The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume], March 19, 1943, Image 1

About The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992

Image provided by: University of Florida

                
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 18 NO. 19
IT HAPPENED
THIS WEEK
; BY MILTON BROWN, JTA !
Tel Aviv will not have its cus-
I tomary Purim carnival this week.
I If you have ever seen a Macy
I Thanksgiving Parade or better
I still, the Mardi Gras in New
I Orleans, you will get some idea
I of what a Purim Carnival in Tel
I Aviv is like. The figures depict-
I ing Haman and all that happened
I to him, the masquerades and
I dancing in the streets all through
I the night, constitute an event
I which anyone who visited Tel
I Aviv at Purim time will not easily
I forget.
But this year there will be no
I Purim carnival in Tel Aviv. There
I is a new Haman afoot and we
I have not yet conquered him. Tel
I Aviv realizes it must defer its
I Purim carnival until the day he is
I crushed. Meanwhile, the news in-
I dicates that Tel Aviv is working
I to speed that day. It was report-
I ed last week that a club for Amer-
I ican soldiers stationed in Palestine
I has been opened in Tel Aviv. The
I sum of 5100,000 was spent to ren-
I ovate the Palatin Hotel for use as
I a servicemen’s club. The opening
I took place with United States
Consul Lowell Pinkerton and the
Palestine High Commissioner
I present.
The fact that Tel Aviv now has
a club for American soldiers gives
I the all-Jewisk city no little pres
tige. The only other city in the
Middle East which has such a
club is Cairo. Even such an im
portant city as Alexandria, a city
! of some magnificence and cen
turies older than Tel Aviv, has no
club for American soldiers. The
| only deduction possible is that the
Jewish city is playing a vital role
in the Middle Eastern theatre of
war.
The London Times this week
said something which it would not
have dared say six months ago.
It said that the Arab population
in Palestine would probably take
another twenty years to reach a
point of maturity where it can
take care of its own destiny. The
paper goes on further to empha
size the point that “Jews have
brought prosperity to Palestine,
enabling the Arabs to enjoy lavish
government services."
Six months ago, when Rommel
seemed a danger, the British were
very careful to say nothing that
might cause the slightest irrita
tion of the Arabs. Large portions
of the Arab population were
known to be “flirting” with the
Axis and the Axis courted their
advances. But now the danger of
an Axis invasion of the Middle
East, if not altogether past, is at
least far from imminent —and so
the Jewish element may get a
little more recognition from the
British.
The French War Council, pre
sided over by General Giraud, this
week officially annulled the anti-
Jewish laws promulgated by the
Vichy regime. Undersecretary of
State Sumner Welles expressed
gratification at the final rescind
ing of these Nazi-inspired meas
ures. He hailed the annulment as
a return to the principle of Liber
ty for which France had become
synonymous in pre-war days. The
New York Times is an editorial
said Giraud’s act marked “the
birth of a new France.” The New
York Sun said that it signified “a
hind of Declaration of Independ
ence for French Africa."
So gome of the Jews of North
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1943
Tortured Jews In
Poland Appeal To
U. S. For Life
NEW YORK (JTA) —An appeal
from the Jews of Nazi-held Poland
to the Allied Nations urging them
to take “extraordinary steps” a
gainst Germans residing in their
countries in order to force the
Nazis in Poland to discontinue
their extermination of Jews was
received here this week by the
Jewish Labor Committee.
The appeal reveals that “tens of
Germans and a few hundred Jews"
were killed in a battle in the War
saw ghetto when Nazi units enter
ed to “liquidate” the remaining
Jews in the ghetto. Three Jew
ish leaders, Marmelstein, Cholod
enko and Giterman were among
those killed.
Emphasizing that only a “few
hundred thousand Jews” are now
left in Poland, the appeal says
that they are threatened with
“immediate annihilation” and asks
the Jews of America to approach
the Pope and the United Nations
for action to save them. The ap
peal, which left Poland on Febru
ary 7, is signed by two persons
well known to the Jewish Labor
Committee in New York. It
reads:
“In January the Germans start
ed the liquidation of the remnants
of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jews
resisted, resulting in the killing of
tens of Germans and of a few
hundred Jews, among them Mar
melstein, Cholodenka and Giter
man. For three days after this
fight, the Germans stopped their
action. The liquidation of the
Jews is now going on all over
Poland. The Germans intend to
have all Jews in the Warsaw
ghetto liquidated by the middle of
February. Alarm the world. Ap
peal to the Pope for official in
tervention. Also to the Allies
that they take extraordinary steps
against Germans residing in the
Allied countries. We suffer ter
ribly. The remaining few hund
red thousand Jews in Poland are
threatened with immediate anni
hilation. Only you can rescue us.”
MONSKY TO SPEAK ON
COAST TO COAST INTER
FAITH RED CROSS BROAD
CAST, MARCH 21st
WASHINGTON, D. C.—-Henry
Monsky, president of B’nai B’rith
will be the Jewish spokesman on
an inter-faith radio program to be
sponsored by the American Red
Cross Sunday, March 21st, over
the coast to coast network of the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Tied in with the $125,000,000 Red
Cross War Fund campaign, the
broadcast will be heard from 9:45
A. M. to 10:00 A. M., Eastern
War Time.
“The American Red Cross
Brotherhood in Action", will be
the theme of the program which
will feature addresses by a nat
ionally known trio of laymen rep
resenting Catholics, Protestants
and Jews. _
Africa are to be saved. Not so
fortunate were others. A report
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
says that only 300 of the Jewish
population of 3,000 that lived to
Benghazi were in that Libyan city
when it was captured by the Brit
ish troops. What the Italian ad
ministration did to the other 2,700
Jews is not known.
EDEN WILL DISCUSS
PLANS FOR SETTLING
JEWS IN ERITREA
WASHINGTON (JTA j-The
problems involved in rescuing the
Jews in Nazi-occupied countries
and securing havens for them in
Allied or neutral territory, will be
discussed by British Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden in confer
ences with high United States of
ficials during his stay in Washing
ton, it was learned here this week.
These discussions will be in addi
tion to the British-American con
ference on refugees which is to be
held in Ottawa shortly.
One of the plans which Mr.
Eden brought with him to Wash
ington suggests the evacuation of
Jews from Nazi-dominated coun
tries to Eritrea. It is believed
that Hungary, Rumania and Bul
garia may agree to permit the em
igration of Jews from \ their terri
tory under certain conditions. A
large scale settlement of Jews
from these countries in Eritrea
may therefore be proposed by
Eden in the course of his confer
ences in Washington as a British
contribution to rescuing the Jews
from Nazi extermination.
The possibility of Eden’s par
ticipation in the Ottawa confer
ence was not excluded in circles
interested in the fate of the Jews
in Nazi Europe. Eden’s presence
in the United States explains why
a day prior to his departure he
suggested in Parliament that no
full-dress debate be held on the
question of rescuing the Jews un
til “a more convenient moment”
when such a discussion would pro
duce “the maximum, good.” It is
now believed here that upon his
return to England, Eden will be
prepared to give more concrete
answers in Parliament to ques
tions concerning the request for
immediate action to save Jews in
Nazi-held territories.
Dorothy Thompson Honored
By Zionists
i ' 1 ■" ‘•jjjflß
lo* fill
New York, March 4, 1943 —Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of
the World Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Pal
estine, made the official presentation of a painting of Miss Dorothy
Thompson, the eminent writer and outspoken liberal. The painting,
by Maxim Kopf, is to be hung in the future Czecho-Slovakian Nat
ional Art Gallery. The artist is himself a refugee from that once
happy land.
The picture shows (from left to right): Minister Jan Papanek,
personal representative in this country of President Eduard Benes
of Czechoslovakia; Maxim Kopf, th© artist, Miss Thompson and Dr.
Weizmann.
Giraud Deprives Algerian
Jews of French Citizenship
Abolishes Anti-Jewish Laws
ALGIERS (JTA) —Gen. Henri Giraud, French High
Commissioner of North Africa, announced here this week
that “laws of racial discrimination no longer exist.” An
ordinance has been promulgated abrogating these laws and
all decrees relating to them, Gen. Giraud stated.
At the same time, he announced
that the Cremieux Law of 1870,
which granted French citizenship
to the native Jews of Algeria, had
also been abrogated, thus abolish-
Jews Reduced To “Subject”
Status, Washington
Observers Say
WASHINGTON (JTA)
Gen. Henri Giraud’s speech
i this week reduces Algerian
> Jews to a status below that
which they enjoyed under
the French Republic, it was
pointed out here. ,
An authoritative source I
predicted prior to the ad
dress that Giraud would do
away with all racial and re
ligious restrictions, leaving
Jews, Arabs and Frenchmen
on a precisely equal plane.
But it now appears that the
effect of the speech will be
to lower Jews to the position
of “subjects.”
Observers here found that
Giraud’s action restores the
law, not of the French Re
public, but of Napoleon Ill’s
empire, during which a de
cree was issued entitling
Jews and Arabs to apply for
French citizenship as indi
viduals, but which did not
guarantee that such citizen
ship would be granted.
ing “distinctions between Moham
medan and Jewish inhabitants” of
Algeria. (At the time of the is
suance of the Cremieux Law,
French citizenship was offered
both to Jews and Mohammedans
in Algeria, with the provision that
persons assuming citizenship
would accept the laws of the
French Republic. The Moham
medan population refused to avail
itself of the privilege because the
French laws ran counter to its
religious customs and traditions.)
Explaining his abrogation of the
Cremieux Law, Gen. Giraud stated
that: "Mohammedans must not
listen to self-interested advice
which is lavished upon them by
German and Italian propaganda.
Germans like Italians have too of
ten shown how they are accustomed
to treat non-Aryans for their word
to be accepted. Relations of
Mohammedans and Jews must be
those of men who from the eco
nomic point of view supplement
each others’ efforts, the latter in
workshops, the former on the
land. Neither is superior to the
other, since France has guaran
j teed to both security and peace.”
NAZIS BEAM ANTI
SEMITISM AT
AMERICAN TROOPS
Washington (JPS) —Nazi prop
aganda broadcasts to American
soldiers in North Africa contain a
liberal admixture of anti-Semitism
it is revealed from recordings
“played back” here. Assuming a
widespread desire to return home,
the Berlin radio concentrates upon
the theme of the “Jewish war.”
A typical broadcast began, “It’s
a shame you are over there in
Africa and we’re going to do the
best we can to cheer you up, be
cause we don’t bear you any
grudge. We know it’s all the re
sult of this awful old Jewish prop
aganda and that one of these days
you’ll wake up and discover it
was an awful nightmare.”
I Jewish Calendar j
| Join a Synagogue
or Temple
Attend Its Services
5703 - 1942
|**Fast of Esther Mar. 20;
| Purim Mar. 21 =
| Shushan Purim Mar. 22 [
| Rosh Chodesh Nisan Apr. 6 \
I Passover .\ Apr. 201
I *Rosh Chodesh Iyar. May 6 i
I * Also observed previous day. I
1 ** Fast observed previeus [
| Thursday.
| Holidays begin on the evening |
= preceding dates designated.
$2.00 a Year