European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday october 28, 1967 Book about Hitler s massacres Many jewish deaths charged to . Inaction new York a the administration of president Franklin d. Roosevelt knew Germany was carrying out a planned massacre of jews but obstructed thwarted and delayed actions that could have saved thousands of victims of nazi persecution in the 1940s, anew Book charges. There is no doubt from Evi Dence at hand that additional thousands of refugees could have been saved says Arthur deserters seek Haven in Chinatown Saigon a a number . Servicemen desert in Viet Nam and try to live by dealing on the Black Market pimping or occasionally by peddling Mari Juana a . Military police source reported Friday. The number of deserters a Large runs from 40 to 50 at any Given time the source said an their Freedom lasts from a few Days to several months. The deserters Are Able Togo underground most successfully in Cholon Saigon s chinese Section. Those with Luck make Contact with Black marketeers who furnish them with counter Feit pm ration cards to make Large purchases for resale on the flourishing Saigon Black Market. Some of the men also join up with prostitutes and live partly off their earnings the source said. A few peddle marijuana to other gis but the drug is so easily available this in t very Luca Tive Trade. American maps and civilian checking identification cards at the various Post exchanges Are Given photographs of service men absent without leave an most Are caught this Way the police source said. Some slip away from their units while awaiting trial on other charges. Many Are marijuana users. Most deserters serve their sentences in a stockade in Viet Nam and then Are sent Back to their units to Complete their one year Tours in the War  served in the Stock Ade Are considered bad time which does t count toward either the 12-month Vietnam serving period or the time required for discharge. The police source said no deserters Are known to have escaped from Vietnam. This would require considerable Money to get a fake passport and be smuggled out of the country. Cholon with its chinese secrets cities and traditional secretive ways makes the safest have especially for those who make connections with Black marketeers. The latter provide a Meas ure of , men have managed to stay on the outside for time in other Large towns where Large numbers of american troops move freely. In an attempt to Cut the num Ber of men going under ground tight controls have Bee put on passengers travelling by military planes in Vietnam. Number of men have been picked up trying to slip by Airport control Points. D. Morse in his Book while six million died a chronicle of american apathy schedule for publication in february. Details of the Book were revealed in wednesday s new York times which said the con tents of the books became Avail Able to it some time  is a former Columbia broadcasting system news executive now in Germany As director of the International broadcasting Institute. As a newsman Morse was granted Access to the state department s restricted files an government archives in London Geneva and Stockholm the Newyork times reported. In Washington state depart ment press officer Robert j. Mcclo key declined to comment on the substance of the allegations. He said the department will probably have no comment when the Book is  confirmed that Morse had Access to the record son the subject at the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park .,which is under state depart ment  says that there was an almost coordinated series Ofin actions based on Roosevelt s silence stringent enforcement of immigration Laws by the state department and the reluctance of Congress to relax immigration  charged it took the Divi searching for sniper a 1st Cav div Soldier moves through a dry drainage ditch in a Crouch seeking the source of sniper fire pinning Down his unit and South vietnamese villagers during operation Wallowa near Bihn Vang in Quang tin province. A photo birth rate prime cause of poverty Washington up unemployment research Organiza Tion said tuesday that High birth rates among the poor Are one of the prime causes of Pov erty. It called for wide scale family . Harold l. Sheppard of the w. E. Upjohn Institute said Ina staff paper that family plan Ning or birth control can be effective in creating the conditions for increased income forsaking people out of  he said High birth rates among the poor Are not merely a result of poverty they Are also a cause of  Sheppard using 1964 Statis tics when there were 34 million poor people estimated that i the poor families with four or More children had reduced the number of their children after the third by 50 per cent there would have been 4.8 million fewer persons that  calculation moreover does not take into account the possibility that the reduction of family size would have brought number of families above the poverty line which is partly based on family size in 1 Ellec Tion to income he  s report criticized the health education and Wel fare department s efforts to implement programs based units own conclusions that family planning is perhaps the mos effective Long run solution to the problem of  negroes Are less racist than Whites study says Berkeley Calif. Up less than a third of the negroes in America Are anti White and four out of five be Lieve their status is on the up Grade according to a univer sity of California study. Almost All negroes Are against indiscriminate Ter ror and hatred against Whites but half of those interviewed said racial violence in recent years has resulted in improve ment of conditions for negroes. The study also found that the great majority of negroes83 per cent in new York and 91per cent in Birmingham Are willing to fight for the unite states. The University of Californi researchers interviewed 1,119 negroes in Many areas of the United states. Their work was published thursday in a boo titled protest and  the author sociologist Gary Marx is now on the faculty at Harvard. Concluding that negroes careless racist than Whites and also less anti semitic the author notes that most of the inter views were conducted by negro researchers. The study found that the overwhelming majority of negroes in America Bear a hatred and anger toward the system of evil in this country but they reject indiscriminate terror against All White peo ple. However Marx says this moderate approach on the part of the negroes could Chang rapidly. A continued failure to obtain meaningful integration could change the attitude he says. Sion of european affairs five months to act on information that Hitler had ordered the extermination of All jews in Europe. Max Melamet executive director of the new York office of the world jewish Congress said it was not a new Story. We have always Felt the response was inexplicably tardy he said. We do not suggest the motives were anti semitic. But the decisions were expensively tardy in terms of human  Melamet said he Felt there May have been a Lack of under standing and sympathy on the part of some officials or Possi Bly bungling and inefficiency. Morse says that Gerhart Rieg Ner the world jewish Congress representative in Switzerland and the Man who had alerted Washington to the massacre of700,000 jews in Poland went to the . Consulate in Geneva aug. 1. 1942, with his new in formation. In the state department twas met with Universal disbelief and suppressed Morse writes. On aug. 28, rabbi Stephen  received the information through the British foreign of fice and went to see undersecretary of state Sumner Welles who had initiated the decision to suppress of Caner s  urged Wise to refrain from a Public announcement of the extermination order and Wise agreed. Then in november Welles called in Wise and confirmed the report. Morse cites a memorandum from Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau or. To Roose velt on Jan. 16, 1944, criticizing the state department for having delayed for five months and thus probably thwarting a planto save thousands of jews from France and Romania. Morgenthau wrote a nether one views this failure As being deliberate on the part of those officials handling the matter or merely duet their incompetence is not too important from my Point of View. However there is a growing number of responsible people and organizations today who have ceased to View our failure As the product of simple in competence on the part of those officials in the state depart ment handling this problem. They see Plain anti semitism motivating the actions of these state department officials and rightly or wrongly will require Little More in the Way of proof for this suspicion to explode into a Nasty  the memorandum was no made Public. But Morse says that shortly afterwards Roose velt created the War refugee Board to handle refugee poli cies. Tripes european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Elmer d. Fran production a lager Henry s. 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