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MONTREAL, JUNE 7. 1946
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Arabs Stiffen Demands
The Arab Higher Committee demanded establishment of an "Arab independent state of Palestine," withdrawal of all foreign troops, and an immediate end to Jewish immigration.
Rejecting' the recommendations of the- British-American Committee of Inquiry, the committee asserted Arabs in Palestine "will defend their country with all the means at their disposal."
Jamal Effendi Husseini, committee chairman, declared that Arabs in Syria and Lebanon were "openly training1' to aid Arabs in Palestine.
Husseini said: "I saw them drilling. I did not see any weapons, but 1 suppose when the need arises they will find them."
(Government spokesmen in both Lebanon and Syria   denied   that
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any "underground armies" were being trained in those countries.)
In a reply to the requests of the American and British governments for comment on the Palestine report, the Arab Higher Committee made these three demands:
"Abrogation of   the  (British) mandate, and immediate cessation of Jewish immigration and land sales to Jews. "Establishment of an Arab instate in Pal-of
Agencies To Merge For Family Work
Two of the largest Jewish family service agencies in the United States�the Jewish Social Service Association, of New York, organized in 1874 as the United Hebrew Charities, and the Jewish Family Welfare Society of Brooklyn, established in 1849 as the-Hebrew Benevolent Society � soon will merge to cope with the rising need of welfare service in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, it was announced by Norman S. Goets,
Jresident of the Federation of ewish Philanthropies of New York, to which both groups are affiliated. The merger was ratified by the Federation after its initiation by the board of trustees by both agencies.
The new organisation, to be known as the Jewish Family Service, will have executive offices at 113 West Fifty - seventh Street Thirteen counselling centres in the three boroughs will commence operations July 1, the date the merger becomes effective.
During 194B the two welfare agencies served a total of 11,684 families, with an estimated 35,822 individuals. The combined budget last year was $933,308, of which $623,932 was contributed by the Federation. During the last six months, Mr. Goets reported, re-
Sests for help in dealing with mily problems have increased 12 per cent over the corresponding period of last year.
"The end of the war did not bring a decrease in family problems," he added. "To the contrary, incompatabilities in wartime marriages, cramped living quarters and doubling-up with relatives, readjustment of budgets to decreased earnings, job dislocations and other circumstances of the reconversion period haws created s sharp in-
15 MILLIONS SPENT IN PALESTINE IN FOUR MONTHS
Palestine agencies which receive their American support through the United Palestine Appeal, spent more than $15,-000,000 in the four months ending April 30, 1946. The United Palestine Appeal together with the Joint Distribution Committee and National Refugee Service raises its funds through the United Jewish Appeal.
A total of 6,082 refugees entered Palestine since January, 1946, with the aid of the United Palestine Appeal and of these 2,800 arrived during one week in May. The major share of these funds is being expended for immigration activities which include rescue and relief, as well as housing and care of the refugees. More than $4,600,000 was expended in this work during the first four months of the year. Colonisation and land resettlement, including the acquisition of new land areas and their amelioration, cost $6,300,000. Relief of soldiers' families, care of war invalids, internal security, required almost $1,500,000. Approximately $600,000 was re-
Suired for aid to trade and in-ustry and for the activities of the Labor Department. Among the many other activities supported by the funds of the United Palestine Appeal are included aid to educational, cultural and religious institutions which required an expenditure qf $480,-000.
Sone Czech Jews Birred Fron Relief
N.Y. Group Helps Jewish Drive
For the Jewish victims of Hitler's tyranny the war is still not over, although it has lasted fourteen years, Governor Dewey declared at a dinner of the non-sectarian Community Committee of New York in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
The dinner opened the committee's campaign in support of the drive of the United Jewish Appeal to raise $35,000,000 in the metropolitan area and $100,000,000 na-(Continued on Page Nin�)
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Britain May Drop Disarming Plan
The British Government probably will make an historic policy statement on Palestine in the last week of June, announcing in effect the withdrawal of the conditions Prime Minister Attlee placed on their acceptance of the Anglo-American commission's recommendations that 100,000 European Jews be allowed into the Holy Land immediately, says the New York Times.
The reaction to Mr. Attlee's original announcement that this immigration could be permitted only on condition that both sides in Palestine were disarmed had been so adverse, it was reported, that the British are convinced that it cannot be made to stick. American pressure has had a great deal to do with bringing British officials around to this way of thinking.
Exchanges between President Truman and Mr. Attlee and the State Department and the Foreign Office, conducted through the United States Embassy in London, have resulted in agreement that there jvffl be no.
Only 24,000 Refugees Instead Of Oan Enter The United States This Yi
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Not more than 24,000 refugees and displaced persons can be admitted to the United States from Central Europe during the next twelve months unless legal technicalities arising from President Truman's Executive Order of last December are straightened out
It has been supposed that with the arrival of about 1,600 refugees in New York^ that the President's program, which he had expected would bring in 39,000 war victims to the U. S. was going strong.
Actually, since the President specified that issuance of American visas in other parts of the world would not be entirely abandoned, the program for Central Europe had never authorised more than about 35,000 or 90 per cent of the quota for Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia   and   the   other
POLL SHOWS BIAS IS LINKED WITH REACTION
Elmo Roper's poll on anti-Semitism, in the U.S., published in Fortune magazine, gave these major findings:
(1) Anti-Semitism increases with wealth.
(2) Anti-Semitism is strongest in the Northeast and Middle East, weakest in the South and Far West
(3) Anti-Semitism is strongest in large cities, weakest in small towns.
(4) Anti-Semitism is strongest in the age-groups of 86 to 49, weakest In the age groups of 21 to 84.
(5) Anti-Semitism runs parallel with hostility to (a) Great Britain, (b) Russia.
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The principal reason why omK&) 24,000, instead of 86,000 ref   ^ and displaced persons can the United States a year is fact that the country baa oj passport offices only for the ican occupation zones of and Austria, officials ft with the program explained, the New York Timet.
Acting in accordance with. President's   directive,  the Department  established offices   in Bremen, Stuttgart,   Munich,   iuiUmMi Hamburg,   and   ac American Consulate in handle applications by the American zone of With the Public Health charge of physical Army intelligence Nazi sympathizers, ami taking care of persons visas until they get War Shipping Admini sels, the program is now smoothly as the legal permit, it was said.
U.S. immigration laws,: explained, require guaranty any person admitted to tibsK States must have a he will not become a and it was largely requirement, plus birth' and other documents, 1.800 visas wen May, the first month the program was in
However, it was immigration laws sua nee during an^ one 10 per cent of a     ~ quota, or 2JBQ0 a Europe. It it not
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iKmt the parcels wOt be dfcv only among people of Caeca, Slovak, Slavonic, or any other Allied nationality. The recipients, the Ministry demands, most also furnish proof that they are destitute or have suffered war damage. Czech citizens who, in the census of 1930, claimed German or Hungarian nationality are thus barred from receiving relief.
The Council has refused to sign. It is stated, however, that the Ministry is dealing with the matter sympathetically, and it is hoped that satisfactory arrangements will be made.
The Czechoslovak Treasury has authorized repayment to Jews of confiscatory taxes imposed upon them during the German occupation.
The Supreme Council of Jewish Community Councils of Czechoslovakia has decided not to consent to the sale of synagogues or other communal property until aD details of property restoration have been settled and all legal questions cleared up. All immovable community property will be leased on a temporary basis on condition that the buildings be used exclusively for religious, cultural, and educational purposes.
The establishment of a special department in the office of the Prime Minister to wipe out all remnants of racial persecution during the past six years was urged by Dr. Ernst Friachcr, head of the Executive Committee of the Council of Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia (Czechoslovakia), at an audience with
'In spite of our great sufferings and the proofs of our active patriotism,'* Dr. Friecher said, "we have even now to face certain facta which hurt us deeply, especially in Slovakia, where the spirit of revolution has not yet permeated the administration.
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