Friday, April 16, 1948

Page. Three

THE JEWISH NEWS

The 1948 Allied Jewish Campaign for a goal of
$6,200,000 challenges every Detroit Jew to join
the forces that are fighting for freedom and
for total liberation for the survivors from
Nazism. Only the total success of this drive will
DESTINY
assure support for the 56 overseas, national and
For Jewry
local agencies which we are obligated to sup-
port with funds of the Allied Jewish Campaign.
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This is the
Year of

Commission Moves Closer
To Forming Jewish State

Truce Talks Fail; Palestine Government Blamed For Food
Shortage; Student Visas Suspended; Communities
in Many Lands Hold Prayer Meetings

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—The Palestine Commission
moved one step closer to the establsihment of a Jewish Pro-
visional Council in Palestine when its chairman, Karel Lis-
icky of Czechoslovakia, recommended that the body consid-
er a plan by Panama's Dr. Eduardo Morgan for the setting
up such a Council and "carry it to its logical conclusion."

All members of the Commis-
sion except Per Federspiel of
The new British ruling. was
Denmark agreed with the sug- made known by the American
gestion. At Federspiel's insistence Friends of the Hebrew Univer-
the Commission asked the Sec- sity which said it had been in-
retariat to prepare a legal opin- formed by the University in Jer-
ion on whether the Commission usalem that student visas for U. S.
has the power to establish a Pro- citizens would no longer be ex-
visional Council of Government. tended "for security reasons."
The ,Commission has instruct- More than 100 prospective stu-
ed Pablo Ascarate, head of its ad- dents in this country are affect-
Niance party in Jerusalem, to open ed by the ban.
consultations with the Ichud
Sir Leon Simon, chaiman of the
Party which has asked for a hear- University's Executive Council,
ing separate from that granted who has left the U. S., declared
the Jewish Agency. The Commis- that "we will continue to process
sion - announced. it will meet with students' applications from the
representatives of the A gudas United States in the hope and
Israel, which also asked for sep- expectation that the order may be
arate hearings, at Lake SUccess. rescinded."
Truce Talks Fail
Worldwide Prayer Rallies
The U. S. is ready to propose
Hundreds of thousands of Jews
truce terms for Palestine and has in every part of the United States
invited other members of the Se- jammed thousands of synagogues
curity Cattricil to do likewise, and Temples April 8 at special
Warren Austin announced at an
informal meeting of Council services asking divine interces-
sion on behalf of the Jews of
members. The meeting heard
Council President Dr. Alfonso Palestine.
The unprecedented services
Lopez of Colombia report his un-
successful preliminary negotia- voiced the indignation of Amer-
tions on a truce with Jewish and ican Jewry against the American
Arab emissaries He suggested Government's abandonment of
that British troops who remain in the Palestine partition decision,
Palestine after May 15 be respon- were arranged by the Synagogue
sible for-law and order from that Council of America, representing
date on. United Kingdom repre- Orthodox, Conservative and Re-
sentative Sir Alexander Cadogan form rabbinical and congrega-
said he would forward his sug- tional bodies throughout the
United States.
gestion to his government.
Rev. Karl Baehr, representing
The truce talks between Dr.
Lopez and the interested parties the American Christian Palestine
will continue. It was made clear Committee, said that the day of
that the Council intends to take prayer indicated a "mighty dem-
the initiative in developing a onstration that the demand for
basis for cessation of hostilities a free Jewish Palestine takes top
if the two .parties remain dead- priority and transcends all con-
siderations of race or creed. This
locked.
The Palestine Government was special prayer for fulfillment of
blamed for the gravity of the pledges which predate. the war
food situation in the Jewish sec- deserves the most ' sympathetic
tion of Jerusalem in a memoran- and the deepest support of all
dum submitted to the UN Pal- persons and nations."
Meanwhile, reports reaching
estine Commission by Moshe
Shertok, in behalf of the Jewish here from Palestine, Great Brit-
Agency. The memorandum asks ain, South Africa, Australia,
the Commission to use its good Canada and Latin America said
offices to request the British the Jewish religious organizations
authorities in Palestine to assume in those countries also held spec-
responsibility of convoying sup- ial services on that day.
plies to Jerusalem until the term-
100,000 Sign Zion Petition
ination of the Mandate.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Peti-
Kenya Internees Plea to UN
Another scandal in relation to tions bearing 100,000 signatures
British misrule in Palestine is re- and urging immediate implemen-
vealed in an appeal to the 'United tation of Palestine partition were
Nations by 260 Palestinian Jews presented to Acting Secretary of
who are held, without trail, in the State Robert A. Lovett by a five-
man delegation representing the
Gilgil Camp in British Kenya.
For more than four years, these New England divisions of the
people have been deprived of see- American Zionist Emergency
ing their families and now they Council, the American J ewish
are threatened with detention in Congress, the Jewish War Veter-
Kenya even after the British ans, the American Christian Pal-
estine Committee, and the Mas-
evacuate Palestine on May 15.
An appeal to, "end this law- sachusetts Federation of Labor.
less and painful situation" has Secretary Lovett spent an hour
been sent to the UN by the camp with the delegates in an oft-the-
supervisor, Samuel Katznelson, in record discussion of the Palestine
behalf of the unfortunate de- situation.
The British Government has
tainees.
agreed to continue the procure-
ment of wheat for Palestine un-
Student Visas Suspended
NEW YORK (JTA)—Palestine til the end of June. British author-
visas for Americans wishing to ities, however, insist they must
" study in that country will no be paid in dollars, and also raised
longer be granted by the British the question as to who would pay
for the wheat.
Government.

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