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■olTw no. 8
■2OB Refugees
[rive In Palestine
X e w York (JPS)—'Twelve hund-
B an d eight Jewish refugees
X, Rumania, who recently ar-
Hgd in Palestine on five steam-
X are rapidly being absorbed
ißthe economic and social struct-
X 0 f the Jewish Homeland, with
X aid of funds contributed by
Xerican Jews, it was reported
■ a cable received by the United
Xestine Appeal from Elizear
Xpian, treasurer of the Jewish
■ency for Palestine in Jerusa-
X The United Palestine Appeal,
Xich is supporting the adjust-
X n t and settlement of newcom-
Kin Palestine, is represented
Kh the Joint Distribution Com
■ttee and the National Refugee
Xvice in the $32,000,000 war re-
X and rescue campaign of the
Xited Jewish Appeal for Refu
les, Oversees Needs and Pales-
Ke. Funds for the transporta
■n of these refugees were pro-
Red by the Joint Distribution
Rmmittee.
BAPTIZED JEWS IN
BUNGARY RETURN TO
BNCESTRAL FAITH
■Ankara (JPS) —Many thousands
■ Hungarian Jews who in recent
Bonths were baptized to avoid
Be Aryan laws, which at first
Bemed to be aimed only at those
Bofessing the Jewish faith, are
B\v relinquishing Christianity and
[turning to the faith of their
[thers, according to the official
[gan of Hungarian Jewry, Mag
[r Szideklatia.
[Within the past two months,
■T4S Jews returned to their an-
Bstral religion, the newspaper
[Partners to mixed marriages,
[ildren of mixed marriages and
[hers, entitled to privileged treat
[ent and even exemption from
[letto internment, have refused
[ avail themselves of these op
[rtunities and ' declared them
[lves willing to share the com
[on fate of all Jews in Hungary.
Jewish survivors of
[ILNA: 1 OLD MAN,
■ WOMAN, 1 CHILD
[New York (JPS)—Nightmar
[Ny symbolical in its factual
[rror is an Associated Press dis
■tch from Moscow reporting that
■ly three Jews survived the Nazi
[assacres in Vilna. The three,
■ho greeted the Red Army on its
■>try into the city, were “an old
[an who walked with outstretch
[ a woman and a small
1 Vilna, famed in Jewish lore and
[story, had a prewar population
[ 235,000, of whom 30% were
[ws. No figures are available as
[ the number of Vilna Jews
[acuated into Soviet Russia dur
il? the Nazi attack in 1941.
[TtEATH on HERZL’S tomb
[PTS GESTAPO ON ITS TOES
■ Geneva (JPS)—On the night of
[ e fortieth anniversary of the
[ath of Dr. Theodor Herzl, found
[ °f political Zionism, a wreath
■ a s placed on his tombstone in
e ew >sh cemetery in Vienna.
e Gestapo, according to a re
-ort received here, was put on its
** instigated a probe to
nc °ver the “felon” who paid
° m age to the father of modem
PRAYERS FOR VICTORY ON TISHA B'AB
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Jewish soldiers serving in the United Nations’.armies assemble at the
Wailing Wall on Tisha B’ab to pray for victory, as Jews throughout the world
eoiuim'inorale lhe destruction of the. ancient Temple in. Jerusalem.
U. J. A. Photo
Viscount Gort Succeeds
Mac Michael In Palestine
London (JPS) —Field Marshal
Viscount Gort, with a long dis
tinguished military career to his
credit and at present Governor
and Commander-in-Chief of Malta,
will succeed Sir Harold Mac-
Michael as High Commissioner of
Palestine and Transjordan when
the latter retires in August. He
is believed to be open-minded as
regards Palestine.
Zionist leaders in the United
States hailed Mac Michael’s depar
ture, but had no comment to of
fer on the appointment of Vis
count Gort. Although he had
visited Palestine on the eve of
the current war, in connection
with a military survey he was
making of the Middle East, his
opinions or attitudes as regards
Palestine were not known.
HUNGARY FORMULATES
APOLOGY FOR MURDER
1,208 RUMANIAN
Geneva (JPS) —The Hungarian
Government will shortly issue an
official statement admitting the
deportation of Jews to Poland, but
disclaiming responsibility for their
fate once they are delivered into
German hands, according to re
ports received here from usually
reliable circles. The Jews, the
government statement in reply
worldwide protests will point out,
are deported in accordance with
the German-Hungarian treaty
which requires Hungary to supply
war workers for Germany. The
Hungarian Government will re
nounce all intention of premedi
tated murder.
The same report tells of the ar
rival in Hungary of 1,600 special
gendarmes assigned to ferret out
Jews still in hiding and to prevent
their escape into the provinces.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, JULY, 1944
(The Cairo press reported him
as a severe man “who will stand
for no nonsense and will not tol
erate dissension.”)
NINE HUNDRED JEWS
AMONG “TOKEN
REFUGEES” TO U. S.
New York (JPS) —Nine hund
red and eighty-five refugees, most
of them Jewish, are en route to
the United States to the tempor
ary refugee haven at Fort Ontario
near Oswego, New York, where
they will stay for the duration of
the war.
Democratic Platform Calls
For “Jewish Commonwealth”
Chicago (JPS) —The Democratic
National Convention went un
equivocally on record in favor of
a Jewish national democratic
Commonwealth.” The Democratic
platform’s reference to Palestine
reads:
“We favor the opening of Pal
estine to the unrestricted Jewish
immigration and colonization and
such a policy as to result in the
establishment there of a free and
democratic Jewish Common
wealth.”
The Palestine plank of the Re
publican platform reads:
“In order to give refuge to mil
lions of distressed Jewish men,
women and children driven from
their homes by tyranny, we call
for the opening of Palestine to
their unrestricted immigration
and land ownership, so that in ac
cordance with the full intent and
purpose of the Balfour Declara
Florida Catholic Paper
Warns Anti-Semitism
Is 77
Jews In Leading
Guerilla Armies
New York (JPS)—A large
number of Jews, many of them
in positions of command, are
among the 1,025,000 armed guer
rillas estimated by authoritative
military sources in London to be
actively engaged against the Nazis
in Europe.
Earlier reports by the Independ
ent Jewish Press Service told of
large numbers of Jews among the
principle guerrilla bands, which
include 350,000 patriots under
Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, 500,-
000 Frenchman under General
Joseph Koenig, and 300,000 Polish
guerrillas.
WELLES BACKS MAGNES
PLAN ON PALESTINE
New York (JPS) —Describing !
Dr. Chaim Weismann, president of
the Jewish Agency, as one of the
most able statesmen of our time
and depicting in glowing terms
Jewish achievements in Palestine,
Sumner Welles, former Under
secretary of State, concludes in
his book “Time for Decision” that
a bi-national state along the lines
proposed by Dr. J. L. Magnes,
president of the Hebrew Univer
sity, incorporated in a federative
system to include Syria, Lebanon
and Transjordan, is the only pos
sible solution for the Palestine
problem.
“UNITY MASS MEETING”
WILL DEMAND
DRASTIC MEASURES
New York (JPS) —Drastic meas
ures to prevent the deportation to
death camps in Poland of the
four hundred thousand Jews still
surviving in Hungary will be de
manded at a “unity mass meet
ing” in New York City under the
auspices of the Rescue Commis
sion of the American Jewish Con
ference jointly with the American
Jewish Committee and other Jew
ish groups
tion of 1917 and the Resolution of
a Republican Congress in 1922,
Palestine may be constituted as
a free and democratic Common
wealth.”
Inclusion in the Republican
plank of criticism of President
Roosevelt has been denounced by
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Henry
Monsky, president of the B’nai
B’rith.
With both major political par
ties on record supporting Zionist
aims, observers here were analyz
ing the wording of the Republican
; and Democratic statements on
Palestine. The Democratic refer
ence is directly to a “Jewish
Commonwealth,” while the Re
publican plank does not contain
the word Jewish. The Democratic
platform, on the other hand, con
tains no references to past Amer
ican policies on Palestine, as does
the Republican plank.
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St. Augustine (JPS) —Declaring
that “no person professing to be
a Christian, certainly no Catholic,
should need reminders that anti-
Semitism violates the basic tenets
of our religion,” the Florida Cath
olic, publication of the Diocese of
St. Augustine, warned in an edi
torial that the most dangerous
form of spreading anti-Semitism
is subtle innuendo, rather than
the “ridiculous crackpot argu
ments o f Berlin-inspired Jew
haters.
Expressing alarm over the
“strange indifference” on the part
of some Christians to the spread
of anti-Semitism in this country,
the editorial says, “it is disquiet
ing ... to find otherwise ex
emplary Catholics at social gath
erings contributing freely to the
exchange of the latest so called
‘Jewish jokes’ and trafficking in
gossip ...”
“It should be comparatively
easy to eradicate the doctrinaire
form of anti-Semitism styled on
the Berlin pattern. The real
danger that we are facing arises
from the more subtle brand of
anti-Semitism that is rapidly be
coming fashionable in. our midst.”
The editorial warns that “the
insidious feature of anti-
Semitism is that it so easily be
comes habit forming.”
Recognizing anti-Semitism as
largely a Christian and American
problem, the editorial states that
to curb the activities of anti-
Semites is a task for Jews as well
as Christians.
I HULL PLEDGES RESCUE
jOF DEATH-MARKED
HUNGARIAN JEWS
Washington (JPS)—Corrobor
ative reports have reached here
from many sources and through
varied channels were confirmed by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull in
a statement pointing out that “the
entire Jewish community in Hun
gary, which numbered nearly one
million souls, is threatened with
extermination,” that already “the
number of victims of these fiend
ish crimes is great,” and simul
taneously pledging that “this gov
ernment will not slacken its ef
forts to rescue as many of these
unfortunate people as can be sav
ed from persecution and death”
and that the killers “cannot es
cape the inexorable punishment
which will be meted out to them
when the power of the evil men
now in control of Hungary has
been broken.”
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