One Irgun Hostage Freed:
Fear for Life of Collins
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Special Cable to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM • (JTA)—Immediately following a procla-
mation by Major Israel Rokach, of Tel Aviv, which was pub-
lished in all newspapers and posted on walls in public places,
the kidnappers of the British banker, H. I. Collins, and Judge
Ralph Windham, consented to release them Tuesday.
The proclamation was issued after High Commissioner
Cunningham held a conference 0
with Mayor Rokach. The mayor's leged the Zionist movement fell
appeal, which followed a severe into the hands of "demagogues."
curfew upon the Jews Of Pales- • Speaking in the House of Rep-
s de- resentatives in Washington, Rep.
tine, and the government'
cision to delay the execution of Jacob K. Javits (R.), of New
Dov Gruner, were vital factors York, called for implementation
in the sudden release of the hos- •of Congressional resolutions and
tages by the Irgun.
the Republican platform favoring
As this issue goes to press on the establishment of "a demo-
Wednesday, Windham has been cratic commonwealth in Pales-
released but Collins is missing tine" and suggested as a first step
and it is feared that he may have the dispatching of a mission to
died of overdoses of chloroform Palestine from the U. S. to aid
given him by the kidnappers.
the British in supervising "in-
A Palestine government deci- creased immigration and land set-
sion was reached to continue tlement and the resumption of
flogging youthful offenders of the land purchase by Jews."
law who are under 16.
• The official Palestine Gazette"
(In Washington, Palestine was revealed regulations have been
among the subjects discussed amended to permit the imposi-
over the week-end at the first .tion of flogging sentences only
meeting between President Tru- on persons under 16 years of age.
marf and Secretary of State The former age limit was 18.
• Palestine's annual budget of
.George MarshalL
(In London, Winsfon Churchill $92,000,000 is covered entirely by
said in Commons Palestine con- the people of Palestine through
stitutes the most important prob- income taxes and other revenues,
km in -Britain's foreign rela- Chief Secretary Curney revealed.
tions and pressed for special de- Jewish Palestine pays 70 per cent
bate on the subject.) of the country's tax.
• The Bergsonite American
League for a Free Palestine here
Latest Developments
and the Irgun Zvai Leumi in Pal-
In Palestine Situation
estine simultaneour:y attacked
the Jewish Agency and warned
Highlights of events effect-
that there would be civil war if
ing the situation in Palestine,
the Agency attempted to curb ex-
including occurrences in London,
tremist activities.
Washington and Jerusalem, are:
• Communist George E. Sokol-
410 Thirty-five hundred para- sky, writtng in the New York
troopers of the British Sixth Sun, charged the late President
Airborne Division sailed from Roosevelt with building up the
Haifa for England.
Arab League which may some
• The Anglo-Jewish Association day constitute a grave menace
has authorized its representatives to Judaic-Christian civilization.
to participate in the London con- • Former Rep. Joseph Clark
ference which opened on Monday. Baldwin, Administrative Chair-
• David Ben Gurion and Moshe man of the Political Actions Com-
Sneh arrived in London from mittee for Palestine, stated here
'Jerusalem and Moshe Shertok that he had "read with amaze-
from New York to take part in ment the 'Davar' extract in the
talks with British officials.
Herald Tribune on Jan. 20 that
• In a statement made in Lon- the Political Actions Committee
don, Emanuel Neumann asserted is already disintegrating because
American Zionists do not encour- of its disagreement over my re-
age the terrorists but they sup- port as presented to President
port the settlement of visaless _Truman."
immigrants. He asserted, "We in- • Meyer Weisgal, secretary gen-
tend to save as many Jewish lives eral of the American office of
as possible, regardless of obsta- the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
announced his resignation from
cles or costs."
• The Jewish Agency and the that post, which he had held since
Jewish National Council have de- establishment of the office in
clared they do not contemplate 1943.
"shooting between Jews," in ex- • Commenting on a_ statement by
planation of the decisions to im- Dr. Emanuel Neumann. That U. S.
plement anti-terrorist resolutions. Zionists were prepared to spend
• Colonial Secretary Arthur millions of dollars financing il-
Creech-Jones, in a statement in legal immigration of Jews into
the House of Commons, charged Palestine, Lessing J. Rosenwald,
lack of cooperation on the part president of the Amer'ican people
of the Palestine Jewish commu- were entitled to know that_this
nity has blocked conviction of shocking disregard for law and
extremists. He reported 73 Britons order did not reflect the senti-
were killed in Palestine in 1946. ments of all Americans of Jewish
• Terrorist raids are reported to faith."
have cost the Palestine govern- • William B. Z i f f, recently,
ment $2,400,000 last year, and this named co-chairman of the .Amer-
is being charged to taxes to be ican League for a Free Palestine.
derived from Jews.
told a Washington press confer-
• A spokesman for the Jewish ence that the U. S. has a moral
resistance movement told corre- and physical obligation to "look
spondents in Paris that more than into" the situation in Palestine.
20,000 visaless Jews have reached • Progressive circles in the Near
Palestine since the end of the East are reported gravely con-
war.
cerned at the growing political
• Rashid Ali el Gailani, leader influence of Dr. H. Schoul, one of
of the pro-Nazi Iraqi revolt in Hitler's attending physicians,
1941, has been granted Saudi Ara- who recently arrived in Cairo.
bian citizenship and will lag
named councillor to the Arabian
delegation in Cairo.
• New threats have been made
against - Jews by anti-Semites in
Fa,gland and the police are in-
vestigating warnings of new des-
• Motor Tune Up
ecrations of synagogues.
• In an address in New York,
• 'yoke Service
Dr. Ralph C. Hutchinson, in a
greeting to Prince Saud, 1bn
• Accessories
Saud's eldest son, praised Saudi
Arabian "spiritual values."
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(It is pointed out the nature
of the "spiritual values is at-
tested by the fact Saudi Arabia
"'punishes petty offenders by
chopping off their hands and
that that country has no legal
bar.") -
In London, Leonard Stein, head
of the non-Zionist Anglo-Jewish
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Association, one-time Zionist, "a-
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 31, 1947
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UN. 2-9621
Abba Gordin to Address
Kvutzah Ivrith Saturday
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out the country will be urged to
re dedicate themselves to the
and principles of the
ideals
Honor Boy Scouts
Scout Oath and Law, and above
Feb. 8 has been designated as
all to the Twelfth Scout Law:
Boy Scout Sabbath by the Syn-
A Scout is Reverent. He is
agogue Council of America.
to,ard God. He is laith-
lid in his religious duties. and
During Boy Scout Anniversary
respects the convictions of oiheis
Synagogues, Centers
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Kvutzah Ivrith will be address-
ed by Abba Gordin, noted author
and lecturer, this Saturday eve-
ning, in the auditorium of the
Rose Sittig Cohen Building, on
in 'natters of custom and
the subject "Everlasting Peace," Week._ Feb. 7-13, Scouts through-
as promulgated by the prophets
of old and as conceived by the
Jewish sages.
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Youth Festival Mar. 2
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Louis Marshall B and P Group
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at the Belcrest Hotel.
Ruth Feinstein is chairman of
the dance committee. Music
will be furnished by Dave Dia-
mond and Les Ryder.
New members are welcome.
Admission for gentlemen is $1.
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