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THE,,JEWISH NEWS.

Friday, September 26, 1947

Weizmann, London Officials Happy Birthday Marshall, U. S. Attacked
Negotiating on Palestine
By UN's Arab Spokesmen

By •BERL ••CORALNIK.
(Jewish • Telegraphic - Agency •

Correspondent)
JERUSALEM (JTA) Dr.

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Chaim Weizmann, who is now in
/ London, is negotiating with tap
officials of the British Govern-
ment on the future • of Palestine.
It was reported that Palestine
High Commissioner Sir Alan G.
Cunningham and Lt. General
Gordon H. A. Macmillan, the civil.
and military commanders of Pal-
estine, are participating in the

meetings.
Dr. Weizmami is • expected to
leave soon for the United States

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United Nations has been pub
lished in a new Arab; magazine
which was suppressed by the po-
lice for failure to submit its ma-
terial for censorship. The UN,
the Arab ruler declared, has no
reason for intervening in the Pal-
estine affair because, among other
reasons, it is "located at the fur-
thest end of the earth—America,
country of disputes and ambi-
tions." He called on Britain to
honor its pledges •to the Palestine
Arabs.

Pisgah Chapter
Wins First Prize
In Lodge Contest

where he may appear at 'the
United Nations Assembly during
the presentation of the JeWish
views on the report of •the UN
Special Committee on Palestine.
WASHINGTON, D. C:— Top
David Ben Gurion, chairMan of jOutrialiStic holiOrs in the, .ninth
the Jewish Agency executive, Annual. Bnai Brith Lodge and
may remain in, Palestine. The Chapter Bulletin Contest were
Make-up of the Jewish delega- won this Year' by pUblications in
tion to the UN has not been de- St. Louis, New York, Morristown ;
cided upon, since the Agency haS N. J., Akron, York, Pa., Detroit,
not yet received a formal invita- Toronto, Los Angeles ; Chicago,
tion.
Newark and Silver Spring, Md., it
Meanwhile, the Palestine Gov- was announced • by IrVing "M.:
ernment is going • • ahead -with Lichtenstein, national director' of
plans to adjust . the- country's the Bnai- Brith Press and Radio
economy to the economic .. situa- Bureau, which sponsors • the an-
tion in Britain. It is learned that nual competition: ; • • • •
the government „is preparing to
In the . women's printed divi-
increase customs duties on •goods sion, first prize was awarded to
from the United States and other the Menorah publication of the
countries. At the same time;
Pisgah Waineri'S Chapter of De-
will allow the importing of more troit. Second and third place
raw materials to increase the out- winners in this diVision were re-
put of Palestine's _industries. If spectively the News, published by
the problem of securing. modern the Toronto, •--Canada, Women's
machinery—which is coMplicated Chapter, and The Bulletin of Bev-
by the scarcity of dollars and of erly Hills Chapter, Los Angeles.
import licenses—could be solved ; - Judges of the contest were -gd-
Jewish industry Could fill all lo- ward R• Grusd, 'editor of the Na-
cal needs and help to some extent tional Jewish Monthly; Ralph J.
to alleviate Britain's shortages.
Taylor, managing editor of the
A message from Transjordan's' Bnai Brith News, and Lichten-
King Abdullah attacking the stein.

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
West versus East — Quoting Weizmann

Some of the major differences in attitudes regarding required
action in the present Palestinian crisis may be-ascribed to an old,
aggravated war between Western and Eastern Jewish viewpoints.
They are differences also between youth and the "older" Zionists.
It .is safe to assert that more young people are moved by extre-
mism than are the older folk in Zionism. Experience has taught the
"elders" to be a bit more patient in a time that defies patience.
More often than not, Jews have been moved to action by Titled
Gentlemen, by Nobility, by the Goyim. It is more difficult for a Jew
from the Ghetto to move the masses—who may themselveS be of the
Ghetto—than it is for one who wears the frock coat.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann was referring to the Ugarida proposal
when he said, at a Zionist banquet. in Czernowitz, Dec 12, 1927:
• "Herzl came from the West and worked with Western - con-
ceptions and views. I, unfortunately, bail from .Lithuania. .I
know the Jewish People only too well, and they know me better
still. And that is why I lack the wings which were given to
Herzl. He came from a strange world we did not know, and
we bent our knee before the eagle who had come from that
world. Had Herzl been to a Heder, never would the Jews have
followed him. He charmed the Jews because he came to them
from thr European culture. I was able to achieve my task
through hged and sorrowful work only. Always to have the
Jews before me and always to stand before them has taught ine
to draw in my wings, if I ever had any, and to remain' on the
ground.
. "Herzl became a Palestine Zionist the moment the Kishinev
delegates said "NO" at the Uganda ,Congress... The vote was
by name. My late father voted "yes. I voted after him with
"no." Then the names of the two delegates from Kishinev
were called, and both said: "Lo" ("No"). Poor Herzl grew
pale, and then he became a true Zionist."
This is interesting commentary on Jewish history. It is excel-
lent self-examination by the man whose name will go down in
Jewish history as one of the greatest Jews of all time, as the
man who created the foundation for the redeemed Jewish State
in Palestine. And it is an excellent psychological study of the
reactions that often are visible in Jewish ranks, when a non-Jewish
dignitary moves an audience quicker than the most brilliant Jews.
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Meyer Levin's "My Father's House"

Meyer Levin, one-time Jewish News correspondent in Europe
and in Palestine, author of "Yehudah", •"The Old .Bunch" and sev-
eral other excellent novels, has produced
an unusual book and a great film, both
on the same theme and under' the . same
title: "My Father's House."
The book, Viking-published, is a mag-
nificent story of present-day Palestine. • It
deals with a youngster who, told by his
father, from whom he was torn during the
rule of the Nazis, that they would be
reunited in Palestine, lived the Under-
ground life of a partisari, managed to get
to Zion, reftised to accept nutrierOt. .cif-
fers of hospitality in colonies and persisted
in his effort to find his father.
There is tragedy in the realization that
his family had perished and that :he was Meyer Levin
the only survivor of the Halevi clan. But with realikatiori• of truth
came his normalization and
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his complete rooting in the , Palestine
Jewish set up.
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Levin's novel is significant from many points of view. _.It des-
cribes the landing of uneertificated immigrants in 'Palestine ; :tells
of the life of. the-pioneers, _makes - . important: references to.. Arab-
Jewish relations. Which 'undoubtedly' are, ' friendly until the Mufti's
followers step MI to destroy it.
Levin's "My Father's ,HouSeil
. • hould, and •undoubtedly
have a very large circulation. It 4s good enough-to be a .best-seller.

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Special Wire to The. Jewish News said Arabs wish to repel the ag
By BEATRICE HEIMAN
gression • •of Zionist • political
FLUSHING MEADOWS, N. Y. groups. He • severely condemned
— (JTA) — Syrian and Saudi the statement on Palestine made
-Arabian. UN delegates Monday by Secretary' of State" Marshall.
The Arab attacks on Zionism
.bitterly attacked the U. S. policy
Were typical of their ontbursts
on Palestine.: _
at - -the -Special-' UN -Session- in-
Faris el Koury of Syria .em-
phasized , that his country and April and- May and were remin-
iscent. of their- arrogance at the
other. Arab lards will fight the
session which gave, -birth to.,
recomrn.endation for UNSCOP.
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Palestine's partition into Jewish,
The Ukranian,delegate, Dimitri
and Arab states. Anil/. Faisal of
Z. Ma.nulsky, in the first Soviet
Saudi Arabia launehed an' attack
reference
to Palestine,' told the
on Secretary of State Marshall
for 'hasty, impetuous and tin - assembly that Palestine is enti-
tledto independence.
neutral expressions of opinion"
and -expressed the hope that - the
NATE S. SHAPERO
UN' Assembly Would riot be in-
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Congratulations to Nate S. Sha- fluenced- by such opinions.
"Arabs are - convinced," el
pero, whose 55th birthday is this
Koury said, "that the U. S. whose
Saturday—•Sept. 27. -
One of Detroit's outstanding in money finances Zionist propa-
dustrialists he is . prersident of ganda. and, terrorist underground
LLTBECK, (JT A)-,-,Screening of
Cunnigham's and is one of the 'activities in ' can, if it
country's leading drug magnates So wishes,. terminate ihese evils the Exodus departees by British . ,
—he is equally as prominent in and render justice :to the Princi , , Mtelligence agents in an effort to
pies of the UN." While U. S. determine the status of the iridi-
the field of social service.
money
is helping majorities vidual refugees was halted for
Under his leadership, as chair-
man of the 1946 Allied Jewish against minorities in some coun- an indefinite period because of
Campaign, Detroit raised nearly tries, he charged in Palestine the the Jews' refusal to supply the .
-Britons with factual information.
$3,000,000 for the United . Jewish minority is being helped against
Detailed interrogation has re-
the
majority.
Appeal. •
Hector McNeil, British repre- stilted only in .complete 'confusion'
He is president of the Detroit
and long lists . of obviously as- '
Board of Fire Commissioners and sentative, implied in his state- sinned names and other falsified
ment
that
his,
country'S_
attitude
holds , a - score of important civic
facts such as Where the refugees'
would be expressed before.
posts.
Ad Hoc Committee on. Palestine. were, born. The British lists . -
El Koury. .charged that Jews 'abound in names of 'Hollywood •
biblical 'characters; political
are not a nation but • a religious ; Stars,
group, that a -Jewish state ,would figures' and herOes of - fairy tales. •
There is a baby being born to
mean-the, creation- of a theocratic a 'refugee wOrnan almoSt every
society, that. the ,UNSCOP- •ig, da3. Yesterday the firSt funeral
nored the, legal aspects-. -of the service 'was held for a new-bor
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case and that the Jews were not baby. A soldier escorted the •
VIENNA (JTA)—The Aus ,-- the original inhabitants of the child's father to the cemetery, to- •
land • but were- "invaders" cen-
trian cabinet has -agreed to a turies ago.. 'He said that Biro-Bid- gether with 'the rabbi who per-
formed the ceremony. The rabbi '
request from the Jewish Agen-
jan is better suited than Palestine refused, to proceed' until the sol-
cy for permission to transfer for a Jewish state •and that it not dier put away his, gun.
only could absorb all • the DPs
Meanwhile, supplies which'
the remains of Theodor Herzl,
but many more Jews besides.• He three voluntary relief organiza-
founder of 'Zionism, from Aus-
urged that the International Ref- tion's have collected,- still remain
tria to Palestine, it was learned
here.
- ugee Organization take the Jews outside the camps -awaiting 'Brit-
to Biro-Bidjan and concluded by ish sanction before 'they can be •
Herzl's remains and those of
saying he hoped the Arabs would distributed among the Jews. The
his: parents, all of whom are
buried in the Doebling Ceme- not have to resort to "self-de- British are apparently "punish-
tery in Vienna, will be moved fense" against . the implementa- ing" the relief agencies for •re-
fusing to cooperate in the forced
to an as yet undesignated spot tion of the UNSCOP repOrt.
Feisal compared' the Zionist debarkation of the refugees at
in Palestine which will become
aims to those of the Nazis and Hamburg.
a national shrine. Leaders of
the- Jewish community of.
Vienna have announced that
they will hold a one-day festi-
val on the day of the transfer.

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British Abandon
Hopes• to Screen
Exodus Refugees

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I erzt W-w Find

Palestine

Soil

Heard in' the Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

Haganah Helps
Crush Extremist
Counterfeiters

JERUSALEM (JTA).—The Ha-
ganah announced that it had
been instrumental in smashing
an extremist counterfeiting ring
which has been turning out
forged U. S. banknotes, as well as
checks on American banks.
The Haganah said that follow-
ing complaints by , many Jews
who had been victimized by the
forged checks, it assigned inves-
tigators to the extremists. These
agents discovered that the coun-
terfeiters' headquarters were in
Herzlia, under the direction of a
German non-Jew who entered
Palestine illegally in 1939. As a
result of the Haganah- action, po-
lice raided the headquarters and
discovered equipment for making
20 and 50-dollar bills.

Congressional Group
To Visit Palestine

(Copyright, 1947, ,Inctependent JeNtirish Press Service, Inc.)

UN Dispatch

FLUSHING MEADOWS, (JpS)—Things have changed since the
special palestine session last spring: You sense this in the speech of
newspapermen in the- attitude of delegates. Last- spring the Jews
were an annoying appendage to the complicated Middle East prob-
lem, - bUt now, lesS than 'd half year later; the Jews are spoken of with
a considerable degree Of deference, no longer a pitiful group of social
pleaders, but candidates in the near future for membership in the UN,
a future Middle East ally. •
The world.hasbecome more familiar with the Palestine problem
between the two sessions, and with familiarity grew respect for the
Jewish people in Palestine.
Both delegates and newspapermen have learned to distinguish
between the Jewish Agency and interloping groups, it is the distinc-•
tion drawn betWeen representatives of a nation and dubious lobbyists.
It often is amusing how this 'new feeling reveals, itself in the
attitude of UN personnel.
The other day, towards evening, your correspondent was standing
out in Flushing Meadows in the driveway down which the limousines
- of the UN delegates pass. The guard shouted across the driveway:
"Hey, the car of the Jewish delegation," and up drove the car which
brings the staff of the Jewish Agency. to and from Flushing Meadows.
You walk into the delegates dining room at Flushing MeadoWs
and ask for the table of the "Jewish delegation," and the waiters
direct you to the table at which the Jewish Agency staff is lunching.
The glamour boys of the American League for a Free Palestine and
the Hebrew Committee for National Liberation—the Bergson crowd
—are completely ignored by the press; so are the SterniteS Who do
not operate in the open but leave their literature on the desks' of
newsmen and of delegates.
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Egypt's Help
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Egypt has indirectly helped the Jewish case. - Newspapermen,
and some delegates tell you—off the record, of course—that Egyptian

behavior during the Security Council meetings was abeminable,
that the dethonstrations by the Egyptians, who were ejected trom the
sessions; were engineered by official circles, and that the Cairo dele-
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supercilious and obtuse. You might think that
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Fran- gates were pompous,'
are trifles, Mit they impress themselVes on people's minds and
ces P. Bolton, Republican of theSe
when power-and,-strategy issues are set aside,' or have been dealt
Ohio, , and Chester E. Merrow, with and decided upon, manners are an important auxiliary factor
New Hampshire Republican, in determining:votes. The ..dignity of the Jewish presentation , and
members of. a House Foreign Af- representation as compared.-with the shabby behavior of the Cairo-
fair§ subLcommittee which left to ites has won friends far. Jewish. Palestine.
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investigate/ social movements
Yiddish
BroadCait
abroad, will, spend several days
Credit Nat Yourigelson, Yiddish news commentator of Station
in Palestine. The five member
WCBM Baltimore, with true enterprising spirit. He has arranged , for
corrimittee will study educational special
Yiddish broadcasts directly from Flushing 1V1eadoWs. He Made
and health programs and agricul- two fifteen minute broadcasts September
17 and 18, and .has returned
tural improvements.
for daily broadcasts the folloWing week' when the Ad Hoc Coniinittee
Other members of the commit= went into session.
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tee are Reps. Franklin - X. Ma-
Orchids
loney, Pennsylvania Republican;
Orchids to Phil Slomovitz , whose 76 page Detroit Jewish News,
Donald L. Jackson, Republican of
Rosh
.issue is a. true editorial feat. Every single story :and
California, and Olin E. Teague, article Hashanah
au. the 76 pages is completed on the page on which it is begun.
Texas _ Democrat. -
Not a single carryover, not a. single continuation.

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