Friday, December 17, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

UNRRA Will Accept Funds
To Aid Jewish War Victims

Relief Agencies Will Be Allowed to Earmark Contributions,
Says State Department Official in Outlining
Policies of UNRRA for Congressmen

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Fascists Seek to Trap Italian Priests Aiding Jews
- WASHINGTON, (JTA)=Fascist police • disguising them-
selves -as Jewish , _ refugees in a new campaign to trap priests. in
Italian border towns who are suspected ,of aiding priSoners to es-
cape, the Swiss neWspaper Basler Nachrichterf said in a dispatch
to the OWI. • ' • •
'In one village near the frontier, the Swiss paper related,' an
"unknown" person who professed to be a 46w . approached the
priest and asked„to be sheltered froth Persecution; The priest took,
him in and - Was "on:. the point of conducting hiin to the frontier"
when the "Jew" . revealed himself as an officer - and arrested him.

ORT Trainees from Italy !teach Switzerland
ZURICH, (JTA)7---Forty-five young Jewish refugees
who were
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being trained in an 'ORT school hear Genoa have arrived in
Sikitzerland, it was learned this week from
attending
the annual conference of the Swiss ORT here. The youhs report
that the machines and tools belonging to their school are being
hidden, by 'Italian peasants to prevent their seizure by the Germans.
Addressing the "conference, Dr. Aaron Syngalovsky, vice-presi-
dent of the World ORT• Union, pointed out that it is important to
train as many technicians as posSible at present for service in
Europe after the war.'

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Weekly Review- of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Britain's actions in Palestine and Leb-
anon are described as a pattern suggesting
"something other than the Four Free-
doms" in an editorial in the Nation, liberal
weekly,‘ which comments on the joint po-
lice and military raid on Ramat Hakovesh.
Erich Leinsdorf, young conductor of
the Cleveland Orchestra, is about to enter
the army, it was announced by Selective
Service Headquarters.
The purchase of $2,000,000 worth of war
bonds to raise the money for the building
of a Liberty ship to be named for the late
B. Charney. Vladeck, Jewish labor leader,
is the goal set by the Workmen's Circle,'
a fraternal organization, it was announced.
Lt.. Jerome Goldberg, 24, of Paterson,
N. J, Liberator bombardier who partici-
pated in the Ploesti oil fields assault, holds
eight-decorations: the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross, the Air Medal, and six • Oak
Leaf CluSters. After completing 35 bomb-.
ing missions against enemy installations , in
Italy, Greece, Austria arid. Rumania, Lieu-
tenant Goldberg has returned to the 'Unit-
•ed States and
now awaiting, reassign-
ment.
OVERSEAS .
Moishe Paido, Jewish guerilla leader
with General Tito, has been elected first
viceq3resident of the new free Yugoslav
LegiSlative Corpthittee, according to the
Free Yugoslav Radio. -
The Finnish government has permitted
the Jewish communities to transfer to
Sweden their funds and other .valuables,
it was learned on reliable authority.

WASHINGTON, (JTA) =Jewish Welfare agencies will be able
to specify that their relief funds be used to help Jewish war victims
in Europe, under an interpretation offered this week by Assistant
Secretary of State Dean Acheson, of a decision taken at the first
meeting of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis-
tration.
Acheson, who represents the U. S. on UNRRA's council, has been
making an explanation of the policies laid down in Atlantic City to
the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives.
The Committee is considering U. S. participation in UNRRA. One
of UNRRA's decisions was to accept contributions from non-govern-
mental sources.
Asked whether the contributors could specify the group to
benefit from their donations, Acheson replied: 'Yes,' unless the
group is so narrow as to be impossible so far as administration is
concerned. We could not, for instance, single out 12 to 13-year-old
Greek girls."

Asks U.S. Groups
Probe•Palestine
Administration

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Three thousand Slovakian Jews have
been 'sent to. the Tatra Mountains to build
homes for children evacuated from the
Reich's bombed cities.
The Russian Quisling, General Vlasov,
has .been arrested by the Nazis, according
to reports in the Swedish• press.
Anti-Nazi demonstrators in the audi-
ence forced 'the management to stop the
showing of 'an anti-Semitic film, Ewige
Jude, at a theater in Budapest.

PALESTINE

Dr. Moshe Brill, lecturer on pedagogics
at the Hebrew University, died in Jerusa-
lem. He was born at Safed and lived in
the United States for" many years. Dr.
Brill is the son-in-law of Dr. Simon Bern-
stein of New York, editor of Das Yiddislfe
Folk, a Yiddish weekly' published by the
, .Zionist Organization of America.
= , Jewish Aid-to-Russia Committees of
. many countries have concluded negotia-
.. tions to purchase all their gifts for Russia -
in Palestine. Negotiations• were conducted
with the-V-League in Tel Aviv, which runs"
Aid-Russia activity in this country.
The Cential .Committee' : of the Poalei
AgUdath IS r a e l at Tel ,Aviy, Orthodox'
workers' organization, has voted to dis-
. associate itself from a forthcoming declar-
ation by the Central Committee of the par-
. enf body which will announce opposition
to the Biltmore Program, .the Hebrew.
press reports.
. Fifteen hundred Jewish children from
the Nazi-ocCupied countries -and from Ye-
men; Iraq and. Syria entered Palestine dur-
ing , the past Jewish calendar year.

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NEW YORK (JPS)—A propos-
al that Atrierican organizations
'‘'s e . t_uo a board of inquiry to look V
into the "woeful failure and dere-: V
liction of the Palestine Govern-
ment" in not "suitably according
- security aganisi the Arab gang-
sters and marauders" was made
by Rep. Emanuel Celler in a -
- statement issued' to the Independ:-
erit Jewish Press Service.
Pointing out that in 4929 and
1936 "the government failed to
safeguard the hearth and hoines
of the Jews," he asks: "What do
the Colonial Officers expect the
Chalutzim (pioneers) to protect
themselves with in the absence of
suitable government militia and
soldiery?" Therefore, he stated,
"the Jews have no choice. They
must defend themselves and their
loved ones with guns.
"It is time to call a halt.
American public opinion can be
aroused against the nefarious ac-
tions of the Palestine Govern-
ment. Be it remembered — the
British Colonial Office respects
American public opinion; they
fear it."

Chosen. AZA
Head in Mail Vote

Grause

WASHINGTON, D. C.
Ed-
ward A. Grause, 20 - -year-old • war
plant worker and member of
Queens Village Chapter No. 8,
Queens Village, Long Island, N.
Y., was elected Grand Aleph
Godol or president 'of Aleph
Zadik Aleph, Bnai Brith youth'
organization, at the close of the
unique convention by mail held
to relieve the nation's transporta-
tion system of the burden of car-
rying 500 delegates who normally
travel 1,000,000 miles round trip
for the annual convention, it was
announced by Philip M. . Klutz-
nick, president of the Supreme
Advisory Council of AZA.
Grause was elected to the high-
est office in the gift of the 12,000
members of. the nation's largest
Jewish boys organization in a
mail election campaign that be-
gan early in the fall. The 19th
national president of AZA,
Grause is the first boy from New
York to hold this office since
AZA .vas founded in 1924. Two
years ago he received the Harry a
H. Lapidus Award as the AZA V
member who had done the out-
standing job of communal serv-
ice.

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