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Political Committee Repudiates Weizmann ^Qng^ Hears Economic Program for
By Snubbing Participation in London
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Sneh, Carton Lead Opposition Against
Weizmann; Madassah Clarifies Its Stand
Absorbing 286,066 in Palestine Life
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BY BERL CORALN1K
BASLE (JTA'» —The political
committee of the World Zionist
ammprJfeV a vote of 20 to 10,
-With several abstentions, over the
week-end adopted a resolution op
posing participation in the London
Conference on Palestine except on
the basis of the full Zionist pro
gram. The Poale Zion members of
the committee announced that
they were reserving the right, to
raise the issue before ‘h? plenary
session of ihf> Coiigres*. when a
minority resolution embodying
«1 eir position will be presented.
Simultaneously, a meeting of
the Zionist Organisation of Amer
ica delegates passed a resolution
reaffirming their opposition to
participation in the London talks
and reiterating their endorsement
of Dr. Chaim Weizmann as hon
orary president of the Zionist
Organization, but opposing him
for the presidency.
Their action came shortly after
a three-day session of the World
The Arab League is watching
• developments at the World Zion-
I ist Congress closely, it was revealed
Congress Sidelights
Union of Poale Zionists voted 90 1 ^
to 30 to support Dr. Weizmann for
the presidency, if he agrees to
support the program outlined in a | ist Congress closely, it was revealed Alt r ., nj , f( . r lhp f n ii nw imr measure-
resolution adopted by th. meeting. : here when Abbas Hilml, head of agency* jH,banS lor ^ ,ne xoaow t, jnt isur^s.
The resolution calls for attendance 1 the League's propaganda depart-
at London on the basis of a pledge j merit, arrived in Basis to act as
by Britain that it will implement, j an official observer. Hiimi was
tlie terms of the mandate or agree j closely associated during the war
to the principle of a Jewish state. | with the e x-Mufti of Jerusalem
By BERL CORALNIK
BASLE, (JTA)—A large-scale economic program to make
possible the absorption within a short time of 200,000 immi
grants was outlined to the World Zionist Congress by Emil
emorak, hp^d of the economic department of the Jewish
It strongly opposes terrorism.
The absolution as finally adopt
ed by the Poale Zion caucus rep
resents a mutually unsatisfactory
compromise between the views of
Dr. Weizmann and David Ben
Gurion, Laborlte leader, but lt was
the best that oukl be worked out.
Leaders of the party, who say that
it was adopted to prevent a ser
ious split, point out that it would
enable Weizmann to make a last
effort to secure concessions from
the British Government, and fail
ing that, he would be forced to
resign and a new Congress would
be elected to choose a new execu-
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and Rashid Alt el Gallanl, former
pro-Nazi Iraq premier.
To Bisect Present-Day Anti-Semitism at
Joint Defense Appeal Conference Jan. 4-6
The agenda for the national otry will keynote the conference
conference cf the Joint Defense
jpeal, which convenes on Jan
uary 4, 5 and 6 in St. Louis, re
leased recently by Judge David A.
Rose of Boston, program chairman
for the event, underscores a com
plete program of review, analysis
exploration of the evil cf anti
country, accord-
con-
committee chairman. Morr
and prepare the way for the first
hand reports from American Jew
ish Committee and Anti-Defama
tion League leaders on all aspects
of the fight against anti-Semit
ism The Joint Defense Appeal
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A world conference of Jewish
journalists was held here for the
purpose of establishing a world un
ion of newspapermen writing in
various languages. Zalman Ruba-
shov, editor of Davar, tile largest
daily newspaper in Palestine, was
elected chairman of the confer
ence. Following a tribute to the
Jewish writers who died during
the war. Azriel Carlebach. another
Palestinian editor, reported on the
aims of the proposed union, in
cluding the establishment of a
course In Journalism at the He
brew University in Jerusalem and
the publication of a memorial book
for Jewish journalists.
Bert Mark, editor of “Unzer Le-
ben" and head of the Polish dele
gation at the conference, declared
that the Yiddish press in the So
viet Union educates the Jewish.
Among the speakers were H-
Lelvlk, Yiddish poet, who recently
toured the D P camps; Dr. Max
Welnrlcli, director of the Yiddish
Scientific Institute and Dr. Leon
Wuiman, executive director of the
American OSE, who presided.
1. Priority must be given to expenditures lor projects
which will provide more employment.
2. Allocation of substantial sums for the expansion of
agriculture and of urban and rural colonization,
with emphasis on close cooperation between pub
lic and private funds.
3. Two-thirds of available public funds from regular
sources should be divided equally between agri
cultural projects, and urban economy, with the
balance being used for miscellaneous enterprises.
At least half of any additional funds, which might
be derived from reparations or loans, should be
resigned to urban colonization.
4. One central bureau should be created to supervise
the various Jewish Agency economic activities to
prevent over-lapping of functions.
a
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•mination to be given the problem
will come in the first session on
Saturday evening. Jan. 4. which
will be opened by Donald Oberdor-
fer, of Atlanta, national JDA
chairman. Judge Meier Steinbrink,
national chairman of the Anti-De
famation League will preside. Ad
dresses by Ralph E. McGill, dy
namic editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution, and other liberal leaders
in the fight against religious big-
Lest we forget, test we forget. ,
War Crimes Reveal Slaying of 121
To Complete Skeleton Collection
periments carried out on Jewish
and Polish women in which legs
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WUREMBERO, (JTAl — The
of the board ex- j murder by Nazi technicians of 121
Jews, including 30 women, in or
der to complete the collection of
skeletons at the Strasbourg Ana
were amputated and the stumps
infected with wood shavings and
tomical Institute, then under Ger- shards of glass and then treated
Reservations Show
JDA Meet To Drow
Many From South
Early reservations from com
munities throughout the South in
dicate the following delegates will
be in attendance at the JDA Con
ference in St. Louis Jan. 4-6. (The
list is not complete.)
GEORGIA:
man administration, was described
at the trial of 23 German doctors
before a U. S. war crimes tribunal.
Henri Henry-Pierre, a French
chemist who was employed at the
Institute, testified that when the
bodies arrived they were still warm
and bore signs of having died vio
lently. All the corpses were of
persons of good physique. The
corpses remained In preserving
tanks for one year until the ad
vent of the Allied invasion, the di
rectors of the Institute sought to i
destroy them, but were thwarted
by Henry-Pierre who disposed of
only a few bodies.
The prosecution Introduced evi
dence that Rudolph Brandt, who
was Gestapo Chief Heinroch
Himmler’s assistant at one time,
and Wolfram Slevers ,a former
Atlanta — Donald Oberdorfer, _ _ , , ... ■ . ,
JDA chairman; Max Kroloff, na- s - s - colonel and director of theMo
tional JDA committeeman; Ar-
mand May, Abe Goldstein, Barney
Medintz and Ed Kahn.
Augusta—Nathan Jollcs.
Savannah—Dr. William Wexler.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston—I. L. Banov, Sam
Berlin, Abe Thomas, Louis H.
Shimel.
Columbia—Max Citron.
ALABAMA
Florence—Louis Rosenbaum.
Huntsville—Abe Pizitz.
Montgomery—Adolph Weil.
Selma—Richard A. Rosenberg,
Rabbi Abba Shinedlin.
Tuscaloosa—William P. Bloom,
Rabbi Samuel Perlman.
FLORIDA
Jacksonville,— William Boxer-
man.
Pensacola—Julius A. Liebert.
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville—Isaac Oradman.
Charlotte—Louis Bernstein, Ar
thur Goodman. Samuel Schwartz,
Alfred E. Smith, Morris Speizman.
Winston-Salem—Dr. Frank Ros
en Dial, Morris Sosnik.
Durham—Henry Bane.
__ Fayetteville — Joseph Efcrr, J,
Stein.
a—Jules Witten.
stitute, collaborated with other
Nazis in obtaining the skeletons of
the “Jewish Bolshevik commis
sars," as victims were described.
Also introduced was an affidavit
from Rudolph Brandt, stating that
Karl Brandt, Hitler’s personal phy
sician and chief defendant, initia
ted jaundice experiments qging
Jews as patients. M
with sulfanilamide. Many of the
victims died as a result of the ex
periments and the remainder were
crippled and disfigured, the affi
davits said.
Earlier, a French Jewish doctor,
Robert Levy, who was compelled
by the Nazis to work in the hos
pital wards at the Owiecim death
camp, told the tribunal of the ef
fects on thousands of Jew’s of ex
periments carried out there.
Another witness declared that
the Nazsl sterilized as many as
1.000 Jewish women a day during
1943. Sterilization resulted from
injections of an irritating solution
during routine gynecological ex
aminations without the victims be
ing aware of it.
Dr. Levy, who was in charge of
a Jewish ward where the major
portion of the cases were men and
women who had been sterilized
and badly burned by X-rays, said
most of the burn cases developed
into cancer, adding that all the
sterilized patients eventually be
came physical wrecks. He said
that German doctors made peri
odic checks of his ward, sending
Other affidavits by defendants j weak Patients to the gas
Fritz Fischer and Herta Oberhau-
ser, a woman, both of whom were
physicians at the Ravensbruck
concentration camp, described ex-
Hendersonville—George D. Hey-
man.
Kingston—M. L. Stadiem.
TENNESSEE
Chattanooga—Morris B. Finkel-
stein, Stanley Lochman.
Jackson—Sam Wahl.
Knoxville—C. B. Brown and
Max Morrison.
Memphis—Leo Bearman, Marx
Borod, Mrs. Fannie Brenner, Gen
eral William Gerber, Mrs. Nathan
Goldstein, Eric D. Hirsch, Dr.
Louis Levy, Mrs. Sol Lipman, Mrs.
Stella Lowenstein. Abe Wurzburg,
Reggie Wurzburg.
Nashville — Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Epstein, Fred Goldman.
chamber
The prosecution also Introduced
evidence proving that steriliza
tion experiments were part of a
premeditated plan to wipe out the
Jewish people. Other witnesses
testified that Jewish prisoners were
used in fatal experiments includ
ing high altitude tests, malaria
research and the effects of drink
ing sea water.
IT’S ABOUT TIME
NEW YORK (JTA)—The State
Department Is hopeful that the
current conversations between Sec
retary Byrnes and Foreign Min
ister Bevin will result In solu
tion which will halt the deporta
tion of Jewish immigrants to Cyp
rus, it was stated by Roy Hender
son, chief of the Office of Near
Eastern and African Affairs,
Presentation of this
came on tire heels of a two-hour
report to the Congress finance
commission last night, by Eliezer
Kaplan, treasurer of the Agency,
who submitted a budget of $60,-
000,000 for next year and urged
the adoption of a central budget
ing system for Jewish national in
stitutions. He called for an over-
all budget based on the need of
all Institutions, prepared with
:heir aid and consultation, but ad
ministered by central agency
rather than by local bodies in
various countries.
Reviewing the economic situa
tion in Palestine, he said reali
ties have proven that fears that
the transition from a war econ
omy to peace-time production
would bring a crisis in Palestine
were baseless. But, he warned,
sooner or later Palestine economy
must face the problem of compet
ing with, othew national economies
in the world market. He asserted
that both labor and capitol would
have to make further efforts to
n.e# such competition.
He reported on the campaign to
Increase production by expansion
of Palestinian Industries disclos
ing that tne Agency has allocated
large sums of money to purchasing
machinery and law materials In
America for use by Palestinian
Industry. He said that the Agency
is now study 1 ng the problem of
iong-term credits within the
country and may have to convert
and consolidate some of its loan
facilities. About 150 agricultural
settlements and many Industries
were still dependent upon Agency
financial assistance, he disclosed.
Stressing that the Zionist move
ment has undertaken a gigantic
program, burden in extending colonization
of the Negev, Kaplan stated that
the cost of one cubic yard of
water In the desert is approxi
mately six dollars. Ho reported
the establishment of a $6,000,000
tund for the reintegration of vet
erans Into the economy, 60 per
cent of which tha Jewish Agency
Is supplying, and the creation of
a $10,000,000 holding company to
finance the construction of hous
ing throughout Palestine. He said
that he had Informed the Angla-
Amcricnn inquiry committee that,
the transfer of 100,000 displaced
Jews from Europe would cost the
Agency $120,000,000.
Kaplan ooncluded his report with
a description of negotiations for
u loan with financial institutions
in London and New York which
had fallen through because of the
uncertain political situation. He
said, however, that the'negotia
tions might resume when political
circumstances change.
Hyman Hollander, an American
Zionist, was named temporary
chairman of the finance commis
sion which turned its attention to
a detailed study of Kaplan’s re
port and recommendations. Hol
lander’s election Is considered sig
nificant in that lt highlights the
importance of the American role
in the financial structure of the
Zionist movement during coming
years.
Leib Jaffa, a director of the
Keren Hayesod and the Jewish Na
tional Fund shall be given prior
ity over all other appeals for funds
for Zionist activities. He reviewed
the activities cf the organization
since the last Congress, pointing
out that the U. 8. has become the
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Congress Closes Without Designating
Execufive or Deciding Major Issues
BASLE, Dec. 24 (JTA)—The
22nd World Zionist Congress closed
here today without electing a new
president or executive and with
out acting directly on the issue of
partition.
Concluding its sixteen-day ses
sion at 5 P. m„ the Congress auth
orized the newly-elected Actions
Committee to elect an executive
tomorrow morning. It will convene
here at 11 a. m.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann left Basle
at 9 a. m. this morning, several
hours after the Congress, by a
vote of 171 to 154, had rejected
Zionist participation in the Lon
don Conference “under the pres
ent circumstances.” The vote was
considered a blow to Dr. Weiz-
mann’s chances of being re-elected
to the presidency of the World
Zionist Organization, and a vic
tory for Dr Abba Hillel Silver.
Before he left this morning,
Weizmann told his political ad
visers that he was not seeking the
presidency any longer. It is under
stood that at an early hour this
morning, before the Congress had
voted on the resolution against
participation in the London talks,
Ben Gurion suggested to Weiz-
mann that he head the delegation
*to London as honorary president
if the Zionists should decide to
go, but the man who has led the
World Zionist movement almost
without interruption since the and
of World War I rejected the sug
gestion.
The text of the resolution on
the London conference reads as
follows:
“The World Zionist Congress re
solves that under the existing cir
cumstances the Zionist movement
will not participate in the confer
ence on Palestine which the Brit
ish Government is holding in Lon
don. If a change should take place
in the situation, the Actions Com
mittee of the World Zionist Organ
ization shall consider the matter
and decide whether to participate
in the conference or not."
Prior to adoption of the resolu
tion, the 2i delegates of the Hash-
omer Hatzair declared that they
would vote for attendance at the
conference only if the British Gov
ernment abolished the White Pa
per, ceased expelling Jewish im
migrants from Palestine and did
not partition Palestine into sep
arate Jewish and Arab states.
The decision to adjourn the
Congress without electing a new
executive, which was voted 116 to
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