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THE JEWISH NEWS
LAVAL, NAZI STOOGE, TAKES FULL
CONTROL OVER JEWS IN FRANCE
Friday, May 22,
1942
NAZIS IN HOLLAND TAKE JEWIS
PROPERTY WORTH 270 MILLION
Berlin Calling .
Victims Already Being Rounded Up in Paris, May Be
21,000 Firms Expropriated in "Aryanizing" Move;
Possessions Transferred to Non-Jews With
No Provision for Compensation
Branded With Mogen David; Police to Pick
Jews for Hostage Slayings
LISBON (JTA)—Pierre Laval, the pro-Nazi Chief of Govern-
LONDON (JTA)—The German authorities in the Netherlan
are taking over Jewish interests of a total value of 500,000,000 gui
ment, this week assumed full control over the Jews in unoccupied
ers—$270,000,000—it was reported here this week.
France and enforcement of anti-Jewish laws there. A decree broad-
cast by the Vichy -adio announced transfer of control of Jewish
The occupation authorities have registered 21,000 Jewish-own
affairts from the Ministry of Interior to the office of the Chief of
business enterprises, valued at a total of 150,000,000 guilders ,of w
10,000 will be liquidated and the rest taken out of Jewish han
Government.
according to an announcement in0.
4., A hint that French Jews may
soon be compelled to don yellow
the German-controlled Dutch enterprises. Of the 11,000
being taken out of Jewish han
Mogen David badges was con-
press. In addition, Jewish pos- the announcement said that 8,
tained in a broadcast on the Paris
sessions, lands and other prop- had "voluntarily ousted all Je
radio this week. The broadcaster
This funny little man is Herr erty to a value of 200,000,000 ish influence" and the remaini
stated: "Frenchmen must no long-
Joseph Goebbels. He is hard at guilders have been transferred to 3,000 would be "Aryanized".
er be exposed to contact with
people who have c?used their work broadcasting over station non-JewS, it was stated, and an- dicating that these firms w
League Protests
Army Job for
Coughlin's Aide
ruin without being able to recog- BUNK in Berlin. First he tells other 150,000,000 guilders in Jew- being taken over by Germans
Granting of Commission To nize them immediately."
Britain that America will fight ish-owned securities and capital the most part, the Dutch N
to the last Englishman. Then he are "still to be dealt with." weekly De Waag complained
Social Justice Circulation
The Jews in the former French tells America that Britain will
The announcement did not in- Dutch financial iinstitutionts w
capital who are still at liberty fight to the last American. That dicate any form of compensa- keeping aloof from such
Chief Is Condemned
tr
are being rounded up. A number is his work. He does it every tion to Jews for the expropriated actions.
day. He works very hard, too,
for you can see tl. circles under
NEW YORK (JPS)—Bernard of Jews attempting to avoid ar-
T D'Arcy, who was in complete rest have shot their Gestapo pur-
charge of sales and distribution suers, while a Jew who was on
of Social Justice, Jew-baiting the point of being captured by
weekly, until it was banned as Gestapo agents committed sui-
seditious, has been granted an cide in the street.
active commission in the United
Other reports reaching here
States Army, the Non-Sectarian this week confirm the creation of
Anti-Nazi League revealed here. a special section of the French
The League protested to Secre- police which will deal only with
tary of War Henry L. Stirnson. Jews. They will be responsible
D'Arcy reported for duty the for selecting Jewish hostages
clay after the League's expose, when the Nazis decide to shoot
as a lieutenant with the En- more Frenchmen.
gineers' Procurement Division.
Jews at Moscow
Anti-Fascist Rally
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Among Principal
Speakers at Demonstration
on May 24
MOSCOW. (JTA) — Jewish
Will Be
generals of the Soviet Army and
Jewish captains of Soviet sub-
III rules will be among the
principal speakers to address the
largest Jewish anti-Fascist dem-
onstration ever held here, which
will take place on May 24 in
the House of the Federation of
Labor unionswhich is one of
the largest in Moscow.
The Committee this week an-
nounced the publication of a
new magazine in Jewish under
the title "Einigkeit" ("Unity"),
"to help in the struggle of the
Jews in the Soviet Union and
h road against Hitlerism."
World News at a Glance
his eyes.
Most Englishmen don't believe
him. And Most Americans say
"Hooey!" when they hear what
(Condensed From Cables of the Jewish Telegraphic
he has to say.
Agency)
Then why does Herr Goebbels
work so hard?
Perhaps it's because he wants RUSSIA—
to convince YOU.
Jews in the United States and the other United Nations we
—Courtesy Council for Democracy. assured this week that their inquiries concerning relatives in t
Soviet Union will be dealt with promptly and all efforts will
made to locate any persons believed to be in the U.S.S.R. The assu
ance
came from Samuel Chobrutsky, head of the Moscow Jewi
Sees Jews "On
EX-AMBASSADOR CONDEMNS
Community, which is now located in Tashkent.
More than 500 persons, the majority of them Jews, have be
ANTI-JEWISH MEASURES
For Being "Right"
NEW YORK (JTA) — A letter
expressing "the disgust, the hor-
ror and the indignation of all
good Frenchmen" at the anti-Jew-
ish measures in France, was ad-
dressed to the chief rabbi of
France by Paul Caudel, French
poet and former ambassador to
the United States, it was revealed
here this week by the Free
French. The letter has been cir-
culated throughout France, the
Free French office here reported.
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THOSE WHO FIGHT LAVAL
OPPOSE ANTI-SEMITISM
NEW YORK (JPS)—That those
French elements now resisting
Pierre Laval "are the democratic
and popular elements, who have
always opposed Fascism, anti-
Semitism and Hitlerism" was the
gist of the message of Pierre Cot,
former French Air Minister, at
the annual donor luncheon of the
Women's American Ort, held
here.
20 Years Ago This Week
As It Was Reported by Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Copyright, 1942, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
RIGA—Figures published in the Moscow press
disclose that 37,570 Jews were killed in 50 towns of
the Ukraine during the uprising by the counter-revo-
lutionary forces under the White Guard generals.
In this same area, the Soviet papers reveal, 3,340
Jewish-owned homes were destroyed as were 1,222
shops, 896 factories and 765 workshops.
BERLIN—Dispatches from Bucharest state that
M. Joffe, a representative of the ORT, has visited
the Jewish colonies in the Kharkov district and dis-
tributed seed. Spirits of the colonists are reported
much improved and good hopes are entertained for
the future.
LONDON — Austen Chamberlain, speaking in
the House of Commons, confirmed that a special
session of the Council of the League of Nations will
be convened about the middle of July to approve
the British Mandate for Palestine . . . The scheme
for the electrification of Palestine, which is being
put into operation by Pinchas Rutenberg, who is now
in New York purchasing equipment, has aroused
great interest here. The press has devoted much
space to details of the project and a sharp debate
is going on in the London papers over the question of
whether the monopoly granted Rutenberg is justi-
fied.
LEMBERG—A conference of Jewish national
representatives in Eastern Galicia just concluded here
demanded national autonomy for the Jews in that
area with a Jewish National Council and a Ministry
for Jewish Affairs.
WASHINGTON—The Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee of the House meeting in executive session voted
10 to 2 to report favorably the Fish resolution recog-
; - ing Palestine as the National Home of the Jewish
people. The resolution is an exact duplicate of the
one introduced by Senator Lodge and passed in the
upper House on May 3.
Spot"
NEW YORK (JPS)—The Jew
is hated not because he is a
Jew but because he has "so long
been right," it is contended by
Stanley Hlgh in an article in
June Harper's Magazine, in
which he asserts that "the Jew
is on the spot" and "that the
spot the Jew is on is to some
considerable extent of his own
making."
An indirect attack on some oft
the articles recently appearing
in the Saturday Evening Post
is made by Mr. High in saying
of recent replies to anti-Semit-
ism that "a few, recently, have
been prepared by peripheral
Jews who have put disarming
emphasis on the fact that though
they are in the community of
Semites they are riot of it. All
told, these considerable mater-
ials ought to do. But they don't.
They are answers; but not the
answer. Anti-Semitism, which
was never more widespread in
the United States than during
the past five years, has not been
diminished by them."
Support of Jewish
Education Urged
sentenced to death or confined in special concentration camps
the Nazi military courts in Odessa since February, it is report
this week in the "Krasni Flot", official organ of the Soviet Na
They were all charged with anti-Nazi terror and sabotage.
PALESTINE—
Gen. Felicjan Slawoj-Skladowski, premier of Poland at the o
break of the war in September, 1939, who fled to Palestine short
after the Nazi invasion, this week enlisted for service in the A
and Civil Guards.
Colonial Minister Lord Cranborne, speaking in the British Ho
of Lords this week, announced the landing in Palestine of 18 Jew'
refugees from Rumania on board the cutter Michai. They are now
a detention camp, he stated.
RUMANIA—
Jews in Rumania have become the most-courted tenants in
country as a result of the recent rent moratorium decree, whi
allows all persons—except Jews—to invoke a waiting period in pa
ing rent on their homes or apartments, the Svenska Dagblad
reports this week.
,
GERMANY—
Swedish newspapers this week publish reports from Ber
stating that a new order has been issued there prohibiting Jews
the Nazi capital from entering any parks. The same reports disclo'
that a number of synagogues in Berlin are now being used as arm
warehouses. The Berlin radio this week announced that the e
Mufti of Jerusalem and Rashid Ali el Gailani, former Premier
Iraq, have arrived here "to discuss cooperation with the Reich."
LITHUANIA—
Reliable information reaching Stockholm from Nazi-occupie
Lithuania reveals that mass-executions of Jews are taking place i
practically every town in the Kaunas and Vilna districts. More tha
10,000 Jews have been massacred by the Nazi authorities in fi
towns alone, the report discloses.
SLOVAKIA—
The Slovakian Minister of Interior Sano Mach, in an announc
ment from Bratislava broadcast over the German radio, this wee
stated that "by the end of September there will not be a single Je
left in Slovakia." It is estimated that 90,000 Jews were
living
BALTIMORE (JTA) — Local Slovakia before the present war. The announcement did not
reve
Jewish federation and welfare to where the Jews were being deported.
funds throughout the country
Advices reaching Ankara, Turkey, report that the Vatican has i
were urged to maintain their tervened with the Slovakian government for a more humane trea
support of Jewish educational ment of the Jews in Slovakia.
work in their communities, in a BULGARIA—
resolution adopted this week at
All Bulgarian Jews have been forbidden to travel outside th
the third annual conference of area in which they are now living, under a decree
announced t
the American Association for week by the Bulgarian authorities in Sofia, the Ankara radio repo
Jewish Education. Another reso-
lution approved by the delegates MEXICO—
German Jews_ in Mexico, who have not obtained Mexican citizen
called for preservation of the ship—and
most of the refugees fall into this category—are bein
standards of Jewish educational evacuated
from coastal areas along the Atlantic and Pacific shore
work and charged the executive
under a decree issued by the Ministry of the Interior ordering th
committee of the Association with removal of all Axis nationals.
the responsibility of assisting in
a country-wide effort to coordi- ENGLAND—
The Rothschild House in the Picadilly section of Londo
nate the emergency programs
and post-war plans of Jewish residence of the Rothschild family, within the next fortnigh
will become a club for
educational institutions.
members of the United Nations, it w
announced here this week. The first ball attended by Edward
Mark Eisner, former chairman after
his accession was given there.
of the Board of Higher Education
in New York City, was re-elected YUGOSLAVIA—
president of the Association.
Jews from Axis-occupied Yugoslavia are slipping into Ital
where the local population, contrary to the offcial anti-Semiti
policy of the Mussolini regime and in demonstration against N•
anti-Jewish propaganda, is displaying marked sympathy with th
Jews, it was reported this week by a neutral diplomat arrivin
here from Rome.
Gurion's Father
Dies in Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor) —
Avigdor ben Gurion, father of
David ben Gurion, Chairman of
the Jewish Agency Executive
now in the United States, died
here at the age of 87.
Avigdor Green, who took the
name of Ben Gurion when he
came to Palestine, had 11 child-
ren, of whom three sons and
two daughters are still alive,
residing in Palestine.
FRANCE—
The expulsion of all Jews from France is denianded this wee
in the Paris Soir, a German-controlled evening paper.
The appointment of an assistant commissioner for Jewis
affairs to aid Commissioner Darquier de Pellepoix in his wor
of "solving the Jewish problem" was announced this week
the Official Gazette of the Vichy government.
TURKEY—
Attempting to create the impression among the people i
Arab coOntries that Turkey is about to collaborate with the Naz'
the Berlin radio this week broadcast a false report i n Arabi
that "more than 2,000 Jews have fled from Turkey during th
last two days in expegtation of a change in the Turkish attitud
in the present conflict."