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September 5, 1941

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NEWS AT A GLANCE FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD

AMERICA: The nation hailed the streamlining of America's
defense effort, as President Roosevelt, acting on a survey and
plan submitted by Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, announced the crea-
tion of a seven-man supreme priorities board . . . Because he
expressed views favorable to Nazi Germany, the editor of the
New York Staats Zeitung was denied American citizenship. . . . The
forthcoming New York City mayoralty elections will be noted for
the "anti-Semitic issue," the Daily News predicted. . . . The War
Department announced that a tabulation of religious preferences
of men in the Army showed two per cent Jews. . . . The five-day
sessions of the Williamstown Institute of Human Relations heard
a great variety of industrial, cultural, communal leaders fringe the
subject of intolerance in discussion s
highlighted by recognition
that America cannot be at peace as long as Hitler rules. •
Archbishop Beckman of Dubuque, Iowa, denied the charge of
Time that he is an anti-Semite. . . . Antagonism to present admin-
istration of Zionist Organization of America, on ground that it
avoids affirming support of Jewish State in Palestine, was voiced
at a New York caucus of 200 prior to Z.O.A. convention in Cin-
cinnati.

PALESTINE: The 1,200 survivors of the Patria explosion in
Haifa harbor last November are being released from Athlit deten-
tion camp by the Palestine Government . . . The revival of
Jewish public life in Russia was hailed by Moshe Shertok, political
chief of the Jewish Agency, who addressed a Zionist Actions Com-
mittee meeting in Jerusalem after returning from Cairo, where he
met with Middle East Commander Claude C. Auchinleck. . . .
Eight hundred of 3,000 Czech Jews in Tel Aviv have enlisted in
the army. . .. Palestine grape harvest yields 5,200 tons this year.

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General, who attacked the ad- banquet at which the guest
ministration, and Rabbi Simon speakers will be Governor John
(Continued from Pare One)
Greenberg, Philadelphia, and William Bricker of Ohio; Dr.
OVERSEAS: A Nazi-inspired drive against Jews in France hope that the forthcoming Zion. Louis P. Rocker, Zionist treas- Solomon Goldman, Judge Louis
was spurred with the shooting of Laval and Dent by a De Gual- ist convention at Cincinnati be- urer, who reviewed the achieve- E. Levinthal and Robert P. Gold-
list. . . . A harsh winter faces the Jews of France, with those who ginning Saturday will prevail ments of the Z.O.A. man, president of the Union of
might contribute to relief deprived of their funds. . . . The Nazis upon him to serve. With such a
Hebrew Congregations; Rabbi
reported that they had mobilized 150,000 Jews from Vilna and leader as president of the Zion- Zionist Conventio n Must Show Maurice Perlzweig, British Zion-
Strength
and
Unity
ist leader; and Mr. Kaufmann.
Minsk to work on 12-hou• shifts to rebuilt railway lines. . . . The ist Organization of America, the
Says Stephen Wise
Oscar Berman will act as toast-
Polish Government-in-Exile succeeded in getting permission in organization can go forward to
NEW YORK, N. Y. — "Let master.
London for 80 more Polish rabbis to go to Canada from Kobe. greater achievements, in a spirit
. . . Jewish port workers in Salonika, ordered by the Nazis to of unity and of deep devotion strength and unity reveal them-
The Monday morning session
selves at the historic Zionist con- will be devoted to four symposia.
report for work on Black Sea ports, fled, with the result that to the cause of Zion.
vention
in
Cincinnati"
is
the
"I shall leave the active office
warning was issued that 500 Jewish hostages would be taken if
The luncheon session on Mon-
they didn't return. . . . Expropriation of Jewish property in Bul- with a profound sense of appre- keynote of a statement issued day afternoon, which will be held
garia is intended in a new decree submitted to the Parliament by ciation of the honors conferred here by Dr. Stephen S. Wise in under the chairmanship of Max
Finance Minister Boshiloff. . . Endeks tell Polish Government-in- upon me. I shall participate in connection with the problems Hirsch, will have as its guest
Exile that pro-Jewish measures thus far taken are unsatisfactory the work of the organization confronting the 44th annual con- speaker Dr. Edward L. Israel.
and that plans must be made for ghettos in Poland after the war. during the coming year in what- vention of the Zionist Organi-
ever capacity the Convention zation of America, which will be
BREVITIES: Abe Goldberg, Zionist leader and writer, re- may see fit to designate. I also held from September 6 to 9 at Judge Levinthal Says Zionist
Convention Must Unite All
turned from a visit to Mexico, where he addressed many meetings want to say that I feel enriched Cincinnati, Ohio.
Forces
for the World Jewish Congress, with word that Mexico is much b" the ninny personal friend-
Referring to the present world
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — "We
friendlier to Jews than it was several years ago. . . . The Soviet ships which I. have made in the conflagration, Dr. Wise, presi-
Embassy at Washington released the text of all addresses at the past year and which I hope will dent of the American Jewish can marshal the force of Ameri-
Jewish people's meeting. in Moscow, stressing that the plea for be permanent."
Congress and a former president can public opinion in support of
of the Zionist Organization of our cause only if we Zionists be
worldwide support by Jews of Soviet resistance to the Nazis had
America, states that the Zionist united among ourselves in mu-
a special application to American Jews, who were addressed as
Zionist Leaders Charged With Organization "gathers to asso- tual understanding and good
"Brother Jews of the United States and of all America : We
will,
Evading "Jewish State"
ciate itself with those groups and be actuated by the simple
trust that you will be among the first to promote the rapid realiza-
NEW YORK (JPS) — A pre- which are resolved that civiliza- Purpose of making our Zionist
tion" of American assistance to the U.S.S.R. ... Sixteen leading
Americans affiliated with the Council for Democracy joined in view of the strife that may pre- tion shall endure, that honor and ideal a living reality. This is no
issuing a pamphlet called "Advance Through Crisis," aimed to vailat the convention of the justice in international relations time for partisan acrimony or
discord. A spirit of genuine unity
counteract the spread of defeatism in America, and said that "the Zionist organization which begins shall be inviolably established.
"The Cincinnati Convention— must bind together all true
charge that war has produced dictatorship in Britain, and that, in Cincinnati on Sept. 6 was
Zionists."
therefore, no choice exists between the belligerents, is surely one offered at a caucus held here he continued—has definite and
This statement was made by
of the most ridiculous lies that the propagandists of dictatorship by 200 who oppose the adminis- inevasable duties to face. It must
tration
headed
by
President
Ed-
Judge
Louis E. Levinthal, chair-
inwardly
strengthen
itself
every-
and defeatism and their dupes have ever presented to the American mu ml I. Kaufmann.
where in the land. And this must man of the national administra-
public."— (Copyright JPS.)
Charges that the Z.O.A. ad.. be done without rancor or par- tive council of the Zionist Or-
ministration fails actively to es- tisanship, in utter oblivion to ganzation
of America on the eve
e
the 44th annual convention of
pouse fundamental Zionist ide- the matter of "ins" and "outs". o' the
ology were brought into the open The elected officials must have that organization in Cincinnati.
when Elihu D. Stone, Boston the full and loyal support of the
(Continued from Palm 1)
lawyer and honorary chairman entire organization, and these in Will To Victory Must Unite
and anti-Nazi,"
of the New England Zionist Re_ turn must be above favoritism or
Varian Fry,
Zionists, Says Dr. Goldstein
gion, introduced a resolution discrimination.
American relief worker in France
American Jews
NEW YORK, N. Y.—The ap-
who had served the Quakers and
into the caucus demanding a must and can be won to the sup- proach of the 44th annual con-
Jewish State on both sides of port of Zionism."
the Emergency Rescue Commit-
vention of the Zionist Organiza-
the Jordan. The same resolution
tee, was arrested at Marseilles
tion of America underscores the
will
be
offered
to
the
Zionist
Zionist
Conventio
and then told to leave the coun-
n to Discuss need of uniting "our forces for
convention
at
Cincinnati.
Vital Problems
try immediately. Fry was one of
common and positive action to-
Violent interchange occurred WASHINGTON, D. C. — The wards the double victory for
the few Americans still remain-
during the meeting, which lasted four-day sessions of the 44th which we must hope and work:
ing in France to work among
for more than five hours at the annual convention of the Zionist victory for the democratic cause
her refugees, regardless of reli-
Hotel Astor, since friends as Organization of America, open- and victory for the Zionist ideal"
gion or political creed. A Har-
well as opponents of the admin. ing at the Hotel Gibson in Cin- asserted Dr. Israel Goldstein,
vard graduate, Fry has been
istration attended the caucus. cinnati this Saturday night, will president of the Jewish National
active in liberal movements since
Abe Goldstein, Hartford, be marked by a crowded program Fund of America.
he left college. He was seized
Conn., Zionist leader, a member of discussion and action on vital
by the Gestapo last December
Writing for the special souve-
of the Zionist organization ex- nroblems affecting Palestine and
and later released.
nir journal to be issued by the
ecutive,
asserted
that
some
of
his
Zionism
in
this
country.
They
The Sunday Times reports that
colleagues on the administration will cover a wide range of topics Zionists of Cincinnati on the
influential Hungarian statesmen,
are suspected of rejecting pri- including the post-war status of occasion of the Zionist conven-
headed by a former Liberal Hun-
!nary Zionist principles. Answer- Palestine, proposals for strength- tion, which will be held in that
garian Prime Minister, von Ben-
ing those who had declared that ening Zionism in this country, city, Dr. Goldstein announces
then, have appealed to the Hun-
unity is the need in Zionist and the extension of youth and that since the outbreak of the
present war the Jewish National
garian government against the
ranks, Mr. Goldstein charged educational activities.
Fund has increased its land pos-
introduction of further restric-
that the administration was at-
While
the
business
sessions
of
tions on Jews.
tacking and undermining Dr. the convention will be formally sessions in Palestine by close to
Expropriate Property
Chaim Weizmann and the World opened on Sunday morning, the 100,000 dunams of land, which
Zionist Organization and, then, convention as such will he usher- made possible the establishment
—Photo
by
J.
J.
Clarke
The pro-German government
when
charged with these tactics, ed in with an Oneg Sabbath on of a number of new settlements
in Greece has yielded to Na zi
and contributed in a large meas-
Saturday afternoon.
demands and has agreed to con- MRS. EDWARD L. SCHULTZ replied with a plea for unity.
ure towards the progress of Pal-
(Miss Lila Feldman)
Opposes Office Removal
ti scate the property of all Greek
The convention sessions will estine
self-sufficiency in the
Charging that the Zionist ad- be called to order on Sunday
Jews, on theground that they
On Aug. 17 at the Knights of ministration is suppressing basic morning by Dr. James G. Heller, present emergency.
primarily responsible for
Pythias Hall, Rabbi Morris Adler Zionist values, Mr. Goldstein pre- chairman of the convention pro-
Referring to the present strug-
Gree
were ce's
entry into the war united in marriage Miss Lila dieted a split in American Zionist gram committee. At this session gle between the forces of evil
again
st Italy and Germany and Feldman, daughter of Mr. and ranks. Leon Savage, Bronx Zion- reports will be submitted by lead- and democracy, Dr. Goldstein
for the
catastrophe
that followed
l‘Irs. A. Feldman, and Edward 1st, regretted that Zionist head- ers of the fund-raising organiza- states that "the will to victory,
.
according
to stories appearing
in L. Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. quarters had been removed to tions and affiliated bodies.
In its weakening or its absence, will
the Nazi press.
Sam Schultz. Dinner and recep- Washington from New York, as- behalf of the Federation of Eng- inevitably play a decisive part in
British leaders who considered tion followed.
sorting that the Z.O.A. was now lash Zionists, greetings will be the outcome of the world strug-
the question of sending a dole-
Among the out of town guests only "a mail order house."
Presented by Lavy Bakstansky. gle. Hence, the great importance
gation to Russia to survey the were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Rabbi Joseph Shubow of Bos- Dr. Kurt Blumenfeld will greet which is belatedly being ascribed
possibilities of relief for Jews Fromm, Mr. and Mrs. M. Gross, ton and Samuel Rothstein of the delegates in behalf of the to the maintenance of the morale
there, possibly in conjunction Mr. and Mrs. 11. Maisel, Mr. and Brooklyn defended the adminis- Keren Hayesod Executive.
among the peoples and population
with a similar delegation from Mrs. II. Halpert, Mr. and Mrs. tration, declaring that it had re-
The presidential address by groups in the subjugated or Axis-
the United States, turned down Cambel, Mr. and Mrs. S. Kuze- organized youth activities, held Edmund I. Kaufmann will be threatened lands."
the idea as inadvisable.
vitz, Mr. and Mrs. J. Golden and on to membership in a difficult delivered at the second session
daughters, all of Cleveland; Mr. vear and advanced in other di- on Sunday afternoon, which will "Happiness For All Citizens in
Ley Says Nazis Fight Against and Mrs. H. Hoyn, Mr. and Mrs. rections. Rabbi Shubow declared he held at the auditorium of the
Future Poland", Pole Says
M. Nierel and J. Feldman of that now was not the time to be Taft Theater. "Palestine and the
"World Enemy, Judea"
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor) — In
New York ; Mr. and Mrs. L. looking for "Vichy-men" in the World Scene" will be the topic the future Poland that is to be
Zionist administration.
GENEVA (JPS) — As Ger- Golden of Williamson, 0.
It was of addresses at this session by established after the war, Jews
many started on the third year
unfair to impugn the Zionist in- Dr. Stephen S. Wise; Dr. Rein- and Pcles alike will be assured
of the war she had launched,
tegrity of any of the leaders, he hold Niebuhr, outstanding scholar of happiness, Roman Horwat,
Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi
Some people are wondering asserted.
and professor of philosophy at representative of the Polish Gov-
Labor Front, told factory work- whether Rabbi J. L. Magnes has
those who spoke at the the Union Theological Seminary; ernment in Palestine, told a mass
erg in German y that "a victori- reverted to his old role of caucus Among
were Louis Lipsky, for- Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Louis meeting in Tel Aviv to mark
ous end" lay ahead in the battle "hatchet man" for the non-Zion- mer Zionist President, Jacob Lipsky.
"Polish Jews Day," which was
against "the w o r 1 d enemy, ists now that post-war talk is Fishman, noted editor, Carl Sher-
The third session on Sunday observed throughout the Yishuv
Judea."
crowding the ether.
man, former New York Attorney evening will be in the form of a
nSept. 1.

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