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 - 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. .yom.sNs,-%..-Ns8s,-sss,vk-sv~;ss„-vs.--vm4oivvioom..,Lw-wwv000c 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. vv0000000000L . NL,NsNs. -ss --wooams."v4s -wvoL-io...-*000csssvmvs.s..-sc i t um= Itrarrin BUY afer This happened in July, 1944, when 230 German paratroopers moved on to the village of Lacha- telle, center of Maqui activity in that region. Page Eighty One I. LOUIS ZUIEBACK THEM 2845 Cambridge Road LAiay the New Year bring LOMBARD'S SEA FOOD RESTAURANT 13223 W. McNICHOLS ROAD Greetings on the New Year! 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