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'THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday. January 3, 1947

Nathany Holds Strike
To Protest British Rioting

Agency Labels
Husseini 'Call'
Violence Threat

Palestine Authorities Resent
Congress' Extremist Turn

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Palestine authorities were
unpleasantly surprised by the resolutions adopted at the
Zionist Congress, and feel that they represent an unantici-
pated turn towards extremism, thq.newspaper Hatzofe says.
It reports top officials of, the Palestine government closely
followed the Congress developments, and the secretariat re-
mained up the whole night during the closing session to await
word on the political resolutions.
Warning that the recent cessation of terrorist activities
was "not an armistice, but a pause to enable the Zionist Con-

gress to adopt its resolutions. without pressure," the Irgun
Zvai Leumi this week demanded strict implementation of the

decisions taken at Basle.
In a broadcast on its underground radio, the extremist

organization said that if the resolutions adopted by the Con-
gress are "followed up by a fight on all fronts," they will be
of decisive importance. However, if inaction should continue,
"combined with incitement against the fighting forces," then

the "Basle resolutions will prove . to be only a camouflage

VIENNA, (JTA)—The Jewish
NATHANYA, Palestine, (JTA)
—A half-hour general strike was Central Committee in the U. S.
held here Dec. 27 to protest the zone of Austria submitted a form-

rioting by British officers and al request to large factories

troops of the Sixth Airborne Di- "Where Jewish slave labor was
Special Cable to The Jewish News
used during the Nazi regime urg-
LONDON, (JTA) — A Jewish vision, which left the main busi- ing that the administration of
ness section a shambles.

Agency spokesman here declared
that the "call to action" by Jamal
Husseini in Jerusalem is "an open
threat to violence." He said:
"Whereas in the Jewish commun-
ity threats of violence emanate
from small rebellious groups, we
have on the other hand sugges-
tions of direct action from the
head of the entire Arab com
munity."
In a second attack on a London
synagogue this month, vandals
Sunday night broke into the Del-
lis Hill Synagogue and destroyed
12 scrolls. The Ark was damaged

The soldiers, of whom there
were nearly 100, climaxed their
Boxing Day (post-Christmas hol-
iday) celebration by invading the
town in several military vehicles
and running riot.
The mayor of Nathanya, Oved
Ben Ami, met with the British
district commissioner, who prom-
ised an investigation.

(So‘:cial Cable to Jewish News)

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A Jewish Agency spokesman con-
demned the flogging of a British major and three non-com-
missioned officers and said the Agency opposes persons taking
the law in their own hands. He pointed out, however, the
Agency and the Vaad Leumi protested the corporal punish-
ment as the part of a court sentence against Benjamin Kim-
chin. Simultaneously, the Vaad Leumi sent another memo-
randum protesting "barbarous punishment" to High Com
missioner Cunningham.
The Municipal Council of Nathanya met in special session
and denounced the "mean deeds such as occurred in Nathanya,

these factories pay the Jewish
workers for the time they were
forced to work.
The Jewish Central Committee

pointed out that Jewish slave
laborers not only worked in war
industry, but were forced to
build roads and new apartment
houses for the civil population
and perform various other tasks.

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equivalent to surrender and the nation's destruction," the and an attempt was made to burn
broadcast said.
the building. An inscription on

Agency Condemns Flogging of 4 British Soldiers

Request Compensation
For Slave Laborers

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the wall read: "You whip, we
burn." This apparently referred
to the Irgun's whipping of Brit-
ish officers in Palestine. It is be-
lieved that this vandalism is
the act of a group of fascists
who call themselves "National
Guards" and who earlier this
month damaged a synagogue in
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especially when the victim al-
ways worked for better relations exists de facto if not de jure, it
between the army and the is therefore preferable from
Yishuv. -
every point of view that control
The British major and three over immigration be vested in
sergeants were abducted and Jewish hands, the paper con-
given 18 lashes each in retalia- elude
tion for the 18 lashes given Kim-
chin. 16. who was sentenced for , Egypt Reports Attempts
participation in a bank robbery. To Move Bodies of Assassins
CAIRO, (JTA)—Egyptian po-
Irgun Zvai Leumi, which 4
blamed for the retaliatory mea- lice reported that an attempt has
sures. last week warned that been made to remove the bodies
British officers would be whipped of Eliahu Hakim and Ephraim
if the lashing sentence on the Ben Zuri. who were executed
March 22. 1945, for the assassina-
young Jew were carried out.
In a message to Menahern tion in November, 1944, of Lord
Beigen. commander of the Irgun. Moyne. British resident minister
Rep. Joseph Clark Baldwin of in the Middle East.
Since their execution, guards
New York. leader of the Pales-
tine Political Action Committee. had been stationed at the grave
urged a truce in its acts and of the two youths. who were
asked that terrorism be held in members of a Palestine terrorist
abeyance while he informed organization, but the guards were
President Truman and the Amer- removed las' week. Police sus-
ican ocople of Zionist aims and pect that members of the organi-
Jewish conditions in Palestine. zation have been sent here to
Rep. Boldtvin recently visited in obtain the bodies.

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Arab Leader Assa s sinated
For Selling Land to Jews
750 Visaless Detainees
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — With
Sent to Athlit Camp
HAIFA (JTA)—The 750 visa- the assassination in Haifa by
less Jews. from Cyprus who ar- Arab terrorists of Sheikh Mo-
rived here Monday were sent to hammed Zeinati. the number of
Athlit to await their turn under Arabs killed in the past month
the quota. The group includes for selling land to Jews rose to
500 . women and children who ! four.
were shipwrecked on the Sirini.
Zeinati. an unofficial ambas-
sador in Palestine of King Ab-
dullah of Transjordan, was shot
Control Over Immigration
urged by London Times
by unknown assailants. Zeinati,
LONDON (JTA)—The London like Darwish Husseini, who was
Times. which has never support- the first victim of the new wave
ed the Zionist demands for free of terror, was an advocate of
Palestine immigration and for Arab-Jewish friendship.
An indication the Palestine
the establishment of a Jewish
State, came out with an editorial Government is considering its
proposing that Jews be given own plan to solve the impasse
control over immigration into a resulting from the failure of
Arabs and Jews to agree on a
partitioned Palestine.
Pointing out both Jews and blueprint for the administrative
Arabs have rejected the Morri- machinery of Jerusalem is seen.
son plan, and that the U. S. Announcing its refusal to ap-
favors the establishment of a prove projects for development
"viable Jewish state," the paper of the Jewish suburbs of Jeru-
appeals 10 the government "in salem, the government said that
justice alike to the requirements it could not approve any new
of the times and to British troops development schemes until it has
and police in Palestine to explore adopted a plan for governing the
the possibilitieis of a final solu- city.

tion, which almost certainly will
be found only through some
practical formula of partition?'
The editorial stresses the reso-
, lutions adopted by the Zionist
Congress at Basle mark "a cli.s-
ttubing new phase," revealint a
breach between the Zionist and
the British interpretations of the
mandate which will be most dif-
ficult to bridge." It hails, how-
ever, the resolutions condemning
terrorism, voicing the hope that
it will be effective, despite the
fact "that its influence will be
weakened by the endorsement of
the terrorists' objective: libera-
tion of an oppressed people.'
Since a Jewish state already

Bergson Going to Paris to Plan
`Provisional Jewish Government'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Peter
Bergson, chairman of the He-
brew Committee of Liberation,
sailed for Paris this week to
head an office of the Committee
which is drawing up plans for a
"Jewish Provisional Government-
in-Exile."
Bergson, who has received
several extensions of his permit
to remain in the U. 5„ told a
press conference he has a re-
entry permit from tie State De-
partment.

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