August 8, 1946 Britain "Regrets" Curfew Violators Are NEWS IT M - A copy sllown to correspondents Truman Refusal said that "no British soldier is to Beaten, Jews Charge . have any 'social intercourse with By OTTO SCHICK Jerusalem, July 28 (AP). - A any .Jew and' any intercourse in By BERL CORALNIK lettdr attributed to 'Lt. Gen. Sir way of-duty should be as brief as London, (JTA)-Acting Prime Min- Evelyn Barker, British military possible and .kept to the business Jerusalem, (JTA)-Charges that at hand." ister Herbert Morrison, speaking for commander in Palestine, today Jewish curfew violators in this city by British " appreciate that these meas-' banned fraternization ' are being bullied, beaten and tor- the British Government in the ab- soldiers with Palestine Jews on tres will inflict some, hardship on sence of Prime Minister Attlee, told the ground that, the Holy Land's the troops, but I am certain that tured were made by the Jerusalem the House of Commons this week that Jewish community "cannot be ab- it my reasons are fully explained Jewish Community Council. The Britain desired to divide Palestine in- solved of responsibility for a long to them, they will understand their Council called upon the government to four sections, two of which would series- of outrages culminating propriety and will be unishing to stop such practices which it said he Jews in way the race ds- be semi-autonomous Jewish and Arab with" the'King David Hotel bomb- involved all sections of the Jewish Ing, kes. By striking at their provinces. He outlined the details of population including the aged and cets and showing our contemp the plan on the first day of a two- even children of five and six. day Parliamentary debate. The Palestine Pose quoted the A virtually identical statement was sworn statement of a Jew formerly read simultaneously in the House of detained at the Talbieh barracks, who Lords by Dominions Secretary Lord charged that Jewish curfew violators Addison, leader of the House. were separated from the Arabs and denied food and water for long peri- Morrison expressed regret that ods. The affidavit declared that a President Truman had not decided to accept the plan before Commons be- gan its two-day debate on the Pales- Jewish Employees Fired tine issue. "We hoped for .President. Truman's acceptance before the de- Jerusalem, (JTA)-All Jewish civil- employed by military head- bate, but we understand that he had ian clerks been dis- decided to discuss the matter in de- quarters in Jerusalem have this week. tail with American experts who are charged, it was announced It was estimated that the order will returning to Washington," Morrison several hundred persons, many said. Meanwhile, he added, the plan effect of the British will be discussed with the Arabs and of whom are veterans forces. Jews. The death toll in the King David The immigrants will be selected Hotel explosion has reached 91, with primarily from Austria, Germany and the death of Assistant Chief Secretary Italy, under the plan, and priority Thom pson. Thirteen. persons are still will be given to agriculturists and listed as missing. craftsmen, children, the infirm and the aged. The only certificates that will be allotted to Jews in Eastern group of 200 Jews were segregated Europe will go to orphans. from the Arabs and taken to another Morrison revealed that the United room where they were beaten by States would be asked to undertake soldiers with fists, clubs and rifle the responsibility of transporting the at apprehending the perpetrators of Richard Crossman, Labor, who was butts, while other troops stood guard 100,000 Jews to Palestine and pro- the King David outrage, who are a member of the Anglo-American in- with tommyguns, because they had viding them with food for the first quiry committee on Palestine, requested food. believed to be hiding there, Morrison pointed two months after their arrival. Some out that the Haganah had in the Later, they were herded into a of the money for transferring and said that "the curse of Hitler has past helped the government frustrate cellar which was used as a collective settling the immigrants could be se- not been wholly removed from some several attempts to blow up its of- cell and were permitted to lie on cured from German reparations, con- of his victims. Fleeing from Europe, fices in the King David Hotel. He the floor but were required to spring tributions by Jews and loans, he said. to attention whenever a guard entered they carried the germs of the very said that in one instance the Haganah A substantial grant will also be asked had kidnapped a member of the Ir- the cellar. At other times, the news- plagues from which they sought pro- from the United States for develop- gun Zvai Leumi and discovered that paper declared, Jews were beaten by ment of Arab projects in Palestine. tection." He urged Zionists to take the extremists had planted two rock- a group of soldiers some of whom Declaring that the present military care that "their faith" should not be et explosives in a field near Ihe ho- threatened them with guns while they operations in Tel Aviv were aimed perverted, bringing ruin to them. tel. shouted anti-J'ewish insults. Many of these incidents occurred in the pres- ence of responsible officers and non- commissioned officers, the Post re- Wreath Placed on Mass Kielce Grave ported. Priest Who Denounced Kielce Pogrom is Stripped of Post Warsaw, (JTA)-A Polish priest who publicly denounced the Kielce: pogrom, in which 41 Jews were killed, has been stripped of his post and re- stricted in the exercise of his ecclesias- tical duties, according to a report pub- lished this week in Gazetta Ludowa, organ of Vice-Premier Stanislaw Miko- lajczyk. Father Henryk Werynski, of Cra- cow, had strongly condemned the Kieice outbreak from his pulpit and delivered a sermon on anti-Semitism. He had also stressed the desirability of a closer un- derstanding between the Church and the government. As Father Werynski had only recent- ly denied the existence of any disagree- ment with superiors in the Church, the edict issued by Adam Cardinal Sapieha of Cracow and read in all the churches of the archdiocese last Sunday came as a surprise. The edict did not specify reason for the action. Officials in In Kielce, Poland, the widow (right) of one of the 41 victims of the recent pogrom there dries her tears any on the ribbon of a wreath placed by the Joint Distribution Committee on the moss grave of the Jewish dead. L. the Warsaw office of August Cardinal S. Kahane, martyred President of the Jewish District Co nmittee in Kielce, who was murdered in the pogrom had Hlond, Polish Primate, declined to written to the JDC shortly before the pogrom, thanking them for relief funds. comment..