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Friday, July 28, 1944

Viscount Gort Appointed
Palestine Commissioner

Field Marshal Will Succeed Sir Harold MacMichael, Whose
Departure Is Hailed by Lipsky; Zionists Are
Apprehensive Over New Policy

LONDON (JTA)—The Colonial Office announced this week
that Field Marshal Viscount Gort has been appointed High Com-
missioner for Palestine and Transjordan, -succeeding Sir Harold
MacMichael. He is governor and commander-in-chief in Malta.
Viscount Gort, who becomes the sixth High Commissioner since
Britain assumed the mandate over Palestine, was Chief of the
Imperial General Staff at the outbreak of the war ,and later com-
manded British troops in France until Dunkerque. He was governor
of Gibraltar before being sent to Malta. As chief of the general
staff he visited Palestine during the Arab riots in the winter of
1939.
He is believed to be open-minded as regards Palestine.
MacMichael became High Commissioner in February, 1938, and
his term of office was to have expii-ed in 1943, but was extended
twice. Before succeeding Sir Arthur Wauchope as High Commis-
sioner, he was governor of Tanganyika Territory.

Lipsky Apprehensive Over New Policy
NEW YORK (JPS)—At a meeting which saw his inauguration
as president of the Bnai Zion, fraternal Zionist organization, Louis
Lipsky, member of the World Zionist organization, expressed con-
cern over the policy that would be instituted in' Jewish Palestine,
under the new High Commissioner Viscount Gort.
He reiterated satisfaction over the retirement of High Com-
missioner Sir Harold MacMichael, whose regime he described as
a "tragic failure."
With Sir Harold's retirement, Mr. LipSky said, the White Paper
:`passes out of the picture," but "what all Jews . want to know is
what kind -of a paper is to follow?" Will the new policy, he asked,
be written by Winston Churchill or "will it be' written by the
purblind statesmen of the Colonial Office, pursuing their old prac-
tice of building an empire on broken promises and narrow; selfish
national interests?"

_ Arabs Silent on Gort's Appointment
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—While Jewish Palestine's press,
commenting on the appointment of Field Marshal Viscount Gort
to succeed Sir Harold MacMichael as High Commissioner of Pales-
tine, recalled that military men have made the best High Com-
missioners,- the Arab newspapers carried no comment on the ap-
pointment.

2 Jews in Cabinet
Formed on Freed
Polish Territory

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

Two Arabs and one Jew were killed and
two British constables were injured as ter-
rorists shot it out with police and planted
bombs in the District Police building in
Jerusalem . . . Jewish Palestine was deeply
shocked at this new outrage which came. after
several months of quiet following the record
- high of terrorism just before Passover, when
the Palestine government imposed a curfew
on Jewish Palestine, severely hampering
Jewish business.
Some 2,000 delegates, representing 20,173
Zionist Socialists not affiliated with any of
the factions constituting Mapai, Jewish Pal-
estine's Labor Party, voted to join the party
at a conference, held at the Beth Haam Hall
here. A manifesto addressed to Jewish Pales-
tine's labor calls for "unity and preparedness
for the coming developments and for decisive
efforts to establish a Jewish state."
For some years Moshe Medzini. of the edi-
torial staff, of the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz
and a former General Secretary of the Jewish
Agency - Executive, has been broadcasting a
Saturday night commentary on the week's
outstanding news. Mr. Medzini, known as the
"Hebrew Wickham Steed," in emulation of
the well-known B.B.C. news commentator, is
a leading journalist and author of Zionist
works and biographies. The irrnovation has
now been introduced of broadcasting a corn,
plete Arabic translation of Mr. Medzini's
commentary, under his by-line, on every
Sunday.

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AMERICA

Jacob Thorkelson. of Butte, former congress-
man, notorious anti-Semite who testified: for
William Dudley Pelley when the Silver Shirt
leader was on trial for sedition in 1942, was
reported trailing 6 to 1 behind Governor Sam
C. Ford in the Republican primary for the
Montana gubernatorial nomination.
Gerald L. K. Smith, leader of the America
First Party, had an, audience of 800 America
Firsters in what the New York newspaper PM
describes as "a sort of Sinatra swooning" dur-
ing an America First party rally in Chicago.

OVERSEAS

Towfik Abu Hoad Pasha, Premier of Trans-
jordan, denied reports circulated by a news
agency in the United States that his govern-
ment had agreed to open some regions of
Transjordan to Jewish immigration. He is also
reported by newspapers in Cairo to have de-
clared: "We support Palestine in her effort to
remain an Arab country."
Paris radio now confirms reports of the
death of Georges Mandel, former French Min-
ister of Interior, on Bastille Day. According
to the Paris radio, Mandel was shot by his
. guards as he Was driven up to Sante Prison
where mutinying prisoners had temporarily
overpowered' their guards. Earlier reports said
Mandel had been killed when the vehicle
transporting him to prison had been attacked.
Max - Auschnitt, an apostate Jew, clOse friend
of Nazi Puppet Premier of Romania General
Antonescu,' was, sentenced to death in absentia
by a court-martial' after fleeing Romania in a
stolen bomber, the Nazi Transkontinent news
agency reports. Auschnitt, described by the
Germans as "a big Jewish industrialist,'! had
'been interned in a Hungarian . concentration
camp.
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These Are

LONDON (JPS)—Two Jews
from the Galician part of Poland
have been appointed to posts in
the "cabinet" • of the Polish Com-
mittee of. National Liberation
which has been setup in the city
of Chelm in liberated Poland and
is .designed to take over the
functions for' which the Polish
government-in-eXile had geared
itself.

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In Our High School Shop

The formation of the Polish
Committee of National Libera-
tion was announced by the Mos-
cow radio and was viewed by
many as 'closing the door on fur-
ther negotiations between the
Polish government-in-exile and
Moscow.

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The two Jewish members of
the "cabinet" are: Dr. Emil Som-
merstein of Lwow (Lemberg),
member of the Polish Parliament
until the outbreak of the war
and leading General Zionist, who
heads the Department of War
Supplies, and Dr. Boleslaw Drob-
ner, from Gracow, former leader
of Poland's Independent Social-
ists, who heads the Department
for Press Affairs.

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in black-and-white or
brown - and - white.
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(Chelm, where the Committee
has set up its headquarters, is
famed in 'Jewish folklore and
some of the classic Yiddish jokes
center around it.)

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Gaza District Gets
Its First Telephone

Palestine Tops Colonies
In Cooperative Efforts
LONDON, (JTA)—Palestine's
cooperative associations are de-
scribed as the "best' developed
movement in the British depend-
encies" in a report on the de-
velopment of the cooperatve
movement in British colonies and
dependencies issued by the co-
lonial bureau of the Fabian So-
ciety.

The swooning occurred when G. L. K. Smith
made nasty remarks about Jews.
Sixty-year-old Count Ludwig Saim Von
Hoogstraeten, dilettante nobleman, consort to
heiresses during the post World War I days,
and an active Nazi collaborationist and anti-
Semite, jumped to his death from a Budapest
hotel, according to a dispatch from Basle,
Switzerland.
Commenting on "Primer of the Coming
World" by - Leopold Schwarzschild, German-
Jewish refugee now in the United States, the
newsmagazine Time recalls that the new book,
calling for .harsh treatment of Germany, is a
sequel to Schwarzschild's earlier boOk, "The
World in Trance," which has been made by
Prime Minister Winston Churchill 'must' read-
ing for the British. War Cabinet and for Do-
minion Premiers who visited London last
May."

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Moscow Radio Announces
Liberation Committee
Officers in Chelm

GDERA (Palcor)—A commu-
nal settlement of the Hashomer
Hatzair organization at Gath, in
Southern Palestine, was linked
up by telephone on May 30 for
the first time 'since the settle-
ment was established. It is the
first telephone for Jewish vil-
lages in that district. The initial
call was made to Tel Aviv.

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