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THE JEWISH NEWS
DeGaulle Pledges to Fight
Anti-Semitism in France
Admits to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace and
•Others Members of American Anti-Bigotry Committee
There Are Difficulties in Restoring Property to Jews
By MURRAY FRANK
Independent Jewish Press Service Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (JPS)—Pledging to extirpate all vestiges of
anti-Semitism in France,, General Charles de Gaulle admitted to
Secretary of Commerce Wallace and other representatives of the
American Anti-Bigotry Committee, that difficulties were encoun-
tered in restoring rights and property to the Jews, but that these
obstacles were temporary and will soon be overcome.
Besides Secretary Wallace, the delegation
calling on General de Gaulle included Raymond
Gram Swing, radio commentator; James B. Carey,
of the CIO; Robert Watt, AFL, and former Assis-
tant Attorney General Norman M. Little. Whey
submitted to him a letter which thanks the French
Government for its abglition of the Vichy anti-
Semitic laws and for the ordinances restoring
property to the Jews. But the letter urged deter-
mined measures against vestiges of anti-Semitism
which is still ingrained in France as a result of
the Nazi occupation.
France Acts as Legal Protector of Refugees
The French Government has been officially
designated by the Intergovernmental Committee Gen. DeGaulle
on Refugees to act as legal protector for German and Austrian
refugees in France, including many Jews, your correspondent
has been informed by an authoritative source. The designation was
in reply to a request by the French Government itself, which has
been acting in that capacity ever since the country's liberation,
granting certain minimum rights to the refugees. The Intergovern-_
mental Committee made similar arrangements for the Spanish Re-
publicans in France.
The Intergovernmental Committee also has a resident repre-
sentative in Belgium to look after German _and Austrian refugees,
but no formal request has yet been made by the Belgian Govern-
ment that it be • designated as the legal protector of these refugees
in Belgium.
The Intergovernmental Committee will, in all probability, have
a full plenary session before the end of this year, presumably in
London, at which the question of' the stateless and non-repatriable
refugees will be taken up.
Attlee Hedges on Demand
For Palestine Statement
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Friends and Foes of Zionism 'Renew Requests for Govern-
ment Declaration in Two Consecutive Days
of Debates in House of Commons
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, president of the Jew-
ish Central Committee of Poland, has accepted
the invitation of Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Nahum Goldmann to visit the United States
soon under the auspices of the World Jewish
Congress.
Lowell Thomas, radio commentator, an-
nounced plans to raise $15,000,000 for an edu-
cational program in the Near East, at a banquet
held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. The
banquet was tendered by friends and alumnae
to Bayard Dodge, president of the American
University of Beyrouth, center of anti-Zionist
propaganda. President Dodge's anti-Zionist
views and activities are well-known. Lowell
Thomas, an associate of the late Colonel T. E.
Lawrence, is sponsored by the Sun Oil Com-
pany, a fact noted by some because of the re-
ported role of the oil interests in trends un-
favorable to Zionism in this country. Colonel
Lawrence's disciples are reported to constitute
the so-called Cairo clique of anti-Zionists in
the British Colonial office.
The Illinois Veterans of Foreign Wars, at
their Chicago convention, called for cutting of
all immigration into the United States.
President Truman is trying to' have civil and
political rights fully restored to European Jews
and thus reduce their need to emigrate to Pal-
estine, Rep. Sabath declared after a White
House conference with the President. Repre-
sentative Sabath said that European Jews pre-
fer to remain in their countries if possible. He
did not give the source for his facts.
Germans, known to have been members of
the Nazi Party and Nazi affiliates, for as long
as 113 years, have been given letters. of inter-
vention signed by Cardinal Faulhaber, head of
the Catholic Church in Bavaria, recommending
them to American occupation authorities on
grounds that they are good Catholics, Victor H.
Bernstein, ,PM correspondent, reports from
Munich.
USKII AT
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Federal Tax
These are the values. Detroit is talking
about. Select-quality SOUTHERN-BACK
MUSKRAT (one style sketched) in new
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Sizes 10 to 20.
Miss Rathbone Urges a Jewish State
Other Advance Sale Values
Seal or Beaver-dyed Coneys
$117
Beaver-dyed Mouton Lambs
$126
Natural - or Silver-dyed Opossums. . $139
.—Gray-dyed African Kidskins-
$149
Natural Cat Lynx Coats
$181
Natural Silver Muskrats
$199
Black-dyed or Gray Persian Paws.. .$199
1,300 Mauritius Refugees Due in Palestine
During the course of the debate, Labor MP Hund declared
that although he isn't Jewish, he hopes that the Prime Minister will
indicate that the Palestine question is under very active considera-
tion and that the decisions of the recent World Zionist Conference
were before the Government.
• Miss Rathbone asked Colonial Secretary Hall how many Jewish
refugees are still on Mauritius Island, and how many have been sent
to Palestine and elsewhere. In a written reply, the Colonial Secretary
stated that a number of the refugees had joined Czech and Polish
armed forces, the Pioneer Corps and the Jewish Brigade. The re-
mainder, he said, numbering about 1,300, have left Mauritius and
are expected in Palestine shortly. (They arrived in Palestine on
Stone-Marten-dyed Racoons
$199
Hollander Mink-dyed Marmots
$199
Natural Tipped Skunks
$199
Mink-dyed Letout Marmots
$269
Silverblue-blended Muskrats
$289
Hollander-blended Northern-back'
Muskrats
$269
Civet Cat Fur Coats
$289
. $329
Gray-dyed Indian Lambs.. ....
Sunday.)
LONDON, (JTA)—Under the provisions of the United -Nations
Charter adopted at San Francisco, action can be taken against any
state which persecutes its Jewish nationals, Prime Minister Attlee
An agreement pledging Mizrachi support for
the readmission of the Zionist Revisionists into
the World Zionist Organization was signed by
Rabbi J. L. Fishman, Mizrachi member of
the Jewish Agency Evecutive, and British
Zionist Revisionist leader Abrahams, it was re-
vealed in Jerusalem by Rabbi Fishman on his
return from London. He said the agreement
contained six conditions: (1) Mizrachi supports
the Revisionist demand for a Jewish state in
all of Palestine; (2) Revisionists undertake to
support for Mizrachi's religious demands; (3)
Mizrachi undertakes to ensure a place for the
Revisionists on the Jewish Agency Executive
and the Zionist Actions Committee; (4) Re-
visionists recognize the shekel (token entitling
its purchasers to elect delegates to the Zion-
ist Congresses); (5) Revisionists won't propose
the abrogation of the shekel and will only
demand the reduction of its price; (6) Mizrachi
will support the ReviSionist demand at the
Zionist Congress for admission into, the
Zionist Executive.
"Nine arms caches" were discovered by
police in a search in a clearing near the settle-
ment Shuneh, and 18 men and two women,
found sleeping there, were arrested, it is re-
vealed in an official Government bulletin.
President Truman's statement that Russia
was not consulted with regard to Palestine and
that he has no desire to send 500,000 troops to
maintain the peace in Palesine, is the subject
of serious misgivings by the press of Palestine.
Southernaltlack
The Palestine question was first opened in Parliament, on Aug.
21, by Miss Eleanor itathbone, Independent MP. Speaking after
Foreign Minister Bevin's review of Britain's foreign policy, she
called for a Jewish State in Palestine and declared that the tragic
plight of the Jews entitled them to special active sympathy. She
said "the spirit of Hitler will exult M the doors of Palestine remain
shut." Taking issue with Miss Rathbbne, were R. R. Stokes, Laborite,
long known for his pro-Arab position, and Sir George Jeffreys, Con-
servative. Prithe Minister Attlee made 'no statement.
Later. replying to a query on Palestine, by Squadron Leader
Donner, Attlee declared that his Government had not been office
long enough "to survey all these very large matters."
In answer to Captain Marples, Attlee said he is at present in no
position to reveal the, consultations he had with President Truman
on the Palestine issue. Captain Marples asked the Prime Minister
whether he will consider arranging, with President Truman, for a
small; impartial Anglo-American Commission to examine, on the
spot; the question of Palestine with the view of presenting joint
reports to their respective Governments. To this the Prime Minister
.answered that he is in no position to make a statement' on the matter.
Lord Winterton, an anti-Zionist, then asked the Prime Minister
whether he is aware of "the perturbation caused in other countries"
by statements by some members of the Labor Government and
the unfounded rumors that the present Government is more favor-
able towards Jews than Arabs. He requested a statement on this at
an early date. Attlee replied that "as soon as we have time to con-
sider the matter we will make a statement, meanwhile we shall
hope that the unfounded rumors are contradicted."
United Nations Authorized To Curb Anti-Jewish -Persecutions
PALESTINE
Mink or Sable Blended
LONDON (JPS)—For two consecutive days of debate in the
House of Commons, Aug. 21 and 22, Prime Minister Clement R.
Attlee consistently has dodged answering questions on the Palestine
issue.
Pressed for a definite statement, by pro and anti-Zionist MPs,
the Labor Prime Minister could only 'reply that he had no time to
review the Palestine question, he will make a statement as soon as
possible,- he is in position to make a statethent, he has no state-
ment on the subject. e
During the. Royal Charter debate, Prime Minister Attlee told
Parliament that the United Nations Conference at San Francisco
decided to consider persecution of the Jews in any country as out-
side domestic jurisdiction and justifying international active inter-
vention. Hitler's treatment of the German Jews, he said, was not an
internal affair.
Captain Marples asked the Colonial Secretary for the latest
available estimate of the total population of Palestine, exclusive of
Trans-Jordan; the estimated cultivatable area of the country and the
amount of arable land as yet uncultivated. In a written reply
Colonial Secretary Hall said that reference to chapter 9 of the Royal
Commission Report, would expain the difficulty in estimating how
much land, in fact, was cultivatable. He said, however, that for
fiscal- purposes, 3,410 square miles of land is cultivatable. The pop-
ulation of Palestine, as of Dec. 30, 1944, 'is: 1,061,277 Moslems; 528,702
Jews: 135,547 Christians and 14,096 "others." Of Moslems, Christians
and "others," there are an estimated 1;180,000 Arabs.
A large collection of Hebrew books, cere-
monial robes, and religious objects belonging
to Netherlands Jewish communities has been
found in Germany by Capt. Julius Buchman of
New York City who i-cataloguing the articles
at the former Rothschild Library in Frankfurt
on-the-Main where they were taken for exam-
ination.
Frank
& Seder's
Fifth
Floor
Black-dyed Persian Lambs
$499
A DEPOSIT
—and monthly payments will reserve your
purchase in cold storage until wanted.
ANK & SEDER
WOODW‘ARD, BETWEEN GRAND RIVER AND CLIFFORD
told the House of Commons.
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