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WRB Considers Temporary
Haven in U. S. for Refugees

Pehle Reveals Board is Studying Plans to Permit Nazi
Victims to Enter; Special Representative Discloses
Move to Take 1,500 to Palestine

WASHINGTON (JPS)—The War Refugee Board is considering
plans for the establishment of free ports in the United States, where
European refugees would be permitted temporary residence until
it is possible for them to return home or settle elsewhere. This
was disclosed by John W. Pehle, executive director of the War
Refugee Board, at a joint press conference here with Ira "Hirsch-
mann, WRB special representative, who has jugt returned from
Ankara.

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Although Mr. Pehle did not link British restrictions
im-
migration into Palestine with the free port plan, observers said that
such a plan might serve as an alternative for the rescue of refugees
who will not be permitted to enter Palestine if the White Paper
policy continues. According to this policy only 23,000 more Jews
will be admitted.

Mr. Pehle said that if refugees rescued by the WRB exceed the
Palestine quota, additional steps would have to be taken by the
WRB to provide for other havens, or for additional immigration into
Palestine.

Mr. Hirschmann reported that thousands of refugees from Nazi-
occupied countries have been rescued by the WRB, and were
filtering into Palestine through Turkey. Arrangements are under-
way to charter a Turkish steamer to take 1,500 refugees from
Constanza, Romania, directly to Haifa. Mr. Hirschmann also re-
ported that 48,000 people, moot . of them Jews, were moved from
concentration camps in Transnistria to the interior of Romania
from where their escape through Turkey may be expedited.

New York Press Supports Free Ports Plan.
NEW YORK (JPS)—Newspapers in this city endorsed the plan
for free ports in the United States for refugees from Nazi Europe,
The New York Herald Tribune declared:
"Such temporary haven should be offered, for we cannot urge
asylum elsewhere while not offering it ourselves." •
The NA York Post wrote: "We do not advance the free port
plan as the solution to the refugee problem. But- it is something
tangible and right that we can do here and now. We recommend
it especially to those like Senator Barkley, who warn that the prob-
lem of Palestine as a homeland for the Jews must wait until after
the war for final solution."

Both the New York Daily Mirror and the Journal-American
call for opening the doors of Palestine. The Daily Mirror quotes
the book of Walter Clay Lowdermilk, U. S. Department of Agri-
culture expert,' who has pointed out that, with proper soil develop-
ment, four million Jews could be settled in Palestine.

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1 nit NEWS

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

The month of Iyyar (approximating May on
the Julian calendar) has been proclaimed by
Jewish Palestine as "Keren Hayesod (Pales-
tine Foundation Fund) Month," during which
funds are to be raised to enable the execution
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of projects connected with the immediate
set-
tlement of Jews rescued from Europe, the re-
habilitation of ex-servicemen, the transition
period after the war and the expansion of
Jewish Palestine's economy. Millions of pounds
will be needed for the implementation of these
projects, it has been pointed out in a mani-
festo issued on this occasion.
The Jewish Agency plans 1,500 mixed farm
units that would support as many families or
nearly 5,000 individual, in connection with its
scheme for the postwar rehabilitation of de-.
mobilized Palestinian Jews now serving with
the British forces in the Middle East. This re-
port is from the Palestine Hebrew daily,
Haaretz.
Two high officials of the Middle East Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration have met in
Jerusalem with the Palestine Council for Re-
lief for European Jewry to discuss arrange-
ments for relief for European Jewish com-
munities after their liberation by the Allies.
Special stress was put on the Jewish com-
munities of the Balkans.

OVERSEAS

During the period of Nazi occupation, 70,0000
Jews in Odessa were slaughtered by the Nazis
and some 3,000 managed to escape death by
posing as non-Jews and by hiding in cata-
combs, the Moscow press reports, quoting
Major Anatol Loeschenko, commander of the
partisians in the Odessa sector.
Jews are reported among the Crimean
guerilla bands who have now joined the reg-
ular Red Army in the battles against the Nazis.
One of the first Red Army divisions to march
into Tarnopol, Eastern Galicia, after the Nazis
had been routed out of their fortifications, was
led by Major General Valkenstein, a Jew.
The proposal for a Jewish'-army was again
placed on the agenda of the House of Corn-

Jewish Migration
To Palestine Gets
Sweden's Support

Demand Free Ports and Opening of Palestine
NEW YORK (JPS)—The proclamation of temporary asylum,
the opening of the doors of Palestine and the establishment of free
ports in the United States for Jews escaping from Nazi-occupied Zionist Aspirations Favored
territory, were urged in a resolution adopted at a mass meeting in
by Prominent Leaders and
Carnegie Hall on April 19, „called under the auspices of the Amer-
Many Newspapers
ican Jewish Conference to observe the first anniversary of the
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto.
STOCKHOLM (JTA)—The al-
The meeting, culminating a whole day of observance which in-
cluded a memorial procession through the streets of New York- and most unanimous Support being
a fifteen-minute stoppage in' all factories, shops and offices not en- given Zionist aspirations in Pal-
gaged in war work, was addressed by Dr. Stephen ,S. Wise and Dr. estine by Swedish churchmen,
Israel Goldstein, co-chairmen of the interim committee of the labor leaders and the general
American Jewish Conference, Dr. Nahum Goldman, chairman of public is reflected in editorials
the administrative committee of the World Jewish Congress, Dr. appearing in several of the most
Arieh Tartakower, of the Central Representation of Polish Jews, influential Stockholm news-
Adolph Held, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, and others. papers in connection with the
In the factories, shops vd offices where wor k ceased pi A
closing of Palestine's gates to
at 11 a. m. for a 15-minut
e
resolutions; similar to the one
adopted at Carnegie Hall, and newspaper accounts of the Bat- Jewish immigration.
At the same time, an inter-
tle of the Warsaw Ghetto, were read.
The procession through the streets started from the Warsaw national labor group here, com-
Synagogue on New York's East Side. The synagogue was crammed posed of representatives of la-
with people attending a special commemorative service. Then the bor organizations 'in 14 European
demonstration moved toward City Hall, led by Mr. and Mrs. Syha countries, is preparing to issue
Wattenberg and their children, themselves participants in the War- a statement demanding action to
saw Ghetto Battle, and by Dr. Isaac Rubinstein, former Chief Rabbi aid European Jews. The state-
of Vilna and Polish Senator. They were addressed at City Hall ment makes four demands: (1)
by Mayor LaGuardia.
Immediate measures to save
Jews in occupied countries; (2)
Denies Anti-Senjtism Caused UNRRA Shift
National and international meas-
OTTAWA, (JTA)—Prime Minister Mackenzie King has denied ures against anti-Semitism; (3)
in Parliament the report published in Canadian newspapers that
anti-Semitism was the reason for the forthcoming UNRRA con- Guarantees that Jewish refugees
ference not meeting, as had been scheduled, at the Seigniory Club. will be returned to their home-
The question was raised in the - House of Commons by Fred lands, if they so desire, after the
Rose, Montreal representative, during the debate on the first read- war, with full civil, cultural and
ing of a bill to provide $10,000,000 as Canada's contribution to economic rights; (4) Support of
UNRRA. Mr. Rose said that "there was a story that the meeting of Jewish development of Pales-
UNRRA which was to have taken place at the Seigniory Club would tine as a partial solution to the
not be held there for reasons of anti-Semitism, and consequently refugee problem.
they had to go elsewhere." The Prime-Minister termed the report
Morgen Tidningen expresses
"nonsense."
the hope that the British Gov-
ernment, in view of the des-
Hias-Ica Aide to Go to Italy to Speed Emigration
perate situation which will en-
NEW YORK (JTA)—A representative of the Lisbon office of sue if all Jewish immigration to
the Hias-Ica Emigration Association will soon proceed to liberated Palestine is stopped, will act to
Italy to examine the problems of about 4,000 Jewish refugees there,
many of whom wish to emigrate to other, countries it was reported modify the ban. Afton Tidningen
here by the Association on the basis of a cabled report received from publishes an editorial expressing
Dr. James Bernstein, its European director.
similar sentiments. Dagens Ny-
heter carries a statement by
Prof. Hugo Valentin of Upsala
Anti-Semitism Internal Affair, Gazeta Polska Says
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The debate in Parliament on anti- University, president of the
Semitism in the Polish Army is being used as "camouflage" for Swedish Zionist Unicin, asserting
other purposes, it is charged in Gazeta Polska, official Polish news- that it is necessary to give
paper published chiefly for the Polish t troops in the- Middle East. 2,000,000 European Jews, who
It criticizes the Reuter news agency for "giving prominence to may desire to do so, the right
second rate officials' pronouncements regarding anti-Jewish feelings to immigrate to Palestine.
in the Polish armed forces" and emphasizes that anti-Semitism in
Archbishop Eidem of Stock-
the Polish Army "is an internal Polish affair" which will be fought
against by Jewish representatives in the Polish National Council. holm and other pr o m i n e n t
churchmen issued public state-
ments favoring Jewish aspira-
tions in Palestine and support-
ing the Jewish National Fund's
campaign to establish a "King
Gustav Forest" in Palestine.

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mons when M. P.'s varying in their party af-
filiation and views introduced a motion to
that effect.
An investigation by the occupational author-
ities has established that Nazi puppets in Nor-
way have diverted to their own use millions of
Kronen realized from confiscated Jewish val-
uables and bank deposits. Those involved in-
clude Police Chief Martenson and Cabinet
member Fugelsteng.

AMERICA

Young Jewish doctors attached to the Army
Air Forces in Italy and England are saving the
lives of thousands of American airmen, it was
reported by Cornelius Vanderbilt writing in
the New York .Post.
A five-year ban on all immigration into the
United States, with few exceptions, was urged
in a resolution adopted by the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
meeting in New York.
Taking issue with Zionist leaders, who have
described the White Paper as a ?remnant of
the appeasement policy of the Chamberlain
Government," Pierre Van Paassen, noted au-
thor, declared that the White Paper was part
of a scheme for a new Asiatic anti-Comintern
\act, and "is the beginning, the initial measure
in a new imperialist policy." . . . In accordance
with this policy, Mr. Van Paassen charges in
an article in The Protestant, a monthly, "an
Arab Federation is to be the nucleus of some
sort of a new anti-Comintern movement of the
Asiatic borderlands of the Soviet Union."
Jews in - Lithuanian ghettos are being ear-
marked for murder by the Nazis, according to
Swedish newspaper Nya Dagligt Allehanda in
an article reported to the Office of War In-
formation. The same paper estimated that out
of 230,00 Jews in Lithuania, only 12,000 remain
alive.
Bernard M. Baruch was selected in a nation-
wide poll of church, business and industrial
leaders, to receive the sixth annual Churchman
Award for distinguished service iii "the pro-
moting of goodwill among all peoples."

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WOODWARD AT STATE

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Former WPB Aide, Two Agsociates
Plan Economic Survey of Palestine

WASHINGTON — Robert R. Nathan, former chairman of the
planning committee of the War Production Board, heads a group of
economists who have been working since last January under a
commission from the American Palestine Institute of New York.
Associated with Mr. Nathan are Oscar Gass, a former U. S. Treasury
economist, and Louis H. Bean of the Bureau of the Budget, formerly
with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.
They will go to Palestine next month in connection with this
project to conduct "research into the economic potentialities of
Palestine and the Middle East and disseminating economic informa-
tion concerning the area."

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Germans Demand Yellow Badge
For Jews In Old Romania
BERN (JTA) — The introduc-
tion of yellow badges for .Jews
in Romania proper along the
same lines as in the provinces
of Bessarabia and Bukovina is
demanded in German news-
papgrs r e a c h i n g here from
Bucharest.

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