Friday, June
WRB Expected to Complete
Its Work by End of August
(Compiled From Cables of independent Jewish Press Service)
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The War Refugee Board, which was
formed by the late President Roosevelt to rescue refugees from
behind the German lines during the European war, expects com-
pletion of its work by Aug. 30, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
learned. The board, headed by Brig. Gen. William O'Dwyer, is now
engaged in winding up all its operations.
Introduction of Bill Held Inadvisable by Jewish Groups
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Following a conference with representa-
tives of leading Protestant, Catholic and Jewish agencies who are
concerned with the problems of refugees in the U. S., Rep. Samuel
Dickstein, chairman of the House Committee on Immigration, stat-
ed that the introduction of any bill aimed at changing the status
of the Oswego refugees is inadvisable at this time. His views are
supported by the representatives of the _ organizations with whom
he conferred.
Rep. Dickstein expressed the belief that the Immigration Com-
mittee's sub-committee on Oswego soon would be in a position to
recommended a program that would provide amelioration for the
special problems of the more than 900 refugees living at the Oswego
shelter. The sub-committee, originally scheduled to visit the shel-
ter on June 11, has postponed its "on-the-scene study" to June 25,
. because important matters in Washington make it impossible for
the members of the sub-committee to be away from the Capitol.
Participating in the conference with Mr. Dickstein were rep-
resentatives of the American Christian Committee for Refugees,
A-merican Friends Service Committee, War Relief Services, Na-
tional Catholic Welfare Conference, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Soc-
iety, National Council of Jewish Women, National Refugee Service,
Inc:, National Board, Y. W. C. A., National Community Relations
Advisory Council, which includes, among others, the American
Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation
League of the Bnai Brith and the Jewish Labor Committee.
Jews Fleeing Switzerland to Avoid UNRRA Interment
. GENEVA (JPS)—Hundreds of Jewish refugees now in Switz-
erland, are fleeing into France to avoid plans to remove them to
UNRRA camps in Italy and North Africa. Recent arrivals from
Theresienstadt and Bergenbelsen have been given notice, by the
Swiss authorities, that they will be removed to UNRRA camps by
June 20, if they do not arrange for departure elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Atro-
cities and persecutions on racial
or religious grounds committed
by the Germans since 1933 will
be considered war crimes and
these guilty of inciting, ordering
or counselling their commission
will be punished, Supreme Court
_Justice Robert Jackson, U. S.
war crimes prosecutor, declared
in a report to President Truman,
following his return from Lon-
don where he consulted with the
United Nations War • Crimes
Commission.
Justice Jackson said that the
American people considered the
Nazi regime ."a band of brig-
ands," adding that "our people
have been outraged by the op-
pressions, the cruellest form of
torture, the large-scale murder
and the wholesale confiscation
of property which initiated the
Nazi regime within Germany.
They witnessed persecution of
'the greatest emormity on reli-
gious, • political and r a c i a l
grounds, the breakdown of trade
unions and liquidation of all reli-
gious • and moral influences."
Citing the Nazi record of bru-
tality, he stated; "We propose to
punish acts which have been re-
garded as criminal since the time
of Cain."
Organizations such as the
Gestapo and the S. S., which
played' a "cruel and controlling
part" in subjugating, first, the
German people and then their
neighbors would also be prose-
cuted, he declared.
AMERICA
There was reportedly a difference of opinion
among Jews in Munich over the American
order to treat them no better or no worse than
other • Germans, according to Victor H. Bern-
stein, cabling the newspaper PM from Ger-
many. Some Jews feel that to treat them as
Germans is to treat them as an enemy, and
that they deserve special treatment after years
of suffering. Others say that the Jews deserve
no better treatment than the anti-Nazi Ger-
mans, and that both groups deserve special
consideration . . . "Whatever the weight of
arguments, it is undoubtedly true that the
Jews as a group in Munich are infinitely more
in need than any other single group," Mr.
Bernstein reports. With the possible exception
of Berlin, Munich has more Jews today than
any other city in Germany. In 1933, it had
14,000; 1939 4,000. Of the 400 there now,
330 are "privileged Jews," i.e. Jews who mar-
ried non-Jews and who raised their children
as Christians.
UNRRA headquarters in Washington report
that plans are well under way in its Displaced
Persons Division to repatriate a large majority
of the 100,000 Polish, Yugoslav and Greek
refugees in the Middle East and North Africa
by next winter. Among these refugees are
several thousand Jews.
The Rev. John Walter Houck, pastor of the
Congregational Pilgrim Church, in the Bronx,
receives scores of anonymous letters address-
ing him as "rabbi", and accusing him of turn-
ing his church into a synagogue, each time he
delivers a sermon condemning anti-Semitism.
The Rev. Houck, who labels anti-Semitism "ir-
religious, anti-American and anti-democratic,"
was, in 1943, attacked by one section of his
parish, who voted to have him ousted. When
they failed, they withdrew from the church
declaring "we won't worship with Jews."
The Mizrachi, Religious Orthodox wing of
the Zionist movement, set a two-week dead-
line on its demand for the reorganization of
the American Zionist Emergency Council and
the recall of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver. This
action was revealed when Leon Gellman,
president of the organization, released a let-
ter addressed to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, inform-
ing the chairman of the American Zionist
Emergency Council of Mizrachi's decision.
Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury
and chairman of the United Committee for
Aid to the Soviet Union, was quoted by the
Moscow radio as having declared at a press
conference June 5 that "agents" of the Polish
Government in-exile were fostering anti-
Semitism in Poland. The English-language
broadcast, reported in Washington' by the Fed-
eral Communications Commission, said that
Dr. Johnson, who is also vice-president of the
London Society for Cultural Relations with
the U.S.S.R. had just returned to Moscow
from Poland,
' to which he had been invited
by the Polish Provisional Government.
PALESTINE
A proposal, made in a letter by Mordecai
Shehenha, published by the Hebrew Press
May 25, that a memorial Temple be estab-
lished in Palestine, under the auspices of the
Jewish National Fund, to commemorate Jew-
ish lives and culture exterminated by . the
Germans, met with great enthusiasm and won
immediate support. The memorial temple
would have pavilions to commemorate the
Jewish warrior and the unknown Jewish sol-
dier, and a pavilion in which would be assem-
bled the histories, records and archives of the
destroyed Jewish communities, organizations,
institutions, Jewish family records, and ma-
terials dealing with the history of Palestine.
The monies donated for the memorial temple
would be divided three ways—for the imple-
mentation of the project, for the purchase of
land and for 'the settlement of diaspora
orphans.
OVERSEAS
The Polish .underground "Home Army" was
charged by the newspaper Isvestia with hav-
.
ing killed 50 Polish patriots, 150 Jews and
100 Red Army officers in the past few months,
while under the leaderthip of General Bron-
islaw Okulicki, reportedly one of the 16 Polish
leaders arrested by the Red Army.
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Palestine of all deported -Arab
leaders, auspension of Jewish im-
migration into Palestine and the
proclaiming of Palestine as an
independent Arab country was
demanded at a conference of the
Palestine Arab Party held in
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