Friday, September 15 1944 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 14 was clear that an international munities in various cities through- casting station in Palestine was Bolivia, fascist regimes resorted bill of rights for Jews would be out the country, showed that ap- to anti-Semitic devices. In Ar- momentarily taken over by the demanded. It appeared that the proximately nine per cent of the extremists. Later an attempt was gentina, Jewish children were old demand for minority rights Jewish population in the United Continued from page 3 made to assassinate the retiring segregated in the public schools. in each European country would States was serving in the Armed Toward the close of the year, High Commissioner of Palestine, forces. Throughout the country as had survived of course be abandoned. proved. Of the pre-war Jewish Sir Harold MacMichael, who had the situation of the Jews in A word must be said about Jewish organizations were among Hungary attracted wide Jewish i th e War population in Rome of 12,000 it been none too friendly to the interest. Hitler's occupation of the augmenting of the relief pro- the leading forces in gram. The United Jewish Appeal Bond sales drives. The Jewish was believed only some 4,000 su•- Jewish side. Hungary was followed by the The fight on the White Paper asked American Jewry for a contribution to the Red Cross, vived. In North Africa, at the be- was taken up by American Jews usual deportations of Jews, which fund of $30,000,000—largest in in labor, money, and in blood, meant extermination in camps of ginning of the year, there was when Congress saw a measure in- Poland. All efforts were bent to history—for the purpose of re- was highly lauded by B asil some initial disgruntlement over troduced in it expressing Amer- saving the Jews in this almost habilitating the liberated com- O'Connor on his assumption of office as chairman of the Amer- the abrogation of the Cremieux ican opposition to the seemed White solitary untouched reservoir of munities. The measure Incomplete statistics that were ican Red Cross. Decree by General Giraud, but Paper. Jews in Europe. The President , Gaullist regime later re- about to pass when the War De- issued several warnings to the released by the National Jewish th e tated Cremieux regulation. partment took a hand in the ins Events De the in Palestine largely matter and2 General Marshall, Hungarian government that they Welfare Board for War Records, pivoted about the White Paper Chief of Staff of the U.S. armies, would be held criminally respons- and local surveys by Jewish com- May This are I before the House For- ible if anything happened to New Year Hungarian Jews. The warning which went into force in March. By the provisions of the White eign Affairs the committee test against passage to of pro- the of the President was beamed to Bring Peace Paper, there was to be no further resolution on the ground that it the peoples of Hungary and Al- and Happiness Jewish immigration into Pales- would be inimical to the perse- lied aeroplanes dropped tens of GREETINGS tine and all selling of lands to cution of the war effort. How- thousands of leaflets conveying • Jews in Palestine was terminal ever, about the same time, Presi- the same warning. The Pope, ed. The White Paper was, of course, vigorously contested by dent Roosevelt, in a personal the British Foreign Minister, the talk with Rabbis Wise and Sil- King of Sweden also lifted their Jews in Palestine and extremists ver, expressed his opposition to voices to plead and warn the even resorted to violence in their the White Paper and later both Hungarian authorities. Finally, opposition. Members the so- the Democratic and the Repub. Regent Horthy announced that Ladies' Apparel called "Stern Gang" of and the lican parties adopted planks in his government was prepared to Irgun Zvai invaded the, their platforms favorable to Jew- permit the exodus of all Hun- 7442 W. McNICIIOI.S premises of Leumi the police stations 1400 FOURTEENTH in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and ish aspirations in Palestine. garian Jews with visas for Pal- ti In South America during the estine, an offer which was ac- Tel Aviv and wrecked them. In one instance, the British broad- year, notably in Argentina and cepted by and the Great governments the U.S. Britain. of Looking to postwar restoration, Le Shono Toro Tikosevu—A Happy New Year! the American Jewish Conference had been created with the acqi , SEASON'S GREETINGS escence of most major Jewish A New Year Replete With AND BEST WISHES FOR organizations. However, during A HAPPY NEW YEAR! 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