Friday, Decemlier 15, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

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JDC to Require $46,570,000
To Expand Relief Program

NCRAC Head Urges
N. Y. Establish FEPC

Palestine Resolution Tabled;
Vandenberg Helped Cause

Declaring that the State has
as much right to bar employ-
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Budget for 1945 More Than Doubled That Allocated in ment discrimination on the basis
of race, color or creed as it has to the Jewish settlers in Palestine.
1944 to Carry on Growing Emergency, Joint
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan played an
the right to exercise police pow-
Distribution Committee Announces
er to "prohibit child labor, sub- important part in pressing for favorable action on the Pales-
wages and inordinate tine Resolution. A substitute to the original resolution, pro-
NEW YORK — A minimum of $46,570,000 will be re- standard David
Sher, president of posed by Senator Vandenberg, was adopted by a one-vote
, quired during 1945 by the American Jewish Joint Distribu- hours,"
the National Community Rela-
tion Committee for its expanding emergency program in tions Advisory Council, testifying margin. Until Monday, most of the decisions of the Senate
Europe, it was announced Sunday at the 30th annual meeting at public hearings of the New Foreign Relations Committee were by the one-vote margin,
held at Hotel Commodore.
York State Commission Against and the request of the State Department finally forced the
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the JDC, Discrimination, urged the pas- 12-to-8 decision for the tabling of further action during the
announced that the budget rep-
sage of legislation to set up a present session.
resents an increase of $26,350,000
Dr. Silver had conferred with Senator Vandenberg and
scribed the plight of the Jews in State Fair Employment Practices
Commission.
over the amount of $20,400,000 Paris.
other leaders while the Palestine Resolution was pending.
allocated for 1944.
"After the Nazi occupation of
Mr. Hyman told the represen- France in 1942," he said, "every
tative gathering of Jewish French Jew was in danger, every
; spokesmen from the entire coun- man, woman and child risked
WOODWARD AT STATE
try that "it is a conservative esti- being arrested and deported,
' mate that if 1,500,000 Jews sur- whether in his home, • in the
vive in non-Russian Europe, at streets, or worshipping in the
least 1,000,000 Jews will need synagogue."
help in one form or another.
He thanked the committee for
"They are without property, its relief and rescue program and
means of support and source of declared that thousands of per-
it income," Mr. Hyman added that sons owed their lives to the pos-
"the UNRRA as well as various sibilities of immigration and to
national governments will have the financing of rescue by tliz:
to provide substantial assistance." committee.
Agencies Cooperating
Capt. Guy de Rothschild, on
Paul Baerwald, chairman of
the staff of Gen. Pierre Koenig,
. military governor of Paris, de- the committee, referred to the
cooperation of the organization
with the UNRRA, the War Refu-.
gee Board, the State and Trea-
sury Departments and other
groups aiding refugees.
Alexander Kahn, a vice chair-
man of the committee, declared
that it had demonstrated that it
deserved the confidence and sup-
port of the Jews, and the govern-
ments of the world.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of the
S. S. Silverman Outlines Role
Central Synagogue of New York,
of Jewish- Congress in
another vice chairman of the or-
Defense of Rights
ganization, said: "We Americans
recognize as we never did before
The right of Jews to speak in that justice is not enough. Right-
their own behalf without using eousness must be superimposed
intermediaries was emphasized on justice. Then will the ma-
as part of the World Jewish ligned, cheated and betrayed of
Congress program for the de- the world be saved."
A message from President
fense of the Jewish position, in
an address delivered at the Jew- Roosevelt praising the organiza-
ish Center on Dec. 7 by the Hon. tion for its service to distressed
S. Sydney Silverman, Member Jews abroad was read.
. 'give her one WONDERFUL
Hope of the Victims
of the British House of Com-
"Through
three
decades,"
it
mons, under the auspices of the
gift that will set her heart to
Detroit Chapter of the Ameri- said, "your committee has been
the constant and unfailing source
can Jewish Congress.
spinning . . . bestow upon her a
Mr. Silverman outlined the of help and hope to the victims of
program of the World Jewish persecution and disaster. Your
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faith have been able to extend
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tangible proof of their sympathy
In his address, he referred to for their suffering brethren.
the recent World Jewish Con-
"Let us with hope look forward
gress in Atlantic City as a dem- to a time when the hatred and
onstration of a genuine desire on havoc of war must give way to
the part of the Jews in 39 coun- good-will and cooperation in a
tries to cooperate in the Con- democratic World of peace, plenty
gress program.
and security for all."
During a question and answer
Baerwald Re-Elected
period, Mr*: Silverman stated, in
Isaac M. Levy, also a vice
response to an inquiry regarding chairman of the committee, pre-
world Zionist leadership, that sided.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann is more
At the annual business meeting
popular today than he has ever Mr. Baerwald was re-elected
been with the British authorities: chairman. Mrs. Felix M. Warburg
Morris Lieberman presided at was renamed honorary chairman.
the meeting and Leon Kay, press James N. Rosenberg again was
ident of the Detroit chapter of elected chairman of the board of
the Congress, gave a detailed re- directors. Albert H. Lieberman
port of the World Jewish Con- was re-elected head of the na-
gress which he attended as a tional council and Frank L. Sulz-
Detroit delegate. Rabbi J. S_ berger was continued as its vice
Sperka was the other Detroit chairman.
delegate.
Mr. Kay announces that a se-
ries of educational programs is
planned by the local Congress,
the next public meeting to take
place in January.
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Viscount H. Samuel
Heads Liberal Lords

Ben-Gurion In Bulgaria
To Confer With Leaders
SOFIA, (JTA)—D avid Ben-
Gurion, chairman of the execu-
tive of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, arrived here to discuss
with Jewish leaders and govern-
ment officials the prospects for
emigration to Palestine of Bul-
garian Jews. He was greeted at
the frontier station of Cvilengrad
by Jewish delegations from Sofia
and Plovdiv, as well as by a
representative of the Ministry of
Propaganda.

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