Friday, September 7, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Sixty-Five Liberated JDC Official Bevin Calls Renews Work in Shanghai Middle East joint Distribution Committee Allocates $100,000 Monthly for Maintenance of Shanghai Group; $500,000 Owed for Loans During .dap Occupation NEW YORK—Manuel Siegel, Joint Distribution Com- mittee representative who carried on its relief program for 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai, and who was intern- ed by the Japanese in February, 1943, has been liberated, it was made known today. A cable from Shanghai via Switzerland to the J.D.C.'s Noted Orthodox Leader is Here Envoys Home Isaac Meier Lewin to Be Honored at Dinner at the Center on Sept. 19 British Foreign Secretary Calls Parley on Issues, Isaac Meier Lewin, well known Including Palestine Yiddish orator, son-in-law of the Special Wire to The Jewish News LONDON, (JTA)—Announce- ment has been made here that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin is calling in all envoys stationed in the Middle East for a con- ference on pressing problems in that area, including Palestine. New York office, announced , Siegel's liberation. It said he had of the Shanghai group and only resumed direction of the relief a few days ago the JDC appro- program pending his repatriation. priated an extra $35,000 for. The release of Siegel, a 34- special needs arising out of the year-old welfare worker and a bombardment of Shanghai. For native of Boston, adds a new a period during the Japanese British ambassadors in Iran chapter to the dramatic story of occupation of the city, funds for and Egypt as well as High Com- the continued assistance which the relief program were obtain- missioner Gen. Gort of Palestine the JDC has furnished the thous- ed by borrowing against JDC are already here. The ministers ands of Jews who fled Nazi credit arrangements made when of Iran and Egypt are en route Europe to the safety of Shangai, war seemed imminent. here. a free-port city. These loans, repayable "not One of the important prob- $2,200,000 Appropriated later than six months after the lems for the conference, accord- Close to $2,200,000 has been ap- declaration of peace between ing to informed observers, will propriated by the American relief Japan and the United States" be the formulation of a new agency since 1938 for the sup- total $500,000. Then arrange-- policy in Palestine to correspond' port of the refugees in Shanghai. ments were made for the exten- with the Labor Party's policies, JDC's work in Shanghai began sion of funds by the Swiss office and with pre-election promises in 1938, when the influx of some of the JDC. to support Zionism. 1,500 refugees from Germany necessitated outside relief. With- Arab League Official in a year the number had risen Jewish Partisans Get To Leave for London to 17,000, of whom 10,000 were French Decorations CAIRO, (JTA)—It is under- utterly destitute. JDC, major American agency for the relief PARIS (JPS) — The following stood that Azzam Bey, secretary of destitute Jews overseas, pro- members of the Armee Juive, the general of the Arab League, will vided food, shelter, clothing, French Jewish partisan army, leave for London shortly at the medical aid, child-care and con- who died in action, whether in request of the league's members. structive economic assistance. actual fighting or while dis- Azzam Bey will inform the -By 1940 there were more than charging missions for the anti- British government concerning 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shang- Nazi underground in France, the Arab viewpoint on Palestine hai, the majority of them entirely have been awarded posthumous as well as on other Middle East- dependent on JDC support. From decorations by the F r e n c h ern matters. Nazi-threatened Europe t h e y Government: escaped by the back door to the The London sensation created The Croix de Guerre with the by Lauren Bacall on her debut free-port city after an overland journey through Poland, Russia, Bronze Star was awarded to in "To Have and Have Not" re- Pvts. Isidore Guterman, Pierre sulted in a command perform- Siberia and Manchuria. Lev, Henri Broder, Jean Brau- ance for the King and Queen at In May, 1941, the JDC sent man, Lt. Albert Cohan, Capt. Miss Laura Margolis to Shanghai Windsor Castle. Lauren has re- Jacques Lazarus; the Croix de as its representative. She was ceived the most elaborate intro- Guerre with the Silver Star: joined in November by Siegel ductory campaign given a new who had worked in Cuba for the Pvts. Tommy Bauer, Armand star in England since before the Lucas, Jacques Sarmont, Sgt. war! JDC. After Pearl Harbor, the two were for a time permitted Major David Blum, and Liaison Officer Sarah Fixman. Pierre by the Japanese to continue their Lev and Henri Broder were ar- relief activities. rested by the Germans in Janu- Provide Free Meals ary 1944, and died under Gestapo They were able to provide free torture. meals for as many as 10,000 per- sons daily, helping to set up feed- Linwood & Taylor Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood's ing stations. They also arranged very successful producer, confid- hospital and clinical care for some 3,000 patients weekly and ed a secret to me the other day. I now take pleasure in telling it extended other assistance. Miss Margolis and Siegel were to you (but don't tell him that interned in February, 1943, but I told you). "Screen personal- under a local committee the JDC ity," he says, "is a mysterious program continued to assist as blend of sex appeal, intelligence, many Jews as possible. Miss sincerity, spiritual radiance and Margolis was repatriated late other undefined qualities!" in 1943 in an exchange of Am- erican and Japanese nationals, and now heads the JDC office in Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu Belgium. Last week the Swiss offices of 5706 the JDC received the first direct word from Shanghai since 1941. A cable from the representatives of the Jewish community there expressed their deep gratitude for the assistance rendered them INSURANCE by the JDC. $100,000 Sent Monthly 605 FOX BLDG. At present JDC allocates $100.- CH. 5757 1000 monthly for the maintenance Gerer Rebbi, recognized leader of Jewry in Poland, is one of those who escaped to Palestine and who is devoting his life to rebuilding religious life in Palestine. At the request of a representa- tive committee in Detroit, Isaac Meier Lewin will be the guest of the Detroit Jewish community during the High Holydays. 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