THE
Friday, February 19, 1943
Rumania Offers to Free. Jews
For Settlement by Allies
%nfonescu Government Reported Proposing Several Ways
for Evacuation of Thousands with Aid of Vatican, for
Leniency in Post-War Retributions
NEW YORK (JPS)—The Rumanian government is of-
fering to ease up on its Jews and to release some of them if
the United Nations will treat the Rumanians with leniency
in the postwar settlements, it is asserted by Cyrus L. Sulzber-
ger, New York Times correspondent, in a summary to his
newspaper from London of the reaction in the Balkans to
the possibility of an Allied invasion of Europe through its
eastern portion.
"It is a known fact," he asserts, "that the Rumanians are
now proposing to the Allies possible methods for the evacua-
tion of thousands of Jews with the suggested aid of the Vati-
i can. Such proposals may or may not be made in good faith,
but it is more likely that they represent an effort by Buch-
arest to somewhat improve Rumania's standing with the
United Nations to ease the amount of retribution that, it is
feared, may be forthcoming from the victors."
Antonescu Cabinet at Odds Over Solution
Dr. Joseph Kahany, Independent Jewish Press Service
correspondent in Geneva, supplements this with a report to
the effect that "the solution of the Jewish problem has pro-
voked dissention within the Antonescu cabinet.
"The various Ministers are at odds as to the extent to
which the anti-Jewish legislation should be carried out, espec-
ially that affecting Jewish tradesmen. The deportation of
Jews to Transdniestria is said to have been stopped tempor-
arily. Deportation transports prepared in Arad and in South-
ern Transylvania are no longer moving," he added.
It is also stated in the Geneva report that a special com-
mission has been assigned the task of working out instruc-
tions for Radu Lecca, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs. The
seven members of this commission include the Ministers for
Home Affairs, Labor, Navy and Rumanization.
British Urged to Set Example
LONDON (JPS-Palcor)—Eleanor Rathbone and Oliver
Locker-Lampson in the House of Commons have urged that
Britain set an example for the other countries with regard to
aid to Jewish refugees.
Their demand was precipiated by the statement made by
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, in answer to Miss Rath-
bone regarding the continued restrictions on the admission
.of Jewish refugees into Great Britain.
Mr. Morrison had declared that he could not add further
to the Government's statements, since the problem was one
for the United Nations and he was "unable to control the
actions of other governments." . • . More than 200 members
of Parliament have expressed their support of a motion for
imediate measures on a generous scale for aiding and pro-
viding temporary asylum for the Jews in danger of massacres.
The motion has been tabled. A similar motion has been in-
troduced in the House of Lords.
A large mass meeting will be held in Westminster Abbey
on March 3 under the chairmanship of Lord Cosmo Lang,
former Archbishop of Canterbury, to consider measures for
aiding Jews in Europe, it was announced at a conference
of the Council of the World's Evangelical Alliance here.
The Council at the same time released the text of a resolu-
tion urging the British Government to take steps to rescue
the Jews in occupied countries.
Jr. Hadassah Joins
Free World Group
NEW YORK.—The national
board of Junior Hadassah, the
Young Women's Zionist Organiz-
ation of America, has voted to af-
filiate with the American Youth
for a Free World, it was an-
nounced by Miss Naomi Chert-
off, national president of Junior
Hadassah.
Page Five
JEWISH NEWS
The Daughters of
The House of Jacob
(Editors Note: The author of this
poem was moved to write it by the
tragic news of the suicide of 92
girls in the Beth Jacob School in
Warsaw who preferred death to n
life of shame decreed for them by
the Nazis.)
Abrogate Vichy Laws in
North Africa, U. S. Urged
Demand Made in Statement by American Jewish Congress;
Nazi Claims on Jewish Possessions Disputed
In Stockholm
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
They were Thine ol,vn daughters,
Those girls of the House of Jacob.
Those poor maids, reared in the
shadow of the Beast,
They also dreamed of Jewish
motherhood
Worthy of Sarah, Deborah,
Beruriah, Gracia,
Worthy of the nameless mothers
of Jews
Deputed of Thee to plant in chil-
dren's hearts
The spirit of love and law and
saintly moods.
NEW YORK, (JPS)—Admitting it had remained silent
for three months because it "appreciated to the full the diffi-
culties, military and otherwise, of the situation" in North
Africa, the American Jewish Congress this week issued a
statement calling for "the total abrogation of all anti-Semitic
laws and decrees" affecting 330,000 Jews and asserting that
further silence about the anti-Semitism of General Henri
Giraud's regime can only be construed as "acquiescence."
Joined in its vigorous position by the World Jewish
Congress, the American organization referred to the pro-
mise by President Roosevelt that the laws and decrees "in-.
spired by Nazi governments or Nazi ideologists" would be
abrogated. The effectuation of that promise requires "action
They were Thine own daughters, to insure that the Four Freedoms shall without further delay
be declared as valid for all the peoples in North Africa,
0 God,
Those pure maids of the kin of which means the total abrogation of all anti-Semitic laws."
Abraham,
Who, like many Isaacs on the
Jewish Property Worth "Four Billions," Nazis Claim
sacrificial mound,
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—Obviously anticipating a demand
Bared their young throats to
by Jewish representatives at the peace conference for rep-
deaths of glory.
Gather these maids unto Thy
welcoming bosom,
These daughters of the House of
Jacob,
Who, readied to sate the Hun's
roaring lusts,
Merged their young lives in one
sanctification
And chose, in pure sell-sacrifice,
to wing to Thy throne.
Who shall utter the Kaddish for
these pure souls,
The souls of the daughters of the
House of Jacob?
Their kin, this poor prattler with
quavering pen,
Thy people's teachers, the wan-
derers in the howling
steppes,
The thousands daily charted for
death?
arations for Jewish property confiscated by the Nazis in
Germany, the German Ministry of Propaganda this week
issued a report in Berlin estimating that the property so far
confiscated from Jews in the Reich is worth "no more than
four billion marks."
The Swedish press, publishing this report, points out
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value of the confiscated Jewish property. Newspapers here
declare that it can safely be stated that 16 billion dollars
worth of JeWish possessions have passed into Nazi hands
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