Friday, Ocfotier t, 1944

Page Swien

THE JEWISH NEWS

Arab Chiefs Seek Voting
Patterned After Assembly

Conference Asks Jewish News 'Cards for Fighters'
Britain Release
Project Gets Wide Encouragement
Palestine Visas
A number of Detroiters have responded to the call for

Leaders of Defense Party and National Bloc Propose Their
"Cards for Fighters" made in The Jewish News last week.
Groups Hold Elections "After the Manner of the
The new project started by The Jewish News was in-.
Memorandum to Lord Hali-
augrated
in cooperation with Altman Jewish Hour to provide
Jewish Assephath Hanivcharim"
fax Urges Change in Policies
playing cards for servicemen overseas at 30 cents a deck.
Restricting Immigration
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — The Arab Defense Party,
First returns to The Jewish News call for this fund,
led by Ragheb Nashashibi, and the • National Bloc, led by
made last week, came in amounts of 30 cents to $1.50
NEW
YORK—In
a
memoran-
. Abdu Allatif Salah, have proposed that Palestine's Arabs
from the following:
dum to Lord Halifax, British
hold elections "after the manner of the Jewish Assephath Ambassador
Sarah Cottler, 18600 San Juan Drive; Mrs. B. Gold-
to the U. S., the
Hanivcharim" (Representative Assembly) , in order to cir- American Jewish Conference re-
stein, 16522 LaSalle; Mrs. M. Niman, 3345 Richton; Jean
cumvent efforts by the Palestine Arab Party, consisting of quested the British Government
Milner, 2732 Hazelwood. ,
followers of Haj Amin el Hus. 7 4>
to: (a) change present policies
Those desiring to cooperate in this project are asked to
semi, axis agent and Mufti of Je- raising agency for the building. of restricting immigration to Pales- make remittances at once by using this coupon:

rusalem, to poSe as representing
all Arabs.
•
This proposal has come simul-
taneously with a frustrated last-
minute effort by Amin Osman
Pasha, Finance Minister of
Egypt, to bring about unity
among Arab politicians for • the
purpose of having a unified' rep-
resentation from Palestine at the
inter-governmental Arab confer-
ence in Alexandria.
`Peace Talk' Parley
In response to an invitation by
Fewik el Husseini, cousin of the
Mufti of Jerusalem, to meet at
his home for "peace talks," only
three of the six Arab Parties re-
sponded. Nashashibi and Salab,
Who proposed the holding of
elections, did not appear, but an-
nounced that they saw no possi-
bility of co-operation with the
Husseinites who maintain "ex-
treme demands formulated in
1920, and no longer practical and
realistic."
The Husseinites demand the
abrogation of the Balfour Declar-
atiOn and the establishment of a
sovereign Arab state, while the
other two parties restrict their
demands to the further mainte-
nance of the White . Paper policy.

the Jewish homeland.
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Dr. James G. Heller ; of Cincin-
nati, national chairman of -the
United Palestine Appeal, report-
ed that since the beginning of The
year 11,400 Jews have entered
Palestine and that the agencies of
the UPA in Palestine have spent
14,000,000 in the first eight
months of this year for a large-
scale program of relief to refu-
gees, resettlement, colonization,
land acquisition and a general
agricultural, economic and in-
dustrial development program.

Eisenhower Erases
Racial Decrees in
Freed Nazi Towns

tine - so: that certificates should
be, , , made available for Jews
Wherever they find themselves
at 'present: (b) instruct British
rep,resentatives in the • Intergov-
ernmental Committee and simi-
lar- agencies to refrain from ac-
tivities antagonistic to Jewish
aspirations in Palestine; and (c)
free the JeW- ish refugees now
detailed in Mauritius.
Reports have reached the • AJC
that the policy at present pur-
sued by the Brtish administra-
tion is one of "hoarding" the re-
maining Palestine certificates
with the result that, while nom-
inally there is yet no complete
stoppage of immigration, the
policy of theWhite Paper in that
regard is -in fact applied with
full vigor.
14,000 Certificates
The number of immigrants
still entitled to enter Palestine
under the White Paper totals to
date 14,000. The Palestine ad-
ministration has ruled, however,
that it will reserve these remain-
ing certificates, with few ex-
ceptions, exclusively for Jews in
Axis-occupied territories.
Effect of this policy virtually
terminates all further Jewish im-
migration into Palestine as on
the one hand, there is now but
a very slight possibility of bring-
ing Jews out of occupied terri-
tories and on the 'other, thous-
ands of homeless Jewish refugees
in liberated areas, eager to go to
Palestine, are not deemed eli-
gible for these certificates.
Ample Evidence
Ample evidence at the disposal
of the Conference shows that Sir
Clifford Heathcote-Smith; Brit-
ish representative of the Inter-
governmental Committe on Ref-
ugees, while addressing Jewish

NEW YORK (JTA) — Jewish
leaders hire are elated at the
issuance by Gen. Eisenhower ;
commander of Allied forces in
western Europe, of a proclama-
tion abrogating Nazi racial laws
in the portion of Germany held
by the Allied armies.
Announcing the fact that Al-
lied Military Government de-
tachments went into action in
German towns as soon as they
Arab Conference Opens;
were occupied, Gen. Eisenhower
Marked by Dissension
released the text of the procla-
ALEXANDRIA, (P a 1 c o r) — mations promulgated by AMG,
There was marked dissension be- among which is one abrogating
neath the unity facade as the the "law for 'protection of Ger-
Arab inter-governmental confer- man blood and honor,' one of
ence, called by Premier Nahas the i n f am o us discriminatory
Pasha of Egypt, opened here un- Nurenberg laws" and the "Reich
der the , chairmanship of the citizenship law denying citizen-
Premier and in the presence of a ship to those not of German
large assemblage of correspond- blood."
ents from Arab, European,
Sylvia Sidney, long-tine ab-
American and British news-
papers.
sentee, returns to cinemimicking
It was anticipated that few in "Blood on the Sun."
problems, besides the question of
Palestine, on which there can be Store hours 10-6; Mondays 12:30-9
ostensible unanimity because it
does not involve the immediate
interests of any of the participat-;
ing countries, would be consid-
ered.
In Lebanon the newspapers
Warned the. Lebanese delegation
not to permit discussion- of a
fusion, federation, union or any
other political scheme which
might in any way encroach on
Lebanon's independence, sover-
eignity or frontiers. This note
was especially pronounced in the
Christian press.
Egypt's fear of competition
from Jewis-h Palestine's industry
and agriculture which have made
great progress during the war, is
expected to be one of the major
factors influencing decisions of
the inter - governmental A r a b
conference at the Antomiades
Palace in Alexandria, which is
to lay the ground for a pan-Arab

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`No Apologies for My
Jewishness'—Hillman

Jewish Agency Confers
With Russian Embassy

LONDON, (JTA) —A r epr e-
sentative of the Jewish Agency
has approached the Soviet Em-
bassy here in connection with
securing facilities for the Pales-.
tine Jewish Rescue Committee to
send relief to liberated areas of
Eastern Europe. The results of
the meeting with a Soviet offi-
cial are not known.
A number of Palestinian Jew-
sih women serving in the Aux-
iliary Territorial Service will
shortly be discharged in order to
join the Balkan mission of the
United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration, it is
learned here.

refugees in Italy, discouraged
them from seeking to immigrate
to Palestine, publicly expressed
opinions as to the inadequate
absorptive capacity of Palestine,
and generally presented the case
for a Jewish Palestine as hope-
less, unattainable and contrary
to the immediate _ needs of the
refugees. •

NEW YORK (JPS)—"I don't
apologize to anybody" for being
a Jew and a naturalized Ameri-
can, Sidney Hillman, chairman
of the CIO Political Action Com-
mittee, stated in a speech before
the annual convention of t h e
United Electrical, Radio and Ma-
chine Workers, in which he said:
"Red-baiting and Jew-baiting
go hand in hand . . . It is not
surprising that Hitler has for
years been calling. Mr. Roosevelt
a Jew, that the native American
fascists have been screaming
about the 'Jew Deal' and that
the Hearst-McCormick-Patterson
Axis rarely misses an opportu-
nity when discussing PAC to
drag in the fact that I am a Jew
and that I was born in Lithuania
... And I don't apologize to any-.
body for it . . .
"Anti-Semitism and the Bol-
shevik bogey have been the
basic propaganda lines for Ger-
man, Italian and Spanish fas-
cism for years. They are the
basic propaganda lines of Ameri-
can reaction."

Congress.

Urged Victims' Property
Used for .Palestine
NEWARK, N. J. (JPS)—Urg-
ing that "the property of the
Jews" slain by the Nazis should
be used for ref.- Atlement in Pal-
estine of Jews who have sur-
vived, Rudolf Sonneborn, New
York industrialist and chairman
of the National Council of the
United Palestine Appeal, pro-
posed the creation under the aus-
pices of the United Nations of
"the Jewish People's Restoration
Fund."
He suggested that an immedi-
ate advance of $500,000,000 on
the fund should be made by the
American - British - Russian gov-
ernments, with the bulk being
used for the transfer of half a
million Jews to Palestine within
a maximum time period of the
next three years. .
Mr. Sonneborn spoke to 700
leaders of Jewish communities in
New Jersey attending an emer-
gency conference of .the United
Palestine Appeal, central fund-

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