HE JEWISH NEWS Our Aim: Total Circulation and News Coverage of Jewish Events A Weekly Review VOLUME 10—NO. 21 2114 Penobscot Bldg. Detroit 26, Michigan, February 7, 1947 RA. 7956 34 _ 22 $3.00 Prepare to Give Most Liberally To 1947 Allied Jewish Drive . Per Year; Single Copy, 10c 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- (Continued on Page 7) Williti114111111111111MIIIIII9NUUMMIllit111111111111111111111111111MUIRM 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. (Continued *a Page'. - —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.