29th Year of Service to Our State and Nation
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1944
VOL. 46, NO. 12
Action Deferred on Palestine
Resolution by Committee
Decision to Postpone Taken After Message
From Secretary of War Stimson Was Read
WASHINGTON (WNS).—The
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
acting on the advice of the War
Department, last week voted to
defer action on the Palestine
resolution approving free and un-
restricted immigration into Pal-
estine and the ultimate estab-
lishment there of a free and
democratic Jewish Commonwealth.
After an executive session at
which a message from Secretary
of War Stimson was read in
which It was alleged that it was
the, opinion of the War Depart-
ment thitt further action on the
resolution "at this time would be
prejudicial to the successful
prosecution of the war," the For-
eign Affairs Committee released
a statement to the effect that
"advice "and information given
to us by those responsible for
the conduct of the war have con-
vinced the committee that action
upon the resolutions at this time
would be unwise."
Although it was not revealed
how the vote stood on the ques-
tion of tabling the resolution,
Representative Bloom declared
that he had gone on record as
opposing its postponement.
Congressmen Renaulf Compton
and James A. Wright, co-authors
of the House Palestine resolu-
tion, said that they were ex-
tremely disappointed at the ac-
tion of the committee.
Representative Compton said
that he, vsas "deeply shocked" at
the committee's "bowirteto Ad-
ministration pressure and dele-
gating its authority to discuss
legitimate foreign affairs of the
United States to the War De-
partment, whether at the insti-
gation of foreign interests or in
line with a questionable foreign
policy . . . I don't think real
danger to the Allied cause lies
in the simple and honest wording
of the resolutions, but if it does
let our war leaders state that
openly. Is it a genuine fear of
an Arab uprising or is it merely
a pipe dream, or a dream of a
pipeline, that prompts this ap-
peasement of the Arab puppets?"
Reresentative Wright declared
that those in the committee favor-
ing the resolution were put in
the position of opposing their
judgment on military security to
that of the leaders of the War
Department. It would have beCn
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Emma Shever to
Sing at Histadrut
Festival March 26
Belarsky, Concert
Artist, on Program
presumptuous of the commit-
tee, he stated, to have done
The Geverkshaften Campaign
anything else but accede. He ex- will conclude this year's drive
pressed the opinion that a de- with a festival at the Scottish
cision on the matter would have Rite Auditorium on Sunday eve-
to be reached and that as soon
as there is any indication that
the military situation is improved
he intended to press for further
action. "We are finally going to
have to make a choice whether to
abide by the resolution adopted
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BenGurionAgainst
Separate Peace
And Separate War
Opposes Terrorists
And Dr. J. L. Magnes
JERUSALEM (Palcor). In face
of the approaching April 1 dead-
line when the Palestine White
Paper is to take full effect, David
EMMA SHEVER
ben Gurion, chairman of the
n
Executive of the Jewish Agency, Wing,
March 26, with Louis Lip-
warned here against "breaches sky, eminent American and
in our own ranks which are World Zionist leader, as guest
visible in the middle of our speaker, and with a musical con-
struggle, breaches pertaining . to cert program in which the fol-
a separate war on the one hand lowing will participate: Emma
and a separate peace on the Shover, soprano; Sidor Belarsky,
well known concert singer; Can-
other".
Ben Gurion delivered this for Samuel. Mogills Ltetroit Hal-
warning in the course of an 80- evy Singing Society, accompan-
minute speech at a session of the ied by members of the Detroit
Smaller Actions Committee on Symphony Orchestra.
The wind-up of this
ear
Tuesday evening. His references
to a "separate war" were aimed Geverkshaften campaign will be
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Community Council Internal
Relations Comm. Reorganized
B. Benedict Glazer Named Chairman in
Place of Rabbi Adler, Now in Service
James I. Ellmann, president of Morris Adler to join the U. S.
the Jewish Community Council Army as a chaplain, and with the
of Detroit, announces that the assumption by Dr. Glazer of the
reorganization of the Internal duties of chairman. The Internal
Relations Committee of the Relations of the Community
Council is now complete, and Council concerns itself with ques-
that the committee's work is well tions of internal Jewish discipline,
under way under the chairman- the consolidation of the many
ship of Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Jewish organizations in the city
with Joseph Bernstein serving as into a united Jewish community,
co-chairman.
the raising of cultural standards
The reorganization of the com- in the community, and the crea-
mittee became necessary with the tion of a well informed and ar-
departure from Detroit of Rabbi ticulate public opinion on all mat-
ters affecting Jewish life. It also
includes the integration and di-
rection of the war efforts of the
various Jewish groups in the
community.
Charge Standard
Oil With Dictating
Palestine Policy
In the field of internal Jewish
discipline, Dr. Glazer has ap-
New Statesman
Makes Accusation
with and advising various trade
groups in the city on ways and
pointed Harry R. Solomon, chair-
man, and Lewis C. Frank, co-
chairman, of a special sub-com-
mittee which has been conferring
means of maintaining high stand-
LONDON (Palcor). — The ards in their dealings with the
charge that Standard Oil is in- public. Another committee under
fluencing United Nations policy the leadership of James Stein
on Palestine is made in an edi-
torial in the New Statesman, in-
fluential progressive magazine.
Despite the declared opposition
of President Roosevelt, Prime
Minister Churchill and Home
Secretary Morrison to barring
Jewish immigration into Palestine,
the editorial points out, "it (the
White Paper) may, nonetheless,
and Rudolph Zuieback has been
extending the same service to
individuals who have indicated
a need for help in meeting prob-
lems peculiar to their particular
trades. These committees have
been meeting regularly in the
past seven weeks and have al-
ready been able .to affect a num-
ber of important adjustments.
Jewish Community Council
become- the-pohey,..14.4tre
observed --through-
Nations, meaning in this instance out April, is a special project of
Standard Oil and the United the Internal Relations Commit-
States Army". Stating that "the tee. During this time an effort
matter is as yet unsettled," the will be made to reach each of the
New Statesman finds "instructive 200 member organizations with a
the readiness of influential per- personal message interpreting
sons in Washington to overthrow the work of the Council. Joseph
a humanitarian cause for the Bernstein leads a Yiddish Speak-
sake of a pipeline."
ers' Bureau which has drawn up
Discussing the Jewish Common- plans for sending speakers to ad-
wealth resolutions before Con- dress all the Yiddish-speaking
gress, the editorial describes Gen- groups which are members of
at the Irgun Zvai Leumi, alleged- celebrated by a large number of
ly a Revisionist military organi- guests, made up of contributors
zation, which has taken respon- and workers in the campaign who
sibility for bombs planted in Gov- will participate in the festival.
ernment Migration Offices re- As in the previous years, the
cently. tickets for this affair are not on
The "separate peace" charge sale, but are distributed on the
was viewed here as aimed at a basis of each $15 given to the
eral Marshall's opposition as the Council. Their emphasis will
number of groups, such as the
"wholly unexpected," and says be on strengthening the ties be-
See SHEVER—Pa age 12
Hashomer Hatzair organization,
that if not for his stand the tween the Council and its con-
which opposes the Biltmore Jew-
adoption of the resolution seemed stituent organizations, describing
ish Commonwealth program, and
certain, with the tide of public the work done by the Council,
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president Congress Women to
opinion backing the Jews favor- and indicating to the organiza-
of the Hebrew University, and Buy Medical Units
ing the establishment of a Jew- tions the various ways in which
his followers who advocate that
ish State in Palestine. By his the Council can be of service to
another half-million Jews be ad- In Honor of Dr. Wise
objections,
for reasons of mili- the organizations in their own
mitted into Palestine and that
tary security, General Marshall activities, primarily in the plan-
Jewish immigration be terminated
The Women's Division of the "presumably meant the chances lung of their cultural programs.
thereafter.
American Jewish Congress is
The chairman of the Jewish
Agency Executive called for the honoring Dr. Stephen S. Wise
strengthening of Zionist disci- on his 70th birthday by present-
pline, and stated that "any ac- ing him with 70 "Mercy Units,"
tion that is not undertaken with completely equipped hospitals-on-
the responsibility and authority wheels for saving the wounded
of the nation is harmful and in battle. These units will be
foolish." Analyzing in detail the bought with United .States War
developments in connection with Bonds sold through the American
the White Paper—both past, Jewish Congress, and each unit
present and possibly future—Ben sold by the Detroit Women's
Gurion declared that "it was our Division will be inscribed "Ameri-
courageous attitude which brought can Jewish Congress, Detroit".
about a number of decisive fac- Bonds can be purchased through
tors, such as the realization that Mrs. Max Saidman, chairman,
the White Paper could not be Townsend 8-9494, and Mrs. Sam
implemented." However, he warn- Katkin, co-chairman, University
2-3201. Bonds will be mailed di-
rectly to the purchaser.
See GURION—Page 12
of building the pipeline and that Speakers will be made available
its subsequent safety, once built, to other organizations in the
would be lessened if the Arabs community. Dr. Glazer has an-
were driven to hostility toward nounced that any group may con-
America." The New Statesman tact the Council office for help
says, "his action evidently re- in securing a speaker. Further-
fleeted the activity of Nahas Pa- more, the rabbis of the commu-
sha, Egyptian Premier, and of nity are being requested to de-
the Egyptian Government, which vote one sermon during the
have adopted a definitely anti- month to a discussion of the
Semitic attitude in pursuit of Community Council. Rabbi Leon
their ambition to create a Par,- Frani has already indicated that
Arab Federation." he will lecture on the subject
The editorial describes the
movement for a Pan-Arab Fed- "The Jewish Community Council
eration as resting upon a very —How It Combats Anti-Semit-
narrow base, arousing little popu- ism and Builds Good Will for
larity and interest and standing
See COUNCIL—Page 12
a small chance of success.
Members of the Women's Divi-
Report of Jewish Underground
\ Movement in Poland Reaches Here
NEW YORK (WNS). — The
World Jewish Congress here this
week released the first compre-
hensive report ever to reach this
country from the Jewish under-
ground in Poland. The report de-
scribes in detail the report in the
Warsaw ghetto and the resist-
ance put up by Jews against
their oppressors in the ghettos of
Wino, Tarnow, Bendzin, Bialy-
stok, Czestochowa and in the
death camps at Treblinka and
Solibor.
In the battles in the above
mentioned cities, the report
states, "men of all ideological
leanings fought together as
comrades--Chalutz youth, Shorn-
rim youth, Poale-Zionists and
Bundists."
The activities of the Jewish
underground movement and guer-
illas are carried out, the report
states, by the Jewish Fighting
Organization which is function-
ing under the supervision of
Jewish National Committee, the
central body directing the un-
derground activities.
Declaring that the Nazi "bar-
barians, faced with certain de-
feat, are killing off the pitiful
remnants of the Jewish popula-
tion in Poland," the report goes
on to say: "As you read our
communication do not for a mo-
ment think that we are broken
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sion and their friends are urged
to cooperate in this mercy bond
drive to honor Rabbi Wise on the
occasion of his birthday and in
recognition of 50 years of dis-
tinguished public service.
A meeting of the new study
group will be held at the home
of the chairman, Mrs. David
Bernstein, 12512 Broadstreet,
Thursday evening, March 30, at
8:30 p. m. The discussion, led
by Mrs. Nathan Spevakow, will
be based upon "A Guide for
American Social Problems," a
Columbia University Press Pub-
lication edited through the spon-
sorship of the Interfaith Com-
mittee of the Women's Division
of Congress.
The members and their friends
are invited to join the group and
to participate in this discussion
so that they may understand
more thoroughly the present-day
problems.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise—Colorful
Leader of American Jewry
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
A Jewish chaplain in one of are the best tankmen, too."
the armored divisions of the
Although Dr. Wise often likes
American Army recently told the to boast of the fact that he was
story that at the end of the born on St. Patrick's Day and
Sabbath services in his camp he that he is an honorary member
was once approached by a young of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat-
lieutenant who thanked him for rick of Bridgeport, Conn., it is
the sermon and asked him to doubtful that he would ever yield
autograph a bible for him. "What supremacy
Irish. Had he
in been
anything
in the to
chap-
the
kind of a Jew are you to ask a
rabbi to write on the Sabbath?" lain's place he probably would
answered the chaplain. "Rabbi," have roared at the Irish lieu-
answered the lieutenant stam- tenant, "Yes, the Irish may be
meringly, "I am a Gentile. I the best tankmen, but the Jews
came to the Jewish services be- are the smartest."
cause, after the Irish, the Jews
Much has been said and writ-
are the strangest people in the
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world and, after the Irish, they