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British Church Officials
Press Appeal to Aid Jews
Urge Immediate Government Action on Joint Plea Issued
by Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster and
Moderator of Free Church Council
Sensing the need for an immediate and concrete plan
to rescue the Jewish populations from Nazi-dominated
countries before Adolf Hitler goes ahead with his threat
to execute countless thousands of them in retaliation for
his recent setbacks, church leaders of Great Britain this
week pressed the issue before their government.
(In Washington a resolution urging the United States
government to do all in its power to aid the Jews in Nazi-
occupied Europe was introduced in the House by Rep.
Arthur G. Klein, (D), of New York. The bill was placed
before the committee on foreign affairs.)
Assurance that all church leaders in Britain were
100 per cent behind the joint appeal by the Archbishops
of Canterbury, York and Wales, urging the establishment
of places of refuge for Jewish victims of persecution, was
reported this week in cables from London by the Religious
News Service.
Press Plea for Immediate Refuge
With the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of
Canterbury, presiding, the problems facing Jews in Nazi-
dominated areas was discussed in London at a private
meeting of members of the Houses of Commons and
Lords. At the same time Cardinal Hinsley, Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Westminster, and Moderator John S.
Whale of the Free Church Council, issued a plea in the
name of the whole Anglican Episcopate of the three pro-
vinces, asking the British government to take the lead in
initiating a move on the part of the United Nations as well
as the neutral countries to find "immediate refuge" for
European Jews.
Chief Rabbi Expresses Gratitude
In the meantime, Dr. Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief
Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British
Empire, issued a statement in London expressing gratitude
for the Protestant and Catholic appeals but added that
"nearly six weeks have elapsed and nothing seems as yet
to have been attempted in the actual task of human
s alvage."
"We do not underrate the difficulties involved, al-
:though few of them are of such nature that the might and
practical wisdom and humanity of Britain cannot over-
come them," the Chief Rabbi added.
Await Result of Conference
LONDON. (Religious News Service) — The meet-
ing of members of the House of Commons and Lords,
presided over by the Most Rev. William Temple, Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, was adjourned to await 'the result
of a conference between Deputy Prime Minister Clement
R. Atlee, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Home Secre-
tary Herbert Morrison, Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley
and all-party deputation of members of Parliament, led
by Laborite Arthur Greenwood.
Suggestions made by the Parliamentary deputation
included:
1. An approach to the German government through
appropriate channels with the proposal that Jews_ under
Nazi control be allowed to emigrate.
2. An announcement that the British Government,
the British Dominions, and Colonies, the United States and
other Allied nations, will afford sanctuary to Jewish
refugees.
3. Facilities for transit of Jews to safe territories.
4. Encouragement to neutral countries to help in the
rescue and reception of Jews.
British Jews Adopt Program
LONDON, (JTA)—A four-point "immediate relief
program" for Jews in countries liberated from the Nazis
was adopted at a special conference of representatives of
70 Jewish organizations called by the Joint Foreign Com-
mittee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The conference, representing all shades of Jewish
life in England, appointed a temporary executive which
includes Sir Max Bonn, Lionel Rothschild, Prof. Norman
Bentwich and others, to carry out the following decisions:
1. To enroll and train Jewish volunteers for relief
work in Europe. These volunteers will be organized into
special Jewish relief units and imediately after the armis-
tice will be sent to areas largely inhabited by Jews. The
units are to operate under the military command of the
United Nations.
2. To raise funds for Jewish relief work in countries
where Jewish life has been devastated by the Nazis.
3. To enter into negotiations with the Council of
Voluntary Organizations in Britain which cooperates with
the military authorities in planning relief missions for
countries liberated by the Nazis.
4. To attempt the formation of a world-wide Jewish
Relief Committee in which American, British, Palestinian
and other Jewish groups would participate.
Jews In Sahara Labor Camps Treated Severely
LONDON, (—JTA)—There are nine camps in the
Sahara desert for Jewish forced laborers, who are treated
more severely than any others, according to the account
given to the Independent Jewish Press Service correspond-
ent here by a Polish Jew who escaped from one of the
camps, where he had been interned for 27 months. When
he escaped, on January 1st, the liberation of the Jews
interned in these camps had not yet begun, he stated.
Fighting French headquarters here asserted that
anti-Jewish programs are being encouraged in the in-
terior of Algeria.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February S, 1943
NEWS ON PAGES 10, 14
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Frederick F. Grennan, prominent
New York lawyer who has been active
in many Jewish communal enterprises
and was Chairman of the Allotment
Committee of the United Jewish Appeal
in 1941, has become a major in the
United States Army. He was an artillery
officer in the last war.
While giving public protestations of
sympathy with the plight of the Jews,
Prime Minister Wladislaw Sikorski of
the Polish Government-in-Exile gave an
exhibition of anti-Semitic discourtesy
and abuse during a meeting with Jewish
leaders in Mexico City, it was charged
in New York by the Federation of
Polish Jews, on the basis of information
received here from its affiliated organ-
ization in Mexico, according to a report
in Jewish Morning Journal. Sikorski,
who had been in Mexico to arrange for
the trasportation from Iran of 10,000
Poles to remain in Mexico for the dura-
tion of the war, received a delegation
of Jewish leaders in Mexico. Instead of
discussing postwar problems as they af-
fect Polish Jews, General Sikorski im-
mediately launched into an attack on
Polish Jews in Mexico, saying that he
had been told by Mexican officials that
they were guilty of sharp practices. He
also is alleged to have condemned Mexi-
can Jews for their failure to act partriot-
ically. The Jewish delegation is report-
ed to have been stunned by this out-
burst and to have told Sikorski that he
was merely repeating the libels convey-
ed to him by anti-Semitic officials and
that they expected more sympathetic
consideration from one who is familiar
with the tactics which anti-Semites have
used against Jews in various countries,
including Poland.
Despite the occupation of North
Africa by American and British troops,
the Nazi-inspired laws of Algeria, Mor-
occo and Libya remain in full force and
effect as far as the Jews are concerned,
although there is a gradual release of
Jews from prisons, internment and slave
labor camps, according to the consensus
of opinion among American newspaper
correspondents reporting back to their
home papers and agencies
In tribute to Rev. J. K. Goldbloom,
veteran Zionist leader and director of
the Jewish National Fund of Canada,
formerly president of the British Zion-
sits' Federation, the Zionists of Canada
are planting a grove of "70 times 70
trees" in one of the Keren Kayemeth
forests, it was announced at a dinner
held here under the auspices of the
United Zionist Council of Canada on the
occasion of Mr. Goldbloom's 70th birth-
day.
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PALESTINE
The Greek General Consul in Jerusa-
lem has released a press announcement
on behalf of the Greek Minister of De-
fense imposing conscription on Jews
between 21 and 30 years of age who arc
Greek subjects residing in Palestine.
They are entitled to join the Greek
Army, the British forces or Palestinian
units.
A budget for 1943-4 involving an ex-
penditure of $3,840,000, a 20% increase
over last year's £800,000-budget, was
itntroduced by Mayor Israel Rokach at
a meeting of the Tel Aviv Municipality.
This constitutes the all-Jewish city's
first civic appropriation of this size. The
main features of the budget include
£200,000 for health, £160,000 for educa-
tion and £100,000 for social welfare.
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OVERSEAS
The Nazis threaten the extermination
of all the Jews of Tunisia before they
retreat, it is'reported by Jews who have
escaped from Tunisia to Algeria. These
refugees assert that the Nazis, aided by,
the Arab legion of the ex-Mufti of Jeru-
salem, have already massacred a great
many Jews.
The Vichy government has ordered
Jews bearing French-sounding names to
assume "Jewish-sounding" names and
surnames.
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Churchmen Urge
Action to Aid Jews
NEW YORK (JPS)—An appeal
to the United Nations to take im-
mediate action to supplement
their December denunciation of
Nazi atrocities against Jews by
opening all avenues of asylum
was adopted here by the board of
trustees of the Church Peace
Union, "composed of men repre-
senting various religious denomi-
nations and political affiliations."
The resolution expressed the
prominent churchmen's "sense of
horror and indignation at the
cruelties being visited upon all
the peoples subject to Nazi ty-
ranny . . . particularly we protest
against the ruthlessness of the
deliberate program of the Ger-
man government under Hitler to
exterminate all the Jews of
Europe.
"We urge that the United Na-
tions give their i m m e d is t e
thought and attention to the pos-
sibilities of Palestine as a present
place of refuge for some of the
Jews now living in deadly peril.
We recognize that Palestine as a
homeland cannot solve all the
problems of the Jews, but we
urge that consideration be given
to the policy of opening this
country to large-scale immigra-
tion at the end of the war." .
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