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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, January 8, 1943

Spain Denies Visas to Jewish
Immigrants of Military Age

Refugees, 18 to 40, Among 5,000 Who Fled Nazis, Prohib-
ited from Seeking Safety Overseas, Despite Pleas of
Dr. Schwartz, JDC Head, and Polish Government

LONDON, (JTA)—The Spanish Government has re-
fused to issue exit visas to Jewish Refugees between the
ages of 18 and 40, who are among the 5,000 who in recent
months have arrived in Spain from Nazi-controlled coun-
tries in the hope of emigrating to overseas lands.
This decision was made public here following a con-
ference between the office of the Director of the Inter-
Governmental Refugee Committee and Dr. Joseph Sch-
wartz, European director of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, who was on a five-day visit to London.

Maintenance Costs $65,000 Monthly

It is understood that Dr. Schwartz stressed the neces-
sity of securing emigration facilities for the refugees dur-
ing his conference with committee officials and in discus-
sions with Jewish leaders here. About 3,000 of the refu-
gees, Dr. Schwartz reported, are concentrated in Barce-
lona while the remainder are in six or seven smaller towns.
The JDC, he said, is spending about $65,000 monthly to
support them.
Partial support for the 40 per cent of the refugees
who are Polish citizens is being provided by the Polish
Government, which, it is reported, has unsuccessfully in-
tervened with the Spanish authorities in an attempt to se-
cure exit visas for those of military age.

Haven Sought in North Africa

A suggestion that the United Nations grant temporary
haven in North Africa to those refugees "who have suc-
ceeded in escaping from Nazi-held territory at the risk of
their lives," is being advanced by various quarters, it is re-
ported in the Sunday Observer. The paper states
that 20,000 refugees might be sheltered in North Africa
until they could be repatriated after the war.

United Nations Planning
Punishment for Axis Crimes

Facts Being Assembled, London Reports; Prof. Sheldon
Glueck of Harvard on Court Staff; Congressman Celler
Demands Immediate Trial of Nazis Where Possible

WASHINGTON, (JTA) Secretary of State Cordell
Hull this week reiterated that the United Nations are
giving full attention to the problem of punishing Axis
war criminals, and added- that- the appropriate officials
concerned are concentrating on assembling the necessary
facts that will lead to the punishment of those responsible
for the atrocities against Jews and other innocent civil-
ians in occupied Europe. Mr. Hull, however, would not
comment on London reports that definite plans for an in-
ternational criminal court were well advanced.
The reports from London stated that plans already
have been drawn up for the immediate appointment of the
court's staff, and that the American appointee to the court
would be Prof. Sheldon Glueck, professor of criminal law
and criminology at Harvard University.

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

UNITED STATES—

Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes is "a supporter of the movement
for the establishment of a Jewish com-
monwealth in Palestine" and no anti-
Zionist influence has caused him to
change his mind, America's great fight-
ing liberal told the Independent Jewish
Press Service, in commenting on the dis-
closure by the Press Service of a con-
spiracy among anti-Zionist rabbis to use
American government influence to de-
feat Zionist purposes in Palestine.
Repercussions of charges that the
Avukah, Student Youth Zionist Fed-
eration, has taken "the Communist line"
in its outlook on Jewish life were heard
here at the annual convention at Cream
Ridge, N. J., of Habonim, Labor Zionist
Youth, which is considering separation
from the Avukah organization.
Members of the Jewish National
Workers' Alliance throughout the coun-
try are urged to join committees being
formed by all sections of the Zionist
movement and to conduct protest meet-
ings against the anti-Zionist rabbis who
have formed the American Council for
Judaism in a communication issued by
David Pinski, president, and Louis Segal,
Secretary, of the Alliance.
"We are fighting for the right of men
to live together as members of one fam-
ily rather than as masters and slaves,"
President Franklin D. ;Roosevelt de-
clared in a statement approving of the
observance during Feb. 19-28 of Broth-
erhood Week, sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and Jews. This
will be the 10th annual observance of
the period, with more than 2,000 com-
munities expected to join in the cere-
monies.
Applicants for a commission in the
United States Naval Reserve who go to
the naval procurement office at the
Widener Bldg., Philadelphia, are given
a form sheet in which the applicant is
asked to describe his religion, it. is dis-
closed in the current issue of In Fact.

Franz Werfel, Jewish-born novelist
who is now a refugee from his native
Czechoslovakia, regards the Catholic
Church as "the purest power and ema-
nation sent by God to this earth to fight
the evils of materialism and atheism,
and to bring revelation to the poor soul
of mankind," according to a letter which
he addressed to Archbishop Joseph
Francis Rummel of New Orleans.
Anti-Semites will find excuse for their
hatred of Jews if a Jewish State is es-
tablished in Palestine, it was asserted by
Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson, spiritual
leader of Temple Ema,nu-El, New York.

PALESTINE—

The Palestine Government has sanc-
tioned the admission into Palestine of
6,000 Jewish refugee children, it was re-
vealed by the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, which has assumed the responsibil-
ity toward the Government for the main-
tenance of such entrants and of others
who might be admitted thereafter. This
disclosure was made in a statement is-
sued by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the
Jewish Agency, and Leo Herrman, sec-
retary of the Keren Hayesod.
In a New Year message interpreted in
some quarters as encouragement to the
views of Dr. Judah L. Magnes, Sir Har-
old Maclqichael, High Commissioner for
Palestine, urged Jewish and Arab lead-
ers to seek "peace and good will even if
you incur the odium of the irresponsi-
ble."
Disapproval of Dr. Judah L. Magnes,
President of the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, for engaging in "political ac-
tivities" was expressed in a resolution
adopted at a meeting of the Tel Aviv
Friends of the Hebrew University.
Nineteen graduates of the Haifa Nau-
tical School, the only training institute
for Jewish seamen in the world, received
their diplomas at a graduation cere-
mony here.

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More War Plants Ban Queries on Race, Religion

Three more war industries in New Jersey, each hold-
ing Government contracts, have agreed to delete refer-
ences to race and religion from their application blanks,
the President's Committee on Fair Employment Practice
announced this week.
The firms are: the Pollak Manufacturing Co., in Ar-
lington ; the Tung-Sol Radio Tubes Division in Newark,
and the Thomas A. Edison Co., in West Orange.

Resolution Urges U. S. Outlaw Anti Semitism

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NEW YORK, (JTA)—A demand that the Nazis and
their followers who are responsible for the massacre of
thousands of Jews in Europe be brought to justice now,
whenever possible, was voiced here this week by Congress-
man Emanuel Celler of New York, addressing a protest
meeting called by the Jewish Peoples Committee.
A resolution demanding that anti-Semitism be out-
lawed in the United States was adopted at the meeting.

Warsaw Deportation Order Made Public

NEW YORK, (JTA)—An authentic copy of the de-
portation order issued by the Nazi authorities in the War-
saw ghetto, which heralded the beginning of the mass de-
portation and extermination of the Jews in Warsaw was
made public this week by the American Representation
of the General Workers Union of Poland. The decree, re-
ceived through underground channels, precipitated the
suicide of Adam Chernikov, president of the Warsaw
Jewish community last summer. The order warns that
any Jew who evades deportations and is subsequently
disCovered, will be shot.

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though those who supplemented our organization

did their best to fill the places of those in service, we

fear that we were unable to adequately serve the

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Free Churches Protest Persecution of Jews

STOCKHOLM (By Cable, Religious News Service)—
Norwegian Free Church groups have added their endorse-
ment to the protest of Lutheran leaders against Nazi
persecution of the Jews.
They include the Salvation Army, the Methodist
Church Mission Society, the Norwegian Baptist Congrega-
tions, the Norwegian Sunday School Society, the Christian
Student Society, the Christian Doctors' Society and the
Deacons' Society.
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