Friday, November 3, 1944

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THE JEWISH NEWS

oinania Pled! es Property
Return, End of Jew-Baiting

Zion Ball to Aid
Youth Education

Assurances Given by Foreign Minister; but Representative
Celler and N. Y. Times Correspondent Charge Anti-
Semitic Laws Are Still in Force

Proceeds of Balfour Event on
Nov. I I to Promote Zionist
Educational Efforfs

By JOSEPH KLARiVIAN
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
BUCHAREST (JTA)
Romanian Foreign Minister Grigore
Niculescu-Buzeste in an exclusive interview with the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency correspondent declared that his government will
soon announce decrees eradicating all traces of racial legislation
and restoring all property confiscated from Jews.
The foreign minister gave the JTA correspondent a detailed
statement outlining the government's policy on Jewish affairs as
follows:
The decree issued on Aug. 30, re-establishing the constitutions
•of 1866 and 1923, makes all Romanian subjects equal before the law
and eliminates all discrimination resulting from race or religion.
As a result, Jews enjoy full political and economic rights. In fact,
as a consequence of the reinstatement of the old constitutions, all
racial legislation automatically becomes unconstitutional. However,
the government feels that specific decrees abolishing all discrim-
inatory legislation is necessary and they will be issued shortly.
Draft Legislation to Restore Property
The government is presently drafting legislation to establish
machinery for restoring to Jews all property confiscated during the
Antonescu regime. Decrees covering restitution of property will
soon be issued.
All government departments have been instructed to reinstate
Jewish employes dismissed by the Antonescu regime, if the em-
ployes wish to resume their former posts. The Foreign Ministry
has already done so. Professional organizations have been ordered
to readmit Jews in order that they may resume practicing their
professions. This applies to doctors, lawyers and other professional
men. Reinstatement of Jewish state employes and professionals
has been accomplished by administrative order, rather, than by of-
ficial decrees, in order to speed the process.
Discussing the question of Palestine, Mr. Niculescu-Buzesti said
that although the Romanian government will exert no pressure on
Jews to induce their emigration, persons wishing to go to Palestine
will be assisted, wherever possible. in doing so. He expressed regret
that transportation could not be furnished at present because all
Romanian sliipping is being used in the war effort.

Celler Charges Anti-Jewish Laws Still in Force
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Emanuel Celler, New York
Democrat, this week charged that with the signing of the Russo-
Romanian armistice "the rights of Jews were restored on paper
but not in actuality." He cited a press report of the desperate con-
dition of the surviving Romanian Jews because the Romanian
government has failed to enact a law to force employers to reinstate
Jews to their former jobs and has taken no action to restore Jewish
property and normal rights.
In answer to the denial, on Monday, by Soviet Ambassador
' Andrei A. Gromyko that anti-Jewish laws are still in effect in
certain portions of Russian-occupied Romania, Celler wrote: "It is
the old dodge of the voice of Jacob but the hand of Esau. The
Soviet governm@nt in my humble opinion has a keen responsibility
here. I do not intend to be unduly critical but I do deem it neces-
sary to face the facts. I likewise deem it imperative for the Soviet
Union to examine these facts to the end that appropriate remedies
be applied so that the restoration of full rights for the Jews in
Romania be translated from mere words on paper into action."

Chaos in Economic Sphere in Romania
NEW YORK (JPS) — While reports with regard to the legal
status of Romanian Jewry are conflicting, there is unanimity in
the opinion that their economic plight is desperate, with Joseph
M. Levy, New York Times correspondent, just returned from
Bucharest, cabling from Istanbul that 150,000 Romanian Jews are
without food and clothes and that the property confiscated by the
Nazis is still unreturned to the Jews.
A Balkan dispatch to' the Independent Jewish Press Service
states:
"The Soviet military authorities are not interfering in the in-
ternal political affairs of Romania. The position of Romanian Jewry
has improved politically. The Zionist movement is active, the anti-
Semitic parties have been officially outlawed and anti-Semitic
propaganda has been barred from the radio and press. In the
economic sphere, however, there is complete chaos. The government
is incapable of solVing the problem of Aryanized and confiscated
Jewish properties."
Mr. Levy's dispatch charged that the "Communist and Social
Democratic parties (in Romania), the so-called banner-bearers of
`justice for • all' in Romania, refuse to intervene on behalf of the
Jews." He charged that while the anti-Jewish laws have been
abolished,the new Romanian government is not taking any action
to restore to Jews their property or their rights as Romanian citi-
zens. "Out of 270,000 Romanian Jews who survived the massacres
and deportations, 150,000 — most of these in Bucharest — are with-
out food and clothes."

Proskauer Demands Romania Live Up to Armistice Terms
NEW YORK—Declaring that "nothing has been done to make
tolerable the existence of 270,000 Romanian Jews who escaped
extermination and survived internment in concentration camps,"
and that "Romanian authorities stand in the way, even when tem-
porary makeshifts can be devised," the American Jewish Com-
mittee asked Secretary of State Hull "to make representations to
the• Romanian authorities and to, instruct its representatives on the
Allied Control Commission to do everything in their power toward
removing discriminations still existing against Jews and restoring
to them the rights and possessions of which they were stripped by
Nazi regime."
Copies of the letter sent to Secretary Hull over the signature
of Joseph M. Proskauer, President of the American Jewish Com-
mittee. were also sent to Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to
the United States, and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet • Ambassador to
the United States.

Jewish News Has Additional
Refugee List from Poland,
Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary

The Jewish News is in possession of another list of 370 Jews
from Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary who arrived in Pal-
estine on Aug. 19, 1944.
The list, which we received from the World Jewish Congress,
1834 Broadway, New York 23, N. Y., contains all the necessary de-
tails about the refugees and will serve as help in locating relatives
and friends.
The list in possession of The Jewish News contains many thou-
sands of names of refugees who are seeking relatives in this country
and elsewhere.
Hundreds of Detroiters have already made a study of these lists
and scores have located relatives.
The lists may be seen at the office of The Jewish News, 21H
Penobscot Buda. D Elevators,

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Proceeds of the Balfour Ball,
to be sponsored by the Zionist
Organization of Detroit on Satur-
day night, Nov. 11, at Hotel Stat-
ler, are essential at this time in
order to carry on the education-
al work of the movement, Rabbi
Leon Fram, president of the or-
ganization, and Harry Cohen,
chairman of the ball committee,
stated this week.
The annual event serves to
augment funds to carry on youth
activities, to send children to
the Brandeis Camp in the East,
to promote scholarships and to
finance local educational work,
it was stated.
Patrons' tickets for the .ball
are available by calling Mr. Co-
hen, member of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit, or Mrs. Al-
bert Feldstein at the Zionist of-
fice, 1044 Penobscot, CH, 6559.

Horowitz Is Named
Attache in Chile

WASHINGTON (JPS) — Dan-
iel L. Horowitz of Brooklyn,
Senior Economic Analyst at San-
tiago, Chile, has been appointed
attache there.

Page Five

A.Z.A. Arranges Three-Day
Detroit-Windsor Tourney

Sabbath Eve Service in Windsor, Sabbath Morning Service'
in Detroit, Numerous Events on Sunday;
National AZA President to S,peak

With 13 A. Z. A. chapters already functioning here, De-
troit's 14th and 15th branches of the junior Bnai Brith boys'
movement will be installed at a program of all local Bnai
Brith • youth organizations during the week-end of Nov. 10.
The principal speaker will be Harold Rhein, newly-elect-
ed Grand Aleph Godol (national president) of A. Z. A.,

according to Joseph Stone, presi-(
dent of the Detroit-Windsor A.
Z. A. Council.
Activities will commence with
the observance on Nov. 10 of the
National A. Z. A. Sabbath at the
Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in
Windsor, with Windsor A. Z. A.
and the Windsor congregation
as hosts to the Detroit chapters.
The young men will conduct
their own services, 'using the lo-
cal A. Z. A. choir. Sermons will
be delivered by A. Z. A. mem-
bers upon initiation of Rabbi
Benjamin Groner.
Saturday morning, A. Z. A.
members will attend services at
the Mishkan Israel Synagogue,
Blaine and Linwood.
After the Sabbath, a dance and
program will be held in the audi-
torium of the Jewish Community
Center on Saturday night, Nov.
11.
Sunday morning, Nov. 12, will
mark the annual tournaments in
bowling and table tennis at the
Jewish Center. That afternoon,
A. Z. A. will join' other Center
intermediates in watching the

basketball exhibition in the Cen-
ter gym.
The annual drama and stunt
contest will be the entertainment
portion of the program at 7:30
p. m. Sunday to which all Jewish
young men from 14 years up are
invited. Mr. Rhein will address
this meeting. The formal instal-
lation of new members as well as
the two new groups will be con-
ducted then. Following the
meeting, refreshments will be
served.
Further information may be
obtained by calling Leonard, Be-
love, director of District 6 of
A. Z. A., TO. 8-5690.

Offer $1,000 Reward for
Information on Vandals
PITTSBURGH (JPS)—A
$1,000 reward "for informatiiiii
leading to the apprehension and
conviction of the person or per-
sons who broke the windows of
Rodef Shalom Temple" during
Day of Atonement - services, was
posted by the National Confer-
ence of Christians and Jews.

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