THE JEWISH
Friday, October 25, 1946'
Acheson Orders Consulate
To Grant U. S. Visa to Sneh
NEW S.
Prof. Baron, Butzel
To Speak at Regional
Joint Parley Nov. 9
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Ibn Saud Assails Truman
For Immigration Statement
Prof. Salci,W. Baron of Colum- Text of Letters, Still Unseen by President, Made Public in
Member of Jewish Agency Executive Expected to Arrive
bia University will be the fea-
London; Arab Leader Blasts Zionists as 'Aggressors'
in Time to Address Zionist Conclave Opening in
tured speaker at the opening-ses-
Acjainst Friendly Country
Atlantic City This Week End
sion of the Joint Regional Con-
ference of Council of Jewish Fed-
WASHINGTON,' (JTA)—President Truman has not yet seen
erations of Welfare Funds, Na- the letter from King lbfrf Saud, in which the Arabian monarch pro-
tional Jewish Welfare Board and tested the President's recent statement on Palestine. White House
'ress secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters the
American Association for Jewish
letter has just been received.
Education, at Hotel Gibson, Cin-
In his communication, which was made public
Oct. 17, in London, Ibn Saud said Mr. Truman's
cinnati, Saturday, Nov. 9.
Yom - Kippur statement was in "complete contra-
Opening Saturday evening, the
diction" to a statement from the White House in
August that the U. S. did not plan to offer any
joint sessions of the Conference
Says Palestine Poisoning Relations Between Britain and U. S.
- fans for solution of the Palestine problem.
will continue through Sunday,
poison
relations
to
He charged the Zionists were "agressors" and
LONDON (JTA)—"Palestine is doing more
between Britain and the U. S. than any thing else at the present Nov. 10.
- . xpressed the hope the American people will not
`permit Zionist aggression against a friendly Arab
time," the House of Commons was told by Leonard David Gem-
The subject of Dr. Baron's ad-
ountry whose only fault was to ,believe in the
mans, Conservative, who demanded that Prime Minister Attlee
of justice and who has given thousands
make public the correspondence between him and President Truman dress will be "Directions in Amer-
of
her sons to fight for the Allied cause."
f
o
Pres.
Truman
on the Palestine question.
ican Jewish Community Life."
The government has turned down a Jewish Agency request
Palestine Arabs supplied 8.000 volunteers to the Allies during
On the program will be Fred
for an increase in the Palestine immigration quota pending resump-
the war, half of whom deserted. Ibn Saud's military aid was limited
tion of the Palestine Conference on Dec. 16, it was reported. The M. Butzel of Detroit, long disting-
fighting local tribesmen in his country when the Turks were
British are reported to feel if they agreed to such an increase uished as a leader in .'ewish com- to
diverted during the first world war. In World War Two his con-
they would be breaking faith with the Arabs.
munal affairs: Josiah E. Brill of tribution was nil.
Minneapolis, president of Midwest
Haganah Says British Policy Aimed at All Palestine Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Declating it was now clear even to mod- Section of the Jewish Welfare
Ibn Saud Assails Truman's Appeal for Jewish Immigration
erates that British policy was directed against all Jews in Pal- Board, and Charles Auerbach of
LONDON, (JPS—Palcor)—King Ibn Saud. in a letter to Presi-
estine, the Haganah radio "Voice of Israel" said the Jewish resist- Cleveland, a founder of Camp
ance movement will continue to combat this policy.
Gallil and a leader in Jewish edu- dent Truman released by the Saudi Arabian Legation here, assailed
the President's recent appeal for Jewish immigration into Palestine,
"The refusal of the British government to change its anti- cation circles.
branded the Jews aggressors and declared he had "always en-
Zionist policy leaves us no course but to continue the struggle
Julian H. Krolik of Detroit is deavored to keep the late President Roosevelt and you, Mr. Presi-
more intensely and defend ourselves," the broadcast said.
president of East Central States dent. informed of the true position in Palestine. and of the natural
rights owned by the Arab people in this country for more than
Britain Plans No Criminal Proceedings Against Terrorists
Region of Jewish Federations.
LONDON (JTA)—The Palestine government does not intend
1,000 years."
to institute at the present time any criminal proceedings against
"I have never ceased to point out the Jews were aggressors
Rabbi
P.
S.
Bernstein
individuals named in the British White Paper of July 24, 1946,
from the start," King Ibn Saud wrote. "Their ambitions. which
which charged that members of the Jewish Agency executive Gets Divinity Degree
know no bounds, have now been extended beyond the Palestine
were implicated in terrorist activities in Palestine, Arthur Creech-
boundaries, threatening neighorhood Arab countries, even to within
Jones, Colonial Secretary, announced in Commons.
the confines of our holy lands. - King Ibn Saud has previously fre-
Richard R. Stokes, Labor, suggested that the Jewish Agency
quently stated he has no fear of the Jews whom he boasts he could
be closed. In response to a question from the floor. Creech-Jones
destroy in a single battle.
asserted he was in no position to prevent "terrorists" who escaped
"I am quite certain. - the letter continues, "that the American
across the Palestine borders from reaching Paris, where the Agency
people who have shed their blood and spent their wealth in resist-
has set up a new headquarters. Another questioner suggested that
ing
aggression
cannot now permit this Zionist aggression against a
suspected Palestinian terrorists might be moving through Europe
friendly Arab country whose only fault was to believe in the prin-
with UNRRA passports.
ciples of justice and who have given thousands of her sons to fight
President Truman's reply to Prime Minister Attlee's letter
for the Allied cause to which you and your great predecessor have
regarding the President's reiterated demand for the immediate
admission of 100,060 Jews from Europe to Palestine goes into
contributed so much."
great detail on the question of Jewish immigration to Palestine,
it was learned here.
The text of the reply is still secret. but it is understood Truman
insisted on the opening of Palestine to 100.000 displaced Jews and
emphasized again that the U. S. is ready to assume responsibility
in helping these Jews reach Palestine.
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson has cabled the. U. S. consulate in Paris to grant
a visitor's visa to Dr. Moshe Sneh, member of the Jewish
Agency executive, to whom the consulate denied a visa
earlier.
Dr. Sneh is expected to arrive in the U. S. in time to
address the convention of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica which opens this Friday at Atlantic City.
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Introducing .. .
Arabs Call Strike on 23th Anniversary of Balfour Declaration
JERUSALEM (JTA)-!-The Palestine Arab Higher Committee
has issued a call for a general strike of Arabs throughout Palestine
for Nov. 2. the 29th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. The
RABBI PHILIP S. BERN-
Higher Committee has asked the neighboring Arab states to join STEIN, (right), special adviser on
in the strike.
Jewish affairs to the Command-
Hashomer Hatzair pamphlets urging the Jewish population to
take active measures against terrorists were destroyed in Tel Aviv ers of the U. S. Occupation Forces
by a group of young Jewish boys who also attempted to set fire in Germany and Austria, on leave
from Temple Brith Kodesh,
to the shop in which the pamphlets were stored.
A second attempt within two days to cut the main British Rochester, N. Y., receives the
Army - telegraph line from Jerusalem to Haifa was discovered by honorary Doctor of Divinity di-
linesmen repairing the underground cable.
ploma from DR. STEPHEN S.
WISE (left). president of the
Iraq Detains Shanghai Chief Rabbi En Route to Palestine
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Chief Rabbi Meir Ashkenasi of Shanghai Jewish Institute of Religion,
revealed on his arrival here last week that Iraqui authorities N. Y., at the opening exercises
detained him for several days when the plane on which he was of the 25th academic year. DR.
traveling from India touched at Basra, and refused to allow him H. SLONIMSKY. (center), dean. I
to proceed to Palestine. After intervention by the British Ambassa- presented Rabbi Bernstein (class
dor, Rabbi Ashkenasi was permitted to return to India, where he of 1926) for the degree.
boarded a plane which flew non-stop to Palestine.
GI 'Camp Pittsburgh'I the store for Boys and Girls
Shipped to Zion to
Ease Housing Crisis
AJA Funds Help • Purchase
Barracks in France to
Go Up in Palestine
Fully-equipped U. S. Army
Camp "Pittsburgh - which during
the war housed a division of
American GI's in France has been
arriving in r alestine in disman-
tled sections and will be recon-
structed shortly to accomodate
more than 30,000 Jewish immig-
rants, according to a cable re-
ceived by Rudolf G. Sonneborn,
associate chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal.
Sonneborn said his organization
"purchased Camp 'Pittsburgh'
lock, stock and barracks on be-
half of the Jewish Agency as an
important step towards the solu-
tion of Palestine's housing prob-
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