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Israel Resumes Diplomatic Fight
n Arab, ritish • bstruction
(From Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News)
Israel's diplomatic genius is being tested by the latest trend of events,
as a result of the cease-fire truce and the continued obstructionist tactics
of the Arab League and Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest BeYin.
While the Jewish State was holding ground against the overwhelming
odds Of 50 to 1 represented by the armies from five surrounding Arab states,
the greatest menace to Israel came from the attempts of British anti-Semites
:to inject new issues which would lead either to the destruction of the small
State of Israel or its reduction to a, fractiOn of its present size which was
accepted by the UN asothe "irreducible minimum."
From London came thee report that Bevin, already discredited by his
own Labor Party associates and by. Winston Churchill, was proposing a new
partition scheme which would rob Israel of the Negev.
From other quarters, however, came somewhat encouraging news,
'including indications that most of the fighting in Palestine was in Arab
territory.
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A message to Israel from Secretary of State Marshall, welcoming the
new state into "the community of nations" heartened the Israeli Minister
in Washington, Eliahu Epstein, to whom the letter was addressed, and his
associates. •
In reply to Lebanon's request for conciliation, Israel's spokesman before
the UN, Maj. Aubrey Eban, said that "the noise of battle musrbe quieted
before other sounds can be heard."
Before the truce was accepted by Israel, on Tuesday morning, an Israeli
air force bombed Amman and hit military targets. Jewish planes were
active elsewhere. An Arab Spitfire was shot down at Tulkarm. Israelis
also shelled and bombed Arab-held Lydda airport;
Count Folke Bernadotte, president of the Swedish Red Cross, mediator
for Palestine, already has met with leaders of both peoples.
Jews attacked the Latrun police station and village for six hours and
despite h'eavy resistance managed to hold ground, burned a village and
killed 150 Arabs. • Haganah bombed military targets at Ramleh for several
days and bombed Egyptians 10 kilometers south of Rehovoth.
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Federation Mernorial
To Honor Fred Butzel
The Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit is setting
up' a Fred M. Butzel Memorial Fund to honor the mem-
ory of the Chairman of the Executive ,Committee of
the Federation who passed away last week, Julian H.
Krolik, president of the Federation, announced after
the decision was made by the Federation's Executive
Committee.
The nature of the memorial •to : Mr. Butzel, who also
served as an officer and l:f,oard member of many of
its constituent agencies: will be determined by ttle Fed-
eration Board,. in consultation with members of• Mr.
Bufzel's family. Memorial gifts will be placed in the
Memorial Fund.
At the meeting on May 27, the Executive committee,
in behalf of the Federation, acknowledged with thanks.
contributions already .received in Mr. Butzel's memory.
Individuals and agencies from all parts of the country
have sent in tributes to the Jewish leader who was one
of the principal figures in both . Jewish and general social
service for nearly a half century. •
United Jewish Appeal leaders from all over the coun-
try, meeting in New York, May 23, joined in a standing -°
vote of tribute to Mr. Butzel and formulated a memorial
expression signed by National UJA Chairman Henry
Morganthau, Jr. -
Mr. Butzel was Michigan statg chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal and honorary chairman of the 1948+
Allied Jewish Campaign of which the United Jewish
Appeal is a principal beneficiary.
The UJA resolution and other tributes appear else-
where in this issue.
Editorial: 'We Need Not Fail'
Sumner Welles' Challenge to the U,S.
On Basic Principles Involving Israel
This is unorthdox: a front page editorial devoted to a book review. It is the Editor's
view, however, that Sumner Welles' "We Need Not Fail," which Houghton Mifflin Co. will
release on June 8, is so important that it deserves advance attention from all Americans.
It is our view that "We Need Not Fail" will, at once, assume equal and comparable impor-
tance in the battle for justice for Israel on the American front to the bullets on the fighting
front.
Mr. Welles assumes the role of an Emile Zola in his accusations against the destructive
forces which have sought—and still seek—to undermine American ideals..-It is gratfying
to note that the former Under Secretary of State approaches the issue with the explana-
tion that "American policy with regard to Palestine has in the past at times been governed
by idealism, by humanitarian considerations, and by an enlightened grasp of the factors that
make ,for world peace." In his 142-page book he speaks frankly and fearlessly. He exposes
the machinations of the British, the false issues raised over Russia pnd oil concessions: the
pro-Nazi role played by the Arabs_and, to the regret and dismay of . all who are concerned
that fair play shduld remain a dominant factor in American. idealism, the vacillations of the
present occupant of the White House.
"Thcoherent, contradictory, inaccurate"—these are the accusatory terms applied to Presi-
dent Truman's public statement of March 16 "in a vain attempt to still the ever-mounting
tide of criticism" on the Palestine issue. In a chapter "What We Could Have Done;" Mr.
Welles insists: • "There can be little question that even as late as March, 1948, had the
United States resumed its earlier support for the plan of partition and economic union, the
way could readily have been found by the Security Council for the irriplementation of that
plan, and, through pronipt action, for the elimination of many of the dangers by which the
Administration in Washington was obsessed." In the chapter "What Can Still Be Done" we
read a warning especially applicable in the present crucial moment when the question of
a truce is a major issue:
"A truce is imperative if carnage is to be prevented, if the holy places are to be spared,
if all of the achievements of the Jews in Palestine are not to be obliterated, and if the United.
Nations is not to become a subject for scorn and a hollow sham. • But no real truce can be
expected if its terms deny the Jews their ultimate freedom or if it condemns the pitiful Jew-.
ish refugees in Europe to continued exclusion from Palestine."
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Weizmanns on Way
To Israel's
Capital
Dr. and Mrs. CHAIM WE1ZMANN,
first President and First Lady of the State
of Israel, are'shown here (right') as they
embarked on May 26 from New York on
the Mauretania for Cherbourg, France,
first leg of their journey to Tel Aviv, the
capital of Israel. They preferred to avoid
going to England as a rebuke to Great
Britain for her destructive effort's against
Israel. Dr. Weizrnaiin presented President
TRUMAN (left) with a Torah, containing
the Five l3odks of Moses, during their con-
ference at the White House on May 25.
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