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MLIS No. 30
I Week In Review
I By MILTON BROWN. J.T.A.
B ■- - « » ■«•
KfTH COLUMN IN AMERICA
I The fifth column in any
■ountry has two functions—to fo
■nent disunity with the aim of par-
Hyzing any positive action, while
Ke country is still at peace, and
BLn when the country is at war,
Bo join in a campaign of sabotage,
Bctively aiding the invading forces.
Knee the United States is still
Bt peace, the Government’s imme-
Biate concern is with the effort to
Spread discord.
I President Roosevelt made this
Blear in his recent fireside chat
Brhen he asserted:
I . there is an added technique
Bor weakening a nation at its
Bery roots. . . The method is sim-
Ble. First, discord. A group—not
800 large—a group that may be
Sectional or racial or political—
B encouraged to exploit their pre
judices through false slogans and
■motional appeals.
I “The aim of those who deliber
ately egg on these groups is to
■reate confusion of counsel, pub-
Bc indecision, political paralysis
Bnd eventually a state of panic. . .
Bt has happened time after time,
Bt nation after nation during the
Bast two years. Fortunately Amer-
Bcan men and women are not easy
Bupes. Campaigns of group hatred
Br class struggle have never made
Bnuch headway among us and are
Bot making headway now.”
I Commentator Dorothy Thomp
son, returning from a visit to Eu-
Bope, pointed out that “the Nazis
Borked most effectively by spread
ing anti-Semitism.” She asserted
Bhat Switzerland had squelched the
Bazis by banning racial agitation,
Band with such a simple law, rig-
Brously enforced, we could stop
B large part of the Nazi activities
Bomorrow.”
I One tendency the anti-fifth col-
Bmn activities have taken in Wash
ington is toward stricter control
Bf aliens. The Administration has
Banned to move the Immigration
Bervice from the Labor to the Jus-
Bice Department and to set up a
Centralized register of aliens. Con
ics has gone further by planning
Binger-printing of aliens, deporta-
Bion of those aiding entry of aliens
Bad barring of aliens, as well as
Biembers of the Communist Party
Br German-American Bund, from
Belief.
|| Meanwhile, the State Depart-
Bient and Allied diplomats were
Reported to be using the Alaskan
Colonization bill as a means of re
lying the refugee situation in
Bance. This, it was said, would
Blace a potential defense force in
Bus country’s northern territory.
I ALIEN CURBS IN BRITAIN
I As the Nazi drive brought the
B*reat of invasion to England, the
Brttish authorities took further ac-
Bon against aliens. Women were
■ncluded in the round-up of Ger-
Ban nationals. An internment cen-
Br for them was set up on the
Ble of Man.
I Restrictions were extended to all
PUens, including even Americans.
B curfew was ordered for foreign
confining them to their homes
Petween 10:30 P. M. and 6 A. M.
the London area curfew starts
B midnight). In addition, aliens
w ere forbidden to posses various
vehicles of transport.
■ All Germans and Austrians,
■n°st of them refugees, who have
P*en exempted by tribunals from
Vpecial restrictions were banned
from living in 16 English districts.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940
Featured Speakers at A.Z.A. Convention
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Max Kroloff (LEFT), assistant director of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith; Hon. Alfred M. Cohen (CENTER), honorary
president of B’nai B’rith, and Lyle Spencer (RIGHT), America’s num
ber one job expert, who will be among the speakers at the 17th an
nual national convention of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B’rith’s youth
organization, to be held at Camp Manatoc, Akron, Ohio, June 28th
to July sth.
Anti - Nazi Writers In Holland
Reported Shot; Epidemic Spreads
JEWISH MERCHANTS
ARRESTED
LONDON (JTA)—Reports of ah
epidemic in Amsterdam, whole
sale arrests of Jewish merchants
and execution of some Jewish jour
nalists reached here.
The epidemic was said to have
broken out in the old ghetto quar
ter of the city, caused by conges
tion and starvation resulting from
confiscation by the Nazis of all
goods. Contributing to the con
gestion was the influx of refu
gees from the provinces. Most of
the refugees, because of the epi
demic, have had to be removed
from the quarter.
Jewish journalists who de
nounced Nazism before the inva
sion have been rounded up by
Gestapo agents using lists sent
to them by fifth columnists. Sev
eral of those arrested were shot.
Wholesale arrests were carried out
on Jewish merchants and indus
trialists alleged to have partici
pated in the Allied blockade of
Nation’s Job Expert Will Tell Jewish
Youth How To Get Employment
WASHINGTON, D. C.—How to
get a job, and where, the question
uppermost in the minds of adoles
cent youth, will be answered by
Lyle Spencer, America’s leading
job expert, at a vocational guid
ance forum that will feature the
17th annual national convention
of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai
B’rith’s youth organization, which
is to be held at Camp Manatoc,
near Akron, Ohio, from June 28th
to July sth. Mr. Spencer, who is
director of Science Research As
sociates, will speak on Sunday,
June 30th, after which the boys
will ply him with questions.
Other scheduled speakers at the
A.Z.A. convention are the Hon.
Alfred M. Cohen, of Cincinnati,
honorary president of B’nai B’rith
and a member of the Supreme
Advisory Council of A.Z.A.; and
Max Kroloff, assistant director of
the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation
League. In honor of Senator Co
hen, now past 80, the first day of
the convention, June 28th, has been
designated as “Alfred M. Cohen
Day.” He will deliver the princi
pal address at Friday evening
services, June 28th. Mr. Kroloff, a
former Grand Aleph Godol of A.
Germany.
The Jewish community organiza
tions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam
and the Hague have been closed
by the Gestapo. «
The Jewish Standard reports
that at the very outset of the in
vasion of Holland Nazi airmen
bombed the camps where German
Jewish refugees were interned.
“In one case the bombing of help
less refugees was so intense that
the Dutch authorities opened the
largest of the camps and per
mitted them to leave,” the report
said. (The largest refugee camp
was Westerbork f at Drente, near
the Dutch-German frontier.)
Dayan Rabinov of Antwerp ar
rived here after what he described
as a “nightmare journey” on foot
from Antwerp to Dunkirk, where
he succeeded in gaining passage
across the channel. The fate of
Chief Rabbi Rottenberg of Ant
werp as well as that; of a number
of Antwerp Jews who were last
known to be at Calais is not
known.
Z.A. and the only two-time winner
of the national A.Z.A. oratory con
test, will speak on “The A. D. L. in
the Present! Crisis.”
Six hundred boys, representing
400 chapters in 46 states and Can
ada with a total membership in
excess of 10,000, will attend the
convention. Highlighting the con
vention will be the finals in the
national A.Z.A. oratory and de
bating contests, presentation of the
Alfred M. Cohen Award to the
chapter getting the largest num
ber of new B’nai B’rith members
from among its alumni, fathers
and brothers; the Sam Beber
Award to the boy who most clear
ly carries out A.Z.A. ideals; the
Boris D. Bogen Award to the mem
ber who does the most toward the
revival of the Hebrew language
and the most effective religious
work during the year; the Sidney
G. Kusworm Award for the best
original sermon delivered on the
occasion of A.Z.A. Sabbath; the
Harry H. Lapidus Award for the
most effective communal work;
and the distribution of awards to
the winners of the English essay
and Hebrew letter-writing con
tests.
Palestine Ready As It
Awaits Spread of War
JERUSALEM (JTA) —With Italy’s imminent entry in
to the war threatening to extend hostilities to the Mediter
ranean, the British administration in Palestine has com
pleted plans for evacuation of civilian populations from the
coastal cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, if it becomes necessary.
In Haifa, the authorities are assisting needy families wip
ing to leave immediately.
Palestine’s war problems fall in
to three principal categories—sup
plies, defense and air raid pre
cautions.
The first problem is difficult
because the Holy Land is far from
self-sufficient in many communi
‘ ties.
The question of military de
fense is, of course, entirely in the
hands of the British military com
mand. Haifa, a British naval base >
and terminus of the pipelines from
the Mosul oilfields, is a key point
in defense.
The military authorities have
taken all precautions. Public
buildings have been sandbagged.
Certain sections have been occu
pied by troops. Civilians are per
mitted entrance to certain key
points only when in possession of
special permits. Blackout is in ef
fect in Haifa nightly from 11 P.
M.
A. R. P. plans generally had not
advanced beyond the paper stage.
Plans for construction of public
A. R. P. shelters were adopted by
the Haifa and Tel Aviv muncipali
ties before the outbreak of the
war.
Jerusalem’s chief concern is the
maintenance of water and food
supplies. The Jerusalem water
supply comes from the Ras-el-
Ain wells, some 60 kilometers
from Jerusalem. Enemy air ac
tivity over Palestine might well
destroy or so damage the water
system as to leave Jerusalem with
out water.
The Jewish community organiza-
Synagogue Lauded
For Aiding Church
COLUMBUS, O. (JTA)—When
the first Methodist Church was
damaged recently by fire > the con
gregation held its Sunday morn
ing services in the nearby Bry
den Road Temple, at the invita
tion of Rabbi Samuel M. Gup. The
Ohio State Journal editorially
praised “this neighborliness, this
willingness to share, this spirit
that regards men and women of
another faith as real friends and
co-workers.”
Charity Drive
Opens In
Savannah
Herbert Kayton heads the Sa
vannah, Ga., campaign which was
initiated on Thursday, May 23rd,
by Louis Lipsky, National Co-
Chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal. Among the other cam
paign leaders are: Jacob B. Smith,
chairman of the big gifts commit
tee; B. Bernstein, chairman of
the men’s division; Mrs. Eugene
Garfunkel and Mrs. William
Weichselbaum, co-chairmen of the
women’s division, and Rabbi Je
rome Labovitz, secretary and cam
paign director. The executive com
mittee includes Sam G. Adler, Mor
ton H. Levy, Morris Slotin, Ed
mund Abrahams and Mr. Kayton.
$2.00 A YEAR
tion in Jerusalem consequently has
urged the Palestine administra
tion to accumulate water supplies
in Jerusalem reservoirs and also
to repair the water supply from
the famous Solomon Pools, some
8 kilometers from Jerusalem,
which for centuries has been the
city’s main source of water. The
Jewish community also appealed
to all householders in Jerusalem
possessing water tanks to keep
them filled for emergency.
In a measure directed against
spread of false rumors, the Gov
ernment has banned radios from
all cases, shops, automobiles and
other places accessible to the pub
lic, except by special permit from
the High Commissioner’s office.
Palestine police are still arrest
ing Germans, including women ) in
the now nearly completed drive
to eliminate all possible fifth col
umn elements in the country.
Those arrested are interned in
large camps outside the principal
cities.
Pole’s Pamphlet
On Emigration
Stirs Resentment
LONDON (JTA)—Deep dismay
and resentment has been caused
in Jewish quarters by the publica
tion of a booklet by M. K. Glu
chowski, secretary of the Polish
National Council in America,
which declares that “at least
Jews must emigrate
from Poland” and only when “the
percentage of Jews in Poland is
reduced to at least one-third of
the present number will the Jew
ish problem be solved, or rather
cease to exist.”
It is pointed out that Gluchow
ski is also director of the Polish
Information Bureau, cooperating
closely with the Paris official de
partment of the same name.
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Rosh Chodesh Si van. June 7
Shebouth (let day) June 12
♦Rosh Chodesh Tamuz. July 7
Fast of Tamuz July 23
Erev Rosh Hashonah 5701 Oct 2
1940—5701
First Day of New Year _Oct 3
Fast of GedaHah Oct 5
Yom Kippur Oct 12
First Day of Tabernacle Oct. 17
Hoshanah Rabbah Oct. 23
Sh’mini Atseres Oct. 24
Simchas-Torah Oct. 25
Rosh-Chodesh Nov. 1-2
Rosh-Chodesh Dec. 1
First Day of Chanukah Dec. 25
Rosh-Chodesh .Dec. 30-31
♦Observed previous day as
well. All holidays begin at sun
down of day preceding that
listed above.