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Jewish Agency Facing Crisis
Over Bombings in Palestine
The new Palestine crisis, resulting from the bombings in Jeru-
salem, Haifa and Tel Aviv, which resulted in the death of 10 per
sons, is believed to be. leading to "grave and far-reaching" decisions
which may affect the future status of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine.
Jewish Agency officials have denied responsibility' for the
new terroristic outbursts, and the secret Jewish radio places blame
for them upon the Irgun Zvai Leumi.
Eye-Witness : Following his
arrival in• Washington, D. C.,
RABBI -1.;E0 BAECK, forther
president of the Bnai Brith in
Germany, told reporters that
"Jews do not want to return to
-Germany." Rabbi Baeck, who
was deported in 1942 to Czecho-
slovakia and released by the
U. S. Army, makes his head-
quarters. at the Bnai Brith office.
UNRRA Boss:
Director
General of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin-
istration, HERBERT H. LEH-
MAN is pictured as he announced
at a press conference in Wash-
ington the expanded UNRRA re-
lief program for 1946, including
aid to Russia and Austria.
The outbursts are being charged directly to the accusation that Great
Britain had completely stopped Jewish immigration to Palestine, but British
authorities in London asserted this week that the schedule of 1,500 a month
will be continued and that Pritish authorities will not ask for Arab consent
for the admission of new Jewish immigrants in accordance with the new policy
recently announced by Foreign Secretary Bevin.
One of the most important actions by American Zionists in the current
situation is the announcement in New York that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, co-chairmen of the American Zionist Emergency Council, in
a telegram to the White House, urged President Truman to "dissociate the
American government from all participation in the latest of a succession of in-
justices and iniquities" on the part of the British government, the cessation of
all Jewish immigration into Palestine in direct violation of Foreign Secretary
Bevin's promise, Nov. 13, that Jewish imigration will continue at the rate of
1,500 per month, until a definite solution of the Palestine problem is found.
The first session of the joint Anglo-American Inquiry Committee on
Palestine will open in Washington Monday. The committee will meet twice daily
for a week to 10 days, with sessions beginning at 10 a. rn. and 2 p. m. The press
and possibly the general public will be admitted. British members of the-corn-
mittee are expected to arrive in Washington today.
The Arab . Office, official Arab League propaganda outlet in this country,
has been invited to attend the sessions despite the State Department's policy to
invite only American organizations. The American offices of the Jewish - Agency
for Palestine received no invitation. The Jewish Agency will testify before the
committee. in Jerusalem, if it decides to cooperate with the inquiry,.
Army Anti-Fascist Text
Barred in N.Y. School
NEW YORK (JPS)—Two New York City Board
of Education officials have upheld Edward N. Wall
len, principal of Samuel Gompers Vocational High
School here, in his reftthal to permit use in class of
the official U.S. paper formally known as Army
Orientation Fact Sheet 64, which analyzes fascist
movements in America and abroad.
Last October, Principal Wallen refused a request
by teachers who asked for permission to use the
sheet in English and social science classes. Later,
Assistant Superintendent of Schools' Frank D. Wal.:
len. and Associate Supt. George F, Pigott in charge :
of vocational high schools, told a committee of Gom-:
pers teachers they support Wallen's decision.
Prayers of Thanks :
Following President Truman's
order releasing the 922 refugees at Fort Ontario, N. Y.,
some of the men quartered there are shown expressing
their thanks in the form of prayers. Left to 'right (stand-
ing); MOSES EISEN, Vienna house painter; FRITZ POP-
PER, former Vienna banker and now the camp inter-
preter; SYMMIND GOLDBERGER, Viennese merchant;
FRIEDRICH EISENBERG, also a former Vienna mer-
chant. Seated: HERMAN REISS, Austria; LEO. BLAN-
KOPT, Vienna, formerly of the French underground;
NOAS BEER, Poland; SALO METZGER, Vienna.
The Staff of Life: Bread is shown being dsitribut-
ed in the photo on the right to some of the 5,000 un-
wanted Jews from Poland-who have just arrived in Ber-
lin after five weeks on trains. The bread is rationed at
the rate of one loaf per day to every four persons.
Photos by International.,