Friday, June 8, 1945

Revival of Anti-Semitism
Reported in Liberated Areas

Jew-Baifers Active in France and Britain, Correspondents
,
Disclose; Anti-Jewish Demonstrations in Paris;
Yugoslavia Outlaws Discrimination

The spread of anti-Semitism in liberated countries, in spite of
the total collapse of the Nazi war machine, is reported by European
correspondents.
The activity of Jew-baiters in France and in England is espe-
ciallv disturbing.
Reports from Paris and London by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency indicate that the battle for the defense of the Jewish posi-
tion must be renewed even in democratic countries.
The encouraging news of the week on the civic-protective front
comes from Yugoslavia where racial discrimination was officially
outlawed by government decree.

Anti-Semitic Groups Active In Paris: Jewish Leaders Disturbed
By GEORGE BLUMBERG
PARIS, (JTA)—Jewish circles here are considerably disturbed
by recent anti-Jewish demonstrations, which culminated in - a
crowd of returning war prisoners shouting "Down with the Jews,"
as they raided shops in Paris, demanding that they be clothed.
Bernard Lecache, president of the League Against Anti-Semit-
ism, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the linking of the
legitimate grievances of the returning prisoners with anti-Jewish
activities is a serious development, which must be combatted stren-
uously.
He also revealed that he has conferred with Minister of the
Interior Adrien Tixier and Paris police chief Luizet, who assured
Lecache that steps will be taken to halt the anti-Semitic agitation.
They requested that anti-racists defense groups do not • intervene.
The officials also disclosed that police have been instructed to im-
mediately release any Jews who might be arrested in street inci-
dents arising from demonstrations by fascist elements.
Such clashes occurred last Friday, for instance, when a mob
of anti-Semitic hoodlums attempted to break into a meeting called
by the anti-racist organizations. They were driven back by the po-
lice and members of the audience. Meanwhile, 17 members of
the "tenant" groups that are attempting to prevent the return to
Jews of apartments taken from them during the occupation have
been arrested.
A gang of anti-Semitic thugs this week invaded an apartment
reclaimed by a Jew from a collaborator who had obtained it dur-
ing the occupation and threw the furniture into the street where
it was destroyed in a bonfire, while the hoodlums danced around
it shouting "Hitler was right! Send the Jews to the crematoriums!"
Police, who arrived after the damage had been done, made no
arrests.
It is reported that one of the leaders of the gang was a police
inspector named Pichot. Many anti-Semities are still on the police
force, although they worked for Vichy. One policeman who was
watching the furniture being removed from an apartment to which
the Jewish tenant was returning, said to this correspondent "Now
they're coming back after spending the occupation on the Riviera."
Lecache said that the anti-Jewish incidents are attributable to
several causes. Chief among them are: the anti-Jewish heritage
left among the French people by the Germans; the fact that un-
purged fascist elements among the police nrevent energetic action
against the agitators in some instances and, finally, the existence
of anti-Jewish groups, which are not numerous, but which are
well-financed.

Pro-Fascist Parliamentarian Asks Anti-Jewish Laws In Britain
LONDON. (JTA)—Capt. Archibald H. M. Ramsey, Conserva-
tive M. P., who was released from official detention last Septem-
ber, after spending four-and-a-half years in prison under the emer-
gency defense regulations, suggested in Commons today that the
medieval anti-Jewish laws be reinstated and that Jews in Britain
be required to wear yellow badges and live in restricted areas.
Ramsey. an active anti-Semite for over a decade, told the House
that the evils created by repeal of the anti-Jewish statutes "have
become a grievous menace" and are evoking a rising tide of pub-
lic opinion against the Jews.
Parliamentary circles ridiculed the Ramsey motion, pointing
out that it is extremely unlikely that it will come to the floor be-
fore the dissolution of Parliament. They disclosed that the fas-
cist M. P. is not standing for re-election, because one member said,
"no constituency wants him."
In an editorial headed "Enter the Jew-Baiter, " the Daily Mirror
warns against the motion introduced in Commons by Capt. Ramsay.
"Released from incarceration, this gentleman returns to West-
minster in the last hours of the dying Parliament and impudently
puts forward a proposal likely to endanger all hope of peace and
goodwill in the country," the Mirror says. "Anti-Semitism is al-
ways the first rung of the fascist ladder and must, therefore, be
regarded with intense revlusion.
"The Mirror bases its policy on the common rights of man,"
the editorial continues, "and Jews are entitled to the same po-
litical treatment as all other citizens and human beings. There
never can be permanent peace and happiness for the people of
any country, let alone all of mankind. if the laws are poisoned
with racial hatred and if the Capt. Ramsays of this world wield
any influence."

Yugoslavia Government Outlaws Racial Discrimination
BELGRADE. (JTA)—A law outlawing racial discrimination in
Yugoslavia and forbidding anti-Jewish and other propaganda lead-
ing to incitement against racial and religious groups was passed
by the National Liberation Council .here this week. The law will
become effective when it is published in the official gazette.
The Belgrade radio reporting the text of the law, emphasized
that it was drafted "in arder to safeguard equality of peoples and
citizens within the country, regardless of their nationality, race
or religion." It gave the text as follows:
1. Any restrictions on individual rights against people in
Yugoslavia on the grouns of nationality, race or religion will be
considered a criminal offense.
..2. Anyone conducting propaganda or activities leading to ra-
cial hatred, will be punished. This includes the writing, repro-
ducing and dissemination of inciting literature.
3. A person guilty of committing any of the above offenses will
be liable to imprisonment for a period from three to five years,
with the possible loss of civil rights after serving his sentence.
4. Under "aggravating circumstances," anyone guilty of these
offenses will be punished by two to fifteen years of im-
prisonment and the confiscation of his property. In cases of in-
citement to murder, those guilty will be sentenced to death.
5. Incitement to religious hatred is to carry the same punish-
ment as incitement to racial hatred.

Anti-Semitism Wide-Spread in Liberated Czechoslovakia
PRAGUE, (JTA)—Jews returning to Czechoslovakia are not
being welcomed home with open arms and, in Slovakia particularly,
have encountered a great deal of hostility, Dr. Inrich Rosenberg,
deputy chief of the repatriation department of the Czechoslovak
GoVernment, disclosed.
Dr. Rosenberg told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent
that while some towns have welcomed Jews returning from Ther-
esienstadt as martyrs, the more typical reaction has been one of
surprise that any Jews were still alive. He estimated that only
about 15,000 of the country's 350,000 Jews survive, and most of
these, he said, desire to emigrate to Palestine as a result of the in-
creased anti-Semitism here.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

OVERSEAS

Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, arrived
here by air for an official visit to the United
States at the invitation of President Truman.
In his entourage was Nuri es Said Pasha,
Jew-baiter and author of the plan which calls
for the inclusion of Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and
Palestine in a Greater Syria.
In reply to a query, the American Jewish
Conference was notified by the State Depart-
ment that the report that Dr. William Filder-
man, Jewish leader in Romania, had been
arrested, was incorrect.
The Jewish Fraternal Peoples' Order pre-
sented a check to the amount of $40,000 to
Mrs. Moses Epstein, president of the Hadas-
sah Women's Zionist Organization, for a
Hadassah children's home in Palestine. Dr.
Stephen S. Wise, honorary chairman of the
Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, was
presented with a check for $75,000 for a re-
habilitation project in the USSR. Presenta-
tion took place at a celebration marking the
15th Anniversary of the Peoples' Order.
Another 80,000 Polish Jewish survivors are
reported in a cable received by the World.
Jewish Congress from Warsaw. They consti-
tute persons repatriated from German con-
centration and death camps.
The laboratory and equipment of Niels
Bohn, Danish-Jewish scientist and Nobel Prize
Winner, was left undamaged by the Germans
and was turned over the University of Copen-
hagen when German physicists refused to act
as receivers of stolen property, Gudrun Toks-
vig writes to the Science Service of the New
York Times. Bohn, who in 1943 escaped to
Sweden with another Nobel Prize winner,
Hungarian-Jewish Georg Hevesey, is now re-
ported to be in the United States.

PALESTINE

Plans for television broadcasts from Palestine
will be taken up by Palestine's new director of
broadcasting, Edwin Samuel, when he goes to
England next fall:
Non-stop flights of 10 hours' duration were
started . June 1 between London and Lydda
Airport in Palestine by planes of the British
Oversea's Airways. The flights will be part
of the regular schedule between Britain and
Australia.
The labor bloc within the Tel Aviv Mu-
nicipal Council has introduced a resolution •
urging the Council, which was elected in 1934,
to resign as a token of protest against the
constant delay on the part of the Palestine
Government in arranging for new civic elec-
tions in Tel Aviv.
An exchange of rifle-fire between members
of a mobile police patrol and ambushers lurk-
ing in. an orange-grove in the vicinity of the
Sarona Police Station'near Tel Aviv, was re-
ported by the police.

Contact between the Polish Hechalutz move-
ment (to train pioneers for Palestine) and
Jewish Palestine has been re-established, with
Palestine leaders of the movement in receipt
of a message for urgent aid from Hechalutz
in Warsaw.
Three hundred and fifty Jewish refugees,
including 200 children and youths and 150
adults, all with Palestine certificates, left
Switzerland for Palestine on May 29. The
group proceeded to Barcelona by train where
they were to embark aboard a Spanish steam-
er, sailing about June 6. Many other certificate
holders in Switzerland are still awaiting
transportation.
Any limitation of a Yugoslav citizen's rights
because of his nationality, race or religion has
been proclaimed a criminal offense by the
Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of
Yugoslavia. The law provides penalties of
from 3to 16 years in prison for incitement
of national and religious hatred and discord.
No more than 300 of the original 17,000 pre-
war Jewish inhabitants of The Hague, in Hol-
land, have made an appearance since libera-
tion, it is reported in Amsterdam. The main
synagogue of The Hague was looted and dam-
aged almost immediately after the start of the
Jewish persecution.
Palestinian Jewish war prisoners were pre-
sented to Britain's King and Queen who
entertained representative groups of liberated
war prisoners at Buckingham Palace, May 24.
Lt. Shimon HaCohen of Benjamina was as-
signed also to present Palestine Arabs, East
Africans and soldiers from Mauritius.
Maurice Samuel, author, arrived in London
from the United States, to participate in the
United Palestine Appeal campaign.
Most of the 30,419 Jewish inmates found
_alive at the Theresienstadt ghetto, in Czecho-
slovakia, desire to emigrate as soon as possible
to Palestine, according to a detailed report
from the liberated camp received in Geneva
through the International Red Cross.
Angela Hammitish, 61, one of Adolf Hitler's
two married sisters, who has been captured
by American troops in the Bavarian Alps,
was employed as a cook and supervisor in a
Kosher Jewish student's . kitchen in Vienna
from 1921 to 1924. Angela was very scrupulous
in her duties and kept strict watch that the
dietary laws be observed to the letter. She
resigned her position in compliance with the
wishes of Adolf Hitler, who was beginning to
enjoy, in 1,942, an eminence far greater than
before his abortive "beer-putsch" of 1922.
Dr. Walter Peterson, whose mother is Jew-
ish, was named mayor of Hamburg by the
British military.

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