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Vol. CXXXV, No. I Thursday, July 6, 1944 Price 10c per copy-$ 4 .00 a year WISE ASSAILS REPUBLICAN PLANK Catholic Woman Jews in Rome cheer Reference to FDR in Palestine Resolution Fights Anti-Semites "Obviously Wrong", Says Monsky Palestine Soldiers New York-Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, t not go unchallenged." He said he had Zionist feeling am(JPSong the youth of New York (JPS) - "My husband for president of the American Jewish discussed Palestine with the President liberated Rome is reported by mem- hasn't gone through five invasions

. dirty anti-Semites to beat Congress, speaking at a dinner that and .there was not the slightest doubt bers of Jewish Palestine's military the right of was tendered here last week to Repre- that the President wanted to see the units writing from the liberated city. up little kids and call them dirty Jew," said Mrs. Helen Bell, an Irish sentative Sol Bloom, denounced the Balfour Declaration fulfilled. The letters, published in the Hebrew Catholic, wife of Chief Petty Officer Republican Party for having included Henry Monsky, president of B'nai newspapers in this country, tell of the in its Palestine plank a passage accus- B'rith, declared at the same affair that reorganization of the Rome Jewish Melvin Bell of the U. S. Coast Guard, ing President Roosevelt of failing "to the Republican reference to Roosevelt reorganization of the guidane Jewish who is conducting a single-handed fight against anti-Semitism in her insist that the mandatory of Palestine was "obviously wrong." military rabbi from Palestine and of neighborhood. Mrs. Bell appeared in carry out the provision of the Balfour Text of Plank the roaring reception given by Rome's court to testify against Mrs. Ruth The Republican plank on Palestine Jews to Jewish Palestine's volunteers Simpkins, a neighbor, whom she saw " reads: "In order to give refuge to mil- who visited the city shortly after the slap 14-year-old Emmanuel Witty, a lions of distressed Jewish men, women Allied forces had marched in. Jewish boy, after hurling obscene anti- and children driven from their homes They report that at present Rome's Semitic epithets at him. by tyranny, we call for the opening of Jewish population consists of 11,000 Palestine to their unrestricted immi- persons, of whom 9,000 are original in- Since appearing as a witness against gration and land ownership, so that in habitants of the city, 1,400 are refu- Mrs. Simpkins, Mrs. Bell, who lives accordance with the full intent and pur- gees from France, Yugoslavia and Po- alone with her thirteen-month-old daughter in a furnished room here, has pose of the Balfour Declaration of land and 6,000 from Northern Italy. 1917 and the Resolution of a Repub- For the nine months of'the Nazi occu- received threats of beatings from lican Congress in 1922, Palestine may pation, the Jews residing in Rome hid neighbors, a notice from her landlady be constituted as a free and democratic in catacombs and cellars and many to move out, and an anonymous letter commonwealth. We condemn the fail- were given sanctuary in monasteries. threatening her with violence if she u r e of the President to insist that the The Palestinian Jewish soldiers, didn't "get out." mandatory of Palestine carry out the hailed as saviors by the Jews of Rome, Louis Feldman, attorney for the provision of the Balfour Declaration tendered all possible aid, even giving American Jewish Congress Committee and of the Mandate while he pretends away their own private articles for the To Combat Anti-Semitism, has volun- to support them." needy. It was they who initiated Zionism. teered his legal services to Mrs. Bell. Rabbi Silver is "Heartened" Washington-Rabbi Hillel Silver, CHICAGO'S MOST TYIPICAL FOSTER MOTHER chairman of the American Zionist DR. STEPHEN S. WISE Emergency Council, declared here up- , on his return from Chicago, where he Declaration and of the Mandate, while delivered the invocation at the Repub- he pretends to support them." He said lican convention, that he was "heart- it was "unjust" of the Republicans to ened" with the attitude taken by the charge that the President was merely Republicans on the Palestine problem. pretending support of the Balfour He voiced the hope that the Democratic Declaration. Party "will likewise adopt a strong Congressman Sol Bloom stated that pro-Palestine plank" at its forthcom- the reference to the President's posi- ing conclave. tion on Palestine was "a very un- Celler Urges Democrats Adopt Strong fortunate statement, and I'm not talk- Palestine, Rescue Resolutions ing politics when I say that it should Washington (JPS)-The Democratic Party was urged by Representative Emanuel Celler (D., N. Y.) to match Soviets Simplify the action of the Republican National Polish Emigration Convention and "adopt an equally strong resolution on Palestine," and also a resolution "condemning the out- New York (JPS) - Jewish leaders rages against Jews and other minori- here viewed with satisfaction the issu- ties by Nazi hordes." ance of a new decree modifying an The Democrats' resolution should de- earlier one which had declared that the clare, he urged, that "we will prosecute inhabitants of the Western provinces the culprits" and that "we will call of White Russia and the Ukraine (pre- upon satellite countries to aid in as- war Polish territory) were Soviet suaging the suffering of Jews and other citizens, minorities." The Palestine resolution The new decree, issued by the Su- should draw attention to the fact that preme Soviet, the Associated Press re- "the White Paper violates not only the ports, grants the right to adopt Polish Balfour Declaration but the concur- citizenship to inhabitants of Western rent resolution of 1922 and is also vio- White Russia and the Ukraine, as well lative of the Anglo-American Treaty Mrs. Helen Proger (above) of 402 Fulton Street, has been picked by the as to Soviet citizens of Polish nation- of 1924." United Home Finding Service as "Clhicago's Most Typical and Ideal Foster ality elsewhere who are serving in the Representative Celler made these Mother," and presented with a $50 wa r bond at Treasury Center. Mrs. Proger Polish Army in the Soviet Union or are proposals in a letter to Robert E. Han- is shown with one of her foster sons, Marvin, looking at a picture of another otherwise aiding in the fight against negan, chairman of the Democratic of her foster sons, Adolph, and his w ife. Adolph is now in the armed forces. Germany. National Committee. (Story on Page 14).