Friday, July 19, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Search of Colonies Ends;
Haganah Absolves Agency

O'Brien's Bill' Asks

U. S. Aid for Jewish
Entry in Palestine

Rabbi Fishman Released; Resistance Movement Denies Link
Congressman George D. D'Brien
(D) of Detroit on July 8 intro-
With Official Zionist Organization; 1,000 Visaless
duced a resolution in Congress
Immigrants on Hunger Strike Admitted to Zion

By BERL CORALNIK
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)

providing that the United States

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Searches of Jewish settlements
have ended and British troops have been withdrawn to
their normal positions, High Commissioner Sir Alan Cun-
ningham announced this week. Earlier, the Jewish Agency
headquarters was evacuated and Agency officials took over
the building.
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,A day earlier the Inner Zionist Actions Committee voted to take
concrete steps to implement the proposals for non-cooperation with
the government adopted by the Jewish National Council last week.
The new policy is expected to go into effect immediately and remain
in force until leaders of the Jewish Agency are released.
Two weeks after his arrest,' manhandling by a British offi-
cer, and imprisonment at Latrun, 73-year-old .Mizrachi leader
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Fishman was released. During the two weeks
the Fishman case became a "cause celebre" in Palestine as he
went on a four-day hunger strike protesting -his arrest.
An official announcement this week said that 645 of the nearly
3,000. persons arrested since June 29 have been released.
When the troops and police cleared Agency headVarters, Dr.
Emil Shmorak, one of the unarrested members of the executive,
told-- reporters that the authorities had invited the Agency staff
to return to the building while it was still occupied, but they refused.
He said that as yet. it is impossible to estimate the damages or
ascertain what documents were Missing.
The Haganah's secret radio, "Voice of Israel," denied that
the resistance movement was controlled by the Agency. It
declared that the Haganah had a "secret and independent com-
mand," and that "as long as there is a power preventing our
redemption, a nation opposing our will to build up Palestine,
there will be a resistance movement."
The Haganah radio announced that one of the two Czech
Jews kidnapped by resistance forces on suspicion that they had
turned informer and led the British to- arms caches at the colony
of Yagur, has been found not guilty by the secret "Jewish Peoples
Higher Court." The broadcast said that Otto Freund was ac-
quitted, while Benjamin Papaneck "was given the benefit of the
doubt, but was_being expelled from Palestine."
About 1,000 visaless Jews who entered Haifa aboard the Birya
went on hunger strike this week to protest their detention aboard
three vessels in the harbor. They ended the strike only when they
were allowed to disembark. .
In Tel Aviv the Jewish Journalists Association adopted a reso-
lution protesting the imposition of censorship - in Palestine and
appealed to the International Journalists Association to help the
JeWish newsmen in their fight fbr the "free word."
The group condemned the arrest and imprisonment for one
year of Hilda Dulitzkaia, 60-year-eld singer, who was convicted of
singing songs on Contemporary topics whose contents were objec-
tionable to the Palestine administration.

Resume of Events Affecting' Palestine

As *British Military forees were evacuating offices of the
Jewish- Agency in Jerusalem, after a two-week occupation,
and a number of the arrested leaders were being released,
reports came from Palestine that Jewish Agency leaders
may be taken to London to be tried on charges of association
with Haganah, the Jewish resistance movement.

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In the meantime, in New York,<-.
Zionist leaders .denied .reports to come to Palestine to help de-
that the Jewish case affecting fend and build the Jewish Nation-
Palestine may be 'taken to the al Home.
United Nations by a "friend of
Protests against British ac-
court"—one of the Latin Amer-
tions were made during the week
ican countries or by a Scandi-
in Bucharest, where Romanian
navian poWer which is tradition-
leaders and the press condemn-
ally friendly to Zionism.
ed the recent occurrences; in
The special meeting of the ex-
Athens, at a large public rally,
ecutive of the -Jewish Agency
and in Rip de • Janeiro at a pub-
which was scheduled to, be held
lic meeting which was attended
in:Paris within the next week or
by 10,000 people.
10 days will probably convene
Jewish War Veterans marched
in London. Dr. Cain" Weizmann,
to Washington on Monday, pro-
president of the Agency, was
tested .British actions and pre-
rhie there from Palestine on
sented petitions to President Tru-
ThurSday.
In the House of Commons, man, the State Department and
Colonial Secretary George Hall the British Embassy, demanding
declared that the raid of Jewish release of the arrested Jewish
Agency offices on the Sabbath by leaders and the admission of 100,-
British military forces was justi- 000 Jews in Palestine.
fied by the results they had ob-
Soviet. Holds Palestine
tained.
Discussions on the Palestine. "Lesson" in Imperialism
MOSCOW, (JTA) — Palestine
situation between British and
American spokesmen, in London -, was held up as an "object lesson
regarding possibilities of settling in what small nations can expect
100,000 'Jews in Palestine, are ex- from the imperialistic policies of
pected to be influenced - by Presi- certain big powers pursuing their
dent Truman's views, Acting Sec- selfish aims" by Mikhail Mik-
retary of State Acheson stated.
hailov, Soviet radio commentator,
Situation Uncertain '
speaking on an English language
Dr. Chaim Wrizmann, president broadcast.
of t1-4 Jewish Agency, made it
Referring to Palestine as "the
clear in his- statement in Jeru- bastion of the British in the Mid-
salem that, negotiations between dle East, - particularly now that
the Jews and the British goVern- they must withdraw from Egypt,"
ment could not be renewed unless . Mikhailov declared that "the Brit-
the Jewish leaders were released. ish hope to control the whole of
The Inner Zionist Actions Com- Northeast Africa and Asia Minor"
mittee voted to implement pro- from their bases there.
posals for non-cooperation and the
He 'charged that the leaders of
situation continues tense and Un- the two leading American parties
certain.
are "always free with policies sup-
The Jewish def. ense groups Made porting Zionist claims in Pales-
it known that they emerged un- tine" because they' hope to gain
scathed from the British attacks. support of Jewish circles in the
At the same time, the Egyptian United States.
government' declined to give assur-
ance that Haj el Amin Husseini, LaGuardia Hopes Britain
ex Mufti of Jerusalem, will not be Will Admit 100,000 Jews
allowed , to leave Egyptian terra
W A SHIN GTON
(JTA) —
torY. UNRRA Director - General Fiorello
At Hunter, N. Y., Moshe .Sha LaGuardia made public a letter
piro, a member of the JeWish he sent to Secretary of State
Ageitcy Executive, addressing the Byrnes on June 26 in which he
Rabbinical Council of America, expressed the hope that if the
appealed, to American Chalutzim U. S. took the • lead in admitting

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REP. GEORGE D. O'BRIEN

"use its good offices to the end
that the doors of Palestine shall be
opened for free entry of Jews."
The resolution =also provides that
"there shall be full opportunity
for colonization," by Jews in Pales -
tine.
The full text of the resolution
follows :
"Whereas the Sixty _- seventh
Congress of the United States on
June 30,, 1922, unanimously re-
solved 'That the United States of
America favors the establishment
in Palestine of a national home
for the Jewish people, it being
clearly understood that nothing
shall be done which may prejudice
the "civil and religious rights of
Christian and all other non-Jewish
communities in Palestine, and that
the holy place:s_ and religious
buildings and sites in Palestine
shall be adequately protected;'
and
"Wher6as the ruthless persecu-
tion' of the Jewish people 'in Eur-
ope has clearly demonstrated the
need for a Jewish homeland as a
haven for the large numb _ ers who
have become homeless as a result
of this persecution: Thereafter be
it
"Resolved, That the United
States shall use , its good offices to
the end that the doors of Pales-
tine shall be opened for free entry
of Jews into- that country, and
that there shall •be full opportunity
for colonization, so that the Jew-
ish people may 'ultimately recon-
stitute Palestine as a free and
democratic commonwealth.

Chaplain. Recalled for

Second Tour of Duty
NEW YORK — Chaplain Max
Daina of Syracuse and Brooklyn,
N. Y., has been alerted for a sec-
ond tour of overseas duty, it is
announced by the Committee on
Army and Navy Religious Activ-
ities (CANRA) of the National

Jewish Welfare Board.

immigrants, Britain would recon-
sider its decisions, "as recently
expressed by Minister of Foreign

Affairs Ernest Bevin,"- in regard
to the recommendations of the
Anglo-American Committee of In-
quiry on Palestine.
. Asked at a press conference
here how many displaced Jews
from Europe should go to Pales-
tine, he replied: "If you're trying
to get me to say 100,000, I say
that 100,000 of them should go to
Palestine forthwith. 'I say that as
an American." -
In his letter to Byrnes, La-
Guardia also 'proposed that the
United States pool all unused im-
migration quotas from all coun-
tries and use them' for any DP's
who wished to enter the United
States, regardlesS of their coun-
try of origin. •

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Pro-Arab League Activities

May Be Aired as Result of
S5,000,000 AJC Libel Suit

American Jewish Committee Executives Sued By Benjamin
H. Freedman of New York Who Collaborated With
"League for Peace with Justice in Palestine"

NEW YORK — An action
for $5,000,000 has been , brought
in New York Supreme Court
by Benjamin H. Freedman,
300 W. Central Park, W., New
York, of "The League for
Peace with Justice in Palestine,"
against a number of officers and
members of the Executive Com-
mittee of the American JeWish
ComMittee.
Dr. John, Slawson, executive
vice-president of the American
Jewish Committee, declared, "This
suit brought by Mr. Freedman,
will give us an opportunity to dem-
onstrate in court the nature and
character of the "League for
Peace with Justice in Palestine'_
and Mr. Freedman's role in it."
Among those named as de-
fendants are: Joseph M. Pros-
kauer, president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee; 'Jacob
Blaustein, chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee; David Sher, chair-
Man of the Administrative Com-
mittee; Nathaniel Ohrback, treas-
urer; Edward Lazansky 'and Fred
Lazarus. Jr., vice presidents; Alan
M. Stroock, vice chairman, execu-
tive committee; and Ralph E;
Samuel, chairman of the New
York Chapter of the American
Jewish Committee.
Wineman a Vice-Pres.
Henry Wineman of Detroit is
one of the vice presidents of the
American Jewish Committee. Fred
M. Butzel and Leo Butzell of
Detroit are members of the ex-
ecutive committee.
' On May 17, 1946, the American
Jewish Committee circulated a
memorandum- concerning ,Freed-
man and "The League for Peace
With Justice in Palestine"' which
recently inserted full -page pro-
Arab advertisements in various
newspapers, opposing the admis-
sion of 100,000 Jews into Palestine,
as long recommended by the Amer-
ican
Jewish Committee and pro-
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posed recently, by the Anglo-Amer-
ican Committee of Inquiry.
The American Jewish Committee
stated in its memorandum that the
advertisements which claimed to
speak - for Christian, Jewish and
Arab groups, really represent only
Mr. Freedman, who has no back-
ing of any organization or group.
Arab Propagandist
In his newspaper advertise-
ments, it was stated that Freed-
man represents the Jewish group;
P. M. Schoendorf, the Christian
group and H. I. Katibah, the
Arabs. Tile American Jewish Com-
mittee, in its memorandum, re-
vealed that P. M. Schoendorf is
Mr. Freedman's mother-in-law
and that Katibah is an Arab pro-
pagandist in this country. The
Committee bulletin further stat-
ed that Freedman was collaborat-
ing. with certain Arab individuals
in a propaganda -effort to keep
the gates of 'Palestine closed to
Jewish immigration.

Joseph Roth's Novel, .'Job,'
On Eternal Light PrOgram
Joseph Roth's novel, ."Job," will
be dramatized Sunday on the
Eternal Light radio program. The
program will be the first section
of a two-part adaptation by Vir -
ginia Wells. The second install.:
ment will be broadcast July 28.

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