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Friday, December 25, 1942
World News in Review
Compiled from Cables of Independent
Jewish Press Service
UNITED STATES—
A Christian Council on Palestine was organized
in New York by 50 representative Christion leaders
who declared that "the destiny of the Jews is a
matter of immediate concern to the Christian con-
science. Dr. Henry A. Atkinson was elected chair-
man of the Council.
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Rabbi Barnett Brickner of Cleveland has been
elected administrative chairman of the Committee
on Army and Navy Religious Activities of the
Jewish Welfare Board, Frank L. Weil, Board presi-
dent, announced.
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Vaad Hahatzalah has secured visas for 50
rabbis now in Russian Siberia . . . Congressman
Hamilton Fish has asked the Secretary of State
to extend aid to persecuted Jews . . . Senator
Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado has told a gathering
of 1,000 in New York that one of the war aims
should be to make the Jews members of the family
of nations . . . David M. Bressler, noted Jewish
Welfare leader, died in New York.
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PALESTINE—
Polish consuls denied that Jewish refugees are
being discriminated against in Russia . . . A 30-day
ban on amusements has been declared as an ex-
pression of sympathy with suffering world Jewry
. . . A woodland will be planted in Maale Hamisha
in honor of Miss Henrietta Szold.
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OVERSEAS—
Moshe Shertok, political chief of Jewish
Agency for Palestine, warned in London that a hard
struggle lies ahead for Palestine and the Zionist
cause . . . A month of mourning has been fixed for
English youth . . . Information on lost Jews has
been withheld by the Germans . . . Pro-German
business houses are being boycotted by the Swedes
. . . The Vatican appeal to the Germans for an
investigation of charges of Nazi atrocities has
fallen on deaf Hitlerite ears . . Thousands of
Jewish homes and farms were confiscated in
Bukowina.
Jews of U. S. flail Declaration
Of Allies on Nazi Massacres
American, British Press Demands Editorially That United
Nations Substitute Action to Stop Atrocities in
Place of Threats for Postwar Retribution
NEW YORK (JTA)—The American Jewish Con-
gress and the Jewish Labor Committee this week hailed
the joint declaration issued by the Allied Nations con-
demning the Nazi slaughter of Jews in Europe and
pledging retribution.
The American press, including the New York Times,
New York Post, The Nation, The New Republic, carried
articles describing the Nazi massacre of Jews and ask-
ing action to force the Nazis to halt their extermination
of European Jewry.
"It is good, but not good enough, that the United
States has formally joined with 10 other governments
and the Fighting French in denouncing the systematic
extermination of the Jewish people in Europe," the
New York Post editorial declares. "It is not good
enough because it will not stop the extermination. The
serious purpose to stop the extermination should result
in a serious plan, capable of doing so. The proposal to
deal out 'retribution' after the war to those responsible
for the mass murder does not meet the conditions for a
serious plan."
The New York Times, in its editorial, stated that
"the most tragic aspect of the situation is the world's
helplessness to stop the horror while the war is going
on."
Council of Churches Denounces Nazi Massacres
A declaration of Christian concern over the fate of
the Jews in Nazi-occupied countries and condemnation
of "the violence and inhumanity which Nazi leaders
have publicly avowed toward all Jews" was made pub-
lic this week by the Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America.
LONDON.- (JTA)—Action now, rather than retri-
bution after the war, was demanded this week in
editorials in the British press commenting upon the joint
declaration of the Allied Nations on the Nazi mass-
executions of Jews, in which the Nazis were warned
of post-war reprisals.
The warning of the Allied Nations was broadcast
in twenty-three languages to all countries in Nazi- occu-
pied Europe.
Demand Allies Warn France on Restrictions
A direct Allied warning to France in view of the
new anti-Jewish decrees announced in Parish this week
was demanded today by Prof. Selig Brodetsky, address-
ing a meeting of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The Nazi-controlled Paris radio reported a state-
ment by the Vichy Commissioner for Jewish Affairs,
Additional World News on Pages 11 and 12
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THE JEWISH
Page Three
NEWS
World's Reaction to Nazi Massacres
LONDON—Great Britain, Russia, the United
States lead the United Nations in a joint declar-
ation condemning the bestial policy of the Nazis
toward the Jews and warning that all guilty of
crimes against the Jews may expect retribution
after the war. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
read the declaration in the House of Commons
and the Lord Chancellor read a similar statement
in the House of Lords. It was simultaneously re-
leased in Washington and Moscow. Mrs. Churchill
expressed her "sorrow and indignation" in a
message to" a women's Zionist demonstration in
London.
LONDON—Diplomatic sources reported that
the United Nations were also considering ease-
ment of immigration restrictions, with each coun-
try admitting a certain number of Jews and neu-
trals letting down some barriers at their
frontiers.
LONDON—The House of Lords adopted a
motion denouncing the "deliberate extermina-
tion" of the Polish people, especially Jews, and
warning that retribution would be exacted. The
Labor and Liberal Parties issued special state-
ments appealing to the conscience of mankind
on behalf of the Jews.
LONDON—The Bishop of London declared in
the House of Lords that the United Nations
must assume the obligation of refugee settle-
ment.
JERUSALEM—A thirty-day period of mourn-
ing for the Jewish victims of the Nazis was de-
clared throughout Palestine, with all places of
recreation muting their music and other festiv-
ities.
JERUSALEM—The Jewish Agency appealed
to the United Nations to translate their sympathy
into "refuge for homeless people."
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