RELIEF FOR JEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25321, 1 October 1945, Page 5

RELIEF FOR JEWS

TRUMAN'S REQUEST OPENING PALESTINE SAI) RIGHT IN EUROPE (Reed. 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 29 President Truman has asked the British Government to admit Jews from Germany into Palestine. The request was made in a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr C. 11. Attlec, but no reply has so far been received.

The Associated Press lias been told that many Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria are treated "as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them." President Truman ha:, ordered General Eisenhower to clean up conditions as soon as possible. Crowded Insanitary Camps The White House has released a lengthy report describing how displaced persons, particularly .lews, are living under guard in crowded insanitary camps. In a letter to General Eisenhower, Mr Truman enclosed a copy of a report by Mr Karle Harrison, of the inter-Govern mental Refugee Committee, enumerating conditions which Mr Truman said "do not contorm to the policies promulgated by Supreme Headquarters at present administered by the Combined Displaced Persons Executive. "These policies," he continued, "are not being carried out by some of your subordinate officers. For example officers of the Military Government nave been directed to requisition billeting facilities from the German population for displaced persons, yet tins has not been done on any wide scale.

Scene of Nazi Brutality j "Instead jt. is apparently assumed that all displaced persons must re- ] main in camps some oi which are the verv ones in which these people were herded, starved and tortured and made to witness the death of their fellow inmates, friends and relatives." Mr Truman, noting that _ the Jews have been kept in concentration camps, quoted the following statement in the report;: "One is led to wonder whether the German people, seeing this, are not supposing we are following, or at least condoning, Nazi policy." The Harrison Kenort points out that the refugees lack clothing, whereas the Germans arc the best dressed people in Europe. The refugees are fed on bread and coffee and there are many pathetic cases of malnutrition, whereas many Germans enjoy a more varied and more palatable diet.

Anxious to Leave Europe The Jews, with a few exceptions, are desperately anxious to leave Austria and Germany. The jnajoritv desire to emigrate to Palestine, while others wish to go to the United States, England or trie British Dominions. Manv camp commandants been disinclined to accept aid from Unrra, the report adds. The officers, some of whom are inexperienced, have also shown considerable resistance to voluntary agency representatives, no matter how qualified. The report recommends increased immigration facilities to Palestine and the United States.

OIL UNDER WATER

AMERICAN PROCLAMATION JURISDICTION ASSERTED (Heed. (3.30 pro.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 President Truman issued a proclamation yesterday asserting United States jurisdiction over the oil resources of the continental shelf _ under waters bordering on all American coastlines. The President said petroleum geologists believed that portions of the continental shelf beyond the three-mile limit contained valuable oil deposits. The order would make possible the orderly development of an underwater area of 750.000 square miles. The continental shelf, Mr Truman added, was considered as submerged land contiguous to the continent and covered by not more than 600 feet of water. The proclamation also empowered the establishment of fishery conservation zones contiguous to the United States. It was officially stated that Japanese exploitation of'the fisheries in Alaskan waters contributed to the Government's decision.

JOBS FOR WORKLESS REIN ON EXPENDITURE (Reed. 0.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 28 The Senate approved by 71 votes to 10 the Full Employment Bill, providing for the Government to create jobs when private industry is unable to do so. The bill was previously criticised on the ground that it'was an open invitation to unlimited Government spending, but this objection was met by the unanimous inclusion of an amendment to provide that every plan for Federal spending to provide jobs must be accompanied by tax proposals to raise the neewsarv money.

The Government under the bill •will prepare an annual job budget, estimating the number wanting work, the number of jobs private enterprise can provide, and proposals for creating additional jobs

SUCCEEDING ALEXANDER

GENERAL J. T. McNARNEY

(Reed. 0.30 p.m.) CASERTA. Sept. 80 Field-Marshal Sir Harold Alexander today handed over the post of Supreme

Commander in the Mediterranean theatre to General J. T. McNarney of tho United States Army. Field-Marsha! Alexander has been appointed Governor-General of Canada. AID GIVEN ENEMY CANADIANS SENTENCED LONDON, Sept. 29 Canadian military headquarters announce that a court-martial has imposed the following sentences on three former members of the FCssex-Seottish Regiment taken prisoner at Dieppe in 1912 for voluntarily aiding the enemy: Private John Galaher. penal servitude for life; Private Edwin Martin, 25 years' imprisonment; Private George 'Halo, ]0 years' imprisonment. All were discharged with ignominy from the army. APPEAL BY JOYCE LONDON, Sept. 29 William Joyce's solicitors yesterday gnve notice of appeal against his conviction and deat h sentence for high treason. Joyce will he represented by the same counsel, Mr G. 0., Slade, in the Court of Criminal Appeal, which is to sit on i October 12.