Friday, March 21, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Martial Law Held Failure
Britain Increases Zion Immigration;
Yishitv Pledges Drive to Smash Terrorism As British Change Tactics

<4,
JERUSALEM.—Prevailing were seized by British troops,
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longing to Palestine as their last opinion here is that martial law among them a number of Pales-
buildings,
called
on
the
Jewish
of a considerable number of
and only hope."
was a failure and the British tinian Jews, some of whom were
known and suspected terrorists. population for "civil disobedi- • The boycott of Jewish-made were compelled to change their weeded out before the remainder
in-
of
ence" and non-payment
were deported.
Owing to the cooperation of the
goods from Palestine was tight- previous extreme tactics.
come tax to a goverument
Terrorist acts continued dur-
public,- the immediate political "which has robbed us of all civil ened with the issuance of a gov-
ernment decree forbidding the ing the week-end, but the major U. S. Protests Restrictions
purpose of the government's rights of citizens."
unloading of "Zionist goods" in tradegy was the murder of Ab- On American Trade With Zion
action had been achieved, he
A conference of the Hashomer
any Egyptian port.
dul Raof Dar•ish, prominent
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Dis-
said.
Hatzair in Haifa adopted a reso-
The lifting of martial law was lution calling for suppression of • Washington representatives of Arab land owner who favored criminatory application of trade
quotas to American concerns en-
greeted by the underground extremist "provacations" oy any the Arab Office who called on cooperation with the Jews.
the State Department to protest
Transjordania's king said he gaged in trade with Palestine is
Irgun radio with a broadcast means.
denying the government's claim
(A dispatch from Jerusalem an FBI raid on the office were believed an Arab-Jewish conflict expected to be remedied in the
near future. following represent-
that prominent members of the published in New York said a told that it was not a State De- was imminent.
Irgun were among 78 persons member of the Jewish Agency i partment matter and that no
Moshe Shertok, upon his ar- ations by the U. S. to the British
arrested since military rule was executive had conferred with assurances could be given that rival from the U. S.. referred to government, a State Department
imposed. It said not a single United Nations delegates here on the raid would not be repeated. Peter Bergson of the Hebrew spokesman said.
Complaints have been received
Irgun member had been captur- the possibility of filing claims • A demand by a Labor Mem- Liberation Committee as an "im-
ed.
against Britain for the damages ber of Parliament that the Jew- postor" and declared, Bergson's by the Department from a half-
Sternists' Poster
ish Agency be liquidated because organization is "a partnership of : dozen American firms charging
resulting from martial law.)
An official communique said
The Irgun clandestine radio some of its leaders have been charlatans and dupes." He add- British refusal to grant them im-
78 suspects have been arrested broadcast an appeal to the dele- implicated in acts of violence in ed men like Ben Hecht and Louis port licenses.
I The Anglo-American loan
since martial law was imposed, gations of France, USSR, and the Palestine, according to a govern- Bromfield are the dupes.
agreement of July 15, 1946, in
including 15 members of the U. S. at Moscow to raise the Pal- ment White Paper, was ignored
! article 9, provided for mutually .
Stern Group, 12 of the Irgun estine question at the roreign in Commons by Colonial Secre- Palestine Residents Seized
Inon-discriminatory im-
Zvai Leumi and 51 others "con- Ministers Conference "since the tary Arthur Creech-Jones. The With Visaless Immigrants
HAIFA, (JTA)—Armed Brit- port quotas, with permission for
nected with terrorism."
British occupation army in Pal- , suggestion was made by A. E.
However, S t e rn i s t posters estine is endangering world ' Stubbs, who said that the gov- ish troops were rushed to the the British to put article 9 into
placed on the walls of Tel Aviv peace." ernment must take steps to close British merchant vessel Ocean effect after Dec. 31, 1946, in
down the Jewish Agency because Vigor in Famagusta harbor order to provide foreign ex-
• • •
the names of Dr. Weizmann and where some 700 Jews refuesd to , change for basic necessities.
The following is a resume of latest happenings throughout the other members of the Agency disembark, it was reported from
Hebrew University Rector
world affecting the situation in Palestine:
were linked in the White Paper Cyprus.
Many passengers insist they Reaches N. Y. for Parley
• The Jews of Palestine expect terms consistent with our pur- with anti-British attacks in
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Prof.
are Palestinian Jews who were
the United Nations to issue an pose to aid democracy every- Palestine.
• Both the United States and rounded up with the immigrants Michael Feketa, Rector of the He-
injunction against the expansion
where," and that "we ought to Great Britain have been guilty who arrived on the blockade brew University and head of its
of British military power in the 1
Institute of Mathematics, arrived
Middle East, Meir Grossman,1 be concerned that help to Greece of political duplicity in handling runner Susanna.
The Susanna was beached by air to attend the meeting of
president of the United Zionist-1 and Turkey will not result in the Palestine problem, Bartley
the university's board of govern-
Revisionists of America, told a further frustration to helpless C. Crum, a member of the Anglo- near Gaza and a large number ors which will take place there
press luncheon in New York thousands of homeless Jews in American Committee of Inquiry of its passengers swarmed over
the side and scattered. About 600 starting March 23.
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upon his return to the United I Europe whose eyes look with
States after spending nearly six
months abroad and five weeks in
Palestine.
• Zionist meetings have been
banned in Argentina following a .
meeting here March 2 at which
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's
proposals for a solution of the
Palestine problem were attacked
by one of the speakers. The mass
meeting was organized by DAIA.
central representative body of
Argentine Jews, and the Zionist
Central Council. Shortly before
the meeting was held, police of-
ficials informed the Jews that
speeches "endangering" relations
between Argentina and Great
Britain were prohibited.
• The Jerusalem Jewish Com-
munity Council issued a mani-
festo to Britain and all the na-
tions of the world calling for an
immediate lifting of martial law
from Palestine. Pointing out that
the Council has always been op-
posed to terrorism, the manifesto
declared that military control had
been imposed upon "innocent
people." It concluded with a plea
to Jews living under the military
regime to maintain "calmness
and discipline."
• There are 54,000 Jewish ref-
ugee children in Europe who are
doomed to become an interna-
tional social problem unless they
are transferred to Palestine, 100
members of the national board of
Hadassah were told in New York
by Mrs. Waitstill Hastings Sharp,
of Boston, who made her first
address in this country after a
month's intensive survey of con-
ditions among child refugees in
the Holy Land, Czechoslovakia
and Poland.
• A ster'il warning to the dissi-
dent groups to halt anti-Jewish
and anti-British "acts of terror-
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and Reid, fruit growers, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Petach Tikvah and the chairmen
of the local Jewish Councils of
Ramath Gan, Bnei Brak and
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upon the extremists to stop their
attacks "against Jews and Britons
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and not to destroy the possibility
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,
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asking for public support of the
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• A conference of the Hashomer
Hatzair in Haifa adopted a res-
olution calling for suppression of
extremist "provocations" by any
means since the continued exist-
ence of terrorist groups "threat-
ens the entire Zionist movement."
• Dr. Philip Weltner, president
of Oglethorpe University, Atlan-
ta, Ga., declared that U. S. help
to Britain in regard to Greece

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and Turkey "should be given oa

