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Illustrated Story
Of Rufus Isaacs
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
Fred M. Butzel
Reminisces
• • •
Ruth M. Levine's
Interview with
Dean of Michigan
Jewry on Page 6
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VOLUME 11—NO. 22
`Palestine -Urg e
Not the Result
Of Fanaticism'
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DPs' Zion Preference
Impresses UNSCOP
British Admit Failure,
Agency Tells UNSCOP
GENEVA—"Admission of failure" was the, label the Jewish
Agency attached to the British memorandum to the United
Nations Special Committee of Inquiry on Palestine in the
Agency's formal reply to the committee.
The 29-page document challenged the British contention
that it was their task to maintain a balance between "conflicts
of interest" that resulted from the twofold attempt to establish
a Jewish national home and to administer Palestine as a whole.
The Agency called the assumption that a Jewish national
home is at variance with the development of Palestine "the vitiat-
ing fallacy of the whole argument." On the contrary, the Agency
declared, the national home "was conceived rather as a dynamic
agency transforming the entire structure of the country and
raising the standards of the population as a whole."
The British try to justify the abandonment-of the mandate
by the theory that it embodied conflicting obligations, the Agency
said. It continued that the British have made no serious efforts to
reconcile Jews and Arabs. In fact, it stated, "the government,
so far from doing anything to_further an understanding, has in
fact hampered any rapproachement between Jews and Arabs by
consistingly yielding to Arab intransigence and thus strengthen-
ing the position of the extremist elements in the Arab camp."
"Herein lies the basic cause of the failure of the man-
datory regime," the reply stated.
As to the British complaint that the Agency did not cooperate
with the British, the Agency said that a cooperation in the White
Paper's implementations "is tantamount to expecting it to assist
in the strangulation , of the Jewish National Home and in its
liquidation."
VIENNA (JTA)—With its tour of the DP camps almost half-finished, the sub-
committee members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ap-
peared to be in agreement that the survey was 'indispensable for the work of
UNSCOP." After visiting Bad Reichenhall, near Salzburg, the sub-committee is
expected to continue its tour and return to Geneva, where the main body of
UNSCOP delegates is waiting.
Even those who were most reluctant to visit the camps are now convinced that
the DP problem is one of the more imp ortant aspects of the Palestine question.
The sub-committee members are deeply impressed with the nearly unanimous
desire of the Jewish DPs to emigrate to Palestine and may be prepared to recom-
mend that something be done about it at the earliest possible date.
Although some of the members believe that part of this desire may be due to
Zionist indoctrination, the sub-committee is convinced that the refugees' desire
to go to Palestine is genuine.
One member of the sub-committee told the correspondent of the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency that "I am now convinced that their desire for emigration is not
the result of fanaticism."
At a DP camp in Indersdorf, Germany, a center for children, of whom 65 per
cent are orphaned, the sub-committee was informed that 150 children from this
camp were on board the Exodus. Asked by one of the committee members about
life in the camp, an official replied: "Life is very unstable here. This is a port en
route to Palestine. The children feel tha t they are encircled by unfriendliness
and hate."
A-question as to how the 150 children aboard the Exodus got there evoked
the reply: "The children went on a picnic one day and never returned." In the
room where the sub-committee held its hearing was a black-draped photograph of
Zvi Yacubovitch, the 15-year-old yodth who was killed in the boarding of the
- Exodus. Underneath it was the legend: "Our brother and friend—he fell at the
gates of Palestine, we shall follow in his steps."
Earlier during the week end, Rabbi Philip Bernstein, retiring advisor on Jewish
affairs to the US Army, told the sub-com mittee members at Munich that if the
American forces were withdrawn from Germany today, there would be a great
danger of pogroms. He also said that there was growing tension between Ameri-
can forces and DPs, that the "4R0 is entering the picture with pennies" and that
the JDC is bearing the burden of suppor ting the refugees "until it is reaching the
cracking point."
A Pictorial Record
Of •Iesvry's Tragedies
Pictures from all parts of the world, which shed light on the
Jewish situation, reflect the one question in the minds of the sur-
vivors in Europe: is this still the age of Nazism?
Three British vessels were used to return more than 4500
refugees of the rammed `Exodus 1947' to British DP camps. The
British ships are prisons, as the picture (left above) shows. A cage
was set up on the vessel's deck, and the whole ship is surrounded
by barbed wire. It is the 1947 version of the wandering Jew who
finds no rest.
On the other side of the Channel, British mobs.took advantage
of the situation in Palestine) and, feigning indination, just like
the mods under Gobbels' orders, smashed and looted Jewish stores
in Liverpool (right, below) and other English cities. The author-
ities stood idly by, arrested 20 persons, but professed they were
unable to find-the culprits.
In Romania, Jews performed a strange ceremony in honor of
those martyred 'by the Nazis. More than 100,000 attended a cere-
mony at which soap was buried. Soap is considered symbolic of
the Nazi murders, for the Germans used to manufacture fats and
soaps from the bodies of the gassed Jews. The photo at the left,
below, shows the mourners, the photo in the center the burial of
the soap.
—International Soundphotas