THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 9, 1946
British Non-Cooperation
In Zion Told by Crossman
British _Official Gave
Order Dooming Many
To Death in Bombing
Narrates Story
For New Palestine
Resettlement File
Report of Warning by Phone
Girl Throws New Light
on Hotel Tragedy
Labor MP, Member of Palestine Inquiry Committee, States
Haganah Sought to Foil King David Hotel
Blast but Met with Interference
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LONDON. (Palcor) — Haganah,
central Jewish Resistance Move-
ment, bent all its efforts to foil
the Irgun Zvai Leumi's bombing
of the King David Hotel and might
have succeeded, had it not. been
for the arrest and detention of its
leaders and moderates, it was dis-
closed 'for the first time in Com-
mons by Richard H. S. Creasman,
Labor MP and member of the An-
glo-American Inquiry Committee
on Palestine.
Speaking at the opening of the
debate on Palestine, Mr. Cross-
man revealed that Haganah had
forewarned the government three
times, that the King David Hotel,
where the government offices
.• were located, was in imminent
danger of attack by the Irgun
Zvai Leumi. Haganah told the
government that Irgun had in-
vented a new- rocket projectile and
had planted two of them in a field
near the 1:Cing David Hotel with
the intention of bombarding it.
Kidnap Irgun Member
British authorities sent a mine de-
tector squad but the rockets were
not found. Then Haganah kid-
napped a member of the Irgun
and extracted information from
him concerning the plans against
the King David Hotel, which was
passed on to the government. Yet
in the crisis, members of Haga-
nah and those moderates were
locked up, Mr. Crossman told the
House.
He pointed out that Haganah
and its intelligence department
had a long record of cooperation
with the British. Since Irgun was
set up in 1938 Haganah had hand-
ed over 1,000 names of members of
Irgun to police. In Palestine it was
a case of setting Jew to catch Jew,
he said. There has been a long
and steady cooperation between
the Jewish Agency and Haganah,
Mr. Crossman said, adding that
no one would have been shocked
by this sort of relationship had it
been on the Arab- side.
Criticizes Partition
Criticizing the plan to divide
Palestine into. Jewish and Arab
provinces under British control,
Crossman asked if dominence of
the country is symbolized by con-
tinuance of a police state,- what
hope is there for each of the
provinces to believe themselves in
pbssession of genuine autonomy.
There is the conviction, he added,
"that we are staying in Palestine
because" our troops have left Egypt
and we want somewhere else to' put
them."
"No one expects Jews of Pales-
tine to cooperate in suppressing
terrorism when their homes are
being -searched by troops, not al-
ways too tenderly," Crossman. con-
tinued. "It would be much better
to let bygones be bygones. If we
are going to let Arabs of the Muf-
ti's type escape trial, it is better
to apply the same test to those
Jews imprisoned without trial.
It would be far wiser now to call
on the Jewish Age,ncy to help in
suppressing terror."
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U. S. Accepts Offer 3 Massachusetts
Universities Delete
Of JWB to Aid in
Returning War Dead Religious Issue
BOSTON, (JTA) — Boston uni-
Program of Co-operation to
versity has decided to drop refer-
Be Carried Out Nationally
ences to religion from student ad-
mission blanks, it is reported by
and Locally
NEW YORK—Accepting the of-
fer of the National Jewish Welfare
Board to make available all its re-
sources and facilities to the War
Department in its program Of re-
turning to the Uriit.f...d States the
remains of American war dead of
World War II, Gen. George A.
Horkan, director of the Memorial
Division of the Office of the Quart-
ermaster General, War Depart-
ment, in a letter to. Frank L. Weil,
president of JWB, said that JWB's
"offer will afford this office the
most valuable and practical as-
sistance in connection with the
program for the return of the re-
mains. It is the desire of this of-
fice to cooperate in every way
feasable with the JWB and sim-
ilar agencies which are interested
in assisting the next of kin with
problems connected with final dis-
position of the remains of their
loved ones."
National Program
JWB's program of cooperation
will be carried' out nationally and
locally. Nationally thee program
will entail:
1; Liaison with the Army au-
thorities; consultation. on matters
relating to relating to religious and
ceremonial ,requirements.
2. Collection dissemination of in-
formation as to laws relating to
transportation, funeral and burial
.
of military personnel.
3. Check for observance of Jew-
, ish religious requfrements during
transit.
4. Through the Committee on
Army and Navy Religious Activi-
ties (CANRA) -of JWB, adVise on
all matters concerning Jewish ob-
servance and practice:
5. Furnish the War Department
with names of families of men
not officially recorded as Jewish
in connection with final disposition
of bodies.
6. Assist in presentation and col-
lection of burial allowances and
depeildents' benefits.
7.!:Interpret,.•.the repatriation
program _ to local Jewish commun-
the Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Boston.
According to word received by
Robert E. Segal, executive direc-
tor of the Community Council,
from Dr. Ralph W. Taylor, dean
of the university's College of Lib-
eral Arts, the Council's brief on
the subject has been examined by'
the university authorities, and Dr.
Daniel. L. Marsh, president of the
institution, has approved the dele-
tion.
Similar action has been taken
recently by Tufts College and the
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology.
N. Y. Dissolves KKK
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A final
judgment dissolving the Ku Klux
Klan in New York was granted in
Supreme Court by Justice Joseph
A. Gavagan on a motion of At-
torney General Nathaniel L. Gold-
stein. The Attorney General said
that he could now prosecute any-
one belonging to the Klan.
ities and guid and assist them in
cooperating with it.
Activities Locally
,
Locally, the Army and Navy
Committees of the National JeWish
Welfare Board will undertake the
following services:
1. Interpret the Repatriation
Program to local Jewish communi-
ties.
2. Arrange with next of kin for
reception Of bodies by undertakers.
3. Make provision for burial plot.
4. Arrange for funeral services in
accordance ,,with religious rights
and military practide.
5. Set up local rabbinical panel
to furnish rabbiS for fUneral ser-
vices
6. Obtain military guard of hon-
or from local military posts.
-7. Arrange for financial assist-
ance where necessary in connec-
tion with funeral and burial.
8. Advise dependents in com-
pleting forms for filing claims for
burial allowance and benefits.
Call RA. 7956, for listings 1n the
classified columns of The Jewish
New*.
Page Seven
New light was thrown on the
bonibing of the icing David Hotel
in Jerusalem in a charge. that Sir
John Shaw, chief secretary of the
Palestine government, refused to
allow personnel to leave the hotel
after having been warned of the
impending bombing, and that the
great loss of life which ensued re-
sulted from his action.
RALPH BELLAMY
In between his regular nightly
stints -as presidential timber in the
Broadway hit "State of the
Union," stage and screen star
Ralph Bellamy is taking time out
to' do the narration for the new
Palestinian _ documentary film,
"Home Are the Hunted," now in
production. Shortly after the
New York showing, 16 mm. prints
of the film will be available- for
interested organizations through-
out the country.
Produced by the United Pales-
tine Appeal from technicolor film
shot by the noted Palestinian
cinematographer Lazar Dunner,
and written by the eminent cor-
respondent and novelist, Meyer
Levin, the film catches the dra-
matic hightlights of the resettle-
ment of refugee Jews in Pales-
tine, and at the same time por-
trays the many diverse aspects of
life in Palestine today.
Nazis Hide Jewish Children .
As Future Manpower Reserve
NEW YORK, (JTA)—German-
Jewish children are being hidden
in German homes and institutions
as a manpower reserve for the new
German nation which will arise on
the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich,
Ira Hirschmann, special aide to
UNRRA Director-General Fiorello
LaGuardia, said. Hirschmazin re-
cently returned from a tour of
UNRRA administered facilitieS in
Europe.
The story was told by Elise
Wirz, champion woman swimmer
of Palestine and a school teacher
in Haifa, to the Jewish Morning
Journal upon her arrival in the
United States last week.
Miss Wirz, who was in Jerusa-
lem at , the time of the bombing,
reported that, contrary to the im-
pression given by the British cen-
sorship, Sir John Shaw was warn•
ed by a telephone operator who
carried the message to him per-
sonally. After the first warning
bomb exploded in front of the
building, according to Miss Wirz,
Sir John ordered the guard to pre-
vent everyone from leaving the
building. The switchboard opera-
tor of the hotel, which houses the
British military headquarters for
Palestine, herself refused to obey
Sir John's order to return to work,
and left the building in time to
save her own life.
Women's Council Maintains
JDC Home in Athens, Greece
The National Council of Jew-
ish Women has assumed main-
tenance of the home for unat-
tached Jewish women which the
the American Jewish Joint Dis-
tribution Committee established
in Athens, Greece.
Transfer of responsibility for the
home was effected upon the arri-
val in Athens on July 18 of Miss
Celia Bloom, Council's new direc-
tor of the home, it was announced
by Mrs. Joseph Welt of Detroit,
president of NCJW.
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