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Bevin's Slur Against Jews
Called Insult to Americans
British Premier's Attack Condemned as Anti-Semitic:
Stalling Tactics Bring Vigorous Demands for United
Nations to Take Over Palestine Mandate
THE JEWISH NEWS
nothing compared with what
they intend to do and will do."
Britain was cautioned "not to
play around with Jewish lives
and feelings."
N. Y. Council Angered
Mr. Bevin's statement also was
denounced this week by the fol-
lowing:
The New York City Council,
whose members were angered by
the gibe that New York did not
want "too many" Jews.
Justice. Meir Steinbrink, chair-
man of the Eastern Regional
Board of directors of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith.
Representatives of the 15 Jew-
ish youth groups who attended
the annual meeting of the. Coun-
cil of National Jewish Youth
Organizations in New York.
H. H. • Lopez-Penha, member
of the Dominican Senate and
president of the Dominican Corn-
mittee for Jewish Immigration,
kho is now in the U. S. as diplo-
matic representative of the Dom-
inican Republic. .
Labor Behind Zionism .
The National Committee for
Labor Palestine, through its
chairman, Joseph Schlossberg.
Stating that Bevin was "speak-
ing a language foreign to the en-,
tire labor movement," Max Zar-
itsky, president of the United
Hat, Cap and Millinery Work-
ers, and national treasurer of
the National Committee for La-
bor Palestine, declared that all
organized labor in the U. S. was
solidly, behind the Jewish de-
mands for Palestine.
The scenes of welcome in New
York and throughout the coun-
try on the arrival of survivors
of Nazi persecution were cited
by Prof. Joseph Chamberlain,
chairman of the board of direct-
ors of the National Refugee Ser-
vice, in a statement challenging
Bevin's remarks about immigra-
tion to the U. S. in his speech at
Bournemouth.
Pointing out that Christian
Friday, June 21, 1946
and Jewish refugees are now be-
ing admitted to this country at
the rate of about 2,000 a month
under our immigration laws and
President Truman's directive,
Prof. Chamberlain declared that
the U. S. is outstanding among
nations in having kept its doors
open oto the oppressed.
Bevin Condemned
All of the leading American,
Jewish organizations—American
Jewish Conference, American
J e w is h "Committee, American
Jewish - .Congress, and . others—
were emphatic in their condem-
nations of Mr. Bevin's remarks.
WithdraWal of the resolution
proposed to the British Labor
Party convention in Bourne-
mouth, asking that restrictions
upon Jewish immigration to Pal_
estine and upon land .purchases
be lifted-. and that a Jewish state
be established in Palestine, after
Bevin's address, added to the
feeling of anger that the Labor.
Party, to Whom Jewry has
looked for support in Palestine.
should have abrogated its pre-
vious stands in support of Zion-
ism.
Assailed by N. Y. Post
The New York Post editorial
comment on the Bevin speech
brands it as anti-Semitic, de-
clares that at last he has spoken
so he can be clearly understood
and condemns "the fraud, deceit,
trickery that has characterized
British policy in Palestine almost
since the Balfour declaration."
PM says Zionists have only
two alternatives left: "One is to
insist that the British get out of
Palestine—where they are hated
both by the Jews and the Arabs
—and hand over the mandate to
the United Nations. The other is
to imitate the Irish and fight."
But the London Times, echo-
ing Bevin's remarks, warned that
world Jewry will suffer if -Pales-
tine Jewry will "continue to en-
deavor to• solve racial issues by
violence."
Jewish Press Condemns Bevin
The Jewish press in the United
States is unanimous in its con-
demnation of Bevin's statement.
The Jewish Daily Forward,
leading Yiddish newspaper and
strong supporter of the British
Labor Party, terms Bevin's com-
ments "silly and scandalous." It
also dismisses Bevin's arguments
against the 'immediate admission
of 100,000 displaced Jews to Pal-
estine as "weak excuses."
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Congress, who are discussing a
British mandate. over Palestim loan to Britain, and inquire
whether the U. S. can afford to
be strictly adhered to."
make a loan to a government
Members of both Houses of
whose pledged word seems
Congress, belonging to both par-
worthless."
The Jewish Morning Journal,
ties, joined in expressing resent-
Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke in
conservative Jewish daily, points
ment of the uncalled for insults
out that "Bevin has sinned heav-
hurled at the Jews by Mr. Bevin. similar vein when he declared,
ily against the Jews even before"
The agreed opinion of American as "a life-long affectionate ad-
he made his present statement.
leaders was that Mr. Bevin used mirer of the English people,"
Hitler tactics in attacking the that if the 100,000 certificates to
The Day, a liberal Jewish news-
Jews and that,his remarks must Jews in Palestine are denied, "no
paper, says that Bevin has prov-
en himself a person "who swin-
be interpreted as an insult to all promise of England is to be
trusted."
dled the Jewish people, the Presi-
Americans.
Can Be .Settled Now
dent of the United States and the
Alternate for Byrnes
American people. He promised
Bartley C. Crum, one of the
Last Friday, President Tru-
to accept the recommendations of
man told his press conference U. S. members of the Anglo-
the Anglo-American inquiry com-
that the U. S. will continue to American Committee of Inquiry
mittee and has now betrayed this
urge the entry of 100,000 Jews on Palestine, reiterated that
promise."
to Palestine and will endeavor to 100,000 Jews can be settled in
arrive at means by which it can. Palestine at once without diffi-
Haganah's Warning
be done. The President stated culty, condemned Great Britain's
Ashnab, secret Haganah publi-
that it will be the business of the failure to live up to promises,
cation, warns that if the delay
specially appointed Cabinet com- proposed that the mandate be
in admitting 100,000 Jews con-
mittee to expedite the transfer turned over to the. United Na-
tinues there will be a tremen-
of these displaced Jews. The tions and urged that our govern-
dous wave of uncertified refugees
committee has sent representa- ment demand the arrest of the
who will arrive from Europe at
tives there.
Grand Mufti and his trial as a
an• unprecedented rate."
Henry Y. Grady was chosen war criminal. Mr. Crum charged
In the meantime confusion
alternate for Secretary of State that the ex-Mufti "now is using
Byrnes on the U. S. committee, funds given him by Hitler to
reigns in discussions over the
with the rank of ambassador.
implementation of the report of.
carry on Hitler's work where
A-four-man technical group of
the Palestine inquiry committee.
Hitler
left
off."
War and State Department offi-
A British Foreign Office spokes-
From Jerusalem came the re-
cials left for London to assist
man has reiterated a statement
port
that
Bevin's
speech
aroused
Ambassador W. Averill Harri-
made in London that a joint
indignation
and
provoked
bitter-
man in pursuing further inquiries
experts committee is starting
ness
which
may
pave
the
way
in connection with the Anglo-
work to study technical questions
American committee report on for renewed outbreaks in Pales-
involved in the .recommenda-
Palestine, a State Department tine. The Haganah underground
tons, but in Washington a State
radio,
in
an
English-language
spokesman announced. From
Department spokesman denied
London it was reported that the broadcast, warned that "every-
that such a committee has been
group had arrived there.
thing that the Jews in Palestine
formed.
have
done
hitherto
will
be
as
Representatives Named
The State Department repre-
Sentatives . are Evan Wilson, head
of the Palestine section of the
Near Eastern Division, and Law-
rence W. Cramer, of the Occu-
pied, Areas Division, who also is
assistant director of the State,
War, and Navy Coordinating
Committee. lit. Col. Geoffrey
W. Lewis, chief of the economic
section of the Civil Affairs Divi-
sion of the War Department, and
a yet unspecified officer of the
Land and Operation Division re-
present the War Department.
Goldthwaite H. Dorr, New York
attorney, has been appointed by
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat-
terson as his alternate on the
Cabinet Committee. He serv-
ed during the war as special as-
sistant to former Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson.
A communique issued by the
British. Foreign Office states that
the British government welcomes
President Truman's formation of
a Cabinet Committee on Pales-
tine and Related Problems.
Held Anti - Semitic
Condemned as anti-Semitic,
Mr. Bevin's speech brought forth
repudiation of the British lead-
This is a simple-story-about Detroit city"taxes.
er's ill-tempered outburst and
demands that pledges to the
It is a part of the story about what happens to the money with which you pay your electric bill.
Jews for the settlement of the
In 1945, in addition to state and -federal taxes of 'even larger amounts, The Detroit Edison Com-
100,000 neediest cases in Pales-
pany paid $3,487,857 in taxes to the City of Detroit.
tine immediately be strictly ad-
That $3,487,857 was a part of your electric bill that had nothing to do with charges for electricity
hered to.
or service. It did go a long way toward paying the cost of your city government, and that is the
Mayor William O'Dwyer of
way those costs do get paid under the American form of government.
New York compared Bevin to
Joseph E. McWilliams, anti-
Take the total 1944.45 cost of operating the offices of the Mayor, the Auditor General, the City
Clerk, the Controller, the Treasurer and the Corporation Counsel and add to that the total cost
Semitic street - corner rabble-
of the Common Council,. the Election Commission and the Civil Service Commission. The 1945
rouser.
Detroit' Edison tax was enough to cover all of that,' with nearly enough left over to -pay the
Newspapers throughout the
$1,097,762 . it took to operate the Detroit Recorder's Court.
land editorially condemned Mr.
Bevin, The New York Times
The city tax pNid annually by The Detroit Edison Company would pay the cost of more than
pointed out that Americans are
25 general city elections.
unanimous in their endorsement
Last year the sum was sufficient to pay the total operating and maintenance costs of the Public
of the policy for the immediate
Lighting Commission, with $214,000 to spare.
admission of the 100,000 "need-
The Detroit Edison Company, as a citizen of Detroit, recognizes that necessary public services
,* Test cases" into Paiestine and
must be supported.
called attention to the fact that
Bevin reported on his policies,
It must be remembered, however, that the $3,487,857 was on your electric bill but was 'NOT a
charge for electricity. Let's keep the record straight and the facts clear.
in his uncalled for references to
the Jews, not to the House of
COMPANY
Commons but to the Labor
EDISON
DETROIT
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Party.
Reminiscent of Nazis
At the public rally in Madison
Square Garden, New York, sev-
eral hours after Mr. Bevin de-
livered his insulting address, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, branding the
British leader's speech as "a
coarse bit 'of anti-Semitic vul-
garity reminiscent of the Nazis
at their worst," declared: "Amer-
ican citizens have the right to
:turn to, their representatives in
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