Friday, April 16, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Three
Rescue Conference Opens at Bermuda on Monday;
Senator Lucas, Rep. Bloom, Dodds U.S. Delegates
Roosevelt Outlines Plans
To Solve Refugee Problem
Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee
and 2 Other Representatives Leave Friday;
Conference Expected to Last Month
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The Anglo-American conference
on refugees will open in Hamilton, Bermuda, on Monday,
April 19, the State Department announced here.
The American delegation will consist of Congress-
man Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee; President Harold Willis Dodds of Princeton
University; and Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois.
The three British representatives will be Parliamentary
'Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard K. Law; Osbert
Peake, the Parliamentary under-Secretary of the Home Of-
fice; and George Hall, the Parliamentary under-Secretary
of the Admiralty.
Expect to Leave This Friday
In addition, several press officers and technical assistants
from the state department and the British Foreign Office
twill be present.
• It is expected that the United States delegation will
. leave for Bermuda on Friday, which will give them an
opportunity for pre-conference discussions among themselves
-after they arrive in Bermuda.
•
It is not known yet whether the conference sessions
i will be open to the press. The British have indicated that
the conference would be closed, but that there will be full
press coverage.
_
Roosevelt Has Prepared Practical Plans for Parley
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Roosevelt has prepared
practical plans for the rescue of refugees from Europe and they
will be submitted to the forthcoming Anglo-American conference
on refugees in Bermuda, it was learned here.
- The President outlined his plans to recent callers, who reported
they found him well-informed on the refugee problem.
Conference to Last a Month; Delegates to Meet
LONDON, (JTA)—The Anglo-American conference on refugees
is expected to last one month, the British press reported this week.
Not more than 15 delegates will participate in the conference, the
report said.
The delegates will be guests of the Bermuda government, it
was announced at a session of the Bermuda Assembly. Their main-
tenance and inland travel expenses will be provided for by the
Bermuda administration.
Jewish organizations representing the Jews of Nazi-occupied
Poland and Czechoslovakia are making an effort to convince their
Governments-in-Exile of the necessity of securing representation,
at least as observers.
British Paper Warns Bermuda May be 'Mockery'
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
French Military Mission in Washington
announces end of anti-Jewish restrictions
in French Guiana . . . New York registra-
tion days changed to avoid high holidays
. .. Office of War Information reports on
Rumanian expulsion . . . National Negro
Congress asks United Nations' aid for Jews
. . . Judge Rothenberg honored for war
effort record . . . World Jewish Congress
sends Baruch Zuckerman to Latin Amer-
ica . . . Rep. Rankin denounces David
Dubinsky for estranging Russia.
Sumner Welles urges Jews to have "pa-
tience, perseverance, faith" on North Afri-
can situation . . . Congressman Fish denies
anti Semitism is illegal . . . Wendell Will-
kie lauds Zionist achievements in Middle
East . . . Anti-Semitic acts in New York
found due to individuals, not group.
Zionist Organization of America to or-
ganize protests against White Paper .. .
Dr. Chaim Weizmann sees United Nations
betraying Jews . . . Nazis score court re-
instating Jewish sympathizer . . . Never
attacked "an American Jew," says Rep.
Rankin, answering so-called "unjust at-
tack" of Rep. Celler.
Raymond B. Fosdick, President of Rock-
efeller Foundation, sees U. S. great mathe-
matic center due to Hitler expulsion of
Jews from Germany . . . Rep. Thomas
scores President Roosevelt's citation of
"draft dodger" Ginsburg . . . Jewish refu-
gee, missing in action, wins Air Medal .. .
Report Red Army awards to over 5,000
Soviet Jewish heroes.
PALESTINE
Keren Hayesod raises £406,696 in six-
month period ending March 31, 1943 . .
American Servicemen spend furloughs in
Palestine . . . Miniature industrial exhibi-
tion en route to Russia from Palestine via
Teheran . . . Palestinian soldiers rehabili-
tate North African communities . . . Nazis
murdering Jewish prisoners of war from
Polish army, according to reports reaching
LONDON, (JPS-Palcor)—As American and British representa-
tives planned to proceed to Bermuda for a private, "exploratory"
discussion of the refugee problem, the Sunday Observer warned
the British government that it must not permit the Bermuda con-
ference to become a "cruel mockery."
"Thus far nothing has been done for the rescue of the perishing
Jews," the paper says, after recalling that the United Nations had
denounced the Nazi atrocities in a statement on December 17,
Palestine . . . Tel Aviv adopts record bud-
get of £990,000 . . . Histadruth Sick Fund
now serves quarter of a million . . . Polish
dramatic troupe established in Palestine
. . . 10-point program to improve Jewish-
Arab relations drawn up by meeting of
Village Neighborly Relations Committees
. . . Palestine goods sent to Red Army.
OVERSEAS
Secret organization reportedly protect-
ing Bulgarian Jews . . . Nazis take 50
Jewish hostages from Sfax . . . Massacre
of Jews in Lodz and Cracow reported by
Polish Telegraphic Agency . . . London
"People" charges Vatican made "deal with
Hitler" . . . Soviet press reports Jewish
colonists in U. S. S. R. doing "magnifi-
cent job" . . . Herbert H. Lehman con-
fers on relief problem in London . . . High
Commissioner Giraud reiterates rights re-
stored to Jews.
Prime Minister Churchill asserts Britain
has done all possible for refugees . . .
United Nations working out plans to get
back wealth Nazis looted . . . London
News Chronicle urges internment of anti-
Semitic propagandists.
Schools of France to teach anti-Semitism
as required course . . . Rothschilds of
France reach London to aid De Gaulle
. . . Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden de-
scribes Bermuda conference as "explora-
tory" . . . Nazis compel Tunis Jews to
clear debris after raids.
John McGovern, Independent Laborite
M. P., seeks reply to anti-Jewish state-
ments via B. B. C. . . . Hungarian press
protests against continued employment of
Jews in Budapest . . . Berlin Hacken-
Kreutz Banner charges refugees in Spain
"undermining Catholicism" ... Nazis order
deportation of all Jews from Holland .. .
Hunger strike of Jewish internees termi-
nated, on condition that refugees emigrate
from North Africa . . . Swedish Red Cross
Director resigns in protest against Nazis.
Nazis urge anti-Jewish measures in Den-
mark.
Charges United States Not Cooperatinc ,
. LONDON, (JTA)—The United States Government is charged
with not cooperating in saving Jews from Nazi Europe in an edi-
torial published this week in the New Statesman and Nation, lead-
ing liberal weekly.
"It is not clear why we, in England, must wait for American
cooperation, desirable though it is," the article says. "The massacre
goes on," the editorial argues, "and where so little can be done,
it could have been expected that the British and American govern-
ments would snatch the few opportunities that present themselves."
The editorial appeals to the British government not to wait for
the outcome of the Bermuda conference, but open the doors of
England and of Palestine. to refugees.
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