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THE JEW- IS
Friday, Auguif 3, 1945
Delegates From 15 Countries
At World Zionist Conclave
Moshe Shertok and Louis Lipsky State Zionists Count on
Attlee's Government and on Ex-Prime Minister
Churchill -for Realization of Jewish Hopes
"4.4 LONDON (JPS)—Delegates from 15 countries arrived here in
time for the World Zionist Conference, the first since 1939, which
opened Aug. 1. The conference was postponed two days pending
the arrival of David ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency
Executive Committee, and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, from the U. S.
Delegates include 25 from Palestine, 20 from the U. S., and rep-
resentatives from Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand,
France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Tunis, Al-
giers and Egypt. All members of the Executive Committee of the
Jewish Agency, with the sole exception of Ben Gurion, were in
London by July 29.
Moshe Shertok, chief of the Political Department of the Jewish
Agency, and Louis Lipsky, American member of the. Jewish Agency
Executive Committee, declared that they counted on Prime Minister
Clement Attlee and the other members of the British Labor Govern-
ment, and on ex-Prime Minister Churchill as leader of the opposi-
tion, to jointly press for the immediate realization of Jewish demands
regarding Palestine.
Mr. Shertok stressed the importance of immediately admitting
100,000 Jews into Palestine, and said that he believed . that the
moment for a revision of Britain's policy on Palestine, has come
now after the long delay due to the war. Referring to Britain's
elections lie said that Zionism has never linked its destiny with
any Political party, and that its relations have always - been with
Britain as a whole.
Liaison Aides to Assist Jews
Requested on Allied Council
American Jewish Committee Leaders Confer With Grew
on Plan to Get Representation on U. S. High Command
to Deal With Problems in Germany
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A request.. that permanent liaison of-
ficers be attached to' the American - High Command and the Allied
Control Council in Germany to deal with the political, religious and
social problems of the Jews 'liberated from German concentration
camps was submitted •to *Joseph C. Grew, acting Secretary of State,
by representatives of the American Jewish Committee. .
In a conference with Grew, - Jacob Blaustein and George Z.
Medalie, chairmen of the American Jewish Committee's executive
and overseas committees,' respectively, and Marcus Cohn, the Com-
mittee's representative in Washington, pointed out that, of the 200,-
000 Jews found in Germany, many are stateless, either as a result
of anti-Jewish measures enacted - by the governments of the coun-
fries in which they had formerly -resided; or of Nazi racial legisla-
tion. •
Others who are not formally stateless, nevertheless are reluct-
ant and should not be forced' to return to their 'former homelands,
where -they were long the targets of attacks and persecution, the
'committee representatives said.
A third category is composed of German Jews who were de-
prived of their citizenship by the Nuremberg laws and who do not
- wish to remain in Germany.
The 'problems of all these groups deserve the immediate and
special attention of the -occupying - authorities and permanent lia-
ison officers especially qualified to..handle this situation should be
immediately appointed, said the committee representatives.
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Weekly Review of the News of the. World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
The Bloch Publishing Company has been
named sole agent in the -United States for
Mosad Harav Cook, the publishing house for
religious books named for the late Chief Rabbi
of Palestine. Mosad Harav Cook, with head-
quarters in Jerusalem, is supported by the
Mizrachi Organization, religious orthodox wing
of the Zionist movement, and the Jewish
Agency for. Palestine.
The late President Roosevelt, "who usually
is regarded as a particular friend and partisan
of the Jews, will, when the history of this
era is written, be discovered to have been
the principal progenitor of the Arab League,
and its financial supporter, that is, with the
funds of the Government of the United
States," George E. Sokolsky, conservative
syndicated columnist, writes in the New
York Sun. "The Arabs, especially those of
Saudi Arabia and Egypt, have played their'
cards astuately, forcing both Churchill and
Roosevelt into their corner, utilizing the
yearning for oil among industrial nations as
bait," Mr. Sokolsky writes.
PALESTINE '
Three" plans for the establishment of an
Arab national fund to purchase land in Pales-
tine will be placed on the agenda of a sub-
committee of the Arab League Council meet-
ing in Alexandria. A plan proposed by Pales-
tine Arabs seeks to have the Arab Govern..
ments subscribe to the fund, as shareholders.
The Iraq plan proposes the pooling of all ex-
isting Arab funds, with the ,help of the govern-
ments. The Egyptian plan proposes the
. creation of a land bank sponsored by Egyptian
banks with shareholders. All three plans, es-
pecially that emanating from Palestine Arabs,
are seen by some as an unprecedented imper-
ialism seeking to make the Arab states Pales- -
tine's landlords.
Demands for Government support of the
Jewish. public hospital system in a Palestine,
submitted several months ago by Vaad Leumi;
(Jewish Palestine National Council) to the
Palestine Government, are under careful con-
sideration by the Government, Sir John V.
Shaw, Deputy Chief Secretary, declared at
Jerusalem before delegation of members of
the executive committee of Vaad Leumi.
A direct message from Zionists in Poland
was received in Jerusalem by the Executive
Committee of the- World Zionist Organization.
The message reads: "The first General Con-
gress of the Organization for Labor Palestine
in Poland, which took place June 16 and
17, in Lodz, sends hearty greetings in the
name of the small number of Jewish survivors
in Poland. We hope that in the face of the
enormous losses• suffered by the Jewish na-
tion during the war, the Zionist Executive
Committee will place on an international
forum, our demand for the creation of a
Jewish state in Palestine."
OVERSEAS
The municipality of Sofia, Bulgaria,' has
granted, a subsidy of 250,000 Levas for the
maintenance of a Jewish communal kitchen_
which the financially destitute Jewish com-
munity cannot support alone.
Musa Alami, representative of Palestine's
Arabs on the League of .Arab states, has been
appointed to head the League's propaganda'-
bureau soon to be established in London. He
will have a staff of four assistants, two Mos-
lems and two Christian Arabs, all of them
educated in London. Each of the assistants
will receive an annual salary of $6,000.
An official investigation, whose findings
have been withheld, has confirmed charges
that the British officials of Jersey, British
Channel Island for five years under German
occupation, had collaborated with the Ger-
mans in implementing the full program of
Aryan legislation. The attorney general and
the chief alien officer signed a special order
relating to the measures against the Jews and
registered it by act of the Royal Court on
Oct. 1, 1940.
Greek Jewish boy scouts, bearing the blue
and 'white Jewish flag, stood as the guard of
honor along with regular Greek Army sen-
tinels, at the tomb of the unknown soldier in
Athens, as Eliahu Shachnai, head of the Pal-
estine UNRRA unit to Greece, and Jacob -Tzer-
novitz, Jewish Agency representative, laid
wreaths on the tomb.
The productions of the late Max Rein-
hardt, German-Jewish director-producer, for-
bidden under the Nazi regime, will be featur-
ed at the' revival of the Salzburg festival
plays.
Although Zionism in Hungary and Romania
is not forbidden, Zionist activities are consider-
ed suspect by both Socialists and Communists
who have assumed dominance over Jewish
communial and -political life in both countries.
However, the report that Dr. William Filder-
man and Dr. A. L. Zissu, Romanian Jewish
leaders' have been arrested, is untrue, the same
source reveals.
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Jews Have Held Majority
In Jerusalem Since 1870
a new series of radio broadcasts by
Arab Leader Argues . Against Jewish Mayor of Holy City
'Because Status Quo Must Not Be Changed After
13 Generations of Arab Rule'
JERUSALEM, (Palcor) --- Mohammed Yunis Husseini, Jeru-
salem Arab lawyer, admitted before Chief Justice Fitzgerald, con-
ducting an inquiry into the Jerusalem mayoralty question, that for
the past '75 years, since 1870, Jews have formed the majority of 'the
population of Jerusalem.
Husseini argued that despite a Jewish majority in Jerusalem,
Jews should not be given the mayoralty because the status quo
must not be changed after 13 generations of Arab mayors. Hus-
seini is the chief accountant for the Umma fund, which puichases
land in Palestine in order to prevent its sale of Jews.
Taking the same position, Dr. Hussein Fakhri Khalidi, last
elected mayor of Jerusalem, denied the "unique" character of
Jerusalem as a citadel of three faiths. He asserted that there is
no difference between Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethlehem and any
other town in Palestine.
Deported During 1937 Palestine Riots
Dr. Khalidi was deposed from the Jerusalem mayoralty in
1937, at the height of the Palestine riots, and was deported to Sey-
chelles Island. He returned to Palestineith 1938.
Anton, Atallah, Christian Deputy Mayor in the last Council,
stated that although Jews who are Palestine citizens by law are
not regarded as aliens, the Arab character of Palestine and Jeru-
salem must not be changed.
Auni Bey Abdulhadi claimed Arab rights to the Jerusalem
rnayorship on religious, political, humanitarian and legal grounds,
stating that the Arabs would not suffer a Jewish Mayor, who, al-
though :having no jurisdiction over Holy places, might want to
visit Haram esh Sherif, where Jews are not permitted. When Ab-
dulhadi began to make extremist political remarks, he was stop-
ped by- the Chief Justice and ordered to confine his arguments to
the subject in question.
(Well informed sources in Jerusalem believe that the city may
be divided into Arab and Jewish boroughs with separate adminis-
trations, the United Press reports.)
Palestinian Denies Authorship of Reported "Appeal"
HAIFA, (Palcor)—Misha MogileWsky, a Jewish refugee from
Besarabia, living in Haifa, 'has emphatically denied ' . that he had
signed, and addressed to the Anti-Fascist Youth Committee in Mos-
cow, a statement on behalf of Jewish refugee children, alleging that
they were brought to Palestine against their will and were being
persecuted for political reasons. The statement was attributed 'to
him by' Soviet Ness, a publication of the Soviet . Embassy in Lon-
don. Earlier, the story was reported by Tass, official Soviet- news
agenCy, and was broadcast over the Moscow radio. The entire
story apparently originated with a man named Shulkin, a baptized
Jew from Poland, living in Tel-Aviv.
In a statement to the press here, Mogilewsky said: "I never
sent any declaration to the anti-Fascist Youth. Committee in Mos-
cow 03: to any other body, in my name or any other name. It isn't
true that I was brought to Palestine against my will."
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