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MONTREAL, FEBRUARY 8, 1946
No. 19
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Is Memorial H i s b a n d
Nina Loeb Warburg, of 'Tork, in her will established estate trust to pay Harvard
$10,000 annually for the of a ehair of econom-* memorial to the part her Paul M. Warburg, played establishing of the U. S. Reserve System. Warburg also bequeathed to the Joint Distribution ittee and legacies of $25,000 fe> the United Hospital Fund tile Solomon and Betty Loeb Home for Convalescents, establishing the "Paul H. Professorship" chair of
,____, aha said she was doing
f)!�jii recognition of her husband's "  mg interest in the problem jiajaUal banking and the impcr-l^sui be played during the for-period of the Federal Refill. System, and his service on ifrthe Federal Reserve Board the Federal Advisory Coun-
making bequests for a of relatives, friends and Mrs. Warburg named as executors and trustees Louis 262 Central Park West, York: her son, James P. _, of Greenwich, Conn.; and daughter, Mrs.  Bettina W. n, of 160 East Sixty-seventh New York.
if:$bf bequeathed her residuary be in equal shares to her son daughter and directed that snare the excess income after of the annuity to Har-College,   and   upon   their that the principal be turned tfc the college. Mrs. Grimson Igsedved a cash bequest of
Property Is Still Missing
The Vienna Jewish Community Organization, which claims that before war it was the wealthiest Jewish institution in Europe, has found it impossible to make headway toward recovering 200 buildings, and parcels of land which constituted its endowment.
Leaders declared that this was one of the most striking of many examples of failure to get restitution of property stolen by the Nazis even where there was no question of the rightful owner or of the circumstances under which the theft was effected.
This property, belonging to a legally recognized non-profit institution, was seized by the Gestapo and sold publicly. The 14,000,000 marks for which it was sold was sent to a Gestapo-controlled fund in Prague called the Jewish emigration fund.
Among the Jewish Community\s installations were a hospital, a home for the blind, two children's homes, an old-age home, a secondary, school and several primary schools. There had apparently never been any doubt that the Jewish Community was strictly a charitable and educational institution, or that its 200 pieces of property were an endowment employed entirely to support its charitable activities in the interests of Austrian Jews.
Not even the properties taken over by the municipality of Vienna while it was under the Nazis have been returned except its bomb-damaged old-age home which is being used to house Jews who cannot get back into their own homes.
The heads of the organization (Contmusd on Page Eight)
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Found At N.Y.C.C.
Charges of anti-Semitism in the Romance languages department of City College, in New York, have "no tangible support" in evidence, the General Faculty of the college decided.
Meeting at a closed three-and-a-h'alf hour session, the General Faculty accepted in toto the report of the special committee it appointed last May to investigate cnarges brought by four professors in the department, and passed a resolution asking that Dr. Harry N. Wright, president of the college, take "appropriate action" against the four men for "the manner in which the complainants brought charges against certain members of the Romance languages department and the way in which charges were repeated and made public," and for "conduct unbecoming members of the staff."
Two of the professors, Dr. Ephraim Cross and Dr. Elliot H. Polinger, were allowed to attend the session briefly. Both spoke against the report, which they previously had characterized as "a complete whitewash which distorts the facts." The two others, Professors Bach-y-Rita and Otto Muller, did not appear.
Last April all four asked the Board of Higher Education to investigate the department, charging that opponents of Professor William E. Knickerbocker, chairman, had for seven years "been subjected to continual harassment and what looks very much like discrimination." They subsequently charged Professor Knickerbocker and members of his "re-(Continued on Page Eight)
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Says Partition Only Solution
Leopold S. Amery, former British Secretary of State for India and former Colonial Secretary, declared in London that the only solution of the Palestine problem was to partition the country into independent Arab and Jewish State*.
Testifying for two hours Mr. Amery told the Anglo-American Commmittee of Inquiry on Palestine that "by giving these two gifted peoples some form of self-government" they would be too occupied with political and administrative problems to entertain any idea of invading each other's territory."
"There would still be the responsibility of having enough troops in Palestine, either by mandatory or trustee power, to prevent trouble along the borders of two areas," he said.
Mr. Amery's scheme called for trustee or mandatory power to provide armed guards for the holy places of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, which, he said, should not be left to either contestant.
Mr. Amery said the British Government had always considered its mandate for Palestine as preparation for the country's self-government. He had hoped, he added that "common Palestinian patriotism" would evolve from Jews and Arabs living and working together to enable them to contribute to a self-governing Palestine. But events bad changed his mind.
"I am now firmly convinced that the division of Palestine into areas for both Jews and Arabs is the only solution," he. said. "Both sides have aspirations for self-government and both feel fit for it"
His suggestion for partitioning drew from Justice Sir John E. Singleton, British chairman of London hearings, the comment that it had. been proposed once before by a sMsUsatoA and tnrnsd down
__committee also beard testimony from representatives of the Jewish Fellowship which holds that the Jews are a religious community but not a political national group; the Anglo-Jewish Association and Dr. James Parkes, pro-Zionist historian and student of Jewish affairs.
A deputation* of fifteen represented the Jewish Fellowship and Maj. Sir Brunei Cohen, its president; Basil L. Q. Henriques, Col. LouiB H. Gluckstein and Daniell L. Lipson, Independent M. P., spoke for the organization.
A memorandum submitted by the organization said that Jewish emigration and resettlement from Europe should be the responsibility of the United Nations Organization and should be carried out (Continued on Pag* Eight)
Morgan Restored By Lehman; Apologizes But Stands By Immigration Statement
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, who was suspended January 4 as chief of operations in Germany of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration for remarks at a press conference which were interpreted by some as inferring there were "sinister" motives in the movement of displaced Jews in Europe, was fully restored to duty by Herbert H. Lehman, in Washington now, director of the U.N.R.R.A.
Mr. Lehman, former Governor of New York, announced his decision after' several days of conferences with General Morgan held at the latter's request, says the New York Herald Tribune. In
revealing his decision to reinstate General Morgan, Mr. Lehman made public a long letter of apology written in New York by the General, expressing "deepest regret" for unintentionally laying the U.N.R.R.A. open to possible charges of political or racial bias and also "clearly" rejecting any such bias "for my part."
Mr. Lerman, in an accompanying statement, said he had given "most serious consideration7' to. all the circumstances involved in the case and that he believed General Morgan "did not intend to impute sinister motives to individuals or organizations seeking to (.Continued on Page Eight)
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Defies Britaii To Restrict Laid
Speakers at a conference in Munich of the United Jews of Germany charged that Britain was establishing a ghetto in Palestine and "sending the British Navy, the RAF, and airborne troops for their new and bloodiest test�to hunt Jews."
David Ben Gurion, head of the Jewish Agency in Palestine, charged that Nazi-like Nuremberg laws were enforced in Palestine and that the British "maltreated and searched like criminals" an American plane crew sent to Palestine to obtain books for Jewish displaced persons in Germany.
Mr. Ben Gurion safd Jews were restricted to five per cent of Palestine's land, as well as being barred from further entry, but that "we will not respect this kind of law." Hs added that Jews continuously were being smuggled into Palestine and that three new communities had been started in prohibited areas.
He also assailed the recent statement of Lieut. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan, UNBJLA operations chief in Germany, that a secret organisation existed for getting Jews oat of Europe and into Palestine, say-ing that the "secret was made public to the world in 1897 by the Zionist Congress.'*
Among those attending the conference, held in a room in the Munich City Hall, were ninety delegates frees, tweaty-one Jewish displaced persons eaaaps in the American soae as well aa eotmmittees (C**tm*ed �* Page Eight)
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