Friday, March 9, 1945

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THE JEWISH NEWS

efugees in Switzerland
Advised to Leave Country

In England for AJC

Government Claims Land k Too Small to Accommodate
Them; 12,000 Statesless Jews There; Repatriation
of Others Assured; 17,000 Provide Problem

Judge William Friedman to Preside at Annual Meeting;
Elections to be Held; Arrange Round-Table
Discussion on Community Problems

GENEVA (JPS-Palcor)—Refugees now in Switzerland
were advised by the Swiss Government to find new homes
as soon as possible because the country is small and no
longer can accommodate them. Notice was served on them
at a four-day conference on problems of postwar repatria-
tion and emigration called by the Government at Montreaux.

In an unprecedented gesturer.>
of deference for the refugees' Paris, and no more than 150,000
own opinions and desires in the Jews in France. The vast major-
matter, the Swiss authorities in- ity of France's Jews are dispos-
vited to the conference about 300 sessed, many of them subsisting
from various refugee camps to on relief and free kitchen meals.
consult with government offici-
als and Swiss and international
organizations interested in the French Commission Set
refugee problem, including rep- To Deal with Foreigners
PARIS, (JTA)—A joint com-
. resentatives of the Jewish Agency
mission has been set up in the
for Palestine.
Provisional Consultative As-
12,000 Are Stateless
sembly to consider the question
U. S., Belgian, Dutch, Italian, of foreigners resident in France
French and British nationals now and legislation to settle their
. in Switzerland do not constitute status,
it was learned here.
.a problem, oral and written re-
The commission will study
ports pointed out, because their
repatriation is assured. With measures to regulate the position
these deducted there still are 17,- of foreigners long resident in this
000 refugees in Switzerland who country and to fix their rights
constitute a grave problem; 12,-. of domicile, labor and natural-
000 of these are stateless. It is ization. France had a foreign
the latter group that must leave population of about 3,300,000 at
Switzerland, the tone of the ad- the outbreak of the war in 1939
and, owing to her declining pop-
vise indicates.
It was announced that an in- ulation and manpower shortage
complete inquiry based on re- has been giving increasing con-
plies from 9,220 such persons, in- sideration to a policy of en-
dicates that 25 per cent seek couraging immigration f r o m
repatriation, 46 per cent desire other countries of Europe.
emigration to occidental Euro-
pean couRtries, 9 per cent desire 543 Out of 50,000
Palestine settlement, 9 per cent Jews Left in Salonica
to settle in America, and 2 per
SALONICA, (JTA) — Three-
cent to remain in Switzerland. and-a-half years of German oc-
cupation reduced the Jewish
Younger Generation
Figures released by the Swiss community of this city from 50,-
Palestine Office reveal a much 000 to 543 and resulted in the
stronger tendency for Palestine confiscation, and destruction of
settlement than is indicated by millions of dollars worth of Jew-
this incomplete inquiry. Nearly ish property, according to a sur-
5,000 Jewish refugees, mostly of vey by a special correspondent
the younger generation, already of the Jewish Telegraphic
have registered with the Pales- Agency.
tine emigration office here.
Swiss government representa-
tives said the government will
do its best to assist in the rep-
atriation, 'whenever desired and
possible, or in the refugees' em-
igration to a new homeland.

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Federation, Five Agencies
Meet at Centei March 21

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DR. MAX GOTTSCHALK, di-
rector of the Overseas Depart-
ment of the American Jewish
Committee, has arrived in Lon-
don where he will set up a
European office of the American
Jewish Committee.
Dr. Gottschalk, who will be
abroad for an extended stay, has
a dual mission,—that of arrang-
ing for Committee representa-
tion in the major capitals of
Europe and of creating the ma-
chinery for the development of
closer working arrangements be-
tween the principal European
Jewish organizations and the
American Jewish Committee.

The annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation
and several of its affiliated organizations will be held on
Wednesday evening, March 21, at 8 o'clock at the Jewish
Community Center.
A feature of the evening's program will be a roundtable
discussion of immerging community problems as seen by the
executive directors of the community's agencies. Judge Wil-
liam Friedman, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
will present his annual report and a business meeting, in-
cluding election of new members to the board of directors of
Federation, also will be held.
The following organizations also are scheduled to hold
business meetings and elections at the same time: Jewish.
Social Service Bureau, Jewish Vocational Service, Fresh Air
Society, North End Clinic and Resettlement Service.
In the informal discussion of 'community problems, the
following will take part:. Harold Silver, executive director
of the Jewish Social Service Bureau and the Resettlement
Service; M. William Weinberg, Jewish Vocational Service;
Alvin G. Skelly, Fresh. Air Society; Selma J. Sampliner,
North End Clinic; Dr. Otto A. Hirsch, Jewish Home for Aged;
Mrs. Ida B. Colten, Hebrew Free Loan Association; and Isaac
Franck, Jewish Community Council. Isadore Sobeloff, ex-
ecutive director of Federation, will lead the discussion.
The meeting is open to the contributing public.

Terrorism Declines in Zion
LONDON, (JTA)—The terror- United Synagogue YPL
istic outbreaks in Palestine have
declined recently and the Jewish To Convene in N. Y.
Agency has given closer coopera-
NEW YORK—Prof. F. Ernest
tion to the Government in stamp-
ing out the menace, Colonial Min- Johnson, executive secretary of
ister Col. Oliver Stanley said in the Federal Council of Churches
Commons.
of Christ, and Capt. Harry Nel-

son, Chaplain in the U. S. Army,
will address the metropolitan
conference of the national con-
vention of the Young People's
League of the United Synagogue
of America, Sunday at the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary of Am-
erica, 3080 Broadway, New York.

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Theresienstadt
Release Believed
Propaganda Tkcii

Anti-Semitic Posters
In Bucharest Streets
ISTANBUL (JPS) — Residents
of Bucharest, Romania's capital,
woke the other day to find walls
and billboards covered with post-
ers charging "foreign elements,
stateless and godless people, led
by the Jewess Anna Pauker"
with spearheading a movement
to oust the government of Gen.
Radescu and "to impose a Jewish
dictatorship."
Anna Pauker, a prominent Ro-
manian Communist, is a natitve
Romanian, the daughter of a
shochet. Her connection with the
Communist Party is now being
used by many to spread rumors
of libelous intent against the
Jews, and have caused a demo-
cratic Romanian. statesman, Min-
ister of the Interior, Nikolai Fine-
sku, to call in the leaders of the
Union of Jewish Community
Councils and request them to is-
sue a proclamation warning
Jews against engaging in anti-
government propaganda.
Gen. George Stanescu, Ro-
manian under-secretary of • the
Interior, has been dismissed for
allegedly sabotaging laws per-
taining to the restoration of
rights and property to the Jews.

Paris Police Disperse
Anti-Semitic Mob
PARIS (JPS)—In rapid, co-or-
dained action police dispersed
anti-Semitic-led groups that had
congregated in various localities
of the poorer quarters of Paris,
preparatory to what was report-
edly to have been a raid on the
Jewish free kitchen on Plac de
Republic where thousands of
destitute Jews are daily fed.
The demonstrators were defi-
nitely of the poorest section of
the population and it appears
that an anti-Semitic underground
is directing their bitterness
against the Jews. The demonstra-
tors carried placards, bearing
anti-Semitic inscriptions.
There are only 70,000 Jews

Swiss Newspaper Charges
Musy's Arrangement With
Himmler a Ruse

GENEVA (JPS-Palcor)—Des-
pite repeated rumors that an-
other transport of Jews released
from Theresienstadt was enroute
to Switzerland, no Jews have
arrived here from Germany
since Feb. 7. Of that group five
persons died in. Switzerland,
among them Mathilda Cohen
Tervaert, 81, daughter of the
late Dutch Jewish painter Josef
Israels.
The Swiss Socialist Arbeiter-
zeitung, published at Schaffau-
sen, charges that the release
arrangement was a ruse, planned
by Monsieur Musy, former mem-
ber of the Swiss Federal Council,
who negotiated the release.
"Monsieur Musy, friend of the
Nazis and Fascists, has negotiat-
ed this release with Herr Himm-
ler," the newspaper states, "to
make foreign opinion believe
that the stories of misdeeds com-
mitted against millions of Jews
are exaggerated. The release of
several thousand Jews, simply
on Musy's demand was intended
to prove the 'goodness of the
German heart'.
"It has now been revealed,
however, that so far some 20
million Swiss francs were spent
for this purpose, not by Switzer-
land, but by Jewish associations
L. the U. S. Thus Himmler gets a
good price for every released
Jew."
(According to Dave Jaros, In-
dependent Jewish Press Service
Geneva correspondent, Monsieur
Musy had negotiated for the re-
lease of • 15,000 Jews from
Theresienstadt, but could obtain
the release of 2,000, of whom
only 1,200 have arrived to date.
All those released are either
over 60 or under 16.)

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