Monitor Reports 'Israel Communists Go UnderkrowndT"
An American Jewish Press Feature
One of the most sensatiorm
stories of the year is the Christ-
ian Science Monitor's report.
from its Israel correspondent,
Francis Ofner, who in a cabl•:1
from Tel Aviv, reveals that Is-
raeli Communists are preparing
reads:
The Israel Communist Party
is getting ready to . go under-
ground.
Already the party . archives
have been m o-v e d from the
headquarters in Hamagid Street
Clarence Brown
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an information campaign is go-
ing on warning members "to be
ready for the witchhunt which
the lackeys cf American imperi.-
alism are trying to foster here "
Parallel to t h e Communf.st
Party's present leadership, du-•
plicate leaders are being set up
consisting mainly of Communists
who have not been in the lime. -
light lately. The duplicate lead-
ers are mostly those who, in
1947, refused to give whole-
hearted support to the pro-Is-
rael "Gromyko-line," which for a
Short period reversed the Soviet
Union's 30-year-old anti-Zionist
policy. They have been less ac -
tive since.
The Communists seem to as-
sume that if their party is out-
lawed, these "shadow" leaders
will have- more freedom of ac-
tion than their present, publi-
cized, central figures.
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to go underground. His report here to unknown hide-outs, and
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It has become increasingly ev-
ident that Communists here re-
gard the outlawing of their ac-
tivities as t h e one hopeful
chance to regain their waning
strength. The Communist Party
which prior to the foundation of
the State of Israel had 16 local
branches in t h e country, in-
creased its number to 69 by the
end of last year. Similarly, the
number of Communst votes rose
from 15,000. in the general elec-
tions of 1949 to 27,000 two years
later—an increase mainly. due
to the Arab and new immigrants'
vote.
This temporary success, how-
ever, has been drastically re-
versed sine e Czechoslovakia's
and the Soviet Union's anti-Jew-
ish purges last winter. Not only
did sympathizers drift away, but
even cardholding members re-
signed, including a staff member
of the party's daily newspaper
"Kol Haam."
To recover from this dwindling
of strength, the Communist
leaders now are trying to force
the prohibition of their party,
hoping that the population will
sympathize with "outlawed un-
derdogs," and be attracted by
their "martyrdom." Thus, Com-
munists have begun organizing
unauthorized meetings, as they
did on the arrival to Israel of
United States Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles. They are de-
fying government censorship.
They also continuelly interrupt
debaters in the Knesset (parlia-
ment), entirely disregarding the
Speaker's warnings. In addition,
they are conducting systematic
subversive campaigns in all
spheres of life, aimed at dis-
turbing Israel's political and
military security.
A special committee within the
party's leadership has been set
up to gather intelligence infor
mation, political and economic,
presumably for transmission to
the Cominform. The Commu-
nists have also tried to collect
material concerning military in-
formation.
Communists have directed a
considerable amount of their
energy towards winning over new
immigrants from Eastern Eu-;
lope's Communist states. They
have been trying to instill fear
among these newcomers, claim-
ing that these immigrants are
being watched, and their politi-
cal activities are being reported
back to their countries of origin,
where some of them still hav e
relations who might be endan-
gered.
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Mr. and Mrs. William B. Caplan
N. Y. Library Gets Israel Bible
Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Goldberg
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A copy of
the first edition of the Bible to
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and printed in Israel was pre-
sented to Dr. Joshua Bloch, chief
of the Jewish Division of the
New York Public Library, by
Joseph M. Mazer, general chair-
man of the 1953 Greater New
York campaign of the American
Friends of the Hebrew Univer-
sity and Bernard Cherrick, di-
rector general of the board of
governors of the university.
The Bible text was prepared
by the world-famous authority
on Biblical research, the late
Professor Moshe David Cassuto
of the University faculty, and
issued by the University-Magnes
Press.
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