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VOL. XXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 194,
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No. 40
UN Associated DoubT Arab Ability to Maintain Armed Revolt
Southern Section, Jewish Welfare Board,
To Meet Oct. 11-13 in Savannah
SAVANNAH.—Representatives of Jewish communities throughout
the South will assemble here this week-end for the third annual con
vention of the Southern Section. Jewish Welfare Board, Oct. 11-13.
Problems confronting community centers and Y.M.H.A.'s will be
considered by the delegates, according to Jules Paglin, New Orleans,
section president.
Preceding the convention, on Oct. 9 and 10. professional social
workers gathered for an institute.
Attending the Institute from Atlanta were Ed Kahn and Abe
Friedman.
INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
SLOWING JDC PROGRAM
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Although
the needs of Europe are steadily
rising as a result of the drastic
reduction in intergovernmental re
lief programs, crop failures and
general inflation, the JDC has
been compelled to curtail its pro
jected program of winter relief
because of the slowness with which
funds hav been received by the
United Jewish Appeal, Moses W.
Beckelman, vice-chairman of the
Planning to be present for the JWB convention are Meyer Balser [ JDC’s European executive council,
DP's in British Zone Offer Exodus Refugees
Their Palestine Immigration Certificates
and Barney Medinli.
IRO Will Ask
U. S. to Admit
250,000 DP's
BAD SALZUFLEN, Germany.
(JPSt—The United States will be
asked by the Preparatory Commis
sion of the International Refugee
Organization to accept approxi
mately 250.000 European displaced
persons, as part of the general pro
gram to get all twenty-one mem
ber nations to accept specific quo
tas of DPs between now and the
beginning of 1950. William H.
Tuck, Executive Secretary of the | cy director in the zone, recommend
reported this week.
BY ROBERT GARY
JTA Correspondent
LUBECK, (JTA) — An offer of
their most “precious possession—
Palestine certificates 1 ' was made
by some 2,000 displaced Jews at
a meeting in the Belsen camp, in
the British zone of Germany, to
the Exodus refugees now interned
in the Poppendorf and Am Stau
camps, near here.
The Jews packed the camp thea
tre in the largest DP center In the
British zone to hear Joseph Ros-
enzaft, chairman of the zonal Cen
tral Committee of Liberated Jws,
and Dr, Kurt Lewin. Jewish Agen-
IRO. disclosed at a press eonfer-|
ence here last week. *
Mr. Tuck said that under pres
ent procedures the displaced per
sons problem was not being solved
either quickly or economically, and
that the new scheme would be tak
en up in Geneva at. the organiza
tion's next meeting October 21.
Acceptance in principle of the plan
by Christmas would mean the
probable solution of the displaced
•persons problem bv late 1949 or
1950.
Sir Arthur Rucker. Deputy Ex
ecutive Secretary of the organiza
tion, said there were estimated to
be between 1,300.000 and 1.400.-
000 displaced persons in Europe
now.
that they waive theiy rights to
some 300 certificates a month
which are assigned to the Jews in
the British zone only. Rosenzaft
referred to the Exodus veterans as
' our front line soldiers who have
suffered a setback.”
The crowded assembly, at which
were present representatives of
every political party in Jewish life,
voted unanimously to waive rights
to the certificates until the Exodus
Jews had been admitted. In ad
dition. the meeting decided to sur
render rights to whatever clothing
and supplies will be needed by the
Exodus immigrants en route to
Palestine, and agreed to set aside
a portion of their supplementary
supplies. Similar action was tak-
COMMEMORATING AN ANCIENT EXODUS
cn by the Central Jewish Commit
tee in the American zone.
The Exodus refugees will have
their daily rations cut from an of
ficial 2,800 daily to 1,550, effective
immediately, it was announced by
Col. S. B. Lamont. chief press re
lations officer in the British zone.
The reduction in rations follows
the deportees’ refusal to go to
France.
Meanwhile, the order barring
Robert Gary, JTA correspondent,
and Maurice Pearlman, PM cor
respondent, from the Poppendorf
and Am Stan camps, is still in
force. The office of Gen. Lucius
D. Clay. American commander in
Germany, has promised to discuss
the ban with the chief of the Brit
ish occupation zone.
LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA) —The
ability of the Arab states and the
Palestine Arab community to stage
and maintain an armed revolt
against any decision of the United
Nations is challenged in a memo
randum submitted to the United
Nations this week by the Nation
Associates. The document was sub
mitted to Secretary-General Try
gve Lie for forwarding to the Ad
Hoc Committee.
In a 77-page study of military,
social, economic and political con
ditions in the Middle Eastern
states, the memorandum says that
these countries together can hard
ly master 150,000 soldiers: that
these are for the most part ill-
trained, ill-equipped, ill-discip
lined, undernourished. “There is
no air force to speak of. There is
no navy. There are few modern
weapons, and fewer still who know
how to use them. There is very
little military, command, or com
bat experience. The only decently
trained and equipped force is that
number 24,000 known as the Trans
jordan Arab Legion. They have
no arms facories and no replace
ments for their military equip
ment.”
Their military strength apart.
another factor which would make
any revolt against the UN impos
sible is the condition of the largest
section of he population.” the
memorandum says. It cites the
following facts:
“1. Two per cent of the popu
lation control the wealth and pow
er of an area covering about 1,200,-
000 square miles in which some 36
million people live.
"2. Illiteracy is staggering, rang
ing from 80 per cent to 97 per cent
in some countries.
“3. The infant and child mor
tality rate is record-breaking in
some countries. Fifty per cent of
the children die before their fifth
year. Life expectancy in other
countries is from 24 per cent to 26
per cent,
"4. Great areas which could be
developed to support millions of
people are unused; a number of
these countries are unpopulated.
“5. Mass poverty is added to by
a taxation system which exempts
the rich land-owning class and
forces the majority of the popula
tions to live under the subsistence
level.
”6. The governments are cor
rupt and subject to no popular
(Continued on Page Two.)
Supreme Court Asked to Hear Case Seeking
Recovery of Property Seized by Nazis
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
American Jewish Congress this
week filed a brief with the United
States Supreme Court urging it
to hear the Arnold Bernstein case
instituted in the lower courts to
recover property transferred un-
dcrcoercicn by Nazi officials. The
One of the 2,500 Jewish refugee and native-born children main
tained in 45 homes supported by the Mizrachi Women’s Organiza
tion of America recites the blessing over the “Lulav” in connection
with the Sukkos holidays now being celebrated. The Mizrachi
Women Children’s Village at Raanana, Palestine, now under con
struction at a cost of $750,000, will, in a few weeks house 500 Jewish
orphans from the DP camps in Europe in a model community
which will provide them with agricultural, industrial and academic
training in a religious atmosphere. .
Ask Ben B ’riths to Back Food Saving
B’nai B'ritli members and families throughout Georgia Friday had
been urged to take the lead in support of President Truman’s nation
wide food conservation program.
The move came close on the heels of last Sunday evening’s broad
cast by leading food authorities who projected the food program in
an effort to meet shortages endangering the “peace and security” in
Europe. ■ •*
Alex F. Miller, president of Atlanta’s Gate City Lodge and state
chairman of the Americanism and Civic Affairs Committee, Monday
called on Ben B’rilhs throughout Georgia to back the plan.
His directive was addressed through lodge presidents in Albany,
Athens, Augusta, Columbus, Fitzgerald, Macon, Rome, Savannah and
Valdosta.
The support from B’nai B’rith was a spontaneous reaction to the
Truman plan which delineates the following rules for food preserva
tion:
1. No meat on Tuesday.
2. No poultry or eggs on Thursday.
3. Save a slice of bread a day.
Many other organizational chiefs and members are expected to
take similar steps to husband food resources for use by the needy.
case involves the problem of resti
tution for wrongs which were in
flicted upon Jews in Germany un
der the Nuremberg laws and whe
ther forced transactions under the
Nazi regime should be recognized
as valid by American courts.
Arnold Bernstein is seeking to
recover property which he was
forced, under duress, to transfer to
Nazi officials who in turn sold it
to a Belgian company, Van Hey-
ghen Freres Societe Anonyme, a
shipping line. Bernstein is seek
ing recompense from assets held
by the Belgian firm in the United
States.
The brief argues that it Is un
seemly for the Executive Depart
ment of the United States govern
ment to press for restitution in
Europe of plaintiffs seeking suck
restitution in this country. The
brief also points out that refusal
by our courts to countenance such
claims will adversely affect the ne
gotiations and treaties now con
templated to effect restitution of
Jewish property abroad.
Haganah Forming Into Peacetime Army
JERUSALEM, (JTAi—Reorgan
ization of the Haganah to convert
it from an underground defense
force into a peaceful Jewish Army
able to maintain order in the pro
jected Jewish State, in case of 7 the
immediate withdrawal of British
military forces from Palestine,
has begun.
The revamping of the Haganah
follows a resolution adopted by the
Assefath Hanivcharim, the Jewish
National Assembly, urging the to
tal mobilization of manpower, agri
culture, industry and science, in
readiness for a possible United
CYPRUS-BOUND
Intercept 2,500 on Ships
HAIFA, (JTA) — Twenty-five
hundred visaless Jews from the in
tercepted ships, Jewish State and
Redemption, were deported over
the week-end to Cyprus, while an
other 1,500 refugees aboard the
Jewish State awaited transship
ment.
Both the Jewish State and the
Redemption, whose passengers
were sent to Cyprus earlier, sailed
from the Bulgarian port of Varna
on Sept. 21, it was learned here.
Immediately after passing through
the Dardanelles, the two vessels
were sighted by two British de
stroyers which followed them and
which were later joined by six ad
ditional British warships.
Shortly after the Jewish State
was brought to the dock at Haifa,
a man pushed to the rail with the
body of a two-month old infant
and cried: “Tear gas killed my
child.” The baby died when tear
gas shells were fired at the vessel
to make certain that the boarding
party would meet no resistance.
By contrast, the disembarkation
of the Redemption passengers pro
ceeded quietly, after they had been
assured over a public address sys
tem from the docks that they were
to be sent to Cyprus. _ Earlier, the
British had indicated that they
would send the Jews back to their
ports of embarkation in Rumania
and Bulgaria.
The Jewish Agency later sent
representatives aboard the ships
and provided bread, milk and fresh
fruit. Seventeen persons came off
the Redemption to be hospitalized.
New reports here placed five
blockade runners In various parts
of the Mediterranean bound for
the Palestine coast.
Nations decision recommending
the establishment of a Jewish
State on the basis of partition.
Members of the Haganah who
have been “demobilized” will be
recalled to service. Former mili
tary officers will be placed in
charge of special courses to prepare
officer and non-commissioned of
ficer cadres. At the same time,
steps are being taken to secure
rapid effective mobilization of
Jews of military age all over the
country in case of an emergency.
No aggressive plans are being pre
pared and the operations are plan
ned from a purely defensive view
point.
Jewish Institutions which are
entrusted with the mobilization of
industry and science today were in
contact with each other in order
to insure rapid conversion from
peace to an emergency regime.
All activities point to the fact that
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, speaking
before the United Nations on
Thursday on behalf of the Jewish
Agency, did not exaggerate when
he stated that the Jews in Pales
tine are willing and able to stand
up in defense of their right to
establish a state of their own.
The Stem Group announced the
cessation of its activities until the
end of the present session of the
United Nations General Assembly.
The announcement warned, how
ever, that “this truce does not con
cern reactions to British provoca
tions.”