The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume], May 01, 1945, Image 1

About The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992

Image provided by: University of Florida

                
The Southern Jewish Weekly is published monthly for the duration
VOL. 20 NO. 5
JEWISH CLAIMS PRESENTED DELEGATES
AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE
JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS SUBMIT
FIRST PUBLIC BRIEFS
The first public action by Jew
ish organizations in connection
with the San Francisco Confer
ence began today in a not un
anticipated spirit of disunity. The
press has received a brief of a
joint statement to be submitted
to the Conference by the Ameri
can Jewish Conference and the
World Jewish Congrss, so-operat
ing with the Board of Deputies
of British Jews whose represen
tatives are expected here next
week.
The American Jewish Committee
issued a separate brief of its case
and Peter H. Bergson is planning
“something dramatic if peace ov
ertures fail.” The American Jew
ish Conference statement is pre
faced by the remark that al
though the San Francisco Con
ference “agenda is limited” nev
ertheless they “should consider
the present tragic plight and fut
ure position of the Jewish peo
ple.”
In a statement to the press,
Joseph M. Proskauer, President
of the American Jewish Com
mittee, and his associates Jacob
Blaustein and Simon Segal sum
marize their brief party, as fol
lows: “We have laid special
stress on the establishment of a
commission on human rights and
fundamental freedoms and ulti
mate formulation of an Interna
tional Bill of Rights. While the
details of such a charter may not
be within the agenda of the Se
curity Conference, we have earn
estly urged that 1 to comply with
Dumbarton Oaks Proposal ‘to
promote respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms.’
‘Obviously details of a migra
tion policy will not come within
the agenda of the Security Con
ference, but we urge that the or
ganization to be created here
should include a commission on
migration under the Economic
and Social Council of the Gen
eral International Organization.”
Adolph Held of the Jewish La
bor Committee told your corres
pondent he has no intention of
entering into minority blocs, but
that he will seek to achieve uni
fied presentation on points of
agreement among all Jewish or
ganizations. If he does not suc
ceed to bring about a real uni
fied presentation, the Labor Com
mittee will submit to the Con
ference, “without fanfare,” its
own program stressing that it
takes no position on a Jewish
commonwealth because of differ
ences of opinion in Jewish Labor
Committee ranks. He assured me
that he definitely will not enter
the United Front with the Ameri
can Jewish Committee for the
Purpose of a bloc, should unified
representation in its fullest sense,
including all groups, not material
ize. David Dubinsky, Joseph
Baskin, and I. H. Goldberg are
soon to join Held here.
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED
V
Stassen Gives
Report
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)
Assistant Secretary of State Ar
chibald MacLeish addressed a
meeting of the consultants and
associates consultants to the
American delegation here, at
which the Jewish representatives
present were Jacob Blaustein, of
the American Jewish Committee
and Henry Monsky and Dr. Israel
Goldstein, representing the
American Jewish Conference.
Mr. MacLeish said that simi
lar meetings will be held several
times a week as long as the se
curity conference lasts. Each
meeting, he said, would be ad
dressed by prominent govern
ment officials and members of
the American delegation, who
will furnish background and off
the-record information on the
issues before the conference. At
the same time, MacLeish added,
the opinions and advice of the
consultants will be sought.
The first off-the-record re
port was made at the meeting
by Commander Harold Stassen, a
member of the U. S. delegation,
who discussed the international
trusteeship plan for mandated
territories and other major ques
tions under consideration here.
Special services for the success
of the conference were held last
Friday in most of San Francisco’s
synagogues. At Temple Sherith
Israel, old Jewish congregation
on the west coast, a crowd of 2,-
000 persons attended the services,
which also marked the 95th an
niversary of the congregation.
The guest speaker was Dr. Gold
stein, who spoke on “The Stake
of Religion in the San Francisco
Conference.”
Robert Nathan
Appointed Deputy
To Vinson
Fred M. Vinson, Director of
War Mobolization and Reconver
sion, appointed Robert R. Nathan
as deputy director for reconver
sion. Mr. Nathan, a well-known
economist and production expert,
has been connected with the de- I
sense effort almost from the be
ginning. He recently returned
from Palestine where he conduct
ed an economic survey, of the
country, which will soon be re
leased to the public.
—i •
Churchill Lauds
Jewish Brigade
London (JPS) Prime Min- i
ister Churchill signalled out the
Jewish Brigade in a message to
Field Marshall Alexander prais- .
ing British troops on the occasion i
of their victory on the Italian j
Front.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, MAY, 1945
The Southern Jewish Month
ly presents in this issue a
complete coverage of the San
Francisco Conference by the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
the Independent Jewish Press
Service, Inc.
Pressure May
Force Palestine
Issue on Agenda
San Francisco (JPS) Bri
tain is taking into consideration
the possibility that Jewish public
pressure may force the Palestine
problem to be placed on the San
Francisco agenda although they
intend to “fight like hell to pre
vent such an eventuality.” Bri
tain contends that the sole pur
pose of the Conference is to set
up a World Organization and not
to deal with specific issues, your
reporter was told by the most re
liable British officials, who de
clared that it is not likely, but
not impossible, that a surprise an
nouncement from London in re
gard to a Jewish immigration
concession will be forthcoming,
should Jewish agitation in this
country become embarrassing.
The British conception of an
international trusteeship as sum
marized to me by British circles
is as follows: A modification of
the mandate system under which
single mandatory powers still re
tain full administrative authority
but consult with other powers in
regard to their interest in a giv
en region, after the fashion of
a Carribean council. Such inter
pretation, your reporter was told
by the British, has the support
of Australia and New Zealand.
Britain is definitely opposed to
partnership-mandates as “unfeas
able and unworkable and sees
nothing wrong with the present
system.” “Partnership with A
merica for administration with
the present system.” “Partner
ship with America for admin
istration of Palestine is unthink
able from this viewpoint,” your
(Continued on Page 2)
Wagner
Policies
New York (JPS) Charging
that “the power which is pre
venting the development of a
Jewish Commonwealth in Pales
tine is British power,” and that
Great Britain’s policies in Pales
tine “are a tragic revival of the
disease of appeasement,” Senator
Robert F. Wagner (Dem., NY.)
yesterday urged that the nations
of the world “put their hands to
their neglected task of constitut
ing a Jewish Commonwealth in
Palestine.”
Speaking before a Rally for
Jewish Rights demonstration of
more than 65,000 persons who
jammed Lewisohn Stadium and
overflowed into the adjoining
An Independent Newspaper Serving American Citizens of Jewish Faith
JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
Brands Britain’s Palestine
As “Appeasement”
Arabs Demand Seat On Regional
Mandates Council; Campaign “Under
Cover” to Undermine Jewish Claims
Jewish Congress
Proposes Human
Rights Agency
New York (JPS) Plans for
an International Human Rights
Agency, functioning independent
of any interational bill of rights,
to “safeguard the human rights
and fundamental freedoms guar
anteed by the internal laws of the
various nations . . and to safe
guard the rights and freedoms
guaranteed in an international
bill of rights when adopted,” have
been formulated by the commis
sion on law and legislation of the
American Jewish Congress, Judge
Nathan D. Perlman, chairman of
the commission, announced here.
He said that the united Jewish
representation at San Francisco
have been urged to bring the pro
posal before the United Nations
delegates at the conference.
Late General Rose
Eulogized In
Congress
In a speech in the House of
Representatives eulogizing the
late Maj. General Maurice B.
Rose, Congressman Dean M. Gil
lespie of Colorado said: “Gen
eral Rose’s military record was
a credit to the flag he served
and to the country which de
plores what appears to be his
cold-blooded murder.” In sup
porting the movement for the
construction of a hospital in Den
ver honoring the name of Gen.
Rose, Rep. Gillespie stated: “This
nonsectarian hospital will be a
fitting memorial to General
Rose.”
Jasper Oval, he declared: “I say
to our British friends and Allies,
you have not fulfilled your obli
gation to Palestine. You are in
default. The American people
believe it is high time that you
redeem your pledge.”
Mayor LaGuardia, Dr. Stephen
S. Wise, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
Louis Lipsky and other Zionist
leaders also addressed the great
crowd which heard a telegram
read from Governor Dewey, as
serting that he believed “action
should no longer wait for the op
ening of Palestine to unlimited
immigration and land ownership
of the millions of distressed
Jews.”
By J. L. TELLER
JPS Correspondent at the San
Francisco Conference
San Francisco (JPS) The
Arab delegations have already be
gun a subtle “unofficial” cam
paign among pressmen to under
mine Jewish claims despite as
surances from certain circles who
contended that the Arabs will
keep their silence provided the
Jews do not raise the Palestine
issue. This contention, coming
from high, “friendly-to-Zionism”
circles, had confounded the Zion
ists for a while as to the line to
be taken. Now the bars are off.
It has been definitely establish
ed by this reporter that the Arabs,
while officially shunning the
press and avoiding interviews,
have, themselves, approached
some very influential press cir
cles and unofficially presented
their case regarding Palestine.
Another contention by high
“friends” of the Zionist cause,
namely that the Palestine issue
will not be placed on the agenda,
has also seemingly been explod
ed. The San Francisco Confer
ence will set up a Trusteeships
Commission not unlike the Man
dates Commission in the League
of Nations days. You may al
ready know that the Arabs are
now angling for seats on this com
mission and are willing to sacri
fice seats on other commissions
for a substantial minority on this
one. This naturally means that
they would have a say regarding
Palestine. But your reporter
learns of an additional develop
ment in this connection, namely
that the Arabs will also demand
representation on the Regional
Council probably to be set up in
the Near or Middle East by pow
ers having economic or other in
terests in that area for the pur
pose of consulting with the man
datory powers there.
Labor Party Delegates Says
“World Owes A Debt To The
Jewish People”
In an exclusive interview for
the Independent Jewish Press
Service Ellen Wilkinson, British
Labor Deputy and member of
the British Delegation to San
Francisco, declared that there are
only two alternatives to the Jew
ish problem—either total assimila
tion* whose chances for success
have been discreted by Hitler.-
ism, or statehood. “The world
owes a debt to these people, ans
shall never absolve itself of th£
collective guilt for Europe’s Jew
ish dead unless it does something
very thorough and definite for a
complete solution of the Jewish
problem,” she told me,
While not committing herself
definitely on Palestine ,ojr .the ,
White Paper because of . protpcol ;
forbidding members of. .{Jelegar: s
(Continued on Page 2)
$2.00 A YEAR