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Agency, World Press Protest
'UN Probers' Closed Hearings
Palestine Government Called
First; Secret Session Allowed
(Special JTA Cable to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—The United Nations' Palestine Inquiry Committee
has reached no conclusions in advance, world Jewry was assured, as
the committee plunged into the problem ahead of schedule to hear
representatives of the Palestine government, this wek.
Correspondents from all over the world were highly incensed over
the fact that the Palestine government was permitted to testify under
a virtual ultimatum that it would submit its material "behind closed
doors or not at all."
Demands Agency Representative at Hearings
The government's position not only was attacked by the press, but
also by the Jewish Agency, which protested the failure of the UN
committee to permit the Agency to have a representative present at
the opening hearings. The Agency, Wednesday, submitted a memoran-
dum asking why the hearings should not be open.
Judge Emil Sandstroem, committee chairman, revealed the posi-
tion of the Palestine government before a meeting of more than 50
press correspondents representing every news agency in the world.
The reporters repeatedly asked why the session, at which objective
(igures were presented, must be closed.
In reply, Judge Sandstroem said the closed session was requested
by the Palestine government. In response to a question as to why
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-Continue Detroit Drive_
On Morgenthau's Appeal
ORPHAINIEB-1411AZIS. these Youth-
ful refugees are getting their first taste
of American freedom :- anct democracy in
Cleveland. After years - of homelessness
Detroit Jews were called upon to give "immediately and
with unprecedented generosity" to the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, in a special plea sent this week by United Jewish
Appeal general chairman Henry Morgenthau Jr. to workers
and contributors supporting the national UJA drive for
and imprisonment they are living tempor-;
arily in a center reCeiitry: opened there by
European Jewish Children's Aid, affiliate of
United Service for New 'Americans, whose
work is supported by the $170,000,000
campaign of the United Jewish Appeal
for
$170,000,000.
The personal request to Detroit Jews to keep working and
keep giving came in the wake of the historic decision at
Wernersville, Pa., June 7-8, when representatives of Jewish
communities throughout the country voted to sweep aside
precedented campaign dates until individual community
quotas had been achieved.
Explaining the Wernersville decision, Morgenthau wrote:
1947_ Shown In above picture are
(left to right), Mrs. Mary Simon, teacher,
Andor Solomon, George Schwartz., Ralph
Redlich and Alter Goldenberg.
JULIUS HOCHMAN, general manager of the Joint Dress
"In the Spring phase of the United Jewish Appeal, $115,-
000,000 has been raised toward the $170,000,000 national goal
. • . We must raise not one penny less than $127,000,000 by
July 15 to maintain the minimum program of relief and re-
construction. This means we must .absolutely raise $12,500,000
additional from the Jews of America by July 15. It can be
done! It must be done!"
In setting a local quota of $5,335,000, Detroit Jews
pledged to raise $4,000,000 for the United Jewish Appeal—
the remainder to be devoted to 54 additional local, national"
and overseas causes included in the welfare fund of Detroit.
Calling upon those who have contributed to reconsider
their gifts, Morgenthau-asked, "If you have contributed to the
Allied Jewish Campaign, I sincerely urge you contribute
more—all of you—more than you think you can."
Confirming the decision of the board of directors of the
Jewish Welfare Federation to continue the campaign, Fred
M. Butzel,aitn chairman, declared, "There is no doubt
the Jews ofeaD7roit7are aware of the needs, and are ready to
meet the obliatan/s these needs entail. Workers in the AJC
will continue coCer slips until everyone has had an oppor-
tunity to give as feels he should give in this year of crisis
for Jewry."
B N AI BR I T H President
FRANK GOLDMAN, Lowell,
Mass., pledged the support of
the order to the American
Heritage Program and the
forthcoming - Freedom Train"
at a White House Conference
in Washington. Shown above
(left to right) are Goldman,
Att. Gen. Tom C. Cark, Win-
throp W. Aldrich of the Chase
National Bank, and William
Green, president of the AFL.
The "Freedom Train" will be
launched Sept. 17 and will visit
200 American cities, carrying
the originals of historic Amer-
ican documents such as the
Declaration of Independence,
Bill of Rights, the Constitution
and the Emancipation Procla-
mation. They will be placed on
public display.
WELCOME HALUTZIM!
Board of the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union; LOUIS HOLLANDER, of the New York CIO:
STEPHEN S. KAYSER, curator of the Jewish Museum; and
DR. LOUIS FINKELSTEIN, president of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America, left to right, stand before
a 16th Century Italian Ark of the Torah at the Jewish
lviuseum. Representatives of trade unions in New York
were addressed by Hochman, Hollander and Matthew
Woll, second vice-president of the AFL, at a meeting on
May 19 at the Jewish Museum in New York.
Children of a neighboring
settlement bring greetings to
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a new colony which has been
erected with United Palestine
Appeal funds provided through
contributions to the United
Jewish Appeal. Agricultural
and urban settlement is the
cornerstone of Jewish Pales-
tine's rescue program for thou-
sands of European survivors
who are waiting for the oppor•
tunity to emigrate.