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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, February S., 1943

Jewish Committee Urges
;Palestine Immigration

Van Paassen Quits
Jewish Army Group

U. S. Jews Give $74,885,285
To Aid Million Flee Nazis

Pledges Full Support in War Effort; Demand Equal Rights
for Jews in All Lands; Judge Joseph Proskauer
Elected to Head the Committee

United Jewish Appeal Gives Report on Relief, Rehabilifa4
Resettlement of Hitler Victims; Large-Scale
Hon and
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Emigration From Europe Cited

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Pledging "every effort and
every sacrifice to the winning of the war," the 36th an-
nual meeting of the American Jewish Committee on Sun-
day adopted a statement urging the United Nations and
`those who shall frame the terms of peace" to bring re-
lief to Jewish victims of Axis barbarism by effecting

American Jews contributed $74,885,285 during the
past 10 years for the rescue of the victims of Nazi op-
pression, it was announced by the United Jewish Appeal,
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine on the occa-
sion of the tenth anniversary of Hitler's accession to
power.

"their repatriation, rehabilitation
and the complete restoration and
safeguarding of their equal civil
and religious rights."
The statement also affirmed the
Committee's desire "to cooperate
with those Jews who wish to
settle in Palestine" and approved
for Palestine an international
trusteeship responsible to the
United Nations for the purposes
of safeguarding Jewish settle-
ments in and Jewish immigration
into Palestine, protecting the
fundamental rights of • all inhab-
itants as well as the holy plates
of all faiths, and preparing Pales-
tine "to become, within a reason-
able period of years, a self-
governing Commonwealth."
At the same time it emphasiz-
ed that "settlement in Palestine
although an important factor,
cannot alone furnish and should
not be expected to furnish the
solution of the problem of post-
war Jewish rehabilitation."
North Africa Situation
The statement was adopted
following the presentation of a
report on overseas activities of
the American Jewish Committee
by George Z. Medalie.
Describing the situation of
Jews in various countries, Mr.
Medalie said that "the North
African situation today is frank-
ly distressing, nothwithstanding
the sincerity of our government
in its declared purposes with
respect to Jews who reside there."
He termed "amazing" the
statement made last week by
General Giraud that the Jewish
question was an internal one in
which the world as a whole has
no interest, and declared that it
is the duty of American Jews,
together with other Americans,
"to insist that what we fight for
throughout the world shall not
be mocked in one part of it under
our own control."
Judge Joseph M. Proskauer
was elected president of the
American Jewish Committee at
the meeting which took place at
the Hotel Astor. Jacob Blaustein
was elected chairman of the
General Committee and Alan M.
Strook chairman of the Admins-
trative Committee. Ira Yonker
was elected treasurer and N. M.
Ohrbach assistant treasurer.
Lessing J. Rosenwald and Carl
J. Austrian were re-elected vice-
presidents. New vice-presidents
are James H. Becker, Chicago;
Monte M. Lemann, New Orleans;
Jesse H. Steinhart, San Francisco,
and Victor S. Riesenfeld, New
York.
Statement Not A Creed
Judge Proskauer, in accepting
the presidency, declared that the
statement adopted by the meet-
ing marks the course of conduct
of the American Jewish Corn-
mittee in the present emergency
and is not a creed. He emphasiz-
ed that he will loyally and faith-
fully carry out the terms of the
statement, the acceptance of
which he urged.
Maurice Wertheim, the retir-
ing president, who presided, ex-
pressed his belief that the state-
ment voices the views of the
overwhelming majority of the
members of the Committee, even
though they continue to enter-
tain differing views on Jewish
life. He stated.
"This Committee, welcoming
all American Jews within its
fold regardless of their religious
or political views, is intended to
represent a cross section of Am-
erican Jewry. Our effort to find
common ground on this vexed
question seems to me to be in-
dicative of what all Jewish direc-
tion should be, namely, in line
with the American motto, 'Un-
ited We Stand, and Divided We
Fall.''
Pledge Every Sacrifice
The statement reads: "At this
time. when our country is en-
gaged in an epoch-making war e

we, who are united with our
brethren of all faiths in the com-
mon bond of American citizen-
ship, pledge every effort and
every sacrifice to the winning of
the war, the -achievement for the
whole world of the Four Free-
doms and the blessings of the
Atlantic Charter and the estab-
lishment of a just and enduring
peace.
"We urge upon the United
Nations and upon those who
shall frame the terms of peace
the relief from the havoc and
ruin, inflicted by Axis barbarism
on millions of unoffending hu-
man beings, especially Jews, their
repatriation, rehabilitation and
the complete restoration and safe-
guarding of their equal civil and
religious rights. To the extent
that economic conditions in the
war torn lands shall make emi-
gration therefrom of their na-
tionals necessary, we ask the im-
plementation by those who shall
frame the terms of peace of a
program which shall under in-
ternational supervision facilitate
voluntary settlement elsewhere
under the most favorable,. con-
ditions.
Complete Equality
"We ask of the United Nations
and those who shall frame the
terms of peace, reaffirmation of
the fundamental principle that
Jewish citizens of every land,
fulfilling their obligation of com-
plete loyalty to their respective
countries, shall be guaranteed to
the correlative right of complete
equality. We applaud the recent
statement of the Secretary of
State, that we must have a world
in which Jews like all others 'are
free to abide in peace and in
honor.'
"We recognize that there are
now more than a half million
Jews in Palestine who have built
up a sound and flourishing eco-
nomic life and a satisfying spirit-
ual and cultural life, and who
now constitute substantially one-
third of the population, and that
while this Palestinian immigra-
tion has been a blessed ameliora-
tion of the condition of this large
number of Jews, and has helped
to bring about great develop-
ments of the country itself, set-
tlement. in Palestine although an
important factor, cannot alone
furnish and should not be ex-
pected to furnish the solution of

Community Council
To Aid Societies
In Cultural Efforts

PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

Programming assistance to
constituent organizations was an-
nounced this week by the Jewish
Community Council in the form
of speakers, films, musical talent
and discussion material. The
Council's staff is prepared to con-
fer with program chairmen to
assist them in arranging their
cultural meetings.

BRONXVILLE, N. Y. (JPS)—
Pierre van Paassen, distinguished
author who has devoted himself
to the Committee for a Jewish
Army since its establishment,
has resigned as National Chair-
man of that organization. Mr.
Van Paassen said that he had
Aaron Rosenberg is chairman
severed his connection with the
Committee for reasons of health of the education committee of
and to give his attention to the Council. It is announced that
requests by local groups have
"pressing private business."
resulted in the establishment by
the problem of post-war Jewish the Council of a file of program
resources and suggestions.
rehabilitation.
"We affirm our deep sympathy
For assistance in arranging
with and our desire to cooperate programs, for specific meetings
with those Jews who wish to or for an entire year's cultural
settle in Palestine. With respect work, organizations are asked to
to the government of Palestine, communicate with the Council
we recognize wide divergence of at 803 Washington Blvd. Bldg.,
opinion and that under existing CH. 1657. Available program ma-
conditions there should be no terial includes programs on the
preconceived formula at this work of the Council, Brother-
time as to the permanent politi- hood.Week, subjects dealing with
cal structure which shall obatin various Jewish problems nation-
there.
ally and throughout the world,
Policy of Friendship-
educational activities, inter-cul-
"We endorse the policy of tural education in America,
friendship and cooperation be- Civilian Defense and other war
ween Jews and Arabs in Pales- efforts, etc.
tine and urge that every possible
avenue be followed to establish
Ship More Food Parcels
good will and active collabora-
To Prisoners in Germany
tion between them.
"We approve for Palestine an
The second shipment of pack-
international trusteeship respons-
ages to Jewish war prisoners in
ible to the United Nations for
the following purposes: (a) To Germany is being prepared by
safeguard the Jewish settlement the Federation, for Polish Jews.
in and Jewish immigration into These packages, containing es-
Palestine and to guarantee ade- sential foods and clothing, are
shipped through special permis-
quate scope for future growth
sion of the U.S. Wartime Export
and development to the full ex-
Division and reach their destina-
tent of the economic absorptive
tion through the International
capacity of the country; (b) To
Red Cross in Geneva, Switzer-
safeguard and protect the funda-
land.
mental rights of all inhabitants;
The following women from the
(c) To safeguard and protect the
holy places .of all faiths; (d) To Ezra Women's Division assisted
prepare the country to become, in preparing the packages for
within a reasonable period of shipment: Mesdames S. Cohen,
years, a self-governing Common- E. Feffer, M. Kane, C. Loberman,
wealth under a Constitution and C. Weinberg, S. Weinberg and
a bill of rights that will safe- B. Zipper.
At a meeting of the Federa-
guard and protect those purposes
and basic rights for all."
tion Executive, together with

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His Wife Could Eat No Lean

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CAMPUS and WOODWARD
RANDOLUH at MONROE

The United Jewish Appeal re-
ported that more than 1,000,000
Jews were saved from destruc-
tion as a result of the relief, re-
habilitation and resettlement pro-
grams carried on by the Joint
Distribution Committee, United
Palestine Appeal and National
Refugee Service.
Aid Emphasized
Emphasizing that the far-flung
relief and rehabilitation efforts
of the JDC, the work of mass
colonization and upbuilding in
Palestine and the aid to refugees
in the United States were a moral
as well as material bulwark for
the millions of Jews who were
the target of Nazi attack, the
United Jewish Appeal pointed to
the large-scale Jewish emigra-
tion from Europe as an index of
the scope of the reconstruction
achievements supported by
American Jews. •
Reviewing the decade of de-.
spair brought on by Nazi oppres-
sion, the UJA reported that dur-
ing the past 10 years 305,000
Jews had found homes in Pales-
tine, 208,000 refugees had emi-
grated to the United States, and
125,000 had found a refuge in
South America.
750,000 Escape
Together with the smaller
numbers of Jews who found a
haven in remote sections of the
world, the UJA said, the total
number of Jews who were helped
to escape from Nazi-dominated.
Europe since Jan. 30, 1933,
amounted to 750,000.
Of the total expenditures for
rescue during the past 10 years,
the JDC spent $40,000,000; the
United Palestine Appeal, $23,-
676,107; and the National Refugee
Service (during the period from
1939 to 1942), $11,209,178.48.

Ezra Women's Division and soc-
iety representatives, the month
of February was ,dedicated to-
wards organizing Jewish Com-
mittees in Michigan which will
be contacted by personal repre-
sentatives of the Federation.

After General De Kalb was
mortally wounded at the battle
of Camden, S.C., three Jews, Jac-
ob De Leon, Major Benjamin
Nones and Jacob de la Motta,
carried de Kalb from. the field,
during the Revolutionary War.

