Zionist Leader Sends Condolences on Mundelein’s Death

Dr. Solomon Goldman, president of the Zionist Organization of America, today telegraphed the following message of condolence on Cardinal Mundelein’s death to the Catholic diocese in Chicago: “The Zionist Organization of America shares with all Americans in their sorrow over the passing of one of the world’s foremost religious leaders and distinguished statesmen, His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, whose career beginning in poverty and ending in universal esteem sheds luster on his great Church and our glorious democracy. He was a great spiritual father in whom the humble underprivileged and persecuted could find encouragement, comfort and protection. The Zionist Organization particularly offers its heartfelt condolence to the Catholic Church and the Catholic Community of Chicago.”

BIDDLE MAPS WAR REFUGEE AID PLAN

Biddle expressed conviction that among the forms of relief which American organizations would have to send to the occupied territories would be mechanized medical units. Such units, with sanitary equipment, must be sent as quickly as possible to save the lives of many, he said.

The Ambassador also promised to take immediate steps to establish the fate of Israel Giterman, Polish representative of the Joint Distribution Committee; Mendel Mozes, chief of the Warsaw bureau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and others.

The Polish information reaching Paris regarding the fate of the Jews in Warsaw said that the majority of the estimated Jewish population of 350,000 were unable to evacuate because trains were not running and other means of transportation were virtually paralyzed by Army confiscation of all vehicles.

Now, under the Nazi regime, the Jews are reported to be undergoing renewed terrorism as the Nazis try to play the Poles against the Jews through radio and other propaganda outlets, using the arguments that the Germans will “polonize” Poland and see to it that “the Jews no longer exploit the Polish people.”

Reporting in a radio broadcast on the large number of Jewish suicides in Warsaw, Nazi announcers said that “in this way the Jewish problem in Poland is beginning to be solv automatically.

The information reaching Polish circles here emphasizes that Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda has not affected the Polish population and that many Poles are helping Jews in Warsaw to hide from Nazi arrest. It is added, however, that something must be done to bring immediate relief since in no occupied city do the Jews suffer as greatly as in Warsaw.