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Vol. 17 No. 18
Week In Review
By MILTON MOWN, J.TA.
THE strume catastrophe
and THE BIBLE
In the days when Andrew Jack
son was President of the United
States, the New York Evening
Post had a famous and very in
teresting editor, Wm, E. Leggett.
In his younger years, he had been
in the Navy and had been court
martialed there for insulting a
superior officer. The insults con
sisted in quoting “highly inflama
tory” passages from Shakespeare
at the officer.
One is reminded of this story by
what happened the past week in
Palestine. The censors put their
foot down against much of the
criticism of the government on ac
count of the great Strume catas
trophe, so some cf the Hebrew
newspapers got by the censor by
publishing in great big letters on
their editorial pages, fitting pass
ages from the Bible
The Strume disaster in Pales
tine is being mourned as we
mourn Pearl Harbor and Indeed of
the two disasters, the one thut oc
curred in the waters of Palestine
has the least justification. To
turn away a ship of Jewish refu
gees from Rumania at a time like
this, at a time wnen the British
knew that these hapless wander
ers were literally between the
devil and the deep sea betokens
a callousness that makes one al
most despair of human nature.
Not only that, but who knows
but that these 750 refugees might,
not have made a worthwhile con
tribution to the war effort. Are,
the British possessions so abund
antly supplied with men that they
do not need them? The story of
recent weeks indicates just the
contrary. Britain needs human
material as much and more than
she needs airplanes and ammuni
tion. Soon everyone expects the
war to break out around Pales
tine but she turns aside 750 peo
ple and they are destroyed by an
Axis mine!
This is not the worst of it. The
worst is that Britain shows no
wal regrets. The undersecretary
•f the Colonial Office in a state
ment made after a Jewish mem
ber of Parliament demanded a
of Palestine policy braz
atfy affirmed that the govern
ment was supporting fully the
Palestine administration.
Sir John Dill, speaking at the
Litvinoff dinner the other week
said that we must not only con
fer the Axis but also conquer
much in ourselves. It would not
a bad idea to make an extract
of that passage and send it to the
parties responsible for the great
Strume catastrophe.
A HITLER STORY
An interesting story of the pre
parations b'-ing made by Hitler to
maume the offensive in Russia
here this week. Hie Ru
®*®ian troeps which German gen
r" 8 are training for the fight
being told that they will have
® chance to enrich themselves
booty from Russian Jews,
k ®“ McDuff.” We shall soon
able to test the veracity of an
ttt —whether
the cold weather or the hot
of Russia which is forcing his
uP 8 ba ek. The snows are thaw
d soon they will be no more,
lana i UrBe ’ 88 th e snow thaws, the
1 d ‘ 8 fil, ®d with water and Hit
y next say that you can’t
ttTL , 8 teoops to fight in land
into rivers-
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1343
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I Jew Declines
Mercy Bid
To Nazis I
Geneva (JPS) —Convicted |
| with six other Frenchmen of \
i being “super-terrorists” and §
| of attacking German offic- i
\ era, Fernand Zalonov, a Jew, §
| refused to join his six other 5
| comrades in appealing to the I
[ Ministry of Justice for re- \
§ prieves from the death sen- =
I tence. All seven were re- 1
| ported executd in Paris as- \
| ter trial before a German \
i court-martial. The Jew said §
\ he was glad to have shared §
| in the attacks on the Nazi |
\ invaders and was “too proud =
: to ask the Nazis for mercy.” I
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Jewish Merchant
Fleet Is Fighting
In Mediterranean
The Palestine Jewish merchant
fleet, which has been built up in
recent years with the aid of the
United Palestine Appeal, has now
been almost wholly enlisted in the
battle of the Mediterranean.
Nine of the eleven ships of the
Palestine Jewish merchant marine
have been requisitioned by the
British Royal Navy to transport
war supplies made in Palestine, it
was disclosed.
The Palestine merchant marine,
it was pointed out, carries on its
roll of honor the names of Jewish
seamen lost in the sinking of two
of its ships by enemy action. One
of them, the SS Har Zion, was the
flagship of the fleet. The Har
Zion was lost with all hands in the
Battle of the Atlantic.
In peacetime, this merchant na
vy was regarded as the nucleus of
a Jewish seafaring enterprise
which was expected, in time, to
re-establish the ancient fame of
Jewish ships and sailors in the
Mediterranean. The Har Zion and
her sister ships carried thousands
of Jewish immigrants to the
homeland and cargoes of citrus
fruit and other Palestine products
to markets abroad. Now that
Palestine has swung over to a
war production basis, these ves
sels form an important link in the
supply line carrying Palestine
produced foodstuffs and fighting
equipment to the battlefronts,
Reveals Conditions
In Yugoslavia
Istanbul (JPS)—The tragic po
sition of Jews in Yugoslavia has
be?n pathetically drawn for an
Independent Jewish Press Service
correspondent here by a refugee
woman who recently escaped from
the Nazi-held land of the Serbs
and Croats.
According to the womans tale
the Nazis have killed as many as
10,000 Jews in Serbia and 4,000
in Croatia since the Germans oc
cupied the land. The executions
were part of the general “pactfi
cation” of the country, she de
clared.
Victory Issue - Buy A Bond
Heads Campaign
For Funds For
Refugee Students
GEORGE J. SCHAEFER
Frtsidcii. Radw-Keitk-Orplwaa Cwji
The fourth annual campaign for
scholarship funds for refugee
students of Yeshiva College, spon
sored by the Motion Picture In
dustry, was launched today, George
J. Schaefer, president of R. K. O.
and chairman of the Motion Pic
ture Industry Scholarship Fund,
announced.
Each year, the drive conducted
by the Motion Picture Industry
enables ten refugee students to
live and study at Yeshiva Col
lege.
Yeshiva College is the only col
lege of liberal arts and sciences
under Jewish auspices.
Says Nazi Treat- _
ment of Jews Will
Become Standard
Washington (JPS) —Raymond
Clappr, considered one of the most
responsible of all nationally syn
dicated columnists, declared here
that the Nazi treatment of Jews
will be extended to all peoples
throughout the democratic world
if the United Nations lose the
war.
“I believe without reservation of
any kind,” he said, “that this war
is going to decide the shape of
civilization for generations to
come. It is going to decide wheth
er brutal, arbitrary methods of
the Nazis—as illustrated by their
attitude toward the Jews—are go
ing to become the standard.”
Ensign Caplan Lauded By
Knox For Destroyer Feat
Washington (JPS) —A new hero
in American naval action was
cited by Secretary of the Navy
Knox in issuing a commendation
for distinguished service to Ensign
Stanley Caplan of Elmira, N. Y.,
for his exploit in commanding a
destroyer and pursuing the enemy
after the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor.
Only four Naval Reserve ensigns
were survivors when the destroyer
got under way. As the senior of
the four, although he had been
afloat for only eight months, Cap
Weizmann Condemns
Struma Loss as Outrage
London (JPS-Palcour) —Speaking to a great meeting
at Conway Hall silenced by the deep emotion with which he
was weighing his words, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of
the Jewish Agency, condemned the British officials respon
sible for the death of 760 lives on the Struma as guilty of
an “unspeakable outrage.”
He charged that there were
those in the Palestine Administra
tion who might wish to “break
the spirit” of the Yishuv and
“thereby diminish their war ef
fort,” but, he declared, “this will
never happen if our detractors
have these sinister intentions. We
will go on in Palestine and else
where giving all we can in men
and effort and contribute to the
final victory in which we believe.”
Dr. Weizmann, obviously care
worn as he appeared before the
specially convened gathering of
the British Zionist Federation,
spoke in bitter terms that he has
not used since, last year, he de
Charges Dies Will
Revive Anti-
Semitic Pamphlets
Washington (JPS) Charging
that Congressman Martin Dies of
Texas has failed to reveal the
anti-Semitic activities of men like
Charles Coughlin and will do so
now in an attempt to “revive all
those rotten pamphlets, those
anti-Semitic leaflets, those nasty
lies that traveled about the coun
try in 1936 and the years before
and after,” Representative Thomas
Eliot of Mass, continued his bitter
denunciation of Dies and his com
mittee.
Although Representative Eliot
started his attack on Dies in a
speech on the floor of the House,
most of the members did not hear
this phase of it, because the
House adjourned in the widst of
Eliot’s talk. Attempting to show
that Dies’ expose of Japanese ac
tivity is a fraud as much of the
same material was available in
the files of the Congressional Li
brary, Elliot chargegd that Dies
would revive the anti-Semitic
pamphlets so as to give the liter
ature circulation.
lan took over “and the young of
ficers met all emergencies and op
erated the ship like veterans,”
with the 26-year-old commander
conducting operations “in a most
outstanding manner,” the Secre
tary stated.
Son of Moses Caplan, Ensign
Stanley was bom at Elmira on
July 13, 1915. He graduated from
the University of Michigan in
1939, enrolled in the Naval Re
serve in 1940 and entered service
in the Pacific Fleet on April 4,
1941.
nounced the British Government
for its failure to carry through its
promise to him for the establish
ment of a Jewish Army.
The Conference, dominated by
discussion of the Struma disaster,
which brought death to 750 Ru
manian refugees in the Black Sea
outside Istanbul, adopted a resolu
tion expressing the conviction of
British Zionists that “the attitude
of the Palestine Administration in *
the Struma and other incidents re
lating 1 to Jewish refugees was in
imical to the best interests of the
Allied cause.”
Report 300 Anti-
Semitic Sheets
Still Flourishing
Washington (JPS) —Despite the
unity demanded of Americans by
the war and despite increasing
vigilance by Government agencies,
some 300 sheets which are anti-
Semitic and anti-Democratic in
character are still appearing, a
survey of the field has revealed.
These range from Charles Cough
lin’s Social Justice to the less
well-known Destiny, issued by the
Anglo-Saxon Federation of Haver
hill, Mass.
With no dissenting voice being
raised in Congress as a result of
the dismissal by Secretary of the
Navy Knox of George Deatherage
a3 “undesirable,” it is believed
that the Department of Justice
may be expected to clamp down
on these fomenters of hate. The
co-operation of the Post Office
Department will be sought to
weed out publications which make
vicious anti-Semitism and pro-
Fascism the main theme of their
columns.
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