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Friday, September 27, 1946

CLIFTON AVENUE

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CINCINNATI 20, 01110

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Irgun Leader Issues
Appeal to Americans

Detroit Girl Speaks at Convention

NEW YORK—A . message to the American people
from Menachem Beigin, commander of Irgun Zvai Leu-
mi, fighting branch of the Jewish resistance in Palestine,
was released today by the American League for a Free
Palestine.
Number one man on the British wanted list in Pal-

In National Post

MRS. HENRY WINEMAN

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Mrs. Wineman
Gets UJA Job

Will Help Foster
Women's Activity

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Mrs. Henry Wineman of 17651
Hamilton road has been appointed
to the executive committee of the
national women's division of, the
United Jewish Appeal for refugees,
overseas needs and Palestine, it
was announced this week by Mrs.
David M. Levy, chairman of the
division.
The United Jewish Appeal is
conducting a nation-wade $100,000,-
000 campaign to rescue, resettle
and rehabilitate surviving Euro-
pean Jews.
Mrs. Wineman will he available
in an advisory capacity to divi-
sions in communities in the De-
troit area and will help to formu-
late policies for the national body.
The national women's division is
stimulating participation of women
in community campaigns on be-
half of the United Jewish Appeal.
A leader in Detroit community
affairs, Mrs. Wineman is president
of the Travelers Aid Society and
vice-president of the USO. For
eight years she has served on the
Detroit Public Welfare Commis-
sion, to which she has. been ap-
pointed by three mayors. She was
co-chairman of special gifts for
the Allied Campaign women's divi-
sion which raised $311,653 for the
United Jewish Appeal this spring.

I Sail for France
to Teach Hebrew

Eleven young American teach-
ers left Sept. 18 for France to
serve as instructors and leaders to
orphaned Jewish children. These
teachers, comprise the first edu-
cational mission from America to
Jews of Europe.
The group leaving will conduct
classes in Hebrew and Jewish his-
tory while living at the homes and
villages with the children of the
Eclaireurs Israelites de France.
Theirs will be a problem of cre-
ating a happy Jewish environment
for the children, many of whom
have wandered from Austria and
Germany to France.
Hanoar Haivri, the Hebrew
Youth Organization rot America,
undertook to meet the demand for
educators in France by a call to
its membership.
This mission has been made pos-
sible through the joint efforts of
Hanoar Haivri, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee and the Jewish
Education Committee.

Truman Raps
Colleges' Bias

Pledges U. S. Effort
to Wipe It Out

Hunted Resistance Chief Describes
Revolt Against British Oppression

estine, Beigin explains the "revolt
against the British rule which
seeks to crush the fundamental
rights of men and nation."
The message says in part:
In the name of our tormented
people and for the sake of its
freedom loving sons, we have un-
furled the banner of revolt.
LIBERTY IS OBJECTIVE
We are in revolt in order to
restore the land, sovereignty, liber-
ty - to the Hebrew nation.
We are in revolt in order to
liberate Palestine from British
rule, the despotic rule of op-
pression which arrogantly tram-
ples international obligations un-
derfoot, the rule which seeks to
crush the fundamental rights
of men and nations.
From the continent of Europe
we heard the death cries of our
parents and brothers and loved
ones. The whole world knew who
their murderers were. But we
knew something more. We knew
who had prevented their escape
to freedom.
We knew that had it not been
for the rule of a foreign oppres-
sor in our land, had the British
not barred the gates to Palestine,
the German murderers would not
have trapped our people, and six
million of our brothers would be
alive today, free, proud, creative.
We knew, and we have not for-
gotten.
SACRIFICES MADE
We have not forgotten; there-
fore we fight.
Priceless sacrifices are made.
Our soldiers fall in battle, and
hundreds have been wounded and
taken prisoner. We are harassed
mercilessly. They torture us in
cellars. We are exiled. But we re-
main unbroken.
We raided enemy camps. We
armed ourselves with his guns
and with his ammunition. We took
money too, and the money became
steel. And the entire world learned
that a new generation has arisen
in Israel; a generation that loves
liberty and despises slavery; a
generation that revolts against op-
pression, and fights for truth and
justice.
U. S. HELP NEEDED
Hardened by persecution, tested
by suffering, taught by war, they
now stand on the blood-soaked
continent of Europe determined
to go home at any price and to
fight and die if need be, to make
that home free.
People of the United States of
America, you who cherish free-
dom, you who have sacrificed your
lives for it ever since your coun-
try was born, help us so that we
too may be free. Embattled Pal-
estine needs your help—in men,
guns, money, medical supplies.
Help us so that the fight for
freedom and the dignity of man
will not be in vain.

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Charlotte %Vaterstone of Detroit is shown above talking to a group
of youthful delegates at the recent national convention of Bnai
Brith Young Women at Cejwin Camps, Port Jervis, N. Y. Thirty-
five delegates attended the convention. Eligibility for membership
was established as from the time of graduation from high school
until the age of

British Looting Severe Winter
in Zion Lashed Looms Before

Writer Hits Agency,
English Command

LONDON (Palcor) -- Geoffrey
Hoare, News-Chronicle correspond-
ent, in an article attacking both
the Jewish Agency and the Brit-
ish command in Palestine, de-
clared that the Jews in Palestine
are there by right and have en-
tered the country legally and
urged all British officers and gov-
ernment officials in Palestine to
ask themselves: "Am I doing my
best for these people who had
put their trust in me or am I al-
lowing prejudice to influence my
judgment and actions?"

Referring to Gen. Barker's anti-
Semitic letter ordering British
troops to "hit Jewish pockets," Ho-
are said the "kindly" British sol-
dier is taught to regard Palestine
as occupied enemy territory, "more-
over, territory of an enemy he
should particularly dislike."

"Despite denials by the Palestine
government's public inrormation
office," Hoare writes, "there has
been wanton damage and looting
in searches of Jewish settlements
and Jews have been kicked
around."

Hoare alleged that the latest at-
tacks by the Stern Gang and Ir-
gun Zvai Leumi, "which occurred
against the wishes of the Jewish
Agency and even Haganah," are
the result of the Jewish Agency's
"making political capital of the
suffering of European Jewry, al-
leging that if the British hadn't
closed Palestine, thousands of
Jews might have been saved thus
building a Frankenstein monster
which it can no longer control and
turning Jewish youth into im-
placable anti-British fanatics."

Europe's Jews

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Some
600,000 Jewish survivors in Ro:
mania, Hungary and Poland face
the prospects of a severe winter
unless means are found to in-
crease the large-scale assistance
which they are already receiving
through the Joint Distribution
Committee, Dr. Joseph Schwartz,
JDC European director, said this
week.
Dr. Schwartz, who is returning
to Europe in a few days, pointed
out that Romania has suffered a
disastrous crop failure and that
as a result food prices are soar-
ing beyond the reach of the 335,-
000 Jews there.
In Hungary, he declared, the
JDC has already spent $4,000,000
on aid this year for the 200,000
Jews there. With the stabilization
of currency, however, the value
of the dollar has decreased and
relief funds will have to be in-
creased from $500,000 in August
to $750,000 in September.
Declaring that 60,000 Jews have
fled Poland since the July 4 po-
grom at Kielce, he said the re-
maining Jews are finding It in.
creasingly difficult to rehabilitate
themselves and to rebuild their
future because of the "rampant
anti-Semitism."
He asserted that most of the
Jews who were repatriated from
the USSR to Poland during the
spring have already moved out of
the country.
"Unstinting praise must be given
to the American military authori-
ties for their understanding ef-
forts in behalf of the displaced
Jews," Dr. Schwartz concluded.
"The Army has been most sym-
pathetic to these homeless people
and has given fine cooperation."

Young Mizrachi '
Installs Officers

Mrs. Philip Fealk was installed
for the second consecutive time
as president of the Young Wo-
men's Mizrachi at the eighth an-
nual installation of. the group
Sept. 18 at the Wilshire Hotel.
Other officers are Mesdames
Leo Censer, Lew Friedman and
Ruby Miller, vice-presidents; Jack
Dunn, financial secretary; Her-
A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT of cur conversation went right back man Gluck, treasurer; Julius
to
food.
starvation told by 18-year-old
Lipnick, recording secretary; Har-
Mrs. Alfred Strumwasser, former
ry Buchalter and Norman David-
"Our craving for food was like son, corresponding secretaries; Sol
concentration camp inmate and
now the bride of an ex-GI who a chronic illness that is with Wolack, historian; Jack Pearlman,
met her in Germany was a dra- you every minute 3 OU are monitress, and Joseph Bessman
matic highlight at a recent con- awake, and when you sleep, too." and Bess Reznick, Child Rescue
The Nazis sent Mrs. Strumwas- Fund chairman and treasurer, re-
ference in Washington of Youth
ser to Theresienstadt in 1943 from spectively.
United for Famine Relief.
Thirty-four teen-age delegates her native city of Wiesbaden, Ger-
TRI-LINGUAL ANNUAL
representing 32,000,000 members many. She returned there in June.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The fifth
of 17 national youth-serving 1945, and soon after at a Friday
agencies attending a "starvation night synagogue service, met her volume of the tri-lingual Jewish
Book Annual, surveying the liter-
luncheon" at the Hoteel May- future husband, a first class pri- ature of Jews in the United States
flower heard the talk by Mrs. vate with the 749th Anti Aircraft and abroad, was published here
Strumwasser, who immigrated Battalion of the American First this week by the Jewish Book
here in May with the aid of the Army.
Council of America.
After 30 months overseas, Pfc.
National Refugee Service.
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Strumwasser returned to the U. S.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Three
"WE WERE ALWAYS hungry. last November. Later, with the aid
We thought and talked of almost of NRS, he arranged for his honorary degrees of Doctor of
Hebrew Letters were awarded this
nothing but food, and how hungrY fiancee's immigration here. They week at the commencement exer-
we were. We might be talking were married on June 12, a few cises of the Jewish Theological
about the music of Beethoven or week following her arrival, at Mr. Seminary of America to Rabbis
home-town friends, but sooner or Strumwasser's home in Far Rock- David Aronson. Harry S. Davi-
dowitz and Milton Steinberg.
-.Ad usually it was sooner— away, L. I.

'Always Hungry,' Says Bride
of GI Describing Nazi Camp

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Admit-
ing the existence in America of
"disturbing" evidence of racial
prejudice, President Truman this
week pledged the unsparing ef-
forts of the National Commission
on Higher Education in eliminat-
ing discrimination from the Na-
tion's colleges.
Mr. Truman's statement was
made in answer to Charles G.
Bolte, chairman of the American
Veterans Committee, who had
written to him to call attention to
the quota system applied by a
number of colleges to members of
minority groups. The President's
letter said:
MUST BE FREE FOR ALL
"I am keenly aware of the fun-
damental problem of discrimina-
tion in education to which you
have called specific attention.
Those who sincerely desire to see
the fullest expression of our de-
mocracy can never rest until the
opportunity for an education at all
levels has been given to all quali-
fied Americans, regardless of race,
creed, color, national origin, sex
or economic status.
"It was with this principle in
mind that I asked the members
of the commission to consider
'ways and means of expanding
opportunities for all able young
people.' I am sure that the mem-
bers of the commission will spare
no effort in devising methods for
eliminating existing barriers of
discrimination.
COMBATS BIGOTRY
"We have only recently com-
pleted a long and bitter war
against intolerance and hatred in
other lands. A cruel price in blood
and suffering was paid by the
American people in bringing that
war to a successful conclusion.
Yet in this country today there
exists disturbing evidence of In-
tolerance and prejudice similar in
kind, though perhaps not in de-
gree, to that against which we
fought the war.
"Discrimination, like a disease,
must be attacked wherever it ap-
pears. This applies to the oppor-
tunity to vote to hold and retain
a job, and to secure adequate
shelter and medical care no less
than to gain an education com-
patible with the needs and ability
of the individual."

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3 Party Platforms
Condemn Bigotry

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Pledges to
fight racial and religious discri-
mination in the United States are
included in the platforms adopted
by the N.Y. state conventions of
the Democratic Party, the Repub-
lican Party and the American La-
bor Party.
The Democratic platform urges
the outlawing of such discrimi-
nation in the field of employment.
Britain's policy on Palestine is
criticized in the platforms of the
Democratic Party and the Amer-
ican Labor Party. The Democratic
platform condemns the British for
resorting to "brutal repression of
the Jewish inhabitants."
"We commend President Tru-
man for his rejection of recent
proposals which would nullify
British obligations in Palestine,"
the resolution says.
"We call upon our Government:
1—To insist upon the opening of
Palestine to .,he immediate immi-
gration of 100,000 Jews as pro-
posed by our President, and 2--
To support, in the United Na-
tions and in every other way, the
establishment in Palestine of a
free, autonomous and democratic
Jewish commonwealth."

Primrose Club Tells
Plans for Luncheon

The twelfth annual donor lunch-
eon of the Primrose Benevolent
Club will be held Nov. 26, at the
Latin Quarter, it was announced
today. A feature of the program
will be a fashion revue by Sax-
Kay.
Mrs. Max Vitenson is chairman
of the affair.

DR. KIRSCHBAUM BACK
Dr. Harry M. Kirschbaum re-
turned from California and has
resumed his practice of medicine
in the Maccabees Building.

