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Refugees Arrive In Rat-Ridden Egyptian Steamer
The Egyptian steamship Kanrsar,
a rusty, rat-Infested ship manned by a crew to green and untrustworthy that the 243 passenger* organized a vigilance committee to protect thernselvea in case the vessel was bombed or torpedoed, docked at Jersey City, after a sixty-eight-day trip from Suez.
Passengers said that the vigilance cotmn4ttee selected and train-.ad fifty-live men, among them members of the American Field Ambulance Service returning after serving with Free French forces in Syria, to be ready for any emergency. An armed member of the committee was assigned to every lifeboat to defend the passenger's rights in case the ship ran Into trouble, one passenger said.
There were no alarms during the voyage, but it could hardly be called uneventful.
Passengers complained that the food was unmentionable, the service worse and the rata so numerous and hungry that they even ate articles of clothing. In the crew of 175, recruited at the last minute when the regular crew refused to sail with the Kawsar, were representatives of virtually every nationality, of the Orient and Near East, including Chinese. Egyptians, Greeks, Yugoslavs and Indiana.
Many of the passengers were Jew* both refugees and naturalized American citizens returning from Palestine to comply with the law requiring them to re-certify their citizenship by Oct 14. They led the chorus of complaints.
In the first place, passengers said, there were no provisions on the ship for preparing kosher food. Dozing the early stages of the voyage ansae of the Jew*
A Weekly Newspaper for the Jewish Home
MONTREAL, OCTOBER 17th, 1941
No. 2
JswttfaScM.lt Paved Way For British Advance In Syria
LEADER ONCE ARRESTED FOR SECRET TRAINING
Zionists To Hold Brandeis Memorial
JURIST CLAIMED LEGAL RIGHT OF JEWS TO ENTER PALESTINE
Little has been revealed up to now of the enormous help given by Jews of Palestine in the campaign by the British and Allied Forces in Syria, but recently the veil has been lifted through a broadcast in the UjSJL by Arthur Hale over the Mutual Radio Network, and published in the Jewish Veteran.
There's an ironic and previously untold story," jays Mr. Hale, "behind the speed with which British troops pushed into Syria. When plans for the invasion were being made one of the difficulties of the British High Command was a lack of Intimate knowledge of the terrain across the Palestine border . . (but; a few days before the British advance, a selected group of fifty young Palestine Jewish volunteers was sent across the border to reconnoitre and report. Each man understood that capture by the enemy meant certain death. These men, picked from the Jewish colonies along the Syrian and Transjordan boundaries, had an excellent knowledge of the country. They could speak Arabic fluently and could easily pass as natives, Disguised and unarmed, they crossed into Syria in small groups, spent 24 hours investigating the roads, ascertaining the strength of the opposing forces and noting points of danger. They returned to Palestine and reported to the British General Staff.
The next three days, were oc-cupted witk poring^ over tag maps for the invasion - st�H
Judge Louis E. Levinthal president of the Zionist Organization of America, announced in Washington that special memorial rites for the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis will be held on Sunday, November 2nd, in connection with the observances of the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Justice Brandeis, who vv�s a close friend of the late President Woodrow Wilson, was in a large measure instrumental in securing on November 1917 the Declaration wherein the British Government pledged to establish ~ Jewish National Homeland in Palestine.
In May, 1917. six months before the issuance of the declaration, its author, the late Lord Balfour, headed a British mission to the United States and went to see Justice Brandeis. They met three times, and their conversations brought about a clarification of the viewa of American Jews on Britain's pledge.
Since his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Brandeis had never issued any public statements. While extending advice and assistance to those who sought it, he never Issued statement* nor permitted himself to be quoted, but on May 18, 1938, he authorized Dr. Solomon Goldman, the then president of the Zionist Organization of America, to issue in his behalf a four-point statement with reference to the then existing emergency arising out of the publication of the British White Paper. Questioning the legality of British action in restricting im-
Red Cross Ships Urged To Transport
Refugees To U. S.
Direct participation of the United States Government in evacuating to the Western Hemisphere anU-Fascist* of various nationalities now in the concentration _camps and labor battalions of unoccupied France and North Africa was urged at a meeting of the Emergency Refugee Conference, sponsored by six groups active in extending aid to refugees, at the Russell Sage Foundation, in New York.
It was asserted that there are 120,000 such refugees, virtually all seeking asylum in the Western Hemisphere.
A resolution on United States aid asserted that the President's Committee on Refugees disposes of 160,000.000, and said:
"We urge the President and Congress of the United States to provide ships to evacuate,- with Government sanction, those refugees in North Africa and unoccupied France."
It was adopted' at the end of discussions in which persons representing thirty-nine social welfare and refugee aid groups, seventeen trade unions and seven foreign-language organizations took part. It originated in the panel discussion on transportation, one of four main topics discussed, led by Miss Lily Turner, executive secretary of the American Committee to Save Refugees. Professor Walter Rautenstraucb, chairman of the same committee, presided.
Other resolutions adopted called for the evacuation of refugees in American Red Cross ships, the formation of a Pan-American Corps of Diplomatic Protection and for the relaxation of State Department stringencies imposed last Summer on entry of refugees to thai country.
Brandeis Will Leaves About $1,000,000 To Four Philanthropies
CITES SIMPLE LIVING OF FAMILY AND INTEREST IN PUBLIC WORK
Louis D. Brandeis, the 84-year-old retired associate justice of the Supreme Court, ktft an estate of nearly $3,200,000, according to his will admitted to probate in the Federal District Court.
The veteran of almost twenty-Ihree years court service established trust funds for his wife and daughters and made arrangements whereby in certain circumstances, includtag the death of some beneficiaries, the trust funds would go one-quarter to Survey Associates "for the maintenance of civil liberty and the promotion of workers' education in the United State*"; one-quarter to the University of LouteviDe for ks Mbrary and law school, and the ocber one-hatf
PALESTINE JEWS HAVE RECRUITING CAMPAIGN
Palestine Jews are having a recruiting campaign to get thousands of young Jews for the British Army, which already has more than 10,000. It Is hoped to raise at least 5,000 more.
Jewish officers and soldiers, who already are veterans of Greece, Crete, Syria and the Western Desert of North Africa, are assisting the orators. A rally was held at Tel Aviv.
The campaign is being sponsored fay the leading central matilutloQS whose slo-
equaUy to Palestine Endowment and Hadassah for "the upbufldtog of Palestine as a national home Bar the Jewish people,''
The Brandeis estate totaled |3,178,485.7S, in addition to Us Summer home at Chatham, Mam, assessed at $9,450. Of the eats**, $2,875356 was in bonds. The remainder was: Cash, $294439; furniture and furnishings, at Chaab-am, $1,000; furniture and furnishings at Washington, $3,000; and an 1881 Hfe msuraoce poncy of $5,000. Debts were put at not mora than $5,000.
Justice Brsodess came from a weU-to-do famtty at Louiavitte, Ky., and was a highly successful corporation lawyer � Boston before becoming a member of the Supreme Court
Probate for the wen by the executors, Mrs. Brainless, the former Alice GoUnark; Mrs. Susan Brandeis GBbert of 1175 Park Avenue, New YorJt City, and Mrs. Elizabeth Raushecfaoafc of Madison, Wis., two dauglstera; S*. ward F. MoOennan, Justice Bratt-detfs former saw partner, sod E. Louis Malta*, both of Cambridge,
In the lengthy document sbjped on Jan. 16, 1931, Justice
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slaying the liner In port for eight days, and the kosher cooks went ashore and got bettor utensils. The other passengers also had to prepare their own food in the galley during the strike.
Many Jewish passengers also brought with them lemons from Palestine, which Orthodox Jews use in celebrating the Feast of the Tabernacle. There were all told about 5,000 lemons on board the Kawsar,. which the passengers had expected to sell for $5 to $10 apiece.
The trouble was that the holiday began at sundown Sunday, so they arrived too late with the lemons. The Kawsar arrived at quarantine on Saturday and might have docked in time for the lemons to be sold, but was held in the harbor instead to avoid paying overtime to craw members and longsaoremen on Sunday. Several passengers who had lemons threatened to sue the operators, the Alexandria Navigation Company, foT damages.
The skipper of the Kawsar was a jolly Scotchman, Captain Thomas R. Scott, who wss some years ago master of the Egyptian liner Zam-fContinued on Page Two)
_ _ Jewish scouts went along with the advance units of the first Australian troops to enter Syria. Because the Jewish scouts had mapped the advance, the British forces moved into Syria so rapidly that there was no opportunity for either the Viphy French or Nazi resistance.
"The ironic part of the story comes in the fact that the leader of the Jewish scouting party was Moshe Dayan, from the Jewish colony of Nahalal. Danyan was seriously wounded In the advance into Syria and lost an eye. The British General Staff credits him with making the speedy invasion possible. Yet two years ago � in the summer of 1939�Dayan was one of 43 Jewish youths who were arrested and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment by the British authorities in Palestine. The charge? Weil, it seems that Dayan and his 42 friends were engaged in secret training for scouting work. Dayan was sentenced to a term of 15 years' hnprisonment, although he told the court that the Jewish youths were training only to combat Axis-subsidised mercenaries�terrorists who were
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Great Britain Is the basis for Jewish construction enterprise lh Palestine. That legal right, sustained by humanitarian needs, cannot be obliterated for private advantage.
2. What does the world propose to do with the Jews for whom exile Is enforced? Unless civilization . has so reverted to primitiv-ism as to wish the destruction of homeless Jews, it must encourage the proved medium to solve in great measure the problem of Jewish homeleasness.
3. The absorptive capacity is stated to.be the criterion by which Jewish entry into Palestine should be determined. Disinterested expert* have proved that Palestine is equipped to absorb 100,000 Jews a year.
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Dr. Israel Alkalay, Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, whose escape from the Nazi invaders of his country was reported recently, is now in Cairo. Dr. Alkalay was at first said to have been killed when the Nazis bombed Belgrade. Later, It was learned that he was unhurt.
He was hunted through Yugoslavia by Gestapo agents, and the Breslau radio attacked h'm daily, telling Us listeners that he would not escape alive, and would pay the penalty for his activities before the invasion. At one time he hid in a cellar in a Yugoslav village, while hts daughter, upstairs, managed to persuade the Gestapo that there was no one at home.
After crossing the country on foot. Dr. Alkalay (he was ac-coenpaaied by his wife and daughter) managed to make his way to Ankara. Then be joined a party of refugees, including the staffs of the former Yugoslav Legations in Bratislava and Moscow. They reached Jerusalem on July 27; and it is stated that Dr. Alkalay bnmedlatety made his way to the Wailing WalL Dr. Alkalay and Ms family hope that, after thetr stay in Cairo, they win return to
During the last war Dr. Alkalay worked in Britain and m America on behalf of the Serbian Government. Re was several times decorated by King
Plans for a national survey of Jewish trade Interests in Britain are being prepared by the Trades Advisory CouncfL
Up to the present there has been no complete record of the part played by Jews In the economic life Of the country, and it has often been difficult to refute allegations of Jewish dominance in particular industries or exaggerated figures for Jewish financial interests involved; says the London Jewish Chronicle.
The Trades Advisory Council, in their drive to enrol every Jewish trader into their ranks so that the conduct of businesses and the standards of ethics employed should be creditable to all Jewry, are proposing this survey as part of their long-term programme. An appeal to all organized Jewish bodies who may have in their possession tabulated lists of Jewish traders is made by the Council, who are particularly anxious to contact provincial organisations for this purpose.
The work of collating these names and trades will be greatly aided by the establishment in Leeds and Itancnester of area councils working in close cooperation with the parent body In London. Some two-thirds of all the Jews in Britain live in or near these three cities.
The importance of such a census was stressed by Neville Laski. KjC when he paid a visit recently to the headquarters of the Council to investigate the work it was undertaking and the methods by which it worked. Mr. Laski recalled that the Board of Deputies had at times carried out research Into specific trades, and during his Presidency had, far bv
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