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Friday, August_ 14, 1947
THE JEWISH NEWS'
Oust Britain From Palestine, Crosby 'Adopts'
Jewish DrGirl
N.Y .7ost Editorial Demands
Briton Says Fear of Reprisal
Keeps Refugees on Vessels
Bing Crosby has become the
PORT DE BOUC, France, (JTA)—Charges by the commander
"father" of a girl. Parent of five
sons, Bing now "adopted" 11- of the British convoy which transported the refugees from the
"Exodus"
to this port that many Jews aboard the Ships would
year-old Zulma Scheinowitz, a disembark but
were afraid of "reprisals" were denied by the refugees
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speaking to the first group of Jewish correspondents permitted
aboard.
Col. M. I. Gregson, the convoy liberated, said he was going to
commander, told the newsmen: leave the ship with his wife and
"There is a lot of coercion on this two children because he was
boat, just like the Nazis used. A "tired and sick and wanted to get
lot of people would be willing to well:" He denied that pressure
get off but, afraid of reprisals, was used to prevent him from
they are not allowed to." Asked getting off. He said he had a
for examples to support his alle- brother and a sister in Los An-
gation, Gregson said there was a geles, but wanted to go to Pales-
Jewish girl who was sick in the tine.
ship's hospital and was told by a
The second refugee called to
doctor: "As a doctor, I say you speak with the correspondents
should get off the ship, but as a was a 29-year-old woman from
Jew I say you must not."
Wolen, Poland. She said she was
The British commander accused "tired and weak and sick" and
Jewish doctors who came aboard had spent the entire trip in the
to treat the sick with "passing hospital, worried about her 17-
on orders and propaganda." He month-old child. She also said
said he would not permit Jewish she wanted to go to Palestifie
doctors to board his ship, the Run- eventually and denied that any
ZULMA SCHEINOWITZ
—International Photo nymede Park. pressure not to get off had been
Asserting that 16 Jews planned directed at her.
half-orphan under the care of
The impression is that condi-
disembark, of whom only two
Rescue Children Inc., 1480 Broad- to
were ill, Gregson called one of tions are considerably better than
way, New York City. The or- them to speak with the news- when the ships arrived a week
ganization maintains 17 chil- paperman. A 50-year-old man ago. Food, drink and medical
dren's centers t h r o u g h o u t who had lived in the Warsaw attention are now strengthening
Europe, housing 3,000 such war ghetto and whom the Russians the refugees.
orphans.
Zulma was born in Liege,
Belgitim, of Jewish parents, on
January 1936. At the out-
break of the war her parents
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
fled with her and her sister,
Miriam, to France. In 1942, her Israel Rokach and Oved Ben-Ami—Symbols of Victimized Jewry
When the heads of the Jewish Agency in Palestine were arrested
father was arrested by the Nazis
and has not been hear‘from a year ago, under conditions which indicted the BritiAl administra-
since. The mother and her two tion's tyrannical attitude towards its Jewish "partners" in the task it
daughters fled to the woods was instructed by international covenants to build the Jewish Na-
where they lievd under the pro- tional Home, Israel Rokach, the Mayor of Tel Aviv, was excluded
persecution.
tection of the Maquis for the from Mr.
Rokacfi, a moderate and conservative man who was chosen
duration of the war.
for the Mayoralty of the all-Jewish city by the British, as a result
After V-E Day, the family re- of a tie vote of the municipality's electors, always favored friendly
turned to Belgium. When the negotiations with the Mandatory Power. Jews, especially the leaders
mother and Zulma's sister were of the labor movement. at one time accused him of being a "collabor-
stricken with tuberculosis and ationist." In the latest British all-out attack upon Jewry, Mayor
was among the first to be arrested and sent to the Latrun
sent to a sanatorium, Zulma was Rokach
detention camp, together with Mayor Oved Ben-Ami of Nathanya
given into the care of a hostel and other Jewish leaders. The two Mayors have consistently con-
in Antwerp.
demned the dissident groups. They certainly can not be classed as
Rescue Children Inc. devoted extremists, and they are not even considered as affiliates of Haganah.
to the care of Jewish child sur- Nevertheless, they are under arrest.
Nathanya's Mayor Ben-Ami, whose home was ransacked,
vivors, has succeeded in secur-
declared when told that he was to be detained: "This is the
ing more than 1800 foster par-
thanks I get for cooperating with the British for 20 years."
ents to contribute one dollar a
Both are symbols of a campaign of victimization. Even the cold-
day on a yearly basis for the blooded murder of five Jews and the injuries of scores of others by
care of a child.
British police who attacked a bus-load of passengers in Tel Aviv
was not sufficient to deter the morality-preaching British from
resorting to war on an entire people.
Dr. Neumann Accuses
Such are the horrors being perpetrated in Palestine, the over-
flow of passion having reached the shores of England where syna-
British of ProvocatiOn
gogues were descreated, Jewish owned shops destroped, Jewish-
owned factories burned.
These are the acts which have forced even-the peace-
YORK, (JTA) — The
NEW
seeking Haganah to warn that unless those who murdered the
charge that "British authorities
five Tel Aviv Jews are punished they will have to take matters
are deliberately excerbating the
in their own hands.
By BORIS SHOLAR
situation and provoking the en-
We continue to adhere to our well-known attitude that the
t Copyright, 194 ■ , Jewish Telegraphic Agency,' Inc.)
Irgun and Stern groups are destructive and have harmed our
tire Jewish population" was
and
cause, and it is our sincere hope that they will be stopped
made by Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
UN Moods
eradicated. Their "dastardly murder" (these are the words used
With a United Nations group now visiting the camps for dis- president of the Zionist Organ-
two
by the Jewish Agency in condemnation of the crime) of the
placed Jews in Europe in connection with the Palestine question, ization of American, at a special
British sergeants was a most outrageous act that caused aggrava-
it will be interesting for many to learn the results of a UN poll meeting of the national ZOA
tion of the issue.
on what to do with the Jewish DPs. . . . This poll was taken at executive in New York. Charg-
But the root of the problem is traceable to British perfidy.
Lake Success among 48 UN delegates and high-ranking officials. ing that British policies are in- Palestine's doors must be opened wide for Jewish entrants; else
Jews
Thirty-two of them said that they consider the situation of the
tended to provoke Jewish re- there will be no end to trouble.
in the DP camps as absolutely hopeless. . . . They agreed that their
How long will Britian permit this to continue?
continued presence in the camps constitutes a great injustice. . . • taliation, Dr. Neumann stated:
How long will the world at large countenance the crimes that
If immediate large-scale immigration . to Palestine is impossible, "Well-informed persons returning, are inspired by Britain's breaking faith with international coven-
the 32 favor an international agreement for distributing the 250,000 frrom Palestine have expressed
displaced Jews among various nations. . . • All 48 -considered the doubt as to whether those re- ants?
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Palestine issue one of the most explosive of our tithes. .. . As one sponsible for British policy really
delegate put it: "Pahtstine is the most important,. minor problem want all terrorist activities to be "Orphans' Lottery" — Another Symbol of Perfidy
There are many other symbols of the brutality that has been
of the United Nations."
stamped out. They point out that imposed by the British administration upon. Palestine. The most de-
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every time the responsible Jew- pressing instance of heartssness is the failure to admit to Palestine
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Domestic Trends
ish leaders inaugurated a . serious not only the adults who Ave survived from Nazism and who insist
Post-war discrimination against Jews in employment is assum- effort to rally the community that, as a lasting solution to their problem, they must secure the
ing serious proportions in this country. . . . The Bureau on Jewish against Irgun and the Stern freedom of a 'HOME in Palestine, but especially the children.
Employment Problems in Chicago has submitted a report to the group, the government com-
In a letter to the Palestine Post of Jerusalem, Dr. Vera Weiz-
President's Committee on Fair Employment Practices, which pre-
mann, the wife of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, herself an outstanding world
mitted
some
new
provocative
act
sents a very gloomy picture of the situation. . . . The report reveals
leader of the women Zionists of the world, recently presented the
that a survey by the Bureau indicates that as a result of discrim- tending to frustrate and paralyze problem of the children as follows:
the
efforts
of
the
Jewish
leaders."
inatory practices less than 10 percent of Jewish workers in Chicago
"Five hundred orphan children between the ages of 6 and 17
are employed hi non-Jewish firms. . . . More than 80 percent of
now detained in Cyprus are to be brought for "humanitarian
Jewish workers who sought work through employment agencies
reasons" to Palestine immediately, the Government announced
during the past year were required to state their religion.. . . Fifteen Nazi Death Camp's Chief
yesterday. The first reaction of every lover of children'and of
percent of the individuals met, besides questions on religion, other
any fighter for a human cause was a sense of relief.
additional evidence of employment discrimination. . . For the Arrested After 2 Years
"This feeling of relief, however, was of very short duration.
a
most part this came either in the "We do not employ Jews" category,
Why 500 children? Why were these "humanitarian reasons" so
or rapid evasive termination of the interview after a question on
parsimoniously doled out?' Why should this kind of lottery, so
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Josef
religion was reached. . . . The most viciously discriminating indus- Hofer, who has admitted that he
strictly forbidden in Great Britain, be applied to children
tries have been: accounting, advertising, banks, insurance, real
orphaned by the storm which swept the world? Who will be
estate, railroads, public utilities. . . . In manufacturing occupations, was the director of the. crema-
that fortunate child that will have the•luck of becoming a child
toria
at
the
notorious
Oswiecim
discrimination is vicious in managerial posts, and in chemical, elec-
again amongst his own friendly people? There are at present in
trical, machine tools and metal products. . . . No distinction is made death camp, was arrested in Ham-
Cyprus over 2,000 children, mostly orphans; 140 babies, from one
for Jewish war veterans. . . . More than fifty percent of Jewish burg after his estranged wife re-
week to a year old; and 1,000 unborn children awaiting their
applicants—almost two-thirds of them veterans—were required to vealed his identity to the police.
entry into a sad and hostile world.
state their religion in interviews with one or more employers. . . . Hofer had been working as a
"In the war, Great Britain made every effort to save all her
In 1946, the four leading Chicago newspapers ran 144 percent.naore house painter during the last two
children by evacuating them from the places of danger. Cannot
help wanted ads with religious specifications. than in 1945.- . . .
this
great England unstintingly rise to the occasion, and save
Such ads disappeared during the war years, but began to appear years.
Jewish children by bringing them to safety here?
Nineteen Germans went on trial
"In the name of the children who fought and fell in the last
immediately after V-J Day.
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war for the cause of humanity; I should like to appeal to the
before the Dachau War Crimes
traditional
generosity of the British people to evacuate all the
Court
charged
with
beating
and
This and That
children from existing camps."
Leon Blum, former Premier of France, is soon coming to this murdering numerous concentra-
Mrs. Weizmann, like her husband, is opposed to the extremists.
tion camp inmates who were im-
country as a guest of the Jewish Labor Committee.
Like all Jews, Mrs. Weizmann desires to see an end to misery in
Judge Samuel A. Weiss of Pittsburgh, former member of Con- pressed. into labor gangs in the the world and is concerned with the plight of the youngsters. But .
gress, has written his autobiography entitled "Sammy Blows the underground V-bomb plant at the British are much more concerned with Colonial Rule. Their
Whistle." . . . All proceeds will be donated to charity. A seminar Nordhausen. George J. Rickhet, hearts have been hardened by imperialistic aspirations. Children,
for leaders in Yiddish-speaking organizations is being conducted who directed the entire V-bomb like their parents, apparently are merely pawns in their world
by the Detroit Jewish Community Center. . . . Classes in beginners' production program, is the chief game of politics. Who, pray, who, will stop them to restore dignity
Yiddish and Hebrew are being sponsored by the Milwaukee Jewish defendant •
and honor in the Holy Land?
Community Center.
The New York Post, in an edi- by banning travel from his do-
torial under the heading "Brit- main.
Mayors of Palestinian towns
ain's Super Dachau," demands
removal of the mandatory power have been torn violently from
from authority in Palestine. The their homes to face their British
overlords in secret inquisition.
editorial follows:
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Whole communities are frozen,
Hitler invented the modern with movement, even conversa-
tion, forbidden.
concentration camp for Jews.
The charge? Jew.
But Great Britain has succeed-
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ed in surpassing her one-time
Remember Lidice?
Nazi foes, by establishing the
Her desperate citizens, driven
largest concentration camp for
to a frenzy by the brutal callous-
Jews the world has yet seen.
Palestine, a "Homeland" for ness of the -Nazi invaders who
raped, tortured, beat and mur-
Jews?
dered at will, at last Caught back,
If a jail is a home—
and Nazi blood was spilt.
If a slave state is home—
In revenge, the Nazis. wiped
If home is where, a Jew has
out all those of the village, and
no civil right—
If home is where Jews may be murdered all who were in it,
arrested on sight just because their justification being "atone-
ment" for the life of a member
they are Jews—
If home is where rioting Brit- of the master race.
The world, including the -Brit-
ish soldiers may commit indis-
criminate murder with impunity, ish, swore always to remember
as long, that is, as the victims Lidice.
But Britain's memory of Lidice
are Jewish men, women and
has taken a peculiar and vicious
children—
If Palestine is a Jewish home- twist.
Britain is remembering Lidice,
land under the British mandate
—then Dachau was a Jewish only to seek to emulate what the
Nazis did there.
homeland under the Nazis.
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Must all Palestine become a
Great Britain has a new "war vast new Lidice before we act
to stay the hand of the new
hero" today.
Hero, that is, of the new war blood-Mad tyrants?
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of extermination—Great Britain's
We must demand at once, in
war against Jews.
He is Gen. Sir Alan Cunning- the name of the United States
ham, dictator of Palestine, whose of America, before the United
functions the clever British seek Nations, that Britain's mandate
to dignify by the title of "High over Palestine be revoked for
cause, British troops removed,
Commissioner."
The sentries and barbed wire her dictatorship cease, and Pal-
around this British slave-state estinian independence under Uni-
finally stand revealed before the ted Nations joint trusteeship de-
world for what they really are: clared without delay.
If United Nations action is de-
Prison walls.
It was bad enough when the layed, or blocked, then we must
world understood that these well- act alone in the name of all the
patrolled barriers were for the men and women who died be-
purpose of keeping Jews-out of , lieving they did so in a righteous
the "homeland" solemnly promis- 1
It y must be remembered that
ed by the British of another day.
But now it becomes clear that Britain has treaty obligations to
these barriers are also for the the United States to maintain the
purpose of keeping new-made mandate on its original terms.
We did not hesitate, to fly to
slaves inside their torture camp,
as well. • the aid of Turkey and Greece
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when it appeared our ideology
The British dictator of Pales-1 was threatened.
tine haS—clif off escape from Pal-1 Shall'• we hesitate now when
estine for his potential victims I our honor, as well, is at stake?
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