Friday, April 30, 1943
THE .JEWISH NEWS
Bermuda Conference Fails
To Rescue Hitler Victims
Meager Reports Indicate Anglo-American Parley On
Jewish Refugee Problem May Result In
Announcing Old Program
HAMILTON, Bermuda (JTA)—The final report of the
Anglo-American refugee conference will not be made
public here, it was revealed at a press conference by Dr.
Harold W. Dodds, head of the three-man American delega-
tion. The delegates, it was indicated, probably will issue
a statement upon completion of their deliberations.
HAMILTON, Bermuda (JTA)
Large-scale rescue of
persecuted persons in Nazi-held territory was ruled out this
week by the heads of the American and British delegations
to the Bermuda Conference on Refugees in statements at a
press conference here.
Dr. Harold W. Dodds, head of the American delegation,
and Richard K. Law, head of the British delegation, empha-
sized that it is out of the question to discuss taking out large
numbers of people from Nazi countries. They added that
efforts will be made, however, to find a haven of refuge for
as many individuals as possible.
The American delegation stated that more than 500,000
Nazi victims have already been admitted to the United States,
and indicated that it was doubtful that America would admit
additional refugees on a large scale, since the U. S. immigra-
tion laws and the lack of shipping facilities make the
entrance of immigrants into the United States difficult.
Hitler's threats to exterminate the remainder of the
Jews in occupied lands apparently failed to sway the
conferees.
Hope for Refugees Buried at Bermuda
WASHINGTON (JPS)—Incomplete news reports from Ber-
muda indicate that as the conferees at the Anglo-American meeting
on the refugee problem prepared to return to their respective coun-
tries, any hope for large-scale and immediate assistance to the Jews
under Hitler was buried.
There were believed to be several steps which the conferees
would announce to the world as "substantial progress":
1—The convening at some future date of an international
assembly built on the lines of the Intergovernmental Committee for
Refugees, convened at Evian, France, in 1938 and never heard from
since.
2—Limited "diplomatic" suggestions to Spain and Switzerland
that they might accept limited numbers of additional refugees.
3—Acceleration of the evacuation from Bulgaria of 4,000 Jewish
children and 500 adults, a program announced by the British many
months before Bermuda was even considered.
Revive Intergovernmental Committee
The revival of the Intergovernmental Committee was projected
by Osbert Peake, British representative, who felt that this would
be "the most suitable body" to deal with the problem. Most of the
time of the delegates was given to framing of reasons why no action
could be taken to save the Jews of Europe.
The British and American governments do not intend to nego-
tiate with the German government, through neutrals or otherwise,
for release of the Jews. This had been one of the suggestions
submitted by the Joint Emergency Committee for European Jewish
Affairs. Moreover, the governments do not propose to ship food
into German-controlled territory on a pledge by the Nazis that they
would hold up their extermination program.
The White Paper on Palestine, issued in Munich days by the late
Piime Minister Chamberlain, remains the considered policy of Eng-
land. George Henry Hall, former colonial undersecretary, declared
at Hamilton. The Bermuda conference would make no suggestions
about changes in the White Paper, he stressed.
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Andre Maurois, French Jewish author,
to serve as captain under Giraud . . .
Rep. Flannagan takes pride in criticism
of Richmond, Va., Times Dispatch . .
Soviet Embassy warns against Hitler's
lies about murder of Poles . . . Ernie Pyle,
Scripps-Howard reporter in North Africa,
says Gafsa Arabs 855 pro-Nazi . . . Chris-
tian America to plead cause of Europe's
Jews on May 2, proclaimed "Day of Com-
passion" by Federal Council of Churches
. . Ehrlich-Alter agitation called "dis-
ruptive plot" by Joseph Brainin, Jewish
journalist, in New Currents.
Expiring Committee on Fair Employ-
ment Practice plans renewed drive . . .
Saudi Arabia to get lend-lease aid . . .
Senator Claude Pepper of Florida predicts
no fruits of peace for Jews . . . Liberty ship
named for George Gershwin . . . Maurice
Hirsch appointed to War Department
Price Adjustment Board . . . Charles Doug-
las Jackson, vice-president of Time, to di-
rect Office of War Information in Middle
East . . . De Gaulle and Giraud exchange
memoranda in attempt to reach under-
standing on French overseas possessions
. . . Rep. Celler fears Bermuda Conference
is another Evian . . . Nazis execute aged
Jewish internees in Holland.
National Jewish bodies ranging from the
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
to the Union of Orthodox Rabbis will share
in the National Conference for Palestine
in Philadelphia on May 1 and 2, it was
disclosed here by Abba Hillel Silver, na-
tional chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, which is sponsoring the parley.
Speakers announced include Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, Frank E. Gannett, prominent
newspaper publisher, Dorothy Thompson
and Dr. Stephen S. Wise. The introduction
of Arthur Szyk, famous Polish-Jewish
artist, to Jewish communal life will also
take place at the Philadelphia meeting
where he is scheduled to speak. (Abraham
Srere and Abraham Cooper are the Detroit
delegates to the conference).
In the decade since Hitler first brought
tragedy to the Jewish people, the Women's
Christian Refugee
Groups Coordinated
NEW YORK—(Religious News
Service)—Formation of Refugee
Relief Trustees, Inc., designed
to coordinate the work of the
Unitarian Service Committee,
the American Committee for
Christian Refugees, and the In-
ternational Rescue and Relief
Committee, was announced here
North Africa Haven Held Unwise
There were believed to be differences of opinion between the at a luncheon held in honor of
British and American delegates on places where some of the Mrs. Robert C. Dexter, Lisbon
refugees might be sent. A tentative suggestion that a large center for representative of bOth the Uni-
refugees be established in North Africa was believed rejected by tarian body and the Rescue and
the Americans on the ground that it was unwise from the military Relief Committee.
and political points of view. A suggestion that Germans interned
The three affiliates of the
by the United Nations be traded for Jews in Germany was also
rejected.
new organization, is was stated,
The most that the Bermuda conference is expected to do is will continue in their particular
(Continued on Page 14) fields of refugee work, but will
cooperate even more closely than
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heretofore.
Will Admit 13,500
Jews into Palestine
In Next 3 Months
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Palestive Government this week
announced that it has assigned
13,750 immigration certificates
for the admission of 13,500 Jews
and 250 non-Jews to Palestine
during the three-month period
from April 1 to June 31, 1943.
The announcement specifies
that of the 13,500 immigration
visas for Jews, 10,625 will be
allocated to children and 2,875
will be issued to adults accom-
panied by wives and minor chil-
dren.
Fed Jewish Children;
Two Priests Interned
LONDON — (Religious News
Service) — Two Luxembourg
Roman Catholic priests, Fathers
Camille Worms and Jakob
Schanke, were condemned to
five years' internment in a con-
centration camp by a German
court for having fed and pro-
tected six Jewish children for
: the - past two years, according to
the Jewish ,Chronicle here.
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Nazis, it was reported in London by Mrs.
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Ireland.
PALESTINE
R. A. F. brings down enemy plane over
Haifa . . . Jewish National Fund posses-
sions total 631,440 dunams . . . Archbishop
of Canterbury promises continued efforts
on behalf of European Jewry . . . Seven-
point program cabled to Bermuda Con-
ference by Dr. Isaac Gruenbaum, chair-
man of Joint Committee to aid Jewries
in enemy-occupied countries.
OVERSEAS
Nazis proclaim prayer in memory of
Poles allegedly slain by Russians; blame
"Jewish commissars" for murder . . .
Students of Paris University demonstrate
against course in anti-Semitism ... Lon-
don Daily Express reports sale of 80,000
Slovakian Jews to Germany for 50,000,000
marks . . . Dingle M. Foot, of Ministry
of Economic Warfare, tells Commons that
Polish JeWs are worst fed in Europe .. .
German settlers deported from Palestine.
Secret radio broadcast reports last War-
saw Jews executed . . . Transportation of
4,500 from Bulgaria to Palestine at stand-
still . .. Jews deported from Holland to
Silesian coal mines . . . Vichy evacuates
Jews within 50 miles of Spanish border
. . . Sweden reported willing to admit
refugees; Germany refuses to let them
depart . . . Finnish government spokes-
man says Jews must be treated more
strictly than others.
The Hungarian government has called
a halt to the distribution of the Hungar-
ian translation of the "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion." It is stated that the gov-
ernment was persuaded to take this step
by Cardinal Seredi, Archbishop of Buda-
pest, who asserted that the anti-Semitic
document was a forgery.
The Soviet press reports that the Nazis
have murdered all the Jews in the city of
Verseme, Latavia.
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