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Leader of Catholic Maronite Church in Beirut Expresses
Sympathy With Zionism; Charges Committee Did
Not Attempt to Get Real Views on Palestine
BY GEROLD FRANK
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (JTA)—In an exclusive interview with a
Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, addressed specifically to
the people of Palestine and the entire world, Monsignor Ignatz
Mourbarak, Archbishop of the Maronite Church in Beirut, a Catholic
church whose Arab members comprise a majority of the Christian
population of Lebanon, charged that the sub-committee of the
Anglo-American inquiry committee did not hear the true voice of
Lebanese public opinion, when it took testimony here.
"If the committee had heard the true voice, it would have heard
the voice declaring support of Jewish reconstruction in Palestine—
support of Zionism as a symbol of progress and security of all
people of the Middle East," Monsignor Mourbarak declared. He in--
sisted that the Christian majority in Lebanon is not represented
in the present government.
U.S. Christians Laud Archbishop
For His Statement on Palestine
NEW YORK, March 22. (JTA)—Dr. Carl Herman Voss
and Dean Howard M. LeSourd, co-directors of the American
Christian Palestine Committee, today cabled their "deep ad-
miration and gratitude for the courageous statement" made by
Monsignor Ignatz Mourbarak.
"Your forthright declaration is striking evidence that
believers in truth and justice throughout the world are
resolved to advance the cause of a Jewish Palestine, and will
not be silenced by the reactionary forces of the Arab League
and colonial imperialism," Dr. Voss and Dean LeSourd said
in their cable to Monsignor Mourbarak.
He made it clear that his views also represent those the Maronite
Patriarch, spiritual leader of the Maronite Christian world, "who has
often expressed his sympathy with Judaism and Zionism."
Charges Lebanese President Did Not Give True Views
"The Anglo-American committee heard only chosen government
spokesmen who have said what the government wanted them to
say," the Archbishop declared. "I charge our President did not give
his true views, because he is fearful of the Arab League. He him-
self holds views contrary to those he expressed, and I, myself, told
him so. The present government would not now be in power without
my help. I brought Christian support to the President of the Re-
public, whom I now charge with not having expressed his real
feelings before the commission."
Speaking of the ties between Palestine and his country,
Monsignor Mourbarak said that the development of Lebanon
is tied up with the development of Palestine.
"We Christian Lebanese know this," he continued. "We • realize
that Zionism is bringing civilization to Palestine and to the entire
Middle East. I . am very much in favor of Zionism because I have
the good of Palestine at heart. The desire of the Moslem Arabs is
to dominate the country and cast out the Christians.
"I tell you frankly, opposition to Zionism in Palestine
means returning the people to the domination of savagery, and
the return of the country to that state of anarchy and bribery
in which is existed at the height of the Ottoman sultans.
Lays Fanaticism, Hate to Moslems
"If anyone in this part of the world has sought to unite all com-
munities, it is I," he asserted, adding "but I am sorry to state that
we have found nothing on the part of the Moslems, except fanaticism,
hate, and a desire to dominate the country. You can be sure that in
this country, where Christians represent the majority of the popula-
tion, the great majority of the Christians are against reactionary
Arab anti-Zionist opinion, and support the Jews because they have
the best relations with them, and that together with the Jews they
can best work out their salvation."
"We realize," he continued, "that there is a struggle here between
civilization and regression, and the Jews symbolize civilization. We
Christian Lebanese have always been pioneers of civilization, not
only in Lebanon, but the entire Middle East."
Warning that the Middle East was witnessing a test case in the
march of civilization, he stated:
"In the desire of the Jews to rebuild Palestine there burns a
very pure flame. We must not extinguish it! The Jews of Pal-
stine and the Christians of Palestine can work together, and if
the Moslem Arabs would assist, it would be magnificent, but,
unfortunately, they are opposed to anything which means pro-
gress. I was in Palestine thirty years ago. It was an arid, forgotten
land. I've seen it since—I tell you, we Lebanese are jealous of
the good fate of Palestine."
Sold Land to Jews for High Prices
He pointed out that the "Moslem Arabs of Palestine, Damascus,
and Beirut sold their land holdings in Palestine to Jews for high
prices, and now the Moslem Arabs here wish to regain those lands
and cast out the Jews. •
"These are my views," Monsignor Mourbarak concluded, "and I
am not afraid to voice them. Last night I was invited to a dinner
tendered by the Foreign Ministry, to . the members of the Anglo-
American inquiry committee and I refused to attend, lest my
Presence give the impression that I agreed with the opinions ex-
pressed before the committee."
At the conclusion of his interview, the Archbishop signed a state-
ment embracing the essence of his remarks, adding "I propose to
speak on this subject in the same way from the pulpit, this coming
week-end."
Assyrian Leader Favors Jewish State In Palestine
BEIRUT, Lebanon, (JTA)—Secret, written testimony submitted
several days ago to Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, American co-
chairman of the Anglo-American inquiry committee, which was
divulged here, reveals that the Assyrian people of the Middle East
favor the establishment of a Jewish state in Paletsine. The docu-
ment is signed by a prominent leader of the Assyrians, whose
name was not revealed in order to protect him from Arab reprisals.
Declaring that the "Arab League does riot represent the Assyr-
ians, who do not recognize the League and are not bound by its
decisions," the document asserts that the setting up of a Jewish
state will serve as a great moral relief to the Assyro-Chaldeans.
.."Millions of inhabitants in this part of the world are now follow-
ing the work of your commission and wish you every success in
removing one of the most flagrant acts of injustice and end the
sufferings of a martyred people," the statement says.
"Many millions feel and know that the case of the Jews is
right," the statement emphasizes, "but unfortunately conditions
prevailing in most Eastern countries are such that the peoples'
leaders cannot voice the true state of affairs. Please take into
consideration the fact that every person testifying to the truth be-
fore your commission is exposing himself to the greatest danger
and reprisals."
The document also asks guarantees for half million Assyrians
under a free democratic Kurdish Government in Kurdistan, a Middle
East area which includes sections of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq.
James G. MacDonald, American member of the inquiry com-
mittee, had an audience with Monsignor Peter Arida, Patriarch and
spiritual leader of all Maronites; Archbishop Mourbarak, Of Beirut;
and Archbishop Abdullah el Khouri. The three Catholic leaders
presented testimony for the consideration of the entire inquiry body.
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(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Rep. John E. Rankin (D., Miss.), notorious
for his Jew- and Negro-baiting . on the House
floor, called on President Truman to demand
a ban on all further immigration and "ship
these people back to the countries from which
they came."
Rep. Sol Bloom (D., N.Y.) was chosen unani-
mously as first Chairman of the United Nations
Committee on UNRRA at the Committee's first
meeting at Atlantic City.
An investigation by the New York City Tax
Commission of charges that Columbia Univer-
sity practices racial and religious discrimina-
tion in selection of students, while claiming to
be a non-sectarian institution, was urged in a
resolution introduced into the New York City
Council by Eugene P. Connolly, Democrat and
American Labor Party Councilman from Man-
hattan. If the discrimination charges are sub-
stantiated, the Tax Commission should deny
Columbia tax exemption, the resolution states.
A resolution urging all Young Men's Chris-
tion Associations in United States and Canada
to eliminate racial and religious discrimination
within their organizations was adopted at the
concluding session of the Y.M.C.A.'s 45th an-
nual convention.
Nazi assets, estimated at a billion dollars,
which may finance a Nazi comeback move, are
held in Switzerland and will be demanded by
the Allies at a conference in Washington be-
tween a Swiss delegation and representatives
of United States, Great Britain and France.
Failure to de-Nazify and de-industrialize Ger- -
many is courting future German aggression
and another world war, former Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. warned
in an address before the American Academy
of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia.
PALESTINE
A, late dispatch from Jerusalem states that
Hebrew dailies report that Dr. Tewfik Canaan,
the Crhistian Arab, once received a decoration
from Hitler, and was held in a Palestinian in-
ternment camp during the war on suspicion of
relations with the enemy. His wife is a German.
A loan of $4,680,000 to finance public works
and developments in the all-Jewish city of
Tel Aviv has been approved by the Palestine
Government, Mayor Rokach announced at a
meeting of the Tel Aviv Municipal Council.
According to authoritative estimates, the Gov-
ernment's revenue from income taxes paid by
residents of Tel Aviv during the last fiscal
year amounts to $10,000,000.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes I
wouldn't have believed it possible to create
this place on these rocks," declared Sir Fred-
erick Leggett, British member of the , Anglo-
American Inquiry Committee on Palestine,
when he visited Kfar Hachoresh, in the Emek
Valley. Speaking for his colleagues, American
member Crum and British member Crick, who
accompanied him on a tour of the Emek, Sir
Frederick declared they were deeply impress-
ed with what they had seen, and especially
would not forget the happiness of the settlers
and their children and the spirit which inspir-
ed all their work.
I. Klinow, head of the Jewish Agency In-
formation Bureau, left Jerusalem for London
and New York en route to • Latin America,
where he will conduct a campaign on behalf of
Keren Hayesod, Jewish Palestine Foundation
Fund. Reuven Zaslani, of the Jewish Agen-
cy's Arabic department, arrived in , Palestine
from the United States.
OVERSEAS
Ex-Reichsmarshal Herman Goering, testifr.
ing in his defense at the Nuremberg War Crime
Trial, told the International Military Tribunal
that both Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich
Himmler were more rabid Jew-baiters than
he. He said defendant Julius Streicher was
violently anti-Jewish, but dismissed him as not
a member of the Government: Goering said
that for his own part, he had protested di-
rectly to Hitler against anti-Jewish excesses
in 1939.
A treaty recognising the independent status
of Transjordan and providing for cooperation
between Transjordan and the British Govern..
ment will soon be signed, and submitted to
Commons for ratification Under Secretary of
State for Colonies Creech-Jones, disclosed in
Commons' in reply to questions from Lt.
Colonel Lipton, Labor MP. Creech-Jones stated
that the negotiations between the Government
and Emir Abdullah, ruler of Transjordan, now
in London, have progresed very satisfactorily.
Rudolf Hoess, 45-year-old commandant of
Nazi extermination camps in southern Poland,
confessed that he, personally, arranged for
the gas murderS of 2,000,000 persons, mostly
Jews, at Oswiecim death camp, "on orders
from Heinrich Himmler" and 500,000 more on
his own authority, British officials revealed in
Berlin. They said Hoess was responsible for
2,000,000 deaths after he left Oswiecim, bring-
ing his total murders to 4,500,000.
The Vienna press has sharply attacked the
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration in Austria for giving relief to
Polish and Ukrainian bandits posing as dis-
placed persons or victims of Communism, and
who in reality fled Poland to avoid arrest for
murders of hundreds of Polish Jews.
Three Hungarian Nazis, members of the anti-
Semitic Szalais Government, were strangled
to death, the legal method of execution in
Hungary, a week after the hanging of former
Premier Szalasi. They were Dr. Sandor Csiar,
Szalasi's poiltical advisor; Baron Gabor Ko-
meny, former foreign minister; and Jenoe
Szoelloessy, former Deputy Premier.
The first conference of surviving Jews in
the French-occupied zone of Germany was held
in the township of Gailingen, near the Swiss
border. Twelve delegates from Jewish com-
munities in the zone voted to establish Chalutz
(Palestine pioneer) training farms for youths
and to form a Zionist organization composed of
all Zionist factions.
The -Association of . Jewish Internees of the
Belgian concentration camp at Malignes an-
nounced they will erect two monuments at the
Jewish cemeteries at Adeterbak and Odegheim,
in memory of the Jewish martyrs murdered
by the Nazis.
British Jewry was urged to "give their all"
towards the creation of a Jewish State in Pal-
estine, to show the world that the - Jews will
not delay the building of their National Home
to await the results of the Anglo-American In-
quiry Committee's deliberations.
Palestine-a Land of Promise
or Negation for the Jews?
In an objective first hand report by Ralph
McGill, editor of the Atlanta Journal, the reader
will find answers to much that has previously
puzzled him.
McGill began his study in Germany at the
Neremberg trials and from there he investigated
the plight of the homeless Jewish survivors in the
Displaced Persons camps.
From Germany McGill went to Egypt to in-
vestigate the Arab nationalist movement and to
hear the Arab claims on Palestine. Then he went
to the Holy Land.
His findings and conclusions go to the heart
of the matter and will interest everyone who has
thought on the subject.
The first article will appear
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