Friday, August 11,"1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
Latin-America Arabs Aid
Argentine's Government
Communities in Pan-Arab Congress Only Non-Argentine
Group Supporting Farrell Regime in Conflict
With U. S.; Palestinian Wins Appeal
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA)—The only non-Argentine group which
has, sent a message to the Farrell Government supporting it in its
conflict with the U. S. is the Pan-Arab Congress, it was learned here.
The Congress was estalished in 1940 at a meeting of representatives
of Arab communities in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Co-
lumbia. .A few months ago it sent a memorandum to the foreign
ministers of all Western Hemisphere countries asking support of the
Arab position on. Palestine.
British High Court Accepts Appeal of Palestine JeW
LONDON, (JTA)—The judicial committee of the Privy Council,
the British Empire's last court of appeals, this week agreed to hear
an appeal by Leib Sirkin, who was sentenced to 10 years im-
•prisonment in Palestine last September for illegal possession of arms
and 'arms smuggling. Sirkin is 'basing his appeal on the grounds
that the offense of which he was convicted is "unknown to Pal-
estine law."
•Arabs Concerned Over U. S; Political Parties' Zionist Policy
CAIRO, (JTA)—Leading Arab circles in Egypt are concerned at
the fact that both the Republican and, the Democratic parties in the
U. S. have expressed • themselves in favo
r of the Zionist demands
f4b,r Palestine.
• • The pan-Arab unity conference, which has been postponed for
more than a year is now slated to open in Alexandria on Sept, 25,
it was announced here.
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of. Independent Jewish -Press Service)
AMERICA
Departure by the Federal Council in Berne
from its traditional views on the r i g h t of
asylum in order to bar from its provinces
Adolf Hitler and his lieutenants should they
seek refuge there, was reported by Pertinax,
writing for the North American Newspaper
Alliance .. . Instead of accepting the right of
asylum as a natural right, the National gov-
ernment will regulate it on the basis of moral
and political considerations, according to the
Svenska Dagblad, Swedish newspaper, Per-
tinax reports.
"Unwillingness to do more than indulge in
sentimental gestures when confronted with
human suffering," was scored by I. F. Stone,
in an editorial in the New York newspaper PM
in which he referred to the messages of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Governor Thomas E.
Dewey to the "Rescue the Jews of Hungary"
demonstration at Madison Square Park. He
sharply criticized the failure by Great Britain
and the United States to accept the zero hour
offer of the Horthy puppet regime in Hungary
to release all Jews who hold entry visas for
Palestine and to allow Jewish children up to
10 to leave for overseas countries if the latter
are willing to receive them.
Impeachment of race haters like Senator
Bilbo and Representative Rankin, who use
their Congressional immunity to whip up
hatred of Jews and Negroes on the floor of
Congress, will be sought by Rev. Adam Clay-
ton Powell, Negro pastor of the Abyssinian
Baptist church, if he is elected to Congress.
He won both the Republican and Democratic
primaries in the 22nd Congressional District
in Harlem.
George W. Maxey of Scranton, Pa., Chief
Justice of the Supreme _Court of Pennsylvania,
announced in Scranton that he had accepted
the post of chairman of the Pennsylvania
Chapter of the American Palestine Committee.
American Jewish organizations contributed
$558,578.30 , worth of clothing and household
kits to the Russian War Relief, in a three
.
Labor Party Triumphs in Palestine; Gets 42 Pct. of Votes •
, JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Preliminary results of the elections to
the Assefath Hanivcharim, Jewish National Assembly of Palestine,
show that nearly 200,000 persons voted. This is about 72 percent
of the total entitled to vote. Forty-two percent of the voters cast
their ballots for the Palestine Labor Party which probably will get
65 seats in the .Assembly. The Mizrachi, orthodox party, together
with the Hapoel Hamizrachi, its labor branch, will probably have 24
seats, while 18 will go to the Aliyah • Chadassah group.
The Palestine government admitted this week that it has refused
to grant visas to an American Jewish economic commission which
desires to visit Palestine to make an economic survey for postwar
immigration and settlement possibilities.
The commission, non-Zionist and independent, is composed of
Robert Nathan, former chief of the planning division of the WPB,
Louis Bean and Oscar Gass.
Refugees Shout
`Shalom' on Their
Arrival in U. S.
son Webb, vice chairman of the
New York Chapter of the Blood
Donor Service recruiting com-
mittee in a ceremony at the
Blood Donor Service of the
American Red Cross.
Immigrants who came to Palestine between
1934-40 and who were naturalized as Pales-
tinian citizens between 1936-42 were in largest
part those originating from Germany, it is re-
vealed in figures issued in Jerusalem. The table
indicates that (76.4% of all German-Jewish
arrivals took out nationality papers compared
with 63.7% of the Polish-Jewish immigrants,
65.2% of those from Latvia and Lithuania, 64%
from Romania, and 41.1% of those who had
come from Czechoslovakia:
Rear Admiral Charles L. Stephenson, U.S.N.,
has arrived in Jerusalem for a survey of Jew-
ish Palestine's preventative medicine and medi-
cal aid .requirements, for the purpose of advis-
ing Hadassah, now engaged in drawing up
postwar plans. .
OVERSEAS
.
Two hundred and eighty Seventh Day Ad-
ventists, from the villages of Kentislo, Sek-
lezem and Bisedanfalu in Hungary were
interned in ghettos by the Hungarian police
for expressing "Judaeophile sentiments."
Hungarian forces are engaged in pitched
battles with well-knit detachments of a Jewish
guerilla army of 1,400 men in the mountain
fastnesses of Hungarian-occupied Carpatho-
Ruthenia, according to reports in the Nazi-
controlled Budapest press.
•
Four thousand Jews of Rome prayed and
gave thanks for their deliverance from Nazi
terror, at services held on the banks of the
Tiber river. Many ranking allied military
authorities participated. Israele Anton Zolli,
chief rabbi of Rome, was received in private
audience by Pope Pius XII. He came to express
the gratitude of Rome Jews for the moral and
material aid given them by the Vatican during
the. Nazi occupation. Rabbi Zolli, a noted
scholar, has known the Pontiff for years and
has been working on Exegesis of the Old
Testament in the Vatican library.
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donated three gallons of his blood
to the American Red Cross. The
first person in the country with
such a record, he has received a
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PALESTINE
gh
The 30-odd reporters and pho-
tographers watched silently as
the boat bringing the 984 refu-
gees to temporary asylum in this
country docked at the Hoboken,
N. J., pier:- The rails were lined
with tense, anxious people. In
the Friday evening twilight the
refugees were- " seen dressed in
shabby, tattered clothes. They
peered down silently at the peo-
ple on the dock.
One of • the Jewish reporters
called out cheerfully to the refu-
gees, "Shalom!" A few other re-
porters joined fn and then; as
though they had learned for the
first time that they were looking
at friends, the refugees shouted
back, "Shalom!" and "Shabbat
Shalom." (Good Sabbath.) They
waved and a number of them
kept shouting, "Hello, America,
Hello!"
In groups of 20 they were led
by the Army to special trains
which brought them next morn-
ing to Fort Ontario, an historic
site .which until recently housed
a contingent of soldiers. As they
passed by the lines Of Army
MP'S, some of them called to the
reporters asking for the where-
abouts of their relatives,
They did not sing nor dance
as they walked to the trains. Nor
did they smile. Their faces were
. thin and hollow and some looked
just a little frightened.
Some of the boys and girls had
no shoes. Others wore scanty
bathing trunks, in which they
had made the arduous two-week
ocean journey from Naples, Italy,
aboard an Army transport One
elderly JeW was asked how it
felt to'have set foot on American
soil. His smile was wistfUl. He
said in a low voice, "Where the
Lord leads, there do I follow."
NEW YORK (JPS)—Ben Hof-
stadter, chairman of Blood Donor
Service of Bnai Brith Metropol-
itan War Service Committee, has
month period, through the Jewish Council for
Russian War Relief, Edward C. Carter, presi-
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