Friday, March 22, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Inquiry Committee Omits
Record of Mufti's Nazi Tie

Stenographic Report of Hearings Concerning Arab Lead-
er's Pro-Hitler Activities Left Out; Magnes Views De-
tails of Bi-National Arab-Jewish State Plan

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—In an apparent attempt to shield
the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, the stenographic record of the
Anglo-American inquiry committee's hearings has omitted
a remark by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Arab Higher Committee
spokesman, to the effect that the Mufti cooperated with the
Nazis because he thought they might win. The omission

was noted on March 15, when
the official record of a previous ment of a bi-national Arab- Jew-
hearing was made public.
Towards the • end of the day ish state . would solve the Pales-
hearing, on March 12, Richard tine problem.
Crossman, one of the British
Before he began his testimony,
members, confronted Abdul Hadi the Arab Higher Committee
with a photograph of the
Mufti in the act of "heiling" presented the inquiry group with
Moslem S.S. troops, and asked a' 200,000-word memorandum, re-
him for some explanation or jecting a bi-national state and
comment. Abdul Hadi said:
offering "full citizenship" to the
- "The Mufti was only trying over 500,000 Jews in Palestine,
to make a deal in case Ger- provided that an Arab state is
many won the war."
established here, and that further
Although this remark and a Jewish immigration is barred.
further exchange between Abdul
The memorandum stated that
Hadi and CrOssman was passed
the Arabs would refuse to con-
by the censor and published in
the local press, the record omits sent to the continuation of limit-
_ the episode with the explanation: ed Jewish immigration while the
"At this point the witness proposed state was being set up,
dispensed with the services of on the grounds that even limited
the interpreter and, unfortun- immigration would encourage
ately, the (court) reporter Zionists to believe that if they
could not make a continuous exerted more pressure they
would obtain further concessions.
• record."
Divided Into Districts
Splits Into Four Units
Discussing the Ichud group's
The committee split . up into
four sub-committees, two of plan for a bi-national state, Dr.
which will tour Palestine, one Magnes said that it envisioned
the Levant, and the last group political and numerical parity be-
will visit Iraq and Saudi Arabia. tween the Arabs and the Jews.
Appearing before the sub- Under the plan, Palestine would
committee consisting of British be divided into several districts,
co-chairman Sir John Singleton, some of -which would be pure
Major Manningham-Buller and ly Jewish, others Arab, and the
Frank Buxton, 'which left for remainder mixed. The country
Iraq, a delegation of South Af- would be ruled by a consultative
rican Jews revealed that Marshal body on which Jews and Arabs
Jan Christian Smuts, Prime would have equal representation,
Minister of the -Union of South with the High Commissioner as
Africa, has submitted a memor- chairman.
andum on the Palestine issue to
Dr. Magnes accused the Pales-
the inquiry committee.
tine government of not training
Shimon Kuper, Johannesburg Palestine Jews and Arabs to fill
chairman of the Board of Depu- the highest executive posts in
ties of South African Jews, the local administration, and ad-
speaking for the 100,000 Jews of
the Union, called for the estab-
lishment of a Jewish Common-
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The sub-committee, composed
of American co-chairman. Judge
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Joseph Hutcheson, James Mac-
Donald and Lord Morrison, jour-
neying to the Levant, will 'visit
the coastal areas of Palestine, in-
cluding the city of Haifa.

vocated greater participation by world. Isn't American youth be- ed in
the demand for Palestine.
both peoples in running their ing given military training.
Sephardic Jews Reported
own affairs.
Nevertheless, I recommend bring-
The situation of the 1,000,000
"Palestine is not just a Jew-
ing of these youths here, because Sephardic Jews living in the
ish or an Arab land," he said.
Middle East was reported to the
"The Arabs have natural, and here they won't fight."
committee 'by David Abulafia and
the Jews historical, rights, and
Spokesmen for the Jewish Itzhak Abbadi, who stressed the
the Jews have showed that they National Council,
headed by "absolute identification" of the
are worthy of this land. A Jew- President Isaac Ben Zvi, testify-
Sephardic Jews with the Zionist
ish state means Jewish domina- ing earlier, stressed the Jewish cause.
tion; and an Arab state means peoples' historic .connection with
Abulafia said that although the
Arab domination. This is a Palestine and urged the estab-
double-edged sword. Jews must lishment of a Jewish state here. situation of the Oriental Jews
living in the Middle Eastern
have ample immigration to be
A Permanent Minority
countries was growing more pre-
able to safeguard their further
Dr. Mordecai Eliash, a ranking carious, they believed that they
development in many fields; the member of the Council, told the
Arabs want self-government— committee that Jews did not could help bring about an under-
given this, they will agree to threaten Arab rights in Pales- standing between the Arabs and
the Jews, because of "their gen-
Jewish immigration."
tine, but, on the contrary, were eral Oriental outlook." This will •
Demands Interim Report
themselves subjected to onerous be - possible, however, only if
a
Magnes took the committee to land and immigration restrictions Jewish state .is established in
task for its failure to issue an while their youth was jailed. Palestine, he added.
interim report concerning the Jews were condemned to being
Commenting on their testi-
100,000 displaced Jews in Ger- a permanent minority, he ex- mony, Lord Morrison asked them
plained.
many and Austria. "Why the de-
whether they wanted the com-
lay?" he asked, "We want them
Both he and David Remez, sec- mittee to invite • Jews from
here. We will share everything retary-general of the Council, bombed areas of East London
we possess. You have the au- rejected a suggestion by Co- to come to Palestine because
thority—why didn't you allow chairman Joseph Hutcheson that, "they are uncomfortable."
them to come." James MacDon- perhaps, the Palestine problem
Auni Bey Bbdul Hadi, Arab
ald defended the committee, de- might be solved by partition or extremist leader, told the com-
claring that its decision not to creation of Arab-Jewish parity. mittee that T.E. Lawrence, famed
issue an interim report did not They asserted that Jews were a British agent in the Middle
mean that "we did not feel keen- minority everywhere in the East during the last war, had
ly" concerning the refugees.
world, and therefore, it was only misled Emir Eeisal of Iraq into
The British Government's re- just that they be a majority "in signing an agreement in 1918
fusal to admit displaced Jews to one corner of the world."
with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, giv-
Palestine ; Magnes charged, had
Speaking for the Orthodox ing Arab approval of a Jewish .
created great bitterness in the Jews of Palestine, Dr. Isaac state in Palestine. Abdul Hadi
heart of every Jew. "It is no Bruer and Rabbi Moshe Blau, of alleged that Feisal had never
wonder," he continued, "that the the Agudas Israel, declared that seen the final English translation
highly idealistic Jewish youth the Jews were deprived of of the agreement.
took up guns and bombs."
Palestine 2,000 years ago by
Replying to Sir Frederick Leg- violence. They said that the
S/Sgt. Kramer Discharged
gett, who questioned him con- Agudas Israel did not see the
S/Sgt. Albert A. Kramer, son of
cerning the "fighting spirit of the problem of Palestine as one of Mrs. Mildred Krairier and the late
Jewish youths in the European world politics or power politics Morris S. Kramer, recently was
DP camps, Magnes said: "What between Arabs and Jews, but as discharged from the armed forces.
do you expect of these youths? a problem of law ,and emphasiz- He entered active service on
They underwent the same mili- ed that the Jewish people March 8, 1943. He is now at-
taristic excitement as the whole throughout the world were unit- tending Wayne University.

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Urges Bi-National State
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president
of the Hebrew University and
chief advocate of Arab-Jewish
cooperation in Palestine, told the
committee that only establish-

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