:Way, Apri117, 1945
Truman to Carry Out FDR's
Policies in Regard to Zion
By MURRAY FRANK
(Independent Jewish Press Service Correspondeht)
WASHINGTON, (JPS)—President *Truman - told a
Weekly Review of. the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
of Budapest, many of whom have returned
from deportation, destitute, half-naked and
undernourished and have found their homes
possessed by strangers and their possessions.
looted.
Ilie Radelescu, Romania's Julius Streicher,
has been apprehended in a small village neat.
here, where he has been hiding since last
August. He was handed over, for trial, to
the Special Court for •War Criminals.
Addressing the Colonial Secretary in Com-
mons, Lady Astor asked if, • in view of the
utilization of over 40 percent of Palestine's -
citrus crop last year, he would see that it was
used this year fOr either commercial or. UNRRA
purposes. - Undersecretary Emrys Evans re- .
plied that picking had not yet begun, but that
measures for utilization of the fruit had been
taken. He promised to consider Lady Astor'•
proposal but did not reply to a question as to
what measures had been taken.
AMERICA
Assures Delegation Headed by Rabbi Wise That He
Supporting Late President's Program on Palestine;
Proskauer and Monsky Invited To Visit- Him
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delegation,
consisting of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the American
Zionist Emergency Council, Herman Schulman and Chaim ,Green-
boig, tlkat he would carry out the policies of the late President
ROosevelt in relation to Palestine.
'The delegation issued a statement following their visit to the
President . in whiCh they said: "The President authorized us to say
'that he is carrying out the policies of President Roosevelt, and that
he knew what President Roosevelt's policy regarding Palestine has
been. The late President's recent .statements on Zionism were be-
fore him (President Truman), and he indicated to us in clear and
unmistakable terms that he is -supporting that program."
President Truman had before him copies of RcioseVelt's mes-
sage to the Zionist Convention last 'Oct. 15, in which he pledged
to effectuate • the 'establishment of a free and democratic Jewish
. Commonwealth and also the subsequent statement made to Rabbi
Wise on March 16 in which President Roosevelt reaffirmed his
October pledge.
The delegation recalled that Truman was a member of the
platform committee at the Democratic Convention in Chicago last
July and that he participated in drafting the Palestine plank after
consulting with Zionist leaders at that time. He was also one of the
68 Senators who signed a special statement on the occasion of the
25th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration several years ago.
When still a Senator Mr. Truman expressed support of the Pal-
estine resolution which was then up in Congress.
Monsky, Proskauer Get Bid to Visit Truman
WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Truman's press secretary an-
nounced that Judge Joseph M. Preskauer, representing the Amer-
ican _Jewish Committee, and Henry Monsky, representing the
American Jewish Conference, had been invited to .see the Presi-
dent. Since both Judge Proskauer . and Mr. Monsky are in San
Francisco, they will call on Mr. Truman in the near future. .
800 Jewish Slave Laborers
Liberated by U.S. Troops
American Troops Catch Up with Forced Evacuation Pro-
cession: 315,000 Reported Cremated at Oswiecim
Terror Camp
By MEYER LEVIN
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
WITH THE U. S. 4TH ARMORED DIVISION IN GERMANY,
(JTA)—Eight hundred Jewish slave laborers from a munitions fac-
tory in Altenberg, Saxony, were liberated this week by units of this
division after a 30-mile forced evacuation march on foot. ,
The American- troops •caught up with the procession in a woods
near Waldenburg, and they are now housed in What was formerly a
Hitler. Jugend headquarters. Six hundred of the slave workers are
girls and women from Hungary, while the others are men from
all .sections of Europe.
A spokesman for the group, Ludwig Panke, a former Berlin
economist, said that they had been at the. Altenberg factory for
many months, working 12 hours daily. Originally, the women had
been sent to the Oswiecim death camp, where most of their relatives
were, gassed and cremated.
The men were sent to Altenberg from the Buchenwald concen-
tration camp. Panke said that he had been sent to Oswiecim in a
transport of 74 Je'ws from Berlin., Of 70 who survived the journey,
54 were gassed at the camp and 15 died in various ways. Panke
is the only survivor. At the munitions factory, he said, he had
become a supervisor of 70 machines. He added: "I am an old con-
centration camp fox. Of the 70 machines, only 30 worked' daily."
Panke said that at Oswiecim he saw a report concerning 350,-
000 Hungarian Jews who arrived at camp. - Of these, he said,
315,000 were cremated and 35,000 were sent to forced labor.
Urging liberalization of U. S. immigration
laws, Jack Wasserman,' member of the Board
of Immigration Appeals of the United States
Department of Justice, states in "The Chal-
lenge of Our Immigration Laws," a pamphlet
written by him and issued by the American
Committee for Protection of Foreign Born:
"We wish to think of the United States as the
traditional land of promise to which the -op-
pressed of other lands may flee . Our re-
strictive laws, however, keep us as one of the
less generous nations in caring for the needs
of displaced fellow men seeking homes."
Wentworth David. Matthew, spiritual 'lead-
er of the Commandment Keepers, a sect of
Negro Jews, revealed that 500 of his Harlem
followers; will • soon launch co-operative farm
projects on Long Island "to achieve economic
stability as producers."
. - The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the
. United States and Canada cabled an invita
tion to Rabbis - in the U.S.S.R. to participate
in the World Congress of Orthodox Rabbis to
be. held in New York City, in the summer.
Dr. Frederick C. Thorne, professor of
psychiatry at the University of Vermont Med-
ical. College, has stressed in the Journal of
Clinical Psychology, a new periodical of which
he is editor, the need for "the avoidance of
undue representation of any one racial group
among those accepted for training" in clinical
.psychology.
PALESTINE
The Conference of •South Africa Trades and
Labor Council, speaking for the Federation
Trade Unions, at Johannesburg, adopted a
resolution on Jewish rights and supporting
Jewish Palestine, which is worded exactly
the same as that pronounced by the World
Trade Union Conference which met in London
last February, except for the deletion of the
words "after the war."
A fervent plea to the United Nations, to
enable the remnants of European Jewry to
leave Europe immediately and migrate to Pal-
estine, was voiced at the opening session of
the Sixth National Conference of the Agricul-
tural Worker's Federation of the Histadruth,
held in Kfar Saba, where 301 deltes,
ega
of
whom 165 were members of Mapai,""jewish
Palestine's Labor Party, and hundreds of
guests witnessed the opening session.
All :Hebrew newspapers black-bordered the
front pages of their editions carrying the news
of President Roosevelt's death, and the He-
brew flag flew at half mast throughout the
country, as all Jewish Palestine mourned "the
irreparable loss for humanity and Jewry . . .
of one of (Jewry's) greatest and most cour-
ageous friends."
A new industry, the manufacture of Nylon,
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will begin in Jewish Palestine shortly.
Palestine factory has secured permission of an
American firm, owning a world patent, to
manufaeture Nylon goods for the entire Mid-
dle East.
Jewish Palestine, representing a third of
Palestine's total population, contributes 70 per-
cent of the Palestine Government's revenue. ac-
cording to a report by the Jewish Agency's De-
partment of Statistics. Jewish organizations
have been protesting against Government pro-
posal calling for increased taxation.
OVERSEAS
Prof. Aaron Kolen, ..now considered the
outstanding ophthalmologist in the Soviet
Union, has frequently been cited for his work.
In 1929, he 'voluntarily moved to Siberia where
he fought trachoma for twelve years with great
success. In the course- of the present war he
restored eyesight to untold numbers - of Red
Army men and officers.
A. list of Bulgar fascists sentenced for
leading, or -collaborating with the Germans, in
the extirpation of Bulgar Jewry.-was publish-
ed by Presiding Judge Petrinski of the Seventh
People's Court and includes the names of two
persons who have already . been executed by
anti-German guerilla groups. The two are
Alexander Beleff, first fascist commissioner
for Jewish Affairs, killed Sept. 9, and Kiril
Dalkulutcheff, his adjutant.
Berlin radio repeatedly exhorts the Nazi
underground or "werewolf movement" to as-
sassinate Jewish officials holding administra-
tive posts in Allied-occupied Germany.
The Relief Committee of Hungarian Jew-
ish Refugees has appealed to Jewish relief
organizations abroad for the immediate dis-
patch of 3,000,000 Swiss francs for the Jews
Living Room Masterpieces ..
Believe Anti-Semitism Firmly Implanted in Germany
FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN, Germany (JTA)—The physical con-
dition of the less than 100 Jews who remain in this eity whichhad a
large pre-war Jewish population, is appalling. However, the new
German mayor installed by the Allies has arranged for an additional
allowance of food for them to enable them to recover their strength.
One 78-year-old Jew, so popular with his workers that he was
permitted to remain as general manager of a foundry until 1939,
died shortly before Allied soldiers broke into a jail here.
Another aged survivor said that if Hitler had succeeded -in
anything, it was solely in the extermination of the Jews and in
sowing the seeds of permanent hatred of the race. "I feel that the
Jews will never be accepted as equals in the German community."
In some degree this was confirmed to me by the new mayor, a
non-Jew. While he said that he did not harbor any bias against the
Jews, he doubted that it would be wise for the Allies to use German
Jewish refugees, now in Britain or the U. S.. in the conduct of
newspapers in the Reich, after the war, or in the direction now of
psychological warfare in the country.
Senators Ask Truman Issue
Statement on Nazis' Guilt
Resolution Urging President to Issue Statement Impressing
Germans of Their Responsibility for Crimes Against
Jews Is Introduced in the Senate
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A statement by President Truman or
Secretary of State Stettinius impressing on the German people their
responsibility for crimes against Jews of Axis nationality as well
as atrocities in slave labor camps is asked for in a resolution in-
troduced in the Senate by -Senators Claude Pepper of Florida and
Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts.
The resolution, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations,
asks not only that the German people be informed of their respon-
sibility for such crimes to be classified as war crimes, but that the
statement: be combined with "an appeal to the Germans expressing
the abhorrence of the American people to the mass murder of
Jews, and warning the Germans that just punishment will /c)..
meted out to every participant in this appalling crime."
The resolution further asks announcement by a "responsible
authority" that the asked for declaration by the President or Sec
retary of State will be official policy to be implemented by, the
United Nations War Crimes Commission and by the Army of Oc-
cupation in Germany.
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