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THE JEWISH NEW:.
Britain Blocks Zion Ports,
Asks 5 Nations Halt Exodus
Appearance of Battleships and Air Patrols Threatens An-
other Upheaval in Middle East; Russia, Romania Ignore
Requests; Truman May Endorse Modified Partition
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The Tel Aviv Municipal Council issued a proclamation
demanding that all refugees who arrived in Palestine be per-
mitted to land and that the government reverse its deporta-
tion policy.
Hundreds of children and women are among the Jewish
detainees who are prevented from settling in the "home-
land," and the arrival of the British cruiser Ajax together
with a vast fleet of battleships and an air patrol threatens
another upheaval which may disturb the peace of • the entire
Middle East.
Official Notes Sent
Official notes sent by Great Britain to Russia, Romania,
Czechoslovakia, France and Italy calling for the prevention
of traffic of Jews sailing for Palestine has caused consterna-
tion.
Only Russia and Romania are said to have failed to corn-
ply with the British requests, and British notes have implied
that these two powers have connived in facilitating "organiz-
ed shipments" of Jews to Palestine from Romanian ports.
There are conflicting elements in these reports in view of
earlier statements that the Arabs are seeking Soviet support
in an anti-Zionist program.
Strengthen Domination
The first British "federalization" proposal, which has
met with almost unanimous rejection, also has been attacked
in Russia. The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia
charges with regard to the Anglo-American Cabinet Com-
mittee's proposal for a federated Palestine:
Friday, August 16, 1946
and in the constitutional sense,
Despite frequent reports that
that means the U. S. Senate.
Britain is preparing to turn over
the Palestine mandate to the
Proposal Violates Ma,ndate
_. S. re-
On its merits the proposed United Nations if the U
federation scheme violates the fused to go along with its
mandate given to Britain over "federalization" scheme, it be-
Palestine by the League of Na- came increasingly clear that the
tions in that it provides a sys- Labor government has no inten-
tem of cantonization and restricts tion of relinquishing its authority
the free movement of people in over Palestine.
The Daily Herald, offical Labor
Palestine.
Mr. Grady's mission violated its Party newspaper whch has be-
mission to work out the imple- come a semi-official organ of the
mentation of the Anglo-American government, said that last week's
Commitee's report by agreeing to Cabinet meeting decided that
virtual nullification of that docu- under no circumstances would the
ment and supporting in principle mandate be given up and that
the restrictive White Paper is- the government would go ahead
with its Palestine plan even if
sued by Britain in 1939.
.President Truman, however, President Truman rejects it.
told his press conference Friday
that the question of the Consti- "Non_Fraternization" Order
tution will not enter into Ameri- Lifted in Palestine
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The ban
can consideration of the British
plan for the "federalization" of against British troops fraterniz-
Palestine as the issue has nothing ing with Jews and patronizing
to do with the Constitution or Jewish businesses imposed by
Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, British
treaties.
President Truman neither con- commander in Palestine, follow-
firmed nor denied reports that ing the King David blasting last
he intended to appoint Edwin month, has been lifted.
Pauley as Ambassador Harry F.
The Jewish Agency for Pales-
Grady's successor to deal with tine has completed preparations
the Palestine problem upon Mr. for the absorption of 100.000 dis-
Pauley's completion of his as- placed Jews from Europe, it was
signment as Reparations Commis- reported at a plenary session of
sioner..
the Jewish National Council.
`Pernicious Scheme'
At the end of this month work
Condemning the 'pernicious will begin on the construction
scheme to ransom the lives of dis- of an army camp which the Jew-
placed Hebrews by trading land ish Agency has purchased from
for lives," nine U. S. Senators the U. S. Army. The camp is
and Representatives- sent a state- large enough to accommodate 10,-
ment to Secretary of State James 000 persons, and is being shipped
F. Byrnes in Paris stating that in sections from France.
they would "expose and oppose
any attempt to obtain approval 3,000 Jews Picket British
or implementation" of the parti- Consulate in N. Y.
tion plan in Palestine.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Carrying
A report from Rome reveals denunciatory placards and sing-
that the director of the Pales- ing Zionist songs, a crowd, esti-
tine office in Trieste was arrested mated at more than 3,000, pick-
by Allied forces on charges of eted the British Consulate in the
having aided groups of Jews to downtown financial district this.
slip into Italy from Yugoslavia week, demanding that Britain
on their way to Palestine.
"open the gates of Eretz Israel
"The Palestine plan, like the.;
granting of 'independence' tor—u t
Hu cheson advised the President
Transjordan, pursues but one
aim: the strengthening of British of the following:
domination in the countries of
It is beyond the President's
the Middle East."
,province to stipulate the approval
Thus, it became evident this of the plan, since the U. S. is a
week that the entire Palestine party to the 1924 convention pro-
issue may even force the reopen- viding that no change in the
ing of the question of the valid- Palestine Mandate may be made
ity of Great Britain's act of without the consent of the U. S.,
setting up a monarchy in Trans
jordania.
British determination to keep
Jews from Palestine and to send
detained immigrants who are ar-
riving on "illegal" boats to
Cyprus has inspired a statement
from the National Council of
Palestine Jews cautioning against'
such drastic steps.
Warning by Haganah
Haganah, the Jewish defense
and resistance force, has warned
that Palestine Jewry will do
everything possible to enable the
incoming refugees to get into the
country.
Meanwhile, leaders of Cyprus
political parties met in Nicosia on
Aug. 8 and protested the British
plan to settle the visaless Jewish
refugees on, the island. Cyprus'
leaders stated that they will not
tolerate the plan and students of
Cyprus history pointed out that
there is a precedent against Jew-
WE CALL FOR AND
ish settlement there in the death
of 250,000 people 2,000 years ago
DELIVER YOUR
on this island as a result of riots
between Jews and non-Jews dur-
PRESCRCPTION
ing the rule of Roman Emperor
Trajan.
Britain's typical policy of re-
sorting to the appeal for enforce-
ment of "law and order," in con-
tradiction to the assurances given
repeatedly by Jewish leaders and
by Haganah that the resistance
movement will be curtailed the
moment the proposals to admit
WE HAVE RECEIVED A FRESH STOCK OF COSMETICS—
100,000 Jews are honored, are
taken as an indication that the
AMONG WHICH YOU WILL FIND - SUCH POPULAR AND
"worst is yet to come."
The Hebrew Committee of Na-
FAMOUS BRAND NAMES AS-
tional
Liberation charged in
Washington this week that the
British have gone so far as to
mine territorial waters around
Palestine and that tragedies un-
paralleled in Jewish history may
be the result of such drastic
action.
Opening of Door
To Palestine Urged
By Rabinnical Bodies
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Cen-
tral Conference of American Rab-
bis and the Rabbinical Assembly
of America, representing 900 rab-
bis, have appealed to Lord Inver-
chapel, British ambassador to the
United States, to "communicate
to the British government our
earnest plea for admission into
Palestine of refugees on board
ships in Palestinian harbors." •
Signed by Dr. Abraham J. Feld-
man of Hartford, of the Central
Conference, and Dr. Israel M.
Goldman of Providence, of the
Rabbinical Assembly, the message
added: "On religious and humani-
tarian grounds we plead for these
tragic survivors of the Nazi in-
ferno and to prevent recurrence
of the Struma and Patria trage-
dies."
to a decimated people." The pick-
et line was led by a score of
uniformed and bemedaled Jewish
Legionnaires. Cantor Mordecai
Yardeni led the crowd in the
chanting of Tishc, a'Ab "Kinnoth,'
the Lamentations.
Palestine Planning Own Ban
On Fraternizing with British
JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor)---
Jews of Palestine may be plan-
ning to carry on, on its own, a
policy of non-fraternization with
British soldiers now that General
Barker's order to his troops to
boycott Jewish establishments
has been rescinded.
British troops are once more
patronizing Jewish cinemas, res-
taurants, cafes and other places
of entertainment, but observers
here- say it is too early to state
whether the Jews will respond
amiably.
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Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson,
chairman of the American sec-
tion of the Anglo-American In-
quiry Committee on Palestine, last
week submitted to President Tru-
man a unanimous opinion by that
group that approval by him of
the British plan to divide Pales-
tine into Arab and Jewish prov-
inces would violate the Constitu-
tion of the United States.
At a White House session,
following two days of detailed
analysis of the Palestine partition
plan by the Inquiry Committee
and deputies for the Cabinet
Committee on Palestine headed
by Henry F. Grady, Judge
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