Friday, SepferniTer T, 1944

Patriots Rescue Children;
Jews. Help Liberate Paris

Inferior French Forces Capture Annemasses and Save
Children From Deportation to Death Camps;
Jewish Underground Active . in France

By ARON HERMAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent in Switzerland
GENEVA (JTA) — Autonomous Jewish units are fighting with

the French Forces of , the Interior in Lyon, Toluouse and other
sections of France still occupied by the Germans. One such unit
battled the Germans in Paris, the report said.
Several thousand young Jews have joined the FFI in Haute
Savoie, where Jews ark among the leaders of the operations against
the Germans, the report stated. In alLsections of France liberated
by the Vichy anti-Jewish laws were immediately abolished.
A touching scene took place this week in the liberated town of
Annemasse, on the Franco-Swiss frontier, when French patriots gave
a send-off to 40 Jewish refugee children rescued from the Gestapo in
France who were permitted to enter Switzerland.
The children were taken into safety by the French underground
movement during May when they were about to be deported to ex-
termination camps in Poland. At the end of May the underground
decided to transfer them to Annemasse and to smuggle them into
Switzerland. Members of the underground in charge of the chil-
dren, however, were arrested by the Germans—together with the
children—upon reaching Annemasse.
A proposal made • by the underground French fighters to ex-
change the children for Germans taken prisoners by the Maquis
was rejected by the Gestapo. With Annesasse finally being cap-
tured by the French patriots, the children were liberated.

Patriots In Control

Thanks to the cooperation between the Swiss authorities and the
French patriots who are now in complete control of Annemasse,
representatives of the Federation of Jewish Youth Organizations in
Switzerland, and of the Jewish Health Society Ose were permitted
to proceed to Annemasse and bring the children to Switzerland.
The first transport of Jews permitted by the pro-Nazi Hun-
garian government to emigrate from Hungary arrived in Basle,
Switzerland, this week on a special train under the care of the Swiss
Red Cross. They left Hungary about two weeks ago, travelling all
the time in cattle-cars. Some died en route.
The, group consists of 320 Jewish men, women and children from
Budapest and vicinity. The refugees will be interned in a Swiss
refugee camp for the duration of the war.

Jewish Underground Fights with Maquis in France

LONDON (JTA)—The existence in France of a well-organized
Jewish underground movement which has been active in the ranks
of the Maquis was revealed here for the first time with the liberation
of Paris by French patriots.
"The Jewish underground which is participating in fighting
against the Germans conducted by the Maquis also has done mar-
valous work for the rescue of Jews from occupied France" Elihau
Dobkin, head of the immigration department of the Jewish 'Agency,
stated upon his arrival from Lisbon. "The fact that several thousand
Jewish children have reached Spain and Portugal from France also
is due to the activities of the Jewish underground in France."
•
About 3,000 Jews succeeded in escaping from France since the
beginning of this year, Mr. Dobkin told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. They are at present in Spain, Portugal, Tangier and in the
Fedala camp near Casablanca. Of them, 850 have been selected for
immigration to Palestine.
The governments of Spain and of Portugal now are ready to
admit several thousand more Jewish refugees, mostly children and
holders of Palestine immigration certificates, providing their main-
tenance and re-evacuation is guaranteed, Mr. Dobkin disclosed.

' THE JEWISH NEWS

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

A report circulated in the United States that
15,000 workers from Egypt were invited to
Palestine by the Administration, was denied
by spokesmen in Jerusalem and in Egypt.
Contrary toy boasts by the Egyptian press
that the country's Ambassador to Britain,
Hassan Nashat Pasha, delivered. a speech at
the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee's
meeting in London "in defense of Arab Pales-
tine against Zionist designs," the text of his
brief statement before the Committee contains
no references to Palestine or the Jews, except
by implication.

AMERICA

Using the case of Palestine as an illustration,
Congressman Emanuel Celler has proposed
that the _system of entrusting mandates to
single countries be replaced by a condominium
system according to which two or more powers
would jointly share the administration of man-
dated territories . .. Writing to Under-Secre-
tary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., who is
permanent chairman of the Anglo-American-
Russian Conference at Dumbarton Oaks, Con-
gressman Celler described the mandate system
as "a dismal failure, due in most part to faulty
management by Britain."
Charges that the Italian people 'are stymied
by A. M. G. officials who, in "purifying"
Italian cultural life, have appointed numerous
fascists to important posts, are made in The`
Nation, liberal weekly, by Gaetano Salvemini,
Italian anti-fascist lecturer on the "History of
Italian Civilization" at Harvard University.
Senator Robert R. Reynolds (D., N. C.), who
is named in John Roy Carlson's native Fascist
expose "Under Cover," was charged by a board
of inquiry of the California Department of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars with having "joined
in un-American preachings of racial and re-
ligious prejudice, including anti-Semitism . . ."
The charges were published simultaneously
with the opening of the annual encampment
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago.
Regret of the new Bulgarian government for
the persecution of Jews by its predecessors
was expressed in a letter from Nickola Bala-
banoff, Bulgarian Minister here, sent through
the - International Red Cross to. John Pehle,

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executive director of the War Refugee Board.
The letter was the result of conferences be-
tween Ira Hirschmann, representative of the
War Refugee Board in Turkey, and Nickola
Balabanoff.

OVERSEAS

Pro-Nazis in Brazil, who were ousted when
that country declared war on the Axis, are now
being recalled to important offices by President
Getulio Vargas, according to dispatches from
Rio de Janeiro.
Fearing possible postwar claims by Turkey
to • some of the area now recognized as part
of the Republic of Syria, the latter's statesmen
and press have accelerated their campaign to
obtain recognition by Turkey of Syria's in-
dependence within her present borders. Syria's
anxiety has increased following Turkey's
breach of relations with Germany and rumors
that her entrance into the war on the side of
the United Nations was imminent
Reports reaching Rome from Nazi-occupied
Italy tell of the liquidation there of labor and
concentration camps for Jews and the transfer
of the internees to Germany. Over 700 Jews
have been deported from the concentration
camp at Fossoli. Searches are proceeding day
and night for Jews in hiding in Milan and
Turin and other towns. Even churches, and
residences of priests and notables are broken
into by the searching parties.
A survey made among 27,000 Jewish refugees
in Switzerland. on their postwar plans reveals
that the vast majority of the refugees from
France, Belgium and Holland wish to be re-
patriated; of Italian Jewish refugees-80 per
cent - seek repatriation; of the Baltic refugees
22 per cent want it. Only 3; per cent of the
Jewish refugees from Poland i intend to return.
The Hungarian government has permitted
62,610 Jews to return to their home's outside the
ghettos and exempted them from* wearing the
yellow patch with the Shield of David. The
privileged.vinclude veterans of the first World
War and their families, those who had been
baptised-at least 25 years ago, and professionals.
The German Government has rejected a re-
quest that Vatican emissaries be permitted to
visit the Theriesenstadt ghetto in Czechoslo-
vakia, it is reported in reliable Rome circles.

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I/artisans Break off Negotiations

LONDON (JPS)—French partisans broke off negotiations with
the German Command in Paris for the exchange of military civil
prisoners when the Nazis stipulated that Jews be excluded from the
trade.
The arrangement already had been agreed to by both sides when
the Germans announced that "naturally" Jewish partisans and civil-
ian Jewish hostages would be excluded. The French partisans tried
to dissuade the Nazis, but when the latter remained adamant, the
partisans broke off negotiations.

Italy Maps Law Restoring
Property Taken From Jews

Allied Legal Experts Now Studying Decrees to Permit
Return of BuSinesses Seized Under Nazi Rule;
•
Many Difficulties Encountered

BY VICTOR BIENSTOCK
Jewsh Telegraphic Agency Correspondent in Rome

ROME, (JTA)—Drafts of the decrees covering the whole field
of restoration to Jewish owners of property taken from them under
Mussolini's racial laws have been completed by a special commission
of the Italian Ministry of Justice and at present are being studied by
Allied legal experts, it was learned here this week.
Jewish sources here estimate that about 30,000 Jews were de-
prived of their property under the Fascist regime. The original
plan to delay the publication of the new measures until all of Italy
is liberated has been dropped. The new decrees will be published
as soon as possible.
The drafting of the new laws met with numerous difficulties,
one of which was the lack of authoritative figures and information
of the extent of the property involved. One of the thorniest ques-
tions concerned the restitution of property transferred by Jews into
other hands in order to avoid confiscation under the racial laws.
The procedure established for these cases, provides for restitution
when the Jewish claimant proves that the transaction was fic-
titious and was made solely to avoid confiscation.
The special commission of the Ministry of Justice also complet-
ed the revision of decree under which Italian citizenship has been
restored to all who lost it under the Fascist racial laws. It was
pointed. out that this decree, as originally issued, established dual
nationality for those who had acauired citizenship in other countries.

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Refugees Insist on Going to Palestine

A meeting of Jewish refugees in Rome convened this week by
the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees to announce the
offer of the Italian government to grant citizenship to stateless
persons was converted by the majority of the 150 refugees present
into a pro-Palestine demonstartion and the singing of Hatikvah.
Speaking in Italian, Sir Cliffort Heathcote-Smith, representative
of the Intergovernmental Committee, urged the refugees to accept
the offer. Many refugees, he continued, are anxious to go to Pales-
tine. But Palestine is "very limited" and could not receive all those
who desire to enter it, he added. He illustrated his remark with a
handkerchief, declaring that Palestine is not larger than the ker-
chief and presents a very special problem.
Three refugees from Belgium announced that they intend to
'return to their native land. The consensus among the refugees was
that the offer should be accepted by those having roots in Italy
who could be absorbed socially and economically, but that this
offer was no solution for the majority of the Jewish refugees who

happen to be in Italy only by chance.

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