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 I • 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." a 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. 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