AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE. 119, RUE 8AINT-DOMIN1QUB TBIiWMKMni BUBOPEAN HXHCUTIVH PARIS (7") V 87 " 88 COUNCIL INVAIilDMS j f 79-87

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1 AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE 119, RUE 8AINT-DOMIN1QUB TBIiWMKMni BUBOPEAN HXHCUTIVH PARIS (7") V 87 " 88 COUNCIL INVAIilDMS j f V oaiir.ks * TBLBIOKAJHS JOINTIJ'TJND - PARIS January 27, 1953 r-. x Letter No..A?...,/ ^, v To: AJDC, New York ' «U Attention Mr. Moses A. Leavitt From: AJDC, Paris Public Relations Department Dear Mr. Leavitt: Enclosed please find two copies of the translation of the second article of the series appearing in the French Communist daily newspaper "Ce Soir" plus a clipping of the above-mentioned article about the JDC. This article appears in the issue of January 28, RC:jh Enclosures? Cordially, M Richard Cohen The Joint Distribution Commutes receives its funds in the United States through the United Jewish Appeal. Outside ol the United Slates, the Joint Distribution Committee has the active cooperation of the South African Jewish Appeal United Jewish Relief Agencies. Canada; Central British Fund; Organization Central de Ayuda, Arqentlna; Comlfas Auxillar do Joint. Brazil; United Jewish Overseas Relief Funds. Australia; Joint Relief Committee. Mexico; and others.

2 .( ' p. i (..-: *, IF, W? j?'. SU'R L ' O R G A N I S A T I O N JUIVE AMERICAINE LE JOINT' La preuve qu'il ne s'agit pas dc philanthropic C EST QITON VOIT CONFIER LES FONCTIONS DE CHEF PU SERVICE PES "PUBLIC RELATIONS" PE PARIS A UN FIPELE PE TROTSKY M EDWARD WARBURG, p r e s i d e n t d u conseil d'ad* ministration d u «Joint D i s t r i b u t i o n C o m m i t t e e», a p r o test* ces j o u r s d e m i e r s c o n t r e les accui n s de c o n s p i r a t i o n et d'esi.mge p o r t e e s c o n t r e s o n o~-iini5nli<m. is revlendrons sur la blogral. de M. Edward Morltz Marcus Warburg:, banquler et flls du fondateur du «J o i n t». Demandons-lul des m a l n t e n a n t pourquol fin nommalt M. Boris M. Joffe aux fonctlons de secretaire adjoint du Comlte exccutlf pour l E u r o p e du J.D.C. et pourquol SI. Boris Mi Joffe nommalt aux fonctlons de dlrecteur du service parlslen des «Public relations» (presse et Information) M. Charles Malamuth. J ' a i sous les yeux un document de Vete 1040 consacre aux «overseas operations» (operations d'outre-mer) et signe de M. Charles Malamuth, qui depuls tors a quit t6 le «J o i n t» pour prendre du service a la radio de «l'europe Ilbre» a Francfort. M Charles Malamuth est de ces hommes que dans les services specialises am<rlcains on se prete volontiers. Mais qui est M. Charles Malamuth? Puisque le r6ie du «Joint Distribution Committee» est d'apport e r une aide aux Julfs d'europe, pourquol ne pas avoir chofsl, our accompllr cette t a c h e, un cliyen a m e n c a l n s a c s orientation politique determlnee et soucleux unlquement de philanthropic f E S evenements recents ont mis en lumlere l'actlon subvers i v e du «J o i n t ii e t a u t r e s o r g a n i s a t i o n s Juiveg I n t e r n a t i o n a l e s. D a n s l a t r e s i m p o r t a n t e e n q u e t e q u e Ce soir public, P i e r r e H e r v e, d a n s u n p r e m i e r a r t i c l e, a e x a m i n e h i e r les c o n d i t i o n s d a n s lesquelles l'activlte d o r g a n i s a t i o n s telles q u e 1' «A m e r i c a n J e w i s h J o i n t D i s t r i b u t i o n C o m m i t t e e» a p u r e x e r c e r, II e s t a n j o u r d i i u i q u e s t i o n d'un speciallste de la philanthropic. D quitter le < P a g e a n t Magazine» se prepare a crlre un llvre pour Victor A. Kravchenko, anclen merabre de la mission d'achat sovletlque...» Or. Charles Malamuth a 6W adjoint d'eugene Lyons du temps qu'll e alt correspondant d' «United P r e s s» a Moscou. Charles Malamuth a tradult r«am<rlcaln les 500 premieres pages du m a n u s crit de Kravchenko. mals ensulte une querelle au sujet du prlx de la traduction les a oppos6s l'un a l'autre. Malamuth est un famlller du trotskyste Max Eastman, STALIN»N APPRAISAL o r TH! MAN AND MIS INFLUENCE h Leon Trotsky C Le traducteur de Kravchenko D A preuve qu'll ne s'agit pa* de phllanthrople, o'est qu'on volt confler les fnnrtlnns de che CH»«.i.tS MALAUUTH d'isaao Don Levlne, qui prlt part a la redaction du livro de KIchard K r e b s, dlt J e a n Valtin. e t de quelqiies a u t r e s sp&lalistes de la lite r a t u r e aotlsovletlque. On dlt qu'a >'ew-york Kravchenko vecut chez lul et que ce «ghost w r i t e r» ecrivaln fanlome) faisalt dans le groupe Lyons. Don Levlne et Cw une besog'ne blen determines. F a u t II y voir un Indice dans le fait qu'en 1048 des exclus du parti communlste amerlcaln tels que J a y Lovestone et Ben Gltlow vlnrent lui rendre visite a P a r i s? Sans doute etalt-ce une bonne preparation au role de chef du service des «Publlo relations «du J.D.C. que de rfdlger en d'apres les papier de T r o s t k y. une blographle de Stallne. blographle qui etalt prete pour la publication au moment de P e a r l - H a r b o u r mals dut a t t e n d r e en ralson des circonstanccs? L'homme qu'il faliait... ES employes du «Joint» m ' o n t rapport* que M. Charles M a l a m u t h n heslfca pas a Uvrer a la police Ilallenne des julfs, qui falsalent partle d'un convol pour l a Palestine et lui avalent ete denonces comme communlstes. A une conference de presse organisee par le «Joint», un j o u r n a llste voulut poser une question a" grand financier J u l! M o r g ' - " mals M. C h a r ' s - " i i - m u t l L fut charg* du service de pnbllclt*. Cet anclen professeur de cours rapldes de russe a la c Cornwell TJnlversliy» (sans doute a, l'intentlon des eventuels esplons e t p a r a chutistes) etait-il vraiment «the right man In the right place a, l'homme qu'll fallalt? Onl, si on veut blen conalderer qlie le < J o i n t Dlstiibullon Committee» n ' a pas pour seul objectlf la phllantrople. (A sulvre.) Prochain article : UNE SOUPE DANGEREUSE

3 / Translation of No. 2 In series of articles "Revelations on the American Jewish Organisation the 'Joint1" by Pierre Herve. This article appears in the Communist daily "Ce Soir" of January 28, THE PROOF THAT IT IS MOT A QUESTION OP PHILANTHROPY IS THAT THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT HEAD OF "PUBLIC RELATIONS" IN PARIS ARE ENTRUSTS) TO A FAITHFUL TROTSKZXTB Mr. Edward Warburg, president of the administrative council of the "Joint Distribution Committee," protested these last few days against the accusations of conspiracy brought against his organisation. Ne will come back to the biography of Mr. Edward Merits Marcus Warburg, banker and son of the founder of the "Joint." Let's ask hin right now why at the end of 1946 he named Mr* Boris M, Joffe to the of floe of assistant secretary of the European executive eommlttos of the JDG and why Mr. Boris M. Joffe named to the office of director of the department of public relations (press and information) Mr. Charles Malamuth. I have bedero me a document of the summer of 1949 devoted to "overseas operations" and signed by Mr. Charles Malamuth, who since then has left the "Joint" to take a place with Radio Free Europe in Frankfort. Mr. Charles Malamuth is one of those men whom the American specialized services lend each other freely. But who is Mr. Charles Malamuth? Since the role of the "Joint Distribution Committee" 1 B to bring aid to the Jews of Europe, why not have chosen, to accomplish this task, an American citizen without determined political orientation and concerned only with philanthropy? The Translator of Kravchenka The proof that is is not a question of philanthropy is that the functions of the department head of "Public Relations" in Paris are entrusted to a faithful Trotakyite. Mr. Charles Malamuth is in eo mmunioatioa with the group of Russian ijencheviks of New York, who for thirty years has devoted itself to antl-soviot propaganda. On the 26th of April the "New lork Post" wrote: "Jugene Lyons, who just left 'Pageant Magazine1 is preparing to write a book for Viator A. Kravchenko, former member of the Soviet buying mission.. " I row Charles Malamuth was the assistant of Sugene Lyons at the time uhon he was "United Press" correspondent in Moscow. Charles Malamuth translated into American the first 500 pages of Kravchenko'a manuscript, but then a disagreement over the subject of the nriee of the translation caused their opposition. Malamuth is an intimate of the Trotskyite Max Eastman* of Issae Don Levlne, who took part In the publication of the book by Richard Krebs, called Jean Valtin, and of some other specialists of Anti-Soviet literature. It Is sold that Kravchenko lived in his horns in New York and that this "ghost writer" filled a well-determined job in the group Lyons, Don Levlne and oompany. Should we see some indication in the fact that in 194S people barred from the American Communist Party such as Jay Lovestons and Dan Gitlow earns to visit him in Paris? Doubtlessly wasn't it a good preparation for the job of director of the "Public Relations" department of JDC to draft In , from Trotsky's papers, a biography of Stalin, a biography which was ready for publication at the moment of Pearl Harbor but which had to wait because of circumstances?

4 r s - 2- Tho Man Who Was Needed Employees of "Joint" have reported to me that Mr. Charles Malamuth did not hesitate to deliver to the Italian polios Jews who were members of a aonvey for Palestine and who had been denounced to him as Communists. At a press conforenoe organized by the "Joint" a journalist wanted to ask a question of the great Jewish financier Morganthau, but Mr, Charles Malamuth intervened and without hiding his oontecpt, pronounced these words t "Mr. Morganthau, don't answer this question. This is a Communist Jew who has asked it." Mr. Malamuth went every week to the American Embassy. He participated In certain conferences there. At the tine of the organisation of the 'Friendship Train" he is responsible for the publicity work. This former of rapid Russian courses at "Cornwall University" (without doubt with the intention of eventual spies and parachutists) was he really "the right man In the right place" (English In original text)? Xes, if one is willing to consider that the "Joint Distribution Committee's" only objective is philanthropy. (To be continued.) Next article! A Dangerous Soup. INBOX Recent events have brought to light the subversive action of the "Joint" and other Jewish international organisations. In this very important inquest which "Ce Solr" Is publishing,** Pierre Herve, in the first article, examinee yesterday the conditions in which organisations such as the "American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee" T>ere able to operate. Today it is a question of a specialist of philanthropy.

5 Vm SUN. TUESDAV. JANUARY 27. T953. ' : ', f East German Jews Fear Worse Red f error _: -i ( _ I u By JOSEPH W. GRIGG. The handful of German Jews who escaped Hitler's agreement was reached for thu United Press Stall Writer. extermination camps are in mass flight today from a leaders to flee separately on difberlin. Jan. 27. Anti-Semi- new terror the threat of Communist persecutions in ferent days. They headed, first tism in Soviet-run East Germany is Soviet East Germany. Joseph W. Grigg, United Press for Communist-run East Berlin, Once there, they slipped into West a Moscow-ordered, Communistoperated import which has little manager for Germany, is an expert on persecution in- Berlin without difficulty. or no support among the mass of side Germany. He covered the Hitler drive to extermithe East German population, es- nate the Jews as a correspondent in Berlin from 1939 caped heads of the East German to Now he has obtained an exclusive interview Jewish community said today. with leaders of the East German community giving But in spite of its lack of the first authentic first-hand account of the new Compopular support. East German munist anti-semitic measures. His dispatch, the second Jews who saw and felt the fury of of two, follows: Hitler's anti-semitic pogroms are By tht Vnitei Pratt.' in terror of what East Germany's WASHrNGTON, Jan. 27. SecRed rulers may plan for the fu- meet them only through a care- member of the Communist party retary of the Interior Douglas fully arranged appointment and (he said he never was a Commu- McKay said today states should ture. They are fleeing, they said, be at a secret hideaway in the west nist at heart) was called before develop civil defense programs on ' ause they are convinced the sector of this divided city. They Guenther Tenner, chief of the their own. without depending on nmunist bosses of the Soviet will remain concealed until just central control commission of the federal financial aid. e are preparing arrests and prior to their flight by plane to party and interrogated for five He recommended a strong fedcommunist-model "show trials" the greater safety of West Ger- hoiu-s. eral agency to supervise and coa few days later he was ques- ordinate civil defense, but he opof Jewish leaders on charges they many. tioned again. arc agents of the United States. As described by Mr. Meyer and posed the appropriation of hundreds of millions or dollars in fed"there is no wave of anti- others of the leaders, the Soviet- /Refused to Sign Statement Semitism among the East German style persecution of the Jews dif- / He was asked repeatedly, I he eral money for that purpose. people Itself," said Julius Meyer. fers sharply at this stage from Mr. McKay's position was at iaid, whether the Americarv Joint odds with that of the Truman 43-year-old head of the Ea3t Ger- Hitler's extermination drive. man Jewish community. Hitler sought one objective the Distnbutiqri_Commlttee (Jewish administration. Former President "Anti-Semitism in East Ger- complete, physical extinction o! welfare agency cttsrged by Mis- T r u m a n repeatedly criticized many today is inspired by the the Jews. cow with engineering a Kremlin Congress for slashing appropriarussians and found only among doctor's plot to murder high So- tion requests for the federal civil For Political pjirposes. the top ranks of the Communist viet leaders) was an agencj^ff defense agency. The Russian anti-semitic driv party." Mr. McKay spoke before the the fugitives said, is Moscow-uj- the U.S. g o v e r n meat.*** He wt American Legion's national sebears Mark of Auschwitz. askeef for" names of all Ea.it Ger Mr. Meyer knows anti-semitism splrcd and appears to be desigt man Jews who received AJD.' curity commission. from bitter experience. He still to serve political purposes alou/ food packages. The Communisialcivi"I believe most sincerely in' bears on his right arm the tattooed probably to win support of f."a demanded that he >ign a state-fcvar defense, whether we have or not," he said. "The civil number he bote in dread Ausch- Arab world. witz extermination camp where "For more than six momfitt raent saying the packages con- efensc organization should betained Illegal propaganda maiome a permanent fixture ready thousands of fellow Jews died. ever since the Slansky arrest- in He and all other leaders of Prague." Mr. Meyer said, "we terial and weapons. He said he to handle such peacetime emerrefused. gencies as floods and earthquakes f» East German Jewish com- have been convinced the East ity are safe in Berlin with Zone Communist government was Other Jewish leaders had ex- as well as an enemy attack.",'. i...r families after their flight paving the way for a public show pected Mr. Meyer's arrest durin 'rom the East. Nearly 400 others trial of East German Jewish the second interrogation and had Kidney Transplant Failing arranged a code message to bo * the 2300 Jews in East Ger- leaders. Sir t/itf Auoctattd Freu. ; ny and East Berlin have fol- "Shortly after the Slanksy passed to all. On receipt of the PARIS. Jan. 27. Little hope, <1 them and more are com- trial." he said. "Communist au- message, "Grandpa Is dying.;' all was held today for Mariua Renard, dally. thorities began spying on us. Po- were to flee at once. Mr. Meyer 16, who has lived 3J days with; a n here the spectre of feav lice watched our homes. Our was not arrested. But the Incident convinced all single transplanted kidney. Hospi i them. They fear kid- phones were tapped." tal reports said he was jinking by Soviet agents in this On New Year's Eve. he said, it was no longer safe to remain fast... estern island, surrotmded all East Zone Jewish leaders met in East Germany. On Jan. 10 "red sea" of the outlying in Leipzig and discussed the posfor WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY A? D> McKay Urges States Build Own CD Setups 'ie biiity r.t " * 6, w ',, t ""HE ENTIRE WEEK EN '