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VOLUME 15—NO. 1
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Detroit 26, Michigan, March 18, 1949
Welcome
to Detroit
A66a Eban,
Israel's
Representative
to the UN
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Britain, Israel Again at Odds;
Aqaba's Possession Major Issue
(Direct JTA Teletype Wi res. to The Jewish News)
ebrew Schools-Northwest
?hool Merger Aids Unity
An important step in the direction of community unity
evidence in the completion of the school building of
l Northwest Hebrew Congregation which will serve the
Heeds of this synagogue as well as of the United Hebrew
cools.
It will be recalled that the two groups, through their
Donsible leaders, two years ago decided to merge their
cational programs, thus obviating the need for the erec-
of another Hebrew School building in that section of the
and at the same time removing the possibility of the
of another congregational daily Hebrew school
which inevitably would have created a new competitive ed-
ucational problem in the northwest area.
Under the existing agreement, which fortunately has
been made for a period of ten years, the classrooms in the
new building on Curtis and .Santa Rosa will be used on week-
days by the United Hebrew Schools and will be utilized for
the Sunday School classes of the congregation on Sunday
morning.
Dedication of the new school annex of the Northwest
Hebrew Congregation on Sunday should be utilized to ac-
claim the public-spirited and high-visioned acts of the of-
ficers of the congregation and the United Hebrew Schools
and the directors of the school systems for having effected
a commendable act of community unity. They have elim-
inated strife, have reduced costs to the community and have
shown a good, public-spirited approach to the important
‘edlinlionalrieeifS -61-nalt.growing section of our city.
Exclusive in Michigan:
Weizmann's Autobiography
Allenby's_Sukkot Myrtles,
Negotiations With Feisal
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Early in 1918, a commission of Zionists went to Palestine to
prepare plans in the spirit of the Balfour Declaration. General
Allenby, while' fighting the Turks, governed the country. The
British mandate, incorporating the Balfour Declaration, was four
Years away. Yet even then there were portents of the gap that
was to develop between the promise of the declaration and the
British performance in Palestine.
The commission was made up of British, French and Italian
Zionists, and Dr. Weizmann was its chairman:
By CHAIM WEIZMANN
President of Israel
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Palestine in 1918
The Zionist ComMission assembled in Tel Aviv, at this
time a little seaside town consisting of perhaps a hundred
houses and a few hundred inhabitants. It was quiet, almost
desolate, among the sand dunes, but not unattractive, though
it had been cut off from the outside world for nearly four
years.
I soon discovered that the Balfour. Declaration, which
had made such a stir in the outside world, had never reached
many officers here, even those of high rank.
General Allenby, though not hostile, was inclined to be
skeptical. Not because he feared trouble from the Arabs;
it was rather that, in his view, Palestine had no future for
the Jews.- I remember that toward the end of a long talk,
when I felt his resistance yielding a little, I said something
like this:
"You have conquered a great part of Palestine . . . If
this conquest of yours be measured by the centuries of
hallowed tradition which attach to every square kilometer
of its ground, then yours is one of the greatest victories in
history. The day may come when we shall make good your
victory, so that it may remain graven in the lives of men and
nations. It would be a great pity if anything were done
now—for instance, by a few officials or administrators—to
mar this victory." -
He seemed. at first a little taken back by this tirade, but
when I had finished he said: "Well, let's hope it will be
Made good."
After this interview our relations underwent a certain
improvement, but on the whole the spirit governing offi-
cialdom was not conducive to co-operation between our-
selves and the British or between ourselves and the Arabs.
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LONDON.—Great Britain warned Isr ael that she will not tolerate penetration
into Transjordan by Israeli troops. A Foreign Office spokesman said that Britain had sent
instructions based on this warning to the British troops at Aqaba, (see accompanying
map) referring to what Britain's attitude would be "in certain eventualities." The spokes-
man said that Israel similarly was informed in order to avert "unfortunate incidents.
Israeli sources regarded the warning as unnecessary and stated that Israel's troop
movements were confined to the Negev region of southern Palestine and did not en-
croach upon Transjordan's territory.
At Tel Aviv, British Consul General Cyril Marriott transmitted the warning to the
Israel Government and in London a Foreign Office official saw Israel's temporary rep-
resentative here, Joseph Linton. A copy of the warning was believed to have been sent
to Dr. Ralph Bunche at Rhodes.
Britain's commander in chief in the Middle East meanwhile has transmitted a re-
quest to London for authority to British troops virtually to take over the entire Trans-
jordan territory. Presumably with the consent of Sir William Slim, chief of the Imperial
General Staff who presently is with the Middle Eastern
con-imander at Fayed, reinforcements have begun on
a considerable scale. Royal Marine commando rein-
forcements and Royal tank regiments with the Comet
and Cromwell tanks already were seen landing at
Aqaba and the latest type fighter aircraft has been
sent to Mafrak, chief RAF airport in Transjordan.
The crucial decision, however, which the British
Cabinet was to take is whether British aid also is to be
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extended to Iraqi forces in the Palestine triangle. The
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Transjordan view, as expressed by Glubb Pasha, is that
the Iraqi are essentially a flank cover for Transjordan-
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ians on the Jerusalem front, and that any threat to the
Iraqis therefore is a threat to the Transjordanian posi-
tion. Therefore British aid also has been requested for
the Iraqis, should present tension flare into actual
fighting. Thus far there has been no decision here,
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but pressure from General Slim and his associates .is
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being exerted for Britain to accept full responsibility
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for action on the Transjordan-Iraqi fronts.
JORDAN
(A cease-fire order for the entire Israeli-Transpor-
dan front was signed at Rhodes by representatives of
both countries under the direction of Dr. Ralph Bunche.
(The problem of access to Holy Places in Jerusalem
Aqaba
was emphasized in the Rhodes negotiations.
(Israeli demands at Rhodes include uncontrolled
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access to Holy Places and free passage via Latrun.
ARABIA
(Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharet denied
that Israeli forces penetrated into Transjordania and
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charged that the Arab Legion advanced five miles into
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Israel in the southern Negev area).
Abba Eban Guest Here at Two Allied
Jewish Campaign Rallies on Tuesday
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The Jewish community of Detroit will welcome one of the outstanding Jewish
personalities of our time at two Allied Jewish Campaign meetings next Tuesday, when
Abba Eban, Israel's Representative to the United Nations, will come here to encourage the
mobilization of workers for the annual drive for funds for the liquidation of DP camps
and the upbuilding of the Jewish State.
Mr. Eban, the youngest official repreSentative at the UN who has attracted world-
wide attention for his quick thinking in debate at UN sessions—in Paris as well as at
Lake Success—and has acquired a reputation as a most brilliant stylist-in his speeches,
will speak at the following rallies:
At 2 p.m., at Temple Beth El, at the rally of the
Women's Division of the Allied Jewish CaMpaign.
At 8:30 p.m., in the Grand Ballroom of the Book
Cadillac Hotel, at a men's workers' rally.
Both meetings- are intended for the recruiting of
volunteer workers in the campaign and, in a sense,
will fire the opening guns in the great effort to sur-
pass last year's Allied Jewish Campaign goal.
Interested persons who desire to hear Mr. Eban are
called upon to register at once as workers in the . drive
and to make reservations for the two important meet-
ings at the Allied Jewish Campaign office in the Owen
Building, WO. 5-3939.
Major Abba Solomon Eban, who is only 34, is a
native of South Africa. His father, a physician, moved
the family to London when Abba was 5. His sister
works in the UN legal department. A younger brother
is studying medicine in London. His wife, although
a third-generation Palestinian, was born • in Egypt,
- where her father was an engineer on the Suez Canal.
After taking honors at Cambridge, Mr. Eban joined
ABBA S. EBAN
the Queens College faculty for research in Arabic and
Persian literature. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, French, German and Persian.
He entered- the British army as a volunteer in the last war and became a liaison
officer between military headquarters' and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. After the
war he was chief instructor in a British school in Jerusalem, training administrators and
..diplomats of Near Eastern-.duty.
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