Anti-Israel Lies Nailed
In Tel Aviv, Lake Success

Spokesmen for Jewish Faith Show Evidence of Good Will
To Arabs, Offer Free Port Facilities; Dissidents'
Charges Are Demolished

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By Special Correspondents of The Jewish News

The packs of lies hurled at Is-
rael by Arabs, anti-Semites and
internal antagonists of the gov-
ernment of the State of Israel
was smashed in statements in Tel
Aviv and at Lake Success.
Contrary to claims that Jews
aim to keep Arabs out of the
new state, Arthur Lourie, Consul
General in New York, stated upon
his return from Tel Aviv that Is-
rael is ready to effect an exchange
of Jews in Arab countries for
Arabs who have fled from Israel.
He said that only 50,000 Arabs
had left the Jewish • territory
north of the Negev and possibly
another 50,000 from the desert
area had fled in "unreasoning
panic."
Gene Currivan, reporting to
the New York Times from Tel
Aviv, cables in substantiation
of Israel's good will, that Arabs
"are free to return to their
vineyards and orange groves
as long as they respect Israeli
hospitality. Most of them are
Palestinians and wish only to
live in peace. Some of them
have no homes to return to be-
cause their villages were lev-
eled by themselves, by sabotage
or by attacking forces."
Mr. Lourie's statement brought
a denunciation from an Arab
spokesman w h o audaciously
charged that Jews had brought
about the recent cholera epidemic
in Egypt by poisoning wells. This
charge is tantamount to the blood
libel charge which had been used
as a weapon by anti-Semites
against Jews in backward coun-
tries. It will be recalled that of-
fers of assistance from the He-
brew University to help check
the cholera epidemic were re-
jected by Egyptians and that
charges of well poisoning were
officially repudiated by the Tur-
kish government.
In Tel Aviv, another good will
offer was made by Moshe Sher-
tok, Israeli Foreign MiniSter, who
declared that the Jewish State
will give free port rights to its
neighbors in the ports of Jaffa
and Haifa.
Charges made by Jean Nie-
wenhuys of Belgium, that Is-
rael had broken elementary
rules of international war were
vehemently denounced, point
by point, by the Israeli spokes-
man, Aubrey C. Eban, at Lake
Success. He showed how the
UN aide went beyond his au-
thority and condemned vague
insinuations which are not sup-
ported by facts.
While Egyptians continued to
break the truce and there were
reports of attacks on Jewish po-
sitions by Arabs in Jerusalem,
David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime
Minister, declared that Israel
prefers to make direct contacts
with the Arabs and to negotiate
with them directlr rather than
through Count Folke Bernadotte.
Ben-Gurion stated that only
through .a treaty with Israel
would the Arab world be able
to free itself "from its open, and
covert dependence on the exter
nal forces exploiting it." •
The Israeli Foreign Office has
forwarded to the UN representa-
tive in Tel Aviv a list of Arab
breaches of the truce. Israel is
holding 5,095 Arab prisoners. It
is believed that nearly 20,000
Arab soldiers were killed in bat-
tle and that Israel has taken 809
square miles of Arab territory.
It is reported from Haifa that
820 Jews arrived from Cypfus
but that 600 more were pre-
vented by the British` from de-
parting for their homeland. Dr.
Ruth Gruber, in a cable to the
New York Herald Tribune,
states .that 2,500 more—the
wives and children of the de-
tained 600—also refused to
leave for Israel without their
husbands and 'fathers. Approxi-
mately 17,000 Jews remain in
Cyprus.
, Announcement was made in
Tel Aviv that $18,400 of the $20,-
000,000 national loan already has
been subscribed, that an addi-
tional $1,200,000 has been pledged
and that the balance of $400,000
in certain to be raised before the
July 3i deadline.

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The Jewish National Fund re-
forestation program continued
with the planting of 500,000
trees in 27 localities during the
past six months. It also has been
made known that the 500,000 vol-
umes in the Hebrew University
Library are undamaged.
The Israeli State Council
elected five members to Is-
raeli's supreme judicial body.
They are: Dr. Moshe Smoira,
who was born in Koenigsburg,
Germany, in 1888, and who will
serve as chief justice; Itzhak
Olsham, a native of Kovno,
Russia, who was born in 1895;
Rabbi Simcha Assaf, who was
born in Luban, Russia, in 1889;
Dr.. Moshe Dunkelbaum, a na-
tive of Cracow, born in 1889;
and Shneur Zittlman Cheshin,
born in Jerusalem, in 1903.
Observers in Haifa state that
the. primary factors in the Arab
League's acceptance of the truce
were the rapidly deteriorating
Arab military positions and the
growing disunity in Arab ranks.
Syrian army supplies are low and
the Iraqi transport system dis-
organized. Israel's army com-
mander, Brig. D. Shaltiel, stated
that Jews would have captured
all of Jerusalem in two weeks if
not for the truce.
The U. S.• Consulate-General
took over the YMCA Jerysalem
building from the Red Cross.
A trade office was opened by
Israel in London and a delegation
of Palestine citrus merchants was
invited to come to England by
the Ministry of Food.
The Israeli government an-
nounced preparation's for national
elections for members of a Con-
stituent Assembly which must be
established by Oct. 1, according
to the terms of the General As-
sembly partition decision of last
November. The praesidium of the
Zionist Actions ComMittee an-
nounced that the fictions Com-
mittee will meet in Tel Aviv
beginning Aug. 8.
Israel must make every effort
to bring the city of Jerusalem
within its boundaries, Dr. Isaac
Gruenbaum, Israeli Minister of
the Interior, declared in an ad-
dress before the first conference
of the General Zionist Party.
Israel.
The commanders of the Arab
and Jewish military forces fac-
ing each other with bristling
guns across Jerusalem's "no-
, man's land" signed a truce
boundaries agreement in a cor-
dial atmosphere that almost hid
the fact that they are still ene-
mies. The ceremony took place
in the presence of the three-
man UN Consuar Truce Com-
mission. •
Under the terms of the agree-
ment, both sides agree to respect
the lines which they occupied
when the formal cease-fire order
imposed by the Security Couricil
came into effect here on July 17.
Irgunists' charges that the Is-
raeli attacks on the Altalena-
Jabotinsky boat were 'acts of in-
humanity and treachery were
denounced in many quarters and
it is charged that the aim of the
ship's passengers from the U. S.
was to capture the Israeli gov-
ernment. Reports from DP camps
are that dissidents' emissaries
from the U. S. have state'd open-
ly that they would try Dr. Weiz-
mann and Ben-Gurion as traitors
and would ask the death sentence
for them.
Bernadotte's plan for the de-
militarization of Jerusalem was
received with incredulous aston-
ishment in Israeli Government
circles in Jerusalem. His latest
proposal stipulates that every
male who was a member of
Haganah should be compelled to
leave Jerusalem, according to
reports here.
This would mean, in effect,
20,000 Jews would be compelled
to quit Jerusalem, leaving their
families 'and virtually destroy-.
ing the economic life of the
city.

Bialik's Hebrew Poems
Published in English

• Nine Nazi Victims---Ail Related

The long awaited publication
by the Histadruth Ivrith of Amer-
ica of the authorized translation
into English of the complete po-
etical works of the immortal He-
brew poet Hayyim Nahman Bia-
lik was announced at the ZOA
convention in Pittsburgh. -
- Samuel J. Borowsky, member
of the presidium of- Histadruth
Ivrith, presented the first copy
to Dr. Emanuel
Neumann, presi-
dent of ZOA, at
the closing ses-
sion of the con-
vention. Dr.
Neumann hailed
the book as an
important step
in familiarizing
the Jews of
America with
Borowsky
the renaissance
of the Hebrew language of the
20th century of which Bialik was
the classical exponent.
Twenty outstanding, poets par-
ticipated in the' translations un-
der the editorship of Dr. Israel
—International News Photos
Efros.
Largest single family group of Nazi victims ever to arrive in the
The book may be ordered from U. S. on a DP ship salute Old Glory in New York harbor after docking
Histadruth Ivrith of America, 165 of the Marine Shark, The nine are relatives of a Mississippi merchant:
W. 46th St., NeW York 19, N. Y. Ghana Sackler, 9; David Sackler, 6;. Manya Sackler, I I ; Solomona

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Samson's Foxes Haunt
Farouk's Beaten Army

By RUTH GOLDSCHMIDT -
SOMEWHERE IN PALES-
TINE, (Palcortelayed) -- "Sam-
son's foxes were out again last
night," said the southern brigade
commander of the Israeli forces.
Samson's foxes is the nickname
for the mobile Jewish commando
brigade operating on the south-
ern front against the Egyptians
in the same area where Samson
sent his foxes, with burning rags
on their tails, through the Philis-
tines' fields.
Brigade commander • Moshe
Dayan, who a fortnight ago re-
turned from the U. S. where he
accompanied the coffin of Col.
Micky Marcus, led the Israeli
shock troops into Latrun and
then re-directed ther ► to the
southern front. He wears a black
patch where his left eye was,
which he lost leading command-
oes against Vichy Syria in World
War II. He received his com-
mando training under British
General Orde Wingate and com-
pleted his military education un-
der Micky Marcus.
It was from Dayan I learned
the salient facts about Negba, the
"underground kibbutz" (collec-
tive settlement) that has become
an Israel legend. Negba lies in
a hollow, just one kilometer be-
low the • height dominated by a
police fortress deliberately hand-
ed over to the Saudi Arabians
and Iraqi by the British just be-
fore their evacuation. The settlers
of Negba were advised to aban-
don their settlement because
their situation seemed hopeless.
That was before May 16. But
instead, the women and children
were evacuated and the men
stayed on. Their houses fell to
pieces under the constant shell-
ing and mortaring. At one point
in the settlement 9,000 enemy
shells were counted in three
weeks. The settlers dug in, stay-
ing in their trenches all day,
holding fire until the enemy was
within certain target distance,
and emerging at night to harvest
and irrigate their fields. Only
two days ago, they repelled four
waves of Egyptian infantry led
by 10 tanks, 36 armored cars,
and supported by heavy artillery,
mortars and the Egyptian air
force.

Eliahu Epstein Accepts
Israel Friendship Train

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Eliahu
Epstein, Israeli • envoy to the
United States, officially accepted
a "Friendship Train for Israel"
bearing $500,000 worth of food,
clothing, medical supplies and
automotive equipment. The train
was presented by the Chicago
Bnai Brith.
During an official welcome at
City Hall, Epstein charged Count
Folke Bernadotte's recommenda,
tions on cease-fire terms in Pales-
THE JEWISH NEWS-3 tine are a departure from the
original truce terms.
Friday, July 30,.194$

Winder, 16; Rachel Winder, 48; Aaron Winder, 18; Feiga Sackler, 33;
Israel Sadder, 43; Michael Sackler, 13. Israel Sackler and Rachel
Winder are brother and sister.

Illinois Leader Sees New Truce
As Sacrifice fore Jews of Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA) — "The
Jews of Israel have made- a
great sacrifice in accepting the
latest .UN truce;" Samuel Roth-
berg, of Peoria, Ill., national
vice-chairman of the Trades and
Industries Division of the $250,-

dare to resume fighting. "If they
did, despite the lifting of the
embargo," he said, "Israeli forces
could win the war within two or
three months." Accompanying
Rothberg was Henry Montor,
executive vice-chairman of UJA,
who was also returning from a
visit to Israel.

Birkhead Exposes Fascist
Indoctrinator in U. S. Army

SAMUEL ROTHBERG

000,000 United Jewish Appeal,
said on his arrival from Israel.
Rothberg narrowly escaped
death when an Egyptian Spitfire
strafed Kibbutz Buchenwald,
while he was inspecting a chil-
drens' section of the settlement,
The UJA leader called for lift-.
ing of the U. S. arms embargo,
declaring that such a move would
"hasten peace in Palestine," since
the Arabs would probably not

A self-avowed sympathizer of
Hitler and Mussolini, who directs
indoctrination for a U.' S. Army
Regiment at 'Fort Dix, N. J., has
been uncovered by Friends of
Democracy. Leon M. Birkhead,
national director of Friends of
Democracy, turned over this in-
formation to Secretary of Defense
James Forrestal.
The soldier, whose pro-fascist
and prip-nazi feelings have been
publicly expressed on lecture
platforms and in his writings, is
Technician Fourth Grade Peter
L. Xavier, 6713733, non-commis-
sioned officer in charge of the in-
formation and education program
of the 60th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division. He is a
member of the Headquarters and
Headquarters Co.
Friends of Democracy first be-
gan probing T/4 Xavier when his
book, "Rise, America!" was pub-
lished by the Meador Publishing
Co. of Boston, Mass., in 1946.

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