1- Transfer of Million
Jews to Palestine
Asked by Ben Gurion

Europe Poisoned for Generations
By Anti-Semitism, Weizmann Warns

TEL AVIV ( WNS) — Ad-
JERUSALEM (Palcor) —The dressing the "Small Zionist Con-
right to freely. emigrate to Pal- gress," convoked here by the
estine, financial and material as- Keren Hayesod, Dr. Chaim Weiz-
sistance, and powers of state- mann declared that the anti-
hood so as to be able to carry Semitic poison which the Ger-
out this mission of transpiant- mans have spread throughout
ing the Jewish people in its Europ e will endure for many
homeland were posted by David generations, and that the only
ben Gurion, chairman of the solution to the Jewish problem
Jewish Agency Executive, as in Europe is the establishment
the three major Jewish demands of a Jewish homeland in Pales-
of the United Nations. Ali. Ben tine.
Gurion addressed the fourth an-
David Ben-Gurion, chairman
nual Zionist conference under of the executive of the Jewish
the auspices of the Keren - Agency, took issue with a recent
esod, Palestine Foundation Fund. statement by Dr. Weizmann in
The Jewish Agency Executive which the latter said that it may
chairman called for the admis- be necessary to wait five or six
sion of one million Jews into years before a Jewish state is
Palestine immediately after the established in Palestine.
will and said that "without mass
"We are all ready to wait
immigration no majority can be with Dr. Weizmann," Mr. Ben-
established in Palestine, without Gurion said, "but nobody
has
a majority there is no Jewish a right to advise the Jews
state. He warned that "those whose families have been
who raise the argument about slaughtered to wait. We can-
Arab opposition to a Jewish state
must remember that Arabs op- not compel Churchill, Roose-
velt and Stalin to fulfill our
pose Jewish immigration and a demands, but w e
be the
Jewish majority ; Zionist which mouthpiece of the must
Jews whose
at the end of 1944 still speaks parents
have been annihilated."
the same language is obstruction-
APPEALS TO U.S. LEADERS
ist and mendacious.
An appeal to Zionist leaders
"It is just as impossible to
in the United States to make
restore their former existence
peace and "overcome their petty
to the surviving Jews of Eur-
differences," was voiced by Jos-
ope," he declared, "as it is
eph Sprinzak, a member of the
to restore the life of our
Zionist Actions Committee.
slaughtered brethren; without
Eliahu Dobkin, immigration
immediate mass immigration,
chief of the Jewish Agency, es-
Zionism for the Jews of Eur- ,
timated that five out of every
ope becomes merely a mock-
six Jews in Europe have been
ery of their last hopes. There
murdered and said that thou-
is only one logical conclusion
sands of the survivors "are
to be drawn from this posi-
I knocking at the gates of Pales-
tion, namely—the speedy, full
tine," but are barred by the
transfer of Jews from Europe
White Paper. Mr. Dobkin said
to Palestine. The Jewish
that the chief immigration task
Agency has explored the ex•
at present is the transfer to Pal-
tent of the possibilities for
estine of thousands of Jewish
bringing the first million Jews
orphans in Europe.
immediately after the war,
Discussing the economic sit-
and has established several
uation in Palestine, Eliezer Kap-
facts:
Ian, treasurer of the Agency,
"There are 17 million dun-
revealed that no able-bodied per-
ams of unoccupied, unculti- ! son is unemployed. If full em-
vated land in Western Pales-
ployment is to be maintained,
tine, which can be settled and
Mr. Kaplan said, it will be neces-
developed for Jewish coloni-
sary to reduce the high living
zation; it is possible to 'irri-
and production costs in Pales-
gate millions of dunams. Pal-
tine. A "suitable political re-
estine has two sea outlets—
gime" and a great deal of finan•
the Mediterranean and the
cial assistance from Jews in oth-
Red Sea which can serve as 1 er countries will be necessary,
a source of livelihood for tens
he said, to maintain prosperity
of thousands of Jew'ish fam- lin Palestine.

ilies. There are ample nat-
ural resources here, and what
is most important—the Jew-
ish people have the capacity
and ability for creative work,
and a unique, if tragic advan-
tage—being driven by a plight
which is unparalleled by any
other' nation."

9 NEW SETTLEMENTS

Some progress has been made,
, the Agency treasurer revealed,
•
l in meeting the acute housing
shortage here. A "fair amount"
of building materials have been
obtained and work has already
with the
Started on 800 uni
aim of completing
0 within

Infants Service Group
To Stage Show Jan. 21

4

Arab Press Praises
State Department

"Show Time" with the In- WASHINGTON (WNS) —Re-
flints Service Group is going to porting the recent shelving of
be held in the ballroom of the the Palestine resolution by the
Book-Cadillac Hotel, Sunday eve- Senate Foreign Relations Com-
ning, Jan. 21. Ray Gorrell and niittee, the Arab press in the
his orchestra will play during United States lauded the State
the show and afterwards for Department for blocking the
dancing. passage of the resolution.
Rehearsals have been in pro- Appealing to the Arab world
cess for the past three months to continue pressure upon the
under the direction of Mrs. Day- Allies against Zionist demands,
id King, and it promises to be the Washington Arab newspaper
more entertaining than any of Al-Ba van warned that "Pales-
the shows given by the Group tine will be strongly defended
in the past. now and in the future by Arabs
Mrs. Abraham Young, general all over the world as it has been
chairman, claims the tickets are in the past." It asserted that
practically a sell-out but is re- the proponents of the Palestine
serving sonic to be sold at the resolution had been "luckily"
door. Price of admission is $2.00 stopped by "logic and reason—
a ticket and by calling Mrs. and this time by the State De-
Young, TO. 8-8542. you will be partment which had ordered the
assred of a ticket. resolution shelved."

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The proud prophet loses his
I ophecies; the proud wise man

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Page Nine.

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, January 12, 1946

Dogs bark and the wind car-
ries it away.
—

Keren Hayesod Gives
$5,450,000 to Agency

Jewish Chaplains
To Broadcast on
Sunday Mornings

NEW YORK — Announcement
was made by Judge Bernard A.
Rosenblatt, president of the Pal-
estine Foundation Fund (Keren
Hayesod of the remittance of
$750,000 to its agency in Pal-
estine, as the final payment for
1914, bringing its total remit-
tance for the year to $5,450,-
000.
The Palestine Foundation Fund
is the fiscal arm of the Jewish'
Agency for Palestine, which is
recognized as the legal and polit-
ical instrument of Jewish Pal-
estine. The Palestine Founda •
tion Fund has been largely re-
sponsible for the establishment
of 21 new colonies during the
past year.

a short time. Nine new agri-
cultural settlements have been
established in the past year, he
said, bringing to 40 the number
founded since the outbreak of
the war.
Present political portents indi-
cate that solution of the Pales-
tine problem will be postponed
for sonic time, Emil Shnorak,
head of the Economic Depart-
ment of the Agency, told the
delegates. This is a great dis-
appointment, Mr. Shnorak said,
but under any circumstances, the
principal economic task now is
to prevent a financial crisis.

A Jewish chaplain will be
heard each Sunday on the 10-
year-old Message of Israel radio
program. The Message of Is-
rael is broadcast nationally over
the Blue Network Sunday morn-
ings, 10 to 10:30 Detroit Time.
Chaplain Jacob M. Rothschild
of Washington will speak Jan.
14 on "Can Religion Survive the
Peace ?"
On Jan. 21, Chaplain Edward
T. Sandrow, stationed at the
New York Port of Embarkation,
will deliver the Message of Is-
rael, and Chaplain Morris Lie-
berman of Billings General Hos-
pital, Fort Harrison, Ind., will
speak on the final Sunday in
January.
LETTER
The Message of Israel is
(Continued from Pate 4)
broadcast directly from the pul-
(Continued from Page 4)
pit of Central Synagogue in New
Ben is the mortar officer of an York City.
Lary training, Congress will have
East-Canadian infantry outfit and
to cope with the problem of re-
has been in France ever since D-
converting U.S. industry to
Day . . . Benny has established
peace-time activity in such a
new standards in mortar shoot-
manner that economic chaos and
ing . .. While other mortar out-
its by-product, racial and relig-
fits use a thousand bombs alto-
ious tension, are not concomi-
gether, he manages to get rid
tants. While the executive de-
of 1,000 bombs per mortar . . .
In other words, he uses More
Representatives of synagogues part ments of the Government
than 20,000 bombs in one stunt and local organizations and mem- plan means of handling a "lib-
erated" Germany, Congress must
• . . Wherever Captain Dunkel- bers of the board of directors meet demands for jobs for all
man's mortar crew gets going in Of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah will
France the Nazis know that a meet at 2 :30 p. in. Sunday, Jan. after the war, wage stabliization
Jew is taking revenge for the 14, in the synagogue auditorium, and price controls, expanding
Warsaw ghetto and the many .0 discuss the educational pro- social security, and legislation
Gestapo extermination camps .. . gram of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah for a permanent fair employ-
Remember the recent news and the Beth Jacob Srhool, now ments pratices committee. A
stories concerning, four chap- serving more than 500 Detroit square deal for minorities in
lains — Protestant, Catholic and Jewish children. The meeting the postwar job market is at
Jewish—who went down with a begins at 4 p. ni. and is open stake in this last bill, scheduled
torpedoed transport vessel after to the general publir. The New for introduction in the first weeks
giving their life preservers to York Yiddish journalist, Chaim of the new Congress.
other men? . . . Well, the re- Lieberman, will speak on the 3 Jewish Congressmen
port front Hollywood is that a problem of Jewish religious edu-
Further along the domestic job
film about them is being readied. cation in the American envi•on- of preventing the expected post-
ment.
WRITERS' CORNER:
war upsurge of intolerance, the
Irving -M. Bun im of New York, issue of the poll tax and its use
Irwin Shaw of the U.S. Army,
national
leader
of
Young
Israel
to disenfranchise the Negro in
now in France, will have a new
play produced on Broadway be- and other Jewish religious move- the South is sure to be raised,
fore spring,. they tell • us . . . ments, a brilliant orator and and the use of the mails to cir-
Titled "The Assassin," it cen- thinker, will be the guest speak- culate religious and racial defa-
ters around the assassination of er at the third annual patrons mations may again be fought in
Admiral Darlan in Algiers . . . dinner of the Yeshivah, to be this Congress as it was in the
Novelist and playwright Albert held at 6:30 p. m. Sunday, Feb. last. •
Among the 100 or so new faces
Maltz, whose best-selling book 11, in the social hall of Shaarey
"The Cross and the Arrow," has Zedek, Chicago at Lawton. A are three Jewish Congressmen.
contribution
of
$25.00
pays
for
Rep. Herman P. Koppelman, 64-
put him on easy street, what with
royalties and screen rights and two admissions, $15.00 for one. ycar-old Connecticut Democrat.
all, has taken a job in it war Reservations may. be made by is actually an old face returned
plant . . . In the 1944 issue of telephone to the Yeshivah office. after it few years' rest. But
Representatives Leo F. Rayflel,
the French-language publication HO. 7990.
and Benjamin J. Rabin, both
of Yeshiva College, Le Flambeau,
New York Democrats, are both
there appears a splendid French
brand new on the national scene
translation of a poem by Bialik
and both come, incidentally,
. . . The translation is by Nor-
from newly changed districts.
man Bronznick.
Taking ringside seats in this
Th e University Area Women's
OUR HAT IS OFF:
most important Congress will be
Club
will
hold
a
gala-fun
dance
Larry Adler, who elevated the
Representative Adolph J. Sabath
harmonica to the level of a sym- Sunday evening, Jan. 14, at the of Illinois, dean of Congress who
phony orchestra instrument, is Jewish Community Center. A pilots the powerful Rules Com-
not only a musical genius . . . fine orchestra has been hired mittee without whose okay ( it
Born in Baltimore, he has con- and an evening of fun, friend- was leared only too unfortunate-
centrated on harmonica playing ship and good entertainment will ly in the instance of the Pales-
since his childhood
. . At 14 be given. The proceeds of the tine resolution ) legislation can-
he was an accomplished artist dance will go towards the war- not be considered on the House
. . . But what we started to effort program of the club.
Mrs. Sidney Pozen is chair- floor; Representative Sol Bloom,
tell you is this . . . Larry, a
chairman of the influential For-
slender young man of 30, has man of the (lance, assisted by eign Affairs Committee, now
been touring the European and Airs. Harry Nachman, Mrs. fighting to share responsibility
Harry Levine, Mrs. Tillie Kauf-
Paific war fronts untiringly . . .
with the Senate for our peace
Just back from a USO tour of man and Mrs. - Sadie Hecker.
The officers of the club are : legislation ; Representative Sam-
the South Pacific, he has writ-
uel Dickstein, head of • the Im-
ten a very interesting article for Mrs. Joseph M. Markel, presi- migration a n d Naturalization
dent;
Mrs.
Sidney
Pozen,
vice
Collier's, which should be out in
Committee who may face a fight
a few weeks . . . Don't miss president; Mrs. Sarah Somlyo, to prevent more restrictive im-
treasurer;
Mrs.
Bessie
Belsky,
it . . . Larry, you should know,
migration measures and who is
does an unusual amount of read- corresponding se c r eta r y; and taking the lead in attempts to
ing and thinking. and never Mrs. Jane Levine, recording sec- extend naturalization and immi-
retary.
turns down a good cause.
Everyone is invited to attend gration rights to Filipinos and
ABOUT PEOPLE:
this gala-fun dance. Refresh- oher racial groups now exclud-
Jane Froman, the singer who ments will be available through- ed; Representative Emanuel Cal-
ler, leading fighter for progres-
was so severely injured in that out the evening.
Lisbon clipper crash that she
Anyone desiring tickets or in- sive legislation ;. and Representa-
still, despite many operations, formation should contact Mrs. tive Samuel Weiss, who starts
must use a crutch and a cane Sidney Pozen at University 1- his third term in Congress with
to get about, has just opened 5893.
increased stature.
at one of the major night clubs,
the Copacabana . . . Unable to
stand alone, and unwilling to let
the merrymakers see the de-
Pressing sight of her crutch, she
leans against the piano as she
KOSHER
sings—and brings down the
Restaurant and Dining Room
house . . . The hit musical of
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And you'll be interested to
know that one of the pretty
dancers in the show is Leonard's
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sister. who uses the stage name
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of Shirley Burton . . . Best sell-
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ing record of the new year is
Dinah Shore's Victor platter of
"I'll Walk Alone" .. . Since her
return from her overseas enter-
tainment tour, incidentally, Dinah
has been keeping busy with.
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among other things, recording
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These discs, 44 to date, will be
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over local stations there.

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