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VOL. 23 NO. 16
Capital Spotlight
j BY BEATRICE HEIMAN
j (Copyright, 1947, JTA, Inc.) f
“Full debate on Palestine Wins
in u. N. —U. S. and Britain Lose
Out in Fight To Hold—Session to
Setting Up of Inquiry—Opening
Up of Issue a Victory for Rus
sia.”
These were the headlines in a
major New York newspaper after
a day of crucial debate at the
United Nations special session on
Palestine. They summarized a
sharp fight in which the United
States and Great Britain tried to
prevent any discussion of the sub
stance of the Palestine problem,
particularly by the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, and were heavily
defeated by a combined Slav-Latin
American bloc.
From the Bolivian delegate
came the tart comment that the
Anglo-American attempt to limit
the Jewish Agency’s participation
“is like inviting a person to walk
in without using his feet.”
“What,” inquired La Palza of
Bolivia, “will the Jews talk about
if it is not their problem?”
The talk indulged in by the 55
members of the UN, if translated
into gallons of water would have
submerged New York. On one
typical day of six hours debate a
statistically minded observer not
ed down 168 speeches, stretching
from five seconds to fifteen min
utes. It would go something like
this: A delegate from a Latin
American country would start out
by assuring his esteemed col
leagues that his best contribution
to a happy solution of this tragic
problem is brevity and then elab
orate, in the bruised and battered
name of brevity, for not less than
twenty minutes.
Outstanding for the first ten
days of the UN session was the
Arab seizure of the reins. The
five Arab states represented in
the UN—Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon,
Syria and Saudi Arabia—aided at.
every turn by India, used all the
parliamentary tricks and legal
istic maneuvering to monopolize
tiwe. create obstruction and do
just what the U. S.‘ and Britain
Wed to ban the Jewish Agency
from doing:. .Discuss substantive
Questions and thus use the U. N.
®s a platform from which to
spread their views.
After almost endless debate the
General Assembly directed its im
portant political committee to
taar the Jewish Agency, and re
ared to the committee for its
° Wn decision whether it would
hear the Arab Higher Committee,
the Arabs of Pales
tine. Thereupon the Arab com
mittee, feeling insulted because
ihey were not specifically named
y the Assembly for a hearing,
Withdrew the request they had
Previously sent to the UN even
though the political committee
hud already voted to hear the
Arab committee.
To sooUify the Arabs, and coax
them back, a fantastic perform
*° Ce then ensued.
J. W. V. Protests Jew-
Haters In Jacksonville
The following resolution was
unanimously adopted at a meeting
held recently by the Jewish War
Veterans of America, Post 199,
Jacksonville, in which the appear
ance of hate-mongers in this com
munity is vigorously protested:
WHEREAS, certain notorious
nazi-collaborating hate-mongers
and bigots have recently appeared
in Jacksonville spreading the same
type of divide and conquer min
ority group prejudices as did A
dolph Hitler before World War II;
and
. .WHEREAS, the dissemination
of such hate poison is contrary to
the letter and spirit of Democracy
and is inimical to the harmonious
relationship existing among all
American citizens in this com
munity; and
WHEREAS, uninhibited, mal
icious, and unwarranted attacks
upon any one racial or religious
group gnaw at the very founda
tions of Democracy and inevit
ably redound to the hurt of all
groups and the weakening of our
Democratic form of government
and violates the cherished Ameri
can principle and tradition of the
individual’s right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED BY the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States,
Post 199, Jacksonville, Florida,
that we who fought for the prin
ciples of American Democracy
condemn and deplore the use of
our churches and public meeting
places by any individuals or or
ganizations which seek to expose
any group of American citizens
to hatred, contempt or ridicule;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED
that this resolution of protest be
publicized as widely as possible,
and copies sent to the press, radio,
individuals and organizations in
terested in the preservation of the
ideals of Americanism.
Jewish War Veterans, U. S. A.,
Post 199
Joseph S. Wilensky, Command
er.
Jewish Persecutes In Germany Face Loss
Os Property Under 11. 8. Army Order
MUNICH (JTA)—Under a recent order by Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany,
Jewish persecutees are being ousted from apart
ments and businesses which they received after the
liberation, in compensation for property stolen from
them by the Nazis.
Gen. Clay’s directive provides for the return of
property from which Nazis were ousted after the
collapse of Germany in cases where denazification
courts clear the Germans. The denazification
courts, now in the hands of Germans, and frequent
ly accused of “leniency’' toward ex-Nazis, have
cleared thousands of “small offenders. In addi
tion, German governmental agencies which hy
been handed the job of aiding persecutes, which
the military government fozmerly handled, are n»-
toriously lax and admittedly shot through «th
former Nazis and corrupt officials. No effort is
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1947
Weizmann May Agree To Be Agency
Spokesman At 11. l Meet In Sept.
HEADS AMERICAN JEWISH
COMMITTEE EUROPEAN OFFICE
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Joel David Wolfsohn, prominent
government official, is leaving the
Department of the Interior to be
come Director of European Opera
tions for the American Jewish
Committee, which is expanding its
overseas activities to furnish legal,
educational and public relations aid
to the stricken Jewish communities
on the Continent in their effort to
reconstruct Jewish life in postwar
Europe.
SPANISH WAR VETS HEAD
URGES ADMISSION OF DP’S
NEW YORK (JTA)—A plea for
the admission of 400,000 displaced
persons into this country was
voiced here this weekend by Mag
istrate Maurice Simmons, Past
Commander of the United Spanish
War Veterans, at anniversary ex
ercises at Grant’s Tomb here.
Magistrate Simmons asserted
that Labor Department reports
proved that there were serious
shortages in many trades and pro
fessions in this country, and point
ed out that many of the displaced
persons possessed such skills.
BY ROBERT GARY
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
made usually to provide substitute property for the
persecutees.
One case in which a persecutee received compen
sation after his business was returned to a “clear
ed” Nazi was that of 61-year-old Hugo Jacob, who
lost a movie theater and will have a new one given
him by the military government. Jacob, who with
his wife successfully evaded the Nazis throughout
the Hitler regime, was notified last week that as
a result of a decision of a German court the title
of his business would revert to its former owner.
This information, coupled with the loss of his
apartment under similar circumstances, caused the
Jew to suffer a heart attack. His illness brought
Jacob’s case to the attention of the military gov
ernment officials, but thousands of other perse
cutees will not be as fortunate in gaining a hearing
and compensation for the second loss of property
to the Nazis.
Yishuv Shocked At U. S. Stand
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BY BERY CORALNIK
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Although Dr. Chaim Weizmann will not
represent the Jewish Agency at the United Nations during the special
session of the General Assembly, the possibility of his acting as the
Zionist spokesman when the next regular session of the Assembly is
held in September has not been ruled out, it is learned.
It now appears that Dr. Weiz
mann was asked by the Agency
executive to go to New York and
speak for the Zionists at the spec
ial Assembly, but declined on the
ground that he was unable to do
so on the short notice given him.
However, he did not exclude the
possiblity of appearing before the
U. N. in September.
Earlier in the week, in his first
public appearance since the Zion
ist Congress in December, Dr.
Weizmann said that although he
had committed himself not to talk
for or against the present Zionist
executive, he is not yet ready to
shed his responsibility to the
movement. He reiterated his be
lief “in only one Zionist system—
conquest span by span, dunam by
dunam.” Addressing himself to
Local Jewish War Vets
Plan Banquet
The Jewish War Veterans,
Lt. Meyer Leibovitz Post 199,
will hold its annual installation
banquet and dance on Thurs
day, May 29th, at 7:30 P. M.
in the Roosevelt Hotel Ball
Room.
Fuller Warren will be toast
master, and a popular orches
tra has been engaged for the
evening.
Reservations for the event
are now being taken, and may
be made by calling 9-4044 or
9-2796.
the youth of the country, he stat
ed that “no jumps are possible in
Palestine. Upbuilding in the
Zionist way is hard and long, with
many obstacles, which can be
overcome only by the strongest
endeavor. “In this perilous era,”
he concluded, “I still believe that
there are magnificent prospects
for Zionist enterprise, if we only
refuse to retreat.
Commenting on the decision of
the Political Committee to invite
the Arab Higher Committee to
testify, an Agency spokesman
said that "the Arab states them
selves undermined both the logic
and justice of the demand for a
Palestine Arab representation—
in fact, the Arab Higher Commit
tee, when and if it is heard, will
be nothing but a sixth Arab voice
pushing in the same direction.”
Referring to the Agudas Israel’s
request for an independent hear
ing by the Political Committee,
the spokesman said that the A
gency “regarded it as a pity that
there be a separate approach, and
we regret it partioularly since it
is additional proof of the abnor
mality of the Jewish situation in
the world.”
Palestine Jews Shocked by U. S.
Support of Britain
Replying to a question, he said
that the Jewish community is
generally pleasantly surprised by
the Soviet Union’s stand at the U.
N., but added that this cannot be
taken in any sense as “something
political.”
The average Jew here has been
more articulate than the Agency
in describing his reaction to the
U. N. sessions. Most Jews are
shocked and disappointed at A
merica’s lining up with Britain in
opposing a full hearing for the
Jews. They interpret the U. S.
stand as evidence that power poli
tics are the dominant factor at
the U. N., and that American fear
and suspicion of Russia are suf
ficient to compel the U. S. to fol
low the British line.
The Soviet insistence that all
Jewish bodies be heard surprised
the Jews only to the extent that
they feel that normally and mor
ally it should have been the other
way around: America insisting on
a fair hearing for the Jews; ana
Russia, avowedly anti-Zionist, op
posing it. Their gratification at
Russian support is tempered, how
ever, by the acute awareness of
basic Russian policy towards Pal
estine —which has as its number
one objective getting the British
out by any means.
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