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Delegates to United Palestine Appeal Conference Adopt
8-Point Program to Bring About Jewisl Homeland,
Including Raising of 30 Million for Redemption
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Jewish News Correspondent at UPA Conference
CHICAGO—Moved to action by recent occurrences which de-
mand speedy settlement of large numbers of Jews in Palestine—
admittedly the only center now open for large-scale Jewish immig-
ration—as well as the tragic events which imperil the political
status of Palestine, the 700 delegates at the national conference of
the United Palestine Appeal, held at the Stevens Hotel last week-
end, adopted an eight-point program calling for the following:
Transplanting of hundreds of thousands of \Jews who need and
must go to Palestine after the war, abandonment of the British
White Paper, unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, the
right of Jews to purchase land in Palestine, recognition of the Jew-
ish Commonwealth by world powers, the creation of a 'United Na-
tions fund for the settlement of Jews in Palestine, the making avail-
able of transportation facilities by our government for Jews to go
to Palestine and the dedication of American Jewry to the • task of
raising our full goal of $30,000,000 during 1945 for Palestine redemp-
tion work. .
Conference Disturbed by Churchill's Statement -
The conference seriously was disturbed by the statement of
Prime Minister Churchill in the House of Mommons, demanding that
Jews should take the initiative to stamp out the Palestine terror
created by the Stern Gang, in view of the murder of Lord Moyne:
(In his statement, Prime Minister Churchill declared: "It has
affected none more strongly than those like myself who in the
past have been the consistent friends of the Jews and constant arch-
itects of their future. If our dreams for Zionism are to end in the
smoke-of the assassin's pistol and our labors for its future produce
only a new set of gangsters worthy of Nazi Germany, many like
myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained so
consistently and so long in the past.")
Dr. James G. Heller, national chairman of the United Palestine
-Appeal, took note of the Churchill statement in his address at the
opening session of the conference. Dr. Heller emphasized that the
Moyne murder has met with universal horror- and condemnation,
but he declared that to a degree Great Britain must be held res-
ponsible because her restrictive policies served "to unhinge ill-
balanced minds and to throw them into the histrionics of their
recent' acts."
Palestine's Contribution to War Effort Cited
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The "wild program of the Irgun and the Sternists" must be
measured against the background of the tremendous contribution
to the war effort made by Palestine.
(In- New York, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the Zionist
Emergency Council, issued the following statement:
("Mr. Churchill's words with regard to the suppreSSion of the
terrorists in Palestine, in fact, echo the united will of Palestine
Je:'ry that this must be done. The Jews of Palestine are resolved
to crush the terror by all means at their disposal and in that pur-
pose they are supported by the entire Zionist movement in this
country.
("It is to be hoped that. the proper directives will be given by
the Government in London to the local officials which will make
it possible for Palestine Jewry in cooperation with the Government
authorities to do what is necessary to that end.
("It would be dangerous, however, to ignore the fact that the
hateful and criminal acts of these half-crazed youths reflects the
tensions produced by the anomalous political situation in Palestine
and the urgent need for an early and just solution of the question
-of the future of the Jewish National Home.
("Nor should these individual acts of terrorism be allowed to
eclipse the splendid contribution • which Palestine Jewry, rallying
to Great Britain in her hour of need, have made and are making
to the war effort.")
Commonwealth Lacks Only International Status
The conference heard a stirring address by Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, who just returned from Palestine, in which the eminent
world-Zionist leader declared that Palestine already has a de facto
Jewish State based on moral law and lacks only international
status. He called upon the peoples of the world to give Palestine
recognition as a Jewish Commonwealth.
The highlight of the conference was the truly great address
delivered on Sunday by Dr. James G. McDonald, chairman of
President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee for Political Refugees.
Dr. McDonald's address was an indictment of the nations of the
world for their failure to solve the refugee problem. Presenting
a complete historical statement of efforts to solve the refuge: prob
lem, he showed how one government after another had failed to
rise to the given occasions to rescue human beings.
Palestine Only Solution to Problem
He declared that after studying the subject of intergovernment-
al action in relation to the refugee problem during the past quarter
of a century he had come to the "inescapable conclusion" that "on
the record Palestine offers incontestably the primary hope for the
' solution of the problem of Jewish refugees" because only in Pales-
tine "will most of them feel that they have returned home."
He added: ."President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill,
Marshal Stalin and General DeGaulle should • be urged to place
the future of Palestine on the agenda of their projected forthcom-
ing meeting. Nothing less than an agreement amonf - the four pow-
ers interested in the Middle East can lay the basis for a real Pales-
tine settlement."
Dr. Bernard Joseph, Legal Adviser of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, made a moving plea for the opening of Palestine's door
to the thousands of orphan children from Europe.
Adopt Message for Dr. Weizmann
Mrs. Rebecca Sieff of London, Henry Monsky, president of
Bnai Brith; Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America; Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago. Pr - Leon
Roth, Rector of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem; Bernard A.
Rosenblatt, president of the Palestine Foundation Fund; Mrs. Jud-
ith Epstein, president of Hadassah; David Wertheim, secretary of
Poale Zion; were among the speakers at the oonference.
The resolutions adopted by the delegates included a message
to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who arrived in Palestine last week, on
. his 70th birthday; commendations for their services to Dr. Heller,
Henry Montor, national UPA director, and Robert Silverman, Mr.
Montor's associate.
Mr. Montor, in his report to the conference, stated that of the
$30,000,000 collected this year for the United Jewish Appeal, $12,-
000,000 will go for Palestine redemption work through the United
Palestine Appeal. He called upon American Zionists to redouble
their eitorts in order to speed the great work of national redemption.
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
ish People of Europe, the committee's chairman,
Judge William S. Bennet, announced.
AMERICA
Emil. Ludwig, biographer, charged in an
article distributed by the United Features Syn-
dicate that "more than 600 German, or German-
descended, professors are now in the United
States teaching that the Nazis, not the Germans,
are responsible for the war, or that the wicked
English and French bear the guilt for the
conflict.
John F. Cassidy, former Christian Front
leader and aide to Father Coughlin, was refused
admission to the bar by. a 4-1 decision of the
Appelate Division of the N. Y. State Supreme
Court.
The charge that Senator Wilbert Lee
("Pappy") O'Daniel of Texas is linked to the
Christian American Association, an organiza-
tion with "pro-fascist leanings," was made by
the Propaganda Battlefront, publication of
Friends of Democracy.
Joe McWilliams, professional Jew-baiter and
alleged seditionist, has been fired from his job
as engineer with the 'Western Shade Cloth
Company here.
Dr. Stephen S. _Wise will be the recipient' of
the 1944 Brith Sholom award, conferred an-
nually upon persons "who have distinguished
themselves in the service of our country and
humane endeavors."
Meyer W. 'Weisgal, journalist and American
representative of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the World Zionist Organization and of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine, is en route
to Palestine at Dr.. Weizmann's request.
The announced determination of the Nazis to
exterminate the Jews of Europe seems to have
been carried almost to completion in Holland,
where it is feared that only 7,000 Jews survive
out of a prewar population of 120,000, accord-
ing to a dispatch from Aneta, Netherlands
News Agency.
Rapidly expanding industry and agriculture
in Palestine, ready to spend as much as $50,-
000,000 to purchase replacements in the United
States, will furnish a great market for Amer-
ican goods after the war, Harry Viteles, 'gen-
eral manager of the Central' Bank of Coop-
erative Institutions in Palestine, Ltd., declared.
A libel suit against Pierre van Paassen, au-
thor and foreign correspondent, has been filed
by the law firm of Potter and Potter in behalf
of the Emergency Committee to Save the Jew-
PALESTINE
Reports in the Syrian and Lebanon press that
Palestine Jews were acquiring land property in
outlying regions of Syria and Lebanon, were
'described as "fictitious" by MoShe Shertok,
chief of the Political Department of the Jew-
ish Agency, who charged that "these stories
are circulated with deliberate malice in order
to poison the atmosphere against Zionism's ef-
forts." With this "baneful purpose" in mind,
Zionism is being described as "a fearsome
monster threatening to devour the neighboring
countries," he said.'
Fifteen hundred Jewish immigrants have en-
tered Palestine since October 1. Of the total,
1,350 arrived in November. This does not in-
clude 360 Greek Jews now in a Greek Refugee
Shelter in Palestine.
The first group of Jewish immigrants to
leave Bulgaria since its surrender to the ,Allies
arrived here by the overland route from
Turkey. The group consists mostly of Chalut-
zim youth, trained for Palestine pioneering, and
includes thirty-nine Jewish refugees from Po-
land and Hungary and seven from other coun-
tries. Most of the arrivals are Hebrew-speak-
ing.
"Reeent events in Palestine do not make it
easier" to consider pleas for the admission into
Palestine of Jewish -refugees who were turned
back from there four years ago and have been
interned on the Island of Mauritius ever since,
Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley declared in -
the House of Commons. He said that the
Mauritius internees would • not be included
among those permitted to enter Palestine on
the certificates remaining under the White
Paper.
OVERSEAS
Retribution in kind for the tens of thotNsands
of Jews whom the Germans killed and burned
on the pyre in Babiyar, a sub9rb of Kiev,
three years ago—Sept. 29, 1941—was sworn by
a crowd of thousands, including the heirs to the
martyrs of whom only ashes and bones remain..
Mayor Zoltan of Budapest was removed after
only ten days- in office when the anti-Semitic,
fascist Arrow Cross Party, now in power, ob-
tained evidence that his wife was of Jewish
descent. Mayor Zoltan was an Arrow Cross
Party appointee.
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