THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, September 8, 1944

Hebrew Press Urges Jew
Be Made Jerusalem Mayor

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/Jewish Majority in. Capital of Palestine Pointed Out as
Main Reason; Acting- Mayor Auster Only Jew
Invited to MacMichael Farewell Fete

GENEVA (JTA)—A commis-
sion appointed by the Swiss Gov-
ernment to visit the institutions
established in Geneva by the
Ort, has lauded the work of
these institutions after spending
several hours in the Ort techni-
cal schools and in the workshop
established for Jewish refugee
women whose husbands were
deported by the Germans from
occupied territories.
As a result of negotiations be-
tween representatives of the Ort
and of the Swiss authorities, ref-
ugees are now liberated from
refugee camps in Switzerland if
they are admitted to Ort training
schools in Basle, Geneva and
Zurich. The Czechoslovak consu-
late in Geneva extended its spe-
cial thanks to the Ort for admit-
ting non-Jewish Czech citizens to
its training schools.
During the last two months the
Ort has quadrupled the number
of its training schools in t h e
refugee camps. At the request
of the authorities it has recently-
agreed to enlarge its model 'vege-
table garden in Sierre, where
refugees are prepared for agri-_
cultural work in Palestine.

I JERUSALEM (JPS-Pallor)—Constituting 65 per cent of
its population and 75 per cent of its taxpayers, the Jews are
justified in their request that a Jew be appointed Mayor of
Jerusalem, the Hebrew press states in editorials commenting
on the death of the Moslem mayor, Mustapha bey Khalidi,
and the nomination of Acting Mayor, Daniel Amster, a Jew,

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to replace him.
The Arab newspaper Ad Dufaa Col. Stewart- Francis Newcombe,
counters that since Arabs are leading British opponent to a
the majority in Palestine, the Jewish Palestine.
Mayor of Jerusalem, the capital,
When Nuri es-Said Pasha first
should be an Arab. The Arab prdposed the plan a year ago,
Councillors of this • city have little reaction was registered.
asked the District Commissioner Now Col. Newcombe has re-
to appoint an Arab mayor as vived this plan by canvassing
soon as possible.
Arab opinion. The colonel has
Sir Harold MacMichael, his seen many years of service in
wife and youngest daughter left Eastern countries, beginning
by plane following a brief fare- with the Egyptian Army, from
well ceremony at government 1901-11, and participating in the
house to which only 25 persons Gallopoli campaign. He was
were invited. The Acting Mayor Chief Engineer of Malta, 1929-
of Jerusalem and his wife were 32, and was retired in 1932.
the only Jews invited.

MacMichael Warns
Against "Political Fanaticism"
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Stress-
ing that many dangers still
threaten the peace and: welfare
of Palestine, retiring High Com-
missioner Sir Harold Mac-
Michael in a farewell message
warned that the gravest danger
is "political fanaticism which has
been deliberately inculcated
in the Younger generation which
has regimented for ends which
are negative to all that is meant
by demoCracy."
Sir Harold added that not all
the people of Palestine sympa-
thize with • this fanaticism and
urged those who oppose it to act
to curb the terrorism. At the
same time, he paid tribute to
the population's contribution to
the, war effort.

Press Resents Slur
On Jewish Palestine
JERUSALEM (JPS - Palcor)—
The statement made to Jewish
refugees in Italy by Sir Clifford
Hethcote Smith, representative
of the Intergovernmental Com- •
mittee for Refugees, that Jewish
Palestine "is no larger than a
handkerchief and could not ad-
mit them" was sharply attacked
by the Hebrew and English-
language press of Jewish Pales-
tine. He made the statement in
reply to the demand. of the refu-
gees, to whom he had come to
convey the Italian government's
offer of nationality, that they
should be, allowed to proceed to
Palestine.
The newspaper Hazman re-
calls that "15 years before the
remark of Sir Clifford another
British official expert, Sir Hope
Simpson, stated that there was
no room for even a cat, and yet
since then 300,000 Jews arrived
and the standard of living in
Palestine has risen. The equality ,
of rights for the Jews will not
solve the problem, only a home-
land can solve it."
Inhabitants of Palestine to-
talled 1,676,571 at the end of
1943, according to Government
figures. Of these, the official
figures gave 502,912 as Jews, or
31.2 per cent of the population.
Arabs' Proposals
Abolition of the Jewish Na-
tional Home was recommended
to the forthcoming intergovern-
mental Arab conference at Alex-
andria as a basic conditions for
co-operation between the Arab
states and the United Nations.
The proposal came simultane-
ously from the Arab press here
and in Syria and from the Pal-
estine Arab Party, which • con-
sists of followers of Haj. Amin
el Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem,
now broadcasting for the Axis
from Berlin.
Observers note that this new
agitation follows endorsement by
the London Times of a Greater
Syria plan to include Trans-
jordan, Palestine, Syria and
Lebanon.

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Rescue a Subterfuge,
Shertock Charges
LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — The
implied charge that the Palestine
Administration was using its
alleged concern for the Jews in
enemy occupied territory as a
subterfuge to withhold from
Jews immigration certificates to
which they. are entitled even
under White Paper policy, was
made by Moshe Shertok, politi-
cal chief of the Jewish Agency,
at a press conference here.
The number of Jews from
enemy territory that have ar-
rived in Palestine since Septem:
ber, 1943, is about 400, he said.
"Under these circumstances the
fact that the balance of avail-
able immigration certificates is
limited exclusively to those flee-
ing from the enemy has had a
purely and unduly negative ef-
fect, indefinitely deferring the
rehabilitation of Jews who are
physically safe, but morally and
materially deteriorating," Mr.
Shertok said, referring to the
thousands now residing in tem-
porary shelters in countries that
admitted them for a limited
period.

Says Stettinius Gave
Zionists False Hopes
NEW YORK (JPS)—Writing
in the. Daily Mirror, Rep. Clare
Booth Luce (R.) of Conn., re-
lated that Under Secretary of
State Stettinitis made exaggerat-
ed promises to American Zionist
leaders.
en elegant Ed returned
from. London recently he smil-
ingly reassured American Zion-
ist leaders: 'You'll get every-

Anti-Jewish Laws
Abolished in Savoy

LONDON (JTA)—Jews -in the
liberated Savoy section of France
have been notified to report at
local town halls and to surren-
der their identification cards
stamped with the word "Jew"
in exchange for the usual docu-
ments given all citizens.
The report said that all anti-
Jewish measures in this liberated
part of France have been abol-
ished by order of the President
of the Liberation Committee.

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thing you want from the British
by November.' When Stettinius'
soothing promise finally seeped
back to London, the Foreign
Office instantly served notice on
Mr. Hull that no such assurance
had ever been given. Ten Down-
ing Street is all for Mr. Roose-
velt's re-election, but not' at the
expense of the British Empire."

Zionist-Revisionists Appeal
To Jewish Extremists
'JERUSALEM, (JTA), — The
Zionist Revisionist Party of Pal-
estine addressed an appeal to
Jewish extremists to cease their
terroristic attacks against gov-
ernment institutions. It stressed
that these acts are harmful to
the Jewish cause.
The appeal, published in Ha-
mashkif, official Revisionist or-
gan, termed the terrorism sense-
less.

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