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HERE AND THERE:
It can now be revealed that the
Jewish Brigade group, for a time,
will not have more than 8,000
men ... It is composed of in
fantry, artillery, tank and air
units ... It can also be revealed
that all British military command
ers in the Middle East objected
to the establishment of a separate
Jewish Brigade and cabled their
protests to the British War Of
fice . . . They were overruled
by Prime Minister Churchill who
is proving himself more and more
friendly to the Zionist cause . . .
This, of course, did not prevent
him from summoning Zionist lead
ers in London and giving them
a stern warning that the assassi
nation of Lord Moyne may have
serious repercussions on Zionist
demands ... He insisted that the
Jewish Agency assume the task
of curbing the Jewish terrorist
groups in Palestine ... On the
whole, however, the pro-Zionist
sentiments among leading groups
in England did not change after
the murder of Lord Moyne . . .
The British Labor Party, at its
coming convention, will definitely
support the demand for the estab
lishment of Palestine as a Jew
ish Commonwealth ... And mem
bers of the British cabinet who
hitherto opposed the establishment
of a Jewish State in Palestine, are
beginning to change their mind
under the influence of Churchill
. . . They are now considering
not one partition plan for Pales
tine, but several such plans . . .
One plan would leave practically
the whole of Palestine in the pro
jected Jewish State, with the ex
ception of the Nablus-Nazareth
triangle, where few Jews live. . .
Other partition schemes are much
less generous . . .
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WASHINGTON NOTE:
American Zionist leaders this
week paid a visit to the State
Department and had an import
ant talk with Under-Secretary
Edward R. Stettinius ... The For
eign Policy Association believes
that the U. S. Government will
probably ask Britain to review
the whole Palestine question as
part of an “expected re-examina
tion” of the League of Nations’
mandates ... It seems that the
State Department notified the
British Government that the
United States will not accept a
situation under which the doors
of Palestine remain closed to
Jewish immigration ... And from
London comes information that
Prime Minister Churchill indicat
ed to Zionist leaders there that
Roosevelt had pressed on Eng
land his views with regard to the
Jewish demands for Palestine ...
The Department of Commerce is
now paying special attention to
Palestine ... A report by the
Department concludes that some
of the substantial industrial devel
opment of Palestine required to
meet war demands will remain
a permanent asset.
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On Monday, November 27, 1944, anna, President of the United
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the re- Fruit Company, are President and
nowned scientist and President of
the World Zionist Organization
and of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine attained his seventieth
birthday. The event is being
celebrated wherever Jews live in
freedom and carry on the strug
gle for the survival of the Jew
ish people and for the establish
ment of Palestine as a free and
democratic Jewish Common
wealth. His seventieth birthday
finds Dr. Weizmann in full vigor
and hard at work in Jerusalem,
where he arrived by plane from
London on November 16th.
Weighty problems affecting the
future of Eretz Israel, in an hour
of decision beset by many dif
ficulties, occupy the attention of
the great Jewish statesman and
architect of the Jewish Common
wealth.
For the observance of the event
in the United States, a National
Committee, headed by the Hon
orable Felix Frankfurter, As
sociate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, has
been formed.
The Committee, of which Mr.
Edmund I. Kaufmann, of Wash
ington, D. C., former President
of the Zionist Organization of
America, and Mr. Samuel Ze
murray, of New Orleans, Louisi-
1 Day
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright, 1944, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
We are apt to think of Thanks
giving Day as being essentially
an American holiday as the
most American of the American
holidays. It is that, but it is also
something else it is also a ref
ugee holiday. In that respect, it
is very much like our Feast of
Tabernacles, which at the same
time is a holiday celebrating the
harvest, but also celebrating the
exodous from Egypt.
That Thanksgiving Day is a
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER, 1944 .
I Chairman of the Board respective
ly, is comprised of Jewish and
non-Jewish leaders in all parts of
the nation. An announcement
regarding the establishment in
Palestine of a Chaim Weizmann
Institute of Science as a seventieth
birthday tribute and as an ever
lasting expression of the affection
and esteem in which the renown
ed scientist and Zionist leader is
held by the lovers of freedom
everywhere, is expected to be
made. In a statement issued on
the occasion of Dr. Weizmann’s
seventieth birthday, Justice
Frankfurter declared:
"Dr. Weizmann was endowed by
nature with charm and gift of
tongue and wisdom that is wrap
ped in humor. But it is not by
these endowments alone that he
has secured hold over masses of
men as well as of such cool and
skeptical minds as Lord Balfour
and General Smuts. ‘lf you will
it, it is no mere dream,’ said Herzl,
the founder of modern Zionism,
about the re-establishment of
Palestine as the Jewish home
land. In that faith Dr. Weizmann
has lived. It is his unrelenting
effort to realize that faith that
has had such a contagious in
fluence for 30 years ...”
refugee holiday, we quickly
realize, when we rember that the
first Thanksgiving Day was cele
brated by order of Governor
Bradford of Massachusetts Bay at
the first harvest of the Pilgrims
in America. These Pilgrims and
Puritans has been "harried” out
of England by King James, had
been forced to flee for their lives.
A refugee becomes a world
traveler. Ask any of the refu
gees today. They wander from
country to country. And these
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Hadassah Outlines Postwar
Medical Program, * Demands
Free Palestine Immigration
American Jewish
Conference Will
Convene Dec. 3rd.
The same number of delegates,
representing the Jewish communi
ties and the national Jewish or
ganizations, which attended the
first session of the American Jew
ish Conference, will participate in
the deliberations of the second ses
sion in Pittsburgh, Dec. 3-5, 1944.
Only a small number of the ori
ginal delegates, who for various
reasons, are unable to attend, have
been replaced by the local elec
tions committees.
Though technically the Pitts
burgh gathering is described as the
“second session,” it is in fact,
the continuation of the first ses
sion which was held in New York
on August 29 Sept 2, 1943,
and recessed after electing an
Interim Committee. Consequent
ly all standing committees, as con
stituted at the first session, will
continue in the second session
with only a few changes. It is ex
pected that the committees will
be completed a week before the
Pittsburgh session convenes, so
that the business of the session
will be transacted without delay.
The General Committee will meet
on December Ist in Pittsburgh to
make final arrangements.
The tentative agenda provides
for the opening of the session on
Sunday, December 3rd, at 2:00
P. M., and the closing on Tues
day, December sth. Ample time
has been provided for a general
debate, which will enable the
delegates both to pass judgment
on past activities and discuss
thoroughly plans and proposals
for future action.
The composition of groupings or
blocs seems to be undergoing
some change. In addition to the
eight existing groupings, a new
group, the Independent Bloc, has
recently been formed and a num
ber of delegates have notified the
national office of their desire to
affiliate with this bloc. The new
alignment of forces has been made
in a spirit of “utmost friendship
and respect for the former bloc
associates,” to quote from the of
ficial notification of the forma
tion of the new bloc.
Judging from the ever-growing
requests for press cards, it ap
pears that the Jewish press will
be fully represented at the Con
ference.
Arrangements have been made
to provide kosher food for dele
gates. Also, one of the rooms of
the William Penn Hotel has been
reserved for religious service.
NUMBER OF JEWS IN
COMBAT LARGE MORE
CHAPLAINS APPOINTED
PARIS (JTA) The large, and
constantly increasing, number of
Jewish men in the American for
ces in Europe has made necessary
the assignment of ten additional
Jewish chaplains to this theatre.
Cleveland (JPS) The Thirt
ieth Annual Convention of Hadas
sah, Women’s Zionist Organization
voted a quota of $900,000 for medi
cal work in Palestine next year.
The convention considered plans
for extended medical activities in
proportion to the greatest postwar
needs, when the influx of Jews
from the liberated ghettos will re
quire expansion of all existing in
stitutions and the undertaking of
new projects.
The convention has also voted to
raise $400,000 for the Jewish Na
tional Fund, of which $250,000 is
to be allocated for a tract of land
to be named for Dr. Chaim Weiz
mann, President of the Jewish
Agency, on his seventieth birth
day. Hadassah has set itself a
goal to raise $10,000,000 in the
sixth War Loan Drive here. In the
past five years Hadassah has rais
ed $100,000,000 in war bonds.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, co-chair
man of the American Zionist Em
ergency Council, stated in his ad
dress to the convention that “it is
questionable whether Great Bri
tain alone, unaided by the United
States, and perhaps Russia, can
in the light of her experience in
the administration of Palestine in
the last quarter century, adopt
a new line which will achieve
the desired result.” Describing ap
peasement of the Arabs as the
“traditional approach of the Brit
ish Colonial Office to the Pales
tine question,” Dr. Silver des
cribed it as “a bankrupt solu
tion.” He appealed to the ma
jor powers to “push aside the
tangable web of disingenuousness,
legal shuffling and obstruction
ism” and extended to a Jewish
Commonwealth “material aid and 1
credit.”
Dr. James G. Heller, National
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Three Jewish
Scientists Win
Nobel Prizes
NEW YORK, (JTA) Three
Jewish scientists, two of them re
siding in the United States, have
been awarded the Nobel Prize in
recognition of their contribution
to science, it was announced in
Stockholm this week. The three
are:
1. Dr. Isidore Isaac Rabi, of
Columbia University, who was
given the 1944 physics award for
his research in the resonance me
thod of registering the magnetic
moments of atomic particles.
2. Dr. Otto Stem, a refugee
from Germany now with the Car
negie Institute of Technology in
Pittsburgh, who was awarded the
1943 physics prize for develop
ment of the molecular method
of detecting the magnetic momen
tum of prontons.
3. Prof. George Hevesy, of
Stockholm, who was awarded the
1943 prize for chemistry, in recog
nition of his work in the use of
isotopes as indicators in studying
chemical processes.
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