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Friday, October 25, 19.16
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itTkOIT 03(r1gH C-l - lkONItLi3 and the Legal Chronicle
How a Refugee Girl
Came Into Her Own
An Eye-Witness
in Palestine
Fascinated by Institution's Kitchen,
Nina, 16, Gives Herself New Identity
(Because of Illness, Phineas
Biron has not written his
"Strictly Confidential" column this week. We are substi-
tuting the following:)
N THE REPORT received by the children's reception shelter in
I uptown Neew York City she was listed as "Nina ....... • age, 16; re-
All Religions Go in Same Direction
Gentile Friend of Writer Believed
I
By ALFRED SEGAL
Speed and Sure Cure
Can't Be Promised
All imports and exports are rig-
idly controlled, with a government
eye always open for more income.
ro import an automobile, whether
new or used costs on the average
about $1,000 in duties.
I could find no justification for
this whatsoever, since there is no
automobile industry in Palestine
to protect and the people are bad-
ly in need of automobiles.
In addition to paying this ex-
orbitant duty, one must have an
Import license which for all prac-
tical purposes are unobtainable.
For example, Chrysler Corporation
has received licenses to import
only 11 cars so far this year. What
is more, nine out of 10 cars which
finally do get into the country are
taken by government officials. Re-
frigerators, radios, farm equip.
merit and other similar goods
share the same fate.
P Plain Talk
Church, Shul Alike
to Old Jack Power
Personal Problems
(This is the second and conclud-
ing article on British economic
discrimination in Palestine, writ-
ten by Balfour Peisner, youthful
correspondent who returned this
month from Palestine. Other ar-
ticles by Feistier will appear in
forthcoming Issues.)
ligion, Roman Catholic; birthplace, Poland; living relatives, none
known."
She arrived with 40 other war orphans coming to the United States
under President Truman's directive on immigration.
Nina went to the shelter, operated by the staff of European Jew-
ish Children's Aid, as do all the youngsters who are being brought to
this country by the U. S. Commit-
tee for the Care of European Chil- WORSHIP AT SHRINE
dren. From the first day of her
NINA WAS ALLOWED to
stay, she was fascinated by the SO
kJ continue to worship at her pot-
kosher kitchen.
One of the notable features of and-pan shrine until the day came
this institution, which houses when she got into a friendly chat
children of all faiths, is that it with one of the shelter counselors
is operated on a strictly kosher and the woman found an oppor-
basis. This is natural for the tunity to slip in a casual refer-
European Jewish Children's Aid, ence to the kitchen.
"It's such a beautiful kitchen!"
an affiliate of United Service for
New Americans, whose work is Nina's face lit up.
"Yes, I noticed that you liked it.
financed by the United Jewish
Do you enjoy cooking?"
Appeal.
"It isn't just that. It's because
The U. S. Committee and the
agencies caring for children of that kitchen is just like the one BRITISH CONTROL GIFTS
other faiths have entered into this we had at home. I used to help
GOVERNMENT CONTROL of
arrangement because of the experi- my mother there."
these items does not end with
ence of the EJCA in the reception
"But, Nina, how can that be? what has been described above. It
and care of refugee youngsters.
A kosher kitchen in a Catholic also controls gifts. A person wish-
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home?"
ing to send a gift to Palestine
INSPECTS KITCHEN
The barrier was crumbling now. must first obtain an import license,
TO NINA, THE DIETARY ar-
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and these too for practical pur-
rangements seemed to have “j AM JEWISH. When the Na- poses are unavailable. For this
some special significance. At every zis came into Poland my also I could find no justification.
The government, in this case,
mealtime she crept shyly into the mother took me to another town,
big kitchen. She looked at the to live with a Catholic family. The seemed like a bully throwing his
gleaming roasters, kettles, carving last thing she said to me was weight around, just to make peo-
knives and meat dishes ranged 'Nina, you must forget that you ple miserable.
Palestine, though never a part
along one side of the room. are a Jewish child. You must stay
She turned to the other side with these kind people, act as they of the British Empire, is treated
and scanned the utensils and do, speak as they do, live as they as an integral part of the sterling
dishes used in preparing and do. Only this way can you be bloc, and must conduct all of its
serving milk and dairy foods. A safe.' Then she kissed me and commerce with countries outside
wistful expression crossed her went away, and I never saw her the bloc through the London ex-
changes.
thin, olive-skinned face any more.
Of course, the shelter staff no-
In addition to this it is discrim-
"Please, is It permitted for me
inated against more than any oth-
deed Nina's interest. And, of to be a Jewish girl again?"
course, they refrained from speak-
Yes, Nina, you may be a Jewish er country in the bloc. For ex.
lag to her about It.
ample, last year Palestine sold
girl again.
goods in the United States for
$20,000,000. The dollar credits are
immediately seized by the British
Government and supposedly held
to Palestine's credit.
Last year Palestine bought
goods in the United States for
only $12,000,000.00, leaving a sur-
plus of $8,000,000.00.
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NEIGHBORS FREE
AT THE SAME TIME, while
Palestine is piling up a dollar sur-
plus, which it would like to spend
on goods in the United States but
can't, its neighbors, Egypt, Trans-
Jordan and Syria, also a part of
the sterling bloc and dollar pool,
are incurring deficits which are
made up out of Palestine surplus-
es. For example Egypt, with a
deficit of 1,952,180 pounds for the
first quarter of 1946 imported 222
cars from the United States, while
Palestine only received 26.
As for Trans-Jordan—complete
anarchy prevails. The country Is
nominally independent. so it
makes its own import and ex-
port laws. Thus it is able to buy
all the goods it can get in the
United States, and without even
bringing them into Trans.
Jordan, ship them to Palestine
and sell them at a great profit,
while drawing on the Palestine
dollar credits.
All this is due to the lack of
a uniform policy for the distri-
bution of the dollar credits, and
for reasons best known to the
government itself, for stultifica-
tion of Palestinian economic life.
It has resulted in increased bit-
terness against the government, it
has contributed towards the in-
flation now prevailing in Palestine
and in some cases to actual viol-
ence.
MET OLD JACK POWER in the Wheel Cafe of our town. It was
the afternoon of erev Rosh Hashonah and after we had discussed
Jack's new teeth and how well he looked with them, ai,d after we
had taken up other matters as well, Jack brought up Rosh Hashonnh.
For years it had been Jack Power's custom to go to synagogue
on the eve of Rosh Hashonah and join with some Jewish friend in
solemnly greeting the New Year
of the Jews. Jack could speak of words said for him in a Jewish
Rosh Hashonah with the famill- paper. He would wink quizzically
arity of o n e
and say, "Well, it looks like I hit
brought up on
the jackpot."
it.
Jack had no hifalutin words to
As we parted,
express this idea, no eloquent
Jack waved his
phrases with which to wreath it.
hand and said
It was one of his instincts and of
"So long, I'll
his way of life.
See You in shul
tonight."
If the phrase wasn't so badly
outworn, you might say that some
But I wasn't
of his best friends were Jews,
to see Jack In
though Jack himself never ut-
Shul. The fates
A
tered it. They really were his
like to play
Alfred Segal
ironic tricks. I saw Jack Power best friends, but that fact was
next in St. Xavier Church. Jack nothing for him to make anything
was up in front at the altar in a special of.
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casket. The priest was sprinkling
holy water and an altar boy was HAVE SAME GOALS
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swinging a censer around Jack.
IS GOING TO THE synagogue
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on Rosh Hashonah was In EVERYONE AFFECTED
JEWISII PALLBEARERS
line with his understanding that
ALL THESE THINGS, one may
I WAS ONE OF JACK's mourn- all religions were going in the
argue, do not affect the daily lives
ers
in
St.
Xavier's.
I
looked
same
direction
toward
the
,noun-
around
and observed other Jews taintop, and it was neighborly to of the people. The above described
there. Several Jews were among go visiting across the line, to say hindrances only Impose an econ-
Jack's pallbearers. I hadn't sent Gut Yom Tov, as Jack Power al- omic blockade at the top of the
structure. Yet government bully-
him any flowers because I knew ways did erev Rosh. Hashonah.
ing pervades every walk of life
he
didn't
care
much
for
floral
d
I shouldn't have started in and affects every person in the
ecorations at funerals.
the least if, as I sat in the pew, country. For example gasoline
Flowers begin to wither al-
I felt a nudging at my elbow which is pumped in Arabia, re-
most as soon as they are paid
and discovered Jack's ghost be- fined and shipp4I to the United
for. They are something you
side me and Jack laughing and States, is sold in the U. S. AT A
rush up to the dead man with,
saying, "Well, so we didn't meet PROFIT for 20c a gallon.
hoping it won't be too late to
in shill but in church instead,
The same gas sells for 60c a
do the right thing, at last, by
and I ask you so what?
gallon In Palestine because of
Jack or Bill or Ike.
"Between you and me. Al, it's taxes. Cigarets sell for 50c a
But I guess Jack, if he could common ground, whether in your pack and tires for around $50,
Know, would enjoy having a few shul or in my church."
all because of taxes.
age tires
Personality.Develops Too Slowly
for Counsellor to do Swift Job
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
IN MORE THAN ONE interview at the office, the question cornea up
sooner or later: "How much time does it take?" Some people also
want a guarantee of a cure for their difficulties or their children's.
In any event, some of them ask for quick, fast action. They ask me
to give a super-dose of counselling.
I wonder if they are trying to fool themselves or me. Many of
such people don't return after the
first call because I refuse to as- tributing persons. In many cases,
sure them of a quick cure."
the contributing causes are even
Personality, as
more difficult to deal with than
I have repeated
the child or adult himself.
since It bears
The mind, like the body, cannot
epetition, dews-
talce punishment by deprivation of
lops slowly.
food, by abuse, by being over-
(here have been
taxed without showing consequen-
years of direct
ces. These Consequences if they
teaching, of imi-
are emotional, remain in the back-
Cation of older
ground.
brothers and
Refugee children now coming
sisters and par-
to this country are thin, under-
ents, before the
nourished and have deficiency
attitude was
diseases. They are soon fattened
firmly e s t a b- Dr. Goldberg and the outward physical effects
fished. Now, when the results ap- quickly remedied. But the emo-
pear unsatisfactory, I, as a pro- Bonal problems remain, openly
fessional person, am asked to do or hidden.
a
can "f anyone
the usual type they remember the air raids, the
of behavior.
sudden marchings, moving from
Changing an attitude demands ca
to camp, the stupid crueltie
a breakdown of the old plus the inflicted
s
inculcation of the new. The child flies. on them and their fam-
or adult must be brought to that
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frame of mind where he desires
the substitution. This "desire" is PATIENCE HAS REWARDS
accomplished in a short time in THE HOMES INTO which they
some people and in a longer time
will come will profit from their
in others.
love and affection. But these homes
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and parents will have to have an
EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
abundance of love and affection.
CHILDREN ARE HUMAN be- Such parents will have to know
ings and co not live in a how to deal with deprived chil-
vacuum. They live with others. dren who have not trusted any-
Therefore, working with children one nor loved anyone.
It will take patience and un-
(or adults) means also working
with the attitudes of all the con- derstanding of a rare sort. It will
(Continued on Page 14)
Capital Letter .
Truman's Statement
Sincere, Bloom Says
Act Prompted by the Adjournment
of London Conference, He Asserts
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By CHARLOTTE WEBER
wASHINGTON — For over a month the Administration was strange-
IV ly silent on the Palestine question. When reporters questioned
the President he replied only that he was still trying to effect the
admission of the 100,000 refugees into Palestine.
A story from London speculated that British delay in pushing for
a solution regarding Palestine was due partly to British reluctance
to act until after the fall elec-
tions, when it was reasoned, the Sunday, at a dinner given by the
United States would again be wil- United Palestine Appeal, strongly
ling to take an active part in the urged that Britain open Palestine
affairs of the Middle East. Some to Jewish immigration.
circles here echoed that same feel-
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ing.
Around the same time several
BLOOM
PRESENT
ads appeared in New York news-
papers in the form of open let- ONE OF THE MEN closest to
tern addressed to the Administra- " the Administration, Rep. Sol
tion. Bloom, has denied in most
em-
It seemed to indicate that the phatic tones that any
th ou gh t
Zionists were acutely aware that whatsoever was given to the
Palestine would be used as a '
pont-
cal advantages of releasing the
political issue in the coming statement at that time
elections and it served notice on
."I ought to know," he said, "be.
both parties, Republican as well
as Democratic, that any pledges cause I was right there."
concerning Palestine were ex-
Ile criticized those who Im-
pected to have teeth in them
plied that because it had ap-
and be effective as well as
peared on the high holy days
sound well.
It was a political maneuver in-
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tended merely for domestic con-
COMES ON YOM KIPPUR
sumption. Ile said the sudden
THE TRUMAN STATEMENT adjournment of the London con-
I appeared in the press on Yom
ference had been the sole factor
Kippur. Two days later, on Mon- which precipitated the Presi-
day, New Yorkers were to go to dent's airing of views at this
the polls to register for the No- time.
vember elections.
With that statement Bloom
A New York Times correspon- touched upon a fact that may be
dent wrote that some of Mr. Tru. overlooked by those who, like the
man's associates said the Presi- British spokesman, will regard the
dent believed that the Republi- statement as Intended "largely for
cans, Gov. Dewey specifically, were political purposes in this country."
about to put a pledge in their
It is the most strongly worded
campaign designed to appeal to opinion on the
subject yet to come
the Zionists and that his decision out of Washington. It sets forth
to release the statement when he clearly and unequivocally just ex-
did was due in part to that be- actly what this government be.
lief.
'lives regarding a solution of the
Dewey, on the following day, Palestine situation.