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THE -JEWISH NEWS
Victuve $tories
Friday, August 2, 1946
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ARA,I, FEARING THAT 514E COULD NOT HAVE A SON, URGED ABRAM TO
SECOND WIFE, ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE COUNTRY• -
TAKE A
IF YOU
WISH IT,
SARAI!
TAKE ANOTHER •WIFE,
ABRAM- HAGAR, MY
EGYPTIAN MAID- PERHAPS
WE MAY OBTAIN CHILDREN
BY HER!
FROM THE BOOK OF
GENESIS, CHAP. lb THRU
KING JAMES, DOUAY AND
JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY
VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE
AND SARAI AND 1 WILL
TREAT YOUR CHILDREN
AS OUR OWN, HAGAR
-THEY SHALL BEAR OUR
NAME, AND INHERIT
ALL MY POSSESSIONS!
WHEN SARAI PUNISHED HAGAR FOR HER
INSOLENCE HAGAR. FLED INTO THE
WILDERNESS
SARA! HAS BEEN
CRUEL TO ME - I COULD
NOT HELP BUT RUN AWAY--
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CALL WM ISHmAsL-,A
FOR THAT MEANS
THE LORD HAS HEART.
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SHALL 1-4AVS.
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NIAGAR GIVES ABRAM
A ioN,
ISHMAEL -
fl,ATER
GOD SPOKE TO ABRAAA, AND RENAMED HIM, ABRAHAM,
AND ) - nS WI!, SARAN
AND SgRAK TOO, SHALL GIVE
/
yOU A SON, AND I WILL
ONE MOT DAY ABRAHAM EXTENDED HOSPITALITY TO THREE
STRANGERS WHO WERE REALLY ANGELS -
YOU ARE A GOOD
MAN, ABRAHAM. AND
)OUR WIFE SARAH,
SHALL REWARD
YOU WITH
A SON
MAKE YOU THE FATHER OF
MANY NAT)ONS
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Zionists Gravely Alarmed
By Administration's Silence
Named Director of
Council of Women
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Ziff Charges British Terror
Aimed at Palestine Ghetto
Meeting Between Truman and Senators Wagner, Mead and
MacDonald Termed 'Disappointing', No Clear Indica-
tion of How U. S. Stands on Partition
Noted Author Calls on Truman to Demand Authorities
Face International Tribunal .on Order of Nuremberg
Court; Likens Attlee Threat to Lidice
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—High Zionist circles here ex-
pressed grave concern over the present attitude of the Ad-
ministration towards the recommendation of the Anglo-
American conferees for "cantonization" of Palestine.
The meeting between President Truman and Senators
Wagner and Mead, who were accompanied by James G.
Charging that Britain is trying to "create a small
Hebrew ghetto in Palestine," and decrying the British "reign
of terror" in the Holy Land, William B. Ziff, noted author
and lecturer, has called upon President ,Truman to insist
that the British authorities there be called before an inter-
national tribunal on the order of the Nuremberg Court to
MacDonald, a former member of
the Anglo-American inquiry corn- to ask the Jewish Agency meet-
mittee, was termed "disappoint- ing in Paris to convoke immedi-
ing" by a high Zionist spokesman. ately a meeting of the Zionist
He said that there is no clear Actions Committee, to be followed
indication as to where the Presi- as soon as possible by a World
dent and Secretary of State Zionist Congress. `
Byrnes stand with regard to the
In the absence of the key
plan, which the Zionists consider Agency leaders, some of whom
a radical departure from the rec- are under arrest and others of
ommendations of the inquiry com- whom are in Paris, the meeting
elected a temporary "working ex=
mittee.
ecutive" for the Agency.
It is felt by these Zionist cir-
Sir Evelyn Barker, British com-
cles that President Truman. if he
is to stand by his demand for the mander in Palestine, has issued
immediate admission of 100,000 a letter to all units in which he
Jews to Palestine, and an equi- charges that all Jews in Palestine
table solution of the entire prob- are equally guilty of the King
lem, must indicate clearly his David bombing. Explaining - his
disapproval of the partition pro- reason for ordering all Jewish
posal, both publicly and to the businesses, places of entertain-
ment and homes out of bounds
British government.
for British soldiers, Barker added
(Reports from London said that that "this race" should be made
the British government has de- to feel British loathing and con-
cided to attempt to carry out its tempt through the most effective
Palestine plan even if there are means — their pockets. Barker
American objections. and despite added that expressions of regret
the already expressed opposition by Jewish institutions must be
of the Arabs and the Jews.)
treated as "hypocritical," since
they do not cooperate in eradicat-
ing terrorism.
Byrnes and Attlee Confer
-On Palestine Issue
Reports indicate that the Brit-
of ish were responsible in the last
PARIS, (JTA)-Secretary
State Byrnes discussed the Pales- few weeks for acts of an anti-
tine question here with Prime Semitic nature. Jews charge that
Minister Clement R: Attlee shortly British soldiers looted Jewish
after his- arrival early this week. stores and insulted Jewish women.
Jewish storekeepers in Jeru-
It •is understood that the meet-
ing was held at Mr. Attlee's re salem's Jaffa street remained . in
their shops -in defiance of a gov-
quest.
ernment threat that if they do not
Earlier Byrnes told ,a press con-
ference that he had not yet had leave their goods. would be con-
time to hold a full discussion on fiscated. Revocation of the order,
Palestine with the American ex- was demanded.
Another boat carrying 2,700
perts. He declined to comment
"illegal" immigrants arrived in
on the British "partition" plan.
Haifa.
The Jewish community is out-
Zionitt Actions Committee
raged by further threats of the
ricks 'Working Executive'
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A joint British administration to submit
meeting of the executive . of the to military court trials the fol-
Jewish Agency, the praesidium of lowing detained Jewish Agency
the Inner Zionist Actions Com- leaders: Moshe Shertok, Isaac
mittee and the leaders of major Gruenbaum, David Remez and
Zionist parties voted unanimously Dr. .Bernard Joseph..
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MRS. ELSIE ELFENBEIN
Appointment of Mrs. Elsie Elf-
enbein, Jersey City civic reform -
leader, as executive director of the
National Council of Jewish Wo-
men, was announced by Mrs. J.
M. Welt of Detroit, president, at
the organization's nation- offices
in New York.
Mrs. Elfenbein will assume her
new duties with the 53-year-old
organization, comprising 300 sen-
ior and junior sections through-
out the country, on Aug. 5. For
the past 20 years, she has been
actively engaged in organization-
al work for the promotion of civic
reform, social legislation, and
world peace.
15 Jr. Hadassah Girls
Leave for Palestine
NEW YORK—For the first time
in Junior Hadassah's 25 year his-
tory, 15 young American Jewish
women are scheduled to leave the
United States for Palestine in
October, for a year of study and
work.
A pioneer group, they are a van-
guard of others to come from
America in' succeeding years, and
will help to strengthen the link
between Palestine and Junior
Hadassah. -upon their return, the
girls will be qualified to render
valuable service to Zionism , in
their respective communities in
this country.
The candidates are now being
selected from among the organi-
zation's members who have re-
vealed qualities of leadership, a
sense of responsibility and deep
interest in the upbuilding of Pales-
tine as a Jewish Homeland. They
will spend _six months studying
and the other half year working
on a Kibbutz collective farm.
Crum Charges
BritainW ould
Oust Agency
Member of Anglo-American
Committee on Palestine
Sees Arab State Plan
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The
British government is determined
to eliminate the Jewish Agency,
answer for their depredations."
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"Cynical Power Actions"
In a letter to the President, re-
leased through the American
League for a Free Palestine, the
noted. authority on the Holy Land
urged Mr. Truman to withhold
American authority and financial
support from "such cynical power
actions as those of which His
Brittanic Majesty's Government
stands accused."
"Every concept of Anglo-Saxon
law lias been vacated in Pales-
tine, where any soldier or police-
man may arrest a Hebrew on,.
sight without reason and, if be
feels like it, beat him to a pulp,"
wrote Mr. Ziff. "The so-called
terrorists in Palestine are honest
destroy the Haganah and establish
and seen
sincere
young
people
who
have
their
families
butcher-
in Palestine "a so-called demo- ed in the crematoria of Europe
cratic commonwealth, which in because of the Britith determina-
reality will be an Arab state, the tion to keep Jews from their in-
heritance in the Holy Land."
head of which will be the notorious
Unfair to DP Jews
Grand Mufti," it was charged here
Mr. Ziff also indicted Prime
by Bartley Crum, a member of the Minister Attlee's threat of "col-
Anglo-American Committee of In- lective punishment" upon the
entire Hebrew community, assert..
quiry on Palestine.
ing that such a threat "finds its
Crum asserted that the basis for counterpart only in the German
his charges is information "fur- action at Lidice."
nished to me during the course of
"Whether these acts are right
my membership on the Anglo- or wrong," he continued, "it is
American inquiry committee. It impossible to concede that the
100,000 displaced Hebrews of
was repeatedly suggested to us by Europe, or the many hundreds of
British members of the committee, thousands of others. who are
and by representatives of the Brit- waiting to enter Palestine, should
ish Foreign Office that the Jewish be made to suffer for a single
act committed by individuals
Agency be eliminated," he de-
whose very names they have never
Glared.
heard of."
President Truman was urged in
a wire from Crum to refuse to co- Argentine Government is
operate any further with the Brit- Against Discrimination
ish government, on Palestine "so BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—The
long as Britain persists in its plot Argentine Government is opposed
to destroy the Jewish national to racial or religious discrimina-
home." The President was also tion, Foreign Minister Dr. Juan
asked to file charges against Brit- A. Bramuglia declared in a state.
ain before the World Court on ment to Rabbi Samuel Wohl of
charges of violating the Anglo- Cincinnati now on a visit here.
American convention on Palestine Da. Wohi visited Dr. Moises Gold-
man, president of the ,DAIA.,
signed in 1924.