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Page Eighteen

Friday, September 22, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

"Black Mail" Exposes
Spreaders of Hatred

Weekly !Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

(See Also Page 3)

PALESTINE

A Joint Institute for Industrial: Hygiene has
been set up by the Histadruth, General Jewish :
Federation of Labor, and Palestine Manufac-
turers Association with. the, purpose of prevent-
ing industrial and working accidents and to
maintain the necessary measures for the htalth
and sanitation of workers...
The • • anticipated, peace among the various-
Arab l'parties, a prerequisite for the choosing
Of . a representative delegation of Palestine's..
Arab '• parties to the fortheoming .inter-Arab -
conference in Alexandria., has been aborted by
the Palestine Arab Party, consisting of follow-
ers of the Mufti .Of Jerusalem, .. Haj Amin el
Husseini, now serving the Axis cause in Berlin.
Jewish Palestine's firSt Combat. pilots have
just concluded their training periods and •pass-
ed their examinations with distinction, accord-
ing to Palestine and the 'Middle East, a month- .
1Y. They are the first group of • Jewish volun-.
teers from Palestine admitted to training for
this task. .
"Complacency" was the charge against the
Allies made by the newly-elected Vaad Leumi,
Jewish. Palestine's National Council or "Sen-
ate." in a message issued on the New Year.
New actions in the field of , rescue were taken
last week by. the Jewish Agency and the Vaad
Leumi, Jewish Palestine's National . Council.
Isaac ben Zvi, chairman of the Vaad Leumi,
submitted to S. V. Shaw, Officer Administering
the Palestine government pending the arrival
of Viscount General Gort, a proposal. to secure
. the rescue of Hungarian Jewry. Bernard - Jo-
seph, legal advisor of the Jewish Agency ex-
ecutive, returned from South Africa where he
conferred on rescue and Was received by Mar-
shall Jan Smuts, Prime • Minister of South
Africa, and members of his cabinet.
ReWards for the Arab countries for ."assist-
ance rendered to the Allied war effort" are
demanded unanimously by the Arab press in
Egypt and neighboring countries in a campaign
aimed at the formulation of the coming peace.

AMERICA

Declaring that "we cannot take in unlimited
numbers of • refugees of any nationality or
race," the New York Daily News, of the so-
called McCormick-Patterson newspaper axis,
called for "unrestricted Jewish , immigration"
to Palestine, maintaining that to take - an "un-
limited" number of refugees into the United
States would "make it harder for a lot of our
own people to live."
As a consequence of scoring against . enemy
planes,. Lt. Courtney Shanken, 23, of Chicago,
and his twin brother, Lt. Earl Shanken of that

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city,- have scored heavily in medals.. Earl holds
the Air Medal - and six Oak Leaf Clusters,
Courtney has received the Air. Medal and
seven Oak Leaf Clusters, , according to the
National Jewish Welfare Board. Their experi- -
ences in .combat as navigation officers on B-24
.- Liberator bombers have been almost .identical.
A 'drive by Greater New. York and northern
New Jersey branches of the United Federal
Workers to keep ,racial and religious discrim,
illation out of war and postwar employment. -
was launched at a ."Job7 - Rights" Rally, at which
Edward Lawson, regional director of the Fair
Employment Practices Csomrnittee; Douglas-
MacMahon, International Secretary-Treasurer
of the Transport Workers' -Union, CIO, and
Charles' Collins, chairman of the Negro Labor
Victory Committee, headed . the list of speakers.
Ultraviolet rays of. the sun may speed the
conquest of tuberculosis, •aecording to .a study .
by Dr. Max B. Lurie, of Henry... Phipps Insti-
tute, University of Pennsylvania, published by
Science News. Letter.
The .possibility that an anti-enzyme subs-
tance, in beef, sweetbreads and soybeans may
yield • a new • weapon . to. fight such diseases
caused by certain streptococci, as septic throat,
one- form of heart disease, erysipelas and rheu-
mate feVer, is under study by Major I. :Arthur
Mirsky of the U. S. Army Medical Corps at
the AAF Regional Station Hospital at Lincoln,
Nebraska, it is reported in Science News
Letter.
HIAS-ICA Emigration. Association (HICEM)
has reopened its office in Bucharest, Romania,
it 'was - announced in New York. Temporarily
all contact with the - Bucharest office must be
cleared 'through the Lisbon headquarters of
the HIAS-ICA.
Samuel S.•Sehneierson, president of the JeW-
ish Education Commit-tee, will head the' 1944
campaign in behalf of the 116 affiliated agen-
cies of the Federation for the Support of Jew-
ish Philanthropic Societies of New York -City.

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OVERSEAS

G. I. Danielson, Swedish Minister • in Buda-
pest, and envoys of other neutral countries
haye appealed to the Hungarian government to
guarantee that no further deportations of Jews
will take place. On June 30; King Gustaf of
Sweden sent. a personal telegram to Regent
'Admiral Horthy, asking . him to use his influ-
ence to save the Jews --of Hungary.
Thousands of persons, mostly comprising the
families of the partisans, and fugitives from
the ghettos, were sheltered for years in special
"family camps" set up by the partisans in
Western Belorussia, it can • now be revealed.

British, U.S., Turk Officials
Greet Palestine Assembly

Jewish Palestine's New Parliament Calls for a Jewish State

and for Abrogation of White Paper; Jerusalem
Commissioner Speaks in Hebrew

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—The demand for the immediate
abrogation of. the White Paper and the establishment of a
Jewish Commonwealth were the main theme of the principal
addresses delivered at the opening session of the. Assephath
Hanivcharim, Jewish Palestine's newly elected Representa-
tive Assembly, meeting at the Rosenbloom auditorium. The
session elected a new ‘Nationalm

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God the. Stockbroker
It seems that the first Roths-
child, called Amschel, had a good
Jewish sense of humor. He lived
to the ripe old age of 81. In his
last days, when illness had
knocked. him out, the doctor as-
sured him that he would re-
cover and would live to be a
hundred.
"Don't be silly," chuckled the
founder of the house of Roths-
child. "If God can get me at 81,
He's not going to take me at
100."
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A Goy Forever
The marriage of a Jewish girl
to a Gentile in a Christian
church recalls the telegram sent
to a woman whose countenance,
highly Oriental in character, had
been remade into a Roman style:
"Now," said the telegram, "you
are a thing of beauty and a Goy
forever."

Council, the Vaad Leumi, and '39 Palestine disturbances, the' is-
empowered to nominate a dele- suance of the Palestine White
gatiOn to the WOrld Jewish Con- Paper and the catastrophe in
feren-ce to be held in New York Europe..
City in November under the au-
Palestine's Rescue Efforts
spices. of the World Jewish . Con-
Greeting the session in the
gress.
name of the World Zionist Or-
The new Vaad Leumi consists ganization and the Jewish
of 42 members, of whom 15 are Agency, David 13en G u r i o n,
members of Mapai, 'Jewish Pal- chairman of the 'Jewish Agency
estine's Labor Party; four each Executive, pointed out .that "not
for Hapoel Hamizrachi, Ortho- only the Jewish people, but the
dox ZioniSt Labor Organization, world at large owes .a debt of
General Zionists Group B, Has- gratitude to Jewish Palestine
homer Hatzair, and Aliyah Ha- which, in the recent stormy
dasha, new immigrants group: years, was the only stronghold
Mizrachi-2, Democratic Center for freedom in the Middle East,
Group-1, Left .Poale Zion-1, participating in the struggle with
and one each for a number of its entire strength and Mustering
its sons for the services. The
other smaller parties.
newcomers will remember Jew-
Addresses by Consuls
ish Palestine's rescue efforts for
The session of the new ,Asse- its brethreri in the Diaspora."
phath Hanivcharirn was addressed Palestine's Jewry stood alone in
by the Consuls. General of the this activity with "the rulers not
United States and Turkey, and even trying to rescue."
received a message from S. V.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog
Shaw, Officer Administering the stated in his address that "no
Palestine government . pending salvation of the Jewish people is
the arrival of the newly appoint- possible without redemption
ed High Commissioner, Viscount from Diaspora and restoration of
General Gort. All members of the Fatherland."
the Assembly participated, also
Speaks in Hebrew
representatives of the national
Robert N e w t o n, Jerusalem
Jewish institutions: 11r. ShaW, in.
his message, pointed out that the District Commissioner, greeted
body "served as an expression of the session in a fluent Hebrew.
When Allied troops march into
.the -wi‘11 (of the Jewish commun-
ity) in accordance with the prin- Greece they will find no more
than approximately 8,000 Jewish
ciples of democracy."
Isaac ben Zvi, chairman of the survivors, according to informa-
outgoing Vaad Leumi, recalled tion obtained in Istanbul by Mor-
that in the interim between 1931, decai Eliash, Jerusalem, .lawyer
when the last elections were held just returned from Turkey on a
and now, the Jewish population rescue mission for the Jewish
of Palestine grew from 170,000 to Agency. Of the 350,000 Jews. de-
560,000 persons and from 100 ported by the Hungarian govern-
communities to over three hun- ment, only some 50,000 or ap-
dred. The period included the proximately one-seventh have
most critical for Jewry, the 1936- survived, he reported.

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Walter Winchell did not exag-
gerate when he boosted Henry
Hoke's "Black Mail" as a very
great and as a very important
book which should be read wide-
ly and which should be used as
a -weapon' against the native
fascists.
Mr. Hoke exposes the spread-
ers of hate through the mails in
this country.
It is .interesting that Mr. Hoke
opens his book by relating a per-
sonal experience. His son,- at
Wharton School, Philadelphia, re-
ceived a 'mass of mail and cir-
culars' stuck under his door ap-
pealing to hatred. Anti-Selnitic
circulars were included "among

them.
This experience caused Mr.
Hoke, executive manager of Di-
rect Mail Advertising Associa-
tion, to make,a personal study of
conditions. The . result was the
arrest of Congressman Fish's per-
sonal secretary; the indictment of
others, the leveling of charges
against Congressmen and Sen-
ators.
"Black Mail" will serve to de-
feat some of the' men responsible
for the BLACK MAIL campaigns
—provided the book is read.
The book, published by Read-
er's Book Service, Inc., 381 Madi-
son Ave., NeW York, is written
in simple language. - It is a plain
statement of factS. - It' is an in-
dictment of bigotry. ItS, con-
clusion that the : fight has been
won only in part should be heed-
ed. Indeed — "the last chapter
cannot be written—yet."

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