day, December 14, 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

E yptian Press Sees Arabs
Suffering Under Boycott

Barring of Jewish • Palestine Products May 'Prove Double
Edged Weapon' Against 7 Arab Countries: Zion in
Position to Trade With Outside World

CAIRO, (Palcor)—The Egyptian Gazette, English language
newspaper, warns that the Arab League's boycott of Jewish Pales-
tine "may prove a double edged weapon" bringing greater hard-
ship to the seven Arab countries called on to participate in the
boycott, than to Jewish Palestine.
"While this (boycott) might mean initial hardship for every
Arab or Jew in Palestine," the editorial, titled "Mistaken Zeal"
continues, "Palestine is certainly in a better position than many
of her Arab neighbors, to cut adrift and trade with the outside
world."
. A boycott of Jewish Palestine goods, the editorial states "seems
to us impractical and economically unsound." "Is there no danger
from their (the Arab League) point of view that some Arabs are
prepared to provide a business screen for Jewish goods? From an
economic standpoint, the war has shown the need for closer econ-
omy in the Near and Middle East and this cannot be achieved
-
by the exclusion in Palestine."
Great Britain, as the mandatory power in Palestine, is "prim-
arily responsible for the welfare of all inhabitants, irrespective
of race, or 'creed, and if discriminatory action is taken abroad
against one section of the community, the Palestine Government
would logically be compelled to retaliate against the Arab coun-
tries," the editorial adds.
The editorial expresses hope that the boycott "will not come
to pass because it would only cause unnecessary trouble and do no
one any good." The Egyptian Gazette, in a detailed article, titled
"How will Boycott Affect Middle East Trade?" gives figures to
illustrate the points made in its editorial.
(In his column in the Detroit News last Saturday, W. K.
Kelsey points to the fallacy of the threatened Arab boycott.
De indicates by quoting facts and figures that the Arabic coun-
tries sell twice as much goods to the Jews of Palestine than
the latter sell to them, and shows how a boycott would be to
the disadvantage of the Arabs.)

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

OVERSEAS

The Higher Arab Committee, revived here
last week at the initiative of an Arab League
delegation, has sent a memorandum to the
League asking it to use its influence to secure
the release of Haj Amin el Husseini, Mufti of
Jerusalem, now detained in France, and to af-
fect his readmission to Palestine. The League
was asked to accomodate the • Mufti in one
of the Arab states temporarily, pending his
repatriation. Because of censorship orders for-
bidding the publication of any news regard-
ing the Mufti in the local press—a ban affect-
ing the Hebrew as well—the Arab newspapers
have been unable to inform the public of the
Mufti's election as chairman of the Higher
Arab Committee. The newspapers merely re-
ported that the chairmanship is "vacant."
A unique ceremony was held at Jerusalem
headquarters of the Keren Hayesod (Palestine
Foundation Fund) when Captain Lifschitz,
Chaplain of the Jewish Brigade, formally pre-
sented to the Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's
National Council, a Holy Scroll (sefer torah)
discovered by him in the cellar of the Munich
"putsch" beer hall. After the ceremony the
scroll was carried, in procession, to the- Yesh-
urun Synagogue.
A worldwide referendum to poll the atti-
tude of Jews everywhere regarding the im-
mediate establishment of a Jewish state in
Palestine was proposed by the Central Council
of the Zionist-Revisionist Party here as an
effective weapon against the propaganda
which proclaims distinction between Jews and
Zionists.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog conducted a con-
dolence tour of the Sharon and Emek Hefer
settlements on the seventh day marking the
termination of the "shiva" mourning period
for the eight Jewish settlers killed by British
troops in the raids on Jewish villages last
week.
One hundred and forty Jews, residents
of the colony Zichron Yaacov and the collec-
tive settlement Maayan, who were arrested
for curfew breaking Nov. 26, were released
from custody.

War on the Bevin policy, which seeks to
frustrate Jewish aspirations toward statehood.
in Palestine, and determination to help Eu-
rope's surviving Jews reach the National
Home was voted by the Swiss Zionists at their
44th annual conference in Geneva.
A mass meeting representing the Trade
Union movement in Toronto adopted resolu-
tions calling on the British Labor Government
to open Palestine's doors immediately to 100,-
000 Jewish immigrants and to implement the
pledges of the Balfour Foundation and of the
Labor Party. Similar petitions were addressed.
to the Canadian Government and to the Labor
Party in Britain.
The common grave of 42,000 persons, most-
ly Jews from the Warsaw ghetto who were
machine-gunned by the Nazis, has been un-
covered in a forest near the Warsaw-Modlin
railway line. The Polish Government will
erect a memorial to the victims on the site
of the grave.
The Jewish Relief Committee of Stuttgart
has refused to accept a grant of 25,000 marks,
by the Stuttgart Municipality, for the 75 Stutt-
gart Jews who have returned from various
Nazi death camps.
The Celle synagogue accommodates holy
scrolls from the Polish city of Czestochowa,
brought wrapped around the bodies of Jews
deported to Germany. Even while doing slave
labor in Nazi underground factories, they
held regular religious services. The Celle
synagogue has received, in addition, a holy
scroll and a menorah, which formerly be-
longed to the Paderborn synagogue and was
recently recovered. The town now also boasts
a cheder (Hebrew school).
Dan Pines, member of the editorial staff
of Davar, Palestine labor daily, left Cairo en
route to the United States.
"An officially inspired" feeling of animosi-
ty towards Palestine Jewry is noticeable among
British troops daily arriving in Palestine, it
was stated this week in London.
(See Also Page 18)

British to Allow
Polish Jews Pass
To American Zone

BERLIN, (JTA)—British mili-
tary authorities here have agreed
to countermand their order pre-
venting the reception of Jewish
refugees from Poland in a tran-
sient camp at Hesslingen, on the
frontier between the Russian and
British zones, following a con-
ference with American officers.
The refugees have been stream-
ing through there to the BritiSh
camp, enroute to more perman-
ent quarters in displaced persons
camps 'in 'the U. S. zone.
The conference followed the
refusal by the British, last Fri-
day, to admit 120 Polish- Jews to
the Hesslingen camp. The refu-
gees. who arrived from Berlin
in UNRRA trucks, were ordered
by the British military authori-
ties to return.
During the last six weeks more
than 6,000 Jews escaped from
Poland into the Russian' zone and
reached Berlin.
As the number of Jews reach-
ing Berlin from Poland is in-
creasing daily, with more than
200 arriving every day, UNRRA
is attempting to send 2,500 of
them to the American zone. Hoi.v-
ever, British military authorities
have announced that they will
not permit transit through the
British zone unless U. S. mili-
tary headquarters at Frankfurt
will give definite assurances
that the refugees will be ac-
cepted.

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NEW YORK (JPS)—The Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, in a
Wire to Attorney Gen. Tom Clark,
urged the Department of Justice
to undertake an "exhaustive" in-
vestigation of the activities of an
organization called the "Ameri-
can Committee for Justice for
Tyler Kent," anti-Semitic former
code clerk in the U. S. Embassy,
in London, who served five years
in a British prison for stealing
confidential embassy documents.
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League says, appears to be close-
ly connected • with persons now
under indictment for conspiracy
to commit sedition and to have a
possible relationship with propa-
ganda organs of the late .Axis
governments.
. Kent has just arrived from
England.

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