Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Dr. Chaim. Weizmann, President of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, has accepted
honorary membership in the Jewish Na-
tional Workers' Alliance on the occasion
of its 30th anniversary, it is announced
by Louis Segal, secretary. A testimonial
dinner honoring Dr. Weizmann is sched-
uled for April 11, at which time he will
be officially inducted into the Alliance.
. In honor of the 30th anniversary year
of the Alliance, a new colony bearing the
name of the group is to be established on
Jewish National Fund land near Tel Aviv.
First Class Machinist's Mate Henry
Kirschman, 29, of Hamden, Conn., has re-
ceived a citation from the Navy Depart-
ment for an exploit that is remarkable for
a Navy man—the capture of 11 prisoners
and their delivery to Army authorities.
. . . Kirschman and a fellow-crewman, on
their destroyer, forced the surrender of
the crew of an enemy patrol vessel during
the American invasion of Fedala, French
Morocco. Following their capitulation, the
11 prisoners were herded ashore by Kirsh-
man and marched, under heavy fire, to
American Army headquarters.
`Might Offend Arabs
In an interview with a native of Mor-
occo who asked that his name be with-
held, I. F. Stone, in PM, reports that his
informant contradicts the impression in
certain State Department circles that re-
peal of the Nazi Nuremberg laws in North
Africa "might offend the Arabs." . . . Mr.
Stone says that his informant • also con-
tradicts the vague impression in the same
State Department circles that there is
anti-Arab legislation in North Africa
which had to be repealed along with the
Nuremberg laws, since Marshal Lyautey
never promulgated any anti-Arab laivs:
Jewish refugees in • Poland and neigh-
boring countries were aided by the Amer-
* ican. Red-,Cross early in the war according
to a statement issued here by the Ameri-
can Red Cross, which is starting its 1943
War Fund drive for $125,000,000. . . . With
the extension of the German occupation,
aid had to be withdrawn from subjugated
countries, and help provided for refugees
who made their way to the Middle East
and other places.
Three hundred prominent members of
the Jewish communities of the United
States are signatories to an appeal issued
by the United Jewish War Effort urging
support of the campaign being conducted
by the British War Relief Society. Among
the signatories are representatives of gov-
ernment, the rabbinate, arts, business, the
judiciary, philanthropy, law and other
fields.
PALESTINE
The great rejoicing of the native Jews
at the entry of the British troops into
Tripoli is described in letters reaching
Jerusalem from Palestinian Jewish sold-
iers who entered. Tripoli with the Eighth
Army. The letters state that the Jews
were particularly delighted when they
learned that Palestinian Jewish units were
included among the occupying forces. One
of the soldiers wrote: "I would have liked
to see the same joy among the Jews of
Europe."
A reliable report reaching Jerusalem
reveals that the deportations of Jews from
many towns and villages in Bohemia and
Moravia are continuing and that the Pro-
tectorate will be "Judenrein" by March
31, 1943, the same date prescribed for the
completion of the deportations of Berlin
Jewry according to a report received by
the Ecumenical Church Council in Geneva.
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... It was also disclosed that the Protect-
orate Official Gazette, on Dec. 1, 1942,
published an order virtually dooming
Jewry to death by starvation, since it ex-
tended the list of foods whose sale to
Jews was prohibited.
A poignant sidelight on the war was
afforded at the Jewish Agency's recruit-
ing office in Jerusalem when a young
man, apparently under the eligible age,
was asked to bring his parents to fill in
a form consenting to his voluntary enlist-
ment. The lad returned with his parents,
and it was found that his father, totally
blind, was anxious that his son should
join. "I cannot prevent him from doing his
duty," said the ,sightless father.
OVERSEAS
High Commissioner Giraud yielded to
pressure on the Jewish question from
General Charles de Gaulle, who, during
the Casablanca conference, refused to co-
operate with Giraud unless all anti-Jewish
laws were abolished and all interned Jews
released, it is asserted by the De Gaullist
official radio at Brazzaville.
The declaration of High Commissioner
Giraud concerning the restoration of
Jewish property and the access of Jewish
children to the secondary schools, together
with other measures, are "being studied,"
it was asserted by Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden, in the course of a long
statement on the general position in North
Africa, made in reply to a query by
George Strauss, Laborite.
500. Polish Jews Freed
Five hundred Polish Jews who had been
interned in Morocco have now been re-
leased, according to information received
by Di. " Ignacz Schwarzbard, Jewish
representative on the. Polish National
Council, from the Polish Government-in-
Exile. . .,,The Polish Government report-
ed further that it had instructed its consul
in Morocco to forward a complete list of
all Polish Jews now in Morocco, as well
as to utilize all means possible to secure
freedom and equal rights for the Polish
Jews.
A resolution calling upon the Govern-
ment to give better treatment to the Jew-
ish refugees who are interned in Switzer-
land was adopted at a Geneva public
mass meeting convened by Swiss labor
in protest against Nazism and anti-Semi-
tism. The gathering denounced the Nazi
atrocities against European Jewry.
Restore Jewish Property
The Municipality of Tripoli has begun
the restoration of Jewish property con-
fiscated by the Fascist Italian govern-
ment. Arrangements have been made with
the local Italian banks to pay the Jews
of Tripoli 10 per cent of their deposits,
which had been confiscated by the Italian
administration and sent to Italy. The
money is being given to the Jews in the
form of loans to be repaid after the war
when the Jewish deposits will be return-
ed in full.
Russian Jewry occupies fourth place
among the nationalities in the U.S.R.R.
with regard to awards for bravery in the
war, it was announced in Kuibyshev. Re-
ports reaching the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee indicate that the Jews in all
Nazi-occupied countries, particularly in
Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece,
are engaging in ever-increasing numbers
in guerrilla warfare against the Nazis.
Jewish property valued at 980,000 leva
has been confiscated in the city of Bucha-
rest alone, according to an announcement
in the official Rumanian press.
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Jewish. Commander Helped
Soviets Recapture Rostov
Several More Jews Are Promoted to Rank of General and
13 Others Decorated for Successfully Completing
Difficult Military Operations
KUIBYSHEV, (JTA)—Commander M. Lechtman, a Jew-
ish officer, is cited in the local press as one of three corn-
manders who led the victorious Soviet drive on Rostov.
"Together with the brave Russian commanders, Presha
and Mamchura, they dealt heavy blows at the Hitlerite
army," the press wrote.
The press also published a decree by the Council of
Peoples Commissars appointing several more Jewish officers
to the rank of general. Anatoli Breidos has been appointed
a Major General of Artillery; Jacob Binovich, Samuel David-
ovich, Alexander Slavin and Isaac Klastkin have been rais-
ed to the same rank in the Engineering Corps; and Mikhail
Gurevich and Jacob Kuitskes have been promoted to the
rank of Major-General of the Engineering Aviation Corps.
An order of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
USSR, also published this week, lists 13 Jewish officers,
ranking from Lieutenant-Colonels to Major-Generals, among
commanders decorated for successfully completing difficult
military operations of great strategic importance. The decora-
tions included the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Kutuzov,
the Order of the Red Banner and others.
Stalin Thanks Jewish Farmers
MOSCOW, (JTA)—Jewish collective farmers in the
Samarkand district of Uzbekistan, in Soviet Asia, who have
contributed 500,000 roubles to purchase tanks and bombers
for the Russian Army, are in receipt of a note of thanks from
Premier Joseph Stalin. These farmers were evacuated from
Nazi-held Russian territory to the Samarkand district early
in the war.
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