Friday, September 21, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Our Capital Letter
Page Five
1164 SURVIVORS REACH PALESTINE WITH AID OF U. J.A.
By CHARLES BENSON
WASHINGTON—One of the
aftermaths of the European wet is
disposition of displaced persons.
Put in those terms it sounds cold
and bureaucratic. Displaced per-
sons are men and women who
survived long, or even short,
terms in concentration camps,
who were impressed into slave
labor for the Nazis, whose homes
and families have been destroyed
or broken up. Since the end or
the war they have been living
from day to day in camps or as-
sembly centers in Germany. Of r,
total six million, approximately
four million have been repatriat-
ed to their home towns or cities.
The remaining two million repre-
sent a cross section of people
who will have been scarred for
life. A good proportion of them .
will go home within the next six
months. But for many, including
100,000 Jews of different nation-
alities, there are no homes to re-
turn to.
With this in mind, a recent
British action in the British zone
in Germany has not set well in
Washington.
The British, it seems, according
to official pronouncements, are
arming the German police under
their jurisdiction with rifles, to
protect German civilians against
displaced persons. The "authority
of the British-appointed police in
handling former slave laborers
and prisoners must be backed up,
in the reported opinion of British
officials.
Mrs. Roosevelt related in a re-
cent column how New York taxi
drivers tell her of their experi-
ences with "Roosevelt haters."
That brought to mind an ex-
perience of my own. On the day
that President Roosevelt's body
was being taken to Hyde Park, I
a•• iced in New York and got into
a cab, shortly after the officially-
declared two-minut e period of si-
lence. Almost immediately the
taxi driver reflected out loud, and
in no uncertain terms, on his ex-
perienc e with a particular "Roose-
velt hater," who has recently
championed Senator Bilbo, the
peddler of American racism.
With the back of his neck red-
dening in anger, my taxi driver
told of carrying "that guy, West-
brook Pegler, and you shoulda .
heard how he talked about the
President." Turning around for
the full effect of what he was
going to say, he spluttered, "I fi-
nally told that guy to go clean
out his mouth with soap before
he mentioned Roosevelt's name
again." As to what Pegler had to
say to this, the infuriated driver
tersely said, "Nuthin' — and if
he had, I'm tellin' ya, I woulda
stopped this cab and punched him
in the jaw."
Rabbi Paretzky
Represents Religious
Labor in Palestine
Washingtonians who watch the
fumbled handling of the non-re-
patriable persons, have not failed
to draw some acidulous compari-
sons between performance and
promise by the Labor Govern-
ment.
There has been no indication
so far of intention to fulfill the
Labor Party pledge to void the
White Paper, restricting immigra-
tion to Palestine. A" large part of
the 100,000 Jews in displaced
persons camps have expressed a
desire to emigrate to Palestine,
and there build a new life. Sen-
ator Wagner of New York, in a
recent nationwide radio address
excorciated the British Govern-
ment for "faithlessness" to their
promise to facilitate the entry of
RABBI MORDECAI PARETZKY
Jews into Palestine.
Several weeks ago the S. S. Mataroa brought ]164 refugees Germany's death camps at Buchenwald' and Dachau.
from worn•torn Europe to the Jewish homeland in Pales- Their prison numbers 'are tattooed on their. .forearms.
tine. This historic rescue achievement was the result of (Below left) Babies receive special care in Palestine.
the combined efforts of the agencies of the United Jewish (Below right) Five men who came out of Dachau. Dr.
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. The
Joint Distribution Committee furnished the aim] of
$80,000 for transporting and maintaining the refugees en
route to Palestine. The Jewish Agency for Palestine,
which receives its funds from the United Palestine Ap•
peal, assembled the refugees and provided them with
immigration certificates. The refugees on the S. S. Mataroa
were a cross•section of the hundreds of thousands of.
Jews in war•ravaged Europe who look to the United
Jewish Appeal to give them a new future in a new borne.
Photos show (abase left) flag of Zion being carried
ashore at Haifa. (Above right) some of the children
among the SOO passengers who had been rescued from
The question of what is to be
hoped for with regard to Pales-
tine from the Labor Government
in Britain, may be qualified by
the course they have pursued to-
ward Spain. The new Foreign
Minister, Ernest Bevin, in laying
down the Labor Government pol-
icy toward Spain, lost no time in
furnishin g a brand of doubletalk
which encouraged the Franco
govern men t no end. Madrid
broadcasts monitored by the Fed-
eral Communications Commission,
and available in Washington, re-
vealed the satisfaction of Franco
spokesmen with Bevin's assurance
of non - intervention. The same
formula when used in 1036 by
Lord Halifax, then Foreign Min-
ister :old continuing from the
previous government as British
Ambas , ado r
in Washington, pro-
was headed last year by Rabbi
moted in Spain the growth of
Dr. A. M. Hershman and Isaac
fascism which later spread
Shetzer.
through Europe.
Bevin's words were, in fact, so
agreeable," that the Madrid
stock market, in an excess of
gratitude, registered a general in-
crease. On the
one hand Bevin
assures nonintervention to a Span-
ish government
spawned by the
Nazis and fascists Britain fought
f or six years. On the other, the
British Foreign Minister has yet
to
hold out hope to a group of
People who were among the ear-
liest victims of Nazism.
It is generally thought in Wash-
ington that the British Labor
20t
'eminent will carry on pretty
much th e same
foreign policy as
its predecessor. It remains to be
se
en, therefore, whether the hopes
based
upon past utterances of the
Bri tish Labor Party will be ful-
fill ed now that the Labor govern-
ment has the power to carry out
Pre-election principles.
If I had given fourpence for
that advice I had bought it a
groat too dear.
Memorial for Jewish Martyrs
And Fighters Planned in Jerusalem
LONDON (Palcor) — Detailed
plans for the erection of a Jeru-
salem memorial for the perished
Jews of Europe, the heroic ghet-
to resistors and Christians who
risked their lives to rescue Jews,
and the launching of a drive to
raise funrs for the project, were
announced following meetings of
the Jewish Agency, the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish Palestine's Nation-
al Council, the Keren Kayemeth
Rabbi Mordecai Paretzky, a (Jewish National Fund),
Keren
national leader of the Torah V'
Hayesod (Palestine Foundation
Avodah Movement and a former
Fund), the World Jewish Con-
rabbi here, is now visiting De- gress and the Hebrew University.
troit to organize and conduct the
The meetings decided that the
annual campaign of the League
for Religious Labor in Palestine. campaign is to be launched by
The Religious Labor Movement the Vaad Leumi; all Jewish or-
in Palestine which includes also ganizations are to be approached
Hapoel Hamizrachi consists of to join in a World Council to
more than 30,000 men and wo- direct the project; the Govern-
men. Besides maintaining more ments of the liberated countries
than 30 colonies, numerous wel- will be asked to permit repre-
fare and educational institutions, sentatives of the Council to enter
and cooperatives, the Religious the various countries to visit the
Labor Movement is aiding hun- sites of former Jewish communi-
ties in connection with plans for
dreds of refugees in Palestine.
The movement is now building the project, and Jewish chaplains,
an additional youth-village for officers, and enlisted men on the
refugee children. The village is continent will be asked to assist
being named in honor of the late in recording and collecting every-
Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi thing pertaining to the past and
Avigdor Amiel. The committee present of Jewish life in Europe.
"
James G. Heller, National Chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, who witnessed the arrival of the Mataroa in
Palestine said: "It is impossible to describe the scenes I
witnessed and the emotions I experienced. But if all our
people in the United States could have been with me,
their hearts would have been full to the bursting point
—with horror It the thought of the sufferings endured by
these risen and women and children; with sorrow in
memory of all their dear ones who died under Nazi per-
secution; and at the same time,-with thanksgiving in the
knowledge that these Jews, young and old. were on the
threshold of a new life of freedom and dignity in the
Jewish National Home."
future generations, patterns of
death camps, furnaces and in-
struments of murder and torture
will be reproduced.
The story of desperate acts of
friendly non-Jews who protected
and saved their Jewish brothers
will also be commemorated.
Nine Injured in
Irgun Bombings
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — Nine
persons were injured, two of
them gravely, when seven bombs
went off in Jerusalem last Satur-
day, five of them in the center
of the city and two near the
Post Office.
The explosion set off an ava-
lanche of pamphlets by the Irgun
Zvai Leumi, the terrorist group.
Similar explosions occurred in Tel
Aviv on Yom Kippur eve.
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AGAINST RUMORS
LONDON (Palcor)—The Jew- compiled from the remains of
ish Agency for Palestine has is- victims, as well as from testimony
sued the following statement: of relatives and documents left
"Numerous reports recently have by the Nazis.
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