Friday, March 3, 1944
Lack of Funds May Impede
War Refugee Board's Work
Problem of Congressional Appropriation 'a Hot Question',
Says John W. Pehle, Executive Director of the WRB;
90 Organizations Invited to Aid in Progra'm
Activities of the War Refugee Board may be hampered by lack
of funds; John W. Pehle, executive director, indicated in Washing-
ton this week.
In statements to newspapermen and to representatives of na-
tional organizations, Mr. Pehle stated that the board is as yet
Undecided whether to apply to Congress for an appropriation to
facilitate its work.
Mr. Pehle told M. Frank, Washington correspondent of the
Newish Morning Journal, that should the War Refugee Board
request a Congressional appropriation, it might involve political
issues and delay in rescue work.
Congressional Funds `a Hot Question'
The Joint Distribution Committee, Mr. Pehle is reported to
have said, feels that without Government grants the private agen-
cies will have more freedom in. their work. The problem of a
Congressional appropriation is "a hot question," he said.
The War Refugee Board will "not be a directly operating or-
e ganization, directly engaged in rescuing victims from Nazi Europe,"
Mr. Frank quotes Mr. Pehle, "the Board will facilitate the rescue
work of various private and international organizations." He has
already invited 90 organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, to par-
ticipate in the program.
In reply to a question as to whether the Board will help rescue
Jews to reach Palestine, Pehle is reported to have replied that his
organization is primarily interested in providing for them a tem-
porary refuge and anything beyond that is beyond the scope of
the Board's terms of reference. -
Board, UNRRA Operate in Different Fields
Answering a question from Mr. Frank as to the relations be-
tween the War Refugee Board, the UNRRA and the Inter-Govern-
mental Committee, Mr. Pehle stated that the Board and the UNRRA
operate- in different fields, but wherever they can be of assistance
to each other, they certainly will be.
Mr. Frank's impression is, "both from what Mr. Pehle has told
me and from what he did not say, that our Government is dis-
appointed in the work of the Inter-Governmental Committee."
Urge United Nations Train
Guerillas to Rescue Jews
THE
JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Father Edward Lodge Curran, president of
the International Catholic Truth Society, was
described at a Chicago meeting of the Citizens
U.S.A. Committee as "the successor of Father
Charles E. Coughlin, who has been liquidated."
The Citizens Keep America Out of War Corn-
mittee is headed by William Grace, secretary
of the Republican National Revival Committee.
Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary, is the recipient of
the honorary degree of Sacred Theology from
Columbia University. Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of the University, declared
that he was conferring this degree on Dr.
Finkelstein, Monsignor John Augustine Ryan,
professor emeritus of the Catholic University
of America, and Dr. George Arthur Buttrick,
pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church, "in recognition of the growing spirit
of co-operation among religious faiths."
Paul Robeson, noted Negro singer and actor,
now appearing in "Othello," has received the
annual award given by Temple Kneseth Israel,
New York, to the person who has contributed
towards combatting racial hatred, intolerance
and religious bigotry.
Immediately after Representative John E.
Rankin won another round of applause from
some of his colleagues in the House by de-
scribing Walter Winchell, columnist and radio
commentator, as a "little communist kike,"
Rep. Adolph Sabath, chairman of the House
Rules Committee, rose to his feet stating that
"the gentleman from Mississippi" had better
"desist from maligning people who cannot
defend themselves on the floor of the House."
Attorney-General John E. Martin has been
directed by Governor Walter S. Goodland to
take steps to annul the charter of the Gentile
League, incorporated several weeks ago in
Watertown, Wisc. Preceding t h e gover-
nor's directive, the attorney-general had in-
vestigated the league and found that its pur-
pose was "to prevent the Jewish race from
enjoying the rights granted everybody under
the State Constitution."
PALESTINE
Two police cars were wrecked and three
British inspectors narrowly escaped injury as
a result of time bombs which exploded here.
One explosion smashed windows in the Roths-
child Hospital on Mount Carmel. A British
constable was reported to have been slightly
injured as a result of the second explosion.
High British and Palestinian Jewish officers
and hundreds of soldiers, detachments of 10
Palestinian Jewish units, participated in the
planting of a forest on Jewish National Fund
soil in memory of Brigadier Frederick H.
Kisch, chief engineer of the British Eighth
Army, who died in action in the North African
campaign. The forest was planted at the vil-
lage Maaleh Hahamishali near the Jewish
Soldiers Forest and in proximity to the Hen-
rietta Szold, Eddie Cantor and Children's
Forests.
OVERSEAS
An anti-Semitic exhibition called "The. Jew
—The Plague of the World," depicting the
Jews as a peril to Poland's future and the
cause of Poland's trouble . in the past, was
opened by Nazi authorities in the city of
Rzeszow. --
Lt. Col. Frederick Deakin, whom Prime
Minister Winston Churchill had singled out
for praise in connection with the aid he had
given to Partisan Leader Marshal Tito, was
one of the first in Great Britain to organize
homes for Jewish refugee children from Ger-
many who arrived here immediately after
Hitler's assumption of power.
The Finnish government has protested to
Werner Best, Nazi diplomatic representative
at Copenhagen, Denmark, against the deporta-
tion to the ghetto at Theriesenstadt of 12
Finnish Jews, former residents of Copenhagen.
The Nazi censors at Copenhagen went
through the proofs of the Danish "Who's Who"
for 1944 and blue-penciled out all the Jewish
names. The publishers, in defiance of the
Nazi censors, decided not to issue the book
this year.
Rescue Units" Trained by Sweden Under the Supervision
of Red Cross; Report Nazi Commissioner
Globotchnik Assassinated by Jews
•- LONDON (JTA)—A suggestion that all Allied commanders and
chiefs of guerilla units be instructed to do their utmost to rescue
Jews and political prisoners who could • be transferred with mini-
mum formalities to countries of safety, was made here by the Na-
tional Committee for Rescue from Nazi terror to representatives of
the United Nations.
Three letters from Jewish leaders in the underground move-
ments in occupied Poland reached here this week. Their contents
throw light on the despair prevailing. among those Jews in Poland
who have so far escaped Nazi extermination.
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Sweden Trains "Rescue Units" to Speed Aid to Jews
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—Special units trained to bring immedi-
ate aid to Jews and other persecuted people in occupied Europe are
Row being formed in Sweden, from where they will .proceed to
various sections of the European continent on relief and rescue mis-
sions as soon as circumstances permit, it was learned here this week.
A representative of the Swedish Red Cross, which is organizing
these units, is now conducting important talks in London.
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Jews from Polish Ghettos Fighting Nazis in France
LONDON (JPS)—Hundreds of Jews, who had managed to es-
cape from the ghettos of Poland and-to reach France by using Aryan
identity cards, are now fighting within the ranks of the De Gaullist
guerillas against the Nazis, it is reported by the French pro-Nazi,
newspaper, Tribune du Peuple.-
Monsieur Chabot, vice-president of the French Red Cross, is re-
ported to have been arrested by the Paris Gestapo because he dis-
tributed food and clothing among needy Jews.
There are some 1,400 Jewish refugees interned on the island 'of
Mauritius, Paul V. Emrys-Evans, Undersecretary of State for Do-
minion Affairs, said in Commons in response to a question from
John Hanbury Martin, Labor M. P. The countries of origin of these
refugees include Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Danzig and Ger-
many. -"There is no reason to believe that they are other than sym-
pathetic to the Allied cause," Mr. Emrys-Evans stated.
Jews Assassinate Nazi Commissioner
Contrary to previous reports to the effect that Nazi Commis-
sioner Globotchnik, the Heydrich of Poland, had been assassinated
by the Polish underground it is now learned from authoritative re-
ports via Geneva that his assassins were members of a Jewish guer-
illa unit. Commissioner Globotchnik was reared in Palestine, the
son of German parents, residents of one of the old German colonies
in the country. These colonies were accused of having supplied Ger-
man arms to the terrorist bands of the Mufti of Jerusalem during
the riots of 1936-1939.
Commissioner Globotchnik, in view of his early environment,
had acquired fluency in Hebrew and Yiddish and was considered by
the Nazis a "specialist" on Jewish affairs. He was put in charge of
the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto after he had completed the ex-
termination of Viennese Jewry. He was directly responsible for the
death to tens of thousands of Jews in Poland. The Jewish guerillas
had long vowed to avenge these deaths and finally caught up with
Globotchnik as he was preparing to leave Lublin for a new assign-,
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Ireland Takes Action Against Jewish Publication
For Insulting "Friendly Nation"
- LONDON, (JTA)—The Minister of Interior of Eire told the Dail
Eireaan this week that "appropriate action" will be taken against a
Jewish youth publication in Dublin for publishing an uncensored
article "offensive to a friendly nation." The Minister refused to dis-
close both the nature of the article and the name of the nation which
took exception to it.
Join Fight Against British White Paper
NEW YORK—Colorado is the fifteenth state to join the fight
for reopening Palestine to Jewish immigration by its recent unani-
mous passage of a joint resolution at an extraordinary session of
the state legislature urging "that all barriers on Jewish immigra-
tion into Palestine be now removed so that those JAvs who can
find escape from Axis-dominated Europe have permanent haven
in the Land of Israel. . . ." The announcement was made by. Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the executive committee of the
American Zionist Emergency Council.
Similar action has been taken since the issuance of the British.
White Paper by the legislatures of Alabama, California, Connecti-
cut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri,
New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Texas.
Several other state legislatures are currently considering resolu-
tions protesting against the White Paper and advocating the estab-
lishment of a free Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine.
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