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VOL. XXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947
No. 28
Neumann Elected President Of Zionist Organization
'Last Warning' to Dissident Groups
To Cease Extortino Funds From Jews
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Tile Ha
ganah this week issued a “last
warning’’ to the dissident group to
cease extorting money from mem
bers of the Jewish community, or
strong measures will be taken to
stop them.
Truman Signs Bill
WASHINGTON (JTA>.—Presi
dent Truman signed the joint res
olution authorizing him to accept
membership in the International
Refugee Organization. He also
signed the necessary instrument
of acceptance which Warren R.
Austin, American representative to
the United Nations, will promptly
deposit with the U. N. - Secretary
General.
Participating in the signing
ceremony were John H. Hi lidring.
Assistant Secretary of State for
occupied areas. Representative Sol
Bloom of New York and Gold-
thwaite Dorr, special assistant to
Hilldrlng. The President expressed
his confidence that “through the
IRO, we shall give the world new
reason to believe that no problem
is too difficult if the nations for
merly resolve to cooperate in solv
ing it."
The warning came after several
persons were injured, three se
riously, when a Haganah group
thwarted an attempt by Irgunists
to extort money from a shopkeep
er. Most of the wounded were Ir
gunists. When the Irgun repre
sentatives entered the shop and
demanded money, the proprietor
summoned the Haganah, which ar
rived before the Irgunists left and
a brawl developed. The Irgunists
fled with their wounded.
A Jewish Agency spokesman de
nounced the most recent attacks
on British soldiers and said that
the Haganah was going ahead with
its efforts to frustrate the extrem
ists' activities. He disclosed that
a mine planted on the Jerusalem-
Tel Aviv highway had been dis
mantled by a Haganah bomb
squad.
Commenting on police terror,
the spokesman said- that the
Agency was demanding an open
trial of Major Roy A. Parran,
charged with the abduction and
murder of 17-year-old Alexander
Rubowitz. It has been reported
that the authorities were planning
a closed court martial^.
Necessity of United States Help in Finding
Solution for Palestine Stressed by Speakers
EMANUEL NEUMANN
SEVENTY U. S. EDUCATORS
TO ATTEND WORLD
CONFERENCE IN PALESTINE
NEW YORK. (JTA) —More than
70 American Jewish educators
and communal leaders interested
in Jewish education are leaving
this month for Palestine to attend
the first World Conference on
Jewish Education, to be held In
Jerusalem from July 29 to Aug. 7,
under the auspices of the Hebrew
University.
Lehmann Urges Passage Of Stratton
Bill For Admittance Of DP s
NEW YORK (JTA) — Emanuel
Neumann was elected national
president of the Zionist Organi
zation of America, after the 50th
annual convention of the ZOA
had beaten down a move to post
pose elections until discussion of
the political issues before the meet
ing had been completed. He suc
ceeds Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.
Rabbi Irving Miller was named
chairman of the National Admin
istrative Council, and Mortimer
May, of Nashville, and Jacob
Richman, of Philadelphia, vice-
chairman and secretary of the
Council, respectively. The follow
ing national vice-presidents were
chosen: Rabbi Leon Peur of To
ledo; Daniely Frisch of New York,
Abraham Goldstein of Hartford,
Abraham Goldman of Miami,
Abraham Redelheim of Brooklyn,
Bernard Rosenblatt of New York,
Charles J. Rosenbloom of Pitts
burgh and Eliahu D. Stone of Bos
ton.
James G. McDonald, former
League of Nations High Commis
sioner for Refugees and one-time
member of the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry on Pales
tine, told the convention earlier
that “national self-interest quite
as much as common honesty re
quire tha tthe British and we
should expedite the fulfillment of
the Jewish dream in Palestine.”
Judge Morris Rothenberg, head
of the American Jewish Fund, re
ported that American Jews have
donated some $14,000,000 to the
JNF during the past; nine months.
He sharply criticized the Pales
tine Government’s interference
with the Jews attempts to re
claim and cultivate the Negev
WASHINGTON—Former Gover- i
innocent victims even as you or I
nor Herbert H. Lehman of New
York submitted a statement in
testimony before the House Sub
committee on Immigration and
Naturalization in beHalf of six
national Jewish agencies and twen
ty-four regional, state and local
Jewish community councils
throughout the USA, comprising
the National Community Rela
tions Advisory Council, together
with the resolutions and endorse
ments of still other bodies, urging
enactment of the Stratton Bill
(H.R. 2910) which would admit
400,000 displaced persons to the
United States during the next four
years.
The national agencies repre
sented by Governor Lehman in
clude: The American Jewish Com
mittee. the American Jewish Con
gress, B'nai B’rith, Jewish Labor
Committee, Jewish War Veterans
of the United States and the Un
ion of American Hebrew Congre
gations.
Governor Lehman also an -
onounced the endorsement of the
Stratton Bill by “The American
Jewish Conference, comprising 62
affiliated national membership or
ganizations which include all the '
mapor ionist organizations; and
by the Hebrew Sheltering and Im
migrant Aid Society, the National
Council of Jewish Sederations and
Welfare Funds, with its more than
260 local Jewish Communal or
ganizations, the National Jewish
Welfare Board, the American
Council of Judaism and the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women.
Thus. I speak for virtually all
Jewish agencies in the United
States engaged in philanthropic
and communal activities.”
Governor Lehman asserted that
the inmates of European refugee
camps, “stand on the doorstep of
our compassion, of our conscience
and of our honor even though.
they are not yet on the threshold
of this or any other land of : per
manent refuge. They are unde
niable fact which cannot be
shrugged off or explained away.
There are 850,000 homeless vic-
time of man’s inhumanity to man
. -'••aiting in the camps of Europe,
* -nd young, men and women.
might have been made, homeless
wanderers, bereft of our loved ones
and dependent on the mercy of
civilization.”
Pointing out that he represent
ed particularly Jews, who form
less than twenty percent of the
displaced persons. Governor Leh
man said; “For these people,
many of the countries of Europe
are the graveyards of their loved
ones. The six million Jewish dead
who fell victims to Hitler’s mer
ciless savagery have left scattered
survivors only. If they wanted to
go home, for the most part there
are no homes left for them to re
turn to. They are of a people
which made the costliest, percen
tage wise the greatest, sacrifices in
the war of civilization against
Nazi barbarism. They have a
special and unique claim on the
sympathy‘and the charity of man
kind.”
Governor Lehman pointed out
that the end of the period of emer
gency assistance to the refugee
camp inmates had come and that
the only solution for the problem
was emigration to permanent
homes. He asserted that the world
looks to the United States to show
the way in meeting this problem.
“The only elements in Europe/’
he said, “which can benefit .by
the continuation of the displaced
persons camps will be the forces
of disorder and chaos already
working to turn the European con
tinent against the American ideals
we maintain and live by. Let us
now then adopt the proposed meas
ure for the admission of displaced
persons of Europe to our shores.
Let us do this in the knowledge
that every single American is a
child or descendant of immigrants
or an immigrant himself. Let us
take this action in solemn reaffir
mation of American leadership for
defense of those values for which
generations of Americans have
died on the battlefields of the
world.”
Rendering an account of the JNF’s
achievements during the past three
years, he revealed that it had
transferred $34,000,000 t othe par
ent body in Palestine in that pe
riod. The JNF also provided land
for founding 24 colonies in the
three years and defrayed a consid
erable part of the expenses of their
establishment, he said.
SILVER ASKS U. S. TO TAKE
LEAD IN SOLUTION
Addressing the opening session
of the conference Dr. Silver called
Sobel Leaves JDC
NEW YORK (JTA)—Louis H.
Sobel, Secretary of the American
Joint Distribution Committee, re
signed to become Administrator
of the Jewish Child Care Associa
tion of New York, one of the larg
est child care organizations in
the country. He has been with the
JDC for five years. Previously he
served as executive director of the
Federation Employment Service in
New York.
CCAR CHOOSES FELDMAN TO SUCCEED SILVER;
PRESENTS RABBI MARCUSON WITH AUTOMOBILE
)r. Abraham J. Feldman of Hartford, Conn.,
.succeeds Dr. Abba Hillel Silver as president of
the Central Conference of American Rabbis,
oldest and largest rabbinical group in America,
following fifty-eighth annual convention held in
Montreal.
(Left to right): Rabbi Phineas Smoller,
Chicago, treasurer; Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, pro
fessor of history at the Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, vice-president; Dr. Feldman, newly
elected president; Dr. Silver of Cleveland, re
tiring president; Rabbi Sidney L. Regner, Read
ing, Pa., financial secretary, and Rabbi Isaac E.
Marcuson, Macon, Ga., who was elected admin
istrative secretary for the 30th year. To com
memorate Dr. Marcuson’s “30 years of devoted
service to the CCAR,” the convention voted to
present him with an automobile.
on the United /States to take the
lead in finding a just solution of
the Palestine problem. He said
that Secretary of State George C.
Marshall's statement to a group
of Congressional leaders, to the
effect that the U. S. traditional
policy on Palestine had been been
changed, was “gratifying,” but
called for a more positive dec
laration of policy to allay appre
hensions concerning the American
government’s position.
Describing the government’s at
titude at this time as “tight-
uipped,” and charging that no one
was sure where it stood, he de
clared that “if America continues
to remain in Britain’s corner” all
recommendations of the United
Nations will be "utterly doomed.”
He expressed fear that Britain and
the U. S. would come up with a
new version of the British plan
to “fedferalize" Palestine into au
tonomous areas under a. British-
dominated central authority.
Referring ^o Andrei Gromyko’s
speech at the special session of the
UN General Assembly in May, he
raid that the Soviet Union’s posi
tion was “a positive and substan
tial gain for our movement.”
NEUMANN DENIES
ZIONISTS ANTI-BRITISH
Dr. Neumann, who spoke after
Dr. Silver, scouted the charge that
the Zionist movement was anti-
British. Nonetheless, he asserted,
“a sense of political realism should
reconcile the British Foreign office
to the fact that American Zionism
will continue to offer political re
sistance to any plans or proposals
which would defeat the alms of
Zionism.”
Reporting on the activities of
the American Zionist Emergency
Council, Harry L. Shapiro, execu
tive director, stated that the U. S.
Congress had demonstrated that
it is not prepared to let the Pal
estine issue rest with the passage
of pro-Zionist resolutions. He as
serted that leaders of both par
ties have shown that they mean
to have these resolutions trans
lated into action. He pointed out
that the Council has been active
in “counteracting the falsehoods
and misrepresentations spread by
Arab and pro-Arab propagandists
in this country," who are backed
in part by certain oil companies
and anti-Zionist elements in the
State Department.
Aaron Wright, head of the Brit
ish section of the JNF, who fol
lowed Judge Rothenberg, rounded
out the picture of JNF activities
in Palestine. He maintained that
the Arab population has grown
most rapidly in the areas where
the JNF has been most active in
acquiring land.
Mendel Fisher, executive direc
tor of the JNF in this country, re
ported that the parent body has
purchased some 900,000 dunams
(225,000) acres) of the 27,000,000
dunams of land in Palestine. Since
the inception of the JNF 45 years
ago, American Jews have supplied
51.8 percent of the organization's
world income, he stated.
Dr. Harris Levine, chairman of
the ZOA committee on JNF activi
ties, announced that the ZOA
would acquire 50,000 dunams of
land in Palestine to commemorate
its Golden Jubilee anniversary.
Progressive Zionist District 95
of New York has been suspended
by the ZOA for requesting a separ
ate hearing before the United Na
tions Special Committee on Pales
tine, it was announced. Dr. Mor
ris Zukor, president of the sus
pended district, declared: “What
ever the pretext given for this sus
pension the real reason is that
those in control of the Zionist
movement do not dare stand up in
open democratic debate to defend
the political tactics over the years
which have led to the present
stalemate in Palestine.”