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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1944
President Roosevelt Favors Establishment
Of a Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Wires White House Expressing Gratitude of
Zionists Everywhere for Magnificent and Historic Message
Wayne University Negro
Jewish Study Is Published
Jewish Community Council Co-Sponsors
Project With NAACP and Wayne University
ATLANTIC CITY (WNS)—President Roosevelt, in a message to the 47th annual
As the first in a series of studies of "Inter-Group
convention of the Zionist Organization of America meeting here at the Hotel Breakers, Conflicts in Detroit," Wayne University has just corn-
pledged his aid in initiating "appropriate ways and means of effectuating" the estab- pleted an analysis of Negro Jewish relationships. The
lishment in Palestine of a free and democratic Jewish commonwealth. study was made by Mrs. Eleanor Paperno Wolf and Alvin
The President's message was delivered by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New D. Loving, Graduate Fellows, and was carried on under
the supervision and with the participation of Donald C.
York, to whom it was addressed.
Marsh, Associate Professor in
T h e President asserted
Wayne University's Department
that the establishment of a
of Sociology.
Meeting
of
East
Dr.
J.
Tennenbaum
Rabbi
Wolf
Gold
Jewi3h commonwealth in
The study was made possible
through grants which were made
Palestine was in conformity
Polish Federation Central States of available to Wayne University
with the spirit of the Four Sabbath League
jointly by the Jewish Community
Freedoms and "in accord
Council of Detroit and the De-
with the traditional American
policy." He expressed the con-
viction that the American peo-
ple will "give their support to
this aim," and promised that if
Speaker Oct. 24
Original Cantata
To be Presented
Speaker on Oct. 22 Federation Here
"How to Save Polish
Jews" to be Topic
Conference to Be
Held Nov. 11 and 12
Detroit will play an important
At a special meeting of the
Tb, completed plans of the
arrangements for the annivers- American Federation for Polish part in the proceedings of the
ary donor event of the Women's
East Central States Regional
League for Sabbath Observance
Conference of the Council of
Jewish 'Federation and Welfare
Funds, to be held in Detroit on
Nov. 11 and 12, it was revealed
in a preliminary report on the
program released yesterday by
Judge Maurice Bernon of Cleve-
land, program chairman.
Representatives from Detroit
will be asked to report on the
provision for services to veterans
and developments in agency serv-
ices, publicity programs, central
community planning, war chest
developments, and civic protective
activities.
Conference sessions will dis-
cuss problems of returning serv-
icemen and war workers, anti-
Semitism and bigotry, Federation
structure. The opening session
will deal with the impact of re-
conversion to peace on Jewish
communal life. Another highlight
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
will be a report on the latest
overseas developments.
DR. JOSEPH TENNENBAUM
re-elected, he would "help to
On Sunday morning there will
bring about this realization."
Jews in New York it was decided be separate sessions for repre-
Full Text of Message
to raise funds to send 250,000 sentatives from large, intermed-
RABBI WOLF GOLD
"Knowing that you are to at-
iate and small communities. Sun-
See POLISH—Page 12
day afternoon will be devoted to
tend the 47th annual convention promise that the afternoon will
of the Zionist Organization of be long remembered for its in-
a discussion of community rela-
America, I ask you to convey to
tions and interfaith problems, in-
the delegates assembled my most formative and cultural contribu-
cluding a report on the National
cordial greetings. Please express tion. Rabbi Wolf Gold, the
Community Relations Advisory
my satisfaction that in accord chairman of the World Mizrachi
Committee.
with traditional American pol- executive, will be in Detroit to
Special groups will meet to
icy, and in keeping with the address the event which takes
discuss war chest developments,
spirit of the Four Freedoms, the place Tuesday afternoon, Oct.
regional planning of care for the
Democratic Party at its July con- 24, at 12:30 p., at the Con-
aged, and Jewish education.
vention this year included the gregation Shaarey Zedek. Rabbi
This fall Emanuel List begins
(
following plank in its platform : Gold is one of the greatest and
'we favor the opening of Pal- most colorful orators on the his 20th year as an opera singer,
and
his
concert
in
Detroit
on
estine to unrestricted Jewish im- American scene today and is
NOTICE
migration and colonization, and long remembered by all who Wednesday, Oct. 25, will be his
such a policy as to result in the hear him. Coming here just two
All copy must be in not
establishment there of a free and days befr.re the opening of the
democratic Jewish Common- National Mizrachi convention in
later than Wednesday, 3
wealth.' Atlantic City on Oct. 26, Rabbi
"Efforts will be made to find Gold will bring a momentous
p. rn. It must be written
appropriate ways and means of message of the latest events in
effectuating this policy as soon the field of traditional Jewish ex-
on one side of paper only
and ardently the Jewish people pansion activity both in Palestine
as practicable. I know how long and America.
and where possible should
The musical portion of the af-
have worked and prayed for the
establishment of Palestine as a ternoon will be highlighted by
be typewritten.
free and democratic Jewish Conn- an original Cantata written and
Emanuel List to
Be Center Soloist
At Concert Oct. 25
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See STUDY—Page 12
See LEAGUE—Page 12
The War Chest
Palestine Situation "Very Tense,"
Colonial Secretary Stanley States
LONDON (Palcor) —The situa-
tion in Palestine is "very tense,"
n , the opinion of "most impor-
tant people," Colonial Secretary
Col. Oliver Stanley stated in the
house of Commons today in re-
1,!'t- to Lord Winterton, Conserva-
tive, who had asked whether the
Colonial Secretary was "aware
tlat those in touch with opinion
in that country are most alarmed
information that both sides
e arming in preparation for
civil war at the end of the Euro-
pean hostilities." lie also asked
whether the Colonial Office would
publish a White Paper setting
forth the facts "since people in
this country haven't the least
Idea of the seriousness of the
situation and the terrible strain
under which the administration
is functioning."
Lord Winterton, a leading anti-
Zionist, was recently described
by the Palestine Arab Party,
which consists of the followers
of Haj Amin el Husseini, Axis
agent and Mufti of Jerusalem,
as one of the Party's "chief con-
tacts" in Palestine.
These statements came in the
course of a question period
with regard to recent acts of
terror in Palestine. Replying to
servative M.P., the Colonial Sec-
a query by Hamilton Kerr, Con-
r e t a r y said : "Unfortunately
there has recently been a re-
crudescence of Jewish terrorist
activity. On the night of Sept.
27, attacks were made on four
See PALESTINE—Page 16
troit Chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. The principal
conclusions of the study are sum-
marized in an eight-page pamph-
let, published by the Wayne Uni-
versity Press, and labeled as the
first in the Wayne University
Studies in Inter-Group Conflicts
in Detroit. The full study, which
is a bulky document, is also to
be published in the near future.
This will contain introductory
background material, the ques-
tionnaires used, a statistical anal-
ysis of the answers to these ques-
tionnaires, and a final summary
of the conclusions.
. In his Foreword to the pamph-
let released by Wayne Univers-
ity, Professor Marsh states that
Negro-Jewish conflicts in Detroit
were known to exist for some
time, and that the present study
initiated an investigation of them
long before the race riots of
June, 1943. He points out that
the study was completed before
the time of the riots. A recent
re-check, using the same ques-
tionnaires, indicates that the
principal conclusions of the study
are as valid now, a year after
the riots, as they were before
June, 1943.
The text of Wayne University's
pamphlet follows:
Negro-Jewish Relationships
The so-called race riots of
June, 1943, represent one of the
most unhappy chapters in the
history of Detroit. To all the
citizens of our city who are men
of good-will, whether white or
Negro, Jew or Christian, these
riots present a challenge to dis-
cover the untoward economic and
social conditions out of which
prejudices of group against
group, and ultimate conflict, in-
evitably arise.
Because the chief outbreaks in
the June riots occurred in an
area where business is chiefly in
the hands of Negroes and Jews
( both minority groups), some
persons have been under the im-
pression that they constituted es-
st tidally a Negro-Jewish conflict.
A ctually such was not the case.
Rather it was a conflict between
the two racial groups—white and
Negro—and it might have broken
out in any densely-populated
area in any part of the city.
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
EMANUEL LIST
first public appearance in this,
his 20th anniversary year. Al-
though making his operatic de-
but at the Vienna Voks Opera
in 1924, the lowest voice ever
to sing at the Metropolitan ac-
quired all of his musical educa-
tion in America prior to this date.
Mr. List's career is the reverse
of the usual story of an Amer-
ican studying abroad with the
"great" and returning home to
make a sensational debut in
See LIST—Page 13
"The Lord your God tests you
whether you love Him with all
your heart and all your soul."
This verse of holy Scripture is
literally true in regard to Euro-
pean Jewry. They are indeed
tested and tried in the crucible
of God whether they are true
to the Lord and loyal to Juda-
ism with all their hearts and
souls. When thousands fall off
due to their terrible visitations
from the tree of life of our
faith, ten-thousands are adhering
to it even at the risk of the
fiercest visitation and persecu-
tion. A non-Jewish eye-witness
states in one of the foremost
magazines, that he, himself, has
seen how numberless, long-beard-
ed, pale-faced, starry-eyed Jews
transported to Poland, as they
stepped from the cattle-wagon
unto the "reception quarters" of
gas and lethal chambers, pro-
cee ded to it with psalm-songs on
their lips, especially with the
verse, "Though I walk through
the shadow of death—I fear no
evil because Thou, Oh Lord, are
with me." But even free, rich
American Jewry is not escaping
from this heart and soul-search-
ing time of the divine trial.
They are tested by Providence
whether they love their brethren
and sisters in Europe with all
their heart and soul, whether
they are willing to shoulder the
holy burden of Brotherhood in
regard to them, whether they are
ready to hurry to their aid and
rescue—not with niggardly "No-
dokoh" with petty alms, and beg-
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