World Jewry Waits Palestine Showdown
Following Ultimatum to Jewish Agency

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ception to the statement that resolutions adopted by JeWish
auhorities are merely purported to condemn bloodshed.
"There is no warrant whatever for this implied charge
of insincerity. The government phould be fully aware how
strongly the Agency and the Vaad Leumi condemn blood-
shed."
The British have begun assembling civilians from all of
Palestine in the Sarafend Army Base southwest of Lydda
in preparation for their evacuation. Police posts have been
established at every mile along the long winding road from
Jerusalem to Sarafend.
Asher Levitsky, Gruner's attorney, appealed in his be-
half privately to the Privy Council. Permission for a private
appeal was granted Mr. Levitsky by the Supreme Court
after it had rejected a motion for stay in execution atid
.prohibited his official appeal to the Privy Council.

Agency Appeals Against
Palestine Martial Law
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mrs.

Goldie Meyerson, head of the
political department of the Jew-
ish Agency in Jerusalem, appeal-
ed to the British government not
to impose martial law, "especially
now when- something tonstruc-
tive may spring from the present
London talks," but she rejected
British demands for large-scale
warfare by the Jewish commun-
ity agai,nst the extremists, declar-
ing that -'we refuse to plunge the
Yishuv into civil war."
Mrs. Meyerson's appeal came a
, few hours before the departure
of a plane carrying 40 British wo-
men and children to England, the
vanguard of the more than 2,000
who were evacuated this week.
(Menahem Beigin, 36-year-

Page Seven

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February 7, I947

Dr. Franzblau Heads
N. Y. College Branch

date on an equal basis with the
British.
In his address in Commons

last Friday, Churchill said: "We
have broken our pledges to the

State, U. S. Leaders Endorse Plans
For JWV Military Ball on Feb. 22

Mayor Edward J. Jeffries of
Detroit, Mayor Louis Brohl Sr.
of Wyandotte, Milton Richman,
national commander of Jewish
War Veterans, J. George Fred-
man, editor of Jewish Veteran,
and others, including local, state
and national leaders, have join-
ed in commanding the Michigan
Department of Jewish War Vet-
erans in its plans for the fourth
annual patriotic ball at the Ma-
sonic Temple on Feb. 22.
Veterans and other organiza-
tions are planning group attend-
ance at the dance which will
feature a 12-piece dance orches-
tra and a six-piece rhumba band.
There will be martial perfor-
mance by American Legion Lad-
ies Drill Team, accompanied by
the JWV Drill Team.
Thousands are expected at the
dance, 1,500 patrons' tickets hav-
ing been distributed. There will
be delegations from Flint, Wy-

DR. A. N. FRANZBLAII
Jews. We have not fulfilled
the promises made at the elec- The school of Religious Educa-
tion. The government has tion, a New York branch of the
proved incapable of carrying Hebrew Union College of CM-
I cinnati, sponsored by the College
them out."
In an address at the confer- and the Union of American He- I
ence of the Zionist Federation brew Congregations, opened in
of Great Britain, over which he New York for the training of
presided on Sunday. Barnett Dan- personnel for Reform Jewish con-
ner, Labor M. Pt, demanded Brit- gregations under the direction of
ain give power to the Jewish DEAN ABRAHAM N. FRANZ-
Agency to enable it to suppress BLAU, until recently professor
of religious education and pas-
terrorism, and he stated:
toral psychology at Hebrew Union
"We ought to make it clear we College, Cincinnati.
will not stand—any more than
any other civilized people—for
the destruction of our cause by Government's Consent
those who adopt tactics which
old head of Irgun, told Clay
Required for Baptism
are not in consonance with the y
Gowran of the Chicago Tribune
dignity and the duty of the Jew- i Of Youths in Britain
Press Service through an inter-
ish people."
mediary, in Jerusalem, the
Moshe Shertok. head of the LONDON (JTA) — The Arch-
evacuation order for civilians
Jewish Agency political depart- bishop of Canterbury announced
was unnecessary because the
ment, said "in London he was not that British clergymen who are
Irgunists will never lay a hand
too hopeful about the results of asked to baptize Jewish refugee
on women or children - in the
current British-Jewish talks. children must not do so without
Campaign against the British).
Colonial Secretary C r e e c h- first consulting the Home Office,
The Agency political spokes-
Jones admitted in Commons the which has been appointed the
man expressed regret at the
entire Jewish community of Pal- guardian of all such children.
evacuation order, declaring the
estine cooperated in the search
Writing in an official church
British women and children were
for the kidnapers of the two bulletin, he said: "Clearly these
in no danger. If the move was
Britishers.
children and yoinig peckple should
"contemplated to make an im-
Danner and Samuel Silverman, not be thus -divorced from . their •
pression on world-wide opinion.
we are sorry such methods are also a Laborite M. P., said they parental faith without consulta-
ti on with the person who is `loco
ro
being used," Mrs. Meyerson add- abhorred terrism,
but pointed
out it arose as a direct result of parentis . t o them."
•
ed.
the feeling of frustration of the
Jewish leaders, headed by Chief Palestine Jews who were not
Latin American World Jewish
Rabbi Isaac Herzog, continued permitted to extend a helping
Congress Sessions in March
their frantic efforts to persuade hand to their brethren in the
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,
Boy Gruner, condemned Irgunist, DP camps of Europe. Silverman
American con-
to sign an appeal to the Privy said it was futile to speak of a re- (JTA)—A Latin
Council. High Commissioner Sir turn of law and order to Pales- ference of the World Jewish Con-
Alan Cunningham has under con- tine There has been no law gress will open here March 20.
sideration a personal appeal for in Palestine since 1938," he said, The World Jewish Congress ex-
commutation of Gruner's sen- adding it is impossible for a gov- ecutive is expected to be repres-
ented by Dr. Stephen Wise, Dr.
tence made by Herzog and Chief ernment to carry on without the Nahum Goldmann and Dr. Ig-
Rabbi Ben Zion Uziel.
consent of the governed.
nacy Schwartzbart.
Gruner's lawyer has cabled Richard Crossman, Laborite
Henry Wallace Gen. DeGaulle and former member of the Anglo
and Georges Bidault, French for- American Committee on Pales- Jerusalem prison attacked Jews
eign minister, and other promin- tine, described the Irgiini;;ts as held for interrogation with knives
ent world figures asking them to semi-fascists who are being fought and broken bottles. An investiga-
appeal to the British government tooth and nail by organized Pal- tion has' been demanded by the •
estine Labor_ "We face the posi- Vaad Leumi..
to halt the execution.
tion where law and order can be • David Ben-Gurion. Mo s h e
restored only if the moderates Shertok, Emanuel Neuman, Prof.1
Stay of Execution
Selig trodetsky, Dr. Nahum
are . - 2 ngthened."
Eases Tension in Zion
Major Reginald Manningham- Goldmann and Berl Locker con-
Another stay of execution of
Conservative who also ferred with Foreign Secretary
Gruner,
Gruner, which was planned for sery ed on the Anglo-American Bevin and Colonial Secretary
Feb. 4. ordered on Monday, again
Creech-Jones for three hours re-
helped to ease the situation. commission, backed Stanley's garding Palestine's future status.
Despite pleadings by Chief Rabbi charge the government has had • Palcor reports that the Mufti
no policy on Palestine for the last
Herzog and his attorney, Gru- 18 _months. He said the govern- controlled Arab Higher Commit-
ner has insisted on becoming a merit was aware of the situation tee is moving its headquarters
martyr for the cause.
in November, 1945, and had no to Cairo, the plan being to launch
A statement was issued in be- for
for the commission. Since an Arab uprising in Palestine.
half of Haganah offering to stamp the inquiry group had rendered Palcor also reports that Palestine
out violence, providing the Brit- its report, the government had Arabs who oppose the Mufti are
ish government does not interfere continued to let the matter drift, arming to balk the Mufti's bid
for power and for new uprisings
in its actions.
he stated.
VA resume of other events against Jews.
" In Washington, - the State De-
• Dov Gruner's refusal to apply
affecting Palestine follows:
partment decided last week, that
for an appeal against his execu-
there were ample private facili- '• An order for $2,000,000 worth tion continued to mar Palestine's
ties aVailable for any U. S. citi- of American - machinery was peace. Jewish circles feel that
. zen to leaVe voluntarily. The placed in the• U. S. by American
the threat of martial law con-
_ State Department, acting on Palestine Trading Corp. AMPAL tinues to hang over the land.
recommendations from Lowell C. and the Palestine Economic Corp.
;Pinkerton, American Consul- • Dr. • Cyril Garbett, Archbishop
General in Jerusalem, indicated of York, asserted in his diocesan
_ . no special measures or organized organ that "justifiable anger"
evacuation program was neces- has been aroused not only by
sary_ Thus confidence is express- terrorism in Palestine but by
ed the 4,300 Americans in Pales- "reckless and unscrupulous sup-
port". given the extremists by
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tine are not in danger.
President Truman indicated it Jews in America and elsewhere.
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• The British Trades Union
is his belief Winston Churchill
Council told the JTA that it had
Cash and Carry
was expressing a personal opin.- not been approached by the
bap in urging the goveniment I Ministry of Labor for a discus-
to hand over responsibility for sion of the projected admission
Palestine to the United Nations to England of 80,000 displaced
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in the event the U. S. refuses to Jews.
share responsibility for the man- • Fifty Arab inmates of the

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All radio stations are cooper-
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Plan Patriotic Events
Post 135 of JWV is sponsoring
a special Lincoln Day patriotic
program, Feb. 10, at JWV Aud-
itorium, 8212 12th St. Command-
er David Kay of the post will
deliver the principal address.
David Gutman will sing. _ Re-
freshments will be served. All
JWV members and the public
are invited. A number of other
Posts and Auxiliaries are plan-
ning Lincoln and Washington
memorial programs.
Lt. Bale JWV Post 474 is par-
ticipating in the play-offs of
Class A League of the Highland
Park Basket Ball League. Lt.
Eli Levin and the Posts have
several dates open on their
schedules.

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