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HE JEWISH

Friday, _November 1, 194b

Polish Authorities Round Up
Bands Terrorizing Jews

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NEWS

HIAS Escort

Byrnes Assures Dr. Wise
Of State Dept's Support

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Declares No Difference of Opinion Exists Between Truman
and Department of State Regarding U. S. Policy
Toward Palestine

Military and Judicial Officials Launch Concerted Drive
Against Bandits; Many Sentenced to Die for
Deaths of Hundreds of Jews

WARSAW, (JTA)—Polish military and - judicial authorities
have launched a concerted drive to stamp out bandit groups which
have been terrorizing4Jews throughout Poland for more than a year
and which have been responsible for the deaths of several hundred.
A detachment of 40 which op4rated along the rail lines between
Lukow and Miedzyrzec, dragging dews from trains and killing
them, was rounded up by the militia and 10 bandits were killed.
At Katowice, a military court sent e nced to death three brigands
who had murdered many Jews in the Katowice-Bielske district.
At Bailystok a fascist leader, Waclaw Maiszewski, and his as-
sistant were sentenced to be hanged.
In Cracow another military tribunal doomed the leader of a
band which dragged Jews from trains between Cracow and Nowy
Sacz. -
In Stettin, a criminal court sentenced a militiaman, Karel Dob-
rzanski, to-life imprisonment- for firing into a group of Jewish
children, gravely injuring two of them. Dobrzanski pleaded that
he "couldn't pass Jews in the street without getting excited." In
pronouncing the verdict, the president of the court said that "the
murder of Jews is Poland's greatest shame." He had refraizred
from imposing the death sentence because of the defendant's "poor
mentality. "

Jews of Germany Seeking Permission to Open Berlin Office

MUNICH, Oct. 24. (JTA)—The Jewish Ceptral Committee is
negotiating with _American military authorities for permission to
open an office in -Berlin, it was learned here today. The Com-
mittee has already established offices in the principal cities of the
American zone except Berlin where special permission is required
because of the four-power administrative set-up and the ex-
tremely crowded conditions.

British Trade Unionists Attack Anders Soldiers

LONDON, Oct. 24. (JTA)—Soldiers of Gen. Anders Polish Army
were bitterly• attacked as fascists and anti-Semites at the annual
meeting of the British Trades Union Congress, the London Press
reported. Speakers condemned the anti-Jewish and anti-labor
actions of members of the Polish Corps in Scotland and England.
Others pointed out that many of the Poles had formerly served in
the Nazi forces.

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Secretary of State Byrnes has assured

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, American member of the executive of the

FORMER

MAJOR HENRY

ORTNER, acting as HIAS escort,
is shown with two JeWish chil-
dren who were hidden by a gen-
tile family during the occupation
of Poland. BORUCH SZAPOCZ-
NIK, 9, is at the right and his
sister, MANNPRL, 5, is at the
left.

JDC European Director
To Inspect Work in DP Camps

MUNICH (JTA) — Dr. Joseph
Schwartz, European director of
the Joint Distribution Committee,
arrived here Oct. 24, on a tour
of inspection of JDC activities in
displaced persons' camps near
here. and the local Jewish com-
munity.
He first visited the Neu Frei-
mann camp toured by Gen. Eisen-
hower last week and then pro-
ceeded to the Rosenheim camp
where 1,300 Jewish children live.

Jewish Agency for Palestine, that no difference of opinion exists
between President Truman and the Department of State regarding
U. S. policy toward Palestine.
The Department of iState made public an exchange of corres-
pondence between Byrnes and Rabbi ∎ Tise, in which Dr. Wise asked
for clarification of rumors that - The President's statement (of Oct.
4) is not to be considered as policy of the American government
and that, in fact, the State Department is. not giving full support to
the policy which the President's statement would seem to reflect."
Byrnes, in his letter of Oct. 24 to Dr. Wise, emphatically denied
the rumors. "I am happy to assure you." he wrote, "that the rumors
to which you refer have no basis in fact. The statement made by
the President on Oct. 4 with regard to Palestine and to Jewish imnii-
gration into Palestine is, of course. an expression of the policy of
this government. With this policy I am in hearty accord."
Byrnes declared both the Department of State and the Foreign
Service will continue loyal and whoehearted implementation of
Presidential policies regarding Palestine and the question al dis-
placed persons in Europe.
"The importance which this government attaches to the matter
and the deep personal concern of the President over the situation
in Palestine and over the condition of the displaced persons in
Europe," Byrnes said. "a concern which I share,-is shown by the
fact that on this *occasion. as on several prior occasions, the President
himself has expressed the views of this government.
"The Department of State and the Foreign Service are en-
deavoring loyally and wholeheartedly to do their part in the imple-
mentation of these policies with regard to Palestine and associated
problems. They will continue so to do."

Appeals for American Rabbis to Work Among Displaced Jews

NEW YORK. Oct. 24. (JTA)—Aa appeal for American rabbis
and spiritual leaders to go overseas to work among the displaced
persons in Europe was made here today by Dr. Isaac Lewin, former
member of the Polish parliament, who has just returned from
Europe where he assisted Jewish refugees to immigrate to the
United States.

Increase Seen

In Problem of
Displaced Jews

Hudson's

All Inhabitants of U. S.
Camp's Have Palestine as
Goal, Peterson Says

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• WASHINGTON, (JTA) — As-
sistant Secretary of War Howard
Petersen, who returned this week
from an inspection trip in Ger-
many and Austria, told a press
conference that the occupants of
the Rothschild camp in Vienna
and at Feldafing outside Munich,
which he visited, unanimously
expressed the wish to go to Pal-
estine.
He said there had been an in-
crease in the number of Jewish
displaced persons from Poland
since the pogroms of last July.
and that they infiltrated into the
American zone "because it is
closer to Palestine." The British
zone has no comparable l)P prob-
lem, he pointed out.
Paterson emphasized that the
Army care of displaced' persons
does not constitute a permanent
solution. "It should be thorough-
13r understood that it is emly a
temporary stopgap," he said.
"The DP problem is not only not
solved, but has increased,"= large-
ly due to the heavy influx of
Jews from Poland. Most Of the
"admittedly sub-standard" tent
camps which the Army estab-
lished to care for this inflilx will "
be closed before winter, accord- r -
ing to Petersen, and their oc-
cupants transferred to billets.
He praised the Central Com-
mittee for Liberated Jews for its
liaison functions with the Army.
and its cognizance of the need
for self-supporting projects for
Jewish displaced persons. Point-
ing out the "psychological anti-
- pathy" of these DPs toward
working in Germany and thus
contributing to a renaissance of
German economy, Petersen said
he was encouraged by the devel-
opment of work programs at
Feldafing, where 1,500 of the total
4,290 population were engaged in
some full-time employment.

"Palestine Music Awards
TEL AVIV (Z0A)—Tel Aviv's
$400 municipal prize for musical
composition for- 1946 has been
awarded • jointly to A. U. Bosco-
vich and Enrich Walter Stern-
berg, both of Tel Aviv, Mr. Bos-
covich for his Semitic Suite, Mr.
Sternberg for his "Ishtabach"

Cantata ta'o the words of Yebuda
Halevy.

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