Weizmann to Head Mission
To U.S. as Allies Defer Action

Decla-rations by Roosevelt and Churchill Result in Confusion
Regarding Palestine's Future Status; Inter-American
Conference Condemns Nazi Treatment of Jews

Prime Minister Churchill's declaration in the House of
Commons that the Palestine problem will be deferred until
after the war, and President Roosevelt's statement to Con-
gress that he learned more about the Moslem and Jewish
problems from Ibn Saud in five minutes than he could have
learned in the exchange of two or three dozen letters, have

caused disappointment in Jewish
ranks.
While Zionist leaders in Lon-
don and New York, in the main,
have refrained from commenting
upon the two statements, the
Jewish press in New York ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with both
statements, and Mr. Churchill's
declaration was called "a strange
Purim- gift" by Jacob Fishman
of the Jewish Morning Journal.
Confusion Reigns
In the meantime, confusion
reigns everywhere on the ques-
tion of Palestine's future.
Arabs were reported willing to
agree on a Jewish immigration
plan for the next five years, but
it was indicated that it would be
based on freezing the total Jew-
ish Palestinian population to a
third.
Fearful of the enforcement of
a partition scheirie, the Palestine
Jewish press has made repeated
declaration that Jews will not
submit to a plan which will re-
duce the status of the Jews...
Important Mission to U. S.
The seriousness of the Pales-
tinian situation is reflected in the
announcement that Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the Jew-
ish Agency, David Ben Gurion,
chairman of its Executive Com-
mittee, and Eliezer Kaplan, treas-
urer, soon will leave on an im-
portant mission to the U. S.
Dr. Weizmann was visited at
his Rehoboth residence by High
Commissioner Viscount Gort,
with whom he conferred for six
hours, but it was stated that the
conversation had nothing to do
with the Churchill-Roosevelt
Middle East talks. -
Regret also had been expressed
in Palestine over the Govern-
ment's decision to deduct ,the
number of Jews released from
Mauritius Island for settlement
in Palestine from the quOta es-
tablished under the White Paper.
Syria Favors Federation
Additional news affecting the
Palestinian status came from
London, to the-effect 'that Syria
would favor a Federation with
Palestine, provided the Jewish
settlement will be restricted.
But in Mexico City, the World
Organization Committee of the
Inter - American Conference
adopted a resolution condemning
the inhuman treatment of the
Jews by Germans and urging
the establishment of a Jewish
State in Palestine as a haven for
dispossessed and homeless Jews.
Commenting on President
Roosevelt's Red Sea meeting with
King Ibn Saud, Dorothy Thomp-
son, New York Post columnist,
writes that "politically Mr.
Roosevelt's position is delicate,"
since "Ibn Saud is the leading
spirit of the movement for a pan-
Arabic federation . . . which
wants Palestine as an Arabic
member. But Mr. Roosevelt (and
the Republican party also) is
committed to the establishment
of a Jewish Commonwealth in
Palestine."
Regretted in London
The deferment of the solution
of the Palestine problem gener-
ally is regretted in London, but-
the issue has become complicat-
ed by the suggestion made in
Parliament that Libya become
"a second Palestine" as a solu-
tion to the Jewish problem.
In Jerusalem, spokesmen for
the Jewish Agency indicated that
they have no information about
the world statesmen's talks with
the Arab rulers.
A motion aimed at the abroga-
tion of the White Paper was in-
troduced by Lord Strabolgi,
borite, in the House of Lords.
The motion, deferred until March
14, calls for granting additional
immigration certificates, outside
the White Paper restrictions, to
Jewish refugees in liberated
areas.

Friday, March 9, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Six

Tel Aviv Stores Close
In Protest Against Tax
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—All stores
in this all-Jewish city were
closed in a demonstration of pro-
test against the new taxation
which the Palestine Government
intends to introduce and which
will affect primarily the Jewish
population of the country.
At a meeting arranged by the
Chamber of Commerce, speakers
emphasized that the new tax
scheme, is an "economic White
Paper" which implements the re-
strictions on Jews imposed by
the political White Paper which
practically closes the doors to
Jewish immigration.
The Chamber of Commerce, it-
self, adopted a resolution asking
the Palestine Government to
change its tax legislation, argu-
ing that the government uses
taxes from Jews to finance serv-
ices to Arabs. Arab Chambers
of Commerce throughout the
country also are voicing protests
against the new taxes.

Half of Jewish Palestine
Gets Kupat Cholim Aid
TEL AVIV (Palcor) — Forty-
three per cent of Jewish Pales-
tine or nearly 250,000 persons
receive medical aid through the
Kupat Cholim, the Sick Bene-
fit Fund of Jewish Palestine's
Federation of Labor. The annual
budget amounts to over $4,000,-
000. Only a small grant is re-
ceived from the Palestine Gov-
ernment, and municipal institu-
tions contribute another $12,000.
The 1944 deficit of Kupat Cholim
was $240,000.
The institution. has a staff of
410 doctors, 375 nurses and mas-
seuses, 71 pharmacists, 45 dent-
ists; and ,it maintains four hos-
pitals, five convalescent homes
and sanataria; 30 infant welfare
stations; 260 district dispensaries,
and four X-Ray institutes. Dur-
ing the year, its staff undertook
12 million treatments.
The Kupat Cholim conducts,
at its central medical stores in
Tel Aviv, the only laboratory
for testing medical preparations
that exists in the Middle East.
-
East.

Retired Naval Officer
In London for JDC

NEW YORK — Comdr. Harold
F. Linder (USNR), vice chair-
man of the Joint Distribution
Committee, now placed on in-
active duty, has arrived in Lon-
don where he will assist in the
program of rescue, relief and re-
habilitation, Joseph C. Hyman,
JDC executive vice chairman,
announced. Commander Linder
will have headquarters in Lon-
don where he will be in contact
with Dr. Joseph J. , Schwartz,
chairman of the JDC's European
Executive Council.
This is Linder's second JDC
mission. From 1938 to 1941, he
represented the JDC in its work
with persecuted groups . in Cen-
tral Europe, where he: was as-
sociated with George Rublee, di-
rector of the "Evian" Intergov-
ernmental Committee in Europe.

received wide publicity in the
American and British press, is
being accused by the Hebrew
press of doing harm to Jewish
Palestine and world Jewry and
of confusing the friends of the
Jewish effort.
The Hebrew press attack on
Dr. Magnes came through a
series of editorials referring to
the reported Arab Cairo proposal
for the admission of a limited
number of Jews in excess of the
White Paper quota, but with a
provision limiting the Jews to
one third of the country's total
population.

Jewish Agency Replies
On Children's Education
NEW YORK (JPS) — Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, spokesman
in the U. S. for the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, issued a
statement denying that the
Agency had failed to reply to
protests by the Union of Or-
thodox Rabbis of the U. S. and
Canada against the alleged "im-
position of irreligious education"
on refugee children brought by
the Agency to Palestine.
The allegation that the Agency
failed to reply was made by the
Agudath Israel of America, ultra-
Orthodox group, which has
launched a campaign against the
Agency's handling of the educa-
tion of these children.
The Mizrachi Organization has
charged that the Agudath Israel
in America is using the contro-
versy for political reasons, dis-
regarding the agreement reached
between the Agudath Israel in
Palestine, Mizrachi and the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine.

`His Terrible Swift Sword'

British Religious Leader
Condemns Broken Pledge

The Rev. MacLean's Book Is Most Devastating Inclictmenf
of Britain's Failure to Adhere to Promise to ..Jewish
People; Assails MacDonald's Defense

The most devastating indictment of Great Britain's failure to
adhere to her pledge to the Jewish people in Palestine has beerx.
written—oddly enough—by an eminent non-Jew.
It is incorporated in the Very
Rev. Dr. Norman MacLean's "His could not extinguish it alto-,;
Terrible Swift Sword," a 25-cent gether."
paper edition of 126 pages, pub-
The firmness of his Position,
lished by the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Canada and distributed in will be understood from the fol-i
this country by the Christian lowing statement in which Ja.e:i
Council for Palestine. In Detroit repudiates the White Paper:
it is available through the Zionist
"A home whose keys are in,1
Council, 1044 Penobscot Building. the keeping of an alien, to whoxrki
Dr. MacLean belongs to the its very existence is an eyesore.
inner circle of Britain's religious and an offense, ceases to be a;
leaders. For years he held the home and becomes a prison."
pulpit of St. Cuthbert's, Edin-
Resent Breaking Pledges
burgh. He is a former Moderator
of the General Assembly of the
Dr. MacLean resents the break-4
Church of Scotland and a Royal ing of pledges. He charges thati
Chaplain when the King is in "appeasement is the secret of."'
residence there.
Mr. MacDonald's shifts and gyra-
tions," in the course of a thor-1
Views Achievements
After a visit in Palestine, Dr. ough expose of the former
MacLean spoke of Jewish Colonial Secretary's actions. _
achievements as follows:
"His Terrible Swift Sword"°
"So far from having proved a should be placed in the hands of
failure, Zionism has proved the tens of thousands of Christians.
one great success that has eman- If it is read, the Jewish position
ated from the Great War. It has will be rescued with the aid of i
been like a miracle, for it has the great Christians of the world.]
transformed deserts into fertility,
marshes into the joyous abodes Palestinians Removed
of free men, and the barren sands From Eritrea to Sudan
along the shores into vineyards
JERUSALEM (Palco•)—It was
and orange-groves. The land of
Palestine has been destroyed not officially announced this week
by war, but by the Arab peace." that 279 Palestine Jews, deported
From such sentiments stem in- for custody in Eritrea, have been.
dignation against the actions of transferred to Carthaga, Sudan,,
the British Colonial Office, and where they live in a hut-camp.
he does not mince words con- vacated by the RAF.
demning Malcolm McDonald for
his attempt to create a ghetto in
Palestine for the Jewish settlers.
MacDonald's Cover Up
Speaking of MacDonald's at-
tempt to defend his actions he
writes:
"The only effect of these so
virtuous protestations is to pro-
The United Hebrew Schools
duce a feeling of moral repulsion:
of Detroit
for even one's instinct for the
truth testifies that if the Balfour
acknowledge with thanks the
Declaration meant what Mr.
receipt of three scholarships
Malcolm MacDonald asserted it
from
meant, then it must have been
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Berman
a fraud and an. insult . . . They
of Burlingame Ave., in
put the national conscience in
memory of their father,
cold storage, and saved them-
Bernard B. Berman, brother-
selves from the charge of sinning
in-law, Harry H. Fine, and
against the light by putting the
son, Irving Berman.
light under a bushel, seeing they

Dr. Magnes Aids Foes,
Hebrew Press Charges
TEL AVIV, (Palcor)—Dr. J. LI
Magnes, president of the Hebrew
University, whose proposals for
numerical and political parity
between Jews and Arabs have

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