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CI¢FTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
April 16, 1943
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
CHURCHILL ASSERTS BRITAIN HAS
DONE ALL POSSIBLE FOR REFUGEES
LONDON. (Palcor)—As Amer-
ican and British representatives
were planning to go to Bermuda
for a conference to discuss how
the Jewish victims of the Nazi
extermination policy could be
rescued, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill issued an official state-
ment whose tenor was that every-
thing possible has already been
done by the British for the refu-
gees and that "the resources of
Great Britain have been strained
to the utnwst" in doing so.
Making'Im discriminations be-
tween refugees, evacuees, inter-
nees and prisoners-of-war, the
Prime Minister asserted that
682,710 persons were
being
maintained "in British territory
and Palestine, exclusive of the
dominions". The Prime Minister
added that this number did not
.include "large numbers who are
members of the Allied forces."
In some quarters the Prime
Minister's statement was taken as
an index to the possibilities of
action that have been indicated
to British representatives sched-
uled to attend the imminent Ber-
muda conference.
A slanted question by Samuel
Beldpfield Hammersley, Conser-
vative M. P., was used as the
peg for the issuance of Mr.
Churchill's statement, which was
made available to the House of
Commons in writing. Mr. Ham-
mersley had asked: "In view of
the generous help which the refu-
gees have received from the
United States and other coun-
tries, will the Prime Minister
state what help before and dur-
ing the war was afforded to the
refugees by Great Britain, India,
the colonial and mandated ter-
ritories."
The statement of Mr. Church-
ill, intended to show that every
available facility has been ex-
tended for the absorption of the
refugees although figures with
respect to those absorbed were
indiscriminately i n t e r m i ngled,
read:
"At the outbreak of the war,
from Germany and Austria in this
the number of adult refugees
country was approximately 55,-
000. A large number of these
refugees were admitted without
their parents. In addition, nearly
10,000 Czechoslovakian nationals
found refuge in this country
during the 12 months preceding
the war.
"Since the outbreak of the
war, it is estimated that admis-
sions of aliens as refugees from
enemy and enemy-occupied coun-
tries were as follows: 1940. about
35,000; 1941, more than 13,000:
1942, over 15,000. The total
number of refugees admitted dur-
ing the three years from 1940
through 1942 was more than
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Services for the first day of
Passover will be held on Tues-
day morning, April 20, at 10:30
o'clock, at Temple Beth El. Dr.
Benedict Glazer will preach the
Passover sermon. For this occa-
sion Julius Chajes, director of
music at the Temple, has ar-
ranged new music in honor of
the Passover season. Max Hell-
man's responses, the 142nd Psalm
by Chajes, the Hallelujah by
Lewandowsky, and traditional re-
sponses arranged by Herbert
From will be among the compo-
sitions to be heard.
School Celebration
A Seder conducted by the mem-
bers of the Junior High School
and one conducted by the •chil-
dren of the Sunday morning
school will be held on Saturday
and Sunday, April 18 and 19.
The children's Seder will be
held in the Social Hall of the
Temple, Rabbi Lymon conducting,
with various members of the
groups participating. It is in-
tended to make these services as
meaningful and significant as
possible for the students of the
Religious School.
The teachers have taught the
children the meaning of the cere-
monials and the four questions,
and the music teachers have pre-
pared the children to sing the
traditional Seder songs.
In addition, the annual Con-
gregational Seder will take place
on Tuesday, April 20, at 6 p. m.
The ritual will be conducted by
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer and
Rabbi Herschel Lymon, and the
Seder meal is being prepared by
the Temple Sisterhood. Special
treats and entertainment have
been planned for the children.
Refugees in Palestine
"Over 18.000 legal immigrants
reached Palestine between April
1. 1939, and Sept. 30, 1942.
The total number of Jewish im-
migrants who entered during that
period including illegal immi-
grants was about 38,000. The
great majority of these came
from the countries of Central
and Eastern Europe.
"The quota for the Period end-
ing September 30, 1942. provided
a grant of 1,000 certificates. in-
cluding 800 allocated to Polish
Jewish refugee children in Per-
sia. Actually, 858 children ac-
companied by 369 edults reached
Palestine from Persia during last
February.
"The immigration quota for
the three-month period ending
Dec. 31. 1942, provided for 3.000
Jewish immigrants. including
1.000 orphaned children and 200
adults from former Vichy France.
In addition. arrangements were
made to admit Jewish children
from Rumania and Hungary and
it was decided to admit further
children from these countries
totalling 500. The government of
Palestine agreed to admit from
Bulgaria 4.000 Jewish children
and 500 adults and the necessary
negotiations for their release and
transport are taking place
through the protecting nower.
"As announced be the Colon-
ial Secretary on Feb. 3. the
government is prepared, nrovided
the necessary transport is avail-
able. to continue to admit into
Palestine .Tewish children with a
proportion of accompanying
adults to the limits of immigra-
tion nermissible for the 0 ve-venr
period ending March 31. 194.1,
amounting to approximately 29.-
000. In addition. Palestine has
nrovided temnorary refuge dur-
ing the warefor some 4.000 pen-
ile from Central Europe and
Greece.
"India has provided accommo-
dations and, where necessary,
support, for over 400,000 evac-
uees of Indian origin and also
has received large numbers of
refugees of various nationalities
from the Balkans and has under-
taken to provide for 5,000 Po-
lish adults and 5,000 more Po-
lish children.
known resulting from food sup-
plies, accommodation restrictions
occasioned by enemy action and
the demands of the war effort.
The resources of Great Britain
have been strained to the utmost
in maintaining her traditions of
asylum and hospitality while sub-
jected to intensive enemy attack
forming not only the base for
offensive operations. but an army
camp to an extent beyond any-
thing in her previous history."
NATIONAL LEADERS SEE PASSOVER
USHERING IN YEAR OF LIBERATION
Asserting that the efforts which
American Jewry carried in the
past decade of Hitlerism for the
survival of large numbers of Jews
must, with this Passover, be sup-
plemented with activities of libera-
tion, William Rosenwald, Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jo-
nah B. Wise, national chairmen of
the United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, issued a joint holiday
message in which they stressed
that the Jewish communities of
the United States must be pre-
pared to meet the greater oppor-
tunities and responsibilities that
will conic with liberation.
'For ten years we have cele-
brated Passover with hearts made
heavy with distress and sorrows
of large numbers of our people.
With each passing year, the spread
of suffering and death more poig-
nantly underlined the resemblance
between the slavery and tribula-
tions of the Children of Israel
under the Pharaohs of ancient
Egypt and the destruction of
Jewish life under the Nazi re-
githe.
"While millions of our people
are still subject to the peril of
annihilation by the modern Pha-
raoh, the recent victories of the
United Nations forces have fled-
nitely opened up the road to lib-
eration for our people and for all
other peoples who have been the
prisoners of the Nazi oppressor.
"We can now look with hope
and confidence to the re-enactment
in the immediate future of the
final chapter of the story of Pass-
over—to the destruction of the
forces of Hitlerism and tyranny
and to the deliverance from bond-
age of the oppressed and the en-
slaved.
"This Passover is particularly
significant to American Jewry be-
cause it has had a major part
in bringing about the survival and
rescue of many thousands of vic-
tims of Hitlerism through the or-
ganizations constituting the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Over-
seas Needs and Palestine. Through
three well-organized programs—
through the war relief and reha-
bilitation activities of the Joint
Distribution Committee, through
the upbuilding and settlement of
Palestine supported by the United
Palestine Appeal, and through the
assistance of refugees in the
United States provided by the Na-
tional Refugee Service—the Jew-
ish communities of the United
States (lid much to hold back tne
waves of destruction which threat-
ened to overwhelm all of Euro-
pean Jewry.
"On former Passovers we have
stressed survival. Today we must
enlarge our activities to include
the new responsibilities that have
already come and that will, come
with the liberation of our people.
The dangers to our people In
many parts of the world have not
been removed. But there is rea-
son to rejoice in the fact that the
free world is on the threshold of
a gigantic effort to break the
chains of bondage. Victory and
liberation are definitely in sight.
What has been accomplished thus
far through the agencies of the
United Jewish Appeal as the In-
struments through which Amerl-
can Jews have helped sustain the
lives of large numbers of their
people constitute a solid founda-
tion on which we must go forward
to greater achievements to re-
habilitate the millions of Jews
who have been subjected to the
merciless attack of Nazism for ten
long years. What has been achieved
through rehabilitation and emi-
gration overseas, what has been
accomplished in the rebuilding of
the Jewish homeland in Palestine
and what has been done for the
refugees in the United States are
inspiring evidence of the fact that
American Jews will not fail in the
fulfillment of the greater obliga-
tions and the greater responsibili-
ties that lie ahead,"
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Direct Overland Route from
Palestine to Persia
TEL AVIV. (Palcor)—A plan
for a direct omnibus route over-
land from Palestine to Persia is
reported by the Tel Aviv Haa-
retz as now under consideration.
The Soviet Intourist travel agen-
cy in Teheran is deeply inter-
ested in the proposaal.
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KOSHER MILK
AND BUTTER
The well-known Vaad Ha'rabo-
nim of Detroit will supervise
the bottling
and distribution
of United Dairies' Passover
Milk and Butter, a duty they
have undertaken for many
years.
for PASSOVER
Despite the many new and perplexing problems which
the war has brought to us, we have made arrangements
again to provide our Jewish customers with Kosher
milk and butter for Passover, which starts the night of
Monday, April 19.
It will be most helpful to us if you can let us know
now what your Passover requirements will be. Place
your order immediately with your United Dairies Milk-
man, or telephone UNiversity 1-2800.
Resources Strained
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63,000.
This total includes about 20,000
seamen, but is exclusive of a
very large number coming in as
members of the Allied forces.
If all the children together with
their parents are allowed for,
the total number of refugees
who wo.e here at the beginning
of the war or who have come
since is approximately 150,000.
"The sums spent for refugees
through government grants from
the national exchequer, between
Oct. 1, 1939, and Dec. 31, 1942,
amounted to £1,210,000, not in-
cluding the expenditure incurred
by the Ministry of Health for
accommodation. From 1933 to
the present (late, the contribu-
tions in money and kind from
private sources are estimated at
not less than £9,500,000.
"The latest figures for the
colonial and mandated territories
principally concerned are as fol-
lows: In Jamaica, the additional
population maintained is 3,058,
including 558 refugees, 1,508
evacuees from Gibraltar and a
number of prisoners-of-war and
civilian internees; in Cyprus, the
additional population maintained
is 4,830, including 4,660 refu-
gees from Greece; in the East
African colonies the additional
population, comprising prisoners-
of-war and Polish refugees, is
90,964, nearly three times the
normal white population. 21,000
Polish refugees have moved or
are in the process of moving
from Persia and are being dis-
tributed among Uganda, Tan-
ganyika, Northern Rhodesia and
Nyasaland. The camps between
Kenya and Tanganyika accom-
modated 3,000 Greek refugees in
transit from the Greek mainland
via Turkey and Egypt to the Bel-
Iian Congo.
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer
To Preach Passover
Sermon on April 20
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"The total number of refugees
and exacuees additional to the
population and of internees and
nrisoners-of-war maintained in
British territory and Palestine.
exclusive of the dominions and
the very large numbers who are
members of the Allied forces, is
682,710.
"It will be appreciated that
a great part of the work on be-
half of the refugees indicated
i nthis statement is carried out
by the government and local au-
thorities and by private gener-
osity under exceptional conditions.
with difficulties that are well
UNITED DAIRIES
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The ration value of a pound of Kosher Butter will be eight points.