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MONTREAL, MARCH 25, 1949
No. 26
Charges Nazi Firms Will Be In New York Exhibit
Charges that "a very large proportion of militant Nazis, cartel fronts and other undesirables upon whom the swastika trademark has become indelibly stamped" are among the 511 firms scheduled to participate in the AMG-sponsored German industrial exhibition to open in New York April 9 (at the Museum of Science and Industry) were made by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League.
The Leagues' charges were made in telegrams to House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate President Al-ben Berkley, signed by the League's administrative chairman, Prof. James H. Sheldon, and Herman Hoffman, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Suspension of the projected exhibition was requested by the Anti-Nazi League, pending a full-scale Congressional investigation of Army and AMG policies in Germany, which was also asked by the League.
Taking exception to an announcement made in Munich by General Lucius D. Clay that de-Nazification, war crimes trials and demilitarization steps in Germany are over, Anti-Nazi Chairman Sheldon declared : "The make-up of the proposed German industrial exhibition not only demonstrates that the job of denazification is less than half done, but stows that our policies are actually promoting the revival of Nazi forces in the German economy. The time for Gen. Clay's 'New Order1 is not yet."
"The use of American taxpayers' money to build up American markets for German firms still in the clutches of onreformed Nazis wlB only mean cut-throat competi-tiee for American labor and uni-
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-From its files the Anti-Nazi League sent the Congressional leaders photostatic copies of an advertisement run by one firm, which is one of the largest of the exhibiting groups, in Hitler's Nazi Party organ, the Voelkische Beobachter, in December of 1938, just one month following the most violent anti-Semitic pogroms. This world-famous concern had been expropriated by the Nazis from its original Jewish owners, but the trade name was kept because of its artistic prestige, the League said. The "ad" in Hitler's paper was designed to refute rumors that the firm was still Jew-
Dispute Slows Release Of Jews To Israel
Concern is felt at Tel Aviv with regard to relations with the states of Eastern Europe and especially with Rumania, according to the New York Times which says:
Recent arrests by the Rumanian police of seven Israelis on the charge pf fomenting an^i-Govern-ment demonstrations are but a climax of a steady process of deterioration in the conduct of affairs between the Bucharest Government and the Zionists. Unless there is a marked improvement before very long the whole immigration policy of Israel that envisages a 100 per cent increase in population will be jeopardized.
Rumania has between 300,000 and 400,000 Jews, most of whom seem anxious to go to Israel. An official of the Israeli legation in Bucharest who has been visiting Tel Aviv indicates that the Rumanian Government had some cause to feel provoked. At least two of the arrested Israeli officials were in the country without visas.
The Rumanian Government is said to have promised the release of large numbers of Jews to be chosen by the usual Zionist organizations, provided Israel accepted some 4,000 Jews who would be chosen by the Communist-dominated body known as the Jewish Democratic Organization. The Zionists agreed and 4,000 immigrants chosen by Communists are said to be in Israel. However, it is'said at Tel Aviv, that the Rumanian Government does not intend at this stage to fulfill its share of the bargain.
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Headed "In Defense", the �ad" asserted that the incumbent ownership "corresponds fully with the
of the Nazi Pi Nazi Party of flcUH have .appreciated this," the "ad" continued.
The company then went on to ask the public to help it "put our hands on" the "calumnious libellers" whom it described as "saboteurs of the New Order, who must be annihilated." By so doing, the company added, "you will help the 4,000 German racial comrades" which it employed. The Anti-Nazi League charged that AMG has made only the most superficial changes in the management of this firm, and that the majority of the "veteran Nazi Aryan" directors installed .by Hitler are still in actual control. In addition, four other Ger-
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First Batch Of Matzoh Goes To Israel
The first sh'mura matzoth baked this year by Aron Streit, Inc., 150 Rivington Street, New York, was blessed by Rabbi Osher N. Leviton, supervisor, of keener foods at the baking company, and seventy-live other Orthodox rabbis.
The wheat in this year's matzoth was grown under strict rabbinical supervision at Beth Hachsiden De Polen, a rabbinical colony near Kingston, N.Y., and each step along the line from the time it was plant-, ed, harvested, milled and baked has been checked by the rabbis. This process gives rise to the name sh'mura which means "guarded" in Hebrew.
Jack Streit, president of the company, said that the first batch of sh'mura mateoth he bakes this year will be se*ht air express to Israel because Isaac Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel, requested it to relieve the shortage this Passover season.
Dressed in white bakers' coats and black skull caps, Rabbi Leviton and his guests started the ceremony at the mixing machines where the wheat was being mixed with water to make the dough. In this type of matzoth, wheat and water is all that is used.
As Rabbi Leviton poured the water into vats of wheat, Cantor Horrid Shapiro chanted the Hallel service which is traditional for the occasion. The rest of the blessings are done in silence.
The dough, mixed by modern machinery according to a formula thousands of years old, is tossed down a chute to the next floor where it is rolled to paper thinness. This atrip of dough is then carried on a conveyor belt through an oven 110 feet long. The finished matzoth is cooled before packaging.
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BRITISH KEEP YEMEN JEWS FROM ADEN
King Self el Islam Ahmed of Yemen, in response to a British appeal, forbade Yemenite Jews to leave for the Crown Colony of Aden and warned that any caught in an attempt to flee would be sternly punished. With hundreds of Yemen Jews converging on the overcrowded port city of Aden in the hope of getting to Israel, Sir Reginald Champion, Governor of Aden, asked Yemen's King to halt all immigration.
British officials feared a recurrence of the 1947 Arab-Jewish riots. Police had to rescue two American Jem, Charles Malmuth and Gerald Maimed, both of New York, last week from Arabs stoning them. They were not hurt.
Yemen's Jews are crowding into this protectorate to fly the Jewish-operated airlift into Israel and a British spokesman described the situation as "explosive."
N.Y. Builder To Erect 5,000 Modern Homes In Israel
Middle East Jews Are In Bad State
A number of cases have come to the notice of the Anglo-Jewish Association in which Jews holding British passports have been discriminated against when travelling in the Middle East, as has been reported in the press. Some of these cases were brought to the attention of the Minister of State, Hector McNeil, who resiled that the
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Plans to build 5,000 modern American houses in Israel in the next year were disclosed in New York from Israel. An American corporation, Levitt A Sons, of Israel, is now being organized to undertake the work. It will be wholly financeji'by the Levitts, their personal friends and associates in the United States.
Mr. Levitt said construction was scheduled vto begin in July of this year, and the entire development would be completed by July, 1950. After that, he thought, another large-scale building venture in the Negev would be undertaken.
The homes will be built at Athli, eight miles south of Haifa, on a narrow strip between the Carmel mountains and the sea, on a site of 300 acres the Israeli government has agreed to give the builders.
Mr. Levitt, an architect, long associated with bis brother William and his father, Abraham, in-large-scale housing projects on Long Island, described the site in glowing terms. The brown and white crumbling mountains, the stunted fig trees and the fields of huge red poppies, he said, reminded him of southern California.
In addition to the housing development, to be called Levittrea, a large beach resort area with hotels is planned, designed with a view to attracting foreign visitors.
Obstacles that face builders in Israel today would be overcome, Mr. Levitt explained, by employing the full resources of American mechanized construction methods. The houses will be of poured concrete and will contain two bedrooms, a bath, and a large living-kitchen.
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continued, for $4,000, on terms corresponding closely to those offered the American veteran�virtually no down payment and low monthly payments for the life of a 25-year mortgage, according to the New York Herald Tribune.
To avoid building difficulties caused by man power and material shortages, a quarry on the building site will be developed to produce gravel and sand. Although cement has been reported in short supply in Israel, Mr. Levitt said he had received firm assurances of ample supplies. Cement production in Israel, he said, was being trebled. Other sources gave 1946 cement production as 254,780 tons.
"Our objective is to increase the amount of building that can be done, and to bring costs down," Mr. Levitt explained. "We dp not aim at revolutionizing the building business in Israel, but at improving it a little by employing standard machinery in common use here."
Levittrea will be by far the largest building operation Israel has ever seen. Most building there has been on a small scale, ten or twenty houses at a time. A public housing corporation has been organized to build 400 one-bedroom units a month this year.
The Levitt houses will be grouped eight to a unit, but otherwise will not differ greatly from the low-cost dwellings in their Long Island developments.
"We have been trained by the Federal Housing Administration in minimum family requirements," Mr. Levitt said. "We want to raise living standards. Our Levittrea houses will have complete American kitchen equipment."
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the purging of all fermentation and thus represents truth as it is� not inflated." he said.
"This sh'mura matxoth we are making today has been specially guarded against any fermentation," he continued, "and will be the matzoth on which the first blessing is said on the first night of Passover."
This year Passover falls on April 13 and by that time the continuous strip of dough running through the Streit ovens will have become 10,-000,000 pounds of matzoth.
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In a review of the work of the Julius Rosenwald Fund daring the last thirty-one yean, Edwin R. Embree, former president of the Fund, said in New York that a "great improvement" in race relations had taken place in America in recent years.
"While we have by no means achieved the American promise of equal rights and equal opportunities." Mr. Embree noted, "we have pushed farther toward that goal than during any generation in the nation's history."
Mr. Entbree, whose book on the Fund, "Investment In People," was published, spoke before sixty executives and trustees representing leading charitable trusts and foundations at a luncheon meeting at the Hotel Pierre. The meeting was sponsored by the Bureau for InUrcultursl Education in celebration of the completion of the work of the Fund, which spent 122,000.-000 from 1917 to 1948, chiefly on improving and enlarging schools and health services for Negroes.
D�an Ernest 0. Melby, of New York University, a director of the Bureau, described the organisation as "the residuary legatee of the Julius Rosenwald Fund in the specific area of education for democracy in human brotherhood," and said the Bureau was now engaged in combatting prejudice among cultural groups for reasons of race, religion, natural origin and social or economic states.
The RoeenwaU Fund came to an end last Jane SO in accordance with the wishee of its foooder, who stipulated that its principal as well as its income be liquidated within twenty-Art years after hit death. In recent yean the balk of its contributions went toward providing fellowship* for nearly 1,000 Negro and 600 white Sontfesrnsre.
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After the grave anti-Jewish riots in Aden in December, 1947, two inquiries took place: a judicial inquiry to the causes of the riot; and a magistrate's inquiry into claims for compensation. The judicial inquiry made recommendations as to security measures which, on the whole, have been implemented. The magistrate's inquiry into the losses resulted in a scheme of compensation which, although not particularly generous, might, if adopted, have gone some way towards setting the community on its feet again. The Aden Government, however, did not accept the proposals in the magistrate's report, but whittled them down, and propounded a scheme by which small grants and loans might be made under extremely restrictive conditions which has proved wholly unacceptable to the Jewish community.
Every applicant for a grant or a loan must prove need. Every ap-licant must live in Aden, thus, those whose homes have been destroyed, and are housed in camps outside the colony would be unable to make a claim until they returned to their non-existent houses. Under the scheme, as it stands, only very few claims for compensation would have a chance of being accepted. The Anglo-Jewish Association, after considering this scheme, came to the conclusion that it was entirely inadequate and addressed a letter to the Colonial Secretary pointing out how unfair it was, and suggesting that if the finances of the colony did not permit just compensation to be given, a grant from Imperial funds should be made.
The Jewish community of Tripoli, about 30,000 people, has never recovered from the riots of 1945.
Two poor harvests have done much to weaken the economy of the country, and this has brought added suffering to the Jews. Without relief they could not exist, and migration appear* to afford the only outlet, particularly for the children. Financial and technical assistance to artisans may help to
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