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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 14, 1947

Weizmann Promises to Resume
Activity If Given Full Authority

JWB Opens Center in Yokahama

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a more concrete proposal with I
regard to Palestine before the I
plan for a U. N. committee can
be accepted.
President Truman was urged
to weigh carefully Mr. Lie's de-
cision in the maiden speech de-
livered in the U. S. Senate by
New York's Senator Irving M.
Ives.
Immediate inunigratioh
The New York Senator said
"the entire problem of displaced
persons will be measurably as-
sisted by immediate substantial
immigration of Jews into Pales-
tine, as recommended by the
Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry last year."
One of the sensations in the
week's news is the arrival in
Jerusalem for a conference be-
tween High Commissioner Sir
Alan G. Cunningham and Dr.
Chaim Weizmann. In Tel Aviv,

brought to Tel Aviv under an
armed guard to file an order
nisi attempting to postpone the
execution of the three Jews who
were convicted to death as ter-
rorists after their capture while
attempting to crash a road block
the day after four British
soldiers were publicly whipped
by Irgunists.

representatives of the Jerusalem
Community Council and Gen.
Davis, commander of the "sealed

area" of Jerusalem, it was dis-
closed that schools and kinder-
garten's would not be reopened
for the present.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, `chair-
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man of the American Zionist
Emergency Council, charged in
a telegram to Under-Secretary
The following is a resume of of State Dean Acheson that Brit-

latest . happeningg on . worldwide ish martial law in Palestine "is
fronts affecting the situation in part of a carefully conceived
Palestine:
plan calculated to bring about
• The 'qraditional Purim carni- the economic strangulation of
vals, which have been an out-. Palestine Jewry."
standing feature of Jewish life in •
An urgent appeal to the

Palestine for centuries, were not
held in the areas under martial
law. The absence of Purim fes-
tivities was felt most keenly in
Tel Aviv where the three-day
holiday, capped by a masquerade
"Purimiada, - in the past attracted
Dr. Weizmann was urged by thousands of tourists from all
many community leaders to re-1 parts of the world. However, the
turn to active public life. The ; holiday was celebrated in syna-
reply of the former president of ' gogues and homes as usual.
the World Zionist Organization' • High Commissioner Sir Alan
was that if full authority is-given G. Cunningham promised an Agu-
him to act on behalf of the Yis-! dus Israel delegation from the
huv and its institutions he will Jerusalem area under military
take an active part in the present control that arrangements would
situation.
be made to permit the Jews to
celebrate the Sabbath.
57 Arrested in Zion
Fifty-seven Jews, said by the • Adolph
Berman,
recently
British to be Irgunists and Stern- elected president of the Central
ists. were arrested in Palestine Jewish Conimittee of Poland and
over the week-end. The British deputy in the National Council,
deny that_they were deported to discussed with - Dr. Oscar Lange.
Kenya.
Poland's delegate to the United
"Operation Elephant and Nations, the official Polish atti-
Hippo," as the latest British tude when the Palestine issue
move is referred to, resulted in comes before the UN.
new outbursts of terrorism last • Meeting in London under the
Saturday, resulting in the death shadow cast by the latest develop-
of five Jews.
, merits in Palestine. the Joint Pal-
Arrival of the ship Ben Hecht. ' estine Appeal of Great Britain
said to be the first boat financed voiced its determination to con-
by the Bergson groups, has cre- , tinue the work of upbuilding
ated new issues because of the Palestine despite all obstacles by

American consulate in Palestine,
to intervene "on behalf of the
American religious - national
Mizrachi movement whose Jeru-
salem headquarters. Bet Meir,
was requksitioned by the British
Government in the Holy Land"
was cabled by the Mizrachi Or-
ganization of America.
"The authorities claim that
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each action is not punitive, but
we feel it is punitive. They say
that eighty percent of the popula-
tion is not guilty. so why are we
all punished for twenty percent?“
Egyptian police are reported
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to be hunting for a huge smug-
ling ring engaged in organizing
illegal immigration into Palestine.
According to the police, many.
Egyptian Jews have succeeded in
reaching Palestine by desert and
sea routes.
• The British Government is tak-
ing steps in New York to see
whether United Nations action
on Palestine can be expedited.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech;
Jones told the House of Com-
mons in reply to a demand by
former Prime Minister Churchill
that steps be taken to place the
issue before the UN immedi-
.ately. He admitted that in the
warning of former U_. S. Senator setting a 1947 goal of 56,000.000. past month the Jewish commun-
Guy Gillette, president of the • At Lake Success. N. Y., the ity- had taken "more active steps"
League for a Free Palestine. that : United Nations secretariat started to reduce terrorism but added
legal action will be taken to pre- assembling "basic factual materi- that "unfortunately they were
vent the boat's confiscation, and al" on Palestine in connection not able to respond wholeheart-
because of the arrest of 18 Ameri- with Secretary-General Trygve edly" to the High Commission-
Cans who manned the boat. The Lie's plan to appoint a fact-find- . er's request.
597 Ben Hecht passengers were ing commission to study and make ; • Hadassah emergency medical
deported to Cyprus. (Edward R. ' recommendations on the Pales- •services now in operation in areas
Styrak of Mt. Clemens, is one of tine issue to the next General of Palestine under martial law
the arrested crew members).
Assembly session.
had been arranged in advance of
• Jewish Agency officials began the military rule edict in order
Report Silver Wants U. S.
preparing material on Palestine to guarantee the uninterrupted
Branch to Lead Agency at UN
for the United Nations or any of functioning of hospital and med-
NEW YORK (Palcor) — Dr. the committees w-h i c h the UN , ical facilities. Dr. Haim Yassky,
Abba Hillel Silver will demand may establish to study the situa- director of the Hadassah Medical
the American branch of the Jew- tion prior to its discussion at the Organization. told 100 members
ish Agency lead the fight for the General Assembly.
of the national board of Hadassah •
Jewish case before the United • The more than 800 visaless meeting in New York.
Nations, the Herald Tribune re- Jewish immigrants detained
ports from Jerusalem, adding aboard the deportation vessel
that the proposal is expected to Ocean Vigor sailed for Cyprus
meet opposition, in the forthcom- shortly after the Palestine High
ing Meeting of the Jewish Agency Court rejected a habeas corpus
Executive in Jerusalem, from 'plea to prevent their deportation.
delegates "who still follow the • The Jewish Agency rejected
policies of Dr. Chaim Weizmann the Palestine Government's
. (and who oppose) control of charge that it had "deliberately
Zionist strategy by American misrepresented" the government
Jews."
"concessions" on Jewish immigra-
The Jewish Agency meeting tion. The Agency statement de-
which was scheduled to be held clared that the "utter inadequacy"
in Jerusalem on Monday was of the present rate of immigration
postponed until Wednesday be- was responsible for the increased
cause Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and flow of visaless immigrants. It
other- members had not yet ar- pointed out that if it had accepted
rived. When Agency members Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's
who flew by special plane from plan for the admission of 4,000
New York arrived at 2 a. m. Sun- immigrants monthly for a two-
day, they were barred from year period, it would have had

Hospitality Center to serve spiritual, recreational and hospi-
tality needs of Jewish servicemen stationed in the Yokahama
area is open by National JWB in 'Memorial Hall. Chap'ain
Samuel Zaitchik is supervising the Center which is similar to
those sponsored by JWB in Europe. RABBI HIRSCH JACOB
(center) is shown lighting the candles while CHAPLAIN HARRY
FRASER, 8th Army (left) and CHAPLAIN MAX DAINA. look on.

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The Jewish Welfare Board continues to serve Jewish com-
munities Throughout the world in planning and building Jewish
Centers. It functions at all U. S. military centers and provides
'hospitality for men in service.
Samuel Rubiner is chairman of the Detroit Army and Navy
Committee of JWB.

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leaving the aerodrome until day-
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Hearings in Gruner Case
Postponed Two Weeks
LONDON (JTA) — The Privy
Council postponed .for two weeks
the scheduled hearings on ap-
peals in behalf of Dov Gruner,
condemned Irgunist, - after re-
ceiving a cable from Palestine's
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Seek to Delay Execution
Of 3 Convicted Terrorists
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — Max

to agree to the Jewish community
becoming a permanent minority
in the country resulting in "its
progressive strangulation."
As 300,000 Jews in Jerusa-
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lem completed their first week
under martial law, industry and
commerce in the areas under
military control were badly dis-
rupted with thousands thrown
out cif work as factories slowed
down or came to a halt, food
stockS.were depleted and banks
closed following heavy With-
drawals.
British troops swooped down
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of military control in an exten-
sion of their six-day searches in
Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and its
environs. Heavy troop concen-
trations, assisted by planes over-
head, entering Hadera, Rehovoth
and Nathanya at dawn, found
arms caches in two of the towns
and arrested 21 persons.

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