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Stalin Checks
Property Deal
On JTA Cable

NEW YORK, (JTA)—An in-
quiry cabled by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency to Marshal Stalin
with regard to Jewish property
in Vienna, reported to have been
presented by Russian_ military
authorities to a non-Jew, resulted
in an investigation and a reply
from the political representative
of the USSR in Austria that the
property in question was re-
turned to the former Jewish
owner after the Soviet Military
"temporarily settled in the house
an Austrian woman whose hus-
band had perished in a concen-
tration camp during the German
occupation."
The reply, transmitted • to the
JTA through the Soviet Consul
General in New York, Jacob M.
Lomakin, emphasizes the district
where the property is located is
now in the British zone and the
Soviet authorities have had noth-
ing to do with it since Sept. 1945.
Addressed to Stalin
The cable addressed by the
JTA to Marshal Stalin, on May
18, 1946. was based on a report
which appeared at that time in
the New York Times. It read:
"It is reported by the New
York Times that Red Army auth-
orities in Vienna have presented
as a gift to a non-Jew a house at
Schweitzertalstrasse 17, owned
by Anna Robinson, a Jewish vic-
tim of Nazi persecution whose
entire family was exterminated
by the Nazis and who returned
to Vienna after harrowing expe-
rience of seven years of Nazi
'concentration camps to find her-
self deprived of her own home.
"You can imagine her feelings
seeing herself deprived of her
home which was presented by
the Red Army military command
in Vienna to another person un-
der 'a certificate of gift'.
"Your Excellency has repeated-
ly expressed powerful sentiments
in favor of victims of Nazi perse-
cution, assuring them that they
will receive justice. The New
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British

Offer to Agency
Mentions Jewish State

'Federalization Plan'
Still Basis for Talks

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A nine point British proposal
for Jewish Agency participation in the London conference
on Palestine is reported to have been forwarded to the
Jewish Agency through the Palestine government. It sug-
gests the following:
1. The detained leaders of -the Jewish Agency will
be released, provided they undertake not to engage in the
type of activities for which they were arrested.
2. These leaders are not, however, to participate in
the London conference as representatives * of the Jewish.
Agency.
3. The Jewish Agency should guarantee that the
underground Jewish groups will not disturb the peace.
4. The Jewish Agency should take steps to end
"illegal" immigration..
5. The immigration quota is to continue on the basis
of 1,500 visas monthly, with the Jewish immigrants who-
are detained in Cyprus to be brought to Palestine to await
release under the quota.
6. Military police searches will cease and no arrests
will be made if the Jewish Agency accepts the above
conditions.
7. The period of quiet which it is hoped will follow
the above steps should be used for preliminary negotia-
tions prior to the resumption of the London conference.
8. Only the Morrison-Grady plan—the "federalization-
_plan"—shall be a basis for negotiations and no other pro-
posal. Jewish immigration is to continue into the Jewish
part of Palestine under the above plan and in accordance
with its absorptive capacity. Later an opportunity will
be given to discuss the political status of the Jewish part
of the country.
9. Jews who are at present in Palestine, as well as
those Who will enter the autonomus Jewish section of the
country, will be entitled—in due time—to independence
in the form of a Jewish state.
A Jewish Agency spokesman, commenting on the in-
formal talks which are now being held between British
representatives and leaders of the Agency, stated the Jews

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.A New Pattern:

Through funds of the United Jew-
ish Appeal the Joint Distribution • Committee is helping
survivors in Czechoslovakia to operate a weaver's co-
operative. ABOVE: An Auschwitz survivor at her ma-
chine. BELOW: Philip Ruby, left, JDC- director in
Slovakia, examines the finished product

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This Is a DP Camp in Germany

Is This Their 'Freedom' 17 Months After Liberation?

are at present advancing three major demands:

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The squalor portrayed below cries out against the unjust treatment
of the survivors in Europe. Their plight calls not only for help—
which is being provided by the United Jewish Appeal—but also
for justice. Justice can be effected for them through emigration
from their poverty-ridden quarters to freedom in Palestine.

