Friday, 'July 9, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
The investigation into "racial antagon-
ims" that has been undertaken by the Dies
Committee is "a cure worse than the di-
sease," it was asserted by Congress-
man Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn. He ob-
served that the Committee's ardor for in-
vestigation has diminished when it came
to "the many Fascists and Fascist Fronts
existing in our midst."
From Pearl Harbor to June 1, 1943, the
Bureau of War Records of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board "has compiled a checked and
authenticated list of about 1,000 Jewish
casualities and several hundred awards
for heroism," it was reported by Frank L.
Weil, president of the J. W. B.
The Distinguished Flying Cross has
been awarded to Second Lt. Hyman Gold-
berg, 26, of New York City, who insisted
on staying at his bomb sight and releasing
his bombs on enemy ships after he was
severely wounded in flight, it is reported
by the Jewish Welfare Board's Bureau of
War Records.
Herbert C. Fell has been named by
President Roosevelt as the American
member of the United Nations Commis-
sion for the Investigation of War Crimes,
whose aim is to prepare the cases against
and to prosecute "agents of the Axis pow-
ers who have perpetrated atrocious crimes
against. innocent victims." Mr. Pell has
previously been Minister to Hungary and
Portugal.
Rabbi S. Joshua Kohn of Utica, N. Y.,
is the first Jewish chaplain to be appoint-
ed \ to the Merchants Marine, according to
an announcement in The Jewish Chaplain,
Jewish Welfare Board publication.
OVERSEAS
Genya • Kosaya, a 25-year-old Russian
Jewess, has been decorated by the Soviet
government for her unique contribution to
the war effort. For seven months, she de-
livered daily addresses in fluent German
to the Nazi soldiers on the central front,
urging them, through the medium of a
loud speaker forty meters from the firing
line, to surrender. On one occasion she
was wounded, but she continued her talk
without interruption.
The governments-in-exile in .London
have received lists naming 25,000 Nazi
criminals responsible for the atrocities in
Axis-occupied Europe. Eleven thousand
of those listed were charged with perpe-
trating crimes in Poland.
Seven hundred Italian Jews have been
admitted into Vatican City, it is alleged in
London. Although there was no confirma-
tion of this report from reliable sources,
the Nazi organ, Streicher's Stuermer, con-
•verted the story into a platform for an
attack on Pope Pius XII. It asserted that
10,000 Jews had been brought into Vatican
City by the Pope in order to save them
from deportation and from anti-Jewish
discrimination.
- Herman Hoffman, president of the New
York County Criminal Courts Bar Asso-
ciation, was elected for a fourth term as
Grand Master of the Independent Order
Brith Abraham at the closing sessions of
the 56th annual convention of the body in
Saratoga Sprinsg, N. Y.
Haj Amin El Husseini, the former Mufti
of Jerusalem, in a message cabled to a
meeting of Nazi journalists at Vienna,
congratulated them on the success of their
anti-Semitic campaign and conveyed spe-
cial greetings to the delegates represent-
ing Arab and Indian Quislings.
Opponents of Gen. De Gaulle have
launched an anti-Jewish campaign in
French North Africa.
Three • thousand Jews in Theodosia,
Crimea, were executed by the Nazis, ac-
cording to a report by Jews who escaped
from that city. The eyewitnesses stated
that many Jews committed suicide in pref-
erence to falling into the hands of the
Nazis; others escaped into the forest and
joined guerilla bands.
The death in a guerilla engagement of
Dr. M. Markovitch was mourned by guer-
illa bands throughout White Russia. Chief
doctor of a guerilla field hospital, Dr.
Markovitch not only cared for the wound-
ed but also participated actively in the
battles against the Nazis. His name was
inscribed on - the guerilla banner by the
Soviet Government.
Archbishop • Spellman of New York
"consented to the bombing of German
churches at the request of American.
Jews," it was declared in an attack on the
American churchman broadcast over the
Paris radio. The Nazi spokesman asserted
that American. Jews "had also urged the
bombing of the Ruhr dams and Cologne."
Thirty-two thousand of the 50,000 Jews
interned in the Theresienstadt ghetto
have been sent to Poland to be placed in
electric chambers and executed, according
to a report reaching Geneva.
Nine thousand Greek Jews, most of
them former soldiers who escaped from
Salonika before the deportations to Poland
were launched, have joined guerilla bands
in Greece, according to reports reaching
Istanbul.
The American Red Cross has distributed
kosher food to needy Jews and chocolate
and clothing to Jewish children in Tunis.
The Nazi authorities in Norway have
confiscated the property of 126 Jewish
merchants and industrialists who were
deported from the country.
Gardista, Slovak Nazi newspaper, de-
mands the immediate deportation to Po-
land of the remaining' Jews in Slovakia,
including those who have been converted.
The Rumanian government has ordered
the confiscation of all houses, buildings
and institutions owned by Jews as well as
Jewish schools and synagogues in the Re-
gat province.
The Jews of Italy were ordered mobil-
ized for forced labor by the Ministry of
the Interior, according to a broadcast of
the Rome Radio, reported in Washington
by the Office of War Information.
Samuel Zemurray, one of American
Jewry's outstanding philanthropists, was
named by President Roosevelt as one of
six members of the reorganized Commit-
tee on Fair Employment Practice headed
by Reverend Francis J. Haas as chairman.
PALESTINE
Both the Palestine Government and the
Jewish Agency will participate in the In-
ternational Exhibition to be held at Izmir,
Turkey, between Aug. 20 and Sept. 20,
1943. The Jewish Agency's exhibit will be
housed in a special Palestine Pavilion de-
voted largely to Jewish industry.
The forced landing of a twin-engined
British fighter-plane in a field at Kvutzath
Galilyam, near Herzlia, brought Jewish
settlers to the spot to give assistance to
the fliers. One of the airmen,' stepping
cheerfully from the plane, hailed the as-
tonished settlers in Hebrew, calling, "Sha-
lom Chaverim." It transpired that the flier
was a South African Jew.
One hundred Palestinian Jewesses have
joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force
Services since recruiting began six weeks
ago, it was announced in Jerusalem on the
occasion of the fourth anniversary of the
establishment of the WAAFS.
Page Three
Ask Roosevelt, Churchill
To Modify Food Cockade
Technical Problems Can Be Overcome if U. S., England
Agree to Principle, Rep. Knutson Says in House;
Lehman's Hands Tied, He Asserts
WASHINGTON (JTA)—An appeal to President Roose-
velt and to Winston Churchill to modify the United Nations'
blockade of Europe so as to permit the shipment of food
to the starving population of Poland and other Nazi-occupied
countries was made from the floor of the House this week
by Rep. Harold Knutson, Minnesota Republican.
"The technical problems are simple and can easily be
handled if England and the United States will agree to the
principle," Knutson said. He quoted a statement from the
State Department saying that the U. S. government receives
regular reports through the Swedish government that the
food shipments which are being sent to Axis-occupied Greece
are being distributed under the auspices of the International
Red Cross "iArithout interference by the occupation authori-
ties."
Knutson disclosed that he and Rep. I -Ierter from Mas-
sachusetts had a conference last Tuesday with Herbert H.
-Lehman, director of the Office of Foreign Relief and Re-
habilitation Operations, regarding sending food to Nazi-
occupied countries. "We found Lehman sympathetic and
willing to do all in his power to give aid," he said. "His was
an excellent choice for that position. Unfortunately, he has
no voice in policy Making."
. Admission of European Jews as Visitors Asked in Congress
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A strong plea for admission into the
United States of a "reasonable number" of European refugees as
visitors for the duration was made in the House this week by Rep.
Emanuel Celler of New York.
Rep. Celler based his argument on an editorial in the New
York Post of June 21, which he read into ' the Congressional
Record. The editorial, entitled "Can We Do Less?" pointed out
that 40,000 Nazi and Fascist soldiers have been brought to this
country as prisoners and are being well cared for. It asked whether
Hitler's victims were not entitled to at least equal humanitarian
consideration.
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DUBLIN (JTA)—Robert Bris-
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