THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 2, 1945

Urge Truman to Intervene
To Aid Jews in Argentina

Former Governor General of Australia and President of
Australian Jewry Cable Truman to Help
Prevent Anti-Semitic Acts

MELBOURNE, (JTA)—Sir Isaac Isaacs, former governor gen-
eral of Australia and prominent Jewish leader. and Alex Masel,
president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry have cabled
to President Truman urging him to intervene to prevent further
anti-Semitic acts in Argentina.
• The cable said: "We respectfully request your powerful and
gracious intervention with Argentina, a signatory of the San Fran-
cisco Charter, to prevent, in the spirit of the inscription on the
Liberty Bell; a recurrence of the anti-Semitic, anti-democratic out-
rages reported in the public press. This request is in the name of
the whole Jewish .community of Australia."
(The New York Herald-Tribune reported from Buenos Aires
that the DAIA, the federation of all major Jewish organizations in
Argentina, delivered a "strong. note" to President Edelmiro Farrell
protesting against the anti-Semitic campaign. The note pointed out
that anti-Semitic gangs were permitted to invade the Jewish section
of Buenos Aires last Thursday and attacked members of the Jewish
community who were obliged to defend themselves.)

Jewish Community in Bulgaria
Takes Steps for Return of Hospital

SOFIA, (JTA)—Free medical service is being given all needy
Jews, :ancl. former Jewish partisans and concentration camp victims,
it was reported by Dr. M. Rachmanioff, head of the Jewish Poly-
.clinic here, on the occasion of the institution's first anniversary.
Among the activities conducted by the polyclinic, he said, was a
home visiting service for needy patients, a diabetic center and a
health education program among the Jewish population. Dr. Rach-
rnanioff said that steps have been taken to secure return of. the
Jewish Hospital here, which was temporarily requisitioned by the
military authorities. -

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Dr. William Filderman, president of the
Union of Romanian Jews and a member of the
presidium of the Romanian Section of the
World Jewish Congress, who was reported re-
cently under house arrest in Bucharest, is
"neither arrested nor prevented from continu-
ing his activity for the Jewish cause, being
able to receive at his domicile everybody he
wants and free to go anywhere he wants."
Two separate Jewish delegations were re-
assured in New York by Poland's Foreign Min-
ister Rzymowski, regarding . the status of the
Jews and were told that the Government was
taking all measures to stop the secret anti-
Semitic groups responsible for recent anti-Jew-
ish riots. The delegations were from the Amer-
ican. Jewish Committee and the American Fed-
eration for Polish Jews.
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia bitterly denounced
the New York Daily News and its publisher,
Capt. Joseph M. Patterson, for publication of
columnist John O'Donnell's Oct. 3 smear
against American Jewry ... Broadcasting over
the Municipal station here, Mayor LaGuardia
stated that O'Donnell's belated retraction of his
false allegation that influential American Jews
were behind the removal of General Patton
from command of the Third Army, was not
"spontaneous" but was dictated by. Captain
Patterson after he had been "told .where he
came off" by 14 to 20 large advertisers.

PALESTINE

Reports that the British Government intends
to maintain the White 'Paper in Palestine and
the tension resulting from such reports is caus-
ing economic dislocation in Palestine, Dr. E.
Schinorak, member of the Jewish Agency Ex-
ecutive, in charge of trade and industry, de-
clared at a press conference in Tel Aviv.
Twelve thousand, seven hundred and seven
Jewish immigrants holding Palestine certifi-
cates, arrived in Palestine during the year end-
ing Sept. 30, 1945, Eliahu Dobkin, member of
the Jewish Agency Executive, in charge of im-
migration, disclosed in Jerusalem. Eighteen

Patton Denies
Making Remarks
Against Jews

2 Killed in Action, Refutes
O'Donnell's Column

Deputies Act Jointly
With Two U. S. Bodies

LONDON. (JTA) — Establish-
ment of a joint secretariat by the
Board of Deputies of British
Jews, the American Jewish. Con-
ference and the World Jewish
CongresS was approved at a
meeting of the board. The depu-
ties also voted to coordinate
their activities on war crimes and
reparations with the Jewish
Agency, as well as the Congress
and the Conference.

transit camps were established and instructors
were sent to help. in the immediate rehabilita-
tion of the new arrivals. Five thousand seven
hundred of the Newcomers were settled in
agricultural colonies. The remainder settled in
cities, many with the aid of i'elatives.
President Truman was the target of a slurring
attack by the Jaffa Arab daily .Falastin be-
cause of his request that the Blitish Govern-
ment admit 100,000 Jewish refugees into Pal-
estine. In an article titled "Vice President
Juda Iscariot," the newspaper called President
Truman "rude," "uncouth importunator," "child-
ish nuisance," etc.
A plan to build 1,100 rooms for newly arriv-
ing ex-servicemen, was formally approved by
the Tel-Aviv Municipal council. -
Representatives of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine and great crowds shouting enthusi-
astic welcomes. gathered along the Haifa water-
front as 1,003 Jewish newcomers, including a
group of Zionist Patisans, who battled the
Germans in the foreSts of Poland, arrived from
Constanza, Romania, aboard the Romanian
liner Transilvania. The newcomers, constituting
the largest group of immigrants to leave Ro-
mania since the end of the war, are virtually
the final Jewish settlers to be admitted to
Palestine under the White Paper.

OVERSEAS

Reports that Rashid Ali Gailani, former
Premier of Iraq, who in 1942 led a pro-Axis
revolt and later aided the Grand Mufti in
forming the Fascist Moslem Legion, is now free
in Saudi Arabia, were confirmed in London by
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.
The Syrian Government has ordered all
Syrian legations abroad to grant no entry visas
to any Jews, no matter what the applicant's
motive may be, it is reported from Damascus.
Arab language broadcasts from Madrid ,are
beaming anti-Zionist propaganda and distorted
news throughout French North Africa in an.
attempt to instigate Arabs in Morocco, Algeria
and Tangiers against the Jews. The Madrid
radio reportedly announced recently that the
Arab Women's Union Conference in Palestine
had demanded trial of all persons aiding Jews
to • enter Palestine.

--WHERE- .DOES HE GO
FROM HERE 9

Letter to Father of Four GIs,

CHICAGO — Gen. George S.
Patton Jr., in a letter made pub-
lic here Monday, formerly denied
anti-Jewish remarks attributed to
him by John O'Donnell, New
York Daily News - Washington
Times Herald columnist.
In a letter to Joseph Wilner, of
Washington, D. C., father of four
service men, two of whom died
in service, Gen. Patton said:
"I am glad to have the oppor-
tunity of categorically denying
that I have ever Made any state-
ment contrary to the Jewish or
any _other religious faith. I am a
sincere believer in the Supreme
Being and have _never interfered
with or even, examined the re-
ligious antecedence of the men
I have the honor to command.
My sole effort has been to pro-
vide victorious soldiers who can
serve their country and defeat
the enemy with the minimum
loss to themselves."
Wilner, one of whose sons,
Capt. John Wilner, was killed
while serving with the Third
Army under General Patton, had
cabled the general that he was
"deeply distressed . at injustice
being done your reputation"
when O'Donnell's column ap-
peared on Oct. 3.
In an apology. published Oct. 19,
O'Donnell admitted as untrue his
statements attributing Patton's
removal from . command of the
Third Army to pressure of in-
fluential Jews.
Wilner released the letter at
the annual meeting here . of the
executive committee of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith
of which he is a member.

Page Three

Home? Not this lad.

From here he goes to another hospital, for
more weary weeks, or maybe months. And
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to guide him, step by step, along the slow
road back.

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