House Passes Liberalized Bill for
DP Admission; Anti-Semites Oppose It
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
House of Representatives passed
a DP immigration bill increasing
the number of DPS who may
enter this country from 205,000
in two years to 3a9,000 in three
years. The bill also eliminates a
number of features of the old
DP law which President Tru-
man assailed as "anti-Semitic."
The measure, which was passed
by a voice vote, goes to the Sen-
ate.
The vote followed a lengthy
and heated debate in the House
during which opponents of the
measure, led by Rep. Ed Gos-
sett of Texas, made anti-Semitic
assertions. Gossett also asked
what measures were being tak-
en to provide for the Volks-
deutsche expelled from Poland
and Czechoslovakia and for the
Arab refugees from Palestine. He
suggested that the DPS be sent
for resettlement to Kenya, in
Central Africa.
Gossett was supported by
RepS. Frank Fellows of Maine
and Karl Stefan of Nebraska,
both of whom spoke about the
plight of the Volksdeutschke
and against Jewish refugees.
Rep. Jacob K. Javits of New
York asserted that Israel has
taken more than its share of
DP's—about three times as many
as the total number so far
brought to the United States
under the DP Act of 1948. "It is
a source of gratification to me
at this time that there is no
necessity of having to debate
Revisionists Join with
Irgun-Sponsored Herut
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The seven-
day World Revisionist- Confer-
ence concluded after deciding to
unite with the Irgun-sponsored
Herut Party in Israel under the
name of the Herut Union of
Israel. .In othei countries the
movement will continue to be
known as the Zionist-Revisionist
Party.
•The executive of the Israeli
party will be composed of five
members of the Revisionist
group and seven from the. Herut.
The world council of the party
will be composed of 33 members
from each faction.
Meir Grossman, former head
of the World Revisionist Party,
will not be a member of the
executive of the new body, but
will remain as the Revisionist
representative on the Jewish
Agency executive. Betar, the Re-
visionist youth movement, will
come under the control of the
Herut Union as an agricultural
chalutb movement.
about displaced persons who are
Jews," he said. "The heroic peo-
ple of Israel have thoroughly
taken care of that."
Specific replies to Rep. Gos-
sett's attacks on Jewish DP's
were made by Reps. James G.
Fulton of Pennsylvania, Ken-
neth B. Keating of New York
and Frank L. Chelf • of Ken-
tucky, all of whom had visited
Jewish DP camps. They denied
his charges that the Jews in
the camps are Communists.
Among the provisions of the
bill is one advancing the"cut-
off _date" from Dec. 22, 1945, to
Jan: 1, 1949. The legislation,
which was drafted by a Zudici-
a r y Committee • subcommittee,
headed by Rep. Emanuel Cellar
of New York, also abolished
special priorities for Balts and
agricultural- workers, which were
major bottlenecks of the *old
law. It provides for the en-
trance of 18,008 former members
of Gen. Wladislaw Anders Sec-
ond Polish Corps, 4,000 Shang-
hai refugees and 2,000 DP or-
phans. However, the bill makes
no changes in the requirements
that a DP be guaranteed a job
and a home before he is ad-
mitted.
8 ZOA Leaders
Leave for Israel
THE JEWISH NEWS-3
Dr. Wise's Memory Honored
Friday, June 10, 1949
$100,000 Gift for
Education Center
ATLANTIC CITY—At the con-
vention of The American Asso-
ciation for Jewish Education at
which Michael A. Stavitsky of
Newark, N. J., was re-elected for
a third successive term as pre-
sident, a gift of $100,000 from
George Kaplan, St. Paul manu-
facturer, toward the erection of
a center for Jewish education in
that city, was announced.
-Delegates to the annual meet-
ing from this area included Al-
bert Elazar, B. Isaacs, Solomon
Kasdan, M. Ruttenberg, and
Philip Slomovitz. Mr. Slomovitz
was re-elected to the board of
Governors from this area.
Two Arab Infiltrees
Killed in Skirmish
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Two
Arabs were killed when a party
of Arabs who infiltrated Israeli
lines approached the Neveh Ilan
settlement, five miles north of
Jerusalem. The colony's look-out,
who challenged a suspicious-
looking group approaching the
settlement, opened fire after the
group refused to heed a com-
mand to halt. Two were killed
and the rest fled.
Christian and Jewish leaders paid tribute to ltabbi Stephen S.
Wise at a memorial meeting held at Shaarey Zedek last week,
sponsored by the Detroit Division of the American Jewish Con-
gress. Right to left: RABBI J. SPERSA, Bnai David; MRS. SAM-
UEL GREEN, national vice-president, Women's Division, AJC;
MRS. WILLIAM GOTTESMAN, program director, AJC; AARON
DROOCH, president, Jewish Community Council; DR. EDGAR DE-
WITT JONES, minister emeritus, Woodward Christian Church;
RABBI MORRIS ADLER, Shaarey Zedek; RABBI J. SEGAL, North-
west Hebrtw Congregation; ALBERT SILBER, president, Michigan
Council, AJC.
Send Them
OFF TO CAMP
Honor Weisgal Prior to
Departure
for Israel
NEW YORK—Opening the first
meeting of the newly elected
national executive committee of
the Zionist Organization of Am-
erica, Daniel Frisch, president of
theorganization reiterated the
resolve of his administration to
preserve the unity which has
been attained at the convention
with the formation of a coalition
administration.
He announced his impending
departure for Israel on June 15,
with a seven-man commission,
to implement the convention
resolution for the establishment
of an American General Zionist
House in Tel Aviv, for which the
initial amount of $92,000 was
raised . at the convention.
Dr. Sidney Marks was unan-
imously reelected national sec-
retary of the organization for
the ensuing year. Rabbi Jerome
Unger ,was named assistant to
the president.
Wunsch Heads Technion
NEW YORK, June 1. (JTA)--
J. W. Wunsch, consulting en-
gineer, was elected president of
the American Technion Society
for a third consecutive term, it
was announced by Judah Wa t-
terberg, executive director.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Over 500
friends and associates of Meyer
W. Weisgal, executive vice-chair-
man of the American Committee
for the Weizmann Institute of
Science, attended a testimonial
dinner for Mr. Weisgal at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel prior to
his departure for Israel where he
will establish permanent resi-
dence. The speakers included
Louis Lipsky, Judge Morris
Rothenberg, Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann and Dewey D. Stone.
French Jewry Mourns
Leading Paris Cleric
PARIS, (JTA)—Jews through-
out France joined in mourning
the passing of Emanuel Cardinal
Suhard, Archbishop of Paris.
Cardinal Suhard strongly fought
the Nazi persecution of Jews
during the occupation of Paris
and personally aided hundreds
of Jews to escape death at Nazi
hands.
Dr. Julien Weil, Chief Rabbi
of Paris, said the -Jews of Paris
will always gratefully remember
the help given them by the late
Cardinal during t h e German
occupation.
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