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Compiled 8y Independent Jewish Press Service

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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Copyright 1942, Independent st
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Jewish Press Service)

ITR BOYS IN WAR

Somewhere . the Middle
several httridred ' =boys in
ncle Sant's AzinY put on a
tors flew over
ow. A few aviators:
e field and did some risky
unts. An announcer told about
,000 people: "Leading the
uadron of fliers you see over
is field is Lieutenant Samuel
tier."
We are not personally ac-
inted with Sam Cutler or
cer Pearlman, another lad
o was leading one of the
ups in this mock battle show.
But a few people nearby are
'te familiar. They have been
rd to say that "Jews don't
t."
Cutler and Pearlman, Corp.
ever Levin and Lieut. Gabriel
umkin, provide the answer.
• • •
ISSUE
Well, you say, what is the is-
e?
It may be a simple one, but
is an issue nevertheless. The
bble-rouser continues to spread
With American troops and air forces now using the Middle
venom. He used to charge East as a base of operations against the Axis powers, Palestine's
war
contribution as a granary for Allied troops is being increased
t Jews made this war. Now
charges that the Jews :won't through the support which American Jews have made available to
t in this war. He Was a the United Palestine AppeaL Through the establishment of new
and the reclamation of vast stretches of land in the
ader of hate in both instanc- settlements
Jewish homeland, the U.P.A., which receives its funds from the
There were Jews among the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine,
-interventionists and there is enlarging its agricultural production to provide increased food
Jewish war heroes. There supplies to the United Nations' armies in the Mediterranean area.
e few among the former, but Typical scenes in rural Palestine are pictured here: (above) a
re are many in the latter pioneer displays the cabbages he has raised; (below) refugees
picking and crating carrots for the market. The U.P.A. is represented
gory,
The disturbing factor is that together with the Joint Distribution Committee and the National
Refugee Service in the 1942 U.J.A. campaign.
in time of war it is still
ry to answer some
movement hopes to interest in
rges.
• • •
the project . . . Frank Scervini,
FACTS SPEAK
a Gentile Zionist, certainly de-
e facts should speak for
ser-es to be introduced in this
elves. It's a peculiar thing,
column . . . He has been giving
every anti-Semitic charge
so much time to the propaga-
with it an un-American
tion of the Zionist ideal, that he
. When some one charges
,t Jews are not serving in the
has even neglected his business
Forces in their "proper
.. Mr. Scervini, a son of Ital-
rtions" they are actually
ian parents, was born in the
Ailing accusations against Draft LOOK AT THE RECORD
East Side of New York City some
Among the first fatalities from 35 years ago . . . He became a
. Jews have enlisted, and
Chicago
was
Sherman
Levine,
-ws are being drafted. Those
fervent supporter of the Zionist
charge to the contrary are an 18-year-old boy who died in movement through the convic-
action
at
Pearl
Harbor.
the old trick of distorting
tion — and these are his own
Perhaps the youngest boy • in words—that only through the
d they are sticking to
action
at
Pearl
Harbor
was
Mor-
rabble-rousers' line of ac-
rebuilding of Palestine as an In-
' American boards of not ris Samuelson, of New Orleans, dependent Jewish Homeland will
who
was
a
gunner
on
that
morn-
their duty.
the Jewish problem be solved
ing and fired more than 250 . .. He has come to this convic-
• • •
rounds
at
the
Japanese.
He
since
tion not only through exhaustive
W TO FIGHT IT
has been mustered out because it
e meth _ od of meeting the was discovered he falsified his study of the Jewish problem,
on is clear. Anyone who age when enlisting. He will re- but by reading the works of
these charges is un-Am- enlist when he is 18. He is now Moses Hess, Leon Pinsker, Dr.
Theodor Herzl, and other pro-
He belongs in the prison
17.
ponents of the Zionist ideal . .
box with William Dudley
The first fatality from Dela- "For two thousands years" —
lley. He should be rated with ware was Sergeant Harry Fine-
Nazis who seek to under- man, of Wilmington.
e morale in this country.
The first applicant for mem-
f anyone makes such a charge bership in the American Gold
your presence, ask for the Star Mothers of this war was
f, demand that he produce Mrs. Gertrude Kram, of New
confront him with the lists of York, whose 18-year-old son, a
s reported in casualty lists. gunner with a Navy crew aboard
w him the positive proofs a tanker, was killed in the tor-
d demand a retraction.
pedoing of his ship. She herself
• • •
was the daughter of a Gold Star
DAMAGE
mother.
the meantime, the damage
The first American soldier
being done and libels are brought,• home for burial on
American soil was Sergeant
g spread.
ut they will be counter cted. Herbert Keilson, of the United
en the time comes, the ecord States Marines, who was killed
ll be complete. The National aboard a cruiser during the at-
lwish Welfare Board is ckiing a tack on the Gilbert and Marshall
Itgnificent job not only ini serv- Islands some months ago.
One of the youngest war moth-
g the needs of Jewish soldiers
d sailors, but also in compiling ers in America is Mrs. Michael
1 lists and records. Thie dis- Newman, of Oregon, whose 17-
rs of the truth won't go far. year-old son enlisted, with her
truth will catch up! with, permission, in the Marines.
m.
ere is only one question we THE ZIONIST SCENE
To the many important tasks
to put to the doubtful ones.
you have faith in Uncle which Dr. Weizmann is now try-
ing to carry out during his stay
in America another one has been
our answer is yes, isn't it?
added .. . It is the securing of
en have faith in that spirit,
a fund for the publication in
d fight on in that spirit. The
New York of a weekly political
th will out!
journal with nation-wide circu-
lation . . . A personal letter to
this effect has now been sent out

est

AMERICA: Wednesday, Aug. 12, was marked by Jews the world
over with fasting and prayer on behalf of Jews suffering under Axis
rule . . . Rev. Kurt Molzahn asserted that he was a friend of the
Jewish people, although he had been accused of declaring the Jews
a danger to the United States . . . Blackout regulations must be
strictly conformed with by Jewish observers of the Sabbath, it was
ruled by Judge Morris Rothenberg.
The Metropolitan Council on Fair Employment Practice sent a
telegram to the President making "unqualified objection" to the
transfer of the Committee on Fair Employment Practice to the War
Manpower Commission . . . One Jew has received the Silver Star
and others have been reported killed or missing by the Jewish Wel-
fare Board's Bureau of War Records ... Senator James M. Mead told
the United States Senate that "the latest reports of the atrocities in
Poland add another black page in the history of persecution and
bloodshed."
Americans can do their part to help win the war "by fighting for
tolerance and fair play," a political mass meeting was told by Minne-
sota's Senator Joseph H. Ball . . . The title "citizen-soldier of the
free world" was conferred by the Army upon Arthur Szyk ... Lewis
Valentine Ulrey, Chairman of the Christian American, is using
anti-Semitism as a means of winning friends for his anti-labor
program.

OVERSEAS—AND PALESTINE: A new Jewish settlement
has been established on the northernmost border of Palestine . . .
Many Jewish women were reported by the Belgrade radio to have
been among the guerrillas killed in Yugoslavia . . . Thousands of
French Jews continue to be sent to Poland, while 3,000 foreign Jews
have escaped. Meanwhile, numerous Parisian policemen were sus-
pended for refusing to round up Jews in Paris . . . The Indian
movement for liberation is anti-Semitic as well as anti-British, Su-
bas Chandra Bose, pro-Nazi Indian nationalist, asserts.
Russian and Ukrainian versions of anti-Jewish films are being
shown to the conquered Russians . . The Berlin Schwarzer Korps
hopes that next Tish B'Av there will be no Jews left in Europe .. .
It is reported that Russian Jewish prisoners in the Heul Lubelsky
camp are forced to dig their own graves and are machine-gunned
immediately unon their arrival . . . The aim of the Axis forces to
wipe out religion completely was emphasized in the report of the
Inter-Allied Information Committee . . . Lithuanian and Latvian
Jewish forced laborers are segregated from the non-Jews working
on the harvest . . . 8,000 Saloniki Jews have been deported to a
Jewish ghetto in the Macedonian mountains.
Italians in Egypt have been asked by the Rome radio not to
buy any Jewish property there because an Axis victory will enable
them to obtain all Jewish belongings free . . . Four leaders of the
Warsaw Jewish community have committed suicide in protest
against the Nazi demand for 100,000 deportees . . . The mass "purge"
of 60,000 officials and 'members of the Fascist party in Italy was
ordered by Mussolini, who believed them pro-Jewish . . . Postwar
Poland will not press for emigration of Jews, even though it sym-
pathizes with the establishment of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine, it was declared by Prof. Olgierd Gorka.

(Copyright JPS)

Scervini says —"the peoples of
the world have been inflicting
sufferings and persecutions upon
the Jews . . . The time has ar-
rived when a stop should be
made once and for all to this
universal infliction . . . The na-
tions of the world owe the Jews
a debt of honor, and this debt
can be discharged only through
the establishment of Palestine
as a Jewish Homeland." . . .
Scervini traces his ancestry to
Garibaldi . . . He has personally
converted not only hundreds of
Gentiles to the Zionist ideal, but
has had hot arguments with
Jews who were lukewarm to the
Zionist program . . . Scervini's
friends are now planning to ten-
der him a reception on the oc-
casion of the fifth year since he
began actively to take part in
the movement . . .

Mystery Surrounds •

Historian Dubnow

LONDON (JPS) — - Prof. Si-
mon Dubnow, great Jewish his-
torian, who has been reported
dead and missing the past few
months, is not in Russia, although
he had been reported as having
been in Siberia. In a cable sent
by,, the Jewish Committee at
Tashkent to the Federation of
Jewish Relief here, the Commit-
tee asserts that Dubnow had
had never been evacuated with
the other Jews of Riga because
of his advanced years and that
the 83-year-old historian is either
in Riga, Kaunas or Vilna.

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