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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1946
New Treaty Proclaims
Transjordan Now Free
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Harry Meisner
Gets Appointment
To Federal Job
LONDON (JTA)—Transjordan, which since 1922 has
been a part of the Palestine Mandate, became a sovereign,
independent state this week, when it signed a treaty of
mutual assistance and alliance with Britain.
The text of the treaty will not be made public before
it is presented to Parliament early next week. The docu-
ment terminating the Mandate and guaranteeing Trans-
jordan's independence was signed at a ceremony in the
Foreign Office, with Under-Secretary of Colonies Arthur
Creech-Jones signing for the British Government and
Ibrahim Pasha Hashim for Emir
Abdullah, the ruler of Transjor-
dan-
Mutual Assistance
Alwyn Freeman
Gets Appointment
To Dept. of State
Th y
provisions of the
treaty are believed here to include
mutual assistance in the event of
either of the contracting parties
becoming involved in a war, in-
cluding the g r ant of corn-
The United States Department
munication facilities to Britain by of State recently announced the
Transjordan. They also are re- appointment of Alwyn V. Free-
ported to stipulate that Trans- man, member of the Detroit Bar,
jordan must provide facilities for as Assistant Legal Adviser to the
British protection of the vital oil Department of State at Washing-
pipelines running through the ton. Mr. Freeman was relieved of
country from Iraq to Haifa, in his duties as head of the Division
Palestine. of International Law in the Judge
While leaders of the Jewish Advocate General's Office of the
Agency refrained from comment- United States Army to take up his
ing on the termination of the new duties. Prior to his enlistment
Transjordan Ma n d a t e, Rabbi in the armed forces, he served the
Philip Bernstein of Rochester, who State Department as attorney for
arrived here from the United the Mexican-United States Mixed
States to participate in the drive
for the United Palestine Appeal in
Britain, told representatives of the
British press that he believes that
the independence of Transjordan
would be "an irritant." He ex-
plained that "the treaty signed to-
day is a one-sided arrangement
made without consulting either the
Jewish Agency or the United
States."
Was Part of Palestine
"Transjordan was part of Pales-
tin" when the Balfour Declaration
was made and the Palestine Man-
date was granted, Rabbi Bernstein
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U. S. Commander
Cannot Foretell
Displacees Fate
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FRANKFURT (JTA) -- Confirm-
ing that Jewish displaced persons
are not affected by Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes' announce-
, ment that most DP camps will he
closed by August, Gen. Joseph T.
MeNarney, U. S. Commanding
General in the European Theatre,
this week told the press that he
did not know what would happen
to them.
Asked what would be done with
the Jewish DP's Gen. McNarney
aid: "I wish you could tell me."
He added that the chances are
that very few will remain in Ger-
many because "not even one in a
thousand wishes to stay in Ger-
many."
At a ceremony here, plaques
were unveiled at the sites of the
synagogues here, destroyed in No-
vember, 1938, in the pogroms fol-
lowing the assassination of Nazi
attache Ernst vom Rath in Paris.
The plaques were put up by the
Frankfurt municipality at the sug-
hestion of the military govern-
ment. Speaking at the unveiling
ceremonies, Rabbi Leopold Neu-
haus voiced the gratitude of the
Jewish community.
In a special broadcast marking
the ceremonies, a commentator
on the Frankfurt radio reviewed
the anti-Jewish crimes of the Na-
zis and said that "when we hear
of the harsh persecutions of Jews
in some parts of Eastern Europe
today, when in the West, too, vic-
tims who have gurvived the death
mills of the Nazis are not exactly
received with open arms, this
shows to what moral degradation
Nazism gave rise also outside of
Germany."
World Zionists to
Meet on August 7
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The 22nd
World Zionist Congress, the first
since 1939, will open here on Aug-
ust 7. it was decided at a meeting
of the Jewish Agency executive.
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ALWYN V. FREEMAN
Claims Commission in the settle-
ment of agrarian claims, and un-
der Admiral Emory S. Land as
counsel for the Maritime Commis-
sion.
Mr. Freeman is a graduate of
ths‘,University of Michigan, Har-
vard Law Ithool, and holds a doc-
torate degree in International Law
from the University of Geneva,
Switzerland. He is the author of
"The International Responsibility
of States for Denial of Justice,"
published by the London firm of
Longmans Green.
Mr. Freeman is 35 years of age,
and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex-
ander Freeman of Chicago Blvd.
JDC Allocates
Million Dollars
In USSR Relief
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The Joint
Distribution Committee is inaugu-
rating a $1,000,000 program of med-
ical relief in the Soviet Union
and has already shipped five bil-
lion Oxford units of penicillin un-
der the terms of an agreement
reached recently by the JDC with
the Russian Red Cross and Red
Crescent S6cieties, it was an-
nounced here.
Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, executive
vice-chairman, disclosed that the
JI,IC will equip five 500-bed hos-
pitals and two'250-bed institutions
in the Ukraine and White Russia,
areas in which large numbers of
the Jewish persons in Russia are
nook` living."
Supplies for the hospitals are
now being purchased in the Unit-
ed States. They will be completely
equipped with basic operating
room and sterilizing room sup-
plies; surgical instruments and a--
cessories; laboratory equipment;
diagnostic and therapeutic X-ray
equipment and accessories.
HARRY MEISNER
Announcement is made by the
American Bar Association of the
appointment of Harry H. Meisner
to serve as a member of the Com-
mittee on Correlation of Federal
Income, Estate and Gift Taxes.
Percy W. Phillips, former Judge
of the Tax Court of the United
States, is Chairman of the Tax
Section and Etwin N. Griswold,
head of the Department of Taxa-.
tion of Harvard Law School, is
also a member of the Committee.
The Treasury Department has ap-
pointed a similar committee of
lawyers connected with that De-
partment to work along with the
American Bar Association's Com-
mittee in its work of correlating
the Federal Income, Estate and
Gift Tax laws. The importance of
the work of this Committee can
best be appreciated in the light
of the fact that in recent years
more than 80 percent of the total
Federal Government's yield came
from these three important forms
of taxation.
1,ii. Meisner has for many years
been a practicing attorney before
the Courts and Government Agen-
cies and he is also a certified pub-
lic accountant. Formerly he was
head of the Department of Taxa-
tion and Corporation Finance at
the University of Detroit.
During World War II, Mr.
Meisner served in the U. S. Navy
as a Lieutenant-Commander. Ha
is a member of the law firm of
Meisner and Meisner in the Na-
tional Bank Building.
Palestine Offers
Hope for UP Jews
ATLANTA (JTA) -- Ralph Mc-
Gill, editor of the Atlanta Consti-
tu ion, who has just returned from
Germany and Palestine, in an ad-
dress to the South Eastern States
Conference of the United Jewish
Appeal, told the 250 Jewish lead-
ers present that what he saw in
Palestine leads him to believe
that the country "offered the real
hope for the displaced Jews in
Europe." He strongly urged the
Jews of the United States to in-
sure the success of the $100,000,000
drive now being conducted by the
U.J.A.
"I came back convinced purely
on the basis of what I've seen,'
he said, "that the objections tc
Jewish immigration into Pales-
tine are ridiculous. Jews who are
already there have done much to
build up the country- and those
who go there in the future will do
much more.
"I found that Jews and Arabs
are getting along in neighborly
fashion," Mr. McGill stated. "The
Jews have learned a lot from the
Arabs and the Arabs have learned
a lot from the Jews. My feeling
is that if there were no power
politics between Great Britain
and Russia, there, would be no
ArabaJewish trouble in Palestine."
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Poles Detour 'Frain Full. of
Jewish USSR Repatriates
MOSCOW (JTA)--A train carrying one of the first
group of Jewish repatriates to return to Poland from the
Soviet Union was sent on a ten-day detour by an un-
identified group of unfriendly Poles, it was reported here.
When the train carrying the repatriates reached
Wroclaw, the former Germah city of Breslau, the cars
carrying Poles were uncoupled, while those carrying
Jews were shunted around for ten days, until the train
reached Rychbach, which is only 40 miles from Wroc-
law. As a result of an immediate investigation by Gov-
ernment authorities, however,
subsequent transports have arrived
in Rycbbach without delay.
The Polish Press Agency report-
ed from Warsaw that 26,000 Jews
have been settled in the Lower
Silesia pre-war German areas re-
gained by Poland, and that 40,000
more Jews will come to the re-
gion. Among the cities in which
the Jews have settled, it said, are
Wroclaw, Rychbach, Walbrzych
and Lignica. The dispatch said
Jewish committees in Lower Si-
lesia are helping the Jews build
homes and obtain employment.
However, as a result of resent-
ment by Poles, the local Jewish
committees are not only assisting
Jews, but all repatriates.
Polish Minister of Industry Hi-
lary Minc, in a statement issued
in Warsaw, declared that the for-
mer German industries in Silesia
can furnish a livelihood for
many Jews. Jews who are inter-
ested in agriculture are being
settled on farms.
Some of the repatriates from the
USSR encountered at Rychbach
Jews who had recently returned
from Munich, to where they had
fled because they feared thJy
would be murdered if they re-
mained in Poland, the report re-
ceived here reveals. The latter
group reported that living condi-
tions in the U. S. camps in the
Munich area were bad, and that
there was little hope that the Jews
would be able to emigrate.
There are now 60,000 Jews in all
of Poland, of whom 20,000 are em-
ployed, according to a statistical
survey broadcast by the Warsaw
radio.
Palestine Parties
Merge Into One
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The Jew-
ish State Party and the New Zi-
onist Organization announced their
merger and the creation of a new
party called the United Zionist-
Revisionists.
Similar action was taken last
week by the Jewish State and
NZO groups in Britain and the
United States.
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Trades Meet to
Step Up Tempo of
AJC Campaign
The tempo of organization for
the Allied Jewish Campaign step-
ped up this past week as group
after group met and began prep-
arations for all-out participation
in Detroit's $2,000,000 emergency
drive, under the leadership of Isi-
dore Sobeloff, executive director
of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Building Trades
A Steering Committee of the
Roofers and Tinsmiths Section
met Wednesday, March 27, with
the section's chairman, Jacob E.
Kalt, to plan campaign organiza-
ISII)ORE SOBELOFF
tion. Members of the Committee
are: Nathan Katchman, Abe Se-
gal, Manuel Grossman, B. L. Leav-
itt, Sidney Rubenoff, Max Nissel,
Adolph Ettinger and Max Rabino-
witz.
Under Allen B. Kramer as chair-
man, the Property Management
Section met on March 25.
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Dinner Honors Dr. Wise
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, founder and president of the Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion, 40 West 68th St., New York City (center) shown at
the Founder's Day Dinner of the Institute at the Hotel Biltmore In
New York, March 17. The Dinner, held on the birthday of Dr. Wise
was a double salute to him and the 50 graduates of the Institute who
To Legalize Canadian Refugees
have served as chaplains in World War II.
MONTREAL ( JTA ) -- The le-
At the left is Maj. Abraham Haselkorn (of New York), attached
galization of the status of a num- to Headquarters Delta Basin at Marseilles, France. At the right is
ber of refugees who entered Can- Capt. Julius Kravetz (of Rochester, N. Y.) who served In the Philip-
ada illegally during the war will pine Islands. Haselkorn was a rabbi in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., before
be asked in a bill which will entering the service and Kravetz had a congregation in Bluefield, W.
be introduced in Parliament.
Va. Both arrived in the United States recently.
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