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VOLUME X11—NO. 7
NEWS
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New Dangers. Loom at UN
Shertok Leads. Battle, to Prevent,
Whittling Down of pe Je wish State
By Scial Jewish News Correspondent at UN
LAKE SUCCESS—Serious complications have set in at hearings of the
sub-committees that were selected last week by the UN Ad Hoc Committee on
the Paleetine Problem, with the result that the deadline for reports, originally set
for Wednesday, was extended.
Closed sessions of the sub-committee dealing with the majority UNSCOP,
report favoring Jewish state continued all week. On Monday night, Moshe
Shertok, speaking for the Jewish Agen cy, .continued his exposition of the ne-
cessity for the inclusion of Western Galilee in the Jewish state. He illustrated
geographical conditions on a blackboard, with sub-committee members hold-
ing partition maps as they followed Shertok's outline. His appeal is seen as an ef-
fort to prevent whittling down of the size of the proposed. Jewish state.
A real set-back was experienced by the UN committee when the Colom-
bian delegate, Dr. A. Gonzales Fernandez, on Tuesday morning tendered his
resignation as chairman and member of the sub-committee on Arab proposals.
The Colombian delegate was the author of the "compromise" solution
which called for the establishment of a bi-national state. Earlier it was
indicated that Iraq and Lebanon favored such a compromise. The "compro-
mise" won partial Arab favor out of hope that the Arabs would be placed in a
better' light as a result of such a plan; that neutral countries. which had planned
to abstain froth voting might be induced to favor it and out of hope also that it
Two, Great Addresses
I
By Chaim Weizmann
Delegates and visitors to the United
and participants in the New'
York Herald Tribune Forum were
stirred last week, when Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann delivered two addresses on behalf
Nations,
Cremiting Good Will:Jewish
skill not
only is building, the health of Palestine but also is creating Arab-
Jewish amity. The photo shows a Jewiih medical scientist_ axamin-
ing an Arab child at the Miliaria Research Station in Upper ‘Gali-
lee, which is sponsored by the Hebrew University and Hadassah
doctors and nurses. This is part of the important contribution to
Palestine's health being made by the Hebrew University-Hadassah
Medical Center. Detroit will make its gift to this great• project
at the dinner in honor of Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, at Hotel Staler,
Nov. 24. (Story on Page '7)
of the Jewish people. At the UN, he
spo ke
ke on the Zionist cause, and before
the ,F o r u m be discussed "Judaism's
Spiritual Contribution to the Strength
of Man."
The Jewish News is pleased to reprint
Dr. Weizmann's complete Herald Tri-
bune Forum speech, and excerpts from
his UN statement. (See page 6.)
would win Soviet support for an Arab proposal.
Dr. Gonzales Fernandez had tried unsuccessfully
to induce non-Moslem delegations to serve on his
sub-committee.
Informal closed sessions of the sub-commit-
tee dealing with the establishment of a parti-
tioned Jewish state is primarily concerned
with the time element for the termination of
the mandate and with the establishment of
a transitional authority during 'the transfer -.
-
period. •
Haganah, Irgun Clash
(Special Cable to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM (JTA) —A spokesman for Ha-
ganah informed the JTA that Haganah members
were ordered not to use arms against dissidents
except in - self-defense. Nevertheless, several
'clashes, accompanied by shootings, took place in
Tel Aviv between Irgunists and Haganah. The
Irgun threatened open warfare unless Haganah
stopped its campaign against it. David Ben-Gurion
was charged with deliberately fomenting internal
warfare in order to crush the Irgun.
Fred Butzel Honored
With Bronze Bust
By Detroit Friends
An entire community's affection for his mani-
fold contributions to Detroit's social welfare
was expressed to Fred M.. Butzel last Sunday
afternoon, at a gathering of a large number of
his friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hoke
Levin, 1132 W. Boston Blvd.
Mr. Butzel was presented with a portrait in
bronze, made by the eminent sculptor, Walter
Midener.
Isadore Levin, who made the presentation tof
the bronze head (right), briefly outlined the
great services that were rendered by Mr. Butzel
and the important place he holds in this com-
munity as a leader in many causes and as a guide
in creating new leadership.
In his response, Mr. Butzel praised the work
of Mr. Midener to whom he referred as an
"able, hard-working genius." He expressed the
desire to have the bronze portrait placed in a
most suitable place as evidence of a fine example
of the sculptor's work.
Mrs. Hoke Levin, Art Editor of The Jewish
News, was chairman of the committee which ar-
ranged the presentation of the gift to Mr. Butzel.
• irpheto by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Photographer .
01,11 it be done to the man whoM his people cieli§hts to honor.
In the photo, left to right, are: Isadore Levin,
Mr. Midener, Mr. Butzel and Mrs. Hoke Levin.
On Tuesday, Mr. Butzel was honored with an
award by, the Red Cross,