Palestine Resolution Gets
Approval of U. S. Senate

Lessing Rosenwald Stumped at House Committee Hearing
When Asked to Name Other. Refuge Besides
Palestine; Names Russia

Resolution Adopted by House Committee

WASHINGTON. (JTA)—The House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee on Tuesday unanimously approved the Floor Resolution
on Palestine which is identical with the Wagner Taft Measure
adopted by the Senate. There was only one dissenting vote
in the Senate.
After a conference with President Truman on Tuesday,
Judge Hutcheson, chairman of the U. S. inquiry committee,
said he hoped that preliminary organization of the American
section of the inquiry committee will be completed this week.
He said that one • or two people already have" been retained
for the staff, but declined to name them. He said there is no
indication yet when they would meet with the British members.

•

By MURRAY FRANK
(Independent Jewish • Press Service Washington Correspondent)

WASHINGTON (JPS)—The Palestine resolution was of-
ficially introduced into the Senate Dec. 17, but full discussion
and a vote were deferred pending discussion of the UNRRA
bill and the Federal Employees pay increase bill. Senators
Robert F. Wagner (D.; N.Y.) and Robert A. Taft (R., 0.)
spoke for - the resolution, and Senator Alben W. Barkley,

Majority leader, implied that
Senate Foreign Relations Corn-
. rnittee Chairman Senator Con-
.nally, the only member of the
Committee to vote against the
resolution, was trying to obstruct
.-its vote on the floor of the Sen-
ate. Senator Connally hotly de-
nied the charge.
In the meantime, the House
Foreign Affairs Committee held
a hearing on the Palestine reso-
lution, introduced by Represent-
ative Flood (D., Pa.) with Less-
...Mg Rosenwald, president of the
American Council for Judaism,
testifying against the resolution
in a 40-minute • presentation. Dr.
'Emanuel Neumann, speaking in
2- behalf of the American Zionist
Emergency Council and the Zion-
:ist Organization of America, had
:.testified for 10 minutes, when
the hearing was adjourned for_
lack of time. The hearing con-
.tinued, in executive session, Dec..
i 18, with Dr. Neumann resuming
his testimony.
The House hearing had its
amusing instances when Less-
ing Rosenwald, after reiterat-
ing the Council's opposition to
the Palestine resolution and a
Jewish Commonwealth, was
asked bluntly by Rep. Sol
Bloom (D., N. Y.) what coun-
tries, other than Palestine,. he
can propose, that would imme-
diately admit Europe's Jews.
Lessing Rosenwald was stump-
ed, and blurted out: "How
about Russia?" The Committee
members smiled, and Rosen-
wald was then asked: "Would
you want the Jews to go to
Russia? Would y o u settle
there?" He replied that he had
no desire to leave the United
States. Bloom stressed that
during the Palestine resolution
hearings earlier in the year,
the House Committee received
thousands o _ f telegrams urging
support of the resolution, and
fewer than 100 opposing it.
Rep. Everett . Dirksen. (R., Ill.)
who visited Palestine recently,
'appeared to testify for the reso-
lution and expfessed his enthu-
siasm . for Jewish Palestine.
House Majority leader McCor-
mick and House Minority • leader
Martin appeared before the Com-
mittee to express their endorse-
ment of the resolution.
McCormack, Bloom, and Flood
stressed the need for the resolu-
tion now, with Flood countering
Rosenwald's contention that the
Inquiry Committee makes the
resolution obsolete. The British
members of the Inquiry Commit-
tee have their instructions, he
said; the Americans have not.
The resolution passed by Con-
gress would serve as guide for
the American members of the
Inquiry Committee.
The members of the House
committee, Congressmen Wads-
worth (R., N. Y.) and Garvin (D.,
Ala.) indicated, by their ques-
tions, their 'negative attitude to-
ward the resolution.
In the Senate, Senator Taft re-
viewed the history of the Pales-
tine resolution, America's tradi-
tional policy on Palestine, and
read from official documents and
from the statements of the au-
thors of the Balfour Declaration
and the Palestine Mandate to
frhow that Palestine was from

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THE. JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 21, 1945

the very beginning intended as
a Jewish state and not "an old
man's home in an Arab country."
Senator Wagner said:
"The Resolution, now before
the Senate, is directed toward the
only honorable fulfillment of a
sacred obligation. Half measures
and sleight-of-hand are unaccept-
able. There can be no honorable
Palestine policy, except in keep-
ing with' the original purpose
and intent of the Balfour Declar-
ation and the Palestine Mandate."
* * *
West Needs Strong Jewish
Palestine, Gerard Asserts
NEW YORK (JPS)—James W.
Gerard, veteran statesman,- au-
thor and former U. S. Ambas-
sador to Germany, in a spetial
article for the International News
Service, denounced America's
participation. in the Joint-Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry
on Palestine.- "We are condon-
ing Britain's appeasement of the
Arabs by sending William Phil-

German Reparations
Demanded for Jews

NEW YORK—A request that
a certain percentage of the re-
parations exacted' from Germany
should be set aside for the par-
tial compensation of damages
suffered by German, stateless
and non-repatriable Jews was
presented to Secretary of State
Byrnes by the American Jew-
ish Committee.
In a letter signed by Jacob
Blaustein, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee of the AJC,
it was suggested that the claims
of Axis nationals, stateless or
non-repatriable persons who
have been expropriated on the
grounds of racial discrimination
should be represented by a
United Nations Trusteeship on
Indemnification and that Ger-
man and stateless Jews should
have a right to claim compensa-
tion from this Trusteeship,

lips and other men to study the
Palestine question, "though there
is plainly no need for such study,"
Mr. Gerard says.
"Three great essential truths
have been overlooked or terribly
neglected in the Jewish-Arab
problem in Palestine," Mr. Ger-
ard declares:
"(1) Palestine does not belong
to its Arab Inhabitants, whom
the British - conquerors of the
country—are now appeasing. -
"(2) It is not true that Pales-
tine would be unable to support
the Jews who want to settle
there.
"(3) The Arab states neigh-
boring on Palestine have no
more right to decide Palestine
- immigration policies than Can-
ada or Mexico have -the right to
tell the U. S. what kind of people
we can permit to come or vice
versa."
"My years of studying this
problem," he writes, 'convinced
me that the whole Western world
stands to gain by the establish-
ment of a strong Jewish state at
the eastern end' of the Mediter-
ranean. And that the Arabs
would benefit through the re-
introduction of Western culture."

China Orders Repatriation
Of Shanghai Jews to Reich

Thousands Are Panic - Stricken Over Latest Order of
Chinese Government in Chunking to Force
Return of Refugees to Germany

SHANGHAI, (JTA)—Thousands of Jews who escaped from
Nazi Germany and Austria to Shanghai, and spent the- war years
here under the most difficult circumstances, are panic stricken as
a result of an order by the Chinese Government in Chunking de-
claring that all Germans and Austrians in China, including Jews,
must return to their native lands.
The order specifies that only refugees who can produce "valu-
able guarantees", either Chinese or foreign, will be exempted. They
will need permission both from the Ministry of the Interior and
the Ministery of Foreign Affairs to remain in Shanghai, or in
any part of China. Technicians who can contribute to China's de-
velopment will be permitted to stay, and may even be given em-
ployment by the Government, providing that the Interior and
Foreign. Ministries approve.
Though the order of the Chinese Government is not directed
against the Jewish refugees, many of the 15,000 Jews who found
shelter in Shanghai are affected by it. A large number of them
came 'from Austria and Germany during the . Nazi persecutions,
since Shanghai was the only place in the world where they
could enter without any visas.
Approximately 3,000 Jewish refugees died in Shanghai during
the war. About 12,000 others lived on relief received from the
Joint Distribution Committee. Almost all of them were held by
the Japanese in the Hongkew district behind barbed wire, and
were forced to live , in terribly crowded and unsanitary barracks.

AMG Charged by Chaplain With Poor Treatment of Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The blame for the continuing "grue-
some and desperate plight" of Jewish displaced persons in the
American zone in Germany was placed directly on the American
Military Government authorities by Capt. Robert S. Marcus, Army
chaplain recently returned from Europe. He also said that large
numbers of 'Jews daily leave the British for the 'American zone.
The "shabby treatment" of Jewish refugees by the British he- at-
tributed to British attempt "to get them disgusted, change their
minds about going to Palestine and agree to return to Poland."

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