OFflClflL Wm BRITISH COLUfllBIII JEUIRV
Gontrolled and PuMish^ci fey V Council
VOL. xni NO.
Eleventh Aye. and ,Oak St.    VANCOUVER, B.fi,.gANADA^ 8, 1946
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ENDS bONDOM HEARINGS ^^mm
•   LONDON (WNS) — The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine has concluded its hearings here after a series of public sessions which saw Palestine defended and attacked as the.key to the solution p        problem of
Jewish homeiessness. Although no official statement
has been issued, there aire positive indications tliat the conunittee will issue an interim report before it proceeds to the Middle East. This, report is to deal only withVthe problem of Jewish displaced pei---
sons in Europe and is to bo based on information secured by the body's sub-committees that are to visit  Germany,   Austria, Czcho-
slovakia and Hungary. The final report, covering the Palestine issue, will be drawn at Lausanne, Switzerland, in the month of April.
WITNESS COMPARES ZIONISTS WITH NAZIS
Although the committee's :hear-, ings have been conducted, with decorum, propriety and respect, for witness, one of the sessions was tiirown into an uproar .when Sir Edward Spears, former British Minister to Syria and Lebanon, declared that Zionist policy wit}., regard to Palestine, "has many of the earmarks of Nazism."
The first witness to argue the Arab case, the witness said that Zionism, like Nazism, was aspir-> ing for "living space" in total'dis-' regard of the will of "a weaker people,"   The statement brought a sharp reply from Jaimes G. Mc-r Donald, one of the United States members of the committee, who told  the  witness  that  flie  was -"shocked" by his testimony. .
Later, Spears altered his testimony by declaring that he was referring only to a few Jewish leaders. Under some of the
Spears reluctantiy admitted the existence of pro-Nazi tendenciei> among the Arabs.
Warning that imless the Jews
abandon the idea of political .Zionism the Arabs will drive them . out of the coimtry, Generial Spears charged that the Zionists are seeking to provoke the Arabs. At the same time the witness claimed that in the event of a solution 'of the . Palestine problem luifavorable to the Jews there may be "civil war, perhaps an attempt at a coup d'etat."
When the witness testified that the entire Arab world would go up in flames if a pro-Jewish solution of the problem were rec-commended by the committee, the was questioned by Frank Buxton, American member,, whether he was familiar with the comparative oontribuition of Arabs and Jews •loBritains military forces during the war. The answer that he did hot-, have the facts with him, add-inia that the Jewish immigrants in Palestine were alien to the Arab
ider   quesioning .^Ijy^, ^..wioy of life and that tiie Arabs re-• oammittee ~men»^^:;-^Sed'ihcMpfe^ iidn^" tantSv   admitted the
ists," he said, "argue that they are loyal members of the British Empire, but my own impression is quite the opposite."
•   CLEVHa.ANp (WNS)— r ?
Dir. Abba Hillesl; Silyer, ; | of. Cleyeland^_asked to comr :f ment on - the i^instatement  ; f| of Lieutepant: General Sir Frfederick       zMarpiTa. as Chief of- Operations in rasLnyior. UNJlIiA^
following statemei^:. • •
"■pie action of jvfr, Herbert Lehman, in restoring Lt.. iSeneral Morgan, to his post as Chief, of Operations in Germany far UNR-RA is a lamentable act of .whitewashing of a British official whose own words condemned .-him as hopelessly unfit to occupy any office wihere truth and hiunanity are primary requisites.
"Why ]V&.Lehmian.reversed the action previously taken by XJITO-RA remains a mystery. Certainly Morgan's disingenous letter of explanation could not have cauged the change of heart. .Morgan does not deny that iie uttered those unconscionable and irre^nsible statements which accused Jewish refugees, the survivors of Njazi horror, moving out of Poland in" order to find greater security elsewhere, of being agents in some secret plot of world Jewiry, and that in them 'we have the seeds 'of World War III.' No man who occupies: a key posst in dealing with refugees and who harbors such views should be permitted to stay on in that position. Of coiu'se.Mr. Mprgan is no anti-Semite. ~l£ey"liev just voice outrageous anti-Semitic, charges and innuendoes."
JACOB BEN AMI
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ARMY URGES PARTITION
Leopold S. Amery, former British Colonial Secretary and former Secretary of State for India, testified that partition held the sole solution to the Palestine problem. He urged that Palestine be divided into independent" Arab and Jewisli
states. "By giving these two gifted people seme form of self-government," he argued, "they would be too occupied with political and administrative juroblems to enter-
tain any idea of invading each , other's territory.
Declaring that Britain had always looked upon the Palestine mandate as a preparatory step towards the coimtry's self-government, Mr. Amefy advocated a scheme calling on the mandatory o;- trustee power to- provide armed protection for the places in Jerusalem and Bethelem. Those places, he urged, should not be left to either contestant.
"JEWISH STATE" IN ORIGINAL DECLARATION DRAFT, SAYS LORD SAMUEL
Viscount Herbert Samuel, former Palestine High Commissioner, told the committee that when the original draft of the Balfour Declaration had been drawn it contained refscence to. a, "Jewish State" rather than a "Jewish National Home." He said'neither Dr. Chaim Weizmann, nor Dr. N^lhum, Sokolow, who saw the original draft, objected to the substitution of "Jewish National Home" for "Jewish State."
Urging the annual admission of 50.000 Jews to Palestme, Lord Samuel said he was unalterably opposed to solving the Palestine problem through partition. He demanded the abolition of the Wihite Paper, adding that he did not see any objection to reservmg cerain areas in Palestine for the Arabs under specific arrangement.
Questioned as to whether he thought the Jews were responsible for the recent wave of terrorism in Palestme, he said he thought the blame rested with the yoimg Jews who, he added, "are not unnaturally mflamed seemg homes being offered for Jewish survivors, but at the same time these people are sJhut out from Palestine."
The World Jewish Congress, in a memorandum to the committee, stressed that the core of the problem was the Jews' "constant lack of national status in a world where a national status determines the rights and liberties of nations."
LABORITE ATTACKS ZIONISM
Thomas Reid, Laborite M.P., testified" that he was, of the opinion that the pro-Palestine resolution of the British Labor Party was
not binding. He said he didn't "think this committee must paj-attention to a vague resolution passed by the Labor Party conference.
Urging that. partition was un-soimd econopiically, politically and militerily, the. witness urged the esteblishnierit of a Palestine with an Arab majority. Asked whether he believed that if the Jews were . in a minority they might not face the prospects of pogroms and massacres, he answered: "You can't prevent massacres.
350 MURDERS CAUSE 'SECRET' POLISH EXODUS
• WARSAW (WNS) — Pawel Zelecki, general secretary of the Central Committee of Polish Jews, told a press conference that "F a s c i s t gangsters" had killed 352 Jews in Poland since the country's liberation. He estimated 20,000 Jews had left Poland within the last year and that only 80,000 Jews were left in the country.
"Among part of the Jewish population panic has broken out and a tendency to mass emigration has been observed," Zslecki said. "Criminal activities 'Of Polish reactionaries have largely contributed to the anxiety and nervousness of the Jewish poptilation."
•  IT WOULD be appreciated if anyone having a Copy of the issue of January 25th would mail it to 2675 Oak Street.
•  A unique theatrical event of i j.   . great interest to. the Jewish Commimity will  take place on .• Tuesday, April 2nd, at the Lyric ^ Theatre.   Vancouver is very for-] tunate in securing a. performance '] given by Jacob Ben Ami, famous ; actor of both the Yiddish and English speaking stage.
Jacob Ben Ami is coming here with a company of artists in an program of one act plays by David Pinski, H. Levick, and Sholom ■ Aleichem. The company of players in support of Mr. Ben Ami con-, sists of J. Mestel, Al. Harris, and the eminent interpreter of songs from Palestine, Sarah O s n a t e Halevi.
Jacob Ben Ami \yho appeared successfully' with the 'NY 'Theatre Guild and Eva Le Gallienne's civic repertoire theatre has to his credit such magnificient performances as; ''Seven Langes," "Samson and Delilah," Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse," P. Hirshbein's "Green Field."." and Eugene O'Neill's "Welded."
This most outstanding actor and his company are on a coast to coast tour and will give one performance only in Vancouver. The Jewish population of this city is certain to take advantage of this unique theatrical event. The entire show is under the auspices of the local branch of the Jewish National Worker's Alliance.
Delegates Report On Zionist Convention
© A REPORT touching the highlights of the Canadian Zionist Convention held at Toronto last month will be given at the regular Executive Meeting of the Vancouver Zionist Organization by the Delegates.
This will be in the form of a Dinner Meeting to be held at the Devonshire Hotel, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 11th.
Troops Riiii Riot; 90% Off Europe's 2, Injure 7 Children
Exterminated
e NEW YORK (WNS) — Only one-tenth of the Jewish childiren of Europe survived the war and Nazi extermination, and more than half the survivors are oprhans who will remain dependent upon government, community or relief ageAcy support until they become adults, according to Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of the National Women's Division of the 1946 . United Jewish Appeal campaign for ?100,000,000,  . . .
Mrs. Levy returned from Europe recently after bampleting a month-long survey'6f the conditions and problems facing European Jewry. As the recently named chairman of the Citljens' Committee on children of New York City and a veteran in youth welfare work, Mrs. Levy took particular interest in the problem of Jewish refugee children.
No more than 150,000 Jewish diildren are alive in Eiurope today, sh said a a meetingi ETAOIN ETT .••he said at United Jewish Appeal headquarters, 342 Madison Avenue. Of these, 65,000 are now being aided with funds raised through U.-J.A. and allocated through the Joint Distribution Committee.
• JERUSALEM Feb. 7— After one of their men had been killed last night during a frustrated attack on the headquarters of the East Africsn soldier's canip just south of Jaffa, the soldiers stormed • into the nearby Jewish community of Holon and fired promiscuously. Casualities, which were reported nimierous, included the death of a textile manufacturer and the stabbing of a 15-year-old boy. Firing continued for such a long
period that ambulances summoned to the. scent could not enter until the firing had ceased. The dead man was .Benzion Shenkar, 50, durector of, a series of knitting mills and vice chairman of the local community coimcil. How the boy was stabbed is still imex-plained. It is known that seven Jews were wounded before the soldiers were corralled and returned to base. Meanwhile shop windows were smashed and according to xmconfirmed reports the soldiers fired without provocation at passersby.
Endorsations Granted
Feb. 1-15—Vancouver Talmud Torah—?40,000-$50,000—
Erection new buildmg.
Feb. 10—Beth Israel Men's Club—Raffle. March 6—B'nai B'rith Girls—B'azaar.
Feb. J5-^Po^ei Campaign. , -
Feb'. SO-^SuB-Seniors^morgasbord Dinner. • _ March 25 - April 7—Vancouver Jewish External Welfare Fund—
$50,000—Annual Campaign. Date to be set—Jewish Men's Cultural Club—$20,000.00—
Old Folks Home.
Date to be set—Ladies' Auxiliary Jewish Men's Cultural Club—
Raffle—Old Folks Home?.
Tells His Story
• THE FOLLOWING is a letter received by Mrs. H. Freeman, 1109 Devonshire Cres., from an individual, one of the many unfortunates in Europe who benefited by the clothing Collection sponsored by Canadian Jewish Congress in October.
48 Rue du Congres, Brussels.
Dear Mr. Freeman:
You will be astonished to receive a letter from me, but as you have written me one, and one of the nicest I have received at that, I think you must have an answer. I was born in 1914 in Berlin,
Germany. In 1933 I was a student of medicine at the Berlin University, but, alas, not for very long, for old Adolf came into power and tit the same time my career came to a sudden end. I then iirst tried myself and my principals in various offices, but was not much of ?. success. Co I finally decided to learn a handicraft and become an electroplater. Here I did better and I really liked my work. I worked in this profession as long as it was possible, but in 1940 the
US SENATORS RANT AGAINST JEWS
• WASHIN-QTON (WNS) — Gerald L. K. Smith, head of the Nationalist Party, the first American political party having the dubious distinction of incorporating an anti-Jewish plank in its platform, charged here before the House Committee on un-American Activities that the Anti-Defametj^on League, the Non-Sectarian anti-Nazi League and the Friends of Democracy were "Jewish Gestapo groups" with "^^n elaborate and expensive system for indexing and following up on the names of individuals alleged to have criticized Jews."
Before Smith took the witness stand, a gi-oup of Congressmen sought to submit a letter to the committee. When Chairman Wood, Georgia Democrat, ruled against Ihe admission of the letter the Consressional graup released it to tha press. The letter called Smith "America's most raucous pure-veyer of anti-Semitism and of racial and reli^ojis. bigotry." At the same time is i&rged that the committee was either "unable or
unwilling to conduct this vital investigation through io a completa unmasking of Smith's disruptive activities and chief financial supporters here or abroad." Amang the signers of the letter ware Representative Patterson, of Califorr
nia Democrat, Marcantonio, New York Democrat, and De Lacy and Savage, Washington Democrats.
Aftsr the Congressmen left the heccing, Smith took the stand. When questioned by Rep. Thomas
whether he was anti-Semit, Smith offered int» evidence a previously prepared statement, Rankin, of Georgia, supported him.
Hemming and thawing in an attempt to avoid a direct answer as to whether he was an anti-Semite or not, Smith finally declared that he had been called an anti-Semite by "Jewish Gestapo groups." He then innocently asked whether it was "un-American to criticize a Jew."  After telling the committee  that  he "personally" shared the view that Jews were trying to convert the motion picture industry in "Russian Communism," Smith declared, in reply Id a question whether he agreed with the .rtatement that 75 per cent of the newspaper advertisers were Jews, that "one of the most supporting facts is   the current boycott campaign the New York Daily News and the Washington Times-Herald."
"JEWISH QUOTA"
Senator Theodore Bilbo, spearhead of the filibustering campaign against the Fair Employment Practice bill, charged in an address on the floor of the Senate that if the bill were adopted it would force •"Gentile" employeesr to establish a ''Jewish quota" I when hiring help.
Citing the case of a Southern factory owner who, he said, had been forced to dismiss his "Gentile" help and replace them with Jewish and Negro employees, Bilbo said tha passage of the FEPC bill would be zn "unholy thing" and a "violation of constitutional rights." Ho argued that since the proportion of Jews in the United States to the general population was 1' to 28. it would become imperative on retail store keepers to employ Jaws in that proportion if the FEPC bill were passed.
Berlin "Arbeitsant", a sort of labor exchange, would no longer tolerate German work to be degraded by the touch of Jewish hands. So al! the protests of my master—a decent chap—^were in vain; he was told some nasty things by his superiors, and though skilled labor was getting short then by the increased  demands  of the Wehr-macht, I had- to join one of the Jewish forced labor commandoes. I only mention in passing, that all the time, the German authorities, at each setback at the fronts, invented new measures to make life a disagreeable for us as possible, (Continued on page 2)
Calendar ^
Saturday, February 9—
.9:00 A.M.—Beth Israel Services
8:30 P.M.—Tahnud Torah P.T.A.
Social Sunday, February 10— 9:30 A.M.—Beth  Israel Religious
School 7:30 P.M.—Library C;30 P.M. — Home for the Aged
Dinner
8:00 P.M.—Servicemen's Social 8:00 P.M.-A.Z.A. Meeting. Monday, February 11— 10:00 A.M.—Red Cross Tuesday, February 12— 10:00 A.M.-Red Cross 8;00 P.M.—Jewish National Workers Wednesday, February 13— 7:30 P.M.-Chess Club 8:00 P. M.—Administrative Council Thursday, February 14— 4:00 P.M. — Beth Israel Regilious School
8:00 P.M.—B. C. War Veterans
Friday, February 15—
8:00 P.M.—Beth Israel Services.