Friday, January 4, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

300 Jews Land in. Zion as
Vessel Evades Destroyers

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Inde pendent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Planes and Coast Guards Fail to Stop Entry of Non-Certifi-
cated Immigrants Who Were Guided Into Palestine
By the Haganah

HAIFA, (Palcor)—Three hundred Jewish refugees landed in
Palestine. Dec. 25 under cover of night, as their vessel, guided by
the Haganah, the Jewish Resistance Movement, successfully evaded
two British destroyers, Royal Air Force planes and a Coast Guard
vessel which shawdowed it from the moment it came within sight
of Palestine's shores. Compelled to change its course, the small
vessel tossed on stormy seas and ran into a sand bar near Naharia.
This was some 300 metres from the camp of the Aram Legion
which has been active in tracking down Jews entering Palestine
in defiance of the White Paper and which has engaged in forays
with Jewish settlers on the pretext of searching for "illegal" Jew-
ish immigrants.
The 300 Jewish immigrants were quickly debarked by Haganah
and transferred to a place of safety. But Haganah members parti-
cipating in the action took time out to erect a "monument' on the
spot of the landing. They embedded a flag in the sand near the
stranded vessel. The flag bore the Hebrew inscription: "The name
of this vessel is Hanna Szenes, and it landed Jewish immigrants
with the help of the Haganah. Let the vessel remain as a mem-
orial to six million brothers and sisters who fell in Europe. We
protest against the British Government's refusal to allow the Jew-
ish remnants to go to Palestine."

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Details of Landing Told by

Radio

Hanna Szenes was a young Palestinian settler who volunteered
her service as a parachutist, and was executed by the Germans in
Hungary _ in November, 1944, after she had accomplished her as-
signment—involving rescue work for the ghetto Jews and in-
telligence for the Allied cause.
The details of the landing of the 300 were transmitted over
the secret Jewish radio station Kol Yisroel (The Voice of Israel).
The announcer concluded his report with the defiant slogan: "Im-
migration continues and will continue!" He was followed by an
announcer speaking English, who transmitted to the British forces
a message of Christmas good will, and declared that a share of the
responsibility for the fate of Europe's Jews falls on those who
barred their entry into Palestine even during the height of the
Nazi persecution of Jews, and who have now completely closed
the country's doors to Jews.
The secret Jewish radio warned several days ago that its
transmitter is powerful enough to jam the broadcast of the official
Palestine radio and will do so, if the Government continues to jam
Kol Yisroel broadcasts.
"Jewish. Immigration Can't Be Stopped," Says Davar
The entire Hebrew press devotes its front page headlines to
reporting the arrival of the "illegals" aboard the Hanna Szenes.
Davar, Labor daily, carries the shortest editorial in its history.
It. reads simply: "Jewish immigration to Palestine has been com-
pletely • interrupted—thus Reuteur's special correspondent wrote a
few days ago. The correspondent obviously referred to immigra-
tion with Government certificates. That has been interrupted.
But Jewish immigration generally is uninterrupted; it won't
and can't be."

Students Deplore Labor Party's Reversal Palestine Pledges

MANCHESTER, (Palcor)—A resolution deploring the British
Labor Government's Palestine policy particularly in view of fre-
quent public assurances by high ranking members of the British
Labor Party that the Party will fight for Jewish aspiration in
Palestine, was adopted at the annual convention of the Inter-
University Jewish Federation of great Britain held Dec. 26 at Sal-
ford, near here.
The resolution cites a letter from Ellen Wilkenson, now Edu-
cation Minister in the Labor Cabinet, written when she was chair-
man of the Labor Party and addressed to last year's conference of
the Federation, in which she outlined the Labor Party's then
strong pro-Zionist views.
The 80 delegatds to the conference expressed confidence that
a Jewish state can be established in Palestine under a constitution
according equal rights to Jews and Arabs.

Charges Plot to Destroy
Truman Immigration Plan

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In reply to a suggestion by Rep: Everett
Dirksen, (R., Ill.) to appoint a congressional
committee to make a real investigation of
communism in the U. S. in place of the Corn-
mittee on Un-American Activities (Dies Com-
mittee), Rep. Adolph J. Sabbath, (D., Ill.),
pointed out that "a more immediate danger
exists from those Fascists, Bundists, and Nazi
ideologists who labored for years before • the
war and throughout our participation in the
conflict to destroy our democratic form of gov-
ernment."
The House Un-American Activities Commit-
tee, headed by Rep. John E. Rankin (D., Miss.)
has demanded that "all books and records" of
the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee of
New York, be produced before the commit-
tee by Jan. 23, a committee spokesman said
here.
Rep. Samuel A. Weiss (D., Pa.) has sub-
mitted his resignation from the House of
Representatives, effective Jan. 7. Mr. Weiss,
a member of Congress for the past five years,
was elected last November to a judgeship in
the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County
(Pittsburgh). Rep. Samuel Dickstein, (D., N.Y.),
was also elected to a judgeship. This leaves
only six Jewish members of Congress.
The Spanish Government has granted per-
mission to Jews in that country to hold re-
ligious services openly and to reestablish the
great synagogue in Barcelona, thus ending six
years of "Maranno" worship, Paul P. Kennedy,
New York Times correspondent, reports from
Madrid. Since 1939, Jews in Spain were per-
mitted to hold services only upon special
grant and with a government officer present.
They refused these restrictions, but on the
Sabbath held large dinners in private homes
as a cloak for services.
Joseph. Rosenzaft, Chairman of the Central
Jewish Committee, representing all displaced
Jews in the British occupation zone of Ger-
many, expressed thanks to the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for the
"devotion" and "sacrifice" of its representa-
tives in providing relief and rehabilitation for
the Jewish remnants in German camps. In a
letter to Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg, Chair-
man of the Joint Distribution Committee, Mr.
Rosenzaft praised the work of Jacob Trobe
and Maurice Eigen, of the JDC, who were
the first representatives of overseas Jewry to
enter Belsen camp. "We firmly testify that
the services of comrades Trobe and Eigen
were colossal and on a high plane," Mr.
Rosenzaft wrote.
Viktor Zoeller, former SS (Elite Guard)
Commander of Malthausen concentration camp
has been arrested in Mindelheim, according to
the Berlin radio, the Associated Press reports
from London.
Jewry's entrance into the world political
struggle threatens the very existence of the
Jewish people, Dr. Salo W. Baron, Miller
Professor of Jewish History, Literature and
Institutions at Columbia University, warned
in a lecture at Temple Emanu-El here.

PALESTINE

Memorial meetings on the 30th day mark-
ing the death of settlers of Givat Hayim and
other settlements shot down by British police
and troops while searching for so-called "il-
legal" Jewish immigrants, were held through-
out Palestine. At a meeting at Ein Shemer,
plans were announced for the planting of a
"Twenty-First of Kislev Forest," • coinciding
with the Hebrew date of the shooting. The

forest, to be planted at the recently founded
colony, Lehavet Habashan, in Galilee, will
"perpetuate the struggle for bringing in the
remnants of Jewry and the unshaken determ-
ination for the redemption of Jewry." The
initiators of the forest appealed to the Keren
Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund), Jewish
Palestine and Jews everywhere to launch
campaigns for the forest "which will symbolize
the heroism of the defenders of the right to
Jewish immigration."
Romuald Gadomski, Palestine and Near
East representative of the Polish Government,
Visited David ben Gurion, chairman of the
Jewish Agency Executive, at his Tel Aviv
home, to discuss the present situation confront-
ing Polish Jewry.
The return of Palestine Jews • deported to
Eritrea was demanded by David Remez, chair-
man of the executive committee of the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish Palestine's Upper House, in a
speech at the Vaad Leumi's plenary session.
The first 30 trees of a Canadian Hadassah
forest were planted at Maale Hachamisah, with
the participation of Rebecca Sieff, president of
the World Executive of WIZO (World Women's
Zionist Organization with which Canadian Ha-
dassah is affiliated.
An American Flying Fortress, making the
third such flight in recent weeks, left Pales-
tine carrying a Jewish Palestine relief unit,
composed of eight men, to aid Jews in DP
camps in Germany. The units include instruc-
tors and medical officers.
Tension mounted again in Palestine as the
Hebrew press gave front page prominence to
dispatches by Reuter's correspondent Jon
Kimche confirming rumors that the British
have clamped down on all Jewish immigra-
tion, thus violating Foreign Secretary Bevin's
pledge of Nov. 13 which, pending the Inquiry
Committee's recommendations, stated that
Jewish immigration would be permitted at the
rate of 1,500 per month.

OVERSEAS

Resolutions protesting against the stoppage
of Jewish immigration into Palestine as a
result of Foreign Secretary Bevin's November
13 statement were adopted at the two day
conference of the Torah VaAvodah (Mizrachi
Youth Labor) Organization of Britain, in Lon-
don. A resolution demanding the resignation
of the Jewish Agency Executive was deferred.
A memorial meeting for the late Robert
Stricker, Austrian member. of the Zionist Ac-
tions Committee, who was murdered at Oswie-
cim death camp, was held in the London • of-
fices of the Zionist Organization, under the
auspices of the Jewish State Party.
• Boycott committees, authorized to excom-
municate any Arabs found buying products of
Jewish Palestine, have been formed by the
Arab League and will establish headquarters
in all Arab countries with branches in small
towns and villages, it was disclosed in an Arab
language broadcast over the Paris radio.
The Central Jewish Committee of Bergen-
Belsen, in a resolution adopted at a protest
meeting there, demanded that the anti-Semitic
elements now employed as camp guards be re-
placed by Jewish Police and members of the
Jewish Brigade to put an end, forever, to
the anti-Semitic outbreaks in the camp. The
resolution expressed the profound indignation
of the Jews of Bergen-Belsen, against the or-,
ganized attack and desecration of the syna-
gogue in Belsen camp, Dec. 6, by Polish anti-
Semites in the camp.

RS Correspondent Accuses State Department Leaders;
President's Directive to Aid Refugees Does
Not Cancel Paletine Obligations

By MURRAY FRANK
Independent Jewish Press Service Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON (JPS)—High State Department officials are
plotting to foil President Truman's directives on the admission
of 39,000 Balkan and East European immigrants during 1946, your
correspondent has been informed by a highly reliable source.
The Policy Committee of the State Department discussed last
week President Truman's directives, and expressed misgivings
that they might interfere with the repatriation of American ser-
vicemen and their foreign-born wives. The policy Committee agreed
that the implementation of the directives must be deferred until
July, and that present State Department personnel is inadequate
to handle matters. However, the Committee made no decision
about requesting from Congress appropriations for additional per-
sonnel. Failure to submit such request- is additional indication,
our informant believes, that the State Department is stalling.
The Dominican Ambassador to Washington has just announced
the issue of a decree by Dominican President Trujillo creating
the Dominican Committee for Jewish Immigration, which will be
in charge of Jewish immigration into that country. Members of
the committee are: Senator H. H. Lopez Penho, chairman; Drs.
Jose Almoina, Hernan Cruz Ayala, Jesus Maria Troncoso, and
Ambrosio Alvarez, members; Juan Arce Medina, secretary; Pliaio
B. Pina Chevalier, committee delegate in the United States.
Myer Cohen, formerly the acting chief of UNRRA's displaced
persons operations in Australia, has been appointed director of
the entire Displaced Persons Division in UNRRA in place of Fred
K. Hoehler, who resigned on Dec. 31.

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Opinions of Magazines on Truman Order

YORK (JPS)—Commenting on President Truman's
directives for the admittance of European refugees under exist-
ing quotas, the Nation, liberal weekly, in an editorial, expressed
hope that "the plan will not be seized upon as an argument
against the admission of European JeWs to Palestine. Logically,
the editorial says, "it should have the contrary effect, for as long
as this country maintains war-time barriers against immigration,
we are in a weak position to demand relaxation of restrictions
elsewhere ... The President could have urged that quotas unused
during the war yehrs be added to those now available . . .
The New Republic, in an editorial, asserts that no doubt the
President's immigration directives were "actuated partly by
humanitarian motives," but "in part, Mr. Truman may have been
meeting British criticism that while we have told' them to open
Palestine to the Jews, we ourselves have done precious little for
the refugees."

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