Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
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OVERSEAS ,
The first group of 150 Jewish orphans,
aged 3 to 16, has arrived, by air, in North
England from the Theresienstadt ghetto in
Czechoslovakia, and another group is expected
shortly. .
A schism in the ranks of the South African
Nationalist Party, which opposed the Union's
entry into the war; -appears likely after. Eric
Luow, Nationalist MP, described by many as
the "South African Streicher," declared at a
Parliamentary 'session that an appeal by Tom
Naude, - chief whip of the 'Arty, for a united
front with the other parties, - does not rep-
resent the opinion of. the Nationalists.
Herbert H. Lehman, director of • the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis-
tration, and former governor of New York,
and Mrs. Lehman, were received here by King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
Berl Locker, Labor Zionist leader, and . his
wife, Malke Locker, • Jewish poetess, • were
among 'the guests at a reception held in Lon-
don by the National Executive of the British
Labor Party, on the eve of the opening of
Parliament.
The repatriation of Polish Jews in Soviet
territories which was scheduled to begin with-
in a few days, has been indefinitely postponed
* due to the Soviet declaration of war on Japan
which has resulted in . the. requisitioning for
military purposes of all available rolling stock
between Central Asia and Siberia, where the
majority. of Polish Jewish refugees' are con-
centrated, the JPS correspondent has been in-
formed by high Polish authority; Dr. Emil
Sommerstein, Chairman of the Central Com-
mittee of Polish Jews and head of the Polish
delegation. to the World Zionist Conference
here, was to_ have departed for Moscow Aug.
11 in connection with his duties as a Member
of the Polish Repatriation Commission. He was
informed by the Polish Government that his
departure too has been indefinitely postponed.
Representatives of re-established Jewish
communities in Germany are sitting in as con-
sultants on discussions by a four-power- legal
and military committee on the problem of
restoring confiscated property and German
citizenship to displaced German Jews. I he
committee- consists of U. S., British, French
and Soviet representatives and German dele-
gates from the four occupation zones.
Gen. Wilhelm Weiss, former co-editor,. with
Alfred Rosenberg; of Goebbels' "Voelkischer
Beobachter," who for 19 years preached Jew
hatred to the German people; has been ar-
rested by U. S. troops at, Berchtesgaden and
was listed as a probable war criminal and
.possible witness in the forthcoming war crimes
trial at Nuremberg. .
The Swedish Government has, to date,
spent $18,000,000 for the assistance, rescue. and
Stars of David Sewn
On Swastika Banners
In Ancient Synagogue
.
• LONDON, (JPS)—Scarlet Nazi
flags, with golden Stars of Da-
vid sewn on in place of the black
Swastikas, form the curtain of
the Holy Arc, during Friday eve-.
ning services, at the 300-year-old
synagogue in Celle, near Han-
over.
NOM
The Jewish survivers from
Poland, Hungary and Roniania,
living in internment camps in
the vicinity, along with jeWish
personnel from the nearby Royal
Air Force station; crowd into the
ancient synagogue to hear the
services read in Yiddish and
English, by Chaplain, L. Sanker,
of the R.A.F.
The synagogue, once used by
the Germans as a stable, was
discovered by young Polish Rab-
bi Olefsky, after his liberation
from a concentration camp.
Leadbetter Reminds
GIs- of Nov. 6 Election
• In cooperation with the U. S.
War Ballot Commission in Wash-
ington, as well as various units
of the armed forces, an effort
is being made, according to City
Clerk Thomas D. Leadbetter, to
• advise servicemen -and women
of the Detroit municipal election
scheduled for Nov. 6, and how
they may participate therein.
- leo
• bulletins
Leadbetter states that
have been distributed to service
groups everywhere: • •
On advice of governmental
• agencies that at least 60 days
would be required to transmit
ballots to the far corners of the
world and have them returned.
. by election day, early. arrange-
ments were made to print a
quantity of absentee ballots and
these are now available. Ser-
vicemen and women may use the
regular postcard application fur-
nished by the Government or
may mail 'a signed request di-
, rectlY to Thomas D. Leadbetter,
Detroit City Clerk, and ballots
will be forthcoming.
'Friday, SePterilbeil
THE J,EW I'S H NEWS
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maintenance of tens of thousands - of refugees
taken to that country from German cbricen-
tration camps, N. Storch, Swedish delegate to
the World Zionist Conference, stated. The
money was spent for transportation of the
survivors from German camps and for quar-
ters and medical treatment in Sweden.
The U. S. Army disclosed in Paris that
only 50,000 out of 400,000 Jews and political
foes of Nazism, who were deported from West-
ern European countries to death camps in
Germany, have been found in the American,
British and French occupation zones. Army
officials estimated that 250,000 of the deportees
from. France, Belgium, Holland and . Norway,
will never be found. The Army states • that
more than 2,000,000 displaced persons in the
Western allied zones have been returned to
their homes.
Prime Minister Attlee is one of .two. non-
Jewish patrons of a White Chapel . Talmud
Torah (free religious school). He has had long
association with White Chapel dating back
to prewar days. In 1920, as mayor of White
Chapel, Attlee attended. the distribution of
prizes, at the Jewish Free School and praised
the school's work. _ .
It is reported in London that Sir Simon.,
Marks, distinguished industrialist and Zionist,
has pledged the sum of $2,800 annually, for a
period of seven years, for the establishment
of lecture courses in medieval and modern
Hebrew literature at Manchester University.
Dr. Meir Wallenstein of Manchester will be
the lecturer.
Two hundred and sixty-eight adults and chil-
dren, holding Palestine certificates, left Geneva,
Barcelona, where they will embark for Pales-
tine.
Thousa.nds of Jewish families are sleeping in
the parks of Budapest, and other Hungarian
cities, whence they fled from provincial town-
ships where scores of organized bands of Ger-
man-Hungarians and Nazis make daily raids on
Jewish homes, looting all their possessions. So
far, the Hungarian Government has been un-
successful in stamping out the bandits.
The first Vienna general Zionist meeting
since the Anschluss was held Aug. 22. Approxi-
mately 50 persons attended and voted to re-
constitute the Vienna Zionist Organization. An
administrative committee of 12 was chosen. The
meeting. voted .to launch a Chalutz movement;
to train Jewish youth for Palestine.
At the invitation of Dr. Emil Sommerstein,..'
the British Federation of Jewish Relief Organ-
izations is sending its first delegation to Poland.
Jews in–Munich, Magdeburg, Mannheim and
scores of other German cities suffer "legal"
discrimination under the anti-Semitic Nurem-
berg lawS, still invoked against them by the
local German administrations on' grounds that
the Allied Military Government has not official-
ly notified them that Nazi laws have been abol-
ished, it .was learned here.
.
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French Jews Face
PrOblem to Regain
Confiscated Homes
PARIS, (JTA)—The problem
of restoring Jewish 'property - in
France to former Owners who
were deported by the Germans
from the country during the oc-
cupation is becoming more com-
plicated as many of -the de-
portees are beginning to return
to their homes.
The French newspaper Aube
which is not anti-Semitic and
is not linked with the organiza-
tion of Frenchmen who oppose
the restoration of confiscated
Jewish property, came out with
a sharp protest against the ex-
pulsion of a Frenchman from
his dwelling for the benefit of
a Je. w who is the legal owner of
the place.
"Is it logical," the -paper asks,
"to expel without notice a family
which was not cognizant with
the conditions of the sale of the
Jewish property?" Th& article
draws special attention to the
fact' that the Jewish owner was
not even deported "but has been
able to live normally during six
years in the French province."
1945
Denies Weizmann Quit
Agency Work in London
Beth Yehudah Calls
Special- Board Meeting
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Speak-
ing in behalf of the Jewish Agen-
cy executive, Dr. Bernard Joseph,
the Agency's legal adviser, told
a press conference here that the
reports of Dr. Weizmann's re-
signation from active participa-
tion in the work of the Agency's
office in London • were not true.
Dr. Weizmann, Joseph said, re-
mains president of the Jewish
Agency and will fulfill his du-
ties . as such.
Yeshivath Beth Yehudah, Dex-
ter and Cortland, will hold a
special board meeting and con-
ference of synagogue represent-
atives, Tuesday evening, Sept. 11,
at 9 o'clock.
Because of -the fast of Gedaliah
on Monday, the regular ,board
meeting has been postponed to
Tuesday evening.
All officers and directors of
congregations also are invited.
• Reports of the Yeshivah's edu-
cational and financial activities
will be presented.
Congress Women Here
To Meet - Wednesday
The opening meeting. of the
season of the Worrien's Division
of the American Jewish Congress
will be held. next Wednesday.
The meeting will follow a lunch-
eon scheduled for 12:30 p. m. at
the Jewish Center.
Dr. Alexander. Pekelis, chair-
man of the Legislative Action
Committee of the -American Jew-
ish Congress, will be the guest
speaker. Presidents of leading
Jewish women's organizations
were invited to attend the meet-
ing.
Plans for the luncheon have
been made by Mrs. Ben Gottloeb,
hospitality chairman, and her
co-chairmen, Mrs. Barry Gremin
and Mrs. Ben Lutz. ' Reservations
are being taken by Mrs. Bernard
Bladen, TO. 5-0030.
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healthy thing; and that man
cannot dO better than make a
wise use of its opportunities.
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'Berl Botwinik, Noted
Jewish Author Dies.
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Funeral
services were held for Berl Bot-
winik, Jewish writer and col-
umnist for the Jewish Daily For-
ward since 1914, who died this
week at Beth Israel Hospital aft-
er a prolonged illness. He was
60. Born in Russia, he came to
the U. S. in 1905. He was the
author of several plays and of a
book of short stories. He was
one of the founders of the Jew-
ish Writers Club and the Jewish
Playwrights League.
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first tuberculosis institution in
America to provide medical and
surgical care for needy men,
women and children on a free,
nation-wide non-sectarian basis,
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