AMERICA'S LARGEST ANGLO-JEWISH WEEKLY Vol. CXXXII, No, 9 Thursday, December 2, 1943 Price 10c per Copy-$3.00 a year DEMAND "PROVOCATIONS" CEASE. Soviet Press Hails American Zionist Emergency Council "Alienism" Laid Jewish Girl's Braver' To Jewish Committee Asks Removal of Palestine Officials London (JPS)-A Jewish girl par- New York (JPS) -The American tisan known simply as Gania has re- New York (JPS)-"The demonstra- from Africa, the statement charged, Jewish Committee's withdrawal from ceived high praise from the Soviet tions which took place in Tel Aviv are "the Palestine Administration has set the American Jewish Conference and press on her latest feat of blowing up the direct result of a series of increas- about creating an atmosphere in Pal- "its repudiation of the Jewish aspira- a German troop train near Minsk, kill- ingly provocative actions on the part estine calculated to provoke the Jews. tions in Palestine," are matters of ing several hundred officers and men. of the Palestine Administration," the ... The theory apparently is that the "great concern to the Christian world This is her fifth such action. American Zionist Emergency Council Middle East is in an explosive condi- and to all democratic people," it is Col. Aron Karik has been awarded said in a statement calling for the re- tion, that the fuse is all ready and that stated in an editorial by Kenneth Les- the order of the Patriotic War, and moval of the officials responsible. the Jews will apply the match to it. lie, editor of The Protestant, in the Sgts. Shimeon Heltzeg and Boris Getz The administration's conduct, the . That view can only be described as November issue of the magazine. were awarded the Order of Hero of There will be a ris- statement charged, "has been animated utterly fantastic. Charging that "the American Jewish the Soviet Union for bravery on the ing in Palestine only if the Govern- by one desire-to clamp down on the Committee is assimilating itself to an battlefield near Reshitza. infamous policy ment wishes it." Jews of Palestine the alienism which stands for the negation White Paper which Speaking of the attempt to provoke of the Chamberlain of everything dreamed for this coun- Bulgarian Deputies Ask to immigra- the Jews through arms searches, prose- seeks to put an end Jewish try by its founders," Mr. Leslie de- the cutions for the possession of arms and Halt on Jewish Abuse tion into Palestine and to reduce clares that "the American Jewish Com- National Home to a ghetto in inflated publicity, the statement points Jewish mittee insofar as it opposes a Jewish an Arab state." out that throughout the war "large Ankora (WNS) - Several members Palestine is not assimilating itself to For this reason, it refused to accept quantities of military arms have found of the Bulgarian Parliament last week the American tradition." Mr. Leslie the offers of the Jews of Palestine to into the hands of Arabs in came out with sharp demands on the their way expresses his belief that "the average and "not until the crisis Bulgarian government that it halt all aid in the war, Palestine and Transjordan." In con- American of the Wilsonian tradition which followed Italy's entry into the clusion, the statement says: "In view anti-Jewish measures and that it aban- would say: 'Let the Jewish people policies, it was war did the civil authorities give way of the previous attacks by armed Arabs don its anti-Semitic have their homeland'." reliably reported here this week. to the pressure of military demands on Jewish settlements, it is not sur- and permit any Jewish enlistment at The anti-Nazi deputies were par- prising if, in self-protection, the Jews KAGANOVITCH PRAISED ON ticularly bitter against the Bulgarian all." But, the statement points out, too are storing away arms in case of "even at that time of crisis the Pales- BIRTHDAY government for having recently de- need. tine Administration diverted shipping ported Macedonian Jews to the Nazi The Government is fully aware of for the purpose of deporting to the Moscow (JPS)-The fiftieth birth- death chambers in Poland. One deputy been tropical island of Mauritius (where the fact that it has in the past day of Lazar Kaganovitch, Commissar gave a hair-raising description of the they are rotting away to this day) unable to give the Jewish colonies of the Soviet Union's Railway System plight of the Sofian Jews who had been more than 1,500 Jews who had sought adequate protection and that Jewish and one of Joseph Stalin's chief aides, interned by the Bulgarian government refuge from the Nazis in Palestine." arms have been used in the past, as was the occasion for tributes in the in labor and concentration camps. He Now that the immediate Nazi men- they will in the future, for self-defense Soviet press to his war contributions warned the government that a day of ace to the Near East has been removed and not for aggression." and to his efficient management of the reckoning and retribution would come railways under the stress of war. for all criminals. La Guardia Urges United States JENNIE RUBENSTEIN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION Action in Providing Asylum for Jews HOLDS FIFTH ANNUAL BENEFIT Washington (JPS) - The United Mayor LaGuardia said, and "no one States must "do its share in providing is going to hesitate hurting the feel- asylum for Jews escaping from the ings of Hitler, and certainly this is not Nazis, Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of going to annoy anyone else." New York said, speaking before the A special prayer from Rabbi Isaac House Foreign Affairs Committee hold- Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, ad- ing hearings on the Rogers-Baldwin dressed to Senator Edward Johnson of Resolution which urges President Colorado, was received at the Emer- Roosevelt to create a commission to gency Committee To Rescue The Jew- save the Jewish people of Europe from ish People of Europe. It urges the extinction. senator and his "colleagues in the Mayor LaGuardia urged the adop- United States to a supreme effort to tion of the resolution as a sound move rescue the remnant of Israel given in psychological warfare because it over to cruel torment and death in the would have repercussions in the Axis clutches of the Nazi fiends in human satellite countries which are getting guise." ready to abandon the Nazis. He also Dean Alfange, vice-chairman of the approved of an amendment proposed Emergency Committee, in a radio ad- by Representative Karl E. Mundt, of dress over Station WABC, termed South Dakota, to have the resolution further inaction by the British and cover "all persecuted peoples" but American Governments on the problem said that the specific reference to the of saving the Jews of Nazi-occupied Jews should remain. On the occasion of their fifth birthday, the Jennie Rubenstein Memorial Europe as "tantamount to partnership In response to a questioh from Rep- Association held their fifth annual benefit party last Saturday evening at the in crime." He also attacked those resentative Mundt, Mayor LaGuardia Covenant Club. The Association, the only one of its kind, devotes itself en- of cancer, in affiliation with the Chicago Tumor answered that he could not see how a prominent Jews who "throughout the tirely to the research and cure crisis have remained numb, inactive, Institute at 21 W. Elm Street. Shown above are, from left to right; Mrs. resolution to help "helpless people" president, daughter of the late Jennie Rubenstein: Mrs. Mr. Alfange Nathan Leibowitz, could annoy the Arabs who themselves confused and frightened." Dorothy Denn, on the Board of Directors and chairman of ticket sales: Max might sometime need help. The only also strongly criticized President Markon, vice-president; Morrie Okrent; and Herman Greenburg, chairman of one who might be annoyed is Hitler, Roosevelt for his "tragic inaction." the Treasure Island (gift raffle) pictured above..