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28th Year of Service to Our State and Nation
Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
Henry Monsky to be Bnai Brith
Anniversary Speaker Dec. 12
Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman To Deliver Main
Address on Afternoon Program of Initiation
With an impressive afternoon
and evening program, all local
Bnai Brith groups under the au-
spices of the Greater Detroit
Emanuel List of
Metropolitan to
Sing at Center
Joint Distribution Committee
fo Send Supplies to Russia
To Be Accompanied
By Paul Berl on Piano
when he convened the Pittsburgh
Emanuel List, internationally
Conference last January to plan
for a program of action on the renowned singer and leading
rights and status of Jews in the basso of the Metropolitan Opera
post-war world and the imple- Company, will appear in concert
mentation of the rights of the
Jewish people with respect to
Palestine. All this became a real-
ity, when the American Jewish
Conference, the direct outgrowth
of the Pittsburgh meeting, re-
cessed its five day session by
adopting broad and far-reaching
measures, climaxing the most mo-
mentous and most representative
conclave an the history of Amer-
ican Jewry.
The day's proceedings will
commence in the afternoon, with
the initiation of the "Centennial
Class". This initiation will end the
See ANNIVERSARY—Page 12
$500,000 Worth of Essential Goods To Be
Distributed in Predominantly Jewish Areas
NEW YORK (WNS). — The
American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee will send, within
the next few months, about $500,-
000 worth of essential supplies to
Soviet Russia to be distributed on
a non-sectarian basis in areas of
predominantly Jewish population,
it was announced here by the
committee's board of directors on
the even of the 29th annual meet-
ing of the JDC which was held
at the Commodore and Murray
Hill Hotel on Dec. 5 and attend-
ed by more than 4,000 delegates
from 33 states and 135 cities in
the U. S. and Canada.
James N. Rosenberg, chairman
of the board of the committee, de-
clared that the shipments will go
to Russia duty free, that the ex-
pense of ocean shipment would be
Declaration Made by
Mayor of Tel Aviv
Bnai Brith Council will commem-
orate the 100th anniversry of TEL AVIV. (WNS)—Any Brit-
Bnai Brith, this Sunday, Dec. ish effort to disarm the Jews in
12, at Temple Beth El.
Palestine will be strongly resisted,
Henry Monsky, president of the
Supreme Lodge, Bnai Brith, will was the declaration made last
be the guest of honor on this week by Israel Rokach at a meet-
occasion, and the principal speak- ing of the municipal council of
er on the evening program. Mr. Tel Aviv.
Monsky has been a capable and
The mayor told an audience
influential worker in the ranks of representing all Jewish institu-
Bnai Brith from the date of at- tions and organizations:
taining his majority and served "I officially inform the Palestine
as president of District Grand and British governments—we are
Lodge No. 6 in 1921. He is now firmly resolved not to disarm our-
serving his second three year selves, and no attempt to disarm
term as president of the Supreme us will be successful."
Lodge, Bnai Brith. Although still
The Tel Aviv council appointed
comparatively a young man, he a delegation to submit a resolu-
is old in point of service to Jew- tion to the British-mandated Pal-
ry and humanity. Henry Monsky estine government, expressing
introduced a new type of leader- sympathy with the raided colony,
ship into Jewish life. He has made demanding an end to arms search-
phenomenal strides as a Jewish es and an investigation of the
leader and as an American. Un- affair, and pledging continued co-
der his leadership, Bnai Brith has operation in the war.
attained new heights in its hun-
The Palestine security authori-
dred years of existence and is the ties charged that Ramath Hako-
most powerful agency in Jewish vesh harbored deserters from the
Polish army, had an illicit arsenal
life today.
Henry Monsky does not limit and was the scene of a training
himself to efforts in behalf or ground for an illegal armed or-
through Bnai Brith. He is every- ganization.
The colonist killed was Samuel
where when called upon to ren-
der service to his people. A re- Wolynetz, 37. Widespread demon-
cent example is the instrumen- strations resulted. At Tel Aviv
tality for American Jewish unity
See PALESTINE—Page 3
conceived by Henry Monsky,
met by the Soviet Union and that
the project was discussed with the
State Department where it met
with,, "favor and sympathetic in-
terest." It was also simultaneously
disclosed that the committee has
been sending packages containing
food, clothing and medicine- from
supply bases in Palestine and Te-
heran to the evacuees from East-
ern Europe who are now in Rus-
sia and that the committee will
have spent $750,000 for this work
by the end of 1943.
James H. Becker, chairman of
the national council of the JDC,
reported that the committee had
allocated inure than $10,000,000
during 143 to provide relief, re-
habilitation, immigration assist-
ance and economic and educational
help to the Jewish war and perse-
cution victims on five continents.
Will Need More Than $17,000,000
Mufti of Jerusalem
Palestine Jews
To Resist British
Efforts to Disarm
HENRY MONSKY
10e Single Copy; $3.00 Per Veal
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1943
VOL. 45, NO. 50
Outlining the post-war tasks of
the committee at its 29th annual
meeting here, Paul Baerwald, its
chairman, asserted that even on
the basis of the normal continua-
tion of its work the committee's
budget for 1944 would require ex-
penditures of approximately $17,-
000,000 as compared with the $10,-
Admission Made by
600,000 in the present year.
"If the war were to end tomor-
Colonial Secretary
• t a n a other
time within
low or
y
LONDON. (Palcor)—Haj Amin the year," he said, "we would be
El Husseini, fugitive from Pal- overwhelmed
ery corner by
of demands
the globe from
and ev-
we
estine justice and now in Berlin, would require twice or three times
where he heads the Nazis' Arab that sum or even more. No sta-
fifth colyanw. still • retains` the tistician can at this moment com-
title of Mufti of Jerusalem, it pute the cost a • rebuilding the
was admitted by Colonial Secre- spiritual and physical ruins of the
tary Col. Oliver Stanley, during war. Yet I can say that whatever
a question period in the House the obligations and the need will
be, the committee will face it and
of Commons.
Asked by Samuel Hammersley, accept it, strong in the certain
Conservative, M. P., why appoint- knowledge that our Jewish corn-
ments have not been made to the mun;ties will support that respon-
posts of Mufti and of President sibility with all their hearts and
of the Moslem Supreme Council, all their souls."
Foremost among the speakers
both formerly held by Haj Amin
El Husseini, the Colonial Secre- were Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, the
tary drew a distinction between committee's European director,
the two posts and declared that and Laura Margolis, representa-
though Haj Amin has been de- tive in Shanghai, who arrived last
prived of his title as President hwoele k. on the exchange ship Grips-
of the Moslem Supreme Council
m
Dr. Schwartz described the com-
he still retains the title of Mufti.
The post of Mufti is purely reli- mittee's work in Europe, Africa
gious and does not involve ad- and Asia. Dwelling on the aid
ministrative powers or functions that was being provided by the
and no action was taken to de- JDC to refugees in Switzerland,
prive him of his religious title Spain, Asiatic Russia and Sweden,
because there is no precedent or Dr. Schwartz asserted that the
legal machinery for such action. JDC had the refugee situation
The Colonial Secretary admit- under control in French Morocco
ted that "technically Haj Amin el and Algiers, but that it would
Husseini is still the Mufti of take years to rebuild the cora-
Jerusalem, but the government munity life of the Jewish popula-
Still Retains Post
As Head of Arabs
EMANUEL LIST
at the Jewish Community Center
on Sunday, Dec. 19, at 8:30
p. m. List will be accompanied
by Paul Berl at the piano. In-
cluded on the program will be
a group of Schubert Lieder, well
known operatic arias, and Vien-
nese folk songs.
List began his career in Vi-
enna, singing in the Austrian
Quartette, and appeared in con-
certs on the continent. After
traveling throughout the world
in music hall circuits, List reach-
ed New York and obtained a job
singing in a German cafe. Re-
turning to Vienna, List was en-
gaged by Felix Weingartner at
the Vienna Volksoper, where he
mastered the entire Wagnerian
repertory. Subsequently, he ap-
Warns of Palestine "Disorders
On Worse Scale" Than Before
LONDON. (Paleor)—The only
solution to the Palestine problem organization, which has been ob-
is for Great Britain to continue taining forged passes with the
to administer the country's af- knowledge of the military con-
fairs, regulating immigration and trolled posts on the route be-
land sales as the Mandate and tween Egypt and Palestine. The
circumstances dictate, the Jeru- prosecution alleged that official
stain correspondent of the Lon- Zionist bodies abetted this ac-
don Times states in the second tivity. The Jewish organizations,
of a series of articles published the writer states, objected to the
recen tly. Iie warns that the ten- allegations because of the terms
sion "noticeable in Palestine in-
dicates that not only is there a
possibility that the antagonism
between the Jews and the Arabs
might again lead to trouble, but
that new disorders will be on a
worse scale than before."
Conceding that "undoubtedly
the Jews, if given a free hand,
could build up Palestine into a
flourishing country serving as a
link between Europe and the
Middle East," he observes that
"Palestine belongs to the Jews
as much as to the Arabs".
The correspondent then refers
to the recent trial of Leib Sirkin
and Abraham Rachlin, sentenced
for allegedly purchasing and pos-
sessing stolen arms. The trial, the
writer says, revealed the pres-
See LIST—Page 3
Open Palestine to
Free Immigration
Urges Rabbi Wise
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Speak-
ing as a co-chairman of the Ameri-
can Jewish Conference, Rabbi Ste-
phen S. Wise of New York told
Foreign Affairs
mittee last week that the Baldwin-
Rogers resolution authorizing the
establishment of a United States
commission to save the Jews of
Europe was "inadequate," mainly
in its failure to recommend that
Palestine be opened to unrestricted
Jewish immigration.
h the
See MUFTI—Page 3
See RUSSIA—Page 3
Behind U. S. Jewry's
Biggest Campaign
By MEYER F. STEINGLASS
At the end of this month, the the devoted efforts of thousands
United Jewish Appeal for Refu- of Jews in more than 4,200 com-
gees, Overseas Needs and Pales- munities scattered through every
tine will round out five years of corner of the land. However, the
activity as American Jewry's group which has given this un-
largest fund-raising organization. precedented campaign national
In the sums it has raised, in the direction, the group which has
scope of its campaign effort, the served as its motivating force,
United Jewish Appeal has, during consists of seven men—seven of-
the five-year period, dwarfed any ficers of the United Jewish Ap-
other Jewish campaign ever un- peal—William Rosenwald, Dr.
dertaken in the United States, or, Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jo-
for that matter, in the entire nah B. Wise, its national chair-
world. Who are the men behind men; I. Edwin Goldwasser and
the national campaign organiza- Charles J. Rosenbloom, co-treas-
tion that since 1939 will have urers; and Isidor Coons and
raised the record-breaking total Henry Montor, executive vice-
of $75,000,000 for overseas war chairmen. They are not the only
relief and rehabilitation, for the leaders of the national U. J. A.
upbuilding of the Jewish National campaign. There are many other
Home in Palestine, and for as- outstanding figures who share in
sistance to refugees in the United shaping the policies of the cam-
States?
paign. But the "Big Seven" con-
No one can say that any group stitutes an inner cabinet which
of men and women or any one is in daily contact with all as-
individual has been responsible pects of the single fund-raising
for the phenomenal results drive for the Joint Distribution
achieved by the U. J. A. in the Committee, United Palestine Ap-
five years of its existence. Basic-
See CAMPAIGN—Page 12
ally they are the accumulation of