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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

16

January 31, 1941

and The Leaal Chronicle

Dr. Lazarowitz Gets
t Michigan Leaders
"Therefore, to do what we can Greece and only three weeks ago
Elecconf erence elected Dr. '
The
Degree at U. of M
U. P. A.
to aid them has become an in- British Air Marshall D'Al en Abba Hillel Silver national chair- ""
tegral part of the larger struggle praised the bravery of these m
yea s campaar n. from tional J. Leon Lazarowitz, na-
Dr.
to which we have already co- serving under his command in man
of thisthos e r'el ected ige the
(Continued from Page 1)
Among
pres ident of the Rambling
chairmen
following
honorary
Churchill as Prime Minister, the mitted ourselves," he told the that country.
are serving Michigan: Fred M. Butzel and Hobo Fellowship of America, was
to
9,000
se
"Clo
r
ence.
re- confe
of Palestine
White Paper policy, with its ion
said that the Jewish nation- in the defense
striction
on Jewish still
immiat
and land purchase,
is g being al He
home must be safeguarded,
four
exclusively
and
distinctively
and Migratory
awarded the
"degree"
Doctor
of
roosed estab- Jewish infantry companies,
known Simon
Herman Shetzer
Gessner of of Detroit
Escanaba.
Literature,
Cum
Laude,
the University of Michigan
M r. Shetzer was also elected a at
adhered to by the Palestine Ad- and endorsed the p p
last week.
lishment of a Jewish state in as the Buffs.
. 02 s 0,Wh . eli a l e w e :
f o o tayo r.J a A nm
"Some 1,600 are enlisted es,
in committee.
member of the administrative
ministration."
Palestine. He scored as "appease-
le
l
tuned
n
b
?
c
Endorse Aid to Britain
0 le , ' s class , and
licies" the restrictive reg- the various technical servi the
Silver Asks "All-Out" Aid
policies"
t thereafter was
such as the Royal Engineers,
"This conference gives its un- _ men
At Saturday night's opening "awarded" this "degree."
orations in force there.
qualified endorsement and com
Mi. McNutt paid tribute to Royal Army Service Corps, in session, Dr. Silver was cheered '
While in Ann Arbor, "Dr."
plete
support
to the policy
es- the achievements of Jewish sett- which there is one complete Jew- when he called upon America s Lazarowitz was the guyst of the
tablished
and pursued
by the gov-
5 , 000 , 000 Jews to place them- Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation of
ernment of the United States of lens in Palestine and called for ish transport
company,
s of
Signals. and the selves upon a war
"
footing, as the University of Michigan.
extending aid to Great Britain widespread support of the appeal Royal Corp
"Over 2,500 are serving in the crave other peoples who wish to
Lazarowitz has asked The De-
and its allies in their struggle to for funds to enable them "to
insure the survival of democracy, render new practical and symbolic Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps. survive as free men, and to en- troit Jewish Chronicle to extend
or "all-out" aid to Pales- his s thanks to the Detroit Jewish
One of the companies of this list
i for
freedom and justice throughout service to the world."
communiy for the hearty wel-
The ideals underlying the re- corps from Palestine served with tine.
the world," the resolution de- construction of the Jewish na- distinction in France before the ,
The Holy Land, now an ad- conic given him. He is especially
" vanced major supply base, with grateful to the Men's Club of
dared.
"The conference expresses the tional home are shared by the downfall of that country an
hope that the victory of the Al- people of the Netherlands, Den- were among the last to be evacu-
soldiers
dependent
on it Shaarey Zedek for having given
the 80,000
for their
food supply,
Dr. Silver
him a forum before whom to
lied cause will vindicate and per- mark, Belgium, Norway, Poland ated, leaving St. Maio at th
manently establish the principles and France, he said, and "most same time as the memorable Brit- said, and with Palestine a strate-
gic center from which the Brit- present his experiences; to Dr.
of individual and national free- of all, they are identical with ish withdrawal
at Dunkerque.
are smaller
numbers ish forces of
can the
strike
eastward
in A.
M. Hershman,
and to where
Congre-
Mosul
oil fields
gation
Shaarey Zedek
he
"There
and importance, the ideals embodied in our own
serving in the Royal Artillery defense
worshipped.
and
d
or
west
in
defense
of
the
Suez
and, accordingly, that on the ter- Constitution.
and some 400 have been forme
"Palestine is 5,000 miles away into a Jewish company of s teve- Canal, the 550,000 Homeland
urination of the war will result
from
us,
but
it
is
near
to
our
Equal individual and hearts because it stands for hu- dores and lighterinen to assist in Jews would have a decisive role over here, we shall prevail—and
in:
Palestine, your special care and
handling army supplies in Near in the Mediterranean section our- ours,
"(a)
can look forward to a f u-
ing the critical months ahead.
group rights for Jews in all coun- man
"It liberty.
is a cause all can support, East ports."
"They are standing loyally by ture as bright as any that lies
tries where they reside, and the
He added that the war contri-
not
eradication
of discrimination
all racial, religious
not as
as Zionists,
not but
as Jews,
and national
in even
Americans,
as free- bution of the Jews in Palestine the side of Great Britain despite ahead."
Homes for 5,000,000 More
in the field of industry was no the fact that restrictions and ad-
The objective of the 194 1 out-
dom-loving men and women."
verse policies have been put into
$13,640, 001), of
any form;
less remarkable.
Dr. Bernard Joseph Speaks
per the full deve lop- lay , totaling
Sunday night's concluding din- effect to
"(b) The establishment of Pal-
of ham
the Jewish National which $12,000,000 was expected
Reviewing
the
scope
and
var-
estine
as conference
a Jewish commonwealth.
as
"The
declares its iety of Jewish Palestine's war nee was addressed
by Henry Mon- ment
Home in accordance with the from this country, were cabled
Nahum of
Goldmann,
former
belief that, in the conditions record, Dr. Bernard Joseph,
legal sky, president
Bnai Brith,
and British pledge contained in the from Palestine to Dr. Silver, who
.
Balfour Declaration " he went on. said that the $12,000,000 would
which will prevail in post-war Eu- adviser of the JewicAgency f • D .
be needed to prepare the home-
rope, Jewry will be faced with Palestine, told of the voluntary representative of the Jewish
Assurances From Britons
The importance of the proposed land to care for 5,000,000 addi-
the task of finding a home for registration for national service Agency for Palestine at Geneva.
all Jews between the ages of Speakers at other sessions in- expansion and development of tional refugees at the end of
large masses of Europe
Jews from
and Cen-
that of
18 and 50 and said that over eluded Representative Herman P. the Homeland's present resources, the war.
.
tral
Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chi-
it is and
their Eastern
deep conviction, proved 136,000 men and women had Koppleman of Connecticut, Dr. with most of the required sup-
by past experience, that only by come forward to put their serv- Israel Goldstein, president of the port coming from the United cago, national co-chairman of the
States, was attested by Lord appeal, said that no future was
large-scale colonization of these ices unconditionally at the dis- Jewish
of America;
Morris Fund
Rothenburg
of New Judge
York,
Jews in Palestine, with the aim posal of the authorities.
nl- Robert Cecil, Lord Snell, the conceivable for European Jews
"Before long the British Army co-chairman of the United Pa Duke of Devonshire, and others after the war without the contin-
of its reconstitution as a Jewish
commonwealth, can the Jewish began to call on us to make estine Appeal; Mrs. David de whose cable messages were read ued upbuilding of Palestine.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president
problem be permanently solved." good our offer and I am pleased Sola Pool, president of Hadassah; by Dr. Silver, and in a state-
say that we have done so Rabbi
Irvig n Miller of Far Rock- ment issued by Neville Butler, of the Jewish National Fund,
,
and Gustave L. Gold- counselor of the British Em- which is combined with the Pal-
McCormack, McNutt Addresses to
given
t h British author- away. L. I.,
•
.
Assurances that "planes and we e
d in the
n
estme oun
arms are going to Great Britain Ries all the men they have been stein of Los
the a opening of thof e bassy in
to Angeles.
shington.
danger
to
United
Palestine Appeal, bespoke
that
the
Wang
taini
Ascer
from this country in an ever- ready to take," Dr. Joseph went plenary
conference
"ore land,
for session
by now, close to national youth organizations was Palestine "has been thrust
well
the
present
need for
for more
"more
increasing stream" was given by on.
nd
and
the
for
more
food,
people
"In all, -
Representative McCormack.
which Jewish y outh es- into t he
backgrouare
increasing in the Mediterranean area."
al
defending
it
He said that many peoples in 8,000 Jews in Pestine
have en- held at
divis-
forces
th
you
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the
e with the Brit- tablished a national
Europe
under
the
listed
for servic
yoke of were
Nazi groaning
oppression,
but
ish
forces.
Some 1500 of them ion of the United Palestine Ap- their strength all the time," Mr.
over there J. Rosenbloom, national treasurer,
"If w
upon none does that yoke weigh are in the Royal Air Force. Most young en
women
and you do your utmost for us addressed the conference.
E.
Some
are serving in campaign.
t
gyp
h peop
the Jewisle.

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