AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT HELPS TERRORISTS
Received Tuesdav, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The president of the llebrew Uni versity of Jerusalem, Dr. Judas 1.. .Vlagnes, charged in an open letter to .Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that the pla.v, "A Flag is Born", makes an open appenl for funds to ])urchase arm.for the terrorist groups in Pakstine. Tne letter urges Mrs. liopesvelt to ro consider her sponsorship of the 'play which was written by Be'® iuid brought to Broadway where it -is tlow being shown by the American Eeague for Free I'alestine. ' The letter aecuses those responsible for the play of wanting not a demoeratic Palestine with an Arai) population as equal partners luit rather a -Tewish state dominated by Jews. The letter disputes a state dominated by Jews. The letter disputes a statement by the League that money the audienees subseribe is being used to purehase ships to enable Jewish rofugees to reaeh the Holy Land, and adds that the League 's partieipation in the purehaso and movement of ships is almost nogligible.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 December 1946, Page 5
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