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JEWI'Ff NEWS
Hull Reveals U. S. Plan
To Save 2,000 Refugees
Weekly Review of the News of the World
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Government to Participate in Inter-American Effort to
Rescue Political and Racial Victims Now in
Special Nazi Concentration Camps
President Roosevelt's announcement two weeks ago that 1,000
refugees will be provided temporary refuge at Fort Ontario, New,
York, was followed by the announcement this week by Secretary
of State Cordell Hull that the United States will participate in an
inter-American effort to rescue 2,000 political and racial refugees
from German territories before they are subjected to treatment
leading to the group's ajmihilation.
These 2,000, now in special Nazi concentration camps, hold
travel permits or other protective documents issued by American
and non-European governments.
The willingness of the U. S. government to participate in the
joint program with other American nations was made known in a
letter to Dr. Alberto Guani, president of the Emergency Advisory
Committee for Political Defense at Montevideo, Uruguay.
Roosevelt's Message to Polish Jews
At the same time, President Roosevelt, in a message addressed
to the 35th annual convention of the American Federation for Polish
Jews in New York during the last week-end, stated with reference
to the Jews of Poland:
"The problems which confront you in the noble work of the
rehabilitation of Polish Jewry provide a challenge, the poignancy of
which fills men's hearts with determination so deep and strong that,
despite all odds, the efforts will continue until the liberation of these
innocent peoples is achieved."
Mr. Roosevelt's message was addressed to Benjamin Winter,
president, who died on Friday, on the eve of the convention.
A message to the Polish Federation convention from Secretary
of the Interior Harold Ickes called for careful plans in "collabora-
tion and cooperation with those who will be charged after the war
with finding a way out" for the uprooted thousands.
Rabbi of Rome Thanks Pope
At 'Liberation' Services
Vatican Radio Describes First Sabbath Service Held by
Jews Since Allied Victory in Italy;
U. S. Soldiers Attend
LONDON (JTA) — The Vatican radio, describing the first Sab-
bath services held by Jews in Rome since their liberation by the
Allied armies, said that Rabbi Zolli, the aged Rabbi of Rome, ex-
pressed • from the pulpit the thanks of the Jewish community for
the aid extended to JewS in Italy by the Catholic Church and
clergy during the months of German persecution.
Many American Jewish soldiers _attended the services. An
American Jewish chaplain, Lt. Morris N. Kurtzer, of Des Moines,
Ia.-, made a speech telling the worshippers how Jewish soldiers fell
on the Italian front in the fight for the liberation of Italy, from the
Germans and the Fascists. He assured the Jews of Rome that the
worst was over and that' they• could look forward to a free and
democratic life. His speech, delivered in English, was summarized
in Italian by a translator.
Allied Decree on Restoration of. Property Criticized
JERUSALEM (JTA) --- The annullment of 'the anti-Jewish
laws by the Allied military government in Rome and the return of
property to Jews there was hailed in the Hebrew press in Palestine
this week, but exception was taken to the reported AMG specifica-
tion that their property will be restored to Jewish owners "if they
return to their homes."
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
OVERSEAS
Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley revealed
that 228 men and -women of the Jewish refu-
gees turned back from Palestine and interned
on the island of Mauritius in December, 1940,
have applied for service with the Allied forces,
and 93 of the internees have died. Promoted
by the Earl of Winterton, anti-Zionist, who ask-
ed whether these people are interned or housed
in a refugee camp, "which is quite different,"
the Colonial Secretary said that they were kept
in a refugee camp, adding however, that "they
cannot leave."
Replying to a query by Ben Riley, Labor
M. P., Colonial Secretary Stanley said that
"urgent consideration" is being given to a pro-
posal' from the Palestine High Commissioner
Sir Harold MacMichael that the advances given
the country's citrus industry during the 1943-4
seasons be continued for the forthcoming
season.
The Communist Party of Palestine applied
for a license to publish a Hebrew daily, Kol
Ha'am (Voice of the People) but its application
was refused, Will Gallacher, Communist M. P.
charged in the House of Commons.
"In Palestine, Hebrew is as much a ver-
nacular as English in England," the Man-
chester Guardian point's out in an editorial on
the publication by Manchester University of a
volume of Hebrew works recently published
in England, of which the Manchester Uni-
versity volume is just an example, bear "evi-
dence that the consciousness that Hebrew is a
living tongue is gaining ground and there is a
reason to welcome that development."
A total of 200,000 in Odessa were massacred
during the city's occupation by the Nazis
and Romanians, the Soviet government com-
mission investigating atrocities revealed in
charging murder, pillage and oppression to 21
German generals and officers and 54 Roman-
ians of the military and civilian personnel ad-
ministrating the occupied city. Odessa was a
thickly populated Jewish. city.
A Swedish ship chartered by the Interna-
tional Red Cross was forbidden by the Nazis
to take Jewish children from Constanza,
Romania, to Turkey.
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PALESTINE
David Begin-, 25, allegedly a member of the
Stern group, responsible for recent terroristic
acts in _Palestine, has been sentenced to 12
years' imprisonment after a military court in
Jerusalem- found him' guilty of illegally
possessing a loaded , pistol, a bomb and some
ammunition when arrested in Tel Aviv oh.
March . 16 last. Refusing legal assistance and
conducting his own defense; David Begin made
a long political statement to the court along the
lines of the Stern group ideology.
Demonstrations for a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine will mark the 40th anni-
versary of the death of Dr. Theodor Herzl,
founder of political Zionism, it was announced
by the Executive of the World Zionist Organ-
ization. The anniversary occurs on the 20th
of Tamuz, on the Jewish calendar, or July 11.
The Zionist Organization calls for observances
in Palestine and in all free countries.
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Return of Property in Algiers Brings Judicial- Complications
ALGIERS, (JTA)—The problem of restoration of Jewish prop-
erty either confiscated under anti-Jewish laws, or transferred to
non-Jews in advance of these measures in an attempt to evade con-
fiscation, is now being studied here by the French Committee of
National Liberation, which has been designated the "Provisional
Government of France" by the French Consultative Assembly.
Allied Planes Drop Leaflets
Urging Citizens to Aid Jews
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The Argentine government has forbidden
publication of President Roosevelt's report to
Congress condemning the persecution of Jews
and other minorities in Europe, and announc-
ing the establishment of the Fort Ontario camp
for 1,000 refugees. This is the first time the
Argentine government ever suppressed a for-
mal statement by the President of the United
States.
A demand to stop all immigration into the
United States, and that "this stoppage should
include refugees and so-called intellectuals,"
will be contained in the platform of the Ameri-
can Nationalists' Committee of Independent
Voters founded by U. S. Senator Robert
Reynolds, proposed by America First Party
director Gerald L. K. Smith as that party's
Presidential candidate.
David Stern, Palestinian agriculturist and
director of colonization for the Jewish Agency,
is in the United States to purchase $30,000,000
worth of agricultural machinery for use in
Palestine.
Endorsing the religious Zionist program of
the Mizrachi, Organization of America, Con-
gregation - Oheb Zedek of Cleveland has joined
the Mizrachi group en masse, a total of more
than 450 members. Oheb Zedek is the largest
Jewish Orthodox congregation in the state.
Between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Jews survive in
Poland, according to information received by
the Polish government-in-exile, Premier Stan-
islaw Mikolajczyk declared at a -press confer-
ence in Washington. The. Polish Premier
credited their survival "in great measure" to
the Poles "who assist them in every way pos-
sible." Of the 5,000,000 nationals that perished
at the hands of the Nazis half were Jews, he
said.
Harold 0. N. Frankel of New York, president
of the Council of Orgetizations for Palestine,
was elected grand master of the Independent
Order Brith Abraham, at its 57th convention
at Atlantic City. He succeeds Herman Hoffman
of New York who retired.
The U. S. Senate, by a voice vote, passed a
$3,920`570,000 'appropriation for continuance for
another year of foreign economic operations,
which includes $450,000,000 for this nation's
participation in. the work of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation' Administration to aid
the populations of liberated European terri-
tories and war victims.
Mrs. Ethel Tro
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of Brooklyn, War. Bond
chairman of the Eastern Parkway Chapter of
the American Jewish Congress, has in the past
two years used "her spare time to sell over a
million dollars worth of War Bonds. She had
already sold $35,000 worth of bonds in con-
nection with the Fifth War Loan Drive, before
the campaign had begun.
A new dysentery vaccine that promises to
be effective against many different strains of
bacilli that cause dysentery was announced by
Drs. Ely Pearlmen, Walter F. Goebel and
Francis Binkley of the hospital of the Rocke-
feller Institute for Medical Research, Science
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Hungarian Populace Asked to Liberate Nazi Victims From
Ghettos, German News Agency .
Reports; 60,000 Deported.
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ZURICH, (JTA)—Allied planes have dropped leaflets over
Hungary urging the population to liberate the Jews from the ghettos,
the German Transocrean news agency reported this week.
Pro-Nazi Hungarian newspapers reaching here from Budapest
carry articles demanding the death penalty for Jews escaping from
ghettos and for those helping them to escape. The death penalty
is also, demanded for Jews concealing their property and for Hun-
garians aiding them to conceal it.
Polish Prime Minister Says Jews Will Be Welcome in Poland
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikola-
jczyk of the Polish government-in-exile this week estimated that
"between 800,000 and 900,000 Jews are still in Poland where they are
being kept alive by friendly Poles:"
He said that the Polish government might have to assume trus-
teeship for some confiscated property of Poles and Jews alike, before
returning it to its rightful owners, and he gave assurances that
Jews returning to Poland after the war would be welcome.
He revealed these facts at a press conference here at which he
emphasized. that postwar Poland would be a "really democratic
country" and that. 'every citizen, every religion, every race" would
have full civil rights. He estimated that Jews constituted half of
the five million Polish citizens killed by the Nazis.
Jewish Delegations Confer with Polish Prime - Minister
, NEW YORK, (. JTA)—Two Jewish delegations, one speaking 5n
behalf of the Representation of Polish Jewry and the other in behalf
of the American Representation of the General Jewish Workers'
Union in Poland, were received by Polish Prime Minister Mikola-
jczyk in Washington and discussed problems concerning the Jews of
Poland, it was announced here.
The delegation of the 'Representation of Polish Jewry demanded
that confiscated property of Polish Jews who have been massacred
by the Nazis and have left no relatives; as well as Jewish communal
property in Poland, be transferred after the war to a special Jewish
body which will use the funds derived • from these properties to
finance the .reconstruction of Jewish life in Poland.
60,000 Deported from Hungary, Rabbi Tells London Meeting
LONDON, (JTA)---.-Chief • Rabbi Hertz charged the Hungarian
Government with deporting 60,000' Jews 'to Nazi-occupied territory,
in an address delivered at meeting here of the Council of Christians
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