friday, March 23, 1945 THUJEWISH NEWS Roosevelt Says Position On Palestine Unchanged Weekly 111;eview of the. News of the World (Corripaed From Cables of independent Jewish Press Service) Reaffirms His Stand on Zionism in Letter Addressed to- . PALESTINE Senator-Wagner, Following Visit From Dr. Wise; Restates Democratic Plank on Homeland. By MURRAY FRANK WASHINGTON (JPS) • — Following a visit from Dr. Stephen S. -Wise, chairman of the American Zionist. Council, President Roosevelt issued the following stae ment: "I made my position on Zionism clear in October. That position I have not changed and shall continue to bring about its earliest realization." The President had reference to his message to the convention of the. Zionist Organization of America, in a letter addressed to Senator Rober F. Wagner: That message read: .. "Knowing that you are to attend the 47th annual convention a the Zionist Organization of America, I ask you to convey to the delegates assembled my cordial greetings. "Please express my satisfaction that, in accord with the traditional American policy and in keeping with the spirit of the Four Freedoms, the Democratic Party at its July convention this year included the following plank" in its platform: • " We favor the opening of Palestine to unrestricted Jewish immigration and colonization, and such a policy as to result in the establishment there of a free and democratic Jewish Common- wealth'. "Efforts will be made to find appropriate- ways and means of effectuating this policy as soon as practicable. I know how long and ardently the Jewish people have worked and prayed for the establishment of Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish COM- monwealth. I am convinced that the American people give their support to this aim and if re-elected I shall help to bring about its realiza ti on." Dr. Wise had a long talk with the President. He was received alone. Zionist leaders, conferring with' Dr. Wise following his meeting with the President, were of the opinion that the "Big Three" had as yet reached no decision on Palestine, but that the question would probably be placed on the agenda at San Francisco. - Conference Will Not Decide Fate of Mandates WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The fate of presently mandated ter- ritories will not be decided upon by the United Nations .Con- ference at San Francisco, an' authoritative source indicated this week. There vtrill be no discussion of specified areas. The Con- ference in April, it was learned, will concern itself with the ereation of machinery giving the future International Security organization the right to establish international. trusteeships. The question of mandates will be discussed only in this regard. Page Three . The Child and Youth Foundation of the Vaad Leumi will be named for the late Miss Hen- rietta Szold, it was announced in connection with a series of memorial meetings marking the 30th day of her death. Seven Jewish flying clubs in Palestine with several' hundreds of young active members .maintain practical courses and sponsor teach- ing of aviation • principles in Vaad Leumi schools. Many of the former members of these clubs are now serving in the Royal Air Force. Playing their seventh game in the 'First Di- vision of the British Army Football League somewhere in the Central Mediterranean Area, the first 11 of the Jewish Brigade Group won by three goals to zero over a strong British team. The Jewish Brigade selected team now has 14 points. Its team has a number of play- ers well known to the Palestinian public as former members of the Maccabi and Hapoel (athletic clubs). They enlisted as infantrymen. in the Jewish battalions of the Palestine Regi- ment. Palestinian officers with the British Army, hitherto receiving only half the allowance granted British officers for uniforms . and equipment, will now receive allowances sim- ilar 'to those of the British , according to Brit- ish War Office notification to the Jewish Agency which had pressed for equalization. Robert Nathan, head of the American Eco- nomic Mission to Palestine, left Jerusalem en- route to the • United States. Before his de- parture he stated: "We felt that we had an opportunity to get a really broad view of this country." A new communal settlers' group from Hedera took possession March 11 of a tract of 4,000 dunams at Abu Shushem on the Tel Aviv- Jerusalem Road. - The land, owned by the Ancient Order of the Maccabeans of London, was developed by the Keren Kayemeth, Jew- ish National Fund. A well was sunk a few days before official dedication of the settle- ment. . ' Viscount Gort, High Commissioner of Pales- tine, was the guest of honor March 8 at a re- ception tendered by the Association of Pales- tine Journalists. Seventy journalists and their guests, including representatives of the Tel Aviv Association of Journalists, attended. The reception was a return courtesy for the re- ception tendered, by the High Commissioner for Palestine's journalists last November. A group of the Kibbutz Meuchad organi- tation took up permanent settlement on land southwest of Ein. Hashofet, the settlement named for the late Justice Brandeis. The group numbers 100 members. ' AMERICA. Dr. Bernard Drachman, rabbi of Congrega- tion Zichron Ephraim for' 55 years, regarded as the dean of. American Jewish Orthodox rabbis, died at the age of 83 in New York. He was one of the original founders of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and was a professor of Hebrew philosophy there from 1887 to 1902; president of the Jewish Sabbath Day Alliance of America and a director of the Synagogue Council of America 'and the Miz- rachi Organization of America. Alexander Granach, who rose to stardom on the Yiddish, Russian and German stage after having undergone, at the advice of Max Rein- hardt, a series of operations to remove physical -deformities resulting from his work as a baker's apprentice, died at 55 in New York. A foundation to perpetuate the memory of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, Women's Zionist Organization, who died on Feb. 13 in Jesusalern, will be established by Hadassah, Mrs. Moses P. Epstein, President of the organ- ization, announced at a memorial ceremony for the late Miss Szold in New York. The first Latin American Zionist Conference held in Montevideo denounced the policy of the White Paper as "illegal" and called upon Britain to implement the Balfour Decla‘ration pledge and her obligations under the Mandate by establishing a Jewish state in Palestine im-. .mediately after the war. See Also Page 22 Organize Zion Trade Unions Palestine. Histadruth Makes Important Internal, Change; Act to Rescue Jews TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Ah im- portant change in the internal structure of the Histadruth, the • Jewish Federation of Labor in Palestine, was decided upon re- cently at a conference of Hista- druth leaders here... National ..trade unions will be 'stablished to replace the present system where each individual worker is directly affiliated with the Hista- druth. The recommendation to or- ganize national trade unions, of- fered - by David Ben-Grion, was adopted by 221 votes to 177. Those opposed included the Hashomer Hatzair and the • pia- position group within the Hista- druth which calls itself the "Movement for. Labor Unity." $80,000,000 a Year Addressing the conference on the position of the surviving Jews, Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, estimated that to feed the survivors will require $80,000,000 a year. "Eighty percent of the remn- ants of European Jewry demand- ed immediate immigration to Palestine," he said. "But we are facing an absolute stoppage of immigration, since only 1,300 certificates remain of the last immigration schedule and no new schedule is yet forthcom- ing: We must urge the world not to let the surviving Jews in Europe perish and to enable them to proceed to Palestine. We ask for ships from England and America." International Loan An international loan to fin- ance the immigration into Pales- tine of 1,000,000 Jews from Europe, irrespective of whether or not they are Zionists, was de- manded by David Ben-Gurion, addressing the conference earli- er. He suggested that a -"United Halutz Organization" be estab- lished in Europe to organize the mass emigration. Reporting on the Histadruth's achievements in the past three years, David Romez, secretary of the federation, said that it has established 51 agricultural settle- ments, contributed 32 percent 'of the War Needs Fund, and sent 18,000 members into - the armed forces. During that period the number of industrial workers en- roled in the Histadruth rose from 25,000 to 50,000. Attend The Spring Flower and Garden Show Sponsored by the Detroit Garden Center arK1 Hudson's '10 a. m. to 4:45 p. m., Friday and Saturday, March 23 and 24 Hudson's 12th Floor Auditoriums No Admission Charge Hudson's entire large auditorium is the setting for a number of gardens of various types, all with their appropriate settings of plants. The small auditorium and adjoining corridors feature flower arrangements, miniature rooms, table settings and other exhibits. These arrangements are the work of 62 collaborating Michigan SEE THESE SPECIAL FEATURES The tropical and natural settings for orchids The Pan-American display with exotic plant material The Wile garden"gaie with simple everyday planting The miniature rooms featured- daily These will be constructed to the scale of one inch no the foot. Flower arrangements will be to - the scale of room and furniture. garden groups. ATTEND THESE GARDEN TALKS FRIDAY, MARCH 23 11 A. M.—WILDFLOWER GARDENS by Marjorie T, Bingham Cranbrook Institute of Science 2 P. M.—HEIRLOOMS WITH A FUTURE: PEONIES, by N. I. W. Kriek American Peony Society 4 P. M.—PRIMROSE PATHS I. Bouton by Mrs. Detroit Garden Center SATURDAY, MARCH 24 11 A. M.—SWORDS OF PEACE: GLADIOLUS by W. J. Dittman Southeastern Michigan Gladiolus Society 2 P. M.—EVERY MAN'S FAVORITE: DAHLIAS by C. E. Wildon. Michigan State College he J. L. Hudson Company