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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, jun. 27,1947

Jewish Agency to Ask UN for Entire
Palestine, But Is Rectcly to Compromise

British. Police Widen Search
For Officer In Kidnaping

the Jewish Agency office several
Special Cable to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — F i v e months ago.
son officers and • others. They
Private L. S. McKenzie, who
were received at the City Hall high British police officers left
Underground Groups; Britain, U. N., Receive Pleas
fired a sub-machinegun into a
for
Bagdad
after
a
report
that
by
Jewish
Mayor
Shabbetai
Levy
crowded Jerusalem street last
to Spare Lives of Condemned Irgunists
and Arab Vice-Mayor Shehadeh Maj. Roy Farran, who escaped March 11, during an altercation
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The United Nations inquiry com- Shalah, both of whom delivered from detention, fled to Iran. In- with a Jewish bus driver, was
mittee established informal and unofficial contact with repre- brief welcoming addresses. All tensive searches continued in found not guilty of the murder of
sentatives of the two Jewish underground groups, Irgun Jewish members of the city Palestine and Maj. H. H. Fergu- Esther Tuvi, 19, who was killed
council were present, but the son; who commanded the bar- by a stray bullet. The court mar-
Leumi and the Stern Group.
Two Jews, one speaking for the Irgun and the other Arab councillors boycotted the racks from which Farran escap- tial, however, convicted him on
representing the Sternists—both American citizens—met the ceremony. Levy stressed the ex- ed, was arrested for delaying the charges of manslaughter.
tent of cooperation between search after being informed of Guatemala Backs British Appeal
UN delegates and chatted witty.>
the escape.
them informally. The majority merit of mass return." He denied Arabs and Jews in Haifa.
Against Immigration
The committee later visited
Farran, an ex-commando of-
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., (Pal-
of the committee knew 'before. that Jewish land purchases in
a
Jewish
soap
factory,
an
Arab
ficer
and
acting
assistant
police
cor)—Ten nations have acknowl-
hand that they would be met by Palestine had created a class of
cigaret
plant—whose
manage-
superintendent,
is
charged
with
edged a circular letter from Sec-
spokesmen of the dissident Jew-
landless Arabs.
directing the participants in the retary General Trygve Lie of the
m.ent barred representatives of
ish groups.
kidnapping
and
probable
murder
the
Jewish
Agency—and
a
Jew-
The
Indian
delegate
asked
Demand Palestine
United Nations, transmitting a
ish textile factory, where they of Alexander Rubovitz, 17, an British appeal for cooperation
The Jewish Agency, will de- whether Shertok wanted immi-
alleged
Sternist.
conversed
with
the
employees
gration
regulations
lifted
in
every
mand the whole of Palestine as
against "illegal" Jewish immi-
Bedouins Questioned
in their own language, since
gration to Palestine. Only the
a Jewish state, but at the same country in the world. He also
is
rep-
The
police
questioned
Bedou-
every
nation
asked
how
much
money
was
virtually
time will inform the committee
Central American republic of
ins who camped last month at Guatemala pledged action.
that it is still prepared to com- being sent to the Jews in Pales- resented among the plant's per-
Wadi
Kelt,
between
Jerusalem
tine
from
abroad;
how
much
sonnel.
The tiny "banana republic,"
promise on a proposal for the
and the Dead Sea, to whom Far- whose only possible connection
Committee Visits Dead Sea
establishment of a "viable state money they made on the Pales-
ran
is
rumored
to
have
given
Under
a
broiling
sun,
the
com-
tine
potash
concession
and
how
in an adequate part of Palestine."
with Jewish immigration could
Rubovitz's body for burial after
The decision was arrived at late many non-Jews were converted mittee visited the vicinity of the
be the flying of her flag by ships
he
died
from
Farran's
mistreat-
Dead
Sea
and
watching
the
Pales-
to
Judaism.
His
frequently
point-
of the Jewish underground rescue
at a full meeting of the execu-
tine Potash laboratories process ment.
less
questions
irritated
Judge
ships, said, in her reply to the
tive.
Authorities probing the Far-
Emil
Sandstroem,
chairman
of
chemicals.
she was
Contact with the Arab Higher
case are discovering more in- British appeal, that
ran
Several
members
of
the
com-
the
committee
who
cut
him
short,
Committee also was established
formation concerning the fascist l "aware of the manifestations of
mittee
swam
in
the
Dead
Sea
while
Shertok
promised
to
get
through the secretariat of the
prior to a luncheon given them "British military organization," the United Kingdom" and would
the necessary figures.
fact-finding body.
a Mosleyite outfit with a strong adopt "all the measures tending
Pre-arranged Boycott
The inquiry committee at a by Moses Novomeisky, general foothold among Palestine's police to avoid illegal immigration into
(The American Zionist Emerg-
closed meeting discussed memor- manager of the Palestine Potash and military. The group is dis- Palestine." The other nations who
anda submitted by the Irgun Zvai Co. Ltd. The delegates were tributing anti-Jewish leaflets and merely acknowledged receipt of
ency Council issued a statement
greatly impressed by the collec-
charging that the boycott is
Leumi and the Stern Group.
has threatened to blast the of- ! the British note, were the United
"part of a carefully pre-ar-
The committee visited Haifa, tive settlements in the area which fices of the Jewish Agency and States, China, Autharlia, Canada,
Jews
have
developed
by
labor-
ranged and premeditated tac-
traveling in a caravan of 19 shiny
the Palestine Post. It is believed i Mexico, Philipine Republic, N lc
cars, filled with correspondents, iously washing out salt and mak- responsible for the blasting of 1 aragua and El Salvador.
tical game, designed to maneu-
ing
the
earth
arable.
ver the United Nations into
members of the secretariat, liai-
regarding the Arab Higher
Committee as a `wronged'
group, and thus create an ad-
vantageous position for the
Arabs in the meeting of the
General Assembly which is
to take place in Sept-
ember." The Council assert-
ed that there is no diverg-
ence of tactics between the
Higher Committee and the Arab
League, which is not participat-
ing in the boycott. "The...arab
League's attitude should not be
regarded as a sign of conflict
between the two Arab bodies,
but rather as the result of a
joint understanding as to the
strategy to be employed before
the United Nations," the Coun-
cil said.)
Members of the inquiry body
,
visited the Wailing Wall, the
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—
NIN
Great Synagogue known as The
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Hurvah, where they were wel-
comed by Chief Rabbi Isaac Her-
zog in behalf of the Ashkenazi
community, and the Synagogue of
Yohanan Ben Zaccai where they
were welcomed by Chief Rabbi
BenZion Uziel for the Sephardic
community. They also visited the
Mosque of Omar.
Reception for Members
A reception was tendered the
members of the committee by the
High Commissioner. Members of
the Jewish Agency executive and
government officials attended.
The Arab Higher Committee was
not invited to the reception al-
legedly because of the High Com-
missioner's reluctance to embar-
rass its members.
Rabbi J. L. Fishman of Miz-
rachi, member of the Jewish
Agency Executive, declined an
invitation to attend the High
Commissioner's reception for
the UN Special Commission be-
Beautifully indicative of your loving best wishes—these
cause it fell, according igir the
'Hebrew calendar, on the anni-
unusual pieces of Old English silver will remain prized
versary of his arrest and deten-
tion in Latrun camp last June
possessions for generations to come.
29 when the British seized Jew-
ish Agency officials. The 72-
Ink Stand, London, 1821, By Rebecca Ernes,
year-old rabbi wrote the High
$300
▪
.
Edward Barnard
Commissioner that the day
when the arresting officers
$325
forced him to d esecrate the
Salvor, London, 1736, By Robert Abercromby
Sabbath, was a day of mourn-
ing for him and his family and
Set of 3 Ladles, Onslow Pattern, By Thomas Evan, Loncior,
will always be observed as
1770, Thomas Towi:nan, London, 1773 $100
such.
- The UN Committee at its first
$100
open hearing heard testimony
. . .
Cruet Set, London, 1829, By John Angell
from Moshe Shertok, chairman
.-, Federal Tax
Prices
plus
20
of the political department of the
Jewish Agency, with Shertok
seated next to Indian delegate
Silver Galleries-3rd Floor—Woodward•Sectian E
Sir Abdur Rehman.
Mr. Shertok spoke for more
Prices subject to 37., Sales Tax.
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than an hour on various aspects
This is on the base price only, not
Including Federal Tax.
of the Palestine situation, tracing
the historic connection of the
Jew's with Palestine and em-
phasizing that Jewish immigra-
MOW
tion to Palestine was "a move-

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