Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1947 — Page 3

Friday, January 31, 1947

THE NATIONAL JEWISH POST

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Commons Is Told Britain May Withdraw Recognition Of Jewish Agency; Military To Impose Stronger Measures

Probably Talks Like Daddy, Too Both in facial expression and gestures, month-old Dena Kaye bears a remarkable resemblance to her famous daddy. Comedian Danny Kaye, as she vocalizes In her New York home. Dena’s mother Is Songwriter Sylvia Fine, PLEAS FROM ALL PALESTINE MOVE IRGUN TO RELEASE MEN

Jewish Teleirruphle Agency

JERUSALEM—After appeals by the Jewish Agency, the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv and other important Jewish bodies, Judge Ralph Windham and ex-Mayor H. I. Collins were released. Jewish leaders feel the release averted a catastrophe for the Yishuv. Windham phoned police he was in a factory in Ramath Gan,

while Collins was brought to Rabbis Beseech Gruner To Make Mercy Plea

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

JERUSALEM — D o v Gruner, sentenced to hang, has refused to

Earlier the 'lei Aviv mayor, a ppe a i f or clemency to the Privy Israel Rokach had issued a proc- council, telling his lawyer “I re-

was

Jerusalem and then released. Shortly before the release the Irgun radio announced that both men were being released “not because of threats” but because

Gruner was not executed.

lamation saying “Windham is a citizen of Tel Aviv by virtue of

fuse to ask the British for anything, but if they want to, they

his office. If we have lost a h ave plenty of reason to cornsense of respect for the honor mu t e my death sentence.”

and freedom of those living among us, we have severed our

The Jewish Agency, the chief

connection with our past and af- rabbinate of Tel Aviv and other

fected our future."

important Jewish bodies are conferring on a method to make Gruner sign a clemency appeal.

B’nai B’rlth Gets Holland Citation

Britain to Admit DPs Jewish Telegraphic Agency

LONDON—An announcement

by the British Government that it special is considering the admission of NEW YORK — The over all displaced persons into England in B’nai B’rith program to aid the order to ease the man power people of former occupied nashortage, has prompted Jewish tions with shipments of clothing, organizations here to send a spe- food and other relief supplies cial representative to the British has been cited by the Netherzone in Germany to establish the lands government through the number of displaced Jews there presentation of a Certificate of able and willing to qualify. Appreciation. 17-YEAR-OLD JEWISH TWINS WIN HONORS AS VALEDICTORIAN, SALUTATORIAN

Special

PHILADELPHIA—Bernard and Arthur M. Baron, 17-yeai-old twins, were the class valedictorians and class salutatorian respectively at the mid-year graduation of John Bartram High

School.

The Jewish lads plan to attend University of Pennsylvania.

London Conference Hears Arab, Adjourns; Hopes Jews to Join World Wide News Service LONDON—The Palestine conference, resuming here after a series of postponements, opened with a statement by the Aiab delegation unqualifiedly rejecting partition and warning that the Arabs would resist any effort to solve the problem on that basis. Immediately after the statement, the conference was adjourned sine die. However, there were indications that the parley would resume at the end of the

week.

Still Hope Jews Will Participate The British delegation made no reply to the Arab statement, believed to have been made in anticipation of a recommendation by Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones that partition held the key to the Palestine problem. The adjournment, in the opinion of informed sources, here, was taken to afford the British added time to study the Arab statement with a view to making a reply. It is the considered opinion of other sources that the postpone ment indicated that the British government has not abandoned hope for Agency participation in the talks. When the conference opened at St. James Palace, the seat reserved for the American observer was vacant, indicating that the American State Department under General Marshall intends abiding by the statement of his predecessor, James F. Byrnes, that an American observer would sit in at the conference if both Jews and Arabs agreed to attend. While general opinion veers to the view that the Colonial Secretary will recommend partition, there is a possibility he will urge a bi-national state or, perhaps, a compromise interim proposal. The recent silence of Prime Minister Attlee on the Palestine question is, however, seen as a sign that the head of the British Labor government is opposed to partition, and although there have been reports that the government has no definite plan there is a growing belief that the British delegation has been urged to push the Morrison-Grady federalization plan which has been un-

Fight To Fete Amir Special LOS ANGELES—Headed by George O’Brien, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company of California, society leaders are fighting to entertain Amir Sand, visiting crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Liberal groups frowned with disgust at society’s activities in Hollywood and Southern California in behalf of the son of I bn Sand.

qualifiedly rejected by the Jews. Times Sees Partition As Solution The well - informed London Times said since there was no possibility of gulfing the bridge between the Arab and Jewish de mands “partition constitutes the only solution.” It is generally believed here that the conference is doomed to failure, particularly if the Jewish Agency fails to find a formula enabling It to participate in the talks. This possibility is considered remote. Should official admission be made of the conference’s failure, the British government may decide to submit the entire question to the United Nations.

May Impose Martial Law on All Palestine, Jews Are Warned JcwIkIi TelcKruphic iRency LONDON—Sir Arthur CreechJones revealed in the House of Commons that the British government has given consideration to withdrawing recognition from the Jewish Agency although the Agency is specifically mentioned in the mandate. Earlier he warned Palestine Jews that martial law would be imposed on the whole country unless the community reversed the “course recently taken by events.” The Colonial Minister told Winston Churchill that Dov Gruner’s stay in execution had been granted not because two Britons were taken as hostages, but because an appeal on Gruner’s case was being taken to the Privy Council He said the government had con sidored the entire problem of ter rorism and following the confer ences with Sir Arthur Cunning ham and Gen. Montgomery had issued strong orders ensuring more effective measures in Palestine. He also said he had made an appeal to the Yishuv and the Jewish Agency for cooperation against the terror which “I regret hasn’t been forthcoming to the extent essential to preventing these acts.” He made a final “solemn” appeal to Jews tc recog nize where the present road is leading.

The total number of organized B’nai B’rith groups in the United States and Canada now is 2,350.

Charles Rosenbloont's Mother Dies In N. Y. Special PITTSBURGH — Mrs. Celia Rosenbloom, mother of Charles J. Rosenbloom, who recently resigned as national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, died in New York. She was the daughter of the Rev. Abraham S. Neumark. The widow of Charles Rosenbloom, after his death she caused to be erected in his memory a building which now houses the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University. Mrs. Rosenbloom was active in the Zionist movement here and abroad. She is survived also by a daughter and another son.

2-\ ear Textbook Survey Shows Stereotype of Jews Perpetuated; Offensive Generalities, Omissions Hit College

Jewish Teleifraphic Agenrj NEW YORK—Hundreds of textbooks used in the nation’s schools and colleges contain offensive references which tend to perpetuate and extend group tensions, it was reported here by the American Council on Education, following a two-year study conducted under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews on a grant from Milton Biow and Associates. The Council’s report found that “textbooks are not guilty of planned derogation of groups,” but fail to "come to grips” with basic issues in human relations. The greatest weaknesses in the texts, the report said, were omission of pertinent material, over simplification and un-

warranted generalizations. Specific weaknesses uncovered in school and library books for young people included: Three-quarters of the space devoted to Jews in history books deal with events prior to the first century, A.D.; besides a number of inaccuracies and generalizations concerning the Jews, tfcere is “little to offset the stereotypes of Jews which would abound in contemporary social thinking”; immigrants are referred to in patronizing terms and their arrival in this country during recent immigration waves are described as the movements of “hordes” and “swarms”; other offensive generalities dealt with the Negroes and the Mexican and Asiatic minorities in this country.

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