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December 22, t944

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Senators Record Personal
Approval of Zion Measure

Members of Foreign Relations Committee Express their
Views ;n Joint Statement; Favor Free Immigration
in Jewish Commonwealth

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

OVERSEAS

AMERICA

Contempt action against the Chicago Gentile
Co-operative Association and seizure of its
books is expected as a consequence of the
refusal of the association's chief to disclose
the names of his supporters.
"I assure you thaf the citizens of Aachen
Twelve members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
issued a statement in Washington recording their own personal ap- • have received fair punishment for anything
they ever did,' United States Army Lt. John
proval of the Wagner-Taft resolution on Palestine, action on which
Loewenstein, 21, wrote to his father, Karl
was postponed at the request of the State Department.
Loewenstein, in New York after revisiting his
The Senators are: Joseph F. Guffey (D., Pa.), Claude Pepper
one-time home in Aachen from which he was
CD., Fla.) Bennett Champ Clark (D.,
(D. Mo.), Robert H. LaFollette, Jr.
driven nine years ago.
(Pr., Wis.), Gerald P. Nye (R., N. D.), Henrik Shipstead (R:7 Minn.).
Zionism, whether. aiming at a Jewish Com-
Robert R. Reynolds (D., N. C.), James J. Davis (R., Pa.), James E.
monwealth or at a bi-national state, was
Murray (D:, Mont.), James M. Tunnell (D., Dela.), Elbert D. Thomas
alleged to be following the pattern of "bio-
(D., Utah), and Arthur Capper (R., Kans.).
logic nationalism," in an address delivered
Two other members of the Committee — Sen. Arthur H. Van-
by Rabbi Dr. Samuel Schulman, Rabbi Emer-
denberg of Michigan and Sen. Robert Wagner of New York — are
itus of Congregation Emanu-E1 here.
strong supporters of the .Resolution. Senator Vandenberg, in his
The U. S. Department of Justice "as directed
exclusive statement to The Jewish News, appearing on the first page
by Attorney General Biddle" will be responsi-
of this issue, expresses the view that sentiment in behalf of the
ble "if any of the 26 alleged seditionists now
Zionist cause is unanimous in the Committee. -
leave the scene of their mistrial in Washington
The Senators, two-thirds of the total of 18 members of the
and return to haunts all over,, the United
Foreign Relations Committee who actively participated in considera-
States to resume spreading anti-British, anti-
tion of the Palestine Resolution declared•:
Semitic, anti-war poison," the New York Post
"Although the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at the re-
declares in an -editorial.
quest of the State Department, postponed action for the time being
Charging rising anti-Semitism in Philadel-
on the Palestine Resolution, we wish to record our own .personal
phia, Ben Richardson, writing in- The Protes-
approval of the Resolution which calls Jor'the free entry of Jews
tant, a monthly, says that "police are reason-,
into Palestine and full opportunity for coloniiation, so that the
ably vigilant" but declares that "failure to
Jewish people may as soon as practicable reconstitute PaleStine as
ferret out those who persecute Jews and
a free and democratic Commonwealth."
Negroes does not indicate police inefficiency,
Labor Party Asks Extension of Palestine Borders
but rather their failure to seriously evaluate
• LONDON (JPS-Palcor)—The British Labor Party Conference
-the threat of racism in their city."
approved the report of its Executive Committee which proposed .
A plea for Kaddish (prayer for the dead),
on April 24 the admission of Jews into Palestine "in such num-
written in Yiddish on the cell wall in a Nazi
bers as to become a majority," encouragement to the Arabs "to
prison at Svavle, Lithuania, informed Rabbi
move out as the Jews move in," and a "re-examination of the
Isaac Sachs, of the Bronx of the death of his .
possibility of extending the present Palestine boundaries by an
sister, Gitele, at . the hands of the Nazis. -A
agreement with Egypt, Syria and Transjordan." -
transcript of the message from Gitele Sachs,
Other news agencies had reported earlier an allegedit com-
is contained among documents sent from the
promise resolution by the British Labor Party in which the term
Soviet Union to the American Committee - of
"Jewish Homeland" was to be substituted for "Jewish Common-
Jewish Writers, Artists and Scientists here
wealth:" Adoption of the Executive's report has eliminated other
which is compiling a "Jewish Black Book" of
resolutions on Palestine, and commits the Labor Party to a policy
Nazi crimes.
that is more sweeping, in many- respects, than. any . ever proposed
PALESTINE
by the Jews.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine insists on
Urge Britain to Buy Crop to Prevent Catastrophe
the full implementation of the Biltmore po-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A shipment of 100,000 cases of Palestine
litical program first formulated by American
oranges . and grapefruit is en route to England, the largest consign-
Zionism, Moshe Shertok, Chief of the Political
ment ever shipped there. The fruit, which is expected to arrive in a
Department of the Jewish Agency, declared
few days, is part of an order for 1,500,000 eases placed by the British
in reply to questions at a press conference
Government. It represents 20 to 25 per cent of the total current
in Jerusalem. Mr. Shertok announced that the
et-op.
-
Youth Affairs Department of the World Zion-
Representatives of the fruit growers told a press conference that
ist Organization's Executive is planning to
unless the British Government agrees to purchase 7,000,000 cases of
send an emissary to - France soon in order to
this year's crop, the citrus industry faces catastrophe. Joseph Sap-
organize the rescue of orphans and their im-
hire. mayor of Petach Tikvah and an official of the Jewish Farmers
migration into Palestine.
Association, pointed out that one-third of the Jewish population de-
For the first time since the blackout was
pends in whole or part for their livelihood on the citrus orchards, 'imposed on Palestine in the- early summer of
whic-h represent an investment of $80,000,000.
1940, Jewish Palestine celebrated Hanukah
Most of the 12,000 groves have been able to continue during the
this year with lights ablaze in public places
war years because of government-guaranteed loans made by private
in all its cities. A large candelabra was ]it up
banks, Saphire said, but the only real solution to the industry's dif-
in Jerusalem, and electric menorahs blazed
ficulties is action by the British.
in Tel Aviv and other places.

Thousands of Parisians lined the sidewalks
and cheered as American JeWish soldiers
marched to the accompaniment of two - mili-
tary bands to a Hanukah celebration at
the Rue Victorie Synagogue. The Paris news-
papers announced in adVance the march of
the Jewish G.I.'s, in feature stories which
drew an analogy between the Maccabees of
old and the fighting Jews of today.
• Great turmoil has reportedly been caused
in Bucharest, with many a high official un-
easy, as a consequence of an announcement
by the Journal Diminatea of Bucharest that
it -would begin publication of a list of Govern-
mentofficials who formerly endorsed the.
rd and the Antonescu regime's policy
Iron Gua
of extermination against the Jews.
"It goes without saying that not a single
pogromist wil disarm of his own will," David
Zasjaysky, editorial writer for the Communist
Party newspaper Pravda, declared in a Mos-
cow warning against the vestigial remnants
of fascism. "It is easier to wreck Germany's
war plants than to uproot the fascist ideology
in Germany."
The fate of 2,091 Roman Jews, deported to
the north by the Germans, is still unknown,
Rabbi ,G. Foa disclosed in Rome following a
survey just completed by the Jewish com-
munity in Rome. Included in the figure Rabbi
Foa said, were 1,067 men, 743 women and 281
children. Before the war there were about
12,000 Jewish residents in Rome.
The British press paid warm tribute to Sid-
ney Hillman, chief of the Political Action
Committee of the CIO, on his arrival in Lon-
don. Describing him as "an honest and loyal
proponent of international cooperation," the
press stressed his "phenomenal rise from Tal-
mudic scholar to a leader of American Labor."
Thousands of Greek Jews, including women
and children from the age of 10, were steri-
lized by the Germans before the Reichswehr
and Gestapo authorities agreed on deporting
them to labor and death camps in Easternu-
rope, the Independent Jewish Press Service
learns from unimpeachable sources.
The Polish Committee of National Liberation
has acted expeditiously against anti-Semitic
Polish groups who broadcast the slogan "De-
stroy the Jews!" against survivors seeking to
resettle in their former homes, M. Esterman
reports from Lublin to the Jewish Soviet
Press Agency. Alleging that these groups were
"General Sosnkowsky's adherents," Esterman
charges that they are "making an all out ef-
fort to foment race hatred and incite` the Poles
against the Jews."
A torture and killer gang composed of Arabs
imported from North Africa for a criminal
purpose, and led by Alex Villaplana, a Vichy-
ite police official, committed atrocities against
Jews and Frenchmen more horrible than any
committed by the German Gestapo in France,'
Jewish Witnesses testified at the recent trial
here of 12 members of the Vichy Gestapo.

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