' Friday, December 21, 1945
`Nansen Passports' Sought
y Vandenberg in Senate
Michigan Senator Introduces Bill for Re-Establishment o
• - World War I 'Visas' to Assist Displaced Persont and
Refugees in Occupied European Areas
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich-
. igan last week introduced a resolution in the Senate providing
for the re-establishment of the "Nansen Passports" which were of
great value in World War I in meeting the problems of refugees
and expatriated persons. .
Rep. Clare Booth Luce of Connecticut is
cooperating with Senator Vandenberg by sponsor-
ing the resolution in the House of Representa-
tives.
The concurrent resolution • introduced by
Senator Vandenberg (S. Con. Res. 42) reads as
follows:
"Whereas there are now in the areas occupied
by Allied military forces many thousands of
refugees, • including persons who have been up-
rooted from their native areas to which they fear
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to return because of the probability of persecu-
_ tion for their political beliefs; and
"Whereas following World War I, so-called Nansen passports
. were provided under the auspices of the League of Nations to
meet the needs of such persons, and did meet those needs: There-
. fore, be it
"Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives con-
curring), That the State Department be requested to explore and
promptly report on the subject of such x efugees with a view
to relieving immediately their present intolerable situation, either
by means of appropriate -international machinery with-in the exist-
- ing framework of the United Nations Organization to legitimatize
and register •the civil status of, and provide cards of identity for
- all stateless persons who are now in any area occupied by any
armed forces of a constituent member• nation of the United
Nations Organization, or, by giving sufficient and proper authority
for the above purposes to the Intergovernmental Committee on
Refugee Problems now existing with headquarters in London.
"For the purpose of this resolution, a stateless person shall
be understood to mean "any individual, free of criminal charges
against• him, Who does•not want to -return to -his farmer area be-
cause--of-the probability of persecution."
In a statement to The Jewish News, Senator Vandenberg de-
- dared in evaluating his resoluticin:
"1 have an idea that if we could succeed in this Movement,
it will be the greatest possible service we- can render to dis-
placed persons and refugees throughout the central European
area."
Thousands Pathetically Homeless
In an address on the Senate floor, upon introducing his resolu-
tion, Senator Vandenberg stated:
"One of the . things which is of greatest challenge in, the central
European area—and particularly in the controlled zones in Ger-
many—at the present time is the presence of literally hundreds
of thousands of displaced persons and refugees who are not only
pathetically homeless but who are virtually cut off from any sus-
taining nationality whatever. They are in effecj what might be •
called-stateless persons.
"They are innocent victims of a war which has made them
men and • women and pitiful- little children without a country—
yet constantly haunted with the fear of involuntary deportation
to a status which they would considei- worse than death.
"Last summer a serious question was raised that many of these
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stateless persons in. the American zone in Germany were being
involuntarily repatriated to sectors of Europe where they greatly
feared for their lives if they were repatriated.
Investigation Made of Situation
"At my request an investigation was made of this situation,
and the net result was to indicate that there is substantial improve-
ment. The fact remains that there are literally hundreds of thou-
sands of these stateless persons who need something by way of
.official identification to protect them against involuntary repatria-
tion, and to establish their rights to relief and to other human
considerations.
"General Eisenhower, in his recent testimony before a com-
mittee of the House of Representatives, defined a stateless person
as being 'any individual who does not want to return to his
former area because of the certainty of persecution'.
"Mr. President, following World War I a similar situation was
'confronted, and it was met by the establishment of what came
to be known as Nansen passports. The name, came from the Nor-
wegian Nansen, who was at the head of the official committee
seeking to protect the rights of . these refugees and these. displaced
'persons.
"It seems to me that there is very great need today for the
equivalent of the Nansen passports for the benefit of these refugees
and these displaced persons. I know of nothing which presently
could take their place, or offer an equivalent protection. I know
of nothing we could do to more effectively put hope into hundreds
of thousands of human breasts in these hapless areas which suffer
the • heaviest of postwar burdens."
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Anti-Jewish Propaganda
Increases in Entre Rios
Jewish . Agricultural . Settlements Under Attack, Paper
Reports; Col. Peron Condemns 'Death to Jews'
Weekly. Review of the News of the World
(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
German language newspapers everywhere
in the United States are picking up the Nazi
propaganda line where Goebbels was forced
to leave off, preaching hatred of Jews, Eng-
land, and the Soviet Union, denouncing the
trial in Nuremberg of 20 top Nazi war crim-
inals and -demanding food for Germany even
if "rationing goes on here," the Friends of
Democracy, Inc., reports. Outspoken against
Jews is the Einwanderers' Freund, mouthpiece
of the Port Mission of the Evangelical Re-
formed Church in North America.
The Ku Klux Klan is back in action in the
Southern States resuming its hate war against
Jews, Catholics, Negroes and other minority
groups, Allan L. Swim, New York World
Telegram staff writer, reports in the first of
a series of articles titled "Merchants of Hate."
Nine Klan units now meet regularly in At-
lanta, Georgia. According to 55-year-old Dr.
Samuel Green, Klan Grand Dragon, there are
about 25,000 Klansmen active in Georgia alone.
Other units are burning crosses in Alabama,
Tennessee and Texas.
PALESTINE
The people of Egypt are the principal con-
sumers of hashish, spinach-like leaf which has
a 'greater narcotic effect than opium, the
United Press reports in a dispatch from here.
The Levant countries, Syria and Lebanon, are
the chief poducers of hashish in the Middle
East, and Trans-Jordan is the country through
which the leaf is transported, to the con-
sumers, according to the UP. The Arab League
may consider measures to curb the traffic:
The British Embassy in • Cairo, according
to reports in the Arab press there, advised
the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee on
Palestine to seek countries other than Pales-
tine for the settlement of homeless European'
'Jews. The statement reportedly asserts that
the Arabs cannot be expected to carry the
entire burden of the Jewish refugee problem
and that Palestine cannot be the sole place of
refuge ' for the displaced persons of Europe.
Twenty-three Jewish refugees, including
16 children, were fired upon and arrested by a
military patrol near Metullah, on the Palestine-
Lebanese frontier, after they attempted to
escape from the patrol which had captured
them.
The Palestine Government has established
a liaison office as a link between the Govern-
ment and the Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry on Palestine, in order to "facilitate"
the work of the committee.
Seventy Jewish settlers, arrested after
the British troop and police raids, Nov. 26, in
Emek Hefer, were sentenced by a military
court to nine months detention. One hundred
and twenty others have been released.
OVERSEAS
Foreign Secretary Bevin continued to evade
all demands, in Commons, for definite meas-
- ures by the Government to bring to trial and
punishment Haj Amin el Husseini, former
Mufti of Jerusalem, now under indictment by
the Yugoslav Government as an Axis war
criminal, and at present living in France.
Replying to a query by George Porter, Labor
MP, Bevin said that representations had been
made, but that he could add nothing.
The Manchester Guardian, 'in an editorial,
cautions Jewish Palestine leaders to cooperate
with the joint Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry oh Palestine, no matter how desperate
their mood, or run the risk of prejudicing their
case in the eyes of the committee.
British Secretary of War Lawson, replying
to a question by Phil Piratin, Communist MP,
admitted that, on specific orders from the War
• Office, Jewish personnel in the British Army
are kept outside of Palestine.
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Slogans in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—There has been a marked increase
in anti-Jewish propaganda in the province of Entre Rios, Where .
Jewish agriaultural settlements are located,: :it is reported in El
Diario, an influential newspaper published in Parana, capital of
the province.
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The paper terms "intolerable" the anti-Jewish atmosphere in
Entre Rios. At the same time, it was reported here that a Jewish
-youth organization has been forthed in the province for the purpose
of fighting anti-Semitism.
The release of. 12 .Jewish youths who have been under arrest
here since the anti-Jewish outbreaks last month has been ordered
by Col. Filomeno Velazco, chief of the federal police, following a
visit by Dr.. Moses Goldman and Dr. S. Tarnoploski, president and
secretary, respectively, of the DAIA, Central. Jewish representative
body.
Col. Juan D. Peron, the "strong man" of Argentina, last week-
issued a statement from his party headquarters in which he dis-
avowed the support of persons shouting "Death to Jews, Long .
Live Peron" as "irresponsible elethents who try to provoke alarm
and confusion".
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statements condeirming anti-JewiSh activities in Argentina was
made Public . by 'the -DAIA. It also expressed its gratitude to 'Father
Pierre Charles, .a Belgian priest, who has delived many public
addresses recently condemning racial propaganda as anti-Christian,
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