THE JEWISH NEWS
A
VOL. 5—NO. 2
of Jewish Events
Weekly Review
Detroit 26, Michigan: March 31, 1944
RA. 7956
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Roosevelt Acts t •Avert Murder
Of Jews as Nazis Seize Hungary
World Jewry Assails New Violence in Palestine
Srere Views Community's
Postwar Responsibilities
President of Jewish Welfare Federation evaluates
Detroit Jewry's present and peacetime program.at
annual meeting . . . Five affiliated agencies elect
new officers ... Lydgate, editor of the Gallup Poll,
in address, declares Anti-Semitism in the United
Statbs is not increasing.
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. Pehle Appointed Executive Head
Of WRB, Rescue Action Started
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Dr. Glazer Named to Give
`Message of Israel' Talks
Rabbi of Temple Beth El to broadcast over the Blue
Network each Sunday during April . Topic of
first sermon this Sunday to be "Mental Health in a
Sick World" . • . CKLW to rebroadcast program
Sunday nights from 9 to 9:30 o'clock . . Schedule
calls for five sermons by Dr. Glazer.
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American Jewry this week experienced another
state of tension over tragic events occurring in Nazi-
held Europe and disturbances that have recurred in
Palestine.
With nearly a million additional Jews •1.0.W under
the heel of Nazism, as a result of German control of
Hungary-, Rumania and Bulgaria, the Jews of this
country were encouraged by the message of President
Roosevelt who has warned Germany that the guilty
ones will be held responsible for the persecution of the
Jews, and who has _appealed to the remaining neutral
countries to welcome and to rescue as many Jews as
can be saved.
The disturbances in Palestine, which have re-
sulted in the death. of nine policemen, have added
to the existing tension. JeWs in Palestine and in
this country have condemned the terrorists and
hue dissociated, themselves from -responsibility
for the new outrages.
Imposition of rigid curfews on all of Tel Aviv
and -on Jewish sections of Haifa and Jerusalem
have added to the spirit of gloom through the Jew-
ish settlements in Palestine where there has been
sadness bordering on indignation over the ap-
proaching deadline for the implemantation of the
restrictions contained in the British White Paper.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, world Zionist leader,
sharply condemned the outbreaks in ralestine,
in- an address in London, declaring that "we will
have to pay for them, although we abhor them."
President Roosevelt acted to lessen the peril for
close to 1,000,000 Jews facing extermination at the
hands of the Nazis in Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria,
by directing a last-minute appeal to the neutrals and
to the populace of Europe, including the Germans,
that they assist the U. S. in rescuing the Jews from
Hitler's reach.
Reports Tell of Violence to . Jews
With reports' filtering in from Rumania and Hun-
gary of violence unloosed against the Jews as the Nazis
marched in, the President called upon neutral coun-
tries to open their frontiers to the fleeing Jews and
called upon the populace of the occupied countries to
hide the Jews, help them across frontiers and to "re-
cord the evidence that will one day be used to convict
the guilty."
About half of the statement, treating with the
plight of all refugees, deals specifically with the Jews
and with the development in the Balkans in recent
days. The passages referring to the Jews follows:
"In one of the blackest crimes of all history—
With an additional million Jews trapped
in Nazi-held Hungary, the Jews of Amer-
ica are faced with the additional responsi-
bility of providing means of escape for as
many refugees as can be rescued from the
European inferno.
The approach of Passover is being
utilized by, communities throughout the
land to provide the necessary means,
through the ;8•United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine so
that' a happier future may be assured for
the unfortunate Jewish populations.
President Roosevelt's encouraging words
provide the hope that the Jews of America
will strive to give the Jewish people their
.
share of, Victory,
,
begun by the Nazis in the day of peace and multi-
plied by them a hundred times in time of war--
the wholesale systematic murder of the Jews of
Europe goes on unabated every hour.
"As a result of the events of the last few days,
hundreds of thousands of Jews, who while living
under persecution have at least found. a haven
from death in Hungary and the Balkans, are now
threatened with annihilation as Hitler's forces des-
cend more heavily upon tthese lands. That theSe in-
nocent people, who already have survived a decade
of Hitler's' fury, should perish on the very eve of
triumph over the barbarism which their persecu-
tion symbolizes, would be a major tragedy.
Justice Will Be Dealt to the Guilty
"It is therefore fitting that we should again
proclaim our determination that none who partici-
pate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished.
The United Nations have made it clear that they
will pursue the guilty and deliver them up in order
that justice be done.
"That warning applies not only to the leaders
but also to their functionaries and subordinates in
Germany and in the satellite countries. •
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