Friciay, bcfot;er 19, 1945

$100,000,000 Relief Drive
Planned by Jewish Leaders

Joint Distribution Committee's Need for Extra $14,000,000
for Three Months and Additional UPA Requirements
Spui- Emergency UJA Action.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A campaign to raise $100,000,000 for the
United Jewish Appeal has been under discussion during the past
week, it is learned by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from re-
liable quarters. It is understood that the United Palestine Appeal
has already approved of such a goal and that the Joint Distribu-
tion -Committee, the other partner of the UJA, is considering the
- matter,
The problem of raising much larger 'funds from American Jews
for needs abroad was first projected at a private meeting the Joint
Distribution Committee called on September 20th. After a review
Of its requirements, the JDC told community leaders astembled in
New York that it would need an additional $14,000,000 for the last
three months of 1945, beyond the amount it could expect from the
United Jewish Appeal. A committee of 10 persons appointed at that
time suggested that an emergency campaign be launched for the
JDC exclusively. In view of the fact that the UJA agreenient re-
quires the compliance of the members of, the UJA for any such cam-
paign, the committee approached the. UPA.
The sound condition on the feasibility of the enterprise, the
UPA called a meeting of hundreds of welfare leaders in New York
on Oct. 2. About eighty are said to have responded. The meeting
featured reviews of the situation in Europe and of the problems in
Palestine.
The meeting culminated with the adoption of a two-point reso-
lution. It urged that, on the one hand, American Jews form a united
committee to press governments for more effective assistance to
Jewish refugees in Europe and also in connection with Palestine
developments. It also declared that it was essential for American
Jews themselves to meet their responsibilities to the overseas situa-
tion on a far greater scale. It was proposed that the JDC and UPA
be urged to agree to the launching forthwith of a campaign through
the United Jewish Appeal for $100,000,000. It was urged that
American Jewish*communitY leaders be promptly called together in
a national conference to act upon such a resolution.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press, Service)

AMERICA

Quentin Reynolds, war correspondent who
just arrived in New York after four months
in Europe, reports that the Jews of Berlin are
in worse condition than any other residents
of the city.
Anti-Semitism in Western Europe is on
the wane, Dr. Arieh Kubowitzki, secretary
general of the World Jewish Congress, declar-
ed at a press luncheon in New York. Much
of the reported anti-Semitism is the work of
small groups or individuals who acquired con-
fiscated Jewish property and want to hold
on to it rather than a spontaneous mass re-
action, he - asserted.
French Jewish refugees, returning home
after five years in the United States, comprise
the majority of the 303 passengers who left

New York for Europe aboard the American
liner Argentina. Also aboard the Argentina
are eight welfare workers of the American
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, seven
of whom will work in displaced persons camps
in Germany and Austria, on behalf of Jewish
inmates.
The U. S. Department of Commerce pub-
lication Foreign Commerce Weekly reports in
, recent issues that Palestine has no need now
to look to outside sources for a variety of of-
fice and home equipment, including modern
steel office furniture and equipment such as
filing cabinets, desks, tables, chairs, cupboards
and lockers. Other domestic products include
cardboard, packing paper, stationery, inks,
fountain pens, carbon paper, typewriter rib-
bons, account books and registers.
(See also Page 18)

Law to Bar Anti-Semitism
Being Drafted in Poland

Polish Jews in Russia Protest Against Anti-Jewish Terror in
Poland; Four Doomed to Death for Killing
Jews Since Liberation

- LONDON, (JTA)—The Polish Government in Warsaw is draft-
ing a -law making anti-Jewish incitement a punishable offense, Dr.
•George Sawicki, Attorney General of Poland and chief prosecutor at
the trial of the Nazis who murdered 1,500,000 Jews and others at
Maijdanek, revealed at a press conference arranged by the Allied
War Crimes Commission,
Dr. Sawicki attributed the recent anti-Jewish excesses in Po-
d to the activities of "political adventurers." These elements, he
said, are exploiting the anti-Semitic feelings which existed even be-
fore the war and were intensified during the five years of German
occupation through Nazi propaganda.

Polish Jews Protest Against Anti-Jewish Terror
MOSCOW, (JTA)—A delegation representing the Committee of
Polish Jews in the USSR submitted to Prof. Henryk Raabe, Polish
Ambassador in Moscow, a resolution protesting against the anti-
JewiSh terror in Poland.
The delegation demanded that a part of the UNRRA relief
shipments to Poland should be sent to the approximately 200,000
Polish Jews presently residing as refugees in the USSR. The am-
bassador displayed keen interest in the fale of these Jews and
asked the delegation for frequent reports on their situation. .Mem-
bers of the delegation emphasized that many of the Polish Jews in
the Soviet Union are making preparations to return to Poland.

4 Sentenced to Death for Killing Jews
WARSAW, (JTA)—Four members of an anti-government ter-
rorist band which concentrated on killing Jews and blasting Jewish
shops have been sentenced to death by a military court in Lodz.
Six others received sentences of two to ten years imprisonment.
The defendants, eight men and two women who range in age
from 18 to 38-, admitted their guilt, and stated that their main task
was placing time bombs in Jewish shops and murdering Jews.
They were under the command of officers of the Home Army, which
vv..as affiliated with the Government-in-Exile in London.
A criminal court here sentenced to death two Germans who
were responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Jews and Poles
during the Nazi occupation. The condemned are Herman Schmaltz,
a member of the German security police, who organized a massacre
of three! hundred Jews at Radomsk, and a woman named Fielder,
who betrayed fugitive Jews and Poles to the Gestapo.

Protest Anti-Jewish Slur
At Belsen Beast's Trial

British Officer, Defending Nazis, Referred to Inmates of
Oswiecim and Belsen as "Dregs of Ghettoes of
Central Europe"; Remark Resented

LONDON, (JTA)—The executive committee of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews has protested against a statement by
Major Thomas Claude Winwood, British military defense attorney
at the Lueneberg trial of Nazi war criminals, who told the tribunal
that "the inmates of Oswiecim and Belsen included dregs of the
ghettoes of Central Europe—people with little idea as to what to
do with their own lives."
"This statement besmirches the memory of millions of men,
women and children who died under unspeakable horrors, or were
murdered for no other fault but that they were Jews," the Board
of Deputies says. It emphasizes that the remarks by Winwood,
who is defending Josef Kramer, the "Beast of Belsen," are an insult
to Jewry, and expresses the Board's "deepest indignation."
The statement by Major Winwood was termed "vile and clumsy"
in a protest telegraphed to Major General Berney Ficklin, president
of the military tribunal, by A. L. Easterman, representative of the
World Jewish Congress. The unwarranted slur cast by the defend-
ing officer on countless Jewish dead and their surviving brothers
and sisters all over the world is a gross violation of British fairness
and transgresses the just limits of British advocacy, the telegram
pOints out.
Major Winwood, the JTA was informed, is a solicitor in civil
life. He is not a barrister and, under English judicial procedure, is
not permitted to plead a case in court. He has served in the Royal
Artillery since 1940, and holds no decorations.

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