Friday, January 7, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
LaGuardia to Get Full Data
On Probe Into Anti-Semitism
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
A resolution condemning the "statement
of principles" of Rabbi Hyman J. Schach-
tel's Congregation Beth Israel of Houston,
Texas, which has decided to bar from
NEW YORK—In a joint interfaith move designed to voting membership all who observe kash-
ruth and who profess belief in Zionism,
ferret out anti-Semitism in New York, a meeting of Protes-
has been adopted by the Students' Organ-
tant, Catholic and Jewish leaders has been called for next
ization of the Jewish Institute of Religion,
week, following the disclosure that the New York police
of New York. The resolution expresses
department's report on recent anti-Semitic acts is ready to
the "strongest indignation" against the
be turned over to Mayor LaGuardia.
"statement of principles" which is de-
Willard Johnson, assistant to the president of the conference,
who has just returned after a study of outbreaks in Chicago, said
scribed as "undemocratic in spirit and,
he did not believe the problem could be solved by mass meetings,
effect, seeking on the one hand to regiment
saying:
Reform Jewish thinking, and on the other
"Our strategy is that this is not a problem for the Jews alone,
hand, discriminating against and estab-
• but a problem for groups of all convictions. I am convinced that
lishing second-class membership for those
the outbreaks are by individuals and come from boys and girls in
homes where there is an unfortunate type of 'dining room
who seek to carry on the heritage that has
propaganda. "
been bequeathed them."
Chief Inspector John J. O'Connell has ordered commanding
"The gates of Palestine must not close
officers of every borough to check on anti-Semitic activities and to
in 1944," is the slogan of a full-page ad-
submit reports as soon as possible.'
vertisement inserted in The New York
A squad of 90 plainclothesmen, forming the Sabotage Squad
under the direction of Under Deputy Insp. George P. Mitchell, are
Times by the American Palestine Com-
patroling the streets in unmarked patrol cars—especially in areas
mittee. under the co-chairmanship of Sen-
mapped by PM last week.
ator Robert F. Wagner of New York and
Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon.
Police Report Ready for LaGuardia
The American Palestine Committee ad
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A comprehensive report of an investiga-
tion into anti-American and anti-Semitic vandalism here will be
"calls upon all Americans to demand the
submitted to Mayor LaGuardia by Commissioner of Investigation
immediate abandonment" of the White
William B. Herlands, it was announced this week. A statement by
Paper policy which proposes the shutting
the Commissioner reads:
of the gates of Palestine to Jewish immi-
"During the last year the Department of Investigation has been
gration on March 31, 1944.
conducting a city-wide investigation into all cases of anti-American
and anti-Semitic vandalism called to the department's attention.
A proposal that a street or square of
This inquiry originally was ordered by Mayor LaGuardia. A report
Tel Aviv be named for the late President
will be submitted to the Mayor, covering a comprehensive and de-
Woodrow Wilson was cabled to Mayor
Jailed inquiry into most of these cases. The investigation is con-
tinuing as to the remaining cases, including the more recent ones." - Israel Rokach by Dr. Israel Goldstein,
Commissioner Heriand's statement followed a recent appeal
president of the Zionist Organization of
by the Bnai Brith anti-Defamation League of public officials "to
America.
The cable was sent on the 87th
take immediate and adequate steps" to check the desecration of
anniversary of the birth of President Wil-
synagogues and the attack on Jewish boys by gangs of hoodlums
son.
in the Washington Heights area of the city. The League document-
ed its charge with 26 affidavits from Jewish children who had been
The Jewish National Fund of Canada
assaulted and from rabbis.
has
announced that it raised more than
Police Commissioner Valentine, in response to a written ques-
$100,000 through regular collections in the
tion as to whether anti-Semitism "has become a problem in N. Y. in
the past few months," replied: "Anti-Semitism is always a problem
year 1943. The quota for 1944 has been
in a large, heterogeneous city such as New York. The commanding
put at $150,000 for these same collections
officers are required to be on the alert for manifestations of this
and a campaign is being undertaken to
deplorable and un-American form of enmity and hatred."
secure inscriptions in the Golden Book in
Inspector Joseph Bannon, transferred to command of the 5th
Division, which includes Washington Heights, said: "We have fine
Jerusalem in honor of Dr. Chaim Weiz-
men and the place is well policed. Things are calm and collected in
mann, president of 'the Jewish Agency, on
Washington Heights." Deputy Inspector Edward C. Moran, of the 5th
his seventieth birthday which occurs in
Division said: "Sure, we hear these complaints now and then, but
1944.
, when we go into it, we've got nothing to work on."
Commissioner of Investigation Says Report is Complete;
Head of Police Tells Bnai Brith 'Anti-Semitism Is
Always a Problem in City Such as N. Y.'
PALESTINE
Stressing the destitution and poverty
of the latest arrivals in Palestine, Eliahu
Kobkin, deputy member of the Executive
of the Jewish Agency in charge of immi-
gration, reported at a press conference
here that 3,200 Jewish immigrants enter-
ed Palestine on certificates during the first
three months of the current Jewish calen-
dar year and that definite prospects ex-
isted for the arrival of 3,500 immigrants
in January and February.
Rabbi Jehuda L. Fishman, Dr. Emil
Schmorak and Moshe Shertok have been
chosen by the Executive of the Jewish
Agency as the delegation to go to London
to confer with members of the Executive
there.
Sixty graduate degrees were granted at
the commencement exercises of the He-
brew University. Five received the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy, 32 the degree of
'MOster of Arts and 23 received the Master
of Science degree.
OVERSEAS
The first "trials" of captured American
airmen, mostly Jews, on charges of bomb-.
ing German cities, will take place in Ham-
burg, it was announced by the Breslau
radio.
Special courts to try Fascists, pro-
Fascists and anti-Jewish agitators have
been created throughout French North
Africa.
The population of the Gouvernement
Generale of Poland, that section of Poland
which was first occupied by the Nazis in
1939 and which includes Warsaw, Lublin,
Radom, cities formerly containing large
Jewish populations, has decreased from
18,000,000 before the war to 14,853,798 in
March 1943, according to Nazi statistics
published in the Krakauer Zeitung, a
Nazi newspaper published in Poland.
A number of pastors and priests in
Germany have stated defiantly in their
Christmas sermons that the Allied bomb-
ings of German cities were "divine retri-
bution" for the sufferings inflicted upon
the Jewish people.
(See Also Page 14)
New Plan for Partitioning
Of Palestine Looms in 1944
British Quarters in Cairo Predict Jewish Question of Own
State Definitely Will Be Solved; Plan Envisages
a Regional Federation; Action Due in Month
By VICTOR IL BIENSTOCK
CAIRO (JTA)—The Palestine question definitely will be solved
within the forthcoming year on the basis of a new partition scheme,
it was predicted in high British quarters here this week. This
scheme, it was disclosed, has been discussed in recent weeks in
London and also was submitted to several Arab leaders.
, The plan will serve as a basis for negotiations in Cairo after
the arrival here of a new British minister of state for the Middle
East- who is due within a month.
I Under the new scheme, it was reliably stated, a large part of
Palestine, including the Southern part of the country which is
known as the Negeb, as well as part of Transjordan, will become
Jewish territory. The remaining areas would be attached to a
•'Greater Syria" which the plan envisages as a regional federation
comprised of the present Syria, Lebanon and the remainder of
Palestine and Transjordan.
Syrian Government Pleased With Proposal
While the Syrian government was described here as being
pleased with the project there is hesitation on the part of the
Lebanese. Premier Riad el Solh of Lebanon is quoted as having
definitely stated that while the Lebanese Republic is willing to
cooperate with Syria in administration of common interests and in
other directions, it has no intention of sacrificing any part of its
sovereignty. It is believed, however, that the federation scheme
could proceed without Lebanon.
It was pointed out here that the British government would have-
to reach an understanding with the French authorities with regard
to the status of the parts of Palestine and Transjordan which are
to be attached to a "Greater Syria." It is hardly likely that Britain
is prepared to waive its interest in the sections of Palestine and
Transjordan which will be ceded to Syria.
The attitude of the Jews towards the scheme is not known
here. Some believe that the scheme should be "superficially at-
tractive" for Jews since it provides a large area for them. On the
other hand, it is obvious that under the scheme much of the
territory which Jews have developed in Palestine over a score
of years would be left outside the borders of their territory.
Approve Sending Delegation - to London to Aid Weizmann
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A meeting of the Zionist Actions Corn-
Mittee here this week approved the Jewish Agency's decision to
send a three-man delegation to LonIlon to aid Dr. Weizmann, who
is engaged in important Zionist political negotiations, and to attempt
to reconcile the differences between Dr. Weizmann and -David
Ben-GUrion. The delegation chosen by the Agency consists of Moshe
Shertok, political chief of the Agency, Rabbi Jacob.Fishman, repre-
senting the Mizrachi, and Dr. Emil Schmorak,. a member of the
Agency executive who represents the General Zionists.
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Charge Palestine Price- Control Leads to . Inflation
LONDON (JTA)—The Palestine government's price control
system is inadequate to check inflation, and its system .of point
rationing "does not exist outside the boundaries of the Jewish
municipalities," it was charged this-week in an article in the London
"Economist."
. The writer asserts that the. government is appeasing the - land
owners arid .peasantry, "whose overcharging on agricultural products
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