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THE J
- EWISH NEWS

U. S. Britain Will Punish
Nazis for Anti-Semitism

Weekly Review of the News of the World-

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

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Important Statements Made in Washington and in London;
WRB Activities to Be Carried on by Brig.-Gen.
O'Dwyer With Renewed Vigor

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The United States Government in-
_ nds that Axis crimes against their own nationals, such as the
swish minority in Germany, shall be punished, it was indicated
is week by Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew.
Earlier, Brig.Gen. -William A. O'Dwyer, newly appointed di-.
of the War Refugee Board, said that he intended to press
for action by the United Nations War Crimes Commission on crimes
committed by the Axis nations against their nationals.
Gen. O'Dwyer was asked if he intended to continue the efforts
Ot his predecessor, John W. Pehle; to have this Government issue
a clear-cut statement serving notice on the Germans that crimes
against German Jews would be punished. O'Dwyer said firmly:
4t certainly do."
"From what I've. seen," O'Dwyer said, "the War Refugee Board
as done a magnificent job, but there is still a good deal to be done.
must learn the details, and discover. just exactly what the job
.4o be done is." He denied that the fact that he will combine the
ripaid rescue job with his $20,000-a-year post. as Kings County
istrict Attorney means 'that the work of • the War Refugee Board
as slackened.. "On the contrary," he said, "I intend to go at it
,with renewed vigor." He said that 500,000 survivors, primarily
Sews, are still in desperate need of help within enemy lines.

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Britain Wilk Punish Nazis for -Anti-Jewish Crimes
LONDON, (JTA)—The. British Government will do its utmost
to insure the punishment of Nazis guilty of the mistreatment and
murder of Germans, it was stated in CommonS by Under-Secretary
of the Foreign Office Richard K. Law. .
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.Mr. Law's statement was taken to mean that Britain would in-
'.gist on punishment for crimes against Jews, Catholics and other
-persecuted persons inside Germany.

Romania Arrests Anti-Semites as War Criminals
BUCHAREST, (JTA)-=A number of Romanian officials re-
sponsible for the deportation of Jews from various parts of Ro-
niania to Transnistria, where thousands died, during the German-
Romanian alliance, are among the war criminals arrested by the
Ikomanian Cabinet'for trial' by a special tribunal.
Among those seized are Georg Cuza, son of the notorious Prof.
• Alexander Cuza, who, like his father, is violently anti-Semitic and
n pro-Nazi. Bratescu Vionesty, known as- "the Julius Streicher of
r Romania," was also arrested.

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Page Three

AMERICA

The Gentile Co-operative Association
which publishes a monthly titled "Gentile.
News" and plans a Gentile Business Directory,
is still in operation despite revocation of its in-
corporation charter by Judge Garber of the
Illinois Superior Court. Eugene Flitcraft, man-
aging director of the association boasts that
"all we had to do was to buy a rubber stamp
substituting the words 'voluntary unincorpor-
ated association' for the word :incorporated. As
long as we don't claim to be incorporated they
can't do anything to us."
Ira Latimer, secretary of the Chicago Civil
Liberties Union, charged that several Jewish
boys were severely beaten up after a basketball
game between the Van Steuben and the
Amundsen High School on Jan. 19.
Opposition in Congress to forc&I hiring. of
Jews, Negroes, Mexicans or any - other minority
groups under a "work or fight" act, resulted in
the failure of the House Military Affairs Com-
mittee in include any fair employment practice
restrictions in its man power draft bill, and
may cause an extended delay in any national
service legislation, Milton Murray, PM. press
bureau correspondent, reported from Wash-
ington.
Charges that the late Lord Moyne. British
Resident Minister in the Middle East, employed
Nazi racial theorieS to arouse Arab opposition
to Jewish immigration into' Palestine, are en-
dorsed' by Prof. A. S. Yahuda of the New
School for Social Research, in a letter to the
New York Herald. Tribune. The charges were
first implied by Eliahu Hakim and Ephraim
Ben Zuri, slayers of Lord' Moyne, during their
trial in Cairo,
A compulsory course devoted to the study
of inter-racial problems, to be added to the
curriculum of New York City high schools, was
proposed by Dr. Harrison C. Thomas of the • high
school division office of the Board of Education,.
as part of an intensified program to combat
racial and religious intolerance.
Observance of a Hebrew -Month, dedi-
cated to the promotion of the national and Cul-
Aural projects of the Histadruth Ivrith of

America, Hebrew cultural organization, will
formally commence' at the annual dinner in
New York, Feb. 25,
Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize novelist, is
heartily in favor of federal. and state legis-
lation outlawing organized anti-Semitism, and
refering -to the liberalism of such legislation,
declared that "we will have to think in less
liberalistic terms about the conception of free-
dom than before. Our experiences teaches us
that freedom must defend itself better against
its sworn enemies than in hitherto believed
compatible with its principles."

PALESTINE

Lord Gort, High Commissioner of Palestine, -
visited the offices and printing works of the
Palestine Post in Jerusalem and was shown
around 'by Gershon Agronsky, editor.
The Vaad Leumi, Jewish Palestine's National
Council, has- applied to the British Government
for permission to establish short wave .broad-
cast service between Palestine and Jewries
overseas, particularly Jewish soldiers from
Palestine, serving abroad.
Miss Annie Landau, a pioneer in modern
Jewish education, died . at the age of 72. Miss
Landau had been principal of the Evelina
De Rothschild School, in Jerusalem, since' 1900.
Born in London of an English Jewish - family,
she had lived in Palestine for nearly half a
century.
Dr. _Chaim Weizrnann distributed diplomas
to 63 graduates of the Technion, the Haifa
Technological Institute marking its 20th anni-
versary.

OVERSEAS

Serbian -- Jews were singled out for special'
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praise by Belgrade's leading newspaper Nava
Politica for their diligent partisan activity in
the districts of Yugoslavia which had been
under Hungarian occupation. From the very
first, the newspaper states, Jewish partisan
groups were formed, increasing in number, as
the period of occupation grew longer. They
received weapolis, foods and medical supplies
from Serbian pAtriots.
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Prof.Kaplati Cites

Need of Jewish
Religious Univ.

NEW YORK—What American
Xewry needs today is -a Jewish
university. of religion, Prof.
Mordecai M. Kaplan said last
Sunday evening, at the special
convocation - commemorating the
`85th anniversary of_ the
.tion of the Teachers Institute of
the Jewish Theological Semin-
ary of . America and the semi-
'centennial of the .Rabbinical
School's first graduation. 'The
ceremony took place in the Li-
brary of the Seminary.
Four honorary degrees and
our citations were conferred at
tliis Convocation. Rabbi Jacob
Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of Paris,
Israel Konovitz, Jewish scholar
and educator, and Prof. Zevi
Scharfstein of the Teachers In-
stitute were granted the. degree
of Doctor of Hebrew Letters,
honoris causa. Dr. Leon Meiss,
prominent French jurist, re
ceived the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws. Rabbi Kaplan
and Dr. Meiss were members
of the - French delegation to the
recent World Jewish Congress.
Citations for distinguished ser-
vice in Jewish education were
conferred upon Alexander Dush-
)cin of - the • Jewish Education
Committee; Leo L. Honor, direct-
or of the.Council of Jewish Edu-
cation in Philadelphia; Prof. Sam-
uel *Dinin, for the past 16 years
Registrar and Professor of Edu-
cation and History at the Teach-
ers. Institute; and Emanuel Gam-
oran.director of the commission
on Jewish Education in Cincin-
nati.

Dr. Sommerstein
Heads Lublin War
Indemnities Group

MOSCOW (JPS)—War indem-
. nities claims by Poland against
a vanquished Germany win .be
pretented by a Jew, Dr. Emil
Sommerstein, chairman of the
r Jewish Central • Committee in
/Poland and a Deputy of the Pol-
.ish National Council.
The provisional Polish govern-
ment has just announced the ap-
pointinent- of Dr. Sommerstein
as chairman of its Conunision
For Clainming War Indemnities
from 'Germany ; with vice-minis-
•terial status. Dr. Sommerstein
estimates that the material dam-
' age suffered by Poland's Jews
alone "is set at $4,000,000,000
gold

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