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VOLUME 11—NO. IS
Council of
Federations
To Make Study
Palestine Govt., UNSC • P Rifts
Create International Incident
Rare Spinoza Library
Gilt to Columbia U.
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Only 60,000 Jewish
DPs Seek U.S. Entry;
Ask 'Early Settlement'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—No more than
60,000 displaced Jews from the American
zones of Germany and Austria would emi-
grate to the United States if Congress eases
immigration restrictions, since the majority
still desire to settle in Palestine, Rabbi Philip
S. Bernstein, advisor on
Jewish affairs to the Ameri-
can military command in
Germany, testified before
the House Sub-Committee
on Immigration, which is
holding hearings on the
Stratton Bill to allow 100,-
000 DPs to enter annually
for four years.
Rabbi Bernstein flew
from Germany at the re-
quest of the State and War
Departments to testify on Rabbi Bernstein
the bill. He emphasized that the approxi-
mately 225.000 displaced Jews in Germany,
Austria and Italy "cannot return whence they
fled." He urged a decision by Congress per-
mitting the United States to participate in
"an early, reasonable program of settlement"
of the DP problem, warning that otherwise
the people in the camps will be doomed to
another winter of blighting uncertainty and
inability to help themselves.
Rep. Ed Gossett of Texas asked Rabbi
Bernstein why Gen. Lucius D. Clay should
have an advisor on Jewish affairs and not
one on Polish, French and other affairs.
Pointing to the "very special and delicate
character" of the problem, Rabbi Bern-
stein said that President Truman and
General Eisenhower felt that it required
the advice of some responsible, experienced
Jew to guide the military in caring for the
Jewish DPs.
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JDC Purchases Clothing
Plant for Overseas Use
A
Hebrew book bearing The rare signature
of Baruch Spinoza, famed Dutch-Jewish philoso-
pher, was among the Spinoza Collection recently
presented to the Library of Columbia University
by Dr. Simon L. Miller, Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont,
Corliss Lamont and Christian Zabriskie.
The collection represents the joint efforts of
Adolph S. Oko and Carl Gebhardt, amalgamated
after Gebhardt's death by Dr. Oko and left by
him at his death in 1944. Dr. Millner is director-
in-chief of the Spinoza House in The Hague and
head of the Machmadim Art Editions.
The title page, shown above bearing Spinoza's
signature in the lower right hand corner, is from
the Hebrew book, "Precepts of The Mosaic Law"
published in Venice in - 1600 and is one of the rare
books that formed part, of Spinoza's personal
library that has come do 4en to us.
The photograph on top shows Dr. Frank D.
Fackenthal, the acting president of Columbia
University, receiving the volume as symbolic of
The 4,000 book collection from the hands of Dr.
Millner.
In presenting Columbia University with th
rare collection Dr. Millner spoke of the ideals 61
Spinoza as surviving the barbaric attack of Nazism
on all Jewish and cultural values, and told of the
Spinoza influence on American democracy,
through 'Thomas Jefferson, an admirer of the
famed philosopher.
A complete clothing factory, the MacDane
plant in Baltimore, Md., has been purchased
by the Joint Distribution Committee for
overseas shipment as part of the committee's
program aiming at the economic recovery of
Europe's surviving Jews.
JDC officials in New York revealed that
the factory would be dismantled within the
next 45 days and shipped to Europe. Cutting
tables, sewing machines, pressing equipment
and other machinery involved inkhe purchase
will, when set up, give jobs to Jewish men
and women as well as turn out 2,000 suits and
overcoats per week. The clothing manufac-
tured in this project will be distributed
amdtg needy Jews overseas.
Funds for the JDCs extensive relief, re-
settlement and reconstruction programs are
provided through the nationwide $170,000,000
campaign of the United Jewish Appeal.
In connection with the clothing project,
JDC also is sending overseas more than
300,000 yards of material, including linings,
canvas and thread, as well as buttons. Raw
materials such as cotton, woolens and yarn
for spinning are also being supplied by JDC
in a program which will send more than
1,000,000 - yards of cloth for this and similar
projects in Europe this year.
The plant, located at 317 N. High St., Balti-
UN Probers Take Action
On Plea Made by Irgunists
Special Cable to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — The public rebuke of UNSCOP
(United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) by Pales-
tine's Chief Secretary Gurney for its resolution expressing
the opinion the execution of the three Irgunists who were
doomed last week would have unfavorable repercussions in
Palestine, is creating an international incident pointing to
possible serious rifts between the Palestine administration
and UNSCOP.
Gurney's letter to UNSCOP's secretary said that since the
sentences are unconfirmed they have no legal effect and "it is
necessary to avoid public comment."
The UN Committee has resolved to cable UN Secretary-
Gen. Trygve Lie to call to Britain's attention a plea for com-
mutation of the death sentences imposed by a British military
court on three Jewish youths.
The members of the committee spent almost an entire day
in a lengthy discussion of a letter from the youths' relative
pleading for their intervention with the Palestine govern-
ment. Obviously realizing the delicacy of their position,
both in relation to the people of Palestine and the member
states of the UN, the, members of UNSCOP adopted the fol-
lowing resolution:
In view of the fact the majority of the committee has
expressed concern as to the possible unfavorable repercus-
sions that execution of three death sentences pronounced by
a military court in Jerusalem on June 16, the day the commit-
tee held its first meeting in Jerusalem, might have upon ful-
fillment of the task the General Assembly entrusted to the
committee; and, considering the opinion of such members as
to the scope of the resolution on the Palestine question adopted
May 15, 1947, by the General Assembly, the committee resolves
that its chairman should communicate to the Secretary-Gen-
eral a copy of this resolution and of the letter received from
relatives of the condemned persons for transmission to the
Mandatory Power."
In behalf of the Jewish Agency, David Ben Gurion ad-
dressed an appeal to High Commissioner Cunningham not to
confirm the death sentences against the three youths. He
pointed out. the execution of four extremists early in April
aided the recruiting drives of the Irgun and the Stern Group.
The Agency revealed it has received a "warning" from
Peter Bergson, head of the Hebrew Committee for National
Liberation, to halt its campaign against the resistance move-
ment. He charged it with betrayal of the Jewish national
ideal.
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The World Is Doing Less
It Is Now a Matter
of Life or Death! -
UNRRA Ends June 30
IRO Offers Too Little
Too Late
This Is the Hour of
CRISIS!
• - See Pages 12 and 13
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