THE JEWISH NEWS-7
Ormer Ambassador's Anti-Semitic
Jews Revealed in Nazi Document;
ennedy Denies Alleged Prejudice
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Anti
mitic views Claimed to have
een expressed by Joseph P.
ennedy — during the time
hen he was U.S. Ambassador
n London—in his conversations
ith the German Ambassador
here in 1938, were revealed in
aptured German diplomatic
ocuments made public by the
tate Department.
The documents, which claim
hat Kennedy approved of the
azi treatment of Jews in Ger-
any, were discovered in the top
ecret archives of the German
oreign Ministry. One. of them
a letter from the then Ger-
an Ambassador to Great Bri-
ain, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, to
aron Ernst von Weizsaecker,
tate Secretary of the German
oreign Ministry who was re-
ently convicted on war crimes
harges. In this report, von Dirk-
n wrote of Kennedy as fol-
ows:
"The Ambassador then touched upon the
ewish question and stated that it was
aturally of great importance to German=
merican - relations. In this connection it
as not so much the fact that we
anted to get rid of the Jews that 'Was
o harmful to us, but rather the loud
ls.mor with which we accompanied the
Urpose. He himself understood our Jew-
sh policy completely; he was from 'Roa-
n and there, in one golf club, and in
then clubs. no Jews had been admitted in
he past 50 years., In • the United States,
herefore. sixth pronounced attitudes were
uite common, but people avoided making
much outward fuss about it.
"Although he did not know German.
e •(Kennedy) had learned from the most
aried sources that the present govern-
eat had done great things for Germany
ad that the Germans were satisfied and
njpyed good living conditions. The re-
rt by the well-known flier, Lindbergh,
hO. had spoken very favorably of Ger-
any, made a strong,. impression ,upon
mbassador Kennedy, as I know from
n earlier conversation with him.
"As an illustration of how wrong im-
ressions regarding Germany were being
Pread. Ambassador Kennedy related that
ecently • 'Johnnie' Rockefeller, - a. very in-
luential and sensible man, had told him
hat according to a report by one of the
eading Professors of the Rockefeller In-
tittite, the limited amount of food avail-
in Germany was being reserved
ainly f6i.• the army, with the result
hat the rest of the population had lo
'lifter want. As far as he knew: the rxo-
esixtr who made the report .was a Jew.
e—Kennedy—had set Roekefeller
•.
Emphasizing in his report that
hen. Kennedy spoke favorably
_
of Geritia-ny, .peOpIe had coriti
dence in his statements "because
he was a Catholic," the German
envoy added that he "repeatedly
a n d emphatically" welcomed
Kennedy's intention "to enligh- .
ten" President Roosevelt •about
Germany. He then quoted Ken-
nedy as stating:
"The President was not anti-Gerinan,
but desired friendly relations with Ger-
many. However, there was no one who
ad come from Europe and had spoken
a friendly word to him regarding present-
day Germany and her government..
"When I remarked that I feared he was
right in this, Kennedy added that he
knew he was right. Most of them were
afraid of the Jews and did not dare to
say anything good about Germany; others
did not know any better; because they
were not informed about Germany," von
Dirksen reported. He added that when he
brought up the question of the anti-Nazi
attitude of the American press. Kennedy
did not have much to say to these state-
ments and merely mentioned that the
press on the East. Coast was .unfortunate-
ly Predominant in the formation of, public
opinion in America and that it N-was
strongly influenced by the Jews."
NEW YORK (JTA) — Joseph
P. Kennedy, former U.S. Am-
bassador to Britain, ridiculed a
report made in 1938 by German
Ambassador to L o n d o n, Dr..
Herbert' von Dirksen and made
public during the week-end by
the State Department, in which
the American envoy was quoted
as expressing anti-Jewish views.
Reached by the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency in Hyannis
Port, Mass. ; Kennedy said: "Evi-
dently von Dirksen told the
German Foreign Ministry what
he thought they would like to
hear about me. So far as I am
concerned; it is all poppycock."
Jews in Austria Deplore
Government Policy on Nazis
VIENNA, (JTA)—A marked
deterioration of relations be-
tween the Austrian Government
and the Vienna Jewish com-
munity is developing under pres-
sure Of several issues. •
The cool atmosphere sur-
rounding current discussions of
these issues stems from two
sources: First, the Vienna Jew-
ish community of 12,000 is deeR-
ly concerned and even frighten-
ed by the government'S "forgive
and forget" policy toward the
Nazis. Second, the Jews have
thus far failed in their efforts
to obtain a loan from the gov-
ernment's administrators
o f
property slated for restitution to
victims of the Naiis. At the
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Friday, July 22, 1949
Arms Cache Nets
Arab 8 Months
same time, the Jews charge that
anti-Semitism is on the increase.
The Jewish leaders reminded
the authorities that of 200,000
Jews in Austria before the war,
185,000 had been driven out or
murdered by' the Nazis.
The proposal which stirred up
a storm at. the Jewish commun-
ity meeting was the govern-
ment's suggestion that all prop-
erty of the community be mort-
gaged as security for the loan.
Jews estimated their share of
the restitution property to be
worth 1,000,000,000 schillings.
While some speakers demand-
ed outright rejection of the gov-
ernment's conditions, the ma-
jority voted to insist on the loan
from restitution funds without
any mortgage commitment. Ne-
gotiations are continuing, but
with a definite chill surrounding
them.
,
Hungary to Compensate
Jewish Small Landowners
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—The Hun-
garian Government issued a de-
cree authorizing Jewish small
-landowners whose estates were
confiscated under the 1942 anti-
Jewish land law to apply for,
compensation.
Propose Heirless Jewish
Property Go to Israel'
MUNICH, (JTA) — A proposal
that all heirless, Jewish property
confiscated by the Nazis should
be assigned . to Israel was made
in the North Rhine Westphalian
parliament by Dr. Karl Frenkel,
a high official of the Ministry
of Interior in North Rhine West-
phalia.
Severe criticism against the
proposal was voiced in the par-
liament by_ Dr. H. Mueller, a
member of the Christian Demo-
cratic Patty. He said that the
proposal is tantamount to mak-
ing a fifth occupation power in
Germany. He' admitted that
Jewish property which would
have to be restituted amounts
to "thousands of millions of
marks," but added that "the
German people could not pais-
ibly make such a present to
Israel."
,
Israel Advised
• y U.S. Against
Premature JVA
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — T h e
United States has officially ad-
vised Israel against premature
Consideration of an ambitious
Jordan Valley Authority project
which calls for the harnessing
of the river Jordan for irriga-
Kan and power purposes.
Speculation over JVA pros-
pects was aroused by announce-
ment of the impending visit
from the United States of John
L. Savage, designer of the Boul-
der and Grand Coulee dams.
Mr. Savage's visit, the purpose
of which is to advise the Israeli
Government ort irrigation prob-
lems,_ has been generally inter-
preted here as a preliminary,
step toward the inauguration of
a large-scale water project.
United States officials feel
that it is too soon for. Israel to
start expending money on this
major undertaking. The JVA
would, require:cooperation from
both Syria arid Transjordan
and, as yet; there is no indi-
cation of a lasting peace settle-
ment between those two Arab
countries and the Jewish state.
JVA should •nly be under-
taken as an international proj-
ect , designed to, aid , both the
Arabs and* the Jews, according
to U.S. observers.. •
The, proposition is also put
forward that the original JVA-
as conceived ten years ago—may
have to be scaled down. Some
experts now believe that the
amount of water made available
by the proposed project would,
be too small_ in relation to its
cost. These views have been
made known to Israeli authori-
ties by U.S. officials here.
"The idea," observes Danny
Kaye, "seems to be to live your
life so that when the time comes
MGM can make a musical about
it."
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Mo-
hammed Mahmoud, an Arab
living in' the village of Khirbet
Zakharia in the Hebron hills,
in Israeli territory, was sen-
tenced to eight months impris-
onment by an Israel magistrate
for illegal possession of arms.
The defendant claimed he need-
ed the weapon to protect him-
self against Arab infiltrees.
Commission to Study Hebrew Usage
Formation of a commission of
Hebrew scholars, educators and
national communal leaders, to
survey the status, extent of in-
terest and usage of the Hebrew
language in the United States
was announced by Judge Louis
E. Levinthal, of Philadelphia,
formerly adviser on Jewish af-
fairs in Germany to General
Lucius D. Clay, and chairman
of the newly formed commission.
Some of the notables sched-
uled to be in the twenty mem-
ber survey group are Dr. Salo
Baron of Columbia University;
Ludwig Lewisohn, author, pro-
fessor at Brandeis University;
Daniel Frisch, president of the
Zionist Organization of America;
Mrs. Rose Haiprin, president of
Hadassah; Dr. Solomon Gold-
man of Chicago and Dr. Oscar
Janowsky, of the City College
of New York.
The commission will convene
on Labor Day to prepare their
report which will be circulated
to the 120-member planning and
scope committee of Histadruth
Ivrith.
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