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FTT—No. 4
I Week In Review
I By MILTON SHOWN, J.T.A.
t^TER-AMERICAN
Jewish congress
I The news of transcending inter
im this week in the Jewish world
Las undoubtedly the convening of
Hie Inter-American Jewish Con
gress at Baltimore. The conven
tion was not only interesting in
Itself as a phenomenon of a new
•merging unity and solidarity a-
Liong the Jews of the Americas,
fcut perhaps equally for the fact
that for the first time it projects
Ihe Jews of the American repub
lics, outside of the United States,
Into the orbit of world influence,
the South American Jewries in
the past have done their bit, but
little has been heard of them in
Ihe councils where world Jewish
Interests are debated. The atti
tude towards them might very
[veil have been expressed in the
fcomely phrases :....“little.. children
hre to be seen, not heard.” Yet
the fact is that South American
Jewry is not a child. It is much
ilder than North American Jewry,
south America is perhaps the one
ontinent of the world outside of
ksia, where Jews may say they
vere there with the first tread of
he white man. The first Jews
■anie with Columbus, and the
natter did not stop there, for
arge numbers of Marrano Jews
vere the first settlers.
The pioneers of a new country
is Theodore Herzl once said, are
dmost always desperate men.
Veil, Jews were a very desperate
ot in those days of 1492. They
vere in disguise, as Marranos.
That shows how desperate they
vere. Unfortunately for Jewish
listory, disguises are often very
iuccessful, so that much of the
tory of the early Jewish settle
nent of South America has been
ost to us. The present writer re
calls one instance when he was
pproached by a Christian woman
rom the United States who had
ived in South America for many
rears, with the information that
Simon Bolivar, the liberator of
South America, was of Marrano
•rigin. It may easily have been
o.
There was one South American
epublic unrepresented at the
Congress—Brazil, which refused to
ermit any of its Jewish citizens,
or some unexplained reason, to
ttend as delegates. However, the
Brazilian Consul surprised the
Congress by coming and offering
•is greetings. In vaudeville, to
lay, we hear much of double talk,
there seems to be something
•he “double action” as well—judg-
n £ by the case of Brazil. Sum
•er Wells, Under-Secretary of
•tat® addressed the Congress and
is speech would make one to
tiieve that at least the State
Apartment looks to South Amer
ca as a prospective reservoir for
he reception of great numbers of
he refugees. Mr. Wells praised
he Dominican Republic for its
enerosity in permitting the Jew
sh settlement and said that this
ettlement “conclusively demon
irated that European refugees
aa be resettled in sub-tropical
hniate and can prosper and
hrive. He assured the delegates
hat the United States govern
ment "will participate in every
•facticable way, contributing with
• her governments towards suc
essful realization of that great
‘inian enterprise of making it
•ossible for the refugees to find a
a,e haven. He added that Presi
®"t Roosevelt had urged the
rer-Governmental Refugee Com-
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAyTdECEMBER 5. 1941
Graves Os Jewish
War Dead Td
Be Marked
LONDON, (JTA) —Wooden signs
in the shape of a Mogen David
surmounted by the Royal Crown
and the King’s initials, will be
erected over the temporary graves
of Jewish soldiers killed while
fighting with the British forces,
it was announced this week by
Dayan Gollop, senior Jewish chap
lain of the British army.
The markers will not only be
erected in military cemeteries
abroad but also in cases of single i
burial where the family of the
soldier so desires. The marking
and care of the graves is entrust
ed to the Imperial War Graves
Commission. After the war the
U, S. Shares With Britain Obligation For
Upbuilding Os Palestine, Pepper Says
New York (JPS) —“The defense
and development of the Jewish
National Home in Palestine is just
as much the obligation of the
United States as of the British
Government. After Hitlerism will
have been defeated, the Balfour
Declaration must gain added sig
nificance and not less,” Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida, a mem
ber of the U. S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, told 1,500
delegates at a “Land for Victory”
conference. v
“The British Government and
Nazis Plan Parley
Os European
Anti-Semites
London (JPS) —Alfred Rosen
berg, Nazi “philosopher” of anti-
Semitism and Nazi Gauleiter of
occupied Russia, is planning to
call a European conference of
anti-Jewish leaders in Hungary,
Rumania and Slovakia and other
lands for the purpose of first cre
ating a new Jewish “Reservation”
in Galicia and then sending the
Jews to Madagascar after the
war, in a scheme which involves
forcing American Jewry to finance
the move under the threat of an
nihilation of the Jews concerned
if the money is not forthcoming.
Rosenberg, recently appointed
Reich Minister in charge of Civil
Administration in the Baltic
States, will attempt to force the
American Jews to finance this
scheme under the threat that if
the money is not produced, all the
Jews involved will be destroyed,
the Pester Lloyd declares.
Without waiting for the realiza
tion of the Rosenberg plan, the
Rumanian Government has al
ready begun to deport Jews across
the Dniester River into occupied
Soviet territory and into a special
“Reservation” of their own.
Jews from all over Rumania are
being dumped into the “Reserva
tion” and are left to find food for
themselves. Since the country a
round the ghetto has been laid
waste by the war, their chances
of survival are extremely slim.
mittee to undertake a “serious and
expanding effort to survey in de
tailed fashion the geographical
and economic problem of reset
tling several million people in new
areas of the earth's surface after
the war ends."
! Poll Surveys
| Religious
j Interest
Princeton, N. J. (JPS) — }
i On the ground that “trouble j
i makes people turn to relig- |
E ion,” many American city |
i dwellers believe that inter- I
j est in religion is gaining, ac- |
| cording to the Gallup Poll. I
i A small proportion of coun- =
I : try and small-town people E
= agree with the urban voters, i
E The poll disclosed that the E
I younger generation is less |
1 E interested than the youth of I
j a decade ago.
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signs will be replaced with per
manent monuments.
people who seek the co-operation
and aid of the world’s free peo
ples in behalf of democracy and
freedom must not be oblivious to
their own obligation toward the
Jewish people and the Jewish
Homeland in Palestine.”
Senator Pepper’s address high
lighted the sessions of the con
ference convoked by thfe Jewish
National Fund to mark the ob
servance of the 40th anniversary ■
year of the Keren Kayemeth’s
land purchase and reclamation
work in Palestine.
Resolution For
Jewish Army
Washington (JPS) —American 1
support of demands that the Jews
of Palestine be allowed a Jewish
army by Great Britain was asked
in a resolution introduced by
Representative Andrew L. Somers
of New York, urging President
Roosevelt to prevail upon Great
Britain to give her consent. The
resolution said that “from all the
material being sent to Great Brit
ain through our lease-lend pro
gram, the small amount necessary
to supply this Jewish army could
be obtained easily.” 1 '
Christian Leaders In Florida Striving
For Fair Play For Jewish Students
Miss Myrtle Williamson, “Secre
tary of the Florida Religious Ed
ucation Association,” has notified
Rabbi Morris A. Skop, “Secretary
of the Florida Rabbinical Asso
ciation,” of the organization of a
special committee to contact the
presidents and pririfeipals of col
leges and high schools, to solve a
distressing problem regarding the
absence of Jewish students from
school on their religious holy days.
Miss Williamson states, while
Christian holidays are provided
for college students in this state,
the Jewish students must either
continue their work, missing their
religious services and holy day
celebrations, or take cuts from
classes which are not excused. The
committee felt that it might be
wise to approach the presidents
of institutions, to arrange for the
Jewish students to be excused at
periods which are most important
in their religious life.
The following dates have been
suggested for Jewish students to
Jewish Refugees in Shanghai
F ear Japanese Complications
SHANGHAI, (JTA) —The eyes of thousands of Jewish
refugees marooned here are now directed towards Washing
ton where the result of Japanese-American negotiations
may indirectly decide their fate.
mi_iii « . . . i
The fear that further lnternat-1
ional complications may lead to
serious consequences for the 20,-!
000 refugees herded in Shanghai
is developing among the Polish
and German Jews here, since it
is believed that Japan may take
full control of Shanghai and treat
the refugees as undesirable ele
- I
Commemorate
! Bill Os Rights
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The es
tablishment of the four freedoms
—religion, speech, press and as
sembly—as the cornerstone of
American democracy is commem
orated in a book published this
week by the Bill of Rights Sesquf-
Cfentennial Committee of which
Herbert Bayard Swope is National
Chairman and President Roosevelt
is Honorary Chairman.
Fifty-nine outstanding Ameri
cans. including Secretary of State
i Cordell Hull, Vice-President Henry
A. Wallace, Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt and Associate Justice Felix
Frankfurter of the U. S. Supreme !
Court, have contributed chapters
for this book w T hich carries the
title “Our BUI of Rights: What It
Means To Me.” The contributors
j tress the significance of reaffiem
ing the Bill of Rights today, not
! only for the United States, but to
give new hope to oppressed peo
ples abroad.
Mr. Swope writes the foreword
in wrhich he says: “To help all of
us to realize the high privilege w’e
have of living under the Bill of
Rights, the thoughts contained
herein W’ere put in words by men
and women who believe the fires
of Freedom must always burn
brightly and sometimes fiercely.
Now is one of those times.”
I
!be officially excused this year:
For the Passover holy days,
1; Thursday April 2nd and Thursday, |
j April 9th; for the “Shavuoth”
holy days, Friday, May 22nd.
Jewish parents throughout the
state of Florida are urged to co
operate with the Florida Rabbin
ical Association and see that their
children, high school and college
students, absent themselves in or- 1
der to attend religious services
and properly observe these Jewish
holy days.
At the forthcoming annual con
ference of the “Florida Religious
Education Association,” of which
Rebbi Skop is vice president, an
effort will be made to have the
Rabbis of the state give all aid
possible to this committee of
Christian leaders of the state to
secure for Jewish students the of
ficial right to be excused from
classes on their Jewish holy days.
The meeting will be held at Flor
ida Southern College in Lakeland
during April of this year. | (
!
ments.
Many Polish Jews are trying to
find their way from here into
Soviet Russia from where they
hope they can proceed to Pales
tine. Others have sent urgent
cables to the Jewish Agency in
Palestine asking it to facilitate
I their departure from Shanghai
; through the Palestine Office w r hich
: has recently b e e‘n established
I here.
Tells Chicago U
Os Explosives
Chicago (JPS) —By a process
which must remain a military se
cret, scientists at the Hebrew
University are aiding the British
in extracting acetone from the
peel of Palestine oranges, thus
contributing to the manufacture
of explosives, Dr. Walter J. Fis
chel, Hebrew University Professor
of Oriental Studies, told the Grad
uate Anthropology Club of Chica
go University.
Jewish Tenor
Makes Met Debut
New York (JPS)—The Metro
politan Opera now has a new
great tenor in Kurt Baum, a Jew
from Czechoslovakia and the sec
ond Jewish tenor to make his de
but in a week, since Jan Peerce
made his Met appearance the fol
, lowing evening. Singing in “Der
Rosenkavalier,” a Richard Strauss
epera, Mr. Baum won the plaudits
of both the audience and the crit
ics with his five-minute perform
ance as the Singer.
Report Mandel
Gravely 111
London (JPS) —Georges Mandel,
former French Minister of the In
terior and of the Colonies who
was imprisoned for “war guilt,” is
gravely ill, according to reports
received here in French circles.
M. Mandel is probably more hated
by the Nazis than any other Jew.
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