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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 17, 1943

Mrs. Adler to Review
Book for VHS Women

State Dept. Silence Delays
Rescue Action in Congress

Mrs. Jack Tobin, president of
the Women's Auxiliary of the

Hulda's Suffering During :
Arab Terror Told at Trial

Assistant Secretary of State Long's Failure to Release United Hebrew Schools, an- British Court Refuses to Drop Charges Against Seven Merl
nounces that the next monthly
Statement on His Department's Attitude Forces
Accused of Illegal Arms Possession; Reveal No
cultural meeting
Postponement on Resolution Until After Jan. I
Deserters Found in Recent Police Raid

WASHINGTON — Failing to get an outright statement
from Assistant Secretary of State Breckinbridge Long on his
department's attitude on the rescue resolution pending in
Congress, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has post-
; pored action until after Jan. 1.
Mr. Long repeatedly has stated that the resolution is a

matter for legislative determina->
tion and dodged all questions on the "shedding of crocodile tears"
the State Department's opinions. and denied that the majority of
He had made no denial, how- those who were admitted were
ever, to the statement by Rep. Jews. He said that revelation of
Mundt of North Dakota that the number of Jews admitted in
adoption of the resolution "might the last three years will not be
be considered a criticism of the a proud record for this country.
"Frankly," Rep. Celler said,
efforts which have been made to
date, and simply to turn it down "Breckinbridge Long is least sym-
might be an implication to the pathetic to refugees in all the
Jews of Europe and of this coun- State Department. I attribute to
try that this committee is cold- him the bottleneck in the grant-
hearted in its consideration of the ing of visas."
problem."
Hull Says U. S. Giving
Secret Testimony
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Secret testimony given on Nov. `Every Consideration'
NEW YORK—In a message ad-
26 and released by Chairman Sol
Bloom of the Foreign Affairs dressed to 3,000 at the 30th an-
Committee this week, is believed niversary celebration of t h e
to indicate that Mr. Long had Jewish National Workers' Alli-
.swung the committee to oppose ance at Carnegie Hall on Sunday
the two bills which provide for evening, Secretary of State Cor-
executive creation of a commis- dell Hull stated that the U. S.
sion "to effectuate the rescue of Government is giving "every
the Jewish people of Europe."
consideration" to the plight of the
The transcript contained no di- Jewish people in Europe. His
rect opposition to the measures message stated:
"When Hitlerism is defeated
but indicated that such legisla-
tion would hinder future Ameri- your organization will have great
can . rescue efforts and would opportunities further to aid in
constitute criticism of the State bringing relief to the victims of
Department's work in this field the Nazi scourge in the devastat-
ed communities of Europe. Equal-
until now.
Mr. Long testified that 580,000 ly challenging will be the general
refugees were admitted to this problem of reconstruction in the
country in the last 10 years and spirit of American democracy,
that the majority of them were which derived its inspiration from
'Jews because "we have recog- the Biblical prophets."
In an address at a meeting of
nized from the start that the Jews
were the most persecuted and the the Council of Organizations of
the American ORT Federation
object of more antipathy than any
here on Sunday, U. S. Senator
other sections or class of the peo-
James M. Mead praised the "mag-
,ple. although they were not the
nificent contribution" of the Jews
only ones."
of Europe in the fight against
Criticized by Celler
fascism and Hitlerism and called
Mr. Long referred to the Inter-
upon the United Nations to pledge
Governmental Committee set up
at the refugee conference held in the restoration to European Jews
Bermuda and now functioning in of all rights of which they have
London and stated that one of the been arbitrarily deprived.

Bermuda decisions was to under-
take negotiations with neutral
and Allied states for the trans-
portation of those displaced from
their homes and who managed
to escape from Nazi territories.
Rep. Emanuel Celler, in a state-
- xnent issued in Washington, dis-
puted Mr. Long's testimony. He
called his statements of sympathy

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Secretaries Urged to Send
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for Our Next Issue

With Postal authorities antici-
pating a serious transportation
and mail handling problem dur-
ing the Christmas week, The
Jewish News urges all organiza-
tion secretaries to mail their
news items as early as possible
for publication in the coming is-
sue of the paper and for the
following week.
While the deadline for copy is
3 p. in. on Tuesday, The Jewish
News urges as many as possible
to make an attempt to mail their
club news a day earlier.
"Statistics show that there is
but very little increase over the
corresponding period last year,"
says Postmaster Huston, "but the
labor problem in the post office
already has become precarious."
Despite the fact that army and
navy forces have been employed
to help handle the huge volume
of mail, Mr. Huston says, "we
are facing the most severe handi-
cap of all time in the shortage
of manpower and shipping equip-
ment."
Detroiters can help solve the
problem by using the Delivery
Unit number in addressing mail.
Insist that your friends and rela-
tives, in writing to you, put your
zoile number on the address.

Pisgah Lodge Plans
Hanukah Fete, Dec. 27

Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith will
celebrate Hanukah at its next
meeting, Monday, Dec. 27, at the
Jewish Community Center.
A prominent speaker will ad-
dress the lodge on the signifi-
cance of Hanukah. There will
also be a traditional festival mus-
ical program. Members are urged
to bring their friends to this
meeting.
At the last meeting. Louis
James Rosenberg spoke on "Pan-
Americanism as a Basis for
World Peace."

will take place
on Wednesday,
at 1 P. M., at the
Rose Sittig Co-
hen Bldg.
Mrs. Morris
Adler will re-
view Pierre Van
Paassen's "T h e
Forgotten Ally."
Preparat ions
Mrs. Adler
are now being
made for the annual donor event
of the Women's Auxiliary, to be
held in the large auditorium of
the Detroit Institute of Art on
Wednesday evening, Jan. 26.

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—The story of how the communal
Jewish settlement of Hulda was nearly razed by Arab ter-.
rorists in 1929, rebuilt within the next three years only to
be subjected to new terror during the disturbances of 1936-
39, while receiving little protection from the authorities, was
told on the first day of the trial of seven settlers before a

military tribunal on charges of ;?
illegal possession of arms. In the Gallata and Moshe Hass, pleaded
terror of 1936-39, 17 residents guilty, the defense counsel made
were killed.
a motion that the court dismiss
All these facts, as well as the the charges against the other five
information that 22 out of 129 accused. His motion was denied.
Hulda settlers now are serving
The five men were found
with the British as volunteers,
guilty by the military court.
were revealed in a letter to Brig-
British Police Inspector Tay-
adier A. A. J. Allen, military
commander of the Lyda area, who lor, who testified for the prose-
was in command of a search by cution, described the contents of
military and police at Hulda on the small armory which the set-
tlement was permitted to possess.
Oct. 3, 1943.
It consisted of 25 Italian rifles
No Deserters Found
and other rifles of a similar mod-
Brigadier Allen, a witness for el—all inferior to the standard
the prosecution, read the letter British rifles; two shotguns, six
which pointed out that in the mauser pistols and 25 bullets.
Labor Palestine Secretary light of experiences in 1929 and
German Weapons
in 1936-39 "we trust that you
Here Sunday to Spur
will appreciate how pained and
During the 1936-39 riots, the
angered our people were when Arab brigands used German wea-
Local Campaign
they suddenly found themselves pons of the latest model. It was
The visit here on Sunday by surrounded by hundreds of mili- recently stated by a special Je-
Isaac Hamlin, secretary of the Na- tary and police as though we were rusalem correspondent of the
London Times that one of the
tional Labor Committee for Pal- a band of criminals."
Brigadier Allen stated that the last acts of General Dentz, Vichy
estine, to address heads of local
organizations, has spurred efforts search was to discover deserters Commanding General of Syria,
in behalf of the forthcoming from the Polish army. He ad- was to distribute among Syrian
Gewerkshaften campaign, which mitted, under cross-examination, Arabs French weapons which
were then transported across the
is scheduled to open with a con- that no deserters were found.
After two defendants, Jacob border to Palestine.
ference at the Shaarey Zedek on
Jan. 9.
At a breakfast meeting on
Sunday, a group of Gewerk-
shaften workers pledged them-
selves to raise a sum of $25,000
before the official opening of
the campaign.
At the afternoon meeting
which. was addressed by Mr.
Hamlin, organizational repre-
sentatives pledged their whole-
hearted support to the drive.
Morris L. Schaver, Detroit
chairman, announced this week
that workers are being enlisted
for the drive and that from all
indications this year's efforts will
again be successful. Last year,
more than $50,000 was raised.
Local organizations are called
upon to select representatives to
attend the Jan. 9 conference and
to mobilize their committees for
the forthcoming campaign.

Hamlin Speaks
Here in Behalf
Of Gewerkshaften

Rabbi William Rosenau
of Baltimore Dies at 78

BALTIMORE (JPS)—Dr. Wil-
liam Rosenau, Rabbi Emeritus of
Congregation Oheb Shalom and
for 20 years associate professor of
post-Biblical Hebrew at Johns
Hopkins University, died at the
age of 78. He graduated from the
Hebrew Union College of Cin-
cinnati in 1889.

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