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THE JEWISH
Allied Security Conference
To Air Palestine Question
NEWS
Fascist Traitor
Of Jews in Rome
To Face Charges
Friday, August 25, 1944
Creel Exposes
Grand Mufti
Boris Smolar Learns Soviet Government Is Interested in
Ugo Fao, Former. President Arab Bandit Listed Among
Joint Trusteeship with U. S. and Britain in Jewish
Most Brutal Criminals
of Jewish Community, Is
State; Zionists to Tell Views
. of the Present War
Called Nazi Informer
BY BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
The Allied Security Conference in Washington will not
only discuss the question of equal rights for Jews in postwar
Europe, but will deal also with the future of Palestine. Ill
fact. we have ground to believe that President Roosevelt will
invite American Zionist leaders to the White HouSe for a
talk on Palestine either before or during the sessions of the
Conference.
Anxious to secure an enduring and British diplomats during the
peace, the delegates to the Se- recent visit to London of Acting
curity• Confer- Secretary of State Stettinius.
ence also are in- Important Report
terested in sett-
Mr. Stettinius brought with
ling the Jewish ,.hi m a _ very important report
° question 'once from London and indicated to
and forever in a. American Zionist leaders that
way which will parts of thiS report may be made
prevent any fu- known to them by the State De. :
ture Hitler mak- partment after. President Roose-
ing. it a spear- vest -apprOves of it.
head for a fu- • As the Palestine problem is ap-
titre war.
proaching a solution, the non-.
Boris SmoIar
There will be Zionist members . of the Jewish
no differences of opinion between Agency are' determined. more than
the Allies as to the promulgation ever to see to it that they are
of - a Bill of Rights which central given the '50 per cent partnership
Jewish organizations are urging in the Agency which is due them.
as a measure to protect the rights Correspondence on this subject
of the Jews after the war. ThereA may soon he initiated between
little difference of opinion be- Judge Proskauer in behalf of the
tween the Allied governments non-Zionists and Dr. Chaim
also with regard to the future of Weizmann, president of the Jew-
Palestine. There is good ground ish Agency.
to 'believe that England and the
U. S. already have reached an
understanding with regard to Rescue Statement Skips
Over Palestine Question
Palestine.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Brit-
Under Trusteeship
ish and American officials ad-
Zionist leaders who know mitted here that the joint state-
something about -it, feel quite ment issued last week by the
certain that this Understanding governments of the United -
States
is fully, acceptable to Jews. It and the United Kingdom, an-
coincides with Zionist wishes for nouncing _acceptance .of Hun-
a Jewish State in Palestine and
gary's offer to permit the emigra-
stipulates that such a state would tion of Jews from Hungary to
remain nnder a joint Anglo-
Palestine and other lands was
American trusteeship and protec- deficient in not clarifying the is-
tion Ifor some time.
sue as to whether Jews. from
However, the Soviet • Govern- Hungary would be admitted in
' ment which is in principle sup- Palestine.
porting the Anglo-American de-
Fear was expressed here that
cision with regard to Palestine,
wishes to see the forthcoming the offer made by the Hungarian
Jewish State under an Anglo- Government to permit the emi-
American - Russian trusteeship, gration of Jews from Hungary
since Palestine is the back door may not materialize now that it
to Russia. This Russian demand has become known that the Ger-
will be part-and-parcel of the dis- man Government . is refusing
cussion on Palestine when it will transit visas for Hungarian Jews
come up before the Security Con- to Sweden and Switzerland and
ference which. will, naturally, promises no safe conduct of such
Jews to any destination.
hold its session in camera.
• Best Indication
Producer Harry Rapf signed a
The best indication that the new contract.- The old one had
British Government finally has been running for 20 years. His
decided on Palestine's future is record is second only to Sol
the fact that it sent Fietd Marshal Wurtzel's 30 years at one studio.
Gort, the new High Commission-
er for Palestine, to Vatican City
to discuss the question of a Jew-
ish State in . Palestine with the
Pope, who also has an interest in
Palestine. Another indication is
the very important information
reaching me privately that a
high Soviet official' took the in-
itiative of inviting a leading
Zionist personality and to convey
to him Stalin's views with regard
to Palestine. This was done after
the Kremlin had learned all the
details of the discussions on Pal-
estine held between American
ROME (JPS)—Ugo Fa() ; fas-
cist party member and former
president -of the Jewish Com-
munity Counci of Rome, who
associated with the Gestapo chief
of the city even while hundreds
of Rome -Jews were being loaded
on trains for "unknown destina-
tions," will be tried' on charges
of having drawn up for t h e
Nazis lists of Jews to be de-
ported.
Ugo Fao and several of his
collaborators were arrested re-
cently and released after three
days. This does not mean that
the charges have beerl dropped,
your correspondent learns. Deny-
ing that he drew up deportation
lists, Fao will contend that what-
ever transgressions he may be
guilty of, were committed by
him under compulsion.
(Chief Rabbi Anton Zorn of
Rome charged that 40 to 50 per
'cent of the IcitY's Jews were de-
ported, and Might have been
saved had Fao- not adviSed them
against fleeing. Fao, the Chief
Rabbi charged, stated that he
had been given assurances by
the Gestapo- that the Jews would
not be harmed, and to prove his
point he r ode ostentatiously.
through Rome's streets •in a lim-
ousine with the Gestapo chief:
The charges first appeared in
The New York :Times in a dis-
patch from its Rome correspond-
ent, Herbert L. Matthews.)
Col. • Charles Polletti proposed
to the Chief Rabbi that elections
to the Rome Community Coun-
cil be held and that the statutes,
drawn up undei‘ fascist law; be
amended.
Refugees
George . Creel, chairman of the
Office of Public Information in
World War I and now Collier's
Washington correspondent, ap-
pears in a new role: as prosecutor
of the Nazi and fascist" murderers.
He is the, compiler of indict-
ments which are certain to be
used as, evidence when the crimi-
nals responsible for the present
world tragedy are brought:, to
trial. . -
ln "War Criminals and Punish-
ment;" - published by Robert M.
McBride. & Co., 116 E. 16th St.,
New York - 3, Mr. Creel presents
the case against all the bandits—
Hitler, Mussolini, Himmier, Goer-
ing, Goebbels, Tojo, and all their
cohorts.
He Spares No One
The significance of this book
lies in the fact that he does not
omit facts, that he spares no one.
Perhaps that is why he is. the
first one to include among the
war criminals the former Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem.
"That crafty, perjured old
man" is the terms he uses in re-
ferring to Hadj Amin al-Husseini.
He exposes the former Grand
Mufti as follows: "For 15 years
this cunning Levantine gave all
Palestine a blood bath, .murder-
ing and pillaging with a ferocity
that did not spare women and
children, .yet until the -very. last
he enjoyed the trust of those he
butchered and betrayed." -
Mr. Creel points out that the
criminality of the Mufti was
never in doubt. He describes his
criminal acts against the Jews,
tells of his having engineered the
riots and murders in • Palestine
and refeiiing to his arreiNn 1920
and his release he states: "And
the man that he fooled was Sir
Herbert Samtel, a JeW!" -
Guest of Hitler
The n Mufti's complete - record,
leading up to his :treachery
against the British in the present
war, his escape to Lebanon,
thence to Iraq and later to Ger-
many where he is now enjoying .
Hitler's hospitality, is incorpo-
rated in Mr. Creel's indictment.
Streicher, another Jew-baiter,
comes in for a thorough scrutiny
at the hands of Mr: Creel.
"War Criminals' and - Punish-
ment" is a great book and is a
marvelous contribution to the ef-
fort to prevent the kind of-traves-
ty of justice which failed to bring
the criminals of World War I to
justice.
This book should be widely
read. - It should be in_ the hands
of every statesman who may
even remotely, have something to
say about the prosecution of the
criminals of the present war..
Lists of Rescued
Jews Available
At Jewish News
Scores of ; Detroit Jews have
come to the office of The Jewish
News to study the lists of thou-
sands of names of European
Jews who have -been rescued,
either -in this country, in Pales-
tine or in Russia, in search for
relatives. .,
These lists .are available at the
office of_ The Jewish News, 2114
Penobscot Bldg., D Elevators.
The lists were compiled by the
Joint .Distribution Committee,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Na-
tional Refugee Service, World
Jewish -Congress and -American
Federation of Polish Jews.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Registra-
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gration Association in Camp Fe-
dala in Casablanca, North Africa,
it was announced by Hias-Ica
headquarters here.
There are today about 500
-Jewish refugees in Camp Fedala
which is one of the "free ports"
established by the Allies f o r
victims rescued from Nazi Eu-
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