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VOL. XXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY• 25, 1947
Greece Clamps Barriers
On Visiting, Native Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA) t—Jews of all nationalities passing through
Greece are not permitted to leave ports or airdromes between ships
or planes, according to information received by the American Jewish
Conference, which is discussing the ban. as well as other matters
affecting Greek Jews, with the State Department. Unofficial explana
tions in Athens say that the restrictions have been urged by British
authorities.
Generally, the position of the surviving 10,00* Jews in Greece is
rapidly deteriorating, the Conference has learned. Although an excel
lent restitution law is on the statute books, the government has taken
no steps to implement it, leaving the Jews destitute. In addition,
anti-Semitism, fostered in part by persons in possession of Jewish
property, is growing.
The Jewish community is particularly disturbed by the fact that
Vial Hasson, who was sentenced to death in Salonika for his part in
betraying 52,000 Jews to the Gestapo, is still alive and has been moved
to Corfu, where he resides in relative comfort and freedom as chauf
feur to the prison director.
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY DISPATCHES
Rumanians Mass for
March to Palestine
BUCHAREST, (JTA) — Large
groups of unorganized Jewish emi
grants are massing at the border
towns of Carei Mari and Valea Lul
Mehan, ostensibly preparing for a
“march to Palestine," despite re
peated warning from responsible
Jewish organizations against going
ahead with this plan, it was
learned here.
Frantic appeals for assistance
have been received at the offices
here of several large Jewish groups.
The refugees are short of food and
clothing and are living in make
shift houses, where several babies
have already been born. A team
of Jewish relief workers has left
the frontier to organize aid pro
jects then
28 1947
Spotlighting the News Here ahd|pe^
ON TO LEBANON
UN Group Leaves Amid
Palestine Strikes, Curfew
By GEROLD FRANK
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Correspondent)
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The United Nations Special
Committee on Palestine this week-end completed its
work in Palestine by hearing John S, Grauel, American
Protestant minister from Worcester, Mass., who arrived
op the refugee ship Exodus with 4,500 visaless Jews, and
theh headed for Beirut in a 22-car motorcade where it
will take testimony from the representatives of the neigh-
boHMg Arab states.
Chinese Zionist
PARIS. (JTA)—Dr. Sun Fo,
vice president of China and son
of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen,
founder of the Chinese Republic,
is quoted in a message to the Re
visionist Organization as saying:
“The Zionist movement is cham
pioning a worthy cause. I am glad
to recall that the late Sunt Yat
Sen s sympathy and support has
produced results. As a lover of
democracy, I wholly endorse my
late father's views."
Return to Jobs
BUCHAREST, (JTA)—A gov
ernment commission which is com
pleting an Investigation of the re
instatement of Jewish workers to
jobs from which they were ousted
under racial legislation promul
gated by pro-Nazi regimes, dis
closed that reports from all parts
of the country, including sections
of Transylvania, reveal that most
of the Jews are rapidly returning
to their former positions.
Clay Authorixed
To Name Successor
Groups for Property
BY BEATRICE HEIMAN
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-Gen
Lucius D. Clay, American com
mander in Germany, has been
authorized by the U. S. Govern
ment to designate “appropriate
successor organizations” for heir
less and unclaimed property seized
from Jews and other persecutees
during the Nazi regime.
A directive from the Joint chiefs
of staff, which was approved by
the War. State and Navy Depart
ments, instructs Clay that “per
sons or organizations deprived of
their property returned or be com
pensated therefor and persons who
suffered personal damage or in
jury throughout national socialist
persecution should receive indem
nification in German currency.
With respect to heirless and un
claimed property subject to Intern
al restitution you will designate
appropriate successor organiza
tions."
Libel Label Pays Off
LONDON, (JTA»— Capt. Neil F.
jlsrale was awarded $4,000 as dam-
lages in a libel action against the
Daily Graphic and other newspa
pers for a story published last No
vember purporting that Israel was
engaged in conveying illegal im
migrants to Palestine.
Tlie plaintiff served in the Roy
al Navy during the war. where he
had a distinguished record.
Kielce Remembered
WARSAW. (JTA) - A monument
to the memory of the 42 Jews who
were killed In the Kielce pogrom
in July, 1946, a handful of Jews
who still reside in the town, as
well as local government officials
and Jewish delegations from Ra-
dom, Chenstochow and Pinchev,
attended.
Sweden'
STOCKHOLM, (JTA) —• The
Minister of Justice this week told
the Swedish Parliament that the
government is considering a law
which would be applicable to anti-
Semitic propaganda.
Text Book Revision
CHATAUQUA, N. Y„ (JTA) —
Elimination of racial and religious
bias from textbooks was demanded
by prominent educators at the
second annual Human Relations
Conference, held here. Many text
books spread intolerance and fos
ter bigatory and should be com
pletely revised if classroom and
community tensions are to be re
moved, it was agreed by the edu-
cators-delegates, representing all
sections of the country.
DP Newspopers
FRANKFURT, (JTA)—The U.
S. Army reported that residents of
Jewish displaced persons camps
were publishing four weekly news
papers and thirteen magazines for
general circulation. Most of the
newspapers contain about six
pages.
y BERL CORALNIK
SALEM (JTA) _ Jews
throughout Palestine last week
end halted work and closed their
shops ip a general strike protest
ing thd killing of three persons
aboard |he blockade runner “Exo-
Friday. The strike, from
M. on Sunday, took place
;ors that the 4,500 visaless
Jews, who were deported aboard
three British vessels, were being
sent back to their port of embar
kation in France, and against a
backdrop of bomb, mortar and
gunfire attacks in a number of
widely scattered areas of the coun
try.
From Famagusta, Cyprus, where
the immigrants should have ar
rived early Sunday camp reports
that tflfe authorities were unable to
account for the fact that the de
portation ferries had not yet
docked. The rumors w r ere given
added impetus by a statement of
a government spokesman who re
fused to answer directly whether
the Jews were being deported to
Cyprus or France.
Last Friday when the transship
ment of the Exodus’ passengers
began in Haifa, observers here
pointed out that 15,000 to 16,000
DP’s were already interned on the
Island and that the addition of
another 4,500 would bring the to
tal to over 20,000, while the facili
ties of the camps were built for a
maximum of 10,000 persons.
American Jewish Conference Interim Body
Recommends Postponement of 4th Session
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The In- to discuss conversion of the or-
terim Committee of the American
Jewish Conference announced that
it has recommended postponement
to November of the fourth session
of the conference, which is slated
to be held on Labor Day week-end
Delegates From Nine Countries to Study
Ways of Combatting European Anti-Semitism
LONDON. (JTA)—An attempt
to formulate a “cure for anti-
Semitism" will be made at the
Conference of International Ex
perts on the Resurgence of Anti-
Semitism in Europe, scheduled to
be held in Switzerland from July
30th to Aug. 5th, according to Dr.
Everett Clinchy, president of the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews in the United States.
Describing anti-Semitism as a
“social and psychological disease,”
Dr. Clinchy said he believed all
church bodies, as well as the press,
radio and movies, should mobilize
to combat it. At a press confer
ence. Dr. Clinchy, Dr. Willard
Goslin, U. S. educator, and Rabbi
Julian Feibelman of New Orleans,
agreed that the strongest weapon
in the fight against anti-Semitism
was education.
The delegates to the Conference
stressed the German anti-Semi
tism was chiefly an international
problem which the National Con
ference of Christians and Jews
would be willing to tackle along
with UNESCO. It was revealed
that the Conference hoped to send
a "task force" to tour Germany to
help eradicate the problem of an-
|ti-Semitism through an education
al campaign. Other delegates to
the Conference are Prof. Selig
Brodetsky, Neville Laski, and Rab
bi Philip Bernstein. In addition
to the United States and Britain,
countries represented at the meet
ing will be Greece, Austria, Italy.
France, Belgium, Germany and
Czechoslovakia.
ganizalion Into a permanent body.
The announcement said that
several organizations affiliated
with “an important emergency
Jewish International gathering re
quiring the presence of a substan
tial number of delegates and offi
cers.” The meeting referred to is
apparently the conference of the
World Zionist Actions Committee,
which is slated to meet in Switzer
land at the end of August.
Delegates to the conference are
being asked to indicate whether
they favor a postponement. A let
ter signed by Louis Lipsky, execu
tive committee chairman, express
ed regret for the inconvenience
that would be caused by the post
ponement, but suggested that the
additional time could be used for
wider public hearings on the new
form of organization.
BY BERL CORALNIK
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A ten-
hour dusk-to-dawn curfew was
this week-end clamped down on
the Jewish quarter of Haifa as ex
tremists attacked British military
installations and railroads through
out the country, Haifa, where ten
sion ran high during the week- (
end as a result of the deportation
of the Exodus’ immigrants and the
burial of three of the refugees
killed aboard the blockade runner,
was the scene Saturday of the
killing of a British policeman. Fol
lowing a number of outbreaks in
Jerusalem, a similar curfew was
Imposed there Monday morning,
after five consecutive days of at
tacks throughout Palestine.
Beside the killing in Haifa, the
major casualties of the week-end
occurred In the landmining of a
military trtick on a road near
Raanana. One soldier was killed
and one seriously injured while
two others received light wounds.
Seven different attacks were
carried out against railroad in
stallations and rolling stock of the
government-owned railroads. No
casualties resulted from the raids.
Near Haifa about three feet of
track was torn up when a bomb
exploded under a freight train. i
Painting of 67-Year-Old Former Tailor
On View at Jewish Museum in New York
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Abraham Uptown Galleries in December
Levin, 67-year-old former machine
operator in a trouser factory who
taught himself to paint at 57, Is
having a special showing of his
works at the Jewish Museum
through August 5th. This will be
the first exhibition of its kind to
be held at the Museum, which was
opened to the public two months
ago under the auspices of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.
Since hie first exhibit at the
1941, Mr. Levin has had several
one-man and group shows and his
pictures hang in many museums
in the United States. Hailed at
the time of his first one-man exhi
bition in 1941 as a “find,” he paints
entirely from memory with no
models before him and his works
reveal a complicated color scheme.
The pictures on Jewish -themes
are filled with memory of the
small town near Vilna in Lithu
ania which he left in 1903 to come
to the United States.
UNSCOP Echoes
JTA CORRESPONDENT BARRED BY LEBANON GOVT.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—All newspaper correspondents, foreign, Jew
ish and non-Jewish—with the single exception of Gerold Frank of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency—were granted Lebanese visas to cover
the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine which moves to
Beirut this week-end.
Granting of visas by the Lebanon to French, South African and
Palestine correspondents, and those already given to United States
reporters traveling with UNSCOP, left f rank as the only one specifi
cally banned. UNSCOP said it was powerless to intervene since it
was a matter between Frank and the Lebanese. When asked the
reason for the Lebanese action, that country’s consul here replied:
“My hands are tied. The ban came from Beirut."
It Is understood the ban was ordered by the Lebanese Foreign
Office not only because of the sensational interview obtained by Frank
last year with the Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, in which he ex
pressed sympathy with the Zionist cause, but also> because Frank had
charged in his writings that Lebanon was a “police state.”
Theodore Backer of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was among
those accredited to go to the Lebanon.
UNSCOP MAJORITY FAVOR MODIFIED PARTITION
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A majority of the members of the United
Nations Special Committee on Palestine definitely favor the idea of
partition "with aspects of federalization.”
The majority have accepted the principle of a Jewish state but
are now struggling over the type of partition which will produce the
smallest possible non-Jewish minority and, above all, which will have a
chance of acceptance by the United Nations Assembly in September.
They are considering a method of partition In which both states will
jointly take over neutral services, such as railroads and post offices.
Bi-nationalism has apparently fallen by the wayside, with the excep
tion of a parity proposal which still interests some delegates.
TWO UNSCOP DELEGATES CONFER WITH IRGUN
By GEROLD FRANK
(Special J.T.A. Correspondent)
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Dr. Jorge Garcia Granados of Guatemala
and Prof. Enrique Rodriquez Fabregat of Uruguay, members of the
United Nations committee, had a personal interview this week with
Menahem Begin and other leaders of Irgun Zvai Leumi.
They discussed the alms and hopes of the Irgun with regard to
the UNSCOP inquiry and Begin promised that his organization would
refrain from breaking the truce if Britain also refrained.
The delegates spoke in English, and were given refreshments
during the interview, which was planned in great secrecy and followed
by 48 hours a talk by Judge Emil Sandstroem, UNSCOP chairman, and
two of his aides with leaders of the Haganah. Shortly before the
dinner hour, Dr. Granados and Prof. Fabregat left Kadima House in a
United ^Nations car. They drove to an appointed spot where they
-parked their auto and entered a paivate car which awaited them.