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Page Seven
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 3, 1947
VerifyPresident's Figures
Showing Small Inunigiation
Dr. Leland R. Robinson Shows Shipping Tallies to Prove That
Only Small Portion of Quota Is Used; Report Deplorable Conditions at Embarkation Points
.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—President Truman's figures showing that, only 4,767 qualified refugees and displaced persons
entered the United States up to Oct. 21, instead of the 39,000
who could have entered legally in the 10-month period following issuance of the President's immigration directive a
year ago, have been confirmed.
The unidentified shipping au-;
thorities who challenged the
President's figures were charged
with gross inaccuracy by Dr. Leland Rex Robinson, chairman of Declares Zionist Congress
the Committee on Displaced Per- Adopted Revisionist Policy
sons of the American Council of
Voluntary Agencies for Foreign To the Editor, The Jewish News:
Anent your editorial on "Dr.
Service.
Citing the report by Ugo Weizmann's Leadership," you
Carusi, United States Commis- I make the following statement:
sioner of Immigration and Nat- "The Revisionist opposition has
uralization, that only 4,664 immi- , failed utterly in its attitude on
grants had entered the U. S. from j resistance in Palestine and on
the occupied zone in Europe up other issues affecting the reconto the end of September, and struction of the Jewish Homepointing out a handful had ar- land."
rived in October, none in No- 1 Revisionism or Revisionists
vetnber and less than a thousand must not be blamed for the inin the past few days, Dr. Robin- dividual utterances of Wm. B.
son challenged the figure of - 21,- Ziff. His utterances were repu389 attributed to shipping men. diated by the Revisionists at the
Exaggerated TotalBasle Congress. In fact, the Conguess has turned strongly "ReThe larger total could only visionist" in refusing to particihave been reached by including . pate in the parley with Great
such groups as repatriated Amer- Britain. All the revisionist deleican citizens, and foreign business men, students, and others gates were in accord with the
policy a long time before the
coming on temporary non-irnmi- G
grant visas, from all parts of General Zionists made up their
Europe and elsewhere, Dr. Rob- mind toB.
adopt
such anot
policy.
Ziff must
be con-
Our Letter Box
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Pekelis, Dreyfus Canada's Jews Find Encouragement
Die in TWA Crash In Warmth of Recent Publications
inson declared. dernned so categorically! We all
Thousands of immigrants are know what a profound logical
suffering as. a result -of overcrow.ling. inadequate shelters. thinker
Ziff is. His book "The
Rape of Palestine" will ever refood and clothing and other hard- . main a classic of affairs Palesembarka-American
ships
at the at
tion center
Bremerhaven.
' tinian. To brand him outright as
Germany, because of the jam
there caused by the lack of shipping accommodations to the U. S..
Dr. Robinson revealed. Visas of
200 persons expired before they
could• sail, and thousands with
documents entitling them to admission to this country under the
quota have fallen into a state
"bordering on desperation," he
charged.
One reason for the failure to
achieve the goal of the President's directive, aside from the
shipping bottleneck, Dr. Robinson said, was the lack of adequate staffs in American consular offices in the occupied
zones.
Dr. Robinson published a ship
by ship analysis of the immigration of refugees and displaced
persons from the American occupied zones showing the accuracy of the President's figures.
Polish Government Slate
Includes 2 Jewish Men
WARSAW, (JTA) — Jewish
groups in Poland will not have
their own slates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections
which are scheduled to take place
Jan. 19. Instead, two Jewish candidates have been included on
the general list of the government bloc, which represents four
pro-government parties.
The Jewish candidates are Dr.
M. Shuldenfrei, chairman of the
central committee of the Jewish
Socialist Bund. and Prof. I. Sack,
leader of the right wing of the
Zionist Laborite Party and vicechairman of the Central Committee of Polish Jews.
a "terrorist" is doing him rank
injustice. He favors "resistance,"
which the Haganah similarly advacates and which even Abba Hillel Silver subscribes to in his aggressive militant tone.
It is futile to engage with dulcet
and submissive ways to the detractors of Zionism, detractors
who repudiate the principles of
the Mandate and the Balfour
Declaration.
Sincerely,
DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
New Palestine Police Head
Was Haganah Commander
JERUSALEM,
(JTA) — The
newly appohated head of the
Palestine police mobile units,
Brigadier M. V. Ferguson, commanded the units of the Palmach
—the Haganah striking force—
which first penetrated into Syria
in 1941, paving the way for the
successful British campaign
against the Vichy forces in the
Levant, the newspaper Haboker
reports.
Ferguson, who served as a
deputy to Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate during the Burma campaign.
when Wingate commanded the
famous Wingate Raiders, has
many friends among Jews in
Palestine.
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Polish Official Promises
Government Will Aid Jews
WARSAW. (JTA) — Addressing a conference of Jewish social
workers in Cracow, the commissioner for production declared the
Jews have a future in Poland and
the government is ready to aid
them in the reconstruction of
their social. economic and cultural institutions and to assure
them full civic rights:
PIERRE DREYFUS
among those who were killed in
the TWA Constellation crash at
Shannon, Eire. on Dec. 28.
Dr. Pekelis was well known in
Detroit, having spoken here at
Histadnit and Jewish Congress
meetings.
Pierre N. Dreyfus, French industrialist, son of the late Capt.
Alfred Dreyfus of the famous Affaire Dreyfus. also was among
the dead.
Dr. David N. Tannenbaum of
New York. director of the Palestine Economic Bureau, was seriously injured in the crash.
One of America's Finest
Bulgarian Orders Confiscated;
Jewish Property Returned
SOFIA (JTA)—The ministry of
Finance issued an order instructing that confiscated property
which was transferred by the
authorities to a third person is
to be returned immediately to
the original owners, with the
state recompensing the purchaser
state compensating the purchaser
for whatever he paid the government for the property plus taxes
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JOLIKriE, Canada—The story
Dr. Alexander H. Pekelis of the
faculty of Columbia University, of a Bordeaux Jew, Abraham
member of the research staff of Gradis, who probably tried to do
the World Jewish Congress, was more to keep Canada in the
French Empire than anyone at
the court of Versailles is told at
some length by a French-Canadian historian, Adrien Robitaille,
in the theological and philosophical quarterly, Les Carnets Viatorians, published here by the
Clerks of the Order of St. Vioteur.
The publication of this article,
which is most warm in tone towards the Jews, is considered encouraging by the Jewish community of Canada. The current issue
of the influential Jesuit Frenchlanguage monthly, Relations, contains a strong statement of the
Zionist's position from the pen of
Harry Batshaw, K.C., thairman
of the Zionist Public Relations
Committee in eastern Canada.
This is believed to be the first
DR. ALEJANDER H. PEHELLS
time that this magazine has had
a contributor who represents the
Jewish community. In the past,
Relations had published antiZionist articles, written by its
Cairo correspondent.
Observers also note that the
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refutation of the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion under the heading
"A Document Which Has Been
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