Friday, =September 15, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS U. S. Must Declare Policy On Middle East, Warning Editor of Fortune Magazine, Just * Back From Long Tour of Arab Countries and Palestine, Warns Nation to Protect Interests There Against Foes while in 1943 it was only 3 per cent. Page Thirteen Dr. Schwartz Back With JDC Report Jewish. industrial institutions and the authorities have been negotiating lately for an increase European Director of Rescue in the production of civilian con- and Relief Work Praises sumption goods. It is hoped to Turkey's Co-Operation utilize the largest possible pro-. --- ductive capacity now offered NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Jo- through the restriction of mili- tary orders in order to secure a seph Schwartz, European chair- rational output for the civilian man of the Joint Distribution markets. - NEW YORK (JPS)—The U. S. soon must determine its policy in the Middle East, for iracillat?on is bound to aggra- vate rather than mitigate conditions in that area, in the opinion of F. Lawrence Babcock, an editor of Fortune who -has just returned from an eight-Month tour of the Arab Jews in Liberated Areas countries and the Middle East. In an article titled "The plosive Middle East," published in the September issue of For- tune, he states that America has invested heavily there, in oil and in - the construction of airports and harbors, which may well be- tome a menace to world peace should foes of the U. S. obtain eontrol of them. _ I 2 Possible Policies Stating that the U: S. cannot, remove herself from the scene, Mr. Babcock discusses two pos- sible policies to be adopted by America. One is that of appeas- ing • the Arabs, • with regard to Palestine, which also would mean appeasing them with regard to Lebanon. . Discussing the project for a Greater Syria, to include Leba- non and Palestine, he warns that the project may imperil the lives of the Christians in Lebanon. In that event France would be justi- fied in intervening to protect the Christian Lebanese. There will be a great deal of pressure in America that the U. S. should also intervene. _Should the U. S. intervene, in Lebanon against the Moslems, then it would follow• that she must do the same in Palestine, in behalf of the Jews. 14,500 Jews Entered Palestine in 11 Months JERUSALEM (Palcor) A to- tal of 14,500 Jewish immigrants entered Palestine in the 11 months since Oct. 1, 1943, the majority of whom were destitute, broken in body and suffering nervous exhaustion. Of the new arrivals 1,700 were children, brought by the Youth Aliyah bu- reau, which cares for the young immigrants. The children were mostly or- phans from Transnistria, the death camp area in Romania, and from refugee camps in Italy. This report on rescue and im- , migration was submitted by Moshe Shapiro, deputy member of the Jewish Agency Executive dealing with immigration prob- lems, to a meeting of the Smaller Actions Corrimittee held here yes- terday. Most of the -immigrants were from Yemen, Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Po- land and Greece. Only 250 capi- talists. were among the arrivals. Arab Groups at Peace The Palestine Arab Party, con- sisting of • followers of Haj Amin el Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem, has decided : to co-operate with other Arab parties in .Palestine in the formation of a Representative Palestine delegation to partici- pate in the forthcoming inter- Arab preliminary conference in Alexandria. A Jewish National Pally has been organized in Buchare7r Ro- mania; Zionist newspapers are reappearing, and "there is again hope for Jewish pioneer youth to proceed to Palestine," according to a cable received.bY the Jewish Agency from the former presi- dent of the Zionist Federation of Bucharest. . Jewish Industry Shows Progress in 1943 TEL AVIV—During December 1943, employment in Palestine Jewish industry reached its peak, according to figures .by the Hist- adruth, when the ratio of jobless fell to the minimum of 1.3 per cen of the total. The number of working days during the month increased by 11 per cent over the figure- for January 1940—a re- markable achievement when it is remembered that the number of workmen in employment has increased by 81 per cent since that time. Actually, however, the increase in the total of employees occurred only. in 1941 and 1942, Can't Enter Palestine LONDON, (JTA)—Jews from liberated territories are exclud- ed from. Palestine as a result of the decision of the British Gov- ernment not to admit any Jewish immigrants except those coming from enemy-occupied countries, it was revealed here by Moshe Shertok head of the political de- partment of the Jewish Agency addressing a press conference. Shertok criticized the British :government for this decision. Since a large-scale escape from enemy territories is not certain, the policy of the British Govern- ment only slows down the distri- bution of the 14,000 immigration certificates still available under the White Paper,' Shertok point- ed out adding that this inflicts unnecessary suffering. of Jews from occupied countries. "The success of the Allied armies has caused a profound change in the attitude toward evacuating refugeeS," he said. "The Turkish Government was very cooperative in allowing transit of refugees from t h e Balkan areas. The main diffi- culty has been the unwillingness of the Germans to permit the evacuation of refugees to safe places." He added that since Jan. 1, 1944, the committee had suc- ceeded in/ getting 8,000 refugees out of danger spots in Axis Eu- rope, most of them out of the Balkans. • Additional relief for Jewish refugees apd destitute native Jews in Turkey and also in lib- erated Italy is being made avail- able by t h e JDC, which ap- proved a $200,000 grant—$100,000 each for needs in the two coun- tries. Refugee Pianist Gets Award NEW YORK (JPS) — Walter Hautzig, 22-year-old Viennese pianist, who made his New York debut last fall, has won the 1944 Town Hall Endowment Series DR. JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Award for young artists, Walter Committee, arrived this week Naurnberg, chairman of the Town from Europe to report to JDC H all Music Committee, an- nounced here. leaders on the situation of the Jews in liberated territories which he visited and on prob- lems connected with the rescue Buy War Bonds! 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