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Friday, jay 25. 1947
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THE JEWISH NEWS
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Australian Anti-Semitic
Agitation Reported Based
On Arrival of Refugees
Shertok Charges Palestine Government
Hampers _ Arab -Jewish Cooperation
another member of the Sephardic
delegation, Eli Eliashar, appealed
to him to intervene with the
Indian government to halt the
threatened deportation of some
300 Jews who fled persecution in
Afghanistan.
The United Zionist-Revisionist
Organization submitted a mem-
orandum demanding the immedi-
ate aborgation of the Mandate,
evacuation of British troops and
the establishment of a Jewish
provisional government which
would hold office while' the na-
tion prepared to elect constitu-
tional bodies.
Four of the seven Arab League
states have accepted the corn-
mittee's invitation to testify.
They are Egypt, Iraq, Trans-
jordan _and 'Lebanon.
MELBOURNE (JPS)—The ar-
rival in Australia several months
ago of the Egyptian liner Misr,
with 60 Jewish survivors of Nazi
extermination camps among its
717 passengers, touched off a
storm of anti-Semitic sentiment
in the Commonwealth press and
news-reels, the repercussions of
which have not yet died down.
As a result of the violent cam-
paign against "foreigners," which
are mostly thinly veiled attacks
on Jews, an immigration research
project has been started by the
Jewish Council to Combat Fas-
cism and Anti-Semitism, to gath-
er information on the contribu-
tions to Australian life of Jewish
immigrants who have come here
in the last two decades. The vital
statistics amassed through this
project will be, it is hoped, of
great value in combatting Anti-
Semitism in the Commonwealth.
Of the total of 24,897 new im-
migrants who came to Australia
between the end of the war in
the Pacific and January 31, 1947,
22,274 were British and 2,603 for-
eigners. The number of Jews
among the latter were negligible.
Most of them are death camp sur-
vivors, having relatives in Aus-
tralia who will take care of them.
JWB Annual Sunimer Institute
To Meet Aug. 25 to Sept. 11
NEW YORK.—The annual Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board
Summer Institute, conducted for
staff workers of Jewish Com-
munity Centers and YM-YWHAs,
graduates and students of Schools
of Social Work, USO-JWB work-
ers, graduates and students of
Theological Seminaries and He-
brew Teacher Training Schools,
and workers in fields related to
Jewish Center work, will be held
this year from Aug. 25 to Sept.
11 in New York City.
needs and -mutual interest One
By J. GRAVITZKY
federal (bi-national) state, on
JPS-Palcor Editor ha Palestine the other hand, would mean a
.
JERUSALEM, (JPS-Palcor) --
a divergent
The UN Special Commission's continuous
clash
tendencies,
pulling the state
second and final week of public structure to pieces and eventual-
- hearings in Palestine was high- ly necessitating the intervention
lighted by a summation of the et
- a third party.
Jewish Agency's case by Moshe The question is not whether
Washington
Shertok, chief of its -
Jews and Arabs can live to-
office, who:'
gether in the framework of one
1. Charged that the Palestine state, Shertok said, but whether
government is the disruptive such a state can operate - with the
force in the country, hampering equal weight of the two peoples
Large Selection of
the development of both Jewish in the State Councils. If equal
and Arab communities and seek- weight is given the static Arabs
ing to prevent co-operation be- and the dynamic Jews, the static
tween them; 2. Scores bi-nation elements undoubtedly will win.
alism or federalization as solu- Failure of the government to
tions to the Palestine problem; 3. initiate even the most basic labor
Listed the main reasons why legislation was . blamed by the
ALL SIZES
Jews must have a state of their Histadruth spokesman for the
own; 4. Urged the UN Commis- appalling conditions under which
Mahogany
- Walnut - Bleached
"Defenders of Arab Freedom"
i0111 to visit DP camps in Europe Arab workers live. Their condi-
'ROME, (JTA) — Threatening
from $17.95 up
to see for themselves the urgent tions form the chief barriers to
need of Jewish survivors for Arab-Jewish cooperation, they letters signed by the "Defenders
of Arab Freedom" have been re-
Palestine, and 5. urged at least told the Commission.
ceived by the Union of Italian
interim lifting of the White • Pa-
. Spreading Chauvinism
per immigration restrictions in The Sephardic leaders, who Jewish Communities, the Zionist
MUSIC HOUSE
order to alleviate the plight of appeared behind closed doors, Federation and the Palestine Of-
fice
of
Charitable
Institutions
and
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DEXTER near Calvert
Jews in Europe.
stressed that ' the situation of
Others who testified before 1,600,000 Jews in Arab lands by the heads of these organiza-
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the UN Commission last week from Morocco to Afghanistan has tions.
Apparently referring to the
were Zalman Rubashov, Pinchas been steadily deteriorating since
Lumbianiker and L. Skolnik, for the war as a result of spreading sinking of the Vrissi in Genoa
Histadruth (Jewish Labor Feder- nationalism and fanatical chauv- harbor last Friday, the mimeo-
graphed letters read: "This is
ation); Chief Rabbi Uziel and a inisrm
deputation of ' Sephardic Jews I The League for Arab-Jewish our first warning. We have sup-
who appeared in camera so that Rapprochement charged that the plied proof that we are able to
their testimony to the plight of I Palestine Government was trust- pierce the belly of your infested
LUXURIOUS TEXTURED
Jews in - Arab countries would rating its attempts at Arab-Jew- ships, and we can easily cut
not further imperil the position ish cooperation by supporting your throat." The letters were
of the Jewish communities there; the Husseini (Mufti's) Party and turned over to the police.
- Dr. Ernst Simon and Aharon its indifference to the murders,
Treaten Agency in Prague
Cohen, of the League for Arab- perpetrated by . that party, of
PRAGUE, July 20. (JTA)—The i
J e w i s h Rapprochement, who potential Arab allies.
AVAILABLE IN SHADES OF
self-styled
"Defenders of Arab
favored a bi-national Palestine;
Palestine" who have sent threat-
Delegates Confer with Irvin
Rabbis J. H. Dushinsky and Selig
GREY-ROSE-GREEN-BIEGE-BLUE
Reuben Bengis, of the separatist JERUSALEM, ( J T A ) — Dr. ening letters during The pas! week 1
extreme orthodox community, Jorge Garcia Granados of Guate- to Jewish organizations in Italy
and
England
and
who
claimed
and a spokesmaft for the Pales- mala and ProL Enrique Rodri-
Come in and see our superb selection of new distinctive
tine Communist Union, who des- gum Fabregat of Uruguay, mein ; responsibility for the blowing up
and decorative styles that are in Vogue.
hers
of
the
United
Nations
corn-
of
the
Panamanian
vessel
Vn.ssil
cribed the group as "Hebrew
Communists" distinct from the mittee, had -a personal interview in Genoa harbor July 11. have
We Believe They Represent the Finest Choice in Detroit
Palestine Communist Party and with Menahem Begin and other extended their activities to France
and Czechoslovakia.
argued for bi-nationalism with leaders of Irgun Zvai Leumi.
They
discussed
the
aims
and
The
office
of
the
Jewish
Agen-
the right for either party to
OPEN THURS.-SRI.
hopes of the Irgun with regard cy here received a letter from
secede.
AMP SAT. UNTIL
to
the
UNSCOP
inquiry
and
Be-
•
this
group
threatening
its
offi-
'International Need'
gem.
gin
promised
that
his
organiza-
cials
with
murder
unless
they
Appearing before the Com-
mission on two consecutive days, tion would refrain from breaking suspend their activities, presum-
Shertok, who will accompany the truce if Britain also re- ably , assistance to Palestine-
the UN body to Geneva later frained. Concerning the state- bound immigrants. The letter was
k T44E HOME OF
this month, listed the following ment of the Mayor of Nathanya mailed from Paris.
FINE CARPETING'
factors "making Jewish State- that the Irgunists might free
hood an international need": their two hostages if the British Piseser Well Send
1 9 1 39 Livernois
First, the coming of age of the High Command gave a ray of ;me•o to Palestine
A total of $400,000 has been re-
Yishuv which has outgrown hope for the three condemned
Just
North
of Seven Mile Road
mitted
by
Pioneer
Women
to
the
tutelage; second, the internation- Irgunists, Begin asserted that the
al and Middle East patterns of Mayor could not speak for Ir- Working Women's Council in
UN. 1-5628
sovereignty with which the Jews gunists or prophesy what they Palestine during the current fis-
cal year, it was announced by
.
under their present stateless could do.
FREE PARKING
TERMS ARRANGED
Miss Dvorah Rothbard, member
Situation Deadlocked
• status, are in general discord;
The
two
Latin
American
of
the
National
Praesidium.
third, the imperative need for
large scale immigration and set- UNSCOP members gained the
tlement for the surviving rem- impression that Begin feels the
nants of European and Oriental situation is currently deadlocked
Jewry, for which the Jews must with the government holding the
have pqwers of state since they condemned men and the Irgun
are the only party vitally inter- the two kidnaped hostages, and
ested in this need; fourth, the that he was waiting to see what
future of the Jewish people and the government will do with
the Jewish position in the world 4,000 refugees on the 4,500-ton
is at stake and it is a vital ne- President Garfield.
The delegates spoke in English
cessity to rid the Jews of the
scourage of homelessness, which and were given refreshments
can be accomplished only in during the interview, which was
planned in great secrecy and
Palestine.
Shertok devoted the greater followed by 48 hours a talk by
part of his testimony to citing Judge Emil Sandstroem,
*concrete evidence that the Pal- UNSCOP chairman, and two of
estine administration is the chief his aides with leaders of the
obstacle to the peaceful develop- Haganah.
The imposition of military con-
ment of the country. He attack-
ed in particular the White Paper trol in Nathanya was attacked
land restrictions from which by representatives of the Jewish
the Arabs suffered 'almost as. Communist Party of Palestine
much as the Jews because Arab during cross examination before
land sales to Jews were the main the United Nations Special Com-
Robinson's sontkly clearance event It offers many
source of capital with which Arab mittee. .
Dr. W. S. Ehrlich, appearing
peasants improved their farms.
worthwhile values. Sofas, love seats, chairs, lamps,
He disclosed that since the for the party whose main testi-
tables, and any miscellaneous pieces are here, at
land restrictions went into ef- mony was presented Sunday,
fect in 1940, Jews have 'managed asked the members of the com-
drastically rediseed prices. Many are floor samples, most
to acquire 38,000 dunams in the mittee . to "imagine punishing
restricted area without the High Manchester in the same way if
are one-of-a-kind, an are of dependable Robinson
Commissioner's sanction, "in a there were two kndnappings
multitude of ways within the there."
quality. Plan now to come to Robinson's Friday or
Indian Delegate Sleeps
four corners of the law." Another
During
the
delegation's
testi-
sample of the government's at-
Saturday and get your share!
tittude, he said, is its rule of mony, one of the Jews, Charles
Sassoon,
pointed
to
Indian
dele-
labor employer and legislator,
employing 80,000 workers at pit- gate Sir Abdur Rahman and
called Sandstroem's attention to
tance wages.
the fact that the Indian was
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Listing in detail why bi-na- asleep. The chairman directed
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Shertok stated that once Jewish man has been the most consist-
Statehood •is achieved, barriers ently hostile member of the coin;
between Jews • and Arabs will mission.
Later, when Rahman awoke,
break under pressure of common
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