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Page Eighteen
Noted Britons Intercede
In Behalf of 100,000 DPs
Outstanding Leaders Ask Unconditional Admission of Sur-
vivors to Palestine; Crossman Charges British
Pro-Arabism Really Is Anti-Semitism
LONDON, (JTA)—Speaking here to a meeting of the
Anglo-Jewish Association, Richard Crossman, a British mem-
ber of the inquiry committee and a Labor M.P., appealed
to both Jews and Englishmen to do their utmost to avoid
an-"Anglci-Jewish war." Crossman said he was disappointed
at the prolonged discussions that followed publication of
Friday, May 31, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS -
Neef Was Delegate
To Annual Christian
Palestine Seminar
Community Council Election Set
For June 11; Nominations Made
At the meeting of Community floor of seven persons whose
Arthur Neef, Dean of the Law Council on May 23, important names will appear on the ballot
School of Wayne ,University constitutional amendments were at the Community Council's elec-
since 1936 and the University's passed by the delegate body, tion meeting on June 11. They
Provost since 1945, is one of De- making more democratic the are: Meyer Beckman, Eugene
Council's nomination and election Franzb,lau, Philip Imber, Jack
procedure. The constitu t i o n a 1 Kraitzman, Louis Rosenzweig,
amendments prepared by a corn- Samuel Silverstein and Rabbi Is-
l'ilittee under the joint chairman- rael Turner.
ship of Louis Rosenzweig and
In the absente of Rabbi Leon
Joseph Bernstein, were revised Fram, chairman of the communi-
by the Council's executive board ty relations committee, and of
before adoption.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, chairman
The new procedure requires of the internal relations commit-
that the nominating committee tee, Isaac Franck, executive di-
submit its report at the delegates' rector, presented two reports on
meeting preceding the election developments in the Council's
meeting. Nominations from the program of activities. The first
floor are to follow the nominat- involved the progress made in
ing committee's report, and the eliminating discriminatory ad-
,names of all nominees are to ap- vertising on the part of Michi-
pear on the ballot which is used gan's Tourist industry. Mr.
by the delegates at the annual Frank also reported on the devel-
election meeting in June.
opment of the internal discipline
work with several trade groups
Nominating Committee
Clarence A. Enggass submitted in the community.
Aaron Droock, president, wel-
the nominating committee's re-
port. Serving with Mr. Enggass on comed new delegates.
this committee were Mrs. Lewis
Daniels, Dr. S. Kleinman, Morris
ARTHUR NEEF
Liebermari, Max Nusbaum, Judge
trait's delegates who attended the Charles Rubiner and Harry Yud-
Christian Seminar on Palestine, koff.
May 27-29, at Ocean City, N. J.,
Those whose terms expire are
This Seminar was arranged by the following: Rabbi Morris Ad-
the American Christian Palestine ler, Charles Driker, Dr. B. Bene-
Committee with which Dean dict Glazer, Leon Kay, Dr. Abra-
Neef has been associated for sev- ham M. Hershman, Benjamin M.
eral years as a member of the Laikin, Samuel J. Lieberman,
Michigan Chapter.
Aaron Rosenberg, Rabbi Joshua
The Rev. Tracy Pullman was S. Sperka, Abraham Srere, Rabbi
the other Detroit delegate.
Max J. Wohgelernter and- Fred
M. Butzel.
Mr. Enggass reported that the
Minister nominating
committee adopted
for itself this year the procedure
of not renominating anyone who
has served on the Community
Incite Anti-Semitism
Council's executive board for
eight years or more. He indicated
LONDON (JTA)—In the in- that Fred M. Butzel who was not
terests of combatting anti-Sem- being renominated under this
itism, it would be preferable not rule, will continue serving as
to create a "privileged Jewish honorary president, since his
class," by Stevan Riess, Hun- term in this office does not ex-
garian Minister of Justice, said. pire until June 1947. The follow-
Dr. Riess, who attended the ing 12 were recommended by the
international Socialist congress nominating committee: Rabbi
held at Clacton over the week- Morris Adler, Charles Driker, Dr.
end, pointed out that a special B. Benedict Glazer, Benjamin E.
fund to aid Jews has been set Jaffe, Leon Kay, Mrs. Maurice
up by the Hungarian govern- Klein, Rabbi Eliezer A. Levi,
ment from the proceeds of prop- Morris Lieberman, Frank Mer-
erty belonging to heirless Jews. sky, Morris L. Schaver, Rabbi
He also cited legislation making Joshua S. Sperka and Rabbi Max
anti-Semitism a punishable of- J. Wohlgelernter.
fense. The Minister _ of Justice
Floor Nominations
pointed out, however, that Hun-
Mr. Enggass' report was- fol-
gary is a badly damaged coun- lowed by nominations from the
try and said that nothing should
be done to encourage the anti- WNZO Delegation Arrives
Semitic agitation of reactionary To Consult with Revisionists
forces.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A dele-
Berl Locker and Moshe Sher- gation of three members ot the
tok represented the Palestine La- provisional executive of t h e
bor Party at the international World New Zionist Organization,
Socialist conference.
headed by Dr. L. Altman, its
the committee's report.
RidicUling the idea that the' politics than with the tough busi-
British members of the commit--; ness men and Socialists of the
tee "gave in" to the Americans' Jewish Agency.
"Arab Frankenstein"
in the writing of the report,
said:
"I
signed
because'
Stating
that this is no basis on
-
Crossman
I believed it is a good report 'which British-Arab collaboration
and the best short-term policy.; can be built, Crossman says in-
American support or non-support dependence is granted to one
,•
cannot determine the approachArab State after another, not be-
to a problem where one has to cause they are ripe for independ-
ask oneself whether justice or ence or to benefit the Fellahin,
injustice will be done. The same. but as a bid to win the loyalty
goes for the Arab objections or of Arab politicians and princes.
non-objections. The committee But even the White Paper failed
exclyded outside expediency from to win Arab confidence, Cross-
its d-:11:‘erations."
man points out, because the Arabs
""` T, 5 or ptivity" Outdated
saw this was pure expediency.
-,m7n declared that the ec- I The puppets of realistic British
onomic absorption of 100,000 im- diplomacy now are terrorizing
was relatively simple their creator. like Frankenstein's
and that the "old bugbear monster, threatening to change
of al:, orptivity is outdated, but over, first to the Germans and
still. the Arabs object to the en- then to the Russians, Crossman
tra*- -n of a single Jew." After declares. The Arab League, he
stir '' • - -s, the lessons of the Ara' continues, created for defense of
re-oit resulting from the White the Empire, constantly is endan-
P.:,,--- continued, the Pales- gering the Empire, asking for
tine T ;sh community trans-. ! further appeasement.
Contempt for Expediency
form r 7 itself . into a sort of
"Dr?-i.:i6” group.
The Arabs have a sense of
Su-la a position, he warned, truth and justice and contempt
was C--- c_arous to Jews and Brit- t for expediency, Crossman con-
ons -"ke, with the country drift- tinues, stating:
ing toward imminent civil war I "If against our better judg-
The c.' ,.7--t;on has become more ment and sense of justice we de-
tens? v•'Ih the delay in imple- tide, purely from fear of Russian
ment'ng the inquiry committee influence, to assist them in liqui-
re-- • Fnet the endurance of the -dating the Jewish National Home,
beng put to a protracted we should not, by this demon-
CrcE.sm9n told the meeting. stration of weakness, win respect
H -F• 7r-i-1 P'1 . "I am convinced that or ensure that our troops can be
if t} •C-oVernment abolishes the moved from Egypt into a loyal
Wh .1-7! Paper and admits the 100,- Arab Palestine. The Mufti did
000 io Palestine, the Jews will not lead guerillas against the
become 2Fmin absolutely loyal." British Army for many years in
He concluded by urging that order to ensure the permanent
Brit-9'n alone carry out the in- presence of British soldiers in
qu;ry committee's proposals, but what he regards an exclusively
asked that she be backed by Arab country. The next stage in
Ame- "-a and the United Nations. the game would be return of
A Dfssenting Englishman
the Mufti to Jerusalem and de-
Maor Reginald Manningham- mand for British withdrawal from
Buller, another member of the Palestine."
inquiry committee ,has expressed In conclusion, Crossman urges
"regrets" at the statements made the Government not to dangle
by various American members of "baksheesh" before the Arabs of
the committee concerning the de- Palestine to prevent them from
liberations of the group prior to swinging to Russia, but to con-
issuance of the report. vince them of the gains in social
Asserting, in a letter to the welfare and economic freedom
London Times, that "although I and friendship in a policy of
am not a supporter of the Gov,- collaboration with Britain. To
erhment, I would hesitate to carry out this policy, he says,
Rare Volumes Offered
make a public statement which British officials now in the Mid-
might add to their difficulties, dle East should be replaced. At the House of Books
Major Manningham-Buller said Otherwise, the evacuation of
Mettie Baron Golub of The
that his silence should not be Egypt, which could be the be-
misconstrued as acceptance of ginning of a new era in Anglo- House of Books is offering an
the accuracy of the published ac- Arab friendship, will be only an- interesting collection of books of
great interest which are beauti-
counts of discussions, agreements, other step in
the fatal process
fully bound and illustrated.
and interpretation arrived at by of appeasement.
Among them you will find:
the 12 members of the inquiry
Demand by Leaders
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE
body."
Immediate announcement by OF USHER by Edgar Allan Poe.
the British Government of its This well known classic is illus-
Says Arabs United
readiness to admit 100,000 Jews trated with engravings made on
into Palestine, not contingent on wood by Abner Epstein. It is
Only Against Zionism
acceptane of. any conditions not bound in basket weave cloth.
LONDON (JSP-Palcor)—Rich- included in the Anglo-American
THE TWELVE by Alexander
ard H. S. Crossman, Labor MP report on Palestine, was urged Blok, translated from the Rus-
and member of the Anglo-Amer- in a letter to the Times signed sian by Babette Deutsch and Av-
ican Inquiry Committee, in his by nine outstanding British rahm Yarmolinsky. It was writ-
ten in January 1918 when the
second article on Palestine in the statesmen and industrialists.
The signatories were: Mr. Leo- revolution which inaugurated
New Statesman, charges that the
pro-Arabism of some British dip- pold S. Amery, member of Lloyd the Soviet Regime. was about two
lomats is not really love for the George's World War I Cabinet months old.
THE SCARLET LETTER by
Arab but concealed anti-Semit- and former Secretary of State
ism, more insulting to Arabs than of India; Lord Cecil, president Nathaniel Hawthorne. This edi-
of the League of NationS Union; tion of the great classic is pub-
to Jews.
"Our main trouble in the Mid- Lord Chorley, 'Labor MP and lished by the Limited Editions
dle East," he says,' "is the natural member of the recent Parlia- Club.
British inclination to fall in love mentary mission to "India; Sir
with all which is decadent in Archibald Sinclair-, leader of the President of Colombia
Arab civilization, and to disre- Liberal Party; Sir Walter Lay- Condemns Anti-Semitism
BOGOTA, Colombia (JTA)*—
gard the new, less charming, less ton, leading economist and chair-
man of the Board of Directors of The recent attacks on Jews in
subservient features."
In the article, titled "Arab the News Chronicle; .Mr. Walter Bogota were condemned by the
Myth and Reality," Crossman Elliot, Conservative member of newly elected president of Co-
lombia, Dr. Cariano Ospino Per-
points out the internal differences the • Chamberlain Government
ez, in a statement to the Jewish
who
did
not
vote
for
the
White
and conflicting interests of the
Arab States united only against Paper; Dr. Grenfell, Labor MP Telegraphic Agency.
The president-elect emphasized
Zionism, and describes the inter- and former Minister of Mines in
nal social and economic conflicts Churchill's wartime coalition that he will not tolerate any as-
Government; Sir Andrew Mc-' saults against Jews or any other
within the various States.
British officials, Crossman says, Fadyean, leading industrialist; national minority. "Such action,"
mix more easily with the small and Mr. James Middleton, former he declared, "is contrary to the
democratic spirit of our' country."
civilized coterie . running Arab Secretary of the Labor Party.
Hungarian
Warns 'Privileges'
it
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chairman, arrived here to consult
with U. S. members of the pro-
visional executive on problems
confronting the forthcoming
World Zionist Congress.
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