President Truman's reply to
King Ilm Saud of Saudi Arabia
heartened the Jews of the world
and provided strongest proof that
the U. S. government means busi-
ness in its established policy. de-
manding immediate admission of
100,000 European survivors and
supporting the Jewish Agency plan
for the creation of a Jewish State in
65 per cent of the mandated terri-
tory of Palestine.
(See Story on Page 5)
Convention Demands
Undivided Palestine;
ZOA Re-elects Silver
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor, The Jewish News
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Militant defiance of all
obstacles which may be placed in the path of building
the Jewish State in Palestine. whether interference
comes from Jews who offer compromises or from
opponents in London, Washington and Jerusalem, be-
came the dominant policy of the Zionist Organization
of America as a result of action taken at the 49th
annual convention under the leadership of Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, who was re-elected president.
The movement's expressed militancy developed as a
result of the internal conflict that has been raging for
several months between Dr. Silver and Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, spokesman for the Executive of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, the question of partition as pro-
posed by the Agency being the motivating element in
the controversy.
Action on Partition Avoided
—Photo? by Paul Kirsch;" Jewish News Photographer
Jewish National Fund leaders greet EDGAR
ANSEL MOWRER, " foreign correspondent who
spoke on the Palestine situation at Shaarey Zedek
last week and JUDGE FRANK A. PICARD, chair-
man of the Michigan Christian Palestine Commit-
tee, who was presented with a certificate signify-
ing that his name has been inscribed in the
JNF Golden Book in appreciation of his efforts
in behalf of the Jewish cause in Palestine. Left
to right are WILLIAM HORDES. chairman of
the Jewish National Fund Council of Detroit:
Judge Picard; MRS. JACK ROSENTHAL, chair-
man of the annual donor event of the JNF
Ladies Auxiliary; MRS. IRVING SHEVIN, presi-
lent " of the auxiliary: Mowrer and MRS.
PHILIP CUTLER, pist president of the auxiliary.
Cullen Inscribes Mowrer's
Name in JNF Golden Book
The name of Edgar Ansel Mowrer,,
eminent foreign correspondent. was in-
scribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish
National Fund last week by Daniel G.
Cullen of Detroit.
Deeply moved by the message for a
Jewish Palestine brought here by Mr.
Mowrer, at the meeting at the Shaarey
Zedek on Oct. 22, arranged by the JNF
Council of Detroit, Mr. Cullen contributed
a sum for the redemption of five dunams
of land in Palestine, thus providing for
a Golden Bog inscription.
World News Service Photp
LEARING A TRADE: The great majority of Jews of Poland
are now living in Upper and Lower Silesia, where jobs are
easier to rind and conditions generally much better than in the
rest of the country. Above, two teen-aged boys learning the
textile trade. (In America these boys would be in schooL)
The Red Feather Drivels On
While outright action on partition was avoided by
the convention, Dr. Silver having indicated in his
presidential address and in a statement to the political
committee that "there is no definite proposal for par-
tition and therefore no such issue exists," the major
convention •resolutions carried out the wishes of the
president of the ZOA; they called for the reaffirmation
of the historic claims of the Jews "tb the whole of man-
-dated Palestine, undivided and undiminished," and
condemned Britain's unlawful attempts to destroy these
rights.
Delegates to the World Zionist Congress scheduled
to open Dec. 9 in Basle, Switzerland, were instructed
"to pursue a firm policy" for the "early re-establish-
ment of the Jewish state." The Jewish Agency w ias
called upon to continue to refuse to participate in the
London conference on Palestine unless adequate assur-
ance is given for the furtherance of immediate immi-
gration and the early establishment of the Jewish
state. The entire issue thus goes to the world Zoinist
Congress for airing.
Favor Special Parley in U. S.
While .delegates - voted down a proposal for the con-
vening of a special ZOA convention to deal with the
problem 9f partition when it arises, they voted in
favor of a: demand that a special World Zionist Con-
gress be held in the U. S. to deal with partition when
it becomes a matter for action by the Zionist move-
ment.
These major convention actions followed debates
which did not hide existing bitterness between two
contending factions in the movement one represented
by Dr.' Goldmann which claims to speak for the over-
whelming opinion of the Jewish Agency, and that of
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Dr. Silver.
World News Service Photo
EXPERIENCED HANDS: Above are two of the many Jewish
women who have found jobs in the textile mills. Their hands,
like their minds and rest of their bodies numbed by the torture
suffered in Concentration camps, readily became adapted to the
work which they had performed in prewar years.
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