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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
■ THE OLDEST AND MQST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION TN THTS TERRITORY
Vol. 17 No. 11
Week In Review
ly MILTON MOWN, J.TA.
IjTler to drive on
KIESTINE
I Reports from Washington this
Lek indicated that Hitler is ex
ited to launch that much talked
Idrive on the Near East and Pal-
Ktine soon, notwithstanding the
It-back his forces have suffered
I Russia.
■ Washington reports say that the
British anticipating this drive are
lw busy concentrating great re
lives of air power in the Near
mat
lOn the one hand, it would seem
Ist Hitler would have better
lings to do right now than start
|ar on another front, what with
L hands full in Russia. But it
lay well be, that because things
le so difficult for him in Russia,
1 will make the drive on the Near
list. For there, he stands some
lance of regaining his prestige—
■ least he may think so—and per
ks the fantastic thought has en-
Ired his mind that once he gives
Inland a blow and threatens her
Knpire, he can use the pretext of
le menace of communism to lure
le English appeasers into a pact
nth him. Remember Hitler likes
1 work surprises and he is in a
Iry desperate position—so almost
lything conceivable is likely to
Ime from him.
■Of course there are other reas
ls too for the drive on the East.
Le report had it last week that,
I German staff officer’s letter !
Id been found in Libya by the]
British, which indicated that the'
lermans were suffering from a
lortage of oil. Hitler’s airmen
1 active at one time are now do
|g very little—not in Russia and
It in England. Perhaps the Nazi
|l tank is running dangerously
Iw and war in Palestine and Iraq
lay be the means of replenishing
lazi oil stocks.
llt would be very interesting if
fetler were to make his last stand
ft Palestine and there receive a
lushing blow. If that happens, I
Ipect, stock in religion will go up
iljjier than United States Steel.
Ihat would look more like the
Pgw of God than the greatest
p of the Jews in all times meet-
K his end in Palestine. All the
Luo, we are perfectly willing if
pe knockout blow to Hitler comes
I Russia.
PNRY FORD SHOULD
10 FURTHER
I Henry Ford issued a statement
P>s week “clarifying” his stand
r Jews. It had been rumored
lere and there despite the recan-
Ption of some years ago delivered
r the late Louis Marshall, that
p. Ford was still privately back-
PS the anti-Semites. Mr. Ford
fakes it clear that this is not the
r Se and he goes further and
Pands those who exploit the Jew-
P issue as undermining the unity
r the American people.
I This is all very fine. To repent
pto say that one has been in the
a lot of courage
pu genuine honesty. And we
F»t credit Mr. Ford with these
ties, for it is very evident
f at his recantation was not
r° u ght about through any ma-
f rial inducements. Mr. Ford does
fnough business to be concerned
P’y little with Jewish business.
[ e Won’t go hungry if the Jews
|° n t buy his cars.
“Victory Tract”
Named In
His Honor
Dr. Israel Goldstein, President
of the Jewish National Fund of
America, 't o whom American
Zionists paid tribute for distin
guished service to the cause of
Palestine Land Redemption and
named a “Land for Victory” tract
for him.
Jews Ignored At
Inter-Allied
Conference
LONDON, (JTA)—Jewish lead
ers here are greatly disappointed
over the fact that a statement on
Jewish sufferings in Nazi-occupied
countries was completely ignored
at the session of the Inter-Allied
conference held in St. James Pal
ace last week at which represen
tatives of Poland, Belgium, Greece,
Czechoslovakia, Holland, Norway,
Yugoslavia, Free France and Lux
emburg pledged themselves to
“punish all those guilty and re
sponsible during the war for acts
of violence against the civilian
population.”
The Jewish statement was pre
pared by the Joint Foreign Com
mittee of the Board of Jewish
Deputies. It was addressed to
Gen. Sikorski, Polish Premier, who
presided at today’s session. The
communication, however, was not
read to the assembled delegates by
the Polish Premier.
Hungarian Girls
Adopt Judaism
To Marry Jews
London (JPS)—In order to
marry Jews, 255 Christian girls in
Hungary adopted Judaism in 1941,
it was reported here. This was
done to circumvent the new Hun
garian law forbidding mixed mar
riages.
Fla. T. B. Patients Treated At
National Non-Sectarian Hospital
Denver Colo.— Judge M. Henry
Cohen of Tampa, Trustees for the
State of Florida for the Nationa
Jewish Hospital at Denver, an
nounced today that tuberculosis
patients from Florida last year ob
tained 449 days of free care
the Colorado institution. Making
public the 1941 annual report- °f
the hospital, prepared byMedwal
Director Dr. Charles J. Kaufman,
JACKSON VI
bLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1942
Congress Hears
Report of Spread
Os Propaganda
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—One of
the largest audiences in months
in the House of Representatives
this week heard Representative
Martin Dies report that prelimi
nary consideration of evidence
now in the committee’s possession
reveals that:
“1. Our country has been flood
ed with a literature of hatred
which is inspired by and which
apes the Nazi theories of race and
religion.
2. This literature is a brutal
assault upon that racial and re
ligious tolerance which is an es
sential part of Americanism.
3. This literature promotes
national disunity and strives to
weaken our power of resistance to
the Axis aggressors.
4. Some of the leaders of
these pro-Nazi groups have solicit
ed aid from official German
sources.
5. Some of the leaders of
these groups have expressed sen
timents which in war time are
nothing short of treasonable."
Vaccine Offered
To Government
By Hebrew U.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The de
partment of Hygiene and Bacteri
ology of the Hebrew University
has informed the Palestine gov
ernment that it can supply an al
most unlimited supply of anti
typhus vaccine should the need
arise, it was announced this week
by the Jewish Agency.
Einstein Disciple
Dies
Geneva (JPS)— Professor Tullio
Levi-Civita, Italy’s greatest math
ematician and Albert Einstein’s
outstanding disciple, died in Vati
can City at the age of 69, it was
announced here.
A member of the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, and a popu
lar lecturer in the United States,
he had done significant work in
the fields of hydrodynamics, theo
retical dynamics and pure geome
try. His contribution to the the
ory of absolute differential calcu
lus helped make possible the gen
eral theory of relativity promul
gated by Einstein.
He was one of the two European
mathematicians invited to lecture
at the Chicago World’s Fair and
was also invited to the scientific
congress sponsored by the Ponti
fical Academy of Sciences in
Rome.
Judge Cohen said that Florida pa
tients treated at the hospital came
from Miami, Pensacola and Tam
pa The National Jewish Hospital,
which provides free care to tuber
culosis patients from throughout
the country, is the oldest national
non-sectarian institution for the
free care of the tuberculous poor
in the United States.
Strategic Importance of
Palestine for U. S. Stressed
Cleveland (JPS) —A call not only to the Jews but to
all the people of America to realize the strategic import
ance of Palestine as a key center for the winning of the war
and to strengthen the Jewish community of Palestine by
giving it greater material resources and by permitting it
to establish a Jewish Army was sounded at the National
Conference of the United Palestine Appeal, held in Cleve
land last, week end.
In the keynote address of the
Conference by Dr. Silver, he pre
sented a broad program for pres
ent and future Jewish needs which
included the arming of the Jews
of Palestine by America if Great
Britain cannot do so, the definite
guarantee of a self-governing
commonwealth in Palestine and a
broad program to facilitate Jew
ish immigration to Palatine which
would bring from two to four
million Jews into the country in
the postwar period.
Is Mourned!
V'C'-i ~ ■■ |l H
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RABBI ADOLPH BURGER
The untimely death of Rabbi
Adolph Burger, spiritual leader
of the Rodeph Shalom Congrega
tion of Tampa, Fla., has shocked
the Jewish communities of the
South. Rabbi Burger was loved
and admired by all who knew him.
He had served his congregation
for 18 years.
6 Jews Are
Recommended
For Flying Cross
Washington (JPS)—Six Jewish
fliers, one of whom later distin
guished himself under fire in the
Philippines, were recommended to
President Roosevelt for awards of
the Distinguished Flying Cross in
recognition of the transpacific
formation flight of September sth
-12th. ‘
Os the seventy-five fliers who
made the flight, Meyer Levin, 25-
year-old- Brooklyn boy, was one
of the heroes in the bombing of
the Japanese battle cruiser Har
nua. The youthful Corporal was
the bombadier in Captain Kelly’s
ship, which later was shot down
by Jap fighter planes. Corporal
Levin baled out safely.
The other five Jewish fliers rec
ommended for the D. S. C. were
Lieutenant Morris N. Friedman,
23, of Grand Forks, N. D.; Private
Robert E. Altman, 22, of Sanford,
Florida; Lieutenant Henry Good
man, Hampton, Virginia; Sergeant
George Brandeis of Waterbury,
Connecticut, and Sergeant Lester
Kramer.
Other speakers included Admiral
Yates Stirling, Jr., former Chief
of staff of the United States Fleet,
who said that it is to “our advant
age as Americans to see a Jewish
Army utilized”; David Ben Gurion,
Chairman of the Executive of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, who
in a stirring address denounced
the White Paper regime in Pales
tine; Professor William C. Al
bright, former Director of the
American School of Archaeology
in Jerusalem and now Professor of
Semitics at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, who said that he believes
that “political Zionism .is the only
alternative to heartless cynicism”;
Senator Alben W. Barkley, major
ity leader of the United States
Senate, and a host of Jewish
leaders.
SECRETARY KNOX LAUDS
YISHUV
In the most forthright emphasis
on Palestine’s strategic value for
the winning of the war, the pion
eers of the Yishuv were called
“the valiant defenders of our
cause in Palestine” in a stirring
message from Secretary of the
Navy Knox, who emphasized that
“the Jewish haven in peace-time
has become a bulwark for democ
racy in wartime.”
His message is regarded as the
most significant utterance made
by an American Government of
ficer since America’s entry into
the war.
APPEAL TO ALL FREE
PEOPLES: MORGENTHAU
In the first message ever writ
ten by Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau on the subject of Pal
estine since he has been in the
Cabinet of the American Govern
ment, he declared: “This Confer
ence which in normal times would
be another laudable appeal to
American Zionists for the Zionist
cause, in our turbulent days rises
immeasurably in importance. The
appeal today is no longer address
ed to Zionists alone, but to all
Zionists, non Zionists and non-
Jews who believe in justice and
freedom. It no longer appeals to
Americans, alone, but to the peo
ple of all free nations. .
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