, triday, Julio 2, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Palestine Hopes Brighter,
Dr. Silver Assures Zionists

Emergency Council Delegates Agree That 2 Resolutions in
Congress Had Resulted in Creating Awareness
of Problem in Many U. S. Circles

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

•

Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the
U. S. Supreme Court, received an honorary
Doctor . of Laws degree at the inauguration
of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin as president of
the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Semin-
ary and Yeshiva College . . Rabbi Isaac
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A two-day conference of committee
Rubinstein, former Rabbi of Vilna and mem-
chairmen of the American Zionist Emergency Council, representing
ber of the Polish Senate, received an honor-
More than 300 communities through the U. S., closed here this
ary degree, Doctor of Divinity.
week after a discussion of the political program conducted by the
Visas for refugees from Nazism is what
Flor • Trujillo, daughter of the President of
council during the past months and formulation of plans for future
the Dominican Republic, has requested of her
political activity of American Zionism.
father as a wedding gift, it was revealed by
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the council, told the dele-
Elsa Maxwell, New York Post columnist.
gates that "in view of the conversations with important governnient
A recent article in Reader!s Di g est, titled
"Report on Palestine" and widely Pdenounced
officials, there is now reason to hope that the Zionist picture will
as "malicious, full of misstatements,'.' was des-
be considerably brighter."
cribed by Rabbi H. J. Schachtel, speaking
According to a statement by the council, delegates agreed that
from the pulpit of Temple Beth Israel Hous-
the. introduction of the Compton-Wright and Wagner-Taft resolu-
ton, Tex., as "the fairest, most impartial ac-
tions in Congress had resulted "in creating an awareness of the
count" he had yet read. The Jewish Herald-
Palestine problem in many circles which were hitherto unaware
Voice of Houston reports that Rabbi .Schach-
of, or indifferent to it."
tel anounced that he was expressing the 'of-
ficial attitude of his temple. Attacking Zion-
In a brief address during one of the sessions Dr. Stephen S.
Wise voiced his confidence that those assembled would yet see a . ist leadership, the English-Jewish press and
the_Central Conference of American Rabbis,
Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine.
he said that "we should throw a glass of cold
Reporting on the activities of the League for a Free Palestine,
water in their faces," for their position on
and --the Hebrew National Committee of Liberation, Emanuel
Zionism. •
Neumann declared that "an aroused American Jewry would shortly
Kurt Blumenfeld, veteran leader of the
put an end to the destructive . activities of this group:"
Zionist 'movement in Germany, now in this
A dinner honoring Dr. Walter. C. Lowdermilk, the "father" of
country, marks his 60th birthday this .month.
the $150,000,000 project for the irrigation and electrification of
From 1925 to 1933 he was President of - the
PaleStine was given at the conclusion of the conference. Leaders
Zionist Organization in Germany and for . a
in the • fields of government, education, science and religion at-
quarter of a century exercised a strong in-
tended. •
fluence on its youth.
jOhn Robert Lehman, son of Herbert H.
Harry W. Bashore, Commissioner of Reclamation of the De-
Lehman, UNRRA director and former Gov-
partment of Interior, ..called Dr. Lowdermilk's project "sound and
ernor - of New York, has been promoted • from
technically feasible." -
captain to major, according to an announce-
ment by the War Department.
The honorary degree Of Doctor of Hebrew
Amnestied Jewish Soldiers Are Released
Letters for his work in the field of Hebrew
LONDON (JTA) — Twenty Jewish soldiers amnestied • by
education in New York City was conferred
Polish President Raczkiewicz were released from their deten-
upon , Samuel I. Rosenman, legal adviser to
tion cells this week. They had been convicted by a Polish
President Roosevelt, by Dropsie College of
court-martial of leaving- their units to join the British Army.
Philadelphia.

$500,000 Drive
Is Launched by
Haifa Institute

Major Rainier of 8th Army
Addresses Rally in Honor
_ of Brigadier Kisch

NEW YORK — Acclaimed by
Governor Thomas E. Dewey,
British Ambassador Lord Hali-
fax, Prof. Albert Einstein, Dr.
Karl T. Compton; president -of
Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology, and other leading engi-
neers and scientists, for its out-
standing contribution to- the war
effort and its achievements as
the main center of technological
training and research in t h e
Near East, the Hebrew Institute
of Technology in Haifa, Pales-
tine; launched a drive for $500,-
000, at the Waldorf-Astoria.
The occasion was the fourth
anniversary dinner of the Amer-
ican Society for the Advance-
Ment of the Institute, with of-
fices at 154 Nassau St., New
York. The funds to be raised
• will be used for the building of
Laboratories for Industrial and
Electrical Engineering as a me-
morial to Brigadier General
Frederick H. Kisch, late Chief
Engineer of Montgomery's Brit - .
ish Eighth Army and a Trustee
of the Haifa Institute. The sum of
$50,000 has been raised for this
purpose through initial- gifts.
Maj. Rainier Speaks
- Major Peter W. Rainier, Staff
Officer of Kisch, author of
"Pipeline to Battle,'-'who served
in the British Eighth 'Army
throughout the whole North Af-
rican campaign, spoke on "Kisch
—Soldier, Engineer and Friend."
Prof. Harold C. Urey, head of
the chemistry department of Co-
lumbia University and Nobel
Prize winner, was the guest of
honor.
Commanding the work of the
Institute, Governor Dewey, in
his message, said: - "The Haifa
Institute is playing an invaluable
part in war as in peace and made
an outstanding contribution to
the war effort. In helping to
advance the interests of the In-
stitute, the members of your
Society have also played an ad-
mirable role. May your Society
long flourish and may its efforts
continue with even greater suc-
cess."
Since the war began the Haifa
Institute has supplied the Brit-
ish Army and wartime indus-
tries in the Near East with over
1.000 engineers, technicians and

research men.

Page Three

PALESTINE

The opposition, or Group B, within Jewish
Palestine's Labor Party, Mapai, will nominate
its own candidates for election to the Asseph-
ath Hanivcharim, Jewish Palestine's Assem-
bly, and to the conference of the Histadruth,
General Jewish Federation of Labor . . . Alex-
ander Zisling, a leader of the opposition, an-
nounced that his group still adhered to its
agreement with the Party's majority on ex-
ternal • political policies and did not regard
the nomination of a* separate list of candidates
as constituting a breach of faith with the
party.
Participating in a national conference of
Mizrachi, in Jerusalem, Orthodox Zionist or-
ganization, the majority of Palestine's rabbis
endorsed a plea for a Jewish State. The con-
ference, keynoted by a prayer for unity, called
upon the United Nations "to fulfill the words
of the prophet's and restore Palestine to the
Jewish people as a Jewish State, without
which victory cannot be complete." Speakers
at the Conference included chief Rabbis Isaac
Herzog and Ben Uziel, and Mizrachi chief
Rabbi Meier Berlin.

OVERSEAS

The British Government is ready now to
take under consideration proposals from Jew-
ish organizations, dealing with postwar prob-
lems, Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the
Board of Jewish Deputies, declared after re-
vealing that the Board was preparing to sub-
mit shortly a detailed plan for the postwar
rehabilitation of, the "Jews of Europe.
In the past two months 12,000 Jews have
been deported- by the Nazis from Italy to Po-
land, ostensibly for forced labor, according to
information obtained from captured German
officers by French officers on the Italian front
and submitted to French authorities in Algiers.
The following were listed by the Berne
newspaper Volksrecht, among prominent
French Jews assassinated by the Vichy mil-
itia: Dr. Moses Cohen, a physician; Anna Tol-
levitsky, Boris Milke and Valentine Feldman;
ethnologiSts;- Jacques Solomon, physicist; and
George Politzer, economist.

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