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SCUTIIERN ISRAILIII
VOL. X—NO. 8.
UNTERMYER HEADS
UNIFIED WORLD
BOYCOTT COUNCIL
Transfer Agreements Ex
cluded from Ban On
Trade Deals
London (WNS) — Transfer
agreements between Palestine and
Germany were excluded from the
resolution condemning all com
mercial and financial deals with
Nazi Germany which was adopted
by the steering committee of the
international boycott conference,
it becmae known here as plans
were pushed for opening central
headquarters for the World Anti-
Nazi Council to Champion Human
Rights, the new world-wide boy
cott agency created by the confer
ence. M. Horowitz, English Zionist,
and honorary secretary of the
Council, will direct the London
bureau. Palestine is not mention
ed by name in the resolution but
fhen it was presented to the pie
nary session of the conferences, it
was clearly understood that Pal
estine was excluded from its
terms because the transfer agree
ments are not regarded as vio
lating the boycott.
Creation of groups to be called
Anti-Nazi Action in colleges
schools, trade unions, churches
and industrial establishments to
take direct or indirect action in
support of the anti-Nazi boycott
was decided upon at the conclud
ing session of the conference
which merged all boycott commit
tees into the World Council. The
conference also provided for the
organization of a world-wide
Anti-Nazi Youth Movement to be
established as part of the Anti-
Nazi Action. The youth movement
and the Anti-Nazi Action are de
signed to be the shock troops of
the World Council.
Notwithstanding his reluctance
to accept the office, the World
Council elected Samuel Untermyer,
head of the American delegation,
president. Vice-presidents chosen
were Walter Citrine, president of
the International Federation of
Trade Unions; Maitre Vincent de
Moro-Giafferi, French attorney;
and Dr. Paul Hutchinson, editor
of the Christian Century. The
seven members of the Council’s
executive committee are: Frank
Rogers, British labor leader; Dr.
Hutchinson; M. H. Davis, leader
of the absorbed Jewish Represen
tative Council of England; H.
Reart of Leeds; If. Klangor, of
Prance; M. Sluyer, of Hollana;
and M. Koussevitzky, of Poland.
Apart from the step taken to
tighten the boycott, the most im
portant action of the conference
was the adoption of a resolution
protesting against American par
ticipation in the 1936 Olympic
Games at Berlin. Spokesmen for
the resolution emphasized that if
the United States did not take
Part in the games they would be
moved from Berlin. Another res
olution, moved by Richard J.
Beamish, prominent American
Catholic layman and former sec
retary of Pennsylvania, proposed
that instead of American parti
cipation in the Olympic Games
there should be organized “A
Festival of Freedom” in the Brit
ish Isles to run from May 1st to
September 30th, 1935. The pro
posed festival would include all
British sporting fixtures as well
as pageants and theatrical per
formances.
For Southern Jewry
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1934.
Price: Five Oente
Samuel Untermyer, noted American
attorney and leader In the anti-
Nazi boycott in this country, was
unanimously elected president of
the World Non - Sectarian Anti-
Nazi Boycott Council formed last
week in London.
Legislative Council
Put Off Because Of
Arab Opposition
London (WNS)—Because of the
sudden and unexpected opposition
of the Arabs, the proposed legis
lative council for Palestine will
not be created for some time to
come, according to Near East and
India, the quasi-official organ of
the Colonial Office. Near East
and India points out that the
Arabs have decided to oppose the
council at the last moment be
cause they learned that it will
not be empowered to take up the
questions of Jewish immigration
and land pudchase. Another rea
son for postponing the council is
the unexpected defeat of Ragheb
Bey Nashashibl, mayor of Jerus
alem, who failed to win re-elec
tion cub a member of the city coun
cil. The government had counted
heavily on the support of Nash-
ashibi’s group but his followers
have turned against the council
because of their leader’s defeat.
ATLANTA LOOKS FORWARD TO
RECEPTION FORA. M. OMEN
Standard Club to be Scene of Program Climaxing
Enrollment Drive; National President
Inspiration of Meeting.
Wolf Denies He
Sought Permission
Return to Germany
Paris (WNS)—A report that
Theodore Wolf, former editor and
publisher of the Berliner Tage-
blatt, had asked Hitler’s permis
sion to return to Germany and
had promised to abstain from
Journalistic activity is heatedly de
nied here by Wolf. The distin
guished editor said that the re
port was a canard and added that
he had no intention of returning
to Germany while Hitler remained
in power.
Three New Factories
Opens In Palestine
Jerusalem (WNS)—The opening
of three large scale industrial en
terprises with one week is the lat
est indication of Palestine’s steady
industrial progress. The new un
dertakings are a brewery, the first
in Palestine, a glass works, and the
Palestine Wire Company. The
brewery, organized by French in
dustrialists headed by Gaston Drey-
fuss, intends to open a plant at
Rlshon-le-Zion as a result of the
decrease in the excise tax from
twenty to eight mils per litre. The
glass works, already employing
fourteen skilled workers brought
from Poland, will shortly increase
its staff to fifty to speed up pro
duction of decorative glassware,
bottles lamps. The wire works,
founded by A. Rosenberg and A.
Broide, German Jewish engineers
with a capital of $1*5,000, has be
gun to turn out a great variety of
electrical products.
American Jew* Exempt
From Alien Ban-Greece
Saloniki (WNS)—American Jews
are exempt from the recent de
cree forbidding foreigners to land
in Greece without a special per
mit from the foreign minister, it
was announced at the foreign of
fice. The decree is intended to pre
vent the smuggling of Jewish im
migrants into Palestine because
smugglers have been using Greece
as a base of operations. The for
eign office announced that the de
cree. refers only to Jews from
Eastern and Central Europe.
THREE JEWISH NOTABLES
ATTEND ROYAL BRITISH
WEDDING
London (WNS)—Three of
England’s best known Jews,
Chief Rabbi Joseph Berta,
Lord Reading and Lord Walter
Rothschild, were among the
guests invited to attend the
wedding of the Duke of Kent
and Princess Marina of Greeoe,
at Westminster Abbey. Dr.
Hertz presented the royal oou-
ple with a copy of his book,
"Jewish Thoughts” as a wed
ding present.
Goldsmid and La«ki
Coming Here To
Strengthen Agency
London (WNS)—Sir Osmond d’-
Avigdor Goldsmid, president of the
Jewish Colonization Association and
chairman of the Council of the
Jewish Agency, and Neville Laakl,
president of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, are leaving for
America on December 18th. The
object of their trip is to reorganize
and enlarge the American section
of the Jewish agency. During their
stay in the United States they will
attend meetings of the American
Jewish Committee and the admin
istrative committee of Jewish Ag
ency.
Lutheran Church Head
Admits All Germans In
Near East Are Nazis
Turkish Rabbis Barred
From Wearing Clerical
Garb In Public
....Istanbul (WNS)—Rabbis will
henceforth be forbidden to ap
pear in public clother in rabbin
ical garb as the result of a de
cree issued by the Turkish Gov
ernment forbidding clergymen of
all sects to wear their clerical at
tire outside of their churches,
synagogues or mosques.
Austria Bans Book Con
taining Blood Libels
Against Jews
Vienna (WNS)—The Austrian
government has issued an order
forbidding the publication or dis
tribution of the book containing
blood libel charges against the
Jews. The book was being issued
by Dr. Stepan, former head of
the Patriotic Front. The Jewish
community had instituted legal ac
tion against him ,
BELGIUM’S KING JOINS
JEWISH SOCIETY
Antwerp (WNS)—King Leo
pold of Belgium, has created
something of a stir among his
subjects by becoming a member
of a Jewish society which pro
vides financial relief for indi
gent mourners. The King Join
ed the society under somewhat
dramatic circumstances. He
received the president of the
society in an official audience
and asked him what the so
ciety does. When he was told,
he insisted that he be allowed
to become a member.
Jerusalem (WNS)—All Germans
living in the Near East have gone
Nazi and Nazi party members In
Palestine "go a little outside tbetr
bounds in proclaiming the prind
pies of the Nazi party,” Dr. Ernst
Rhein, head of the Lutheran
Church in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and
Transjordanla, admitted here.
Blaming most of Germany’s post
war economic ills on the influx of
Polish and Russian Jews who he
said had ousted German workers,
Dr. Rhein declared that such Jews
should not be allowed to remain in
Germany and added that In this
question he was in accord with Hit
ler anti-Semitism. Although he
said he did not approve of Nazi
race hatred, and expressed vigorous
opposition to the anti-Nazi boyoott,
the German clergyman admitted
that he accepted Nazi principle*
"because I am looking out far the
unity and future of the German
nations. He also revealed that "in
the German Lutheran schools
throughout the Near East, all of
which are under my supervision,
the machinery of the present Ger
man Nazi government is taught to
the pupils.” Dr. Rhein also declar
ed that Nazi officials in the Near
East kept tabs on the German Jew
ish refugees in Palestine.
Seven Anti-Hanfstaengl
Demonstrators Freed by
The Governor's Connell
Boston (WNS)—Seven anti-Nazis
who were serving six month Jail
sentences because of their partkd-
pation in a demonstration against
Puts! Hanfstaengl, Hitler's aid, at
Harvard University last summer,
have been freed by the Governor’s
Council. The Council acted on the
recommendation of Governor
The demonstrators, who al
ready spent thirty-six days in Jail,
included one woman.
Building Theatre
To Be Named For
Straus In Palestine
Jerusalem (WNS)—The Nathania
Seashore Development Company
has begun work on the erection of
a theatre to be named after the
late Nathan Straus. Seating 1,000
people and costing $35,000, the the
atre is being built in the colony of
Nathania, which is also named af
ter Straus.
One of the outstanding
of Jewry today appears to per
son at the Standard Club on Mon
day evening, December JW, at S
p. m. The presence ,of Alfred ML
Cohen, of Cincinnati, National
President of the B*nal Jg^rlfh,
marks the highlight of the ewob-
ment drive of B*nai B’rith,
drive is carried on to Omni?
ate the 75th anniversary
Cohen.
Mr. Cohen, who wOl be peocaa»-
panied by Rabbi Samuel , Oook, di
rector of the newly established
HiOel Foundation at ,tbe Univer
sity of Alabama, frill discuss
many of the problems of Jewry
today. Those who will aval) them
selves of the opportunity to see
and hear Mr. Cohen Witt recog
nize the outstanding personality
of the B’nal B’rlth leader.
Mr. W. P. Wilson, farmer mem
ber of the British Parliament, 'and
nationally known publicist gad
contributor to American and Eng
lish periodicals, wrote a sketch
on Mr. Cohen that vividly feints
out the traits and deeds at the
national B’nal B’rith leader* Mb.
Wilson writes:
"Visit him, and at once, MM
popularity is apparent. There he
sits, ruddy of countenance and’
vigorous In physique, a man to
the very prime of his influence
and opportunity, at ease with him
self and on good terms with the
whole wide world. The Joy of the
Lord is our strength,' se we reed to
the Scriptures; and Mr. Cohen B-
lustratea the saying. His is the Joy
of finding one’s fate and faiMIL
tog it. He is glad to be altvi. Be
is also glad to share Ms gladness
with others.
"Without haste, without seat,
that was Goethe’s motto, and R
describes Mr. Cohen. As Presldient
of the Independent Order a!
B’nal B’rith, he is expected to Ms
everywhere at once, and by re
ducing his sleep to a night «f Hen
hours and frequently that shasfi
night to sleepem, he almost sns-
ceeds. Yet, he ia neither hUssted
near worried. Visit torn eu af
ternoon, crowded ‘
ments. and he will
an instant that
his time. On the
yon the impressjqo
^tose dgy
ed a supreme
chance, you bad
profession,
lawyer, and 1 si
other lawyers, be has
times tcTfSrt Mr&nm*
he gave the fanpreesian, bodemW,
that instead of fighting
or anybody, be would
be a friend. Be is one
lawyers to whom the law M am
expression of the hamanlOes. Mb
With polities. Be M a Demoamt
and to his state, has been dratted,
at times into the asBve sesvtoo
of his party. Bat I cannot Imag
ine him quarreling, even with a
Republican, and for years MM
electral aspirations have been to
abeyance. He M today a trusted
banker in his city and an todefal-
iguable public servant.
"It is said that we should be
ware when all men speak wed of
us. Even genuine popularity Is a
bad master unless it be a good
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