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Friday, May 5, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Driberg Asks Scotland Yard
Probe Anti-Semitic. Threats
Members of Parliament Tell of ,Receiving. Threatening
Letters for Bringing Issue of Polish Army Abuse of
Jewish Soldiers for Debate in House of Commons
LONDON (JTA) — Scotland Yard and the Home Office
have been asked by members of Parliament to investigate
threats made against them for raising in the House of Com-
mons, the issue of anti-Semitism in the Polish army, it was
reported here this week.
John Mack, Laborite, told the Evening News that he and
other members have received ► threats both by telephone and
in writing. One letter said Mack was wasting his time in "sloppy,
sentimental talk." Tom Driberg, who first raised the issue in Com-
mons, also reported that he has received anonymous letters attack-
ing him for his activities in behalf of the Polish Jews.
Mack expressed the view that the threats were part of an
organized campaign. The police view is that, while some of the
threats are undoubtedly from cranks, there is a "serious element
behind them."
Meanwhile, it was revealed in Commons that three Jewish
sailors in the Polish navy were recently tried by a Polish court-
martial sitting in a southeastern English port. The court's verdict
is not known. Mr. Driberg told Commons that he had received a
letter from a Jewish , chaplain in the British • army revealing the
court-martial of the sailors.
Driberg declared that he has received "excellent reports" con-
cerning the 207 Jews who have been transferred from Polish to
British units. One-third of theni, he said, have already been placed
in combat units at their own request, indicating that in leaving the
Polish army they were not attempting to evade active service.
Ghetto Battle Anniversary Meeting Protests Sentences
LONDON (JPS)—A mass meeting here to commemorate the
first anniversary of the -Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto was converted
by the audience into a protest rally against the sentences.
When David Grenfell, M. P., chairman of the British Committee
for Rescue from Nazi Terror, said that the "Ghetto battle will shine
in the pages of world history as an example of the undying courage
of unarmed, defenseless - Jews and will go down as a glorious
chapter in the history of the Jewish people," members of the audi-
ence shouted that the "Polish Army officers show little appreciation
for this heroism," with others adding: "The verdicts must be re-
pealed," and "they, did not die so that Polish anti-Semitism should
continue."
Additional News on Polish Situation on Page 14
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Page. Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
The newspapers of the Argentine Province
of Entre Rios were under threat of a per-
manent ban if they should in their editorials
refer to freedom, the Constitution,-- religion and
other such "controversial" subjects. The warn-
ing came from the Interventor or Federal
Commissioner of the province, who a fortnight
ago ordered the Jewish Colonization Associa-
tion (LCA) to pay $2,500,000 in fines and back
taxes dating back to 1933.
The hynch Bill, now before Congress, de-
signed to prohibit the use of the mails for
spreading defamatory literature against any
racial or religious group, came under attack
in an editorial in the New York Journal-
American, a Hearst newspaper published here.
The Journal-American branded the Lynch Bill
a "subtle sinister abridgement" of freedom of
the press, and urged its defeat. A similar at-
titude toward the Lynch Bill has been adopted
by the American Civil Liberties Committee.
Treasury Department citations were present-
ed to seventeen Bnai Brith lodges and women's
auxiliaries in the New York area in recognition
of their sale of $7,250,000 in War Bonds. The
Bnai Brith bond sale totals were sufficient to
enable the building of seven Flying Fortresses
and one Liberty Ship, and the purchase of
equipment for ten 1,000-bed hospitals.
Bedridden patients at the Los Angeles Sana-
torium for the Consumptives sold $4,900 worth
of War Bonds during the 4th War Loan Drive,
it was announced by' Sinuel H. Golter,- execu-
tive director of the Jewish Consumptive Relief
Association. Patients unable to buy bonds
themselves, conducted a bedside campaign by
selling bonds to their visitors and writing their
friends in all parts of the country to buy bonds
from them.
Dr. William. S. Friedman, Denver Rabbi and
founder of the National Jewish Hospital, died
in Colorado Beach at the age of 75. Dr. Fried-
man. attended Hebrew Union College and the
University of Cincinati. He was Rabbi of Tem-
ple Emanuel in Denver for 49 years.
Three swastikas and two crosses were
scratched with pieces of broken glass in the
granite at the entrance of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America on upper Broadway.
Police believe that the Nazi symbols and the
crosses were drawn by children.
PALESTINE
Recently arrived in Palestine after escaping
a Nazi dragnet, the Rabbi of Munkacs, head of
one of the largest Hassidic dynasties, blamed
the apathy of the United Nations for the ex-
termination of European Jewry. He said that
"had the world adequately reacted against the
first massacres of Jews in 1941, the Germans
would not have dared . to continue their atro-
cities."
OVERSEAS
With Hungary under a rule reminiscent of
the White •Terror that swept that country after
an abortive Communist revolution a quarter
of a century ago. Hungarian police under Ges-
tapo surveillance violated the sanctuary of
Catholic churches and monasteries in raids in
which 1,000 Jews were seized. Among those
seized are Ferenz Shorin, industrialist, and his
daughter, who were hidden by Benedectine
Brothers.
Thousands of Jews are held in 12 concentra-
tion camps throughout Hungary, according to
a report by the newspaper Dages' Nyheter of
Stockholm.
A German News Agency broadcast recorded
in London tells of the closing of 18,000 Jewish
workshops, factories and offices in Budapest.
The Palestine Committee of the Jewish
Board of Deputies voted unanimously to rec- -
ommend to the full Board adoption of a resolu-
tion calling for a Jewish Commonwealth.
Declaring that it is evident that the majority
of Jews favor a Jewish Commonwealth, the
few non-Zionists on the committee declared
that, in the interests of unity, they would re-
frain from registering their opposition and
hoped that this would serve as an example for
Jewish communities elsewhere.
Uri Gristman, 23-year-old Jewish doctor, has
been cited for "his skill and courage in oper-
ating on critically wounded Red Army men
under difficult :conditions."
Admits Britain
Paying for Trip
Of Freya Stark
Touring U. S. in Defense of
White Paper, Not Arabs,
Bracken Declares
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LONDON, (Palcor)—The sal-
ary and traveling expenses of
Miss Freya Stark, British author
and lecturer, touring the United
States in defense of the White
Paper, are paid by the British
Ministry of Information, it was
admitted by Brendan Bracken,
Minister of Information, in the
House of Commons.
Replying to a question by
Geofrey Mander, Laborite, M. P.,
as to the purpose of her visit, he
said that Miss Stark, a member
of the Mid-Eastern staff of the
British Ministry of Information,
was granted a leave of absence
to visit the U. S. to deliver lec-
tures at the invitation of the
Oriental Institute of Chicago.
Since her arrival she has been
invited to speak by other bbdies.
Bracken vehemently denied
that she had come to the U. S.
to spread pro-Arab propaganda.
When asked for assurances on
this score, he replied that he
could give such assurance with
finality. Bracken said that he
"wished to put on the record
that her visit has nothing what-
ever to do with propaganda for
the Arabs."
(Miss Stark, during her visit
in this country, delivered an ad-
dress before the student body
of the University of Michigan).
Repeal White Paper,
Is Hillman's Demand
NEW YORK (JPS)—Sidney
Hillman, president of the Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers of
America, demanded the immed-
iate opening of Palestine's doors
to free Jewish immigration, and
declared that "this is • the posi-
tion, not only of the President of
the United States, but also of
great sections of the American
people who feel the tortures visit-
ed upon a defenseless people."
In a declaration supporting the
aims of the newly-organized
American Jewish Trade. Union
Committee for Palestine, Mr.
Hillman denounced the British
White Paper policy, which pro-
-hibits new Jewish immigration
into Palestine, as "a travesty
upon elementaLy justice and hu-
ganitY_;%.--
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