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VOL. 8—NO. 13
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Truman Names Inquiry Board
Judge Joseph Hutcheson U.S. Head of Joint Commission on Palestine
WASHINGTON.—President Truman on Monday announced the
appointment of Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson of the Fifth Circuit Court
at Houston, Tex., as U. S. Chairman of ihe Anglo-American inquiry
commission on Palestine, which will examine the political, social and
economic conditions in Palestine, "as they bear upon the problem of
Jewish imuligration and settlement therein and the well being of the
peoples now living therein."
Sir John E. Singleton, judge of the King's Bench Division of the
High Court of Justice, London, England, is the British chairman.
The commission will consist of 12 members. President Truman has
stated that both the American and British governments have urged the
committee to make its report within 120 days after the inquiry has
begun, the committee determining its own procedure.
The other five American members of the commission are:
Dr. James G. McDonald, who formerly held these positions: Chair-
man of the board of the Foreign Policy Association, High Commission-
er for Refugees and member of the New York Times editorial board.
Frank Aydelotte, former president of Swarthmore College, now
director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University
and American secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Frank W. Buxton, editor of the Boston Herald.
0. Max Gardner, former . Governor of North Carolina, now prac-
ticing law in Washington.
William Phillips, former Undersecretary of State, Ambassador to
Italy and personal representative of the President at New Delhi, India.
The other British members are: Wilfred P. Crick, economic adviser
to Midland Bank; Richard H. S. Crossman, Labor member of Parlia-
ment; Sir Frederick Legett; Maj. Reginald E. Manningham, Conserva-
tive MP; Lord Morrison (Baron Robert Craigmyle), former Labor MP.
World's Jewish Leaders
Map DPs Aid; General
Assails Camp Tragedies
Oneg Shabbat in Japan:
.
This photograph promises to be-
come historic. It shows the first
Oneg Shabbat for Jewish troops
in Japan. Arranged by Capt.
Morris Adler, Army chaplain, in
Tokyo, this photograph shows
some of the Jewish soldiers with
Rabbi Adler (center), who is on
leave from Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
ATLANTIC CITY.—As more than 600 delegates
from all sections of the country reached here for
the historic three-day National Conference of the
United Jewish Appeal which opens Saturday, Dec.
15, at the Chelsea Hotel, word was received that
Jewish leaders from France, Belgium and Holland
are on the last lap of their journey by plane from
Paris to participate in the sessions out of which will
come a clear-cut and extraordinary program of Am-
erican Jewish aid to Jews in Europe and Palestine
in 1946.
The most impressive array • of distinguished
leaders ever to address a national Jewish assembly
will be the principal speakers at the first conference
to be convened by the UJA since its organization in
1939 as the combined nationwide fund-raising
instrument for the Joint Distribution Committee,
the United Palestine Appeal and the National
Refugee Service.
During the three-day meeting addresses will be
delivered by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine; Dr. Leo Baeck, former -
Chief Rabbi of Berlin; Earl G. Harrison, American
member of the Inter-Governmental Committee on
Refugees and author of the report to President Tru-
man which brought to light the deplorable situa-
tion of the displaced Jews of Europe; Robert Gam-
con of Paris, one of the leaders of the Maquis resist-
ance movement and president of the Eclaireurs
Israelites de France (French Jewish Boy Scout
movement) ; Paul Philipps= of Brussels, grandson
Hate-Fighters : REP. DICKSTEIN, who becomes a mem-
ber of the N. Y. State Supreme Court in January, signing
the first petition calling on Congress to pass his resolution
condemning all hate propaganda. Left to right: N. W. SCHUR,
National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism; M. ROSEN-
BERG, Trade Union Committee for Jewish Unity; Rep. Dick-
stein, and GEORGE STARR, Jewish People's Fraternal
Order of IWO.
Killers Rest :
NRS at Work : Interviewing a potential employer to find
work for refugees is part of the program carried on by the
National Refugee Service. Funds for the NRS are supplied
by the United Jewish Appeal, which derives its Detroit in-
• come through the Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish
Welfare Federation.
While a U. S. MP maintains
a close watch, a few of the Nazi war lords
on trial for their war crimes—including the
slaughter of 5,000,000 Jews, chat during a
recess at Nuernberg, Germany. RUDOLF
HESS, No. 2 Nazi, is seated on the edge of
the prisoners' dock while facing the camera
is HERMANN GOERING.
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