Friday, March 12, 1943
U. S., Britain Plan Parley
To Rescue Jews in Europe
President Roosevelt Indicates Efforts to be Made a t
Corference, ,Planned for Ottawa, to Find
Havens for Jewish Refugees
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Following a conference with
President Roosevelt, Undersecretary of state Sumner Welles
disclosed this week that he has sent a note to the British
government offering the cooperation of the United States
in steps to save the Jews of Europe from threatened ex-
termination.
It was learned this week that the British government
has accepted the proposal for a preliminary two-power
discussion on the refugee problem, probably in Ottawa as
suggested by the United States.
At his press conference, Undersecretary Welles spoke
of the deep and abiding interest which the United States
government has taken in the refugee problem.
Plans have been worked out and will be worked out,
Welles said, for the future of those who have lost their
homes and even families. He indicated that means would
be found for giving such persons homes in other countries.
Referring to the resolution adopted at the Madison Square
Garden meeting to protest against Nazi atrocities, Mr. Welles
gave assurances that it would receive consideration, with a
view to action along the lines it suggested.
Suggest Meeting in Ottawa
An official suggestion that British and U. S. represen-
tatives meet at Ottawa "for preliminary exploration," is
contained in the note addressed to the British government,
the official text reveals. "Such exploration," the note says,
"might be undertaken along the following lines:
1.—The refugee problem should not be considered as
being confined to persons of any particular race or faith.
2.—Intergovernmental collaboration should be sought in
these times of transportation difficulty, to the end that
arrangements may be determined for temporary asylum for
refugees as near as possible to the areas in which they find
themselves at the present time and from which they may
be returned to their homelands on the termination of hos-
tilities.
3.—There should be considered plans for the mainten-
ance in neutral countries in Europe of those refugees for
whose removal provision may not be made. Their main-
tenance in neutral countries may involve the giving of
assurance for their support until they can be repatriated.
4.—The possibilities for the temporary asylum of refu-
gees, with a view to their repatriation upon the termination
of hostilities in countries other than neutral, and their
dependencies, should be explored, together with the question
of the availability of shipping to effect their movement
from Europe.
Bound by Legislation by the Congress
Emphasizing that the United States "has been and is
making every endeavor to relieve the oppressed and perse-
cuted peoples" but that in affording asylum to refugees "it
is and must be bound by legislation enacted by the Congress
determining the immigration policy of the United States,"
the note declares:
"The United States is of the opinion that further efforts
to solve the problem may best be undertaken through the
instrumentality already existing, - the executive committee
of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. To this
end it may be considered advisable in order to facilitate
action by the committee that a preliminary exploration of
ways and means be undertaken informally by representatives
designated by the United States and Britain."
The note was sent in reply to a memorandum on the
question of persons fleeing from persecution for religious,
racial and political reasons, which was submitted to the
Secretary of State by the British Embassy on January 20.
The British government and its colonies will be glad
to examine the refugee situation "with a view to finding
whether there is still a possibility, in spite of all other de-
mands on food and space, of taking even further refugees
into British territory," it was announced by British official
quarters. The British government's statement showed that
100; 000 refugees have been settled in British territories.
Witness Recounts Murder
Of 58,000 Jews in Galicia
Thousands Burned Alive in Galician Ghetto by Nazis;
Mass Executions Started in 1941 When
Germans Entered the Town
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE, (JTA)—The story of how
the Nazis wiped. out 58,000 Jews in Kolomyja, Galicia, setting
the local ghetto afire and torturing the president of the
Jewish community to a point where he committed suicide
in the presence of Gestapo officials, was told to Jewish or-
ganizations here this week by an eyewitness.
Thousands of the Jewish victims were burned alive by
the Nazis and other thousands were taken to a neighboring
woods and shot. The ghetto was burned to the ground to in-
sure that not a single Jew remained alive in any hideouts
there.
"When the German armies entered Kolomyja," the eye-
witness' account reads, "there were 58,000 Jews in the city.
They began mass-executions of Jews by taking 3,400 Jewish
men and women to the neighboring forest of Szczeparowiec
on October 12, 1941, and machine-gunning them."
MORE WORLD NEWS. ON PAGES 5, 10, 15
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Victor Alter and Henry Ehrlich, leading
Jewish Socialists of prewar Poland, were
executed in December, 1941, by order of
a Russian court, according to a report re-
ceived by the Jewish Labor Committee,
which had been pressing the State De-
partment to obtain information from the
Soviet Union about the whereabouts of
the two men. The report stated that they
were brought to trial on charges of con-
ducting propaganda among Russian Army
officers for a separate peace with Hitler.
This was denied by the Jewish Labor
Committee which declared that Alter and
Ehrlich had appealed to Polish Jews to
join the army in order to help fight
Hitler.
"Not more than 50 Jews now remain in
Norway," according to an Associated Press
dispatch from its Stockholm correspond-
ent, who stated that another boatload of
Jews, virtually the last in the country,
had been "shipped from Oslo to an un-
known fate in Germany."
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