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VOL. 48, NO 10

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1946

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COMMUNITY COUNCIL TELLS STORY

Charge State Department
Aids Polish Anti-Semitism

Charges that both the United States and Great Bri-
tain were indirectly supporting anti-Semitic and Fascist
forces in Poland were made at a meeting of the Detroit
Philosophical Club held last Saturday at the home of
Samuel Benavie, of Warrington Drive, by State Senator
Nowak and Professor Anthony Kar. The two men spoke

And showed moving pictures about 4)
the new Poland that has risen af-
ter the war.

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SENATOR NOWAK

The two ,men were part of a
group sent to investigate condi-
tions in Poland by a conference
of thirty-three Polish American
organizations in Detroit. They left
the country on November 18, 1945,
and returned January 24, 1946.
"A new Europe has come into
being," said Senator Nowak. "A
new Poland is now in existence.
The old Poland, with its great
landed estates and feudal tradi-
tions is no.more. The new Polani
has eliminated these landed aris-
tocracy who were almost univer-
sally collaborationists under Nazi
rule. The rulers now come largely
from the laboring class. It also
includes the peasants and the in-
tellectuals whom the Nazis did
not quite kill off. All these took
an active part in the underground
war against Germany."
Nowak explained that almost
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Hope for Partition
Or Trusteeship
For Tune Bein,2.

LONDON (JTA) — The British
Government expects that the An-
glo - American Inquiry Committee
will recommend an international
trusteeship for Palestine or the
partitioning of the country into
separate Jewish and Arab states,
the JTA learned.
It is understood that Foreign
Minister "Bevin would prefer a
trusteeship for the time being. He
is reported to be willing to share
such a trusteeship with the Unit-
ed States as a transitory solution
until the partitioning of Palestine
is prepared and realized.

British Lenient to
Nazis; Do Little
To'Aid Jeff's

LONDON (JTA) — The British
Military Government in Germany
is displaying leniency towards Na-
zis, at the same' time that it treats
Jews like all other Germans, Dr.
Philip Auerbach, chairman of the
Union of Jewish Communities in
the Rhineland and Westphalia,
told the JTA this week.
Dr. Auerbach, who came to Lon-
don to attend the international
Jewish conference, said that Ger-
man Jews who desire to remain
in Germany will he unable to do
so unless the British policy under-
goes a radical change. "I do not
have the impression," he said,
"that the military government de-
sires to help us."
In many cases, the Jewish com-
munal leader charged, German
non-Jews are given preference
over Jews. He said that while per-
mits for reopm:ng commercial
and Industrial establishments are
freely given to non-Jews, they are
frequently refused to Jews. How-
ever, Jews are not exempt from
taxes imposed by the British upon
residents of their zone of occupa-
tion, Dr. Auerbach said, "thus we
are called on to foot the bills for
Nazi crimes."

The Community Council Fights
Anti-Semitism; Builds Understanding

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Who Shall Represent Us to the Non-Jewish Community?
Who Shall Speak Authoritatively for the Whole Jewish Community?
To Whom Do We Entrust Our Leadership in Time of Danger?
Whence the Grand Strategy Against the Enemies of Democracy?
How Shall We Build a Common Bond of Citizenship among All People?

By RABBI LEON FRAM
Chairman, Community Relations Committee

There was a time in American Jewish life when various individuals and organi-
zations undertook to act on behalf of the Jewish community. Chaos prevailed, Indi-
viduals arrogated to themselves the role of spokesmen, and individual organizations
presumed to act as saviours of Jewry. No one elected
them; they were responsible to none; they could perpetu-
ate themselves as self-appointed spokesmen as long as
they wished to. If, in dealing with non-Jews, they made
mistakes and caused damage to the Jewish community,
they were accountable to no one. At best their effective-
ness was limited, because they could not genuinely speak
for all Jews. Much of their preoccupation was with so-
called "Shtadlonus," or back-stairs diplomacy, in which
a problem was attacked through the personal influenCe
of some one who knew some one, who was the first
cousin of some one who had the ear of the person who
presumably could do something about it,
In Detroit this is no lotiger the case. Anti Semitism
is fought vigorously, continually, with all the weapons
that are made available through a full knowledge of the
economic, political, and social,realities of life in America.
This is a fight not of individuals, but on behalf of the
Organized Jewish Community, and with the fullest re-
sponsibility to it. The elected and appointed leaders are
always subject to policy decisions made by a cross-section
of community opinion, and periodically must give an
RABBI LEON FRAM
accounting of their stewardship to the ExecIttive Com-
mittee and to the assembly
of organizational delegates.
The delegates c r i t i c i z e,
make constructive sugges-
tions, initiate programs of action,

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Detroiters Eagerly Await Speech of Henry
Monsky, Great Leader in American Jewry

If precedent set throughout the
country where Henry Monsky, na-
tional president of Bnai Brith has
spoken, is followed in Detroit, his
appearance here promises to be
one of the most outstanding pub-
lic functions in years. The Greater
Detroit Bnai Stith Council will be
host to this much publicized and
most honored representative of
American Jewry.
Mr. Monsky has recently beef
honored with an appointment by
U. S. Attorney General Tom C.
Clark on the National Committee
of thirty-one education, welfare
and civic leaders to a voluntary
advisory panel on child delin-
quency. The panel met in Wash-
ington recently. He was elected
chairman of the program com-
mittee by the rest of the panel
which includes such dignitaries as
J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I. Chief;
Mrs. LaFell Dickinson, president
of the General Federation of Wo-
men's Clubs; Attorney - General
Clark; Howard L. Doyle, presi-
dent, U. S. Attorneys' Confer-

Commander Threatened at Trial
nvicting Anti-Semitic "Fronters"

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YORK — In a courtroom Veterans, when Ginsberg, effected
"fed with Christian Front, Nazi their arrest while attending an
sympathizers, muttering threats anti-Semitic meeting which they
against Isidore Ginsberg, N. Y. conducted, last October. Himself
State Department Commander of an attorney, the Commander se-
the Jewish War Veterans of the cured their apprehension under a
U. S., three Christian Fronters, New York State Law, after the
convicted of "Unlawful Assembly" police had first refused to arrest
and disorderly conduct, on Jan- them.
uary 10, were sentenced last week
Henry J. Klein, notorious attor-
in Long Island City Court of Spe- ney for many of the seditionists
cial Sessions. The trio were sea- at the Washington Sedition trial,
tenced as follows: Homer Maertz, acted as defense attorney even
one year's imprisonment, and Kurt though he did not appear in the
Mertig and Ernest Elmhurst, slx case previously. Klein said that
months each. his clients had been "framed" and
These men were originally "tricked" by Jewish propaganda
brought to trial through the mili- agencies.
tant action 'ot • the 'Jewish War
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and can, if they wish to, censure
ences, and many others.
Chicago , will render vocal selec- the administration or reverse the
administration decisions.
President Monsky will address a tions.
Some, of the old "Sliticilonus"
public meeting to which the en-
school, don't like this procedure.
tire Jewish Community of De-
They
say that decisionrt on such
troit is invited to attend on Wed-
matters ought not to be made
nesday, March 13, at the Statler
by a "mob." If a bad situation
Hotel Ball Room at 9 p.m. He will
occurs, they say, a few people
meet with various groups and
"who know" ought to get to-
membership workers in Detroit to
gether and deckle what to do
present awards to those members
about it. But if there is any-
who made the increase of over
thing that the events of the last
3,000 new pledges to the lodges
decade have taught us it is that
and the auxiliaries passible. These
we must not wait until "some-
awards will he made at private
thing happens." Advance, long-
meetings.
range planning, on the basis of
Mr. Monsky will also present
the most carefully scientific
the charters to the two newly
evaluations of trendy, is ur-
organized lodges. Isadore Starr is
gently necessary. Anti-Semitism
the new lodge organization chair-
cannot be fought on the basis
man. Sam Hersch and Meyer Le-
of emergencies alone. It is
bovitz directed the membership
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campaign.
The public is warned that there
are no reserved seats. The Com-
mittee reports that indications are
toward a record-breaking attend-
ance.
Cantor Moses J. Silverman of
the Anshe Emet Synagogue in
HENRY MONSKY
By ROBERT GARY
FRANKFURT (JTA)—Although
it has been announced in Wash-
ington that American consulates
will open in Stuttgart And Mu-
nich to accept applications for vi-
sas from refugees and displaced
A rare opportunity for those Lawrence Crohn, past president of persons wishing to settle in the
boys who are interested in Zion- the Zionist Organization of De- United States, actually these con-
irm to profit by their interest In troit and member of the National sulates will not be ready to func-
the subject is being offered Administrative Committee of the tion for several weeks.
The consuls sent to those cities
through the Detroit Jewish Chron- Zionist Organization of America,
icle by the Zionist Organization Pauline Jackson, ex-president of have not yet secured adequate of-
of Detroit. A very unusual and Hadassah, and Abraham Cohen, fice space, personnel, application
valuable first prize makes the now with the Community Council. blanks and other official forms
necessary to start operations.
matter decidedly worthy of atten-
There are three prizes for the
All six U. S. consulates that will
tion.
contest. First prize, the exception.
This opportunity will be offered al one, is a full summer with all eventually be opened in Germany
to the winner of an essay contest expenses paid at the Camp Michl- will accept personal affidavits from
on the subject of "What Zionism gama. Second prize is the sum of applicants'for visas in lieu of doc-
Means to Me." The rules of the fifty dollars offered by the Zionist uments such as birth certificatos,
contest will be announced In sub- Organization. Third prize Is a set passports and marriage certifis
cotes, which, in most cases, have
sequent issues of the Chronicle.
of books offered by the Detroit been lost in concentration
camps
Judgei *Of the' Contest will be
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ft while fleeing the Nazis,

Visa Applications
Still Not Ready
For Displacees

Valuable Prizes .Offered
Essay Contest on Zionism

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