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 . 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. 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