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VOL. 19 NO. 6
Heard In The
Lobbies
BY ARNOLD LEVIN
OTES ON CAPTIVITY
Tuvla Greenberg, one of Jewish
alestine’s volunteers with the
ritish forces, recently returned
> Palestine in an exchange of
‘isoners after three years of
iptivfty, tells of the Nazis stand*
g at attention and saluting
hen Jewish captives sang Hatik
ih at a Chanukah celebration
a German prison camp. It
asn’t that the Nazis were moti
ved by courtesy . . . The Jews
sd received parcels from the Red
ross and the Nazis, wanting to
artake of them, knew that they
ad better pay the Jews proper
espect ... At first the Nazis
>rbade the distribution of Red
!ross gift packages among the
ews and seized them . . . How
ver, when the Tommies said that
ley wouldn’t have any either if
le Jews were not permitted to
ave theirs, the Nazis recanted...
ewish Palestine’s volunteers re
used to admit to a knowledge of
lerman, a language spoken by
large number of them, although
; would have provided them with
erths as interpreters and entail
d special privileges . . . Tuvia
ireenbcrg Is a religious youth,
tiday nights he would recite the
Iddush, and his Australian and
ritish comrades would loudly Mi
ner Amen . . . He makes it
uite clear, however, that the
fazis treated him well because of
is British uniform. The same
'as true of Jewish service men
rom the U. S. Soviet Jewish sol
iers were not so fortunate.
IUSICAL SCORE
Ray Lev, famous pianist, is the
aughter of the Chazan of Rostov,
ussia. Filmy-eyed sentimental
its claim that one detects in her
enditions dolorous notes from her
ather’s liturgy . , . Regina Res
ik, the 22-year-old singer, who
ron the audition finals and has
een awarded a contract to sing
t the Met, has often been ad
ised to change her name. “Yours
i too Jewish-sounding,” she was
old. “But I am Jewish,” she re
lied . . . Elizabeth Bergner, of
The Two Mrs. Carrolls,’ has been
warded a medal by The Drama
-eague of New York, as have
een Moss Hart and his “Winged
Victory” cast . . . “I’ll Be Seeing
Tou’ is fast looming as the most
opular war song in all the fox
oles ... It was written eight
fears ago. Its author, Irving
Cahil, died in 1940 —probably of
tarvation—a very young man.
’OLITICS
Candidate for the seat of Will
togers, Jr., in the House, is Jesse
tandolph Kellems, brother of
r ivien Kellems, the industrialist
fho raised a row when Congress
men read into the record what
fas alleged to have been her cor
espondence with a Nazi agent in
he Argentine. Not that we think
hat the sins of a sister should
e visited upon the brither. Will
togers, Jr., by the way, has won
or himself a warm spot in Jew
sh hearts ... A Jewish firm is
itting out a captured Nazi lieu
enant general with a glass eye.
• . The oil companies are report
d to be behind the Reader’s
Hgest article on Palestine. Watch
or a deluge of such articles in
irofessional Mid trade magazines.
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED
Poles Deny Plan
For Post-war
Evacuation of Jews
New York (JPS)—The Polish
Telegraph Agency denied the ex
istence of a memorandum to the
Polish Govemment-in-Exile from
its emissary in Poland, proposing
the postwar evacuation of Polish
Jewry, first published in The Day,
Yiddish daily, several days ago.
The publishers of the Yiddish
newspaper reiterated that they
have photostats of the document.
The Polish Telegraph Agency
announced receipt of the follow
ing authorized statement from
Polish Government-in-Exile rep
resentatives in London: “The in
formation concerning alleged plans
regarding the future of the Jewish
population in Poland, as presented
in The Day, are contrary both in
fact and spirit to the information,
as well as the conclusions, coming
in from Poland on behalf of the
Polish Government’s delegate
there and his executive depart
ments, as well as from the cland
estine Council of National Unity
on which the Government is rep
resented. These reports obviously
are contrary to policy rulings and
plans of the Polish Government.”
The Polish Telegraph Agency said
that these rumors were first given
circulation six months ago.
The Day’s reply reads: “We
have in our possession photostatic
copies of the document, and the
name of the emissary who pre
! pared this document and sent it
[ to the Polish Government in Lon
don. The document contains views
and recommendations on other
problems too, but we did not
think we should quote the docu
ment on any other matters, but
those pertaining to the Jews. We
are gratified, however, that the
Polish Government has officially
repudiated the views contained in
that document, which has become
a source of grave concern to
' Jews.”
Jews Withdraw From
Jerusalem Council Pending
Arab Mayor’s Apology
Jerusalem (JPS-Palcor)—The six
Jewish members *of the Jerusalem
Municipal Council withdrew from
its session and will abstain from
future attendance until Jerusalem’s
Moslem Mayor, Mustapha Khalidi,
“offers Jewish Palestine satisfac
tion for his unwarranted partici
pation, in his official capacity, in
a political rally of Arab mayors
held in Jaffa, May 5, at which
decisions prejudicial to the most
vital rights of the Jewish people
of Palestine were adopted.” The
rally adopted resolutions demand
ing complete stoppage of Jewish
immigration, enforcement of the
1 White Paper, and describing the
' Jews as “enemies of the Arab na
tion of Palestine.”
Following the Jewish action, the
Arab members of the Council
adopted a resolution justifying the
mayor’s action on the ground that
Out in Chicago, the native fascists
are again on the rampage. In
New York’s own Brooklyn, (home
of the Dodgers) the Christian
Front movement, we hear, has
gained impetus. The alleged se
ditionists on trial in Washington
are heroes to the “boys back
home.”
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, MAY, 1944
* « :
Allies Warn Hungary Against Putting
Ghettos Near Military Targets
DECREE PARDONING
CONVICTED POLISH
JEWISH SOLDIERS
IS ISSUED
LONDON (JTA) Polish
President Wladyslaw Raczkie
wicz this week issued a decree
granting an amnesty to all 21
Jewish soldiers who were sen
tenced by a Polish court
martial to terms of imprison
ment varying from one to two
years on charges of leaving
their units, because of anti-
Semitism there, and attempt
ing to enlist in the British
Army.
The amnesty, however, has
not ended the controversy a
round the anti-Semitic activi
ties of Polish officers and men,
it was indicated during a
stormy debate in the Polish
National Council.
Establish “Council For Salva
tion of Jews of Poland”
Meanwhile, it was announced
that preparations were being
made to convoke the first
meeting of the “Council for the
Salvation of the Jews of Pol
and,” whose creation was an
nounced last week by the Pol
ish Government. The council
will be composed of three Jew
ish members: Emanuel Szerer,
Jewish Socialist deputy in the
Polish National Council, An
selm Reiss, a member of the
Representation of Polish Jewry
and Rabbi Babad of the Agu
dus Israel, and three non-Jew
ish members of the National
Council: Adam Ciolkosz, Social
ist, Witold Kulerski, Peasant
Party and Stanislaw Sopicki,
Christian Democrat.
he has a right to his independent
political activity, but the Jewish
councillors point out that this
does not entitle him to “use the
cloak of his office to convene or
attend anti-Jewish political gath
erings.”
Congressional Or Executive
Action On “Free Ports” Plan
Is Expected In Washington
BY MURIEL LEVIN
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Per
sistent rumors that President
Roosevelt is about to inaugurate
a system of “free ports” for the
salvage and temporary safekeep
ing, on American soil, of victims
of Hitlerism, could not be con
firmed in any official quarter this
week. A distihct possibility ex
ists, however, that either by con
gressional or executive action
some step in this direction may
be taken, in view of the fact that
public sentiment overwhelmingly
favors this proposal.
In support of the possibility of
the establishment of free ports an
informed source this week gave
the following analogy: If ship
wrecked victims were found swim
ming in the waters off our coast,
they would be picked up and land
ed, and there would be no question
An Independent Newspaper Serving American Citizens of Jewish Faith
JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
CAIRO (JTA) —Allied propaganda agencies, simultan
eously with the warning to the Axis satelite states to get
out of the war, are vigorously combatting a campaign by
the Nazi-controlled Horty regime to make the Hungarian
people believe that the 800,000 Jews in Hungary are respon
sible for the Allied bombing of Hungarian military objee
tives.
After the recent warning by
Voice of America shortwave
transmitters that the Hungarian’s
treatment of Jews would be one
of the factors in the Allied judg
ment on Hungary, the London
transmitters this week assailed
the Budapest regime’s new trick
of confining Jews to ghettos in
the immediate vicinity of Allied
targets. The broadcast specific
ally referred to the factory areas
of Ujpest, Kispest and Prestzen
erzebet.
Anyone spreading the report
that the presence of Jews in those
areas would keep Allied air forces
away is a criminal and anyone
believing such a report is insane,
the broadcast declared. It accus
ed the Hungarian regime of try
ing, by linking the air raids with
the Jewish question, to divert the
people’s attention from “the
treachery which played Hungary
into the hands of Hitler,” which
necessarily brought the Allied
bombings.
The London commentator, speak
ing in Hungarian, stressed that
the authorities know that the
moving of Jews into areas where
factories and railway yards are
located won’t save the life of one
AMERICAN PRESSURE ON
SATELLITES IS HELPING
REFUGEES, PEHLE SAYS
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amer
ican Government’s pressure on
Axis satellite nations has brought
about a more liberal attitude to
ward Jews in those countries
John W. Pehle, executive director
of the War Refugee Board, de
clared in a nation-wide broadcast
under the auspices of the United
Jewish Appeal.
of their applying for immigration
visas. Once landed they would be
cared for until they could be evac
uated to their own countries.
From the international point of
view, it is not so much a matter
of large numbers of refugees com
ing here, as of the United States
setting an example by doing its
share of the rescue and human
salvage work. The legal problem
is whether people can be brought
into the United States, not as im
migrants, and without the right
of residence outside designated
areas. So entered into this coun
try, they would camp here for a
limited period and then after the
war go back to their countries of
of origin, or else leave the country
to enter later on in strict compli
ance with immigration laws.
BY VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
Jingle Hungarian. This new rul
ing is simply murder in the moral
and criminal law sense of the
word. All those participating in
the execution of these terrible,
cowardly methods must know that
they cannot escape punishment.
The broadcast concluded by
warning the Hungarians that if
they tolerate these unprecedented
methods “they’ll have to suffer
the censure and moral judgment
of the free nations that Hungary
has shut herself off from the
community of Christian nations,
and after the catastrophe she’ll
have to start the long, hard way
of penitence friendless and iso
lated.”
American Jewish
Conference To
Meet Sept. 24
New York, May 12—The Amer
ican Jewish Conference will re
convene for its second session on
September 2, in Chicago, the In
terim Committee of the Confer
ence voted here today during an
all-day session.
The 500 delegates of the Con
ference will meet on the second
anniversary of the adjournment of
the first session, which was held
in New York August 29-Septem
ber 2, 1943, and which adopted
resolutions on the rescue of Eu
ropean Jewry, its post-war recon
struction and the implementation
of Jewish rights to Palestine.
The session will continue through
September 4.
At its last meeting, the Confer
ence created an Interim Commit
tee to carry on the work of the
Conference and to implement the
three resolutnons, but it deferred
the election of a delegate to the
Peace Conference until a later
date.
The program for the second
session will be mapped by an ad
ministrative committee, which will
be representative of the group
ings within the conference arid
which will be headed by Mr. Louis*
Lipsky of New York, the Interim
Committee decided.
Jewish Calendar
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5703 - 1943
Shovuos May 28
Fast of Av July 30
Rosh Hashonah Sept. 18
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Yom Kippur Sept. 28
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preceding dates designated.
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