Jews Err in Aid, Associated Press, Kansas City Times, June 28, 1948.

Support of Dissident Groups in Palestine Opposed by Morgenthau.

DO INJURY TO THE STATE

Irgun Attempt to Violate the Truce is Criticized Sharply.

“When the Irgun attempted to land arms in violation of the truce and in complete disregard of the state of Israel, it was doing more to shatter the authority of the state than all the preceding attacks from the Arab league.” – Henry Morgenthau Jr.

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New York, June 27. (AP)-Henry Morgenthau, jr., former secretary of the Treasury, and general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, today urged American Jewry to stop all financial support of dissident groups in the Jewish republic.

Morgenthau told a luncheon gathering of United Jewish Appeal, which is campaigning for 250 million dollars-

“When the Irgun attempted to land arms in violation of the truce and in complete disregard of the state of Israel, it was doing more to shatter the authority of the state than all the preceding attacks from the Arab league.

“Let us face the facts. There is a body of people in this country, small to be sure, which, either out of sincerity or false heroism, is supporting the dissidents in the state of Israel with funds.

“Whatever may have been the virtues of this activity before May 15, we should recognize that now such financial support, intended to weaken the internal authority of the state, is a stab in the back of Israeli.”

Morgenthau said that some American Jews are contributing funds “to the destruction of the state of Israel out of a mistaken notion that support for any fighting group in Palestine means strength to Israel.”

He told the U. J. A. workers attending the luncheon he was confident that “through your loyal support of the United Jewish Appeal, (you) will discourage all financial assistance to those who would destroy that state.”

He appealed for support of the U. J. A. campaign as a means of Jewish immigration to Israel.

Herbert H. Lehman, former governor, said that current plans call for the entry of more than 100,000 Jewish immigrants into Israel within the next year if sufficient funds are raised.