DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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World News in Brief

Friday, September 6, 1946

A Modern Rachel Seeks Her Lost Ones

Jewish Self-Defense
Approved in Poland

Moved To U.S. Zone
Under New Pact

Communities Will Be Given Arms
and Will Work With Police Units

WARSAW, (JTA) — The Polish Government has
granted permission to Jewish communities throughout
the country to organize their own self-defense units for
the purpose of resisting anti-Semitic terrorism which is
keeping the Jewish population in a state of constant
panic.

Jewish.self-defense units will be
provided with arms in accordance American Federation for Polish
with an understanding reached be- Jews, announced.
tween Jewish leaders and Polish
The Jews who are to receiw
Premier Eduard Osubka-Moraw- the visas are part of a group of
ski.
50,000 Polish Jews who had been
Public Security Minister Stanis- promised permission to enter
law Radkiewicz suggested that France, Dr. Tenenbaum said.
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the self-defense units work under
the supervision of local police au. Egypt Clamps Embargo
thorities, but the Jewish leaders
CAIRO, (JTA) — The Egyptian
pointed out that it was the local government has imposed an em-
police officers who, under the pre- bargo on all Palestinian trade, ei-
text of "cooperation," took 70 ther export or import, it was an-
guns from the Jews in Kielce nounced here this week. The em-
when they were besieged by ter. bargo on "Zionist" goods, which
orists, and that these very same was first proclaimed in January,
officers later participated in the
has been extended to deny transit
pogrom.
through Egypt for goods assigned
The defense units will be organ. to Palestine.
ized by each of the local Jewish
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committees affiliated with the
Rabbi
Blesses
Orphans
Central Jewish Committee in
WARSAW, (JTA)—Chief Rabbi
Warsaw. They will consist of Jew-
ish officers and soldiers who Isaac Herzog of Palestine this
served in the ranks of the Polish week flew to Katowice to bless
Army and Jews who fought as 75 Jewish orphans prior to their
partisans, and will function under departure f o r Czechoslovakia,
the central direction of the War- where they will remain temporar-
saw committee. The Polish gov- ily. While in Warsaw, Rabbi Her-
ernment will start supplying arms zog conferred with UNRRA Di-
rector-General LaGuardia.
to these units this week.
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One of the functions of the Jew-
ish military units will be to trans. Swiss Approve Congress
fer Jews from towns where they
PARIS, (JTA)—The Swiss gov-
are exposed to danger to neigh- ernment has given its consent to
boring cities with larger Jewish the holding of the 22nd World
communities. The transfer will be Zionist Congress at Basle In No.
carried out under armed protec- vember. A committee of experts
tion to assure that no attacks will who will handle ' the organiza-
be made on the Jews while en tional details of the Congress will
route.
meet in Paris this week.

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Restitution of Land Halted

PRAGUE, (JTA)—Restitution
to Jews of land confiscated
from them under the pro-Nazi
regime and still held by the Slo-
vak government has been halt-
ed, according to a report reach-
ing here from Bratislava. The
report says that anti-Semitic in-
cidents continue to occur daily
throughout Slovakia, although
Slovak Interior Minister Erjen-
elk is pressing his campaign
against the racists.
The Association of Racially
Persecuted Persons in Bratislava
is compiling a memorandum of
anti-Jewish crimes to be sub-
mitted to the Czechoslovak gov-
ernment.
Delegates from eight countries
in Europe have opened a con-
ference of the Hashonter Hat-
zair organization in Bratislava.
Mcir Yaari, world leader of the
movement, greeted the confer.
ence.

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Hungarian Officer to Die

BUDAPEST, (JTA) — The trial
of L. Borza, an officer accused of
persecuting Jews in a forced la-
bor camp during the pro-Nazi re-
gime, was disrupted this week
when several of his associates
tried to intimidate prosecution
witnesses. However, prompt ac.
tion by the police prevented a se-
rious incident and the defendant
was sentenced to death.

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French to Take 7,000

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The French
government has promised to issue
7,000 transit visas for Polish Jews,
2,000 of them for children, Dr. Jo.
sub Tenenbaum, president of the

Warsaw Awaits
Big Relief Train

A full trainload of 39 freight
cars carrying Joint Distribution
Committee relief supplies of food,
clothing and hospital equipment to
Jewish survivors in Poland has
left Switzerland and is expected
in Warsaw this week, it was an•
nounced today.
Total weight of the supplies in
the all-JDC trainload amounts to
800,000 pounds, it was disclosed.
Joint Distribution Committee
headquarters revealed that a sec-
ond all-JDC train will leave Switz-
erland for Poland within the next
few weeks. Among the food sup-
plies now en route to Poland for
distribution are huge quantities
of stewed steak, tuna fish and
cocoa.
The hospital equipment en route
to Poland takes up 11 full freight
cars. Complete hospital facilities
are included, in addition to blan-
kets, sheets, towels, mattresses
and beds.
Allocations of the Joint Distrib-
ution Committee to aid Jewish
survivors overseas, have soared
to $38,140,210 up to Sept. 1, Ed.
ward M. M. Warburg, JDC chair-
man, announced today.
Warburg said that JDC appro-
priations in August totaled $4,-
953,450, and that more than $8,000,-
000 in funds and supplies will be
used for work in Poland, "zone of
the greatest distress among Jews
in Europe today."
JDC has been supplementing
basic relief provided by the Army
and UNRRA in displaced persons'
centers of Germany and Austria,
he pointed out.

Hitler may be dead, but he lives on for this Rachel of
today who weeps for her lost children and husband as
she wanders cold, hungry and disconsolate, over the
face of Europe with the sole surviving member of her
family. The scales of life or death for this remnant
of a once happy family and for tens of thousands of
others like them, will be weighted by the support given
by American Jewry to the United Jewish Appeal.

French Scoff
at 'Threat' on
Bevin's Life

PARIS, (JTA)—French security
police denied the report published
in the British press that they are
hunting 14 alleged Jewish terror-
ists said to have threatened the
life of Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin. British officials here de-
nied that any such threats have
been received.
The chief of the security police
labelled the London reports "pure
imagination." He declared that
the French police have taken
stringent protective measures
since the Peace Conference opened
here. The newspaper France Soir,
commenting on the London re-
ports, declared that all terrorists
are not Jews and that in this in-
stance they could be Nazis.
The original report said that 14
Jews sworn to "get" the Foreign
Secretary were being hunted by
the Paris police on a tip from
Scotland Yard. Reuters said that
the French, unable to find any
trace of the 14 Jews in Paris, had
extended their search throughout
France. It was also reported that
the British embassy received two
telephoned warnings in French
that the embassy building was to
be bombed. However, no explo.
sives were found, it added.
It Is reported that Bevin and
his assistants on the British dele-
gation to the Peace Conference
are heavily guarded and British
headquarters in the King George
V Hotel here is ringed with scores
of British and French detectives.
It was also recalled that Bevin
travels in a car with. bullet-
proofed windows and a bomb-
proof chassis. The car is said to
be "practically a disguised tank."

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ORT Opens Crafts
School in London

LONDON — ORT, Organization
for Rehabilitation through Train-
' ing, has resumed activities inter.
rupted here by the war with the
establishment of an engineering
school for Jewish refugees. The
building also houses a women's
dressmaking class.
Well equipped with lathes, dril.
ling machines, grinders, wood.
working apparatus and other de-
vices, the school offers a two-year
course leading to employment in
industry or entrance to an en-
gineering college. Subjects covered
include general shop work, tool-
making, carpentry, electrical in.
stallation, mathematics, drawing,
chemistry, English and civics.
For trainees who want to get
jobs quickly short courses are
given in welding, lathe turning
and the like.

JEWISH SEA-MEN UNITE
The formation of the Jewish.
American Seamen's Association,
with offices at 25 West 45th street,
New York City, was announced
today by Lieut. Comdr. Yeshayo.
hu Z. Finkelstein, U. S. M. S.

MUNICH, (JTA)—A trainload of
1,000 Jewish refugees who fled
from Poland to Austria during
the past few weeks will leave
Salzburg this week for the Amer.
ican zone in Germany.
This will be the first group .f
displaced Jews to be transferred
from Austria to the American
zone in Germany under an agree-
ment worked out by Gen. Joseph
T. McNarney, commander of the
American forces in Europe, and
Gen. Mark Clark, American com.
mander in Austria. Nine thousand
more displaced Jews will follow
within a short time.
Max Lowenthal, a former asso-
elate of Judge Julian Mack of
New York, has arrived in Berlin
to assume the post of consultant
in property and restitution mat-
ters in the office of the American
Military Government. Lowenthal,
who will be a member of the staff
of Gen., Lucius Clay, deputy mili-
tary governor, will help write and
enforce the restitution laws which
are currently being drawn up by
German provincial authorities and
the AMG in Stuttgart.
The question of transferring 25,-
000 displaced Jews from Austria
to Italy is under consideration by
the Italian government. Negotia-
tions for the admission of these
Jews, to be cared for by the UN-
RRA, were conducted by Fiorella
LaGuardia, head of the UNRRA,
who is visiting Europe.

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South Africa Admits 400

LONDON, (JTA)—A two-man
delegation from the Union of
South Africa arrived here this
week to select 400 orphaned
Jewish children in Europe who
will be admitted to South Afri-
ca.
The delegation revealed that
the South African government
has decided to admit 8,000 Eu-
ropean children, of whom 400
will be Jewish. Three hundred
orphans will be resettled in Jo-
hannesburg and 100 will go to
Capetown. The delegation is
composed of Harry Cohen and
Cecil B. Reudo, representatives
of a Jewish orphanage in Jo-
hannesburg.

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Orphans Sail for U. S.

PARIS, (JTA)—The first group
of 62 Jewish orphans from OSE
homes in France will sail for the
United States this week, the of-
fices of the organization here an.
nounced. The children, who are
coming to relatives, will leave
from Marseilles.
Their passage was financed by
the Joint Distribution Committee
and the HIAS. Although none of
them is over 18 years of age,
most were in Nazi concentration
camps and narrowly escaped be-
ing deported with their parents to
death camps in Poland.

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