Friday, April 12, 1946

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Seven

Wise Challenges
King Ibn Sautl's

FDR

Statement

Questions Alleged Remarks
by Arab Chief Before

Inquiry Committee

NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Ste-
phen S. Wise issued a' statement
challenging the accuracy of re-
marks allegedly made to mem-
bers of the Anglo-American Com-
mittee of Inquiry on Palestine by
King Ibn Saud.
Dr. Wise, who conferred with
the late President Roosevelt after
the latter returned from Yalta, en
route from which he met with
Ibn Saud, denied the accuracy of
the Arab King's allegation that
Roosevelt had told him that "he
was convinced that Palestine was
not the place for the- Jews."
President Roosevelt's version of
his conversation with Ibn Saud,
Dr. Wise said, was in complete
variance with this declaration.
He also questioned the validity
of Ibn Saud's statement that
President Truman has proposed
the immigration of 100,000 Jews
into Palestine "while refusing to
permit Jews to enter his country."

7 Rabbis Ordained
At Budapest Scene
Of Nazi Horrors

BUDAPEST (JTA)—The first
group of rabbinical students to
be graduated since the Nazi oc-
cupation of Hungary were or-
dained here in the building of the
Rabbinical college, which, as an
internment camp for Jews, was
the scene of many horrors dur-
ing the pro-Nazi regime.
Seven rabbis were ordained.
They will be sent to provincial
Jewish .communities where there
is an acute shortage of spiritual
leaders, since most of Hungary's
rabbis perished in death camps.

Palestine Provides
Only DP Solution,
Rifkind Declares

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Without
Palestine, there is-- -no solution to
the problem of the displaced
Jews in Europe, Judge Simon H.
Rifkind, former civilian advisor
to the Commanding General of
the U. S. Forces in the European
Theater, declared in his first pub-
lic address since his return to
the U. S.
He spoke at a reception given
in his honor by the Interim
Committee of the American Jew-
ish Conference.
Calling for the immediate -eva-
cuation of DP centers in Ger-
many, Judge Rifkind said that
mass migration of European Jews
to Palestine was the only answer
that humanity could give to the
Jewish people. "Should the
Anglo-American Committee fail
to respond to their human cry
the results will be catastrophic,"
he stressed;
He praised the courage and
devotion of the American Army,
from generals to enlisted men,
for their efforts in behalf of the
surviving European Jews. Were
it not for the American Army,
there would be no Jews in Cen-
tral Europe today, he said.

"Who Shall Live . . . Who Shall Die"

This is the challenge to the conscience of American Jewry

Only 11,000 Survivors
Remain in Yugoslavia

Out of the 80,000 Jews who
lived in Yugoslavia before the
war, only 11,000 remain alive,
according to a report received by
the Hebrew Sheltering and Im-
migrant Aid Society (HIAS) from
Harry Balstan, HIAS represent-
ative in the Near East, who is
visiting the Balkan nations to de-
termine where additional HIAS
offices should be established.
Of the surviving Jews, approxi-
mately 1,000 are former members
of the Yugoslavian armed forces
who were taken prisoners of war,
and the bulk of the remainder
consists of young and middle
aged Jewish men and women
who fled to the mountains dur-
ing the Nazi invasion and joined

the Partisans.

as the great Emergency $2,000,000 Allied Jewish Cam-

paign commences here to provide rehabilitation for the

1,400,000 survivors in Europe.

YOU Shall Decide Their Fate!

You CAN and you MUST save them.

You MUST—if your conscience is to be clear.

Work and give to the Detroit Jewish

Shelby Street and State

Community's great mercy drive.