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Detroit and Jewish
Chronicle
The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1944
Arabs Denounce Roosevelt,
Dewey Views on Palestine
Knollwood Club
Celebrates Bond
Sales Success
Rabbi Hillel Silver, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
Differ on Republican Palestine Plank
JERUSALEM (WNS).—The nomination of Governor
Dewey as the Republican candidate for President, and
the inclusion of a plank in the Republican platform
calling for the opening of Palestine to unrestricted
Jewish immigration and land owernship, was interpreted
here in Arab circles as further proof of American
commitments on the Palestine
question. While no official state-
ment has so far been issued on
this matter by any responsible
Arab leader or by the Palestine
Arab Party, Arab circles here
disclosed that they had received
a report from Cairo that the
Arab Federation Society of Egypt
headed by the Pan-Arab cham-
pion, Ahaza Pasha, had cabled
to Governor Dewey that his
views on Palestine and the im-
plementation of the Balfour Dec-
claration are incompatible with
the Atlantic Charter.
Much nervousness is also being
displayed in Arab circles here
over President Roosevelt's re-
cent message to the Palestine
Arab Party in which he said
that the postwar status of Pal-
estine will be decided by the
United Nations in consultation
with Jews and Arabs. Falastin,
Community Council President
Scores Rumors on Elections
James I. Ellmann, president of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, announced this week that he is
advising all the constituent organizations of the
Community Council that they should not believe
rumors which have apparently been circulated to
the effect that the Community Council is opposing
the election of one of the candidates for local public
office. Mr. Ellmann emphasized that if the Commu-
nity Council decided to take such a position, it
would notify its member organizations directly. He
urged that the rumors be ignored and discouraged.
The text of Mr. Ellmann's statement, which is
being sent to the presidents, secretaries and dele-
gates of constituent organizations, follows:
"It has been called to our attention that
rumors have been spread to the effect that the
Jewish Community Council opposes the election
of a certain candidate for local office. We wish
to state unequivocally that these rumors are
not to be believed.
"If the Community Council took any such
position it would be communicated directly to
the Council's member organizations. Anyone
who wishes to know the position of the Jewish
Community Council on any subject is always
free to make inquiry at the Community Coun-
cil office.
"We have been distressed by these rumors,
and we urge you to ignore them."
Popularizing Reform Judaism
1
"Excerpt from Address Delivered at Convention
of Central Conference of American Rabbis
By RABBI LEON FRAM
Recently I came across a state- most of the Jewish congregations
ment of the historical fact that of America were composed of
there was a time in the history German Jews. Reform Judaism
of American Jewry when Re- swept our German-Jewish congre-
form Judaism was the religion of gations like a revolutionary move-
the
majority of American Jews. ment. The revolution was stop-
It took
me completely by sur- ped in its tracks in the 1880's,
Prise. I had been so accustomed when immigration from Germany
to thinking of Reform congrega- ceased and the huge wave of
bon- as constituting a tiny mi- Jewish immigration from Eastern
nority
group that I was shocked Europe began. The Jews arriving
and
fascinated to learn that we here from Eastern Europe were
Were once a majority. How did obviously not susceptible either
the
the dominating majority. fall to to the ideas or the ways of
status of a small minority? Reform Jews. The reaction of
I need
only give the briefest out- Reform Judaism to this new im-
hne
of
the history of that de- migration was typically Ameri-
v eloPment.
Judaism arrived here can. The earlier arrivals helped
Ref orm
from
Germany at the time when
See REFORM—Page 9
U.S. Needs Liberal
Immigrant Policy
Says Prof.D.R . Taft
Per
Yoe
Archbishop Spellman Asks
Hungary to Stop Persecution
In OWI Broadcast, Declares That Action
Against Jews Contrary to Catholic Faith
David Stott Team
Sells Over $1,000,000
At a gala celebration on Thurs-
day night, July 6, the Knollwood
Country Club announced that it
had gone beyond the $4,000,000
mark in the sale of war bonds
in the Fifth War Loan and that
the club had raised by far the
the leading Arab newspaper here, largest sum of any other golf
last week carried a sharp edi- club in the country.
The star individual salesman
torial denouncing Pr e s id en t
Roosevelt's views. It said in part: was Nate Bonin, with a sales
"The Arabs in Palestine are not record of over $1,250,000. Na-
going to'be bound by what Presi- than Fishman was runner up with
dent Roosevelt or any other man $1,000,000. Max Kogan was up
says, and they will not allow among the leaders, having sold
others to share Palestine with quite a substantial amount of
them. Let President Roosevelt say bonds. The leading team in the
whatever he likes, but we would club was the David Stott group
like to point out that the Jews with sales beyond $1,000,000.
Harry Grossman, chairman of
will accept nothing short of a
the bond committee, steted that
Jewish State."
* * *
as a result of the wonderful
showing made by Knollwood, the
RABBIS DIFFER
chairmen of team No. 7
WASHINGTON (WNS).—Rab- general
f
bi Hillel Silver, chairman of the e eel that their team, which in-
ludes all Jewish institutions and
American Zionist Emergency organizations in Detroit, will
Council, declared here upon his more than double its original quo -
return from Chicago, where he to of $5,000,000.
delivered the invocation at the
The publicity for the Knoll-
wood bond drive was entirely in
,
See ARABS—Page 16
charge of Lou Luckoff of Bass
Luckoff Co.
Mac Gordon, president of the
Knollwood Country Club, de-
serves full credit for his untiring
anorts in helpake
eff
ingm the drive
outstanding success.
10c Single Copy: 83.00
WASHINGTON (WNS). — Archbishop Francis J.
Spellman of New York, declared here that persecution
of the Jews in Hungary is in direct contradiction to the
tenets of the Catholic faith professed by the majority
of the Hungarian people. He denounced the segregation
of Jews in ghettos and the confiscation of Jewish prop-
_
American Jewish
Conference 2nd
Session Postponed
Committee Complies
with ODT Request
Complying with the request of
the Office of Defense Transporta-
tion, the Interim Committee of
the American Jewish Conference
voted to postpone the second ses-
sion of the conference, originally
scheduled for Labor Day week-
end in Chicago. While no definite
date was fixed for the session,
it was indicated that the post-
ponement would be for not long-
er than two or three months, in
view of the emergency character
of the Conference and its con-
cern with immediate problems of
rescuing Jews from Nazi Europe
and post-war questions which are
now under consideration.
An inquiry with the Office of
Defense Transportation, made by
the Interim Committee following
the decision to postpone, brought
the response that a 60 to 90-day
postponement would be entirely
satisfactory.
' The Interim Committee re-
viewed the arrangements that
thus far been made by the ad-
ministrative committee preparing
for the second session and took
action to strengthen the execu-
tive apparatus of the Conference.
It enlarged the administrative
committee, which was established
in May to arrange for the second
session, by adding the chairman
of the commissions to that body
and by vesting in that body au-
thority to implement recommend-
ations made by the commissions.
erty and said "it is incredible
that a people with such profound
Christian faith, with the oldest
parliamentary traditions of the
Continent, would join in a hymn
of hatred and willingly submit
to the blood-lust and brigandage
of tyranny."
The text of his message, which
was broadcast to Hungary by the
Office of War Information, reads:
"Almost on the feast of Pente-
cost, the day on which the
Church of Christ emphasizes the
supracial character of her mis-
sion, we learned that the govern-
ment of Hungary had agreed to
enforce against the Jewish people
a code of discriminatory laws.
We were told that this unhappy
segment of Israel in Hungary is
being herded into ghettos after
its homes and its shops had been
systematically looted and pillaged.
"This announcement has shock-
ed all men and women who cher-
ish a sense of justice and of hu-
man sympathy. It is in direct
contradiction of the doctrines of
the Catholic faith professed by
the vast majority of the Hun-
garian people. It is a negation
of the noblest pages of Hungar-
ian history and cultural tradition.
"Through the stormy ages Hun-
garian Catholics have been loyal
to the lofty principles of justice,
mercy and charity proclaimed
by our Divine Lord in the Ser-
mon on the Mount. They have
been steadfast whether under at-
tack by the Mongols and the
Turks in centuries past, or in
our own times under the bitter
persecution of Bela Kun and his
cruel cohorts.
NEW YORK, N. Y. — Taking
cognizance of the 20th anniver-
sary, occurring this month, of
the U. S. Immigration Quota Law
of 1924, Dr. Donald R. Taft,
professor of sociology of the Uni-
Denounces Race Theory
versity of Illinois, expressed doubt
"It seems incredible therefore,
as to whether the law was bene-
that a nation which has been so
ficial to America and voiced his
consistently true to the impulses
hope that the "present balance
of human kindness and the teach-
of forces will permit modifica-
ings of the Catholic Church
tion" of the provisions which
should now yield to a false, pagan
regulated the entry of immi-
code of tyranny because of blood
grants into the United States on
and race. How can men of good
the basis of the "national ori-
will fail to heed those solemn
gins" principle. In a penetrating
1 words of Pope Pius XI, "Abra-
analysis which will be published
ham is called our patriarch, our
in the July-August issue of "Res-
NOTICE
ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not
cue," information bulletin of the
compatible with the sublime real-
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant
ity of this text. It is a movement
Aid Society, Prof. Taft, who is
All copy must be in not in which we Christians cannot
an outstanding American scholar
share. Spiritually we are Sem-
in the field of population, migra-
later than Wednesday, 3 ites.'
tion, criminology and internation-
"One of the great lessons to
al relations, expressed doubt as p. m. It must be written be learned from the life of Hun-
to whether the "anniversary (of
gary's king and patron saint is
the 1924 Act) should be cele- on one side of paper only that no minority should be op-
brated with rejoicing".
pressed.. For injustices of what-
Paying tribute to the great con- and where possible should ever kind can wreck and de-
tributions made by Jewish immi-
stroy the integrity of any na-
grants to the development of be typewritten.
tion's life. Nearly a thousand
America and to the fostering of
what he describes as a "genuine
See SPELLMAN—Page 16
international or cosmopolitan"
outlook, Prof. Taft analyzes in
his article the effects of the Quo-
ta Law upon the economic, cul-
tural and political history of the
United States during the past
two decades. "These truths are
too little realized but they are
Declaring that the victorious rescue programs of the Joint Dis-
truths," declares Prof. Taft, con- progress of the United Nations tribution Committee, United Pal-
cluding his analysis with the hope armies and the diplomatic inter- estine Appeal, and the National
that the "idealism and traditional vention of the U. S. Government Refugee Service.
sympathy for the oppressed" is haye broadened the avenues of
During the first six months of
not "wholly dead" in the United escape for Jewish refugees in 1944, the Joint Distribution Com-
States.
Nazi-dominated Europe, the Uni- mittee appropriated the sum of
Pointing out that for the post ted Jewish Appeal for Refugees, $10,459,477 for its world-wide
war period the United States will Overseas Needs and Palestine an- relief, rescue and rehabilitation
need a more liberal immigration nounced that the record sum of activities. As an indication of
policy, Prof. Taft writes: "Per- $20,600,000 had been spent in the expansion of the J. D. C.
haps the balance of forces will six months by its constituent or- program, it was pointed out that
permit some modification of our ganizations to aid Jewish victims its appropriations for the first
restrictive laws to allow the ad- of war and oppression through half of this year exceeded by
mission of a good number of ref- relief and rehabilitation overseas, more than $5,200,000 the alloca-
ugees after the war. We need through settlement and continued tions during the same period of
a somewhat 'more liberal immi- reconstruction in the Jewish 1943. Nearly 75 per cent of the
gration policy. This does not mean homeland in Palestine, and J. D. C. appropriations were
any complete and sudden break- through assistance to newcomers made for rescue and relief for
ing down of our immigration in the United States. The United Jews in and from Nazi-occupied
controls. It does mean a policy Jewish Appeal is now engaged in countries.
a nationwide campaign to raise
See TAFT—Page 16
the sum of $32,000,000 for the
See REFUGEES—Page 16
$20,600,000 Spent in Six Months
For Rescue of Jewish Refugees