Rioting in Colombia
Destroys Economic
Life of Bogota Jews
Abstainers in Key Posts
In New General Assembly
Virtually all Jewish business
U. S. Delegation Approved by Senate Said to Be Unfriendly
establishments were wrecked
to Zionist Cause; Dr. Weizmann Tells Austin Jews
during the recent rioting in .po-
Will Fight for Their Independence
gota, Colombia, and the Jewish
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By Jewish News Correspondent
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y.-0b-
serVers here are inclined to refer
to Lake Success as "Lake Failure"
as a . result of the attempt to re-
verse the Palestine decision of
last November.
There is a spirit of disappoint-
ment over the election of un-
friendly delegates to key posi-
tions in the General Assembly.
Also — the approval of un-
friendly U. S. representatives by
the U. S. Senate has injected a
spirit of pessimism in Jewish
ranks.
The Senate last week approved
the appointment of Warren R.
Austin, Francis B. Sayre and
Philip C. Jessup as delegates and
Dean Rusk and John C. Ross as
alternates.
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THE JEWISH .NEWS
Friday, April 23, 1948
community of that city is utterly
devastated, according to a,com-
mimication to Dr. John Slaw-
son, executive vice-president of
the American Jewish Committee,
from Maximo Yagupsky, head of
the AJC office in Buenos Aires,
lArho is in Bogota attending the
Inter-American Conference.
"Jewish business has been
completely destroyed," Yagupsky
said. "Everything was burned
and ransacked. It seems as
though the Jews have been
ruined."
A survey of the destruction is
being undertaken under the aus-
pices of Yagupsky, who asserted
that aid is urgently needed from
other Jewish 'communities to
help re-establish Jewish econ-
omic life in the city.
for maintaining peace in Pales-
tine, whatever that might entail.
The whole question, he said,
would be discussed at the forth-
coming special session of the UN
General Assembly.
A proposal that Defense Secre-
tary Forrestal, Under-Secretary
of State Lovett and Chief of the
Near East Division of the • State
Department Loy Henderson ap-
pear before a Congressional
committee to explain the U. S.
reversal on the Palestine parti-
tion plan was made by Rep. Ja-
cob K. Javits of New York in the
House.'
Javits described the three of-
ficials as the men "who must
have been responsible in a major
way" fOr the American policy
shift. He also urged lifting of the
arms embargo on Palestine and
American support for the forma-
tion of a United Nations volun-
tary police force for Palestine,
in which members of the Jewish
War Veterans could enlist. He
voiced the belief the JWV could
furnish a 20,000-man division to
go to Palestine.
A delegation from the Political
Action Committee for Palestine,
led by Rabbi Baruch Korff, pre-
sented a two-million signature
petition to Senators Ives, Langer
and Capper and Rep. Sol Bloom,
calling for "immediate construc-
tive legislation on Palestine." The
delegation urged the Congres-
sional leaders to call upon Presi-
dent Truman to ask the United
Nations to return to its original
position in support of partition.
JDC Records Aid to Polish Jews
On Warsaw Uprising Anniversary
$250,000,000 minimum campaign
Of the United Jewish Appeal.
At the beginning of 1947, nearly
65,0.00 Polish Jews depended upon
JDC for all types of relief aid.
Today, JDC leaders reported, One-
third of the country's Jews, con-
sisting of the sick, invalids, the
aged and other persons unatle to
work, are primarily - dependent
upon the agency's assistance pro-
gram. Among them are 16,000
children, many of whom receive
care in some 100 JDC-supported
homes. JDC also maintains 85
dispensaries, hospitals, maternity
centers and sanatoria in Poland.
Some 35,000 Polish Jews, it was
added, are gainfully employed,
requiring only supplementary aid.
JDC reconstruction efforts aimed
at helping Polish, Jews achieve
self-support include credit co-op-
eratives and a network of 203
producers' cooperatives.
The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, in a statement commem-
orating the fifth anniversary of
the Warsaw ghetto Jews' uprising
against the Nazi invaders, report-
ed it had spent $17,500,000 since
V-E Day for relief, reconstruc-
tion and resettlement operations
on behalf of Poland's estimated
100,000 Jewish survivors. Before
the war, Poland had a Jewish
population of 3,300,000.
"American Jewish community
support through JDC to help
these survivors is a living me-
morial to the heroes of the War-
saw ghetto," JDC officials de-
clared. The uprising, which be-
gan April 19, 1943, following the
"deportation-to-death" of about
350,000 Jews, ended with the kill-
ing of virtually all the remaining
40,000 in the ghetto.
Funds for JDC, major Ameri-
can agency aiding distressed Jews
overseas, a're provided by the
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Sholom Aleichem *School, sup-
ported by the Allied Jewish
Campaign, emphasizes creative
education in teaching Jewish sub-
jects.
Shertok Scores Phony Truce
FLUSHING MEADOWS, N. Y.
(JPS)—Two of the most vital po-
sitions in the new General As-
sembly session on Palestine—
presidency of the Assembly and
chairmanship of its key Political
Committee—have gone to the
delegates of two nations • which
IL'ads the Hat Parade
abstained from voting on parti•
tion last November 29 and which
are known to be securely in the
American camp which seeks to
substitute a trusteeship for par-
tition.
At the first session of the re-
convened General Assembly here
Friday, Jose Arce, of Argentina,
from
was elected president with 31 out
of 57 votes. Tsiang Ting-Fu, of
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China, was elected president with
31 out of 57 votes. Tsiang Ting-
Pastel Shades
Fu, of China, was elected Chair- JWB Issues Rental List
man of the Political Committek
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Of Yiddish, English Films
with 40 out of 54 votes.
Appearing' before the UN Se-
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NEW YORK A mimeo-
curity Council at Lake Success
graphed listing of 25 full-length
yesterday, Moshe Shertok,
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chief of the Jewish Agency's JeWish motion pictures in Yid-
dish,
English,
and
Russian,
to-
Political Department, literally
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took to pieces the truce propo- gether with a brief _ description
sal, engineered by the Ameri- of each, rental sources and
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can, French and Canadian dele- rental fee, has been issued by
the
Audio-Visual
Materials
Sec-
gates. He exposed it as a ruse
which would, in effect, call tion of the Jewish Center Divi-
for a world embargo on arms sion of the National Jewish
sales to the Jews while leaving Welfare Board.
The listing contains 19 titles
the door open for the Arab
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of
Yiddish films with English
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much
arma-
states to secure as
titles,
two
titles
with
Russian
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ments as they were able, for dialogue and English titles and
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eventual use in Palestine. Other four with English dialogue. All
paragraphs in the "truce," -Mr. but one of the titles are 16mm
Shertok pointed out, would in films. ,The other is 35mm.
effect, halt Jewish immigration,
prevent anything which could
remotely be interpreted as "po-
litical activity" and completely
disarm the Jews. No mention
was made and no provisions
were proposed for the removal
from the country of foreign
armed Arab invaders who con-
stitute the bulk of the Arab
raperiei and Corniceo
forces now attacking the Jews.
Mr. Shertok made it clear that
BY MODERN AGE
the Jews would readily agree to
non-conditional
truce
if
it
were
a
only a matter of Palestink Arabs
5ailor Male
laying down their arms. The pres-.
ence, however, of Arab invaders
from neighboring states changed
inclivictua4 Sized
the complexion, he stated.
The N. Y. Post reported Friday
that Dr. Chaim Weizmann told
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U. S. delegate Austin, who sought
to win Jewish Agency support
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for the "truce" proposal, that the
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Jews will fight for their home-
land for years if necessary. The
U. S. countenanced Arab aggres-
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sion against partition and sur-
rendered to the Arab demands,
Dr. Weizrnann reportedly said. A
truce must be real and must per-
mit Jewish immigration and par-
tition.
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