THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Six
Friday, February 14, 1947
U. S. Intervention in Palestine Situation
Predicted as British Heighten Tension
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Bevin Offers Immigration
In Proposal to Oust Agency
(Continued from Page 1)
colony, "Nachlin," Monday night, by Hashomer Hatzair, in
the Judean hills halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron.
Showdown on Palestine Seen Imminent
his execution. AS his sister, Mrs.
Helen Friedman of Lancaster, Pa.,
left for Palestine with the aid
of the Zionist Organization of
America, to induce her brother
to sign, an qppeal
f 9 r clemency,
appeals-were
sounded in hir
defense through-
out the world.
In New York.
the Jewish War
Veterans appeal-
ed to Prime MM-
ister Attlee to
commute Grun-
Palestine Issue to UN
The new plan was intended to shut off Jewish settlement
in the Negev, but the establishment of three new settlements
there by Jews on Feb. 6 was another indication Jews will not
submit to restrictions intended to stifle opportunities for
Palestines' development and colonization.
It is generally denied that Arabs in Palestine are pre-
paring for an uprising against Jews. Homer Bigart, N. Y.
Herald Tribune correspondent in Jerusalem, in several cables
to his newspaper, refuted such assumptions. (See editorial
quoting Mr. Bigart, Page 4).
The sealing by British of four Jerusalem security areas,
including the Jewish suburb of Rehavia to which Jews refer
as "Bevingrad," was described by Richard Stubbs, anti-Zionist
British spokesman, as a move for the protection of British
personnel. Meanwhile, thousands of Jews and Arabs have
been made homeless by evacuation orders.
A JPS-Palcor report from Jerusalem states:
"Arabs in Jerusalem and Haifa rallied to the aid of
their dispossessed Jewish friends with offers to accom-
modate them in their own homes, Dr. Fritz Mandl, a
prominent -Viennese-Jewish physician, who with his
family of eight, was ordered to leave his combination
home and clinic, was visited by Arab patients from a
nearby village who suggested the Mandl family and the
clinic be moved to their homes."
•
33 Pct. Britain's Dollar
Credit Comes From Palestine
LONDON, (JPS-Palcor )—One-
third, or $50,000,000, of Britain's
writing in the "London Diary"
column of the "New Statesman."
This, along with the fact he was
responsible for the Labor Party's
pre-election Palestine plank, is
er's sentence.
the reason for Chancellor of the
In Budapest, Mrs- Friedman Exchequer Hugh Dalton's distress
the city section of the World over present British policy in
Association of Hungarian Jews Palestine, the writer says.
cabled an appeal for commuta-
Winston Churchill, and Oliver
tion to High Commissioner Sir Stanley, onetime colonial min-
Alan Cunningham. In London, a ister, alleging Cabinet interfer-
firm of prominent British solici- ence with security arrangements
tors was instructed to file an ap- are really speaking for Field Mar-
peal with the Privy Council on shall Montgomery who has been
behalf of Gruner by Max Selig- in favor of martial law for Pales-
man, Palestine attorney.
tine, he says. Judging by the lat-
Gruner's attorney has cabled est news, "Critic" adds, those
former Senator Gillette to appeal views have prevailed in the Cabi-
to the UN to intervene in Grim- net, where three ministers sup-
er's case.
port Montgomery.
A showdown is imminent in the Palestine situation--:-
either by removal of British restrictions or presentation of
the case to the U. N. as a result of two actions by Jewish
leaders: Rejection of the ultimatum that Jews should help
ferret out Irgunists and thus become "informers," and re-
jection of the latest proposals by Foreign Secretary Bevin
whose plans also met with rebuffs from the Arabs.
Mr. Bevin's latest proposals would have provided for the
settlement of 96,000 Jews during the coming two years, pro-
vided Jews would accede to the liquidation of the Jewish
Agency—a demand that would put an end to Jewish authority
in relation to Palestine—and the acceptance of a five-year
trusteeship for Palestine under the United Nations. This plan
would crystalize the present geographical status of Jewish
settlements and would put an end for all to hopes for the
e s tablishment of a Jewish State.
Jewish leaders have rejected Britain's latest plan for the
solution of the Palestine problem, Arabs already having gone
on record against it. Neither side has found anything of merit
Arab League to Put
in the proposal.
3 New Settlements Established by Jews
Earlier, a cordon was thrown
around the Jewish fishing village
of Sdoth Yam.
Another group of 750 Cyprus
internees left for Palestine under
the monthly immigration sched-
ule.
CAIRO (JTA)—Azzam Pasha,
secretary general of the Arab
League, said on Tuesday the
Arab states will take the Pales-
tine question to the United Na-
tions after the failure of the
Palestine conference. He revealed
the Arab states considered this
action before the London parley
and said the Arabs will not con-
sider Palestine citizenship for
Jews who reached Palestine after
1939.
Palestine Government Won't
Impose Martial Law
JERUSALEM (JTA) — H igh
Commissioner Sir Alan Cunning-
ham informed the Jewish Agency
the Palestine government is not
planning to impose martial law
at present. Sir Alan said that the i
recent requisitioning of Jewish
buildings and the establishment
in Jerusalem and other cities of ;
heavily guarded government corn-
pounds were purely security i
measures.
Security restrictions in the four
"protected areas" of Jerusalem
where British civilians, police and
Refrain From Imposing Martial Law
From Jerusalem, London and Washington came assur- military personnel are now re- 1
siding, have disrupted the normal
ances the British would refrain from imposing martial law life of the city. No one is per-1
upon Palestine.
mitted to enter or leave the se-
Colonial Secretary Creech-Jones, in a statement to the curity zones without a pass bear- ;
House of Commons, said his government has no desire to ing his photo, but the passes have.'
impose "military repression" on Palestine, "but the terrorist not yet been issued and it is esti-
organization themselves have stated there will further out- mated that 10,000 will be re-,;
rages and they will turn Palestine into a blood bath if the quired. (The British "security"
district is being referred to as
death sentence on Dov Gruner is carrier out."
"the British ghetto.")
In anticipation of a possible imposition of martial law,
bakeries in Tel Aviv last week were in s tructed to lay in a Immigrant Ship Carrying
10-day supply of flour, salt and other necessities and to furnish 650 Brought Into Haifa
a list of their essential workers.
HAIFA (JTA)—The Jewish ref-
An overwhelming vote in sup- and the immigration of refugees ugee ship La Negev, carrying
port of the British government's - are the essence of Zionism."
about 650 visaless immigrants,
Palestine policies, at a closed ses-
was brought into Haifa harbor by
The
first
settlement
to
be
found-
sion of Labor MPs in London,
two British destroyers which cap-
indicates there is a sharp reaction ed by Betar, Revisionist youth or- tured the vessel a short distance
against the Zionist cause. The 1 ganization, was formally
outside territorial waters.
diplomatic correspondent of the I cated near Benjamina. Named
As soon as the vessel was
Manchester Guardian declares Naclath Jabotinsky,in honor of berthed in Haifa harbor, which
this action is a rebuke to the
had been cut off from the rest of
speeches of Laborite MP Richard the late Revisionist leader, the I the city by military cordons, 100
colony
will
be
devoted
to
truck
H. S. Crossman, a member of the
British troops went aboard. They
Anglo-American Inquiry Com- farming. It is on 250 acres of land wore steel helmets and anti-gas
mittee, who attempted to per- owned by the Palestine Jewish' eyeshields and carried pick
suade the Labor MPs to pressure Colonization Association.
handles. The first 20 passengers
the government to bring the Pal-
The Alice Seligsberg Trade taken off, all of whom were wom-
estine problem before the UN School, founded by the Hadassah en, were transferred to the Em-
with a declaration in favor of as part of the Louis Brandeis Vo- pire Heywood;' which has been
partition.
cational Center, held its first used to transport visaless refugees
graduation exercises, conferring to Cyprus.
Three New Settlements
A boarding party from one of
diplomas on 40 girls. The grad-
Founded In Palestine
uates will take positions as office the destroyers attempted to land
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — In a workers, seamstresses, restaurant on the ship's decks, but was re-
dramatic move, made under the managers and in other fields. The pelled by a shower of broken bot-
shadow of imminent military rule, Brandeis Center aims at meeting tles, iron bars and other debris.
Jewish settlers established three the need of the community for Four canisters of tear gas were
then thrown aboard, but were
new settlements in the Negev on skilled labor.
JNF announced, however, that tossed into the sea. Finally, shots
Feb. 6, bringing to 18 the num-
ber of colonies which have been planting of the Wingate Forest were fired across the vessel's bow,
several of which ricocheted in-
set up within the last few months has been postponed.
juring one Jew severely and three
Appeals for Gruner
in the barren desert area.
others
slightly.
The fate of Gruner, member of
Announcing the establishment
As soon as word of the ship's
of the settlements, whith are on the Palestine underground now
Jewish National Fund land, a under sentence of death, con- capture reached here, 1,500 troops
Jewish Agency spokesman said tinued to hang in the balance, were sent into the dock area and
the building of new communities with Feb. 18 set as the day for a curfew was clamped down.
which is believed to be the result
of British pressure to stop Jewish
immigration.
• Some 4,000 Jews were evicted
within 48 hours from Jerusalem's
four new "security areas" to
make room for troops, police and
British civil servants.
• . It was reported in British
circles that High Commissioner
Sir Alan G. Cunningham is per-
sonally opposed to the evacua-
tion of British women and child-
ren and non-essential male civil-
ians and that General Sir Evelyn
Barker, British military com=
mander, is entirely responsible
for the planning and execution of
the operation.
• The American members of the
Jewish Agency executive, meet-
ing in Washington, supported the
action of the Agency in Pales-.
tine in refusing to "become a
nation of informers."
• An appeal to President Tru-
man to intervene promptly in
the Palestine situation "to avert
a major disaster" was tele-
graphed by the American Jewish
Conference.
• Agudas Israel of America is-
sued a statement declaring that
the organization is "against the
partitioning of Palestine and
against terror." The statement,
signed by Rabbi Eliezer Silver,
president, demanded that the
death sentence on Dov Gruner
be commuted. At the same time,
it appealed to the extremists in
Palestine "to stop all terror acts." -
• The British White Paper on
Palestine "is such a gross and
The following is a resume of lawless violation of the Balfour
occurrences in Palestine and events Declaration and the Biritish Man-
outside of Palestine affecting the date for Palestine that resistance
is inevitable," Dr. Stephen S.
situation in Eretz Israel:
Wise, president of the American
• The American Jewish Com- and World Jewish Congress, de-
mittee, in a cable to Foreign Sec- ; clared. "A people less firmly
retary Bevin, signed by Judge i grounded, ethically and spiritual-
Joseph Proskauer and Jacob ly, than the Jews would have re-
Blaustein, president and chair- sorted long before this to much
man of the board, charged the graver and more violent resist-
British government with increas- ance to British rule in Palestine
ing present tension in Palestine and the terms of the White
"to a dangerous degree" by or- Paper," Dr. Wise stated.
dering the evacuation of women • Dispossessed Jewish families
and children from the country. must continue to pay rent for the
• The ex-Mufti, at a press con- i apartments from which they
ference in Cairo, reiterated oppo- have been evicted by British
sition both to partition and to troops, until their leases expire,
the British federalization plan.
Richard Stubbs, Government In-
• Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz, ; formation Officer, implied at a
addressing United Organizations Jerusalem pr e s s conference,
for Palestine Pioneers, a Gewerk- I when he said that he doubted if
shaften affiliate, urged a boycott 1 legislation would be passed to
of British goods and declared: ; relieve the evicted persons of the
"Great Britain is hungry for the ;necessity of paying rent.
American dollar. It is time that • Itzhak Yesternitsky, second in
something besides making speech- command of the Stern Group, is
es is done to help the destitute j among five Jewish internees who
victims of Hitlerism."
escaped from an Eritean inter-
• Palcor reveals that the British ; ment camp last November and
evacuation order in Palestine af- are still at large, the government
fects only 1,621 women and chil- disclosed. The others are one
dren and that "it is doubtful member of the Stern group and
whether women and children will three members of the Irgun.
be more secure in Egypt, where ; • A sub-committee to specialize
they are being evacuated, where in U. S. policy relating to Pales-
anti-British terrorists have in- 1 tine, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia,
discriminately rioted against Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Tur-
women and children, a charge key and Egypt, appointed by the
which cannot be made against House Foreign Affairs Commits
Palestine Jewish extremists."
(Continued on Page 19)
• Senator Warren G. Magnuson
of Washington, in a speech in the
U. S. Senate, asked President
Truman to call upon the British
government to "revoke all mili-
Suits
tary orders, restore civil admin-
Coats - 09C
istration and remove all restric-
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tions upon civil liberties in Pal-
estine."
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