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AN Ind EPENDCNT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
, THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
tsTiß3no. 13
I IT HAPPENED
I THIS WEEK
■ BY MILTON BROWN, JTA ;
[ THE JEWS OF TRIPOLI
I For a story of sheer happiness,
Mere is little that can match the
■ccount of two American news-
Eaper men, describing the joy of
KL jews of Tripoli at the libera-
Bj on which came to them during
Ae week. j
|The two newspapermen, Don
Whitehead and George Tucker,
Both of the Associated Press,
Aere the first Americans to enter
Aipoli with the British forces.
T “We walked through an arched
Ate, guarded by military police,
Ad the instant the people (the
Hews) recognized us as Ameri
cans, the outburst was all but
Antons. Some threw themselves
At our feet, offering gifts of not
Anly wine and tobacco, but of
Aoney. Men threw their arms a-
Aout us and kissed our cheeks.
Av'omen kissed our hands. Child-
Aen clung to our legs and kissed
Aur shoes.”
I "They showed us photographs of
Aresident Roosevelt and Prime
Alinister Churchill with cries of
■Viva America, Viva Inglesi.’ ”
I “A husky young fellow sudden
ly took us by the arms and shoved
A through the crowds into a
■courtyard and down a flight of
■dark steps into a room where a
■white-robed patriarch sat at a
■bare table. A torrent of people
■crowded after us, hundreds clam
■oring for admittance until the
■doors were barred. They told us
■that a few hours before the troops
■entered the city some leading
■Jewish merchants had been drag-
Iged from their shops and shot, but
Khey expressed no surprise at( this,
■because, they said, it was the kind
■of thing that had been going on
■since the days when this city was
■the seat of Mediterranean piracy.”
I Such is the account of the hap
■piness of the Jews of Tripoli.
■THE JEWS OF NORTH AFRICA
Indeed, Drew Middleton, New
■York Times correspondent in
■North Africa, reported this week
■that those suspected of being too
■sympathetic with the United Na
tions are even shadowed by the
French authorities, and as for
Jews, when buying a shirt, for
instance, one must state whether
one is a Jew or not.
Secretary Hull this week sharp
ly struck at those who have been
criticizing the North African situ
ation, but in the light of these
facts openly reported by Ameri
can correspondents to such reput
able papers as the New York
Times, it would seem that these
critics of the North African
“mess” are not without justifica
tion. To be sure, we do not know
all the facts in the possession of
the government. It may be that
the military situation is one that
forces the American government
to go slow about purging these
Fascists. But the facts as they
appear are very dreary indeed.
CONDEMN RACIAL THEORY
According to the London papers
this week, Mussolini, in an effort
to strengthen his position with
the Vatican, is relaxing the anti-
Jewish laws.
Cardinal Seredi of Hungary in
a speech at Budapest, re-broadcast
over the Vatican radio this week,
Btrongly condemned the Nazi ra
cial theories and urged the people
to give protection “to all |Who are
menaced on account of their be
of their race.”
CABINET OFFICERS
NEGATIVE TO
PALESTINE FOR
REFUGEES
London (JPS-Palcor)—Despite
repeated assertions to the House
of Commons by Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden and by Deputy
Prime Minister Clement Attlee
that the British Government is
studying concrete plana to imple
ment a declaration of sympathy
with the Jewish victims of Nazi
terror, an interview with a dele
gation of distinguished British
Jews had with Cabinet officers,
including Mr. Eden, proved entire
ly unsatisfactory, it was disclosed.
The delegation, composed of
Jewish and Christian Members of
Parliament, met with Mr. Eden,
Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
and Colonial Secretary Oliver
Stanley. Pressed for statements
on exactly what was contemplated
by the Government in the form of
opening the doors of the Empire
or obtaining the co-operation of
other governments to admit Jew
ish refugees who could escape
from Hitlerized Europe, the Cab
inet officers were reported unre
sponsive. The delegation, includ
ing Arthur Greenwood, leading
Laborite, Lord Melchett and oth
ers, is understood to have receiv
ed a particularly negative re
sponse to its suggestion that Pal
estine be utilized to a greater ex
tent to receive the Jewish refu
gees.
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These Jewish soldiers, repairing
their tank somewhere in the Mid
dle East, are among the 50,000
fighters in the British army and de
fense forces of the Jewish home
land in Palestine, which has been
converted into an important arsenal
and granary for democracy through
the reconstruction effort supported
by the United Palestine Appeal.
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, i. tpntli anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the Lnited Jew
These scenes show how, °“ the J® N , d Palestine is turning the comer to victory in the
ish Appeal for Refugees, overß ® rehabilitation of Jewish victims of Nazism, through the efforts
rtttrsSu“mSi"rra.«.L Appeal and National Refugee Service.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY. FEBRATIRV 5, 1943
Leaders Os Florida Unite In
Proclamation Against The Mass
Extermination of Jews In Europe
CONDEMN POLICY OF “PITY ALONE” AND
CALL FOR ACTION
In response to the horrifying
news from Europe about the mass
extermination of the Jewish peo
ple now going on in Hitler-dom
inated countries, a strong move
ment was initiated in Florida, as
well as throughout the entire
country, for a plan to stop this
brutal slaughter.
Senator Claude Pepper and Rep.
Pat Cannon of Florida, along with
other leading figures of Florida,
have joined with the- many* high
ranking representatives of public
opinion and statesmen of America
in a “Proclamation on the Moral
Rights of the Stateless and Pales
tinian Jews” which condemns the
present attitude of “pity alone” to
the plight of the Jews in Europe
and outlines a positive program
of action as a solution.
Notables from Florida who have
signed the “Proclamation on the
Moral Rights of the Stateless and
Palestinian Jews” are the follow
ing:
Honorable! Claude Pepper (Sen
ator); Honorable Pdt Cannon
(Representative); Honorable Arm
stead Brown (Chief Justice Su
preme Court, Tallahassee); Hon
orable Roy H. Chapman (Justice
Supreme Court of Florida, Talla
hassee); Honorable J. Tom Wat
son (Attorney-General of Florida.
I . j
This youngster, left homeless by
Nazi mass deportations in France,
is being nursed back to health in a
child-care center in Switzerland—
one of the hundreds of thousands,
young and old, throughout the
world, to whom life-saving aid is
extended by the Joint Distribution
I Committee.
Col. Raymond Robins (Social
Economist, Brooksville); William
S. Allen (President John B. Stet
son University, Deland); John J.
Tigert (President University of
Florida, Gainesville); Harry D.
Trussler (Dean of Law School,
University of Florida, Gaines
ville) ; Rabbi Morris D. Margolis
(Jacksonville); Philip Wylie (Au
thor, Miami Beach); Miss Mabel
V. A. Marsh (Ormond Beach);
John H. Perry (President Publish
ing Companies, Palm Beach); Er
nest K. Coulter (Sarasota); Mere
dith Nicholson (Author, St. Aug
ustine); Reverend Pierce S. Ellis
(Tallahassee); Miss Bertita Hard
ing (Author, Tampa); Daniel S.
Sanford (Dean of Instruction,
University of Tampa); James El
liott Mooney (President Univer
sity of Tampa); Reverend Henry
M. Edmonds (Winter Park); Irv
ing Bachellor (Winter Park).
30 TRIPOLI JEWS
HELD HOSTAGES
London (JPS) —Thirty promin
ent Jews of Tripoli were trans
ported to Italy a month befor<
the British occupation of Libya
and held as hostages in order tc
orevent reprisals against th t
Italians after the occupation of
he country,
These United States troops are
young refugees who are being wel
comed to American citizenship by
their commanding officer. They are
a few of the newcomers to our
country who have been helped to
become good Americans and to do
their share for democracy by the •
National Refugee Service.
Anti-Semitic
Laws Will
Be Relaxed
Says Giraud
,
Tangier, Spanish Morocco (JPS)
—lnsisting that administration of
the Vichy-established anti-Semitic
laws in North Africa is a matter
for internal determination, Gener
al Henri Giraud declared that
such laws would be “relaxed
slowly.”
Saying that while a prisoner in
Germany he has seen “too much
of racism,” the French High Com
missioner of American-occupied
North Africa said that he had no
intention o f maintaining such
racism in his territory. “Racial
doctrines inspired by Germany
are repudiated by overseas France
but we here are making a distinc
tion between those who live here
and elements who recently enter
ed the country and are insuffic
iently assimilated into the popu
lation.”
Discussing the expropriation of
’ewish property, General Giraud
eclared that this was gradually
eing returned to Jews. The pro
ess would have to be a slow one,
■lthough “all anti-Jewish ordi
rnnees are being relaxed.”
Meanwhile it is reported that
the Jews have not yet received
any of the clothing or food sent
to Morocco and Algeria from the
United States.
Proskauer Heads
American Jewish
Committee
New York (JPS)— Joseph Mey
er Proskauer, 66-year-old New
York Lawyer born in Mobile, Ala.,
was elected President of the
American Jewish Committee at
the 36th annual meeting of that
body on January 31st at the
Hotel Astor, to succeed Maurice
Wertheim, who declared that gov
ernment work in Washington
made it impossible for him to con
tinue.
Emphasizing that he was an
anti-Zionist, Mr. Proskauer, for 7
years a member of the New York
State Supreme Court, declared,
however, that he was renouncing
all preconceptions in assuming his
new office, declaring that he had
“cleansed his soul” and had gone
through “an ordeal by fire” be
fore deciding to accept the Presi
dency.
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