vimericalt 'elvish Periodical eater CLIFTON AVENUI - CINCINNATI 20, 01110 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