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THE JEWISH NEWS
UPA Asks Truman to Help
Ship 100,000 to Palestine
Friday, Ocfolier 26, 1945
Warburg Returns Retailers Cancel
To Europe for JDC N.Y. Daily News
NEW YORK—Edward M. M. Ads Over Slur
2,000 at 20th Anniversary Conference of the United Warburg, until recently with the
Palestine Appeal Vote to Submit 3-Point Program
SHAEF Mission (Belgium) as a Paper Stands by Columnist
major in the U. S. Army, and
to President; $52,000,000 Budget Set
Who Wrote Jews Caused
Patton's Removal
NEW YORK—Emphasizing that the homeless Jewish
survivors of Europe are now in the grip of unparalleled des-
pair, more than 2,000 delegates attending the 20th anniversary
conference of the United Palestine Appeal at Hotel Commo-
dore, Oct. 21, voted to submit a three-point program to Presi-
dent Truman urging his continued support for the immediate
immigration of 100,000 Jews into,
Palestine and calling upon him to continue to "devote its energies
help provide land,- sea and air and influences to the relief of
transportation to speed their human suffering and to the res-
entry into the Jewish homeland. toration of hope in the hearts of
The resolution embodying the those who have known desolation
program also requested that the and despair."
President "take the initiative in
The afternoon session featured
the creation of an international
agency which would be empow- addresses by Louis Lipsky, presi-
ered to recover the property ex- dent of Bnai Zion; Judge Morris
propriated from Europe's Jews or Rothenberg, president, Jewish
left behind by the millions who National Fund; Senator Ful-
were massacred and to use such bright, Dr. Israel Goldstein, presi-
funds exclusively for the relief, dent, Zionist Organization of
rehabilitation and resettlement of America; and Miss Helen Waren,
former member of a USO troupe,
the surviving Jews of Europe."
who was one of the first Am-
Most. Pressing Problem
Declaring that President Tru- ericans to tour the liberated con-
man's request to Prime Minister centration camps.
Attlee that Britain provide for
Speaking for the Jews of
the immigration into Palestine of England, Sir Simon Marks, of
100,000 Jews from Europe at the London, chairman of the" UPA in
earliest possible date is "intend- Great Britain, declared that the
ed to meet the immediate prob- Jews of that country are de-
lem of saving the lives of human termined to • bring every pressure
beings," Senator William J. Ful- to bear upon the British Gov-
bright of Arkansas asserted that ernment for the cancellation of
it was "the most pressing prob- the White Paper.
lem of the moment" and ex-
pressed the hope that immediate
action would be taken by the
British Government.
Senator Fulbright denounced
the White Paper as a part of the
discredited policies of the Cham-
berlain Government that should
be "disavowed as a matter of
NEW YORK—Dr. Abraham
course."
Flexner, noted authority on med-
The United Palestine Appeal ical education, will head a com-
conference also adopted a resolu- mittee of scientists to sponsor the
tion pledging all-out support of establishment of the Hebrew
every measure taken by the Jews University - Hadassah Medical
of Palestine to resist the attempts School on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem,
of the British Government to it was announced by Mrs. Sam-
carry out by force the cessation uel J. Rosensohn and Ira A.
of immigration as provided in the Hirschmann, co-chairman of a
White Paper and to save great campaign for $4,000,000 to build
masses of Jews from the devasta- the school.
tion and desolation of Europe by
Declaring that he approved the
bringing them into the Jewish
homeland in the largest possible plans for the proposed medical
school, which will be the first in
numbers.
Palestine, Dr. Flexner said. he
Budgets Total $52,000,000
ti
will invite outstanding American
Describing the greatly increased
scientists to join the sponsoring
requirements of the agencies of group.
the UPA in making possible the
immigration, settlement and ab-
sorption in Palestine of large Belgian Queen Contributes
To Jewish Relief Group
masses of Jews, Dr. James G.
BRUSSELS — Queen Elizabeth
Heller, national chairman, an-
nounced that $51,7591405 would be of Belgium has made a personal
required in the coming year. Of contribution of 50,000 francs for
this amount $26,325,000 will be the relief of destitute Belgian
needed by the Jewish Agency for Jews. Her Majesty made the gift
Palestine and the Keren Hayesod after receiving Miss Laura L.
(Palestine Foundation Fund), Margolis, representative of the
while the budget of the Keren Joint Distribution Committee,
Kayemeth (Jewish National and Alfred Goldsmith, president
Fund) calls for expenditures ag- of the Council to Administer Aid
to Jewish Victims of the War.
gregating $25,434,405.
Dr. Heller said that in the
year ending Sept. 30, 1945, ap-
proximately $31,690,000 had been
spent by the agencies represented
in the United Palestine Appeal.
Dorothy Thompson, the noted
columnist, charged Ibn Saud,
King of Saudi Arabia, with an at-
tempt to blackmail the U. S. on
the question of Palestine. Com-
menting on the exchange of cor-
respondence betWeen President
Roosevelt and the Arab leader
which was made public several
days ago, Miss Thompson em-
phasized that the British and
American Governments endorsed
the establishment of a Jewish
National Home with the clearly
expressed intention that it be
ultimately set up as a Jewish
State. She also stressed the fact
that formal agreements were
made with the Arabs through
Emir Feisal, who gave his official
approval of the program for the
reconstruction of the a_ncient Jew-
is.h homeland.
Dr. Wise Presides
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman
of the board of directors of the
UPA, presided at the dinner ses-
sion of the conference.
In a message sent to the con-
ference, President Truman con-
gratulated the UPA on its
achievements in the reconstruc-
tion of Jewish Palestine during
the past 20 years and expressed
the hop% that the UPA would
Dr. Flexner Heads
Palestine Medical
School's Sponsors
EDWARD WARBURG
former chairman of the JDC,
flew to Europe by clipper to
engage in the Committee's work
in behalf of Jewish refugees in
displaced persons camps in Ger-
many and Austria as well as in
other parts of Europe.
The mission marks Mr. War-
burg's return to an active role
in the JDC's program of relief
and rehabilitation for distressed
Jews overseas, and follows his
recent honorable discharge from
the army.
Mr. Warburg was accompanied
'on his flight by Arthur D. Green-
leigh, director of the Commit-
tee's work in France, who is re-
turning to the organization's
chief European headquarters in
Paris after a six-week furlough
here.
Three other American social
welfare experts who left for Eu-
rope to engage in the large-scale
relief and rehabilitation pro-
gram of the JDC are Lavy M.
Becker, former educational di-
rector of the Jewish Community
Center of Detroit, Frederick C.
White and Jacob Joslow.
NEW YORK, (JPS)—Rfetalia-
tion against the New York Daily
News for its failure to apologize
for Columnist John O'Donnell's
slur against Jews in connection
with Gen. Patton's removal, was
launched by' three advertisers
here who cancelled their accounts
with the paper. They are Sachs
Furnitur'e store, and Ohrback's
and May's department stores.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president
of the American Jewish Con-
gress, called for pressure from
readers and advertisers, against
the anti-Semitic character of the
Daily News.
Ten days after the O'Donnell
column appeared, the Daily News
made its first editorial comment.
"That column," the News says,
"was construed as anti-Semitic.
Our position is what it always
has been. The News is neither
anti-Semitic nor pro-Semitic;
neither anti-Catholic nor pro-
Catholic; neither anti-Protestant
nor pro-Protestant . . ."
The editorial further explains
that "columnists are given more
leeway in expressing their own
views; more so than writers of
the material that appears in the
news columns. The editorial
column,, of course, expresses the
views of the paper."
Christian and Jewish war vet-
erans groups in Kings County
have joined in unanimous con-
demnation of the Oct..3 column
by John O'Donnell, in the Daily
News.
A joint letter of protest, to
Capt. Robert Patterson, publisher
Vote Tuesday, Nov. 6'
Congresswoman Attacks
O'Donnell's Column
WASHINGTON, (JPS)—Rep.
Helen Gahagan Douglas, speaking
on the House floor, declared that
N. Y. Daily News Columnist John
O'Donnell's allegation that a
Jewish "plot" caused the removal
of Gen. Patton from his Third
Army command, is an insult to
the General as well as to the
Jews who served in the U. S.
armed forces during the war.
In a statement inserted into the
Congiessional Record, Represent-
ative Douglas said:
"A deliberate effort is made by
a group of newspapers to make
it appear that Gen. Patton's re-
moval resulted not from prob-
lems of administration but from
some sinister "plot" hatched by
certain individuals of Jewish faith
holding high public .
here."
Col. Riegelman to Head
Medical School Drive
NEW YORK—Col. Harold
Riegelman, veteran of both world
wars who recently returned after
three years in the South Pacific,
has become chairman for New
York of a countrywide campaign -
to raise $4,000,000 for a medical
school in Palestine, it is an-
nounced by Ira A. Hirschman and
Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, joint
chairmen of the national drive.
Reconverting Detroit
Needs a Councilman
of Proven Experience
Ability and
Trustworthiness!
Dr. Filderman's Arrest
In Romania Revealed
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—Dr.
William Filderman, president of
the Union of Jewish Commun-
ities in Romania, was arrested
on Aug. 21 and detained until
Sept. 93 it can now be revealed.
The charge against him was that
he collaborated with the Ger-
man-dominated Antonescu re-
gime.
Dr. Filderman is still under at-
tack in left-wing circles. A
speaker at a Communist meet-
ing here reiterated the charge of
his collaboration with the former
pro-Nazi regime. (A Geneva dis-
patch to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency on Oct. 7, said that
Filderman was being held under
house arrest.)
of the Daily News, was signed by
Louis E. Drago, Kings County
Commander of the American
Legion; William V. Burns, Kings
County Commander of the VFW;
Leonard N. Jamieson, Kings
County Commander of the Cath-
olic War Veterans, and Jack
Daniels, Kings County Com-
mander of the JWV.
A similar demand was voiced
by 1,000 delegates at a meeting
here of the Metropolitan Council
of Bnai Brith and by the N. Y.
Chapter of American Jewish
committee.
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