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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronic,.
Friday,
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD:
Now that Franklin D. Roose-
velt is no more we can tell you
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
PAUL MASSERMAN, Managing Editor that he had definitely assured
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editorial Director
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
the Zionist leadership that he
would see the Jewish common-
Detroit 26, Michigan
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1945 (IYAR 14, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 17 wealth in Palestine through, that
Marshal Stalin was in favor of
a Jewish state in Palestine and
The old argument of a soft or hard that he was very sadly disap-
San Francisco
in Ibn Saud's anti-Zion-
The San Francisco Conference got un- peace for Germany also seems ridiculous pointed
ist attitude . . . President Tru-
now.
A
nation
which
has
destroyed
a
der way under rather inauspicious cir-
man is very much interested in
cumstances. The sponsors may succeed in continent, which has been responsible for the Palestine question and favor-
tens
of
millions
of
deaths,
for
untold
des-
ably disposed toward a Jewish
creating a more friendly and cooperative
atmosphere. This will require diplomatic truction, which has brought back the state.
finesse, forbearance and conciliatory skill morality of the cave man, how should LISTEN HERE:
In Boston a militant group of
of a very high order. Perhaps Secretary such a nation be treated?
Protestant ministers is undertak-
Last
year
when
Maidanek
and
Tre-
of State Stettinius, Foreign Secretar y
ing official steps to force action
Eden and Foreign Commisar Molotov will blinka were discovered and the Jewish by the Governor of Massachu-
press
was
filled
with
accounts
of
the
setts to curb organized anti-
find a satisfactory and workable formula
that will reduce the frictions; minimize horrors perpetrated, the general press Semitism in Waltham . . . There
reliable evidence that the anti-
the suspicions and lessen the resentments and public were somewhat skeptical. It is
Semitic handbills recently distrb-
seemed
unbelievable
that
a
civilized
na-
that were real and palpable before the
in Philadelphia were pro-
tion could descend so low. But if more uted
Conference opened.
moted and circulated by two
was needed it is here now for all members of the police force of
It is rather difficult to place the blame proof
to see.
that City of Brotherly Love . . .
for the unsatisfactory conditions that pre-
The pamphlets, you remember,
vailed since Yalta. Anti-Bolsheviks will
featured the Hitler slogan "The
They Are Both Right
unhesitatingly place all the blame on the
Jews are America's misfortune."
Soviets, and they can make out a good
One of the main controversies at pres- CANADIAN NEWS:
case by pointing to the unilateral actions ent stirring American Jewry is that in- Montreal Jewry is very much
of the Soviets in Romania, Bulgaria, Po- volving the Joint Distribution Committee perturbed by the attitude of the
Protestant Board of
land and the Baltic States, and in the and the United Palestine Appeal. It is a Westmount
concerning Jewish pup-
Soviet demand for three votes (some in- controversy which should never have Education
ils announced that after July 1
sist that it was originally 16 votes), in arisen, for both sides are right.
it will accept no more Jewish
the assembly of the World Security Or-
The controversy involves the distribu- children as pupils in its schools.
ganization. The pro-Bolsheviks can make tion of funds. The Palestine Appeal, If the Protestant board persists
this decision 3,000 Jelyi be
out an equally good case for the Soviets which is engaged in a campaign for $35,- in
youngsters in Westmount will
by pointing to the hostility of the Hearsts, 300,000 wants parity with the Joint Dis- left without the opportunity for
McCormicks, and that whole tribe of ir- tribution Committee which seeks to raise schooling.
reconcilables who would have the Amer- $45,000,000 for overseas relief. It was The Canadian general elections,
for June 11, will see
ican armies take Berlin and continue on this controversy which led to the dissolu- scheduled
the Federal Parliament — Fred
until Moscow was taken.
tion some months ago of the United Jew- Rose of the Progressive Labor
The Soviet leaders may not know, or ish Appeal.
Party, and Sam . Schweissberg,
Zionist leader, picked by the
want to know, that the aforementioned
The "Joint" argues that the 1,500,000 the
gentlemen do not really speak for Amer- surviving Jews in Europe are destitute, Liberal Party.
ica or the United Nations, but in any wrecked physically and mentally; that READER'S GUIDE:
expected to create a
event it is understandable that the Soviets they have no one to help them, no gov- A in book
scholarly circles is Pro-
should want to strengthen their frontiers ernment to protect them, no world organ- stir
fessor Harry A. Wolfson's forth-
and want to have more friendly voices ization to safeguard their rights, and that coming volume . . . Its title is
that will be heard in their favor. This it is up to American Jewry to provide "Foundations of Religious Phil-
is particularly true in view of the fact funds for the care of this remnant of Old osophy in Judaism, Christianity
Islam," and it will be issued
that the nations of the Western Hemi- World Jewry, and that if the American and
by the Harvard University Press
sphere and the nations of the British Jews fail them, hundreds of thousands of . . . Dr. Joshua Bloch tells us it
Commonwealth can be ordinarily counted those who survived the horrors of war is an epochal work . . . Reuben
Fink's book, "America and Pal-
upon to vote for the United States or and of Nazi occupation will perish.
estine," is notable not only for
Britain in any matter affecting their in-
The JDC further argues that the major- its timely political significance
terests.
ity of these survivors will have to go back but also for Bernard G. Richard's
The most optimistic proponents of world to their homes, or stay where they are, 84-page chapter, a really splen-
organization must have some misgivings that the White Paper prevents immigra- did historical survey of Amer-
as to the successful organization of such tion to Palestine, that conditions must be ica's attitude towards Zionism.
The Jewish Territorialists now
a body at San Francisco. The differences made easier for them, their civil rights have
a magazine of their own in
between the Anglo Americans and the must be guaranteed, their property re- this country . . . It is called
Russians appear at this time to be basic turned and they must be assured an "Freeland," and is edited by I.
N. Steinberg of Australia.
and fundamental.
equal place in the economy of their coun-
try. Funds must be provided by America
to rebuild the economy of these survivors,
money must be found for schools and
houses of worship that Jewish life may
be rebuilt from the ruins in Europe.
What is more, the UPA contends, the
The Atrocity Camps
anti-Semitism planted and nourished by
The discovery of the Nazi atrocity the Nazis will not die out after the war.
camps in western and central Germany It will continue to poison the lands of
has brought realization to the great ma- Eastern and Central Europe. They point
jority of Americans that in dealing with to Poland as an example. Many Poles
the present Germany we are facing a helped Jews, but there were still a great
problem unprecedented in modern history. many others who delighted in seeing the
We have on our hands a people who have "accursed Jew" suffer and die and often
lost not only all sense of decency, but all aided the Nazis in their persecutions.
that civilization has built up in 5,000
The lands of Central and Eastern Eur-
years.
ope will be so completely ruined as to
The discovery of these new atrocity offer little opportunity for earning a live-
camps once more focuses attention on the lihood. The Jews have no land, they can't
problem of punishing war criminals. What go back to the soil. Their only recourse
punishment is severe enough for men (and is to emigrate and the only land willing
women) who have indulged in the bestial- and able to let them in is Palestine.
iaties so graphically portrayed in recent Therefore, says the UPA, let's devote our
newspaper photographs. There is no main energies to building up the Land
question but that tens of thousands, and of Israel. Of course, we must help the
perhaps millions, who perpetrated these survivors in Europe, but let this not be
crimes, and the leaders who gave the our main reliance.
orders, must be wiped off the face of the
The tragedy is that we must have these
earth.
alternatives.
H
edo,
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The United Palestine Appeal ad-
herents, however, say that all the
above measures are merely palliative.
"How can the surviving Jews," they
ask, "go back to the scenes of mass-
acres, of unimaginable horrors? How
can the Jews go back to the places
where they witnessed the tortures
and slayings of their families? The
mind revolts at returning to the
scenes of such indescribable mass
suffering."
Ha
Bu
Strictly Confidential
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Britain and the United States believe
that a modus vivendi can be found for
collaboration with the small nations,
while the Soviets, to date, have collabor-
ated only by swallowing or by dominat-
ing its small neighboring states.
Can the representatives of the United
States and Britain persuade the Soviet
leaders that the era of hate, suspicion,
distrust and fear is at an end, and that
an era of friendship, collaboration, and
peace has dawned? If they can then
something constructive may emerge from
the Conference; if not, then more con-
ferences will have to be held and new
and different approaches to the problem
of world security will have to be found.
April 27, 1945
THJIaScobAN
RiD TZAIT i n
llik
reminds us that
on May 16 the New School for
Social Research will celebrate its
26th birthday . . . Felix Frank-
furte• was one of its founders
. . Just to keep the record
straight: Joe Rosenthal, the
photographer who shot that his-
toric Iwo Jima flag-raising pic-
ture, was converted to Catholi-
cism a few years ago . • . Did
you know that Reich's propagan-
dist minister Coebbels' castle at
Muenchen-Gladbich, Germany w as
the scene of a Seder this year?
Participants in the ceremony
were GI's . . . We thought you
might be interested to hear that
one S. H. Goldberg of New York
declares that he has figured out
"by the Bible" that the war will
end on July 30, 1945 . . . Mr.
Goldberg gives no details on the
calculations that led him to this
E
N T E R T A
conclusion.
ENTERTAINMENT WORLD:
Judy Holliday, whom you may
remember as being featured in
the films "Something for the
Boys" and "Winged Victory," is
making a hit on her first Broad-
way appearance, in Herman
Shumlins production of "Kiss
Them for Me" . . . Judy's name
in private life is Judith Tuvin.
Sam Rosoff, who used to build
subways in New York but has
been in Mexico for some time
now, is said to be preparing ice
hockey shows down there.
ABOUT PEOPLE:
Secretary of the Treasury Hen-
ry Morgenthau will resign im-
mediately after the Seventh War
Loan Drive . . . Congratulations
to Prof. Isador S. Ravdin, 49,
member of the University of
Pennsylvania faculty, who has
just been promoted to the rank
of Brigadier-General in the U.S.
Army in India . . . Dr. Ravdin
is one of America's outstanding
surgeons . . • His father is the
most beloved physician of Evans-
ville, Ind. . . . Arthur L. Mayer.
boss of New York's Rialto Thea-
ter, often dubbed the "House of
Horrors," is expecting to go to
Europe soon for the Red Cross.
He got back from a Pacific Red
Cross tour not long ago . . . A
good many of those 1,000 refu-
gees in the "free port" at Os-
wego, N. Y., had funds in Italy,
and those funds have now bees,
restored to them by the Allied
Control Commission . . . And
almost every one of these tepl-
norary visitors to our shores in-
vested the money thus recovered
in U.S. War Bonds.
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