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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 28, 1942
World Wide News at a Glance
Jews and Non-Jews in British
Troops Venerate Mezuzas
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Information released
here by the headquarters of the Zionist Organization
of America states that Mezuzas are very much in de-
mand among British troops stationed in the Middle
East. Australians in particular—Jews as well as non-
Jews—regard the little scrolls as very lucky amulets.
Many of the Australian soldiers have sent Mezuzas
to their relatives at home urging that they should
be put on the doorpost as a guard against air raids.
In Nazi-Held Territories
Stricter Laws Against Italian Jews
ZURICH—New and more severe anti-Jewish regula-
tions for the purpose of "finally solving the Jewish
problem in Italy" are demanded in a campaign inaugu-
rated by Fascist student organizations in all Italian uni-
versities, according to reports from Rome reaching here.
The campaign is designed principally to counteract the
Catholic resistance in Italy to the application of the al-
ready existing anti-Jewish laws. It is being coupled with
attacks in the official Fascist press on the Catholic news-
paper "Italia" and other Catholic organs which continue
to combat the idea of the existence of a "Jewish prob-
lem."
The Italian anti-Jewish laws have been extended
to the Jews of Libya, according to a broadcast in the
Arab language from the Nazi radio station at Zeesen.
In the same broadcast it was also stated that approx-
imately 3,000 French Jews have taken refuge in Corsica
since the issuance of the order requiring Jews in oc-
cupied France to wear Magen Davids.
Rations for Polish Jews Curtailed
Measures indicating that the Nazi authorities in oc-
cupied Poland plan to further reduce the bread ration
for Jews there, aggravating the already acute situation
in the ghettos, are reported in the Nazi-controlled Polish
press received here. The Krakauer Zeitung reports the
execution of a Polish woman,• Sofia Kwiatkowska, in
the town of Oswiecim for providing Jews with bread.
A German baker. Emil Morgenwek, was executed also
as an accomplice in the deed, as were two Jews accused
of having purchased the bread. The two Jews are listed
in the Nazi paper as Sunman Israel Rath and Chaim
Israel Waxman. The use ih both instances of Israel as
"middle name is significant, indicating apparently, that
the Nazi regulation in Germany requiring every Jew to
assume Israel as a middle name is now to be adopted
in Poland. It has never been noted before in Poland.
Plan to Make Holland "Judenrein"
STOCKHOLM—The Nazi authorities intend to make
Holland "completely judenrein" by July 1, 1943, it was
announced this week over the Nazi-controlled Dutch
radio stations.
Nazi Persecutions in France
BERN—Hundrecisstof hunted Jews of France are
making desperate effeifts to cross the Franco-Swiss fron-
tier into Switzerland. but are being turned back by the
Swiss authorities. it is reported this week in the news-
paper La Sentinelle.
LONDON—"Frenchmen are not anti-Semites," Felix
Gouin. former vice-president of the Socialist group in
the French Chamher of Deputies, declared at a press
conference here after reaching Britain this week.
LISBON—The Paris press reaching here reports that
the 4,000 Jews recently deported from unoccupied
France have been sent to Polish Silesia to work in coal
mines. A transport with an additional 4,000 Jews frost
occunied France was similarly sent to the same section,
the Nazi-controlled Paris press disclosed.
Dutch and Belgian Jews Executed
LONDON—Several hundred Dutch and Belgian Jews
deported by the Nazis to eastern Europe were massacred
in Vilna by the German occupational authorities there,
the British radio renorted. The report stated that mas-
sacres of Jews are frequent in the Baltic countries and
are carried out by Gestapo units.
Rumania to Deport 80,000 Jews
GENEV•—The announcement that 80,000 Jews will
be deported from Rumania "to eastern territory" within
the next three months and that the expulsion of the
remaining Jewish-population will follow not later than
next spring, is made in Bucharest German newspapers
reaching here.
Mussolini "Worried" Over Zion
CAIRO—Reliable report7 reaching here from Rome
indicate a rift between Hitler and Mussolini over the
thorny question of a division of spoils not yet secured
in the Middle East.
Mussolini, his suspicions aroused by reports of Ger-
man plans for a Pan-Arabic Federation, is reported to
have forced a conference on the subject to ascertain
what share if any would be allotted to Italy of the
territory conquered by joint Axis forces. The confer-
ence is said to have taken place in Vienna early this
month. The German delegates, as Mussolini knew in
advance, were not of first-rate political importance,
which was merely another way of saying to Mussolini
that the inner councils of the Nazis were not particular-
ly interested in the Middle East. The chief Nazi dele-
gate was Hans Bohle, head of the department of the
Foreign Office which organizes the services of Germans
living abroad.
In Democratic Countries
MONTREAL—Predicting the eventual defeat of Hit-
lerism, Prime Minister Adelard Godbout of the Province
of Quebec, in a statement to the Jews, bade them not to
lose courage in face of the Nazi brutalities, against the
Jewish population in Europe. "Since the outbreak of
the present war", the statement reads, "the Jewish
people have given to the world, from the depths of
greatest trial, a splendid example of patience and
abnegation. With unshakeable confidence in the outcome
of this war, we ask the Jewish people not to lose cour-
age, but to exert its fullest efforts for victory. Since we
are certain of defending the Faith against Nego-Pagan-
ism, brotherly love against hate, and tolerance against
barbrism, with the help of God victory will be ours."
LIVERPOOL (JTA)—Acting upon the request of
the Dean of the Liverpool Cathedral, the Zionist!
Central Council here presented a Zionist flag to the
Cathedral to be included among the flags deposited
there at the United Nations' Day celebration.
In making the flag presentation, A. Hesleton,
chairman of the Zionist Council, voiced his apprecia-
tion of the dean's invitation to the Zionists. "The
Magen David flag has become a symbol of suffering
borne with fortitude and without thought of re-
venge," he said.
On the American Front
Will Not Force Jews to Emigra4e From
Post-War Poland, Sikorski Says
London Conclave on Aid to Russia
A conference to discuss ways and means for provid-
ing Jewish aid to Russia in response to the appeal for
such aid from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in
Kuibyshev will be held here on Aug. 30, it was an-
nounced by Morris Meyer, editor of the London Jewish.
Times and chairman of the United Jewish Committee.
Hero Killed in Single-Handed
Fight with 400 Nazis in Soviet
KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—The heroic death of Leizer
Papiernik, one of the nationally-known Jewish fight-
ers in the Russian army who twice in this war re-
ceived the highest award for bravery, was reported
in the Soviet press this week. He died on the front,
fighting against several hundred Germans who at-
tacked his detachment of 23 soldiers.
The report states: "Papiernik killed a substan-
tial number of Germans, but in the end he remained
one against 400."
The Soviet press reports the bestowing of the
title of the Soviet Union" upon Chaim Dyskin, 18-
year-old volunteer who also received the Lenin
Order and the Red Star Order, the two highest dec-
orations. Young Dyskin was wounded 14 times, but
did not leave his cannon and succeeded in destroy-
ing five enemy tanks and preventing them from
breaking the Russian position.
In the Palestine Homeland
Launch Anti-Shirker Campaign
JERUSALEM — An anti - shirker campaign was
launched here this week with posters calling for eco-
nomic, political and social ostracism for all who fail
to sign up for some aspect of the war effort.
The posters, put out by the central Jewish commit-
tee engaged in spurring all-out mobilization of the com-
munity, called for the following sanctions to be applied
against shirkers:
Dismissal from their jobs, ouster from political
parties and professional associations and unions, ban on
use of buses and other forms of public transportation,
no achrnission to entertainments and refusal of all
credits.
Training the Palestine Volunteers
Government officials, bankers, businessmen and em-
ployees in the Haifa district are flocking to join the
Palektine Volunteer Force to be trained with anti-air-
craft units, the press here reported. The Volunteer
Force will be trained and equipped by the army for
co-operation with regular army units.
Soviet Diplomats in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM—For the first time in the history of
Soviet Russia, diplomatic representatives of the Soviet
Government arrived here this week to address a Jewish
gathering. The conference, called by the Palestine
League to Aid Russia, was opened by Dr. Shlomo Kap-
lanski, leader of the Histadruth, in the presence of 400
delegates coming from all parts of Palestine.
The Soviet official delegation is composed of the
first secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Ankara and
the press attache of the embassy. The two Russian
representatives visited a Jewish colony on their way
from Haifa and listened with great interest to the des-
cription given by the settlers of the development of
the settlement, which is conducted on lines identical
with those of the collective settlements in Russia.
Impressed by the warm reception given to them by
the settlers, Petrenko, the first secretary of the ern-
baSsy, concluded his address with the Hebrew words
"Shalom Chaverim." He voiced the hope that the Jew-
ish colonists would realize the Jewish colonization idea
of Palestine "in your own way." In Tel Aviv the two
Russian diplomats visited at the headquarters of the
Histadruth.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Zionist Banner is Given Place
With United Nations' Flags
Quebec Premier Calls for Courage
LONDON—The Polish Government-in-Exile, while
ready to help the Jews to secure a Jewish State in Pal-
estine, will not insist the Jews migrate from post-war
Poland to their own national home, it was emphasized
in a message read in behalf of Gen. Sikorski, Polish
Premier. at a conference of the New Zionist Organiza-
tion of Britain held here this week. The message came
as a statement of policy for the entire Polish Cabinet.
"Our sympathies are with the Jewish longing for a
National Home—a State of their own in Palestine,"
the statement said. "Both from a moral and political
viewpoint, this problem is very simple to us, and we
hesitate to repeat how strongly the Polish nation and
the - Government favor these Jewish aims, especially
since such longing is expressed by our own Polish cit-
izens of Jewish nationality.
Condensed from Cables of the
Prominent Jews Ask Second Front
CHICAGO—Sixty prominent American Jews, •
eluding many rabbis from all parts of the country an
leading figures in Bnai Brith, American Jewish Co.
gress and other Jewish organizations, issued here
joint appeal to the Jews of the United States call'.
for a policy of all-out effort to defeat Hitlerism in 1'
by opening a Western front, supporting the appeal •
the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Russia for . •
and planes for the Russian Army, and "pledging
fight to the last drop of blood for the preservation •
American independence." Those who signed the appe-
include Rabbi Saul Silver, president of the Hebr -
Theological Seminary; Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein. Ne •
York; Rabbi Rudolf I. Coffee, San Francisco; Rata.
Felix S. Mendelsohn. Chicago; S. B. Komaiko; Ira Eise.
stein; Dr. Simon Federbush. president of Hapoel Ham:s
rachi of America; Lena L. Orlow, vice-president
Jewish Sabbath Alliance of America; Benjamin S...
uels, ex-president of the Bnai Brith District 6, Chicag.
Directors of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at a n
ber of universities throughout the country also join
in the appeal.
Private Capital Flows- to Palestine
NEW YORK—"A steady stream of private cani •
from Britain is flowing into Palestine in the form of
vestments in various industrial, commercial and a:
cultural undertakings." declared Capt. H. A. Leon
the annual meeting of the London-Palestine Investme.
Cornoration, according to an announcement made he
by the American Palestine Trading Corporation.
Bill to Aid Refugee Doctors
A bill that would enable refug
physicians to practice in the District of Columbia wi •
out taking the usual examinations was introduced
week by Rep. Jennings Randolph, Democrat, of W.--
Virginia and chairman of the House District Commit -
The bill would permit the District Commission on
censure to grant one year permits to physicians who,
its opinion, had sufficient medical training and e • s
ence. The permits would not be good for more than
months after the end of the war.
WASHINGTON
—
F. D. R.'s Statement on Prejudice
The transfer of the Committee on Fair Employme.
Practice to the War Manpower Commission was in
tended "to strengthen, and not to submerge it," Presi
dent Roosevelt said in a statement this -week Steph
Early, the President's press secretary, said in gi
out the statement that there "has apparently been
good deal of misrepresentation and consequent '-
understanding" about the shift. It has been charged Ilia
anti-Negro and anti-Semitic Congressmen sought to
the Committee by denying it money. Until the transf -
it had been financed through the President's Emer
gency Fu"
Predict Post-War Difficulties
BOSTON—The' hugeness of the task involved in th
post-war rehabilitation of the Jewry of Europe after th
fall of Nazism is emphasized in the Christian Scien
Monitor, one of America's leading daily newspapers, •
an article describing the Nazi massacres of Jews in P.
land, the Ukraine and the Baltic States, and the depo
tions of Jews from Germany and the occupied country:.
in Western Europe. "The plight of the Jews in Euro.
is more desperate now than it has ever been," the artiel
says. "If the Jews are to survive at all, the Uni
Nations must win the war. Even the slightest easeme
of the Jews' sufferings would seem to be depend-
upon a complete Axis collapse. But it is idle to ass •
that the downfall of Hitler and his partners, per se, •
solve the problems of the Jews or restore them to the
pre-war status."
•
Polish Jews May Join Forces Here
WASHINGTON—Polish Jews in America are ell:
ible to join Polish battalions in the U. S. Army, it w•
stated here following reports that such battalion_s ar
now being con'camplated.
Palestine Soldiers in New York
NEW'YORK—Thefirst group of Jewish. Palesti • -
soldiers to reach the United States since the outbrea
of the war have arrived this week in New York, it w'
announced by the Hadassah headquarters. The grou.
consisting of six men, have come here on a sped:
mission under British command. Sergeant Sinai Leich
ter is the leader of the group. He is a graduate of th
Hebrew University. The six, all Polish-born, are all •
tween the ages of 24 and 37. Several of them a
married.