Pro-Arab State Department Month-Long Exhibit of Israeli Art to Open Feb. 12
Pressure Revealed byTruman At Temple Israel; Gov. Williams to Be Guest

(See. Commentary, Page 2;
and Editorial, Page 4)
NEW YORK, (JTA) — At-
tempts by the State Department
to influence him against favor-
ing the establishment of a Jew-
ish national home in Palestine—
immediately after he became
President of the United States—
are related by former PreSident
Harry Truman in a chapter - of
his memoirs published in the
New York Times. He also re-
lates how the British govern-
ment was "none too happy"
with his reaction to the immedi-
ate admission in 1945 to Pales-
tine of 100,400 Jewish victims of
Nazism "regardless of the effect
on the situation in the Middle
East which this would have."
"My firs't official contact with
the problem," Mr. Truman
writes, "took place within a few_
daysof the time I became Pres-
ident when Secretary of State
Edward R. Stettinius Jr. had
sent me a letter offering to
`brief' me on Palestine before
I might be approached by any
interested parties. It was likely,
he said, that efforts would soon
be made by some of the Zionist
leaders to obtain from me some
commitments in favor of the
Zionist program which was
aimed at unlimited Jewish im-
migration into Palestine and the
establishment there of a Jew-
ish State. '
Roosevelt's Views
"Two weeks later Joseph C.
Grew, who in Stettinius' ab-
sence was the Acting Secretary
of State, sent me a further
memorandum on the subject,
informing me: Although Presi-
dent Roosevelt at times gave
expression to views sympathetic
to certain Zionist aims, he also
gave certain assurances to the
Arabs which they regard as
definite commitments on our
part. On a number of occasions
within the past few years, he
authorized the department to
assure the heads of the differ-
ent Near East Governments in
his behalf that 'in the view of
this Government there should
be no decision altering the basic
situation in Palestine without
full consultation with both
Arabs and Jews.' In his meeting

Detroit Jewish News-3
Friday, February 3, 1956

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with King Ibn Saud (of Saudi
Arabia) early this year, more-
over, Mr..,Roofikevelt promised
the King that as regards Pales-
tine he would make no move
hostile to the Arab people and
would not assist the Jews as
against the Arabs.
"I was fully aware of the
Arabs' hostility to Jewish set-
tlement in Palestine, but like
many Americans, I was. trou-
bled by the plight of the Jew-
ish people in Europe. The Bal-
four Declaration had always
seemed to me to go hand in
hand with the noble policies of
Woodrow Wilson, especially the
principle of self-determination.
When I was in the Senate I told
my colleagues, Senator Wagner
of New- York and Senator Taft
of Ohio, that I would go along
on a resolution putting the See-
ate on record in favor of the
speedy achievement of the Jew-
ish homeland. • '
Advice on Zionists
"But the State Department's
concern was mainly with the
question of how the Arabs
would react, and that this was
the wrong time to raise the
Palestine queStion. In ahother
memorandum, on JUne 16, 1945,
the Acting Secretary of State
said the State Department's
view was that Palestine was
one of the problems which
should come up for settlement
after the war through the
United Nations organization.
The memorandum closed with
this well-intended advice on the
subject of the likely call on me
by Zionist leaders: It does not
seem, therefore, that you need
go any further, unless you care
to do so, than to thank the
Zialist leaders for any mater-
ials which they may give you
and to - assure them their views
Will be given your careful con-
sideration.
"To assure the Arabs that
they would be consulted was by
no means inconsistent with my
generally sympathetic attitude
toward Jewish aspirations. It
was my belief that world peace
would in the long run be best
served by a resolution that
would accord justice to the
needs and the wants of the
Jewish people who had so long
been persecuted. The acts of
extremists in Palestine, whether
Jewish or • Arab, I condemned
and deplored, but I also felt
that it was important that some
encouragement be given to the
Jews who wanted to further
their cause by accepted demo-
cratic methods .. . The State
Department continued to feel
that we should stay out of any
activity that might offend the
Arabs." _

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An exhibition of Israeli art Mane-Katz, Ludwig Blum, Ja- won the French Legion of Hon-
by that country's leading paint- cob Stenihardt, Ruven Rubin, or in 19'51, may be found in
ers will be on display for a Marcel Yanko, Oksi, Kaharla the Metropolitan Museum and
month at Temple Israel, 17400 and Melitta.
Paris Museum of Modern Art.
Manderson, beginning Feb. 12.
The paintings, Dr. Fram em- Blum's work highlights Israel's
The exhibition , will open
phasized, express the life and beautiful landscape.
with a special program, start-
Steinhardt, world-famous for
emotional development of Is-
ing at 8 p.m., to be attended
rael._ They prove that a pio- his woodcuts, is dean of Bezalel
by Governor G. Mennen Wil-
neering country, in its first Museum and Art School of
liams.
phase of renaissance, can spur Jerusalem. His pictures may be
Bringing the exhibit here, at the imagination of the artist, found in leading museums and
the personal invitation of Dr. Dr. Fram added.
galleries in this country and
Leon Fram, is Yurika Mann, di-
Pictures of Mane-Katz, who , Europe. _
rector of the Jerusalem Art
Center. While here for the
showing, Miss Mann also . will
give a series of lectures.
Among the paintings on ex-
hibition will be the works of
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