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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
VOL.—XIII. NO. 6
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BUCHAREST, RUMANIA—A wave of relief spread
through Jewish circles here following the resignation on
Thursday of Premier Octavian Goga, whose anti-Jewish
measures brought the country near
The New Palestine
BIG THREE AT WASHINGTON CONFERENCE
Confidential rhat brings three celebrities together at the closing banquet session of the Washing
ton Conference of the United Palestine Appeal. Left to right, Harold Jacobi, Dr. Stephen S. W’Lsc,
and Nathan Straus.
DR. WEIZMANN
SCORES POLICY
OF BRITAIN
TEL AVIV (WNS-Palcor Agen
cy)—In a farewell address before
a throng of thousands which filled
the Exhibition Building to over
flowing, Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
President of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, charged the British
Government with shackling the
creative powers of the Jewish
people. In the course of his
speech, which he delivered under
the auspices of the General Zion
ist Confederation, the world Zion
ist leader said:
“On leaving the country I am
greatly heartened by what I have
seen. I do not wish to minimize
the suffering which the Yishuv has
endured. But I have been enor
mously impressed with the
strength and resources of the Yis-
huv which are a permanent force
and will continue to grow. I will
tell London that it is impossible
to reach an arrangement on this
hemisphere without considering
this force. The conclusion of the
Koyal Commission that the Man
date is unworkable is definitely in
correct. The mandate never had
a fair chance from those who were
entrusted with its administration
and that is where the Palestine
Government has failed. Yet we
cannot ignore the Commission’s
view concerning the Mandate’s un
workability, a view which has
been officially endorsed by the
British Government.
“Any form of partition involves
a real sacrifice on the part of every
Jew. Palestine is equally precious
to all Jews and not merely to the
‘Neinsager.’ If we were asked to
make this sacrifice it is only to
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Noted political figures ad
dressed delegates to the YVash-
i n g t o n Conference. Here,
Senator J. Hamilton Lewis, of
Illinois, speaks extemporane
ously at the banquet session.
Ohio’s Senator Robert Bulkey
takes time out from the press
ing problems which face the
nation to deliver one of the
principal addresses at the Pal
estine Conference.
STAR APPEALS
TO DICTATOR
OF ECUADOR
GOGOTA, COLUMBIA (WNS)
—Bertha Singerman, one of South
America’s leading actresses and
the best known Jewess in Latin-
America, was publicly toasted at
a meeting of the Jewish Federa
tion here for having helped save
300 Jews in Ecuador from being
deported through her telegraphic
appeal to Col. Alberto Enrequez,
head of Ecuador’s provisional mili
tary regime. It was said that
Mme. Singerman’s telegram to
Colonel Enrequez had considerable
to do with his decision to revoke
a decree issued January 18, pro
viding for the expulsion of all
Jews not engaged in farming ac
tivities within 30 days. The decree
was rescinded a lew days after
she appealed to Colonel Enrequez
“in the name of justice and human
freedom’’ to revoke the order “in
order not to add to the tragic sit
uation” of Jews seeking a haven
of refuge.
In his telegraphed reply to Mme.
Singerman, the Ecuadorean dic
tator lauded her as an actress and
denied that the decree was speci
fically aimed at the Jews. He said
Ecuador was free from "foreign
doctrines” and the order was in- I
tended to promote immigration j
which would be useful to the j
country. “Ecuador welcomes all [
foreigners, no matter to what race i
or nation they belong, who come |
into the country to work at agri- |
culture or useful industries, in- I
stead of increasing the number of j
unemployed or enlarging the para- 1
siteic trade, which brings no bene
fit to the citizens in general,” he
said.
LEGAL STATUS
FOR REFUGEES
NOW PROPOSED
GENEVA (WNS)—Kefugees
who have fled from Germany, Po
land or other countries in recent
years would be guaranteed safety
in the countries where they now
are resident and would also be
given the right to work there as
soon as they have obtained resi
dence permits, according to pro
posals laid before the League of
Nations inter-national conference
called to draft an international
treaty fixing the legal status of
refugees. Other proposals recom
mended that stateless persons be
given the status of refugees, and
that a special court be established
to which refugees could appeal
against deportation orders. The
conference was called by Sir Neill
Malcolm, League High Commiss
ioner for German Refugees. M.
Loudon of Holland was elected
president and M. Brouskere of
Belgium, vice-president. Curtis
Everett and Howard Buckbell are
representing the United States as
delegate and representatives
from England, France, Holland,
Belgium, Poland, Switzerland,
Denmark, Czechoslovakia and
Austria are attending.
Rabbi Champions
Mercy Deaths
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—
Because Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein
of the Free Synagogue has endor
sed mercy killings, the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. John A. Ryan, director of
the department of social action
of the Catholic Welfare Conference
has declared that henceforth it
will be impossible for him to co
operate in any movement or cause
with Dr. Goldstein. In a letter to
Dr. Goldstein, Dr. Ryan expressed
surprise at finding the rabbi’s name
among the members of the advis
ory board of the National Society
for the Legalization of Euthanasia
and declared “your membership
in this organization to promote
legalized murder makes it imposs
ible for me henceforth to cooperate
with you in any movement or for
any cause whatsoever.”
POLISH CHILDREN FACE
STARVATION, SAYS ASCH
New York—An appeal by Sholem Asch, celebrated novel
ist, in behalf of the Jewish children of Poland, so hungry that
they often faint from hunger in their classes, was made public ;
today by the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, from hunger. The Jews of all coun-
which is seeking $5,100,000 in 1938 r ies should contribute to the Joint j
for reconstructive work and aid
to Jewish populations overseas.
“Of all those suffering in var
ious countries where our people are
being persecuted,” says Mr. Asch’s
message, “those who most touch
us are the Jewish children in Po
land.
“These poor children are so
Distribution Committee so that it
will be able to continue its bene-
ficient work.
‘I appeal to all Jewry, all of our
newspapers and writers, all of the
teachers and children in the
schools, and call on them to let
famished that they are no longer , t h e i r humanitarian sentiments
able to listen attentively to their come to the aid of these poor star-
teachers. Often they faint away, ving children.”
CROWN PRINCE AT
ODDS WITH REICH
Berlin (WNS)—Although mem
bers of the Hohenzollern family
in Germany are all Nazis, one of
them at least, former Crown Prince
Friedrich Wilhelm, has fallen afoul
of Julius Streicher on the Jewish
question. A recent issue of
Der Stuermer assails the Hohen-
zollem prince for indifference to
the Jewish problem, charging that
when a representative of the paper |
sought permission to post an ad
vertisement on the walls of the
Prince’s castle at Bemstaedt, the
administrators of the estate refus
ed on the ground that he “had no
thing to do with the Jewish ques
tion one way or the other.” To
this the Stuermer retorted that the
Jewish question will remain “the
greatest issue in world affairs”
long after the Prince’s estates have
been forgotten.
COHEN TO RETIRE
Cincinnati (WNS)—Alfred M.
Cohen will retire from the in
ternational presidency of B’nal
B’rith after the triennial con
vention of the Grand Lodge to
be held in Washington in May,
he announced here. Mr. Cohen
has been president since 1925.
economic collapse. Synagogues
prepared to welcome great throngs
of worshippers for Sabbath ser
vices as word swept through the
city of the Goga cabinet’s fall.
Indications that the anti-Semitic
tion of Premier Octavian Goga
cabinet would be dropped by King
Carol and the new cabinet were
given early today with the lifting
by private tradesmen of many bans
against Jews.
New York—The sudden resigna
tion of Premier Octavian Goga
as fuehrer of Rumania was hinted
in the New York Times this week
by G. E. It. Gedye, foreign corres
pondent, who declared that Ru
manian politicians beleived that the
anti-Semitic leader would fail to
win the elections scheduled for
March 2nd.
“They agree,” Mr. Cedye stated,
“that he has no prospect of suc
cess without the use of terroristic
methods even worse than those
used when, as Minister of Interior,
he “made” Rumania’s most ter
roristic elections for the Avarescu
governments. This being the case,
most leaders deplore the fact that
King Carol should have exposed
the Monarchy by entrusting the
government to M. Goga’s minority
party, which nine-tenths of the
country rejected simultaneously
with the rejection of Premier
George Tatarescu, also the King’s
personal selection.
“A second defeat for M. Goga
would mean, according to his op
ponents, that Rumnaia would
thrice reject the policy of her King.
Similarly, responsibility will be
laid on the King for whatever me
thods are employed by M. Goga
to achieve victory.”
It is believed in authoritative
quarters that G. E. R. Gedye’s pre
diction that the Liberals will re
place Goga is a strong possibility.
London (WNS)—The British
Government is studying what im
mediate action it may take to pro
tect the minority rights of the Jews
of Rumania, Foreign Secretary
Anthony Eden told the House of
Commons during a debate on the
Rumanian situation precipitated by
Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite,
who asked whether Britain was
consulting the United States to ob
tain the most effective results in
order to guarantee the preserva
tion of Jewish minority rights in
Rumania. Eden said that Eng
land was examining the matter to
determine what steps “might be
considered useful in these circum
stances to protect minority rights,”
and pointed out that the British
ambassador in Bucharest had re
minded the Rumanian foreign
minister of England’s interest in
the minorities treaties.
In reply to Colonel Wedgwood,
Eden reminded the House that the
United States did not have the
same interest as England and
France in the minorities treaty be
cause it was not a member of the
League of Nations and had not
ratified the treaty.
WINDSOR SEEN AS FUTURE
EMPEROR OF GERMANY
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—The powers that be in
Germany are giving serious consideration to a plan to offer
the Duke of Windsor the emperorship of Germany, according
to reports making the rounds in
diplomatic circles, it is revealed by
Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
in the column, “Daily Washington
Merry-go-Round.” The column
ist declare that while the truth of
the report cannot be checked,
there are some extremely inter
esting facts behind it. “One fact,”
they say, “is that the military
clique now ruling Germany has
been looking around for a figure
head to put at the helm of the em
pire.
“Hitler, while still an effective
rabble-rouser, is now pretty well
out of the picture as far as any ad
ministrative work is concerned.
Even the original founders of the
Nazi Party, with the exception of
Goering and possibly Goebbels, are
now impotent.
“All of the above has been re
ported in diplomatic and military
intelligence dispatches to Wash
ington, and can be considered au
thentic.” ••'
GOGA DOWNFALL
SEEN AS FINAL * ■