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The Southern Israelite
VOL- XII—NO. 51
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
ATLANTA. GA„ FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1937
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ITALY WARNED “HANDS OFF"
Religious Rights Group Protests To Poland
Nations Urged
To Cooperate
In Solution
The Eye of fascist Italy’s II Duce on Little Palestine
NEW YORK (WNS)—Warning
the Christians of all sects in Poland
that they “cannot be absolved from
responsibility for what is happen- |
ing under the Polish flag,” the'
American Committee on Religious
Rights and Minorities, in a public
protest against anti-Semitic vio
lence, economic discriminations
md political repressions practiced
against Jews in Poland, called upon
the Cardinal Archbishop of War
saw, the clergy and members of
the Catholic Church, the leaders
and members of each of the Pro
testant churches and the Metro
politan and people of the Eastern
Orthodox Church in Poland, who
together form the vast majority
of the people of Poland, to oppose
this inhuman act.” The statement,
which is to be embodied in a
pamphlet and sent to the entire
membership of the Committee, re- j
views the plight of Polish Jewry ;
and deplores the recent acts of vi
olence against them, especially the
setting aside of ghetto benches for
Jewish students.
It appeal to the government and
people of Poland “to put a stop to
the anti-Semitic movement within
the nation and to review their po
sition in regard to measures to be
taken for the amelioration of eco- ;
nomic conditions." Pointing out!
that “the economic position of Po- !
land is not materially different i
(rom that of several of the nations
by which she is surrounded," the
statement calls upon “the govern
ments of other nations, including
our own, and the League of Na- 1
tions, to cooperate with the govern
ment of Poland in providing out
lets for its surplus population. The 1
increasing pressure of that surplus
upon the economic life of a people j
in a limited territory, and the rigid
immigration laws of countries to
which emigrants would normally
go, create a problem which is im-
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SHARPLY-WORDED was the warning delivered to Italy by Great Britain's Anthony Kdcn against
Italian propaganda in Palestine. Mussolini's agitation among the Arabs is well-known. Above, he Ls
shown inspecting the Palestine Pavillion when it was displayed at the Fair at Barrl, Italy. With him are
S. Morelii, secretary of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Palestine; Dr. Fdsenstadt, and Deputy Lo-
rocco.
Lost W riter
Is Identified
German Aryan Drama Forbidden,
Kulterbund Stages Shakespeare
It has been said that the Jews in Germany are the one part of the German society which
preserves freedom of thought and freedom of opinion. Cut off as it is from the social and in
tellectual life of the general community, it has devised its own cultural institutions, and it is
free from the mass propaganda + ——
which no “Aryan” German may _ _ ^ ^ #
Untermyer Charges Christians
To Support Boycott Drive
NEW YORK (WNS)—The my
sterious case of Donald L. Robin
son, the American writer who en
tered Russia on a fraudulent
^erican passport with his wife
and then disappeared behind pri
son walls took on an even more
sensational turn when Nazi lead
ers here identified pictures of Rob
eson as Raymond Joseph Healey,
toe Irish-born Nazi and self-styled
American Hitler.” Among those
who identified Robinson as Healey
£ ere James Wheeler-Hill, New
iork leader of the German-Ameri-
tan Bund, and Fritz Kuhn, nation-
a ‘ Bund Fuehrer. Descriptions
°’ Healey on file in the criminal
taentifieation bureau of the New
-t d Police also tally with those
01 Robinson. Healey, who was
^•eral times arrested for his anti-
^ernitic activities in New York,
the founder of the pro-Nazi
ational Socialist Workers Party of
“toerica and the Militant Christian
patriots. He also edited a violent-
^ anti-Jewish paper called The
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—A
stir was created in the capi-
* B e P r esentative Manuel Cel-
iv °* New York when he declared
a : evidence linking Nazi organi-
uons with the agitation in fa-
lj oi the bill calling for a war
T Ie ^ en dum had been laid before
- e State Department.
escape. It may be of some in
terest to give an account of the
cultural institution, the Judischer
Kulturbund, which with the ap
proval of the Government of the
Reich, has been established since
1933, and carries on its activities
in all the towns which have a con
siderable Jewish population.
It was one of the special hard
ships of the “Aryan" legislation
BALTIMORE, MD.—The responsibility of the future boy
cott movement against Germany was placed squarely on the
shoulders of American Christians by Samuel Untermyer,
in Germany that those who had p res j den t of the Non-Sectarian
taken a pre-eminent part in the . N • » eaeue a t a meeting of the downfall of Christianity
literary, musical, and dramatic life ^ti-Nazi League at a mewing ot throughout the world ..
of the republic were utterly ex- the Temple and Synagogue Bro- Referring to the recent letter to
eluded from that life in the Third therhoods here.
Reich. Every Jewish artist in a Speaking with great force about
theatre or cinema was dismissed; t ^e con tinued efforts of Nazi lead-
no German-Jewish musician could ers to destroy the Christian Church
play to a German audience; no j j n G errna ny, Mr. Untermyer said;
Jewish painter could exhibit jn a ! n^y Christian who
is waging a comprehensive cam
paign to destroy German Chris
tianity.
Hitler of the Protestant Chaplains
of the German army and the more
recent Pastoral letter of Count
Conrad von Preysing of the Diocese
of Berlin, Mr. Untermyer declared
. ,_ v buys goods that there was no longer any doubt,
German gallery; no Jewish writer ma d e in Germany or who travels even on the part of religious lead-
could publish a book in Germany on a Ge rma n ship, or who deals ers of all denominations in Ger-
or write an article for a German with a s t ore that sells German many, that the Nazi Government
journal. Bruno Walther and Rem- j g 00 dg is a party to the plot to de-
hardt, Korda and Elizabeth Berg- j stroy hj s religion in Germany, and
ner, Ludwig and Feuchtwanger to that ex t e nt to help bring about
were driven from the country. But
German Jewry, for whom things , j rr
se, tE S r r prov,de pr anT-' Mrs. Felix Warburg Named Honorary
tistic life for its own small society.
The aim of the Kulterbund was,
on the one hand, to provide intel
lectual recreation for the segregat-
ed Jewish communities, and on the NEW YORK (WNS)—Mrs. Felix M. Warburg was elected
other, to secure a living for the h onorar y chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee at
hundreds of fikJ the annual meeting of the Committee’s board of directors
workers uniters, and journalists thus succeeding to the post occu-
who were suddenly thrown on the pied by her late husband. Mr.
Srit It had also a purpose of Warburg’s place on the executive
5treet. Germany a committee was filled by the elec-
5i fJicJ h nf the intellectual and tion of Lewis L. Strauss. George
knowledge o , their dpo- Backer was elected vice-chairman
of 5he J. D. C. and Leon Falk, Sr,
elected
Chairman of J.D.C. at Annual Meet
nle. Jewish history and Jewu
tradition were in large measure
unknown to German Jewry; and
one of the major activities of the
Kulterbund from the beginning
was the organization of lectures
on these themes.
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of Pittsburgh was elected vice-
chairman of the national council,
of which James N. Rosenberg is
chairman. Other additions to the
board of directors were Abe Bronf
man of Montreal and Judge Philip
Forman of Trenton, N. J.
National officers elected were:
Paul Baerwald, chairman; Gover
nor Herbert H. Lehman, James H.
Backer, David M. Bressler, Alex
ander Kahn, William Rosenwald,
George Backer and Rabbi Jonah B.
Wise, vice-chairmen; Marco F.
Heilman and I. Edwin Goldwasser,
treasurers; William A. Koshland,
associate treasurer; Mrs. H. N. L.
Goldstein, comptroller; and Joseph
C. Hyman, secretary and executive
director.
England Hits
Interference
In Homeland
LONDON (WNS-Palcor Agen
cy)—The Italian Government has
been warned that its continued
hostile propaganda in Palestine
and in other countries of the Near
and Middle East is making it more
difficult for Great Britain and
Italy to arrive at a mutual under
standing, it was stated in the house
of Commons by Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden. Arthur Hender
son, Laborite, questioned Mr. Eden
on Italian propaganda in Palestine
and was told that reports had been
received by the Government re
garding these activities. As a re
sult, Mr. Eden had informed the
Italian Ambassador at London that
“unless these activities are ended
it is impossible to create the at
mosphere necessary for convr;-
sations designed to improve mutual
relations.”
Asked by It. Dyke Acland, La
borite, whether it was possible to
sponsor broadcasts in Italian, the
Foreign Secretary replied that for
the present news was broadcast
from Jerusalem in Arabic. Mr.
Eden made no comment on the
statement by Noel Baker, Laborite,
that “this propaganda is an intol
erable outrage,” in condemning
Italian interference in the Near
East.
New York (WNS)—The British
Government is considering aban
doning entirely the plan to parti
tion Palestine, Dr. Stephen S. Wise
president of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America, said in an addres:
at the seventh annual conventior
of the Federation of Palestim
Jews in America. Basing his as
sertion on a letter he received frorr
London, Dr. Wise declined to saj
how much stock he put in the re
port.
London (WNS)—Jewish Agenc;
officials and the British Colonia
Office denied all knowledge of ,
report that England was prepar
ing to abandon the partition of Pal
eatine.
Royal W edding
Seen As Hoax
London (WNS)—The sensationa
marriage of Prince Michael Rad
ziwill, scion of one of Poland’
most aristocratic Catholic families
to Jeanette Suchestow, a Polisl
Jewess who divorced her husbani
and abandoned her young child, i
beginning to look like a hoax. Ii
an interview with a corresponden
of the London Evening Standard
Radziwill denied that he had mar
ried or intended to marry Mirv
Suchestow. The interview was ob
tained in Monte Carlo where thi
Prince is staying. The Polish no
bleman also denied he had an:
intention of marrying again.
Warsaw (WNS)—The romanc
of 67-year old Prince Radziwil
Catholic aristocrat, and Mm<
Jeanette Suchestow, the Jewes
who recently became his thir
wife, became entangled in new dif
Acuities when the Princ’e secon
wife charged him with bigamy an
the Warsaw courts instituted
nationwide search for him at th
request of his family which want
to declare him mentally incompe
tent. On top of this the Greel
Orthodox Church has nullified th
baptism of the Prince’s Jewisl
wife who was accepted into Greel
Orthodoxy by a Russian Orthodo:
priest after the Radziwill famil;
had prevailed upon the Catholi
Church to refuse to convert her t
her husband’s faith.