Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1938-07-22

              ¦¦¦',-   i,   •   ,
¦    '.I    '•   ,'' ,-•      --J-.
¦ ¦ ¦ rr-r-'
Central Ohio's Only
Jewish Newspaper
Beaching Every Home
Bted
Devobd to Amoricaii«
and
Jewish Ideate
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPBE FOR THE JEWISH HOME
t«fl-*.B-t»»«9»*«»«<
if';
Volume XVII—No. 239
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 22, 1938
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy; lOs
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON
HAD YOU Heard?
When Eddio Cantor returns from Europe on a mission to rniao funds for tho Youth Aliyah he ¦will con¬ vert his Long Island estate into a homo for 40 Germon refugees..., ^0 one is saying much about it, but tho 37-man American track "team going to Germany this inonth for a dual meet includes nine non- Aryans—seven Negroes and two Jews....The American Hebrew is looking for a new editor... .F. B. Adlorsteln, tho present oditor, hos resigned as of August Ist to be¬ come an executive assistant to Joseph C. Hyman, executive secre¬ tary of the Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee. .. .And now it can be told that F. E. Adlerstein is really Fanny Adlerstelu, who was edi- torial secretary on the A. H. for many years... .The new Zionist proxy. Dr. Solomon Goldman, spent the first week after the ZOA con¬ vention in New Y'ork, <;onferring on plans....Within tho next ten days he will bo embarking for Palestine, to" investigate personally the gravity of ti\e situation there ....Before returning to this coun¬ try he will also confer with Weiz¬ mann....Dr, Gqldmi^n's plans for cultural activities include a literary quarterly Zionist review, in" which Ludwig Lewisohn, Maurice Samuel, PierrO van Paassen and A. H. Frledland will be the principal col¬ laborators....
Italian Mm\%'
liiti-Jeiisli iriwe-rop@ Ksaiii
CABDOZOISMS
' Did you Imow that Justice Ben> jamin N. Cardozo never got a law degree?,...But he won his M. A. in political sciencp with d 65-Bage thesis OIK Communism, his conclu¬ sion being that tl^e movement was impracticable... .TChat   was   away back in 1889... .He loved to stay up-all night reading, his'favorite books befiig; tho .works of Santay- ana, Haldane aud Sel:trar)i I^ussell. When he.felt'in the mood ffitflieht- leading lie turned to Chinese pliilo- iophy..; .Ain^'.ho was also faAfliar with the writings of Spinoza, >lkiba arid Maimonldes....His ^asljingi ton apartment was crammed with books that publishers and authors had sent him from all parts of tho world.',. .Cardo;i!0 wns sixty before he saw his first mov)e.,. .He knew so little ahout'tlie films that once, during a trial, ho asked from the bench: "What is a Paramount pic¬ ture 7"... .Nor could ho understand why movies don't play return en¬ gagements, as legitimate shows do ....The first movie ho ever saw was an animated cartoon,  which ' impressed him so much that later, when tho "Three Little Pigs" came out, ond he missed the first show¬ ing, ho hunted around for three years until he finally found a the¬ atre where this film was playing ... .Hia memory wa's prodigious Ho could cito volume and page of thousands   of   cases,   and   often named the exact "page of t refer¬ ence in a volume decades old.... Ono of hia greatest talents was hia ability to Toad  in one-tenth the normal time... .Getting up  at 4 a. m. to write an opinion was notli- ing unusual for him....He main¬ tained a hugo correspondence, and, like his colleague Justice Brandeis, answered every letter in longhand, never using the typewriter...,The furniture in his 'Washington aport- ment waa so old-fashioned that it was   almost   moth-eaten .... Ho hated bawdy jokes, and knew so little   of  cocktails   that  he   once asked what waa in them... .Albert Einstein was one of his few close friends....Cardozo often ^ot lett ters from Jews who deplored his dissenting   opinions   on   Supreme Court decisions,.,.To such letters ho customarily replied that no Jew in public office ehould let himself bo guided by the fact that he is a Jew... .He did ijot liko to let him¬ self bo photographed without hia pince-nez, becauso he thought he
looked better with them One of
tho things he loved to do in Now York waa to chat wilh the traffic eop at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street....
ABOUT PEOPLE
To Habbi Saul B. Appelfaaum of New York's Central Synagogue fell the melancholy distinction of being the first person to aay Kad¬ dish for Justice Cardoso.., .The Babbi waa presiding over the Mes sago ot Israel program over WJR'a national hook-up that Saturday »!iBht....Four minutes beforo tho ¦nd of tho pjogram tho production manoner asked thc Uabbi to leave the «i' for ono minute becouae of u spct'al bulletin on Cardoso..,. ,        (Contiumd, «rt yaaa il  ¦ _
EOME (WNS)—A broad hint to Italian officials everywhere to embark on a program of anti-Jew¬ ish dlacrimination was given by the Fogli di Dispoaizloni, the paper in which tho secretary general of the Fascist Party transmits his order; and instructions to provincial sec¬ retaries, vvhen it published ,thc followng brief note: "I call tho at¬ tention of Federal secretaiiea tc the conclusions reached by a group of Italian professors in Italian unl versities concerning the position of Fascism toward the problems oi rnco." This hint is virtually tanta¬ mount to an order and is believed to be paving the way for a nation¬ wide anti-Jewish drive. Already foreigners arriving at the Italian frontiers report-they aro being asked to state their religion. Jews are bejng turned bjick, especially if they are German or Austrian refugees.
Meanwhile, Pope Pins, speaking to a number of French nuns, voiced sharp criticism of "exaggerated forms of nationaliam" in an un¬ usually vigorous speech generally interpreted aa an attack on thc nowly announced policy of race purity which declares tbo Italian!: are Aryans and rules Jews out of tho Italian race. Without referring to the race dogma, the Popo said "this very day we have received simething very grave. It has now reached the point of true aspos- tasy. It ia no longer a question of ideas being rigkt or wrong, Ifc If the entire spirit of the doctrine which ia contrary to the faith o.'' Christ. The world is afflicted by exaggerated, forms of nationaliam which we havo already deplorec' as erroneous and dangerous on pre¬
vious occasions. This extreme na¬ tionalism impedes tho spirit to live lealthily and raises barriers be¬ tween peoplen, contrary not only tc the law of our good Lord but tc the faith itself."
II Tevere, one of the newspapers responsiblo for the anti-Jewish press campaign climaxed by the publication of tho race code, de¬ clares that the Jews ought to agree with Italian racial theories be¬ couae they have themselves always sought to keep their blood from intermixture. "The Jews, who are not Italians," the paper says "have wished to remain Jews foi the last 4,000 years and wish to re¬ main Jews even today and in the future! They are, therefore, strang¬ ers in a foreign land and. strangers who if they do not love—even feai —assimilation, regarding it tantamount to annihilation, are in turn to be avoided as elements per¬ nicious to the race that gave tbeir hospitality. They repudiated assim¬ ilation; we repudiate nTisorption for biological laws say very clear¬ ly what hybridism ia. Wo are per¬ fectly in agreeiyient in principle with the Jews themselves, The bar¬ rier of race divides ua, an insuper¬ able barrier. What then? Then the Jewa must remain in their place? and we in ours. Italian racism will defend tho puro Italian race against any contamniation."
LONDON <WNS)—At the re¬ quest of Germany, the Italian government has agreed to so- quester<all property owned in Italy by German and Austiian Jew until their liabilities to the Reich for taxes have been examined, thf London Times reports in a liomc dispatch.
Pass Medical Exams
Among thc local Jewish mon who this week passed tho somi-onnusl examination for tho practice i)f medicine conducted by tho Stato Medical Board wero Samuel B. Sonkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her¬ man Sonkin, 525 S. 22nd St.; M. David Burnstino, son of Mr, and Mrs. Marcus Burnstine, 1438 Bryden Ed.; Emanuel'C. Lias, soh of Kev. and Mrs. B. Liss, 83|! Wnger St.; Mark' A. Freedmart, son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Louia Frectj- mart, 68 W. 9th Ave., and Sol Al. Danchik, 708 Bedford Ave.
Convention Moves To Adopt Bill Against Racial Bias
Press Urged to Guard Against Aiding Prejudice
United Jevirish Fund Seeks Support From 500 Small Givers
Priest Sees America
p^apingWaveof^. !W'laired ¦    ''."
CHAELOTTESVILLE, VA. (WNS)—-Expressing confidence in the essential fairneaa of the Amer¬ iean people. Father J. Eliot Eoss of the Catholic Church told the In¬ stitute of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia that he be¬ lieved that, America as a whole will npt be awept off its feet by any anti-Jewiah calhpaign. "This coniidence is increased," he said "When I consider the small effect of the considerable anti-Jewish pro paganda spread by Nazis in this couutty in the early thirties, of the negligible influence of Pelley's Silver Shirts aping Hitler's Brown Shirts, of atertive attempts to re¬ vive tho Kn Klux Klan." Father Eoss pointed out that "while con¬ demning with all tho strength of a righteous indignation the un¬ speakably cruel persecution Jews have endured under Hitleij, we should remember that most of the world has not followed the ex¬ ample of Germany. North and South America are still fairly sane. Even in Europe Jews are not persecuted in Communist Russia Fascist Italy, democratic France, England, the Scandinavian coun¬ tries. In Australia, New Zealand and nil the other British dominions and colonies Jews are just aa com¬ fortable aa before the rise of the swastika. And I ,take comfort from tbo • conviction that the "United States is moro likely to remain sane with tho major poition of thc world than go crazy with Ger¬ .many."
CougKVs
Paper Features ' Trbtoco!8of2;ion^*
German  Financial  Collapse
Lnid To War On
Jews
BERLIN (WNS)—Tho drastic economic measurea against the Jewa are among the factors being blamed here fov the startling stock market collapse in Germany which haa created a panic. The worst break in the Bourse since the Nazi regime came to power toppled stocks and bonds four to ten points despite rigid price controls. Impar- tiol obsei'veia attribute the col lapse In large measure to the re¬ cent elimination of Jewish brokers from the atock cxcliange os well aa to the tightened curbs on Jewiah buainesamen. An alarming shrink¬ age in German foreign trade Is laid to the anti-Jewish excesses in Ber¬ lin and Vienna and to the fact that tho elimination of Jewiah buainesa- nien in Germany and Austria rob¬ bed the Hclch of valuable trade coiWeiStioiH ill tho Balleuna,
SETEOIT (WNS)—The Proto- cols Of The Elders of Zipn, notori¬ ous forgery of a Jewish world con¬ spiracy, are pyominbntly featured in the-July 18 issue of Social Jus¬ tice, weekly magazine published by Father Charlea E. CougWin. In signed full-page article, the radio priest presents Protocol No. 6 dealing with monopolies, taxation, labor, and wages and attempts to show the similarity bct-^ecn the New Deal policies and the world economic' collapse predicted and planned by tho ao-called "Elders of Zion." Declaring that tho "vasir masses of Jewry know little or no.thing" about the Protocols and entertain no hostility to Christians, Father Coughlin points to state¬ ments of Theodore Herzl and Wal¬ ter Eathenau as proof that some Jewa have uttered thoughts high¬ ly reminiscent of the statements in the Protocols. Offering no decision aa to the authenticity or spurious- ness of the Protocols, Father Coughlin declares that "these ques¬ tions do not contradict the accord which is evident in the content of the Protocols with the very defin- ito happenings which are occuring in our midst."
Tha full text of Protocols No. fi is then quoted after which Father Cougiilin compares it to the al¬ leged attempts of the New Deal to raise wages while at the same time raising the cost of living, to des¬ troy agriculture and production, and to promote industrial anarchy under tho pretense of benefitting labor. Labelling the Protocols aa "pieeminently a communistic pro¬ gram to doatroy Chi-istian civiliza¬ tion," tho article diaclairaa any enmity toward Jews, declaring that "Social Juatice desires to extend a hand of osaistance to every son of that race," and calls upon "right¬ eous Jowish leaders to*cami(aign openly. In season nnd out of sea¬ son, against these communistic at¬ tempts to over-turn a civilization." "A vigorous campaign against communiam," said the radio priest, will be tho "best rebuttal which the modern leaders of Zion can of¬ fer to the authenticity ot the Protocols." lie ileclares that "Jewa aa u whole oppose Nazism and Faaciani," and asks, "When will they begin their campaign againat eonimunisin?" Tha article cloaca with an announcenient that in thc next issue another of the Protocols, dealing with tl« nioney queation, will bs) published in full.
ALBANY, N. Y. (WNS)—A con, stitutional ban against racial ani^ religious discrimination in New, York moved toward final approval in tho itew York State Constitu¬ tional Convention after Senaton Eobert F. Wagner, minority leader' in tho convention, appealed for the, passage of the bill. In support of the bill he declared that in many "unhappy lands racial vandals, and political gangsterdom are the order of tho day" where "members of minority races are eliminated from the schoola, professions and trades and despoiled of all property and station; where tho prospect of a life without hope and without re¬ course has driven countless tbou- sands to self-destruction'." Aasert- tlng that American principles of government are drastically opposed to such conditions. Senator Wagner said that "certain: manifestations" of racial prejudice and intolerancO did occur in this country, but add¬ ed that "thesa manife'atationa we rightly regard aa foreign to^ the American ideal and subversive of our democratic faith."
Ho declareij that "ifc is peculiarly fitting, therefore, that in thia cff« vention dedicated to the strefc>l enine of ^, our demo<!ratia,4wMA* tlona-vlre write'intt oUr organic la' a solemn proposition against any form of discrimination on account of race, color, creed ¦ or roligldn. The beastly manifestations of anti- Semitism abroad are happily ab¬ sent from our national scene. We cannot, however, be Jilind to tho forma of anti-Semitism prevalent at home. Theso mahifeatationg havo been vigorously challenged by spokesmen of all creeds and- many notorious instances have met with effective protests." In urging fa¬ vorable action on the proposal. Senator Wagner aaid that "when this principle takes firm root in social institutiona there will come lho dawn of a new and better day for all minority groups which ask only for the right to contribut6 their full measure toward building a better America."
NEW YOEK (WNS)—Asserting that "great harm" ia done by the -diaaemination of Nazi libels againta Jews through the Ameri¬ can press "without concurrent an- alyaea of those diatribes, of the reason they are uttered, of the phobia^ they involve," Prof. Clyde R. Miller, aecretary of the Inati- tute of Propaganda Analysis, urg¬ ed the press to "increasingly ap¬ ply analysis to its own news stories." Speaking on "The Propa¬ ganda of Prejudico" -before a con¬ ference on intercultural education for teachera, convened under the auspices of the New York Round Table of tho National Conference of Jews and Christiana, Dr. Miller said:
"What I have in mind is thist some official in Germany will make a atatement reviling Jewa Tho statement will bo picked up by American news agencies and released as a news story to news¬ papers in every city and state in tho union. The statement comprises utter untruth anel outright libel. There is every reason for printing it as news because not to do so would violate that freedom of Speech without which analysis la -impossible. Few newspapers, hbw- 'ever, and few news agencies go to '.the trouble at the time theae state¬ ments are isaued to include in the news story from reputable sources analyses which would go far to¬ ward undoing the evil effect of the hyBterii;-producing libel. I have no objection to American news¬ papers repeating Nazi diatribes against Jews and other non-Nor- dies. I do say that without concur¬ rent analyses of these diatribes, of jthe reasons they are uttered, of the .phobias they involve, great harm is Jlone by their dissemination. With '(m adequate analysis accompany. -uch statements in tho form of ^^Vii\-0OTO*«p»ts; -it-is-likely-that- \SkX "Pi^^^V "' normal intelligence vrili'be duped by them."
American Italians Pledge Support To Jews
351,674 Yojtes Cast In American Jewish Congress Election
, MINNEAPOLIS       ( W N S )- 'Wholehearted  support   and coop¬ eration to Jewa_ in America was pledged for A'merlcan Italians by Fred A. Osilnnn, Minneapolia at¬ torney and retiring president of thc Italian-American' Civic League, in a messages forwarded to tho con¬ vention of   B'nai   Brith   District Grand Lodge No. 6 al Duluth, it wna revealed in the American Jew¬ iah World. Endorsed by the Italian Diganization'a annual convention at Kanaaa City, Mo., the, message waa the first of ita kind   received   by B'nai Brith from a large minority group in the United States. The convention of tho Italian organiza¬ tion endorsed Oaanna'a message. ¦    In his raesaago Osanna declared that      American-Italians      "have come, l(ke Jews, to appreciate the American form    of    government. Anti-Scmitism   nnd   anti-Catholi¬ cism  cannot  be recognized aa a part of our democracy. To permit Communism, Nazism, Fascism or any other alien philoaophy to be¬ come    implantfed    anywhere    on American soil ia to court danger and destruction.   In fact,   nothing could be more un-American than to permit these foreign groupa and these foreign ideas to take root in th land of the free.. • .The Jews in America will alwaya have strong support   and   active   cooperation
from   the   Amcucan-Italiana "
The organization ratified ani' adopted Oaanna'a views and af¬ firmed them "to be the attitude am expressions of the National Ita- liau-Ameiican Civic League."
NEW YORK (WNS)—A regis¬ tration, of 693,993 in 543 cities and. a vote of 351,674 itt 212 citjes, or slightly moro than 60% of th© total registration, was reported by the American Jcwisli Congress making public the official returns .from the three-day election of dele¬ gates to its' apecial session in the fall which was held June 25th, 26th and 27th. Additiqnal rogiatra- tiona expected from 47 cities are expected to bring the registration total close to 750,000, the Congress announced, but election returns are practically complete, only the vote from 10 cities being missing. Greater New York led the country m registration and'votes, the total being 374,650 registrations and 164,864 votes, entitling Now Yorfc to 130 of the 400 delegates. By boroughs, Brooklyn showed the way with 73,258 votes. The Bronx was second with 44,860 votes, fol¬ lowed by JIanhattan with 38,429. Outside of New York the largest number of votes was caat in 'Chi¬ cago, tho total being 33,344 out'of ¦50,800 i-egistrationa. Philadelphia reported 13,568 votea in a registra¬ tion of 60,000. Dotroit polled 10,- 477 votea out of 25,000 regiatra- tions and Pittsburgh recorded 6,- 324 votes out- of 13,000 registra¬ tions. Other cities in which the vote topped 5,000 were: Boston 5,377 votes out of 16,000 registrations; SI. Louis, 13,296 out of 14,000i Nowfirk^and Essex County, N. J. 11,000 votes with final registra¬ tion figures incomplete; Cleveland, 6,960 out of 20,000; and Milwaukee, 8,668 out of 13,000.
Dr, Stephen S. Wise, president of the Congress, topped the voting throughout tho countiy, being elected a delegate with 22,657 voted. Hniline tho result of tho voting aa having "justified the ateps taken by the Congress," The Congress intimated that tho 'vote would have been laVgcr but for a heavy rainstorm that swept th country from New York to Kansas City during two of the three vot ing days and tho last minute can¬ cellation of its referendum. With¬ drawal of the referendum, tho Congreas said, created "the risk that large sections of tho Ameri¬ can Jewiah community would be¬ lieve, as many of them did, that tho elections had been withdrawn and caneeUed."
With a few hundred dollars yet lacking to go over tho top in thia year's effort of the United Jewish Fund campaign to rniso ?52,600, there is every indication that the goal will bo reached by next week, is the opinion of campaign chair¬ men, E. J. Schanfarber and Simon Lazarua. An interesting observa¬ tion, however, was made this week by Mr. Schanfarber when he checked tho number of subscribers already accounted for and found that only 650 in Columbus hnd as¬ sumed their just responsibilities towards this most worthy Jewish agency of our community.
"There is no doubt in my mind," Mr. Schanfarber said, "that there must be at least some 600 in thia city who could give an3r\vhero from a dollar to ?5.00 as an indication of their interest and desire to par¬ ticipate in the United Jewiah Fund."
It ia for this'reason, the latest step taken by all campaign work¬ ers was the inauguration of a special collection .drive among the hundreds of eligible small contri¬ butors in Columbus. These gifts should be turned over to any one of tbe many Fund solicitors or mailed direct to the United Jewish Fund office, 160 E. Broad St., Co. lumbus, Ohio. A receipt 'will be mailed to every, contributor.
Tho Chronicle is making its final appeal to those who have not as yet responded to the great emer¬ gency for which the United Jewish Fund ia intended. One of the best descriptions of the preaent day scene in world Jewry is the one re- ceptly given by Eabbi Jonah B. Wise of New Tfork. It reads as foUmsfs:—
"Wo Jewa have a stewardship. Wo must set up certain standards of thinking and organization not baaed- ^on eipergetldea bUfc_ on 'BlstBfliSre3Epo*i8io5; TlKJ-'lSaht of the Jew is being challenged,-— challenged by those who have used the Jews as a political "red herring." Wo must assert our right to live in a specifio way. One-way is in aaaisting those who are the struggling victima of un¬ just accusations."
Eabbi Wise aummarized the plight of tho Jews in Germany and Austria, Stressing their unpre- paredness for the blow, believing that it was impossible for such thinga to happen.
"Our help has brought them spiritual salvation, which ia im¬ portant in sustaining theae op- preaaed people physically as well as materially and morally," he emphaaized.
In 1931-32 th© J. D. C. con- aidered liquidating. The Jews of America were not concerned with the Jews in Germany. But in 1933 thc psychology of the Jew changed. Wo found that the fate of those people affects our people. "If they fall into disgrace, into a great morass of exile, thin our happiness Hnd dignity is materi¬ ally impaired; aaid Eahbi Wiae." In Germany and Austria it is a panic flight. Tho stations are crowded with Jews saying goodbye to children they   will   never   see
mm !®iifidiii' reating
ins liter riansiitSrganizatiMS
EVIAN-LES-BAINS,   PEANCE
ti,
tional   measures   which   will   bs
again.
Even worse than thc situation in Germany, is tho fate of tho Polish Jews. In Poland there are three million Jewa, most of whom speak Yiddish. They are handi¬ capped by thc economic uncer¬ tainty of Poland, which is a small country lacking access to the ports 0^ the worid. Poland is a poor country. In Germany and Austria the great maas ia beaten to complete surrender. But piinic- atricken Poland has found out that anti-Semitism is frightfully cow¬ ardly, and today their spirits have changed. They are' not defeated. They aro under no delusions. They know what Is going to happen, but thoy want to fight juat thc same. "U your picture of tho Jew ia out of date, you're aelling your birthright. You do not see the handwriting on the woll. We have to buy liberty bondfs. We have to demand loyalty. It is too lato tc aak for charity. We bave got to ask for taxes to iight thia battle," declared Eabbi Wise.
Partition Commission
Leaving Paleatine
JERUSALEM (WNS)-Tiie Par¬ tition Commission headed by Sir John Woodhead, it was announced, will leave for Loudon in the firat week of Auguat, having completed its pielimiiiary work in Palestine whero it orrived on Apul 27th.
(WNS)—Confident that It had suc¬ ceeded in oetting Into motion ma¬ chinery which would be ablo to solve tho problem of German and Austrian refugees within a decade, the 32-power intergovernmental refugee conference convened on the invitation of President Eooaevelt adjourned its ten-day aession. Tho final seaaion ended. on' a note of optimism becauae of tho feeling of harmony manifested by all the participating governments with re¬ gard to admitting more refugees within exiating laws, thc probabil¬ ity that GeiTUany will agree to negotiate on allowing emigrants to tako part of their capital with them and the determination of the United States to seo tho refugee question through to an ultimate solution.
Th© last aeasion before the con- ferenc© reconvenes aa a permanent committeo in London on Auguat 3rd   waa   marked  by   concluding speeches by Myron C. Taylor, head of tho Americari delegation, who was credited with a largo measure of •r»aponsibility for tho successful outcome of the parley; Earl Wln¬ terton,   the   chief   British   repro- aentative, and Senator Henri Ber¬ enger of France. Mr. Taylor's brief remarks were devoted to an appeal to Germany to let her refugees tako their property with them and an expression of satisfaction that steps had beeit taken which "will bring a real improvement in the lives and prospects of many mil¬ lions." The American delegate aaid "it is vital that orderly emigration replace disorderly exodus. It is es¬ sential that emigrants leave their country of origin with their prop srty atid poasessior-.if the'y are to iakfr-^Jtlofe an4-«ustaiii>JJj»ow(*«w in their countries of settlement. It ia imperative, in conacquence, that countries which are willing to re¬ ceive   immigrants   Jn   refuge   of permanent settlement, havo the col¬ laboration in these respects of the country of origin."
Only A Beginning Emphasizing that the conference was only o beginning nnd reveal¬ ing that" representatives of the various participating governments had submitted confidential reports "opening the prospects for increas¬ ed admission of refugees," Mr. Taylor said that in setting up the permanent machinery for refugee aid account would be taken of plans and testimony by spokesmen for private organizations, "Our work must and will continu© tire¬ lessly," he declared, "without inter^ ruptioh in order that the hopes of men, women! and children who have placed their faith in our efforts may not bo dispelled and their suf¬ ferings embittered. Unless steps are talcen forthwith to remedy tho present disorderly exodus, thero is catastrophic " human suffering ahead which might have far-reach¬ ing conaequences in international unrest and atrain."
Earl Wlnterton, in the first of- flelpl reference to the subject of Paleatine, told the conference, Pal¬ cor Agen'cy reported, that thero was no foundation for tho belief that the problem of Jewiah refu¬ gees could be aolved by opening the doora of Palestine. Throwing cold water on proposala that were aubmitted at th© hearings involv¬ ing tho enlargement of immigra¬ tion to Palestine, Wlnterton said that "the conference surely expects to hear about Palestino. It has long been repreacntcd in somo quartera that tho question of tho Jewish refugees could bo solved if the doora of Paleatine were opened. Thia ia entirely unfounded because, firat, Palestine is a little country, and secondly, becauae of the apecial conaiderationa of the Maudate and prevailing local conditions. Tho Mandatory is obliged to facilitate Jcwiah immigration under suitable copditlona.
Paleatine Immigratiou "There is no need to apologize for what has been done in this direc¬ tion. Three hundred thousand Jew¬ ish immigrants havo already gone to Palestine, including 40,000 Ger¬ man Jews in tha last three years. ,Tho Mandatory Power has not stopped immigration which muat obviuualy continue, but in view of the pievailing conditions Inf Pales¬ tine, tho Mandatory has decided to consider drastic changes in the political istatu^ which ia now being studied. The reatrictiona on immi¬ gration ava temporary and oxcep-
maintained only until tho conclu- aion of tho Investigation. Therofoxo, an immediate change is impossible. Palestino haa its own stand and must b© considered aeparatoly from tho  general  problem  botoro  thia conference."   Senator   Bsronger brought tho conffltcnco to a tloso by praising Americon participation   ¦ and pledging full Freiich. coopera¬ tion. . At its last plenary aeasioB the conference unanimously odoptecl an' eight-point resolution constituting itself aa a permanent and independ¬ ent organization empowered to deal with actual and potential refugees from Germany and Austria. Tho n^wly organized agency will meet for tho first timo lit London on August  Srd, when a pomiBneDt director, who is to be an American, , ¦will be named, together with'an Englishman, as chkirman, and four vice-chairmen, ono of whom will bo Mr. Taylor. Tho director, chairmom and vice-chairmen will form the organization's executive board. Im¬ mediately after tho London meet¬ ing the director will go to Ger¬ many to begin negotiatiorts with Germany concomlng Jowish prop¬ erty and alao on the queation of moderating tho treatment of the Jews vfhilo they aro still in Ger¬ many. With this task out of the way, tho director will then turn to   the   problom   of   fadlitattog refugee   emigration overseas and colonialttertitoriea.
BesolDtiona Official communlquep issued be¬ fore adjournment announced that the memoTanda and testimony af private organizations have been in- ¦ corporated in a coiildontisdwport" and that a ««Bte^3L^i^ "
tial statements indicating rcSditteBs'.( to admit experienced farm worKers; while othera hafl expressed willing¬ ness to receive selected workers, ' and still others stated willingness to admit immigrants,without oc-. , cupational   restriction, permitting- them to select their employmont. [ In this connection tho communique ' stated that "countries with «« im¬ migration system limltinsf admis¬ sion of immigrants will" permit re¬ ception of appreciable number!) of refugees, while certain other coun¬ tries having no restrictions have' expreased a willingness to adopt ^ liberal imralBration attitude toward refugees."'
Th© resolution limits tho scope of the committee to ."persons who havo not already left thoir country of origin, who must emigrate on account of   political   opinioif,   re¬ ligious beliefs ^ racial origin; sec¬ ond, persons defined in number one who have already left their country of origin and who havo not estab¬ lished thomaelvcs permanently else- • where," but leaves the doOr open for dealing   with   refugees   from other countries by providing that the committee Shall "continue and develop the work" of thia soasion nnd envisage "a long range pro¬ gram" whereby assistance "to in¬ voluntary   emigrants   actual   and potential may be coordinated" with¬ in the framework of ejdating laws nnd   practices.   The   only   major change made in tho resolution as originally drafted by tho Ameri¬ can, Britiah and French delegations was in the clause stating that if the   refugee-receiving   countries "are   to   cooperate in findiflff an orderly solution" for the existing "forced   and- chaotic"   migration, they are "entitled to expeOt the country of origin   (Germany)  to make its contributlort by ennbllng involuntary   amigriints   to   take with thom their property and po»- seaslona  and to  emigrate   in sn orderly manner." Under pressure by  Germany, tha Latln-Araerlcaa republics and the smaller European states succeeded in having this sec¬ tion weakened. As finally adopted it reads: "K tha countries of refu¬ ge or settlement arc to* cooperate in finding an orderly solution of the problem before the committee they should have the colloboratioq of the country of origin, and they avo  therefore  persuaded that  It (Germany) will make its couti;ibtt- -tlon by enablingr involuntary emi¬ grants to  take  with  them  their property and possession and ewi- grato in an orderly manner."
Other points. in the resolution
are; 1—Notes witb satlafaclioa the
report of the technical Bub-cew-
mitteo that thof*   ura  "prospects
(Coiitinuei <m tmss i)
. fe
'  i
^i'-'i^T"