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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday; August 16, 1946

Shoppers Jam Tel Aviv Streets During Curf f ew

ritish Can't 'Liquidate'
Zionism, Mowrer Declares

Brutality and Trickery in Palestine Assailed by N. Y. Post
Writer; Any Member of UN Can Demand Mandate
Be Taken Away on Ground of Maladministration

Edgar Ansel Mowrer, eminent foreign correspondent, in
his world affairs column in the N. Y. Post on Aug. 10 speaks
of "Uneasy Partnership" as follows as comment on the Pal-
estine situation:

The British brutality and trick- ington. There he should inform
ery in Palestine represents a the British premier that further
moral sickness of an overstrained British repudiation of Zionism
people who—in the words of Mr. endangers the unwritten Anglo-
Wickham Steed—have suffered so American partnership. This part-
much in the, last seven years that nership—Truman should explain
they now live in "a world beyond —rests on single aim—the strug-
ethics." Substitute the word be- gle for world legality against an-
low for beyond, and you get the archy and an atomic war.
Worse for Britain
only possible explanation of a
Americans can accept the Brit-
scandalously un-English behavior
ish as partners only in so far as
toward world Jewry.
For six years Britain fought to the British support world legality.
defend its right to survival. Vic- In the Near-Eastern struggle be-
tory brought not surcease, but tween British Jew-baiters and
new danger, this time from. Russia. Soviet totalitarians, the American
The Soviet pressure on over- people will refuse to participate.
strained British nerves has pro- It this refusal results in the
spread of a Soviet empire at Brit-
duced imperialist hysteria.
—International Wire Photo
The systematic beating of Pales- ish expense, then so much the
for four days. Photo on right shows one 'of the
tinian Jews by British soldiers on worse for Britain.
Tel Aviv's streets were jammed with crowds
At this point Attlee is likely to who rushed to purchase food when the British
orders from above is something
groups that gathered to buy milk brought from
that no desperate acts of violence interrupt "and if we throw our suspended curfew for two hours during the search
neighboring farms.
by isolated Jewish terrorists can weight to Zionism will you prom- and -screening that was conducted by 20,000 troops,
explain or excuse. Of this same ise full support regardless of the
executive committee of the Ameri- [Detroit-Windsor AZA
nature is the threat to stop the consequences?" Here. Truman
"illegal Jewish immigrants" from must put up or shut up. Unless Bromfield Charges
can League, revealed that Amer- Hosts to Tournament
going into Palestine by the Red the answer is affirmative, unless U. S. Lives Threatened
ican arms and ammunition are en
Devils of the 67th Airborne Di- we Americans intend to defend In Middle East Plot
Detroit-Windsor Council of AZA,
route to Beirut to be diverted to
world legality, the United Na-
vision and the cruiser Ajax.
Bnai Brith youth organization,
Arab raiders who are being incited
Cold-Blooded Plan
tions is a sham and the partner-
NEW YORK. (JTA) —Charges
will be hosts to the Michigan-
These acts are all part of a ship with Britain—as the Com-
by "agents provocateurs.",
cold-blooded plan adopted by the munists maintain—is merely joint that British and Arab agents in
In order to "forestall further Cleveland -Sports tournament here
the Middle East are fomenting in- damage to American property and Aug. 18, 19, 10.
British government some months imperialisin.
ago and supported—unhappily -
cidents which will reach a climax possible loss of American lives,"
The program will feature a
equally hysterical Amer-
by
in September, and will threaten the American League advocated grand opening ball at the Jewish
icans in the War and State De-
American lives in an attempt to strict surveillance of military
open to all
partments. In June, in Washing-
discourage the U. S. from pursu- shipments to the Near and Middle Center on Aug. 18,
ton, certain unbalanced British
ing an independent policy in re7 East, alerting U. S. intelligence BBYO members and alumni. Al
and American individuals delib-
gard to Palestine, have been lodg- officers in that area, a close check Fields' band will supply the music.
erately fomented the war scare.
ed with Senator Elbert Thomas, on Arab League activities in the
Softball, swimming, tennis and
It was positively stated by one
United States, and requesting the
NEW YORK. (4PS - Palcor) — chairman of the Senate military
track tournaments are on the ath-
prominent American colonel that
affairs committee, by Louis Brom- British government to disassoci- letic program and a weenie roast
"in view of the necessity of clear- Palestine soon will permit the es-
field, co-chairman of the Ameri- ate itself from these activities and and campfire is scheduled for
cape
from
Nablus
prison
of
Yusuf
ing the decks for the coming
to curb its agents and their
struggle with Russia, Zionism will Alchaz, the Mufti's Nazi trained can League for a Free Palestine.
Aug. 20.
Mr. Bromfield, one behalf of the henchmen.
military aide whom he regards as
have to be liquidated."
The British are now "liquidat the single real military strategist
ing Zionism" or think that they and tactician among the Arabs; it
are. The chances are they will NOT is charged by Eschnab, leading
succeed. The Jewish Agency lead- publication of the Jewish Resis-
ers now meeting here have re- tance Movetnent received at the
solved to fight rather than to ac- New York office of the Palcor
cept the partition scheme, which News Agency. Eschnab predicted,
would have the Jews with less correctly, early last May, the Muf-
than one twenty-fourth of the ti's "escape" from Paris sometime
homeland originally promise d . in June.
them, namely all. Palestine with
Alchaz accompanied the Mufti
Transjoraania. It is almost incon- into exile in Lebanon, Iraq and
ceivable that the British people Iran, as his personal secretary in
Victor Brings You
would permit their leaders to wage 1937. When the war broke out he
Hitlerian war against the Pales- fled with the Mufti to ^ Berlin
Important Savings
tinian Jew reinforced by world where he entered a Nazi officers'
Jewry.
training school. He was com-
On Distinguished Fashions
Without Legal Basis
missioned a major in the German
Even if they would, the British Army and fought against Marshal
position in Palestine is without Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia.
legal basis, as Mr. Sumner Welles
Later, on a sabotage mission for
has demonstrated. At the United
the Naiis, Alchaz parachuted from
Nations Assembly, any member
an enemy plane over Jericho, but
can ask, to have the Palestine
was quickly arrested by the Brit-
Mandate stripped from Britain on
the ground of maladministration, ish who found maps, sabotage
illegality and moral unfitness. It plans and money in his possession.
should not be forgotten that the He was placed in solitary confine-
From the Russian province of Jaketny,
League of Nations, through the ment for a time in Nablus jail.
comes This decidedly superior Persian
The implication that the British
Permanent Mandate Commission,
Lamb. Its lavish loveliness it owes to Vic-
condemned the White Paper policy government negotiated unsuccess-
tor's creative genius. He has scalloped the
fully
with
Irgun
some
time
ago,
as illegal. The present line goes
front of the coat . • . given the back a
far beyond the White Paper in to obtain its cooperation in fight-
soft, rippling flare . . . flanged the shoul-
ing Haganah, was contained in
naked lawlessness.
ders . . . fashioned the sleeves with gen-
The British threat to "renounce an article in Eschnab referring to
erous fullness . .. and, as a final touch,
the mandate" unless permitted to the British White Paper against
continue mistreating the Jews is the Jewish Agency.
he has added gracefully scalloped cuffs
Kol Yisroel (Voice of Israel) se-
sheerest bluff. Without Palestine,
of Natural Wild Mink. For August, special-
British Imperialist positions in the cret radio of the Jewish Resistance
ly priced.
Near East would fall apart. The Movement, has demanded that the
British
account
for
13
members
British are establishing a military
base. and liquidating Zionism in of the Movement who disappear-
Palestine precisely because they ed after the raid on railway lines
Plus Federal Tax
are having to leave Egypt. Their at A-Ziv, June 16, Eschnab reports.
hold in Iraq is weakening. Their
popularity in Syria and the 1'700 Released from Detention
Lebanon—despite their shameful Camps, Govt. Official Says
JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor)—
liquidatiOn of French interests as
a pretended war measure—is on Seventeen hundred persons de-
the wane. Communism is growing tained following the British raids
fast in the entire area and shoot- and searches of Jewish settle-
ments June 29 have been re-
--ings won't stop it.
leased so far and 970 remaining
Time for Truman to Act
These -"lain. facts are invisible in Rafa will be released if pos-
sible, by the end of this week
t Attlee and Bevin. Therefore the and the beginning of next week,
time has come for Truman to act
as becomes necessary when man's Richard Stubbs, Public Informa-
7.
partner becomes demented and tion Officer, disclosed on Aug.
conference here August 7. Mr.
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301 Madison Theater Bldg.
requires shock.
1567 Broadway
Truman should refuse all dis, Stubbs denied rumors that troop-
eussion of a ridiculous partition ers of the Transjordan Arab
plan. Instead he sh9uld invite Legion were guarding Jews in

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Eschnab Predicts

Mufti's Aide Ready
To 'Esccipe' Prison

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Russiatt "Jaketny"
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Attlee urgently_ to come to Wash- Latrua - and Rafa.

