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VOLUME XXIX—No. 26

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Emigres to be Compensated by
West Germany for Losses in
Fund Transfers Under Hitler

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

CASABLANCA, Morocco, (JTA) --,-- The Moroccan
government has agreed to permit the emigration of . some
5,000 Moroccan Jews who have been held in a transit
camp near Mazagan since early June, when the authori-
ties blocked their scheduled departure for 'Israel.
The first groups have already left MoroC-co. for Israel,
after weeks Of harrowing difficulties and suffering in
the overcrowded transit camp. The 5,000 Jews who will
be permitted to leave this country had sold their homes
and other possessiohs, and had begun. to move from the
interior to Casablanca before the Moroccan authorities, on
June 11, closed down Kadimah, the Jewish organization
arranging their emigration.• With no place to which to
return, they crowded into the transit camp and waited
pending the outcome of negotiations for their release.
(In Montreal, the Canadian Jewish Congress dis-
closed that the Canadian immigration authorities have
received definite and detailed instructions to proceed
with the processing of applications for admission to Can-
ada from Morocco and Tunisia which the Congress had
presented to the Deputy Minister with request for imme-
diate action.)

LONDON—West Germany's latest amendment to the. federal indemnification
law, which will compensate emigres for financial losses suffered because they had to
transfer funds abroad under the Hitler Regime, was warmly welcomed here Tuesday
at a meeting of the London Council for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of
Jews from Germany.
Expressing satisfaction with the new amendment, the Council session, attended
by delegates from the United States, Israel, Britain and Belgium, warned, however,
that speedy implementation of the new law and improvement of payment processes
must be effected if the amendment is to accomplish its aim of meeting long standing
claims by Jews who had to flee Germany between 1933 and 1939.
"Many of the demands have been met by the new amendment," the Council
declared, "but not all of the justified claims of persecutees under the Nazi regime
have as yet been complied with."
"The Council now expects that considerably increased funds will be made
available by the Federal Government of Germany and its states," the statement said.
"Claims which were filed years ago must be ruled on without delay. Further-
more, through speedy payments and substantial advance sums, it would be possible
to alleviate the hardships of many claimants, especially the old and infirm. If such
speed is not implemented it is feared that many of these old and infirm claimants
may not live long enough to receive the monies due them."
The losses refer to the differential between the official rate of exchange and
smaller amounts paid to emigrants through such devices as blocked marks. The law
previously allowed only claims which exceeded 80 percent. Now only a loss of 20
percent has to be shown. Devaluation of currency also was taken into consideration,
with the loss of 100 reichsmark now equated at 20 Deutschemark, Proof must be
shown by claimants.

S. Africa Bars 'Protocols,'
Other Anil-Semitic Works

Egypt Expels Toronto- Star Correspondent
For Tracing and Interviewing Anti-Semite

JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) — A number of anti-
$emitic books and pamphlets are included in the con-
solidated list of publications, the distribution of which is
prohibited in the Union of South Africa. The new, con-
solidated list appeared Monday in the OffiCial Gazette.
• Publications banned here include the forgery. "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion," Henry Ford's "The In-
ternational Jew," and various pamphlets issued by "The
Britons"—an anti-Semitic group in England. One of the
pamphlets blacklisted here was an attack on Kol Nidre
as "an immoral prayer." Another, "The World's Enemies"
is an attack on the Jewish people.
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Publication of the blacklist in the Official Gazette
does not represent a new action by the Union Govern-
ment but merely a - consolidation of various Government
orders of recent months into one comprehensive list.

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON—William Stevenson, Cairo correspondent for the Toronto Star, has been ex-
pelled from Egypt because he traced and interviewed Dr. Johann Von Leers, one of the top Nazi
anti-Jewish propagandists under Hitler who is now employed in the "Israel Propaganda De-
partment" of the Cairo government's Ministry. of National Guidance.
Von Leers, notorious as an • anti-Semitic specialist and radio broadcaster under Nazi
Propaganda Chief Joseph Goebbels, had been "Professor of Racial Teaching" at the University
of Jena under the Hitler regime and had also been the author of a well-known anti-Semetic
tract entitled "Jews Are Looking At You."
Stevenson has reported since his expulsion that he had heard that Von Leers was work-
ing for the Egyptian government, but government officials tried "to hide" the anti Semite.
Stevenson finally traced Von Leers to his office in the Ministry of National Guidance and in-
terviewed him.
Von Leers told him, Stevenson 'reported, that after the Nazis had lost the war he had been
captured by United States troops and had been imprisoned for 18 months. Then, according to
Stevenson, Von Leers went to Argentina where he worked for that country's dictator, at the
time, Juan Peron. When Peron was ousted, Von Leers told Stevenson, he was engaged by the
Egyptians as an "expert anti-Jewish propagandist."

Morocco Permits 5,000 Jews
In Camps to Leave for Israel

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Mayor of Jerusalem Wins
In Two Confidence Tests Over
Plans for Reform Synagogue

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JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Mayar Gershon Agron beat back two
attempts in the Jerusalem Municipal Council Sunday night to
force his resignation and counterattacked his former coalition
partners now seeking his ouster by formally. declaring that he
cannot cooperate with his.two Deputy Mayors, members of the
Religious Bloc. His own party, -Mapai; immediately introduced
a motion to elect a ,new Council_ executive.
A non-confidence motion introduced by the Herut members
of the Council failed when the Religious Bloc failed to support
it. The Religious Bloc then introduced its own non-confidence
motion but it failed when Herut refused to support it.
Mayor Agron came under fire from his Religious Bloc part-
ners in the coalition that rules the Council when a majority,
over the opposition of the Religious Bloc, voted to grant a build-
ing permit to the School of Archeology to be constructed here
by the Hebrew Union . College-Jewish Institute of Religion. The
school will have provisions for Reform services in the school
library.
•
The Council postponed a vote on Mapai's non-confidence
Motion in the two Deputy Mayors, but voted to opt three addi-
tional members to the Council executive: Dr. Jacoby, a Pro-
gressive; Mrs. Ashbel, of Wizo, and R. Kalentar, Hapoel Ham-
izrachi, who refused to folloW the party in this issue and an-
nounced support of Mayor Agron.
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The Council is expected to unseat the two Deputy Mayors
at its next session and to replace them by two of the newly
opted members. _
(Opposition to a Reform synagogue in Jerusalem by Israel's
Chief Rabbi was condemned this week in statements by three
Detroiters—Dr. Richard C. Hertz, Rabbi of Temple Beth El,
Morris Garvett and Miss Anna Oxenhandler. Their statements
appear on Page 36 of this issue.)

