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loom, Dingell See Passage
Of Resolutions on Palestine

Foreign Affairs' Committee Approves Measures; Zionist
Leaders Hail Action; Co-sponsors Predict
Passage Before Adjournment

(Assurances were given that the Palestine Resolution may pass
the house this week, and there is a possibility that Congress is acting
upon it as this • issue goes to press. It is similarly believed that there
will be speedy action upon it in the Senate).

WASHINGTON (JPS) The House Foreign Affairs Committee
announced that it unanimously has approved the Palestine resolu-
tions (HR 418-419), which had been referred to the Committee
following their introduction in the House on Jan. 27, 1944, by Reps.
James A. Wright (D., Pa.) and Ranulf Compton (R., Conn.).
The resolution, as reported by the committee, of which Rep. Sol
Bloom (D., N. Y.) is chairman, reads:
"Whereas the Sixty-seventh Congress of the U. S. on June 30,
1922, unanimously resolved 'that the U. S.' of America favors the
establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,
it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may
prejudice the civil and religious rights of Christian and all other
non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and that the holy places and
religious buildings and sites in Palestine shall he adequately pro-
tected'; and •
Need for Jewish Homeland Demonstrated
"Whereas the ruthless persecution of the Jewish people in Eu-
rope has clearly demonstrated the need for a Jewish homeland as a
haven for the large numbers who have become homeless as a result
of this persecution: Therefore be it
"RESOLVED, That the United States shall use its good offices
to the end that the doors of Palestine shall be opened for free entry
of Jews into that country, and that there shall be full opportunity
for colonization, so that the Jewish people may ultimately recon-
stitute Palestine as a free and democratic commonwealth.”

Rep. Dingell Expresses Confidence
Of Passage, President's Approval

Rep. John D. Dingell, in a telegraphic statement to
The Jewish News, declares:
"Indications regarding the forthcoming action on the
Palestine Resolution are that Congress will pass and the
President will approve this important and highly-
desirable proposal. As for myself you may be assured
that I am doing all that I can to bring about its adoption.
Along with others I have discussed the problem • with the
Majority Leader on several occasions and last week in
view of the Foreign Affairs committee's action, the
House leadership agreed to put it on this week's
calendar."

Dr. Abba Hillel. Silver of Cleveland, chairman of the Executive
Committee of the American Zionist Emergency Council, hailed with
satisfaction the approval of the resolutions.
Zionist leaders who have hailed the Foreign Affairs Committee's
action include Louis Lipsky, veteran Zionist leader; Mrs. Moses P.
e Epstein, president of Hadassah; David Wertheim, head of Poale
Zion; Leon Gellman and Rabbi Wolf Gold, Mizrachi leaders.
Keep Faith with Campaign Promises-
. Rep. Bloom said "I shall make every effort to see that the bill
is passed on the floor of the House during this session." The bill
must get a ruling from the Rules Committee before it can be con-
sidered on the House floor, but Reps. Wright and Compton, co-
sponsors, both declared they anticipated no difficulty in getting a
rule. "I don't see any reason why it can't be passed this session
before adjournment," Wright said, "It's a matter of keeping faith
with the campaign promises made by both parties." Compton said,
"We hope that we're going to get favorable action :by this 78th
Congress."
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to defer action
on the Taft-Wagner Palestine resolution for a week. -
Senator Taft called attention to the endorsement of the project
hi the 1944 platforms of both major political parties, to favorable
declarations by President Roosevelt and Governor Dewey and to a
letter from Secretary Stimson, who wrote that "the military con-
siderations which led to my previous action in opposing passage of
this resolution are not as strong a factor now as they were then."

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

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(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Publication by the War. Refugee Board of
detailed accounts of the extermination by the
Germans of nearly 2,000,000 Jews in death
camps in Poland was made without the consent
of the Office of War Information and with the
opposition: of the State Department, according
to a dispatch from Washington' to the Christian
Science Monitor in Boston. "Some aids" in the
State Department view the publication of Ger-
man atrocities as added fuel for Secretary of
the Treasury Henry. Morganthau Jr.'s alleged
"hard peace for Germany" plan, the dispatch
said.
Of 12,000 Jews in Belgrade before the war,
only 20 remain alive 'in the • city today, ac-
cording to a Reuters dispatch from the, Yugo-
slav capital recently liberated by the Red
Army and Marshal Tito's partisan forces.
About 1,000 Jews, mostly those taken to work
in copper mines in Bor, Yugoslavia, escaped,
There are no prospects for large-scale immi-
gration into' Latin America, according to a
report now in the hands. of high authorities in
Washington. The report has been prepared
under the supervision of Dr. John F. Normano,
of the Latin American Economic Institute af-
filiated with the Research Bureau for Postwar
Economics, and is the result of a comprehensive
survey which involved a poll- of governments,
labor organizations and leading persons in all
walks of life.

PALESTINE

Four classes of graduates have completed
their courses at the Ludwig Tietz Trade School
at Yadjur, near Haifa, in the past seven years
since it was established, and the majority are
now employed in pursuits directly associated
with the war effort, according to a report is-
sued by the school authorities.
A long-pending plan for the postwar develop-
ment of Jerusalem,
an outlay of
$8,000,000, has finally been approved by the.
Jerusalem Municipal Council. The plan includes
the building of a new Town Hall, a central
bus station, a fire station, markets, drainage,
new roads and public parks.

US Jewry Gave
100 Million to
UJA in 6 Years

Victory

1944 Campaign For Funds to
Reach Largest Total
Ever Received

— Results recorded to date show
that the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs, and
Palestine passed the $100,000',000
mark this week as the total
amount contributed by American
Jews for a period of almost six
years since the UJA has been
functioning as the unified fund-.
raising instrument for the Joint
Distribution Committee, the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Refugee Service.
As 1,400 communities in vari-
ous parts of the country were en-
tering the final stage of the fall
campaign, the • national headquar-
ters announced that the 1944 res-
cue and reconstruction drive
would reach the largest total ever
raised since the establishment of
the United Jewish Appeal for re-
lief and rehabilitation overseas,
for reconstruction and settlement
in the Jewish National Home and
for adjustment of newcomers in
the United States.

is just around

WHAT

corner?

It's around the corner of "blood and sweat

and tears" . . . of bitter fighting and costly

resistance. The closer our forces come to

Berlin and Tokyo, the harder the fighting, the

longer the casualty' lists, the greater the de-
mand for more guns, ammunition, planes, sup-
plies of every kind—and men.

Annual Meeting
Of JDC Sunday

NEW YORK—Delegates to the
30th annual meeting of the Joint
Distribution Committee this
Sunday will hear detailed reports
on the organization's 1944 activ-
ities and an outline of its pro-
gram of rescue, relief and re-
habilitation for 1945. Speakers
at the general meeting, which
will be held at Hotel Commo-
dore, will include Paul Baerwald,
chairman,- Rabbi Jonah B. Wise
and Isaac H. Levy, vice-chair-
men, and. Joseph C. Hyrnan, exe-
cutive vice:chairman of. J. D. C.
Their statements will' be based
on the reports of Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, chairman of J. D. 'C.'s
European executive, council, and
other overseas personnel.

To Hold Zionist Congress
In Montevideo In March
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A reSolu-
tion urging the convocation, of a
Zionist Congress for Latin_ Amer-
ican countries in Montevideo, on
March 3, 1945, was adopted here
at a- two-day conference arrang-
ed jointly by the Latin-American
department of the • Jewish
Agency for Palestine and of the
Keren Hayesod. 'Delegates from
16 Latin-American countries par-
ticipated.

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Today!

OVERSEAS
Violence flared up in numerous towns of
Transylvania, when officials of the newly
formed Commissariat of Jewish Affairs of the
Romanian government sought to dispossess
quislings who had taken possession of Jewish
homes and property. Especially violent clashes
were reported in Cluj, Temesvar and Arad.
A total of 220 Jews have survived in Metz
and Strasbourg, it was revealed in Paris upon
the liberation of the two cities by Allied forces.
Of the survivors, 120 are adults, and 100 are
children who were hidden in convents. The
estimated prewar total of the Jewish population
of the two cities was about 15,000.
A gang of Italian fascists, interspersed in
the audience, interrupted the first showing in
Rome of the anti-Nazi movie ',Professor Mam-
lock." They shouted anti-Semitic slogans, cat-
called and stamped their feet, with the film
showing continuing only after they were
ousted.
Maurice Thorez, general secretary of the
French Communist Party, urged in an inter-
view published in the newspaper Resistance
that the French government launch immediate-
ly an enlightment campaign against anti-Semi-
tism which was deeply ingrained by German
propaganda throughout the period of occupa-
tion.
"Before this war is over you will find some
of the vilest specimens of the Gestapo and the
SS (Elite Guard) safely barricaded and labeled
in concentration camps as pseudo-victims, per-
haps even with the Star of David on their
shoulders," Lord Vansittart declared in an ad-
dress before a "win the peace" meeting in
Bristol, England.
The full grim story of Germany's extermina-
tion of European Jewry will be revealed to the
students of Swedish universities in a series of
lectures initiated' on the proposal of Prof. Hugo
Valentine, a Jew, and author of the standard
work' "Anti-Semitism, Historically and Criti-
cally Examined," the Independent Jewish Press
Service correspondent has just learned.
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