THE JEWISH NEWS
DP Commission Asks Law
Revision to Eliminate Bias
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
elimination of provisions from
the Displaced Persons Act which
President Truman last year call-
ed anti-Semitic was recommend-
ed in the Displaced Persons
Commission's first report to Con-
gress. The report stated that 3,-
415 visas had been made avail-
able to DPs during the first six
months of operation of the DP
Act, although 50,000 or more
visas were theoretically avail-
able.
. The Commission explained the
discrepancy between the actual
figure and the possible figure as
due to - "growing pains" such as
inadequate staff, insufficient
working space, and the difficulty
of putting an entirely new con-
cept into practice. Greater prob-
lems, however, it said, were the
administrative requirements of
the Act itself which establishes a
40 per cent priority for displaced
persons from "de facto annexed
areas," a 30 per cent priority for
"agriculturalists," and sets the
eligibility date at Dec. 22, 1945.
• To resolve such problems the
Commission recommended to
Congress that these require-
ments be eliminated and that the
date be changed to April 21,
1947, when the camps were
closed to further entrance of dis-
placed persons. It proposed sub-
stituting a provision that the se-
lection of displaced persons be
carried out without discrimina-
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tion as to race, religion or na-
tional origin.
Instead of requiring assurances
of specific jobs and housing fa-
cilities for the DPs, it suggested
only the requirement of assur-
ances of "reasonable and suitable
resettlement opportunities." The
assurances against becoming a
public charge should be suffici-
ent to meet the requirements of
all immigration laws relating
thereto, the Commission advo-
cated.
It recommended the complete
abolition of the system of charg-
ing entrants against future
quotas and asked that the prior-
ity for displaced persons living
in IRO camps be eliminated.
- The program should be ex-
tended to a four-year program,
the report proposed, and 400,000
should be admitted during that
period. In addition, a revolving
fund should be established for-
loans to recognized voluntary
agencies to meet the expenses of
reception and transportation of
immigrants from the ports of en-
try.
The Commission- also asked for
incluSion. in the law of a provi-
sion that would bar from entry
"anyone who advocated or assist-
ed in persecutions of others for
race, religion, or national origin."
It urged Congress to transfer to
the regular immigration statutes
the provision in the Displaced
Persons Law that would permit
the entry of ethnic Germans.
Louis Fink Sought Here
-
Friday, February 11, 1949
Jewish Groups Condemn
Mindszenty Conviction
Louis Fink from the city of
Schatt, in Lithuania, who is be-
lieved to be residing in Detroit,
is sought by his only cousin,
Chana, of Jerusalem, Israel. Mr.
CARDINAL MINDSZENTY
Fink's wife comes from Kovno
and her maiden name was Ida
Garzin. Those knowing Mr. Fink's
whereabouts are asked to com-
municate with Dr. A. W. Soffer,
1022 Argyle St., Chicago 40, Ill.
CHOCOLATES
The American Jewish Commit-
tee, Jewish Labor Committee and
JeWish War Veterans this week
issued statements condemning the
trial and conviction of Cardinal
Mindszenty in Hungary. A num-
ber of Jewish•leaders-have denied
rumors that ' the convicted Car-
dinal was anti-Semitic.
Moscow Seen Still
Opposed to Zionism
-MOSCOW, (JTA) —No atten-
tion whatsoever is being paid in
the Soviet press to the series of
announcements by various gov-
ernments during the last few
days that they have recognized
Israel. Although the S o vie t
Union was the first to grant de
jure recognition to Israel, a dis-
tinction is being made here be:-
tween Zionism and the establish-
ment of the Jewish state.
While Soviet newspapers do
standing between Britain and
By OTTO SCHICK
LONDON (JTA) — Thousands Israel, the Manchester Guardian not comment on the recognition
announcements, the views of the
of persons gathered in MancheS- warned in an editorial.
ter Square here this week to wit-
Asserting that the British an- Soviet Government with regard
ness the first raising of the Israeli nouncement had been greeted to Zionism are not being con-
flag over Number 18, a dignified with more relief than enthusiasm, cealed. They were recently re-
Georgian mansion which was the the Liberal organ declared that stated in a pamphlet on the Pal-
home of British nobility and . a series of practical steps was estine problem, 150,000 copies of
aristocracy, and is now the Israeli necessary to establish under- which were circulated. In the
consulate in London.
standing. It advised the British pamphlet Zionism is defined as
The ceremony began with the Government that first of all it "a reactionary and anti-demo-
crowd singing Hatikvah. The must send to Tel Aviv a diplo- cratic trend of the Jewish bour-
sound of the Israeli anthem echoed matic representative worthy of a geoisie" used by Britain under
a
across the rooftops of the square big and difficult task. Trade rela- the -Palestine Mandate to effect
special
colonial
regime
in
Pales-
which is less than 15 minutes tions between the two countries
from the spot where Israeli Pres- should be encouraged, the paper tine. The pamphlet claims that
ident Chaim Weizman received declared. The oil of Iraq should Zionism, along with the Arab
the Balfour Declaration in 1917. be encouraged to flow again down uppercrust, is striving to help
carve up Palestine into British
The crowd cheered the name the pipeline to Haifa.
and American spheres of influ-
•of Premier David Ben Gurion
The paper urged immediate ence. .
and afterwards the state of payment on account to Israel
The pamphlet asserts that the
Israel, and then a hush fell from the Sterling balances of the
members of the Israeli Cabinet
over the scene as a procession, former Mandatory Government,
are all affiliated with Zionism,
with the Scrolls of the Law, ar- now blocked in London.
which "attempts to distract Jew-
rived for the ceremony and the
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin ish workers from the class
blue-and-white flag was put in received Linton, • acting Israeli
struggle." It says that Jewish
readiness for hoisting. On the representative. Following his vis-
workers "outside of the Zionist
first floor balcony, leaders of it to Bevin, Linton conferred with organization" are united in the
English Zionism assembled. As a number of high officials of the Communist Party in Israel and
they moved out, the crowd British Foreign Office. No details
support a- program demanding
roared. Richard H.S. Crossman, of the conversations were re- that the Jewish state conclude a
Member of Parliament, was vealed." However, it is understood "friendship pact with the Soviet
recognized as the only non-Jew that they were devoted primarily Union and with the countries of
present. There were cheers_ for to questions of diplomatic proto- the new democries."
Sidney Silverman and Barnett col connected with the establish
Janner, also Members of Parli- ment of diplomatic relations be-
ament.
tween Israel and Britain.
. In a ringin.g voice, old Rabbi J.
Questions concerning the ex-
K. Goldbloom began his blessing change of diplomatic representa-
of the flag. "From Zion comes the tives between Britain and Israel
law," he said, and then slowly the will be discussed by Cyril Mar-
blue star on a white field rose riott, British consul-general in
into the air, where it flapped in Haifa, with the Israeli Foreign
the wind, close to the Pakistani Office in Tel Aviv, it is believed
crescent and star flying just here.
around the corner. The youngest
member of the staff of the Israeli
Mission, Ruth Libstedter, 17, who Compulsory Registration
was born at Nuremberg and taken Of AU Israel Residents
as a one-year-old infant by her
parents to Jerusalem, raised the
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Israeli
flag and was loudly cheered by State Council decided to intro-
the crowd. The Hatikvah was duce compusory registration of
all residents of Israel over the
again sung.
All the Zionist parties and the age of 16, including all new im-
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first time in London. Before the
traditional benediction is recited, ing for relatives.
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Thousands Hail. Flag-Raising
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