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THE - JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 25, 1947

Captain of Battered Refugee Ship, 'Exodus1947',
Broadcasts Tale of High. Seas 'Piracy' to World

Congressmen Renew' Query
On U. S. Policy on Palestine

WASHINGTON, (JTA)-I-Secretary of State George C.
Marshall
has again been asked by a group of Republican Con-
ins
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Broadcasting via shortwave, in
gressmen to clarify the U. S. policy on Palestine, specifically
Jews
of
Palestine,
the
the
and French, to
Veteran
Jewish
Leader
Hebrew,
English
UN
Special
Commission in Jerusalem and the world
at large,
if it
is intended that U. S. delegate to the UN Warren Austin
Reappointed
N.
Y. Judge appear before the Special Committee on Palestine and if
the 4,559 Jewish refugees froin Europe aboard the battered,
stated U. S. policy on Palestine will be adhered to in present-
leaking ship "Exodus 1947" charged the British Navy with B y Mayor Wm.
wyer ing the U. S. case.
acts tantamount to piracy on the high seas, which resulted in
a letter to the Secretary to announce its continued adher-

In
the death of three refugees, the t)
mortal wounding of five and theday after a thorough search NEW YORK, (JTA)—Judge dated July 15 by Congreisinan ence lisped
to the by
Palestine
policy
estab-
presidential
declarations
injuring of at least 120 others. which uncovered nothing incrim- Morris Rothenberg, well known Jacob' K. Javits of New York and and congressional resolutions.
who
The broadcast pleaded with the i nating. jurist and Zionist leader, years
on 29 other House Republicans, it The Senate resolution, intro-,
UN Commission to come to , All newspaper and news agency served for the past 10
was pointed out that U. S. policy, duced by _Senator Warren Mag-
Magistrate's
City
Haifa, where the "Exodus" was offices in Tel Aviv received the New York
being towed, to see for them- annonymous telephone calls no- bench, was reappointed for an- as enunciated in President Tru- nusson, Democrat of Washington,
tifying them that the two British other 10-year term by Mayor man's letter to Ibn Saud, on Oct. and co-sponsored by eight Sena-
selves the fate of men, women
William O'Dwyer at City Hall. 28, 1946, and a congressional res- tors, directs Secretary of State
Marshall to request the British
and children trying to enter their soldiers kidnapped last Saturday
- - Judge Rothen- olution of December, 1945 , clear-
ri . , .
Homeland.
were now in Tel .Aviv.
berg, who is a ly calls for the establishment of a envy regulations in Palestine and
For the first time in the his-
The callers, who - identified
communal and Jewish National Home in Pales- Government
to terminate
emerg-
restore civilian
administration
tory of the Jewish underground
themselves as Irgun spokesmen,
civic leader, tine .
and civil rights. It was identical
rescue- fleet, an eye-witness ac-
said that they had called to in -
..,„. ,,,,,received the
count of the high-seas battle
The letter asks specifically if to a house resolution introduced
form the authorities that there
7` endorsement Austin will appear before the
week
by Rep. Andrew Som-
with a British boarding party
w
p
'
need
to
keep
longer
any
ne
- .of outstanding' special committee and "announce ers.
last Democrat, of New York. The
was broadcast to the Yishuv - by was no
control.
Nathanya under military co
leaders of the
the refugee ship's master over a
co-sponsors were Republican Sen-
The calls precipitated rumors.
bench and bar at that time": (a) the "continued
short wave transmitter appar-
and of numerous adherence" to set policy and (b) ators Langer and Young of North
that
ently powerful enough to be which remained unverified,
Morse of Oregon, and
d been re
he a d
civic and corn- "the willingness of the United 1 Dakota,
, heard above the interference by the abducted men he
munal bodies. States to join in the carrying out Democratic Senators Myers of
leased.
British Naval transmitters.
Pennsylvania, Murray of Mon-
Judge Rothen- of a solution of the Palestine
T h e Palestine government
tans, Chavez of New Mexico and
Message to UNSCOP
a joint appeal by Brit-
Rothenberg berg's r e a p- problem along the lines of such 1 Taylor of Idaho.
The Captain of the Exodus sent ish Labor M.P.'s Richard Cross- poititment was viewed as a policy."
In a cable to Pandit Jawaharlal
this urgent message to the U N man and Maurice Edelman asking tribute to his record of service Two resolutions on different as-
Nehru,
vice-president of the in-
Nehr
Commission:
the Irgun to release the kid- as a jurist and civic leader. He pects' - of the Palestine problem terim government of India, Con-
"Come quickly , immediately, to
is president of the Jewish Na- were introduced in the Senate gressman Emanuel Celler, Demo-
Haifa to witness the most shock- the abduction as "a crime af- tional Fund of America, former
crat of New York, sharply criti-
and House.
ing crime against humanity and fronting the conscience of all de- president of the ZOA, co-chair-
cized Sir Abdur Rai -Aran, India's
The
House
resolution,
initiated
international law.
c
o-
cent persons" and appealed to all man of the national l UJA
by Rep. Javits, and introduced delegate to the United Nations
We have all the evidence to Jews to "prevent the crime from
chairman of the Council of the separately by 29 Congressmen so Palestine Committee, for "not
show that we were attacked in
fruion
titi . . . which will
results for the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and that each bears the name of the maintaining the neutral manner
international waters and are pre- reaching
s
have disastrou
pared to stand before interne- cause which the kidnappers think an executive member of the Joint individual sponsoring representa- necessary to the conduct of the
tive—calls upon the United States investigation."
tional courts to prove that an they serve." Distribution Committee.
international, inhuman crime was .
committed against us. The hull 1'
of our ship is broken and water
•
is pouring in through the smashed !
deck. 4,450 Jewish men, women
and children are in danger of
drowning."
"The appeal was transmitted I
to UNSCOP by the High Corn::
mand of the Jewish Resistance
Movement, which added: "In the
name of humanity and your pre-
The Ideal
sent mission we urge you earn-,
estly to hasten to aid our fellow !
Living Room
Jews lest they fall victim to
cruelty and brutality of the
authorities, lest they be deported
Rug
from their country."

-

Was American Steamer

The "Exodus,". 1947," originally
the old American steamer Presi-
dent Warfield, employed for ;
years on Chesapeake Bay, slipped
out of Port Cette, on the Fienth
Mediterranean coast, and was
shadowed by the British Navy all
along her journey to Palestine. :
Admitting a violent battle aboard
the ship, a government com-
munique reversed the situation
to make it appear that the refu-
gees were the attackers.
The governriTent alleges that
the "Exodus" approached "close
to shore," adopting evasive tac-
tics which resulted in damage to
one of His Majesty's ships which
was rammed. S

In Third Day of Attacks
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — One
British soldier was killed and at
least eight other persons, includ-
ing a Jewish bystander, were
wounded in a new series of at-
tacks on British military per-
sonnel. This is the third succes-
sive day of raids since Nathanya
was placed under martial rule.
Extending the area of their
hunt for the two kidnapped Brit-
ish soldiers held by the Irgun,
the British forces cordoned off
Magdiel and Kfar Saba, two
small settlements about half-way
between Tel Aviv and Nathanya.
The troops withdrew later in the

JWB Will Aid Program
Planned to Replace USO

NEW YORK—When the USO
is formally liquidated on Dec.
31, 1947, communities planning
to provide a permanent, peace-
time, inter-faith and inter-racial
community-wide service program
for the armed forces and hospi-
talized veterans like those devel-
oped by USO during the war
years will have at their disposal
the manpower, resources and ex-
periences of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, Frank L. Weil,
JWB president, announced. JWB
is one of the six member agencies
of USO.

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