Page Nino 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 (Continued from Page 1) "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: KAIDONSICICICOMISICIMICACISICILIMIS for " for P roVerbial Something Different" Miff, Special gifts, Mrs. Louis Tobin; pledge chairman, Mrs. Meyer Shugar- rnna; -records chairman, Mrs. Irving Miller; publicity. Mrs. George Bre- men; program chairman, Mrs. Aaron Silberblatt; miscellaneous contribu- tions, Mrs. Charles A. Smith; social chairman, Mrs. Jack Tobin; brunch rally hostesses, Mrs. Morris Halperin and Mrs. Ben Leflcovitz; arrange- ments, Miss Lillian Newmark and Mrs. William Nadler; cantata personnel chairmen, Mrs. Charles Perlman. Mrs. Morton Zuckerman and Mrs. Arthur Shubiner; treasurer, Mrs. Daniel 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. that GIFTS FOR THE DISCRIMINATING A One Sleek above Outer Drive X X At 1,500 Liversiois 'Pei. 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