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Zionists Fear Russian Motion Will Change Status of Palestine
• SAN FRANCISCO (WNS)—New complications have arisen here over the Palestine issue when it was disclosed that the Soviet delegation had requested that the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Conference delete the so-called "Palestine clause" from the trusteeship proposals.
The Soviet delegation asked the .elimination from the trusteeship proposal -of a; paragraph which was considered by-Jewish leaders as a guarantee  that hb action would be taken under the trusteeship system that woiiId-.be prejudicial to Jewish" rights in Palestine.  The deletion of the so-called. "Palestine amendment," it was pointed out here by Jewish \ leaders, would be detrimental to ■ Jewish interests in Palestine.
The clause in question was considered last week at a meeting of the trusteeship committee, and it was jointly supported by the U.S., ' British, Frendh and Chinese delegations.   The Arabs had imsuc-cessfully  sought  to  amend the clause, but the elimination of the controversial paragraph from the trusteeship plan, as requested by the Soviet delegation, would automatically eliminate sdl Arab objections. The controversial paragraph provides that "exoept as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements placing each territory under the trusteeship system, nothing in this chapter should be construed, in and of itself, to altier in any manner the rights of any State or any peoples in any territory, or the terms of the mandate." Agency leaders Fly to San Francisco
Dr. Nahum Goldmaim and Louis Lipslky, members of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, were reported to lhave left New York by plane for San Francisco where they plan to study the Soviet proposal. The Zionist leaders were rc/^oried to ^.Ave left after a meeting at New York of the Zionist Emergency Cotmcil.
At the same time it was disclosed that leading members of the U.S. delegation have expressed the opinion that the Soviet move was not aimed' at Jewish rights in Palestine but at the general situation in the Near East. They were reported to have told Zionist leaders that there was no need for concern about the Russian request.
One U.S. delegate was quoted . authoritatively to (have said that the "matter will straighten out." The difficulties, he was reported saying, "still lie with the Arabs rather than with the Soviet delegation." One UJ5. delegate revealed that the Iraq members of the trusteeship committee were planning to submit amendments which would endanger Jewish interests in Palestine even more ilian the Soviet request.
Simultaneously it was disclosed that Commander Harold E, Stas-sen, representing the U.S. delegation, had been trying to convince the Soviet delegation that the elimination of the controversial i)aragraph from the trusteeship proposals will prove detrimental to Jewisfli rights in Palestine. Commander Stassen was also said to have expressed the be-
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lief that he will succeed in prevailing on the Soviet delegation to withdraw its request.
It is believed here in well-informed circles that Russia's opposition to i)aragraph five is based on fear that, in its present form, the paragraph may "freeze" for all times the status of the people living in territoiries -under the League of Nations' mandates. These circles, however, are of the opinion that the mattei will be satisfactorily settled and that the Arab manipulations to curb Jewish rights in Palestme will fall flat.
The British delegation was reported to have taken the view that nothing must be done to alter the provisions of the Palestine, any other, mandate of the League of Nations. Their view is predicated on the contention that the mandates represent a contractual relationship that cannot be broken by an uitemational body as long as the fate of the mandates themselves have not been decided.
At the same time Prime Minister Peter Fraser of Nev/ Zealand declared at a press conference here that the Soviet request for the elimination of the "Palestine clavise" had not yet been placed before the trusteeship committee. While asserting that the trusteeship committee "is an arena for all nationalities who have grievances and those who have mandates and are associated with mandates," the New Zealand Prime Minister refused to comment on the Soviet demand before it comes before the trusteeship committee. He indicated, however, that the matter will be sraightened out.
Newspaper Demand Palestine Solution
• LONDON (WNS)—The Manchester Guardian, in an article dealmg with the cturrent French-Arab conflict in Syria, took 'the position that it was doubtful whether the Palestine issue "can long be delayed."
Pointing out that the pending national elections in England may divert British attention from the Palestine problem, the publication objected to the handling of the Palestine problc»"*i by "stcret diplomacy." The Pedestme problem it noted, cannot "be measured or judged by conventional terms, for the simple reason that its humanitarian aspect far transcends the political."
France To Admit 1,200 Jewish Orpha
9 PARIS (WNS)—One thoxisand Jewish orphans who were found at the Buchenwald and B e r g e n-B e 1 s e n concentration camps in Germany will be admitted to this country by the French Government, it was disclosed here by the French branch of the OSE, the Jewish Health Society.
The children will be cared for by the OSE, The Joint udstribu-tion Committee will finance their maintenance in homes and hospitals to be provided by the French Government.
Dr. Boris Tschlenoff, chairman of the OSE, this week sent an urgent   appeal   to   the American
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ting the immediate shipment of blankets, linens, bed Imens, clothing and other wearhig apparel for the children.
Agency Demands Immediate Action
• LONDON (WNS)—In a memorandum submitted last week to Prime Minister Churchill, the Jewish Agency for Palestine demanded immediate action by the British Government on a number of urgent Jewish problems.
The memorandum, described, by Jewish circles here as "one of the greatest documents in Zionist history,"  is  said  to  demand that. "Palestine be proclaimed a Jewish Stater that the transfer of the ■Jews from Europe to Palestine be assisted by an international loan; -that international facilities be provided for the transit from Euroi)e of all Jews desiring to.settle in Palestine; that Germany pay reparations in ku»d to the Jewish people, that these reparations be used for the development of Palestine and that the first reparations   installment   be secured through the, requisitionmg of German property in Palestine; that the Jewish Agency be permitted to bring to Palestine as many Jews as possible with a vie^ to speeding the country's resources.
Schara Tzedeck    Jewish Veterans Get Legion Charter Men'sClubtoHear Col. Merritt, V.C., Visits Ceremony Chinese Consul
• AT THE regular meeting of the Schara Tzedeck Men's Cultural Club held in the Community Centre on June 3rd, the membership was treated to another cultural evening which proved to be both interesting and educational.
Through the efforts of the Cultural Chairman, Mr. I. S. Finkle-man, the guest speaker of the evening was Mr. Chas..M. Defieux, director of the Vancouver Sun Rehabilitation Bureau, a newspaperman of many years standing, who spoke on Veterans' Rehabilitation. Mr. Defieux proved to be an inspiring speaker, and spoke at some length on Veterans* Rehabilitation.  He gave actual experiences on the workings of the ■different agencies and how veterans are rehabilitated. A vote of thanks was extended to the speaker by Mr. Goodman Florence, who ■ (expressed the appreciation of all those present.
Mr. I. S. Finkleman advised the membership that oh Sunday, Jime 10th, the Schara Tzededk Men's Cultural Club will be visited by the Honorable Li Chao, Consul General of the Republic of China, at Vancouver, together with Mr. Joshua Long, Chinese student of the University of British Columbia, who will be the guest speaker for the evening.
Red Cross inaugurates Service To Locate Relatives in Europe
• A SERVICE to people in Canada anxious to try to locate relatives or friends in Europe by short wave broadcasts is announced today by the Canadian Red Cross Society.
This service will be rendered through the Red Cross Enquiry Bureau, 130 Queen Street, Ottawa, and is arranged through the facilities and with the cooperation of the International Service of the Canadian  Broadcasting Corporation. This service will be confined at the moment to Holland and Czechoslovakia and will be included in the regular Netherlands and Czechoslovakian programs already being broadcast from the International Service transmitters. It is hoped to start the service almost  immediately but arrangements for reception of the messages in their respective cotmtries and now in process of completion througlh the governments of the countries concerned m\ist first Toe made.
Personal messages, limited to 50 v/ords, and free of charge, will be accepted. No reference may be made to public affairs, to business or to money. The message must be for a person, not for a company or an organization. These must be submitted to local Canadian Red Cross Society Branches on forms which they will supply. The Branches will then send the messages through their Provincial Commissioners to the Red Cross Enquiry Bureau which will immediately despatch them to the International Service of the . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wlhere they will be froadeast
Jew Appointed To High Judicial Office
© PARIS (WNS) — Judge Leon Meiss, president of the Jewis.i consistory, has been named this week as a member of the Paris Court of Appeals.
The official French news agency charged here this week that the Ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, who is under house arrest in a villa near Paris, was being treated "with every • consideration due an outstanding personality of the Islam world."
both in the language of the country for which they are intended and in English.
ImmigrationQuota Nearly Exhausted
• JERUSALEM (WNS)— Elihau Dobkin, chief of
the immigration department of the Jewish Agency, disclosed here this week that only 1,000 immigration certificates remained open to Jews under the White Paper quota.
Commenting on the allotment of 3,000 certificates this week by the Palestine Government, Mr. Dobkin said that "in the light of the tremendous need and the demand for certificates" the allotment of 3,000 visas was "miserable and insult-ftig." In every corner of Europe, he stressed, "people released from concentration camps by the tens of thousands, who can find no rest or peace, wish to emigrate to Palestine, which is ready to absorb them."
B, B, Auxiliary
• ALL  ORGANIZATIONS will please  take notice that the
B'nai B'rith Auxiliary has seen fit to endorse the policy of the Women's lodges tiiroughout the district in the elimination of the wofd "auxiliary" from their name, and are now legally to be known as the Vancouver' B'nai B'rith Women No. 77.
All organizations will please take notice that in order to have their individual annoimcements made from the lodge room, they must be in writing, and no verbal message will be allowed.
A North-West section . B'nai B'rith Women's Conference has now bean formed, which will include women's lodges in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
• LT. COL. CECIL MEBRFTT, V.C.—At a weU attended meeting of the Jewish War Veterans held last Thursday at the Jewish Community Centre, confirmation of the Canadian Legion Charpter was received from Revelstoke where the Provincial Legion was held.
Lt. Col. Cecil Merritt, V.C., extended congratulations on becoming part of the great Legion movement and held out hopes that the Jewisih Veterans will take a leading part in the life of British Columbia and especially in the af-fau-s of Vancouver's Jewry.
Lt. Col. Merritt gave first hand impressions  of  his  prisoner of war life in Germany, describing the impressive fact that Jewish officers of Palestine have been given the same treatment as the rest of the British Officers, being British subjects,  where on the other hand officers of other countries were taken away to Gestapo camps and treated in the well known Gestapo method. His hum-erous ironical observations" on the Germans as a whole were well received.
Nomination and election of officers for the new Legion Branch now to be known as the Fairview Branch - Jewish Veterans, took place with the following being elected:
President, Chas. L. Gorvidh; 1st Vice-President, E. Goodman; 2nd Vice-President, R. Greenberg; Secretary, E. Rozen; Treasurer, A. Myers;  Sgt.-At-Arms,   G.'- Sions. Executive,  I.  S. Finkleman, B. Rose, W. Steiner, E. Weinberg, H. Appleton.  Committees: Sick Visiting, K. Moses and C. Schneider. Membership, J. Kanchikoff, E. Rozen and A. Myers. Social and entertainment, Chitterman; Sr. Publicity, A. Gordon.  Zone Council, Chas. L. Gorvich, E. Goodman. Alternates, R. Greenberg, E, Rozen.   Congress, I. S. Finkleman and H.  Cristall. Administrative CouncU, I. S. Finkleman and C. K. Moses.
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Anti-Jew Riots Flare Up in Paris
• PARIS (WNS) — Considerable anxiety is felt here among Jewish leaders over the recent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Paris, Marseille and Lyons. A partipularly painful impression on the Jewish population was made here last week when a crowd of returning war prisoners raided Paris shops while shouting
"Down with the Jews."
In an effort to offset the rising anti- Jewish propaganda, the League Against Anti-Semitism, headed by Bernard Lecache, has been disseminating leaflets warning the Frendh people against provocateurs and incendiaries of race hatred.
Mr. Lecache disclosed that he had conferred with Adrain Tixier, Minister of the Interior, and with French police officials and xnat he had been assured fJlfit measures      asserted "it is the dutv of the
Large Crowd Hears
Edward Gelber
• ONE OF the largest crowds i n Vancouver turned out last Sunday to hear Mr. Edward E. Gelber, of Toronto, Vice-President of the Canadian Zionist Organization, who spoke on behalf of the United Palestine Appeal in Vancouver.
Mr. Gelber reviewed the progress of the Jews in Palestine since the last war, and intimated that more than 360,000 Jews had been placed and absorbed in Palestine life since the last war. Even at the present time, refugees from Europe, especial iy children, are being sent to Palestme through the efforts of the Jewish Agency.
He also told ti^e audience that at the present time, the leaders of the Zionist movement are not prepared to make any statements on tlie outcome of the deliberations at the San Francisco Conference in regards to the Palestine question.
Colobian Statesman Favors Immigration
• BOGOTA (WNS)-George Re-geros Peralta, vice-president of the Colombian Senate, declared here at a press conference that he favored Jewish immigration into the Latin American coimtries.
He said he was convinced that Jewish immigration into the Latin American coimtries "would be beneficial to the land to whidh Jews would be admitted." The Jewish immigrants, he said, "are fulfilling a progressive function which will yield fruits in Colombia much earlier than expected, as was the case also in Chile and in Argentina, both in the cultural and economic sense."
The leader of the Colombian Senate urged the Jews to join with the liberal elements in their respective coimtries in support of their democratic governments. He
v/ould be -^aken to halt the anti-Semitic propaganda. At the same time he revealed that the police had been instructed to immediately release any Jews who might be arrested as a result of clashes with fascist elements. One such clash took place last Friday, when a mob of anti-Semitic hoodlums sought to break up a meeting by an anti-racist organization.
In the meantime, 17 members of the "tenant" group that seeks to bar the return of Jews to apartments taken from them duruig the German occupation have been arrested.
free nations of the American continent to combat mercilessly every trace of anti-Semitism, which is the most reactionary weapon in thq hands of the enemies of democracy."
Saul Hayes will participate in a radio discussion on "Canadian Immigration Policies" over a national hook-up of CBC, Tuesday, June 12th at 9 P.M. Pacific time. This is t!ie first in a sciics of forums entitled "Discussion Club".