Paday, -Mardi 2,•1945

Conflicting Reports Hold
Fate of Palestine's Status

Report Roosevelt, Churchill and Arab Kings Failed to Dis-
cuss Jewish Homeland During Talks in Cairo, Says High
British Personality;. Arabs Reject Merger Project

. LONDON (JTA)—A high British personality this week stated
that no plan for Palestine was discussed at the conferences held by
Roosevelt and Churchill with King Farouk of Egypt and. Ibn Saud.
He expressed the opinion that "the Palestine question will be settled
after the war."
(There have been conflicting. reports from the major capitals
of the world over the future status of Palestine this week.)
A report stating that the U; S. Ambassador in Paris has pre-
sented to Gen. • De Gaulle a memoranduth indicating that the
Mandates over Palestine, Syria and Lebanon would be handed over
to United Nations trusteeship is published in the London Daily
sketch.
(State Department sources in Washington told the JTA that
they, had no knowledge that instructions had gone to Ambassador
Caffrey in Paris to inform Gen. De Gaulle that the British mandate
for Palestine and the French mandates for Lebanon and Syria were
to be turned over to an international trusteeship of the United
Nations.)
The London Daily Herald says that Britain suggested the parti-
tioning- of Palestine "can. be dismissed." The paper adds that no
important decisions and no formal agreements were made • during
the conversations in Egypt.
Matter of Joint Interest to United Nations
The. London Times, in an editorial commenting on the separate
talks which Roosevelt and Churchill had with the Arab kings in
Egypt, said that there is good reason to hope that the policies of
the United Nations with regard to the Middle East are being framed
is. relation to the general world organization.
The problems of Palestine and of the Levant states, the editorial
continues, cannot be viewed as isolated questions but are being
.considered in relation to the general problems in the Middle East
which are now becoming a matter of joint interest to the United
Nations.
The Manchester Guardian says "whether Palestine remains a
- mandated territory or becomes ari independent state, it will have
considerable bearing on postwar secdrity. It adds that no one can
contest the fact that the Jewish National Home is a reality and is
going to increase in strength.

Palestine Jews Excited Over Cairo Reports
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ekcitement prevails among the Jews in
Palestine in connection with the report from Cairo that it is
expected that the major part of Palestine will be merged with
Lebanon as a Jewish-Christian state.
This feeling was heightened by the fact that High Commissioner
Gort paid a visit to Dr. Chaim Weizmann at Rehovoth, which lasted
for several hours. Although this visit was arranged a 'week ago,
the public nevertheless coupled it with the, meetings which Roose-
velt and Churchill had in Egypt with the Arab kings. Moshe
Shertok, head of the political department of the Jewish Agency,
. was present at the conversations between the High Commissioner
and Dr. Weizmann.

Leaders of Arab Countries Reject Proposed Merger
CAIRO (JTA)—Leaders of Arab countries meeting here to draft
a constitution for the projected League of Arab Nations have re-
jected the proposal that Palestine and its neighboring countries be
merged into a greater. Syria, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned
from reliable sources.
The representative of Saudi Arabia was insistent on rejection
of the proposal, expressing the wish of King Ibn Saud that each
country in the Middle East respect the independence Wand the
autonomy of its neighbors. Arab circles emphasized that Britain
and the O. S. promised to consider the Arab viewpoint regarding
Palestine.
Foreign Minister N. Pasha, speakin in the Egyptian Senate last '
week said "The ministry on Arab affairs had not yet presented any
report regarding the Palestine issue. I do not know how the Pales-
tine prgblem will be solved." ,

THE:JEWISH NEWS

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA
U. S. Secretary of State Edward Stet-
tinius warned the Inter-American Conference
in Mexico City of the "danger of secret Nazi-
Fascist infiltration" in the Western Hemis-
phere and called. upon the nations participat-
ing in the conference to "stamp out utterly
every vestige of Nazi influence" in their midst.
Among the Foreign Ministers and their aides
participating in , the Inter-American Confer-
ence are many confirmed supporters of the
reconstruction of Palestine as a Jewish Com-
monwealth. -.
Congressman A. Clayton Powell, Negro
representative from New York City, assailed
an anti-Semitic speech delivered on Feb. 13
by Rep. John E. Rankin (D. Miss.), and de-
clared that "racial bigotry has no place in this
nation, least of all in the House of Repre-
sentativeS," Representative Rankin charged
that the majority of doctors on Civil Service
rolls and in veteran hospitals are JeWish.
A group of 150. Sunday School pupils. 10 to
15 years old. from St. Clair United Church,
Toronto, visited in a body, the Friday evening
service in Holy Blossom Temple here, in the
first goodwill demonstration of this sort ever
arranged in the Dominion of Canada, Rabbi
Abraham L. Feinberg of Holy Blossom Temple
said.
The Republic of Portugal was denounced
as a haven for Nazi elementS filtering out of
Germany and as a place of deposit for Nazi
funds, by Dr. J. P. Migueis, PortugeSe writer
and educator, for the past nine years a po-
litical exile in the United States, Who an-
nounced the formation of a Portugese Amer-
ican Committee for Democracy.
The allocation by the Joint Distribution
Committee of $5,364;740 in the first two months
of 1945 for. relief work in Europe was reported
by Robert Pilpel, JDC representative in Lis-
bon who just arrived in New York.
Over 400 volumes in the social sciences
were presented to the Queens College Li-
brary by the Bnai Brith Metropolitan Coun-
cil of Greater New York, at a special Student
Assembly, Samuel Markle, president of Bnai
Brith Metropolitan Council, announced.
The gift was in response to an appeal by
President Klapper for help - in meeting the
needs of Queens College students for more
books emphasizing an Understanding of human
relations.
The National Jewish Welfare Board will
be. included among the beneficiary agencies of
the 1945 campaign conducted by, the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, it was
announced jointly by Louis Broido, executive
chairman, of the Greater New York Cam-
paign and Frank L. Weil; president of the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board.
, Tess Slesinger, novelist, short story and
motion-picture script writer, died in Los
AngeleS at the age of .39.

Decide to Admit to Palestine All Internees on Mauritius
LONDON (JTA)—The British Government has decided to re-
admit to Palestine all Jews who had been deported as illegal
immigrants to the Island of Mauritius, it was announced by Colonial
Minister Oliver Stanley. He added that he could not promise when
the Jewish internees will be transferred from Mauritiiis to Palestine
"in view of formidable. transport difficulties."
Speaking. - in the House of Co.mmons, the Colonial Minister
rejected the demand by some members of Parliament that com-
pensation be paid to the survivors of the "Petrie," the ship which
sank in Haifa , harbor with the loss of several hundred Jewish
refugees, after they were forbidden to land in Palestine.

- Jews in Palestine Insist on More Immigrants
* JERUSALEM (JTA)—The question of securing the admission
into Palestine of more Jews from Europe, as the number of immi-
gration certificates available under the British White Paper are
nearly exhausted, was the major question under discussion at the
plenary session of the Jewish Natipnal Council.
Numerous speakers emphasized that everything must be done—
including the calling of a general strike throughout the country-
tO impress upon the British that the doors of Palestine must be
kept open for Jewish immigration. .
Executive Officers of the Council reported that during the
Period between-the last plenary session and the present, two repre-
sentative Jewish delegations appeared before the High Commissioner
and appealed for his intervention to secure the opening of Palestine
to the remnants of European Jewry.
Palestinian wines, produced in the colonies of Rishon L'Zion
and Zichron-Jacob, were served to President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill during their recent conferences in Cairo, it was
learned here. --
More than 100 Yeshiva students, rabbis and orthodox Jews
marched through the main street to the Wailing Wall, protesting
the. alleged failure of the Jewish Agency to provide religious train-
ing . for the child refugees being brought here from Europe. -Orthodox
spokesmen complained • that only a small number of youthful
refugees have been placed in their institutions.

Anti-Zionist Leaflet Distributed by Arab Group in Paris
• PARIS (JTA)—Following their disruption of Zionist meetings
. here, a group of youths representing the "Friends of Arab Palestine"
distributed anti-Zionist leaflets ,to persons entering a meeting. of
the Jewish Socialist Bund.,
. I The meeting featured an address by Daniel Mayer, secretary-
general. of the French Socialist Party, who charged that failure of
Minister of Justice Francois de Monthon to purge his ministry and
the courts of collaborationists was the cause for the delay in the
promulgation of legislation restoring confiscated Jewish property.

.
U. S. Turning Pro-Arab, London Paper Reports
LONDON (JPS)—The Washington correspondent of the London
Daily . Telegraph asserts in a dispatch that President Roosevelt's
conferences with Arab rulers regarding Middle East' affairs indicate
growing American interest in an Arab .Federation, a cooling off
by the U. S. toward Zionism and a growing sympathy for the Arabs.

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PALESTINE
A record budget of $6,352,000 in expendi-
tures has been presented for consideration by
the Tel Aviv Municipalii,v for the year 1945- .
46, compared with the current year's budget
of $5,414,000 and the $2,160,000 budget adopted
by the Council in 1940: The estimated income
will be $6,400,000 for the 1945-6 period. The
proposed budget would include $1,516,000 for
education; $1,644,000 for health services, and
$824,000 for social service.
sr
The first original Palestine Hebrew optira,
"Dan, the Watchman," was presented by tthe
Palestine Folk Opera Company in Tel Aviv.
The opera is based on a novel by S. Shalom;
the libretto was written by Max Brod, the
music by Mare Lavey, and Moshe Halevy, of
the Ohel Labor theater, directed and pie-
duee'd it.
Ramat Gan reports that a new settlement
for Jewish ex-servicemen will be established
in the name of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, by the
members of the Palestine Manufacturers As-
sociation. The sum of $140,000 was immedi-
ately raised, for the purpose at a meeting
at Ramat Gan at which the decision was
taken.
Alarming reports filtering in frorri the lib-
erated countries make the largest possible
Jewish immigration into Palestine in 1945 a
most urgent necessity, Moshe Shertok, Chief of
the Political. Department of the Jewish .
Agency, declared at a press conference in
Tel Aviv.
OVERSEAS
The name of Dr. A. Leon Kubovitzky,
rescue emissary of the World Jewish Con-
gress and formerly a Belgian Zionist leader,
was inscribed in the Jewish National Fund
Golden Book by Belgian Zionists.
A number of Jewish orphanages in France
and Belgium will soon be opened by the
United Jewish Relief Appeal in London; An-
initial sum of $20,000 has already been
located for the first such home to be located in
Brussels and to house 350 children.
The soonest possible evacuation of all refu-
gees in Switzerland, to be arranged in co-op-
eration with the Swiss authorities and refu- •
gee bodies, is regarded as the main task of
Henri Rothmund, temporarily retired Swiss
Federal Police Chief appointed as Swiss dele-
gate to the London Intergovernmental Com-;
mittee on• Refuges. - He will direct activities
from Geneva.•
"Had the Red Army arrived in Lodz 20
hours later, none of us would have been left
alive," Dr. Albert Mazur, prominent Lodz nose
and. throat surgeon' and one -of the 887 surviv-
ors of the Lodz Ghetto, told the Indepe •e
'Jewish Press Service correspondent in Mos__
The Romanian Government has orde
red
the sequestration of,.500 . Jewish houses in Bu-,
charest, and 700 in the provinces -for
and Government offices.

