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VOL. 24 NO. 52
Capital Spotlight
by CHARLOTTE WEBER
(Copyright, 1949, JTA, Inc.
WASHINGTON—
President Truman's surprise
appointment of Dean Acheson to
become Secretary of State sent
reporters to their files to check
his previous record in the De
partment to see if they could
forecast how his views might af
fect the future course of Amer
ican foreign policy.
Little could be found, nor was
there much comment, on what his
previous stand on matters con
cerning Palestine and the Middle
East has been. A check of State
Department files disclosed no ma
jor speeches on the Palestine is
sue and only one small statement
relating to some meetings he
would hold with the alternates of
the President’s Cabinet Commit
tee on Palestine.
This was the special committee
that President Truman created on
June 11, 1946, to advise him on
matters "with regard to Palestine
and related problems." The Com
mittee, composed of the Secre
taries of State, War and the
Treasury, was also directed to
help in consideration of the re
commendations.. 0f... the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry
on Palestine.
A large part of the work of
the Committee, however, was
carried out by the alternates of
the cabinet officers involved.
Secretary of State Byrnes ap
pointed as his alternate Henry F.
Grady, a co-author with British
Lord Morrison of the ill-received
and long since defunct Grady-
Morrison plan.
On August 8, 1946, Undersecre
tary of State Acheson—then Act
ing Secretary in Byrne's absence
—said he had met with the Cab
inet Committee alternates and
that they had discussed the
"many perplexing questions
which arise out of the proposals
recently reported to the House of
Commons by the Lord President
of the Council, Mr. Morrison."
Later, he said, the Cabinet Com
mittee would report to the Pres
ident.
Acheson was in the Department
as an Assistant Secretary of State
lor Economic Affairs during the
time of the formation and oper
ation of the Anglo-American
Committee. Although his job at
that time did not bring him into
direct contact with Palestine mat
ters he at least should have been
kept intimately informed of all
Phases of foreign affairs, includ
ing Palestine, as part of his job.
Some Washington observers
have mentioned his association
the late Supreme Court
Justice Louis D. Brandeis as his
“W clerk and his close personal
friendship with Justice Felix
rankfurter as possible influences
that might lead him to take a
«»endly pro-Israel position as
Secretary of State.
• * * * *
Before the 81st Congress was
weeks old no less than six
Senators and four Congressmen
®d introduced amendments to
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Sen. Neely Tells U.S.N.A. Meeting
He Aims To Erase DP Act’s Ills
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Senator Matthew M. Neely (left) of West Virginia, who has
joined Senator J. Howard McGrath in sponsoring liberalizing
amendments to the D. P. Act of 1948, told 800 Jewish com
munity leaders from all sections of the country who attended
the Annual Meeting of United Service for New Americans,
in New York City, that he would make an active fight for a
more humane law. Shown with him are Lt. Col. Jerry M. Sage,
of the Civil Affairs Division of the U. S. Army in Europe, and
William Rosenwald, Honorary President of U.S.N.A. and
National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, who also
addressed the conference. The delegates blueprinted an
expanded program to speed the immigration and resettle
ment of DPs arriving in this country during 1949. The work
of U.S.N.A. is financed through the annual campaign of the
United Jewish Appeal.
Southern Jewish Chaplains
Will Neel In Houston
HOUSTON, TEXAS—Jewish chaplains serving at military instal
lations and Veterans Administration Hospitals in 12 southern and
southwestern states will meet at'a two-day conference in Houston on
January 25th and 26th under the auspices of the Division of Religious
Activities of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) to consider the
specialized religious requirements of hospitalized Jewish veterans, as
well as of men in active service. All but one session of the confer
ence will be held at the Texas State Hotel. The evening session on
January 25th which will meet at the Houston Jewish Community
Center will be a community meeting open to the public.
Second of a series of four such
regional conferences to be held
between December and March,
the Houston meeting will be
highlighted by a study of pro
posals for special prayers and
liturgical literature for mentally
ill, paraplegic and TB Jewish pa
tients in VA hospitals, it was ex
plained by Rabbi Joseph H. Look
stein, New York, a vice-chairman
of JWB’s Division of Religious
Activities, who will preside at the
opening session. It is through this
Division, which represents the
Reform, Conservative and Ortho
dox rabbinate in the United
States, that JWB serves the re
ligious needs of Jewish personnel
in the Armed Forces and patients
in Veterans’ hospitals at more
than 400 installations.
Other participants in the con
ference will be: Abraham Feitel
berg, director of JWB's Armed
Services DivisiorfWlabbi Julius A.
Leibert, Pensacola, Fla., who will
discuss his 30 years in the chap
laincy; Chaplain Meyer J. Gold
man of Lackland Air Force Base.
San Antonio; Chaplain Morris A.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1949
Sandhous. of the Veterans Ad
ministration, Washington, D. C.;
Rabbi Morris Chapman, St. Pet
ersburg, Fla.; and Rabbi Jerome
G. Tolochko, Kinston, N. C.
Rabbi Aryeh Lev, director, and
B'NAI B'MTH PARTICIPATES
IN INAUGURAL
B'nai B'rith accepted the invitation of the Presidential Inaugura
tion Committee to enter a B'nai B'rith float in the parade on January
20 1949. and sponsored a float yesterday which symbolically portray
ed B'nai B'rith contributions to American democracy during the 105
years of the Order's history. A feature of the float was a huge re
volving menorah-which is B'nai B'rith's symbol-containing gigan
tic lighted candles. John Tyler was President of the United States
when B'nai B'rith was founded in 1843, and pictures of him an_
President Truman were linked by the words on the sides of the float,
"From Tyler to Truman-B'nai B'rith. for 105 years America's oldest
and laraest Jewish service organization.
ana laiycoi -
A replica of the Bill of Rights,
at the rear of the float, had print
ed on it: “B’nai B’rith— Serving
American democracy, under
which was listed the principal
fields of activity in which the
Order is engaged: “Champion of
Britain Released 6,000 Nazis To
Aid Egyptian War Effort
NEW YORK (JTA) —Charges that the British have released 6,000
former Nazi prisoners of war for training in Egypt for participation
in the war against Israel, and that Nazi Generals have been flown
from the British zone in Germany by British military planes to assist
in the command of the Arab armies, are contained in a secret French
intelligence report submitted this week to Trygve Lie, Secretary-
General of the United Nations, to members of the Security Council
and to President Truman by the Nation Associates.
JDC Southeast
Region To Meet
In Jacksonville
The third annual confer
ence of the Joint Distribution
Committee’s Southeast Reg
ion will be held in Jackson
ville in the Hotel Roosevelt
on Sunday, February 6, Wil
liam P. Engel of Birmingham,
regional chairman, announced.
The meeting, which will be
attended by Jewish leaders
from nine states in the South
east, will also be open to tne
public. First-hand authorita
tive reports on the latest con
ditions facing the Jews of
Europe will be presented at
the meeting, along with a de
scription of the most recent
phases of JDC relief, reset
tlement and reconstruction
operations.
Father of Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver Dies In
Jerusalem At 86
JERUSALEM, (JTA) Rabbi
Moshe Silver, father of Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, chairman of the
American section of the Jewish
Agency, died here this week at
the age of 86. Leaders of Jeru
salem’s cultural, civic and polit
ical life, including Chief Rabbi
Isaac Herzog, participated in the
funeral. Rabbi Silver was well
known as a scholar and commen
tator on the Torah.
Rabbi Max Eichhorn, director of
field service, of the Division of
Religious Activities, will be in
charge of the conference.
Human Rights, Service in U.,S.
Wars, Youth Development, Inter
faith Good Will, Community Ser
vice, Aid to Hospitalized Vet
: erans.”
The French intelligence report,
dated Dec. 8, 1948, affirms that
two brigades of former Nazi pris
oners of war stationed in Egypt
have been formed by the Egyp
tians with the permission of the
British military authorities and
are now being trained in Marsa-
Matruh and Solium, both in
Egypt. Former Nazi generals res
ident in the British zone in Ger
many, at least one of whom is
listed as a war criminal, have
been recruited for service with
the Iraqi-Transjordanian high
command, the Syrian high com
mand and the Lebanese high
command, the French report de
clares, adding that all were trans
ported to the Middle East aboard
British military planes and
brought from Hamburg to Beirut.
The report also states that the
two brigades in their lower ranks
are commanded by some 500
Nazis recruited from among in
ternees in Egypt, the Levant and
Iraq, and from among crews of
German merchant ships seized in
the course of operations. Finally,
it says that a new group of high
German officers is expected at
Damascus.
Rabbi Lazaron Is
Visiting Professor
At Rollins College
Appointment of Rr. Morris
Samuel Lazaron, rabbi emeritus
of the Baltimore, Md., Hebrew
Congregation, as visiting pro
fessor of religion and social re
lations at Rollins College, Winter
Park, Fla., was announced re
cently by Dr. Hamilton Holt,
president.
Rabbi Lazaron, who gained a
nation-wide reputation for his
work in Baltimore from 1915 to
1947, served as a Chaplain in
World War I and is now major
chaplain, O. R. C. American Mer
chant Marine Library Assn.
He is also a member of the
Central Conference of American
Rabbis, a director of American-
Jewish Joint Distribution Com
mission, a director of American
Assn, for United Nations and
executive vice-chairman of the
United Nations Assn, of Mary
land.
He is author of numerous
books on religious subjects, Re
ligious Services for Jewish
Youth, Side Arms, Consolations
of Our Faith, Seed of Abraham,
Ten Jews of the Ages, Common
Ground and various books and
pamphlets.
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