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No. 31
Mapai Tops Israel Election; General Zionists 2nd
Milestone for English-Jewish Press
Ben Gurion at Israel Polls
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ELECTION CABLE BY THE AMERICAN JEWISH PRESS
TEL AVIV (BY AMERICAN JEWISH PRESSCABLE)—
The rocketing rise of the middle-class General Zionists to
Israel’s second party and the refusal of Israel’s voters in the
second national election this week to give the Socialist
Mapai an absolute majority pointed to another uneasy coal
ition government for the Jewish
11.8 of the accounted vote; the
right-wing Herut, an outgrowth
of the extremist Irgun Zvai
Leumi, accounted for 7.5 per
cent; Hapoel Hamizrachi, 6.3;
Progressives, 3.5; Communists,
3.3; Agudah, 2.2; Mizrachi, 1-2,
State.
With slightly more than two-
thirds of the more than 850,000
ballots tabulated. Prime Minis
ter David Ben-Gurion’s Mapai
climbed from 36 per cent in the
first elections to the Israel Knes
set to 39 per cent in Monday’s
elections, but it was far short of
the absolute majority the white-
haired Prime Minister had de
manded in a whirlwind tour of
every part of his small nation.
The General Zionists rose from
and Poale Agudah, 1.7 per cent.
Despite the bitterness of cam
paign charges exchanged between
the Mapai and the General Zion
ists, a spokesman for the latter
indicated readiness to join in a
fifth place to second, collecting
about 20 per cent of the turnout
on the basis of incomplete re
turns from Israel’s military per
sonnel. The soldier vote will not
be tabulated for several more
days.
The left-wing Mapam drew
coalition government with Ben-
Gurion.
Observers agreed the Mapai
might form a cabinet without the
General Zionists by an alliance
with the Progressives, an off-
(Conti nurd on page eight)
Hungary Is Warned
on Deportations
WASHINGTON (AJP)—Rela
tions between the United States
and Communist Hungary reached
a new low this week as President
Truman, flaying the Red regime
for the mass deportation of its
citizens, including an estimated
5,000 Budapest Jews, prepared
to press the case, before the
Nations.
The chief executive informed
Red Hungary that evidence ob
tained by the State Department
concerning the deportations
would be submitted by the U. S.
to U. N. Secretary General Lie
to expose this situation to public
view and render the Hungarian
government accountable before
the world for its infamous con
duct.”
The possibility of a break in
relations between the U. S. and
Hungary loomed as a result of
the stern Truman warning. The
next important move, political
observers here forecast, is up to
Communist Hungary.
Like any one of the more than 800,000 Israelis who turned out for Monday’s important national
elections, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion appeared at the registration booth to have his name
checked off prior to casting his vote. A woman clerk smilingly gives B-G the go-ahead. Minutes later
he cast his ballot. The photo is the first ever to be sent directly from Israel to the United States by
radio for the English-Jewish press—by the news agency of the American Association of English-
Jewish Newspapers, the American Jewish Press. For the complete story behind this photo see page
two. (American Jewish Press Radio Photo by Pinn).
Klein Stripped of Soldiers;
Blames Pro-MacArthur Stand
Hungarian Reds Swamp Jewish
Groups With Eviction Denials
CHICAGO (AJP)—One of
American Jewry’s top ranking
military officers was stripped of
National Guard units under his
command this week and he
promptly charged that he was
“fired” because “I spoke out in
support of General MacArthur’s
policies.”
The military leader, Brig. Gen.
Julius Klein of the Illinois Na
tional Guard is a past national
commander ol the Jewish War
Veterans. He recently resigned
as a member of the national
executive committee of the
American Jewish League Against
Communism after the organiza
tion's director, Rabbi Benjamin
Schultz, flayed General George
C. Marshall and Admiral Chester
Nimitz.
General Klein was notified
late this week that units under
his command would be transfer
red Aug. 1 to the 133rd Artillery
Division. Earlier Klein had been
ordered by Illinois National
Guard Gen. Harry L. Bolen to
“choose between further indul
gence in political controversies
or membership in the guard.”
Immediately following the
transfer of units which left Klein
(Continued on page eight)
Biro Hoax
Ends; U. S.
GroupQuits
NEW YORK (AJP)—One of
the greatest hoaxes pulled on
world Jewry by the Soviet Gov
ernment came to a shabby end
recently with disclosure that the
USSR is abandoning its “Jewish
homeland” in Biro-Bidjan.
Simultaneously, Jacob M.
Budish of the American Com
mittee for Biro-Bidjan, said that
the committee is expected to be
dissolved soon. Offices in other
cities have been going through
a quiet process of dissolution for
the past six months.
The new policy, under which
the Soviet Government plans to
freeze existing Jewish settle
ment, was revealed by Haaretz,
an Israeli newspaper. The report
was confirmed by Israeli sources.
No information on the total
funds collected by the Ambidjan
(Continued on page eight)
Within the next few weeks, all
over Atlanta, door bells will be
ringing as over 175 volunteers
urge Jewish families to help
make the Center the Center of
things during the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center Membership
Campaign which will begin
Monday night, Aug. 6.
The “kick-off” affair for cap
tains and colonels will be a sup
per given by Erwin Zaban, last
year’s campaign chairman.
The AJCC is set up to meet the
NEW YORK CITY (AJP) —
Major Jewish organizations this
week were swamped with
lengthly statements from the
Hungarian Embassy in what was
viewed here as a propoganda at
tempt to convince American
Jewry that documented reports
of mass evictions of Hungarian
Jews were without truth.
Dozens of national Jewish
groups confirmed to the Ameri
can Jewish Press that they had
received a lengthly statement,
previously released only in $art,
from “The official Agencies of
educational, cultural and recrea
tional needs of the Atlanta Jew
ish community. The Center’s
staff of professional workers
plan programs appealing to peo
ple of all ages and tastes.
The staff is there to assist all
organizations in programming,
and counselling. The summer
Day Camp, Camp Rutledge, ath
letic and meeting fascilities,
Boy-Girl Relationship classes,
modem dance groups, nursery
school are only a few of the fea-
Hungarian Jews.”
The statement of the so-called
"official agencies” of Hungarian
Jews was described by the Red
embassy here as a “spontaneous”
declaration in denial of reports
that large numbers of Jews in
Budapest had been evicted from
their homes.
The statement followed the
party line laid down last week
by the Daily Worker, which held
that only a few Jews were in
volved in the evictions and these
were “resettled” because they
did not lik to work.
tures sponsored by the Center.
The once-a-year membership
program is important to the bud
getary needs of the Community
Center, Stanford Makover, 1951
Enrollment Chairman, recently
told the volunteer membership
workers. The Community Center
cannot fulfill its program for
Atlanta unless the growth of its
membership that has been ob
tained in the past is continued,
(Continued on page eight)
Volunteers “Kick-Off” Monday
in Drive for AJCC Members