Friday, September 7, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
U. S. Zionists Insist Upon
Handling Emergency Affairs
Jewess Prevented
Massacre by Nazis
In French Village
Urge World Zionist Executive to Permit American Zionist
Emergency Council to Handle All Matters on Palestine
Affecting U. S. Government
PARIS (JPS)—To the simple
people of Lachatelle, a village in
the Vercors mountains, between
Grenoble and Valence, Mina
Facony, alias Marie Louise, 40,
Parisian Jewish milliner, is an-
other Joan of Arc. She bravely
faced the enemy and saved the
lives of 600 villagers, including
51 Jewish refugees.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—President
Truman's recent statement with
regard to Palestine and its im-
plications were discussed at a
session of the American Zionist
Emergency Council held here.
Council would not interfere with
the work of the Washington of-
fice of the Agency. The request
was opposed by Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver, president of the Council,
The majority of the members and other members of the Council.
of the Council were of the opin-
Must Represent Zionists
ion that the President's fear that
It was pointed out that
500,000 American soldiers may
be needed to prevent Arab dis- American Zionist representatives
turbances in Palestine if the alone must represent Zionist in-
country is proclaimed a Jewish terest vis-a-vis the U. S. Gov-
State, was due to false notions ernment. It was decided to ca-
maintained in Washington on
the strength of the Arabs and ble to the World Zionist Execu-
on American interests in the tive urging it not to undertake
Near East. The Council decided any steps in the direction of
to take urgent measures to pre- Washington representation until
sent the situation in the proper the American Zionist Council,
light. A special committee of together with the eight mem-
experts was named to deal with bers who were appointed at the
the question of Zionist political recent World Zionist Conference
action in the United States.
to supervise Jewish Agency ac-
tivities in the United States,
Iraq's Opposition
make definite recommendations.
(The New York Times in a
Mrs. Judith Epstein, president
cable from Paris reports that
of
Hadassah, reported that Had-
Emir Abdul Illah, Regent- of
Iraq, who is en route home from assah's national board has decid-
the United States, has voiced his ed to demand from the next
country's opposition to increased World Zionist Congress repre-
Jewish immigration to Palestine. sentation in the World Zionist
Executive. Such a demand was
In a statement to the- Times' submitted to the recent World
correspondent, the regent said: Zionist Conference in London
"No Arab will agree with any and was rejected.
suggestion for an increase in the
Jewish population of Palestine. 63 EUROPEAN REFUGEES
The number already there is suf- ARRIVE IN PHILADELPHIA
ficient. All Arab nations must
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA)—The
object in principle and I believe
S. S. Magallanes, first ship bear-
that our Government will pro-
ing Jewish immigrants to arrive
test to the United Nations
in the U. S. since the end of the
against any such moves.")
war, docked here this week with
The meeting also considered a 63 refugees from Portugal and
cabled request from the World Spain. The arrivals were met
Zionist Executive that it separ- at the pier by representatives of
ate the activities of the Zionist the Hias, whose sister organiza-
Emergency Council from those tion HIAS-ICA had assisted them
of the office of the Jewish Agen- in obtaining visas and transpor-
cy in Washington so that the tation.
Greetings—
KEEP
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British, U. S. Do Not Agree SAYS 700 JEWISH WRITERS
DIED IN WARSAW GHETTO
On Middle Eastern Affairs
Newsweek, -weekly news re-
view magazine, last week stated:
"The British in the Middle
East are not excessively enthu-
siastic over U. S. activities in
Saudi Arabia, where Americans
are helping to equip and train a
new Saudi Arabian army on a
Lend-Lease basis . . . The U. S.
Group Control Council is prepar-
ing to move from Frankfurt to
Berlin. This shift is expected
to improve Big Four cooperation
in ruling Germany."
Palestine Looks to U. S.
Jewish Investments
LONDON, (JTA)—Seven hun-
dred Jewish writers, artists and
other cultural workers died in
the Warsaw Ghetto, although
many of them could have escap-
ed, Rachel Auerbach, a member
of the Polish delegation to the
recent World Jewish Congress
conference here, reports.
Sesnewitzer
Bendiner Und.
Versus
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)--Tre-
mendous economic potentialities
kir investment in Palestine exist
among American Jews whose
great economic industrial, scien-
tfic and technical abilities can
be utilized for the building of a
Jewish national home in Pales-
tine, Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
declared here on his return from
the U. S. and the World Zionist
Conference in London.
Mr. Kaplan said that a proposed
international loan for Palestine
would be unobtainable under
present conditions.
Mina Facony, alias Marie
A Happy New
Louise, posing as a Reich school
teacher, emerged from the cellar
Year To The
where she was hiding with a
Community
Christian family, faced the para-
troopers and told them that as a
pure Aryan German she, was
dismayed by their behavidr and
that their killing of innocent
peasants and the destruction of
Max Tender,
fields sowed by the sweat of poor
President
people, is an unforgivable sin.
that could only bring shame on
the Reich. They had massacred
3,000 villagers before arriving.
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After a tense moment, the
leader of the German paratroop
detachment apologized and as- New Year's
sured Marie Louise that this
v.- ould never happen again.
In March, 1945, the FFI held Greetings—
a parade at Grenoble and offered
a decoration to Mina Facony,
who refused it stating that it was
French Village—Majestic Building
her duty, as a Jewess and
foreigner, to act as she did.
The Park Lunch—Park & Adams
Mina Facony was born in Ger-
many, daughter of a Kolomea
Aztec Tower—Union Guardian Bldg.
(Galicia, Poland) Jew, named
Sonenreich.
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This happened in July, 1944,
when 230 German paratroopers
moved on to the village of Lacha-
telle, center of Maqui activity in
that region.
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