r:riday, December 10, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Britain Learns Enemy Mufti
Can't Be Deprived of Title

!Surety a Religious Honor, Says Colonial Secretary, But

Leader of Nazis' Arab 5th Column Won't Be
Allowed to Return to Jerusalem

LONDON (JPS-Palcor)—Haj Amin el Husseini, fugitive from
Palestine justice and now in Berlin, where he heads the Nazis'
Arab fifth column, is still Mufti of Jerusalem it was adinitted by
Colonial Secretary, Col. Oliver Stanley, in the House of Commohs.
Asked by Samuel Hammersley (Cons. M. P.) why appoint-
inients have not been made to the posts of Mufti and of President
of the Moslem Supreme Council, both formerly held by Haj Amin
iel Husseini, the Colonial Secretary declared that though Haj Aniin
'tag been deprived of his title as President of the Moslem Supreme
Cguncil he still retains the title of Mufti. The post of Mufti is
&rely religious and no action was taken to deprive him of this
title because there is no precedent or legal machinery for such

action.

The Colonial SecretarY said the government has no intention

of allowing him -to return to - Palestine - under any circumstances,

in..view of the fact that `lie openly joined the enemY"
.The Colonial Secretary. declared -.that in the absence of--a re-.
quest from the Council that a president. be appointed the govern-_
nient will not take action in this Matter.

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Jewish Vets Urge England Keep Palestine Open

NEW YORK (JPS)—Six officers of the American Palestine Jew-
ish . Legion, the 5,300 Americans who fought in the British Army
in'' 1918 to help liberate Palestine from the Turks, called on the
British Embassy to plead for the abrogation of the Chamberlain
White Paper of 1939 which bars new Jewish immigration into
Palestine after March 31, 1944.

Canadian Premiers Urge Abrogation of White Paper

MONTREAL, (JTA)—Premier Stuart Garson of Manitoba and
Premier Ernest C. Manning of Alberta have endorsed the demand
for the abrogation of the White Paper and the implementation of
the Balfour Declaration, it is disclosed by the Canadian Zionist
Federation, Premier Garson voiced his, support at a meeting in -
Winnipeg, while Premier Manning spoke to a gathering in
Edinonton.

Page Three .

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

62, in favor of upholding the government's

action.

American residents in Palestine parti-
cipated in ceremonies commemorating the
anniversary of the death of the late Judge
Julian V. Mack, at Ramat Hashofet, com-
munal village named in his memory. The-
occasion also served to -commemorate the
second anniversary of the village and to
honor Robert Szold, member - of the execu-
tive of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, now visiting Palestine. Among the
Americans present at the ceremonies were
MisS Henrietta Szold, Prof. Israel J. Klig-
ler of the Hebrew University and Julius
Simon, head of the Palestine. Economic
Corporation.
Thirty-four settlers arrested at Ramat
HakoVesh during the recent raid by Bri-
'tish police, Indian troops and Polish
tar-.y police, were released on bail.
Miss G. S. Baltinester, niece of a Tel.
Aviv resident, was killed and three other
Palestinian, Jewish women were injured in
an automobile accident at Isrnalilia, it is
reported - from Cairo. All four were serv-
ing with the WAAF.
- Undeterred by recent events which
have stirred Jewish Palestine to protest
demonstrations and to petition the Gov-
ernments in Jerusalem and London to
cease "hostile acts against the Jewish
people," the Vaad Leumi and the Jewish
Agency issued a call to its manpower to
enlist immediately with the military forces
for the invasion of Europe, with the police
forces for the protection of the country,
or for work in the agricultural settlements
to expand the production-frontiers of the
Jewish National Home.

Paul Levy, formerly head of the Bel-
gian Radio, has escaped from the Breedon
concentration camp near Antwerp. He re-
ported that many Antwerp Jews were still
interned there.
Jan. 1, 1944; is the deadline for Jews
to leave Sofia. All Jews remaining in the
Bulgarian capitol after that date will be
deported to the Samovit concentration
camp for internment, according to a gov:.
ernment decree.
Twelve Greeks in a village near Athens
have been executed by the Nazis because
they had helped 70 Jews to escape.
The Jewish Agency has subrnitted to
the British government a request for an
inquiry, -into the fatal shooting of Shmuel
Wolinietz, a settler, during a police .and
military raid on Ramat Hakovesh a fort-
night ago.
Saveral Jewish merchants in Helsinki
have been arrested and given prison sen-
tences, following a campaign of the Nazi
press, which accused them of - impeding
the war effort of the Akis powers.
Moishe Khachewatsky, the noted Soviet
Yiddish poet, has been killed in battle.
New and stricter anti-Jewish laws on
the German model have been demanded
by- the former Hungarian Premier Imredy.

AMERICA
Zvi H. Rubinstein, city editor of the
Green Calls for Open Door in Palestine
New York Yiddish newspaper, The Day,
.• NEW YORK (JTA)—William Green, president of the. AFL, this
from 1919 till 1939, and managing editor
week joined in demanding abrogation to the White Paper. "It is
in 1939 and 1940, died at the age of 54
difficult to understand why there should be any hesitation on the
after a long illness.
OVERSEAS
part of Britain to open wide the door of Palestine to Jewish immi-
grants," Green wrote in a message to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chair-
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union
The setting aside of the White Paper
man of the executive committee of the American Zionist Emer-
has been awarded posthumously by the
to permit the entry of Jewish refugees to
ency Council.
Soviet Government to Captain Julius
Palestine for the duration and passage of
Hibner and Lieutenant Visotzky.
the bi-partisan House and Senate resolu-
Jewish Refugees Persecuted by Poles in Mexican Settlement
tions calling for creation by the President
The massacre of all the Jews in. Krit-
MEXICO CITY (JTA)—Jewish refugees from Poland living in
chev, White Russia; by the Nazis, has been
of a special commission to deal with the
the camp at Santa Rosa established, in Mexico by the Polish
government-in-exile for Poles coming from Iran and India are being
discovered by Red Army troops. .
rescue of European Jewry, were urged
terrorized by PoliSh refugees, - it is diselosed by the Mexican labor
An
editorially by the New York World-Tele-
increase
in
anti-Jewish
propaganda
paper '%1 Popular" on the basis of an investigation made by a special
in England -Was predicted by speakers in
gram, a .Scripps-Howard newspaper.
Cozrespondent ,. .-
the House - of Commons during the discus 7.
Col. - -Nathan •HoroWitz, who retired -
The,Jews who• came froth RtiSsia complained to the -rep,orter of
sion on the release of MoSley, 'England's
."El Popular"-.of ill-treatment. by the Polish authorities in Russia
from the Army in 1932, died in New York
attr the signing of the Soviet-Polish pact of 1941.
number one - Fascist The vote was 367 to
at the age of 59.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jew-
ish Labor Committee announced
this week that it Will remain in
the Arfierican. Jewish ConferenCe,
kit will not participate in the
interim Committee, which has
been established to direct the af-
fairs of the organization Until its
next meeting. A statement re-
le4sed by the Committee declares:
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After two sessions which the
Jewish Labor Committee held on
of its further rela-
Lion with the American Jewish
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Taking into considerations that
the Jewish Labor Committee par-
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lecisions of the conference, such
is the rescue 'of Jews, JeWish
aostwar demands in Europe, the
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