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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 11, 1946
Community Agencies
In Regional Parley
Nov. 9. in Cincinnati
Zionist Congress to Meet
In Switzerland on Dec. 3
.
Agency Fears Adjournment
Will Increase Zion Tension
Decision Of Jewish 'National Council to Withdraw Repre-
sentatives _ From Palestine Governmental Bodies
Deplored by Acting Chief Secretary in Letter
'We Are As Far From a Solution As Ever,' Says Spokesman
for Jewish Agency Executive; Warns New Delay Will
Endanger Peace and Security in Palestine
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The 22nd World Zionist Congrest
will open in Basle, Switzerland, Dec. 3, it was announced
here by ,a spokesman for the World Zionist Executive.
He said that all obstacles have been overcome and that
a press office has already been opened in Basle. The Congress
will be the first since the outbreak of the war.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Members of the Executive of the
Jewish Agency met to consider the sudden adjournment of
the London conference on Palestine. A spokesman said that
the postponement came as a complete surprise to the Agency.
The spokesman expressed the opinion that "we are as far
from a solution as ever," and warned that the new delay will ;
tend to increase tension and endanger peace and security.
"It is extremely difficut to see how this postponement, this
inability to come to grips with the problem, can be welcomed
by or be beneficial to anyone."
(A report from, Switzerland two weeks ago stated that the
Swiss government had refused permission to the World Zionist
Organization to hold the Congress there out of fear that it would
cause a spread in anti-Semitism.)
(A Palcor News Agency report states that the 22nd World
Zionist Congress will open in Basle on Dec. 3 and that all
election results will have to be transmitted to the office set up
there before Oct. 28. Palcor reports that the office for the Con-
gress has been opened at Muster Messe in Basle under the
supervision of Dr. Mechner, director. and Dr. Ullman and
.Shlomo Kadar. The cable address is Congrezion, Basle, Switzer-
land.)
The Palestine government officially declared that the Jewish
National Council appeared to have exceeded its authority in raising
JULIAN H. JEROME
fonds for "illegal immigration" into Palestine.
A letter from Acting Chief Secretary John Scott also deplored An extraordinary Joint Region-
the decision of the Council to withdraw Jewish representatives from al Conference of three major na-
gevernmental bodies, stating it was for the government to decide tional Jew"..:11 community ser - -e
which agencies should be affected by decisions of the Council.
agencies will be held Nov. 9 and
Arabs Want Jews to Remain Permanent Minority
10 at Hotel Gibson, Cincir .ati.
Creation of an independent Arab state to be governed by a Plans for the Conference are an-
Parliament elected by the entire male population over 18 was pro-
posed for Palestine in the plan submitted to the London conference nounced by the three agencies.
by the Arab representatives, according to the text published in the Council of Jewish Federations and
local Arab press. All Jewish immigration would be stopped and the Welfare Funds National Jewish
Welfare Board, and American As-
present land restrictions would remain in force.
The Arab proposals provide for a British-Appointed interim sociation for Jewish Education.
government composed of seven Arabs and three Jews, which would
:erome N. Curtis, Cleveland;
hold elections for a constituent assembly of 60. This assembly would
vote. on a constitution to be submitted by the interim government. George Mayer, Cleveland; and
All males over 18 who had been resident in the country for at least Isidor Schifrin, Cincinnati, are
chairmen of the program com-
ten years would be eligible to vote for members of the assembly.
After the assembly had adopted the draft constitution, elections mittees of t h e participating
would be held for a Palestine Parliament. which would elect a head agencies, respectively.
of the state, to take office no later than Dec. 31, 1948. Prior to the
The emphasis of the Confer-
establishment of the Parliament, the executive powers would be in ence sessions will be on the de-
the hands of the interim government, with the High Commisioner velopment of communal organi-
reserving the right to veto.
zation in America as a structural
base for the stimulation of pro-
Manchester Guardian says Britain Would be Shocked
LONDON. (Palcor)—The Manchester Guardian, commenting on grams which will enrich Jewish
the deportation of Jewish refugees to Cyprus, observes that "the living.
British government seems happily convinced that what we are
Julian H. Krolik of Detroit is
doing in Palestine is right. and once persuaded , that what we are
doing is morally justified the government complacently carries out president of the East Central
a policy which would shock us very much if carried out by anyone States Region of the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
else. •
- The government's apparent willingness to accept that situation
Funds, which includes Ohio, In-
is forcing it to such things is most disturbing." the editorial says. diana. Kentucky. West Virginia,
"The so-called Morrison plan is an attempt to govern two peoples Western Pennsylvania, Michigan
contrary to their will, and the government is still clinging to it. At and . the adjacent area of Eastern
first sight the plan has the advantage of forcing Britain to stay in
Palestine indefinitely, and its attraction for the British is peculiar, Canada. William Avrunin is reg-
being that the British are equally obnoxious to both sides (Jews ional director. Stanley Myers.
and Arabs). Do we really wish to accept the responsibility of ruling Miami. and H. L. Lurie are the
a country which does not wish to be ruled and necessitating a large national president and executive
army for fighting terrorism by Jews and maybe Arabs? No amount director, respectively_
of moral rectitude can make a bad plan into a good one."
Midwest Section of the Jewish
Welfare Board includes the same
Moscow Doubts Britain Will Agree to Admit '100.000
MOSCOW, (JTA)—Opinion the British government will not area as the Council in th U. S.
grant the request of President Truman to admit 100.000 Jews into and extends west --ts fir a:.-, Den-
Palestine and will ignore the similar recommendations made by the ver, Colorado. and north to Du-
Anglo-American inquiry committee was expressed in Pravda, lead- j luth. Minnesota. Josia'• E. Brill,
ing Soviet newspaper. Minneapolis. is president and
"The British government." the paper wrote_ "is opposed to the William H. Riback is field s re-
admission of the 100,000 Jews to Palestine. since it believes—and tart'. Frank L. Weil is national
not without reason—that Jewish immigrants entering Palestine
under American auspices would increase the American influence president and Louis Kraft, the
executive director.
there.--
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Evidence Linking
Klan and Bund
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Evi-
dence probing the Ku Klux Klan
and the German-American Bund
collaborated- between 1937 and
1941 "to promote racial and re-
ligious dissension" was reported
by the Justice Department.
An official announced it estab-
lished definitely the links between
the Klan and The Bund. He re-
vealed that the Justice Depart-
ment is planning to institute swift
Prosecution of the Klan, should
it be found that Federal laws
babe been violated.
A revised analysis of charges
that the New York Daily News
has been prejudiced in its hand-
ling of news about Jews and
Negroes was introduced at a Fed-
eral Communications ComMission
hearing on the granting of a fre-
quency modulation radio license
to the newspaper.
The analysis, a more detailed
and corrected study of champs
originally introduced at a hear-
ing in New Ycirk, is based on a
compariSon of news items ap-
pearing in "The News" with sim-
ilar Items printed in four other
NeW York papers. The Congress
is asking the FCC not 'to grant
thi _License . to the "Daily News."
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200,000 Jewish DPs Insist on State, Favor Partition
WASHINGTON. (JPS)—Over 200.000 European Jewish DPs
"tired of being pushed around. insist on going to their own land
and starting life on their own terms," Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein,
American adviser on Jewish Affairs in Germany, declared in a
statement issued by the War Department on the rabbi's return on
holiday leave. "They are prepared for some compromise. - Rabbi
Bernstein said speaking of Europe's Jews, "along the line of parti-
tion in a viable area of Palestine. But all of them insist on Jewish
control of Jewish destiny: namely a Jewish state, even, if necessary,
in a reduced area of Palestine."
Rabbi Bernstein concluded "that there has been no fundamental
change in the attitude of exclusiveness and futility which dominated
the Evian and Bermuda conferences. and which are ultimately re-
sponsible for the needless loss of innumerable Jewish lives.
"A bold. determined statesmanship concerning Palestine is
needed now. In the long run it will be less expensive in money,
irritation and life for the United States government now to ilssurne
the necessary responsibilities and risks in order to achieve a just
settlement in Palestine than to temporize."
Rabbi Bernstein praised Gen. Joseph T. McNarney's policies of
handling DPs.
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Jewish Agency leaders, who conferred in London with
Foreign Secretary Bevin and Col. Secretary George Hall on
Oct. 1, were taken by surprise by the announcement of the
postponement.
In addition to Eliezer Kaplan, who left Oct. 1 for Paris
to report to David ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive, on the talks which took place earlier be-
tween the two members of the British Cabinet and the leaders
of the Jewish Agency with regard to Jewish participatfon
in the conference, three other Agency leaders joined him
Paris for consultations. The three—Rabbi J. L. Fishman,
Berl Locker and Dr. Nahum Goldmann—were under the im-
pression it might be possible for them to continue informal
talks with Bevin in Paris.
The adjournment of the conference will make it impos-
sible to raise the Palestine issue at Lthe General Assembly.
Both the British government and the Arab League have been
anxious to avoid bringing the issue before the UN. Only the
Palestine Arabs have been pressing for submission of the
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tide of extremism. They also emphasized it is high time that
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