Ben Gurion Charges Irgun
With Attempt to Ruin Israel
THE JEWISH NEWS-7 blunder after another, one vio- tions, and above all the United
Friday, August 6, 1948
Praises Welles'
Views on Israel
Pro-Irgunists in this country emerge completely exposed
as having misrepresented the Altalena-Jabotinsky case in
the text of the address delivered by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's
In his review of Sumner
Prime Minister, at the close of the Israeli Cabinet debate on Welles' "We Need Not Fail"
(Houghton Mifflin Co.), in his
the Altalena incident, at Tel Aviv, on June 23.
Declaring that "we avoided a great calamity," Ben column in the Detroit News, W.
K. Kelsey wrote: -
Garion declared that "an irre-S
"By failing to uphold the
sponsible gang did not succeed a question of our ability to de-
in getting the 5000 rifles and 2,- fend ourselves as a group. It is claims of Israel we lose the op-
006 machine guns with which a test of our collective respon- portunity of helping to establish
they would have killed the Yi- sibility. It is true that this is a in the Near East a democracy
shuv and the State."
provisional government. I hope that would be an island of firm
Acknowledging the sincere in- that in the near future if we will support in the midst of potential
tentions of the Mizrachi leaders the
the war you will be rid of enemies who have demonstrated
--Rabbis Berlin. and Fishman this provisional government and. in the past, during the last war,
and Shapiro—he charged that there will be elections, though I that they care nothing fOr dem-
the only intention of the Alta - do not become impressed by the ocracy, but are interested only
lena was to bring ruin to Israel. enthusiasm of our Revisionist in promoting • the fortunes of
Asserting that the army act- friends for elections—I remem- their rulers and the minute frac-
ed on orders from. the Israeli ber their attitude toward elec- tion of their people who possess
Government. Ben-Gurion said tions in the World Zionist Con- wealth and therefore influence.
"Meanwhile we have entirely
that the entire gang setup could •ress and toward elections in
have been destroyed, but the in- the Yishuv. However, in this lost sight of one of the major
tention was only "the preven- short time is bound up the fu- objects of the creation of a Jew-
tion of crime. It attacked them ture of the Jewish people, pos- ish nation in the Near East — its
iti a Way which forced them to 1 ibiy
\ for hundreds of years, cer- employment as a home for the
sUrrencler.". He denied, that the ta'nly for decades. These two or displaced, camp-herded Jews of
swimmers were shot at and scat - Ithree months will determine our Europe, the remnants saved from
ed: "The opposite is true. The fate. If in this Short period of Hitler's wholesale slaughter.
"They are not to be released
sailors requested help from the this _ dreadful war we will be
Palmach members on shore. able to stand up as . one man to go to Palestine while the truce
Those same Palmach members with one discipline, then we will lasts, for they might make Isra--
.who were shot at by the IZL be able to determine the fate el's military strength greater, and
that would offend the Arabs.
_-(Irgun), two - of whom were of generations of Israel."
"It would be hard to imagine
killed, swam to save them,
Pro-Irgunists and Revisionists
climbed into the boat as it was in this country have completely a course more asinine than that
about to explode, and at a risk distorted the text of Ben-Gur- which has been pursued by the
to their • OWn lives saved the‘ ion's speech in their propaganda. United - States Government in
sailors."
They went so far as to insert ad- the Palestine matter, except per-
Ben-Gurion reveals that the vertisements in non - Jewish _haps that of Great Britain since
Irgunists refused to surrender newspapers berating the Israeli Sir Herbert Samuel quit as com-
their ship, that "it was the re- government and have referred missioner in 1925; and the Brit-
sponsibility of a government to Weizmann, Ben-Gurion and ish course was less asinine than
concerned about the security other Israeli officials as "trait- disgraceful, a foul repudiation of
of its country to confiscate ors."
a solemn promise.
these arms. If it did not do this
`One Does Well to Be Angry'
it would be violating the prin-
"Let it be understood that the
cipal function of government
preceding paragraph is the Com-
—keeping the peace." He -de-
mentator's.
clared that "the agreement
"Mr. Welles is more polite. He
was broken from beginning to
does not allow himself to become
end"—referring to an agree-
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The angry. His presentation is thor-
ment he had read to the Cabi-
oughly reasonable.
net, quoting Irgun's consent Israeli special representative to
"But if you agree with it, as
the
United
to turn over its ammunition.
the Commentator does, since he
States,
Eliahu
He charged that sufficient
has been arguing along the same
weapons were supplied to It- Epstein, made
lines for a long time, you too
his
first
official
gun for defense against t h e
may lose your temper at one
Arabs, but that the weapons call. on Secre-
they wanted from the Altalena tary of State
were intended for another George C. Mar-
INSURED
purpose, and he intimated that shall and as-
they would have threatened sured him that
the very existence of the Is- the people and
Government of
rael government.
"It is a terrible thing that we Israel want only
must use strength against. Jews to live in peace
but it is seven times more ter- with America Marshall
rible that Jews should compel and other nations of the world.
us to use strength, and renege Epstein, leaving the Secretary's
on their promises and declara- office with Stanley Woodward,
tions," the Israeli Prime mi nis_ State Department Chief of Pro-
ter said. He asserted that Irgun tocol, told reporters that he as-
CURRENT RATE
promised — and repeated t h e sured the Secretary of Israel's
desire
to
develop
close
and
promise—that "they would break
up after the formation of t h friendly relations with the U.S.
He revealed that Secretary
State." He charged total break-
ing of the promise and declared Marshall assured him of the de-
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Savings Institution
that he would be ashamed to sire of the U. S. to. see Israel.
walk around with a bodyguard progress and develop and sent
Dexter Blvd. at Cortland
his personal regards to Israel
and would refuse to do so.
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Newspapermen were invited Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok.
by the Irgun to a conference
even before the ship arrived at
Tel Aviv "to tell them about
their heroism; about their strug-
gle for private arms and criti-
cized this government for want-
ing to take the arms for titself;"
Ben-Gurion said.
Stating that nobody wants
revenge and that people are
ready to forgive and forget,
Ben-Gurion insisted that IZL
must stop by giving up their
weapons and their members
submitting to the draft "Me
anybody else—without agree-
ments. This government will
make no agreements with any-
ng Hollywood, Calif., Catering Establishment, in business
one." • Me added: "There is no
ars and catering to all Hollywood studios and other
necessity for revenge. We have
fop flesJ.i:o. organizations. Price, $150,000. Business includes
enough external enemies."
quad accoun receivable, stock, trucks and modern equip--
"It was better that the ship
ment and faciliiies.
? -. ......aderful return now and
was burned," • he said, stating
unlimited opportunity of increasing ,presentt '
that he knows the value of ships
and ammunition, that in t h e
hands of the government ammu-
Here is an opportunity for a party fully acquainted with
nition would have been a bless-
the catering business to buy real money making establish-
ing; but in the hands of IZL it
ment in God's country, and be assured of good living.
constituted a threat because:
Present owner will stay on for six months to correctly turn
"They refused to give the weap-
business over to buyer.
ons to the government and it
was therefore better that -t h
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the cannon that sunk that
That cannon is worthy of being
mounted in the new temple
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cluded by saying:
"This is not a question of this.
government or any other. It is
lation of faith after another, one
display of weakness after anoth-
er, and . vast quantities of pro-
Arab propaganda which are
demonstrably false.
"If the United Nations is to
function as a reliable force for
collective security, if its guiding
principle is to be justice and
the keeping of faith, rather than
expediency, then its leading na-
States, must win prestige and
honor by standing for that prin-
ciple, no matter what the cost;
"We need ..not fail, says Mr.
Welles, a greater statesman out-.
side the State Department than
he was in it and subject to orders.
But we are failing, because we
are allowing our fears to guide
us, rather than our proclaimed
principles."
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