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VOL. 7—NO. 16
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
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Demand Probe of Anti-Semitic
Army Correspondence Course
CIO and Catholic Leaders Condemn Prejudice
Anti-Jewish Speech in
Senate Stirs Protests
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A War Department
spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that
the correspondence course containing anti-Jewish
statements, which was distributed by the U. S.
Armed Forces Institute, was sent to 2,609 members
of the armed forces in various parts of the world.
The Institute, he revealed, purchased 9,000 copies
of the course.
The course, together with the textbooks con-
taining the anti-Semitic material, was purchased
from the University of Alabama, one of the 85 uni-
versities and colleges cooperating with the Insti-
tute, which operates under the auspices of the
Army and Navy, the War Department spokesman
disclosed. It was used for approximately one year,
he added.
Used By 2,609 All Over the World.
Emphasizing that the 2,609 soldier and sailor
students who used or are using this course are scat-
tered all over the world, the War Department of-
ficial said that this accounts for the fact that it is
still cropping up here and there; He pointed out
that the institute began moving toward elimination
of. the course in October, because it failed to meet
the Army's academic standards.
Planning has been started for a new course to
begin early next month, he declared. Work; on this
course is continuing. In the meantime, with the
controversial course eliminated, nothing has re-
placed it. He added that the 2,609 students who ap-
plied for and received the course constitute a very
small percentage of the over 1,000,000 students in
the Army and Navy who took USAFI courses.
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—British Combine Photo
Services. in Ran goon:
Navy Refuses to Conlment .
Liberation by Allied forces of Rangoon, India,
recently found the Jewish community eager to
resume religious worship after years of persecution by the Japanese. They managed to save much
of their religious treasures during the occupation of the city. The first Jewish services to be held
publicly there since the entry of the Japs was conducted by the REV. M. A. JAFFE of Halliwell
Lane, Manchester, England, shown holding a Serail and a prayer book. The soldiers are British.
The Army spokesman said that there were no
"civilian specialists" involved in selection of the.
course. The personnel of the USAFI, he declared,
is composed entirely of Army men.
Jewish Appeal Leaders:
Welder:
Officers of the reconstructed United Jewish
Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine are, top row, left to right: RABBI G. HELLER, RABBI JONAH B. WISE and WILLIAM
ROSENWALD, national charmen; Bottom row, left to Wright: I. EDWIN GOLDWASSER and
CHARLES J. ROSENBLOOM, national treasurers; and ISIDOR COONS and HENRY MONTOR,
executive vice-chairmen. The Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal and Na-
tional Refugee Service will benefit from the UJA drive in 4,600 communities in the U, S. in 1945.
(Continued on Page 10)
A former refugee from Nazi Europe,
this man was brought to the Jewish
National Home with the aid of the UniUd 'Palestine Ap-
peal. He is one of the 62,000 employed in Jewish indus-
trial production in Palestine. The Jewish Homeland has
become an important industrial center in the Middle East
during the war years.