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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1944
Palestine Labor Approves
Hotel Biltmore Program
Hashomer Hatzair and Left Poale Zion
Not to Pursue Course Contrary to Majority
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VOL. 46, NO. 15
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Chachmey Lublin
Yeshivath Opens
Drive for $40,000
British Parliament Debates
Anti-Semitism in Polish Army
Rabbi Wolf Gold to
Be Guest Speaker
Jewish Soldiers Who Transfer from Polish
To British Army Considered as Deserters
JERUSALEM (Palcor).—Pal- litical and national rights. The
estine Labor, through the Coun- delegates are also to seek inter-
LONDON (WNS).—The dis-
The Yeshivoth Chachmey Lub-
cil of the Histadruth, General national support for an agree- lin, now of Detroit and formerly closure by Foreign Secretary An- to the British Army. Driberg's
between the Jewish and the one of the greatest Yeshivas in thony Eden that the British Gov- demand drew a promise from
Jewish Federation
of Labor, ment
Arab people on the basis of mu- Poland, has come back to life ernment has made representa- Foreign Secretary Eden that he
voted full approval of the Bilt- tual recognition of liberty, inde-
tions to the Polish Government- would renew his discussions with
more program calling for immi- pendence and cooperation.
in-exile
anent the existence of Polish Government officials in an
gration and colonization to 1w To Press for Rescue
to check the reported Jew-
anti-Semitism
in the Polish Army effort
baiting.
placed under the control of the
The delegation is also to press
precipitated a debate in the
Jewish Agency and for the estab- for vigorous measures for the
The British Foreign Minister
House of Commons during which
lishment of a Jewish common- rescue of the surviving Jews in
disclosed that there have been
Toni
Driberg,
Independent,
de-
wealth. Instructions to press for
manded that Jews in the Polish complaints by many Jewish sol-
the support of such program
See LABOR—Page 14
Army
here be allowed to transfer diers in the Polish Army that
were issued to the Histadruth
they were mistreated by ant
delegation which will attend the
Semitic Polish officers and so.-
International Trade Union Con-
diers, and that a number of Jews
gress in London. The Hashomer
have recently been transferred
Hatzair and the Left Poole Zion,
front the Polish Army to British
Third
Broadcast
constituting the minority propos-
forces because they were no
ing the bi-national state as an
longer able to tolerate conditions
Sunday, April 16
alternative, announced that they
in Polish camps. Eden declared
will not pursue a course hide-
that "His Majesty's Government
Dr. Glazer's third broadcast
took the opportunity to represent
pendent of the majority decision. on the "Message of Israel"
The instructions include three- radio hour will be heard this
"Jewry In World of to the Polish Government the
tives to the delegates to seek
sirability of a thorough investi-
Sunday, April 16, from 9 to
Tomorrow" Is Topic gation of the men's grievances
labor hacking for Jewish efforts 9:30 p. m., over station
and of remedying any that might
to reach an understanding with CKLW. His subject will be:
Maurice Samuel, author, lec- be found to exist," and that
the Arabs.
"Can We Control Our Ha-
The resolution, adopted at the treds?"
turer and traveler, is to lecture steps had been taken to bring
end of a whole night session
under the auspices of the Bind all manifestations of anti-Semi-
tism to the attention of all
which lasted from 10:30 p. m. to
Brith Hillel Foundation of the ranks in the Polish Army.
RABBI WOLF GOLD
9:30 a. m., indicated the restora-
An inquiry from Tom Driberg
tion of unity within the ranks of
after a short time in exile. Dur-
as to whether it was true that
Palestine labor. At an earlier
ing
its
20
months
of
existence
session, the Tabenkin group,
the transferred Jewish soldiers
in Detroit, the Yeshivah has ex-
would be considered "deserters"
while going on record for a Jew-
panded
its
activities
throughout
by Polish military authorities and
ish commonwealth, voted against
the city. Within the last few
treated accordingly, drew the re-
pressing the full Biltmore pro-
months
an
important
additional
ply from Anthony Eden that the
gram at the International Trade
department was added to the
transfer "constituted an entirely
Union Congress. The group had
Yeshivah, the Detroit Hebrew
Affair to Be Held
exceptional departure from nor-
explained then that it was voting
Parochial School, which gives the
mal principles of transfers from
so in deference to the minority
At Shaarey Zedek
students a combined curriculum
one Allied Army to another,"
espousing the cause of a bina-
of
English
and
Hebrew
studies
and that it was not deemed ad-
tional state. •
The annual. Zionist concert and which is fully approved by
visable to make any more trans-
The resolution adopted by the
the Michigan Board of Education.
will
take
place
this
year
on
fers in view of pending military
Histadruth Council directs the
The Parochial School has add-
operations.
Palestine Jewish Labor delega- Thursday, April 27. in the social ed a burden to the Yeshivah
Both Tom Driberg and Eman-
tion to seek the support of world hall of Shaarey Zedek.
budget.
uel Shinwell, Labor Party lead-
labor for the following Zionist
Beginning April 23, 1944, the
er in the House of Commons,
objectives: free Jewish immigra-
Yeshivah, together with the De-
argued that the transfer of 600
tion, mass settlement of Jews on
troit Hebrew Parochial School,
Jewish soldiers from the Polish
land and the utilization of Pal-
will open its $40,000 campaign
to the British forces would not
estine's resources, under the aus-
with the objective of 1,000 new
dislocate the war plans. Driberg
pices of the Jewish Agency, with
members. The campaign will start
maintained that the talks which
a view toward assuring Jewish
with a mass meeting to be held
Eden promised to renew with the
sovereignty in Palestine. The
in Congregation Bnai Moshe,
Polish Government could not
delegation is also to seek the
Dexter and Lawrence. Rabbi Wolf
check the "more brutal and bla-
maintenance of international
Gold, president of the World
tant manifestations" of Jew-
guarantees and assurances for
MAURICE SAMUEL
Mizrachi Organization and fam-
baiting, and would have no effect
the upbuilding of the Jewish
ous orator, will be the guest
on the underlying feelings in
homeland, immediate help in se-
speaker. A. Reichman is dele- University of Michigan at 3 p.m., the matter. He said anti-Semitism
curing the repeal of the White
gated as a representative of the on Sunday, April 16. The lecture is intolerable "in the midst of a
Paper, constructive aid in effect-
Jewish Morning Journal of New will take place at the Rackham war against the very philosophy
ing the Biltmore program's aims
York City. He will greet Detroit building on the University's cam- of which anti-Semitism is a
as regards immigration and colo-
Jewry in the name of the Jewish pus. The subject of Mr. Sam- conspicuous system,"
warned
nization, representation for the
press of America. Greetings will uel's talk is "Jewry in the World that the 600 Jews who and
expressed
Jews in the future League of
be delivered by Rabbi Moses of Tomorrow,' and the lecture is a desire to be transferred to the
titions, i freedom for Zionist ae-
Fischer in the name of the Vaad open to the public. Among those British Army are in a state of
tivities n all countries and sup-
Ha-Robbinim, and Rabbi Jacob J. who will attend are the Bnai "helpless agony and distress of
port in the struggle against plans
MRS. ABRAHAM COOPER
Brith Junior Girls of Detroit on spirit". He declared that almost
to partition Palestine.
See CHACHMEY—Page 16
their annual pilgrimage to the all Polish officers he came in
Agreement with Arabs
The Zionist Organization is
Foundation.
contact with were imbued with
A highlight of the resolution is bringing
the passage instructing the dole-
to Detroit the well
Mr. Samuel's latest book is definite anti-Jewish prejudices
"Harvest in the Desert". It is and that transferred Jewish sol-
gates to seek the support of the known Saul Meisels of Cleveland,
soon to appear under the inn-
international labor movement for Nvho will render songs of a Jew-
print of the National Bnai Brith diers had written to him that
the efforts of the Jewish people i sh nature.
Mr.
Meisels
is
a
well
known
Hillel
Foundation. The Hind Polish officers had boasted that
and the Palestine Jewish labor
moveme nt to attain the aid and singer, and cantor of the Temple
Foundations have made plans to they have "two bullets, one for
distribute hundreds of copies of a Jew and the other for a Ger-
cooperation of the Arabs of Pa
Pal on the Heights in Cleveland.
estin e
this book to Hillel members on
on the basis of equal Po-
man, which will be used when
The next Center musicale will
See MEISELS—Page 16
be held on Tuesday evening,
See SAMUEL—Page 16
See PARLIAMENT—Pa ge 14
April 18, in the Center auditor-
hum, and will be devoted to the
music of French and American
composers. Three well-known De-
troit artists will share the pro-
gram. Edward Bredshall, w e ll_
known pianist and teacher, will
By JOSEPH BERNSTEIN
be heard in piano works by Dc-
The complete schedule of An- Auxiliary of the United Hebrew
Co-Chairman, Internal Relations Committee,
bussy and also in the Cesar niversary Celebration Week of Schools, with Mrs. Morris Fish-
Jewish Community Council
Franck violin and piano sonata, tile
United
with James Barrett playing the Detroit
is as Hebrew
follows: Schools of man at the head of the commit-
. There have been times in Jew-
tee. The lucheon will be fol-
ish history when the Jewish com- weapon which challenged the in- violin part. Mr. Barrett is a
Saturday evening, April 15— lowed by an k h
nstitute,
the theme
dividual's religions, social and member of the Detroit Symphony Broadcast over Station WJLB, of which is
"What Shall
We
munity was organized along lines economic security.
Orchestra and concert master of Altman's Hour; chairman, Charles Teach Our Children?" Maurice
which would appear strange, and
In our own day a Jewish coot- the WWJ orchestra, as well as Rubiner; speaker, Joseph Haggai. H. Zackheim is chairman, with
possibly oppressive, to many
American
munity
structure of this kind is the Gus Haenschen String Or-
Jews
Sunday morning, April 16— Maurice Landau as co-chairman.
tury. i n man
.. in the 20th cen- unthinkable. In its stead Ameri-
Broadcast over Station WJLB, Participants are Lawrence II.
region s
of the far-flung can Jews have developed, on the chestra•
Florence Wenzel, dramatic so- Altman's
.
in which Jewish commu-
Hour; speaker, Dr. Crohn, Bernard Isaacs, with Dr.
tidies have flourished, they have basis of purely voluntary ad- prano, will sing songs by French Azriel Eisenberg,
director of Bu-
Bu- Azriel Eisenberg as moderator.
enjoyed ri
_
herence,
various
forms
of
com
and
American
composers,
accom-
reau
of
Jewish Education of
ghts ande
d exercised
au- munity organization, of which ponied by Lucienne de Monfort. Cleveland.
thority which
Monday evening, April 17, at
them
powers
ma
to. .be reckoned
with by the in- the community council is the Nliss Wenzel came to Detroit
Sunday noon, April 16—The 8:15 o'clock, a Parent-Teachers
program
the Parkside-Midland
dyidual Jews. The power of taxa- most recent expression. The Jew- from Cincinnati three years ago. first function of the celebration School.
The at program
will be held
tion for community needs, gen- ish Community Council of De- S-e
She performed with the Cleve- week will he launched. It will be
erally considered to be a state troit is a foremost examp l„,f land Symphony Orchestra and in in the form of a luncheon and in the Custer Public' School at
oratorios and concerts an institute in the Rose Sittig Linwood and Midland. It will in-
Power exclusively was enjoyed this type of community organ- many
b y. IlhanY Jewish communities. zation. A central, coordinating throughout the midwestern states. Cohen Building. The luncheon elude a pageant by children de-
which were able to invoke body of some 200 organizations, At present Miss Wenzel is soloist will start at 12:30, for which the picting in song and action the
ga
ainst
story of the complete cycle of
Jewish
recalcitrants the threat it represents the conscious, :tal- ' iit the First Presbyterian Church public is
a sked o t mke
a rserve-
e
o f ex co
and St. Paul's Episcopal Cathe- tions. The charge per plate
holidays. Henry Feinberg,
is
$1,
mmunication, a fearful
See INTERNAL--Page 16
deal. Admission is free.
• It is sponsored by the Women's
Maurice Samuel to
Be Hillel Guest
Speaker April 16
Zionist Concert
To Feature Saul
Meisels, April 27
Three Artists to
Play on Center
M usicale April 18
Internal Jewish Relations: A Major
Problem of the Jewish Community
Many Events Listed for Anniversary
Celebration of Hebrew Schools
See ANNIVERSARY—Page 16