DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Page Twelve

Our Capital Letter

Zionist Unity

By CHARLES BENSON

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The board shall
Committee.
meet between meetings of the

Executive Committee to con-

The War Department, a trio completely denied Eastland's al-
of Senators and a brace of legation that French Senegalese
Washington columnists went gun- troops herded 5,000 German wo-
ning a little while back. Their men into a Stuttgart subway
aim was true. It is a pleasure sation and attacked them. The
to report a well-riddled target. National Geographic Society, af-
ter thorough search of its files,
In a shocking speech filibuster- could not even find a subway in
ing extension of the wartime Stuttgart. Press dispatches from
Fair Employment Practices Com- Stuttgart report nary a subway
mittee, Senator James 0. East- in the city. A superficial re-
land of Mississippi, had attacked gard for facts is no part of a
not merely Negroes and Jews, Mississippi Senator's luggage, at
but brought wanton charges, least not during a filibuster.
completely unsubstantiated,
Yearly, the newspaper men
against Negro troops abroad as
an "utter and dismal failure." around the Senate and House
This, he claimed, was supported press galleries, sit in weary
boredom through the spate of
by numerous high-ranking Amer-
words which thunders about the
ican generals in Europe.
chambers, as appropriations are
The War Department seems to jockeyed to a conclusion. But
think otherwise.
this year even hardened corres-
Theirs was the first official pondents were disgusted by the
trigger-pulling at t a r g e t East exhibition of Eastland and his
co-thinker, Bilbo, in filibustering
land.
The Under Secretary of War, against funds for the FEPC. The
Robert P. Patterson, told a distinguished columnist of the
press conference that "the War Washington "Evening Star,"
Department is proud of its Lowell Mellett, for many years
troops, and that includes Ne- one of President Roosevelt's six
groes as well as all other administrative assistants, devot-
groups." He denied knowledge ed no less than three blistering
of the alleged statements by columns to attacks on the pair.
high-ranking generals. He re- Marquis Childs slashed at them,
ferred to the widely expressed with no words minced. Born
views of Generals Eisenhower, columnists vigorously took the
McArthur, Eaker, "which do not Senate to task for ignominous
support any such conclusions." submission to filibustering in
He recalled the numerous com- general, and this one in particu-
mendations by General Eisen- lar.
hower and the Inspector, Gene-
A Supreme Court Justice took
ral of the performance and be- occasion, in a Fourth of July
havior of Negro troops.
address, to warn that "American
Senator Elbert D. Thomas of fanatics" together with Nazi and
Utah, who can be counted on to Fascist agents, are "planting and
take the intelligent and far- spreading the germ of racial,
sighted view of questions touch- cultural and religious hatred."
ing on fundamental democratic It was Associate Justice Murphy
precepts, lost no time in having who called on Americans to,.
the Under Secretary's statement alertness to symptoms of moral
printed in the "Congressional decay. "We must recognize as
Record." The same day, Sena- centers of infection those who
tor James Mead of New York espouse even any one of these
and Warren Magnusson of Wash- attitudes:
"The exaltation of any race,
ington, paid special tribute to
the heroism and distinguished or nationality, as superior to all
service of Negroes in the Navy. others, the claim of special mo-
Indeed, Magnusson said, he looks nopoly rights or privileges for a
forward to the day when the favored group on the basis of
Navy increases the Negro per- birth and blood, rather than
sonnel of ships of the fleet, be- merit, land lthe denial of tne
cause, "they have served well in right of minority groups to com-
pete in any way with the privil-
the armed forces." ,
Are you counting the holes in eged groups."
Maybe on his next trip, Jus-
that target? Keep, counting.
Still the same day, Supreme tice Murphy could stop over in
Allied Headquarters from Paris Mississippi.

ish hands throughout the Nazi
rule. Within the hospital precinct
there was a synogague. Most of
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the Berlin synagogues are in
many, but that it was possible
ruins.
that some thousands of the hun-
dreds of thousands that were
sent to Polish death camps would
eventually be found.
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The chief rabbi, who was lib- been sounded by the Jewish com-
erated by the Russians last May munity of Boston, which has
from the Theresienstadt camp adopted the record quota of $3,-
and flown to Paris by the Ameri- 000,000 for its 1945 Combined
can Army last week, has re- Jewish Appeal, Louis H. Salvage
ceived a six-month entry permit
has been elected chairman of the
into Britain, where he has a son- Boston campaign, which is set-
in-law. Dr. Baeck said he be- ting the pace for all-out effort in
lieved the history of the Ger- every section of the country. This
man Jews in Germany is fin- year's drive in New England's
ished. He said "there is an first city will mark the comple-
example in the expulsion of the tion of 50 years of organized
Jews from Spain and Portugal, J e w i s h communal endeavor in
when their migration brought Boston.
spiritual vigor to all countries
Among the other leading com-
which accepted them."
munities which are now getting
As for German Jews return- ready for their Fall campaigns
ing to Germany, the chief rab- are Denver, Colo.; Evansville,
bi declared:
Ind.; Lexington, Ky.; Shreveport,
"So many have suffered so La.; Fall River and Springfield,
much from German people as a Mass.; Camden, N. J.; Rochester,
whole that it is impossible for Schenectady, Elmira and Pough-
them to return. There is an keepsie, N. Y.; Greensboro, N. C.;
abyss which cannot be bridged. Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio;
Perhaps time will bring some T u I s a, Okla.; Johnstown, New
healing, but at the moment it is Castle, McKeesport, Sharon-Far-
impossible internally as well as rell and Uniontown, Pa.; Provi-
dence, R. L.; Charleston, S. C.;
externally."
Norfolk, Va.; a n d Charleston,
Declaring that the Germans Huntington a n d Wheeling, W.
who were "reared in the Herrn- Va.
yolk tradition of hardness and
cruelty are beyond re-educa-
tion," Dr. Baeck noted: "They
are the people who burned the
synagogues and inflicted every
known torture on the Jews while
ST. LOUIS — A nation - wide
most looked on silent.
campaign to raise $500,000 to
Simultaneously it was reported build and equip a national arthri-
that a new Jewish community tis research institute as part of
the Leo N. Levi Memorial Hos-
council was formed in Berlin.
pital of Bnai Brith at Hot Springs,
There are few Jewish proper- Ark., was launched at the annual
ties in Berlin which escaped ei- meeting of the Leo N. Levi Me-
ther war damage or deliberate morial Hospital Association. Judge
destruction by the Nazis. Among A. B. Frey of St. Louis was re-
the undamaged property is a elected president of the Hospital
hospital which remained in Jew- Asociation for the 16th time.

sider steps to be taken in line

with policies already agreed

upon with regard to such

matters as may require

prompt action.

The chairman of the Exe-

cutive Committee shall be the

chairman of the board of of-

ficers and shall preside at its

meetings. In his absence Dr.

Wise shall be the presiding of-

ficer.

Meetings of the Board shall
be called by the chairman
whenever required and shall
also be called when requested

by any three members of the
Board. Each of the Joint

Chairmen of the Council shall
have the right to name a proxy
to attend meetings of the
Board in his absence and to
vote in his stead.

The cha'irman of the Exe-
have
cutive Committee shall
the right to name, with the
approval of the Executive
Committee, an executive di-

rector and other key members
of the staff.

The members of the Execu-
tive of the Jewish Agency in
the United States shall be in-

vited to participate without
vote in the meetings of the
Council, of the Executive

Committee and of the Board
of Officers. It is understood
that a similar invitation will
be extended to the jo'int chair-
men of the Council to partici-

pate in meetings of the Jew-
ish Agency Executive in the
United States.

t h e
following
Immediately
meeting of the Council, Dr. Sil-

ver called a meeting of the Exe-
cutive Committee at which the
reappointment of an executive
director and key members of the
executive staff was approved.
The re-appointed executives are:
Harry L. Shapiro, executive di-
rector; Harold P. Manson, direc-

Friday July 20, 1945

for of press and information;
Abe Tuvim, director of activi•
ties with cooperating organize.
tions, and Harry A. Steinberg,
assistant in charge of speci al
events.

Brltlsh Party Alms

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the Jews to have a national home
which can issue passports
and
give legal status to stateless refu-
gees."
The political secretary of the
Liberal Party cited the pro - Zion.
ist resolution adopted by the Lib.
erals last winter. John MacNair,
secretary of the Independent La.
bor Party, declared that the Jew-
ish problem can not he solved
along the lines of the White Pa-
per and declared that as many
Jews as Palestine can absorb
should be allowed to immigrate
into
T h e Palestine.
s t a
t ennts of the parties
were published in the "Zionist
Review," organ of English Zion-
ism in answer to queries from
the Inter-University Jewish Fed.
oration."

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