40)000 More DPs Due in U. S. Zone
Gen. M'Narney's Advisor
On Jewish Affairs Hits
Army Officers' Figures
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Approximately 40,000
Jews from Poland and other Eastern European coun-
tries are expected to enter the U. S. zone of Germany
this summer, according to Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein,
Advisor on Jewish Affairs to Gen. McNarney. He
branded as "fantastic and without basis of fact" a state-
ment made earlier this week by a group of American
Army officers that if the flow of Jewish refugees is not
halted, the Army will eventually have to feed, clothe,
and house up to 3,000,000 Jews.
In his first public statement since assuming office, Dr. .
Bernstein told a press conference here that a news agency
report published June 25 which stated that he had ad-
vocated the halting or limiting of immigration to the Am-
erican zone was completely erroneous and that the news
agency already had apologized to him.
Figure To Remain Under 10,000
Pointing out that he had just completed a study of the
present influx of Jews from Poland and elsewhere, Dr.
Bernstein declared that the
"known increase in infiltrees dur-
. ing May was 5,933." In the same
month departures numbered
1,171, leaving an increase of 4,732.
This figure has risen somewhat
. in June, he continued, but will
be under 10,000.
He attributed the increase
partly to the faVorable summer
weather and partly to active anti-
Semitism in Poland. He said that
the Polish government was op-
posed to anti-Semitism but was
unable to halt it. He cited the
government's attempts to restore
Jewish property as one of the
factors which is causing anti-
Jewish violence.
"Eighty thousand Polish Jews
who fled to Russia have been re-
patriated," Dr. Bernstein assert-
ed. "They are returning destitute • RABBI BERNSTEIN
and to a hostile environment where they find no possibility
of re-establishing their lives. These 80,000 plus an addi-
tional 60,000 who are eligible for repatriation 'plus a small
number in Poland who survived the war constitute the prin-
cipal group from whom infiltration may be expected during
the year. The total possible number -will amount 'to. 150,000
not 3,000,000 as reported; -
"This suggestion that all the Jews in the Soviet' Union
might seek to move to the American zone is utter non-
sense. The Soviet Union does not permit citizens to emigrate.
A handful of old-time Russian Zionists may possibly wish
to go to Palestine."
Truman Reported in Favor of Getting Jews
Out of Central Europe "Right Away"
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Edwarcl Jacobson, former busi-
ness partner of President Truman in Kansas City, called on
the President on June 26 to discus's- the Palestine situation.
He was accompanied by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of New York,
director of the Committee on Unity- for Palestine.
Jacobson said that President Truman' is "all for getting
the Jews out of Central Europe right away." Rabbi Lely-
veld said that Mr. Truman's attitude was "most reassuring
as an indication of the President's concern in facilitating
the rapid transfer to Palestine of the 100,000 Jews."
U.S. Official Predicts Wave of Suicides
If Jewish DPs Are Not Admitted to Palestine
COLUMBUS, 0., (JTA)—A wave of suicides among dis-
placed Jews in Germany was predicted by Assistant Secre-
tary of War Petersen, unless Britain agrees to admit 10,000
into Palestine. In an address prepared for delivery before
the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, Petersen said that
delay in settlement of the Palestine question will result in
widespread unrest and possibly an attempt by Jewish DPs
to cross into France and Switzerland?
Ward of UJA: A Jewish child survivor, only member of
his family to escape Nazi extermination, is nursed back to
health and a new life at a child care home in Berlin, one of
several score institutions for Jewish orphans maintained in
Germany by the Joint Distribution Committee with funds
derived from the $100,000,000 United Jewish Appeal. Shown
with the child and his nurse is DOROTHY LEVY of New
York, member of the JDC staff in Germany and one of 125
welfare workers overseas assisting in the relief and rehabilita-
tion of 1,400,000 survivors, of whom 150,000 are children.
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
VOL. 9—NO. 16
34 •fet. 22
of Jewish Events
Detroit 26, Michigan, July 5, 1946
10a; $3 Per Year
British 'War'
In Palestine
Rouses World
—Page 3
Harrison, Monsky to Talk
At Bnai Brith District
Parley Here Wednesday
Page 7
First Exclusive Photograph
Of Planting of Ehrlich Forest
In . Ein Hashophet, Palestine
Page 6
Service Group Reorganizes to Widen
Representation Within Federation
Inclusion of 25 additional members on the board of governors of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit will make the Federation an all-inclusive representative
body that will speak for all elements in the community. The Detroit Service Group,
officers and leaders in the Allied Jewish Campaign last Friday adopted a eorganiza-
tion plan which puts into force the principles for a change-over which were ap-
proved earlier this year by the Federation board.
(Complete details on Page 5)
Freedom in Russia :
The Jews of Russia have come a long way since the time of Sholom
Aleichem's "Lufftmenscen" who lived in the Pale of Settlement in the days of the. Tzar. Today
they participate in a variety of trades and professions. V. MULIAR and F. KUCHNIR, on the
left, are combine drivers of the Yarmlinsky Machine Tractor Station in K.amenets-Podolsk Pro-
vince. On the right are M. SEITLIN and N. SOLOMONOV, in a Leningrad
furniture factory.