THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 6, 1946
Troops Wreck, Loot Settlements
As Bevin Rejects Agency Proposal
Extensive Damage'
Newspapers on Tuesday re-
ported extensive damage to com-
munal buildings. The new mete-
orological station was reduced
to a heap of rubble, the children's
nursery was flattened by • a bull-
dozer and the water reservoir was
rendered .- unusable. Not a room
searched in either Doroth or Ru-
hama was left intact and the
floors and cellars were torn up
to depths of six feet and the
walls and ceilings were knocked
down.
Conflicting Factors
Add to Confusion
(By Special Jewish News
Correspondents)
Conflicting factors in the Pal-
estine situation add to the con-
fusion affecting the convening of
the conference arranged by the
British government for Monday.
Rejection by the Arab Higher
Committee of Palestine of the in-
vitation to. the conference as long
as the Mufti is barred as a parti-
cipating delegate does not exclude
the participation of spokesmen
for seven Arab states, it was re-
vealed this week. In Palestine,
the training of a new Arab mili-
tary group, whose members wear
American uniforms, aroused con-
siderable concern.
Demands Agency 0. K. Invitations
Demands made by Lessing Ros-
enwald, president of the anti-
Zionist American Council for
Judaism, that his organization be
given a voice in the deliberations,
has forced the advancement of
another demand by Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the Jew-
ish Agency, in behalf of the
Agency Executive, that invitations
to Jewish groups other than
recognized Zionist bodies should
be released only by the Agency.
One of the conditions for par-
ticipation in the conference ad-
vanced by Jewish leaders is that
the arrested heads of the Jewish
Agency in Palestine be released.
In London, Exchange Telegraph
News reported this week that the
Irgun, extremist resistance group,
has issued at attack in Palestine
upon Dr. Weizmann and has re-
ferred to him as "the Jewish
Petain."
Continuous conferences in Lon-
don and in Paris between U. S.
Secretary of State Byrnes and
Mr. Bevin as well as between Mr.
Bevin and Jewish leaders point
the way to the possibility that
agreements on the Palestine ques-
tion are near.
Troops Shout "Heil Hitler"
JERUSALEM, SP ALCOR) —
Charges of looting were lodged
against troops of the Sixth Air-
borne Division by Jewish settlers
of Doroth and Ruhama who
showed correspondents evidence of
anti-Semitic insults, personal
abuse and wilful destruction of
property by British troops and
police who carried out minute
searches of the tiny Negev settle-
ments.
Correspondents who had been
barred by the military comman-
der from witnessing the searches,
were told by settlers at Doroth
that British soldiers had cursed
the Jews and that one police in-
spector had shouted "I'm sorry
this place can't be made a second
Bergen-Belsen."
At Ruhama the settlers relat-
ed how when a curfew was im-
posed all persons were ordered
into their houses by British
soldiers who gave the Nazi salute
and shouted "Heil Hitler."
Stand in Blistering Sun
Heads Buffalo Zionists
er their arms, they were cursed.
One refugee 'Who was released
from Athlit transit camp only
two weeks before, fainted from
exhaustion and was left lying on
the ground without medical at-
tention.
Mothers nursing their infants
were disturbed by soldiers and
pushed about the field.
The settlers complained that
the troops deliberately damaged
their bus - and tractor by throw-
ing sand in the motors and that
numerous expensive garage . tools
were missing. In addition the set-
tlers listed, with the officer in
RABBI HARRY J. BREVIS
charge, money, watches, cameras
Detroiters will be interested to
and even towels which were miss-
ing from their rooms after the learn that Rabbi Harry J. Brevis
troops ended -their search.
of Buffalo, former Detroiter, has
Military Equipment
been chosen president of the
According to an official com- Zionist District of Buffalo.
munique, the troops, employing
dogs trained to smell-metal, dis-
covered a miscellaneous array soon, paralleling the Arab League
of military equipment, much of but headed by Turkey, it is re-
it home-made, and various Brit- ported in the Hebrew Press re-
ish uniforms. At Doroth the Army ceived by the New York office of
discovered what it described as an
arms cache of the concrete type. the Palcor News Agency. Great
In addition the troops found Britain is believed to be the in-
rifles, pistols, 50 Army regulation itiator of this project.
overcoats, 11 jackets, 25 field
The organization would in-
dressings, two trench coats, ten
clude Turkey, Syria, Lebanon,
small packs of bulls-eye cards
such as are used in target prac- Iraq, Transjordan and Egypt.
tice, signaling flags and lanterns, Iraq is reported willing to join.
six home-made field telephones, but Egypt is wary of the project
some small arms ammunition, since it ,would mean taking a
empty arms drums and some secondary role behind a more
military training pamphlets.
powerful Turkey. In the case of
British troops and police car- Syria, Turkey is likely to demand
ried out a "routine" search of that that country give up its
Latrun detention camp, where claim to Alexandretta.
Moshe Shertok, David Remez,
The proposed new organization
Bernard Joseph, Isaac Gruen- is believed to be the reason for
baum and other Jewish leaders Lebanese President Bashara el
and settlers are being held, but Khoury's recent visit to Turkey.
nothing suspicious was found,
and no incidents occurred.
A STRIKE
British troops also began a
search of the Hashomer Hatzair
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Kibbutz at Kfar Menahem, where
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half the members are American.
Mufti's Rejection Adds
To Muddled Situation
Rejection of the Mufti as an
Arab representative at the Lon-
don conference on Palestine on
Sept. 9 added to the confusion of
the exist. .g situation, with the
Arab Higher Committee refusing
to participate in the negotiations.
It is believed, however, that
other Arab states will join in the
conference.
. The JTA learned in London
last week that representatives of
some of the Arab states favor a
partition plan for Palestine.
Sentences Commuted
Commutation of the sentences
of the 18 condemned Irgunists
from death to life imprisonment
helped briefly to ease conditions,
but the death sente'hce imposed
immediately thereafter upon an-
other Irgunist, Menahaum Alka-
lay, caused retention of uneasi-
ness.
Alkalay, whose legs were ser-
iously injured in the Haifa in-
cident, lay strapped to a strech-
er reading the Bible throughout
the court proceedings. He did
not reply when the court asked
him if he wished to make a
plea for clemency or defend
himself. He received the sen-
tence with no apparent emo-
tion and was hancuffed before
being carried away in his
stretcher.
A Jewish Agency spokesman
said today that commutation of
the death sentence to life impris-
onment for the 18 youths "could
be expected to have a calming
effect on the Jewish community
and comes as a most welcome
step."
The more than 800 Jews who
are detained at Raffa detention
camp went on a 36-hour hunger
strike last week in protest against
the delay in their being re-
leased.
In the meantime 600 more
Jews were deported to Cyprus
rpon their arrival in Haifa.
Proffered JDC aid for the Jew-
ish internees was rejected by
British authorities.
At Ruhama the correspondents
were told that occupants of a
tent, near where an empty 50
gallon oil drum, suspected of be-
ing an arms cache, was found,
were forced to stand in the sun
without food or water, from early
morning until 4:30 p. m. when
fingerprint experts arrived. At
Doroth the settlers told how 15
alleged curfew violators were tak-
en to a remote spot and compelled
to stand at attention in the burn-
ing sun with their arms stretched New Middle-East League
NEW YORK, (Palcor)—A new
above their heads, holding heavy
Middle East
stones for 10 to 15 minutes. organization of
When fatigued, they tried to low- States is likely to be established
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Declares Romania
Is Determined to
EndAnti-Semitism
Vice-Premier, 5 Other Min-
isters Pledge Cooperation
With WJC Leaders
PARIS (JTA)—Six Romanian
cabinet ministers, members of the
Romanian delegation at the Peace
Conference, met here with Dr.
Nahum Goldmann and A. L. East-
erman, leaders of the World Jew-
ish Congress, and agreed to work
out jointly texts of Romanian
laws to enforce special provisions
in the Romanian peace treaty for
the protection of Jewish rights.
- It is reported that Dr. Gold-
mann and Easterman also met
with Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet
deputy foreign minister, regard-
ing the proposed Jewish amend-
ments to the drafts of the peace
treaties now under consideration
by the Peace Conference.
The meeting with the Roman-
ian statesmen was. held at the
Romanian Legation under the
chairmanship of Gheorghe Tata-
rescu, vice-premier and foreign
minister, who said his government
was determined to eradicate anti,
Semitism in the country.
New Hebrew College
Planned in New York
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Efforts to
obtain a charter for a Hebrew
college in New York are being
made by the Herzliah Hebrew In-
stitute, which now comprises a
teachers' seminary, high school
and preparatory school, Jacob H.
Cohen, president of the board of
trustees, announces.
Mr. Cohen stated that the in-
stitute is planning to launch a
campaign to raise $250,000 this
year for an expansion program
aimed at doubling its present
educational facilities. The regis-
tration at the institute is 432.
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