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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

FRANCE

Jews. Frequent anti-Semitic dem-
onstrations make it unsafe for
Jews to be on the streets in many
of the smaller towns and cities.

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Meanwhile, more than 150 Jew-
ish shopkeepers were arrested in
Paris on the grounds that they
had charged exorbitant prices to
German soldiers during the early
days of the occupation. The au-
thorities confiscated their stocks
and closed down their shops.

New Decrees Aimed at Jews Is-
sued in Rumania
LONDON (WNS) — Far reach-
ing decrees, presumably aimed at
eliminating Jews from the pro-
fessional, cultural and business
circles of Rumania, were an-
nounced by King Carol's new to-
talitarian government. The new
decrees bar all Jews from impor-
tant government and semi-official
posts.
The decrees were announced
following a conference attended
by King Carol, his anti-Semitic
and pro-Nazi Premier Ion Gi-
gurtu, and representatives of the
German and Italian embassies.
Rumanian newspapers have been
ordered to dismiss their Jewish
employees and symphony orches-
tras and theaters have been com-
pelled to discharge all Jewish
musicians, dancers and actors.
Jews may no longer be employed
in any phase of the theater.
Christian wives of Jewish men
will be removed from their jobs.
The decrees are similar in many
respects to those issued in Nazi-
occupied Poland, Czechoslovakia
and Austria. Since Jews are ex-
cluded from membership in the
totalitarian party of the nation,
they are ineligible for government
posts and may not be employed
in any organization.
The Rumanian press and radio
continue their attacks on the
Jews, pinning the blame for Ru-
mania's present plight on the

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The Detroit Ladies Lechem
Aniyim will have its annual pic-
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ming pool. There will be refresh-
ments. The society invites the co-
operation of all friends.

Twenty-years-old Hazel Scott
is making quite a name for her-
self as a singer of Jewish songs,
such as "Eli, Eli," "Kol Nidre"
and "Yiddishe Mama", . . . .
Which would be nothing startling
were it not for the fact that
Hazel is a coffee-colored swing
singer from Harlem and works in
a Broadway night club for her
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Immigration and
National Welfare

A Review by Harry W. Laidler

For years past, many Allied-
cans have considered problems of
immigration on the basis of their
emotions and prejudice, rather
than on that of hard economic
and social facts.
Dr. Felix S. Cohen. brilliant
student of law and economics, ha s
in this pamphlet, sought to raise
the discussion on immigration

policies out of the sphere of emo-
tion and into that of scientific

Neugarten Sunshine Club Is
Off to their first day's work on the fields of Palestine, these
Aiding the Red Cross
pioneers ("chalutzim") regard themselves fortunate to be among

Picnic of Ladies Lechem
Aniyim Sunday

19, 1940

IMMIGRATION AND NATIONAL
FARE. By Felix S. (ohen, Ph .1),
Published by League for Industrial
Democracy, 112 Bust 19th Si., N e%
York City. 40 pages.

Argentina Moves to Bar German-
Jewish Refugees Crossing
From Bolivia
BUENOS AIRES (WNS) —The
government of Argentina has sta-
tioned 100 special gendarmes at
the Bolivian border with orders
to turn back German-Jewish refu-
gees attempting to cross into Ar-
gentina from Bolivia, it was an-
nounced here.
Government spokesmen said
that the German-Jewish refugees,
who settled temporarily in Bolivia
when they were denied admission
to other South American coun-
tries, were planning to slip across
the border "illegally." The refu-
gees have been living in tempo-
rary colonies in Bolivia.

Neugarten Sunshine Club has
pledged the services of its mem-
bers to the American Red Cross,
for relief work in various de-
partments.
, Mrs. Robert Morgan is chair-
man of this committee. Many
members have' already enrolled
in the classes started for training
in surgical dressings. The sewing
unit offers an opportunity to as-
sist in the making of garments
for over seas hospitalization.
Groups are being formed for the
knitting of sox and sweaters.
Members wishing to join these
classes are requested to call Mrs.
Morgan at To. 6-0511 for further
information.

July

the 80,000 Jews from Germany and Austria who have been absorbed
in Palestine in the last seven years with the aid of the United Pal-
estine Appeal which has provided for their immigration, training
and settlement in agricultural colonies. Apart from immigration and
colonization aid to refugees, the United Palestine Appeal which
together with the Joint Distribution Committee and the National
Refugee Service constitutes the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees
and Overseas Needs, must provide for the continued upbuilding of
the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
The European war has greatly increased the need for Palestine
settlement of Jews driven from their homes by the ravages of war
and oppression in Europe. Jews in many lands pin their hope of
survival on American Jewry's readiness to come to their rescue
through wholehearted support of the 1940 United Jewish Appeal,
which must raise $23,000,000 for Palestine immigration and settle-
men, overseas relief and rehabilitation and refugee integration in
the United States.

HAIFA

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struggle upon which the British
Empire was engaged with all its

vast resources.
Arab towns

and villages in
Palestine also had black-out prac-
tice, foremost among them being
Acre, Gaza, Bethlehem, Beit Jal-
lah and Ramallah.
"Fateful Bond" of Jewry With
Britain Stressed at Actions
Committee Meeting
A series of reports on the
political, economic and organiza-
tional position of the Zionist
movement and of the Yishuv was
presented at a day-long session
here of the members of the Zion-
ist Actions Committee now in
Palestine.
In a review of the political
situation, Moshe Shertok, head of
the Jewish Agency's political de-
partment, spoke of "the fateful
bond of Jewry with Britain in
the present struggle." He sur-
veyed the effect of the war on
the development of the Jewish
position in Palestine. and reported
on the Jewish Agency Executive's
relations with the government.
In discussing Jewish participa-
tion in the war, Mr. Shertok em-
phasized the importance of the
military units in the Middle East-
ern theater of war from the point
of view of Palestine defense.
Extraordinary efforts must be
initiated, he stressed, both in
Palestine and among Zionists in
the Diaspora to maintain and
protect the nucleus of the Jewish
National Home "under all con-
tingencies."

the program had been abandoned.

analysis.
In doing this, Dr. Cohen has
given the reader a good idea of
the background of the immigra-
tion problem in the United States
and his vividly presented fact af.
ter fact concerning the contribu-
ion of the immigrant to indus-
try, agriculture, to trade union-
ism, and the general battle for
higher living standards. Through-
out his fascinating pamphlet. Dr.
Cohen has compared the social
and economic development of
states containing a low percen-
tage of immigrant population, in-
cluding many Southern states,
with those where, for the last
half century, the proportion of
immigrants has been a high one.
In prattically every instance, he
found states with large numbers
of immigrants to be more pros-
perous than those with few who
were born abroad. While the au-
thor does not maintain that these
states were more advanced fliers.
ly because of the presence of im-
migrant stock, he nevertheless
contends that the facts do at the
very least disprove the conten-
tions of the prophets of gloom
who regard the immigrant popu-
lation as a detriment to progress,
Dr. Cohen feels strongly that our
foreign population has greatly en-
riched American life and butt-
resses his contentions with per-
suasive facts.
"In every generation," he con-
cludes, "the prophets of disaster
have proclaimed that immigrants

Arabs Opposed to Italy's Rule of
Palestine
Adolf Hitler's reported plan
to give Palestine and Syria to
his Axis partner, Premier Musso-
lini, in the, event Great Britain is
defeated, is • weting with bitter
opposition among the Arabs, ac-
cording to informed diplomatic
circles here.
The Arabs are opposed to Ital-
ian rule, neutral diplomats main-
tain, despite the fact that Musso-
lini has given them private as-
surances that he will put an end
to Jewish aspirations in the Holy
Land. The Arabs fear that the with foreign ways would destroy
Italian dictator will also inter- our American way of life. But
fere with plans for an Arab na- today we enjoy citizenship in the
most powerful and most prosper-
tional state.
Arabs in Syria are said to be ous nation of the world because
planning to name Syria an in- these prophets of disaster, in
dependent state and are seeking 1797 and since, (lid not suc-
to obtain recognition and guar- ceed in building a Chinese Wall
antees of her integrity from around our country to exclude
Great Britain, Turkey and Iraq. 'foreign devils' and strange ideas.
Report Nazis Seize Funds of Jew- We have grown greater and
more prosperous as a people by
ish Organizations in France
The Nazis have seized all funds reason of each wave of immigra-
desposited in French banks by tion in the past, and those who
French Jewish organizations, in- now seek our shores carry gifts
cluding the Jewish Colonization as great as any that earlier pil-
Association, the "Alliance Israel- grims brought. If we are true
ite," and many others, it was re- to the American spirit of toler-
ported here. Funds reported con- once, we shall profit from those
fiscated by the Nazi Government gifts, from the new industries,
new consumer demands, new in-
totalled $300,000,000.
It was reported also that Nazi ventions, new contributions to the
soldiers destroyed the Jewish wing amenities of life, that these mod-
of the world-famed Louvre mus- ern pilgrims bear. If America is
eum after looting the Jewish sec- destined in the decades or cen-
tion of many valuable objects. turies ahead to create a culture
The report said that the Nazi and a civilization greater than
soldiers later demolished a statue any the earth has yet seen, it
erected in memory of Jewish sol- will be because each of the races
of the earth is free hen. in
diers killed in the World War.
Nazi troops in many French America, as nowhere else, to
towns and provinces entered Jew- make its highest contribution to
ish homes and seized all books the New World of the Future.
The reader may feel that the
which they later burned in the
center of the town. Private Jew- author at times has somewhat
ish libraries were seized and the exaggerated the relation between
immigration and the speeding up
books destroyed.
The Nazi press continues its of social progress, but few can
criticism of the totalitarian Pe- read this pamphlet without ac-
tain regime, charging that Petain quiring a new sense of certain
positive values which the succes-
is too lenient with the Jews.

Palestine More Pro-British Since
Italy's Entry into War,
Says Halifax
LONDON (Palcor Agency)—
The main effect in Palestine of
Italy's entrance into the war has
been to strengthen pro-British
sentiment among all sections of
the country's population, Foreign
Secretary Lord Halifax told the
House of Lords in the course of
his reply to a question concern-
ing present conditions in Pales- Officers Installed by Metro-
tine and in the Mediterranean politan Club and Auxilary
sector generally.
Apart from instances of iso-
The Jewish Metropolitan Club
lated banditry, Lord Halifax as- and its Ladies' Auxiliary held
serted, Palestine is enjoying a their installation banquet and
respite from the internal dis- dance Sunday, July 14, at the
orders that shook the country club rooms, 1912 Taylor. The fol-
for over three years.
lowing officers were installed:
He also reported that the Jew- President, Max Lefkovitz; vice
ish broadcasting program, a daily president, 'Harry Lewis; secretary,
feature which started last March Leon Borocoff; treasurer, Anna
14th in protest against the re- Resnick; trustees, William Win-
cent land regulations, has volun- nick, Celia Lipson, Joseph Ros-
tarily ceased. Before going off son; grievance committee, Sam
the air the sponsors, he said, had Reisler, Louie Bauman, Rose
exhorted the Yishuv to assist the Auerbach; executive board, Joe
Allies, and had pleaded with the Friedman, Marvin Klause, Louis
Jewish community as a whole to Goldberg, Ben Katz, Rachel
cooperate fully in all defense Swartz, Rose Auerbach; sergeant-
emergency measures. Then with at-arms, Sam Levin; hospitaler,
a last rendition of Hatikvah, the Sarah Hootner, Joseph B. Gend-
Jewish national song which had loff, Ben R. Gershenoff; chairmen
of entertainment, Jack Blitz, Ce-
opened and closed the broadcasts, lia Gershow.

sive streams of immigrants have
contributed to the American com-
monwealth.

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., BE-
COMES
150TH CITY IN
COUNCIL OF JEWISH FED
ERATIONS AND WELFARE

FUNDS

Palm Beach County, Florida,
became the 150th locality in the
United States to join the com-
munities represented in the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and

Welfare Funds when the 'der-
ated Jewish Charities of the
County, with headquarters in
West Palm Beach, affiliated with
the Council this week.
The cities represented range in
size from large centers such as
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia ,

Detroit and Cleveland to
communities such as Centralia,
Washington ; Riverside, Ca I ifor.
nia; and Helena, Arkansas.

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