Friday, November 14, 1947
Jewish Agency Preparing
To Set Up Provisional Rule
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — The.
Jewish Agency is considering
plans for convening a Constitu-
ent Assembly in Jerusalem short-
ly to establish a Jewish pro-
visional government, it w a s
learned here.
The Zionist. Actions Committee
will meet here some time after
* the close of the UN General As-
JDC Spendings
In 11 Months
Top $69 Million
To carry forward its programs
of relief, resettlement and recon-
struction, the Joint Distribution
Committee has appropriated $69,-
591,000 in the first eleven months
of this year, it was announced by
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive
vice-chairman. Appropriations for
November total $5,181,000.
With funds provided through
the nationwide campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal, the JDC
is now aiding close to 1,000,000
Jews in Europe, the Middle East,
North Africa, and the Orient.
JDC's appropriations thus far
this year are $11,000,000 more
than was spent last year.
New 'Illegal'
Mass Exodus
Begins in Poland
WARSAW. (JTA)—The illegal
emigration of Jews from Poland
has resumed, and about 1,500
Jews have left the country within
the last month.
In contrast to earlier migra-
tions, the people involved are al-
most all members of various
Zionist parties organized in
Hechalutz training centers. An
additional 4,000 Zionist men and
women are expected to make
their way toward Palestine.
The Polish border guards, as
well as the Czechoslovak authori-
ties, have in most instances
looked the other way when these
groups crossed the frontier.
A number of former Jewish of-
ficers and non-commissioned offi-
cers in the Polish Army have
been among those who made their
way out of the country recently.
Originally the military authori-
ties refused to accept applications
for demobilization from the offi-
cers and non-coms because they
said that the men were needed
as cadres to train recruits.
UPA Founds 29
Settlements in
Palestine in '47
American funds, raised through
the United Palestine Appeal,
helped to establish 29 Jewish
agricultural settlements through-
out Palestine during the past
fiscal year, bringing the total
number to 300, Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, UPA national chairman,
announced.
The settlements are distributed
as follows:
In Upper 'Galilee-32 villages;
Lower Galilee-18; Jordan Val-
1ey-15; Beisan Valley-121Zebu-
lila Valley-9; Western Valley of
Jezreel-24; Eastern Valley of
Jezreel-7; Hefer Valley-23;
Plain of Acre-4; in the Shomron
— 12; Northern Saron — 15;
Southern Sharon-42; Jericho de-
pression—A.; Hills of Judea-13;
Plain of 'Judea-47; Darom-16;
Negev-10.
The Jewish National. Fund pro-
vided the land. sites and now
participates in their establish-
ment, while the Palestine Foun-
dation Fund supplied the coloni-
zation budgets. Both agencies de-
rive their American financial sup-
port through the United Pales-
tine Appeal. Currently, close to
86,000 people live in settlements
founded with the aid of the Na-
tional Funds.
Page Three
THE JEWISH NEWS
You Have Given Me a Future
Honor Woman Jurist
For Service to Culture
sembly. The Jewish Agency will
arrange for meetings of its execu-
tive and plenum for the same
date, so that the combined groups
might form the Constituent As-
sembly, although there has been
no final decision taken by either
the Agency or the Jewish Na-
tional Council as to what group
will elect the new government.
The right-wing Citizens Bloc
opposes any arrangement by
which the government would be
chosen by the Agency or the
Zionist Actions Committee and
wants it elected only by residents
of Palestine. It is therefore de-
manding a meeting of the Asse-
fath Hanivcharim, the Jewish
National Assembly—which it has
been boycotting for several years
—enlarged to include representa-
tives of groups not now repre-
sented. -
All labor groups, ranging from
the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair
to the Poale Aguda issued a joint
manifesto to the Jewish ' com-
munity calling on it to accept na-
tional discipline and to oppose
extortions, robberies and murders
and to isolate those supporting
such methods.
A taxi driver, Ezra Levy, was
seriously wounded by two' sol-
diers who were traveling in this
cab to a military camp at Mt.
Scopus. The soldiers claimed that
they shot in self-defense, fearing
that they were being kidnapped.
Justice Birdie Amsterdam of
New York's Municipal Court will
be honored Dec.
14 by the Jewish
Culture Founda-
tion of New
York University
for her devotion
to humanitarian
causes and serv-
ice • to Jewish
2ulture.
Judge Amster-
dam has been
Jus. Amsterdam active in many.
civic groups. She is presently a
leading figure in the movement
to endow permanently the Chair
of Hebrew Culture and Educa-
tion at New York University, the
first in the country.
American-Romanian Jews
Set Up Two Aid Committees
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Two
special committees to aid Roman-
ian Jews were set up at a special
conference of the United Roman-
ian Jews of America. The com-
mittees, which will seek to im-
prove the political and economic
condition of Jews still in Ro-
mania wil include representatives
of JDC, BIAS, ORT, USNA, ZOA,
American Jewish. Committee,
World Jewish Congregs, Bnai
Brith, National Council of Jewish
Women and Institute of Jewish
Affairs.
How JDC Office in Prague
Rehabilitated a Family
"The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
The most urgent of their difficul-
ties was the economics of their
Dear Sir:
situation—maintaining' a family
Enclosed please find 2,000
crowns, the second installment of four on the meager wages that
on the loan which you granted , Felix Broil could earn as an un-
skilled worker. The JDC came to
to me."
This note from Felix Broil was
recently received at the office of
the Joint Distribution Committee
in Prague. On the surface it de-
scribes a cold business transac-
tion, but actually it represents a
challenging adventure in rebuild-
ing lives that were all but shat-
tered by the ruthless Nazis.
The story of the Broil family
began when the Hitler hordes
marched into Czechoslovakia and
spread their reign of terror among
defenseless Jews. First Felix
Broil's small factory, which had
managed to support the senior
Broils and their twin ten-year old
sons, was taken over by German
invaders. Then followed deporta-
tion of the entire family and the
terrors of the concentration camp.
But the Broil family was among
the fortunate few who man-
aged miraculously to survive
years of systematic cruelty as
prisoners of the Nazis. Libera-
tion found father, mother and
children weakened by semi-star-
vation and destitute—but alive.
After their repatriation to their
native Czechoslovakia, the Broil
family still faced many problems.
his assistance with funds suffi-
cient to provide load for the fam-
ily. But this did not satisfy Felix
Broil. He wanted economic in-
dependence—not charity.
The close of Broil's letter fin-
ishes . the story.
"With your help I have been
able not only to start my busi-
ness on a small scale, but also
to buy materials and equip-
ment. Joyfully I report to you
that the profit is sufficient to
maintain my family and repay
your loan in advance of the
maturity date agreed upon.
"Your help has given me a
future."
James N. Rosenberg Exhibits
28 Paintings in Beverly Hills
BEVERLY HILLS, (JTA — An
exhibition of paintings by James ,
N. Rosenberg, well-known Amer-
ican Jewish leader, opened at
the Francis Taylor Galleries here. -
Rosenberg is exhibiting 28 paint-
ings, 'including several of his
"Ironism" series which attracted
considerable attention at a show-
ing in New York.
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