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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewn
Established I 925
VOL. XXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1917
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No. 39
Britain's Withdrawal Imperils Palestinian Jewry — Visinsky
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Arabs Given Veto Power Over Partition Under
British Plan Presented to United Nations
LAKE SUCCESS. (JTA)
The
British Government virtually bar- [AUSTRIA AGREES
red the partitioning of Palestine TO TRANSFER OF HERZL
by announcing at the Ad Hoc Com- REMAINS TO PALESTINE
mittee of the U. N. Assembly that
whatever settlement the Assembly
recommends will have to be ac
cepted by both Arabs and Jews be
fore Britain agrees to participate
in its implementation.
In making the decisions of the
U. N. General Assembly depend
ent on their acceptance by the
Arabs and the Jews rather than on
a majority vote of the members
of the United Nations, the British
Government has practically vested
veto powers in the hands of the
Palestine Arabs with regard to the
majority recommendations of the
U. N. Special Committee on Pales
tine. which proposed the estab
lishment of a Jewish State in a
partitioned Palestine.
Arthur Creech* Jones. British
Colonial Secretary, speaking at
the Ad Hoc Committee, said tha;
Britain endorses "v.ltho.'t reserva
tion" the view that the Pales
tine Mandate should he terminotsd
now. However, it will not imple
ment any policy recommended by
the U. N. General Assembly which
is not acceptable to the Jews and
the Arabs. Furthermore, in con
sidering any prooosal to the effect
that Britain should participate
with others in the enforcement
of a settlement recommended by
he United Nations, the British
Government will first take into
account “the Inherent Justice of
the settlement and the extent to
which force would be required to
give effect to it,’’ he added.
“In order-that there may be no
misunderstanding of the attitude
and the policy of Britain. I have
been instructed by His Majesty’s
Government to announce with all
solemnity that they have conse
quently decided that in the ab
sence of a settlement, they must
plan for an early withdrawal of
British forces and of the British
administration from Palestine,"
Creech-Jones declared.
While the British Colonial Sec
retary <ras speaking. Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver and Moshe Shertok,
leaders of the Jewish Agency, were
in conference with Secretary of
State George C. Marshall who is
the head of the American delega
tion at the United Nations. The
talks lasted for more than an
hour and took place in the head
quarters of the U. S. delegation.
No statement on the nature of
the conference was made either by
the Jewish conferees or the mem
bers of the American delegation,
but it is understood that the Zionist
leaders acquainted Secretary Mar
shall with the views of the Jewish
Agency on the UNSCOP report,
and asked his support for the ma
jority recommendations. Gen.
John Hilldring and three other
members of the American delega
tion were present at the confer
ence.
„ VIENNA. (JTA)—The Austrian
cabinet has agreed to a request
from the Jewish ^gency for per
mission to transfer the remains of
Theodor Hera! founder of Zion
ism, from Austria to Palestine,-it
was learned here.
Herzl’s remains and those of
his parents, all of whom are buried
in the Docbling Cemetery in Vien
na. will be moved to an as yet
undesignated spot in Palestine
which will become a national
shrine. Leaders of the Jewish
community of Vienna have an
nounced that they will hold a one-
dav festival on the day of the
‘ ransfer.
FRENCH MONUMENT
PARIS. (JTA) — Thousands of
Trench Jews attended the dedica
tion at Draucy. site of a Jewish
concentration camp during the
German occupation, of a monu
ment to the 100.000 victims who
were deported from Drancy to
death camps in Poland. Religious
services were led by Chief Rabbi
Julian Weil of Paris.
SENDS $60 MILLION
OVERSEAS IN 9 MONTHS
NEW YORK. (JTA) — A record
of $60,759,000 was appropriated in
the first nine months of 1947 by
the Joint Distribution Committee
for the relief and rehabilitation I fion is certainly negative.
of stricken Jews overseas, consti- | — - ■’» 1
tuting the largest sum ever pro
vided in a given year by a volun
tary, non - governmental retie?
agency, it was disclosed this week
by Edward M. M. Warburg, JDC
chairman.
LAKE SUCCESS—Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky, at
a press conference, said that the British attitude means the
ultimate withdrawal of the Jews from Palestine. “I feel,” he
declared, “that the English proposal regarding withdrawal
should be understood as a proposal for the ultimate with
drawal of Jews from Palestine. If this is the case, our rcac-
Britoin Plans to Begin Withdrawal From
Palestine Immediately After Assembly End
CENTRAL BODY FEASIBLE
HAMBURG. (JTA) — Norbert
Wolheim. head of the Jewish Com
munity Department of the Cen
tral Jewish Committee in the Brit
ish zone, said that he still felt
LONDON. (JTA) — A Foreign
Office spokesman indicated this
week that Britain intends to be
gin withdrawing from Palestine
immediately after the conclusion
of the present General Assembly
debate, unless an agreed solution is
reached. He added that the gov-
ernmen would not keep the Man-
that the four-zonal Jewish co- date if tire Assembly decision is
ordinating body established at
Frankfurt several months agd
could be made to work.
CHICAGO'S THEOLOGICAL
COLLEGE CHARTS 25TH
ANNIVERSARY OCT. 12
CHICAGO, /JTA! — Seventy
Jewish communities throughout
the United States will join in the
observance of the Silver Anniver
sary of the Hebrew Theological
College here, on Oct. 12. The af
fair will also mark the opening of
a campaign for funds to expand
the facilities of the college and
establish new branches.
"cst.poncd for a later session.
The spokesman said that Bri
tain’s decision to abandon the
Mandate unless a setlement agree
able to both Jews and Arabs was
reached is “decisive and consid
ered.” ,
The Arab office here issued a
statement declaring that the Arabs
welcome the British decision to
withdraw from the country. By
its statement., the government had
rejected “55 unjust and imprac
ticable recommcn datlon* of
UNSCOP or. at least, declines to
assume any responsibility for im
plementing them,’’ the Arab state
ment added. It opposed any at
tempt to turn over the British
administration to a “foreign au
thority.” **
Jewish Agency for Speedy British Evacuation
B nai B rith Supporting _
U N SCOP Ma jority Report
WASHINGTON. D. C.
.emergency appeal to President
Truman to use his office “not only
for favorable consideration of the
principles of the UNSCOP ma
jority report, but also its imple
mentation with the United States
assuming its share of the respon
sibility,” was made Monday by
Frank Goldman. President of B’nai
B’rith on behalf of its National
Executive Committee.
B’nai B’rith, representing more
than 300.000 men and women in
the United States, is the world’s
largest and oldest Jewish service
organization.
In addition, B’nai B’rith urged
President Truman “in this elev
enth and decisive hour” to inter
vene personally to accomplish the
follow ing:
1. Immediate large-scale immi
gration of Jews to Palestine.
2. Making ships available so
that displaced persons desiring to
immigrate to Palestine need not
languish in the camps of Germany
for another winter.
The text of Mr. Goldman’s tele-
?ram follows:
‘B’nai B’rith, largest Jewish
membership organization in
America, most respectfully appeals
to you for immediate public state
ment supporting the principles of
UNSCOP majority recommenda
tions, relating to Palestine, and
setting forth practical measures
for the relief of the intolerable
and too long continued sad plight
and unbearable position of the
displaced persons. Such^statement
would be in line with the forth
right and unequivocal expressions
by you and by our country’s
spokesmen in the United Nations
with reference to other important
international affairs. We are
aware of the recent statement by
the Secretary of State that he
United States w r ould give ‘great
weight’ to UNSCOP’s majority
recommendations. The American
Jewish Conference has expressed
our views with reference to those
recommendations. After so many
reports and investigations relat
ing to Palestine, we submit that
activities and functions of the an impartial formula now appears
news agency. The South African j in those recommendations, which
An , bringing about an end to the pres
ent insufferable situation. We
plead for your personal interven
tion to accomplish the following:
“1. Tile immediate large-scale
Immigration of Jews to Palestine.
“2. Making ships available so
that displaced persons desiring to
immigrate to Palestine need not
languish in the camps of Germany
for another winter.
“3. The weight of your great of
fice and of our country be brought
to bear upon and lead to not only
the favorable consideration of the
principles of the UNSCOP ma
jority report but also its imple
mentation with the United States
assuming its share of the respon
sibility.
“We entreat you, Mr. President.
In this eleventh and decisive hour,
to take these steps which will
square with the tradition of our
beloved nation as the champion
of the oppressed.”
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Hope that
the British evacuation from Pal
estine will be carried out “speed
ily” was expressed this week by a
spokesman of the Jewish Agency
in a statement to the press out
lining the attitude of the agency
to the speech of Colonial Seerea'y
Creech-Jones. The statement
reads:
“The Jewish Agency for Pales
tine notes the announcement of
the British Government that it
plans an early withdrawal of Its
forces and administration from
Palestine. In view of the failure
of the British Government to car
ry out the Mandate, the Jewish
Agency hopes that this withdrawal
will be speedily carried out.
Mr. Creech-Jones makes It all the
more imperative that the General
Assembly of the U. N. find a so
lution for the Palestine problem
without delay and devise ways and
means of Implementing It. In this
undertaking the Assembly for
tunately need not start from the
beginning. The Assembly has be
fore It the report of the United
Nations Special Committee on Pal
estine and It is logical that the
recommendations of the Commit
tee’s majority be adopted as the
the British Army and Navy and
of the Palestine Administration
have been repudiated three times
by international findings—those
of the permanent Mandate Com
mission of the League of Nations,
of tlie Anglo-American Commit
tee of Inquiry and, finally, of the
United Nations Special Committee
on'Palestine.
“The question arises whether the
United Kingdom will persist In this
continued violation of its interna
tional obligations during the evac
uation period. The real alterna
tives are not between force and
no force, but between force em
ployed for the establlshmen of in
ternational law and justice, and
force employed, as at present, for
quite contrary processes.”
132 NEW CENTERS
NEW YORK. (.TPS)—Camnnigns
for new or additional Jewish Com
munity Center projects which will
cost an aggregate of $27,500,000
are under way or projected in 132
communltfes of the United States
and Canada, the Jewish Center
Division Committee of the Na
tional Jewish Welfare Board an
nounced at its annual meeting
here last week.
basis for the Assembly’s decision
“The statement of Mr. Creech-
Jones that His Majesty’s Govern- JDC HONORS MEMORY
ment refused to undertake the
task of imposing a policy on Pal
estine by force of arms can only
be characterized as singular at a
time when this is precisely what
they are now doing. The policy
of preventing Jewish immigration
and arresting the development of
the Jewish National Home now
pursued by the united forces of
TWO WAY PASSAGE
(See Picture Page 5)
JTA SERVICES
LAUDED BY LEADERS
IN SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNESBURG. South Africa.
(JTA>—The world-wide activities
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
were lauded in speeches by South
African Jewish leaders and in mes
sages from prominent Americans,
both Jewish and non-Jewish, at a
special dinner marking the open
ing 'of a fund-raising campaign
for the J. T. A., in South Africa
this w'eek.
Claire Neikind. J. T. A. corre
spondent. described her experi
ences on a Palestine-bound block
ade runner and her subsequent im
prisonment in'a Cyprus intern
ment camp Into which she smug
gled herself, disguised as a DP.
Morris L. Appelman. business man
ager of the J. T. A., described the
Three Scholars Arrive for U. S. Study
Board of Jewish Deputies has en
dorsed the J. T. A. drive.
Three European women have ar
rived in the United States to study
social work on scholarships grant
ed by the National Council of
Jewish Women.
They are Mrs. Cecylia Bitter of
Poland. Miss Mariana Fischerova
of Czechoslovakia and Miss De
borah Levy of Portugal. On com
pletion of their training, like ten
previous Council scholarship win
ners, the three women will return
to Europe to assist in the rehabili
tation program of the Jewish com
munity.
Prior to the war, Mrs. Bitter was
educational inspector in Lwow,
Poland. In June, 1941, with her
husband and her son, Mrs. Bitter
was forced into the Warsaw ghet
to. To save her child’s Hfe she es
caped in 1942 and placed the boy
with a non-Jewish family for safe
keeping. She earned the money
for her son’s upkeep by working
for two years as a domestic serv
ant in a Warsaw suburb. During
the siege of Warsaw, Mrs. Bitter
sold the eight gold fillings in her
1 our country should take the lead j teeth to pay for transportation to
in supporting and thus aid in 1 Cracow for herself and her son.' United States.
When the war ended, Mrs. Bit
ter thought her husband was
dead, but in 1945 they met in
Warsaw where both worked for the
Joint Distribution Committee and
the Central Committee of Polish
Jews. -After completing her train
ing in dietetics at Pratt Institute,
in Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Bitter
will return to Warsaw to organize
and supervise home economics
schools for Jewish women.
Miss Fischerova, who will spe
cialize in child care at the Uni
versity of Washington in Seattle,
left Prague after the German an
nexation of Austria in 1938 to at
tend school in England. Unable
to return to Czechoslovakia be
cause of the war, she studied at
Kings College, University of Lon
don.
On graduation. Miss fischerovA
became a teacher and housemoth
er in a British school run by the
Czechoslovak government In Exile.
In August, 1945. Miss Fischerova
returned to Czechoslovakia where
she worked in the UNRRA office in
Prague until her departure for the
OF STAFF MEMBERS
WHO DIED ABROAD
NEW YORK. (JTA)— 1 The mem
ory of several hundred men and
women who gave their lives in the
service of their fellow-Jews abroad
while working with the Joint Dis
tribution Committee, was honored
on the eve of Yam Kippur with
the unveiling of two bronze pla
ques at the world headquarters
of the JDC here. '
CANADIAN ENTRY FIGURES
MONTREAL. (JTA) — Only
460 Jewish immigrants were ad
mitted to Canada during the first
seven months of this year, it was
revealed in statistics relrased by
the Federal Immigration Depart
ment. The same figures showed
that 26,500 immigrants of all
faiths had entered the Dominion
during the same jperiod.
A special Jewish National Fund
drive for $400,000 to purchase 750
acres of land in the Negev has been
lanche4 here.
450 ORPHANS IN HOLLAND
FOR TWO-YEAR STAY
AMSTERDAM. (JTA)—A group
of 450 orphaned Jewish children
from Eastern European countries
arrived here from Prague to take
up a two-year residence at the
invitation of the Dutch Govern
ment.
The children will live in a spe
cial camp prepared by Dutch Jew
ish organizations until they are
enabled to Immigrate to Palestine.
They will be looked after by a
mixed staff consisting of Pales
tine and Eastern European Jews,
under the auspices of the Youth
Aliyah movement.