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Truman Urged to Investigate
Arab Office in Washington
Friday. May 17, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
DPs on Trial in Army Court
Bnai Brith Parley
Hereto Consider
Jewish U. in U.S.
Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League Charges Group With
500 Delegates from District
Associating With Anti-Democratic Forces in U. S.;
to Attend Convention
Activities Spreading to Detroit Area
July 7 to 10
NEW YORK (JTA)--President Truman has been urged
to institute an official investigation • into the activities of the
Arab Office in Washington "in order to discover whether
these activities do not constitute flagrant violations of the
laws of the U. S."
The suggestion, made in a memorandum submitted to
the President by the Non-Sec- ..
tarian Anti-Nazi League, empha- as the British commander in chief
sized that the Arab Office "is judges this conduct, of the Pal-
engaged in conducting, along with estinian Jews."
more-or-less affiliated pan-Arabic
agencies in the U. S., a wide- Churchill Asks U. S.
spread subversive propaganda to Aid Realization of Report
campaign involving the incite-
LONDON (JTA)—An appeal to
ment of religious and racial strife the U. S. to aid Britain in car-
and the dissemination of prop- rying out the recommendations
ag&nda of totalitarian bias."
of the Anglo-American inquiry
The investigation, the memo- committee was voiced by Winston
randum urged, also should deter- Churchill at a ceremony at which
mine whether the activities of he was presented with the free-
the Arab Office in this country . dom of the City of Westminster.
have been financed through cred-
"Are we not entitled to ask
its originally secured for war our friends whose judgment is
time purposes under Lend-Lease the same as ours to give us a
or similar arrangements, either helping hand?" Church said. He
directly from the American gov- emphasized that it would not
ernment, or indirectly. through serve the interests of the demo-
the treasury of a third country. cratic world if Britain were to
Over Million Dollars
leave Palestine. "Some voices,"
Estimating that the expendi- he declared, "bid us quit Pales-
tures involved in the subversive tine and India, but what would
propaganda campaign conducted be the consequences? What other
by the Arab Office "have already arrangements can be made to
run well above a million dollars," safeguard the millions of people
the Anti-Nazi League gives an there from the cruel fate which
outline of its findings selected laid Europe in the dust?"
"from a much larger volume of
'available evidence," in which it Soviet Consul Meets
charges that a high Arab official, With Jews in Palestine
. Anwar Bekir Nashashibi, has on
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russia
occasion joined forces with has not yet taken any official
groups associated with Gerald L. stand on the report of the Anglo-
K. Smith and with the National American inquiry committee, the
Blue Star Mothers of Pennsyl- Soviet consul at Beirut, M. N.
vania, in the promotion of anti- Argonev, told a meeting in Tel
Semitic and other inflammatory Aviv with leaders of the League
propaganda in Philadelphia, New for Friendly Relations with Rus-
York and elsewhere. Also in- sia. He denied the reports in the
volved were executive officials of Arab press that the Moscow ra-
the Arab Office.
dio has criticized the committee's
Other charges showing close recommendations.
The Palestine immigration quo-
contact between Arab leaders in
this country and anti-democratic ta for the May 15-June 15 period
groups are made in the memoran- will consist of the usual 1,500
dum. An extended brief on this certificates, 335 of which have
subject is being prepared by the already been deducted for part
Anti-Nazi League for submission of the La Spezia refugees - who
within a few days, the memoran- are en route here.
In Tel Aviv, Chief Secretary
dum states.
John V. W. Shaw disclosed that
Subversive Activities
The League also charges vari- 232 Jews were being detained in
ous Arab organizations in this Palestine and 308 outside the
country, under the general dom- country as of the end of last
inance of the Arab Office, are year.
Two persons were injured
conducting subversive propagan-
da activities not only. in New when Arab terrorists in Beirut
York and in Washington, but also threw bombs into two Jewish
in Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, and stores.
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania,
Barkley Warns Against
Virginia and California:
Stalling on Immigration
NEW ORLEANS (JTA)—There
Laski Assails Attlee
On Palestine Immigration
• must be no government "stall-
LONDON (JTA)—Stating that ing" in moving 100,000 Jewish
"there is no possible doubt" that refugees from Europe to Pales-
the Anglo-American report on tine, Senate majority leader
Palestine called for the transfer, Barkley told 500 Jewish com-
to that country of 100,000 Jews munity leaders at a luncheon
without delay, Harold Laski, meeting of the Gulf Region Con-
chairman of the executive of the ference of the United Palestine
Labor Party, sharply • criticized Appeal.
Senator Barkley commended
Prime Minister Attlee for plac-
ing conditions on British imple- the Anglo-American committee
mentation of that recommenda- for supporting President Tru-
tion.
man's demand that 100,000 Euro-
Recalling the pro-Zionist stand pean Jews be admitted to Pal-
taken by the Labor Party's ex- estine immediately. Continued
ecutive when it was in the op- homelessness of 1,400,000 Jews in
position, Laski writes an article Europe is a vital problem not
for the Overseas News Agency: only to Jews, but to our entire
"Cabinet ministers of the highest civilization, he declared, adding
rank are bound to this pledge. that it is against the best inter-
The measure of their sincerity ests of world peace to leave the
will be judged by the way they Jewish pro_blem in Europe un-
handle
this recommendation. solved.
Here I think one must be quite
frank. There is no possible doubt Truman Says He Knows of No
about its intentions; it called for Arab Threat to U. S. Interests
their transportation to Palestine WASHINGTON (JTA) — Presi-
without any more delay than or, dent Truman has not seen a let-
ganization makes inevitable. It is ter which King Ibn Saud has
not, alas, clear that Prime Min= sent him reportedly threatening
ister Clement Attlee, if his state- withdrawal of American oil con-
ment in the House • of Commons cessions if the President does not
is his final . word, has accepted accede to . Arab wishes regarding
the recommendation in this Palestine, he told his press con-
ference on May 9.
spirit."
(The New York Times reported
"It is obvious that Mr. Attlee
is making the future of these from Paris that France has
hapless and homeless refugees agreed to a British request that
dependent upon the decisions of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, 'now
a body they cannot control. He, residing at a villa outside of
in fact, would hold the refugees Paris, not be allowed to leave
as hostages. !/.14- the gold cOnduct, the country. British Foreign Min-
• At the first postwar convention
of District Grand Lodge No. 6 of
Bnai Brith in Detroit, July 7 to
10, it is planned to consider the
establishment of a Jewish univer-
sity in the U. S., according to Dr.
Lawrence I. Yaffa, chairman of
the Detroit convention commit-
tee.
A group headed by Rabbi Jer-
ome D. Folkman of Grand Rap-
ids, has been examining the proj-
ect for two years.
More than 500 delegates are
expected at the
convention,
which will be the 83d annual
meeting of lodges in this area.
More than 40,000. men in District
6 of Bnai Brith are members of
the order.
Harry Yudkoff of Detroit is the
retiring District president.
—International Photo
ister Bevin, according to the
Times story, made the request to
French Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault.)
Senator Mead of New York
and Brewster of Maine assailed
delay in the admission of 100,000
Jewish refugees to Palestine, in
statements on the Senate floor on
May 9. Mead said that Prime
Minister Attlee has "conditioned
with almost insurmountable ob-
stacles" the report of the Anglo-
American Committee.
Sitting behind MAJOR CLAIRE THURSTON (seated, right),
9th Division" Provost Marshal, in Landsberg, Germany, are the men
charged with starting a riot recently at the Landsberg Displaced
Persons Camp. The U. S. officer was the first witness for the
prosecution. The riot started after a rumor had spread that six
Jewish boys had been murdered by German civilians.
Says Committee Placed
Politics Above Humanity
BOSTON (JTA)—The Anglo-
American inquiry committee's re-
port on Palestine placed politics
above humanity Senator Pepper
of Florida charged in an address
here to the fifth annual dinner
of the Jewish National Fund of
New England, which was attend-
ed by 1,500 persons.
"The report," 'Senator Pepper
said, "shows more consideration
for the political situation which
unrestricted immigration into
Palestine would produce than for
the unspeakable suffering and
misery which hundreds of thou-
sands of Jews are meanwhile en-
during in Europe." He pointed
out that while the report rec-
ommended the immigration of
100,000 Jews to Palestine, it left
the remaining Jews "without
even hope."
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