Friday, July 13, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twelve they were met by Israel Rokach, mayor of Tel Aviv, who told them that the government would not tolerate the mass-trespassing of property. He told the land seek- ers that they would have to first By CHARLES BENSON register with the appropriate gov- (Continued from page 1) ernment agencies before securing was July As a matter of fact, he said, he I started to fence off pieces of land, any land. Later, the district po- WASHINGTON.—It did not differentiate among sol 2. An expectant hush hung over die•s. "I do not say white soldiers the jammed chamber. The gal- or Negro soldiers, and I do not leries were filled. Any minute the say American or British soldiers." President of the United States At one point, the galleries burst would enter the Senate, to deliver into laughter. Eastland hoarsely the Charter of the United Na- had shouted, "I am not prejudiced tions, and to ask for its ratifica- against the Negro." Laughter did tion. Yes, there he came, down not deter the Senator from con- the center aisle, smiling to tinuing his scandalous perform- Democratic and Republican sides ance. Openly he threatened that alike. returning "white" veterans would The Senators, hoped the Presi- take care of Negro veterans. "The dent, would consider the spirit, as soldiers are mad . .. This agita- well as the words of the Charter. tion for social equality has de- The primary objective is to pre- stroyed racial tolerance; and I vent future wars. How achieve state frankly that the white sol- that? In the language of Mr. dier is openly and avowedly wait- Truman, by seeking "to remove ing for his chance when he re- the economic and social causes of turns to the United States." international conflict and unrest." Quotes Soldier To attain that, he continued, In the meantime, here is the the Charter "seeks to achieve uni- way one American soldier feels versal respect for, and observance on the subject of race prejudice. of, human rights and fundamental A North Dakota editor had freedoms for all men and wo- written in his column: "A squib men—without distinction as to in the paper makes the statement race, language or religion." that there are some good Jap- That means Mississippi, too. anese-Americans in this country, Mississippi is the state which it didn't say where they were sends Theodore G. Bilbo and but buried." From the Western Front, James 0. Eastland to the Senate. Lt. Col. James M. Hanley, com- They are the pair which recently mander of the Second Battalion shared a disgraceful four-day of the 442nd Infantry regiment filibuster against the FEPC. (Japanese-American), sent this It is "natural" and "true," scorching reply to his hometown Senator Bilbo assures the Senate, for discrimination to exist against editor: "I wish I could tell you the Negroes and Jews. What this country needs, according to his number of Japanese-Ameri- who have died in this unit formula, is "a bill making it cans . . . I wish the boys in obligatory on the Federal Gov- alone the 'Lost Battalion' could tell ernment to see to it that these you what they think of Ja- minorities which are raising so panese-Americans . . . I know much hell are permitted to get it makes a good joke—but it is only their pro rata share of the the kind of joke that prejudice Federal jobs." thrives upon. It shows a lack Our Capital Letter Tel Aviv Jews Rush to Locate On German Land lice superintendent arrived with l number of officers and constable!. The would-be homesteaders %v ett given 15 minutes to disperse, The land seekers left Saront. Later, hundreds of Jews besieged the land office, where they sought to file claims to the land the; fenced off. EDISON BILLS PAYABLE HERE -.‘ FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Accuses Negroes of faith in the American ideal Senator Eastland used his four- ... You, the Hood River Legion hour stretch—in a practically Post, Hearst and a few others empty Senate, but with full gal- make one wonder just what we leries—to assail the mistreatment are fighting for. I hope it isn't of the white Anglo-Saxon (who) racial prejudice." There are all the earmarks of is the forgotten man in America today." He trotted out all the old, it, Colonel. It's what you and your threadbare, but still useful vitup- battalion crossed the Atlantic to eration of Negroes, added some exterminate. It's no prettier at new angles, left most of the anti- home. Semitic secializing to Senator Bilbo. "There Will Be Jewish "The Negro soldier was an ut- ter and dismal failure in combat State in Palestine," in Europe," said Eastland. He lacked initiative, declaimed the Predicts Leader CHICAGO (WNS). — Rabbi Senator, flailing his arms, no sense of responsibility, and could Judah L. Fishman, Palestine Miz- not compare in conduct with Nazi rachi leader and member of the soldiers. Why, high-ranking Amer- Jewish Agency, declared here at ican generals in Europe—they re- the 22nd annual convention of mained anonymous — told him, the Hapoel Hamizrachi that there Eastland yelled, what a failure will be established a Jewish state in Palestine in the near future the Negro troops were. Gen. Eisenhower would doubt- "with or without the approval of less be interested to hear that. England." Speaking of the world Zionist Possibly he might like to know which of is "numerous high-rank- conference which is to open in ing generals" made the alleged London on July 30, Rabbi Fish- statements, exactly opposite to the man, who came to this country facts as Eisenhower observed, and from Palestine last month, reported them. 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