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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, September 27, 1946

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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And the LEGAL CHRONICLE

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GREETINGS

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Dear Editor:
The approach of the High Holy
Days reminds us of our debt to
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-In-Chief A. W. SHAFER, Ado. Mgr. CY AARON, l'un NATIIAN KAUFMAN, Man. Es.
the Anglo-Jewish and Yiddish
press for their wholehearted co-
vol. 48, No. 39
FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1946 (Tishri 2, 5707)
Detroit 26, Michigan
operation in disseminating the
news reported by the Vaad Ha-
with an empire which offers them only tzala Rescue Committee this past
eternal servitude, says Eppstein.
year.
A New Year has dawned. It offers each
May we take this opportunity to
This,
combined
with
the
religious
am-
one of us the chance to make it a year
thank
you from the bottom of our
bitions of the Arab League and the econ-
of decision.
hearts. We pledge ourselves to
omic interest of the Arab landowners continue
to the best of our ability,
It challenges the faint-hearted, the pro- who can preserve their status only by
our labors, seeking the religious
crastinators and the undecided among us repressing tendencies towards industrial- and physical rehabilitation of our
to act swiftly and daringly to make that ization and democracy makes for open distressed brethren abroad. May
change we have been planning, to turn warfare between two otherwise compatible the Lord in His great mercy bring
over that new leaf we have been delay- peoples, he points out.
their inhuman trials to an end in
this year of 5707. •
ing„ to face our difficulties with cour-
Rabbi Eppstein makes several sug-
age and overcome them, to take our bles-
GERTRUDE GOULD,
gestions
that merit grave consideration.
Vaad Hatzala
sings with gratitude to the Higher Power

community and has made it pos
sible for us to increase our mem
bership and sales manyfold.
We are deeply grateful and ex-
tend to you our sincerest good
wishes.
MAURICE JACOBS
Executive Vice-President

5707 — A Year of Decision

who has granted them.
It is a year of decision, too, for all Is-
rael, and our response to its challenge
may chart our people's course for decades
to come.

Zionists long ago began to feel that
Britain's fear of a highly industrialized
Palestine that would threaten her East-
ern markets has been a major factor
for her reversal and her opposition to
a Jewish state and majority.

That response should be unequivocal.
There must be no surrender. Palestine
must be ours and, if necessary, we shall
fight for it. The resistance must be
strengthened with men and money,
"illegal immigrants" in the thousands
must run the blockade, the British ter-
ror must be defied and broken and the
rebuilding of the Homeland must go on
despite the disorder.

Lord Strabolg's concept of a Palestine
Dominion as part of the British Common-
wealth would hardly be in consonance
with this unexpressed British fear.
A trusteeship under the United Nations
would be the solution. With Britain out
of the picture, one of the greatest barriers
to a Jewish State would be lifted and in-
ternational economic conflict could play
no part in blocking a settlement.

In Europe, our protests at continued
mistreatment of displaced persons and
at the sporadic pogroms must be so loud
and authoritative that it should shake the
doors of the chancelleries.
The nations must be taught that the
meek little Jew of old' won't take it on
the chin any more, that he is ready to
stand up and fight. -
And we in America must be there back-
ing him up with our money, our strength
and our prestige. He is our major interest
today. We must not let him down.
So the advent of the New Year is a
challenge. Our reaction can make it a
year of decision.

A Substitute for Britain

If Zionism is to succeed, it must sever
its interests from those of the British Em-
pire, according to an article in the Sep-
tember Commentary, the monthly maga-
zine of Jewish affairs.
In "Empire and Zionism: A Bankrupt
Partnership," Rabbi Victor Eppstein, au-
thor and lecturer, says that it is obvious
that the Labor government, despite its pre-
election promises, has no intention of
changing the traditional British program
of maintaining an agrarian economy in
the Middle East.
Indeed, the Zionist offer to make Pal-
estine prosperous through industrialization
is directly opposed to Britain's desires, he
points out.
The Balfour Declaration, Eppstein con-
tends, was made in good faith, for the
British knew agrarian Palestine could sup-
port a few thousand Jews while reflect-
ing humanitarian credit on Britain and
increasing her foothold in the eastern
Mediterranean. But the British could not
foresee the wave of anti-Semitism which
swept Europe and produced a tre-
mendous urge on the part of the Jews
to return to the land of their birth, he
says.

"European Jewish immigrants," he
declares, "must inevitably foment in
Palestine the industrial revolution that
Britain has traditionally opposed in
every country in the world. The empire
cannot be maintained unless Britain
staves off the industrialization of the
East. Once the whole world has ex-
perienced the industrial revolution,
there is little reason to suppose that
45,000,000 people inhabiting a remote
North Atlantic island ... would be able
to fulfill an economic role of any world
significance."

The Arabs, subtly encouraged by the
British, feel that the Jews are in league

Suspicion Aroused

The finger of suspicion points to Sir
John Shaw, who has suddenly retired as
chief secretary of the Palestine adminis-
tration, now that it has been disclosed
that he received a warning at least 21
minutes before the King David Hotel ex-
plosion that it was about to be blown up.
Confirmation of the Irgun insistence
that they had given plenty of time to
government personnel and visitors to
leave the building came at the official
British inquest.

While this revelation is not meant to
imply condonation of the violence, it
does raise the question as to who was
responsible for the failure to take pre-
cautions when the Irgun warning was
received.

Shaw was in charge of the government
offices at the time of the explosion. If he
failed to heed the telephoned warnings,
he was criminally negligent and should
have been held in Palestine to face an
inquiry. Instead, he has been hastily
tranferred to some obscure African post.
Shaw has been in office for seven years
and there had been no hint that he was
about to depart. Surely, the British ought
to know that we would be the last people
in the world not to put two and two to-
gether.

IIUNTS II. KRAVITZ

Dear Editor:

I am anxious to locate a H. Kra-
vitz who used to live or may still
live on Gratiot Ave. His brother
Leon Kravitz, now in Germany, is
anxious to contact him. Will you
please have them call me at TO.

MRS. ROSE KASOFF

AN EXPLANATION

Dear Editor:

WORD OF GRATITUDE

The Detroit Civic Players feel
great concern over a mistaken
selection of dates which results in
the first childrens' play falling on
Yom Kippur, Oct. 5. The contract
was signed in August, tickets
printed and subscriptions sold, so
we are obligated to a performance
on that date.
We deeply regret the loss of
talent in the cast and the support
of our loyal Jewish friends and
will make every effort to insure
against it repetition of this error
in the future:'
H. BLAKE,
The Detroit Civic Players

Dear Editor:
At the end of the year 5706, The
Jewish Publication Society of
America finds itself in the health.
iest condition of its 59 years. Our
books and the services of our
press have gained enconiums far
and wide.
You have played an important
part in making the past year so
successful. The publicity which
you have given our society in your
columns has told our story to
members of the Detroit Jewish

Synagogue Council of America
Visions A Pattern of Peace in 5707

THE SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL OF AMERICA, representing Orthodox,
Conservative and Reform Judaism in this country, greets the Jews
of the Nation and our brethren of other faiths on the occasion of the
observance of the Jewish New Year, 5707.

While the world picture is not without its shadows on both the
international and domestic scenes, we as a people of faith are confi-
dent that a pattern for peace will be found to bring all nations into
one family and to establish a world dominion of justice and brother-
hood.

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THE JEWISH PEOPLE, more than any other in proportion to its
numbers, has paid a terrible price during the war in the more than
six millions who were ruthlessly massacred, in the hundreds of thous-
ands ravaged and despoiled in the lands of the enemy, besides the
many thousands in the armies of the United States and its Allies
~ ti ho gave their lives for the cause of freeedom.

Many thousands of our brethren are still displaced persons and
are being kept from Palestine—the one country to which they have
an historical connection and where those who have already made it
their Homeland stand ready to welcome them.

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IN THE WORDS of the traditional liturgy for Rosh Hashonali,
we pray "Let the ills of the old year vanish and the blessings of the
New Year begin."

We look forward toward the New Year with trust in God ant
hope in humanity. May the wounds of our people and of all mankind
speedily be healed and the hope for restoration be realized in our day.

(Signed) RABBI AHRON OPHER

May She Reach Her Goal in 5707

Zionist Fund Merits Support

If the world is going to know the Jew-
ish side of the Palestine controversy, it
will have to come from Jewish sources.
Our friends in Christian Zionist circles
can hardly be expected to diffuse their
Zionist sympathies among all Christians
unaided. Their numbers are few and their
material resources small.
If all Americans, then, are to read and
hear the Zionist pleas and the Zionist ar-
guments, the publicity will have to be
financed with Zionist funds.
The ZOA is in the midst of an emerg-
ency campaign for funds to provide edu-
cational services in newspapers, maga-
zines and on the radio, and to help sup-
port the American Palestine Committee
of our Christian friends.
To the many Jews who have been
shocked by British perfidy in the Home-
land and who have wondered what they
could do to help, here is an answer:
Sit down and write a check for the
Zionist Expansion Fund and mail it to
1044 Majestic Building. That money will
help combat and offset the British terror.

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