U. S. Is Urged to Oppose Palestine
`Federalization' as 'Treachery'

THE JE ISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

VOL. 9—NO. 20

of Jewish Events

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34. 22 Detroit 26,'Michigan, August 2, 1946 10c; $3 Per Year

Ben Gurion Charges Plot
By British to Ruin Yishuv

(See Story on Page 5)

Silver Charges Britain
Is Seeking to Ghettoize
Jews in Own Homeland

NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
chairman of the executive committee of the American
Zionist Emergency Council and president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America, attacked the "federaliza-
-\ tion plan" recommended by the Anglo-American ex-
perts as a "conscienceless ,act of treachery, dooming.
the helpless Jewish survivors in Europe . to further
death and humiliation and driving the Jews of
Palestine to further desperation."

"Recommendation Revolting, Iminoral"

Speaking for the entire Zionist movement in the
U. S.—the Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah,
Mizrachi and. Poale Zion—Dr. Silver denounced as
"revolting" and "immoral" the Cabinet Committee's
recommendation that the admission of 100,000 home-
less European Jews to Palestine, first 'urged almost a
year ago by President Truman and unanimously
recommended as an immediate step by the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry, be made "condi-
tional" on the adoption- of the "federalization" pro-
posal.

"In plain English, this means that 100,000 help-.
less refugees are to be used as hostages by Britain
and the U. S. in order to extort from the Jewish people
acceptance of a political formulation which clearly
repudiates every international commitment made to
the Jewish people wtih respect to Palestine—a form-
ulation which the governments concerned surely
know the Jews cannot accept," Dr. Silver said. His
statement continued as follows:

Passed Limits of Endurance
•

Above :

A handful of survivors
who suffered torture and agonY of
internment in Bergen-Belsen have
not forgotten, those who perished.
They are shown mourning beside
the tablet they erected so that the
world never would forget the hor-
'ors they endured. Still in dis-
placed persons' camps, these sur-
vivors' plight cries out to the world
in protest against the shattering
of pledges that they would be
liberated and settled in • Palestine.

Left : Youthful survivors of Hit-
ler's extermination camps, many
from Bergen-Belsen, proudly hold
the flag of Zion aloft as their ship
approaches the shores of Palestine.
A large portion of the $100,000,000
contributed by U. S. Jewry to the
United Jewish Appeal is .being
used for their transportation from
Europe to the Jewish Homeland,
in spite of British opposition.

"That the lives of oppressed men, women and
children, who have already passed the limits of en-
durance, should thus be used as pawns in Britain's
imperialistic maneuvers—and that the U. S. should
now be a party to this abomination—does not augur
well for the world of peace and justice which, it was
hoped, would emerge from the ruins of the greatest
of all wars. We respectfully suggest to those who
are responsible for shaping government policy on
this question that what is required above all in the
present situation is simple morality.

"The unfairness of the 'plan' itself can best be
illustrated by quoting directly from the New York
Times. 'The Zionist district would include 1,500 square
miles, compared with the 2,600 recommended by the
Peel Report proposing partition in 1936, and the 45,000
in the area consitituting Palestine when it was
originally promised as a Jewish national home.' Forty
percent of the present population of Palestine, then,
would be offered three percent of the land internation-
ally pledged to the Jewish people.

Plan for Ghetto in Own Homeland

"This is a plan for the ghettoization of the Jews
in their own homeland. Even that small portion of
the country remaining for Jewish settlement under

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Liberation or Endless Wailing?

World Jewry's thoughts once
again will be directed to the Wail-
ing Wall at Jerusalem next Mon-
day night and Tuesday, at obsetv-
ance of Tisha b'Ab, the anniver-
sary of the destruction of the
First and Second Temples.
• Grieved by delays in the re-
establishment of the Jewish
Homeland in Palestine and by
most recent tragic events, Jews
again ask:

Are we nearer to liberation

f or the sorely stricken Jewish

masses and the redemption of
Eretz Israel as their homeland,
or is there to be endless wailing
and despair? •

Jewry, saddened by existing
conditions, 'chooses to cling to the
hope engendered by the Prophet:
"ZION SHALL BE REDEEMED
WITH JUSTICE:"

•
French Rabbis :

New Sifre Torah contributed by Amer-
ican Jewish congregations help replenish the religious ma-
terial destroyed by the Nazis during their occupation of Paris.
The rabbis are shown in the Grand Synagogue of Paris.

