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Proclaim Judaean Independence;
aganah Ho! • s Strategic Posts

By Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

Allied Jewish Campaign
Reaches $2,500,000 Mark

The Allied Jewish Campaign, whose 1948 goal
is $6,200,000, this week passed the $2,500,000
mark, Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, under whose auspices
the drive is being conducted, announced Tuesday
night.
Maurice Aronsson, general chairman of the
drive, has issued a call to all division chairmen and
workers to speed up their efforts for the drive in
order that the campaign may be led to success. The
urgency of the situation in Palestine and the impera-
tive need for action in behalf of the survivors from
Nazism in Europe demand that the entire goal
should be raised and that funds should become avail-
able at once, Mr. Aronsson stated.
"Pre-campaign solicitations MUST end this
month to leave the month of May free for general
solicitations," Mr. Aronsson said. "To raise our en-
tire goal we must give double or more."

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — With reports coming in of continuous victories scored
by Haganah forces over invading Arab armies, it was announced on Tuesday that
a ship earring 800 Jewish refugees was intercepted by the British off the Hafia
coast.
It was definitely ascertained on Tuesday that Haganah is holding the strategic
Kastel village on the road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Haganah Radio also
claims the capture of a large Arab village near Mishmar HaEmek. It is the village
of Kufrin near Biblical Armageddon Haganah now holds five Arab villages near
Mishmar HaEmek. They are completely cleared of Arabs and are firmly in
Jewish hands.
Denying that the British shot down a Jewish plane, Haganah said that the
airship carried medical supplies and landed safely at Kfar Etzion.

Jewish Independence Proclaimed

The official resolution adopted unanimously by the Zionist Actions Committee
proclaiming the central Jewish authority preparatory to the setting up of a Jewish

State follows:
"On this, the third day of Nissan, the General Council of the World Zionist

Organization announces to the civilized peoples of the world, to the representatives
of the United Nations and to the Jews scattered throughout the world that it has
been decided to set up an organ of supreme authority of our national independence

in Palestine.

"In pursuance of this purpose we declare that we refuse to remain a minority
on sufferance of others. The mandate is about to end. On May 15 his Majesty's Gov-
ernment will surrender to the United Nations the trust it received from the League
of Nations 2.7 years ago and which it has failed to fulfill. It departed from the
spirit of the mandate and replaced it with the selfish purpose of furthering its
Middle Eastern interests,

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Fighting Chance for Judaea: No White Flag for Haganah

Palestine's Battlelines Drawn in Nations Capitol

BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Jewish News Correspondent
. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Debates and actual vot-
ing on the future of Palestine and the fate of the
Jewish State will be recorded beginning with this
Friday (April 16) at Flushing Meadows, N. Y. But
most of the vital decisions are being made in the
Capitol of the United States.
New national policies are being dictated here by
the tragic events which have created a tense semi-
war spirit in this country and throughout the world,
and Judaea is one of the chief sufferers from the
state of uncertainty in which we live.
Hope prevails here in Jewish and friendly Christ-
ian quarters that the U. S. trusteeship proposal will
be altered and may not even be passed; that there
may, at the last moment, be a substitute proposal
to assure peace and security in Palestine and to pro-
vide for unlimited Jewish immigration. Should there
be another alteration in America's Palestine policy,
this correspondent is convinced that it will be the
result of a desire to avert repudiation of our admin-
istration's proposal for a trusteeship. There is suf-
ficient resentment in United Nations' ranks against
the move to reverse the decision of Nov. 29, 1947,
ft). indicate that the trusteeship plan may fail to
• secure the necessary two-thirds vote in the second
special General Assembly session on Palestine.
We Have a Fighting Chance
Conflicting views in Congressional and Govern-
ment ranks here provide a basis for hope that all is
not lost for Jewry in Palestine; that we have a fight-
ing chance to win the battle for freedom for the
Palestinian and European Jewries.
At best, the situation is an extremely grave one.
The State Department is adamant in its stand and
President Truman apparently has given it a free
• hand to do as it pleases in the situation.. -
There is complete rever41 not only in the ap-
proach on the question of the establishment of a
Jewish State in a partitioned Palestine but also on
the military issue. The previous nearly-unanimous
view that American troops should be kept out of
• Palestine has been reversed and those in control of
our foreign policy now favor the sending of Amer-

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ican troops to Palestine "in the interest of law and
order."
Ouk friends who previously rejected our military
participation in effecting Palestine's solution now -
excuse their endorsement of the move to send U. S.
soldiers there on the ground that the world situation
has become more uncertain, that the peace of the
Middle East must be guaranteed, that the new policy
would have been unnecessary if the situation had
not been muddled from the very beginning.
From all indications, plans are being made by
anti-Zionist, pro-British elements to create a com-
bined American - British - French force to police
Palestine.
These men now assert that a strong stand after
the Nov. 29 decision would have solved the problem,
but that President Truman's vacillating program has
negated all the good results attained at the UN.
And so—the talk now is of a "truce." What about
immigration? That, they say, must be pursued as a
secondary step in a timetable that must be followed
in the best interests of America's foreign policy.
The DP Problem and Palestine
The muddled situation, the supporters of the new
"law and order" program admit, is "tragic," but
it must -be viewed in the light of the grave world
situation. •
It is important to note that greater emphasis now
is being placed by some elements in Washington
upon the need for the admission of a certain number
of displaced Europeans to this country. But even the
most optimistic fail to see better than an even chance
for a bill that would admit the maximum of 200,000
DPs during the next two years. They admit, too,
that of this number it is hardly conceivable that
more than 25 per cent would be Jews—thus leaving
the entire problem of the survivors from Nazism
unsolved unless the Palestine issue is resolved in
accordance with large-scale Judaean immigration
plans made by the Jewish Agency;
"If WE do not take the lead in admitting DPs, we
can't ask others to do likewise," runs the standard
. argument—but still not - a word about priority for
Palestine in a free immigration policy for Jews.
This is not the-only set of opinions in Washington.
An important Republican leader told this corres.

pondent that military men who are in control of out
foreign policy are responsible for the reversal in
AMerican policy. Speaking broadly, he expressed
the view that men who are engaged in building
fortifications and in preparing for war are unable
to think in terms of peace, and he appeared elated
over the MacArthur defeat in Wisconsin as an in-
dication that the American people will not go so
meekly for militarism as a. basic American policy.
Haganah's Fortunes and U. S. Anti-Semitism
* Two other points are made by American leaders:
1. Haganah claimed it was able to hold the ground.
They don't believe that the Jewish defense force
has proven its invincibility. Here, too, they admit
that the situation might have been different had the
UN provided the required support for this isolated
defense unit.
2. Many important Congressional and Govern-
ment leaders are influenced by the view that an
aggravated Palestinian situation will cause an , in-
crease in anti-Semitism in 'this country. The follow-
ers of Gerald L. K. Smith have been distributing
pamphlets and literature of so vitriolic a nature that
the House Un-American Activities Committee has
undertaken to investigate the new campaign of hatred
against Jews. Some of the pamphlets are entitled;
"The Jews Have the Atom Bomb" and Is Corm
munism Jewish?" David Lilienthal, chairman of the
Atomic Energy Commission, is referred to as "King
of the- Jews" and Prof. Albert Einstein as "Stalin's
Friend," and men like Bernard Baruch are derided.
This new outburst of hatred is utilized as a warn-
ing that Zionists should mark time and should be
"patient."
Fortunately, no one goes so far as to suggest that
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver should hoist the white flag.
No one denies the validity of Jewish claims. The
worst that is asked of us by leaders outside the State
Department—where the aim appears to be only for
a permanent ghetto in Palestine—is that we wait and
mark time. The more realistic recognize that time
is of the essence, that we can not afford a serious
defeat at Flushing Meadows, N. Y.
Therefore the 'battle goes on—and the Jewish
position moves to Flushing Meadows to continue the
struggle for justice for maligned Israel.

