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VOLUME XII—NO. 4

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i Latin American Countries Lead
Jewish State Proponents at UN

By Jewish News UN Correspondent

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.—With one -week left for debate on

the Palestine question, the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee's
sessions stalemated in expectation of firm positions to be taken by
Russia and the United States.
While favorable attitudes toward the majority UNSCOP
report are awaited from both governments, the chief proponents
of a Jewish state to date are the Latin American countries.
Peru's delegate already having declared himself in favor of
the majority report for a Jewish state in a partitioned Palestine,
the pro-Zionist stands taken this week by Panama and Uruguay,
have encouraged Jewish leaders.

Dr. Fabregat of Uruguay, who was a member of the 11-
nation UN committee on Palestine, made an especially strong
plea for the immediate admission of all children who still
- are languishing in DP camps in Europe.

(Editor's note: A report made in Detroit this week that a special com-
mittee is seeking a $25,000 fund for the resettlement of refugee children con-
tained the erroneous statement that quotas are being waived by Great Britain
to permit the entrance of children to Palestine. This is contrary to fact, since
!yen children are being kept out of Palestine).

With the stand of the U. S. remaining the decisive factor,
Jewish leaders are placing all hope in a possible unequivocal
stand by Secretary of State Marshall. But even a most favorable
declaration does not exclude an eventual compromise.

`As this correspondent has indicated from the- very beginning
of the hearings at the present session, a compromise is imminent
and the major responsibility of JewiSh leadership is to prevent a
compromise which will completely destroy the hopes of world
Jewry for a National Home in a territory that will enable the
present settlement to welcome additional hundreds of thousands
of Jews.

Freedom's Fight

The battle for freedom goes on
on many fronts—chief among them
being the United Nations and the
Mediterranean. In the photo on the
left, Dr. Abbe Hillel Silver, chairman
of the American section of the ex-
ecutive of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, is shown making his appeal
to the UN General Assembly at
Flushing Meadows, N. Y., for the
speedy implementation of the
UNSCOP report. Shown with him
are Moshe Shertok (left) and Rabbi
Wolf Gold, labor and Mizrachi Zion-
ist leaders. The photo on the right
shows sick and wounded Jewish refu-
gees being removed from the rofu-
gee ship Despite at Haifa by British
troops. The 446 passengers of the
Despite as well as the 2,600 refugees
on two other intercepted boats—.
Redemption and Jewish State—were
sent to Cyprus.

—International Soundphotos

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Jews Implore U. . S. Representatives.
nepresentat
Back Established Palestine Policy at UN

Detroit

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Moved to action by the aggravated situation affecting Jewry's
status before the United Nations Asembly on the question of the estab-
lishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, many thousands of Detroit Jews
voiced their demands for the adoption of the majority UNSC.OP report
and asked for strict adherence by the United States delegation to the UN
to established American policy which favors the establishment of the
Jewish National Home in Palestin,e.

Several thousand telegrams were sent to President Truman, urging him to
press for favorable action, and to Secretary of State George C. Marshall, head of
the U. S. delegation to the UN, imploring him to take an unequivocal stand in sup-
port of the proposal for the establishment of a Jewish state.
A number of prominent Michigan Christian leaders — including Gov. Kim
Sigler and Mayor Edward J. Jeffries, Jr.—joined the state's Jewish communities in
expressing the wish that the U. S. delegation take a strong stand in support of Jew-
ish needs in Palestine.

Among the thousands of telegrams from Detroiters during the past week
were messages from labor leaders. The heads of both the AFL and CIO reit-
erated their pro-Zionist positions and joined in telegraphic appeals in support of
the Jewish cause.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN was report-
ed this week to have indicated that
he will support the majority UNSCOP
recommendations for the establish-
ment of a Jewish State in a par-
titioned Palestine. Jewish Agency

leaders at Lake Success placed great
hope in This report as a possible
turning point in the status of the
Jewish position before the United

Nations.

All Detroit orthodox congregations sent messages to the U. S. leaders asking for.
speedy and favorable action. Rabbi M. J. Wohlgelernter reports that in many in-
stances the names of the entire memberships of congregations—running into the
many hundreds—were appended to the telegrams.
Maurice Bordelove, commander of the Michigan department of Jewish War
Veterans, wired an appeal to Secretary Marshall in behalf of 12,000 Michigan Jewish
veterans, the 19 men's posts and 15 women's auxiliaries of JWV.
Mobilization of tireless action to demand a favorable stand by the U. S. dele-
gation at the UN was urged last week in addresses here by Dr. Ruth Gruber before
Hadassah and Pierre Van Paassen in his address at the Shaarey Zedek.
Detroit Jews will voice their demands at a public meeting arranged by the
Zionist Council and all local American Jewish Congress chapters, at Central High
School, on Sunday evening, Oct. 19, when the Rev. John Stanley Grauel, a crew

member of the refugee ship Exodus 1947, will be the guest speaker.

Secretary of State 'GEORGE C.
MARSHALL still is wavering ti his

stand on the UNSCOP majority re-
port, according to informed circles
at Lake Success. Gen. Marshall's

stand weakens his assurance, in his
address to the UN General Assem-
bly, that our Government gives

"great weight" to the majority re-
port on Palestine. His wavering has
inspired an ' increased flood of tele•

grams in support of Jewish claims.

