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Britain's Ultimatum to Agency
Speeds Showdown on Palestine
Federations Endorse
Proposal to Expand
UJA Administration
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—The Council of Jewish Feder-
ations and Welfare Funds, in four-day session, endorsed
a project for the reconstruction of the administrative and
executive committees of the United Jewish Appeal, provid-
ing for inclusion of representatives from local communities,
including New York, to the extent of one-
third the total membership of the UJA bodies.
The project, which has the endorsement
of the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint
Distribution Committee, the two principal
UJA partners (the third is United Service for
New Americans) was presented by a com-
mittee headed by Abraham Srere of Detroit.
This plan makes the UJA administration
nationally representative. It provides that
one-third of the representatives on the UJA MR. SRERE
executive shall be from UPA, one-third from
JDC and one-third from local Jewish communities.
The approximately 1,000 Jewish leaders, representing
800 communities in all parti of this country and Canada,
attending the General Assembly, heard Dr. Philip Klein of
the New York School of Social Work outline the role of the
Welles Says U.S.
Influence Could •
Aid Jewish Cause
NEW YORK, (JTA)—"The
influence of the U. S. can still
bring about a settlement
which will result in the
prompt establishment of that
Jewish National Home prom-
ised to the Jewish people 29
years ago and repeatedly and
officially favored by Presi-
dents of the U. S. and by joint
resolutions of Congress,"
f o r m e r Under-Secretary of
State Sumner Welles said in
a message to 500 delegates at-
tending a conference of the
United Organizations for the
Palestine Pioneers.
The meeting condemned the
threatened British military
action against the Jews of Pal-
estine and pledged full sup-
port to the Jewish Agency in
its "political struggle for a
free Jewish Commonwealth."
Speakers included Don
Pines, editor of the Palestine
Hebrew daily Davar, and
Joseph Baratz, former Chief
Welfare Officer of the Jewish
Brigade and a Palestinian
labor leader.
(Continued on Page 5)
JERUSALEM (JTA) —The entire Jewish community
of Palestine—and world Jewry—today awaited Great
Britain's next move affecting the Yishuv, as the time limit
on the British seven-day ultimatum that the entire member-
ship of the Irgun group be rounded up was nearing the
deadline. The seven-day limit expires next Monday
morning.
The ultimatum, submitted to the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, drew sharp replies from Jewish leaders.
The High Commissioner's message to the Agency is
interpreted as a warning that the Jewish Agency will be
liquidated if it does not comply in the latest demand and
martial law may be imposed upon the country. While the
execution of Dov Gruner is believed to have been postponed
for weeks, pending new appeals in his behalf, tension has
gripped the entire land.
(The U. S. State Department is reported to have registered a
protest against imposition of martial law in Palestine.)
(A JTA cable from London on Tuesday stated Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin, in his next meeting with Jewish
leaders, will indicate how far Britain is prepared to go in
demands for the establishment of an independent Jewish
State. Govern!. :lent circles in London reveal the British
Cabinet on Tuesday decided to impose a compromise fed-
eralization plan on Palestine).
The Jewish Agency, in a preliminary statement con-
cerning the "ultimatum" issued by High Commissioner
Cunningham, declares:
"Chief Secretary Sir Henry L. Gurney's letter has im-
mediately been communicated to Agency members in Lon-
don, New York and Washington. A reply will be sent in due
course, and the Agency Executive therefore does not pro-
pose at this stage to enter into very grave matters contained.
in the letter. But it can not refrain from taking strong ex-
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Mrs. Wineman, Mrs. Broder to Lead Women
In Securing $500,000 Toward 1947 AJC Goal
Mme. Spaniaard, Vandercook
Spur Workers to Support UJA
"So much must be done for those who have suffered
so long that I regret the UJA goal is not larger than a is."
—Henry Morgenthan Jr.,
General Chairman, United Jewish Appeal.
Recommending to their executive commitee a goal of
$500,000, the members of the Women's Division of the Jewish
Welfare Federation have pledged themselves to support, to
the fullest extent, Detroit's unprecedented irreducible mini-
mum of $5,335,000 for the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign.
The recommendation was
made by Mrs. Harry Beck-
er, acting as spokesman for
the group, at the Division's
"Accent on Youth" lunch-
eon meeting Jan. 30 at the
Statler Hotel.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich,
head of the Women's Di-
vision, presiding at the
luncheon, announced the
appointment of Mrs. H. C.
Broder and Mrs. Henry
Wineman as co-chairmen of
the women's campaign.
Mrs. Ehrlich sketched the
year-old history of the di-
vision, and paid tribute to
the volunteer efforts of the
hundreds of workers, not-
ing especially the work of
Mrs. Julian Kro
MRS. HENRY WINEMAN
She also emphasized the
rapidly-growing interest of
the young mothers in the community, who were represented
at the speakers' table by Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner, program
chairman.
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—Photo by Paul Idrsch, Jewish News Photographer.
MRS. H. C. BRODER and three of her co-workers in the
Women's Division. Left to right: MRS. BENJAMIN JAFFE, MRS.
BRODER, MRS. LEONARD WEINER and MRS. HARRY L JONES.
The women undertook to raise $500,000 as Theit share in the forth-
coming Allied Jewish Campaign.
Dr. Weizmann
Breaks Silence,
Offers New Plan
LONDON, (JTA) — Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, breaking the self-im-
posed silence' he has maintained
since the close of the World Zion-
ist Congress, said the Zionist ex-
ecutive had erred in deciding to
shun the Palestine Conference in
favor of , informal talks, in out-
lining a new plan for Palestine.
Speaking before the annual
meeting of the Zionist Federation.
of Great Britain and Ireland, the
former president of the Jewish.
Agency, who left Tuesday for 4.-
Palestine, pointed out that had
the executive participated in the .
Palestine Conference, it would
have been joined by non-Zionist
Jewish organizations from whom 4,
it could have drawn additional
strength.
Dr. Weizmann said abrogation
of the White Paper is prerequi-
site to a new arrangement con.
cerning Palestine, which could
be either a return to the spirit
and letter of the mandate, or—
if the government believes the
mandate is unworkable—a new
plan which would provide the
following: Transfer of European
Jews, and a section of Oriental
Jewry, to Palestine within 15
years; colonization in an adequate
area of Palestine, if all of the
country cannot be settled; and
assurances from the government,
that the part of the country giv
en to the Jews ultimately will be-
come a Jewish state.
Dr. Weizmann warned the pre-
sent stand of the Jewish Agency
executive, which he said was de.
manding the whole of Palestine,
but privately agreeing to parti•
tion, involved -the danger of not
getting either.