'Friday, February I, 1946
New N. Y. State IT Sought
To Eliminate Racial Barrier
Two Bills Introduced in Senate and Assembly Following Re-
port by Mayor's Committee Pointing out Discrimina-
tion in Universities; $50,000,000 Project Urged
ALBANY, (JTA)—Two bills to establish a state-supported uni-
versity have been introduced into the New York State Senate
and Assembly as the result of the presentation this week of a re-
port to the Mayor's Committee on Unity in New York City charg-
ing discrimination against Jewish, Negro and Catholic students in
colleges and universities in New York City as well as elsewhere
throughout the country.
The bills would provide for a $50,000,000 university offering
adequate and equal opportunity for cultural, scientific, and pro-
fessional training for a student body which might reach as high as
40,000 to 50,000. Funds would be obtained from the State's $485,-
000,000 post war reconstruction fund. Early action on the measures
is expected.
Two other bills, introduced into the legislature previously,
ask that jurisdiction be conferred on the State Commission Against
Discrimination so that the Commission would be empowered to
eliminate discrimination in educational institutions as well as in
employment,
Number of Jewish Students Off 50 Pct.
NEW YORK (JPS)—The number of Jewish students in pri-
vately-owned medical schools and undergraduate colleges in New
York City and elsewhere has dropped almost 50 per cent in the last
10 years as a result of discrimination, it is disclosed in a report now
before the Mayor's Committee on Unity, headed by Charles Evans
Hughes, Jr., which reveals widespread bias against Jewish, Negro
and Catholic students practiced "almost without exception" by
private non-sectarian educational institutions.
The 'report declares that although the deans and chairmen of
admission of these schools publicly deny the existence of any quotas
against racial or religious groups, this condition is rapidly growing
worse. It recommends the establishment of a state- or city-supported
university which includes a medical school, liberal arts and post-
graduate departments.
The report titled "Discrimination in Institutions of Higher
Learning," accuses medical schools of the most flagrant bias against
Jews, Negroes and. Italians in New York City. It reveals that in the
last decade preceding the war years the number of Jewish students
in Grade. A medical schools decreased from 12.16 per cent of the
student body to 6.26 per cent as a result of discrimination. "The
percentage of the Jewish students of the total student body admitted
to all undergraduate schools fell about 50 per cent."
Admit 'Very Definite' Limitations
The heads of privately-owned colleges, medical and law schools
in New York City admitted off the record to the Committee's Re-
search Board, that their institutions maintain "very definite" limita-
tions against students of "certain racial and religious backgrounds
and locations," which, they say, are kept in order to "nationalize"
the schools.
The chairman of the Admissions Committee of one New York
City medical school, denied any quota system in his school but in the
course of conversation admitted that during his administration the
percentage of Jews in the student body was drastically cut, the
report says.
ti-Semitism in U.S. Army?
Some GIs OK Nazi System
22 Pct. of 1,700 Polled Last Fall Believe Hitler 'Had Good
Reasons' for Persecution of Jews; Zemach, Noted
Dancer, Assaulted in N. Y. by Hoodlums
THE JEWISH NEWS.
Page Three
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Weekly Review of die News of the World
(Compied from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
PALESTINE
The over 900 Jews who were landed in
Palestine by troops and transferred to the At-
lith camp after their vessel had been captured
by the British Navy while cruising in Pales-
tine's waters, "trampled the White Paper un
derfoot in the course of their landing," Moshe-
Shertok, Chief of the Political Department of
the Jewish Agency, told a mass meeting in
Haifa.
The Palestine Government announced that
the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee will
arrive in Palestine early in March after a visit
to Europe and a brief stay in Egypt.
Gilbert Sale, 48 year old Briton employed by
the Palestine 'Government forest conservation
department, was seriously wounded by an Arab
who stabbed him while he was walking in
the outskirts of Jerusalem.
Several Jewish settlers and Arab squatters
were injured in a scuffle with sticks when the
Arabs occupied land belonging to Kibbutz
Evron near Naharia.
AMERICA
A proposal that the admission of immigrants
into the United States be based on personal
qualifications of the immigrant and not on the
place of his birth was made by Earl G. Harri-
son, former Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization and now Dean of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, while speaking
on the question "What Should Our Immigration
Policy Be?" at a round table radio forum in
New York.
The displaced Jews in Germany will not
remain in Europe at any cost and see in Pales-
tine the only hope of resuming a normal fruit-
ful life, Michael T. Tress, national president of
the Agudath Israel Youth Council of America,
reported at a press conference here on his re-
turn from a two months' tour of Germany.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chairman of the
European Executive Council of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, left by air from New York,
Jan. 22, for London and Paris, where he will
resume direction of the Committee's relief and
rehabilitation activities for distressed Jews on
the continent.
The first 2,000 names on the Nazi Party's
card index file of 80,000 members in this coun-
try and South America, discovered recently in
Frankfurt, will arrive in the United States
Feb. 1, and will be turned over to Senator Kil-
gore's committee investigating U. S. foreign
economic policy. The additional names will ar-
rive here in May. •
Settlement in the Dominican Republic of
25,000 to 50,000 homeless European Jews was
suggested by Symon Gould, director, the
American Library Service, who recet
ly re-
cently returned from the West Indies. Mr.
Gould estimated that it would cost $50,000,000
to settle Jews in modern farm colonies in the
Dominican. Republic.
"Hitler Lives," a 20 minute motion picture
warning that Hitlerism is alive in the thinking
of many persons in places as high as Congress
itself, has been distributed by Warner Brothers
studios to its movie houses in New York and
elsewhere.
The Swedish Government will admit for "a
limited period" a few thousand Jewish children,
many of whom are now fleeing Poland, Per
Albin Hansson, Premier of Sweden told a dele-
NEW YORK (JPS)—A U. S. Army poll taken last fall of 1,700
American troops, said to represent a cross-section of our forces
occupying Germany, revealed that at least 22 per cent of the men
believe that the Germans under Hitler had "good reasons" for perse-
cution of the Jews and another 10 per cent are "undecided" on the
issue of German anti-Semitism, the Associated Press reports in .a
dispatch from Wiesbaden.
The poll was an "official secret" for months and is not yet
officially released for publication" but was made available by an
authoritatiVe source, AP says.
The enlisted men questioned said they had "talked" to the Ger-
mans. Fifty-one per cent said they believed Hitler did Germany a
lot of good before 1939, 19. per cent believed the Germans had
justification for starting the war; 11 per cent said they weren't sure;
24 per cent said the Germans had a "very good" or "fairly good" .
argument when they contended Germany had a right to control
Europe because she is the .most efficient nation on the continent.
Twenty-nine per cent conceded that they had grown "more favor-
able" to the Germans since the end of the war.
overall survey showed that about one in four American soldiers in
overall survey shower that about one in four American soldiers in
Germany had a "very favorable" or "fairly favorable" opinion of
the German people. However, 80 per cent favored occupation of
Germany by United Nations troops for 10 years. Seventy-one per
cent said the AMG was not "tough enough" with Nazis and 62 per
cent said it was not severe enough with ordinary Germans.
Zemach, Colleagues Beaten by Anti-Semites
Benjamin Zemach, of the original troop of the Hebrew theater
Habimah and choreographer for Broadway Productions, and three
colleagues, Brett Warren, a stage manager of Deep Are the ROots;
John Warren, Hollywood director, and Ettore Rella, playwright,
were badly beaten up by a gang of eight anti-Semitic hoodlums led
by a man in uniform, in New York City's bohemian Greenwich
Village.
Zemach, confined since the attack with concussion of the brain,
contusions of the jaw and bruises all over his body, was alone when
assaulted by the gang which pushed him into a hallway and accom-
panied each punch with nasty epithets.
gation of the World Jewish Congress in Stock-
holm, the Congress announced in New York.
The arrangement does not call for permanent
settlement of the children in Sweden.
The final report of the Anglo-American Com-
mittee of Inquiry on Palestine "is not likely to
solve the present impasse" on Palestine, New
Republic, liberal weekly, predicts in an editor- •
ial. The actual value of the inquiry, the
editorial says, "will be to determine the extent
of America's real concern in the fate of sur-
viving Jews of Europe and our willingness
to take responsibility for a permanent and
satisfactory solution of the Palestine question."
Four plate glass windows of stores and a
restaurant owned by Jews were smashed by
vandals in the Fern Rock area of Philadelphia
Jan. 21.
A campaign for funds to remodel Philadel-
phia's Grace Baptist Church and provide it
with a "Chapel of the Four Chaplains" got
under way. The chapel will honor four chap-
lains of different faiths who went down with
the transport Dorchester in the North Atlantic
in February 1943, after giving their life belts
to enlisted men. Rabbi Alexander Goode was
the Jewish chaplain who lost his life.
OVERSEAS
The legality of granting independence in
the near future to Transjordan announced by
Foreign Secretary Bevin is being questioned
by many delegates attending the London UNO
Assembly on grounds that an independent
Transjordan means splitting the original Man-
date which included both Palestine and Trans-
jordan.
Less than half the British public has a
definite conception of the Government's hand-
ling of the Palestine dispute, but of those who
do express an opinion, 26 per cent approve the
Government's policy and 21 per cent disap-
prove, the London News Chronicle asserts, re-
porting the results of a Gallup poll on the Pal-
estine question. All together, 74 per cent of
the persons asked were aware of the present
Palestine crisis, and 26 per cent knew nothnig
of
it.
•
Eighty-six thousand sixty Jews are now liv-
ing in Poland, distributed among all provinces
of that country, the Jewish Central Committee
disclosed in Warsaw, refuting reports abroad
that only 50,000 Jews remain in Poland.
Anti-Semitic placards blaming the Italian
Government for encouraging large scale Jew-
ish immigration into Italy from Eastern Euro-
pean countries, are being posted on the streets
of Milan, Genoa, Rome and other cities by
Italian fascists. •
Julius Streicher's private Jewish archives
from which Nazidom's number one Jew-baiter
drew the material which he carefully distorted
for anti-Semitic tirades in Der Stuermer, have
been discovered by U. S. military authorities.
Streicher, now on .trial at Nurenburg with the
top Nazi war criminals, collected in his archives
hundreds of volumes of Jewish religious works,
lore and literature as well as ceremonial can-
delabra and other religious objects.
The entire Danish press and radio warmly
praised the Jewish National Fund for inscrib-
ing in its Golden Book the entire Danish na-
tion for protecting Jews during the five year
Nazi occupation of Denmark.
CONFRERE
Russell Barnes, formerly chief of the
Psychological Warfare Bureau of the
OWI in the Mediterranean, is back with
The Detroit News and on a special as-
signment covering the UNO Conference
in London,
To keep informed on the momentous
decisions being made at this historic
conference, make a practice of reading
his reports regularly.
14,000 Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
In Need of Direct Help, JDC Aide Says
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A vast amount of relief is required by
the surviving Jewish refugees in Shanghai, who have been left
penniless and ill after four years of Japanese occupation, it was
reported here by Manuel Siegel, JDC representative in Shanghai
from Nov. 1941 until the end of 1945.
. Siegel, who was interned two and a half years by the Jap-
anese, told how considerable assistance was given the refugees,
who were confined in a ghetto in the Hongkew district, all during
the occupation through funds provided by the JDC.
Disclosing that 11,000 of the Jewish refugees still depend on
the JDC for direct relief, Siegel declared that "it is obvious that
the problem of the refugees cannot wholly be solved in Shanghai,
nor in the Far East, where their future is too uncertain." "The
refugees Would like to Lv.o either to Palestine or the U. S,". he added.
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