Friday, May 19, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Arab Press in Jaffa Seeks
To Incite Terrorism Again
Falastin's Editorial Calls Upon United Arab Front Against
Zionist Propaganda; 81 Still Held in Palestine
• As. Terrorists
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JAFFA (JPS-Palcor)—Jewish Palestine, whose press has fre-
quently been under ban in recent months, waited to see what the
government would do•• about Falastin, Arab daily published here,
which carried an editorial inciting to a repetition of the Arab . "dis-
turbances" of: 1929 and 1936. The latter disturbanCes, which kept
the country in turmoil for several years, were under Axis spon-
sOrship.
• • The Falastin's editorial read in part: "The Arabs of Palestine
,want to hear the same unified harmonious call which they heard in
'1929 and 1936." Warning that it is "mandatory" that "a united
Arab front against Zionist propaganda and .ZiOnist efforts abroad
ybe formed immediately," the newspaper says: ."We must arise from
:slumber. . We wish to hear from Arab leaders a new and stronger
call than the one we have heard the past few years."
81 Still Imprisoned in Palestine as Terrorists
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LONDON, .(JTA)—Eighty-one persons have been arrested in
Palestine since April 1 in connection with terrorist outbreaks and
arms :smuggling, it was reported- in the House of Commons. by
_ Colonial Minister. Col. Oliver Stanley. Three of those arrested are
•awaiting court-martial on charges of possessing illegal arms, Stanley
said.
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The other 78 will continue to be detained,• since they are known
members. of "two Jewish-. organizations," he added. The organ-
izations to which hp referred are undoubtedly' the Irgun Zvai - Leumi
and the Stern, Gang.
.2,400,000 Jews Liquidated by Nazis Since 1939
. NEW YORK (JPS)—A - - report "from . the underground," re-
leased by the Polish Telegraphic Agency, sets at 2,400,000 the num-
ber of Jews liquid_ated by the Nazis in Poland. since 1939. .In what'
is viewed as an attempt to • counteract the unfavorable publicity
given to the Polish courts-martial' of Jewish -soldiers, and a repudia-
tion of 'reports that the Polish underground :mulcted money from
the JeWs in excharige for providing arms to the ghettos, the Polish
.Telegraphic Agency • announced "details of the unity between Jews
and the Polish underground • army in resisting the Nazis."
"It is almost impossible to save the Polish Jews," said Jan
Karski,. delegate 'of the Polish underground -at_. a l „ uncheon - of the
'Overseas Press. Club. Karski, who- estimated that !hree million' of
over five million Polish nationals killed by the Nazis. were Jews,
said: "They are a most unfortunate people from a biological stand_
point; they simply - look like Jews, and the Nazis pick them up."
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of
Independent
AMERICA
Dr. Gustavo Gutierrez. former speaker of
the Cuban House and member of • the cabinet,
has been chosen president of the Cuban Pro-
Palestine Committee. It was recalled that in a
recent speech before Temple Israel . here, Dr.
Gutierrez -warned that the Atlantic Charter
would be "just another scrap of paper" if it
failed to solve such problems as the Jewish
one. He called for the -rescue of Europe's'
Jewish survivors, international aid to the Jews
in a rehabilitation program and • the establish-
ment of a Jewish Commonwealth.
The tombstones on a Jewish cemetery in
a large Ukranian city, which' was at 'one time a
great Jewish population center, were used by
the Nazis as a trap to stop Soviet tanks, ac-
cording to U. S. correspondents cabling from
Moscow.
Declaring that his "responsibility is to the
saintly inhabitants of concentration camps,
ghettos, and Gestapo torture chambers," and
"to the thousands of graves of women, children
and men" who died at Nazi hands, Jan Ma-
saryk, deputy prime minister of Czechoslo-
vakia, warned the International Labor Or-
ganization's conference in Philadelphia against
a "very dangerous softness" toward Germany.
His speech was in reply to Robert J. Watt and
Percy 'J. •Clarey, United States . and Australian
workers' delegates, respectively, who went on
record favoring postwar planning now for
social and economic benefits for the German
people.
PALESTINE
A -.conaleSbent home for invalid workers,
named for the late Morris Finestone, a -found-
er and • chairmanT - of the administrative com-
mittee of the National- Labor. Committee for
Palestine in NeW York, was opened in the
village Rarnath Hashavim under the auspices
of the Kupath :Cholim, Sick Benefit *Fund of
the-,Histadruth,- General Jewish Federation of
Labor.
•ArYe 'ben Eliezer, member of the American
Emergency Committee to Save the . Jewish Peo-
pie- of Europe, is among those arrested by po-
Jewish Press Service)
lice in raids on Revisionist institutions and
labor organizations.
Military projects • amounting to $40,000,000
have been' executed by Jewish technicians and
laborers in Palestine, working through the
Solel •Boneh, construction - co-operative of the
Histadruth, General Jewish Federation of
Labor; according to. David • Hacohen, writing
in Palestine and the Middle East, economic
magazine.
The Chief Secretary of the Palestine Gov-
ernment was among the many visitors at the
memqrial exhibition of photos showing the- ac-
tivities of the late Major General Orde Charles
Wingate as commander of the Jewish night
squads in Palestine during the Axis-inspired
Arab disturbance in 1936-8. The exhibition is
held at the village of Ein Tarod.
OVERSEAS
At least 20,000 Jews, mostly aliens, have
enlisted with the guerrilla bands . operating
against the Nazis in occupied France. _
Survivors of the Battle of the Bialystok
Ghetto, which followed closely the Battle of
the.. Warsaw Ghetto, have to their credit a
number of - major engagements against the
Nazis in which they took part as members.
of Polish •guerrila groups operating in the for-
ests of the _vicinity, - the Polish Government-in-
Exile learned from reports received from its
underground contacts in occupied territory.
Led by 26 - . year-old Itzchak Bleet, guer-
rilla bands In sisting entirely of Jews, accom-
plished the evacuation of a large number of
.civilian families, Jews and non-Jews, in West-
ern White Russia; which was part of -prewar
Poland.
"The Finnish people will never accept the
ugly: Nazi racial theories," says an editorial in
the newspaper, Voice of the People, published
in Helsinki, Finland's capital. ,
In symbolic defiance of the program of
persecution launched by Hungary's Nazi Gov-
ernment, the first Jewish children, twins, born
in the Budapest - ghetto, were named "Tikvah,"
hope, and "Ezrah," meaning aid. Tikvah is
a girl; Ezrah, a boy. •
241 Rabbis
In Service
94 Overseas, 45 are Waiting
Chaplains Commissions,
JWB Announces
NEW YORK (JPS)—Approxi-
rnately 900 rabbis, more than
half of the rabbis in America,
have offered their services to
the U. S. war effort, it was
declared here by Rabbi Philip
S. Bernstein, director of religi-
ous activities of the National
Jewish Welfare Board. He said
that 241 are now serving as
chaplains in the Army and Navy;
and • 45 - others are awaiting com-
missions..
There are 94 chaplains over-
seas and- more soon , will be sent
across. Just returned.. fron-i Alas-
ka and the Aleutians- hirriself,
-Rabbi • Bernstein said that • he
found - ."truth in the report - that
there is less.-•prejudice in the
theaters of war than • in civilian
life."
Soviet Troops Free
Jews In Tarnopol
MOSCOW _ (JTA) — The 'story
of how five Jews in the city . of
Tarnopol escaped execution - by
t h e Germans by remaining
walled-up in an abandoned brick
kiln for nine months, is told • in
the Moscow presS.
When a detachment of Russian
' troops fought its way into a
•brick yard on the outskirts of
Tarnopol, it heard muffled voices
appealing for aid coming from
Within a sealed brick kiln, which
had only a small opening at one
side. When the wail was broken
down, five emaciated Jews
emerged.. Their names, they told
the soldiers, were'. WOlf and- Rose
• Koffler and Abraham, Irene ,and
Clare Ochs.
Friendly peasants kept them
supplied with food and water
until the Red Army stormed the
town.
Biro-Bidjan 'Haven
Planned for. Children
NEW YORK (JTA)—A proj-
ect for the settlement of 3,500
orphaned Jewish child-refugees
in the Jewish autonorrrouS . re-
gion of Biro-Bidjan, in which
the Ambijan Committee
co-
operate. with regional authori
ties, was announced this week
by Vilhjalrnur Stefansson, vice-
president of the organization,
Detroit Historical Museum Building
Campaign Deserves Public Support
Detroit was founded 75 years before
the signing of America's Declaration
of Independence. For a hundred years
its citizens resided within a stockade.
Three European kings7 ruled over De-
troit before George Washington be-
came our first president.
many 'far off lands to join their desti-
nies with ours, to enrich our culture
and to contribute mightly to our pro-
°Tess
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Through all its 243 colorful years,
Detroit has played a significant role
in the development of the whole
region. Its past is filled with romance,
its: traditions are proud and worthy,
its achievements known and acclaim-
ed throughout the world.
And yet, to this day, Detroit has no
adequate repository for its vast store
of historical objects and mementos,
no building in which our citizens may
view the pattern of Detroit's growth
and development, no g r eat public
museum in which our industries and
institions of today may record or dis-
play their achievements for all the
world to see.
Through the years sturdy men and
women have come to our city from
THE TIME HAS COME TO DO
SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
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