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THE JE.WISH NEWS

Reform Rabbis' Conference
Widens Split on Palestine

Bnai Brith War
Service Director

Non-Zionist Group Declares for Primacy of Religion as Basis
. of Jewish Life; Opposes Self-Government; "Crusade"
Unimportant, Say Zionists

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The rabbis went on record en-
dorsing the economic and cul-
tural development of Palestine,
but affirmed the primacy of re-
ligion as the basis of Jewish life.
Basing their stand on the his-
toric interpretation of Reform
Judaism, they condemned the
secularistic
tendencies in Ameri-
Meir Grossman to Address
can life. One of the central
Initial Meeting at the
points in their discussion was
- Robert Lurie, who has been
Detroit-Leland
the problem of what practical
appointed director of Bnai
steps might be taken to enlist Brith's war service activities.
' Meir Grossman of New York, the interest of Jewish laymen
leader in the Jewish State Zion- in revitalizing the Reform move-
ist Party, editor of Trend of ment.
Events and vice-chairman of the
Asserting its loyalty to the
executive committee of the Com- Central Conference of American
irnittee for a Jewish Army for Rabbis, the gathering unani-
Palestinian and Stateless Jews, mously agreed to prepare a state-
will address a meeting at the ment on the subjects discussed at
Detroit-Leland Hotel this Sunday the sessions. This statement,
evening.
which will include also the atti-
Arthur Brandel, representing tude of the rabbis to the Zion-
the committee, who arrived in ist movement will be submitted Leader of Crusader White
Detroit to plan this meeting, to "like-minded rabbis" who
Shirts Convicted of Sedi-
stated that a Detroit branch will were unable to attend the con-
be formed after Mr. Grossman's ference.
tion by Federal Jury
address.
Pierre VanPaassen is the na- .CIRCULATE PETITION
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —
tional chairman of the Committee AGAINST PALESTINE PLAN
(JPS)—The courts of America
for a JeWish Army.
ATLANTIC CITY (JPS)—To continued to prove that anti-
Mr. Brandel emphasized that Reform rabbis throughout the
Semites are anti-Americans when
the committee does not intend to country there is going forward
call upon Americans to join the the text of a "declaration of George W. Christians, leader of
proposed army.
principles" in which it is hoped the Crusader White Shirts, was
The aims of the committee are to marshal rabbinical opinion found guilty of sedition by a
to enroll support for the proposal against the formation of a Jew- Federal court jury in the first
for a Jewish military force among ish Army in Palestine and trial of its kind since America's
government and state officials as against a self-governing corn-
entry into the war.
well as individuals.
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Christians will appeal his sen-
tence of five years. He was
charged primarily with trying to
foment rebellion and mutiny in
the army.

Jewish Army
Rally Sunday

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Christians, Foe
Of Jews, Faces
5-Year Term

20 Years AgO This Week

As It Was Reported by Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Copyright, 1942, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.

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WASHINGTON—Germany is attempting to de-
velop a market in Palestine, it is reported here in a
dispatch received by the Department of Commerce
from the American consul-general in Jerusalem. Ger-
man steamerp, are scheduled to make weekly trips
between Hamburg and Haifa.
WARSAW—President Pilsudski called in a num-
ber of Jewish deputies to discuss with them the com-
position of the new Jewish cabinet. The deputies de-
clared their readiness to cooperate wholeheartedly
with the government so long as it did not manifest
anti-Semitic tendencies.
NEW YORK—A Jewish relief committee ap-
pointed by Louis Marshall, president of the American
Jewish Relief Committee, .sailed on the Berengaria
to study conditions of Jews in the war-torn countries.
In Paris the committee will meet Herbert H. Lehman,
who is chairman of the Reconstruction Committee of
the JDC, who will proceed with them to Eastern
Europe.
LONDON—Israel Zangwill, noted Jewish author
and leader of the Jewish Territorial Organization,
told a JTA correspondent that the offer of the Mexican
Government to grant refuge to Jewish immigrants
should be accepted. He said he was ready to come to
America to discuss the matter if officially invited
by President Obregon and the American Jewish
Congress.
CHICAGO—A Jewish committee to investigate
the possibilities of immigration to Mexico Ieft. for
there today.
BUDAPEST—Five Jews won seats in the Hun-
garian parliament during the elections just completed
it is reported here.
BERLIN—It is learned here that the well known
Jewish political economist, Prof. Franz Oppenheimer,
who is prominent in Zionist affairs, has accepted a
call to the. University of Tokio.
WASHINGTON—Acting Secretary of the 11 ■ Tavy
Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that he had sent a
letter to the superintendent of the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, requesting a report of
the treatment of Ensign Leonard Kaplan who..waa
maligned in the Academy year book in anti JeWish
aspersions.
RIGA—The Soviet Government is willing to
grant special passports to Jews wishing to emigtate
to the United States, according to reports from

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Moscow.

2 Yanks Direct Huge Jewi
Relief Job in Occupied Chi

J. D. C. Workers Carry on Despite Growing Peril in
Controlled Shanghai; Refugee Situation Precarious
Welfare Leaders Are Told

ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA)—The conference of the
60 reform rabbis who, as a minority within the Central

Conference of American Rabbis, are opposed to political
Zionism, concluded here this week determined to
strengthen the traditional interpretation of Reform
Judaism.

Friday, June 12, I

3 YEARS TO "WAIT
TILL HITLER COMES"
NEW YORK, (J P S) — Gov-
erness Antoinette Heim asks
America to "wait till Hitler
comes" but her wait will be spent
in prison for a period up to three
years. That was how Judge Owen
Bohan disposed of the case of
the little woman who, born in
Germany, has been in the United
States for 20 years and is an
American citizen. But Miss Heim
did not go to jail because she
reviled Jews wherew her voice
could be raised. It happened that
she mulcted gullible German
servant girls who entrusted her
with their savings for invest-
ment. She was convicted on the-
grand larceny charge, after tell-
ing her jailers that 'Jews were-
responsible for her plight and
that "Hitler will come over and
take care of you."

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3,000 Jews in Zion
Seek to Retain
U. S. Citizenship

Will Ask Washington for

Extension of 2-year Foreign

Residence Restriction

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Amer-
ican Citizens' Association here,
which represents more than 3,000
Jews who are naturalized Amer-
icans, this week decided to ap-
peal to the State -Department in
Washington for one year's ex-
tension of the time allowed them
to remain in Palestine without
forfeiting their U. S. citizenship.
The appeal became necessary
in view of the fact that the one-
year extension given last October
to naturalized American citizens
under the Nationality Act of 1940,
expires October 14 'of this year,
while war conditions make it
practically impossible for most of
the American Sews in Palestine
to reach the United States by
then..

ROCHESTER, N. Y.—The situation of 21,000 Je
refugees in Japanese-occupied Shanghai' was describe
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the J
Distribution Committee, speaking at an informal mee
of Welfare Fund executives convened in conjunction
the National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare
session here.

A large-scale program of re-.,
lief is being conducted in behalf tunity to escape when war
of the refugees in Shanghai, Mr. ed imminent.
Hyman stated, despite the fact
that that city has been under THREE-FOLD INCREASE
Japanese occupation for six Relief is being given to ne
months. The work is being su- all of the 21,000 refugees
pervised by Laura L. Margolis Shanghai, marking a three-
and Manuel Siegel, both Ameri- increase from pre-war d
cans, who represent the J.D.C. in when tw b-thirds of the Euro
Shanghai. Both Miss Margolis Jews who had found asylu
and Mr. Siegel refused to leave Shanghri were able to earn
Shanghai before the beginning est livings. The work is fin
of Japanese-American hostilities, by fur. is borrowed I •
although they had ample oppor-
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World News at a Glance

(Condensed From Cables of the Jewish Telegraphic

Agency)

PALESTINE—
A new settlement, to be known as Kibbutz Doroth, will
established on 500 dunams of Jewish National Fund land at
in Southern Palestine, in honor of Dov Hos, deputy mayor of
Aviv, and his wife and daughter, all of whom were killed in an a
mobile accident in- December, 1940. The name "Doroth" is a
bination of the first initials of Dov, Rebecca, his wife, and T
his daughter.
GREECE—
Two German army chaplains, who fled to Smyrna from Gr
in an Italian army plane, which they had appropriated, repo
that they were deserting because six of their colleagues had
executed at Salonika for secretly feeding starving Greeks
Jews.
MEXICO—
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Immigration from Europe to Mexico will not be comple
prohibited, although it will be affected in some degree, by Mexi
entry into the war, it was indicated this week by sources close
the Ministry of the Interior. As reported some weeks ago, the Pr
dent will have the authority to pass upon individual cases.
BELGIUM—
Jews in Belgium are now compelled to wear a yellow
David on the left side of their outer garments, according to
official decree issued this week by the Nazi military comma
of Belgium. The decree follows upon the heels of an order by
German occupation authorities in France instructing Jews in
occupied zone to also don the yellow badges.
RUSSIA—
A resolution instructing its executive committee to launch
collection campaign among Jews of the United States, Great Brit
and other democratic countries for the acquisition of 1,000 to
and 500 bombers for - the Red Army was adopted in Moscow
the concluding meeting of the plenary session of the Jewish An
Fascist Committee.
The Polish embassy in Soviet Russia is meeting great cliff'
ties in attempting to contact the thousands of Polish and Jew'
refugees from Poland who are now stranded on Soviet soil, it
revealed in Kuibyshev in a report which the embassy pre
for the Polish Government in London.
SPAIN—
Leaders of the Jewish communities in Spain have been
quested by the Spanish authorities to sign a pledge not to contin
any Jewish communal and religious activities in the country.
HOLLAND—
Nazi authorities in occupied Holland are becoming more
more perturbed over the fact that the Protestant and Catho
churches have formed a united front to protest not only agai
-Nazi persecution of the Christian faith, but also against the an
Jewish measures introduced in the country.
"What God has not achieved for centuries, the yellow star
Jews has accomplished," the Dutch Nazi newspaper "Volk
Vaderland" which reached here this week writes, commenti
sarcastically on the unity reached between the leaders of
Catholic and Protestant churches.
The paper refers to the fact that for the first time since
occupation of Holland the two churches have issued an al
identical Pastoral Letter condemning the Nazi attacks on Chri
tianity and "the lawlessness and mercilessness against the Jew -
population." The letter was read in all Protestant and Cathol
churches throughout Holland on Sunday, April 19, according
the paper.
RUMANIA—
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More than 30,000 Jews of those deported during the win
from Bessarabia and Bukovina into Transnistria, the Rumani
held section of Soviet Ukraine, have died from typhus, accord'
to a report reaching here this week.
Forty Jewish refugees from Rumania on board the s
steamer Mircea were allowed to land in Palestine on May 20.
SLOVAKIA—
The last 34 Jewish-owned enterprises in the Nazi puppet-sta
of Slovakia have been liquidated, according to a report of
Slovakian Economic Office appearing in the Prager Abend.
ARGENTINE—
The "immediate reconstitution of the Jewish Agency for Pa
estine" is demanded in a message - cabled this week by a num
of prominent Jewish leaders in Argentina to twelve Jewish org
zations in the United States. The Bnai Brith in America is urg
in the cable "to take the initiative" to bring about such a r
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struction.
FRANCE—
An order forbiddink - all Jews in occupied France to appe :
in the street without a yellow Mogen David sewn on the left si •
of their outer garments was posted throughout the occupied to
tory, signed by General von Stulpnagel, commander of the Germ
military forces in France. The order specifies that the yellow bad
must be worn by all persons over six years old. It must be
size of a hand and is to have a - black border. The word "Je
must be inscribed in black across the face 6 -f the yellow s
Violations will be punished by fines and imprisonment,
confinement in a concentration camp.

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