Juan Yarur Lolas
Juan Yarur Lolas (January 8, 1894 - August 21, 1954) was a Mandatory Palestine born - Arab Chilean banker.[1]
Yarur was reported[2][3][4] to have negotiated, without success, the engagement as his financial adviser of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the former Nazi Minister of Economy.
Schacht served in Adolf Hitler's government as President of the Central Bank (Reichsbank) 1933–1939 and as Minister of Economics (August 1934 – November 1937).
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In 1950, anti-Semitic[5][6] (was banned in WWII by the Allied Forces because it published Nazi propaganda[7]) ex-Mufti supporter, Mundo Arabe - Central Arab Committee of Chile's weekly journal, reported of a launching of an Arab Youth Movement and "gradually it is hoped the Arabs of both the Americas will be United into a single force."
The initiative for this ambitious project came from the most active Arab group in South America. This group boasted of prestige and influence both in Arab countries and in Latin America. Its chairman was Juan Yarur.[2]
It was the timely publicity that helped to frustrate the clever design to engage Schacht.[4]
A relative and business associate of his, Nicolás Yarur, served as the Latin American representative of "All Palestine" and UN delegate of the Arab Higher Committee.[2] He joined the position in December 1949.[8]
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References
- ↑ Baeza, Cecilia (2006). "Les identités politiques à l'épreuve de la mobilité. Le cas des Palestiniens d'Amérique latine". Raisons Politiques. 21 (1): 77–95. [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Wiener Library bulletin. United Kingdom: 1961, p. 23. [2].
Arab Propaganda in Latin America ... A Youth Movement is to be launched, and gradually it is hoped the Arabs of both the Americas will be United into a single force. The initiative for this ambitious project comes from the most active Arab group in South America, the Central Arab Committee of Chile, whose weekly journal Mundo Arabe, 17/3/50, reports the details. This group boasts of prestige and influence both in Arab countries and in Chile. Its chairman is Sr. Juan Yarur, owner one of the largest Chilean textile concerns, with controlling interests in a number of other firms. He was reported to have negotiated, without success, the engagement as his financial adviser of Dr. Schacht, the former Nazi Minister of Economy. (Cf. Wiener Library Bulletin , March 1950, p. 12). A relative and business associate of his , Nicolás Yarur, is the Latin American representative of "All Palestine" and UN delegate of the Arab Higher Committee. Most of these Arabs are Lebanese, and the interest shown in them by their native country was demonstrated by the visit in April of the Foreign Minister of Lebanon. This visit is appreciated by Mundo Arabe , 31/3/50, in connection with the Middle Eastern tour of Dr. Diego Luis Molinari, Chairman of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who paid glowing and impartial compliments to both Lebanon and Israel.
Mundo Arabe is not concerned with any compliments for Israel whose statehood and Government it never mentions except in unfriendly quotation marks. In fact the very worst intentions are imputed to the Jews : they want to conquer the entire Middle East as part of a plan to dominate the entire world. (Cf. editorial, 31/3/50). No evidence is produced to give substance to such startling allegations, but much is explained by the fact that Mundo Arabe presents itself as a faithful follower of the ex-Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini whose portrait appears on the front page on March 17 with a statement that "the spiritual and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs repudiates the Jordanian elections and denounces the 'British conspiracy'."
Supporters of Ex-Mufti. The same issue carries the banner headline, "The Jews (sic. mundo Arabe) Plan the Destruction of the Nations," a rehash of the Nazi stories about the common Jewish and Masonic Capitalism.
Undiluted Nazi propaganda is also evident, on March 24, in a manifesto by the Argentine Revolutionary National - Syndicalist Movement which denounces the asassination of Count Bernadotte as one in a series of J.. [sic] murders. It so happens that the rather fanciful catalogue is almost identical with the list produced by the Nazis at the time of the Von Rath murder Characteristically, too, the "Protocols of Zion" are quoted, and the gratuitous information is offered that "the five million Jews, 'murdered' by the Germans, to-day live [sic], in their majority, in Argentina" (which actually has a Jewish population of roughly 400,000). However, Mundo Arabe, both the paper and its radio station, come up against considerable opposition. In a style again distinctly reminiscent of Nazi technique, the editor complains (March 24) that "the whole of Latin America is infested [sic] by the clever pro-Jewish propaganda." - ↑ Alfred Werner, The Irrepressible Herr Schacht:Hitler’s Adviser Stages a Comeback, Commentary Magazine, July 1949.
... Most of the Nazi bigwigs who shared the dock with Schacht in Nuremberg are now either dead or in jail, but the man who liked to refer to himself as the “Economic Napoleon of the 20th Century” now lives undisturbed with his second wife near Hamburg in the British zone, unrepentant, self-assured... He seems not in the least afraid of the Goddess of Justice! When in 1947, after his Nuremberg acquittal, a German de-Nazification court sentenced Schacht to eight years of forced labor, the decision was quashed by the Court of Appeals at Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the American zone. However, the Minister of de-Nazification of Wuerttemberg-Baden over-ruled the appeals court and ordered a new trial for January 31, 1949. The scene was ready for the trial, but the defendant was absent. A new date was set and the President-Justice warned Schacht that he would be tried in absentia should he fail to appear. On the appointed day, Schacht did not appear and instead sent a letter claiming that the entire trial was illegal. Thereupon the court rejected the appeal it had previously granted Schacht....
The textiles firm, Yarur, in Chile, has asked Schacht to become its financial and commercial adviser. The Yarurs are .. Arabs who belong to the wealthiest and most influential families in Chile. It remains to be seen whether the Allies will permit Schacht to emigrate to Chile. If he should go to Chile, he could be of enormous aid to the large German minority which is pro-Nazi. - ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 8, 1950, p. 47.
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C. C. Aronsfeld, "Nazis in South America.";
The New Central European Observer: A Fortnightly Review. United Kingdom: New Central European Observer, 1950, p. 89.
C.C. Aronsfield, 'Nazis in South America' April 29, 1950.
An effort to secure the immigration of Dr. Schacht, the former Ministry of Economy, was made by the Santiago German colony. They worked in league with the local Germany colony, whose President, Juan Yarur, one of the wealthiest industrialists in Chile, was to have engaged the doctor as "financial adviser." Timely publicity helped to frustrate the clever design.
- ↑ American Jewish Year Book. Germany: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1951, p.225.
An openly anti-Semitic publication called El Mundo Arabe circulated in the Arab colony, which possessed great economic power in Chile and largely controlled the textile industry.
- ↑ Nes-El, Moshé. Estudios sobre el judaísmo chileno. Israel: Ediciones Revista de Oriente y Occidente, 2009, p.94.
La posición pro árabe se encuentra en el periódico Mundo Árabe, publicación quincenal, furibundo atacante de Israel y el sionismo, el que publicaba material antisemita.
- ↑ Popular Chilean Newspaper Charges Arab Publication with Incitement Against Jews, JTA, August 1, 1949.
A demand that the Chilean Government take action against the Chilean Arab newspaper Mundo Arabe if it continues its anti-Jewish campaign is voiced in the widely read Santiago newspaper Noticias de Ultima Hora, just received here. [...] It adds that the Arabe Mundo served as a propaganda organ of the Nazis during the late war and as such was blacklisted by the Allies.
- ↑ Migrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers in Latin America. Netherlands: Brill, 2020, p. 102.
In December 1949, Yarur joined the Palestinian delegation to the UN..
