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. Nubby Twist Broadloom AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY SEAMLESS TWELVE FOOT WIDTHS Gray — Green — Rose — Aqua — Beige — Blue Our 'Twist Carpet is triple ply for tougher wear. 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