Friday, August 29, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Exodus Refugees Smuggle
Message Off Boat To UN

See for Yourselves How We Live; Help Us Get Away;
Bring Us to Palestine Before It Is Too Late,
Survivors of Naval Encounter Plead

19 Nazi Doctors
Guilty of Torture,
Murder of Jews

Observer. Tells of British
Iron-Fist Rule In Palestine

Police Hold Unlimited Power Over Life _ and 'Property,
May Arrest Any Person Without Warrant; Suspects
Are Held in Camps for Indefinite Periods
NUREMBERG, (JTA) — Nine-

teen of 23 Nazi doctors tried h'bre
PORT DE BOUC, France, (JTA)—The Exodus refugees im- for complicity in the torture and
prisoned aboard the Ocean Vigor, one of the three ships on which murder of thousands of persons
the 4000 visaless Jews have been kept here for 20 days, smuggled were declared to be "chiefly re-
a message off the boat to the United Nations Special Committee on sponsible" for experiments on
Palestine.
"human guinea pigs" in various
Describing the conditions on
concentration camps. Seven of
board the crowded transports, the
them were sentenced to death,
five received life sentences, four
message begged: "Send some of
prison terms, and seven were ac-
your members to see how we
quitted.
live." Reiterating their refusal to
Everyone out of scores of dis-
In addition, nine of the 19 were
land in France and warning that
placed Jews prefers to go to
found guilty of
their threatened non-stop hunger
Palestine, according to an AP
membership in
strike may end in "grave disas-
;tory quoting an unspecified
the Gestapo.
ter," the Jews pleaded again:
member
of
the
subcommittee
of
Among the de-
"Intervene before it is too late.
the
United
Nations
Special
fendants is Karl
Please help us get away. Bring
Committee
on
Palestine.
Their
Brandt, Hitler's
us to Palestine." A copy of the
attitudes, he declared, "varied
personal physi-
message, which was signed "The
from 'Palestine or death' to
cian, and Herta
immigrants aboard the prison
those
who
shrugged
their
Oberhauser,
only
ship Ocean Vigor," was also sent'
shoulders helplessly and asked,
end-
woman def
to UN Secretary-General Trygve
'Where else can ge wo?' "
ant and a former
Lie.
doctor at t h e
The informant stated that the
The medical staff of the OSE
Raven sbruck
subcommittee's report will esti-
branch in Marseilles, headed by
concen tration Karl Brandt
mate that 95 per cent of Jew-
Dr. I. Mendelevitch and consist-
camp for women. Evidence intro-
ish displaced persons consid-
ing of six physicians, four nurses
duced at the trial, which opened
ered Palestine as their final
and two social workers, has been
last December, established that
goal.
incorporated into the services of
the defendants organized steriliz-
the sanitary board of the Depart-
ation campaigns and inoculated
ment Bouches-du-Rhone, which IRO in Italy Short 55%
prisoners
with deadly diseases to
has authority over the harbor at
study their effects and possible
Port de Bouc. The OSE personnel Of Funds to Help DPs
cures.
have taken over the medical
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—The In-
supervision on the ships.
WARSAW, (JTA) — Wilhelm
ternational Refugee Organization Blum, former Nazi police chief
provides only 45 cents towards the in the Radom district, who was
U. S. Consul in Romania
dollar-a-day minimum required j responsible for the "liquidation"
Resumes Visa Issuance
for the upkeep and maintenance of the Radom Ghetto, went on
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The of each of the 18,000 homeless trial as a war criminal. American
American consulate in Buchar- Jewish refugees in Italy, most of m i 1 it a r y authorities recently
I turned him over to the Polish
est has notified the HIAS that it whom are still confined to dis-
Government.
has resumed issuance of visas to
applicants in the non-quota and placed persons camps, Dr. Israel
first-preference quota categories Goldstein, national chairman of
Registrations of non-preference the United Jewish Appeal, who is I
quota cases are accepted, but no now visiting Europe, cabled to
visas are issued for this category r national headquarters of the or-
ganization here.
at present.

95% of DPs Looking
To Zion, Prober Says

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Zionist Trends-

Some groups in the Zionist movement would like to see Dr.
Chaim Weizmann as the principal delegate of the Jewish Agency
at the forthcoming UN General Assembly in September . . . At-
tempts will. therefore, be made at the Zionist Actions Committee,
now in session in Zurich, to raise again the Weiz-
mann issue. It must not be forgotten that while
the last Zionist Congress did not re-elect Dr.
Weizmann, the World Zionist Organization is still
without a president . . . American Zionist leaders
remain opposed to Dr. Weizmann and will, there-
fore, oppose efforts of his friends at the Actions
;.--'ommittee to bring him back to leadership . . .
While Zionist groups are divided on the Weizmann
ssue, they are all of the opinion that America's
;tand at the UN Assembly is going to be of major
•mportance in the United Nations deliberations on
he Palestine problem . .. Active preparations are,
..herefore, being made by the Jewish Agency office
Dr. Weizmann in Washington for the UN parley . . . The Agency
office in Washington is charging the Palestine Government with
ignoring the UN call for a truce during the investigation by the
special UN committee on Palestine . . . It cites a number of facts to
substantiate this charge . . . Those who had chance to read the
Agency's communication cannot help but come to the conclusion
that the British are not anxious to have peace in Palestine.
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Evil Plans

Increased anti-Jewish propaganda can soon be expected through-
out the country ... Plans to initiate such propaganda were mapped
out at a meeting in the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York, attended
by more than a dozen anti-Semitic agitators and pamphleteers in-
cluding Gerald L. K. Smith ... It seems that these plans.are backed
financially by George W. Armstrong, the octogenarian oil-operator of
Fort Worth, Tex. . • . Armstrong is reported to have sold his oil-land
holdings for $4,000,000 and to have stated that he intends to spend
half of this sum for the furtherance of a unified anti-Semitic move-
ment . . . To accomplish this he intends to use a special foundation
whose charter, on file at Austin, Tex., states that it is established for
charitable, patriotic and educational purposes . . . Armstrong's plan
envisages making "grant-in-aids" to support individual anti-Semitic
agitators and organizations which he hopes eventually to weld into
one coalition . . . The project provides for the maintenance of "cen-
ters of activity" in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Fran-
cisco, with Chicago as the "testing ground" .. . These centers are
planned to be not only wholesale depots for anti-Jewish literature,
but also regional liaison, investigative and coordinating centers for
anti-Semitic movements . . . Former organizers of the anti-Semitic
Silver Shirt movement are now being contacted in an attempt to
reconstitute this storm-troop group, dormant since . William Dudley
Pelley's conviction and imprisonment in a Federal penitentiary for
sedition, four years ago.

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Domestic Notes

The first trained Jewish social service 'leader has been sent to
Lima, Peru, by the World Federation of YMHA's and Jewish Com-
munity Centers.
The first history of the Jewish Community Centers and YM-
YWHA's, written by Benjamin Rabinowitz, is to appear shortly in
the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society . . . It
reveals, among other things, that when the Boston YMHA was found-
ed in 1875, it received the gratis use of a suite of rooms in the Boston
City Hall until it could acquire its own quarters . . . Adolph S. Ochs
was the first secretary of the Chattanooga YMHA in 1878.
The earliest effort to centralize the work of Jewish religious
schools in New York was the sponsorship, beginning in 1875f an
H
annual Hebrew competitive examination for pupils of the Hebrew
Free School, and of Jewish institutional and congregational schools.

Montreal 'Riot'
At Closer Look
Just 'Celebration'

. MONTREAL, (JTA) — A so-
called anti-Semitic incident in
Montreal, reported in The Jew-
ish News last week has upon in-
vestigation by the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress turned out to be a
celebration organized by a- group
of French-Canadians on the wed-
ding of a friend.
Since the group in a truck car-
ried an effigy many Jewish pass-
ers-by, unacquainted with the
French language, mistook their
shouts for anti-Semitic abuse
and informed local newspapers
accordingly. Actually no incident
of any serious nature occurred,
the Congress established.

N. J. Convention
Bars Segregation

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
(JTA) — An anti-discrimination
clause which would ban segrega-
tion in the New Jersey public
schools and militia was adopted
at the State Constitutional Con-
vention by a vote of 50 to 18.
The amendment will make New
Jersey the first state in the Union
to include such a provision in its
chirter.
The measure provides that "no
person shall be denied the enjoy-
ment of any civil or military
right, nor be discriminated
against in any civil right or seg-
regated in the militia or public
schools on account of religious
principles, race, color, ancestry
or national origin."

Even the Children!

Youngsters Searched
For Hidden Arms

• HAIFA, (JPS-Palcor) — Four
hundred and eighty-six Jewish
orphan refugees from the Cy-
prus camps, ranging in age from
six to 15, who are permitted to
land in Palestine outside the
regular schedule but whose num-
ber is deducted from the monthly
quota, arrived here Aug. 20.
under heavy military escort and
were stripped naked and search-
ed for hidden arms or explosives
before they were allowed to dis-
embark.

Mistaken Identity
"The Nation," in its Aug. 23
"Frequently persons are arrest-
issue, carries an article by Lillie
ed because of resemblance, in
Shultz, entitled "Tyranny in face or name, to a wanted per-
Action", which gives a realistic son. . . . Persons acquitted in the
picture of the British administra- courts are often rearrested. . . .
Boys of 13 to 16 have been ar-
tion in Palestine.
rested, most of them for distribut-
"Today Palestine is purely and
ing leaflets, and some have been
simply a police state," the author
in detention for six or seven
declares. "The military authori- years. Pregnant women and
ties rule Palestine, while the High mothers of numerous children
Commissioner is a figurehead. have also spent extended periods
The existence of terrorism in Pal-
Latrun.
estine is used by the mandatory at "The
only recourse a detained
power as a reason and excuse for person has is to apply to an ad-
the police measures employed, visory committee whose function
but the same officials who seek
under the regulations is to make
to justify their repressions ad- recommendations to the military
mit that the vast majority of the commander. Since April, how-
community is against terror."
ever, there has been no committee
The author enumerates the at all . . . It took, on the average,
various regulations which "wipe between four and six months for
out all remnants of civil liberties, any case to reach the committee."
freedom of press, and of associa-
The article closes with a short
tion," and comes to the conclu- description of the poor condition
sion that, "Punishment is meted in the camps, stating that the de-
out to persons suspected of hav- tainee is not even permitted "to
ing attempted to commit an of- be with his family on special oc-
fense against public security, casions, such as births or deaths."
those suspected of having com-
mitted such an offense, and those
proved to have committed such
an offense".
Arrests Without Warrants
Any police officer, the article
continues, "may arrest, without
warrant, any person he finds
committing an offense against the
regulations, or any person he sus-
pects of doing so."
NEW YORK (JFS) — Anti-
Each military commander Semitic and Fascist talk is more
"may requisition land, goods, ani- prevelant now in Italy than at
mals, or services ... He may evict any time since the liberation,
persons, seize property. . . His Thomas E. Healy, New York Post
power over the individual is, in correspondent, re ports from
effect, absolute. -
R o m e. "All Jewish agencies
The author quotes from a re- underline the good will with
cent army manual as follows: "So which the government seeks to
you see that you can arrest and repair the inhumanities of the
search practically anyone behav- Fascists to Jewish citizens," Mr.
ing in a strange manner or whom! Healy says, but one hears the
you suspect, and, if you are strangely repetitious remarks:
wrong, it doesn't very much mat- "Italy needs a strong man; Jews
ter—the great thing is to act are at the bottom of Italy's eco-
first and let questions be asked nomic troubles."
"The other night at a dinner
afterward."
The article then turns to the party attended by Allied of-
718 Jewish detainees held in Pal- ficers," Mr. Healy relates, "a Brit-
estine and Kenya camps who are ish officer started criticizing 'our
not charged with any specific Yiddish friends.' I said that's Nazi
offense and are held indetermin- talk, and many Britishers died
ately. Some of them have been to shut the mouths of Nazis who
detained for up to seven years, feel like you. 'I've got no sym-
many from three to four years. pathy for them,' he replied.
Among them are 70 former sol- 'Where the Nazis failed was in not
killing the bloody lot of them."
diers.

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British Officers,
Fascists in Italy
Spreading Hate

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Moss Ghost Marches On

Senator Bilbo ("The Man Bilbo") is dead. He takes with him to
his grave a rather unpleasant record. He was a man full of prejudices.
When Jews, Italians and Negroes wrote to him, he
did not hesitate to address them as "kikes," "da-
goes" and "niggers." He therefore became the
center of interest and of contempt It would have
been better had he recovered from the incurable
cancerous disease which took his life and had he
repented before he died. But he chow to take his
hatreds with him. Unfortunately, there are too
many ottiers like him in this country and his ghost
marches on. There are men in Congress who hate
as violently as he did, and the evil he did lives
Bilbo
after him.
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A ZOA Founder and His Platform

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, for more than a generation American
Jewry's most picturesque leader, was one of the founders of the
Zionist Organization of America. As a matter of fact, he may be the
sole surviving founder of the movement. Two of his associates come
to mind as possible contenders for this enviable title—Dr. Barry
Friedenwald of Baltimore and Louis Lipsky of New York. If we are
not mistaken, however, the latter two came into prominence in
American Zionism a year after the original Federation of American
Zionists was founded 50 years ago. •
Today, Dr. Wise is a persona non grata in the ZOA. He was
not present at the last convention and his voice was not heard when
a review was given of the 50-year history of American Zionism. Dr.
Emanuel Neumann, ZOA president, insists that Dr. Wise was invited
to participate in the golden jubilee celebration at the last convention.
Dr. Wise denies it.
}low, to.. give expression to his views and in order to publish his
recollections of the early days in American Zionism, Dr. Wise found
an outlet in the labot Zionist organ—the Jewish Frontier. He has,
of course, his own organ, Opinion, but it undoubtedly will be of
great interest to all American Zionists that he published his views in
a labor Zionist periodicaL -
This does not speak too well for the ZOA and it may well be

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that ZOA leaders and members will say that it does not speak too

well for Dr. Wise. Unfortunately, political differences often create
bitter feelings. Dr. Wise is objective in his historical article In the
Jewish Frontier. But having gone to another party to give vent to
his feelings, tne °reach between him and other OZA. leaders definitely
' is broadened. -

