Friday, Noveirber f2, 1941
Roosevelt Cites Interest
In Fate of European Jewry
President Indicates Government Definitely Anxious to Help
Rescue Jews in Occupied Areas; Awaits Hull's
Return from Moscow With Report
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Rosevelt, at his press
conference this week, indicated that the U. S. government is
definitely interested in the fate of the Jews in occupied
Europe. The problems ,of rescuing them and of sending them
immediate relief are merely questions of ways and means,
he said.
The President was asked whether anything had been
decided at the tri-partite conference in Moscow about the
Jews in Nazi Europe. He replied that he would not know
until the return of Secretary of State Hull. The heart is in
the right place, President Roosevelt remarked, but it is a
question of ways and means. He added that the same is true
of sending relief.
(Joint Resolutions were introduced on Tuesday in
the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, calling
for immediate action to rescue the Jews of Europe from
the Nazi terrorists. Senator Homer Ferguson was one of
the sponsors of the Senate Resolution. The bills presented
call for a program which would make it clear that the
United Nations' Statement on Atrocities also applies to
the Jewish people, and calls for the setting up of
reservations in European countries for Jews who are to
be saved from Nazism, with the intention of their
eventual settlement in Palestine and other countries).
Hopes Allies Follow Russian Policy Towards Jews
NEW YORK (JTA)—Lauding the outlawing of anti-Semitism
by Soviet Russia and the complete equality enjoyed by Jews there,
James N. Rosenberg, addressing a meeting arranged by the National,
Council of American-Soviet Friendship this week, to celebrate 10
years of American-Soviet diplomatic relations, expressed the hope
that "the Soviet policy towards minorities will be a pattern for the
United Nations."
The meeting also heard a message from Dr. Joseph A. Rosen,
director of the Agro-Joint, who established the Jewish colonies in
the Crimea and in the Ukraine, emphasizing that now, when these
sections of the USSR are being liberated from the Nazis by the
Russian Army, "we look forward hopefully to the active resumption
of the great Argo-Joint work, in order that we of America may aid
in ri,building the torn and ravaged agricultural, industrial and
economic life of the Soviet Union."
Page Three
THE JEWISH NEWS
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
Special ceremonies marked the laying
of the cornerstone for a new Galilean
settlement named for Leon Blum, former
Premier 'of France . . . The settlement,
hitherto known as Naame, the name of a
neighboring Arab village, was established
by the Kibbutz Anglo-Balti, consisting of
members of Habonim, American Labor
Zionist Youth organization, and Chalut-
zim from Russia, Canada, South Africa
and the Baltic states.
Some 3,000 American Servicemen and
women Visit Palestine monthly Under the
auspices of the American Red Cross, says
the newspaper Davar.
The area of wheat grown in Palestine
rose between 1939 and 1941 by 400,000
dunams, or a rise of 20 per cent compared
with peacetime, and it is estimated that
in the past two years further substantial
areas have been added, says a report by
the Palestine government Department of
Agriculture. Barley-growing areas, how-
ever, increased by only 5 per cent and of
millet by much less. The area of lentils
and legumes was increased almost three-
fold. During 1941, grains covered an area
of six million dunams as against 5,400,000
in 1939.
AMERICA
Urging that President Roosevelt and
Secretary of State Hull declare their op-
position to the White Paper and issue "a
forthright statement" on the position of
the United States in regard to Palestine,
Congressman Emanuel Celler of New
York warned, in a radio address, that
failure to do so "gives rise to the suspicion
that we may be co-conspirators with the
British Colonial Office in applying to
Palestine and the Levant 'power politics'
and the policy of 'divide and rule.' " The
silence of the Administration "breeds
despair," stated the Congressman. Re-
calling that Robert Worth Bingham, ap-
pointed Ambassador to Britain in 1933,
had served notice to the British Foreign
Office "that no change in the government
of Palestine can take place without the
previous consent" of the United States,
Representative Celler expressed wonder-
ment that "today, when the MacDonald
White Paper so drastically contradicts the
terms of the Convention, our State De-
partment maintains its silence. Why does
it so viciously destroy the hope for the
establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jews? Are we to follow
slavishly the policy of the British Colonial
Office? Shall Americans make no protest
against the rape of Palestine? What politi-
cal pawn is Palestine that it must be twice
betrayed?"
Representative William P. Elmer, Mis-
souri Democrat and member of the House
Immigration Committee, declared that
"nearly every nation of Europe has chased
out the Jews . . . It has been so widespread
there must have been compelling reasons
for their actions," while debating a bill
which would void the Chinese Exclusion
Act.
OVERSEAS
The Parizer Zeitung, pro-Nazi sheet, has
predicted that Paris will be "Judenrein"
before the arrival of Christmas.
Two hundred and thirty Jews were
killed by Nazi and Croat troops, in the city
of Spalato, which was reoccupied after
Yugoslav guerilla forces were ousted.
British Military Commander
Rejects Arms Trial Appeal
Entire Yishuv Stops Work for Two Hours in Protest Against
Slander, Following Confirmation of Sentences
Against 2 Jewish Defendants
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The conviction of Leib Sirkin,
Abraham Rachlin and Eliahu Sacharov for alleged compli-
city in a gun running conspiracy in Palestine has been con-
firmed by the General Officer Commanding British troops
in the Middle East, it was announced this week. The GOC
also denied the appeals of . Christopher Harris and Charles
Stoner, two British soldiers who are alleged to have sold
arms to Rachlin and Sirkin.
Attorneys for the Jewish defendants had appealed for
reversal - of the sentences of 10 years imprisonment imposed
on Sirkin and seven years on Rachlin and Sacharov.
Yishuv Stops Work In Protest Against Slanders
JERUSALEM. (Palcor)—The entire Yishuv stopped work for
two hours on Nov. 3 in protest against the allegations made against
Palestinian- Jewry and the Jewish Agency at the Jerusalem arms
trials. The stoppage affected all work except that connected with the
war effort.
In its proclamation to all Jew=s to cease work, the Vaad Leumi
declared that the stoppage was in protest against "slanders" against
the Yishuv and its supreme institutions voiced at the recent arms
trials and the confirmation of the sentences against the Jewish de-
fendants."
Sirkin and Rachlin were sentenced on Sept. 26, and Sacharoff
was sentenced on Oct. 7.
An Arab villager, Abed Mussa Shamali, tried by a civil court
early in October for the illegal possession of arms, received a sen-
tence of six weeks.
Believes 100,000 to 500,000 Jews Alive in Poland
LONDON, (JTA)—Emphasizing that it is difficult to estimate
the number of Jews who, remain alive in occupied Poland, Edward
Warszawski, the first Jew to reach London from Warsaw after the
battle in the ghetto, this week told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that "it is possible that that there are still in Poland today between
100,000 and 500,000 Jews."
Here's the
Fellow They're
All Talking About
The gentleman who, in the short space of four weeks, has put Detroit back
"on the map" of the musical world; the man whose readings of the works of
the Masters have caused critics and layman alike to forecast, for this home
town of ours, "one of the outstanding musical organizations of the country"
. .. Karl Krueger, musical director and conductor of the new Detroit Symphony
Orchestra.
20,000 Have 245,000 Will
Nearly 20,000 Detroiters already have come and seen, and heard, and departed
the Masonic Temple auditorium feeling and knowing, as Auerbach expressed
it, "that music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And, before
the current season of musical events already programmed comes to its conclusion,
more than a quarter of a million Detroiters will have acclaimed the new Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, as has been forecast, "one of the genuinely great orchestras
of the world." Don't miss the history-making events which wins for this great
civic organization, its international reputation.
Make Thursday Night
"Symphony Night"
COME . . . SEE . . . and HEAR that which is now the most talked about feature
Seek Whereabouts of 53,000 Greek Jews
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An appeal to the International Red Cross to
ascertain the fate of the 53,000 Salonika Jews vato were deported
from Greece to unknown destinations in Eastern Europe early this
year, was voiced this week in a resolution adopted here by a meet-
ing of the Greek-Jewish Settlers Association called to mark the
third anniversary of the invasion of their homeland. Another resolu-
tion adopted by the meeting urged Turkey to grant visas to Jewish
refugees from Greece who wish to come to Palestine.
on Detroit's entertainment program . . the weekly Thursday evening concerts
by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. If you feel, after hearing this great organiza-
tion, that you would like to hear all the remaining 14 concerts, arrange for
season tickets as some 3,500 other folks have done.
Arab Politicians Here Linked to Subversives
You may still obtain season tickets for the 14 concerts yet to come at pre-season
rates, LESS the cost of the four concerts already performed. Telephone soon,
however, because two sections are now completely sold out for the entire season
NEW YORK (JPS)—Peter George and H. I. Katibah of the
Arab 'National League have worked in concert with the notorious
American Fascists, George Deatherage and Henry D. Allen, acting
as liaison between American fascist groups and Mexico's Golden
Shirts, it is alleged in an article by Joseph Roos in the German
language weekly, Aufbau.
Mr. Roos reveals that Allen defrayed the expenses of eight
Arabs who in 1938 picketed the United Palestine Appeal Conference
at the Hotel Mayflower in Washington. Allen acted in behalf of
Mrs. Leslie Fry, alias Shishmareff, alias Shishmarova, now a fugitiVe
from justice, and her associate, Conrad Chapman, alias Warren
Weston.
Mr. Roos states that there are photostatic copies of correspon-
dence between George Deatherage and H. I. Katibah, Peter
George's associate in the Arab National League.
More World News on Pages 6, 7, 10, 13, 14
TICKETS
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