The Sentinel, v.125 no. 07, 1942

              THE SENTINEL February 12, 1942
EUROPEAN JEWRY WAITS FOR SPRING
Scandanavians Mark
Brandes Centennary
London, Feb. 9 (JTA) - The Cen-tennary
of George Brandes, Danish-
Jewish critic and author, who was
born in February, 1842, was marked
here this week in B. B. C. broadcasts
in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and
Danish. Extracts from Brandes' work
in which he condemned German ag-gression
against Denmark in 1864 and
violently attacked Prussian militarism
were read.
Hinting at the recent attempts to
introduce anti-Jewish laws in Den-mark,
the Free Danish broadcast
stressed the fact that "in a free Den-mark
Brandes' Jewish origin did not
prevent him from reaching the high
moral position of a professor and
writer whom the whole Danish people
read with admiration."
Civilian Defense Creates
Better Racial Feeling
New York, Feb. 11 (JTA)-The
present emergency is affording New
Yorkers of all faiths and nationalities
a 'splendid" opportunity to create a
new and better spirit of understanding,
cooperation and friendliness, Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia declared this
week in a message endorsing Brother-hood
Week, which will be observed
throughout the country during the
week of Washington's Birthday, Feb-ruary
15-22, under the auspices of the
National Conference of Christians and.
Jews.
Noting an "increasing" demonstra-tion
of neighborliness on the part of all
New Yorkers, the Mayor attributed the
increase in part to the auxiliary or-ganizations
set up under the civilian
defense program. "Men and women of
all classes and all races and religious
groups are forming new contacts with
one another through their voluntary
work as air raid wardens, fire wardens,
or in any of the numerous other posi-tions
under this program," he said.
"This period of national unity under
a national emergency is a splendid
time for us to increase the mutual
understanding and sympathy of the
manifold groups within our society.
Ready to Die Figbting,
New York, Feb. 11 (JPS) - A few
weeks ago 20-year-old Elliott Blut-man,
a Bronx lad in the U. S. Air
Corps, wrote to his parents: "I am
ready to sacrifice myself, if necessary,
so that my loved ones may live in a
world free of Hitler." The other day
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blut-man,
received a letter from the army
notifying them that Elliott had died
in California, where he had been sta-tioned.
Details were not forthcoming,
due to regulations.
The dead boy's parents recalled that
Elliott had been assigned to duty in
Hawaii. On December 5, however, two
days before the Pearl Harbor attack,
his application to transfer to the Air
Corps was accepted. He remained in
California.
Fate of 5,000,000 Jews Hinges on Nazis
Spring Offensive, Diplomats Believe
Stockholm, Feb. 10 (WNS) - The
fate of the nearly 5,000,000 European
Jews estimated to be under the con-trol
of the Nazi dictatorship will hinge
on the expected Nazi offensive this
spring, according to well-informed
diplomats here.
With Hitler expected to launch an-other
desperate offensive against
Soviet Russia, North Africa and the
Middle East, Nazi-controlled Europe's
Jewish population must pin its hopes
on the might of Britain and America's
combined sea power, Russia's armies
and America's industrial production.
While the spring of 1942 will be a
critical period for the entire demo-cratic
world, these diplomats pointed
out, it will be most crucial for Eur-ope's
persecution-weary Jews as a re-sult
of plans recently hatched in Ber-lin
under the supervision of Dr. Alfred
Rosenberg, Nazi Minister of all occu-pied
territories.
WNS dispatches several months ago
disclosed that Dr. Rosenberg, self-appointed
dean of Nazi theoreticians
and philosophers, was working on
plans to concentrate all of Europe's
Jews in a so-called "Jewish State"
somewhere in Eastern Europe. Latest
advices reaching here from the Nazi
capital indicate that these plans have
now been complete and approved by
Reichsfuehrer Hitler.
Execution of these plans, which will
in effect establish the largest prison
in the history of the world, depends
on the success of the coming Nazi
offensive. A successful drive through
Russia, with the subsequent destruc-tion
of the Red Army, it was believed,
will be followed by the immediate in-troduction
of Dr. Rosenberg's plan to
create a "Jewish State," enclosed by
barbed wire and machine gun nests
and shut off completely from com-munication
with the outside world.
While secrecy veils the site of the
proposed "Jewish State," all indica-tions
point to its establishment either
in the Eastern part of Poland or Rus-sia.
The "Jewish State," according to
Berlin reports, "will realize the ulti-mate
aim of the Nazi anti-Jewish pol-icy,
namely, of ridding Europe of the
last Jew."
Preparatory to fulfillment of the
proposed Nazi scheme, Nazi authori-ties
have resumed mass deportations
of Jews from Belgium, Slovakia, Ger-many,
Austria, Yugoslavia and Hol-land,
to eastern Poland. These Jews
are housed in temporary, unheated
barracks to await the day when they
will be forcibly thrown into their
"Jewish State."
Nazi officials of the Department of
Jewish Questions have drawn up a
series of regulations and decrees
which will be introduced into the
"Jewish State" in order to prevent
"the spread of Jewish influence in,
other parts of the world.".
A Nazi spokesman recently summed
up Hitler's attitude with regard to
Europe's Jewish population: "Jews
must be cut off from the rest of the
population and return to their ghet-tos.
Jewish quarters must be roped
off and guarded by sentries. Jews
must work only inside their ghettos."
Dr. Rosenberg had previously been
reported planning to announce the
"Jewish State" from the Kremlin in
Moscow, which he had described as
the center of "Jewish Bolshevism."
Few among the diplomatic corps here
doubt that the Nazi Minister will carry
out his plan-providing he ever gets
to see the Kremlin.
N. Y. Times Urges Use of Refugee
Doctors to Offset War-Time Shortage
New York, Feb. 10 (WNS)-De- the Government is in doubt, it should
ploring a situation which finds refugee be settled by investigation.
doctors unable to practice at a time "There must be some place in our
when the nation's war effort has sapped medical system for these medical em-.
the country's medical reserve, the New igres, and it is clearly the business of
York Times urged the United States the hospitals and the county medical
to follow the example set by Great societies to find it. This is no time
Britain in employing the skills of ref- for stiffening our attitude toward a
ugee physicians. class of professional foreigners who
Indicative of the gravity of the situ- have no liking for Hitler or Mussolini,
ation was the fact that this week's and who are eager to do what they can
editorial calling for easing of restric- to aid the cause of the United
tions against emigre doctors was the Nations."
second published by the N. Y. Times
since the United States entered the
war. Zurich (JTA)-The lack of doctors
Contrasting Great Britain's policy in Germany and the rapid spread of a
toward refugee doctors to that of the scarlet fever epidemic there this week
United States, the Times pointed out forced the Nazi authorities to permit
that these doctors "could be of great Jewish doctors to treat "Aryan" chil-use
in America also at a time when dren throughout the Reich. An order
the Army and Navy are calling for issued by the Ministry of Health in
physicians." Berlin provides, however, that only
The editorial continued: "If depleted "Aryan" children who are under 11
X-ray departments and laboratories years of age may be treated by Jewish
of the hospitals are now debarred to doctors. Regulations covering Jewish
these foreigners, the y should be dentists were also relaxed by the Min-opened;
if English interposes difficul- istry in view of the acute shortage of
ties, it should be taught; if loyalty to dentists in Germany.
Tel Aviv, Feb. 9 (JTA)-Diamonds
valued at $1,000,000 were exported
from Palestine to the United States in
1941 and these exports will be doubled
in 1942, it was reported this week at
a conference of Palestine diamond deal-ers,
the first of its kind ever held in
Palestine.
Seventy persons who were active in
the diamond industry in Belgium, Hol-land,
Poland and Germany before
Hitler came to power are participating
in it. Approximately $2,500,000 is now
being dispensed by the Palestine dia-mond
industry in wages to workers, it
was disclosed at the conference.
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3 Palestine Ships
Lost in Fierce Gale
Tel Aviv, Feb. 9 (JTA)-A fierce
Mediterranean gale last week destroyed
three Palestine vessels and took the
lives of five Palestine seamen. The
three ships that were lost in a storm
off Latakia, Syria, were the 200-ton
S.S. Stikva, the 407-ton S.S. Amathus,
belonging to the Atid Navigation Co.,
and the motorship, Hafez Elrahman,
owned by the Palestine Transport and
Shipping Co.
The five seamen, all of whom were
lost when the Stihva went down, are
Jacob Salem, Urko Chibowsky, Jacob
Silberstein, Pavel Kreigel and Eisig
Rittner. The first three were buried at
Beirut, while the bodies of the other
two have not been recovered. Kreigel,
who was the first officer of the Stikva,
had previously been rescued from the
S.S. Antar, which was torpedoed by an
Italian submarine some time ago.
Nat'I Refugee Service
To Continue Retraining
New York, Feb. 9 (JTA)-The re-training
program of the National Ref-ugee
Service will be increased consid-erably
in 1942 in expectation that our
country will face a shortage of trained
men and will need all available indus-trial
manpower. to meet the demands
of the national all-out production ef-fort,
it was announced this week by
Albert Abrahamson, Executive Director
of the N.R.S.
Under the retraining program of the
National Refugee Service, refugees
who have no prospects of earning their
livelihood in fields they formerly pur-sued
are retrained for jobs where
opportunities are available. Last year,
1,000 individuals were entered in more
than 75 retraining courses both in New
York City and a number of communi-ties
throughout the country. Courses
in other cities were set up with the
N.R.S. guidance and often with the
agency's financial assistance.
The N.R.S. this week advised refu-gees
throughout the country to pay
special attention to question 15 in
filling-out their certificates of identifi-cation
as requested by the Denartment
of Justice. In this question aliens are
asked for explanations of the circum-stances
under which they left their
native country. The answer to this
question may serve as the basis for
reclassification. A special staff has
been assigned by the N.R.S. to assist
refugees with their applications.
YislIV Diamond Exports
TO US,. to be DOuled