The Sentinel, v.162 no. 04, 1948

              The Sentinel
* INTERNATIONAL NEWS *
'Next Year In Jerusalem' Will Be
The Hope of Many Jews
THIS WEEK JEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL SIT DOWN TO
their Seder. To some it will be a rich feast, and to others it will be a meager
meal, but the spirit will be there, the spirit of hope that salvation is near for
World Jewry.
When the father at the family table will conclude his reading of the Hag-adah
with: "L'shono habo b'Jerusholoyim," and the family will intone an
"Amen", many a Jew will hope that
for him it will be a reality.
Preparations for the coming festival
were made long ago. Jewish bakers
in Frankfurt, Germany, were baking
the matzohs for the remnants of Jewry
still remaining in that country. Also in
the Soviet Union there will be cele-brations,
with preparations made for
long times ahead of the festival. (see
cuts.) For the Pesach festival
there will be no "Iron Curtains", there
will only be a spirit of togetherness,
may it be in the family or amongst na-tions.
Jews all over the world will hope for
peace and and a new life in a new
world, a world of peace and happiness.
ITALY
This week as elections were held in
Italy, news of the following were not
generally reported in the American
press and radio, but they were news
regardless, to the millions still suffering
of the results of fascism.
Fascists in Action
Rome, (JTA)--Police were patroll-ing
Rome's ancient Jewish ghetto quart-ers
this week following a riot when
some 200 fascists invaded the area
and began beating up Jews.
The fascists, members of the Italian
Social Movement Party, marched into
the quarter singing fascist songs and
shouting: "Death to the Jews." When
the Jewish inhabitants, including many
women and children who were in the
streets at the time, booed the fascists
they started swinging rubber trunch-eons.
Police arrived on the scene after
four persons were injured seriously
and many others including women
less seriously, and drove the demon-strators
out of the district. Before the
arrival of the police, however, the
fascists succeeded in desecrating a mon-ument
to the thousands of Italian Jews
massacred by the Nazi occupation army
during the war.
Evacuation of DP's
Milan, (JTA)-Evacuation of 15,000
Jewish refugees from DP camps in
northern Italy to camps in the southern
part of the country was ordered last
week by government authorities. The
order caused profound depression
among the displaced Jews who have
adjusted themselves to conditions of
life in the nothern camps where they
have been residing for many months.
The order follows the transfer of 2,-
500 displaced Jews last week from the
largest Jewish DP camp, Adriatico,
near Bari. Vocational schools establish-ed
by ORT in the Adriatico camp
were closed Friday, as a result of the
liquidation order.
Representatives of the ORT left for
southern Italy to arrange for the trans-fer
to that area of 55 vocational train-ing
schools and workshops maintained
by the organization for the displaced
Jews in the north. More than 1,200
students have been attending these
schools regularly, it was pointed out.
Although under the existing agree-ment
with the Italian Government the
ORT schools could have remained in
northern Italy, their removal was neces-sitated
by the fact that parents and
relatives of the students will be moved
to the south under the new evacuation
orders. A new agreement was reached
following the arrival here from Geneva
of Dr. A. Syngalowski, executive chair-man
of the World Union.
The new accord provides that the
ORT surrender the right to maintain
its schools in northern Italy, but per-mits
continuation of those schools
whose successful operation depends on
the relations which ORT enjoys with
various north Italian industries offering
employment opportunities to ORT
graduates. All other vocational schools
maintained by the organization, how-ever,
must be moved to the south.
General Situation
Paris, (JTA)-A report on the over-all
situation of Italian and displaced
Jews now living in Italy was presented
here at a press conference by Louis
Horwitz, J.D.C. director for Italy.
There are approximately 25,000
Jewish DP's in Italy at present, Hor-witz
said, of whom half reside in refu-gee
camps, while 7,500 live on training
farms, 4,000 are scattered in towns and
villages throughout the country and 1,-
000 live in J.D.C. camps.
The 30,000 Italian Jews, Horwitz
declared, are completely assimilated and
are not in any way treated differently
from other sections of the population.
All Jewish community property con-fiscated
by the fascist regime has been
returned to its, rightful owners while
a law transferring heirless Jewish prop-erty
to the Jewish community was re-cently
passed, he said.
Although the International Refugee
Organization is supposed to supply all
refugeees in Italy with food supplies
containing 2,000 calories per day, Hor-witz
asserted that the J.D.C. was
compelled to provide the Jewish DP's
with additional food since in many in-stances
the I.R.O. was unable to dis-tribute
sufficient supplies to all the
DP's. Pregnant women, heavy workers
and others in special classifications re-ceive
additional food packages from
the J.D.C., Horwitz reported.
CANADA
Un-Canadian
Ottawa, (JTA)-Norman Jacques,
member of the Federal Parliment, has
asked the Canadian Government to
consider the advisability of banning the
solicitation of funds in Canada for the
purpose of "supplying Zionists in Pal-estine
with arms and ammunition."
Jacques said he raised this question
in view "of the latest, cold-blooded mur-der"
of British troops in Palestine. Min-ister
for External Affairs St. Laurent
told him he would study the question
and reply to it shortly.
Un-Christian
Montreal, (JTA)-The anti-Semitic
remarks made recently in the Provin-cial
Assembly by Agriculture Minister
Laurent Barre have evoked strong pro-tests
by various local organizations, in-cluding
the Montreal Council on Chris-tian
Social order, which represents
seven religious denominations.
The Council, following a special exe-cutive
meeting, urged upon Premier
Maurice Duplessis "the great desira-bility
of a public repudiation of the
anti-Semitic sentiments expressed in the
Assembly by a government minister,"
who acted "utterly unworthily" of
his office by his "un-Christian slur upon
that race from which Christ came."
Barre's remarks were also condemned
as "anti-Christian" by the Montreal
Angelican Fellowship for Social Ac-tion.
ARGENTINA
Protest Bombing
Buenos Aires, (JTA)-A delegation
of the DAIA, central Jewish represen-tative
body in Argentina, and Arieh
Chill, of the local office of the Jewish
Agency, visited Police Chief Albertollo
and urged that a thorough investiga-tion
of the Sunday explosion in front
of the Agency office here be made. The
deputation pointed out that Argentine
Jews were "greatly distressed" at the
incident in view of the fact that several
such acts have occurred within the past
year.
Preparations for the Pesach Festival were made all over the world this week regardless of national barriers, whether in Frankfurt, Germany, (left),
or Moscow, U.S.S.R. (right).