Friday, May It, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Five
Jewish Groups Organize United Front at 'Frisco
By PHILIP SLOMOV1TZ
Jewish leaders setting forth the Jewish views
on the position in Palestine.
At the same time, all the leaders present
here hail with • great satisfaction the agree-
ment by the Big Five ob. the Bill of Human
Rights clause to be incorporated in the World
Charter.
(Editor, The Jewish News)
•SAN FRANCISCO.—What at first appeared
to be confusion and division in Jewish ranks
has developed into admirable cooperation
which is expected to bring satisfactory re-
sults to the twin-effort of the spokesmen for
our people at the United Nations Conference
on International Organization: the assurance
of the incorporation of a satisfactory Bill of
Human Rights in the World Charter and the
proper wording of clauses dealing with the
establishment of international trusteeship to
provide for the safeguarding of the Jewish
position in Palestine.
One of The Basic Requests
One of the basic requests of Jewish leaders
is that trusteeship atrangements should not
deprive any people of the rights they had en-
joyed under existing mandates.
Another proposal of the Jewish groups is
that in the trusteeship plans for the advance-
ment' of trust territories provisions be made
that the advancement of rights should include
those for whose benefit existing mandates
originally were established.
A request also is made for provisions for re-
ciprocal basis agreements in the non-discrim-
inatory treatments of trust territories in the
economic development of the countries.
Of special importance is the request that
Hail Agreement of the 'Big Five'
Spokesmen for the American Jewish Con-
ference, the Jewish Agency, the Board of
Deputies of British Jews and the World Jew-
ish Congress are receiving the backing of the
leaders of the American Jewish Committee
and the Jewish Labor Committee in behalf of
the • memoranda that were prepared by noted
involved prove a threat to peace.
Adding that "only moral pers-
uasion" will be a basis for in-
fluence Commander S t a s s en
made it clear that "the only
time you can use force it when
there is a threat to world peace."
in his past press conference
before returning to Russia, Soviet
Foreign Commisar, V. M. Molo-
tov, stating that his delegation
is studying the proposals on
trusteeship, expressed the view
that in the interest of interna-
tional security dependent terri-
tories should acquire national in-
dependence as soon as possible.
Aside from this view, the Rus-
sian stand on the entire issue re-
mains to be clarified.
Safeguards Expected
While it is generally believed
that the trusteeship problems
may not be solved for another
week, confidence is increasing
that there will be general agree-
ment on the American plan and
that all delegations will in the
Course of time see fit to in-
corporate clauses providing for
safeguards for the Jewish
position.
Judge Joseph M. Pros-
kauer, consultant for the
American Jewish Committee,
has given assurances that he
will cooperate with Henry
Monsky, American Jewish
Conference consultant, in the
presentation of the enumer-
ated requests made to the
American Delegation on the
issues affecting the Jewish
position in Palestine. A sim-
ilar assurance has been given
here by Adolph Held, chair-
man of the Jewish Labor
Committee.
Judge Proskauer, as chairman
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, and Jacob Blaustein, of
the Committee's executive com-
mittee and associate consultant,
met with Jewish newspapermen
and outlined the Committee's
proposal for the creation of a
Commission on Human Rights
within the framework of the new
world organization. They de-
clared themselves hopeful for the
realization of the objectives pro-
claimed by former Secretary of
State Cordell Hull when he said
that we must have a world in
which Jews, like all others, "are
free to abide in peace and in
honor."
Blaustein's Statement
Mr. Blaustein, who presided at
the Jewish press conference,
stated that the Committee's Bill
of Rights plan was to be ac-
complished by the establishment
of a commission. Indicating that
obstacles had to be overcome, he
revealed the following facts: •
"At one stage of the conference
last week it developed that there
was a grave question as to
whether our own U. S. delegation
would sponsor such a measure.
A group of interested consultants
was then called together and a
short brief was prepared and
signed by the majority of the
consultants.
"It was presented to our Sec-
retary of State, Mr. Stettinius,
and the delegation with the urg-
ent plea that the U. S. sponsor,
whatever the difficulties may be,
the recognition of the protection
of human rights. We are happy
to state that we were successful
and that the U. S. delegation
enthusiastically has supported
Leaders of world Jewry shown conferring at a
gathering of various agencies to form a solid front
on demands for an international Bill of Rights
and to press their claims for a Jewish Homeland
in Palestine, at San Francisco where the United
Nations Security Conference is in session. Left
to right: MAURICE BYSGER, national Secretary,
Bnai Brith; DR. S. S. WISE, Jewish Agency; I. L.
KENIN, executive director, American Jewish
the plea of the consultants. As
a result the four sponsoring
powers have included the con-
sultants' proposals in their joint
amendments to Dumbarton Oaks.
"Thus in Chapter I dealing
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ed. An addition was made to the
functions of 'the human rights
and basic freedoms for all with-
out distinction as to race, lang-
uage, religion or sex.
"In Section A of Chapter IX
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Depend on Moral Force
The issues affecting trusteeships were clari-
fied on numerous occasions at press confer-
ences arranged by the American delegation,
Comm. Harold E. Stassen serving as spokes-
man on these issues.
Comm. Stassen has made it clear that the
U. S. delegation's agreement will not change
the rights of people who are in territories for-
merly under mandatory systems.
Of major importance is his assurance that
under the American plan the acceptance of
the right of petition and investigation is re-
cognized. How is this to be assured? Only by
moral force, according to Comm. Stassen
—unless any acts
(See Column One)
Conference; HERMAN SHULMAN, American
Jewish Conference; LOUIS LIPSKY, chairman,
executive committee and co-chairman Interim
Committee, American Jewish Conference; HENRY
MONSKY, Bnai Brith president and consultant to
the American delegation, who presided: DR. NA-
HUM GOLDMAN, World Jewish Congress;
with the purposes of the organ-
ization, 'the promotion and en-
couragement of respect of human
rights and for fundamental free-
doms for all without distinction
as to race, creed or sex was add-
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the Trusteeship Council shall consist of a
majority of states which do not administer
trust areas. It is urged in this connection that
only states which have shown themselves
qualified to deal with trust territories should
be eligible for membership on the Trustee-
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after the words 'fundamental
freedoms' there was inserted the
phrase: "for all without distinc-
tion as to race, language, religion
"To implement those pro-
visions and in line with the con-
sultants' proposals, in Section D
of Chapter IX (which provides
for the creation of commissions)
it was specified that 'promotion
of human rights' was definitely
one of the subject matters to be
in charge of a commission.
"The importance of these ad-
ditions for the future welfare of
the Jews of the world cannot be
overemphasized. They take a
long step forward toward the
realization of our objectives."
The Domestic Clause
Secretary Stettinius is quoted
in the Committee's statement as
having said that "the assistance
and advice of the Consultants to
the U. S. Delegation has been
invaluable" and that "seldom has
there been a greater demonstra-
tion of respect for democratic
rights or a fuller proof of the
high value of democratic pro=
cedures."
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