friday, Mardi 5, 1943
21,000 Jam Arena to Hear
`Stop Hitler Now' Rally
:15,000 Crowd Streets Around Madison Square Garden
To Hear Messages of National and World
Leaders Demanding Action
With "Stop Hitler Now" as its theme, the huge rally at
Madison Square Garden in New York on Monday evening
attracted an overflow audience of 21,000. More than 15,000
more crowded the streets near the Garden and heard the
addresses demanding immediate action to save the Jews of
Europe through amplifiers.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise presided at the rally which was
addressed by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine; Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prize
Winner; William Green, president of the American Federa-
tion of Labor; Bishop Henry St, George Tucker, president of
the Federal Council of Churches; Dr. Henry A. Atkinson,
general secretary of the Church Peace Union; Dr. Henry
George Shuster, president of Hunter College; Mayor Fiorello
LaGuardia, who spoke in the name of the people of New
:York, and James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of CIO.
Gov. Dewey Speaks from Albany
Governor Dewey spoke to the meeting by radio from
Albany. Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas and
Senator Robert Wagner addressed the rally from Wash-
ington.
From London came an address over the radio by Sir
William Beveridge. Messages were received from Chief
Rabbi Hertz of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal
}Tinsley, and from outstanding leaders speaking for most
of the United Nations.
The vast assembly unanimously adopted an 11-point
resolution to be submitted to President Roosevelt. The
resolution calls for intermediation of neutral agencies with
Nazi powers to secure the release of Jewish victims; estab-
lishment of sanctuaries for Jewish refugees and sufferers
from Hitlerism; revision of immigration laws to provide
admission for Jews in the United States; reasonable quota
for victims of Nazism in British territories; establishment of
havens for Jews in Latin American countries; the opening
by England of Palestine's doors for the settlement of Jews;
financial guarantees to be established by United Nations to
neutral states which provide refuge for Jews; the feeding
of victims of Nazism; the financing by the democracies of a
program of rescue; establishment of an intergovernmental
agency to implement the program of rescue; steps be taken
to implement United Nations' plan to bring the criminals
responsible for the present war to justice.
Meetings All Over the World
Meetings of a similar nature have been held during the
past week in other parts of the world.
In Palestine, the cry went forth from the Knesseth
Israel that action be taken at once to "rescue the survivors
from Hitler'S clutches."
The Workmen's Circle held 100 separate meetings pro-
testing the Nazi massacres.
An. assembly of 3,000 children met in Mecca Temple,
New York, to protest against the atrocities. A high point
was reached at the meeting when refugee children gave an
account of the sufferings they had endured.
Report Latest Nazi Atrocities
While these meetings were being held, word came from
various centers in Europe, through the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, that the German army had exterminated 10,000 Jews
in Brest-Litovsk; that Rumania reached an agreement with
Germany to deport 60,000 Jews to Nazi-Poland; that 14,000
Jews were murdered in Kharkov during the Nazi occupation
of the city; that the Vichy government in France plans to
separate Jews from non-Jews; that seven Jewish leaders
were executed by the Nazis in Berlin, and that German
atrocities continue unabated.
Eight-Point Program on Rescue of Jews
LONDON, (JTA)—The Board of Deputies of British
Jews approved a program of action to aid the Jews in Nazi-
held European countries, prepared by the Joint Foreign
Committee of the Board. The plan suggests to the British
Government that it take the following steps:
1—Announce that to the best of the country's possibili-
ties asylum will be afforded to Jewish refugees.
2—Endeavor to secure a similar offer from the United
States and the other Allies regarding territory under their
control.
3—Approach the Dominions to offer refuge.
4—Use the Government's good offices to secure offers of
refuge from the United States and the governments of Latin
America.
5—Give adequate recognition to the specially favorable
opportunities for refuge available in Palestine.
6—Acceptance by the United Kingdom, the United
States and other of the United Nations of the ultimate re-
sponsibility for providing asylum for the refugees.
7—Encourage neutrals to help in the rescue and recep-
tion of refugees.
8—The satellite countries should, through available neu-
tral diplomatic channels, be encouraged to extend emigration
Eden Rejects Proposals for Expediting Rescue
LONDON (JPS-Palcor)—Bombarded with questions on
the progress of negotiations for aid to the Jews of Nazi-
occupied Europe, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden opposed
concrete proposals made in the House of Commons (a) for
appointment of an outstanding international figure of the
stature of the late Fridtjof Nansen to dramatize the plight
of the refugees and (b) the appointment of a special envoy
to expedite intergovernmental action.
He also opposed the request that a special debate be
held in the House of Commons on the entire subject.
MORE WORLD NEWS ON PAGES _I I, 14, 15
Page Three
THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Robert Moses, New York Park Commis-
sioner, himself the scion of an immigrant
Jewish family, who wrote an article en-
titled "Consult The Average American
about the Postwar World" for the Febru-
ary Reader's Digest and found that the
world after the war will be pretty much
the world we knew before, writes in the
March issue of the magazine that "the
principle of drastic restriction" of immi-
gration has "the support of the over-
whelming majority of the American peo-
ple."
The Jewish community of Jersey City,
either through fear of the Hague machine
or in response to a demand from the poli-
tical boss-mayor, barred Congregation
Emanu-El from its city-dominated Com-
munity Center after its Rabbi, Benjamin
Plotkin, had appeared as a character wit-
ness in the trial of one of Hague's op-
ponents, it was indicated after Governor
Charles Edison, in a radio address, bitter-
ly attacked the Hague machine for
"trampling upon" freedom of religion.
As successor to Pierre van Paassen,
whose resignation was announced several
weeks ago, Senator Edwin C. Johnson of
Colorado, new chairman of the Committee
for a Jewish Army, reaffirmed the Com-
mittee's purpose of organizing an army of
"200,000 stateless and Palestinan Jews" to
fight alongside the United Nations.
Rabbi Meyer Berlin, world president of
the Mizrachi Organization, had an hour's
interivew with Vice President Wallace
during a visit to Washington to confer with
government officials about Palestine.
PALESTINE
A group of 74 Jewish children from
Hungary has arrived in Palestine. This is
the second group of children from this
Balkan states to reach this country with
certificates allocated to the Jewish
Agency.
Special prayers for intercession on be-
half of the Jewish victims of Nazi op-
pression were held at the Wailing Wall
on the day of mourning, fast and prayer
designated by the Chief Rabbinate. The
shofar was sounded at special synagogue
services in all parts of the country.
OVERSEAS
Some 500 Polish Jewish refugees are
still camped in Teheran, according to re-
ports reaching here. This number includes
145 children, mostly orphans, and 250
Jewish refugees from Bokhara.
The independent principality of Monaco
is attacked by the Pariser Zeitung for its
refusal to introduce anti-Jewish laws.
"Ten Jews will be shot for every non-
Jew killed in air raids, and 100 Jews will
be shot for every Rumanian house destroy-
ed," it was declared by the Bucharest
Porunki Vremii, official newspaper of the
Rumanian government.
The London Daily Sketch reports that
the Allied nations are making plans to
secure the huge fortunes of Axis leaders
in neutral countries and use them to corn-
pensate those who were robbed by the
Nazis as well as for purposes of postwar
relief.
Bulgaria has reduced the quota of Jew-
ish professionals who are allowed to prac-
tice in the country.
THIS IS YOUR INVITATION
ANNUAL MEETING
of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
OF DETROIT
Monday, March 8, 1943
PROGRAM
8:30 P. M.
BUSINESS MEETING
7:30 P. M.
Address By
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz
European Chairman
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE
Just Returned from 19 Months in Europe
SUBJECT:
"JEWS IN A WORLD AT WAR"
at the
Jewish Community Center
WOODWARD at HOLBROOK