Friday, Ocfober 15, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Palestine Jew Sentenced
For Possessing 2 Bullets

Page 'Three

. Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

Former Bodyguard foi Dr. Chaim Weizmann Gets 7 Years
at Trial Lasting One Day Despite Appearance of
Tel Aviv Mayor as Character Witness

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Elihau Sacharov, who at one time
-served as Dr. Chaim Weizmann's bodyguard, was sentenced
this week by a military court here to seven years imprison-
ment on the charge of possessing two bullets, one of which
was serviceable. Major Baxter was the prosecutor.
The trial lasted only one day. Mayor Israel Rokach of
Tel Aviv appeared in court as a character witness for Sacha-
rov. When cross-examined by Major Baxter, he stated that
he knew of the existence of the Jewish defense organization,
Haganah, and considered its establishment justified. He add-
ed that he did not know from what sources the Haganah se-
cures arms.

AMERICA

OVERSEAS

The name of King Gustav of Sweden
will be inscribed in the Golden Book, roll
of honor of the Jewish people in Jerusa-
lem, in gratitude for the Swedish govern-
ment's offer of asylum for the Danish
Jews, it was announced by Dr. Israel
Goldstein, president of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.

The Nazi radio in German-controlled
Italy now claims that the Italian royal
family is of Jewish descent. For this rea-
son, the spokesman charged, the King had
always opposed the introduction of anti-
Jewish measures by Mussolini.
Official French circles in Algiers report
that the Jewish refugees in Corsica con-
tributed greatly to the defeat of the Nazi
forces. They helped to organize the anti-
Nazi movement there and participated in
the actual fighting, it is stated.
Reports coming over the Nazi radio in
Belgrade tell of a Jewish guerilla calling
himself Major Dickens, who has organized
underground resistance at the port of
Spalato.

Two days before Private Alton Levy
was judged guilty of making "false state-
ments" concerning the treatment of Negro
soldiers and of circulating slanderous re-
marks about the commanding officer and
his wife, the presiding officer at the court-
martial declared that the court believed
the prisoner not guilty, it was charged
here by the Workers' Defense League,
which is seeking to reopen the case.
Capt. Richard M. Rossbach, 28, of New
York City, recipient of the Silver Star
for an exploit in the earlier campaign in
Tunisia, in which he took six Germans
as prisoners, was reported by the War
Department to have been captured by the
Germans while in a raid behind enemy
lines in northern Sicily on August 11.

Arab Gets Six Weeks' Imprisonment in Arms Trial
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—A sentence of six weeks' im-
prisonment was passed on an Arab villager, Abed Mussa Shamali;
tried by a civil court for illegal possession of arms, an offense for
'hich three Jews were recently sentenced by a military court to
terms ranging from seven to ten years. In his judgment, the British
Chief Magistrate declared that had the Arab been tried by a mili-
tary court, the sentence would have been much more severe: "at
least a year and probably considerably more."

Five Palestine Jewish Units Fighting In Italy
LONDON, (JTA)—Five Palestine Jewish units are fighting in
Italy, and two of them were among the first Allied troops to land
on the continent, it was disclosed here this week by Rabbi Louis
Rabinowitz, until recently the senior chaplain of the British Eighth
Army. After the fall of Crete, when 1,500 Palestine troops were
captured, there were only four Palestine units left, Major Rabinow-
itz said, while now there are 20,000 Jews from the Holy Land fight-
ing in the British Army.
Speaking on a special BBC broadcast, he reviewed the participa-
tion of the Palestine Jews in the drive across the top of Africa from
Egypt to French North Africa, and said the road from El Alamein
David Ben Gurion Outlines
to Tripoli is strewn with their graves.

See Expansion
Of Palestine
After War Ends

The pro-Nazi Belgrade Donauer Zei-
tung accused the Hungarian Consul in
Trieste of having given shelter to many
Jews when the Germans occupied the city.
The same newspaper denounced t h e
Italians of Fiume for having committed
a similar "crime."

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Plans Before 'Substitute

Urges Inclusion of Palestine In United States of Arabia
Zionist Congress'
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Emir Feisal, second son and Foreign
Minister of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, hopes to help establish
By B. CORALNIK
a United States of Arabia to include Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and Syria,
as well as his own and other Arab states, he said in an interview
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The hope
with the press this week. He confirmed reports that he will go to that after the war "it will be
London after completing his stay in this country. -
The Foreign Minister added that he saw no reason why a union of worthwhile even for American
and Russian Jews to emigrate to
Arab states should not be negotiated before the end of the war.
Palestine" was voiced here by
David Ben-Gurion, chairman of
Solution Must Precede Pan-Arab Union, Says Ibn Saud
CAIRO, (JTA)—Solution of the Palestine question must pre- the executive of the Jewish
cede any measures relative to - establishment of a pan-Arab federa- Agency, addressing the third
tion, King Ibn Saud has advised the Egyption Premier Mustapha annual "Substitute Zionist Con-
Nahas Pasha, according to a report published in the Arab press here gress." The meeting, which has
this week.
been arranged by the Keren
The Arabian monarch was said to have set forth his views in a Hayesod, is intended to take the
letter handed to the Egyptian mission sent to Saudi Arabia to secure
his participation in the Cairo talks on federation scheduled to be place of the regular Zionist Con-
gresses curtailed because of the
resumed this week.
war.
Arab-Jewish Differences Preclude Self-Government, Morrison Says
To finance the post-war expan-
LONDON, (JTA)—Palestine cannot as yet have self-government
sion of Palestine in order that
Herbert Morrison, British Home Minister, declared this week ad- the country may be able to ab-
dressing members of the Anglo-American Press Association here.
"It is not Britain that forbids such self-government, but Arab-Jew- sorb millions of immigrants, it
will be necessary to launch a
ish differences," he said.
campaign in the U. S. and Eng-
land to persuade Jews in those
Maisky Discusses Jewish Problems With Leaders In Palestine
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Ivan Maisky, Soviet Vice-CommiSsar for countries to invest in Palestine
Foreign Affairs, who is now visiting Palestine, this week met with enterprises, Dr. Emil Shmorak,
leaders of the Histadruth in the Maale-Hamisha settlement and dis- a member of the executive . of the
cussed with them question, concerning the solution of the Jewish Jewish Agency, told the 1,500
problem after war.
Zionist leaders and guests at-
tending the conference.
Views Defamation Campaign as Tribute to Zionism
Discussing the prospects for
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor).—The recent attacks levelled against
the Jewish community in Palestine constitute "one of the clearest the future economic develop-
proofs that the foundations of.-the White Paper have been shaken," ment of Palestine, Dr. Shmorak
it was declared here by Moshe Shertok, political chief of the Jew- stated: International loans must
ish - Agency. Addressing the closing session of the third wartime be secured in other countries be-
Zionist Conference in Palestine, Mr. Shertok said that "the latest sides England and America, he
defamation campaign" grew out of "the extent to which our effort said, and deposits in local banks,
has been consolidated and the importance which our traducers at- totaling . about $200,000,000 must
tach to our achievements. We will not reply with words," he warn- be utilized.
ed, "but with deeds."
Mr. Ben-Gurion reviewed the
circumstances that led to the
issuance of the White Paper of
1939 and outlined the steps that
must be taken by the Jews to
secure its abrogation.
Of the $88,000,000 that have
come into Palestine during the
war, $60,000,000 came from Jew-
Nazis Imprison 800 Jews in Rome as Many Hide With ish sources, the Agency treasur-
er disclosed, adding that in the
Friends in Vatican City; Report Many Reach
last year the combined income
Algerian Ports from Rhodes, Dodecanese
of the Agency and the Keren
Hayesod amounted to $6,000,000,
BERN, (JTA)—Many young Jews have joined Italian forma-
tions fighting the Germans in North and Central Italy, according of which about 30 percent was
to a report appearing in La Stampa Libera, organ of the Free. used for colonization, including
the establishment of nine new
Italians in Switzerland.
Other information reaching here from Italy states that the agricultural settlements.
Greetings to the congress were
Nazis have arrested a large number of Jews in the territory they
hold, including about 800 in Rome. Many Roman Jews are received from Dr. • Chaim Weiz-
believed to be hiding in the homes of friends in the Vatican City. mann, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, the
Nazi papers received here disclose that Jews in Trieste and Fiume Zionist Organization of Algiers
have been ordered to display yellow Mogen Davids at the entrances and other persons and groups.
of their homes, while an unconfirmed report declares that a
large number of Jewish refugees, mostly from Venice, have arrived
at Algerian . ports as have 18 Jews who fled from the Island of Cite Urgent Need of New
Rhodes in the Dodecanese.
Settlements in Palestine
Another report states that British troops occupying the city
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Of Calabria found an internment camp in which 15 Czechoslovak-
TEL AVIV, (Palcor)—The im-
ian Jews had been confined since some time in 1940.
mediate need for new settle-
ments in Palestine was stressed
Jews In Former Italian-Held France Conscripted.
GENEVA, (JTA)—French police, acting on the orders of the in addresses by David ben Gu-
rion, Chairman of the Jewish
German military authorities, are rounding up for forced labor all
foreign Jews between 18 and 50 and all French Jews between 20 Agency Executive, and Eliezer
and 30 residing in the former Italian-held section of France, it is Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish
reported here this week. These Jews are to be sent to build forti- Agency, at the third annual war-
fications under the direction of the Todt Organization which has , time Zionist Conference in Pal-
been constructing German defense lines throughout Europe.
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