November 19, 1943
Biddle Urges Public to Help
Fight Anti-Semitism in U.S.
Attorney Genera! Shocked Over Spread of Anti - Jewish
Activity Among School Children; Says Axis Propa-
ganda Has Been Checked in Country
NEW YORK (JTA)—A call to the American people to help the
government in the work of combatting anti-Jewish activities in the
U. S. was voiced here this week by U. S. Attorney General Biddle
addressing a dinner of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
It is profoundly shocking, Mr. Biddle said, that anti-Semitism
should have developed among school children, who, left to them-
selves, could hardly have turned against other children merely
because they were Jewish. "The desecration of Jewish cemeteries
is hideously like what we have seen in those countries which have
been conquered by the Germans," he stated.
As Americans, we must not tolerate this outbreak of the Axis
pattern in our country."
The .Attorney General emphasized that "the approach of all of
us to the troublesome problems of minorities cannot any longer be
loca for provincial, or in terms even of the difficulties facing any
particular- group, or involving the traditions or the tenets of any
single race or any one religion."
Axis propaganda in this country, which took the form of vicious
anti-Semitic teachings, has been checked, but the fruit of this propa-
ganda is still with us, Mr. Biddle pointed out.
"1 suggest that what is greatly needed is a broader and more
intelligent use of the moral and educational influence of the com-
munity," he stated.
T H E JEWISH NEWS
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
28 per cent of the industrial workers
in Palestine are women, an increase over
the ratio of 24.8 per cent reported in 1937,
but smaller than the 30.8 per cent recorded
at the end of 1941, it was established in
a recent census of Palestine industry by
the General Federation of Jewish Labor.
The Palestine government has bowed
to the persistent demands of the Jewish
Agency and has agreed to the granting
of special allowances to needy families of
Palestinian Jewish volunteers, men and
women.
OVERSEAS
The London Daily Sketch reports that
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden dis-
cussed with Egyptian Premier Nahas
Pasha the plans for an Arab Federation
now being framed by the heads of Arab
states.
On evacuating Kiev, the Nazis destroy-
ed the library of the Jewish section of the
Ukrainian Academy of Science which con-
tained the largest collection of Jewish
books in Europe, the Soviet press reports.
See Also Page 14
Rabbis Lauded for Waiving Exemption From Military Service
NEW YORK (JTA)—Conservative rabbis who have waived
their right to exemption from service in the U. S. armed forces, to
)which they are entitled as clergymen under the Selective Service
Law, and'have entered the service as chaplains under a self-imposed.
"draft" system, were lauded this week at a dinner meeting ,conclud-
ing an all-day conference of Jewish chaplains at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary.
Governor Acts on Report Blaming Police for Outbreaks
BOSTON (JTA)—Mayors - of all Massachusetts communities
were in receipt this week of a letter from Gov. Leverett Saltonstall
incorpOrating a report submitted to him by State Public Safety Com-
missioner John F. Stokes, in which the Boston police were blamed
for anti-Jewish outbreaks in the Jewish sections of that city.
As soon as he had received the report, which said that the dis-
turbances would not have been possible if the police had done their
duty. Gov. Saltonstall brought it to the attention of the mayor,
turned over all the findings to Attorney General Bushnell and to the
armed forces, and appointed a committee to draw up „an over-all
program for dealing with the causes of racial outbreaks.
15,000 Fugitive Dutch Jews
Sheltered in Gentile Homes
Nazi Police Punishing Christians for Blocking Deportation
of Victims; German Occupation Forces in France
Preparing for a Hurried Evacuation
• GENEVA, (JTA)—An estimated 15,000 fugitive Dutch Jews
are being sheltered in homes of Christians, to prevent their
deportation from the country, according to reports received here.
The report states that the Nazi police are combing the country for
the Jews and are punishing persons in whose homes they are
found.. It also confirms . that the Jewish council of Amsterdam has
been dissolved and all its members deported.
Nazis, Fearing Rout in France, Sell Jewish Property
LONDON, (JTA) — In fear- that they will be forced to hur-
riedly. evacuate France in the not too far distant future, members
of the German occupation forces are selling property seized from
Jews, it is reported in the •French underground newspaper, La VOix
du Nord, a copy of which. was received here this week. Other
reports reaching here from France disclbse that the Gestapo has
"assumed supervision of all matters concerning Jews.
A recent attack on a German soldier in Clermont-Ferrand,
Pierre Laval's hometown, resulted in all foreign Jews in the
city and some native Jews, including a university professor and
45 students, being shipped to Drancy.
Exiled Bulgarian Jews Permitted to Return for 10 Days
ZURICH (JTA)—The reappearance on the streets of Sofia of
many Jews who were deported from the city to other parts of Bul-
gari a and the consequent protests from pro-Nazi elements in the
Bulgarian capital evoked an "explanation" over the Sofia radio this
week. The broadcast "explained" that the returning Jews are per-
mitted to remain in the city no more than 10 days. They have been
given permission to come to Sofia to sell movable property which
they left behind in their homes when they were expelled, the
announcement said.
Quebec Denies Plan to Settle 100,000 Refugees
MONTREAL (JTA)—The campaign which French-Canadian re-
actionary elements in the province of Quebec have been waging in
an effort to prevent the admission into Canada of any refugees from
Europe received a setback this week when Minister of Mines and
ReseLirces, J. A. Crerar, who is the official responsible for immigra-
tion matters, denied the allegation that Jews are negotiating to settle
100.000 European refugees in Quebec.
The charge was made by Maurice Duplessis, former premier of
QUeiwc, who frequently has been accused of having fascist leanings.
Dup.:essis exhibited what he purported to be a photostatic copy of a
letter from the "International Zionist Brotherhood" to Rabbi Jesse
Schwartz, executive director of the Zionist Federation of Canada,
stating that a meeting of the "brotherhood" in New York had
decided to give financial support to any political candidate in Canada
who "openly or secretly" would support the -settlement of 100,000
Je Ws
Rabbi Schwartz and Louis Fitch, K.C., prominent Canadian
Jewish leader, have branded the letter a "clumsy forgery."
Military Court Sentences Arabs For Illegal Arms
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Two Arabs were sentenced on Nov. 8
by a military court to prison sentences of two and three years for
the illegal possession of 1,800 rounds of ammunition.
The Manchester Guardian in a recent editorial criticized
severely the discrepancy between the sentence of seven years' im-
prisonment imposed on Eliahu Sacharoff, a Solel Borieh contractor.
who was charged with the illegal possession of two rounds of
ammunition and the sentence of six weeks' imprisonment imposed
by a civilian court at Hebron on an Arab villager who was tried
for the illegal possession of 80 rounds of ammunition.
British Non-Zionists Oppose White Paper
LONDON (JPS)—Declaring their opposition to the White Paper
and their support of demands for a large Jewish immigration to
Palestine, Leonard Montefiore and Otto Schiff, spokesmen for
British non-Zionists, issued a statement in which they reiterated
their opposition to the establishment of Jewish Commonwealth. -
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