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0 ist Congress May Proclaim
Jewish Government in Exile'
Truman Establishes
Civil Rights Committee
WASHINGTON (JTA)—An executive order 'creating a 15-
member Civil Rights Committee to combat hatred and intolerance
in the U. S. was issued by President Truman. The new body was
directed to study and recommend new civil rights legislation and
ether measures "to. protect all parts of the population" in the U. S.
and submit its recommendations to the President.
The committee, headed by C. E. Wilson, president of General
Electric Co., includes Rabbi Roland G. Gittelsohn of New York
City, recipient of the Navy Commendation Medal for his serv-
ices as Jewish chaplain of the Fifth Marine Division at Iwo Jima;
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; Morris Ernst, N. Y. lawyer and author,
and Boris Shishkin, economist for the AFL and a former member
et the FEPC.
President Truman's order reads in part:
"Freedom from fear is more fully realiZed in our country than
is any other on the face of the earth. Yet all parts of our popula-
tion are not equally free from fear. And from time to time, and in
some places, this freedom has been threatened. It was so after the
last war ...
. "Today, freedom front fear, and the democratic institutions
which sustain it, are again under attack.
`The preservation of civil liberties is a duty of every govern-
lauprit—state, Federal and local . ..
"I have, therefore,
issued • an executive order creating the
.
Pmsident's Committee on Civil Rights and I am asking this corn-
Inittee to prepare for rite a written 'report . . ."
Byrnes, Bevin
Wait Congress'
Partition Action
While the final decision on
Jewish participation in the Lon-
don Conference on Palestine,
now postponed to January, rests
with the World Zionist Congress,
the issue is being forced to a
head as a result of negotiations
conducted by U. S. Secretary of
State Byrnes and Britain's For-
eign Secretary Bevin.
The exchange of correspond-
ence between them addressed re-
spectively to "Dear Ernest" and
"Dear James," indicate a deter-
mination on the part of the U. S.
and Britain to cooperate in solv-
ing the Palestine problem. Mr.
Byrnes stated "our government
will send an observer to the Jan-
uary meeting providing both
Jews and Arabs will participate
in a discussion of the partition
proposaL"
In his request for an assurance
that Britain would consider the
suggested partition plan, Byrnes
was informed by Bevin the lat-
ter's government does not regard
itself a;_epmglitted,, in advance _to
any proposals.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, prior
to leaving to attend the sessions
of the World Zionist Congress,
conferred -with Mr. Bevin in New
York.
Silver Attacks U. S.
Policy as 'Benevolent'
(Special Cable to The Jewish News)
BASLE, Switzerland.—Decisive militant trends, in evi-
dence here at public sessions of the 22nd World Zionist Con-
gress, in the lobbies and the caucus meetings, point to a
trend among delegates which may lead to the proclamation
of a Jewish government in exile, permitting Jewish com-
munities throughout the world to battle for the right to
issue immigration certificates to Palestine. This may mean
the setting up of Jewish Agency headquarters outside of
Palestine and the adoption of a program which was advo-
cated by the Revisionists prior to their withdrawal from
Congresses 15 years ago.
Unanimity exists among delegates that a Jewish state
must be set up in Palestine at once as the only means of
solving the existing Jewish problems and of easing the ten-
sion created by obstacles set up by the British in Palestine.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Or-
ganization and of the Jewish Agency, was firm in establish-
ing this as the keynote of the Congress.
Vascilating Policies Condemned by Delegates
Condemnation of vascilating policies of both the British
and United States governments indicated the delegates are
in an angry mood over the horrible conditions facing world
Jewry and the failure of Allied powers to assure a satis-
factory solution facilitating the settlement• of hundreds of
thousands of Jews in Palestine.
The election of Dr. Weizmann to the presidency of the
Congress by a bare majority of the delegates was further
proof of the emergence of a spirit of militancy and of a
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Hanukah, Period of Rejoicing
And Dedication to Rescue Work
Hanukah's observance, to commence Tuesday evening, Dec. 17, will usher in a
period of rejoicing over the Maccabaean triumph 2,111 years ago, and of gift-giving.
For Jews in democratic countries like ours, Hanukah in the year 5707 represents
a new challenge, resulting from the call to American Jewry to raise $170,000,000 dur-
ing 1947 for the United Jewish Appeal's three great relief and reconstruction agencies:
Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and United Service for New
Americans.
Hanukah is the ideal time to plan gifts for the survivors like those pictured here:
• The good food provided at recess for Jewish school children (left) in Hungary
by the Joint Distribution Committee.
• Shipment of Torahs to Jewish communities overseas. The photograph (lower
left) shows rabbis from 33 French cities holding the Sifre Torah presented to them
by JDC, at special ceremonies at the Grand Synagogue of Paris.
• More than 70,000 Jewish children throughout Europe, cared for by JDC, also
are given a thorough Jewish education. The photo (below) shows Jewish orphans,
living in a home at La Varenne, outside Paris, diligently learning the Hebrew alpha-
bet and the history of our people.
Continuation of these efforts will depend upon the uninterrupted successes of
United Jewish Appeal drives, including the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit.