F riday, February 18, 1'94
Roosevelt Hits Anti-Semites
In Message to AK Parley
_Whoever Condones or Participates in Anfi-Semitism Plays
Hitler's Game,' President Declares; Murphy Cites
Spread of Religious Intolerance
NEW YORK In a message to the National Conference
:to Combat Anti-Semitism, called by the American Jewish
Congress and held here last Sunday and Monday, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "whoever condones or
participates in anti-Semitism plays Hitler's game."
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The President's message follows:
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"The attempt by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to rule
Germany, to rule Europe and then to rule the western world,
was based on two brutal de-
-vises: Organized terror and
organized anti-Semitism. Ter-
-ror put Hitler in power and
kept him there. Anti-Semi-
tism was the terror's counter-
part in propaganda. In the
'name of the self - styled
master race, Hitler robbed,
'first his own people, then the
people of Europe, and tomor-
row by his own boast, would
-have robbed the world.
"In the past months we
:have defeated Hitler's plan
for world conquest. We have
recovered some of his stolen
_gains and in the months to
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
come we shall recover more,
and we shall meet and defeat Hitler on his own ground.
"Some of the sources of anti-Semitism in this country
were created to serve Hitler's purpose. Let every American
look to his own mind and actions so that while we defeat
Hitler's armies we also defeat his poisonous propaganda.
Whoever condones or participates in anti-Semitism plays
Hitler's game. There is no place in the lives_ or thoughts of
true Americans for anti-Semitism."
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Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy, in a message to
the conference, charged that Nazi representatives in this
country have expended great sums to-spread religious in-
tolerance in America.
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, addressing the opening ses-
sion, said there was no organized anti-Semitism in New York
and that newspapers had exaggerated and sensationalized
the situation. Mayor LaGuardia announced that he is se-
lecting a committee to study and remove the causes of
antagonisms.
Governors of many states and mayors of numerous cities
sent messages condemning anti-Semitism.
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AMERICA
Two speeches that were scheduled for de-
livery at the National Conference of Orthodox
Jews held in New York were not delivered
because of the intervention of British authori-
ties, it was charged by David L. Meckler,
chairman of the executive committee for the
Conference and editor of the Jewish Morning
Journal. The two speeches, by Dr. Joseph
Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, and
Dr. Isaac Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine,
were to be delivered by radio-phone.
Governors from all parts of the country have
joined in denouncing anti-Semitism as a men-
ace to America's .demociratic institutions and
in calling upon citizens of the United States
to join in extirpating its manifestations, in
messages to the National Conference to Combat
Anti-Semitism convened by t h e American
Jewish Congress.
American fascists are trying to seize control
of the national political conventions of the
two major parties through control of delegates
to the county conventions, Vice-President
Wallace warned in a speech in Seattle.
The 25th' anniversary of the sending of
the first American medical unit 'to Palestine
is being celebrated this month by Hadassah,
the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
The supervision of the Red Cross Club in
Algiers and the visiting military policeman
were sure that they had met before, but they
couldn't place each other. They were both
German, both Jewish. They tried to • recall
the places they had been in Germany but it
was not until they remembered the circum-
stances under which they had left GermanY
that they knew where they had met before.
They had both been in the Dachau concentra-
tion camp. Pfc. Fred Marx had escaped from
the camp into Belgium. Edgar Weiler, the
Red Cross man, had been released /on h i s
promise never to return to Germany. The
story is told in a dispatch from Algiers to
The New York Times.
The grave charge that the Polish under-
ground movement in Poland exchanged Jew-
ish guerillas for Poles held captive by the
Nazis is made in a report received in this
country from the world headquarters of the
Zionist labor organization, Poale Zion Hitach-
duth in Palestine. The report is based on
information supplied by a leader of the Jewish
guerilla movement who arrived in a neutral
country on a clandestine mission.
PALESTINE
It is expected that 11,000 Jews will have
entered Palestine in the half year period end-
ing March 31, 1944, declared Eliahu Dobkin,
deputy member of the Jewish Agency Execu-
tive in charge of immigration, at a pre si
conference arranged f o r David Schweitzer,
representative of the HICEM (HIAS-ICA Emi-
gration Association), who arrived here aboard
the Portuguese liner Nyassa.
Discussing a municipal budget of one and
a half million pounds for the year 1944-45,' the
Municipal Council of Tel Aviv demanded 'that
the Government give the city a larger grant.
Mr. Israel Rokach, Mayor ofTel Aviv, pointed
out that the demand for a larger grant is
especially justified in view of thiA. Govern-
ment's increased income tax receipts, which
are "rightly called Jewish taxes, because the
Jews contribute the overwhelming portion of
them." Tel Aviv alone, he said, contributes 47
per cent of the total.
Twenty-four Jewish volunteers from Pales-
tine, who served in the campaigns in Crete and
Greece and were recently released by the Nazis
in an exchange of war prisoners, arrived in
Jerusalem last week .and, after the completion
of formalities, some have already joined their
families.
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Youth Blamed
For Sabotage
In Jerusalem
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JERUSALEM.—The wrecking
of immigration offices in Jeru-
salem and Haifa is ascribed in
some quarters to reckless youth
who undertook to sabotage ef-
forts to prevent enforcement of
restrictions on Jewish coloniza-
tion. These occurrences have
been severely condemned by
Jewish leaders in Palestine.
11 Writers Answer
NEW YORK—George N. Shuster, president of Hunter
College, warned his faculty this week that he personally will Heritage Question
bring charges against any teacher using the classroom or In Symposium
school to disseminate anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, preju-
dices against the Negro and pro-Soviet doctrines.
Has the American writer of
In an announcement to his staff, Dr. Shuster opened a Jewish descent formed a consci-
fight on intolerance.
ous attitude toward his Jewish
Jewish Guerillas Sabotage
Nazi Trains in the Ukraine
Chief Rail Artery Cut I I Times. Between April and August,
Polish Government Reports; More-Than 30,000 Jews
Are Wiped Out in Pinsk, Many Massacred
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LONDON (JTA)—The chief rail artery through which
the Germans were supplying hard-pressed Nazi troops in the
Ukraine was cut 11 times between last April and August
by a band of Jewish partisans operating in an undisclosed
section of Poland, the Polish Government reported. Many
carloads of war materials were destroyed... when military
trains were derailed.
At the same time, the Polish Telegraphic Agency here
reported that the, entire Jewish population of the 'city of
Pinsk, which is , menaced by the Russian forces advancing
through the Pripet Marshes, has been massacred by the
Germans together with Jewish inhabitants of surrounding
villages. There were more than 30,000 Jews living in Pinsk
before the outbreak of the war. Since the German occupa-
tion of the city, thousands of Jews had . been sent from Pinsk
to forced labor in the Pripet Marshes.
The PTA report announced also that more than 1,000 Nazi
soldiers have been killed in a series of train wrecks in central
Poland. However, since Oct. 12, 1,107 Poles have been, executed
in Warsaw and 5,000 killed in other cities. Among the victims
was Janina Aszkenazy, daughter of Dr. Simeon Aszkenazy,
Poland's delegate to the League of Nations.
The Jewish guerillas, who are composed of representa-
tives of various political factions, issued the following mani-
festo:
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"We have started activities in our own account, although
we are in no doubt as to the outcome of our fight—we know
it is hopeless but we want 'the world to know that we are
determined to die with arms in our hands. We hope that
our sacrifice will find an echo in world opinion."
The partisans do not confine their activities to sabotag-
ing rail transportation, but also attack German patrols, bomb
German cafes and have demolished the machinery in a large
dairy and performed acts of sabotage in several factories
and labor camps, the report says, adding that it is not pos-
sible to disclose the exact regions where the group operates
nor the names of those who have fallen.
heritage or does he merely "re-
flect" it in a passive, haphazard,
and largely unconscious fashion?
This question, among other vital
questions, is answered by 11
writers, all belonging to the
younger literary generation, in
the symposium "Under Forty: I
American Literature and the
Younger Generation of American
Jews," featured in the February
issue of Contemporary Jewish
Record.
The writers participating in the
symposium are David Daiches,
Howard Fast, Ben Field, Clemefif
Greenberg, Albert Halper, Alfred
Kazin, Louis Kronenberger, Isaac
Rosenfeld, Muriel Rukeyser, Del-
more Schwartz and Lionel Trill-
ing.
In the same issue, Harold J.
Laski, prominent political econ-
omist and member of the Execu-
tive Committee of the British
Labor Party, comments on 'Brit-
ish policies in Palestine.
In "Preface to a Program,"
Waldo Frank concludes his series
of three articles on "The Jews
and the Crisis of Democracy."
Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi,
Assails U. S. Conference
ZURICH, (JTA)—The Ameri-
can Jewish Conference has be-
come the target 'of an attack by
Hitler's personal newspaper,
Voelkischer Beobachter, which
charges it with all the crimes
the Nazis usually attribute to the
Jews.
Alfred Rosenberg, chief Nazi
race theoretician, reviews t h e
resolution adopted by the Con-
ference at its first meeting last
August, and alleges that they
are an indication of "Jewish
domination" of the democratic
governments.
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