Friday March 23, 1945

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FDR Commends American
Jewish Committee Plans

Ehjah's Cup

Special to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Roosevelt Tuesday received
Judge Joseph Proskauer and Jacob Blaustein, representing the
American Jewish Committee, who presented to him the program
containing suggestions on post-war problems of world Jewry as
part of the entire peace structure.
This .program was drawn up by a distinguished group of his-
torians,. jurists, educators, and rabbis, who advocate among other
things the creation of a commission under the structure to be de-
vised at San Francisco, to formulate an International Bill of Rights.
This commission would have the power to implement and en-
force the Bill of Rights.
President Roosevelt, after the conference, authorized Mr. Blau-
stein and Judge Proskauer to state that he was profoundly inter-
- ested in the establishment of the International Bill of Rights as well
as other suggestions of the American Jewish Committee. The
- President said he considers that the AJC's program indicated a ser-
ious endeavor to implement the Dumbarton Oakes decisions and
added that it would receive his most serious consideration.
Pointing out that the Jews, in addition to general suffering
caused by the war, have been the principal victims of persecution
which sprung from Hitlerism, the AJC memorandum proceeds on
the basis of recommending sppcial treatment for Jews only insofar
as it is necessary to meet their special situation.
Regarding Palestine, the AJC memo envisaged the possibility
of the San Francisco conference including questions of the mandate
and stated that insofar as this may affect Palestine the American
Jewish Committee urges that whatever the ultimate status of
Palestine it should be the responsibility of the United Nations un-
der an international trusteeship, with the view of safeguarding
the Jewish settlement and Jewish immigration into Palestine and
guaranteeing an adequate scope for future growth and develop-
ment, and to prepare the country to become a democratic common-
A reproduction of an illustra-
wealth guaranteeing equality to all citizens.
The AJC memo also urged a clause guaranteeing the aboli- tion by Todros Geller, in story
tion of discriminatory legislation and equal treatment of Jews, to of Passover brochure published
be included in the armistice with Hungary. The AJC memo also by B. Manischewitz Matzo Co.
presented view on indemnification, repatriation and immigration.
The pamphlet was edited by
I. Chaim Pomerantz, with the as-
sistance of a group of consulting
Harvard
JDA Drive
editors, whose board includes
Bernard Isaacs, superintendent
Anti-Semetic
of the United Hebrew Schools
of Detroit.
University Spokesman Denies
The photo is reproduced with
the permission of the Manische-
Charge; Racial Issue in
witz Co.

of
Bias

Leader

Mass. Medical School

BOSTON, (JTA)—The charge
that Harvard University refused
- a scholarship to a young chem-
istry student because he was
Jewish was denied here by a
spokesman of the university.
The charge was made by Prof.
Albert Sprague Coolidge, a mem-
ber of the university's chemistry
department, testifying before a
legislative committee studying
proposals to bar racial and re-
ligious discrimination in Mas-
sachusetts.
"We know perfectly well that
names ending in 'berg' and 'stein'
have to be skipped by the board
of selection of students for schol-
arship," Prof. Coolidge said.
"The young candidate was un-
questionably of superior intel-
ligence. There was no question
about his being entitled to re-
ceive the scholarship. Discrim-
ination in education, he added,
"was depriving the scientific
fields of outstanding students."
He revealed. that there is an
understanding between the uni-
versity authorities and scholar-
ship donors which prevents the
giving of scholarships, in some
cases, to Jews.
Answering P r o f. Coolidge's
charge, Assistant Dean Henry S.
Dyer, who is chairman of the
Harvard Committee Scholarships,
declared: "As far as I am con-
cerned there is no tacit under-
standing between scholarship
donors and the committee I am
on. Prof. Coolidge will have to
clarify his case."

Czecho-Slovakia to Give
Jews Full, Equal Rights

To Abolish Special Concessions for National Minorities, Says
Minister of State, Reiterating Government's
Sympathy for Zionism

Receives Proskauer and Blaustein and Pledges to Give
Serious Consideration to AJC's Proposed International
Bill of Rights, Ask Palestine Guarantee

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Page Five

NEWS

Give to the Red Cross!

LONDON, (JTA)—Jews will not be considered a national
minority in liberated Czecho-Slovakia, it was anounced here by
Hubert Ripka, Czecho-Slovakian Minister of State, on the occasion
of the ceremonial departure of President Benes for Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
The special rights for national minorities which existed m
Czech-Slovakia before the outbreak of the war will be abolished,
Ripka said in the course of a statement on his government's atti-
tude towards the Jewish problem. This, he pointed out, will be
applied' even to the Jewish minority. "Jews will have full equality
of rights with all citizens," he declared.
Reiterating the Czechd-Slovakian Government's sympathy for
Zionism, the statement by Mr. Ripka said that emigration of Zion-
ists from Czecho-Slovakia to "their own national state" will not be
hindered. "Jews who do not desire to emigrate from Czecho-
Slovakia will enjoy full and equal rights in the country, which
is self-evident for any nation repudiating with disgust the bar-
barous Nazi racial doctrines," it emphasized.
He pledged that all anti-Jewish laws and regulations, intro-
duced in Czecho-Slovakia after the Munich pact, will be abolished.
"While there will be certain modifications in the -economic
system, these will affect everyone, regardless of origin and race,"
he added. Residents of Czecho-Slovakia who have taken an active
part in persecuting the Jews and who exploited anti-Semitism will
be punished, the statement declared.

Milwaukee Forms
Yiddish Speaking
Bnai Brith Lodge

MILWAUKEE — The first
Bnai Brith lodge composed of
Yiddish-speaking members to be
organized in the. United States in
more than 40 years was institut-
ed here as the Sholom Aleicheim
Lodge. Although the members
are Yiddish-speaking the official
records of the lodge will be kept
in English. First president is Jo-
seph Bursten.
In 1902 and 1903, the late Leo
N. Levi, then president of Bnai

Brith, organized four lodges on
the East Side of New York
among Romanian Jews who had
just arrived in this country. At
that time the preamble to _l).
Bnai Brith constitution was
translated irzio Yiddish for the
first time and Bnai Brith an-
nouncements were issued in
Yiddish.
Headquarters of these four
lodges were opened in a Bnai
Brith clubhouse at 106 Forsyth
Street. Among those who took
the lead in guiding this Bnai Brith
movement on the East Side were
David Blaustein, director of the
Educational Alliance; Zvi Hirsch
Masliansky and Isaac Singer,
editor of the Jewish Encyclo-
pedia.

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WOODWARD AT STATE

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ALAN, M. STROOCK

Alan M. Stroock, New York
attorney and member of the
firm of Stroock & Stroock &
Lavan, has been named chairman
of the 1945 New York campaign
of the Joint Defense Appeal of
the American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Brith, it was announced.

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Pvt. Blumberg 2d
Shaarey Zedek Man
To Die in Action

The 500 worshippers at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek were
moved to tears last Sabbath
morning, when Dr. A. M. Hersh-
man revealed that Pvt. Robert
Blumberg, 19-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Max Blumberg of 4285
Sturtevant, was killed in Bel-
gium on Dec. 17.

Pvt. Blumberg originally was
reported missing. Last week his
parents were informed that alie
Racial Issue in Medical School
BOSTON, (JPS)—The charge had been killed. He is the secSind
that racial bias was involved in member of the congregation to
the refusal to grant state recogni- die in action.
tion to the Middlesex, Mass.,
At the time of his induction
School of Medicine, was implied on March 31, 1944, Pvt. Blum-
by Abe Stark, chairman of the berg was a student at the Uni-
Middlesex University's Parents versity of Michigan. He had
Association, at a legislative com- studied in the Judson School,
mittee hearing on several bills Arizona. He was sent overseas
aiming "to keep the school alive." last October.
Mr. Goodman asked: "Is it
A native Detroiter, Pvt. Blum-
(the Middlesex case) another and
serious case of racial and relig- berg was the nephew of Morris
ious discrimination? Approxi- Blumberg, former president of
mately 85% of Middlesex' med- Congregation Shaarey Z e d e k.
ical students are Jewish." Rep- His brother-in-law, Lt. Jerry
resentatives of the CIO and AFL Sonenklar, stationed in Boise,
charged that the American Med- Ida., is the son of Cantor J. H.
ical Association was behind the Sonenklar of Shaarey Zedek and
Mrs. Sonenklar.
move to close the school.
Pvt. Blumberg received h i s
Producer Sam Goldwyn insert- Jewish ,education in the United
ed this ad in a Hollywood news- Hebrew Schools and the Shaarey
paper: "Lost Silver cigarette Zedek religious school and was
case. If you will return cigarettes a member of the Junior Con-
you may keep case."
gregation of Shaarey Zedek.

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