Friday, November 3O, 1945

Eisenhower's Directives
Ignored, Chaplain Charges

Incompetent, Disinterested' Subordinates Disobeyed His
Orders to Improve Conditions of Displaced Jews,
Capt. Marcus Says after Tour

NEW YORK (JPS)—American military personnel, administer-
ing the DP camps are generally "incompetent and disinterested" and
are not carrying out Gen. Eisenhower's directives on the treatment
of Jews, Capt. Robert S. Marcus, Jewish chaplain w _ ith the Ninth
Tactical Air Force, charged here.
Capt. Marcus, a graduate of Yeshiva College in New York, and
formerly on the staff of the American Jewish Congress, just re-
turned from 21-months of duty in Europe.
Speaking at a press conference here, called jointly by the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress and the Jewish Welfare Board, Capt. Marcus
said that after publication of the Harrison report "conditions im-
proved, for a while, but they have deterioriated again." He said that
"any improvements in the condition of the Jews is largely the re-
sult of their desire to help themselves."
Capt. Marcus described conditions in the DP camp at Wild-
flicken where, he said, eight men were expected to share one loaf of
rye bread a day, but the bread is so sour and stale that it is indi-
gestible. Twenty-four men, he said, were asked to subsist on a can
of meat and watery soup. The cigaret ration is three a day. He also
charged that medical treatment was infrequent.
Asked how the condition of Jews in the U. S. zone compared
with conditions in the British zone, Capt. Marcus said that it was a
common opinion in Germany that "one of the reasons the British
kicked displaced persons around was that the British wanted them
to get disgusted, change their minds about going to Palestine and
agree to return to Poland." Nevertheless, Capt. Marcus asserted, 99
per cent of Jews in U. S. and British zones want to go to Palestine.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the New s of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Ecuador's leading statesmen, and the diplo-
matic corps representing six western hemi-
sphere nations, gathered at a reception in
Quito marking the inauguration of an Ecuador
Pro-Palestine committee to "work in support
of a free and democratic Jewish State in
Palestine." The new committee is headed by
Dr. Jose Rafael Bustamente, fOrmer Minister
of State, chairman, and Dr. Luis Boassano,
Dean of the Law School of the Central Uni-
versity, secretary.
The National Ussishkin League, aimed at
furthering the interests of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, was launched in Atlantic City
at a meeting of 100 Zionist leaders who at- ,

tended the convention of the Zionist Organ-
ization of America. The League, formed under
the sponsorship of Bnai Zion, fraternal Zionist
organization of America, will require mem-
bers to take out insurance policies in amounts
of $1,000 and over, naming the J.N.F. as the
benificiary. •
Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the
American Council for Judaism, hailed the
establishment of an Anglo-American Commit-
tee of Inquiry, as having "at one stroke very
properly severed the humanitarian problems
of the displaced Jews of Europe from the
political problems of Palestine," in a message
to President Truman.
(See Also Page 30)

Reveal Roosevelt Requested Punishment of Nazis
PRAGUE, (JTA)—The principle that crimes against humanity
be included in the indictment of Nazi war criminals was introduced
by the late President Roosevelt shortly before his death, it was re-
vealed here by Col. B. Ecer, Czechoslovak representative on the
United Nations War Crimes Commission. Roosevelt insisted that
atrocities committed against individuals because of their race or
religion be considered war crimes, even though perpetrated by the
Axis nations against their own nationals, Col. Ecer told the cor-
respondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Palestine Arab Parties
Elect Multi Supreme Head

Initiator of Moslem Legion Which Fought for Axis Chosen
in Absentia; Labor, Communists Denied Representa-
tion; New High Commissioner Sworn in

JERUSALEM, (Palcor)—After five days of intensive negotia-
tions by a special delegation of the Arab League, headed by Syria's
delegate Jamil Mardem, the Higher Arab Committee of Palestine,
banned for its role in the 1936-39 riots, was re-established here giv-
ing the followers of Haj Amin el Hussein(, Mufti of Jerusalem,
majority representation, and elected the Mufti as chairman in
absentia. The Mufti, initator of the Moslem Legion which fought
for the Axis, and under indictment as a war criminal by the Yugo-
slav government, is now living in Paris under a dubious status.
The Arab League delegation succeeded in reconciling the lead-
ers of the various Arab parties and organizations in Palestine whose
refusal to accept the Husseinites demand for majority representa-
tion was the major obstacles in the way of re-establishing the
Higher Arab Committee. The committee, as agreed upon by all
parties, will now consist of five Hussenites, five representatives of
the other parties, and two "non partisans." with the Mufti as chair-
man. The "non partisans" are: Musa Alami, director of the Arab
. Propaganda Office, and Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, chairman of the
Umma Fund for land purchases in Palestine to prevent Jewish land
acquisitions. Both "non partisans" have been associated with the
Mufti. The chairmanship is to remain vacant pending the Mufti's
return. to Palestine, of which the Arab politicians appear confident.
Labor, Communists Excluded
The committee does not include -a single representative of the
Arab labor organizations. The claim of the Arab Communists for
representation has been rejected.
The Higher Arab Committee will represent Arab interests
vis-a-vis the Palestine Government and the Arab League. The
initial function of the Committee will include determination of
its attitude towards Foreign Secretary Bevin's Palestine statement.
election of representatives to the Arab League and discussion of
Arab propaganda strategy.
Cunningham Sworn In as High Commissioner
Lt. Gen. Allan Gordon Cunningham arrived in Jerusalem
Nov. 21, and was sworn into his office that afternoon.
The ceremony at Government House was attended by nearly
200 invited guests, including Government representatives, military
officers, and leaders of the racial communities, including David
-ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive; Isaac ben
AZvi, president of the Vaad Leurni, Jewish Palestine's National
c ouncil, and Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog.
Soon after his return here from London, David ben Gurion
met with the Palestine members of the Executive to report on the
political situation.

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Buenos Aires Police Chief Accused
Of Allowing Anti-Semitic Uprising

NEW YORK (JPS)—Nationalist followers of Colonel Juan
Peron, unmolested, resumed their anti-Semitic and anti-Democratic
demonstrations in the heart of the Argentine capital, only a few
tiours after Gen. Filipe Urdapilleta sent a sharp reprimand to Col.
Vilemono Valesco ordering him to act "with energy" to "wipe out
at its source" any racial campaign in Argentina, according to
Joseph Newman, N. Y. Herald Tribune correspondent cabling from
'Buenos Aires.
Col. Valesco, Buenos Aires chief of police, stands accused of crim-
inal complicity in Nazi espionage in Argentina, according to
,charges filed against him by Dr. Agustin Rodriguez Araya, former
National Deputy, Mr. Newman reports.
The Minister of Interior's note to the Police Chief, published in
el newspapers in the country, followed a series of anti-Semitic
aets by nationalists in which Jews charged police complicity. The
Argentine Jewish Federation sent a note to President Farrell last
:month, charging that Buenos Aires police had helped anti-Semitic
gangs in their attacks on synagogues.

Jews in Buenos Aires Prepared for Self Defense
NEW YORK (JPS)—Joseph Newman, N. Y. Herald Tribune cor-
A'espondent, reports from Buenos Aires that "it is no secret that
lOome resident's of the Jewish quarter have been armed to defend
li-hernselves against attack" by followers of Col. Juan Peron, head of
'Argentina's Colonels' Clique and presidential candidate of the Na-
lonalist Party. Arnaldo Cortesi, New York Times correspondent,
porting from Buenos Aires charges that open anti .-Semitism has
een adopted as the "pglitical stock in trade" of Col. Peron and his

oliowers.

They Finished Their Job

Now—Let's Finish Ours

BUY VICTORY BONDS

Caring for our 300,000 casualties is going to cost hundreds of m4.
lions of dollars in the next few years,

It is one of your Oovernment's mosf solemn obiTgations.

It Is a debt we all adnowledge and are glad to pay.

Want to see where The money goes? Welk 15,000 men will need

artificial legs. .Physical and psychiatric care will run to millions of
dollars this coming year, alone. Men will need to learn new trades,.
That's going to cost millions more. We tould 90 on But is there
any need?

The job has to be done—and we all wan+
Crone. rAnycl &tying
extra Bonds in the Victory Loan is the way to see that it gets done
promptly, and properly!

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