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 Page Three 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. 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