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THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

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VOLUME 13

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NO. 19

of Jewish Events

Review of

Three Books on

Crucifixion and

Anti-Semitism

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(Alfa Selected as Truce Center;
Israel Fights Breakers of Peace

Survivors in German State
Remain 'Extra Territorial;
Clay Rebuffs DPs' Slanderer

FRANKFORT (JPS) — "The U. S. will retain jurisdiction over
the DP camps until the last DP leaves Germany,' Gen: • Lucius D.
Clay told a press conference here last week when asked whether a
new Western German state, if created, would be given control over
.the DP camps. The German police will not be permitted to take
over the civil jurisdiction of the camps.
Asked by a German correspondent if he knew that hundreds of
thousands of cartons of cigarettes on the black market had been
traced to the DP camps at Zeilsheim and Belsen, the General .turned
on the questioner and asked: Is that a question or an answer?" The
German persisted. Is the General aware of the situation and what
does he intend to do about giving the German police the right to
search DP camps?" "Nothing,"_ General Clay snapped, and one
reason for that answer is the way you asked the question."

MUNICH (JT.A)—The Bavarian Employees Association cabled
a protest to Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall in Washing-
•ton against the dismissal of 12 American Jews employed by the
•American Military Government in Germany. The message charged
that A. M. G. authorities in Bavaria and Berlin had dismissed 12
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employees because they are Jews.
Herbert Baker, president of the association, charged that A. M. G.
authorities were pursuing a policy of firing employees who are not
native American citizens. Referring to. the 12 A. M. G. employees
fired recently, he said, "by coincidence, all were Jews."

With three of the Arab states—Syria, Iraq and Egypt—continuing the attacks on
Israeli centers, thus breaking the truce, Jewish forces in the State of Israel are kept
on the alert to defend the established and newly-won positions.
Count Folke Bernadotte, the United Nations' Palestine mediator, has returned to
• the Island of Rhodes, which will be maintained as the mediation center, - while Haifa
has been selected as truce control headquarters. The latter selection is creating specu-
lation whether it is intended to convert the port acquired by the State of Israel as a cen-
ter for curbing Jewish. immigration.
Another attempt by Arabs to penetrate Jewish positions since the declaration of the
truce was made on Tuesday. Israeli troops held all positions and killed 18 Arab legion-
naires on Saturday and 50 on Sunday, 'as against 15 Jews killed. A number of serious cp !
ualties were sustained by the Jews in sniping by Arabs in Jerusalem.
Word was received in Jerusalem through the State Department Tuesday that
Stephen Haas, a Philadelphia real estate man, a naturalized American citizen, was
stoned to death Sunday in Cairo by an Egyptian mob. Haas was in Cairo as a tourist
official. A member of the Philadelphia Bnai Brith Lodge, he was well known. in Jewish
circles. U. S. Press Officer Lincoln White told reporters that several Egyptian compan-
ions of Haas were badly hurt and members of a British family were injured. The attack
occurred near the Cairo citadel. Mrs. Haas apparently was not badly hurt.
The American charge d'affairs in Cairo, Jefferson Patterson, has made strong repre-
sentations to the Egyptian government over Haas' killing.
From Tel Aviv comes word that the Israeli general army staff issued orders to com-
manders on all fronts to fight back wherever Arabs violate the UN truce, otherwise
strictly to observe the cease fire order wherever the Arabs are honoring it. The order
came a day after continuous Arab violationg of the truce, particularly in the north and
central fronts. Syrian and guerrilla units are active on northern fronts, while Iraqi and
other guerrilla units of Kawakji's "liberation army" were pressing attacks in the central
area. Minor Arab activity also is reported on the southern front.
Meanwhile, at Lake Success, all Arab states except Iraq_ have:notified the UN Sec,
retary General that they have issued ceasefire orders to their troops in. Palestine. The
Iraqi delegate says his government had asked for more time
Count Bernadotte told a press.conferenee at his .Rhodes headquarters, -upon his re-
turn there, that the biggest job facing him now was the setting up of truce supervision

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Weizntanrt and Balfour

Scientist _Paves Road
For Israel's Freedom

In the two previous installments. the author -
recorded the early years of Chaim Weizmann in
. anti-Semitic Russia. Restricted to the pale of
settlement in that country, barred from universi-
- ties, at 18 he enters college in Germany, where
he meets Theodor Herzl, the man who conceived
the idea of a Jewish State in Palestine. The third
installment follows.

•

By GEROLD FRANK

At the turn of the century, Chaim Weizmann,
• Doctor of Science, comes to Geneva from Frei-
burg to do research in organic chemistry and
lecture at the University of Geneva, and is
. catapulted into the midst of Europe's political
and intellectual ferment.
The Swiss capital is a fabulous place, for here
• live in exile the political theorists, the flaming
revolutionists, the men with soaring hopes who
are to make their mark, for good or for evil,
upon the world.
There is a man named Benito Mussolini, who
had fled Italy to escape military service. An-
other named Leon Trotsky, the dust • of Siberia
still on his boots, is to be found nightly at a
sidewalk cafe with a somber-faced friend
named Nicolai Lenin.
Jean Jaures and Jules Guesde, French Social-
H ists, and August Bebel and Karl Kautsky, their
German colleagues, and a host of lesser exiles
• from half a dozen countries of Europe, rub
shoulders in this peaceful city along the Rhone.

Arnazing Champion of Israel

Here Weizmann, the intellectual, comes bril-
liantly to the fore. One story has it that for 36
hours he debated Zionism with a trio of Rus-
sian revolutionaries, headed by Trotsky—and
• that before they cried quits, they had even
brought up fresh speakers from Berlin in a
- vain • attempt to wear him down.
*
The pattern of his life becomes more sharply
defined. Three of his sisters are physicians; it
is natural that when he marries, it is a girl who
is to become a physician herself. She is Vera
Kazman, from Rostov-on-D Dn, and one of the
most beautiful young women students at the
university.
His work in chemical research progresses. He

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—Drawing by Burris Jenkins
Balfour, former Prime
meets
Lord
1996.
Chaim
Weizmann
GENIUS:
The
time
h
WHEN GENIUS TOUCHED
Minister of England. It was the first link in the long chain of events that led—I I years later—to the Balfour
Declaration, the great Magna Charta of modern Jewish history.

