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18, 1946THE JEWISH POSTPage FiveiryHits British RuleTestifying before the Anglo-American Inquiry commission on Palestine, Prof. Albert Einstein charges that British colonial rule was responsible for the trouble between the Arabs and Jews. Einstein is pictured as he prepared to leave the Washington hearing because “he didn’t like photographer*# flashes.” (International)Seeking iromise Is BeliefI1MANN and BEATRICE HEIM AN . • • •encjr-The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on the taking of testimony in this country this ip of Jewish and non-Jewish witnesses, includ-iberg, of the Freeland League for Jewish Ter-Peter Bergson of the Hebrew Committee for md several Arab spokesmen, pealed for opening of unoccupied areas in the Jewish settlement, declaring that the whole jld not be bound up with Palestine. He cited c of his league in Australia for establishment 3 in^the Kimberley district and Tasmania. He Ionization plans for Canada, Africa and somei.abolition of the White Paper and removal of )building of Palestine, Steinberg said the Free-kuch interested in the establishment of a Jewish the political situation in Palestine would be ?arance of alternative possibilities of Jewish ithin the framework of other states.: Without State ReligionI the committee that their main purpose is to y of life for Palestine.’* He proposed a free e religion and fullest equality for all citizens, que in the British Colonial Office is responsible tempt to maintain the status quo in the Middle d. He assailed the British for allegedly “asking he former Mufti of Jerusalem for Jewish im-ebuhr, representing the Christian Council on lave a logical right to a homeland in Palestine,ACommission Already Has PlanHarold A. Hinton. New’ York Times corre-estine Inquiry Commission Hearings believes ill ask the Arabs to admit 200,(MX) refugees change for the renunciation of plans for a kith by the Zionists. He wrote: nade to witnesses by Judge Joseph C. Hutch-lair man, as well as private expressions by rs, indicated that the committee was now » of asking the Arabs in Palestine not to of the Jewish refugees from Europe, in a eed 200,000 iu return for an understanding rganizations to renounce their plans for the Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine, be the intention of the committee to sound id Jewish moderates In Palestine before try-ncurrence of the Zionists.”y ethnic minority without one. Judge Hutche-ssibility that the problem under consideration I Nations Organization rather than for Anglo-ity.ling to another question, said he favored a ajority in Palestine, declaring that a “bi-na-•t exist without friction. Greater responsibility 3 for permanent solution of the Jewish problem hr. He hoped that “a tolerably just solution” be found, and said he favored a “Palestinian najority.”Emphasis on Jewish Statewhy there is continuous emphasis on a “Jewish ed that Jews want a state w-here they do not their virtues and vices. Hutcheson said there ween an American Jew and himself. He added t the insistence on a “Jewish state.” Niebuhr1 try to understand the increased impulse of ward the security of a National Home in Pal-tein, professor of demography and director of ion Research at Princeton University, told the tine could not absorb the 1,125,000 immigration ased last week by Robert Nathan without ser-ition. He said the Jewish “rate of fertility” is rld and the Arab the highest. He attributed of Arab population partly to Jewish health an “amazing” drop in Arab mortality in the nance of a Jewish majority in Palestine is im-thout Jewish immigration, which he did not nmodated. Dr. William Hocking and Dr. Henry vere scheduled to testify for the Institute of s, did not appear., in announcing the end of the American hear-ippreciation for the spirit of cooperation evi-nesses in undertaking to make the hearings a ave wished, he said, for “a little less vigorous :titude than that sometimes shown, but com-he core of the question is so tough and of such erial,” that a rMution will be possible only by by “conciliation.”ill leave for England at the end of this week, ut a week in London before investigating con-Austria, and possibly Rumania, and then in ngs in London will open on Jan. 25, and will2 end of the month. Invitations have been fish and Arab groups, and to other interested(Continued on Page 20)Einstein Against State, Accuses Great Britain Of Double DealingJewish AtrvncyWASHINGTON -Prof. Albert Einstein, *«stifying before the Anglo-American Inquiry C o m-mission, said he was against a Jewish State, but not for the same reason as Lessing Rosen-wald. He urged, however, that the bulk of the Jewish refugees in Europe be brought to Palestine.Emphasizing that he believes there will be no peace between Jews and Arabs as long as the British rule Palestine, Prof. Einstein charged Britain with violating the basic responsibilities undertaken in the Balfour Declaration.Asked by British members of the committee if he advocated sending Jews to Palestine even though Arabs might shoot, and whether the Americans should take over Palestine from the British, Prof. Einstein replied that the administration of Palestine should be international. He emphasized that he holds Americans responsible for what the British are doing in Palestine. Artificial DifficultiesDifficulties between Jews and Arabs were largely artificially created by the British, he declared. He criticized the British colonial policy as based on the principle of divide and rule,” and charged the British administration with using the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem to foment trouble. As a former admirer of the British, he had come to his present convictions only after inner struggle, '*e testified.Queried by Dr. Frank Ayde-iotte, one of the American members of the committee, as to what he would do if Arabs resisted the immigration of Jews from Europe into Palestine, Prof. Einstein replied that /‘this will not be the case if they are not incited.” Questioned by Dr. Ayde-lotte concerning political versus cultural Zionism, he stated: “I was never for a political state.”Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, American chairman of the inquiry (Continued on Page 20)Jewish State or Nothing, Z.O.A. Demands; Won’t Accept Visa IncreaseWorld Wide Jifwi SerriceNEW YORK—No recommendation of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry on Palestine—even the granting of increased immigration—unless it provides for the recognition of the national status for the Jewish people in Palestine, will be acceptable to American Zionists.More than 150 regional executives of the Zionist Organization of America’s national administrative council held a closed meeting at the Murray Hill Hotel to formulate their official attitude toward the Anglo-American board. It was learned later that the council heard speeches denouncing the committee and the British and United States Governments by a dozen of the foremost Zionists in the United States.The warning that American Zionists would not accept increased immigration as a substitute for the movement's political ambitions came from Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, speaking as president of the ZOA. Rescue of Refugees Not ZionismIt should be clearly understood by everyone, and more especially by members of the Anglo-American Commission of Inquiry now meeting in Washington, that the rescue of a certain number ct refugees alone, however vital and urgent, it not Zionism nor is it the Balfour Declaration nor the Palestine Mandate,” he said.Zionism, Dr. Silver went on, was a movement that antedated both World Wars and was aimed at solving the age-long “national homelessness of the Jewish people which has created refugee problems for us as it has in the past, time without number.”Misgivings as to the need for and the aims of the Anglo-Amori-can committee were voiced by most of the speakers. Many condemned the creation of the board as just another move to “stall” the solution of the Palestine problem.Inquiry Termed Another Run AroundDr. Emanuel Neumann, vice president of the ZOA, who together with Dr. Stephen S. Wise headed the delegation that testified before the committee’s hearings in Washington, declared that nothing could come from the inquiry that was not long known. He added that British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's proposal to drop the problem of Palestine into the lap of the United Nations Organization proved that the inquiry was merely another move in a “prolonged and elaborate run-around.”Dr. Neumann criticized President Truman for “having lent himself to this game, whether consciously or unwittingly.”Pessimistic opinions as to the final recommendations of the joint board of inquiry came from many speakers. Magistrate Morris Rothenberg, in particular, said that because the British members came to the hearings with preconceived ideas, the best that could be hoped for was “recommendations for some immigration into Palestine.”Jewish War Lie Propaganda Threat In Returning Vet, Says MarcusBy HARRY CUSHINGJfwl*h Host Stuff ('arrrspundt-ntBOSTON, Mass.—Terming UNRRA personnel working around the survivors of Nazi brutalities “geniuses in incompetence,” Capt. Robert S. Marcus, a chaplain who was an eye-witness to relief activities in Europe, charged here Monday that “some of the teams, especially under the British, carried on a tremendous amount of anti-Russian and anti-Semitic propaganda.”Captain Marcus w'as the speaker at the annual luncheon of the Women’s Division of the American Jewish Congress of New England held in the Copley-Plaza hotel and attended by more than 1,500 women.Now director of the newly created department for World Jewish Affairs of the American Jewish Congress, he stated that the best directives for handling of displaced persons were issued by Gen. Eisenhower. “But,” he said, “military government officers were incompetent, indifferent, stupid and very often anti-Semitic. There were times when they couldn’t understand the simplest language contained in directives.”He said that 1,000 Hungarian Jewesses, liberated by the 60th Armored Division, were treated just like Germans, even though they had been kicked around by the Hungarians and the Germans and sterilized by the Nazis.Chaplain Marcus declared that “The G.I. in Germany today fraternizing with the frauleins is losing the peace.” He warned of the danger of these men, when they return to this country, being anti-Russian, anti-Semitic, pro-German, and with the feelings in noculated by German propaganda that this last war was a “Jewishwar.Say Jews Back Morgan; Is Expected to Stay OnMperlalAROLSEN, Germany—Reportedly backed by leaders of Jewish relief agencies in Germany, Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan is expected to be confirmed in his position as chief administrator as soon as Governoi Herbert M. Lehman has examihed all the facts in thecase of the now famous pressconference. This confidence Isbased on the rapidly building support being given Sir Frederick by independent observers on the scene, including leaders of Jewish relief agencies in Germany.In reviewing the situation, sources close to Sir Frederick point to a curious turn of events. Virtually all ind^nondent Jewish-American observers in Germany have absolved Sir Frederick of anti-Jewish bias and have lauded his UNRRA achievements.Four Times As Many Paid Subscribers As Any Other Jewish Paper Published in Indiana
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