Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1978 Page: 9 of 32
thirty two pages : ill. ; page 15 x 10 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Page NINE
March 16. 1978
Blood drives at eDCC,
?
Brtk Am ulated March 26
must be drawn during the pre-
Blood Center.
(Continued on Page Ten)
$58
for
02
Open your eyes
New documents highlight British
hostility to Jewish refugees of WWU
throughout the Gulf Coast area
will have an opportunity to return
%
■ ■ ,22
Prices will never be lower
Call today and save.
to exercise. I
SWFwyat C
Bissonnet 2.
New location in
your neighbor-
hood.S.Braes-
wood at Hillcroft.
The Number One Fitness
Centers in Houston has just
moved to your neighbor-
hood. Enter the world of
physical fitness at the Origi-
nal Nautilus. Look better
and feel better fast Now
everybody can afford to get
in the best shape of their
lives.
Get in Shape
for 78
One Low Price,
Once a Year,
No Monthly Dues.
Join the Original Nautilus
Fitness Center at the
Southwest Freeway for only
588 a year for individual
memberships. You'll get in
the best shape of your life in
just 30 minutes, 3 times a
week. Plus you get saunas,
whirlpools, exercise classes,
and the finest fitness
program intown.
'Other membership
plans available
\ - -
was “as fundamentally anti-social
as the German persecution of
which they complain.” Another
official said the illegal immigra-
tion was largely the work of Re- ’
visionists, doing it partly for polit-
ical reasons and partly for the
“heavy fares charged."
Major credit cards accepted. Phone in your membership today.
Consumer Alert: Supernautilus memberships are not valid st any Original Nautilus Fitness Center.
accede to request of the sixteen
German Jews mentioned in your
telegram to migrate to this
colony. Capacity of Southern
Rhodesia for absorbing aliens is
definitely limited.”
By Maurice Samuelson
LONDON, (JTA) - Newly re-
leased documents about British
efforts to prevent Jews from leav-
ing Europe on the eve of World
War II show that there was strong
opposition to the influx of Jews
not only into Palestine but
throughout the British Empire in
places as far apart as Burma and
the West Indies.
The evidence has been collated
in an article by Martin Gilbert, the
historian and biographer of Sir
Winston Churchill, who concludes
that lack of sympathy towards
Jewish refugees in the Home
Office and the Foreign Office was
a major factor in the ultimate fate
of many European Jews.
His article appears in the 1978
issue of the Zionist Year Book,
published by the Zionist Federa-
tion of Great Britain and Ireland
and edited by Jane Moonman, and
deals with British policy towards
Jewish refugees between May and
September, 1939.
The idea of admitting Jews to
various parts of the empire was
supported by Malcolm MacDonald
who, as Colonial Secretory, was
architect of the White Paper
limiting the number of entry certi-
ficates to Palestine in order to
appease the Arabs.
One of the alternative havens
Gilbert concludes: “Not only
To illustrate the attitude
shown by some British officials,
Gilbert quotes another Foreign
Two blood drives have been to full and healthy lives. Since
scheduled within the Jewish com- most hospitals schedule surgeries
munity for Sunday, March 26 at the beginning of the week,
with the Gulf Coast Regional sufficient quantities of blood
Office official, Roger Makins, who followers of (Zeev) Jabotinsky
stated on April 5, 1939: “Polish (leader of the Zionist Revisionist
Jews will be less welcome as immi- Movement), but Jews of no partic-
grants in the colonial empire than ular political affiliation, could be
any other class.” Patrick Reilly pardoned if the cynicism revealed
added (on April 26, 1939) that by comments such as these were
some of the refugees were "defi- to induce anger, bitterness, or
nitely criminals or spies.” even, at times, despair.”
suggested was British Guiana
where 500 Jewish families would
have been admitted. Objections
were raised first by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon,
who said it would be an unac-
ceptable burden on the British
taxpayer and later by a Royal
Commission on the West Indies,
despite the fact that British Jewry
in the meantime pledged to
finance the settlement of the 500
refugees.
MacDonald himself had his
own reservations about the British
Guiana plan, telling a Cabinet
committee that he was “afraid
that when the refugee settlers
became British subjects (i.e. after
five years) they would acquire the
right to migrate into the United
Kingdom if they wished.”
Hostility to accepting Jewish
refugees anywhere was voiced by
A. W. G. Randall of the Foreign
Office when commenting on some
300 European Jews whom the
government of Cyprus refused to
admit even on a temporary basis:
“It is unthinkable that a mis-
cellaneous crowd of Jews could be
admitted to any other part of the
empire,” he said on June 1,1939.
Burma and Southern Rhodesia
were two more British possessions
considered as possible sanctuaries.
Although Foreign Office officials
like Sir Alexander Cadogan (later
to be Britain’s representative at
the United Nations) favored open-
ing the doors, the idea was turned
down at other levels.
Thus, on March 3, 1939, an
India Office official commented
on the Burma proposal: “There is
no possibility of contemplating
large-scale settlement by
European refugees in the colonies
in view of the strong objections
which would be felt against such
settlements to the prejudice of the
indigenous races concerned.”
On March 13, 1939, the
The Jewish Community Center ceeding weekends. These two
at 5601 South Braeswood will drives thus present a unique
host a drive for voluntary blood opportunity to make a genuine
donations from 1 to 5 p.m. contribution to your fellow man.
Another drive will be hosted on The Blood Center, which was
the same day by Congregation organized in 1975 by the Harris
Beth Am, 1431 Brittmore, from County Medical Society, has the
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is not responsibility of providing Wood
necessary to make an appoint- and Wood components for patient
ment at either blood drive loca- use to more than 80 hospitals in
tion. the 16 county region surrounding
The Jewish community is being Houston. In meeting these re-
called on to help meet the con- quirements, which in 1977
tinuing need for blood so tnat totalled 193,000 transfusible
hundreds of patients in hospitals units, The Blood Center depends
>1-^
Governor of Southern Rhodesia As for the organizers of the
explained to the British Consul- growing illegal immigration
General in Alexandria: “My gov- traffic, a Foreign Office note,
ernment regrets they are unable to dated July 10, 1939, said that it
SW FWY AT BISSONNET 8. BRAESWOOD AT HILLCROFT
777-4283 721-7456
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Samuels, Joseph W.; White, Ida S. & Friedman, Marcia A. Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1978, newspaper, March 16, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1521426/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .