The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-08-27
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FRAME-UP IN PALESTINE!

AS startling as the NinOviev letters" in England
as shocking the Odds revelations Mexico is the
"frame-up" against the Jewish Agency The trail of
the crude hoax leads straight to the doors of the Pal
estine Government. message which managed to
seep through the rigid censorship reveals that few
DAYS before the trial of two British soldiers charged
with buying and selling arms to an unidentified organ
izatOn correspondents of important newspapers and
news agencies stationed in Cairo clipped off" that
something "hOt' about to happen in Palestine
Naturally the correspondents running. Who
tipped them Off-a publicity agent for Major Verdin
the defending counsel? Absurd of Cairo is
the headquarters for British Information Service in
the Middle East. Cairo has long been the nest from
which every antZiOnist and ant-Jewsh intrigue
lated to Palestine has been sprung upon the world
Cairo is the spot which religOusly waters down what
correspondents have had occasion to write about the
galIantry of Palestine Jewish soldiers in the British
Army among them the late Brigadier Frederick Kisch
Chief Engineer of the glorious Eighth Army. Cairo
suppresses the truth about the magnificent industrial
and agricultural contribution of Palestine Jewry to the
United Nations effort.
The two British soldiers who sentenced to
fifteen years for trafckng in the arms OF their coun
try have admitted records criminals including forg
cries and theftS. Major Verdin, defending counsel
did not try to prove the innocence of his clients He
diverted attention to the Jewish Agency. He deliver
ed an amazing political speech IN which ne declared
that the two criminals whom he was defending ought
to be world famous" because they had helped to de-
tect interesting facts about the attitude OF Jews to-
ward the war effort which might affect Government
policy" Palestine is virtually under military rule
is II conceivable CnaC MAJOR NeTun COulu nave Hlduo
his political speech without the neutrality-suspicious.
the prompting-of superior? Was it just accl-
dental that the trial of these two British soldiers was
convened just the of the scheduled issuance OF
an antiZionist British-Amercan statement OF policy?
Can it be ignored that before Major Verdin spoke the
correspondent of the New York Times and other
were tipped off that Something hot was on
the way?
Every time Royal Commission of Inquiry has
gone to Palestine Palestine Government officials have
been charged with anti-SemitiSm. Until 1t actually
happened no one could have believed that antSemlt-
ism could have sunk to the level that has in the trial
under way in Jerusalem. No. to answer the pOntlcay
slanted correspondent of the New York Times who
made every news story editorial for his newspaper
the antiSemtsm of the Palestine Government is not
exactly of the quality that OF the Nazl muir
derers of Warsaw and Lublin. But is the murder OF
the hopes of Jews for eventual freedom in Palestine
through mass immigration any more TO- be cOn0One0
than the murder of individual Jews in the ghettOs!
That the Jews have been engaged IN program Oh
internal security no secret Every hnancla report
of the Jewish Agency makes clear how much money IS
spent on this program regularly 1t needed no military
court trial to elicit that information VINO are Cne
British in Palestine to object to preparations TOT "
terna security? Where were they when Jews were
murdered in 1929? How much did they accomplish TO-
ward ending the disturbances OF l936-39! VINO else
but the Jews could be relied upon to defend their homeS
their property their lives? Who will blame the Jews
OF Palestine for preparing for an eventualIy' WHEN
they all around them Arabs who are not ohy Goer
ated but rewarded by United Nations for theT luxe
warmness actual hostility to the democratc cause
and who still nurse secret hope for AXIS triumph
But the program of internal security, publicly ana
regularly reported by the Jewish Agency has no red
tOnshp to the crude frame-up" which dlsgraces the
Palestine Government in the form OF sO-caheU Hill III,
tary court trial conducted as though 1t were snO"
to justify the anti-Jewish policy Whitehall and Jeru-