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. 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They're peppy, they're dependable — they're labeled for day-after-day success, in a Fall that finds debuteen duds strictly style-right and snappy. Bntii Brith Aide Cited For Record 'Blood gift 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 badge of honor from Mrs. J. Wat- 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. 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