THE JEWISH .NEWS

Friday, November_ 30,, 1945

What's Happening in Palestine

Debate on Jewish Problem
Due in House of Commons

New High Commissioner Ready to Go Forward as Partner
in Common Aim of Establishing Order and Peace in
Zion; London Times Sees Partition

(A Review of the Situation Affecting Palestine Based on
Cables from Palestine, London and Washington by Jewish
News Staff Correspondents.)

Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in a state=
merit in the House of Commons last week, urged House
Leader Herbert • Morrison to .indicate when the debate will
take place on Palestine, declaring however that the opposi-
tion does not wish to hurry the government. Mr. Morrison
promised to cooperate although he could not set an exact
date for the debate.

Upon being sworn in as High
Commissioner, in Jerusalem,
General Sir Alan Gordon Cun-
ningham stated: "I am ready to
go forward with anyone as a
partner in the common aim of es-
tablishing order and peace in this
country and in the hope that by
God's guidance Palestine will be
led to fulfill its destiny and ra-
diate its spiritual traditions
throughout the world."
Faces' Civil Tension
But Palestine's Chief Justice,
William James Fitzgerald,
warned the High Commissioner
that he will encounter "an at-
mosphere of civil tension."
At Haifa, 200 arrivals with-
out certificates of entry es-
caped into Palestine- while the
small Greek vessel was cap-
tured by British police.
The Arab newspaper, Falastin,
in Jaffa, reports that four women,
two men and three children, all
Jewish survivors of the small
Romanian ship, Ploesti, which
struck a mine Nov. 10 while
carrying fifty "unauthorized"
Jewish immigrants to Palestine,
were found adrift in a lifeboat,
off Tyre and picked up by Arab
fishermen of Beirut. The fisher-
men took the survivors to
Ceasara, a coastal town in north-
ern Palestine, where 'they turned
them over to authorities.
Predicts Partition
The Jerusalem correspondent
of the London Times, reviewing
the Palestine situation, points out
that "the Jewish community (of
Palestine) is not only more than
a third of its population, but it is
intelligent, cultured, ambitious,
dynamic, aggressive, politically
advanced and well organized and
could not possibly be stifled or
subordinated to any intelligence
inferior to its. own."
The London Times predicts that
a partition of Palestine between
Jews and Arabs Will be the
recommendation of the joint
Anglo-American Committee in-
vestigating the Palestine situa-
tion. In a lead editorial the
Times states that it will be "sur-
prising" if the joint committee
"does not support the Peel Corri 7
mission's findings that partition,
however difficult, is the only
means for guaranteeing the fu-
ture of both cOmmunities. The
two communities must grow
apart until they can grow to-
gether." .
266,238 Admitted Since 1933
-A total of 266,238 Jews were
admitted to Palestine as "legal
immigrants" from January 1933
to the end of Septembers 1945, it
wag. announced in the HotiSe of
Commons this week::'
The Anglo-Jewish, ASsociation.
issued a statement expressing ap-
preciation of the Government's
endeavors, in cooperation with
the 'United States,• to find a solu-
tion of the Palestine problems,
but regretting that the statement
of policy by Foreign Minister
Bevin- fell "far short of promising

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speedy, drastic action" to aid the
surviving Jews of Europe..
In his statement replying to C.
V. W. Shaw, chief of the Pales-
tine Government, who repri-
manded the Tel Aviv City Coun-
cil for not preventing the demon-
stration there last week, Mayor
Israel Rokach demanded an in-
vestigation of the police force to
establish order, asked for a probe
into the shooting of children and
stated:
Irresponsible Yoimgsters
"For the sake of truth it is
necessary to differentiate be-
tween the wide public and a
number of irresponsible young-
sters from whom the municipal-
ity has disassociated itself at the
first opportunity given it. We
appreciate the restraint of the po-
lice and military, in many cases,
but in numerous other cases the
security forces could have pre-
vented the outbreaks at the be-
ginning had they been more
active."
"I have already had the op-
portunity to tell your Excel-
lency about a letter from the
Diaspora I received from an
aged - man, which .typifies the
Jewish tragedy. He wrote me
that out of 106 members of his
family only six remained alive,
and wish to come to Palestine
to their homeland. It isn't a
question of refugees alone; it
is a question of life or death
for the Jewish people, because
we will never agree to a mi-
nority status here.
"I repeat our disassociation
from wild and unruly acts, but
we wanted you to hear an ex-
pression of the feeling of bitter-
ness which has accumulated after
the Governthent statement. We
see in the vvorld other peoples
liberated and only we, after the
pledges given by all nations,
must still appear before new

commissions in order to .convince
them of the most elementary pre-
mise of all—the necessity for
the existence of a homeland for
the Jewish people in Palestine."
In a special cable from Tel
Aviv, Meyer Levin, eminent cor-
respondent of the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency, describes how
boys of 6 to 16 had set up barri-
cades and fought the British po-
lice. He describes the reaction
of the British, soldiers, some of
whom were anxious to shoot at
the taller kids. He reports one
of the paratroopers as muttering,
while the kids were throwing
stones: "I'm ashamed that I
fought the Germans for these
people."
Do Not Fight Arabs
On the other hand, he reports
the youngsters as saying when,
'they noticed an Arab: "Every-
body must be careful. We don't
want anybody to think all this is
against the Arabs."
Mr. Levin reports that four
American soldiers appeared at
the Hadassah hospital to offer
blood to aid the wounded. One
of the soldiers he saw offering
blood was Sgt. Morris Heyman,
nephew. of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel N. Heyman of 4039
Glendale, Detroit, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Leo Heyman of Nes
Zionah, formerly of Detroit.
Charges have been made that
some British soldiers were re-
sponsible for looting of Jewish
stores in Tel Aviv, and a demand
has been made that this be in-
vestigated.
In Washington, Secretary of
State Byrnes stated that the
American members of the pro-
posed inquiry commission will be
named soon. He asked for a
time limit for the commission's
activities and urged speedy
action.
In the meantime, throughout

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the world, Jews demonstrated
against the. Bevin statement. Fast
days were declared in many parts
of the world, Jewish DPs in
Europe condemned the British
policy of delay and massmeet-
ings were conducted by surviv-
ors from Nazism against the Be-
vin statement ar I. the British
policy of inaction.
There were protest demonstra-
tions in ".:Ome, Antwerp, Munich
and Bucharest. In London, Zion-
ist' were disappointed that Prof.
Harold Laski, while being pro-
lific in issuing statements on in-
ternational problems, did not
condemn the Bevin statement on
Palestine.
British leaders have charged
that the Bevin statement incites
to violence, - and the Zionists
have asked the government not
to prejudice th, inquiry commis-
sion's findings.

Leaders of Jewish DPs
Put Under Detention
LUENEBERG (JPS)—Eight
leaders of Jewish DPs in the
Hanover area are under deten-
tion by British military officials
for hoisting the Jewish colors
during a protest meeting against
Foreign Secretary Bevin's Pales-
tine statement by Jewish inmates,
from a number of DP camps in
the Hanover area. The persons
detained include members of the
Organizing Committee of the
Jewish DPs in that area. The

Young Women's Mizrachi
Donor Affair Thursday

Mrs. Philip P. Fealk, president
of Young .Women's Mizrachi, is
making_ final preparations for
the sixth annual donor luncheon.
Thursday, Dec..6, at C6ng. Shaa-
rey Zedek. Edgar A. Guest, poet
and philosopher will speak. A
musical interhide featuring songs
by Drora Selesny, accompanied
by Betty Kowalsky, will com-
plete the program.
Proceeds will be used for the
33 projects of the Mizrachi Or-
ganization which specializes in
restoration, vocational guidance,
and service: to the destitute re-
ligious youth and orphans of
Palestine. There are 3,000 chil-
dren under care of Mizrachi Wo-
men.
Tickets to this donor event can
be procured from Mrs. Julius
Lipnick, donor chairman by call-
ing TY. 7-4195.

charge against them: illegal as=
sembly aimed at undermining
the prestige of the occupying
authorities. The Jewish commit
tee's offices were raided by the
police and all typewriters, books
'and papers removed.
Zionist slogans, banned last
week by British authorities at
Belsen, are scribbled cladestine-
ly at night, obliterated by spe-
cial squads in the morning only
to reappear the folloWing night.

3,1- AY THE SPIRIT of the Maccabees inspire
us in the present battle for freedom for
all mankind, for the liberation of Israel and for a
redeemed Jewish National Home in Palestine.

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