Friday, July 12, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Sixteen

Victuve Stovies

from the Albite

aND GOD APPEARED AGAIN UNTO ABRAM-

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UNTO you R._
DESCENDANTS
ANTTHSWILL
15
jdd
( 1 GIVE
LAND2

1111 GRATITUDE, ABRAM BUILT AN ALTAR
TO THE LORD-'-

I THANK YOU, GOD,
FOR BRINGING US
SO FAR ALONG THE

NAY!

49

THE FOUNDER OF THE HEBREW NATION

BOCK
ssr. KING

OP
FROM THE
GENESIS, CI4AV XI THRU
JAMES,
CHAP
OOLIAY, ANIO ..I. P.5. A.
VERSIONS •••

ABRAHAM WAS CALLED ABRAM ("ESTEEMED OR HIGH
FATHER") IN THE EARLY YEARS OF HIS LIFE -HIS NAME
WAS CHANGED TO ABRAHAM, MEANING "FATHER. OF A
MULTITUDE" WHEN GOD PROMISED HIM AND HIS
DESCENDANTS THE LAND OF CANAAN

COrYRIGI-AT 1943 BY

C.30 7 NOT LONG AFTER,THERE

CAME A TERRIBLE FAMINE --
ABRAM HAD TO TAKE HIS WIFE
AND NEPHEW TO THE LAND OF
EGYPT TO SEEK FOOD-

HOW SHALL WE WE'LL FIND
FEED OUR HERDS GRASS AND
NOW? THE GRASS FOOD IN EGYPT!

PA- C. GAINES

7HOUG1-4 SARAI DID NOT WANT TO
GO TO EGYPT, THEY SET OUT ,-

THEYMAY
I FEAR THE WAY
THESE MEN LOOK WANT TO KILL
ME IF THEY <
AT ME!-THEY
ARE PHARAOH'S THINK YOU ARE
MY WIFE--TELL THEM
GUARDS!

ARE my

CONTINUITY BY
MONT. MULFORD
ART WORK BY
DON CAMERON

SISTER

IS WITHERED!

_ PHARAOH'S MEN DID SEIZE THE LOVELY

SARAI -,

SARA I
WAS THE

WELL TAKE
YOU TO THE
PHARAOH!

COME
WITH US!

DAUGHTEk

OF ABRAM'S

_

SHE IS
THE SISTER
Or ABRAM,
FROM THE
LAND OF
CANAAN!

SO YOU CAME TO EGYPT FOR
FOOD. WELL, YOU SHALL HAVE
PLENTY-AND
OXEN, CAMELS
AND
SERVANTS

BROTHER,
AND THE

HEBREW

WORK,
'NETiCE"

COULD ALSO
MEAN
*'516-rEiz

46.

OUTSIDE, ABRAM,GRIEF
STRICKEN, PRAYS TO
THE LORD"'

PLEASE SAVE SARAH
IF THE PHARAOH
DISCOVERS NOW THAT

SHE IS MY WIFE, HE
MAY KILL US
BOTH!

QI-IARAOH AND ALL HIS
COURT WERE SUDDENLY

STRICKEN WITH A GREAT
PLAGUE-

0 SARAI, I'M
SO ILL-CALL
NOT
Y PHYSICIAN!
POISONED,
-PERHAPS
PUNISHED;
I'VE
BEEN
POISONEO,

NEARLY THE
WHOLE COURT

IS ILL!

I CANNOT
UNDERSTAND IT!
-WHY DOES THE
PLAGUE STRIKE

THE PHARAOH'S
COURT AND NO
OTHER PLACE?

I WILL TELL
YOU-I AM
ABRAM'S WIFE
-NOT HIS
SISTER!

/

WHY WAS I NOT
TOLD OF THIS!
GUARDS, BRING
ABRAM TO ME!

51-1ORTLY AFTER'")

ABRAM, YOU MUST ASK
GOD TO LIFT THIS PLAGUE!
-TAKE YOUR WIFE, AND
RETURN TO CANAAN
KEEP THE SHEEP
AND ALL THE GIFTS
1 GAVE-BUT
LEAVE!

NEAT WEEK : GOD RENEWS

tried to explain that nobody
owned anything.
In the Children's House, be-

Death of a Colony

HIS

PROMISE

I

London Jews Demonstrate,
Speakers Denounce British

neath a mural, a soldier showed
me the dug-up tiles of the floor,
revealing the arms cache where a
dozen rifles had been hidden. In 5,000 Parade in Trafalgar Square with Members of Parlia-
the newest building, that of the
ment Joining in Demanding End of 'Aggression' in
teachers' seminary skirting the
Palestine; Assail Betrayal of Promises
colony, there had been another
arms cache. The dining-hall, the
London
Jews joined with Jewish communities through-
Writer Exposes as "'Silly", Charge That Defense Against pride of all Palestine settlements,
in denouncing the tactics of British ,troops in
the
U.
S.
out
had all its windows smashed, and
Arabs Might Be Used to Battle Britons; Says Invaders
Palestine.
all
its
furniture
removed,
while
Shut Eyes to Arabs' Arms
On Sunday, 5,000 Jews paraded in Trafalgar Square,
on the stairway leading to the
water-tower still another cache London. They were joined by Members of Parliament and
By MEYER LEVIN
(Copyright, 1946. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
had been found by means of a by victims of Nazism who demanded an end to "aggressive
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Meyer Levin. noted correspondent and novelist.
British mine detector.
who helped defend the colony Yagur against Arab raids in 1929. de-
action" in Palestine by B r i t i sh 4;
scribes how British raiders literally tore Yagur apart in their search for
Stress Gun Emplacements
Military.
mistreated. He added: "Tell the
arms.)
In the water-tower, which
Speakers denounced British ac- Yishuv and the Jews of the
YAGUR, Palestine,—(By Cable)—Twenty years ago I doubled
as a watch-tower, addi-
as "terrorism" and as rep- world that detention has not
came to this settlement which is - world known today because tional arms were found hidden tion
resenting betrayal of promises broken our spirits and we are
the
discovery
here
by
the
British
of
an
arsenal
of
the
of
beneath the floor. The proud made to the Jewish people.
still strong."
Jewish underground resistance.
British discoverers showed me
Arabs Accuse Truman
Almost two-thirds of the 1.600
The writer came to Yagur again in 1929, and the first how arms had also been found
In the meantime, the Arab
time I was ever shot at was on the road from Yagur to Haifa, hidden in a sewer pipe on one side Higher Committee, meeting in persons who were detained at
of Mount Carmel where we had Jerusalem, accused Pr e s i dent Athlit originally, have been trans-
during the Arab riots when we;.
ferred to the Raffa camp on the
a
1
tried to drive a sick woman to
eluding the children, sat in their always felt exposed to attacks Truman of "irresponsible" state- Egyptian border.
ments in urging immediate ad-
Haifa hospital, and Arabs from a beautiful fly-less dining room from the wilderness above.
The British troops laid great mission of 100,000 Jews and called
The Haganah radio, "Voice of
neighboring village took pot-shots • watching the chorus, the orches-
stress
on the concrete gun em- upon him to open America's doors Israel," announed that a policy
at our truck. • tra and the dancers on a plat-
Twenty years ago Yagur housed form conduct a service with new placements and the few prepared to Jews "if he is ,really in sym - of non-cooperation with the gov-
80 people in wooden shacks, four music composed by the same trenches rimming the colony, and pathy with the Jews and their ernment has begun. "There shall
be no contact between any Jew-
in a room, and we ate in a flea- Yehuda who was the hero of my also emphasized the caches of plight in Christian Europe."
grenades that had been found
ridden. cabin which was the cen- novel.
Another raid upon the Jewish ish institution or organization'
trenches.
ter of the life of the collective.
Around the dining-hall were handy to these
quarter in Haifa further infuri- and any department of the po-
* * *
I wrote a novel called "Yehuda" two-story communal dwellings
grom government until the lead-
ated Palestine Jewry.
Yes, many . arms were found.
about Yagur and its dreams for and also a teachers' seminary
More caches were reported to ers of the Yishuv and the rest
(Latest Jerusalem reports stated
an expansive and secure future:
have been located by the British of the detainees are released,"
they had built to serve all Pal-
that thus far the British military
Saw Defences Against Arabs
who charge that British dress the broadcast said.
estine settlements. Opposite me,
Returning in 1938, I found 800 in the dinirig-hall, sat refugees authorities had counted 387 small was among the weapons located
Otto Freund, 25, one of the
people, forming the biggest col- with concentration-camp num- arms, 200,000 rounds of small
Renewal of Massacres
Jewish veterans of the Czech
arms
ammunition,
3,000
mortar
lective in all Palestine, and I also bers branded on their arms, one-
Warnings have been issued to Army who were kidnapped from
found all my old comrades still time Partisans and also children bombs, 2,000 grenades and more
the British against the possible their homes in Haifa Tuesday
there. They were proudly com- from Syria and other Arab lands than 500 pounds of explosives, but
night, was found dead. Freund,
pleting a huge, model dining-hall from which their fearful parents that they had not completed the return to Palestine of the former and Benjamin Papanek, who was
Mufti.
Jewish
resistance
forces
task
of
counting
all
the
arms
and
and library in the most modern had sent them to Palestine.
I could charge that the Mufti's return abducted with him, were charged
style, designed by one of the
But these material buildings ammunition seized):
visualize
the
settlers
planning
a will mean a renewal of massacres with -turning informers and lead-
youngest settlers who had been i were not the only accomplishment
upon the Jewish population and ing British troops to arms caches
sent to Haifa to study architec- of my comrades in these years. last defense of the dining-hall that Jewish fighting forces will at the colony of Yagur. Accord-
ture. The settlers had built live- The Passover ceremony they had and nurseries where they had hid-
ing to an official release more
with devised, with recitations • and den guns in case of a heavy Arab do their utmost to defend the arms have been found at Yagur;
decorated
ly nurseries,
Jewish
population.
attack.
The
underground
arsenal
murals by one of their number. chorus building a story from the
Destruction of documents in secreted in stalls in the cattle
was filled with mortars and
Many of them worked at the Biblical past to the present, was
the government building in Tel barn.
weapons
for
possibly
necessary
harbor at Haifa and in refineries the most beautiful development of
Aviv by underground fighters who
The military authorities an-
while others were agricultural renewal, in the full tradition of counter-attacks.
overpowered guards also was re nounced that, with the exception
Arabs,
Too?
Disarm
workers. Agriculture had - been Judaism by elements that were
of Tel Aviv, the ban on visits by
I suppose many of my corn- vealed this week.
intensively developed in conse- not particularly religious. For
British soldiers to Jewish homes
quence of new water installations. the first time I had the fullest rades of Yagur will not be at
Athlit Prisoners Tell
and places of entertainment has
My old friend, a man from evidence of Jewish life enriching home for the next 20 years. of Torture by British
But I asked a soldier whether,
been lifted.
Bialystock (formerly in Poland, itself only, in Palestine...
(JTA)
—
Corres-
JERUSALEM,
with what had been found here,
now in Russian territory) , escort-
pondents who visited the Athlit
could an offensive against the
Soldiers' Oeeupy Best Houses
Yagur Anothee "Lidice"
ed me around and showed me the
detention camp at the invitation
British Army have conceivably
visited
Yagur
again
in
I
When
concrete emplacements against
HAIFA, (JTA)—The Haganah
of the government were told by
been contemplated He suggest-
Arab attacks, built since the years company with a military-con-
the prisoners that about 40 -de- radio, "Voice of Israel," said that
ed
it
was
a
silly
question,
which
party
of
journalists
all
my
of the Arab disorders. And now. ducted
tainees were tortured and beaten Yagur, which has been partially
it was.
the settlers told me, they 'had' men friends had been 'taken
by Criminal Investigation Divis-
The
Arabs
are
smiling
these
destroyed by troops searching for
more than broomsticks for pro- away and held in detention, and days, and spreading reports that ion officers,.
there
were
now
only
a
few
harried
arms, has become .„ another
tection, recalling how we had had
"We
do
not
have
any
com-
the Mufti is already in Palestine.
a total of only three revolvers in and tired women trying to take Many of these Arabs, this corres- plaints against the military au- "Lidice." "The government will
the entire settlement a decade care of the children and livestock. pondent knows full well, don't thorities, which conduct lawful, have to ruin all the Jewish set-
The two-story houses were
tlements, as it has ruined Yagur,
before.
even bother to bury their arms human investigations, but only
now fully occupied . by British
it intends to find arms," the
if
Built Teachers' Seminary
against
the
CID,
said
Berl
Re-
If Palestine is going to be dis-
troops, some of whom remarked
broadcast
continued, "but our re-
This year I returned to Yagur
petur,
Haifa
labor
leader
and
one
armed by the British, does that
the richest
ply
will
come."
for Passover when the entire to me . that thiS was
of
those
reported
to
have
been
Jews and Arabs?

Ruthless British Military
Blights Flourishing Yagur

community of nearly 1,500, in-

colony in Palestine, though I

extend to both