Friday, December 7, 1945
Price Reports Condition
Of Jews in Camps Improved
President Truman's Special Representative Said He Received
No Complaints From Residents; Displaced Persons
Free to Come and Go at Will
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The position of Jewish displaced
persons in "settlements" in Germany was reported to e adequate
by Byron Price, former director of the office of censorship, in a
memorandum released by President Truman. _
Price went to Germany as a special representative of the
President to study the relationship between the American occupa-
tion forces and the German people, and submitted his report to the
President on Nov. 9. "These unfortunate people are not living
under the best of conditions," he reported, "but I received no com-
plaints of physical suffering."
(These reports are contradicted by Jewish leaders return-
ing- from overseas. Chaplain Marcus charges that conditions have
grown increasingly worse for the Jewish displaced persons).
Price said that at the special request of Gen. Eisenhower, he
visited, during October, several of the centers which house the
remaining 400,000 displaced persons in the American zone, four of
which were reserved for Jews. These are located at Stuttgart,
Feldafing, Wolfratshausen and Deggendorf.
Residents Free to Come and Go at Will
"None of these is a 'camp' in the ordinary sense," Price declar-
ed. "With few exceptions the buildings are of permanent winter-
ized construction, mostly stone or brick, equipped with hospitals
and community kitchens, and heated. The residents are free to
come and go at will. In only one instance did I observe over-
crowding and that situation was being remedied."
President Truman was urged by the American League, for a
Free Palestine to protest the arrest of leaders of displaced. Jews
in the Bergen-Belson camp by British military authorities.
In a telegram to the President, the League drew his attention
to the report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency of the arrest of
leaders of the Central Jewish Committee in Bergen-Belsen on Nov.
16 and of the desecration by British military police of the Zionist
flag. "If this is liberation, what was Nazism?" the telegrams asked.
Peronistas Renew Attacks
On Jews in Buenos Aires
Supporters of Col. Peron Use Guns and Bombs in Battle
in Jewish Section; Police Arrive But Fail
to Arrest Anti-Semitic Terrorists
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—Using guns and bombs, supporters
of Col, Juan Peron again invaded the Jewish section of the city and
attacked Jews in the streets.
The Jews offered stiff resistance and the Peronistas, who num-
bered more than fifty, were compelled to retreat after firing about
thirty shots and throwing two bombs. No casualties were reported.
As usual, the Peron-controlled police arrived after the disturb-
ances had ended and arrested an 18-year-old Jewish youth. The
police's persistent refusal to curb anti-Jewish outbreaks, and their
arrests of only the Jewish victims, was again attacked this week
in the Socialist - newspaper Future. The paper also charged that
the police are torturing political prisoners, particularly JewS.
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
Colonel Raymond Kramer, of New York
City, Chief of the Economic and Scientific
Section of Allied Headquarters in Japan, was
presented with the Distinguished Service
Medal at a ceremony in Washington. The
award was made by Maj. Gen. R. J. Marshall,
acting Chief of Staff.
An electronic fuse, which detonates a bomb
or shell as it nears its target, regarded by U.
S. military experts as second in importance
only to the atomic bomb among the revolu-
tionary weapons which helped win World
War Two, was developed for military use by
Dean Joseph Weil, of the Engineering Col-
lege, University of Florida, and his co-work-
er, Dr. Palmer H. Craig.
The Rev. Arthur W. Terminiello, self ap-
pointed successor to the anti-Semitic radio
priest, Father Coughlin, has been removed
from his pastorate at Sacred Heart Church,
Anniston, Ala., for "having refused to obey
the orders of his Bishop to cease sending out
literature which . . is detrimental to the
Church," Dick ArmStrong reports in the
newspaper PM. The Rev. Terminiello's re-
moval was announced by the Rt. Rever,.end
Thomas J. Toolan, Bishop of the Diocese of
Mobile, Ala.
Attempts by racial bigots and alien baiters
to stir resentment against European refugees .
residing in this country by spreading the ru-
mor that they are exempt from federal taxes,
was deplored by Senator Brien McMahon (R.
R.I.) sponsor of a bill to close a loop hole in
the Capital Gains Tax law.
New York City's four tax supported col-
leges are launching independent programs to
combat racial and religious intolerance, not
only on their own campuses but in areas of
the city where racial tension is acute, it was
disclosed here by the presidents of three of
the colleges and acting president of the fourth,
according to announcements by Dr: Harry
Noble Wright, president of City College; Dr.
Harry D. Gideonse, president of Brooklyn
College; Dean Eleanor H, Grady. acting presi-
dent of Hunter College. and Dr. Paul Klapper,
president of Queens College.
Palestine's Federation of Labor, founded here
on Hanukah, 25 years ago, with an initial
membership of 4,400 and now numbering close
to a quarter of a million members, including
their families, is being observed throughout
Palestine by gala functions, meetings and
rallies.
Rabbi Jacob Halberstamm, the Hassidic
Tchakower Rebbe, arrived from the United
States Nov. 28, and was greeted by a large
crowd of followers:
Students of the Hebrew University in-
formed the settlements raided by troops and
police Nov. 25-26 that they are prepared to
volunteer to repair the damage caused by
the raiders.
The Tel Aviv Municipal Council held a
special session and passed, unanimously, a
resolution expressing "vigorous protest against
the savagery of killing and wounding of un-
armed inhabitants who did not harm the
troops; the attacks were intended to forcibly
strangulate Jewish Palestine's opposition to
the closed gates in the face of their brethern
wishing and entitled to enter." The resolu-
tion warns: "No acts of violence will halt
the struggle for assuring the future of our
people in their homeland."
The administrative committee of Givat
Haim published an announcement, following
the Government communique on events there,
stating that the Government communique con-
tains untruths and fiction. The administra-
tive committee asserts that not a single shot
was fired from the settlement by its members
or by the thousands of Jews who came to,
their assistance. But High Commissioner Cun-
ninghorn has issued a statement reasserting
that Jews fired the first shots.
The General Officer in Command of Pal-
estine's troops announced the reduction of
sentences imposed by a military court last
October on 20 youths, the oldest of them 22,
for the possession of arms and ammunition
found in a clearing near the village of Shuneh.
The sentences of two of them, owing to their
extreme youth, were decreased to one day's
imprisonment, while sentences of three to
seven years imprisonment, against 17 others,
were reduced to one and two years. A sen-
tence of seven years imposed on the eldest
was not reduced.
Palestine army headquarters announced
recently that "on the night of Nov. 26 to
Nov. 27, approximately 160 Jews were ap-
prehended at the settlement Zichron. Yaakov
by the military and police checkpost which
had been established there to enforce the
curfew."
Official Government statements to the -con-
trary, Jewish authoritative circles stated that
an inquiry has revealed that the allegation
that Jews • had fired on the troop and police
raiders were "a pack of lies."
PALESTINE
The Central Committee of the World Miz-
rachi Organization, meeting in Jerusalem Nov.
29, voted to request that Dr. Chaim Weizmann
resign from the Presidency of the Jewish
Agency in protest against British policy in
Palestine, and to urge the emergency session
of the Jewish Agency Executive to adopt a
policy of non-cooperation with the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry.
Of the 10,500 Jews who have survived in
Greece,. fully 7,500 are living on dole given
them by the Joint Distribution Committee,
Eliahu Schanhnai, leader of one of several Pal-
estine relief units operating in Greece, de-
clared at a press conference.
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