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Dr. Soskin Says 15 Million
Can Settle in Palestine

Veteran Z i o n i s t and Agriculturalist Backs Lowdermilk
Jordan Valley Authority Project; Finds Zion Has
'Richest Source of Cheap Power'

NEW YORK (JPS)—Palestine can support a population of 15,-
000,000, according to Dr. S. E. Soskin, veteran Zionist and agricul-
turist, who just arrived from Eretz Israel.
Endorsing the Lowdermilk Jordan Valley Authority project and
his own research in the field, he said that Palestine had "the
richest source of cheap power," and it only waited for exploitation.
In the aricultural field, he said, Palestine with its 320 days of sun
a year, could achieve untold results through soilless agriculture,
which makes possible fhe raising of perishables in tanks, through
chemical mixtures, instead of in soil.
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Hydroponics agriculture requires one-quarter of the water need-
ed for ordinary agriculture.
ILGWU Convention Demands Open Doors in Palestine
BOSTON; (JTA)—A resolution demanding the revocation of the
British White Paper which closed the doors of Palestine to Jewish
immigration, was adopted here at the convention of the Interantional
Ladies Garment Workers Union, which has a large Jewish member-
ship and is one of the strongest labor unions in the country.
The convention also called for the establishment of "free ports"
for refugees in the U. S. The resolution criticizing the White Paper
emphasizes that "in these times, when Jews are being annihilated by
the Nazi barbarians, we consider It criminal to have the, doors of
Palestine closed for those who can still save themselves from Nazi
hands."

Mrs. Brandeis
Again Repudiates
Tie with League

Never Signed Membership
Card With Group,
She Declares

WASHINGTON (JPS) — Mrs.
Louis D. Brandeis,/ widow of the
late U. S. Supreme Court taus-
tice and distinguished Zionist,
reiterated that she does not wish
in any way to be associated with
the American League for a Free
Palestine, which endorses t h e
platform of Peter H. Bergsori's
Hebrew Committee of National
Liberation.
Following an earlier state-
ment by Mrs. Brandeis that she
had not authorized the use of
her name by the A m e r ic an
League for a Free Palestine, the
League has been circularizing
what is purportedly a photostat
of a membership card signed by
her.
To an inquiry by the Inde-
pendent Jewish Press Service
regarding the photostat, M r s .
Brandeis said that she had no
recollection of signing the card.
If she did so, it was under the
misapprehension that the Amer-
ican League for a Free Palestine
was in some way connected with
the recognized World Zionist
Organization and the Jewish
Agency for Palestine.

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Pearl Buck Finds
Jewish Heredity
Among .Chinese

NEW YORK (JPS)—Speaking
in favor of racial intermingling,
Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize winner
for literature, states in a letter
to Hayim Greenberg, editor of
the Jewish Frontier, published
in the latest issue of that mag-
azine, that "more than a few
times when I found an unusual
Chinese, one with uncommon
energy and creative ability, I
have discovered Jewish blood in
his heredity."
Stating her vie w that "the
rapidly c h a n g i n g mechanical
contrivances of our times a r e
making a fixed nationalism less
and less desirable," Miss Buck
expresses her comprehension of
the situation of Jews who do not
want to be 'lost' through kind-
! n.ess, arty more t h an through
persecution."

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

OVERSEAS

Jewish Palestine gave a stirring' welcome
to 763 Jewish refugees from nine countries in
Eastern and Southern Europe, the Balkans
and the Middle East. Five hundred seventy-
one refugees came from Italy and consisted
of persons who had fled eight Nazi-dominated
c o u n t r i es , most hailing from Yugosltvi4
Czedh.osloyakia and' Poland, and including a
party of refugees who had been shipwrecked
off Rhodes, enroute to Palestine in 1940 and
had since spent three years on the move
from one concentration camp to another. A
group of 198 Yemenite Jewish refugees who
were stranded in Aden for s e v e r al years
awaiting immigration certificates to Palestine;
joined the larger group in Egypt where they
boarded the same train for the Jewish Na-
tional Homeland.
A park named for Eduard Benes, president
of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile,
was planted in the settlement Gan Y a v n e
founded by the American Achuza Society in
the vicinity of Rehovoth. The Park will be
located in the settlement's main square which
is to be called Lidice. Czechoslovak officials
and representatives of the Jewish National
institutions participated in the three-planting
ceremony.

Boasting that 16,000,000 Jews have been ex-
terminated in Eastern Europe to date, t h e
Deutsche Zeitung, Nazi organ published in
occupied Minsk, calls upon the German troops
to continue the policy-of physically destroying
tlYe Jews. "History will be grateful to you,"
the newspaper states in its exhortation to the
German soldiers.
All Hungarian Jews between the ages of 18
to 48 have been recruited for forced labor.
The death penalty has been decreed by the
Romanian Government for Christians assisting
Jews to enter Romania and hiding them in
their homes.

AMERICA

Jewish Sabbath services were held weekly
on the Anzio Beachhead, Chaplain Morris N.
Kertzer reported in a letter made public by
the National Jewish Welfare Board.
"Fancy Free," a modern ballet, choreograph-
ed by 25-year-old Jerome Robbins, with mu-
sic by 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein, assist-
ant conductor of the New York Philharmonic,
has won the unanimous plaudits of New York
critics- and both Broadway and Hollywood
are bidding for the choreographer.
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