Friday, March 8, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

eginning of Jewish State'
Seen in Parley by Weizmann

President of Jewish Agency Views Forthcoming World
Zionist Congress Sessions in Palestine as "An Im-
portant Historic Fact"; Parley Opens Aug. 13

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine and the World Zionist Organization,
declared, at the opening session here of the Smaller Actions 'Com-
mittee, that he views the first potswar World Zionist Congress, to
be held in Palestine starting Aug. 13, as "the beginning of the
Jewish State."
In his first address since his return to Palestine from America
and England, Dr. Weizmann warned of "difficult days" ahead and
called for "great efforts" to overcome present obstacles to the
Zionist goal. He hailed the decision to hold the forthcoming Zionist
Congicess in Palestine as "an important historic fact." Election of
delegates will be held July 7; a special committee nominated by
the Smaller Actions Committee announced. Delegates will be
elected by purchasers of a Shekel.
Lieb Jaffee, one of the delegates to the first World Zionist
Congress, spoke briefly on the early days of the Zionist Movement,
in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of
Herzl's "Judenstaat" (Jewish State), the foundation of political
Zionism.

105 Jewish Immigrants Arrive in . Palestine, 15 Without Visas
HAIFA, (Palcor)—Ninety Jewish immigrants, including 42 boys
from Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany, landed here Feb. 28,
from the British liner City of Cairo. Dr. Chaim Hilfstein, veteran
Zionist leader from western Galicia who survived German concen-
tration camps, was among the arrivals. An additional 15 Jewish
immigrants without Palestine certificates were landed and trans-
ferred to Athlit internment camp.

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Palestine Censorship Suppresses
Cables From N. Y.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Palestine censorship has barred
publication in the local Hebrew preSs of two Jewish Telegraphic
Agency dispatches from New York.
One of the items was a statement by Don Pines, co-editor of
Davar, largest Hebrew daily, who is now visiting the U. S., that
the British were inciting Bedouin tribes to attack Palestine or an-.
other Middle East country, to provide an excuse for keeping
British troops in that area.
The other dispatch was a report of a meeting in New York
of the American League for a Free Palestine, at which it was
decided to launch a campaign to secure the independence of Pal-
estine and the free immigration of Jews.
All male settlers in the Mizrachi colony of Birya were arrested,
following an attack on an Arab Legion camp by an unidentified
band. Police said that a trail of blood led to Birya from the camp,
vvhere a sentry exchanged shots with the attrackers. It was also
reported that troops found eight rifles and two machineguns and
other arms abandoned a half-mile away.
Troops hunting for the wounded men also searched several
government hospitals in the area, including a malaria research in-
stitute at Rosh Pina. The head of the institute, Lt. Col. Mer, pro-
tested the search.
Earlier, the police had issued a communique disclosing that in
a search of a house in the Zichron Moshe quarter of Jerusalem,
a. large quantity of arms was discovered, including machine guns,
rifles, bombs, ammunition and gun powder.
The extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi today plastered walls in the
main streets of Jerusalem with posters reading: "We stand in
silence in memory of Jonathan, who fell near Quastina (scene of
an attack on British aircraft on Tuesday). It was a big week: All
three organizations worked with the fullest cooperation - the
Haganah carried out attacks against police stations, while the- Irgun
Zvai Leumi and the Stern Group attacked •airfields."

Britain Reconsiders Plan To Send Nazis To Palestine
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Palestine government and British
military authorities are reconsidering their decision to bring German
war prisoners to Palestine for work on military, installations, it
was reliably reported here today.' Rumors that war prisoners
already have been brought into the country are said to be incorrect.
The Arab Higher Committee has called a general strike in
Palestine in protest against the reported transfer to an island of
five Arab leaders captured in Germany after the ' end of the war.
Three of the five are members of the Husselini family. They fled
to Germany after the collapse of the pro-Nazi revolt in Iraq. in 1941.
The Small Zionist Actions Committee has empowered the
Jewish Agency, by a vote of 23 to 3, to appear before the inquiry
committee in behalf of the entire Zionist movement in the country.

Arrest Lebanese Charged With Smuggling Jews Into Palestine
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (JTA)—Lebanese police have arrested sev-
eral persons charged with smuggling 29 Jews into Palestine, it was
announced. The announcement said that an official investigation
has disclosed the existence of a large smuggling ring with branches
in Damascus.

Jackson Asks Conviction
f Over 2,000,000 Nazis

U. S. Prosecutor at Nuremberg Demands Action Against
Six Groups; Court Hears Stories of Survivors
of Treblinka Camp, Vilna Ghetto

NUREMBERG, (JTA)—Citing action by several states in the
U. S. curbing the activities of the Ku Klux Klan as an organization,
chief U. S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson, demanded before the
International Military Tribunal here the conviction of six Nazi
groups with a total membership exceeding 2,000,000.
Acquittal of these organizations, Jackson said, would be more
catastrophic than if the 20 top Nazis on trial here were to be freed.
The groups are the Nazi Leadership Corps, the Gestapo, the S. S.,
the S. A., the Reich Cabinet and the German High Command and
General Staff.
As the prosecution ended its case, the court heard Samuel
Reizman, a survivor of the Treblinka death camp, and Abraham
Sutzkever, 1.vho fled the Vilna ghetto. give eye-witneSs accounts of
•the extermination of Jews in Poland and Lithuania. They were
called by the Soviet prosecution.
Reizman, one of the leaders of a revolt in Treblinka in August,
1942, during which many Nazis were killed and part of the camp
destroyed, said that Treblinka had • 13 gas chanibers. Most persons
Sent there, he said, were murdered within 10 minutes of their ar-
rival. He revealed that Kurt Franz, assistant commander of the
Camp, was promoted following the execution of the 1,000,000th Jew.
. 'Stitzkever told how tens of thousands of Jews were murdered
shortly after the Nazis entered Vilna, and described the horrors of
ghetto life in that city.

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

OVERSEAS

The Slovak Government has dismissed sev-
eral judges who had passed mild sentences
on members of the illegal Hlinka Guard who
participated in the Jewish pogrom at Topol-
cany and in other anti-Semitic excesses.

Lord Victor Lytton, former Viceroy of India,
chairman of the Palestine Potash Company,
Ltd., in a letter to the London Times, inter-
prets the Balfour Declaration as a promise to
the Jewish race throughout the world that they
might go to Palestine as nationals, not alien
immigrants, and asserts that Transjordan is
part of the originally promised Jewish National
Horne. He urges a conference between repre-
sentatives of. World Jewry and representatives
of the Arab States, to work out a fair solution
of the present problem which will be- bene-
ficial to the Jewish, and Arab people alike.
The sending of another investigating committee

to Palestine offers little hope for settlement,
since no agreement can be expected between
Jewish and Arab politicians in Palestine, Lord
Lytton says.
The Executive Council of the Zionist Federa-
tion of Great Britain has urged the British
Government to advise military authorities to
respect the status of Palestine as. the Jewish
National Home, and to give immediate at-
tention to the War Office's projected importa-
tion of German prisoners of war to work on
military installations in Palestine.
Three thousand Polish Jewish women, who
arrived in Sweden six months ago to recup-
erate from their concentration camp experi-
ence, now refuse to return to Poland because
they fear anti-Semitic outbreaks there, Swed-
ish Foreign Minister Unden revealed in an in-
terview for the Stockholm newspaper Afton-
bladet:
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