Page Six 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 (Continued From First Page) 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. PHONE D N FOR RUGS UN 2 2600 "1"1 0872 FILLED EXACTLY AS YOUR DOCTOR HAS ORDERED Priced Right COSMETIC HEADQUA TER S LENTHERIC 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. 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