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VOL.n; NO.S4.
VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1946^
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InKielce Leaving City
Nj:WYORK (WNS)—tThe last 110 Jews left in Kielce, Poland, scene of the pogrom tKdt took forty-one lives July 4, are preparing to leave .that place forever, according to information received here by the Joint Distribution Committee from its director in Poland, Wil-, liam Bein.
Members of the Kielce group, Mr, Beiri said, are settling their affairs or waiting to be called as witnesses iri additional Polish Government trials before leaving the town. Seventy-nine had departed since the outbrejjc,
IVIr, Bein s^iid that eleven of the survivxjTS still in Kielce werd-wounded, two icritically, and were under the care of physicians and special nurses provided by the JDC, Reixn-ts from Lodz, where twenty-six other woimded were taken, . indicated three patients were still in danga:.
Cabinet Reported Lukewarm To Partition Plan
WASHINGTON (WNS)-Opposi-tion to the Palestine partition uro-posal was reported to have developed at last Friday's meetirtg of the Cabinet, with, many members voicing objection to the small sector ojered to Jews by the Anglo-American exjxerts.
Following the meeting, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson told newspapermen that the subject was still "somewhat ooinfused" and that that was the reason why Presid'^nt Truman recalled' the Cabinet Committee alternates to Washington for consultations. At the.same time Mr. Acheson declined to« answer a reporter's inquiry whether the United States had rejected) the British federalization proposal.
Pioneer Women Redeem Land For New Pfachlah
A tract of land in Zavaia Huleh Plain, consisting of 2,000 dunams, which will enable hundreds of re-fugeSes to'lsettle in Palestine, and a Forest bearing the nanie of the Pioneer Women's Organization will be planted in Kibutz Ifamara, Tipper Galilee in Palestine with funds iWsed'hy^rdemiieK^ neer Women's Organizatio>n, it was announced' today by Duiiia Mar-gulis, National C3iairman, Jewi^ National Fund Committee.
The Roneer Women's Organization, sister organization of the Working Women's Coimcil in Palestine is determined to back the heroic stand of its sister organization. Stirred by the recent suppression and terriorism directed against the Jewish community in Palestine by the British and a-roiised over the fact that villages and trees have been destroyed and uprooted. Pioneer Women havea-swered' these acts of violence and destruction with determination and coTU-age to help the Jewish community of Palestine to rebulid and plant, anew.
Recently they have completed a project to rebuild a tract of 4,-000 dimariiJs of land at cost of $100.-.OOiO.OO; Further plans are to continue all their activities towards the absorption. and readjustment of Hhe thoitsands of woinen and chidren who are coming to Palestine.
In Kielce, Poland, a woinan mourning her husband slain in the pogrom, dries her tears with the ribbon on the wreath placed by the oint Distribution Committee on the grave of the forty Jev/ish dead. The J.D.C. rushed immediate assistance to the 150 Jewish men, women and children in Kielce who survived the pogrom. A special allocation of 1,000,000 zlotys,-extra food, nurses and convalescent care was rushed to the town by the J.D.C. for the survivors. Twenty-six Jews who had been wounded in the pogrom were evacuated by the J.D.C. to Lodz. The J.D.C. later evacuated the 150 Jews remaining in Kielce in cooperation with the Polish Government and the Central Jewish Committee of Poland. Only a few days before the pogrom Dr. S. Kahane, chairman of the Jewish committee in the Kielce district, had written to this continent to thank the United Jewish Relief Agencies in Canada, the J.DC. and various Canadian and U.S. landsman-shaften for funds recently sent there. Dr. Kahane was killed . in the pogrom.
762 TERRORIST SUSPECTS QUESTIONED IN TEL AVIV
TEL AVIV (WNS)—The task of examining the 762 suspected terrorists who were picked up by the British Army's four-day house-to-house search has been taken over by the Palestine police, it was announced by Lieutenant-Colonel Bennett Shaw, superintendent of police in this area. Bennett said that "ws thmk at
least sixty of these people are listed in our spelcial files as knotvn terrorists and terrorist leaders." At the same time he edclared that he did not believe that the im-precedented search had netted any of liie really t<^ Irgun or Storm leaders sought in connection with King David Hoter incident.
With the lifting of the cxaiew, the city is proceeding to normal life. On Saturday hundreds of people crowded rthe streets, again like free men, and truclcs beating food for the inhabitants were seen entering from all roads. However, the streets are still heavily patrolled. It estimated the all-Jewish city of "Tel Aviv took a loss of over one million dollars as a result of the enforced suspension of activities.
Althou^ the tension sherei is somewhat eased, reports &om Jerusalem indiioate that Baritish officials have (taken far-readiing military decisions in that area Speculation is rife 'here whether the move indicated precautionary measinres against possible terrorist attacks there or evidence of a house-to-hoUse search comparable with the one here. However, it is believed that the move has a bearing on the reported arrival of an estimated 17,000 'visaless" Jews. The sudden suspension of.the disembarking of women and children from the vessels Hagana and Hayal Haivri is viewed here with apprehenaon. It is feared that'the move may indicate a decision by tlie authorties to itum the arrivals back to the port of embarkation. Yvvd' -Vessels bearing "visaless" Jews aboard the Yagoiu: and Raf-f iah and f oiu: other ships have not arrived yet, though it had earlier been reported that their arrival was a matter of hours at most One umco»ifirmed rumor, which spuread like wild-fire, had it that
one ship had been intercepted by a British patrol and forced to re-*tum to Cyprus and that the refugees were placed' in an internment camp .there.
In the meantime the Irgxm Zvai Leumi, in the first broadcast over the organization's secret radio, aimoimced that if the British dare to impose a curfew like the irecent one of Tel Aviv "the residents will neceive orders tt> go into the stretes at curfew time, and if the British start shooting, there'll be 1,000 British victims, too." '
However, the Voice of Israel, clandestine Hagana radio, broke a week's «ilence by declaring that the organization had ordered its members not to oppc^ the Tel Aviv house-to-house search.
A committee to check damages caused by the raids has been appointed by the Tel Aviv municipality. Of (the 300 cases registered so far, the damage is estimated at over $600,000.
France Permits Entry of
1,000 Polish Jews
The Vaad Hatzala, orthodox rescue agency announced today that it hiad received i)ermission from the French Government for entry of 1,000 Jews from Poland.
The Vaad Hatzala gave its unconditional guarantee to the Frenc conditional guarantee to the French Government that those admitted will not be public charges.
Chief Rabbi Herzog of Palestine, and Rabbis Wohlgelemter and Wasserman, special representatives of Vaad Hatzala in Europe, appeared personally before the ministers and after a most eloquent plea, were granted these 1,000 visas for the Vaad Hatzala.
Administrative Council Meets Wed. Aug. 2!
' The Svarvey of the Vancouver Jewish Administrative Council will meet Wednesday evening, August 21st, at the Jewish Com-mimity Centre to hear irepoirts ♦from three of its sub-committees on Jewish Centre progamming, community organization and fund raising, according to Jvlr. Myer Brown, Chairman of the over-all Survey Committee. In attendance at this meeting w'ill be Mr. George Hallowitz, Field Secretary of the National Jewish Welfare Board and Mr. Morton J. Gaba, Regional Director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, who are conducting this survey.
The Jewish Centre Program Committee, tmder the chairmanship of Morrie Saltzman, has already recommended to the Survey Committee, at its last regular meeting, last Tuesday evening, tSiat the Administrative Coimcil immediately institute a full -ange Jewish Centre program utilizing existing facilities, and that plans be made for the development ot new and expanded building facilities. It was fxurther recommended that this Centre program be carried out through the employment of a fuU time, professionally trained, Jewish Centre director. These recommendations were unanimously approved by the Survey Committee.
In order to determine the exact needs and wi^s of the Vancouver Jewish popiilation, a question-aire is being prepared, which will be submitted to a representative group of Vancouver famili,eS which will help determine the kind of Jewish Centre that is developed.
Meetings of the sub-commtitees on Community Organization, vn-der the Chairmanship of David Chertkow, and Fund Raising, voider Charles Walfish, are being plarmed to precede 'the general siuvey committee meeting of the 21st.
3 Jews Lynched In Hungarian City
BUDAPEST (WNS) — A bloody pogron took place last week in the city of Miskolc in the wake of an anit-Semitic demonsrtation in which over 25,000 people participated.
• Two Jews were lynched and another, Arthiu: Ftaenkel, a policeman, was murdeed on the folow-ing day when his investigation of the outbreak led to the arrest of 18 of the pogrom participants. The crowd was reported to have broken â– into the police building and murdered the victim in cold blood.
The two Jews -vyho were killed in the earlier demon^rtxation had been accused of violating price regulations. They were lynchad by a giroup of iron workers from the Diosgyer and Ozd camps while they were being taken by the police to a camp. There has been tuirest among the iron wrokers over black marget activities, and it is believed that fascist and anti-Semitic elements, had utilized the situation to spread anti-Jewish propaganda.
The Jewish community in Miskolc is still in a state of panic, and there have been cfharges of police laxity and indifference. Laszlo Rajk, Minister of the Interior,, declared after visiting the city that if necessary he will call Red Army troops to maintain order. At the same time the Cabinet Council here is to hold a meeting, where a decision will be reached on mea-. sures to be taken against the recurrence of anti-Jewish outbreaks.
Attiee Contemplating
To U. N. Assembly
LONDON (WNS)—Prime Minister Attiee is planning to submit the Palestine issue to the United Nations Assembly and he will place the proposal for consideration by the British Cabinet at its next meeting, it was revealed here by reliable sources.
QoTtemment spokesmen. Ihere were reluctant to comment on the report. But it is believed that the British Cabinet would approve the proposal only in the event sot rejection of the Palestine partition plan by President Truman. The report has led to much speculation concerning tlie Presid>snt's i)osi-tion, with most informed people veering to the view that Mr. Truman will reject the idea of partition if the admission of 100,000 Jews to Palestine is to be made oonditaonal on Jewish and Arab aacepitance of the plan. Other sources here believe that if B!ri-
Poland Promises To Issue Passports To Fleeingr Jews
Assurances have been given by Wincenty Rzymowski, Polish Foreign Minister, that the Polish Consulate in Prague will be given In,-, structions to issue passports to Jews who are fleeing from Poland •to Prague to escape pogroms, according to a cable received yesterday by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society.
Hundreds of Polish refugee Jews who fled to Prague were thrown into a state of panic last week, when the Polish consul there refused to issue passports to them, on the ground that he lacked authority to do so. Refugees for wham the HIAS Prague office had initiated Inmugration proceedings, according to Mr. Neikrug's cable, ware informed by the Polish Consul that the only way they could secure passports was to return to Poland and apply for them there.
The refugees, according to Mr. Neikrug's cable, had fled Poland in fear of their Jives, "without even stopping to gather up their personal belongings, and certainly without taking time to apply for passpjorts."
Baurch To Receive Freedom House Award
NEW YORK (WNS) — Bernard M. Barudh will receive the 1946 Freedom Award it was annoxmced by Dr. Hary D. Gideonse, preM-dent of Freedom House. The bronze plaque will Ifle presented at a dinner in the Hotel Commodore on Oct. 8.
The plaque cites Mr. Baruch for serving with vision and statesmanship in the world's quest for peace." The inscription includes a quotation from his report to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: "There must be no veto for those who violate their solem agreements."
Dr. Gideonse commented Iftiat "Freedom House holds with Mr. Baruch- that, if the veto is ultimately considered more important than the effective control of the atom bomb and other instruments of mass destruction, then world peace is beyond our grasp; the elimination of the veto is essential to the concept of One World."
tain modifies its partition proposal to include more than the ofiered 1,500 square miles for the Je^vish area, the plan might be acceptable to American authorities, providing the Jewish area' is to get a larger sphere of self-govemmlent than the one recently outUned 'by Herbert Morrison.
A conference on the Palestine question was held here this week between Prime Ministier Attiee ^d Foreign Secretary Bevin, who was prevented from attending the Paris peace conference by illness. 'Mr. Attiee, it is believed, reported to the Foreign -Secretary on the-Palestine situation and his recent talk in Paris with Secretary of State Byrnes. It is jxjssible that conferees discussed the advisabmiy
•of an alternate policy in the face Of President Truman's failure to act so far on the federalization
plan.
Adding tension to the P&lestlne situation was a charge, repjortedly made by Jewish leaders .at Iferis, that the British-approved, Palestine plan was suggested by the Arab League at a secret conference with British offcials. However,, a spokesman for the British Foreign ofiice declared here that the "Anglo-American proposal was ^rked out by the British (and Americans and was not planted on them by Arabs, Jews or any one else.''
In the meantime it was reported by Reynolds News that Dr. Weizmann had told Colonial Secretary Shaw that the release of the imprisoned Jewish Agency leaders was a condition precedent to any "fruitful talks" on the Palestine problem.
Only 60,000 Jews
In Poland
By End of Year
FRANKFORT (WNS) - Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein of Rodhester, N. Y., advisor on Jewish affairs to the United Slates theatre commander, Gen. Joseph T. McNamey, appealed for greater efforts on the part of Russia, Britain, France and Italy to help the United States care for such refuges and urged immediate formulation of large-scale plans.
Just back form a first-hand study of the condition of Pblish , Jewry, Rabbi Bernstein estimated that 160, 000 Jews now remain in Poland, including those that (have come westward from Soviet teixi-tory, and that op^y €0,000-will be left there by the end of the year.
He said the recent bloody pno-grom in Kielce "has completely shaken whatever sense of security was left" among the Jews of central Poland, despite the Polish Government's opposition to anti-Semitism.
"The wish' 6f most of these people to migrate to Palestine, where Jewish community is prepared to rt'ceive and settle them, should be met without a day's unnccesary dolay," said Rabbi Bernstein.
"The presdriie of tfifisfe larger numbers, whic'n wil go beyond the original 100,000 recommended by the Anglo - Ainerican . (Palestine) commission, should be taken into consideration in the plans now being formulated."