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Truman's Plea for 100,000
Zion Certificates Rejected
Retains Hope Suggestion Will Yet Be Met Favorably
Byrnes Releases Correspondence Between F. - D. R. and
Ibn Saud; Arabs and Jews to Be Consulted
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THE JEWISH N-EWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New
York, warned America to be constantly on
guard, lest wartime hysteria give rise to politic-
al, religious and racial bigotry. .
Sayinc, that the "war has demonstrated that
men of all races, creeds, and colors have died
in order to perpetuate freedom for all peoples,"
Rep. Charles A. Buckley, (D.,N.Y.) attacked
anti-Semitic prejudice and hate as "a menace
to our American form of Government . . . This
should not be tolerated in the• United
States . . . "
During the course., of the debate in the
Senate on the Palestine issue, Sen. Burton
Wheeler, (D.Mont.), made the following ob-
servation about the city of Tel Aviv: "As chair-
man of the committee of four which visited
Palestine last June, .I was very much surprised
to see the great improvement which had taken
place in that area since I had been there
before. We stayed overnight at Tel Aviv,
which is one of. the cleanest and finest cities to
be found there, much cleaner than any other.
city in the vicinity. It is a very beautiful
place, built up entirely by the Jewish people."
WASHINGTON, D. C., (JPS)—President Truman, at a White
House press conference, told reporters that his suggestion that the
British Government admit 100,000 Jewish refugees to Palestine is
still under consideration, and even though Prime Minister Attlee
does not want to admit so many, he has hopes that the suggestion
may yet be acted upon favorably. He stated that he did not wish
to press the British unduly.
Asked whether a figure of 1,800 a month for Jewish immigra-
tion into Palestine was an accurate approximation of Mr. Attlee's
counter-proposal, he replied that the Prime Minister suggested a
slightly higher figure.
Officially confirming, for the first time, his request to the
British Prime Minister, President Truman said there had been no
communication between him and Attlee recently, but that they had
carried on a voluminous correspondence on the subject. He said he
didn't think the time was ripe to make this correspondence public.
No Final Decisions Without Consulting Jews, Arabs
In a prepared statement, following President Truman's press
conference, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes said that "we shall
continue to explore every possible means of relieving the situation
of the displaced Jews of Europe," but stressed that "it would be the
PALESTINE
policy of this Government not to reach final conclusions without full
The London correspondent of the newspaper
consultation with Jewish and Arab leaders." Mr. Byrnes released
crrespOndence between King Ibn Saud (dated March 10, 1945, and
Haaretz reports that member's of -the Jewish
containing virulent attacks on "Zionists") and the late President
Agency Executive in London, Jerusalem and
Roosevelt (April 5, 1945), who assured Ibn Saud that no final deci-
the United States will soon be polled on a
proposal, submitted to the Agency office in
sion will be made without consulting both Jews and Arabs.
London, that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, resign
Secretary Byrnes' statement reads:
from the Presidency of the Jewish Agency
"On several occasions this matter has been the subject of oral
in protest against British policy in Palestine.
and written discussions with various Jewish and Arab leaders. The
substance of the Government's position has been that this Govern- ' Dr. Bernard Joseph, acting chief of the
ment would not support a final decision which in its opinion would
Palestine Department of the Jewish Agency
affect the basic situation in Palestine without full consultation with
for Palestine, commenting on reports in the
both Jews and Arabs.
Arab press that Jews in Arab countries have
"At a press conference last week President Truman referred to
gone on record as •opposed to Zionist 'aims,
his exploration with Prime Minister Attlee of ways and means of
stated that if these reports are true, the Jews
alleviating the situation of the displaced Jews in Europe, including • there have evidently succumbed to state pres-
sure, which has included threats to their
consideration of Palestine as a possible haven for some of these
homeless Jews. There is general agreement that it is our duty to
security.
Land at Tiberias, 4,200 dunams, acquired
take energetic measures to assist these unfortunate victims of Nazi
some
time ago by Keren Kayemeth, Jewish
persecution.
National Fund, has been occupied by a group
"As the President pointed out today, this matter is still under
of 25 members of Hanoar Haoved, who are
consideration. We shall continue to explore every possible means
undertaking land reclamation activities in pre-
of relieving the situation of the displaced Jews of Europe.
"Should any proposals emerge which in our opinion would
paration for future settlement by returned
Jewish servicemen. The area is one of twelve
change the basic situation in Palestine, it would be the policy of this
Government not to reach final conclusions without full consultation
set aside by Keren Kayemeth for returned
servicemen, and will eventually support a vil-
with Jewish and Arab leaders. This policy was stated, for instance,
lage of 50 . families.
in a letter which President Roosevelt addressed to King Ibn Saud
-on April 5, 1945, and the text of which I have been authorized to
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make available.
Discussed Suliject with Attlee
. "In confirming that this suggestion was for the admission of
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100,000 displaced Jews to • Palestine, Mr. Truman said he had dis-
to unusual furniture for the
clthsed the'subject with Mr. Attlee.
"Because of the deliberations in London, President Truman also
living room, foyer and li-
refused to give out his letters to Mr. Attlee or the latter's replies."
brary. Purveyors of fine
Mr. Roosevelt's letter reads in part:
"Your Majesty will recall that on various occasions I com-
objects d'art.
municated to you the attitude of the American Government toward
Palestine and made clear our desire that no discussion be taken with
respect to the basic situation in that country without full consulta-
tion with both Arabs and Jews.
"Your Majesy will also doubtless recall that during our recent
conversation I assured you that I would take no action, in my capac-
ity as Chief of the Executive Branch of this Government, which
might prove hostile to the Arab people.
"It gives me pleasure to renew to Your Majesty the assurance
which you have previously received regarding the attitude of my
Government and my own, as Chief Executive, with regard to the
question of Palestine and to inform you that the policy of this Gov-
ernment in this respect is unchanged."
Newspaper PM Scores Byrnes' Statement
The newspaper PM lashes into Secretary Byrnes' latest state-
ment on Palestine by placing the late President Roosevelt's letter
side by side with Ibn Saud, assuring him that the Jews and Arabs
would be consulted on Palestine, and President Rciosevelt's Jewish
Commonwealth pledge addressed to the convention of the Zionist
Organiaztion of America October 15, 1944. A banner headline over
these statements reads: "If this commitment (to Ibn Saud) is valid
and binding, then why isn't this one (to the ZOA) ?" Byrnes' state-
ment, Barnett Bildersee, PM writer charges, "Means that if Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Ibn Saud statement is taken as a guiding American
policy, then his statements to Arabia are given more weight than
his solemn promises to the American people."
Allege Arabs Murdered for Selling Land to Jews
TEL AVIV, (JPS)—Assassination of Arabs selling land to Jews
is alleged to have become one of the methods by which Arab ex-
treme nationalists, through hired assassins, seek to prevent Jews
from acquiring additional landholdings in Palestine, Dr. A. Gran-
ovsky, chairman of the board of directors of the Keren Kayemeth
(Jewish National Fund) stated at a press conference here prior to
his departure for America. He was referring specifically- to the Arab
Umma Land Fund, set up in direct competition to the Jewish Na-
tional Fund which purchases land in' Palestine as the inalienable
property of the Jewish people. The Umma fund, he said, has hitherto
raised $320,000 and purchased 5,000 dumans. It is alleged to have
used methods of intimidation, and coercion to force Arabs to sell at
prices Bet by Umma, with murder one of these methods.
An area of 650 dunrnas of Jewish National Fund land near the
settlement of Naharia, in northwestern • Palestine, was settled Oct.
17, by a group affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair Organization
and engages in mixed agricultural and industrial activity. The group
consists mostly 9f persons from Romania and Poland. For more than
six years they lived in a temporary encampment near Naharia,
Where part of its members were employed at agricultural work.
During that period the settlers managed to acquire some 'agricul-
tural livestock and equipment. The land now occupied by the group
is suitable for intensive cultivation, as water is available in large
quantities. The Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation*Fund) assist-.
ed in settling the group, which consists of sixty families, half of
whom are engaged in agriculture and half in industry.
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Jews Tell Police: "We Shall Not Surrender 'Illegals' "
HAIFA, (JPS-Palcor)--Jewish Palestine has definitely asserted
that it will never surrender its immigrants or persons bringing in
immigrants "illegally," or recognize any laws based on the White
Paper. This assertion was made by the tiny Jewish settlement of
Yagur, in a letter to the superintendent of the Rural Haifa Police,
.which, the colonists claim, voices the sentiment of all Jewish Pales-
tine.
The letter was written in reply to police orders that Yagur turn
over nine refugees who escaped from Atlith Internment camp, Oct.
6, and give up its settlers who allegedly helped the nine escape again
after they were captured by police.
OVERSEAS
A Hebrew Department has been set up at
the Tashkent Institute for the Study of
Oriental Manuscripts, affiliated with the Acad-
emy of Sciences of the Uzbek Republic. The
Hebrew Department has. a collection of 2,000
volumes, including priceless items of ancient
and Medieval Hebrew literature, various edi-
tions of Mishna, interesting for comparative
studies, and old editions of Maimonides Guide
to the Perplexed, as well as multi-lingual
translations of the Bible.
American and Soviet authorities in Ger-
many have taken further steps to assure full
justice and redress to the Jews in their res-
pective zones of occupation.
Joseph Shell, Minister of Interior . under the
Nazi Szalasi regime in Hungary, responsible for
the deportation of hundreds of thousands of
Hungarian Jews to Nazi death camps in Poland,
was found dead in the cellar of a Budapest
synagogue where he had apparently been
hiding.
The London Daily Telegraph displayed prom-
inently the statement of .Lessing Rosenwald,
president of the American Council for Judaism,
that not all American Jews are united in sup-
port of the Zionist plan to establish a Jewish
state in Palestine.
A Hachshara (training) center for Jews plan-
ning to settle in Palestine has opened in
Hochenems, in the American zone of Germany.
The center houses 52 boys and girls and older
displaced Jews. Another Hachshara center has
been established in Gailingen, in the French
zone of occupation.
Gen. Mark Clark has ordered priorities in
food, clothing and dwellings for 6,000 displaced
Jews now in the American zone in Vienna, as
the number of displaced Jews there increases
daily. .
Foreign Jews who served in French armed
forces or in French underground groups dur-
ing the German occupation, are entitled to re-
ceive employment in France without restric-
tions, the French Minister of Interior ordered
in Paris.
The surviving Jewish community of Mass-
tricht, Holland, contributed $1,000 as a gift
towards the rebuilding of Catholic churches in
Holland destroyed by the Nazis. The gift was
presented with an offering of thanks to Cath-
olic communities for hiding Jewish children
during the Nazi occupation.
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A.F.L. Urges Britain Accede To Truman's Request
CINCINNATI, (JTA)—The executive council of the American
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resolution urging Britain to accede to President Truman's request
for 'increased immigration of Jews into Palestine, "looking towards
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