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_____ an INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
I THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
r ol. 17 - No. 19
I Week In Review
l| |y MILTON MOWN, J.T.A.
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HATCHET DAY
An article appearing in Hitler’s
■personal organ, the Voelkischer
■Beo bach ter, during the past week
■warns the German people that if
■Germany loses the war, Europe
■wUl run red with blood as a re-
Igglt of pogroms which Jews will
f Hitler forsees giant pograms a
■gainst the Germans, with the
■jews as the pogrom makers.
■Well, that is a novel role for the
■jews. Hitherto he has been on
■the receiving end. The thought is
■quite fascinating, if we could di
■vest ourselves as the Nazis have,
■of all civilized instincts. But Hit
■ler knows full well and the Nazis
■do also that the truth is far grim
■mer for the Germans than he has
■pictured here. He knows that if
■the Jews are resentful and hu
■jnanly vengeful, that they are but
■one and perhaps the least of the
■vengeful. The Nazis know for
■example that the Dutch long ago
■set aside what they call Hatchet
■Day, when they are going to
Snake the Nazis pay for all that
■they have suffered, they know
■that the Poles, and the Czechs
And a dozen other peoples would
■be glad to put poison in their cos-
AhE STRI MA CATASTROPHE
■still rocks public opinion
I World wide comment on the
■lorribie catastrophe of the Struma
Aontinued during the week Lord*
■Cranbone, the new Colonial Minis-
A er however stated that he accept- <
Bed the “full responsibility” for the
■>olicy of tli e Palestine administra
tion. Cord Davies very pointedly
■characterized the refusal to admit
■the Struma passengers as “stupid,
■callous and inhuman.”....He point
fed out that the Palestine admin
febtration did not hesitate to admit
A l 6 ex-Mufti followers, though
Ahey had been axis plotters. Dr.
fetfeizmann. a man disposed to
Aeigh his words and speak softly,
A poke S ri, »ly and sharply of the
feMtish. “The Palestine adminis
tration's argument that the Struma
Mm. were not admitted be-
A ause °* tear that there might be
Bmdesirable elements among them
A an insult to the Intelligence.”
gA*perience has shown, he went on
A™ say, that there were almost no
■undesirables among the refugees
Altering Palestine. “Refugees
■ ave been received with open arms
A this country as have Polish ref
ugees in Palestine and rightly so.
A* Method of sending people to
■r^ r dea th was applied only to
■be Jews and to Jews in their
Atonal home.”
A ® ne can surmise that in speak-
A‘g so sharply, perhaps Dr. Weiz-
A was thinking of the loss of
,A OWn son recently, a member
A the Royal Air Force. Was it
A?rth while for his son to lose his
* or the British when the Brit
m a <lmit Poles, Greeks and others
A Palestine, admit Axis plotters,
■ ut ref use to admit Jewish refu-
A®cs, who as in the case if the
: A truma incident have no escape
A ut death.
■ The protest against the Struma
■™ c dent was voiced in many parts
■“America. Perhaps the best
m° n | mea t was that of the Wash
■^*° n p °st, which remarked that
Aj, action of The Colonial Office
■““cates that the Colonial Office
1/ does not know what the war
A about.
As Passover Nears Preparations Are Made For Observance
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TOP LEFT: Some of the tons of Passover foods .;_iig c.ntributed this year, as always, by the
450 chapters of Aleph Zadik Alepii to needy Jewish families throughout the country through local
Jewish welfare agencies; TOP RIGHT: One of the many seders annually sponsored by the B’nai
B’rith Hillel Foundations for thousands of Jewish students who cannot go home for Passivcr;
CENTER: This year Jewish soldiers from Army camps near Hillel units are again to be the
guests of Hillel at Passover functions; BELOW:An AZA group holds its annual group seder as
part of AZA’s year-round religious program. The Hillel Foundations and Aleph Zadik Aleph are
part of the national B’nai B’rith Wider Scope Youth Service program.
Negotiated Peace
Group Formed
New York (JPS)—Horace J.
Hasse, a friend of Charles A.
Lindbergh, America’s premier
voice of appeasement before the
war, has organized a new version
of “America First.” He calls his
organization “Americans for
Peace” and advocates a negotiated
peace, based on the formula
“Peace with Hitler,” according to
J. L. Teller, writing in the Jewish
Morning Journal.
Pointing out in his expose that
the new group has a five-point
program which jibes with that of
all pro-Hitlerites in America, Mr.
Teller lists the five points as: 1.
Fight against “Union N o w,”
which advocates a federation of
Anglo-Saxon nations; 2. Fight a
gainst Communism; 3 # Fight a
gainst Bureaucracy; 4. Back and
support former anti-war Con
gressmen; 5. Fight for “free en
terprise,” a broad term which im
plies—for his organization—a bat
tle against social reforms.
OBSERVES BIRTHDAY
LONDON (JTA)— Tribute to
the works of Prof. Albert Einstein
and Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the two
world-famous Jewish scientists,
was paid by the British radio on
the occasion of their common
birthday, March 14th.
JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942
Naval Heroes Are Honored For
Bravery At Pearl Harbor By Knox
Washington (JPS) —Placed high
cn the honor roll of the United
States are the names of four Jew
ish heroes who won the Navy
Cross and special letters of com
mendation for their bravery under
enemy fire.
The Navy Cross, awarded by
Secretary of the Navy Frank
Knox, was presented toF. C. Levy,
fireman second class of Woodmont,
Conn. Among those who received
letters of commendation from
Secretary Knox are Ensign Stan
ley Caplan of Elmira, N. Y., whose
feats of heroism have already
been mentioned in previous Navy
dispatches; Ensign Nathan F.
Asher of Brooklyn, N. Y., and H.
Greenbaum, electrician’s mate
third class of New York, who re-
FEDERATION REGIONAL
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
William J. Shroder of Cincin
nati and Oscar Strauss, Jr., of
Atlanta will be the speakers at
the opening session of the 1942
conference of the Southeastern
Region of the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds at
Chattanooga on March 28 and 29,
according to Donald Oberdorfer,
and Hirsh Kaplan, Nashville, co
chairmen of the program com
mittee.
ceived his letter from the com
mander-in-Chief of the United
States Pacific Fleet.
POLISH -JEWISH
COLLABORATION
FRUSTRATES NAZIS
Geneva (JPS) —Secret encour
agment and support to the ghetto
imprisoned Polish Jews by the
Poles, especially in the smaller
towns, the Krakauer Zeitung con
fesses, has reached irrepressible
proportions as Poles and Jew 3
steadily refuse to yield before the
Nazi discriminatory measures.
Poles have aided many Jews to
escape from the ghettos and to
obtain much-needed food supplies,
and this Nazi-banned communion
between the two oppressed nat
ional groups has reached the point
where Nazi authorities, the Nazi
organ admits, are unable to sup
press the traffic.
DR. WISE IS HONORED
. New York (JPS)—Outstanding
American and Jewish leaders paid
tribute to Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
noted Jewish personality and Zion
ist leader, on the occasion of his
68th birthday, at a banquet held
at the Hotel Astor.
240,000 Jews Are
Executed By
Gestapo In Ukraine
NEW YORK (JTA)—Two hund
red and forty thousand Jews who
had been deported from Germany
and all parts of Central Europe
to the German-held Ukraine were
murdered by the Gestapo, accord
ing to the testimony of Hungarian
soldiers returning from the east
ern front, it was revealed here
this week by S. Bertrand Jacob
son, American relief worker, who
left Budapest with the American
diplomatic mission on January
16th.
Mr. Jacobson, representative of
the American Jewish Joint Dis
tribution Committee in Eastern
Europe for the past two years,
quoted one Hungarian soldier as
declaring that at one great tract
of land, near Kiev, the Ukranian
capitol, he saw the ground “move
in waves.” The Germans, he said,
had just conducted a mass execu
tion of Jews and had buried their
victims even before life left them.
Extermination of Hungarian and
Yugoslav Jews Described
In an interview here today, the
Anjerican relief worker accused
the Gestapo troops of having mur
dered fifty percent of the 18,000
jews who had been rounded up by
the Hungarian authorities in Car
patho-Russia and the Hungarian
provinces and deported in cattle
cars to German-held Galacia.
Charging that the only policy
the Germans have for the solution
of the Jewish question is exter
mination and destruction, the
American relief worker declared
that this policy was being pursued
in every country the Nazis domi
nate.
The Jewish population of Yugo
slavia, he declared, had been re
duced from 68,000 before the in
vasion of the country to a mixl
mum of 25,000 today. When the
Nazis occupied Belgrade, he said,
they took “terrible measures” of
revenge against the patriots who
had resisted them. Jews of the
capital, he said, were rounded up
and taken in trucks, a hundred at
a time, to nearby forests where
they were executed. Today, he
reported, there are virtually no
Jews left in Belgrade and only a
few in Zagreb, the Croatian capi
tal, where the Jewish question was
put in the hands of the Italian
trained Ustachi.
Deportations from Vienna to
Galacia and the Ukraine are still
continuing, Jacobs reported, and
there are now only 30,000 Jews
left in Austria, most of them aged
and infirm.
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