Friday. October 5, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Palestine Situation 119 Hillel Units
Is Called Critical
Open New Season
LONDON (JTA) — Describing
th e Palestine situation as "most
critical," David Ben-Gurion, chair-
man of the executive ' committee
of the Jewish Agency, cabled to
a meeting of representatives of
Jewish organizations in Palestine,
urging them to resist the con-
tinued enforcement of the Britisli
White Paper now that the war is
f I e r.
"While I am convinced that
the quota of 1,500 immigration
certificates offered by the British
Government is not the last word
of the English people and even
of this Government, we cannot
submit any longer to this cruel
and humiliating treatment," Ben-
Galion said, emphasizing that the
White Paper is void of any mor-
a l and legal validity. He said that
the meeting, convoked by the
Jewish National Council of Pal-
estine and by the Zionist Actions
Committee, should issue a call in
behalf of the Jewish people de-
manding that the doors of Pales-
tine be opened to every Jew de-
siring to immigrate there.
JDC Maps Relief
For Palestine Jewry
At Warsaw Parley
By LEON LENEMAN
(JTA Correspondent)
WARSAW — Plans for imme-
diate relief for the Jews in Po-
land last week were mapped by
Joseph Schwartz, European id-
rector of the Joint Distribution
Committee, and leaders of the
Central Committee of Polish
Jews.
The plans provide for relief
not only for the Jewish survivors
now in Poland, but also for Polish
Jews who are expected to be re-
patriated from Russia. They take
into account that between 150,-
000 and 180,000 Polish Jews are
in the Soviet Union and may
soon return to Poland.
Dr. Schwartz, who arrived
here two days ago, also confer-
red with officials of the Polish
Government, and discussed Jew-
ish relief problems with U.S. Am-
bassador Arthur Bliss Lane. He
assured the Jewish leaders at the
conferenc e that the Joint Distri-
bution Committee will do every-
thing possible to satisfy the urg-
ent needs of the Jews in Poland.
It was revealed at the meeting
that many of the Polish Jews in
Russia are surrendering their So-
viet citizenship and are re-apply-
ing for their former Polish citi-
zenship. The majority of Polish
Jews repatriated from Russia will
be settled in Lower Silesia, it
was stated.
At present, there are 15,000
Polish Jews living in Lower Si-
lesia. All of them were liberated
from Nazi camps in Poland and
preferred to start life anew in
th e western part of Poland rath-
er than return to their former
homes where their families were
killed. They have taken up resi-
dence in the cities of Reichebach,
Swidnica, Peterswald and other
Silesian towns, where some are
now employed at factory work.
Forty-five tons of food prod-
ucts arrived last week at Gdynia
destined for Jews in Poland. The
transport was sent by the Jews
of Sweden.
El - NATIONAL STATE
GENEVA (JTA) — Only a bi-
national state within the frame-
work of a federation which would
include Syria, Lebanon and Trans-
,p,rdan, can solve the Palestine
problem, the influential Journal
de Geneve says in a front-page
editorial.
After reviewing the achieve-
ments of the Jews in Palestine
for the past 25 years, and criti-
cizing the White Paper policy for
having hindered rescue activities
durin g the war, the paper says
that -it is doubtful that Zionism
liY itself can solve the 2,000-
year-old Jewish problem. Destruc-
tion of anti-Semitism and justice
for all the Jewish people, it
states, are bound up with the fu-
ture of western civilization and
are prerequisites for eventual so-
lution of the Jewish problem.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The 23rd
season since their establishment
in 1923 was inaugurated this
week by the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation s in 55 full-time Foun-
dations in 25 states, four Cana-
dian provinces and Havana, Cu-
ba, and 64 Hillel Counselorships
in 28 states and the District of
Columbia offering a broad pro-
gram of cultural, religious, social
and personal service to some 40,-
000 Jewish college men and wo-
men, including large numbers of
returned servicemen, at 119 col-
leges and universities, according
to an announcement by Dr. A. L.
Sachar, national director of the
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations.
These 119 Hillel units cover
virtually every major college and
university in 36 states and Can-
ada. Three additional Founda-
tions are to be announced short-
ly. The Hillel Foundations are
manned by full-time directors
and have complete facilities,
while the Hillel Counselorships
are staffed by part-time directors
and function with more limited
facilities.
Hillel began its 23rd year with
seven new full-time Foundations.
including one at the University
of Havana, Cuba, the first in a
Latin-American university, and
the fourth Canadian Foundation,
at the University of Saskatchew-
an, Saskatoon, Canada. The other
five new Foundations, which
were formerly Counselorships,
are at Harvard University, Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technolo-
gy and Radcliffe College, all in
Cambridge, Mass.; Simmons Col-
lege, Boston, and the University
of Arizona, at Tucson.
British Troops
Reach Palestine
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
air-borne division of the British
Eighth Army arrived in Palestine
last week as the vanguard of
heavy troop reinforcements the
British Government is planning
to send into Palestine to prevent
possible disturbances there. Their
arrival coincided with the return
to Jerusalem from London, of
Lord Gort, Palestine High Com-
missioner, who has been absent
several months.
Meanwhile, n e w regulations
aimed at the maintenance of
peace and public security in Pal-
estine confer more power upon
the local authorities.
The Jewish population in Pal-
estine is amused by exaggerated
reports sent from Palestine by
American non-Jewish news agen-
cies about tanks "rolling through
the streets of Palestine cities, af-
ter demonstrations by Jewish na-
tionalists." The truth is that no-
thing but police radio cars which
have been patrolling Palestine for
nine months are seen in the
streets here, and the reported
"demonstrations" a r e amicable
joint Arab-Jewish labor gather-
;ngs in Tel Aviv and a march by
several thousand bearded ortho-
dox Jewish pilgrims from all
parts of Palestine to the Wailing
Wall in Jerusalem on Succoth
carrying lulovim and ehtrogim.
Jews here are also excited at
the report, published last week,
that Arab leaders who were ex-
iled from Palestine in 1937 for
inciting anti-Jewish and anti-
British riots, including Jamal
Ilusseini, have received British
permission to proceed to an un-
specified Arab country in the
Middle East. These leaders, who
have ben held in Rhodesia, will
now be able to direct the Arabs
in Palestine from nearby coun-
tries, it is feared.
Beth Yehudah Aux.
Donor Affair Oct. 31
Plans are being made for the
17th annual donor luncheon
sponsored by Ladies of Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah to be held Oct.
31 at Yeshivath Bldg., Dexter
at Cortland. Rabbi M. Wohlge-
lernter will be the guest speaker
and cantor Hyman J. Adler will
sing.
The Ladies sponsor the Beth
Jacob Girls Day School, and Beth
Jacob Kindergarten.
Denver League Plans
Annual Donor Affair
To Benefit Hospital
Page Three
posed to tuberculosis and are
suffering from acute bronchial as-
thma and other allergic diseases
for whom medical treatment in
their local communities has been
of no avail, declares Mrs. Zech-
man.
The National Home for Jew-
ish Children was founded 38
yenta ago. The Home is support-
ed entirely by voluntary contri-
butions.
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 1
p.m., an open meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. Irwin
Cohn, 18450 Fairfield. Mrs. Frank
Handler, program chairman, will
present Mrs. Harry Oberstein,
who will give a review on an out-
standing current book.
The major fund raising project
of the Detroit League of the Na-
tional Home for Jewish Children
at Denver will be a dinner dance
to be held on Tuesday, Dec. 4,
at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Crys-
tal Ballroom. Mrs. Leon M. Zech-
man, president, appointed Mrs.
Milton Mahler, general chairman;
Mrs. Samuel Schwartz, co-chair-
man; Mrs. Sidney Sherman, tick-
ets; Mrs. Oscar Grey, entertain-
ment; and Mrs. Charles Kottler,
program book; Mrs. Maurice
Schwartz, arrangements, and
Mrs. Sam Gordon, printing.
All proceeds from this event
will be sent to the Home at Den-
ver which cares for underprivi-
leged children from all parts of
the country, who have been ex-
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Discussions, Cases, Questions.
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The Detroit Lodge Women's
Auxiliary of Bnai Brith will hold
a regular meeting at 8:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Oct. 19, at the Rose
Sittig Cohen Building, 13266
Lawton.
The auxiliary has started its
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season. Mrs. H. M. Jackson, chair-
man of ways and means, and her
committee have set aside Nov. 14
as "Open Your Home Day" for
fund raising parties. An out-
standing affair is being arranged.
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