The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-08-14
BETWEEN YOU
AN D M E
BY PAUL A. PETERS

be surprised to learn one of these
days that the U. S. Government is
about to assign Lease-Lend money
for Jewish self-defense i'm Pales-
tine : Negotiations on this sub
Ject are now being, conducted with
good chances for a successful con-
cluSiOn - President Roosevelt,
1t is understood, has taken a per-
sOnal interest in the question of
whether a Jewish Army should be
established in Palestine = After
listening to Zionist and British
arguments, he is stated to have
indicated to DIR. Weizmann that
the British arguments merit con-
sideratiOn :. At the same time,
the American Consul General i'm
Jerusalem, MIR. PinkertOn, asked
the Jewish Agency office in Pal
estine this week to submit to him
all available data ON the partici-
patton of Palestine Jews in the
British war effort = Mr.. Pink
ertOn'S report on this subject is
expected in Washington in con-
nectiOn with the possibility of
assigning the Lease-Lend funds.
:. = While sentiments in Wash
ingtOn are divided on the question
of the creation of a Jewish Army
in Palestine, there seems to be no
opposition to the demand to have
Jews in Palestine armed for self
defense = The gravity of the
Jewish position in case of Axis
attack on Palestine is we'll real
lied by all who have something
to say in Washington = Some
body ought to inform the Commit
tee for Jewish Army that the
word Palestine" is misspelled on
the beautiful and expensive bronze
sign hanging on the door of it's
Washington office : The sign
reads: COMMITTEE for a Jewish
Army of Palistenian and Stateless
Jews"
HERE AND THERE: It was
quite a startling discovery for the
FBI to find lists of names of Jew
ish officials in the hands of ar
rested Nazi spies in New York.
: 1t seems that one of the
missions of Nazi agents in Amer
lea it so compile card system of
Jews serving in government Of
fees and to transmit their names
to the Gestapo in Germany =
Some six years ago, when I had
trouble with the Gestapo in Ber-
lin, noticed that the Nazi secret
police were compiling names of
Jewish leaders abroad = That
was when 1 was summoned to the
Gestapo headquarters to give
explanations" about my anti
Nazi dispatches to America =
Accompanied by the American
Consul, Raymond H. Geist, I ap-
peared in the office of the recent
ly-assassinated Gestapo leader
Heydrich for questioning during
which it became obvious that the
Gestapo keeps record of Jewish
leaders in America and England.
No one, however, suspected
that the Gestapo was also going
out of its way to compile lists of
Jews in the service of Government
institutions in America = One
can easily imagine the extent of
the "Jewsh Who's Who" compiled
by the Gestapo during the years
of the existence of the Nazi re-
gime, if, as established now by the
FBI, the compilation of Jewish
names in America is still part
and-parcel of the NaZi espionage
work in the United States at pres
ent =
RUSSIAN ECHOES: The for
nation of committee to answer
the call of Russian JeWry for
bOmbers and tanks to the Russian
Army as a gift of Jews in the
democratic countries is now being
negotiated in New York = 1t is
understood that DIR. Chain WeiZ-