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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1947
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Weixmann Out; Silver Heads Washington
Section, Ben Gurion Is Chairman; Group
Believed To Favor London Parley
DONALD OBERDORFF.R
National JDA Chairman
Southeastern Leaders
JDA Conference Jan.
The first National Conference of
the Joint Defense Appeal in St.
Louis from January 4-6, called to
evaluate anti-Semitism in the
United States has won national
acceptance from American Jewry,
It was disclosed by Albert H. lieb-
erman. of Philadelphia, conference
committee chairman. It is ex-
^ pec ted that more than 1.000 Jew
ish welfare and communal leaders
fill attend.
" Today, on the eve of the historic
time-day meeting. Mr. Ueberman
revealed that everything is in read
iness for the out-of-town guests
MAX KROLOFF*
Among Regional Delegates
To Participate in
4-6 in St. Louis
who will be Joined by more than
2.000 residents of the St. Louis
Jewish community at the opening
session. They will hear addresses
by Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann, of
St. Louis; Ralph E. McGill, editor
of the Atlanta Constitution; Don
ald Oberdorfer, national JDA
chairman; Justice Meier Stein-
brink, ADL national chairman,
and Major B. Einstein, who will
welcome the assembly on behalf of
the local Jewish community.
On January 5 and 6, these
(Continued on Page Two)
By
BASLE,
week elected
tion, after de
that Dr. Weizr
elected. The v]
the Zionist Congre;
day meeting of
mittee. It represent
mise between the Pales
ltes and the American'
Zionists, which emerged a\tl
dominant groups in the w
onist movement-
David Ben Gurion was n
chairman of the executive,
Rabbi Judah I.. Fishman,
rachl leader, and Dr. Isaac Gruen-
baum, General Zionist, as vice-
chairmen. Dr. Abba Hlllel Silver
BIENSTOCK
^Si)Njst Actions Committee this
executi\^<omhe World Zionist Organiza-
p^oposaJ^jVthe Palestine Labor Party
^ v dent. No president was
maxed fifteen \iays of deliberations by
%
3^ .
_ew executive committee
fottwm composed of 19 members,
.'freight "of whom are General Zion-
^ i a | Ists, sevtp Poale Zionists, four Miz-
| rachl and a deputy member M. R.
Kolodni, who is also a General
Zionist, but who will have a vote
only on immigration matters.
They will b eassigned to the Jeru
salem. Washington and London
executives on the following basis:
Jerusalem — Ben Gurion, Rabbi
will head the section of the execu- jFishmen, Dr. Gruenbaun , Goldie
live In Washington. There will be Meirson, Eliahu Dobkin, F.llezer
a four-man executive in London, i Kaplan, Moshe Sneh, Moshe Sha-
probably without a chairman.
Group to Consider
London Participation
The decision as to when and if
the Zionists should participate In
the London Conference on Pales
tine was delegated to a special 15-
man political committee which will
have authority to define the Zion
ist attitude toward the London
talks.
A praesidium of the Actions
j Committee was elected and Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise was named “Se
nior .Member” in lieu of a presi
dent. David Remez, Palestine la
bor leader, had proposed that Dr.
Wise be named president of the
plro and Fritz Bornstein of the
Aliya Hadasha. Washington—Dr.
Silver, Emanuel Neumann, Rose
Halperin, Hayltr Greenberg, Moshe
Shertok and Rabbi Wolf Gold-
London—Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
Prof. Selig Brodetzky, Berl Locker
and S. Z. Shragal.
Weizmann Rejects Lead of
Delegation to London
At least two-thirds of the mem
bers of the new executive are be
lieved to favor participation In the
London Conference. Under the
coalition agreement which resulted
in formation of the executive the
I members will be obliged to support
, „ — any decision adopted by a two-
pracsidium, but his proposal was thirds vote. It is known that be-
not voted upon. | fore the elections Dr. Weizmann,
3J.& ATUfl
live*/
who is now in London, rejected a
proposal, made by telephone by a
former member of the executive,
that he be named president of the
Actions Committee, and in that
capacity head a Zionist delegation
to the London parley.
Dr. Weizmann was stripped of
leadership of the Zionist move
ment in a vote which preceded the
election of the executive. The Ac
tions Committee, by a vote of 47 to
32, approved a resolution intro
duced by Dr. Moshe Sneh, provid
ing that no president be elected at
present. Previously Weizmann's
name was presented to the Com
mittee by the Palestine Laborites,
despite clear-cut statements by
the General Zionists, during in
ter-party negotiations, that they
would refuse to serve in an execu
tive under Weizmann's leadership.
When Dr. Weizmann's name was
placed in nomination, Dr. Silver
arose and said, on behalf of the
Federation of General Zionists,
that they would not participate in
the executive if Dr. Weizmann
were named president. The ses
sion then adjourned for intra-par
ty discussions and resumed at 1
a m. when Sneh’s motion was
voted on.
The praesidium elected by the
Actions Committee consists of: Dr,
Wise, Judith Epstein, Dr. Chaim
Bogratshoff, Baruch Zukermsn,
Zalman Rubashov, Joseph Sprin-
zak, Melr Yaarl, Zerubavel, Meir
Grossman, Rabbi Meir Berlin,
Rabbi Mordeai Neufeld and Rabbi
J. K. Goldbloom. Dr. Sally
| Hirsche of the Aliya Hadasha will
! have a “consultative vote.”
Actions Committee Not Keen
About New Executive
| The composition of the execu-
I (Continued on Page Five)
1946 Passes In Review --- An Evaluation Of Jewish Highlights
Louis Schwartzman
Bureau of Jewish Education
; year *
the many lines of care
carved on Its face must
aved somew!u»t by the spirit
of amity jmd optimism expressed
by the final seestons of the United
Nations Assembly. The sharp
clashes of the Russian and Anglo-
American blocs dissolved in a clos
ing expression of cooperative give
and take, in keeping with the Holi
day season. Russia declared It wag
“riding the crest of a wave” of
popularity, while President Tru
man expressed new hope for
“peace on earth, good will toward
men” Deeply concerned with
three great issues, the tangled
problem of Palestine, the displaced
and homeless refugees of a shat
tered Europe, internal problems of
discrimination impinging upon the
responsibility of maintaining the
continuity of Jewish culture, the
Jews of America may have imbibed
a bit of the elixir of hope dispensed
by the United Nations.
“UNKIND” TO PALESTINE
The year 1946 did not deal kind
Its bow , both Jews and Arabs can be I'eeori-
ciled without either group fearing
the asceridency of the other.” The
report was a humanitarian docu
ment urging the immediate admis
sion of 100,000 homeless Jews into
Palestine, but rejecting the com
plete exodus of Jews from Europe,
urging governments to open their
gates to those who wished to emi
grate. Reaction to the report was
opposed the British plan, Dr.
Chaim Welzman, head of the Jew-
for Palestine, wrote to
ish Colonial' Secretalf
“We are willing to discuss a
scheme for the establishment of a
viable Jewish state in an adequate
area of Palestine." implying the
possibility of a partition of Pales
tine into Arab and Jewish states.
A conference for Jews and Arabs
in London was adjourned October
2, when Jewish organizations and
the Higher Arab Committee of
Palestine both refused to partici
pate.
The terrorist activates of tay
iffff element* *•£
Jewry did not help to unsnarl tin;
problem. The kidnapping of five
British officers who were held as
hostages, the bombing of the King
David Hotel In Jerusalem, leaving
84 dead including some Jewish
casualties, the blowing up of rail
roads and police stations brought
reprisals by the English in occu
pying the Jewish Agency building
ded confusion prevailed last week
when the Zionist World Congress
meeting in
jvHjrnert
tlfirTJoly Land, lies
the struggle for control of the i
die east between England
Russia, and a slimy trail of oil.
UNPRECEDENTED NEED
Jerusalem, in arresting about DICTATES HUGE DRIVE
1946 UNKIND TO PALESTINE, where children, above,
and elders find surcease from Europe’s dark past. Brimming
I over with terrorism and uncertainey over the future, Pales-
ly with Palestine. Visited by more ! tine today poses great problems for the future. How will it
commissions of inquiry than any | fare in 1947?
other spot on the globe, Palestine
was faced with still another. On
January 7, the Anglo-American j
Inquiry Commission on Palestine i
th
2000 hostages including three lead
ers of the Jewish agency, in es
tablishing in Palestine a veritable
state of siege. A cordon of ships
was stationed in the Mediterra
nean area around Palestine to cut
off all illegal immigration, adding
harsh tragedy to the pitiful rem
nants of European Jews seeking es
cape to what they conceived their
only possible refuge- America was
faced with the spectacle of Presi
dent Truman pleading for the im
mediate entrance of 100,000 dis
placed persons into Palestine, ad-
CTBftt
American Je\
million Jews
of Nazi hatred,
million Jews
issue
fire
30Ut IV-2
ical sum in
can Jewish .
ganized, and when 1946 drew 1
close, appeared to have
subscribed, by the sum <
dollars, attesting true
the Jews of America for the
ding promises of economic assist- nantg of Inreal
ance with Bevin of Britain retort
ing that the demand for these
refugees was motivated by Jews
of America who “did not want too
many of them in New York.” Ad-
or the rem-
concern has
stormy. Truman expressed satis
faction with the recommendation
for the immediate admission of
with representatives of Great Brit-| the 100,000 refugees; Great Brit
ain and the United States, began ain insisted that the report had
its sessions in Washington; on to be treated in its totality, par-
January 27, hearings began in j ticularly the silencing of the guns
London, followed by excursions to
displaced centers in Europe, then
moving on to the Middle East and
Palestine. On April 20, its report
was released. The report of the
of Jewish resistance. The Report
began the same process of being
kicked about that was accorded
the original Balfour Declaration.
Consulation was begun with Jew-
Commission met one of the three j ish and Arab leaders. On June 11
Zionist demands: that of the abo- j the report was referred to a Cab-
lition of restrictions on land sales; inet Committee which shifted the
in Palestine; it vigorously turned i “hot potato” to alternates, Henry
down other Zionist demands for. Grady ‘subbing” for Secretary of
control of Immigration and a Jew- I State Byrnes. A new plan emerged
ish state as soon as a Jewish ma- ! from conference with the British—■ AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN to the
Jority was achieved. The report J a proposed Federalization of Pal- sons, whose fate is of the greatest concern to Americs
declared, that “Palestine shall be estine Into four provinces, with anc j to those homeless persons themselves. Above
SSTASS 2ft'VVK: SS»" &££ rTe S: plans for reconstruction and reiicf in behalf of U
lished as a country in which the { ceptance of this federalization. Vivors in the displaced persons camps are DP and
legitimate national aspirations of I while Jewish sentiment in America cials in the American and British Zones.
brought little reaction from
civilized countries of the
President Truman indicated
ber 4, that he would
to Congress that the
laws of the United
eralized to admit
sons here; howevi
known that this
pious hope. There
trickle of Immigrant i
other lands, outside I
POLISH
A distinguished
Poland declared:
cemetery. Whei
each other on the i
startled to find
Even the 80.000
some 4 Vi million)
peace of a cemetery
uary 2, 1946, Lt
erick E.
the
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