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British Deny Irgunists Final privileges;
Hangings Seen as Pre-UN Propaganda
- Having gone to Palestine in a last minute effort to ina-
uc e4> military regime in the eyes of
her brother, Dov Bela Gruner, to file an appeal against his the United Nations."_
conviction, Mrs. Helen Friedman of Lancaster, Pa., who re-
An impromptu protest meeting
turned home last Sunday, had the misfortune of being de- was held at 'the national head-
prived of the right of seeing him before he was taken to quarters of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America at which Dr.
the gallows with three other Irgunists.
-
Sidney Marks, executive director,
'Mrs. Friedman, upon reaching
said that it is clear that the ex-
New York enroute home, spoke
ecutions were intended to pro-
bitterly concerning the secrecy
yoke outbreaks, with the aim of
with which the British authori-
prejudicing the case of Jewish
ties had carried out the execu-
Palestine in the eyes of the mem-
tions and the authorities' refusal
bership of the United Nations."
to allow the doomed men to see a
A week of mourning in memory
rabbi. "I think the execution was
of Gruner and his comrades was
cruel and useless," she said.
proclaimed by the Political Ac-
Mrs. Friedman said she had
tion Committee for Palestine.
been allowed to see him for 15
The American League for a
minutes each week. "He was will-
Free Palestine issued a statement
ing to give all he had—his life,"
signed by its president, Guy M.
she added. "He wanted to live.
Gillette, saying that "the British
He will go on living even though
have destroyed any hope of United
he is dead."
Nations Settlement by spilling
She had her first hint of the
blood." The statement called upon
hanging when she heard, in her
at
the American public to "write
hotel room in Tel Aviv
finis to British terror and to
4 a. m. April 16, the announce-
British imperialism in Palestine."
ments from loud speakers that
The Irgun posted placards in
there would be curfew until
erusalem mourning "four brave
flirther notice. She phoned her
soldiers who died on-the gallows."
attorney, Max Seligman, who re-
In Tel Aviv, a black-bordered
assured her that there would be
Zionist flag was flown at halfmast
no hanging until they visit Gruner
over the headquarters of the Re-
at Acre Prison on the following
visionist Party.
day. as had been arranged.
A military court sentenced two
But when the police rapped at
DOV GRUNER
Arab members of the Najada
her door at 7 a. m., she told them
"army" to 18 months imprison-
she knew "my brother is dead."
ment for illegal possession of
Driven to Cemetery
arms. The three Jews hanged
She was driven to Petach Tik-
with Gruner had been convicted
vah where she was joined by the
of the same charge.
families of the other three men
who were hanged—Dov Rosen-
1,000 Jews in Munich
baum, Eliezer Kashami and Mor-
Protest Gruner Execution
dechai Alkushi. A heavily guard-
MUNICH (JTA) — Some 1,000
ed convoy drove the mourners to
displaced Jews demonstrated in
the hillside burial ground near
front of the British consulate here
Safed, and the mgn were buried
in protest against the hanging of
beside the grave of Shlomo Ben
Dov Gruner and three other
Josef, the first Irgun Zvai Leumi
Palestine Jews.
leader to be hanged, in 1938.
Rabbi Abraham Silverman of
Palestine Chief Secretary
Safed recited a brief prayer and
Visits Chaim Weizmann
the mourners sang Hatikvah.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Pales-
In Jerusalem the curfew was
tine Chief Secretary Sir Henry
broken by a group of Jews who
L. Gurney visited Dr. Chaim
paid respects to Alkushi's aunt,
MRS. HELEN FRIEDMAN
Weizmann at his home in Re-
Mrs. Mary Cohen. This group
dodged the British patrol, but 11- pointing out that the man re- Hovoth April 14. Neither the pur-
year-old Gedalya Amada was seri- ferred to as chaplain was not a pose of the visit nor the subject
of their conversation is known.
ously wounded.
rabbi, but the only Jew in Acre, a
Jewish Agency officials charged
that the executions were carried merchant, who occasionally visit
More Arabs Than Jws
out by the British with the inten- ed the jail to conduct services for
Are Caughf With Guns
tion of prejudicing sentiments be- prisoners. He added that he
fore the UN. An Agency spokes- "strongly resented that no rabbi
LONDON, (JPS - Palcor) —
man said: "There will be revul-
More than twice as many
had
been
informed
or
the
Chief
sion of feelings in favor of the
Arabs as Jews are still being
terrorists just when Jewish na- Rabbinate asked to, delegate a
caught with unauthorized fire
tional institutions were swaying rabbi."
arms, but while nearly one-
sentiment in other directions."
third of the Arabs are tried by
Rabbi Jacob Goldman, former-
Bomb in Colonial Office
civil courts, all but 10 of the
ly of Rochester, N. Y., offered his
A home-made time bomb was resignation as chaplain to prisons
Jews have been dragged to
found in one of the branches of in Palestine to Chief Rabbi Her-
military courts where they face
the Colonial Office in London four zog as a protest against the gov-
sentence of death or long
hours after the executions. It was ernment's failure to inform him
terms in prison. This was re-
believed to have been left in re- in advance of the execution of
vealed in the course of Colo-
rtaliation for the executions.
nial Secretary Arthur Creech-
the four Irgunists.
In Detroit, the British Con-
Jones' reply to questions in
Rabbi Herzog refused to accept
sulate reported receiving a warn-
Commons.
the resignation, stating: "The
ing that it would be "bombed."
Among the protests express- action of the British authorities
ed in Detroit last week was will be generally declared highly
the display of a large sign, reprehensible."
Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel
bordered in black, in Norman
Cottler's Dexter-Davison Mar- Aviv interrupted his vacation
ket, mourning the death of the when he heard the news and
martyrs and charging the rushed hack to the city. He told
newsmen that he was "shocked
British with committing mur-
by the sudden execution," es-
der.
pecially of Rosenbaum, Kashani
"Ten for One" Threat
More than half the Jewish pop- and Alkushi who, he said, "did
ulation of Palestine was placed nothing for which to be sentenced
under virtual house arrest shortly to death, only that they carried
after the executions as curfews arms." -
were clamped down on Jerusalem,
Alkushi's mother suffered a
Tel Aviv, Haifa and Petach Tik- heart attack when she was in-
vah, and non-military traffic was formed of her son's execution, but
barred from all roads. It was re- Kashani's father maintained an
ported in official circleS that the outward calm, declaring that his
government was prepared to re- son would have wished him to act
impose martial law in any area "in a manly" fashion.
Condemn Executions
where an attack broke out.
Jewish groups in New York
(In London it was reported ttat
a broadcast on the Irgun's under- condemned the executions and
ground station, "Voice of Fighting declared that they. were a "de-
Zion," in Jerusalem, threatened liberate provocation" by the
that "10 senior British officers British on the eve of the opening
"Michigan's Largest
will be hanged in the streets for of the special session of the United
Truck Dealer"
every one of our martyrs mur- Nations on the Palestine issue.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, presi-
dered." Underground posters,
threatening retaliation, hurriedly dent of the Zionist Organiza-
placed on walls in various Jewish tion of America, charged "the
cities were torn down by police British government in execut-
ing four Jewish youths has
and soldiers.)
again demonstrated it does_ pot .
Protest Absence_ of Rabbi
The official explanation for the want peace in that country."
fact that no rabbi was present at He further charged "the timing
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Condemned Men
Commit Suicide -
The Palestinian situation
become more tense 'thit-
week with the death ortwo
more Irgunists—Moshe
azani, 21, and Meir Fein-
stein, 23—who committed
suicide in their cells by de-
tonating explosives against
their hearts shortly before
.V they were to be hanged on
order: of Lt. Gen. MacMillan,
Palestine's military com-
mander.
Feinstein's mother claim-
ed he was only 17.
Palestine's Chief Rabbis
lodged appeals in behalf of
• the two condemned men
two days before they ended
their lives.
You*, Demomstrate in Front
- • Of N. Y. British cousulate
-NEW . YORK (JTA)—A
-01 50 Jewish youths pickete4 thit
'British consulate here in a demon- _
Oration organized by the Amer-
Loirgue for a Free - Palestine,
to' protest the execution' of Dov!
runer and three other Palestin•
,fan Jews.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise charged
Britain with pursuing its own
way with indifference to public
-
opinion and scorning the protests
of world Jewry. .
Revisionists Denounce
British Executions As
'Evil, Cowardly Act'
The United Zionists-Revisionists
of Detroit this week denounced
the execution of Dov Gruner and
three other Irgunists as an "evil
and cowardly act" on the part of
the British.
In a statement issued by M.
Manuel Merzon, president, the
Revisionists referred to historical ,
incidents in which a ruling power
executed an individual who later
proved a martyr. The most not-
able of these was the crucifiction
of Jesus' by the Roman Governcir
Pontius Pilate "whose evil deed"
Merzon understated, "has hardly
detracted frOin the victim's
stature."
The statement inferred that
Gruner, Dov Rosenbaum, Eliezer
Kashani and Mordecai Alkushi
may become Jewish" martyrs,
Whose execution will spur a-
"counter-offensive" against the
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