THE

Friday, November 16, 1945

Ruthenian Jews Denied
Czechoslovak Citizenship

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Omission of Jews From. Czech-Russian Treaty May Force
Them to Emigrate to Other Countries; Government
Won't Recognize Their Option to Remain

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PRAGUE, (JTA)—Carpatho-Russian Jews who chose to retain
Czechoslovaka citizenship after Carpatho-Russia was ceded by
Czechoslovakia to the USSR probably will have to leave Czecho-
slovakia since the Government is not likely to recognize their op-
tion, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was told by a high official
of the Home Ministry. Up to now, the authorities have been ac-
cepting options from these Jews on a provisional basis.
Pointing out that the Czechoslovak-Russian agreement granted
the right to choose Czechoslovak citizenship to Czechs and Slovaks
of Carpatho-Russia, the official said that the omission of Jews from
the pact was probably a corollary to the aim of the Government
that there be no national minorities in liberated Czechoslovakia.
According to this official: the omission of Jews from the
Czechoslovakia-Russian treaty is not likely to have been an over-
sight, since a similar Polish-Russian treaty mentions Jews
specifically.
At the same time that he stressed that should the options
by the Jews not be recognized by the government, they may be
asked to leave Czechoslovakia, he said they will not be forced to
return to Carpatho-Russia which is now a part of the Soviet
Ukraine. They will be permitted to emigrate to any country, if
possible Palestine.

British Counsel For Nazis Apologizes , to Jews
LUENENBURG, (JTA)—Major Thomas C. Winwood, defense
counsel for several of the Nazi defendants at the Belsen trial, pub-
licly apologized to the Jews for his remarks that the people ex-
terminated in the Nazi camps were "dregs of the ghettos".
During his final speech in defense of Joseph Kramer, com-
mander of the Belsen camp, Maj. Winwood said: "I personally regret
that any words which may have been spoken by me should have
added to the pain of that race which has suffered so much in Nazi
Germany. I have been acting only as the mouthpiece of the
accused.'

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Berlin Jewish Children Arrive In Paris
PARIS, (JTA)—FOrty-four Jewish children, most of whom are
orphans, have arrived here from Berlin in the care of UNRRA
representatives. They were transported by the U. S. Army, and
will be housed in Paris until they can emigrate to Palestine.

Dean Harry J. Carmen, of Columbia Col-
lege, in his annual report to the president of
Columbia University, recommended that the
student body should come "from the families
Of recent immigrants and from families who
have lived here for generations," and from
the country and city districts, East, West,
North and South. The recommendations were
based on the report of a special committee
appointed to determine the state of the col-
lege. Frequent charges that Columbia Uni-
versity maintains a quota system against Jew-
ish, Negro and other minority student groups
have been denied by the University spokesmen.
Peter H. Bergson, chairman of the Hebrew
Committee for National Liberation, which
Opened a "Hebrew" Embassy in Washington,
faces possible deportation to Palestine. Mr.
Bergson, an alien, - had, under a ruling of the
Board of Immigration Appeals, until midnight,
Nov. 1, to leave this country voluntarily for
any destination. He has applied for an ex-
tension of the voluntary departure permit
past the deadline. If the application is denied,
a Justice Department spokesman said, a de-
portation warrant would be issued for Bergson
under which he would be required by law to
show cause why he should not be deported
to his "country of origin." Bergson entered
the U. S. with a Palestine passport and hence
would be deported either to Palestine or
England.

PALESTINE

The Jewish Agency for Palestine has been
able to overcome the difficulties which prevent-
ed Jews, headed for Palestine, from leaving
Rdmania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hun-
gary, Eliahu Dobkin, member of the Jewish
Agency Executive in charge of immigration,
announced at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Mr. Dobkin announced that the first Palestine
Emigration Office will soon be opened in Ger-
many, and will be headed' by Dr. Chaim
Hoffman of Palestine.
The mukhtar (Arab word for village head-
man) of the Jewish settlement Ramath
Hakavesh was stabbed and seriously- wound-

Dr. Weizmann
T Address ZOA
Session Monday

1,000 Leaders Representing
500,000 Zionists Attend-
ing 4-Day Convention

WASHINGTON — Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the
World Zionist Organization, will
address the Monday night ses-
sion of the 48th annual conven-
tion of the Zionist Organization
of America which opened a four-
day session this Friday in Atlan-
tic City, N. J.
The same_ session will hear an
address by Mrs. Lorna Wingate,
widow of Gen. Orde Wingate,
famous British General who died
in Burma.
More than 1,000 delegates re-
presenting a constituency of 500,-
000 organized Zionists will parti-
cipate in the deliberations.
The business sessions will be
preceded by a session on Friday
noon under the auspices of the
Unity Committee for Palestine.
This session will be followed in
the evening by a Sabbath din-
ner:
Formal opening of the business
sessions of the convention will
be held on Saturday evening at
the Casino Theater. Dr. Israel
Goldstein will deliver h _ is presi-
dential address.
The current political situation
on the international and Pales-
tine scenes will be reviewed and
discussed Sunday afternoon in
addresses by Dr. Abba Hillel .
Silver and ,Dr. Step4n S. Wise,
co-charimen of the American
Zionist Emergency Council. Elec-
tions will be held in the preced-
ing session. The fourth plenary
session, Sunday evening, will be
given over to a discussion of
plans for the ZOA in the ensu-
ing year. •
Special sessions will be dedi-
cated to the UPA, Jewish Na-
tional Fund and Keren Hayesod
With Judge Morris Rothenberg,
Judge Bernard A. Rosenblatt
and Herman L. Weisman as prin-
cipal speakers.
Speakers will include Louis
Lipsky, Dr. Nahum . Goldmann
and Mrs. Judith Epstein.

Two JeWish Inventors
Receive" Navy Awards
WASHINGTON, (JPS) — Dr.
Herbert Friedman and Dr. - Elias
Klein, are among the four Navy
Research Laboratory. workers
here to be presented with . the
Navy's distinguished Civilian Ser-
ylce awards.

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ed by Arab assailants who stole his purse.
He was riding on a donkey toward the citrus
groves when the Arabs fired at him, the
donkey was killed, and as the mukhtar fell
the Arabs rushed at him, stabbed him and
fled with his money. No political motive is
ascribed to the attack.
A party of 140 repatriated Jewish prisoners
of war, the last party of Palestinians from lib-
erated camps, reached Palestine Now 5 aboard
the Canadian 2,200 tonner Scythia.
A Jewish ex-servicemen's conference was
held in Tel Aviv at which it was decided to
form a United National Organization of Jewish
Veterans.

OVERSEAS

The Ninth Jewish Detachment of the Bel-
gian underground, which battled against the
Nazis during the occupation, has been present-
ed by the Belgian Government with the Bel-
gian flag in recognition of its work.
Vulgar anti-Semitic verses, distributed
among Swedish school children and sent to
Swedish clergymen, are being published by
Stockholm printing firms which were often
employed by the Nazi during the war.
Two hospitals for Jewish orphans are be-
ing established in Poland by a delegation of
the Swedish Red Cross. The hospitals will be
located at Otwock and at the resort town of
Helenowek.
It is reported from Paris that French au-
thorities deny charges that they had any hand
in the escape to Saudi-Arabia, of Rashid All
Gailani, former Iraqui Premier who engineered
the Iraqui fascist coup-d'etat during the El
Alamein crisis, and helped organize the pro-
Nazi Moslem Legion.
The Max Rheinhardt Theater in Berlin,
which was renamed under the Nazis, has now
resumed its original name. It opened the
season with Lessing's "Nathan Der Weise."
British Military authorities have rejected
a Soviet request to register Baltic Jews, in
Bergen-Belsen, for repatriation, because the
Jews have no desire to return to their original
countries.
(See also Page 18)

