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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 18, 1945
Jewish Organizations Reach
Understanding at 'Frisco
Mrs. Meyers Reviews Serve-A-Camp Bnai Brith Holds
Activities at 3rd Annual Meeting Mass Initiation
Monday at Center
Leaders of World Jewish Agencies End Confusion at United
Nations Security Conference to Present Solid Front
in Demands for Bills of Rights, Commonwealth
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The jubilation over the agreed-
upon Bill of Rights formula is
marred only by the retention of
the statement that the new world
council will not be able to take
up disputes "arising out of mat-
ters which by international law
are solely within the domestic
jurisdiction of the state concern-
ed." Some hopeful ones still be-
lieve that even this restriction
can be removed.
5-Point Agency Statement
A supplementary memorandum
submitted this week to the
UNCIO by the Jewish Agency
for Palestine concludes with a
five-point proposal regarding
trusteeship plans summarized as
follows:
1. To include in the Chapter
of the Charter of the United
Nations dealing with interna-
tional trusteeship a clause de-
signed to preserve existing
rights 'acquired under the man-
date system of the League of
Nations.
2. To center responsibility for
the transfer of the League of
Nations mandates to the auth-
ority of the United Nations in
the hands • of the permanent
members of the Security Coun-
cil together, in the case of any
particular territory held under
. mandate by a United Nation not
a member of the Security
- with the nation holding
• such mandate.
Define Beneficiaries
3. So to define the beneficiar-
ies of the trusteeship system as
to take into account the rights
of the Jewish people as a whole
to Jewish immigration and set-
tlement in Palestine.
4. To qualify provisions for
non-discrimination or the "open
door" in regard to trusteeship
areas by imposing requirements
of reciprocity.
5. To vest the General As-
sembly and the Social and
Economic Council with powers
sufficient to enable them to
carry out their supervisory func-
tions in regard to trusteeship
areas; and to create a Trustee-
ship Council of such a character
as to command •confidence and
authority, and such as would be
capable further of developing
a comprehensive and consistent
system of Trusteeship Law. The
establishment of such a system
would indeed be among the
most promising and challenging
experiments in modern interna-
tional relations.
In the formulation of the Jew-
ish claims on the protection of
existing rights in Palestine, a
number of men are rendering im-
portant services. Dr. Jacob Rob-
inson, Herman Shulman, Arthur
Lourie, Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
I. L. Kenen, Henry Monsky, Louis
Lipsky, Dr. Alexander Kohan-
sky, David Wertheim, Reuben
Zaslani, Gershon Agronsky and
Eliahu Epstein, the latter three
having recently arrived from
Palestine are constantly at work
and their memoranda deserve to
be included among the important
documents now being written
here.
Labor Committee's Stand
The Jewish Labor Committee's
endorsement of the position on
Palestine taken by the American
Jewish Conference is based on
the generally accepted formula
that "no action of the UNCIO
would tend to prejudice the ex-
isting rights of. Jews in respect
to Palestine or to interfere with
the right of Jews to immigrate
to Palestine."
The JLC urges the setting up
of a special agency to safeguard
"the rights of national groups in
all countries." Unlimited immi-
gration to Palestine, free land
purchase and abrogation of the
White Paper is urged by the
Committee whose plan was
made known at a dinner given
in honor of labor members of
conference delegations.
Adolph Held made public the
Labor Committee's pr o g r a m.
Guests included pr °mine n. t
United Nations' leaders.
Rapid reconstruction of Jew-
ish life throughout war devastat-
ed Europe and the branding of
anti-racial , a n d anti-religious
propaganda as a criminal of-
fense is urged in the Jewish
Labor Committee's 13-point pro-
gram.
Among those who attended
the dinner were William Green,
AFL president; M. J. Coldwell,
Canadian Commonwealth Fed-
eration; Liu Hsien-tsul, China;
George Tomlinson, British Cab-
inet member; Francisco Aguirre,
Cuba; Haakon Lie, Norway;
Daniel Tracy, Assistant Secre-
tary of Labor; Otis E. Mulliken,
head of U. S. State Department
labor division; Sen. Richard
Harry Nash, Australia; and J. F.
Walsh, president Australian
Labor Party.
There was resentment in some
quarters here when it became
known that the Freeland League
for Jewish Territorial Coloniza-
tion is again renewing its ap-
peals for a territory in Aus-
tralia and Tasmania, and that
this group is sending Dr. I. N.
Steinberg to San Francisco for
this purpose.
Anthony Eden's Views
British Foreign Secretary An-
thony Eden, who always en-
chants press conferences, on the
eve of his return to England,
stated at a press conference, on
the question of trusteeships, that
"progress is being made in arriv-
ing at an agreement which will
be fair to all." -
The first three questions ad-
dressed to him were in this order:
in regard to Korea, India and
Palestine. He stated, when asked
regarding Britain's laxity in ad-
ministering the Palestine man-
date, that he does not think "any
one considers this responsibility
a wholly enviable one."
He indicated th a t Britain
would be glad to hear from any
country that desires to take Pal-
estine off. his government's hands
and added:- "We are doing our
best to carry out the provisions
of the mandate entrusted to us
and we shall do our best to con-
tinue to do so."
Bergson's Show
Continuing to put on a show
for his Hebrew Committee for
National Liberation, Peter Berg-
son held another press confer-
ence at which he condemned the
British trusteeship plan as some-
thing which will set the world
backwards and endorsed the
American plan. He charged that
except for political consideration
and the actions of Great Britain
the Hebrew nation would have
been represented at San Fran-
cisco.
He released copies of a state-
ment addressed to the trustee-
ship commission demanding that
trusteeships be held jointly by
more than two nations proposing
that a five-party trusteeship be
established to consist of the
United States, Great Britain,
Russia, France and the "Hebrew
national authority."
It is on the question of author-
ity, because he acts in contra-
vention of established authority,
that Mr. Bergson's activities here
may prove damaging to the Jew-
ish cause.
G. L. K. Smith Repudiated
San Francisco has not been
spared the appearance of Amer-
ica's Rabble-Rouser No. 1—Ger-
ald L. K. Smith—who undertook
to present his views at a press
conference of his own. The De-
troit leader of "nationalist
groups," as he types himself,
made the announcement that he
would prepare a confidential re-
port to six members of the U. S.
Senate and 17 members of the
House of Representatives on his
findings in San Francisco, and
at the press conference he issued
a statement which contained the
following:
"I prophesy that the two men
who eventually will be respons-
ible for its (the world organiza-
tion's) defeat will be Senator
Wheeler and Senator Vanden-
berg. Mr. Vandenberg is basic-
ally a nationalist, recent state-
Pisgah Lodge Degree Team
To Conduct the Ritual;
Speakers Selected
Greater • Detroit Bnai Brith
Council will hold a, public in-
itiation of new members at the
Jewish Center on Monday, May
28, at 8:30 p. in. Archie Cohen,
Americanism chairman of Dis-
trict Grand Lodge Number 6,
Bnai Brith, will speak. -
USO Photo.
Mrs. Henry Meyers Addressing Gathering at Annual Meeting
The Third Annual Meeting of
the Detroit Serve-A-Camp Com-
mittee, National Jewish Welfare
Board, was held Tuesday, May 8,
at the Jewish Center and was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Henry Meyers,
under whose leadership Serve-A-
Camp haS grown in to one of the
most important activities of the
National JWB in Detroit.
The meeting was attended by
representatives of more than 65
Jewish Women's - organizations
which have participated in the
past year. Mrs. Meyers reviewed
the growth of the project and de-
scribed its organization through
which hundreds of necessities
have been shipped overseas to
Hawaii the past year.
Samuel Rubiner, chairman of
the Detroit Army and Navy Com-
mittee, with which Serve-a-Camp,
is affiliated, sent a word of wel-
come and appreciation to the
gathering. Herman Jacobs, ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Center, spoke on the importance
of home front support. Samuel
Kurzon, JWB area director in
Detroit described how the JWB
meets the social, religious and
recreational needs of the Jewish
men and women in the armed
forces.
Jewish, Arab Shipping
Companies Organized
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The es-
tablishment of a Jewish ship-
ping company, capitalized at
$2,000,000, was announced here
by BarKochba Merowitz, head of
Jewish Agency's maritime de-
partment. Merowitz said he is
leaving for London shortly, to
negotiate with British shipping
circles and to secure their co-
operation.
The Arab newspaper Falastin
reports that' a group of Arab
capitalists at Jaffa have decided
to establish an Arab shipping
company, which will also have
a capital of $2,000,000. Its ships
will ply the Mediterranean using
Jaffa as a home port.
American Pianist, 23,
Featured On GM Hour .
The 23 - year - old • .American
pianist, William Kapell, who was
scheduled, as soloist on the Gen-
eral Motors Symphony of the
Air concert on May 13, will be
heard instead this Sunday, May
20 (NBC, 5:00 • to 6:00 p. m.,
EWT).
Kapell will play the Concertc
for Piano and Orchestra by the
contemporary Russian composer,
Aram Khachaturian.
Sam Maza, membership chair-
man announces that the Pisgah
Lodge degree team will conduct
the ritual. Cantor Jacob Sonen-
klar will render musical selec-
tions.
Among the speakers will be
David I. Rosin, president of the
Council, and Harry Yudkoff,
vice-president of District 6.
The Pisgah Lodge degree
team is composed of Elias Gold-
berg, Samuel W. Leib, Clem
Weitsman, Joseph Staub and
Aaron Rosenberg.
Those who have been most ac-
tive in the membership drive
will receive awards. The Cur-
rent campaign has resulted. in
an increase of more than 1,000 in
the city among the men's lodges.
The women have added a similar
number to their ranks, making
the total membership of Bnai
Brith here approximately 8,000.
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