Friday, July 14, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

British Officer Commutes
Shmulevitz Death Sentence

Confessed Member of Notorious Stern Group Given Life
Term for Illegal Possession of Arms; Jewish
Army Plan Rejected Again

A. D. Greenleigh
Appointed JDC
Agent in Rome

Former Executive of WMC
to Aid Refugee Jews
In Italian Capital

JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — The death sentence im-
posed June 27 on Shmayahu Shmulevitz, alias Raphael Birn-
Arthur D. Greenleigh, former
baum, confessed member of the terroristic Stern group, was
commuted to life imprisonment by the General Officer executive on the staff of the
War Manpower Commission and
commanding British troops in Palestine and Transjordan.
A military court, acting under emergency regulations,

had sentenced Shmulevitz to

death for firing at a policeman mobilizing the resources of man-
and the alleged possession of
power still untapped.
arms.

Reject Jewish Army Plan

LONDON (JPS-Palcor) — A
proposal by Laborite Lord Stra-

bolgi for the immediate forma-
tion of a frontline Jewish army
consisting of stateless Jews and
Jews from Palestine, neutral
countries and liberated territo-
ries, and with Yiddish as a pos-
sible language of command, was
turned down by Lord Croft, Un-
dersecretary of War, who also
described as "impracticable" a
proposal made by Lord Melchett
for the expansion of Jewish Pal-
estine's units into a Jewish divi-
sion. The formation of a Jewish
brigade, he said, was "being
:given the most careful considera-
ti on.'•

Held Impractical

Lord Melchett referred to the
repeated request of the Jewish
Agency for the formation of a
brigade composed of the battal-
ions of Palestine's Jewish regi-
ment which is now doing guard
duty in Libya, but is eager to
serve on the battlefront. He pro-
posed that the regiment be, per-
haps, expanded into a division.

In replying to both proposals,
the Undersecretary quoted ,facts
and figures which, he claimed,
bore out his contention that a
Jewish army is "impractical" at
this time. He said that the same
objections, and reasons for them,
apply to Lord Melchett's request
Million in Uniform
that the Palestine regiment be
Lord Strabolgi proposes that, expanded into a Jewish division
in addition to the 1,000,000 Jews for active operations against the
.already serving in the armed enemy. It would take months to
forces of the United Nations, .fa- effect the proposal and would in-
cilities be afforded for the forina- terfere with other operations.
tion of a Jewish army under Brit-
Lord. Strabolgi, in withdrawing
ish or United Nations command
for fighting on any required bat- his motion for the present, mini-
tlefield, and to be composed of mized one of Lord Croft's objec-
Jewish volunteers from Pales- tions which was that the JeWs,
line, neutral countries and terri- recruited from many - lands,
tories liberated by the enemy. He would not have a common lan-
said that 100,000 Jews from dif- guage for military commands.
ferent countries are available Most Jews understand Yiddish,,
and they would constitute an im- Lord Strabolgi said.
mense contribution to the man- Zionism, Patriotism Compatible
' power of the United Nations.
The minority in British Jewry
Lord Strabolgi referred to the subscribing to views similar to
rejection by the late Prime Min- those of the American Council
, ister Neville Chamberlain of an for Judaism in the United States
offer made at the outbreak of the were confronted with the asser-
war by Chaim Weizmann, presi- tion of Brandon Bracken, British
dent of the Jetysh Agency, to Minister of Information, that
mobilize Jewry for maximum "there was no incompatibility be-
military effort.
tween being a good Jew and a
Lack of Equipment
patriotic Englishman." He left
The rejection at the time was no. doubt that he included Zion-
based on the lack of equipment, ism in the ingredients that, in his
which is no longer the case. He opinion, make "a good Jew."
lauded the Jews' fighting tenac-
Branden Bracken, speaking at
ity, mentioning in particular the
Jews in the Red Army, the role a luncheon tendered by the
of the Jewish general in the lib- Kisch Memorial Fund, which is
eration of. Minsk, the late Briga- conducting a campaign for the
dier Kisch who died in the fight- establishment of an ex-service-
ing on the Western Desert, men's colony in Palestine in the
where he was the Eighth .Army's memory of the late Brigadier
Chief of Engineers; the distinc- Frederick Kisch, said that Kisch
tive service of Jewish Palestine's "would have risen to equal emi-
units, and the heroism and re- nence with Australian General
sourcefulness in battle of the Monash, also a Jew, but he pre-
Jews serving with Marshal Tito's fered to devote himself to the es-
Partisan forces. He stressed that tablishment of Palestine as a
he did not advocate the transfer home for his people." The Min-
of Jews already in service to a ister of Information also men-
specific Jewish army, but de- tioned the Soviet Jewish Gen-
manded an additional force by eral Tcherniakhovsky, liberator ,
of- Minsk, who is "further indica-
tive of the Jewish distinction in
war as well as in other fields."

5 Detroiters on
Board of JWB

BUY MORE BONDS!

ARTHUR D. GREENLEIGH

a well-known public welfare ad-
ministrator, has been added to
the overseas staff of the Joint
Distribution Committee, major
American agency for aid to dis-
tressed Jews overseas.
Mr. Greenleigh's first assign-
ment will be to Rome, where
he will coordinate a program of
aid for refugee Jews in the Ital-
ian capital. He will be among
the first American private relief
officials to carry on work of
assistance there.

Groundwork Laid

Groundwork of the relief un-
dertaking in Rome was laid by
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chair-
man of the JDC's European
Council, who recently spent some
time in Italy conferring with
Allied military and civil officers
and studying the requirements
of the Jews in the area.

Formerly with NRS

Mr. Greenleigh the last two
years was field assistant to the
executive director of the WMC
and for three years prior to that
was with the National Refugee
Service in various posts, includ-
ing that of acting executive di-
rector. He was for several years
with the N. Y. State Temporary
Relief Administration and later
served as assistant state director
in charge of field .service with
the California Emergency Relief
Administration and later served
as assistant state director in
charge of field service with the
California Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration and as executive
director of the Bureau of Public
Assistance in Los Angeles
County.

Page Rye

Zionists Urge Allies to Halt
Killing of Hungarian Jews

Administrative Council Calls Upon United Nations to Save
Victims; Palestine Opening Asked; ZOA Sells
43 Million in War Bonds

PHILADELPHIA—Expressing its "deepest sense of hor-
ror at the new wave of slaughter by the Nazis against the
Jews of Hungary, the same sadism which expresses itself in
the indiscriminate murder of innocent civilians in England
by robot bombs," the national administrative council, ruling
body of the Zionist Organization of America between annual

conventions, meeting at
h
Ritz-Carlton Hotel here, address-
ed a call to the United Nations to
"take every possible measure to
affect the escape and rescue of
the surviving remnants of the
unfortunate Jeiwsh people of
Europe."
Dr. Israel Goldstein, ZOA pres-
ident, referring to the reports
confirmed by neutral sources
and by British Foreign Secretary
Eden, of the execution of addi-
tional 2,000,000 Jews by the
Nazis for the two years ended
April 15, 1944, declared that the
"blood of every freedom loving
human being must freeze in his
veins upon reading of the tor-
tures and bestiality committed
by the Nazi monster against lit-
tle children, old women and in-
nocent civilians."

designed to initiate a program of
intensive Zionist education in
hitherto non-Zionist Jewish cir-
cles, was announced by Rabbi
Arthur J. Lelyveld of Omaha,
Neb., executive vice-chairman of
the committee.

Rabbi Felix Levy of Chicago,
veteran Zionist and outstanding
reform Jewish leader, has been
named chairman of the commit-
tee, which lists leading rabbis
and laymen among its members.

Reporting on behalf of E. I.
Kaufmann, national war effort
chairman of the organization, Er-
nest Barbarash announced that
with one half of the 500 Zionist
units yet to be heard from, War
Bond sales reported for June 'by
members of the ZOA aggrega-
ted over $43,000,000. The month
3 Basic Principles
of June was designated as Zion-
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, speak-
ist War Bond Month by the U.
ing on the Herzl anniversary,
S. Treasury Department.
pointed out that "today at the
It is expected that additional
most decisive moment in its his-
tory, Zionism is returning to the reports now on the way from
original concepts of the teach- various communities will bring
ings expounded by Herzl." These the total to $50,000,000, the lar-
concepts, he said, were based on gest amount raised by any na-
tional organization in one month.
three basic principles:
JNF Income 3 Million
1. That the source of the Jew
Judge M o r r is Rothenberg,
ish problem is the homelessness
president of the Jewish National
of the Jewish people.
2. The Jewish problem can on- Fund of America, reported that
ly be solved by international ac- the total income of the Fund for
tion. Herzl from the very begin- the eight-month period of its op-
ning maintained that a real Jew- eration from Oct. 1, 1943 to May
ish homeland means a Jewish 31, 1944, was $3,030,569.81. Of
State.
this, the income from the tradi-
3. Immigration into Palestine tional sources of the JNF includ-
must be on a mass scale and take ing Nachloth, Golden Book, Flag
place within a given period. Jew- Day, Flower Day, etc. amounted
ish immigration into Palestine to $1,374,917.47, the largest sum
after the war cannot be consid- ever recorded in the history of
ered in terms of a long drawn the Fund.
out process of yearly immigra-
Saul S. Spiro, acting secretary
tion, but rather in terms of a of the organization announced
transfer of hundreds of thous- that its membership has now
ands within a period of 1 to 3 reached a total of close to 120,000,
years.
making the Zionist Organization
Committee On Unity
of America the largest Jewish
The formation of a "Committee organization in the world in
on Unity for Palestine" primarily terms of numerical strength.

Max Perlman Heads
JDC Office in Bari

NEW YORK (JTA)—The ap-
pointment of Max Perlman to
head the office which the Joint
Distribution C o m it t e e has
operited in Bari, Italy, was an-
nounced by Joseph C. Hyman,
executive vice-chairman of the
JDC. Mr. Perlman was trans-
ferred to his post in southern
Italy from North Africa.

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Mrs. Samuel Glogower, Mrs.
Joseph M. Welt, Fred M. Butzel,
Henry Meyers and Isidore Sobe-
loff were elected members of the
board of directors of the National
Jewish Welfare Board, it has
- been announced by Frank L.
Weil, of New York, president of
the board.
Election to the Board makes
these five Detroiters members of
the governing body of the or-
Whenever the occasion calls for
ganization. When the annual.
a gift that is truly unusual, truly
meetings of JWB were suspended
for the duration in 1942, the
beautiful . . . we suggest you
-powers of the National Council,
make your selection from our
legislative body of the JWB, were
vested in the board of directors.
displays
of gifts for particular
The National Jewish Welfare
Open Evenings
Board is the Jewish member of
people.
Except Tuesday
the USO and is the body author-
ized by the War and Navy De-
partments to provide religious
and welfare services to the
armed forces. In addition, JWB
\is the national association of
UNiversity 3-1616
Jewish Centers, .YMHA's a n d 7651 West McNichols Road
YWHA's, comprising 293 organ-
izations with a membership of
390 ; 000 men, women and children.

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