1946 January 3 1946 The Manchester Guardian

GORING'S STEPSON Escape from Prison in Czechoslovakia

Goring's "stepson" is at large in the frontier
region of Polish Teschen, Prague radio said last night It added: "He bears
no special marks of identity. Will anyone recognizing him please inform the
Ministry of the Interior at once ? "

Prague radio
broadcast on Monday an announcement that "an important prisoner" had
broken gaol in Prague, Reuter adds, and it is thought that the broadcast must
relate to the "stepson." Goring's first wife, Carin von Kantzow, had
a son of eight when she met Goring soon after the end of the 1914-18 war.

A Reuter dispatch from Stockholm on November 22 said that
Tomas Kantzow had applied to the United States Legation in Stockholm -for
permission to go to Nuremberg to give evidence for Goring. , Nothing appears to
have been made public about his movements and it is not certain that he is the
man referred to.

U.S. , ARMY TO CLOSE WARTON SCHOOL

Reopening in Germany

Warton, the American technical school, near Lytham St. Annes. will close this
month, following the end of its current 'term, and the staff will move to
Germany, to be followed in March by the United States Army university center at
Biarritz, Brigadier General Tut W. Thompson, Theatre Chief of the Information
and Education Division. announced yesterday. As a part of the retrenchment programme
will cut its military staff from 1.600 to 200 and Biarritz will eliminate more
than 1.000 from its present staff of 1,400. American and foreign civilians will
fill out the operational staff.

Warton which has graduated approximately 6,50O soldier
vocational students is expected to reopen in the spring, admitting 1,500
students as compared to its previous 4,000 for the regular eight-week term.

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1946 MISS
ELEANOR RATHBONE AMMUNITION TRUCKS BLOW UP: TRAIN-LOAD IN DANGER 410s. MINIMUM
REJECTED ' SHOOTING OF PRISONERS

JEWS PLANNING TO GET OUT OF EUROPE? U.N.R.R.A. Chief's
Belief ORGANIZED MOVEMENT OF REFUGEES Their Aim to Reach Palestine FROM OUR
CORRESPONDENT LATELY IN AUSTRIA

Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan, chief of U.N.R.R.A. operations
in Europe, spoke in Frankfort yesterday of his belief that European Jews have
"a positive plan for a second exodus." This is the first official
reference to a situation that for some time has been causing disquiet to the
Allied authorities dealing with displaced persons and refugees in Germany and
Austria.

Evidence of organization on a fairly large scale became '
noticeable in Austria in October when Jews from Central Europe began filtering
across the Austrian border and making their way into the British zone. When
questioned by British officials some of these Jews said that they were "on
their way to Palestine," and they asked to be sent to British camps. In
some cases, they referred by name to the commanders of particular camps to
which they asked to be sent.

Some of these Jewish wanderers were also well supplied with
money and two of them were found to have between them the equivalent of about 39,000
in various currencies. The general plan appeared to be that after reaching
Austria these Jewish wanderers, would wait for some opportunity of going on
into Italy where they would again wait for the chance of finding a ship to go
to Palestine. Two aspects of this problem worried the British authorities. First, there was concern over the traffic in
illegal immigrants to Palestine and, secondly, there was administrative
difficulty in dealing with Jewish refugees who, since they reached Austria of
their own free will technically were not \u201cdisplaced persons.\u201d

A further problem caused by the arrival of these Jews \u201con
their way to Palestine\u201d is the psychological effect on those genuinely \u201cdisplaced\u201d
Jews\u2014almost all of whom want to go to Palestine\u2014already waiting in camps in
Austria and Germany for some kind of future to be found for them.

It is estimated that something like 90 per cent of Jews in
the American zone of Germany pin their hopes on going to Palestine and this
overwhelming desire to reach Palestine is probably as strong among Jews in the
other occupation zones.

FEAR OF GOING BACK TO POLAND

General Morgan is reported to have said that although Jews
now arriving from Poland all told stories of \u201cthreats, pogroms, and atrocities,\u201d
his representatives had not been able to find \u201ca concrete example of a pogrom
inside Poland.\u201d

What is also of importance, however, is the widespread fear
of returning to Poland that undoubtedly does exist among Polish Jews in
Germany. In the autumn, when the
question of Polish repatriation from Germany was being discussed, only about 5
per cent of Polish Jews expressed a desire to return, and many of these had
some compelling personal reason like the desire to search for missing
relatives.

The fear of returning to Poland is real, even if the facts
do not justify it. If this fear can be
removed it will be an important step forward in dealing with a tragic and difficult
problem.

GENERAL MORGAN'S STATEMENT His Doubts About Polish Pogroms
Frankfurt, January 2. General Morgan stated to-day that he believed European Jews.
had a \u201cpositive plan for a second exodus," this time from Europe to Palestine.
He did not "believe that the mass movement of Jews had the connivance of
the Polish Government or of any other Eastern Power, but thought an unknown
Jewish organization was behind it.

General Morgan said that he had seen an exodus of Jews from
Poland on Russian trains on a regular route from Poland to Berlin. All of them
were well dressed, well fed, healthy, and had \u201cpockets bulging with
money." All of them told the same monotonous story of threats, pogroms,
and atrocities in Poland as a reason for their leaving.

"NO CONCRETE EXAMPLE\u201d

But U.N.R.R.A. representatives had been unable to find a
concrete example of a pogrom inside Poland. "We can always get statements
from Jews that there was a pogrom in the next town to them," the General,
said, and he was growing more convinced that the reported pogroms and
atrocities of Jews in Poland are based less and less on fact. The stories, he
thought, were the result of an organized plan to force the United Nations into
taking action to give the Jews a permanent home.

The organization to form Jews into a world force a weak
force numerically, but one which will have a generating power for getting what
the Jews want seemed to be forming in Poland md Bavaria. "Some motivating
force or promises are influencing Jews to give up comfortable living in Poland\u2014which
is proved by their physical condition, dress and money when they arrive in
Berlin\u201d

A new factor in the United States zone-- the arrival of a
whole carload of Jewish children from Rumania and Hungary added to General
Morgan's belief that a world organization of Jews was being formed. He did not
know who was financing the movement or stuffing Jewish pockets with Russian
printed occupation marks. He cited the
example of a \u201ccommittee of committee of liberated Jews in Bavaria\u201d which
formerly wrote to him on scraps of paper and was now writing on the finest
engraved stationery.

The forming of a \u201cfederation of former inmates of
concentration camps\u201d in Germany, he believed, would bring German Jews into the
movement. As these Jews were not
displaced persons, he added, they did not come under the jurisdiction of U.N.R.R.A.

The four major Powers, said General Morgan, had failed to
take any constructive action to solve either the Jewish problem or that of the
displaced persons in Europe. \u201cit looks
to me as if they are passing the buck.\u201d He added.

If the United Nations fail to undertake and solve the
problem in some satisfactory manner we will have the seeds of a third world war
in our care and under the protection of the British, United States, and French armies
\u201cthe general said.

A hard core of 300,000 to 5000,000 displaced persons who
cannot be repatriated would remain in Europe after the end of this year. The problem of displaced persons throughout
Europe was facing a crisis which depended on the action of the United Nations
in deciding U.N.R.R.A.\u2019s future. It was imperative,
he said, that a long-range policy be outlined for dealing with the
problem.

One solution, General Morgan suggested, was to send
displaced persons to countries like Australia or the United States, which could
absorb them. \u201cThe shortage of population
in the South Pacific was a vacuum which was one of the causes of war.\u201d He said \u2013Reuter
and British United Press.

PALESTINE QUOTA EXHAUSTED Jerusalem. January 2. Mr. J.V.
Shaw, Palestine Government Chief Secretary, said to-day that virtually all the
75,000 immigration certificates provided for by the White Paper had been
exhausted, and "unless and until the British Government took a decision
that Jewish immigration should continue during the period of the Anglo-American
inquiry the Palestine Government had no authority to issue further immigration
visas. Reuter.

STRONG JEWISH DENIALS OF A " PLAN " Mr. A. L.
Easterman, London political secretary of the World Jewish Congress last night criticized
General Morgan's statements. He said:

General Morgan's allegation of a secret Jewish force inside
Europe aiming at a "-ass exodus to Palestine is not only fan untrue, but
is clearly designed to prejudge the findings of the Anglo-American committee of
inquiry on Palestine.

His allegation that the Jews seem to have organized a plan
enabling them to become world force which will have a generating power for getting
what they want is sheer Nazism, even in its very wording, which might well come
from any speech by Hitler and his gang of Fascist anti-Semites.

It is an undoubted fact that the vast majority of the Jews
in Germany see in Palestine as their only possibility of a future in freedom
and security. Their desire to leave the places which have for them only
memories of horror should be treated with sympathy and respect'

Not less unfounded are General Morgan's allegation that the
reported pogroms and atrocities on Jews in Poland are based less and less on
fact. To suggest, as General Morgan does, that reports of attacks upon Jews in
Poland are propaganda is a libel not only upon the few Jews who have survived
the Nazi gas chambers and horror camps but also the 6,000,000 Jewish dead whose
murder is one of the principal elements in the indictment of the war criminals
now on trial at Nuremberg.''

\u201cSAVOURS OF NAZISM\u201d

- Mr. Stephen Wise: Rabbi: of New York and President of the
United States section of the World Jewish Congress, made this comment on the General Morgan\u2019s
statement:

It not only savours of Nazism at its worst but goes back to
the Elders of Zion forgery of a century ago.
To speak of Jews living comfortably in Pland is a brutal, harsh disreagard
of the 50,000 to 75,000 Jews in Poland who cannot continue to live in a land
which had become the cemetery of their murdered people.

Rabbie Wise said that General Morgan\u2019s statement did both
General Morgan and U.N.R.R.A. the greatest discredit \u2013British United Press.

CZECH EXPULSION OF GERMANS Delayed Till Spring Prague,
January 2. The expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, it was understood here
to-day, will be delayed until the spring because the Allied authorities in
Germany are unable to deal with large masses of deportees during the winter.
The Czechoslovaks intended that 250,000 Germans should be expelled in December
and 125,000 in January, and that the whole deportation scheme should end in August.
The delay, which has mainly been caused
by the weather and food conditions in Germany, has disorganized Czech plans for
resettling the border areas. It is likely that the whole expulsion plan may now
be reorganized because of the need of retaining skilled German workers for the
export industries. Reuter.