
deserters .from the Polish army.
ization, which opposes t h e
The raid on Ramath Hakovesh
Biltmore Jewish C o m m o n-
for deserters from the Polish
wealth program, and Dr. Judah
army was one of several con-.
L. Magnes, president of the
ducted by the Polish military in
Hebrew University, and his
Jewish colonies. No deserters
followers who advocate that
were foUnd.
another half million Jews be
admitted into Palestine and
Weizmann Says Commonwealth,
that Jewish immigration be
National Home Synonymous
terminated thereafter.
,LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — Re-
The functions of the Zionist futing charges made by "enemies
movement, as outlined by Mr.
of Zionist aims in Palestine, that
Ben Gurion, involve at this time the Zionist program has changed
"the creation of both political and from a National Home to a Com-
economic instruments for the up- monwealth, since the days of the
building of the country and for Balfour Declaration," Dr. Chaim
the acceleration of our share in Weizmann, president of the Jew-
the war effort." He declared, in. ish 'Agency, declared here that
closing : that the important things while it would be "legitimate to
are "integrated unity and the make such a change under cer-
indissolubility of our political tain circumstances" in this par-
program, the Jerusalem-Biltmore ticular instance there has • been
program."
"no factual change, since the
Agency's Budget 0. K.'d
.term • Jewish Commonwealth
The Smaller Actions Commit- states explicitly what is implicit
tee approved the Jewish Agen- in the term Jewish National
cy's budget totalling £2,100,000, Home."
Speaking at a mass meeting at
to be used for the absorption of
Jewish immigration, the expon- Grosvenor House, which launch-
sion of Jewish Palestine's econ- ed the United Palestine Appeal
omy and the reconversion bf its campaign for a million pounds,
agriculture and industry from the largest quota in the history
war production to peacetime pro- of Zionism in. Britain,. Dr. Chaim.
duction.
Weizmann went into a detailed
Confident that the White .analysis of the charge that the
Paper cannot be implemented_ . Zionists had changed their aims.
and defiant of its ban on Jew=
Become a Majority
ish immigration, the Jewish
He recalled that • Winston
Agency announced through Dr.
Churchill's White Paper of 1922
Bernard Joseph, acting politi-
defined the meaning of the Jewish
cal chief, that the Agency was
National Horne as immigration
making arrangements for the
according to • the absorptive ca-
establishments of a special de-
pacity of the country. If this
partment devoted to the recep-
interpretation had been applied
tion and absorption of new in its true spirit, 'Dr. Weizmann
im,m1grtion.
said, it would have enabled the
Jews to become a majority in
Polish Soldier Guilty in
Palestine, thus evolving auto-
Death of Palestine Jew
matically a Jewish State.
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Jan
Pointing out that the £25,000,-
Haydomowitz, a Polish s nifty, 000 raised for Palestine by the
was found guilty of man . -.:Aughter Jewish • National Fund and the
by the Criminal Assizcs in the Palestine Foundation Fund paved
death of Zalman Schuster, a the way for private investments
Jewish taxi driver of Tol. Aviv in the country, Dr. Weizmann
who was shot in a Polish military contrasted Britain's expenditure
camp in Palestine last Dec. 20. for the settling of Englishmen in
Zalman Schuster who I-. ad Canada and Australia with that
driven a group of Polish soldiers for Jewish colonization in Pales-
to the camp, was detained there tine. Despite the obstacles en-
with other Jewish civilians on countered by Jewish colonization,
the allegation that they had and _notwithstanding the enor-
sought to purchase weapons from mous expenditures of the settlers
the Poles. The court found that in Canada_and A.ustralia, he said,
Schuster had been unlawfully figures show that Jewish coloniz-
detained and that • it was not ation in Palestine is far less cost-
proved that he had any connec- ly on a permanent basis than
tion with illegal arms purchases. that* in the two dominions.
King Ibn Saud of Saudi
The prosecution charged that
Page Nineteen
mier as insisting upon the par-
ticipation of Palestine Arabs and
pointing out that without the
presence of these two men Pal-
estine cannot be regarded as
being represented at the confer-
ence. The correspondent observes
that their is no doubht that the
Arab countries of the Middle
East now regard the Palestine
problem as a matter of vital con-
cern to them.
Nollar"3 "
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