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MONTREAL. JANUARY 20, 1950
w Prague Expels J.D.C. Head; Orders Relief End
Henry Levy, director of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Czechoslovakia, was ordered to leave the country and to liquidate the Jewish relief agency's affairs there by the end of January.
His notice from the Foreign Ministry came less than a month after the arrest of Israel Jacobson, director of the same agency in Hungary. Mr. Jacobson was expelled from Hungary on December 28 after being held for twelve days on suspicion of being an American spy.
Mr. Levy, who lives at 54 West Seventy-fourth Street, New York, said no reason was given for his expulsion and the suppression of the A. J. D. C. The agency, Mr. Levy said, had spent between $8,-000,000 and $9,000,000 in Prague since September, 1945, in relief work among Jews and in aiding Jews to emigrate.
Israel Jacobson said in New York that Hungarian security police threatened to arrange his lynching during the twelve days he was held incommunicado in a Budapest jail as "a foreign national suspected of espionage." *
Mr. Jacobson, who arrived in the United States last week, described the treatment accorded him and the J.D.C.'s plans for continued operation in Hungary at a press conference at the J. D. C.'s offices, 270 Madison Avenue, in Hew York. Moses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the J.D.C., participated in the conference. At another point during his qnest-toning, Mr. Jacobson said, a colonel in the security police told him, "One day we may meet in America, tat a very different America from tint of today."
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over his appointment books from his assignments in Hungary, Greece, and other countries, and �sited him to account for every one of -the 502 different persons with whom he met When he found he eosdd not recall some of the individuals, the police said that in order to refresh his memory he would be sent to prison or turned over to the Hungarian people who wooM lynch him in a manner that wtold make American lynchings stem "tame."
Mr. Leavitt said 160,000 Jews stfll remain in Hungary, and the J. D. C. will continue to operate in that country under the supervision of Aaron Berkowitz, of Brooklyn, who was Mr-.~ Jacobson's
George Mamroth, former millionaire banker of Berlin, Germany, has started life anew at the age of 54 as counterman in fe Brooklyn, N. Y., luncheonette. "I'm as happy today as when I had millions," he remarked through an interpreter from HIAS, Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society.
Looking around at the eleven tiny tables in the luncheonette his son, Peter, had found for him at 446 De Kalb Avenue, he added he had everything to live for sine* he arrived in December.
Even before the Nazis sent members of the Mamroth family to concentration camps, Mr. Mamroth met adversity. He went bankruot in the days of the Weimar Republic. He then supported his wife and son as an accountant until the Storm Troopers came in 1938. The Nazis broke Into the Mamrsth home in Berlin and struck him with the butt .of a rifle so brutally that his right arm became useless.
He fled to Holland, where he worked for the underground. His wife and son were taken to concentration camps. Mrs. Mamroth died. Peter Mamroth was imprisoned in Auschwitz, than in Ma-thausen, until liberated in 1945 in Austria by the United States Third Army.
In a Paris hospital, Peter Mam-roth heard his parents were dead. He met another dispaced person, Anita Rosen f eld, and married her. HIAS helped the young couple to get to New York in 1947 and then traced his father. George Mamroth had walked 500 miles back to Berlin and was working for the Allied Military Government He has regained the use of hit fingers, but his weight had shrunk from 200 to 120 pounds.
HIAS seJd - George. Mamroth Xy&Tt* twfifct s� ��$ T*. �Mf � 'job and a pace to live coold be asssnred for him. The son bought the luncheonette downstairs. The luncheonette is a family affair. Mrs. -Peter Mamroth and Ber aunts are helping to run it They celebrated Peter Mamroth's twenty-sixth birthday and Mr. Mamroth has applied for his first citizenship papers.
assistant. Mr. Leavitt confirmed that the J. D. C. offices in Czechoslovakia had been ordered closed by the end of this month. The Organization's office in Poland was closed at the end of last year while its Romanian branch ceased operations last March. The J.D.C. is still functioning in Yugoslavia.
The Free Synagogue Child Adoption Committee has established a schedule of fees to be paid by adoptive parents according to their means, Justice Justine Wise Polier of the Domestic Relations Court, chairman of the Agency's board of directors, announced in New York.
Explaining that the new payment schedule, which went into effect on December 1, was .another step against the black market in babies, Justice Polier said that fees represented agency services and not the cost of a child.
"Couples can contribute money adjusted to their own incomes and yet have all the safeguards and conveniences of a social agency," she declared. The schedule of contributions is:
Two hundred dollars fee for incomes up to $3,500; $300 for annual incomes up to $4,499; $400 for incomes UD to $5,499; $500 for those up to $5,999; $600 for those to $6,999; $700 for incomes to $7,-999; $800 for those to $8,999; $900 for incomes to $9,999; $1,000 for incomes to $14,999 and $1,200 for incomes starting at $15,000.
The Agency receives more than 1,200 inquiries a year from prospective adoptive parents on all economic levels in the U. S. and Canada. It placed 123 children last year. One-third were adopted by families with annual incomes below $5,000. Sixty-two children were placed with couples earning up to $6,000.
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Anff-Semtttsm Is Part Of taaria
Although the National Socialist party has not yet appeared in a new grilse in Bavaria, minor organizations do exist that eater to Nazis or are composed entirely of former party members, an official United States report says.
In Franconia there are three local chapters of a group that had as its- object the protection of civil service officials who had suffered as a result of denazification. There is also a Bavarian organization known as the Society for Those Harmed by the Occupation Forces, a collecting point for former Nazis who nave had their houses requisitioned.
Much more dangerous than these are the Right-Wing parties that show definite signs of interest in the former Nazi vote. The Deutsche Bloc according to a report to the Land Commissioner "looks very much like the NSDAP looked in the early 1920's." It has an "action program" that decries all parties and calls for loyal Germans of the proper national sentiments to unite. Its leaders denounce politicians who opposed the Third Reich as "traitors.*
One of its leaders, August Hacker, recently stated that there were only 2,000 Jews killed in concentration camps under Hitler.
Here is what the official report says about the potential of these parties:
. "One of these parties, or a similar group, might some day succeed in evolving a political sales fine compounded of irresistible appeals to nationalist sentiment and clever promises for the numerous dissatisfied elements within present day Bavaria. If so, such a party could well become a neo-Nazi movement. It would gather large numbers of former Hitlerites into ita fold and it would, if it captured the state government, find that organization pretty well staffed with officials who learned the exercise of power during the worst phase of German governmental history. The presence of an occupation government, however, makes ^uch a development ur.ltkely."
Although the extremist parties today do not mention anti-Semitism as party policy it flourishes through the state and can be called upon if needed by the ambitious politician. In Bayreuth the legend "Juda verrecke," which could be translated "Drop Dead. Jews," has appeared on walls. The Bavarians declare that the "Eastern" Jewish displaced persons are "the worst criminals Germany ever saw."
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Part of a collection of twenty-eight tons of silverwarX recaptured German loot, went on display and public sale at the United Nations Galleries, Inc., 24 West Fifty-sixth Street, in New York.
Irwin Halpern, atUrney for the corporation, which he said had no connection with the United Nations Organization, explained that it bought the silver from the International Refugee. Organization of the U. N. He would not say what the corporation paid for it but he estimated the value of the nearly 400,000 pieces at about $2,500,000. Funds realized from the sale are being used by the I. R. 0. for the rehabilitation of refugees.
The pieces included coffee urns, candlesticks, hunting trophies (wine cups given to men who won shoots in the Tyrol), ornaments from the collars of tallethim (prayer shawls), salt cellars, Russian tea-leaf holders, Torah adornment, and coffee cups. Most of'the collection is in warehouses or in possession of United States Customs in the Foreign Trade Zone at Staple ton, S. I., Mr. Halpern said.
The entire collection was uncovered by American troops in the final stages of the war end represented items taken from the homes or persons of Frenchmen, Germans, Poles, Jews, Austrians and others who were put in Buchenwald, Dachau, Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
Hopes For D.P. Act Change By Senate
Vice-President Alben W. B**k-ley exnres&ed confidence that the U. S: Senate, It permitted to vote on the ^displaced persons qucttfcm at this session would "overwhelmingly" adopt the measure increasing: the number of DP's to be admitted into the United States. Speaking before 1,000 delegates at the annual meeting of United Service for New Americans, he added that the Senate would remove "the restrictions and discriminations that are in the present law."
The law calls for admission of 205,000 DP's by June 30 of this year. The House of Representatives has approved an amendment to extend the DP act from Jane 30 and to increase the present quota to 339,000. This measure is awaiting Senate action.
Harry Rosenfield, United States Displaced Persons Commissioner, another speaker, assailed "brazen and deliberate efforts in some quarters to besmirch the displaced person and the displaced persons profrram." Mr. Rosenfield recently returned from a. two-month inspection trip of the commission's operations overseas.
Mr. Barkley asserted that he was in agreement with President
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No. 16
Rabbi Asks Pope For Holy Year Message
Pope Pius XII was urged Rabbi William- F. Roaenblum a sermon at Temple Israel, 211' West Ninety-first Street, Nsw York, to formulate a Holy Year message to the world designed to create a -"new climate of better understanding between Christians and Jews."
"What the world needs more than anything else," he declared, "is release from prejudices and embitterments which lead so easily during times of political and economic crises to wars and genocides.
"One of the most unfounded and terrible of these is anti-Semitism. It does not belong in a Christian civilization. If the year 1950 could really usher in an era of genuine effort to read this unwarranted prejudice out of the minds of people it would go down in history as a truly Holy Year in which justice, love, truth and peace received their just endorsement"
Rabbi Rosenblum disclosed to his congregation the text of a confidential memorandum submitted by him to the Holy See on December 7, 1948. Noting that the persistent characterization of Jews as the "peuple deicide" has created "a climate" in which anti-Semitism has been fostered in Christian countries, the memorandum added:
"It is my hope, Your Holiness, that for the masses whose thinking is always on simple lines and whose action is correspondingly direct you may find it possible to urge that in recalling the life of Jesus they remember always that He was of our Jewish people and that while His crucifixion by Pontius (Continued on P*$� Twelve)
Urges Israel Denote Role Of Zionism
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, former president of the Zionist Organisation of America, declared that the central problem of Zionism was its relationship with Israel. The solution, he said, depends on a cooperative effort by the beads of the World Zionist Organization and the Israeli Government.
Speaking before several hundred persons at the Statler Hotel, in New York, at a meeting sponsored by five metropolitan Zionist regions of the organization, Dr. Neumann, a former member of the American section of the Jewish . Agency for Palestine, added, "it is, above all, our friends in Israel, burdened as they are, who must nevertheless clarify their . own thought on this subject."
In stressing that the "fate and future of world Zionism is related to the fate of Israel and its future," Dr. Neumann posed a series of questions for Israeli .officials, which included: "Do they wish the historic partnership to continue, and if so how and in what form?; what role do they envisage for the Zionist movement; do they desire its help in the political struggles which still loom ahead or would they dispense with that assistance?"
Dr. Neumann called for unity among all Zionist groups, saying, "let us be done once and for all with the welter of parties and inter-party strife which has consumed so much of our energies and bedevils our constructive efforts at every turn."
Asserting that "from time to time, sensational and irresponsible stones appear about a 'conflict1,
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