9 Page Two THE JEWISH NEWS Exodus DPs Pledge to Foil 4ttempts to Separate Them POPPENDORF CAMP, Ger- many (JTA)—The 4,400 Exodus refugees confined in this camp and at nearby Am Stau voiced their determination to defy any British efforts to separate them. At a mass meeting at Am Stau, more than 1,400 refugees pledged themselves to stay together until they reach Palestine. All of them were agreed that the British will attempt to break them up into small groups, and by distributing them to various camps, free themselves of any financial responsibilities, at the same • time demoralizing the refugees. Mordecai Rosman, 30-year-old Polish Jew, whom the British have sought to portray as the agi- tator who caused all the violence on the Runnymede Park, scoffed at the charges that his "fanatic- ism" caused the passengers on the ship to resist. "That excuse is pure Downing Street propagan- AJC Urges U. S. to Back UNSCOP Majority Plan In a telegram to Secretary of State Marshall, signed by Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, and Jacob Blaustein, Baltimore, chair- man of the executive committee, the committee urged that the U. S. government "vigorously and speedily" epdorse the major- ity report of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The committee, which says in the telegram that it has "never been a part of the Zionist move- ment but has always been deeply concerned with the development of Jewish settlement in Palestine," expressed its confidence that the American people will back the government in supporting the ma- jority plan. Korff's Father Asks U.S. to Help Free Son French Renew Offer To Exodus Refugees —International Sound Photo PARIS (JTA)—The French government has renewed its offer of hospitality to the Exodus refu- gees, a representative of the French Foreign Office announced at a press conference. He revealed the conditions which France had proposed to the British to govern the admission of the refugees. The British would have to furnish names and particulars of the volunteers. After that, the French would is- sue collective entry visas for temporary residence to all Exo- dus Jews who volunteered. Although the Foreign Office representative said -that the Jews would be granted regular visas rather than transit papers, he added that the number of Exodus immigrants who entered would be subtracted from the total num- ber of DPs who are permitted to enter France en route to other countries. RABBI JACOB KORFF propaganda leaflets and "home- made bombs" on London, an- nounces in Boston that he will ask the State Department to take a hand in , the matter and seek the release of his own son from French By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ If YOU Were a British-Made DP of the Exodus! No one has yet adequately described the tragic meaning of the term DP. To be a displaced person means to be without a home, without security, without peace of mind. It means being . dependent upon the goodness of heart of people overseas for food, clothing and sustenance. It implies the status of a person who, having survived the horrors or Nazism, must continue to live in guarded camps, at the mercy of police many of whom are either German or Polish, or, when the guards are American or British soldiers, are youngsters who are bitter over their own fate of serving in a foreign land. We have a new type of DP: the British-made category of displaced persons who, having been barred from the place they have chosen as their homeland, have been returned to the status of living on accursed German soil whence came the most brutal policies of extermination ever pronounced upon an entire people. This, briefly, is the tragedy of Poppendorf Camp near Lubeck, Germany. The pleadings of Christians and Jews, of the United States Government and of responsible leaders of many Christian communi- ties, fell on deaf ears, and the British labor cabinet saw fit to approve a brutal policy promulgated by Ernest Bevin. British authorities are not satisfied with their cruel ruling. They have also undertaken a screening of the forcibly deported DPs with the purported intention of having them returned to the countries of their origin. Suppose WE were these British-made DPs of the Exodus fame? Would WE undertake a hunger strike, as they had, in order to show contempt for those who make a gesture of feeding us after degrading us? Would WE consent to being sent back to Poland which has become a mass graveyard of our people? Would WE consent to a perpetuation of a status of dishonor and humiliation? Your Commentator assumes to say that we would act exactly as the Exodus deportees had and that we would fight to a finish for our honor and our rights as human beings. And if this is the verdict of all libertarians and humanitarians, then we must throw in our lot with all who are searching for a home, for a return to an honorable existence and for security in the only land Jews without a home can possibly hope to call HOMELAND. "I've Seen This . . . Under Hiller" Maurice Pearlman, JPS and PM correspondent, in a cable from Hamburg, quoted a British officer, who asked that no mention be made of his rank and regiment, as saying, in comment on his experi- ence at Hamburg, in the process of the Exodus-Jews' "Disembarka- tion, "Today I am ashamed of my uniform." A Dutch correspondent told Pearlman at Hamburg: "I can't stand this. I've seen five years of this in Holland under Hitler." Pearlman cables that a Danish journalist "said almost hysteri- cally": "I didn't expect to see this again after the war, especially by. the British against the Jews on German soil." It is no wonder that Winchell and others were inclined to sub- stitute the letter u for the first i in the word British. * Jewish State Not Debarred By Mandate, UN Is Told * Outwitting the British British intelligence officers were out-smarted in their screening process at Poppendorf. When asked for their place of birth or origin, the Exodus deportees replied: PALESTINE! It proves that the British attempt to discourage the refugees is failing. The survivors from Nazism have one objective: PALESTINE. It would be tragic if we were to lose faith completely and were to believe that the hopes of the refugees will be completely destroyed. Somehow, we have confidence that British tactics will fail—and that Jewish aspirations therefore will triumph. Iowa Attack Victim Charges University Hushed Up Incident Jewish majority. "Both the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate involved inter- _ national commitments to the Jewish people as a whole. "It was obvious they were not limited only to the Jewish population of Palestine, since at the time there were only some 80,000 Jews here. "This would imply," the report points out, "that all Jews in the world who wish to go to Pales- tine would have the right to do so. This view, however, would seem to be unrealistic in the sense that a country as small and poor as Palestine could never ac- commodate all the Jews in the world. `Bomb Plot', Exodus Scandal Well-Timed By British—Lyons NEW YORK (JPS) — Eliahu Leonard Lyons, in his col- Stam-Cooper Hebrew teacher and umn "The Lyons Den" in a graduate student at the Uni- the N. Y. Post, charged: "Britain's Foreign Office versity of Iowa who was the vic- cleverly timed the 'Exodus' time of an anti-Semitic assault arrival at Hamburg to coin- by some students in the campus cide with the release of the coffee shop four months ago, re- Reginald Gilbert story of the plied to critics who reproached plot to bomb London—trust- him for not bringing charges - ing that the cops-and-robbers against his assailants. Gilbert story would over- He said that to bring charges shadow the infamy of the would have had no effect save to Hamburg disembarkations." white-wash the University which, he contended, made no effort to find the students responsible. Following the coffee shop at- tack, the Des Moines Register and the campus newspaper strongly NEW YORK — Dov Mills, of chastized bystanders who turned their backs while the Jewish stu- Brooklyn, affiliated with the American Hashomer Hatzair, and dent was being beaten up. a member of the crew of the Italian Jewish Official "Exodus 1947," was identified as Found Slain in Office a leader of the resistance to the ROME (JTA) — Kamli Zakiel, British during the disembark- secretary of the Jewish com- ation of the Jews in Hamburg. munity council in Bari, was found Mills spent 1 1/2 years in Okinawa. murdered in his office. About He has been affiliated with the 100,000 lire were missing from Hashomer Hatzair for 10 years the community funds, and it is and completed the agricultural assumed that Zakiel was the vic- training course at Hechalutz Farm in Hightstown, N. J. tim of a robber. Brooklyn Man Leader In Exodus Resistance Purely Commentary * Friday, September 19, 1947 Rabbi Jacob I. Korff, father of da," he said, "aimed at persuad- Rabbi Baruch Korff who was ar- LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)- ing the world that we Jews rested by French police on charges "Neither the Balfour Declaration wouldn't really want to go to nor the Mandate precluded the of attempting to drop Jewish eventual creation of a Jewish Palestine, were it not for a few zealots." State," the UN Special Commit- tee on Palestine says, in a 165- The refugees continued to sa- page report to the General As- botage British efforts to screen sembly. them, and were also refusing to "The mandate in its preamble submit to voluntary screening by recognized, with regard to the representatives of the Interna- Jewish people, the "grounds for tional Refugee Organization. reconstituting the i r National LONDON (JTA)—A warning Home," the report says. "By pro- that epidemics may break out in viding, as one of the main obli- the Poppendorf camp unless the gations of the Mandatory, the Jews are removed in three _weeks facilitation of Jewish immigra- was sounded here by Dr. Noah tion, it conferred upon the Jews Barou, secretary of the World an opportunity, through large Jewish Congress. Dr. Barou de- scale immigration, to create clared that the centers were un- eventually a Jewish state with a fit for human habitation. * * * „ r —International Soundphoto REGINALD GILBERT custody. Reginald M. Gilbert of St. Louis, a former army flyer and now a student at the University of Paris, who also was arrested in connection with the alleged plot, was set free earlier by the French police. Korff began a hunger strike to protest his innocence but broke it after five days. Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) U. N. Trends: Zionist leaders are active behind the scenes at the United Nations General Assembly, in connection with the expected decision on Palestine . . . Special efforts are being made to secure maximum support for the partition proposal from the State Department . . But indications point to the fact that the Army and Navy may have a much greater say than the State Department on the U. S. attitude regarding the question of the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine . . . It is taken for granted in Washington circles that the policy which the State Department is now shaping with regard to Palestine will be considerably influenced by the attitude of the Navy because Palestine is a very strategic point in the Mediterranean, in which the U. S. Navy is now taking a direct interest. The principal question which the government poses every time it has to formulate a policy on an important matter in the field of JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The international politics is: to what extent will this policy contribute Palestine government dropped toward checking Soviet ambitions for further expansion? . . . This charges of "aiding mend abetting —and not special consideration for Jews—will determine the final illegal immigration" which had attitude of the State Department at the Assembly .. . British and been placed against three Amer- Arab propagandists in Washington are aware of this situation and ican seamen of the Exodus crew. are trying to utilize it . . . They are spreading rumors among U. S. The three, Bernard Marks, Stan- military circles that a 'Jewish state. in Palestine would actually mean a state friendly to the Soviet . . . With the U. S. Government doing ley Ritzer and Cyril Weinstein, everything possible in Greece and Turkey to prevent Soviet access will be deported to the United to the Mediterranean, this propaganda may not be taken seriously States. They were released from by the State Department, but it is attracting attention of the Navy custody on July 20 on $4,000 bail authorities . . . It is known that the Navy is now studying the UNSCOP report on Palestine with no less interest than the State each. A spokesman for the Haganah Department ... It is also known that the War Department is seeking told a press conference that the more information on the people connected with the newly-formed Americans For Haganah. extremist groups are facing a severe financial crisis as a result Poisoning the Air: of the steps taken by the Haganah Anti-Semitic groups in the United States are now using the Pales- to prevent them from black- tine issue to flood members of U. S. Congress with "enlightening mailing individuals in order to literature" on the Jews . . . One of the worst examples of this type secure funds for their activities. of "literature" is a 47-page booklet by "Governor" Wm. H. Murray The Haganah representative of Tishomingo, Okla. . . . The booklet, entitled "Palestine," contains also charged that the so-called all the anti-Jewish allegations ever uttered by any known anti- from ancient times up to Julius Steicher . . . And the proposal "Arab Defense Organization," Semite, that Jews be given the right to establish a state of their own in which has claimed responsibility Palestine is portrayed as a plot to give "financial Jewry" world for the sinking of two ships domination . . . The ex-Governor of Oklahoma, known for his which were to be used in trans- political antics as "Alfalfa Bill," proposes a U. S. foreign policy with porting visaless Jews to Pales- regard to Jews . . . He suggests that the Jews be given "some place tine, is a front for British secret of their own" either in Madagascar or in British Guiana -on condi- agents who direct its activities. tion that all Jews shall become nationals of such a Jewish State," The most recent act of this group which should be large enough to take in "twenty million" of them was the blasting of the 4,500-ton An exception is provided for Jews and their families who came to the United States prior to 1900 . . . These shall retain their American Jan Crescent in Italian waters citizenship, if they desire . . . On the other hand, Jews choosing to last week. remain in the United States, should be deported, "to their own Cpl. Yochanan Sandersman, country" if they violate any of the American federal or state laws 27, who was attacked by three . . . If they return, they should be imprisoned for deportation and Hebrew-speaking men wearing their property in the U. S. should be confiscated . . . Among other uniforms of the British air force, "recommendations" made by the ex-Governor is the suggestion that died of his wounds.. He was naturalization should cease for ten years and that immigration should be stopped for a like period . . • He also demands that guarding the military installa- "foreigners" in America should be forbidden to adopt "Anglo-Saxon tions near Tel Litwinsky, when and American" names and that the U. S. Government should base the assault took place. its policies "on Christian principles." 3 U. S. Seamen Freed in Exodus Illegal Help'