THE
Friday, January 10, 1947
Yiddish, Hebrew Now
Allowed in DP Mail
Morgenthau Accepts First
ILIA. General Chairmanship
ForMer Secretary of Treasury Heads $170,000,000 Drive
for Refugee, Overseas, Palestine Redemption Needs;
Calls Goal Americans' Moral Obligation'
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JEWISH NEWS
MUNICH (JTA) — Displaced
Jews in Germany will be per-
mitted to send mail in Yiddish
and Hebrew out of Germany, it
was revealed here, with the pub-
lication of a military government
order permitting the use of all
languages in international mail.
Prevoiusly the military govern-
ment had refused to pass Yiddish
and Hebrew letters because it
claimed that sufficient translators
were not available for censorship.
- Jewish leaders hailed the an-
nouncement by a German theater
grdup that it would cancel a pro-
posed production of Shakespeare's
"Merchant of Venice." The
Jewish Central Committee had
protested to the troupe and to
the military government that the
German people were not yet
"ready" for the play.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., for 12 years Secretary of the Treasury,
has accepted the invitation to become general chairman, the first in
the history of that organization, of the United Jewish Appeal for
Refugees, Ovearseas Neects and Palestine, which has undertaken to
raise $170,000,000 in 1947 for the relief, rehabilitation and resettle-
ment of Jewish victims of war and oppression, it was announced at
the national headquarters of the,.
Appeal, 342 Madison Ave., New
York City.
In a statement issued on the ac-
ceptance of leadership in one of
the largest voluntary relief cam-
paigns ever conducted in the
United States, Mr. Morgenthau
said, in part:
"The American people dedicat-
ed their resources and manpower
to the destruction of the menace
that Hitler represented to our se-
Medical Group Scores
curity and, freedom. It is now
Admission Discrimination
equally their will that those who
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — A
were the first and most tragic
resolution opposing discrimina-
victims shall have their fullest
tion of any kind in admission of
sympathy and support until they
students to undergraduate and
are able to stand on their own
medical schools was adopted here
feet. to make their own way. I
have accepted the general chair-
at a three-day convention of the
manship of the United Jewish
Association of Internes and Med-
HENRY MORGENTHAU, JR.
Appeal because I regard it as the
ical Students.
The association also went on
moral obligation of every Amer-, BUCHAREST, (JTA)—Roman-
ican, man, woman and child to ian police have arrested six per- record as favoring national and
save from despair and destruction' sons who broke into a synagogue local legislation to guarantee the
the pitiful remnant of Jews w o . .
Pancota, Transylvania, and availability of medical care to all
remain alive in Europe."
desecrated it. All six are Hun- I persons "regardless of racial, eco-
nomic or social status."
The United Jewish Appeal corn- garians.
bines the fund-raising activities
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, United Palestine Appeal and
United Service for New Amer-
icans. These provide. respective-
ly, for the relief and reconstruc-
tion of Jews in Europe, resettle-
ment of Jews in the Jewish home-
land in Palestine'and aid to new-
comers to the United States.
Hitherto the leadership of the
United Jewish Appeal has beer.
provided by three national chair
wen representing each of the con-
stituent agencies: Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, Charles J. Rosenbloom and
William Rosenwald.
Jewish Groups' Efficiency
Speeds Entry of DPs to U.S.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The effectiveness of Jewish organi• , a-
tions in making available "thousands of affidavits of support" f
displaced persons in the American zones of Germany and Austr'a
who have applied for visas to the U. S., was disclosed by C■ rge J.
Haering, chief of the visa division of the State Department, in a letter
to Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia.
Revercomb recently submitted to the Republican steering com-
mittee a report unfavorable to admission of DPs to this country.
In response to a request from Revercomb to the State Depart-
ment for information on visa issuances to displaced persons, Haering
wrote the Senator on Dec. 18 that "for obvious reasons. the majority
of the persons qualifying under the German and Austrian quotas
would be Jewish persecutees." Haering's letter is printed in the
Revercomb report.
Pointing out all DPs must be qualified for admission into the
U. S. under the immigration laws, including the so-called public
charge provisions, Haering said "the slowness of most non-Jewish
welfare agencies in providing any considerable number of affidavits
and of establishing adequate staffs of their representatives in the field
to deal with cases requiring evidence to meet the provisions of the
law naturally affected the number of non-Jewish cases which could
qualify in early months of the distribution of visas to DPs.
"In contrast," Haering continued. "Jewish organizations had large
staffs and thousands of affidavits of support available at the very
beginning of the program and they were, therefore. in a position to
take up any balance of monthly quotas for which non-Jewish appli-
Cants were not available by virtue of a lack of adequate documenta-
tion concerning support"
Influx of Polish Jewish Refugees to Austria Renewed
VIENNA. (JTA)—Emigration of Jews from Poland to Austria
which stopped last month due to cold weather has resumed again
at a rate of 100 a day, it was revealed. The new refugee influx is
apparently caused by fears the coming election in Poland will bring
new outrages against the Jews.
In a broadcast appealing for better treatment for the 30.000
Jewish refugees from Eastern European countries now in Austria,
Bronislaw Teichholz, president of the Jewish Refugee Organization.
declared the refugees do not want financial or other material aid
from the Austrian government. He pointed out that their food was
supplied by the American military forces and the Joint Distribution
Committee. He said the Jews did not desire to remain in Austria,
but were waiting to go to Palestine.
Casual Clothes from the
South
267 ORT Schools
Functioning in 10
European Countries
GENEVA, (JTA) — A marked
increase in the number of Jewish
institutions in Europe as well as
greater Jewish participation in
the productive life of Europe are
the first indications that Jewish
communities are gradually be-
coming stabilized, it was reported
by Dr. Aaron Syngalowski and
Dr. David Lvovitch, co-chairmen
of OA. World Union.
Dr, Syngalowski said 267 ORT
trade schools and training work-
shops are functioning in 10 Euro-
pean countries, excluding Ger-
many. The institutions include
105 new schools and workshops
established during the past four
months in Bulgaria, Romania,
Hungary, Poland, Italy, Switzer-
land, France, Belgium, Holland
and Czechoslovakia, in addition
to seven agricultural schools.
Up to December, he reported,
7,500 Jewish youths and adults
received vocational training and
3,600 displaced Jews attended
courses in ORT schools in camps
in the American zone of Ger-
many. He said the development
of ORT activities in Poland was
especially gratifying.
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Army Denies Troops
Beat 7 Jewish DPs
MUNICH, (JTA) — American
military police denied charges by
seven displaced Jews that they
were beaten by troops during
questioning.
The denial was contained in a
preliminary report of the Second
Constabulary Brigade Headquar-
ters which admitted that the
seven DP's had been arrested last
month in the slaying of a German
woman and her child, who, the
American authorities asserted,
were the mistress and illegiti-
mate child of an unknown DP.
The statement said that all seven
were released without incident
after questioning.
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