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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 13, 1946
Labor iZionists Open
Office on LinwOod
World Zionist Plan Fight
For S oNtdown on Palestine
Morris Lieberman, chairman of
the Detroit Central Committee of
LZOA-Poale Zion, announces
that the committee opened an
office at 9142 Linwood. The
committee was instituted by the
affiliate Detroit Labor Zionist
Organization to coordinate ac-
tivities in Detroit. The affiliate
bodies are the- five branches of
L. Z. O. _
- Poale Zion, four
branches- of Jewish National
Workers Alliance, nine Pioneer
Women Organization clubs and
the youth organizations. Infor-
mation may be obtained by call-
ing the office; TY. 8-2770.
Militant Congress Delegates Voice DeMands for Free
Immigration; Action May Lead to Proclamation
of Jewish Goverriment in Exile
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"revolt" against those who hitherto negotiated patiently with
the British.
Dr. Weizmann received 191 votes, being the only- can-
didate propbsed for the Congress executive by the execu-
tive committee. There were 48 votes — mostly Revisionist —
cast against him, and 136 abstained from voting,—this over-
whelming opposition trencl ,,)
strengthening the hands of considerable speculation. Review-
American delegates who, un- ing Jewish martyrdom and efforts
der the leadership of Dr. Abba to rebuild Palestine, Dr. Weiz-
Hillel Silver, president of the mann said:
"Remember, we are going to
have a Jewish State, if not in my
generation then in the next."
Some delegates interpreted the
statement as indicating the Zionist
leader does not expect present
Dr. Silver • charged in his ad- demands for a Jewish State will
dress on Tuesday that President be realized.
In his opening address to the
Truman had "faltered" time and
again in his demands for the Congress on Monday night, Dr.
realization of American commit- Weizmann declared emphatically
ments to the Jewish people with only the establishment of a Jewish
regard to Palestine, but he as- state will settle the existing
serted that Mr. Truman "took a problem.
Condemns Federation
far more positive attitude than
his predecessor," especially in Dr. Weizmann condemned the
dealing with ring Ibn Saud's Morrison federation plan which,
protestations against Jewish as- he said, must be rejected "with-
pirations and rights in Palestine. out hesitation or reserve." He
He charged Roosevelt and Tru- called this plan a modified white
man had given "lip service" to paper.
Zionism.
Asserting that - terrorism in-
Session In Uproar
sults our history," Dr. Weizmann
An effort to nominate Dr. repudiated the acts of the small
Stephen S. Wise for the Congress terrorist group in Palestine as
presidency failed and when shouts "abhorrent," and charged "irre-
of "Jewish fascism" were heard sponsible groups are gambling
when two Revisionists were elect- with the Jewish future."
ed to the presidum, the session Leaders of various Zionist
went into an uproar. J. K. Gold- groups among the more than 300
bloom of London thereupon made delegates attending the Congress
a plea for unity :n Zionist ranks. last weekend opened negotiations
Dr. Silver declared in his ad- concerning-the composition of the
dress that President Truman did Jewish - Agency executive, which
_ - -nat commit the U. S. to the Jewish will be set up following the elec-
Agency proposal but that he tion by the Congress of a world
merely said the U. S. government Zionist executive. Leaders of the
will. support a compromise be- General Zionists offered a . pro-
tweets._ the Agency plan•auld the posal under which there would
' ation plan." He declares be no president of the Jewish
liaderattz
' 411r-la -too early to say how firm Agency in the future, but a du-
and persistent Secretary of State umvirate composed of a represen-
Byrnes will be in pressing for, tative of the General Zionists and
Jewish rights in Palestine and for of the Laborites.
a just early solution of the Pales-
Offer Compromise
tine problem," and added Mr. This proposal was considered
full by the Laborite delegation which
Byrnes now understands,
gravity and urgency of he situ- offered the following compromise:
ation.
Dr. Weizmann is to become
He praised Mr. Truman for honorary president, the executive
dealing forthrightly for the first to be divided into three sections.
time- with the "unwarranted in- One section would have head-
tervention" of Ibn Saud in Pales- quarters in Washington, the sec-
tine affairs. but summed up U. S. ond in Jerusalem, the third in
policy on Palestine since 1939 as London. It was suggested that Dr.
being "near a benevolent neu- Silver become the head of the
trality."
American section; David Ben
Inadequate Effort
Gurion, head of the Jerusalem
Blaming Jewish organizations section, and Moshe Shertok of
_ in American for failing to con- the London section.
Vince the American government
The Laborite counter-proposal
of the necessity of removing the was unfavorably received by the
Jews from Europe after the war, General Zionist leaders since they
Dr. Silver criticized the U. S. for consider that this would give Dr.
its inadequate effort in solving Weizmann an opportunity to re-
the "greatest humanitarian prob- main the actual head of the Jew-
lem in modern history," and as- ish Agency and also, because the
serted the U. S. "could admit a Laborites would under this plan
quarter of a million Nazi and retain two-thirds of the leader-
Fascist war prisoners but not its ship in the executive.
Jewish allies."
Opposed to Dr. Silver
Dr. Silver praised the coopera-
Rabbi Judah L. Fishman, mem-
tion of all Zionist groups in the ber of- the executive, announced
U. S. in the Emergency Council he will not participate either in
and the work of the American
an executive or a triumvirate to-
Jewish Conference, saying the
with "a reform rabbi who
latter triumphed over the "esti- gether
gial oligarchy of self-appointed is preaching on Sundays," ob-
viously referring to Dr. Abba
Hofjuden."
The presidium of .16 under the Hillel Silver. His statement pro-
chairmanship of Dr. Weizmann voked dissatisfaction among lead-
includes four Mizrachists, four ers of the Mizrachi World Organ-
Mapai, four general Zionists, two ization, of which he is the repre-
Revisionists and one of Hashomer resentative in the executive. A
Hatzair. The American members meeting of the Mizrachi leaders
are: Mrs. Judith Epstein of Hadas- was held and it was decided to
sah, Dr. Silver of the General await the opinion of Rabbi Meir
Zionists, Dr. Haym Greenberg of Berlin, now in Jerusalem, wheth-
the Labor Zionists and Dr. Joseph er he favors the re-election of
Dr. Weizmann as president, or
Schechtman, • Revisionist.
the creation of a World Zionist
Weizmann Attacked
A `Revisionist spokesnian at- triumvirate with Dr. Silver as
tacked Dr. Weixmann and held one of its members.
Not a Candidate
him responsible for the present
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
"catastrophic situation." Anti-Re-
visionists maintained the Revi- learned from reliable sources Dr.
sionists should not be permitted Weizmann Bas indicated he does
to participate in the Congress not wish to be a candidate for
because they had not dissolved any office in the Zionist move-
ment.
' the New Zionist Organization.
Shertok, head of the political
A cryptic statement by Dr.
Weizmann during memorial ser- department of the Agency, ad-
vices fof the 6,000,000 martyrs in dressed the world conference of
Europe, on Monday night, aroused Zionist Laborites. He - empha-
sized while the Palestine Labor
Party interprets the —Biltmore
Declaration to mean a Jewish
State must be established in Pal-
estine, it is not rejecting the pos-
sibility of participation in the
conference on Palestine which is
to be resumed soon in London.
Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, are battling for a new po-
litical course and for possible
control of the World Zionist
-
Qrganization.
Shaarey Zedek Plans
Luncheon to Complete
Scholarship Campaign
rallies will be held every Wed-
nesday morning at Shaarey Ze-
deck from 10 to 12:30 to be fol-
lowed by brunch.
The Hershman-Adler Torah
Scholarship Fund sponsored by
the Sisterhood of Cong. Shaarey
Zedek will culminate in a lunch-
eon Wednesday, Feb. 12, accord-
ing to - Mrs. Carl S. Schiller and
Mrs. Reuben Allender.
A cantata with a cast of over
50 will be featured on the pro-
gram, under the direction of Can-
tor Jacob Sonenklar and Mrs.
Morris Adler.
The fund, which is a perman-
ent scholarship to the Jewish
Theological Seminary, takes care
of one student every year.
At a brunch held at the home
of Mrs. Schiller the following
chairmen were appointed:
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American Jews Honored
Formal presentation of certifi-
cates of sponsorship to three plots
of land in Jerusalem, honoring
Judge Morris Rothenberg, of
Philadelphia, president of the
American Jewish National Fund,
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president
of the Board of Deputies of Brit-
ish Jews, was made here at the
world conference of the JNF by
Dr. Abraham Granovsky, its
president.
Dr. Granovsky reviewed the
work in behalf of the JNF being
carried on throughout the world.
He praised the work of officials
and volunteer workers alike.
Elias Epstein, publicity director of
the JNF, delivered a report call-
ing for a new method of pub-
licizing the organization's work
and changing its appeal, in line
with the changed conditions
among the Jews of the world.
The conference urged the rais-
ing of a $40,000,000 fund for land
redemption.
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