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VOL. XXII
GENERAL LIBRARY
JUN 10 1947
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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lewish Committee Favors U.N. Trusteeship First; Partition Next
AFTER PALESTINE HEARING — MAYBE
U.N. Committee Defers
Decision on DP Visits
LAKE SUCCESS (JTA)—The
UN inquiry committee on Palestine
this week decided to defer a final
decision on visiting the camps for
displaced Jews in Europe until It
completes hearings In Palestine.
At a public meeting the commit
tee elected Chief Justice Emil
Dandstrom of Sweden as its per
manent chairman. Senator Al
berto Ulloa of Peru was elected
Vice chairman.
The committee adopted unani
mously rules governing the taking
of written and oral testimony.
Flexible in charter they allow the
committee full scope and freedom
of action as regards the time and
place of taking testimony. They
reserve the right to turn over the
testimony for screening to a sub
committee.. The only positive re
striction placed on those who wish
to be heard orally is that they state
in advance the subject on which
they de3ire to present evidence.
It yas obvious, however, that
the time-factor would • set 1 limit
on New York organizations. This
was made clear to them in a letter
they will receive inviting them to
state their views in writing, with
the reservation that their request
for oral hearings will be subject
to the discretion—and the time
of the committee. These requests
must be submitted in 30 copies on
or before June 8.
cord the Jewish Agency, Britain
and the Arab Higher Committee
the right to appoint liaison offi
cers to the committee. The rights
of these officers were flexibly de
fined to include furnishing of in
clude furnishing of the informa
tion and rendering of any assist
ance to the committee may require.
The liaison officers may also "on
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Immediate Speed-Up To Permit 100,000
Immigrants For 1947 Necessary, Group
Points Out In Memo To UN Inquirers
★ ★★★★★
SNIH OPPOSES ANY
PARTITION FORMULA
PARIS—(JTA)—Sharp opposi
tion to “any partition formula”
was voiced by Moshe Snell, a
member of the Jewish Agency ex
ecutive. speaking at the Eighth NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Commit-
aeneral tee has informed the United Nations Palestine Committee
organization. that if a final solution of the Palestine problem must be
Dr. Sneh denounced imperial
ism as “Enemy No. 1,” and ac
cused Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin of an attempt to sabotage
the UN Palestine Committee by
his declaration that he w'ould ac
cept only a unanimous solution
"meaning that which will be ac
ceptable to himself and Arptbs.”
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found now, it favors partition along the lines proposed last
sunimer by the Jewish Agency. In a memorandum submitted
to the UN inquiry body, the Com
U. S. Community Must Take Leadership
In Culture, Social Welfare Parley Told
By LOUIS SCHWARTZMAN
BALTIMORE — From May 30
to June 4, delegates to the Na
tional Council for Jewish Educa
tion and tie American Association
for Jewish Education have been
meeting in annual conference de
liberating on problems of new de
velopments in community organi
zation, the role of education in de
veloping a creative Jewish center
in America, the professionalization
of the Jewish teacher, the role of
Jewish communal work in Amer
ican Jewish life, with such nation
al educators and scholars as Dr.
Salo W. Baron, Dr. Envmuel Cam
oran, Dr. Louis L. Kaplan, Dr. Si-
The inquiry body decided to ac- mon Greenberg, Dr. Horace Kal-
Workers Seek To Increase Total
W.
Atlanta's Welfare Drive
Reaches $720,000
BY ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Co-Chairman Meyer Balser was
late to last Monday’s report lunch
eon meeting.
He had been closeted with a
contributor whose gift to ths Wel
fare Fund Campaign he was at
tempting to increase a few hun
dred dollars.
Instead of $800, the Atlantan
had magnanimously pledged
$1,500.
This is a typical example of the
zeal of the leadership guiding this
year's campaign, for others have
recorded similar increases because
of their ardent efforts. And it is
a good example of the splendid re
sponse of certain humanitarian-
inspired members of the commu
nity.
Yet the sum total of all the
good work of the leaders and the
unbelievable increases made by
many contributors was not
enough.
After the reports were add
ed Monday, the pledges stood
at $726,000.
Though workers were making
hard attempts to contact every
man and get every pledge in
creased, they apparently have
been somewhat stymied in achiev
ing the $1,000,000.
There yet remained three means
of upping the total.
1. Considerable hope is being at
tached to Christian giving with
backers of the Atlanta Christian
Committee for the United Jewish
Appeal attempting to raise $50,-
000.
2. Clean-up workers now en
gaged in contacting new givers
re-working persons not seen could
alter the total considerably. It
will take a great many unexpected
small gifts to lift the total to the
campaign goal.
3. Large givers, most of whome
are already on record, could give
the campaign new life by coming
forward with additional pledges.
Best efforts could come from those
able to give but who have not re
sponded in accordance to their
means.
Though several large gifts, pro
portionately. were in the offing
from Christian givers, the response
so far has been in relatively small
sums. These came from a surpris
ingly large cross-section of Chris
tians.
len, Dr. Ben Edidin, Dr. Max K:i-
dushln, Dr. Leo L. Honor, Dr. Az-
riel Eisenberg and many others
leading the many significant dis
cussions. Stimulation in abun
dance is being provided the many
bureau executives, and other edu
cational staff members of their
transference to the many commu
nities of the United States repre
sented.
Attending the educational ses
sions of the conference are Ed
ward W. Kahn, executive director
of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare
Fund, and Louis Schwartzman, ex
ecutive director of the Atlanta Bu
reau of Jewish Education.
BALTIMORE — (JTA) — The
American Jewish community must
be prepared to accept world lead
ership culture and thought, Dr.
Salo W. Baron, professor of Jew
ish History and Institutions at
Columbia University, said here,
calling for the broadening and ex
pansion of efforts to assure Juda
ism a continued creative evolution
in a modem world. He spoke at
the National Conference of Jew
ish Social Welfare at the Dol'd
Baltimore Hotel.
Other principal speakers at the
conference, which was attended by
800 Jewish welfare and educational
leaders, were Harold Silver, direc
tor of the Jewish Social Service
Bureau of Detroit and president of
the National Conference of Jew
ish Social Welfare, and Dr. Alvin
Thalheimer, president of the As
sociated Jewish Charities of Bal
timore.
Dr. Baron outlined a four-point
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mlttee stressed however, that It
opposed immediate determination
of Palestine’s final political con
stitution, and favored a UN trus-
trcsliip. Immediate independence,
for the whole of Palestine, the
memorandum said, would make of
the Jews a "helpless minority.”
The memorandum reaffirmed
fue right of Jews to immigrate and
fettle in Palestine and termed the
British White Paper of 1939 a
breach of trust” which "must be
struck down.” It added that the
Balfour Declaration aud the Man
date did not merely record "a pious
hope,” but granted the Jews cer
tain rights in the country. The
tatement reiterated that the Eu
ropean conditions which originally
nave rise to the Mandate have
been intensified and the survivors
of European Jewry are in many
rases "living under conditions
I hat, bluntly stated, are a disgrace
to humanity.”
It condemned as "wholly erron
eous” Ijhitain’s requirement of an
ultimate political solution for Pal
estine as a condition precedent to
any decision on immigration, and
continued: "We submit that it is
not yet too late for Great Britain
to recede from the intransigent
position that, immigration on ’a
large scale cannot be permitted
until there is an immediate, final
political solution.”
The American Jewish Commit
tee cited the Jewish achievements
which have made of Palestine
“technically and agriculturally,
medically and culturally, the most
advanced state in the Middle
East today." The statement paid a
special tribute to the “selfless and
unsparing effort” of American
Jewish women, working through
Hadassah to improve medical care
for all the inhabitants of Palestine,
Arabs as well as Jews.
The memorandum, which was
signed by Joseph M. Proskauer and
.Jacob Blausttin, president and
executive chairman, respectively,
of the A.J.C., urged the following
seven point interim program:
1. Immediate granting of 100,-
000 immigrant certificates for Pal
estine during 1947 for Jews in
European displaced camps;
2. Subsequent facilitation of
maximum Jewish immigration,
and guarantee of Jewish land pur
chase rights:
» 3. Plenary power to UN trustee
ship council to determine the rate
of Jewish immigration and the
character of land ownership;
4. Steady development of local
self-government under trusteeship
council direction;
5. Complete provision for the
sanctity of Holy Places of all
faiths;
6. The United Nations to furnish
adequate policing of Palestine at
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IRO Voles To Establish World-Wide Tracing
Bureau To Locate Missing Refugees And DP's
BY VICTOR FRIEDMAN
LAUSANNE _ (JTA) — Estab
lishment by the International Ref
ugee Organization of a Central
Tracing Bureail, charged with
seeking the hundreds of thousands
of displaced persons and refugees
who have disappeared, has been
given first priority by the IRO
Preparatory Commission, whicn
concluded its second session here
last week.
Arthur % J. Altmeyer, executive
Slowly
Slowly
Slowly
Retribution Pendulum Swings...Reaps...
"LIQUIDATOR" SENTENCED
rWARSAW, (JTA) - Arthur
Desch, a member of the Gestapo
in Poland, who participated in the
liquidation of Jewish ghettos in
Warsaw and Zhiradow, was sen
tenced to death by the Warsaw
District Court.
Konrad Lehr, another Gestapo
member, was sentenced to life im
prisonment for participating in
anti-Jewish persecutions in Falen-
itz, near Warsaw.
GETS 30 YEARS
PRAGUE (JTA)—Imrich Vasi
na, a former commander of Jew
ish concentration camps in Brat
islava and in Sered, Slovakia, was
sentenced to thirty years impris
onment by the National Court in
Bratislava.
Thousands of Czechs and Jews
from all parts of Czechoslokia
made a pilgrimage this week to
Terezin, the fortress town which
was converted by the Nazis into
a concentration camp for Jews, to
attend services in memory of the
more than 20,000 persons who died
there. Chief Rabbi Gottschall of
Prague conducted the service for
the Jewish victims on the site of
the former crematorium, speakers
included Vaclav Nosek, Minister
of the Interior, Joza David, Speak
er of the Czechoslovakian parlia
ment and other statesmen.
Two thousand Czechs who were
prisoners in the Oswiecim death
camp will return there next month
to participate in memorial services
for the 4,000,000 persons who were
murdered at the camp. The mu
seum which is to be erected on
the site of Oswiecim will contain
a special Czechoslovak section, the
establishment of which will be
aided by the Prague Jewish Mu
seum.
BETRAYERS SENTENCED
AMSTERDAM, (JTA) — Out
wardly unmoved, a 29-year-old
Dutch-Jewish woman, Branca Si
mons, last week heard sentence of
death passed on her for betraying
fellow Jews to the Germans. Her
-non-Jewish husband, 45-year-old
Amsterdam chauffeur S. H. H.
Houthuys, was sentenced to death
for complicity.
The two worked together with
another Jewish woman, Ann Van
Dijk, who was sentenced to death
some weeks ago by the same court.
Both women were arrested by the
Gestapo in 1943 and agreed to be
tray Dutch Jews in exchange for
their freedom. On a single day in
1944 they placed 35 Jews in the
hands of the Germans. All of the
Jews lost their lives in concen
tration camps. For their services
the two women received 20,000
guilders (approximately $8,000) in
15 months.
FORTY-SIX HANGED
MUNICH, (JTA)—Forty-six of
ficials and guards of the Mautha
usen concentration camp, where
hundreds of thousands of Jews
from Nazi occupied European
countries were exterminated, were
hanged this week at Landsberg
prison, following tbeir conviction
and condemnatioh by an American
military court. The executions
were carried out on two days.
In passing sentence the court de
clared that^the war criminals had
written an "Irreparable record of
death by shooting, gassing, hang
ing and regulated starvation.” It
held every official at the death
camp "criminally responsible.”
Among the hanged men were Ger
mans, Austrians, Czechs, Hunga
rians aiid Yugoslavs.
secretary of the Commission, was
directed to take steps to set up
the bureau as soon as possible and
to confer with the International
Red Cross and governmental au
thorities for co-operation. All gov
ernments concerned will be asked
to submit lists of names, with par
ticulars, of persons to be traced,
and countries where tracing oper
ations are to be carried out will
be called on to co-operate. Zonal
tracing services now operating in
Germany and Austria will be
maintained.
It was announced that the Com
mission has approved a budget of
$112,045,000 for the first opera
tional year, beginning July 1. This
represents 75 percent of the orig
inal estimated budget. However,
if the necessary sums are forth
coming from member nations, the
full budget will be put into effect.
An administrative budget of $4,-
800,000 was approved, with the un
derstanding that it would be oper
ated on a 75 percent basis until
sufficient funds were available.
Altmeyer was authorized to call
on U. S. Secretary-General Trygve
Lie for an advance from the UN
working capital fund to finance
July operations, if contributed
from IRO members are not forth
coming by them.
COLUMBIA UNIV. GETS
WORLD'S OUTSTANDING
SPINOZA COLLECTION
NEW YORK — (JTA) — The
world’s outstanding collection of
Spinoza’s works and associated
material^ including some 4,000
items, was turned over to Colum
bia University this week.
The donors are Dr. Simon L.
Millner, director of the Spinoza
House in The Hague; Mrs. Thom
as S. Lamont, Corliss Lamont and
Christian A. Zabriskie. Hie col
lection was formed by Adolph 8.
Oko and Carl Gebharft, both of
whom have since died.