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Liberated Jews Will Get
Visas Under White Paper

Colonial Secretary Bows to Worldwide, Jewish Protests; Ira
Hirschmann States There Can Be No Rescue
Possibilities Without Palestine

JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) — Bowing to worldwide protests
Carom Jewish organizations — including the American Jewish Con-
ference -- which were led by the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the
British Colonial Office has decided to release for use by Jews in
liberated areas, the 10,300 certificates remaining under the Palestine
White Paper and hitherto ostensibly kept in reserve for Jews in
occupied areas. •Jewish organizations had charged that the certifi-
cates were kept "in reserve" to defer the formulation of a new
Palestine policy which would become imminent once these certifi-
eates are exhausted.

The government issued a summary of a letter from the Colonial
Secretary, addressed to the Jewish Agency in London On October
5, announcing that the Palestine authorities would use the remaining
certificates for the admission of Jews from liberated and non-enemy
territories. These will be admitted at the rate of 1,500, a month, with
a review, on January 1, 1945," of the monthly rate in the light of
conditions then prevailing.

No Rescue Without Palestine, Hirschmann Says
NEW YORK (JPS) — Speaking at a dinner of the Metropolitan
Zionist Fund, Ira Hirschtnann, special. representative of the War
Refugee Board in Ankara, said: "Without Palestine, I do not know
where we would have sent them (the rescued) or whether we could
have extricated the people at all."
Edgar Ansel. Mowrer, N. Y. Post correspondent, suggested that
the proposal for a Jewish Commonwealth be "coupled with the
Dumbarton Oaks Proposals," or "it is almost certain to be unrealized
Or only partly realized."

400 Refugees Sail from Spain to Palestine
LONDON (JTA) — More than 400 Jewish refugees, about half
of them children have left Spain for Palestine aboard a Portuguese
ship. The children were rescued from France. during the last few.
months of the German occupation and were helped by Jewish un-
derground groups to cross into Spain. A huge blue-white flag carry-
ing the inscription "From Slavery to Freedom" in Hebrew letters
decorated the steamer when it left Cadiz harbor.

JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

,

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press ServiCe)

AMERICA
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, president of the Jew-
ish Relief Committee in Poland and member
of the Polish Committee of National. Liberation,
has cabled that he will shortly arrive in New
York at the head of a delegation to the World
Conference. of Polish Jewry called by the
American Federation for' Polish Jews for Janu-
ary. Dr. Sommerstein will head a delegation of
five, including Jacob Prawin, Ida Kaminska,
Berek Mark and Szymon Zacharjasz.
Saul S. Spiro was unanimously elected secre-
tary of the Zionist Organization of America by
its National Executive, succeeding Simon Shet-
zer of Detroit, who retired from that post be-
cause of ill health.
Some right-wing leaders in the French re-
sistance movement consider this an opportunp
time to reduce Jewish influence in the political
and economic life in France, "and do not want
the Jews restored. to their former positions,"
the Christian Science Monitor reports. The
Christian Science Monitor says that . many in-
fluential Frenchmen oppose the return of de-
ported foreign Jews although they owned
property and lived in France for years before
the war.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, co-chairmen of the American Zionist
Emergency Council, received the "sincerest
congratulations" of the ExecutiVe of the Jewish
Agency for -Palestine and of the Jewish com-
munity of Palestine for President Roosevelt's
"historic declaration" favoring the establish-
ment of Palestine as "a free and democratic
Jewish Commonwealth."
PALESTINE
Jewish Palestine is united on cardinal prob-
lems as is evidenced by the decisions adopted
at the plenary session of the new Vaad Leumi,
Jewish Palestine's National Council, which was
elected after bitterly contested elections, David
ben Gurion, • chairman of the Jewish Agency
Executive, declared in an article published in
Davar, Hebrew labor daily.
Poalei Agudath Israel demand a Jewish Corn-;

monwealth for the saving of the remnants of
Jewry, their president declared at the opening
of their national conference in Petach Tikvah.
The Poalei Agudath Israel are the labor wing
of the Agudath Israel, ultra-Orthodox group
opposed to a Jewish Commonwealth. Chief
Rabbi Isaac Herzog, addressing the confereiltce,
urged a union between the Poalei Agudath Is-
rael and Hapoel Harnizrachi, labor wing of the
Mizrachi Orthodox Zionist. movement.
OVERSEAS
The American military "authorities are ada4
mant in their determination not to give special
status to German Jews who lived in Germany,
unmolested by the Nazis, during the war years,
the Independent Jewish Press Service has
learned. The question of special treatment for
Jews in Germany has arisen in connection with
12 Jews, found in Aachen when the American
military marched in, who had hoped for special
treatment as persons loyal to the Allied cause,
but when investigation revealed that they had
been unmolested by the Nazis throughout the
war years while tens of thousands of Jews
were being shipped to Poland's death camps,
the military authorities decided that they are
as open to suspicion as any other Germans and
should- not be granted any special . privileges.
The relief rendered by the Jews of Palestine
to; Eastern European Jewry in recent months
was given high praise by Mr. Kukin, First
Councillor of the Soviet Embassy in London.
He paid this tribute to Jewish Palestine in the
course of an audience with representatives of
the United Jewish Relief Appeal Committee in
London.
The sum of 4,640,000 francs for slave labor
for North Africa is demanded for 12,000 Jews
in- a memorandum submitted to the Frenoh.
Provisional government by the French League
for s the Rights of Man. The League proposes
that the French government include this de-
mand in its reparation bill to Germany.
The first group of 14'0 Jewish children from
liberated Romania have crossed the Romanian-
Bulgarian border en- route to Palestine. .
See Also Page 20

Shuler, Methodist
`Coughlin,' Makes
Attacks on Jews

LOS ANGELES, (JPS) — De-
fying the .frequently reiterated
policies of the Methodist Church
against racial and religious
hatred, the Rev. Robert Shuler,
the Methodist's "Father Cough-
lin," who was barred from the
radio by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission in January,
1943, unleashed a new attack on
Jews in his attempt to make a
comeback.
While soliciting donations for
a radio station of his own,
Rev. Shuler, who boasts of hav-
ing been the "first radio pul-
piteer," published a vicious at-
tack on the Jews in The Meth-
odist Challenge, which is pub-
lished by him but • bears the
same name as the. official organ
of the Methodist Church. The
Rev. Shuler, pastor of the Trin-
ity Methodist Church here;
writes:
"There are no good Jews and
bad Jews. They are all Jews. The
Jewish people never repudiate
the scoundrels among . them-
selves. All alike are in the fold.
Attack the (activities . of a. crimin-
al among them and you have
attacked them an. We may try
men for sedition here in. Amer-
ica because they have stated the
Bible truth concerning - the Jew,
and even send them to jail as
anti-Semitic, but the sad plight
of the sons of Abraham will not
be alleviated. The Jew is a man
under. the sentence of the Al-
mighty until that day- when he
shall accept the Christ. That's all
there is to it."

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`Black Death' Title
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- NEW YORK—A story of the
Sews in Maience, Germany, is
unfolded in a radio dram _ a titled
."Black Death" on "The Eternal
Light.' Sunday, (NBC, 11 a. m.,
EWT; WEAF, 12 noon EWT).
Guest speaker is Prof. Mordecai
M. Kaplan, dean of the Teach-
ers. Institute and professor of
Motniletics at the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary.
- Morton Wishengrad's script is
laid in the city of Maience in
1348, when the plague broke out
°vet" Europe.
Presented each week in coop-
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logical Seminary of Ameriea,
'"The Eternal Light" is directed
by Anton. M. Leader, of NBC.

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