Friciay, November 9, 194S

Rifkind Tours DP Camps
As Eisenhower's Advisor

Special U. S. Aide to General on Jewish Affairs Visits
Displaced Persons in Germany; Editor Views State-
less Persons as 'Depressed'

MUNICH, (JTA)—Judge Simon H. Rifkind, who is here as a
special adviser on Jewish affairs to Gen. Eisenhower, is back
following a tour of the camps where Jews are quartered, after
discussions with military authorities.
Predicting a "morale collapse" among the Jews in the
American occupation zone if their current expectations of emi-
grating to Palestine were unfilled, Judge Rifkind emphasized
that the problem of displaced Jews in Europe is 'insoluble"
unless arrangements are made for their free entry into the
Jewish Homeland.
"The preponderance of desire to emigrate to Palestine is
overwhelming, and none desire to remain in Germany," he
said. He found that only a small percentage of them wished to
go to the. U. S.
Following his tour of five displaced persons camps, Judge
Rifkind said "the general health of Jews was good and that
there has emerged from among Jewish displaced persons in most
of the camps leadership of a high order. They have held elec-
tions, are printing newspapers."
. He said that he found no barbed wire and no military camps
and that the Jews "were being treated better by junior officers."

Gen. Eisenhower Receives Ben Gurion
FRANKFORT, (Palcor)—David ben Gurjon, chairman of the
Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was received at
headquarters here by Gen. Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff
Gen. Smith, with whom he discussed the position of displaced
Jews in camps in the U. S. occupttion zone of Germany. Ben
Gurion visited Belsen camp, in the British zone, before returning
to Paris.

PARIS, (JTA)—David Ben-Gurion revealed here that during his
visit last week to the Jewish camps in Germany he was received
at. Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters in Frankfurt and was very
much. impressed by the General's "understanding and helpful atti-
tude" with regard to problems concerning the displaced Jews.
"General Eisenhower shows great good will," Ben-Gurion
reported. "He is aware of the fact that the Jewish survivors must
go to Palestine."
The Zionist leader said that the physical and moral conditions
of the displaced Jews is better than he expected to find them, but
there is still much room for improvement.

Urges All Displaced Jews Be Taken Out of Germany
_ NEW YORK, (JTA)—Though the situation of the displaced
Jews in various camps in the Reich is gradually improving, every-
thing must be done to take them out of Germany, Samuel Schmidt,
editor and publisher of Every Friday of Cincinnati, declared here
following his return from Europe where he went as a representa-
tive of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of rthe U. S. and Canada.
Mr. Schmidt visited some of the camps for displaced Jews
Where he organized, in cooperation with the military authorities,
special facilities for orthodox Jews. He emphasized that the longer
the Jews are held in camps, the more depressed they become, even
though they are now provided with better dwellings and with more
food. They feel like prisoners in "improved" internment centers.
Mr. Schmidt found that many Jews who were repatriated to
Poland and Hungary preferred to return to the all-Jewish camps
rather than remain in their native.. lands, where anti-Semitism is
still rampant. Another reason for returning to the camps was the
belief that ail Jews living in the camps will eventually be sent to
Palestine;

Relief Unit In Australia to Work Among Refugees In Shanghai
SYDNEY, Australia, (JTA)—The headquarters of the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the South-
West Pacific area announced that permission has been granted to
a. Jewish relief unit to proceed from Australia to Shanghai to con-
duct relief activities among the Jewish refugees there.

Streicher Lawyer Shuns
Anti-Semitism Defense

German Attorney Refuses to Defend Notorious Jew-Baiter
Against Charges When He Goes on Trial as War
Criminal on Nov. 20

NUREMBERG, (JTA)—Dr. Hans Marx, German attorney who
will represent Julius Streicher at the trial of the top Nazi leaders
which opens _here on Nov. 20, announced that he will not defend
Streicher against the charges of anti-Semitism contained in the
indictment of the Allied War Crimes Commission.
An editorial in the Frankfurter Rundschau, published by Ger-
mans under authorization of the military government, says that the
Germans cannot evade responsibility for the Nazi crimes against
• Jews.
"Jews were among the first victims, and the Jews of Europe
were the chief victims," it states. "The cavalry of the Jews was
known to every German. 'I never knew' is a despicable attempt
to lie and play the innocent. Many profiteered on a large and
small scale from the sufferings of the Jews. When the people
of Germany talk about culture, they should not forget about anti-
Semitism."
The first Zionist weekly to appear in the American zone in
Germany has been published in Munich. The first issue carried
the exchange of correspondence between President Truman and
General Eisenhower on the conditions of the Jews in Germany.

500 Jewish Children From Germany to be Admitted to France
PARIS, (JTA)—The French Government granted permission
for the entry into France of .500 Jewish children and 50 Jewish
orthodox teachers who are at present in camps for displaced
persons in Germany.
Mathieu Muller, president of the Agudas Israel Organization
in France, and Isaac Lewin, special representative of the Vaad
, Haatzalah, Jewish orthodox relief group in the U. S., were notified
of the Government's decision. The children will be housed in
five centers, which the Vaad Haatzalah - is now establishing in
Fiance, pending their eventual departure for Palestine.
(Twenty-five • Jewish orphans from the Bergen-Belsen camp
arrived in England last week by plane. They will be cared for
until they emigrate to Palestine or other countries).

Rabbi In Hungary Arrested for Contact with Pro-Nazis
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—Dr. Bela Berend, former rabbi of the
southern Hungarian town of Szigetvar, has been arrested on the
Charge of having maintained close contact with the former pro-
Nazi Hungarian government and of having caused the deportation
Of many 'Jews. Interviewed in his cell, the 35-year-old rabbi said
that he was in touch with German and Hungarian fascist ,authori-
ties only because he endeavored to obtain permission for• -training
Hungarian Jewist youth for emigration to Palestine after the war.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page -Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Twelve Italians, who claim they were
present when Ezra Pound, American expatriate
poet, broadcast Axis propaganda over the
Rome radio, are being flown to the United States
for questioning, the Department of Justice an-
nounced. Pound, and seven other American
citizens, indicted, in 1943, 'on charges of broad-
casting treasonous propaganda, are now in-
terned by U. S. authorities in Europe.
A resolution to place the International As-
sociation of Machinists, AFL union, on record
as favoring a 10-year immigration ban and the
return of war refugees to their home coun-
tries was rejected by delegates of the union's
21st quadrennial convention here. The con-
vention approved a resolution calling on Con-
gress to return all foreign laborers imported
during, the war.
The first Medal of Freedom, recently author-
ized civilian decoration for meritorious war-
time service outside the United States, was
presented by Secretary of War Patterson to
Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, of New York, on be-
half of President Truman. .Mrs. Rosenberg is
a member of the Advisory Board of the Of-
fice of War Mobilization and Reconversion.
The award was made on the recommendation
of General Eisenhower in recognition of Mrs.
Rosenberg's work overseas.
American Army MPs are joining Germans
in .beating up Jews in the U. S. occupation
zone of Germany, according -to letters from
American soldiers, reprinted in part in the
newspaper PM.

OVERSEAS .

Nazi youths of the "werewolf" underground
movement are terrorizing displaced Jews in
the American occupation zone of Germany,
threatening them with murder unless they
evacuate houses assigned to them by U. S.
military authorities.
Jewish community leaders, in all four oc-
cupation zones of Germany, ar'e, being swamp-
ed with applications for recognition from thous-
ands of persons, of both sexes, calling them-
selves "Jews."
Five-hundred Jews, 400 of them survivors

of Theresienstadt death camp, have returned
to Hamburg, where the Jewish population
once numbered 25,000.
Two-hundred Jewish orphaned children,
survivors of Belsen death camp, have arrived
in England and are quartered iit the former
home of the Montefiore family, where they will
remain for six months under the supervision
of the Jewish Refugee Committee.
The new contender for the British Empire's
featherweight boxing championship is Al
Phillips, London-born Jewish boxer, who won
a stunning victory over Canada's colored
champion, Danny Webb, in the Whitechapel
Arena. Phillips, whose nickname is the "Ald-
gate Tiger," wore a Star of David on his box-
ing trunks during the fight.
Two-thousand-seven-hundred Dutch Jews
in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany are
being repatriated to Holland in exchange for
Soviet citizens in that country.

PALESTINE

Mrs. Ruth HaCohen, one of the founders
of Solel Boneh, Jewish Palestine construction
cooperative, and the wife of David HaCohen,
its chief, died at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem
after a prolonged illness. She was 46.
The World Grand Executive Council of
Mizrachi, religious orthodox wing of the Zion-
ist movement, called on the Zionist-Revision-
ists to rejoin the World Zionist Organization
in view of the present crisis. The Council also
urged Rabbi J. L. Fishman, Mizrachi member
of the World Zionist Executive, to withdravi
his resignation and continue with his duties
"in view of the difficult political conditions in
the Zionist movement, demanding the co-
ordination of all forces within the Zionist
Executive." Rabbi Wolf Gold, of New York,
was elected member of the Zionist Executive
for political affairs, to succeed Dr. A. Barth.
The total world income of Keren Kayemeth,
Jewish National Fund, for 1945, amounted to
$9,136,204. Of the 38 countries contributing,
the United States ranks first with $5,912,716
or over 64 per cent, and Palestine ranks sec-
ond with $938,840. The total figures exo.eci.3
last year's world income by 29 per

Committee Asks
State Dept. Aid
Displaced Jews

AJC Submits 3:-Point Plan
for U. S. to Facilitate
Their Immigration

WASHINGTON—Three recom-
mendations for dealing with- the
problems of relief and resettle-
ment of the displaced Jews in
Germany and other European
countries were submitted to the
State Department by represent-
atives of the American Jewish
Committee —Jacob Blaustein,
chairman of the executive com-
mittee, and Dr. John Slawson,
executive vice president.
In an audience with Under-
secretary of State Acheson, the
committee ' representatives urged
the forthcoming meeting of the
UNRRA Council to continue aid
and assistance to all displaced and
non-repatriable Persons "who
have suffered because of racial
"discrimination and who have re-
fused to return to their countries
of origin"; that the Intergovern-
mental Committee on Refugees
be given the necessary means
and authority to promote prac-
tical and immediate emigration
plans for displaced and stateless
Jews ;and that. the State De=
partment immediately establish
American -consulates in Germany
or make other effective arrange-
ments to facilitate the emigration
of displaced persons to the U. S.
Discussing the situation of the
100,000 displaced Jews now in the
American-occupied zone of Ger-
many, Blaustein and Slawson
stated that some of these Jews
have relatives in the U .S. who
would be willing to furnish all
the necessary guarantees for their
immigration.

7,000. Jewish Children
Under French OSE Care

More than 7,000 out of a total
of 11,000. Jewish children -who
survived Nazi terrors and are
now receiving aid and assistance
in France, are under the care of
the OSE organizations there, ac-
cording to Mr. Nathan Chanin,
educational director of the Work-
men's Circle and one of the
leaders of the American Jewish
Labor Committee. He has just
returned from a five-month tour
of Europe, where he investigated
the situation of the surviving
Jews, and reported his observa-
tions at a meeting of OSE lead
ers in New York..

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