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4 isootisifl fewisb (fliroflide CTOsnr AWeeldy the JeTisliSmo Vol. 55 -No. 9 Entered rcond-ciau matter at the poatof fioe of Milwaukee. Wn under the Act of March 3. 1879.

MILWAUKEE, MAY 4, 1945 Per Year $4 BUY ITTATM BUT 1 rrATN nuot Jewish Agency Insists on Protection of Jewish Rights to Palestine By BORIS SMOLAR Special Corrmpondmt, The W1ronain Jrwinh Chronicle, at Kan r'ranelneo Scour II Conference 1 1 Horror Reports Create Pro-Jewish Sentiment at Frisco Conference United Nations Asked to Admit Jews as Official Representatives to National and International Courts Dealing with Nazi War Crimes San Francisco CTA) Attention was focused this week on the demands by various Jewish organizations here that crimes committed against Jews either in occupied or Axis nations be punished, as a result of reports from Congressmen and newspaper editors touring the Ruchenwajd and other horror camps in (lermany. These reports were among the major topics of conversation among the delegates because they come from non-Jewish sources and because they disclose that a large, if not the largest, percentage of those exterminated, were Jews. The reports have created considerable pro-Jewish sentiment here. One can bear delegates expressing regret over the fact that they hitherto considered news of Nazi mass extermination of Jews to be exaggerated atrocity propaganda. The question facing the United Nations is whether Jews, not be- I affirmed their common determi- is Ail rx film mi -jr ft -i, I -J 41 should be sufficiently flexible and broad in scope to permit within its framework, of the solution of the Palestine problem in accordance with the underlying intent and purpose of the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate.

No action should be taken at the San Francisco Conference which would be inconsistent with or prejudicial to the special rights of the Jewish people under the Balfour Declaration and the Palestine Mandate, and all such rights shall be expressly reserved and safeguarded. The Jewish Agency for Palestine as the internationally recognized spokesman of the Jewish people shall be consulted and given representation on any international bodies or commissions which may be set up insofar as they may have before them matters affecting the future status of Palestine and the rights of the Jewish people with respect thereto. The Jewish Agency outlined the five steps which, it believes, must be taken if the original intention of the mandate and if present day needs of the Jewish people are to be fulfilled. Submit Five Point Program The five ppint program includes: 1. The immediate announcement of a determination by the responsible powers to reconstitute Palestine as a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth, thus carrying out the underlying intent and purpose of the Balfour declaration and the mandate.

2. The abolition forthwith of all 1 mn if ii irwi i imiiBiK if nation to punish the criminals, but we know now that it was left to the next meeting of the foreign secretaries to approve the establishment of a common machinery. The foreign secretaries are to First Jewish Service on Iwo Jima Iwo Jima Chaplain Roland B. Gittelsohn of Cleveland, Ohio, conducts the first Jewixh Hervice, on March 2, 1945, ever held on Iwo Jima. Taking part in the service are (left to right): Pfc.

Don Fox, Detroit. Pfc. Stanley L. Blumenthal, Portland, Sgt. Morris M.

Fiolstein, New York City; Pfc. Samuel I. Bernstein, New London, Pfc. Charles Adles, Bronx, N. PhM 2C Philip Bron-stein, Detroit, Cpl.

Joseph Schwartz, Brooklyn, N. and Sgt. Julius L. Abramsohn, Des San Francisco (By Special Wire to the Chronicle) The Jewish Agency submitted a formal memorandum to the United Nations conference asking that the Jewish rights to Palestine be "expressly safeguarded" in setting up any general mandate or international trusteeship plan. The memorandum was signed by Dr.

Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency. Recognizing that specific territorial question may not be considered at the Conference, the Agency submitted three proposals deemed imperative for the preservation of "Jewish rights pending action in fulfillment of the obligation to establish Jewish Nationhood in Palestine." The three proposals are: In view of the unique character of the Palestine mandate and the special rights of the Jewish people thereunder. Mandate System Should be Flexible Any plan which may be adopted for a mandates system or an international trusteeship in succession- to the existing system of League of Nations' mandates, Pierre van Paassen Guest Speaker at JHF Dinner, May 27 Arrangements for "Call of the Land" Project Completed by Worker Arrangements have been completed for the annual Jewish National Fund "Call of the Land" dinner to be held at the Schroeder Hotel on Sundays May v27. The event this year promises to be more outstanding than any of the past functions. 1 1m" it ffl PIERRE VAN PAASSEN The guest speaker of the occasion will be the renowned Pierre van Paassen, noted author and lecturer, whose latest book "The Forgotten Ally" dealing with the Palestine problem and the world Jewish question has been acclaimed as a modern classic on this subject.

The author has won renown as a fearless champion of human rights and as the militant advocate of justice to the Jew, and the establishment of Palestine as the Jewish National Home Land. In addition to crossing and re-crossing Germany since the Hitler regime came into power, Pierre van Paassen visited the Soviet Union several times. It is his experience in Europe between wars that Pierre van Paassen described in "Days Of (Continued on Face 8) (Alarm orp llmto from Armr) Treasurer of Jewish Agency to Address Welfare Fund Here Budget Committee to Learn Urgent Needs of UPA Campaign Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of the Jewish Agency for Palestine who is now visiting this country, will speak at the Schroeder hotel on Wednesday May 9, to the Budget I and Finance committee of the Mil- waukee Jewish Welfare Fund. Mr. Kaplan is here to tell the Com-i mittee of the needs of the nation- 711 ELIEZER KAPLAN wide, campaign of the United Palestine Appeal, which is seeking funds to provide for the settlement in the Jewish homeland in Palestine of large numbers of the survivors of Hitlerism in Germany.

With a million homeless and uprooted European Jews looking to Palestine as their only hope for a (Continued on Pie 3) i 1 I V- -V i Jewish Gl Captures Original Document of Nuremberg Laws London (JTA) The original document of the Nuremberg racial laws, complete with the signature of Adolph Hitler, has been obtained by a German-born American Jewish soldier and is now in the hands of the U.S. Third Army, the London Press reports. Sgt. Frank Perls of San Francisco, who fled the Reich with his father after promulgation of Nuremberg laws made life intolerable for Jews in Germany, Arreted out the document at the home of an official of the German finance ministry near Nurember, where it had been placed for safe-keeping. Sgt.

Perls is attached to the Allied Military Government. Emanu-EI Annual Meeting, May 13 The 18th annual meeting of Congregation Emanu-EI B'ne Jeshu-run will be held on Sunday evening, May 13, at 7:15 o'clock. A supper at 6:15 o'clock will precede the business meeting, at which time brief reports of the year's progress and activities will be given and election of officers and trustees will take place. A particularly delightful and interesting program presented by members of the congregation will follow the business meeting. Hope Goodman Melamed will pay dramatic tribute to mothers, in recognition of the theme of Mother's Day.

Shirley Sax Wasserman, who has appeared in our city as a soloist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will play a group of piano compositions, and Bernice Singer Baron will conclude the program with a group of Jewish compositions for the violin. The Temple Museum will display its most recent acquisitions of ceremonial, artistic and historical objects. ing a member of the United Na tions, should have recognized representatives at the national and international courts which will try war criminals, especially when these trials will involve directly those who either organized mass-murders of Jews or participated in carrying out these massacres. The demands for such Jewish representation, as outlined in the briefs of the Jewish people, ence, the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee are almost identical. Tribunals Will be Asked to Recognize Jews as "Amid Curiae" The American Jewish Conference, in a memorandum which will be submitted to Secretary of State Stettinius within a few days, advances the demand that the national and international courts which will take up the cases of war criminals shall recognize Jewish representatives as "amici curiae" and that the Commission for Investigation of War Crimes or a similar authority shall give "locus standi" to a representation of hte Jewish people.

The memorandum insists that the crimes committed by Axis nations and their associates against the Jews Bhall be duly specified in the indictment against the war criminals and made punishable. It also asks that "crimes committed against Jews in given territories shall be tried in the respective national courts except those com 1 mitted in Germany and in the territories of her satellites which shall be tried in international courts." Urire Courts to Hear Testimony by Jewish Community In the recommendations submitted to members of the UNCIO, tfriA A mnrlnn oil Prtmmfttao expresses the belief that Axis crimes against the Jews will lig- ure prominently among those for which the Germans will have to answer. The committee, therefore, points out that in these cases it will be advisalble td have representatives of the Jewish community appear as witnesses and friends of the court. Enumerating a number of reasons why representatives of the Jewish community should be asked to participate in trials of men guilty of crimes against Jews, the American Jewish Committee urges that both alien occupants and native collaborationists should be tried for victimizing Jews. "Leniency must not be extened to those whose victims may have been Jews alone, nor should Jewish representatives be overlooked in the international trials of major criminals," the committee demands, emphasizing that "every- thing that Hitler has done against the Jews since 1933 should be con-i sidered a war crime, for long fore 1939 he was preparing the way for Majdanek." An appeal to Eden, Molotov and Stettinius asking them to meet now for the setting up of proper machinery for the punishment of the principal war criminals in accordance with the decisions reached at Yalta was made by Dr.

Maurice Perlzweig, head of the political department of the World Jewish Congress. Speaking at a luncheon in his honor arranged by the Northern California Division of the Ameri- can Jewish Congress. Dr. Perl- zweig said: At Yalta the heads of the principal Allied powers re- gether now in San Francisco. It is inconceivable that they should sanction further delay on the eve of victory.

We address an earnest appeal to Messrs. Eden, Molotov and Stettinius to act now." 5 Norwegian Jews in Buchenwald Only Survivors of 1,200 Residents of Belgium Denied Repatriation, Remain in Camp London (JTA) A Swedish correspondent who has just returned from Buchenwald told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he met there five Norwegian Jews, who believe that they are the sole survivors of the more than 1,200 who were deported from Norway in November, 1942. The survivors Samuel Stein-man of Oslo; Assor Hirsch, Asriel Hirsch and Juliun Paltiel of Trond- heim. and Leo Ettinger of Molde who range in age between 22 and 33, said that immediately after the deportations, the Jews were divided into two groups. Those unable to work were murdered while the able-bodied ones were kept at Oswiecim until the approach of the Russians.

ew Deported from Belgium Buchenwald (JTA) Sixty men who thought themselves Belgians watched the departure for Belgium of a group of Buchenwald internees, while they remain in the barracks here wondering where their country is. Although they lived most of their lives in Belgium, these internees, most of whom are Jewish, did not have Belgian citizenship, and, therefore, were denied repatriation. Abraham Oxenburg, who lived in Antwerp for 41 years before he was deported by the Germans, told this correspondent that he was married and brought his children in Belgium. Another internee, Henri Bernstein lived for 20 years in Brussels. The entire group has appealed to Paul van Zeeland, Belgian Minister of Repatriation, requesting his intervention to hasten their return to their families in Belgium.

They pointed out that the Jews among them are perhaps the only survivors of 25,000 deported from the country. Akim Levitt, former president of the Vienna chess club, Hakoah, has been chosen chairman of the Jewish committee here. Levitt, who has been confined in Buchenwald for eight years, working in the camp laboratory, is. one of the" few Jews in good health. He said that among the Jewish internees are those of all political shades and all nations.

The function of the Jewish committee, he ex- plained, was to clarify the status of the Jewish internees and speea their return to a normal, useful life. phus germs as part of the Nazi "experiments." Among the witnesses quoted in the White Paper i- 14-year-old Abraham Kirchenblatt of Radom, Poland, who told the parliamentarians that he saw his 18-year-old brother shot and his parents taken away to a crematorium. (Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew announced in Washington that the State Department is sending two foreign service officers soon to Germany to visit the various camps wnere me uer- mans have held internees and prisoners of war. He said that the department representatives will obtain a first-hand report on the entire situation including the Nazi atrocities.) Moines, Iowa. Sfassen Informs Consultants of Plan for Trusteeships U.

S. Delegates Discuss Problems With Experts at Regular Meetings San Francisco (JTA) Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish addressed a meet-of the consultants and associate consultants to the American delegation here, at which the Jewish representatives present were Jacob Blaustein, of the American Jewish Committee and Henry Monsky and Dr. Israel Goldstein, repre-sentin the American Jewish Conference. Mr. MacLeish said that similar meetings will be held several times a week as long as the security conference lasts.

Each meeting, he said, would be addressed by prominent government officials and members of the American delegation, who will furnish background and off-the-record information on the issues before the conference. At the same time, MacLeish added, the opinions and advice of the consultants will be sought. The first off-the-record report was made at the meeting by Commander Harold Stassen, a member of the U. S. delegation, who discussed the international trusteeship plan for mandated territories and other major question under consideration here.

Arab Representatives Watching Jewish Moves on Palestine More than fifty representatives of Arab countries, all united with regard to the Palestine problem though far from being united on internal Arab affairs, are watching with great interest any move that Jews may make with regard to the Palestine problem during the sessions of the United Nations Conference. They are aware that the British and United States governments are determined that no mention of Palestine be made during closed or open sessions, but they are also aware of the fact that some of the Jewish groups have prepared memorandums on Jewish aspirations for Palestine for submission to the secretaries of the parley. There are, of course, many friends of the Zionist cause among the delegations of other nations at the conference. However, it remains to be seen what such pro-Zionist delegates as Prime Minister Smuts of South Africa, or Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, can do to prevent any of the Arab delegation irom seeking a place on the committee which will deal with the problem I of international trusteeship over mandated territories. Representatives of some influ-) ential American non-Jewish civic groups which will exercise an influence on the conference through their consultants to the United States delegation feel that, although this conference will defi- nitely avoid the Palestine ques- tion even in the committee which will deal with setting up the ma-! chinery for international trustee- ship, the best solution of the Pal- estine problem would be declaring Palestine a permanent interna-, tional territory to be administered by an international commission of five composed of one United States representative, one British repre- sentative and one representative of either Russia or France.

The remaining places would go to one Jewish and one Arab representa- i tive. I present restrictions and limitations on free Jewish immigration into Palestine and -on the right of Jews to purchase and settle on the land there. 3. The vesting of the Jewish Agency for Palestine with full authority over immigration into Palestine and with the necessary powers for upbuilding the country, including the development of its unoccupied and uncultivated lands. 4.

The extension to the Jewish Agency for Palestine of such financial and technical facilities on an intergovernmental basis as may be required to make possible large scale Jewish immigration and settlement. 5. The grant to the Jewish Agency for Palestine of the right of consultation and representation in any international conferences or commissions which may be set up insofar as such conferences or commissions may have before them matters affecting the future status of Palestine and the rights of the Jewish people with respect thereto." The memorandum concludes with a plea for the solution of tha problem of Jewish homelessness. Release of Leon Blum Negotiated, Paper Says Paris (JPS) Leon Blum and Edouard Deladier, both former Premiers of France in the hands of the Germans, are to be released following negotiations with the Germans by the International Red Cross, the newspaper Liberation reported here. (A dispatch from the American 3rd Army front said that German civilians at Schoenberg reported that Blum was among Allied prisoners whom the Nazis drove ahead of them as they retreated eastward.) Typhus Rages at Bergen-Belsen Death Camp London (JPS) An epir demic of typhus raging at liberated Bergen-Belsen death camp in Germany has caused the rejection by British authorities of an application from Jewish organizations in London to send a delegate to inspect the camp.

British medical units as Bergen-Belsen are fighting the epidemic. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, addressing the rally, disclosed that during a talk with the late President Roosevelt after the latter's return from Yalta, he had been assured that one of Mr. Roosevelt's objectives was to bring about an understanding in the Near East of what the rebuilding of Palestine had already come to mean, and what it might mean, to the welfare and security of the Arab people.

Dr. Abba Hillel Silver told the meeting that "justice demands that the Jewish nation shall henceforth be included among the United Nations, shall have a voice and a seat in the Council of Nations, and shall be made secure and free in that hallowed land where already hundreds of thousands of our people have found sanctuary and to which many more must come from a war-ravaged and unwelcoming world, or perish." Britain's Palestine Policies Branded as "Appeasement British Parliamentarians Report on Sterilization of Jews at Buchenwald Sic Semper Tyrannis Adolph Hitler, born Adolph Schickl-gruber, fiend -murderer of countless millions of helpless Jews, Russians, Poles, Czechs, French, Belgians and Dutch, committed suicide in Berlin this week. Adolph Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria. No details of the funeral service have been announced. Editor's Note: We have waited for this opportunity of publishing his obituary since January 30, 1933.

New York (JPS) Charging that "the power which is preventing the development of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine is British power," and that Great Britain's policies in Palestine "are a tragic revival of the disease of appeasement," Senator Robert F. Wagner Y.N.) urged that the nations of the world "put their hands to their neglected task of constituting a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine." Speaking before a Rally for Jewish Rights demonstration of more than 65.000 persons who jammed Lewisohn Stadium and overflowed into the adjoining Jasper Oval, he declared: "I say to our British friends and Allies, you have not fulfilled your obligations to Palestine. You are in default. The American people believe it is high time that you redeem your pledge." London (JTA) The British Parliamentary commission which visited Buchenwald last week issued a White Paper confirming the reports of atrocities perpetrated there which have appeared in the press and revealing new details of mistreatment of Jews and non-Jews. It says that Jews were used as guinea pigs in experiments on sterilization until the Germans de cided to exterminate all Jews in stead of sterilizing them.

The delegation visited a 29-year-old Polish Jew in the camp hospital i who bore scars of such an opera- tion. Jewish and non-Jewish pris oners were also injected with ty-.