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;day, `Joie 30, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
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House Group Cites Hungary
On Mistreatment of Jews
Foreign Affairs Committee Emphasizes That 'Criminals
Guilty of Inhumane Conduct Shall be Brought to
Justice'; Robot Bomb Kills 5 Chalutzim
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Emphasizing that "the lives of
almost a million Jews hang in the balance" in Hungary, the
House Foreign Affairs Committee this week issued a warning
to the Hungarian Government "to stem the tide of inhuman-
ity toward the helpless people within her borders." It em-
phasized that "the criminals who are guilty of this inhumane
conduct shall be brought to justice." The resolution was
subsequently introduced in the House by Committee chair-
man Sol Bloom.
(The Associated Press termed this action "Highly Unusual.")
The committee statement says: "We are deeply concerned
over the plight of the threatened millions -in Nazi-occupied
and Nazi-dominated territories. We are not content merely
to join with those who have expressed their horror at the
barbarism of the governments involved. We are determined
that the criminals who are guilty of this inhumane conduct
shall be brought to justice.
"Our concern and our determination are now addressed
particularly to Hungary, where the lives of almost a million
Jews hang in balance. Events show that the tide of military
battle has now turned in favor of the United Nations. Let
Hungary, at this historic moment, stem the tide of inhuman-
ity toward the helplesS people within her borders."
Robot Bomb Kills 5 on Jewish Training Farm
LONDON, (JTA)—Five members of the Hechalutz were
killed, and three gravely injured, when one of Hitler's robot
bombs struck a Hechalutz building somewhere in southern
England. Several other persons in the building, which housed
young refugees receiving agricultural training, were slightly
injured. The dead Chalutzim, two of whom were girls, came
to England from Germany and Austria.
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
OVERSEAS
Sixty-two train carriages crowded with
Jewish children from Hungary crossed into
Poland en route to the death camp at Oswien-
cim, according to information received from the
Polish Government-in-Exile by Dr. I. Schwartz-
bart, member of the Polish National Council in
London.
The execution of 17,000 Czechoslovak Jews
in gas chambers at the Theriesenstadt ghetto
was charged to the Germans by the Czecho-
slovak State Council in London.
Esther Fineberg, 9 years old, died and many
Jews of the East Side of London were wounded
when a Nazi bomber downed in an airfight,
crashed in the thickly populated district.
The Soviet radio at Leningrad reported that
the Finnish government ordered all Jews to
leave Viborg within six hours. The Jews were
permitted to take with them only 50 iciiogi-ams
of possessions per person.
PALESTINE
Founded in 1935 on a hill overlooking
le Zion, premier Jewish plantations
village south of Tel Aviv, the Okava razor-
blade factory, the only one of its kind in the
country, has the unique distinction of supply-
ing its products to over half of the British
Empire.
The B. Rabinowitz factory, which makes
bakelite articles in Emek Zebulon, north of
Haifa, has just observed its 10th anniversary.
Elections for the Assephath Hanivcharim,
Jewish Palestine's Representative Assembly,
will be held as scheduled on July 5, the Vaad
Leumi, or National Council, empowered with
calling the elections. has announced here.
The Controller of Medical Supplies, Col. Sir
G. W. Heron, revealed in Jerusalem recently
that there are now 28 pharmaceutical plants
in Palestine, with an output of 292 tons of
chemical preparations valued at 205,000 ($820,-
000). Every one of these 28 plants is Jewish-
°wiled and controlled, and has Jewish scientific
and working personnel.
Discussions concerning the establishment a
a national shipping corporation were held in
recent months by the Palestine Maritime
- Rishon
League and the Jewish Agency's Maritime De-
partment with existing companies engaging
in shipping and seafaring activities.
During the 4 1/2 years of war ended Feb. 28,
1944 import of Jewish capital into Palestine
aggregated 26,000,000 pounds ($104,000,000 at
wartime exchange).
A wealthy Sephardic Jewish resident of Tel
Aviv, Moshe J. Matalon, has announced a gift
of 10,000 pounds ($40,000) for the erection of
a Maternity Home in Tel Aviv as a memorial
to his wife, Malka, who died a year ago.
AMERICA
In some of the most implied anti-Semitic
oratory yet heard in Congress, Representative
Clare Hoffman (R. Mich.) proposed that "we
have a little lend-lease of refugees." Stating
that "it might not be such a bad idea to send
them (the refugees) back to the country from
which they came," he said that he wondered
"what the war is about" because other "folks
were beginning to wonder too," and asked:
"How far are we going in exchanging fine
young Americans (soldiers) for refugees?"
In accord with a nation-wide trend for co-
operative actions on 'matters affecting the en-
tire Jewish community, a Jewish Community.
Council of Metropolitan Boston has been form-
ed to achieve unified action in the fields of
civic protection and fund-raising within the
Boston metropolitan area.
A request that it go on record in favor of
the establishment of a Federal Department to
combat anti-Semitism and discrimination was
made to the Republican National Convention
by the National Committee to Combat Anti-
Semitism, in a communication to Harrison
Spangler, National GOP Chairman.
A joint statement, signed by 140 outftand-
ing Protestant, Catholic and Jewish religious
leaders, hag been issued calling for the early
establishment of a permanent International
Office for Education on the ground that the
war has reached a state "where it is of prime
importance to consider the shape of the civil-
ization we want, civilization based on friendli-
ness and collaboration among individuals,
groups and nations."
Urge Conference
Change Name at
Chicago Parley
N.Y. Delegates Suggest That
Group Strengthen Ifs
Authority
NEW YORK — Demands that
the scope of the American Jew-
ish Conference be enlarged to
include the American scene and
that the authority of the con-
ference be strengthened by the
creation of its own instrumen-
tality for the execution of its
program, were voiced at the first
preliminary meeting of delegates
held here on June 23.
The future organization and
functions of the conference were
the main subjects of the debate.
Among the suggestions voiced
by delegates were recommenda-
tions that:
1. The name of the Confer-
ence be changed to Assembly,
in accordance with the Pitts-
burgh proposal.
2. The Conference elect a rep-
resentation to act immediately
on postwar matters and in the
execution • of the Conference
plans.
3. Emphasis be placed on post-
war problems.
4. The Conference be estab-
lished as a permanent body.
5. The affiliated organizations
should yield some of their sov-
ereignty to enable the Confer-
ence to act as a functioning
body.
The Jewish Labor Committee
has 'decided to appoint a repre-
sentative on the Administrative
Committee of the Conference
and- thus take an active part in
the work preliminary to t h e
holding of the second session of
the American Jewish Conference
in Chicago, Sept. 2-5, 1944.
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