THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 22, 1946
World Zionist Congress Set
For First Meeting in Zion
Palestine Government Prepared in Principle to Issue Visas to
Delegates; 2,000 Certificates Deducted from Temporary
I ,500-a-Month Allowance to Account for "Illegals"
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Moshe Shertok, chief of the Political
Department of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, announced here
that the Jewish Agency will appear before the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry at its hearings in Palestine, but will not be
bound by its ultimate decision.
He announced also that the next World Zionist Congress will
convene in Palestine for the first time. The Palestine Government
already has informed the Jewish Agency that it will be prepared in
principle to grant visa facilities to the delegates attending the
Congress.
Mr. Shertok spoke at the fourth session of 'Assephath Haniv-
charim, Jewish Palestine's Lower House, which opened Feb. 13 at
Rosenblum Hall on the campus of the Hebrew University.
David Remex opened a discussion of the budgetary proposals
for 1946-47 for the Knesseth Israel, official representative body of
Jewish Palestine.
Aliyahu Berligne reviewed the budgetary proposal amounting
to $1,200,000, including $712,000 for social welfare but exclusive of
the educational budget totalling $1,408,000.
It was disclosed that Jewish Palestine spends $6,000,000 annually
for schools, excluding the budgets of the Hebrew University and
the Haifa Technician.
A new arrangement for the distribution of immigration certifi=
cates was outlined by Shertok at a press • conference. He
stated that the new immigration schedule is retroactive to Dec. 15,
1945, when the White Paper quota of 75,000, granted in 1939, was
exhausted, according to the calculations of the Palestine Government.
The Government will maintain until March 15, 1946, a three-
months quota of 1,500 immigrants per month, Mr. Shertok said.
From this quota, the Government is deducting 1,350 certificates for
the "illegals" who arived recently and were released after their
capture, and 700 for immigrants expected to arrive in Palestine
shortly.
Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency, who just ar-
rived here from the United States, told a packed session of Assepath
Hanivcharim that American Jewry has developed a greatei- attach-
ment with Jewish Palestine than ever before. He declared that few
such conventions were ever witnessed, like that of the Zionist Organ-
ization of America in Atlantic City last fall, where American Jewry
voiced its deep concern over the fate of Jewry in Palestine.
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Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
The U. S. State Department, in a sensational
40,000 word White Paper, indicted the military
government which has controlled Argentina
since 1942 as a collaborator and help-mate of
Nazi Germany which even now is protecting
a "vast nest" of Nazi agents, war criminals
and propagandists who are using. Argentina as
a base to rebuild their "aggressive power dur-
ing the period when their homeland is still
occupied.' The 130 page White Paper is based
in part on Nazi documents discovered in a
German salt mine cache. Copies of it were giv-
en to the Ambassadors of 19 Latin American
nations by Under Secretary of State Dean
Acheson at a special meeting here.
Houston, Tex., heretofore considered a
stronghold of the anti-Zionist American Council
for Judaism, was the site of a three-day South
Central Christian Conference for Palestine,
which included 20 functions and was climaxed
by a mass rally addressed by Senate Majority
Leader Alben W. Barkley (D., Ky.), who pro-
claimed the Conferences' slogan: "Not all the
Jews in Palestine but all of Palestine for the
Jews."
A semi-union of Transjordan and Iraq is
believed to have been the subject of the recent
discussions between Emir Abdullah, King of
Transjordan and Emir Abdul Illah, Regent
of Iraq, Clifton Daniel, N. Y. Times corres-
pondent, reports in a dispatch from Cairo.
The Justice Department admitted that it is
y in possession of documents purporting to prove
that Father Charles E. Coughlin, of Royal Oak
was a paid Nazi agent, but asserted that the
documents, which are in the form of an affi-
davit presented by a Father Aleksie Pelypenko,
contained many falsehoods and would not
stand up under use in court. Justice Depart-
ment officials indicated however, that this does
not constitute a whitewash of Father Coughlin.
Dr. Lise Meitner, pioneer in atomic research,
when asked regarding her Jewish contacts,
said: "I am not Jewish. My mother was Jewish,
but I was raised as a Protestant. I. never con-
fessed the Jewish religion. I belong to the
Lutheran Church."
Austrian Jews
Say Government
Refuses to Help
Gen. Manuel Avila Camacho, President of
Mexico, received Dr. Abraham Granovsky,
chairman of the board of directors of Keren
Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund) of Jeru-
salem, at a special audience Feb. 17.
Prime Minister Osubka-Morawski of Poland
has pledged the removal of all difficulties for
Jews who wish to emigrate from Poland, but
asserted that Jews wishing to remain will re-
ceive every opportunity for a free life. He stated
that he, personally is whole-heartedly in favor,
of open doors and a Jewish Commonwealth in
Palestine, the World Jewish Congress reports
in a cable from two of its representatives now
visiting •Warsaw.
PALESTINE
Capt. Giovanni Mezzano, alleged master of
the Italian motor ship Enzo Sereni, which
landed more than nine hundred illegal Jew-
ish immigrants in Palestine last month, was
re-arrested as he left Magistrate Court in
Haifa after charges against him were dis-
missed. The captain was taken away under
heavy police guard.
Azzam Bey, secretary general of the Arab
League, at a special press conference with cor-
respondents of Palcor and Tass News Agen-
cies and the French newspaper LeMonde, dis-
claimed all reports appearing in the Egyptian
press, that he had charged, at an earlier press
conference, that Zionists were leading a plot
to disparage the Arab League.
The Palestine, Arab Higher Committee an-
nounced in Jerusalem that it has decided to
appear before the Anglo-American Committee
of Inquiry on Palestine, but declared that it
would not regard itself bound by the find-
ings of the Committee if they were unfavor-
able to Arab interests.
Jamal Husseini, cousin and right hand man
of Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti now under
indictment as an Axis war criminal, attended
the Higher Committee's meeting, but leaders
of parties opposing the Mufti's party, continu-
ing their prolonged absence from Higher Com-
mittee meetings were not present.
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9:30 to 5:30
VIENNA, (JTA)—A demand
that discrimination between rac-
ial • and political refugees in Aus-
tria be abandoned was voiced
at a meeting here of 600 Jewish
former internees in Nazi camps.
Among those attending were rep-
resentatives of Chancellor Leo-
pold Figl and of the mayor and
city council of Vienna.
Speakers declared that public
officials and agencies are refusing
aid to returning Jews, who were
interned on racial grounds. One
speaker pointed out that the Jews
were the "most political" of all
the internees, since the Nazis re-
garded Jews as their chief "po-
litical problem."
It was revealed that the Jewish
Community Council has register-
ed 1,670 former internees, as well
as 32 children under 14 who also
were confined in camps. Up to
now, the Council has received
only $50 in relief for them, and
some parcels contributed by the
American Red Cross.
JDC Reports Condition
of Viennese Jews "Terrible"
PARIS, (JTA)—The condition
of the Jews in Vienna, particu-
larly in relation to the food situa-
tion, "is terrible," Benson Saks,
Joint Distribution Committee di-
rector for Austria, reported in
an interview here.
Pointing out that it was neces-
sary in recent months to care
for 20,000 to 25,000 people,
eluding 5,000 transients monthly,
Saks said that the • JDC and the
American Red Cross were the
only organizations providing food
and clothing to Viennese Jews.
$5,000,000 ORT Budget
For 1946 Is Approved
PARIS, (JTA)—A budget of
more than $5,000,000 for 1946 has
been approved by the executive
commtitee of the World ORT
Union, meeting here at its first
post war sesison, the organiza-
tion announced this week.
At least $750,000 has been ear-
marked specifically for ORT
work among the displaced Jews
in Germany where an additional
96 workshops are to be es-
tablished by the organization in
the American, British and French
zones of occupation. The ne-
cessity, for training about 170,000
youths between 14 and 19, and
the need for supplying machines
for 200,000 Jewish families in
Europe, was emphasized.
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