Leaders From Six States Attend
JDC Conclave in Detroit Sept. 15
International Photo
BRITISH RAID NURSERY! Not even the children of Pales-
tine were safe when the British staged a dawn raid on the
seaside settlement of S'Doth Yam, seeking "Frogmen" and
mines used to blow up, the British transport Empire Royal.
Tommies left no spot untouched, even tapping the floor of a
nursery as the children looked on, puzzled. All they found
was a diving suit and goggles used for welding.
Jewish leaders from six states—Michigan,
Ohio, Indiana, western Pennsylvania, northern
Kentucky and West Virginia—will meet in De-
troit Sunday, Sept. • 15, at the Detroit-Leland
Hotel, at the first annual conference of the
East Central Region of the Joint Distribution
Committee, to plan future relief and rehabilita-
tion work in behalf of European survivors.
A session at 10 a. m., devoted to regional
business matters and election of officers, and
for a discussion of JDC's SOS campaign for
relief-in-kind contributions for shipment over-
seas, will open the conference under the chair-
manship of Judge Maurice Bernow of Cleveland.
There vvill be a luncheon session at 12:15
p. in., featuring a question-and-answer panel
on latest developments on the overseas scene.
Reservations are being taken at the Detroit-
Leland Hotel by Miss Dora Hunt.
Members of the Michigan State Division of
the United Jewish Appeal will join with mem-
bers of the JDC Region in a combined meeting
at 2:30 p. m. Speakers at this session will be:
Edward M. M. Warburg, chairman of the JDC
'and head of the Greater New York UJA; Mrs.
Avis Shulman, Jewish communal leader, who
returned two weeks ago after , surveying con-
ditions among Jewish survivors in Europe and
the Jewish community of Palestine, and Isidore
Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit.
Sessions of the Youth Division of JDC's
East Central.Region will be held Saturday night
and Sunday. (Details on Page 6).
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Attlee Seeks Arab
Support for Zion's
deralization Plan
(Special Cable to The Jewish News)
JEWISH EDUCATION: Palestine's chil-
dren, despite British warlike activities
of recent weeks, make every attempt to
concentrate on their studies trying to
forget the horror of European concen-
tration camps from which many of
them were liberated: Their education
is made possible through fundS of the
United Jewish Appeal. •
Insinsminctrytr,
A STUDY IN BARBED WIRE : And these
are children whose only education was
as slave workers of the Nazis in the
mines of Romania. Liberated in the
war, they now are either being deported
to Cyprus or are behind barbed wire in
Palestine. Look at . them, again and
again! They - are asking themselves
"When are we to be free?"
World News Service Photo
Victory for Torah
Rabbi's Courage
Baffles British
By J. L. MELTZER
Jerusalem Correspondent
Like the inhabitants of London who
survived the mass Nazi air raids of 1940
and 1941, residents of Tel Aviv had
stories to tell after the Great Siege
which kept them indoors from July 29
to Aug. 2 during the British Army's
search operation.
A young Rabbi, wearing a beard, was
brought to be identified at one of the
"screening" tables. He had a somewhat
haughty expression and his beard was
neatly trimmed—sufficient to arouse
suspicion among police that he might
be "wearing' a disguise. His beard was
felt to see if it was genuine. Then
one of the officers, seeking to find what
the man's political views were, asked
him what he thought of the current
events.
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Britain Insists Czechs
Doom Escape of Jews
"It's all a trumpery proceeding,"
he declared scornfully. "I shall not
even demean myself by commenting
on the spectacle of Britain, a mighty
empire, engaging in such stupid acts
and frittering away its strength on
nonsense."
"What are you gabbing about?" the
officer asked impatiently.
"You can fight the Jews but you
cannot fight the Torah," the Rabbi
answered. "The Torah says Eretz
Israel is ours and that Trans-Jordan
is ours, and all your sieges with tanks
and starving the Jews won't avail you.
Nor will you overcome the Torah . . ."
"What party do you belong to?" .
"To the party of Ribbono shel Olam."
(God Almighty).
The officer paused. "Go home," he
LONDON. (JTA)—Prime Minister Clement
Attlee, addreSsing the opening session of the Pal-
estine conference attended only by representatives
of Arab states, emphasized that a settlement of the
Palestine problem is impossible unless Jews and
Arabs are prepared to make concessions, taking into
account each other's interests.
The "federalization plan" offered by the Brit-
ish government remains the first item on the
agenda, he told the 16 Arabs present, adding that the
government is not committed to the proposal. Each
delegation is free to present amendments offering
different proposals, he declared.
Mr. Attlee pointed out that the Palestine prob-
lem can not be treated in isolation but against a
wider background of world policy. "Palestine," he
stated, "is a tiny country, but everything . which
happens in it has reactions and we can not shut our
eyes to realities."
He added that the Arabs and Great Britain are
associated in a natural partnership and that the
danger to the partnership can be removed by seri-
ously searching for a solution of the Palestine prob-
lem "to which you can honorably agree."
He recalled that the . Arab national revival would
have been much slower if the Ottoman empire had
not been broken by the British armies in the first
world War. He stated that since the last Palestine
round table conference in 1939 three more Arab
states had received their independence.
Promising government support in the promo-
tion of the economic expansion and social progress
of Arab countries and deploring the Palestine dis-
turbances, Mr. Attlee said that they can no longer
FIRST NEW SUIT: This wonder-filled, barefoot orphan on
his arrival in Palestine, exchanges his rags for his first new
suit. The $100,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal •
will provide homes for thousands of other ol.pnans in Pales-
tine in 1946. With UJA funds, the JDC will pay for their
transportation and the UPA will send them to farm settle-
ments where they will receive schooling and rehabilitation.
The British government has thrown up another bar-
ricade against Jews escaping from Poland through Czecho-
slovakia, according to Maurice Hindus in a copyrighted
article wirelessed to the New York Herald Tribune, from
Prague.
Mr. Hindus reports that C. A. Shuckburg, British
charge d'affairs in Prague, has sent a note to the Czech
government, which, if acted upon, would bar the entry
or transit of Jews unless they have properly validated
visas to the country of their ultimate destination, "as no
country is willing to grant such visas."
The British note charges Jewish underground groups
have availed themselves of Czech magnanimity to recruit
for illegal transfer to Palestine.
The Czech minister of the interior has authorized
Mr. Hindus to say that British allegations that "Jews dis-
appear from camps or are smuggled in illegally by Jewish
underground organizations" do not correspond to the facts.
Czech authorities are too vigilant to permit such ir-
regularities, the ministry told Hindus.
According to Mr. Hindus' dispatch. the British note
does not make direct charges, but qualifies all expressions
with "it is said" and "it is believed", and does not name
the underground organizations:
.