Friday, June 2, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Hungary Offered Proposal
To Trade Jews for Soldiers
Budapest Jewish Leaders Reported Seeking to Negotiate
Exchange for War Prisoners; 'Political Police Force'
Enforcing Anti-Semitic Decrees
Page Nine
Sumner Welles
Endorses United
Jewish Appeal
`Free Palestine League'
Scored by Labor Leaders
William Green, R. J. Thomas, Max- Zaritsky and Others
Denounce Unwarranted Use of Their Signatures in
Attempt to Establish "Hebrew Embassy
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ZURICH (JTA) — Hungarian newspapers reaching here
report that Jewish leaders in Budapest have proposed to
the Hungarian government a plan of alleviating the - situation
of the Jews in Hungary by exchanging thousands of them
for Hungarian war prisoners held by the Allies, as well as
for Hungarians residing in Allied countries.
The Budapest Jewish leaders,
according to the Hungarian press,
also have suggested that the gov-
ernment permit the emigration of
Jews who could be admitted to
neutral countries on the basis
that they would be supported
there by their relatives in for-
eign lands.
The Nazi Transkont.inent press
reports that the pro-German
Sztojay government has estab-
lished a "political police force"
to carry out the anti-Jewish de-
crees. A special "detective group"
has been entrusted with prevent-
ing circumvention of the laws
requiring the confiscation of
Jewish property. The "detec-
tives" seized 20 cases of art
treasures from the family of the
noted Jewish industrialist Baron
Alphonse Weiss, including, it is
reported, 83 kilograms of gold,
jewelry and diamonds.
Finest Collection
The director-general of the
Budapest Art Museum, mean-
while, . announced that as a re-
sult of the confiscation of many
rare paintings from Jews, includ-
ing works of El Greco, Velasquez,
Goya, Rembrandt, Van Dyke,
Gaugin and Rubens, the museum
now has the finest collection of
Spanish paintings outside of
Madrid.
The Pester Lloyd, organ of the
Hungarian Foreign Office, says
that in the town of Kosice, more
than 6,000 non-Jews have applied
for the several hundred Jewish
stores closed down by the author-
ities. In Sopron-Oedenburg more
than 3,000 local non-Jewish resi-
dents are seeking to acquire 150
"liquidated" Jewish business
firms. In the city of Kecskemet
where 539 Jewish families re-
sided before they were segre-
gated into a ghetto, several thou:
sand Hungarians have applied
for the- Jewish shops.
On the other hand, the Pester
Lloyd reports that the segrega-
tion of Jews into ghettos has re-
sulted in an acute shortage of
artisans, especially of . tailors,
shoemakers, dressmakers, milli-
nery workers, bookbinders and
upholsterers.
34 Ghettos Set Up
Hungarian Commissioner for
Jewish Affairs Lazio Endre this
week made public a list of thirty-
four cities, outside of Budapest,
where ghettos for Jews have
been established. The list, which
was broadcast by the Budapest
radio, includes most of the cities
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Emanuel Kaplan Heads
East Side Bnai Brith
Emanuel Kaplan was elected
president of East Side Lodge
1465 of Bnai Brith at the elec-
tion held May 22 at Pillar Tern-
ple. Other officers are:
Alfred W. Keats and Erwin
Glaedey, vice-presidents; David
Karp, secretary; Sam Hersch,
treasurer; Leon Cogan, financial
secretary; Fred Sherman, moni-
tor; Ted Rose, assistant monitor;
Arby Factor, warden; Isar San-
delman, guardian; Joseph Jacob-
son, Nate Abrams, Dr. Robert
Coggan, Meyer Kellman and Dr.
Cowan, trustees.
Joint installation of officers
with the Women's Auxiliary will
be held Sunday evening, June
11, at Savarine Hotel,-1-3115 E.
Jefferson. For reservations call
Hessel. Kollenberg, PI. 4350.
Hight-Handed Procedure
Authority Challenged
"Because I am already serving In his strongly-worded letter,
with the American Jewish Trade Mr. Zaritsky referred to the
Union Committee for Palestine transfer of his signature from a
and other Jewish organizations document issued' by the - Commit-
formed for the purpose of pro- tee for a Jewish Army to the
moting the Open Door Policy in League's roster, charging the
Palestine, I deem it inadvisable League with "high-handed, un- .
to respond to your request to ethical procedure" in what he
serve as a member of the spun- termed "the unwarranted use of
soring committee of the Amer- my signature by a new organiza-
ican League for a Free Palestine. tion, the American League for a
I must, therefore, request that Free Palestine, which I cannot
you discontinue the use of my endorse."
name in the work of the Ameri-
Peter Bergson, who formed the
can League for a Free Palestine "Hebrew Committee for National
and in the administrative policies Liberation," is said to be under
of said organization."
investigation by the Department
The American League for a of Justice. The justice depart-
Mizrachi to Honor
Free Palestine is a sub-division ment is said to investigate his
Gellman, June 4
of the Hebrew Committee on Na- status here under a visa which
tional Liberation, which was re- expired in July of 1942 and his
Religious Jew•y _from all parts cently under severe attack by all failure to register with its foreign
of the country will join in pay- accredited Zionist agencies in this agent's registration section.
ing tribute to one of its fore-
most leaders, Leon Gellman, na-
tional president of the Mizrachi
Organization of America at a
testimonial dinner, June 4 at
Hotel Commodore, in New York
City, in recognition of his 10
SLAM'S
years as president of this re-
ligious Zionist group.
Principal speaker at the dinner
will be Prof. Carl J. Friedrich,
professor of government and di-
rector of School for Overseas
Administration V at Harvard Uni-
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SUMNER WELLES
Sumner Welles, former Under-
secretary of State, expressed the
hope that the $32,000,000 national
campaign of the United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
Needs and Palestine to bring re-
lief and rescue aid to millions of
victims of Hitlerism, would meet
with wide public support.
Mr. Welles' endorsement of the
United Jewish Appeal was con-
tained in a message addressed to
Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincin-
nati, National Chairman of the
most intensive campaign ever
undertaken by American Jews
for the rescue of the victims of
war and oppression.
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Zaritsky, president of the United.,›
Hatters, Cap and Millinery Work- country for its attempt to es-
ers of America, in an open letter
to the American League for a tablish a "Hebrew embassy" in
Washington. At the time, the
Free Palestine.
At the same time, AFL Presi- Zionist groups challenged the
dent Green made public - a letter authority of "a handful of seven
written to Congressman Andrew
Somers, one of the League's spon- men" to speak for the Jewish
people.
sors, in which Mr. Green said:
with substantial Jewish popula-
tions. They are:
Boys & Girls :--Age 6 to 16
Located in North Michigan
Near Charlevoix, Petoskey,
Frankfort and Mackinac
NEW 'YORK—William Green, president of the American,
Federation of Labor, R. J. Thomas, president, UAW-CIO, an.d
other prominent labor leaders forbade the newly-created
"American League for a Free Palestine" from using their
names on any documents issued "by the League or any of
its sub-divisions, past or -future," it was announced by Max
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