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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, August

9,.1946

Partition Looms as Only Solution to Palestine Crisis
Jewish Leaders Now View
4-Day Tel Aviv Siege
Plan as Acceptable Under
Called Costly Farce

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More Favorable Conditions

Attlee and Truman Conferring With Cabinet Officials on
Pending Proposals to Divide Zion; Demands Continue
for Immediate Admission of 100,000 DPs

By Jewish News Staff Correspondents

American and British leaders are engaged in feverish
activity to force -a speedy solution of the Palestine problem.
Prime Minister Attlee and President Truman are con-
ferring with their Cabinets on pending proposals to create
separate Arab and Jewish territories.

While President Truman temporarily yielded to
demands that the "federalization" plan be rejected, there
is a tendency to accept partition on more favorable terms
to the Jewish people.

The "federalization" plan met with unanimous Jewish
rejection. Even the American Council for Judaism issued
a statement against partition, warning that it will lead to

violence and reiterating its en-a;
Basement of all aspects of • the pogrom where 41 Jews were mur-
report of the Anglo-American dered on July 4, according to
Inquiry Committee. But in Zionist William Bein, Joint Distribution
ranks sentiments are rising in Committee director in Poland.
favor of accepting a smaller por-
It was revealed this week that
tion of Palestine. (See story on
at least two advisers to the U. S.
page 1.)
Cabinet Committee headed by
Rejection of the "federaliza- Henry F. Grady were unalterably
tion" plan by the Jewish Agency opposed to the decisions in favor
Executive, at its meeting in of the Palestine "federalization"
Paris on Monday, is interpreted plan. Their protests were filed
as in no sense eliminating pos- in Washington by high U. .S.
sibility of acceptance of a fair government officials.
partition proposal.
Opposed to Conditions
One of the major issues raised
It is revealed that the U. S.
in opposition to the "federaliza-
advisory staff was almost unani-
ton" plan is that the admission
mously opposed to making the
of 100,000 Jews should not be
admission of 100,000 new Jewish
made conditional upon it.
immigrants to Palestine condi-
In a telegram to President Tru- tional upon acceptance of the
man, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, "federalization" program.
president of the American Jewish
A New York Times correspond-
Committee, declared that it was that
ent week reported from Paris
"wholly unrealistic" to make Jew- that Jewish leaders find them-
ish immigration dependent on any selves in a "helpless" position
long-range solution of the .Pales- "because the Jewish Communists
tine issue. Judge Proskauer's tele- are their bitterest opponents.
gram points out that "it is utter- They believe that a world revolu-
ly inhuman to postpone this step, tion, not Zionism, is the solution
essential to the saving of human of the Jewish problem, and while
lives, while the complex political they are only a handful of men
problems regarding the ultimate and women it is felt that they are
structure • of Palestine are being doing incaculable harm to Jews
debated."
everywhere."
Flow of Immigrants
In the House of Commons,
With more than 10,000 reported Colonial Secretary George Hall
on boats plying the high seas announced that plans are pro-
clamoring for admission to Pales- ceeding for a round table con-
tine, the situation in Palestine is ference of Arabs and Jews on the
grave in • view of the constant Palestine question. While there is
flow of .ships carrying visaless im- little likelihood that - Jews and
migrants.
Arabs will meet around the same
The refugee ship "Yagur," table, four Arab states—Saudi-
named after the colony that was Arabia, Trans-Jordania, Syria and
invaded and partly demolished by Lebanon—have accepted the Bri-
the British, carried 2,000 immi- tish invitation to the conference.
grants, swelling the total who
Avert Political Disaster
arrived on four ships in one week
Dr. Abba.Hillel Silver, president
to more than 6,500. The SS of the Zionist Organization of
Haganah carried 2,700 visaless America and co-chairman of the
settlers. Several hundred arrived American Zionist Emergency
on the Hahayal Haivri.
CounCil, in a statement issued in
The situation is growing more New York, declared that the Zion-
serious by the hour with the ad- ist. movement narrowly averted
mission by American observers at "political disaster" as a result of
Frankfort on the Main, Germany, President Truman's change of
that 100,000 Jews will flee from heart, having originally favored
Poland within a year, 10,000 with- the "federalization" plan.
in three months, to escape pillage
Dr. Silver referred to the de-
and beatings.
lay in action as a "breathing
spell' and urged unrelenting
An appeal has been issued by
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of action by American Jews to in-
form our government that Jews
Rochester, N. Y., advisor on Jew-
ish affairs to Gen 1McNarney,. for are against this proposal. He
told a press conference that the
greater . efforts on the part of
three months that remain be-
Russia, Britain, Franch and Italy
fore the Congressional elections
to help the U. S. care for the
are crucial for action by Jews.
refugees and to formulate _large-
While Dr. Chaim Weizmann
scale resettlement plans.
was vindicated of complicity in
Jews Leave Kielce
sabotage plans in Palestine, Co-
Rabbi Bernstein declared:
lonial Secretary Hail reiterated
"The wish of most of these
charges against the • Jewish
people to migrate to Palestine,
Agency, in a statement in the
where the Jewish community is
House of Commons.
prepared to receive and settle
22 Irgunists Exiled
them, should be met without a
Twenty-two of the arrested
day's unnecessary delay. The
Irgun Zvai Leumi leaders were
presence of larger numbers,
which will go beyond the origin- exiled by Britain to Eritrea.
Moshe Sneh, 37-year-old Jew-
al 106,000 recommended by the
Angl 0-American commission, ish leader who was unsuccessfully
should be taken into consider- sought in Palestine by British
ation in plans now being authorities on charges that he
was the security agent for the
f or nntlated."
The exodus of Jews from Po- Jewish Agency and that he was
land was marked by a tragic note responsible f o r •t h e resistance
last week with the departure of activities, appeared at the meet-
the last 110 Jews who were left ings of the Jewish Agency in
in Kielce, scene of the horrible Paris. He denied that be used

underground methods to get there
and stated that he had used the
usual route to Versailles by way
of a boat from Haifa on his legal
passport.
Secretary of the Treasury John
Snyder stated in Washington last
week that the reported $250,000,-
000 Arab loan has not reached the
Treasury for consideration. He
declared that his information was
limited to these facts: 1. That it
was under discussion in London,
2. That it proposed establishment
of a Jordan Valley Authority to
develop irrigation, and other pro-
jects for Palestine and Trans-
jordan, and, 3. That $50,000,000
of the total sum was to be used
for the assembly and transporta-
tion of Jews to Palestine.
A Cool Reception
President Truman is reported to
have given a cool reception to a
delegation of nine New York
members of the House, headed by
Rep. Emanuel Celler, who had
come to urge his rejection of the
partition proposal. ,
Truman is reported to have told
them that he had no time to lis-
ten and knew all about the sub-
ject anyway. He reportedly told
Celler that he would like to see
him and some other Congressmen
come to the White House with
plans and pleas for the improve-
ment of the lot of American
citizens.
President Truman is • being
urged by influential members of
his own party "to think about the
Palestine federation plan not only
in terms of the plight of the Jews
in Germany and in Poland, but
also in terms of the votes of the
Jews in New York, Chicago, Phil-
adelphia and Cleveland, James
Reston, New York Times political
correspondent, wrote from Wash-
ington.
The Executive Committee of
the Palestine Aliyah Hadasha., or-
ganization of German Jewish
refugees in Palestine, which has
condemned the use of even pas-
sive resistance by the Jews, has
called for resignation of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive, a session
of the Plenary Zionist General
Council and election of a new
Executive to "inaugurate the
struggle against all forms of poli-
tical violence and terrorism." It
also demands ostracising from
the Jewish public anyone sup-
porting any form of terror. These
demands follow closely a recent
editorial in Haaretz, Hebrew daily
strongly under the influence of
the Aliyah Hadasha, which de-
manded the resignation of both
the Jewish Agency and Vaad
Leuni Executives.

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Curfew, Mass Arrests by British Cost
Citizens $1,000,000 in Wages, Business\

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—With mil-
itary operations in Tel Aviv ended
and the siege of the city lifted,
Jewish circles here are questioning

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TEL AVIV—"the city that was full
of people" under curfew and
mass arrest.

the results of the four-day occu-
pation by more than a full divi-
sion of infantry troops supported
by tanks, armored cars and heavy
machine gun fire.
They point out that these 20,000
soldiers carried out a war-time
operation against 200,000 civilian
residents of Tel Aviv. At the end
of the four days all that had been
found were some old Haganah
arms caches and a small quantity
of arms belonging to the Irgun
Zvai Leumi hidden in the air raid
shelter of a synagogue which was
accessible to anybody.
Stern's Sister Arrested
In addition, about 1,500 persons
were detained, but only about 40
suspected terrorists were arrested,
including the sister of Abraham
Stern, the late leader of the Stern
Group, who had nothing to do
with his organization.
It is pointed out that the cost of
this large-scale operation was un-
necessarily high in relation to the
results obtained. Was it necessary,
they asked, to cut off so large a
city for four days in order to ar-
rest 40 persons—a task which
could have been accomplished by
50 ordinary policemen.
Aimed as "Punishment"
Thees circles further maintain
that the chief reason for the Tel
Aviv siege was to punish the Jews
of Tel Aviv and the Jewish corn-
cunity of the entire country.

Palestine, they stress; with 35 per
cent of its budget devoted to the
maintenance of "security forces"
now has 15,000 uniformed police-
men and thousands of plain
clothesmen—a much larger police
force than many larger states—
but this entire force is apparently
unable to find "political gangsters."
WheneVer trouble breaks out this
huge police force calls upon the
services of the tens of thousands
of British troops.
Maj. Gen. A. J. H. Cassel, com-
mander of the troops in Tel Aviv,
told correspondents that as the
population of the city had not
come to the assistance of the au-
thorities there was no other way
in which suspected terrorists and
arms caches could have been found
than by the methods adopted. Gen.
Cassel said • the inhabitants had
taken the search very well, al-
though no information had been
volunteered. It is estimated that
30,000 persons had been screened
daily.
Food Dangerously Low
As the curfew was lifted, many
services which had been disrupted
during the four-day occupation
were resumed.
•A dangerous situation was nar-
rowly averted when neighboring
Jewish communities brought food
in the two-hour period during
which the curfew was inoperative.
It was estimated that well over
$1,000,000 was lost in wages and
business during the four-day near-
ly complete suspension of activity.

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