Friday, September 17, 1943
THE JEWISH NEWS
JDC to Ask Allied Nations'
Permission to Enter Italy
Joint Distribution Committee's European Director, Dr.
Schwartz, to Confer With Military Heads in
Algiers on Plans to Aid Jews
CAIRO, (JTA)—The questing of arranging immediate assist-
ance by the Joint Distribution Committee for 20,000 Jewish refugees
from Nazi-held territories who have been interned in Italy since the
outbreak of the war will be taken up with the Allied authorities in
Algiers, Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European director of the JDC, told
the Jewish Telegraphic - Agency this week.
Dr. Schwartz said he is proceeding at once to Algiers to
approach the representatives of the United Nations with regard to
the best and most effective ways to deal with the situation of
Jewish refugees in Italy and the special needs of the Italian Jewish
population. He also will seek permission for a JDC representative
to be admitted into Italy in order to study the Jewish relief situa-
tion there.
While the question of feeding Italy's population is expected to
be handled by the military authorities through the AMG, there is
wide-range activity in the liberated territory which could best be
discharged by private relief agencies, Dr. SchWartz believes. He
pointed out that though the Jewish population . will receive the
same treatment from Allied authorities as the non-Jewish, there are
also special Jewish problems which could be best dealt with by
Jewish organizations.
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"These problems," he said, "include the re-organization and
re-establishment of the Jewish communal, religious and cultural
institutions which have practically been destroyed."
JDC Establishing Permanent Office in Middle East
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The ground work has been laid for in-
tensified activities by the Joint Distribution Committee in the
Middle East, including the relief and transportation of refugees
and the sending of additional parcels to Polish-Jewish refugees in
Russia, it was disclosed here by Dr. Joseph Schwartz, European
director of the JDC, who is leaving for North Africa, from where
he will go to JDC headquarters in Lisbon.
Dr. Schwartz reported that the JDC is planning to establish a
permanent representation in the Middle East to deal with general
relief problems and to secure information concerning the Jewish
communities of occupied Europe. Conferences have been held with
the JDC advisory committee here, under the chairmanship of Dr.
Judah.L. Magner, and with the Jewish Agency, the Histadruth, the
Mizrachi, the Agudas Israel, the • Chief Rabbis of Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv and other responsible bodies.
Anti-Semitism Banned in Italy, Berlin Radio Announces
LONDON, (JTA)—The Berlin radio announced this week that
an order banning anti-Semitism has been issued in Italy. It takes
effect immediately.
Italy's Surrender Seen Aid to Jews in Hungary
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—Italy's unconditional surrender will have
repercussions not only in the Balkan countries, but also in Hungary
and will affect the position of the Jews there, it is predicted in the
Swedish press, which emphasizes that Hungary now has the largest
Jewish population in Central Europe.
The Goeteborg Handels-och Sjofarts-Tidning, a Swedish liberal
evening paper, warns against the systematic attempts now being
made by Hungarian propaganda to present the position of the Jews
in Hungary in a favorable light as compared with the treatment
of Jews in other parts of Europe.
Ben-Gurion, Arab Leader
Deny Tension in Palestine
Discount Rumors From Cairo Stating That Arab - Jewish
Feelings Are Developing to Point of Possible Civil
War; Arms Trial Protested
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
"Equality of opportunity for all Ameri-
cans, regardless of race, color or creed, in
the economic, educational, political and
military life of the nation" is one of the
planks in the domestic platform adopted
by the Republican Postwar Advisory
Council meeting at Mackinac Island, Mich.
Leonard Bernstein, 25-year-old Ameri-
can Jewish composer, pianist and conduc-
tor, has been engaged by the New York
Philharmonic Symphony Society as as-
sistant conductor.
An allocation of 500,000 escudos (over
$20,000) has been cabled to the HIAS-ICA
Emigration Association headquarters in
Lisbon by the Hebrew Sheltering and Im-
migrant Aid Society to facilitate the de-
parture of new groups of Jewish refugees
from Portugal and Spain for Central and
South American countries, it was an-
nounced by Isaac L. Asofsky, executive
director of the organization.
The United States Government, reluc-
tant to call down upon itself the wrath of
certain Senators in Congress, has been
forced to "ease up its campaign against
anti-Semites," it was asserted by Victor
Riesel, labor reporter, in his daily column
in the New York Post.
Upon receipt of the news of Italy's un-
conditional surrender to the Allied forces,
the name of General Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er was inscribed in the Sefer Ha'Zahav,
Golden Book, in Jerusalem, it was an-
nounced here by the Jewish National
Fund . . • Many gifts toward the Fund's
war-time program in Palestine poured in
as an expression of joy at the news from
Italy.
The surrender of Italy offers the United
Nations "an excellent opportunity" to
rescue thousands of Jews interned in Con-
centration camps in Italy and in countries
Palestine Issue
Must be Settled,
Hoover Asserts
Problem of Jewish Refugee
Must Be Decided Before
Final Peace, He Says
MINNEAPOLIS (JPS) — Her-
bert Hoover regards the Pales-
tine problem as one of the vital
postwar issues that must be set-
tled in justice. His views were
expressed during an address
here before the Foreign Policy
Association and the University
of Minnesota.
Listing the issues to be dis-
posed of between the cessation
of hostilities and the writing of a
final peace, Mr. Hoover observed
that "the Jewish refugee and
the problem of Palestine must
be settled."
It was learned that during
the visit to the West Coast re-
cently of Judge Louis E. Levin-
thal of Philadelphia the presi-
dent of the Zionist Organization
of America spent a long time
with Mr. Hoover in discussion of
the Palestine question.
LONDON, (JTA) — The London News Chronicle, which
last week published a report from Cairo stating that Arab-
Jewish tension in Palestine is developing to a point of possible
outbreaks, this week carried two statements from Jerusalem.
denying that trouble is to be expected in Palestine.
One of the statements was issued by the Arab leader
Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, and the other by David Ben-Gurion,
chairman of the Jewish Agency executive.
The Arab leader emprasized that "from the outbreak of
the Arab extremists have remained calm and neutral, believ-
ing it inopportune to hamper the British war effort." ,
Ben-Gurion charged that the articles in the American
and British press prophesying civil war in Palestine "are
designed to bolster a policy otherwise lacking moral, political
or military justification." Admitting that during war-time
certain sections of the population are accustomed to invest
in arms that soldiers are occasionally willing to sell, Ben-
Gurion asserts that "to represent this as a preconceived Jew-
ish design to organize an uprising during the war is sheer
nonsense," he concluded.
N. Y. Italian Paper
Hits Anti -Semitism,
Asks Rescue Acti©n
• Biased Cross-Examination Draws Protest From Defense
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — At one session of the "arms trial"
this week Prosecutor Major Baxter cross-examined the Jewish
defendant, Leib Sirkin, on the functions of the Histadruth, the
Jewish sport organization Hapoel, the Brith Trompeldor, the
Haganah, the Irgun Zvai Leumi and other Jewish organizations.
He was interested in establishing whether the Histadruth super-
vises the activities of the Haganah. The defense protested the
presecutor's actions.
The defendant replied that the Haganah was an organization
formed to defend the Jewish settlements in time of riots and
added that he did not know how much arms or how many
members it has. Sirkin denied any connection with Stoner and
Harris, British soldiers convicted of smuggling arms into Palestine.
While Jews in Palestine are enlisting in great numbers in the
British military forces in order to be with the vanguard of the
Allied troops that will destroy ghettos in Europe, the president
of the military tribunal conducting the "arms trial," indicated that
military authorities do not like the fact that the recruitment in
Palestine is in the hands of the Jewish Agency.
"In no country is any group allowed to conduct recruiting
activities except the lawful government," the president of the
court declared.
Dr. Philip Joseph, lawyer for the defense, emphasized that the
Jewish Agency has recruited more than 25,000 Jewish men for the
British forces. He proved that the Jewish Agency is within its
rights in enlisting of Jews as volunteers in the British armed
forces.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A de-
mand for immediate action to
assist the Jews of Europe to
secure havens in friendly lands
was . voiced this week by the
Italian language daily Il Pro-4
gresso, which is published by
Generoso • Pope.
The paper reviews the contri-
butions made to mankind by the
Jews and quotes the denuncia-
tion of anti-Semitism by Pope
Pius XI. It describes anti-Semit-
ism as a "most malignant dis-
ease of the spirit" and as "a
cancer in the body politic."
Concluding, the editorial says:
"We dare not wait till we com-
pletely destroy the Nazi monster
before we help the haunted and
hounded still surviving Jewish
folks of occupied Europe. We of
the democratic nations are
obligated to take immediate
steps to secure for these un-
fortunate people a haven."
under Italian occupation, it was declared
by the Emergency Committee to Save
The Jews of Europe in a telegram ad-
dressed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
Adoption of a joint resolution by both
houses of Congress providing for tern-
porary suspension of immigration quota
restrictions in order to admit all aliens
"fleeing religious persecution" was urged
in a statement issued by the president of
the National Democratic Club, William G.
Fullen, and the National Republican Club
president, Thomas J. Curran.
Unless we translate the principle of
racial equality from theory into practice
this country "can quite conceivably be
torn by civil war," it was declared by
Clifton Fadiman, prominent critic and
radio entertainer, speaking as a guest on
the radio series, Unity at Home—Victory
Abroad. He asserted that if the state of
equilibrium among the diverse groups
living in America is destroyed, "We will
have lost this war and planted the seeds
of another."
A report received from Belgium by the
Belgian Information Center in New York
describes the circumstances leading to
the death of a 9-year-old Jewish girl in
Brussels at the hands of the Nazis.
PALESTINE
Palestinian Jewish units are partic ipat-
ing with the British Eighth Army in. the
invasion of Italy, according to reports in
the Hebrew press.
With news of Italy's surrender reaching
the Yishuv on the eve of the third anni-
versary of the bombing of Tel Aviv by
Italian planes, special significance was
attached to this historic event. In all parts
of the ccuntry, throngs gathered ill the
streets, celebrating well into the night.
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