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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 29, 1944

3 Palestinian Battalions
Form Nucleus of Brigade

Jewish Units Now Stationed in Egypt Enthusiastic Over
Britain's Decision to Organize Unit; Many to Fill
Ranks of 'Zion Army', Anxious • for Combat

Weekly Review of the-News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

PALESTINE

AMERICA

The Ohio State Federation of Labor adopted
a resolution .calling for the establishment of a
Jewish Commonwealth and the "immediate
and unequivocal repeal of the entire White
Paper policy, replacing it with a new policy
which shall provide for free entry of Jews
By M. SAPHIR
into Palestine — a policy consistent with the
tragic needs of the Jewish people and the
CAIRO, (JTA)—Enthusiasm would be a mild word to describe
magnificent contribution made by the Jewish
the reaction of Jewish units 'stationed in Egypt when they heard
workers of Palestine to the war effort
that - the British War Office had agreed to formation of a Jewish
brigade. Up until now many of these men did not hide their earnest
the
Jewish non-commissioned officers ,
desire to return home to Palestine, but the knowledge ' that what
me
U. S. Army were called by their rican
they have been asking for so longactive fighting as Jews—has
Field Commander to take over police adminis-
at last been granted has infused them with renewed ardor.
tration of an occupied German town. Inter-
national News Service reports. The assignment
The men who will fill the ranks of the brigade have been
was willingly accepted, the report said.
thoroughly trained for combat duties and are itching for a. chance
to show their mettle. It is understood that those units which,
A Moscow dispatch to the Independent Jew-
under present plans, are not to be included in the brigade intend
ish Press Service revealed that doctors Zachary
to ask , that they be included. A. typical reaction was that of a
Kopp and Joseph Rivisin, two Soviet Jewish.
veteran of the' campaigns in Libya, Greece and Crete. He said; "It's
scientists conducting a staff of researchers • at
all very well to do camouflage work, carry water and drive trans-
the Institute of Tramautology and Orthopedics
port—we understand that these were necessary jobs which had
hef•e, are the discoverers of a new plastic
to be done—but they do not compare with coming to grip with
preparation known as ACR-7' (Acrylate for-
the Huns. It will be a pleasure."
muale No. 7), belonging to the Acrylic Resin
group, and constituting a new material for
Three Battalions from Palestine Nucleus of Brigade
artificial gums, teeth caps, fillings, ears, noses,
eyes and fingers. Its special significance is for
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Jewish Agency issued a statement
mouth and jaw prosthetics. Many officers. and
hailing the British decision to establish a Jewish brigade group
men of the Red Army who had to be fed
and emphasizing that three Jewish battalions from Palestine will
through a nostril tube because of serious jaw
form the core of this brigade. The entire Jewish community here
injuries have today been outfitted, thanks to
is enthusiastic about the British decision.
the new discovery, with prosthetics which en-
"In the course of the past five years millions of our people
able them to take food directly.
have been powerless to defend their lives and have been prey of
Restoration of the Balfour Declaration, aboli-
the enemy," the statement of the Agency declares. "Hundreds of
tion of the White Paper and the opening of
thousands of Jewish troops have fought anonymously among the
Palestine's doors "for a mass and speedy trans-
Allied armies.
fer of Jews to the Jewish State," were urged
"Three Jewish battalions from Palestine," the statement con-
by the New Zionist Revisionist Organization
tinues, "will form the core of the Jewish Brigade and henceforth
of AmeriCa in a letter addressed to Prime
will fight the common enemy on behalf of their people and home-' Minister Churchill at the Quebec Conference.
land. Another unit has been added to the military growth of our
A copy of the letter,' with an appeal for his
structure. Our fighting sons will rally around them the suffering
support, was addressed to President Roosevelt.
Jews of the Diaspora for whom they will bring the message of a
Milton D. Cohn of Buffalo, N. Y., was un-
warring, working Zion. The . Jewish youth of Palestine will fill
animously elected national commander of the
the ranks of the Jewish Brigade."
'Disabled American Veterans at the organiza-
tion's convention in, Denver.
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DeGaulle Plans
Penalty of Death
For Anti-Semitism

The Jewish Agency for Palestine has ap-;
proached the Soviet Embassy in London with
a request for facilities to provide relief to the
Jews in territories of Eastern Europe recently
occupied by the Soviet armies. The agency
acted in behalf of the Palestine Rescue Com-
mittee.
The allegation that "Zionist capital" is seek-
ing to "invade" Lebanon was made by the
Lebanese Minister of the Interior during a
parliamentary debate which resulted in the
passage of severe restrictions on the penetra-
tion of foreign capital into Lebanon.
A party of war prisoners repatriated from
Germany, , including 33 Palestinian Jewish vol-
unteers, arrived at a British port. Representa-
tives of the Jewish Agency boarded the ship
and welcomed the Palestine repatriates.

OVERSEAS

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A party of war prisoners repigtriated -from
Germany, including 33 Palestinian Jewish vol..-
unteers, arrived at a British port. Representa-
tives of the Jewish Agency boarded the ship
and welcomed the Palestine repatriates.
Marshal • Ion Antonescu, Romanian ex,
Premier responsible • for the deportation and
murder of Romanian Jews while Romania was
in the Axis camp, has been arrested. by Red
Army - men along with nine other Romanian
and German political and military leaders "as
suitable candidates for entry into the list of
war Criminals," it was announced by Radio
Moscow. Arrested with Antonescu were: form-
er Inspector-General of Romania's Internal
Security Police Vasili u; former prefect of the
Bucharest police, Colonel George. Elefterscu,
- and Major General Stahel, former Com-
mandant of Warsaw. Vasiliu` was directly in
charge of the hounding of Jews.
Many Jews died in explosions which de- -
rnolished large sections of the Theresienstadt
Ghetto in Czechoslovakia, according to reports
in the Abendzeitung, German-language Nazi
- daily published in Prague.
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By. PIERRE GOLDWIRTH
Independent Jewish Press
Service. Overseas Staff
PARIS (JPS) — General
Charles DeGaulle has personally
recoinmendEkd that legislation be
drawn up declarilig anti-Semit-
ism in France be a criminal of-.
fense punishable, in ext'reme
cases, by the death penalty, ac-
--cording to information obtained
by the Independent Jewish Press
Service correspondent.
The DeGaulle administration is
convinced that drastic legislation
is needed to stem the activities
of collaborationists who may
have gone underground, but will
soon emerge in the open using
anti-Semitism as a wedge in new
efforts as g a i n s t a democratic
France.

Mandel's Child
Blames Father's
Death on Petain

WASHINGTON (JPS) —
Claude-George Mandel, 13-year-
old daughter of the late Georges
Mandel, former French Minister
of Interior, has written an open
letter to Marihal Petain accus-
ing him of responsibility for her
father's death, the Office of War
Information reports. The letter
charges that Mandel was assassi-
nated "by those who swore loy-
alty to" Marshal Petain. The
Germans reported that Mandel,
held by them since the armistice,
was killed "accidentally" on July
14; Bastille Day, while being
transferred to a new prison.

Latin Americas Form
Pro-Palestine Group

NEW YORK—The recent for-
mation of a Chilean Committee
for a Jewish Palestine brings the
total . number of pro-Palestine
committees in Latin American
countries to seven, it was learned
here by the Latin American De-
partment of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine. These committees,
composed of non-Jewish sym-
pathizers with Jewish aspirations
in Palestine, are active in Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dutch Guinea, Mexico and Uru-
guay.

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