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Friday, April 5, 1946

Anti-Semitism Threatens
Surviving Jews in Europe

Page Three

Weekly Review of die News of the World 1

(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

New Series of Outbreaks Throughout Continent Seen Peril
to Remaining 1,400,000; Police Attack Jews in DP
Camp in U. S. Zone; Plan Polish Defense Unit

Legislation to permit posts of the Jewish
War Veterans of the United States to receive
condemned or surplus ordnance equipment was
introduced into the House by Rep. Canfield
(R., N.J.). Present law allows nine other vet-
erans' organizations to obtain artillery equip-
ment no longer in use.
Former Governor Harold E. Stassen, of
Minnesota, potential 1948 Republican Presi-
denital candidate and a member of the United
States delegation to the UNO Conference in San
Franciseo, urged the United States to insist,
within UNO councils, about to convene here,
upon "fulfillment of the spirit of the UNO
Charter" in the Netherlands East Indies, Indo-
China and Palestine.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the. Ameri-

Not since the outbreak of the war has the position -of
European Jewry been • as serious as it is today.
Reports of the rise of anti-Semitism and of the persecu-
tion of the surviving remnant of Jews in Europe indicate
that a grave situation has arisen to threaten the very exist-
ence of the 1,400,000 survivors.

Last week, at Stuttgart, one Jew was killed and five were
wounded when German police swooped down on a DP camp on
the outskirts of this city in a hunt for black market products and
counterfeit ration stamps.
Life at the Stuttgart camp has returned to normal following the
issuance of an order by Lt. Gen. McNarney, European Theater
commander, forbidding German police from entering Jewish DP
camps.
The displaced Jews, UNRRA officials, ∎ voluntary relief workers,
and even local American military officials hailed the order, and
pointed out that it would relieve the major sore spot—use of German
police against Jews.
One American officer attached to the occupation forces summed
up the situation as follows: "If the military government hadn't
granted permission to the Germans to enter the camp, there would
have been no trouble, and nobody dead at the Stuttgart Jewish
DP camp."
An investigation was launched March 30 by local American
military officials into the conduct of the raid. It is considered likely
that the inquiry will result in arrests among the German police.
The raid; which had. the endorsement of the U. S. military
authorities, developed into a pitched battle between about 1,800
Jews and 220 police, when the Jews attempted to drive the police
from the camp.
Residents Unarmed And Defenseless
David Clearfield, UNRRA director, said that the camp resi-
dents were unarmed and defenseless. "The first shot was fired
by German police," he said, "when the Jews in mob fashion tried
to push their" out of the camp, shouting that they had no right
to be there." The dead man, was Samuel Danziger, 37, a former
concentration camp inmate.
Several American soldiers participated in the fray, having
rushed to the assistance of the Jews, whom they thought were be-
ing attacked. They withdrew when they were informed that the
raid had official approval. The arrival of American armored
cars brought the outbreak to an end.
From London the JTA reports that twenty-five Jews were
killed in Pbland last month by anti-Government bands, a Warsaw
dispatch to the Sunday Observer discloses.
A report from Munich said that a Jewish refugee and an
American soldier at the- Seidlung camp near there were stabbed
after the refugees reportedly attacked a Polish guard at the camp.
The DPs charged that several shots had been fired into their
quarters, and claimed the Pole was responsible. U. S. military
police arrested three German girls, a Polish WAC, and a Polish
MP and four refugees.
Anti-Jewish Riots Break Out In Two Hungarian Towns
From Vienna, JTA reports that anti-Jewish riots have oc-
curred in She towns of Ozd and Sajoszentpeter, in Hungary, dur-
ing which. Jewish houses were looted and Jews attacked by mobs
shouting anti-Semitic slogans.
The communal kitchen maintained by the Joint Distribution
Committee for the needy Jews of Ozd was plundered by the mob,
which was incited by former Nazi sympathizers. Local police made
no attempt to protect the Jews.
In Budapest the Hungarian secretary of state told the JTA
correspondent that the police in Ozd took immediate action against
the hooligans and that the ringleaders, all forther Nazis now active
in other parties, were arrested. "About 40 persons are under arrest
awaiting severe punishment," he said.

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Malcolm W.
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Jews May Organize Self-Defense Group In Poland .
LONDON, (JTA)—Jews in Poland may be given arms by the
government to protect themselves against the continued anti-Jewish
terror in the country, the Chronicle reports, adding that some. type
of Jewish self-defense organization soon will be formed as a result
of discussions. in Warsaw between Jewish leaders and members
of the Polish cabinet.

Writes About

1,500 Displaced Jews Protest iU. S. Order For Transfer
FUERTH, Germany, (JTA)—"We demand the right again to
enjoy family life! Give us the homes the Nazis stole from the
Jews of Fuerth!"
These slogans predominated among those shouted by 1,500
marching Jews in two DP camps here when the U. S. Third Army
began the removal of 350 persons from the Or Chadosh camp, which
Lt. Gen. Truscott had ordered closed.
On the baSis of the recently issued order asking. Jews them-
selves to select those to be moved into other DP barraks at Barn-
berg, but without any apparent effort to reach an understanding
with these Jews, American soldiers moved into the two inadequate
camp streets and began to crowd them into.Army trucks.
Several hours later the total to be removed was far from
complete while several who had refused to leave Were arrested
and are to be tried for disobedience of Army orders.
Complaint Charges Transfer Would Affect Family Life
. When the Jews massed to protest the transfer order, they
presented their complaints to an American officer, saying that
they did not desire to put up resistance but that they believed
their condition was being worsened because the new barracks would
not permit family life, and would force as many as 50 individuals
into one room.
The American officer's reply was that the orders were not
his but that he was required to carry them out. Besides, he re-
marked, the scheduled move was only temporary.
After the forced transfers the camp seemed frighteningly like
a ghetto during a still unfinished "operation." The same atmo-
sphere pervaded the other camp at Fuerth, to which 100 former
residents . of the liquidated camp were transferred.

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Carpathian Jews Cannot Apply For Czechoslovak Citizenship
PRAGUE, (JTA)—The Soviet government has ruled that it
will no longer permit Carpatho-Ukrainian Jews to apply for Czecho-

slovak citizenship under the agreement between the USSR and
Czechoslovakia, which provides that Czechs and Slovaks in the
Carpatho-Ukraine can choose either Soviet or Czechoslovak citizen-
ship, it was reported here.
Commenting on the report, the Czechoslovakian Foreign Office
stated that Carpathian Jews who are already in Czechoslovakia
will not be compelled to return to the Carpatho-Ukraine. It also
was announced that Jews married to Germans must leave Czecho-
slovakia.
The first reversal of a court decision on mixed marriages made
during the German occupation was announced here this week.
The couple, N. Metzger and his "aryan" wife, asked the court to
set aside a divorce, which they had requested under presSure of

Nazi occupation authorities.

can Jewish Congress, has asked the American
Broadcasting Company for a half hour air time,
to answer a recent attack on foreign-born
Americans made over ABC by Representative
John E. Rankin (D., Miss.).
Bodies of 23 women, all believed to have
been Jewesses shot by the Nazi SS, have been
found in a mass grave near Potsdam, the
Berlin radio reports according to a Reuter dis-
patch from London.
Col. Juan D. Peron, leader of Argentina's -
"Colonel's Clique," has been elected President
of Argentina for a six-year term, following
a .bitter campaign marked by frequent anti-
Semitic demonstrations by hoodlum Peronistas,
who invaded the Jewish quarters of Buenos
Aires and provincial towns.
(Additional' World News on Page 22)

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