Friday, October 12,
J.W.V. OPENS NEW WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERSj
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By MARTIN'<^VEB.; ' H
• WHEN THE Palestine White Paper jwlicy was formulated by Great Britain in 1939 it provoked a storm of protest not only in the' Jewish world, but • a-mong decent people; everywhere, Zionists and non-Zioiiists joined haiids in 'condemning i€ as a vicious document that would some day have the dubious distinction or being classified as one of the blackest official papers ever issued by any gdveironent.
Its outright and sole exclusion of Jey/s from Palestine dienoimced as an act of discrimination whose viciousn^ in modem times could only compare with the now happily defunct Nuremberg Laws. Not only was the White Paper attacked ss a viclation of the Si-itish mandate over Palestine,, but as an arbitrary and shameless deviation from the basic principles of international law. Its provision curbing Jewish citizens of the various countries of the world, from entering Palestine and from piu:-chasing land there was' long denounced as an incident departure from the long-recognized principle that no country'was to legislate specifically against a 's^>ecific ^oup of citiizeris" of another country;"
Baring.the debate in Parliament on. the White Paper,. Winston Churchill, who was later to'suc-- ceed Chamberlain as- Briti;^ Prime Minister, deriovmced the policy as a graive injustice aild'as ah act of unparalleled iniquity.- The Xabolr members of Parliament,' some of Whofri'^ arfe .fidw holding hi^' pdsi-tibris ih-' thfe '.nfeW- 'Britiish ''liabor Goverhmehf, "warned -'Cha^ that'thfey • would' riot-'coftsider the White Paper binding on aiiy subsequent .l^'^tu&'^ovenmT^ ^ ^
But there were'more'specific iii-■dictments against the:^li'C3S'<^ e3C-clii'sioh" of c Je^s from' -Palestine?. Early- in 1939 the -spectre of war waii already'Stalking- thfe tiiihappy 'Eur6i)eiari cohtiiiiiht:' Appeasement "as ari ihstriunehfbf sefcuiring-'the 'peace of EiuSope and of the wdrld was rapidly failing. Hitler, despite Munich' and' de^ite'all' -ihe .concegsiohs. he wrirti^- frooi' the cowardly statesmen wlio Hi&i 'rxll^' ed Europe, gave every sign' that he was reader to drown Burppe iri.a sea of blood at the slightest excuse or imaginsffy prbvocationi. The Nazis who. then ruled Germany and Austria, with an iron hand .bluntly warned that what, they •were doing, to the Jews of Ih^se countries would sink into. insigru-•ficance beside the plans.they were cmtemplating.. Day after day the German Ministry of Propaganda impudently released reports of Statements by high Nazi officials of Germany's intention to exterminate the ehtire Jewish population of Europe. That those were no idle boasts was'evidcfnced by the ish laws in Germany and Austria, by the wholesale arrests of Jews, increasingly oppressive anti-Jew-by the confiscation of Jewish property first vmder legal guise and alter arbitrarily, by the mass arrests, by the establishment of ghettos, by the exclusion of Jews from professions, by the sequestration of sjrnagogues and.Jeiwish commimal property and by sundry anti-Jewish measiure?.
Responsible Je^rish leaders throughout the world, with ears to the groimd, well know that if a war ever broke out in Europe the Jews would be the first victims of Nazi brutality. Aware of conditions in Germany, they realized that war would mean the total extermination of the Jews in the countries falling xmder Germany's and Hitler's domination. Since it was evident that the conflagration v/ould envelope all of Europe, with its millions of Jews, Jewish lead-ei«hip sought to direct its efforts towards removing as many Jews as possible from the potential war areas.
But the doors of mercy were closed in all coimtries. Immigration laws, conceived in evil and injustice, stood as iron walls agiiinst the mass of Jewish humanity. In the so-called democracies, where public opinion was slowly being awakened to the realization of the impending tragedy, there were words of pity and sympathy for the tragic fate of European Jewry. But officialdom is traditionally
cold and icy—and the.immigraticsi laws were notrrelaxjetf, -at ^^easfe^-. not to an appreciable' Hegre^'
But'tfaere.was still _one_hope l(rft, . —Palestine. "Ihe Balfoiir Declaration was a British commitmMit which had' never been' officially' rescinded:" The American'pedple, through an act of Congress^ gave its .approval to the Bialfour Declaration. Winston Churchill,, whose prophetic vision stirred Britain'into vigilance, was growing in political statiu-e. His voice had thim-deired over arid again' against'the injustices' of the.. White. Pkpeir... If a war came there would be .a coalition Cablil6t'iri' 'England'''ii which, the Labor Party,, whose members in Parliament denounced the Chamberlain White Paper, would play a prominent rolie. if a war came England would rer member the Jewish Legion, of World War I. Englsmid would also remember the treacherous role of the Arab leaders who openly played, ball with thie Nazis, There was hope.
Then the hand of death struck Europe. With the invasion of Poland it was becoming sadly, tra^'^ ically apparent that Hitler haii instructed '' his invading armies to totally extefriiihate'the JeWs iii the cbriqueired cduritifies. WSiat Jewry thi-oiighbut -the world'' feared- became a tragic re2iity\'''--
But there was still hope. Hope that Byi^ajn, would be..inc>\'e.(i(\to mercy. Jlope'tiiat'the gates of Palestine, wbiclv, li.afl, It^sen < :c1o;?jmI ^ Jews imcler' the' White 3E*aper, w:ould be' opened.' Hope.that, ftrime Minister Churchill wbuid translate his words with respect to the . White Paper'into-action..;
[. Butthe . decent, humane. thing never' .happjmedl.Eve^ the.pfono'unced friend .of ,liie Jewt ish...p^ple land, the' self-styled architect .of the; Jewish ftiture, rer niained. adamant in the face of the determination of the British Gov-ersnaent to let: "White Paper st^d up as^ water against
thp jWs who -sojjriit refuge and life-'yi'Ps^tethi^^ of Jews
peridied'ia. Ep^ope at the hands of the v^azik. But the hand of political •expediency continued weighingniieayily against the doors ■of Palestine.
- The war ended., A5 the curtain .lifted over the scene of death and destruction: the appalling tragedy of European Jewry stood out- in ^pointing .grimness.. Europe was :a mass Jewish grave. More than five million Jewish men; women and children died, Ihundreds of thousands because the rescue doors of Palestine were shut upon them by the authors and ddEenders of the black "White Paper. ' Again there, was h^pe how for the pitifully few Jewish stiryiv-ors. A political revolution in England .swept Churdhill out, of. of fice. The party whose members in Parliament once stormed against the "White Paper, the party whose members in Parliament . once warned that the "White Paper would not be binding on subsequent governments, was now at the helm of political affairs in England. Siurely, the Labor Party with its pre-election pro-JewisSi Pales- " tine pledges would act to rescind the vicious "White Paper. Siurely, the pitiful remnants of European Jewry would be given now an op-portuinty to enter the Promised Land, to live out their allotted years, to rehabilitate themselves, to raise a generation of Jews in a land far removed from the scene of horror.
But British policies evidentiy still stand above British promises. Although months have passed since the new British Labor Government has assumed ofEice, no step has been taken toward righting the grievous wrong. In fact the Btitish Cabinet, acting on the recommendations of one of its subcommittees and on the recommendations submitted by the recent conference in London of British diplomats in the Middle East, has decided to reject the Jewish Agency's demand for the admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine. True the action of the Cabinet, in the face of President Triunan's letter to Pt-ime Minister Attiee, has created a situation whose repercussions are impredictabe. But the fact, the tragic fact still is— : the doors of Palestine are as tightly shut as before. The White Paper, casting its black shadow, still stands. The path of evil is still being followed.
WasliiiiBlott Affiees r<w tbe lemsh War Veterans of th^ U. S. &een opendi on J^mbaK^r- 3Cow, 3147—I'^th Su* N.W;,. it was annoimeed hf. Nattonal Conunander ArelOe H. Greenbei^ Officea of the mtioml. i.W.V. Vill be on the furat floor of a Imadipg just .purchased and «^(k«»ted th« J.^.Ws WashingtoiK Port^ The two iipiper floors «f the fiv« Mtdrgr btiUdini^ will provide sle^in^ quarters for -«crvi«J» B^raomie! w!S!e'4>he other flees» wiH offer etab. facilities, in^^H^i&sS a lihratT and| samci roonuf for seryicemen of all, faitl?. . .
Eisenhotber Visits
Mooter Farein
• . THEi MOOTER Farein of. the 'Peiretz shuls will hold_ a social "at the Community' 'Centre, oh "W^edr tiekday eyeriin^^g, Octobei^^ iSrPO ■p.m. Proceeds for the'Pereiz ishulc 'Kindergarten; / Plea^ and bring your friends.' '' ' ' .
/utiior Judd^dhs
• THE YOUNGER chairman .of JunlOT-Jud
to a fine start. "We want^eyery one *of our' '20 junior' members Qjoys "and ^ls'^back again at'.tii'e Com-'munity CratriS oh Siuiday, Octot^^^ '14, at 2:30 p;m. There axe" still "plenty" of new i^iirim and rikuirim (song^' iahd dances) to learn so lets ail be there with our firends.
HdnitaClub
• THE NEXT meeting of the Hanita club will take place
Monday, October - the- JSth \ af 8:30 sharp, at the home of Sara Etkin, 789 W. 18th. Plans will be coni-pleted for the dinner to be held November 4;'at which the bicycle will be raffled. Members are asked to bring the ^'ubs and. money-to this meeting. Please come ori. tinie. ^. •
Mizrachi Aux.
.• MIZRACm WOMEN'S organization of VsMcower are planning to hold a luncheon at tHe Community Centre on "Wednesday afternoon, October 31, at 12:30 p.m. • We have been fortunate in ob-.taining as our speaker Anita Engle (Mrs. Nelson Berkoff) formerly associated in the work of Youth AUyah with Mrs. Henrietta Szojd in Palestine and also well known as a journalist and lectturer.
Synagogue
.•MUNICH . (WJNS)—The un^ usual scene of receiving a guest with. salt, and ..bread, on Yom Kip-pur tool^ place when Qeneral Eisenhower, „'writh :a retinue of; generis including ., X5eneral Pattpn, visited ia synagogue at Fajdoffing, a,Mimich,.suburb..i ..Although itwfis a fast day,-'the Jewish . cominJ4ni.ty,..: consisting aiibstty of tiefugeest received, the guests .with:salt.and.^bread in: accordance, with- old-.-.Jeyrish tradi-tioni.■• ;•. "'. i; '■■■'■'^ :- ■ ■' - In: .a brief: address, Greneral. Eisenhower told the worshippers that he-made the call at the synagogue onther Holy Day as representative of President Truman and at his request.
Suh'Senior Jewish Council
O SUB SENIOR Council wishes to remind you all again of then: annual membership tea to be held this Sunday, October 14 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.rii. at- the" honie of Mrs. J. J. Diamond, 6036 Angus. You are asked to come and bring prospective members, we can assure you a very pleasant afternoon is in store for you.
Opening meeting will take place Tuesday, October 23. Usual time and place, 8:00 p.nu at the Com-mimity Centre.
NOTICE Please send Yum Kippur Pledges to $. '. Tenenbauip, Chaiman, Jewish National Fund 164 W^t Hastings St.
MAZELTOV to Mr. and Mrs. I. Flader and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Golberg, on the occasion of the marriage of their children, Samuel and Ruth. We hope that you and the ■ newly married couple live to see the day of fuUlment of our ideals in Eretz Israel.
jEUiisH nriTidnflL iuno
Per S. TENENBAUM, Chairman
ENDORSATION GRANTED
Council of Jewish Women
Raffle For Bursary Fund
Nov. 14th to Dec. 14th.
A.Z.A.
Mixer — T5c Admission
Community Centre, October 27,1945
Pioneer Women
Raffle
Nov. 12 to Dec. 30.
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9 "WTASHINGTON.-It is not only the Washington weather-
phjere is ie;^erj; hotter, ^aS it ap|>lies t0" Ameritfenrpolicy ii^"^!Gtrni»ny.
■Within oneSveek jfe^isident-irl^-naan released the Harrison report arraigning AmeirCais; militMy '^v-^.» emment--Nazi-like .treatment of. displaced persons, particularly jewsj in Germany and Auslria. At the same time, he sent the report, with a scorch-letter, to General EissenhWer, directing prompt action to' remedy AMG flouting of Potsdam policies. From Germanj' came press reports of gro.wing American 8trmy' acceptance 'of NaSd propaganda. And also from Germany, General Gjtebrge' S^'Kitfoh hiithered his dangerous . nonsense about the necessity of keeping some .Nazis. in office to. insure smoothly functioning adminisixa-tion.
The Jcey to these events lies in the absence of any concrete army program to explain to tbe American soldier,.and officer as, well, the reasons for. the war and. for the clearly .stated denassification policies determined upon by.the Big Three at Potsdam. for. Germany. Officers who Understood the meaning and methods pf Nazism would not, in the words of the Harrison report,, "manifest the, utinost.reluctance.or indispositioxi", if^ndt tiifiiidity, about inconven-' ienchig liie German population.'' They would not employ German civilians to the point, where, in the words of Mr. Harrison, "displaced persons, especially ■ Jiews/^ ..have found it difficult to. obtain audi-ences" with' military gdvernment :authqritiiBS. because ■'irbhically they •have 'been! .dbliged to, go'tlirbu^ Gehhan" employees who have' not facilitated matters." Thiey' -vvoiiid not, ajgain according tq^Mr. Harrison,' accept merely whaftever foe'd German burggmei^terB turn.^6v^ to them for the'diJ^laced persons «'as being the bbst that was avail- •
• ■ To suift it up—«rid this seeing comment froni the Harirision report PresTderit Tnunan prominent--ty included in^his letter to General Eisenhowfeis-they woUld novr'.'ap-I)ear''tb''b6-treating the Jews as the NasSi^ treated them except that we do not externiinate' them. They
are in concentration camps in I) large numbers xmder our military guard .instead of ^.S. tr(^ops. Oi^e is led h> Jwonder jslrhetherj-the (ie^-f main people, s^lng this;;; are n|^t supposfes'i that -^e are ifollowiijg or at'4©^ ccindoning isTazi policy." ' ^ • 7-.SpldiersJ,.*spe.?:.suchj. actions 1 by ■ : their, -officers. ■ They: are' without any instruction as to -the need for ocdiipying Germany,^ not fertilizing iti' They are hot, consequently, liable to be swayed against the in-filtraition of Nazi poison from the frauleins. As former Secretary "of the Treasinry Henry Morgenthau officially commented, you can't expect the' enlisted men to sleep with Gretchen at night, and chastise her in the morning. Just "what the ' Information and liducation Branch of the army, headed by Major General Frederick Osborne, is supposed to do in this situation seems a deep mystery. The misinformation comes tb the Americans from the Germans who apparently have assumed the' job, fbr>' the army, of any educating that is to be done.
Two bright spots have emerged. One "is the fembval of ' Gaieral Patton from his Baiyariancbmmandi and"his assignment to a relatively insignificant post. General .Eisenr hower, it seems^ means-WJhat lie says about denazitying Germany, even if itis takmg longeiri' "arid meeting more obstacles from many of'his' subordinate officers, tha'n heiwas aware of;
■ The'other is President Truman's Awareness of the obligations of thik coimtiy toward the victims of Nazi doctrines.'"I know you wiU 'agree with me," he %vrote Eisen-howef, ■'•that we haive a particular teSpbhsibllity toward' ■ these victims of i)ersecuti'<m and tyraiiny who are in oui- zone.- We must make clear to the German people that we thbrbtighly" abhor the Nazi policies of ^hatred' and persecution. -We-have' ho better opportunity to demohsirsite this than by the ni^^ rier in wliibh we ourselves actually treat the' sxurvivors remaining in Gerihany."
The logical folldw-up now woiild be 'the issusaice by the Presidoit bi' equally emphatic instfucfibns to educate the Ainerican army of bccupation- in the political facts' of life: .• ■
Warsaw Nazi Under Arrest
-9 MUNICH (WNS)-&nest Landau, a Jewish journalist who lived in the Warsaw ghetto during the Germian occupation, was walk-iiig lei^iuely thrpugh ihe streets of this city'when he saw a familiar face. The experience of meeting a person who seemed familiar intrigued Landau.
Following the figure ahead of him^ Landau noticed that'the man . was beginning to make brisker and ''. brisker steps, as "if in fear. As the;, man turned the comer of on6 of-the streetsf, the Jewish journalist looked squarely in his face. The man made a sudden turn.. But it' was too late. Landau, recognized him as Karl liuppert, the Nazi commander of the Warsaw ghetto who was responsible for tens of thoiisands of Jewish deaths.
Landau stalked the Nazi criminal until he met a group of American officers. "When he reported the man's identity to the officers, they placed him under arrest.
Now Rupi)ert is in the hands of American miUtary authorities. "Whoi questioned, Ruppert said that he had been hiding all the time in Mimich.
Services Held In Japanese Church
• YOKAHAMA (WNS)—Several himdred American Jewish servicemen attended the Yom Kippur services in this city.
The services were held vt the Presbyterian church, the oldest in Japan, at the invitation of Pastor Rauk Watnake, who lived in the United States for twenty years. Before the services begain tne pastor removed all Christian religious objects from tb* churci^.
Lsading the services was Chaplain Morris Adler, of Detroit, who inviked a memorial prayer "for those of every creed who gave lip • their lives in this war to the end that 'freedbnl'might live.'* Thfe Shofar was blown by a Brooklyn,
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Czechslovakia Free Of Anti'Semitism
WASHINGTON (WNS) — The Czechoslovak Embassy here -this week disclosed that it had .received an official cable from the •Foreign Office in Prague denying the existence of anti-Semitism in Czechoslovakia.
The cable said the Czech Foreign . Office 'was "aware of a very few cases of discrimination in Slov^a, but-they were prbmptly remedied," that if wals watching "carefully so - t^at UNRRA supplies will be distributed justly, . and methods of distribution- are' strictiy ; controlled" and that "the UNRRA m Prague has been asked to send representatives to Slovakia to ascertain the facts." "- The message also stressed that "all racial laws discriminating a-gainst Czedi citizens have been abolished" and that "repatriated Jews receive, besides. normal rations, additional food allotments."
Zionist Youth Picket In Protest In New York
© NEW YORK (■VirNS)-Protest-ing against the British "treacherous, betrayal of the Jewish people," leaders of Zionist youth groups in this city threw a picketing cordon iaroimd the building housing, the British Consulate here.
The youthful marchers carried baimers denouncing British continuance of the "White Paper policy and demanding immediate action by the British Labor government toward removing all restrictions on free Jewish immigration to Palestine and the establishment there of a Jewish stats.
The offices of the British consulate here are located in the heart of His financial district, and when the marchers, appeared on the street they "were greeted with applause by manjr of ffyR. .by-
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