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WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS
Jr THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
Vol. 16 No. 33
Week In Review
By MILTON MOWN. J.T.A.
IHE U. S- AND THE REFUGEES
The United States Government
last week took drastic action a
gainst the Nazis in this country.
It ordered expulsion of German
consulates and specified Nazi
agencies by July 12. Pending
that date it forbade departure of
German nationals. These actions
were publicly applauded by most
Americans.
However, while this vigorous
anti-Nazi action was going on in
the open, the State Department
quietly cabled an order to consuls
in Europe which had the effect of
virtually suspending entry of ref
ugees fleeing from the very Nazis
this country is combatting. The
order directed the consuls to with
hold visas from aliens having close
relatives “certain countries and in
territories controlled by these
countries.”
News of this development first
came to light in this country
through a cable from {he JTA
correspondent in Lisbon, who de
scribed the panic it created among
refugees there, some of whom had
already been promised visas and
ffho now faced internment in Por
tugal because of their inability to
iroceed to this country.
The consuls interpreted the or
ier as applying to refugees with
relatives not only in German ter
ritory, but in Soviet and Italian
« well, and possibly Spanish and
unoccupied France. Since there
are practically no refugees who
io not have relatives in at least
one of these territories, the State
department action serves as an
affective ban on refugee entry.
I* was only after newspapers re
mblished that the State Depart
nent admitted existence of the
>rder. It claimed the action was
aken “in view of the increasing
■umber of instances known to the
State Department where persons
eaving certain countries of Europe
iave * )een permitted to leave only
dter entering into an abiigation
» act as agent in the United
dates for the governments con
rolling the countries from which
«ey desired to depart.”
The department promised that
ln cases in which, in the consul’s
ipinion, a visa may be granted
Whout endangering the public
.. et y of the United States to an
■ who has some close relative
esiding- in territory controlled by
°Vernments which have demon
r&tcd that they have developed
ractices inimical to our national
curity, the consul is instructed
. ra P° r t the facts to the depart-
C or further consideration.”
W man y refugees will receive
?lirt!! Sa * iOnS aS a resu ft °f SUCh
er consideration” remains to
,e seen.
It remains a matter of deep re
that as a result of vague
rges, not proved by any facts
w? pubUc > the u - S. role as
ditjonal asylum for refugees
keen flouted.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
ial n em . anded a drive against ra
, reli^ou s discrimination
defense industries. In a mem
he p Um ■ to the O p M’s directors,
aci a i r ! Sldent asserte d that such
f “is a matter
im Portance and
eal Juif Steps must be taken to
it effectively.”
•ritiKk ne trade k following the
yria !> an f Free flags into
and Lebanon. It will be
]V ational Defense Leaders to Address Convention
Os Aleph Zadik Aleph , B’nai B’rith Youth Unit
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(LEFT TO RIGHT) Stanton Smith, commandant of Brooks
Field, a major U. S. Air Corps station, in Texas, and Daniel W. I loan,
former mayor of Milwaukee and now an associate of Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia in the newly-created Office of Civilian Defense, wilk
be the principal speakers at the 18th annual national convention,
of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B’nai B’rith’s youth organization, which will
meet at Schreiner Institute, Kerrville, Texas, July 12th to 18th.
Youth’s role in national defense will be the keynote of the convention.
recalled that a newly-approved
Syria-Palestine trade agreement
was scrapped as a result of the
opening of Syria to the Nazis.
Now, with the Allied advance into
the French-mandated territories,
several Palestine merchants have
gone to Allied-occupied Syria to
arrange exchange of goods and
foodstuffs, while a group of Syro-
Lebanese merchants have arrived
in Haifa for the same purpose.
Palestine and Syria have naturally
complimentary economics.
As to the political future of
Syria, it will probably be ruled
by an Anglo-Free French military
directorate until the end of the
war, at which time it will receive
independence, Colonial Secretary
Lord Moyne said at a press con
ferance in London. He expressed
belief that while Britain would
support plans for an Arab federa
tion, if the initiative was taken
by the Arabs, the present moment
of the war was not a propitious
time to raise the question.
As to the war itself, Lord
Moyne said that increasing U. S.
deliveries of war supplies would
greatly affect the Palestine situ
ation He declared the British
were now seeking employment of
maximum military forces in Pal
estine and were only hampered by
insufficiency of equipment.
Enlistment of Jews continues.
As the Hebrew University’! aca
demic year closed, President Ju
dah L. Magnes called upon all
students to volunteer in the armed
forces.
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941
Nazis “Prove” President And Mrs.
Roosevelt Os Jewish Descent
ZURICH (JTA) A so-called
“scientific investigation” into the
ancestry of President Roosevelt
and of Mrs. Roosevelt, published
in the entire German press,
“proves” that both of them are of
Jewish descent.
The article, which was origin
ally published in the National So
cialist Party Correspondence,
states that “experts” who exam
ined the genealogical tree of the
Roosevelt family discovered that
the President’s progenitor was one
Claus van Martensen, who immi
grated to New York (then New
Doctor Lehman Receiving His Degree
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president of the Jewish Theological Semi
nary conferring on Governor Lehman an honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws at the 54th commencement exercises of the in
stitution' held recently. M
5,000,000 Jews in Path
of Nazis Invading Russia
Jewish-Popnlated Towns Bombed
LONDON (JTA) —With approximately 5,000,000 Jews
in the direct path of the German armed forces driving into
Soviet Russia 1 from the Baltic to the Black Sea, many Jews
were among the victims as the Nazis unleashed widespread
air raids on Ukranian and other Soviet cities.
Soviet Foreign Commissir Molo
toff said some 200 persons had
been killed or wounded in Nazi
air raids on Zhitomir, Kiev and
Kaunnas, all cities having large
Jewish populations.
The imminent danger threaten
ing the Jewish masses in the
Russo-German border districts was
stressed by Prof. Selig Brodetsky,
president of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, in presenting the
report of the Joint Foreign Com
mittee at a Board meeting.
Referring to the “further ex
tension of the war in the last few
hours,” Brodetsky declared: “Os
course it is not for me or anybody
speaking in the name of the Board
to express an opinion on the great
international issues involved, but
Amsterdam) in 1649 and married
a Jewess named Janet J. Sam
uels (alias Thomas). The mother
of the President is also stated to
be a Jewess, being the descendant
of an Italian Jewish family “de
Ilian.” Mrs. Roosevelt is alleged
to be a daughter of “the Jewess
Rebecca Hall.”
The “scientific investigation”
proceeds, with typical German
thoroughness, to prove its case
twice over by showing that the
Roosevelt family, having reached
New Amsterdam in 1649 and be
ing descended from the van Mar-
I am afraid that none of us can
forget and, I hope, will forget
that . . . once again millions of
Jews are involved in the route
taken by the armies and that mil
lions of Jews are involved in dan
ger over the possibility of being
overtaken by the Nazi heel. I can
only express the hope that our
brethren in the western part of
Soviet Russia will escape the dan
ger which seems to threaten
them.”
The entire Jewish and non-Jew
ish population in the parts of
Soviet-occupied Galicia bordering
the Nazi frontiers had been or
dered in advance to evacuate into
the interior of the USSR “for
strategic reasons.” A similar
order was issued also for the pop
ulation in the Soviet-held territory
bordering on the Lublin district.
Simultaneously the Polish Gov
ernment-in-exile received a report
that the Nazi authorities in occu
pied Poland ordered Jews to make
their own arrangements for the
building of air raid shelters with
in the ghettos. ’ The order stated
in case of air attacks the Jews
would not be allowed to seek shel
ter outside of the ghetto.
Jews In Free Lands
Urged To Fight
LONDON (JTA)—Warning of
the danger that degredation of
Jews would become an accepted
part of the normal scheme of
things, Leonard Stein, president
of the Anglo-Jewish Association,
this week urged Jews in free
countries to assert fearlessly and
clearly the claim that the Jews’
right to life, liberty and pursuit
of happiness be recognized as sa
cred.
tensens, also reached New Amster
dam in 1621 and was descended
from a Spanish Jewish family
named Rossocampo. The task of
reconciling these two statements
is not attempted.
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