THE JEWISH NEWS

—Friday, March 12, 1948

Page Three

ADL Director Fears Censorship
Precedent in School Book Ban

Agency Rejects British Accusations;
Assails Denial of People's Basic Rights

NEW YORK (JPS) — A warn- tions which might offend Roman

Rabbi Morris Lazaron Joins Virginia GildersI3eve's Committee f o r Reconsideration o f ing against the possible precedent Catholics. "In this particular
in censorship set by the recent case in point," Epstein writes,
Palestine Partition Plan; Arabs Receive Gaza Airfield From Brit-
banning of two best selling novels "the decision should be made on
ish Boast of Plot For Bombing of Tel Aviv

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA) — The
Jewish Agency rejected the al-
legations and accusations against
it in the statement by the Pale/S-
tine Gorernment as a "new dem-
onstration of irresponsibility."
The Agency said the British
declaration "is certain to provoke
new disorders and further en-
danger the lives of the people of
Palestine."
It accused the Mandatory Pow-
er of converting Palestine into a
police state which denies funda-
mental rights and freedoms of the
people. Listing the Palestine Gov-
ernment's restrictions upon Jew-
ish immigration and its failure
to cooperate with the Palestine
Commission, the statement ad-
ded: "A government which pur-
sues such a lawless policy is hard-
ly qualified to lecture others on
law and order.
"Once again," it declared, "the
Palestine Government interprets
history in the same manner as it
administers justice. It condemns
Jews, it appeases Arabs, and it
completely absolves Britons."

Jewish Agency Charges
British-Arab Cooperation
Moshe Shertok submitted to the
Palestine Commission evidence of.
Arab invasion in Palestine, and
British-Arab cooperation in an
attack on the Hayotzek factory,
near Tel Aviv, in which 11 Jews
died. Shertok circulated the
charges to members' of the Se-
. curity Council.
. The commission's advance party
of seven in Palestine advised the
parent body that it had' estab-
lished contact with the British
authorities. The members of the
party were received by Chief
Secretary Sir Henry L. Gurney,
while the head of the party,
Pablo Ascarate, was received by
High Commissioner Sir Alan G.
Cunningham.
The UN Security Council ad-
journed its discussion on Pales-
tine following the adoption of a
joint American-Russian resolu-
tion entrusting the permanent
members with the task of con-
sulting on the Palestine situa-
tion "with a view of implement-
in the resolution of the General.
Assembly" on the partitioning
of the country 'into Jewish and
Arab states. The results of the
consultations are to be reported
to the Council within 10 days.
The vote was eight in favor of
the resolution, and none aganst
it. The United Kingdom, Syria
and Argentina abstained. '
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, .1:317:-
man of the American seajori off
the Jewish Agency, aidressine
the Security Council, indicated
that the Jews may se4., up their
own state in, Palestine ifter May
15, when the British Mandate ex-
'Sires and defend it with their
own forces should the Security
Council not take the necessary
steps to implemea the partition
decision of the G Lcneral Assembly.

Union Membe s Halt Work
To Attend Ptlestine Rally
NEW YORK, (JTA)"=--- Some
35,000 worke-s affiliated with the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Urion quit work at 3
p.m. Marcl, 1 to attend a mass
rally to P 2otest the failure of the
United 1\ktions to protect the new
Jewish sate in. Palestine.'
The wcrkers, members of many
races, ,rationalities and faiths,
gathered in the streets of the gar-
ment district and marched to the
Manhattan Center where the pro-
test fleeting was held. The Cen-
ter npuld hold only a small part
of Le marchers and an amplify-
iig system was set up so that
those who could not enter the
iuditorium could
hear
the
speeches.
Among the speakers, who called
for a lifting of the U. S. arms
embargo on Palestine, the dis-
patch of an international force
to Palestine to implement parti-
tion and denounced the UN's
"policy of passivity," were: Sens.
Robert F. Wagner of New York
and Elbert Thomas of Utah; Her-
bert H. Lehman, former Gover-

nor of New York; David Dubin-
sky, president of the ILGWU;
Newbold Morris, chairman of the
New York City Planning Corn-
mission; Dr. Israel Goldstein,
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal; Golda' Meyerson of the
Jewish Agency; and Israel Fein-
berg, general manager of the Joint
Board of Cloak, Suits, Skirt and
Reefer Makers' Unions of the
ILGWU, which sponsored the
rally.
$1,135,000 Raised for Histadrut
More than $1,135,000 was col-
lected for the Histadrut at an
emergency session of the Nation-
al Committee for Labor Palestine.
The sum exceeded the goal of
$1,000,000 set Jr
15 the organization
for this phase of its drive. The
total goal of the 1948 campaign
is $7,500,000, of which more than
S2,000,000 has already been raised.

Dr. Lazaron on Committee
To Reconsider Partition
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
Committee for Justice and Peace
in the Holy Land, "to work for
reconsideration of partition of
Palestine on the basis of a corn-
promise acceptable to. the Arabs,"
was laUnched here under the
chairmanship of Virginia G. Gil-
dersleeve, dean emeritus of Bar-:
nard College and a member of the
U. S. delegation at the San Fran-
cisco Conference which set up
the United Nations in 1945. The
committee, whose members in-
clude Rabbi Morris Lazaron, ad-
vocates the following immediate
steps:
1—The Security Council should appeal

to both sides to - cease fire" pending
reconsideration by the General Assem-
bly of its recommendation concerning
Palestine. and reference of the case
to the Internatiginal Court of Justice
as provided in the UN Charter.
2—The Palestine question should be
removed- as an issue in American do-
mestic politics by adoption of a bipar-
tisan policy.
3—The United Nations should act
quickly to find homes for displaced
persons. and the United States should
adopt legislation to admit its full
share.

British Give Airfield to Arabs
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
RAF handed over the Gaza air-
field to the municipality of Gaza.
Haganah intelligence has report-
ed that a' number of Yugoslav
Moslem pilots have recently ar-
rived in Palestine and have been
giving ground instruction to Pal-
estine Arab flying students. The
Arabs expect to receive two planes
from Syria shortly for what they
boast will be the "bombing of
Tel Aviv."
In view of the approaching
withdrawal of the British admin-
istration, the post office issued an
order halting the reception of
parcel post mail destined for Pal-

estine as of March 15, but will
deliver whatever is in. transit at
that time. Parcel post from Pal-
estine will be accepted for an in-
definite period. Another govern-
ment statement revealed that ar-
rangements have been made to
insure the delivery of needed
bread and flour products for the
period up to the end of the Man;
date and a short time afterwards.
Attempts are being made to con-
tinue the flow of supplies after
that period, the communique ad-
ded.
Seventeen Jews were killed in
an Arab ambush eight miles from
Jerusalem. The Jews, part of a
detachment of 23 Haganah men
assigned to clear the road from
the Kallandia settlement, adjoin-
ing the • Jerusalem airport, to
Ataroth, some 12 miles from this
city, were attacked by 300 Arabs.
UN Palestine Commission ad-
vance party was welcomed by
representatives of the Jewish
Agency by telephone. An Agency
spokesman told a news confer-
ence that he expected personal
contact between members of the
party and Jewish leaders to be
established within the day.
Twenty Arabs were killed and
many others wounded when a
strong Haganah patrol penetrated
the Arab village of Birabas, north
of Tel Aviv, and blew up four
buildings. The Jews lost one man
killed and five wounded.
The British Army reported that
a Jewish pilot flying a plane east
of Tel Aviv was fired on, but
landed safely although one bul-
let had penetrated the cockpit of
his light plane. An Arab report
said that the plane had been shot
down after strafing Jaffa with
machinegun fire. A third version,
released by the Palestine police,
said that a police armored car
had spotted a Jewish plane fly-
ing low over Abu Kebir, an Arab
village on the outskirts of Tel
Aviv, and that the pilot had
dropped several hand grenades
and fired on the village.

Fascist Group Admits
Responsibility for Bombing
LONDON (JTA) — Responsi-

bility for the killing of 54 Jews
in the Jerusalem bombing of
Feb. 22 has been assumed by the
"Palestine Branch of the British
League of E-Servicemen" in a
manifesto mailed frorn Jerusalem
to several members of Parliament.
The British section of the League
recently merged with -Sir Oswald
Mosley's fascist Union Movement.
Mosley denied that the League
was involved in the Jerusalem
outrage.

dealing with anti-Semitism on
the American scene from the li-
brary of DeWitt Clinton High
School in New York, was voiced
by Benjamin R. 'Epstein, national
director of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, in a letter
to the New York Times_

The book s, "Gentleman's
Agreement" and "Focus," were
banned by Dr. John B. Walsh,
principal of the school, because,
in his opinion, the former treated
extra-marital relations lightly
and the latter, he felt, had sec-

the basis of whether or not these
two books make an important
contribution in their field. If
such is the case, and I believe it
is, then these major considera-
tions should - out-weigh objec-
tions or reference."
By using the same . kind of
yardstick as Dr. Walsh employed,
individual "censors" might find
passages in the Bible not suit-
able for young readers or might
take exception to paragraphs in
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and keep
them both off the library shelf,
Epstein warned.

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