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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

It is the defeatist old men who are
ready to accept a partitioned Palestine.
Dr. Wise confirmed that impression when
he said here last month: "I shall vote for
partition at the World Zionist Congress"
in the same breath with his prophetic, "I
shall live to see a Jewish State in Pal-
estine."
The old men have fought with all their
heart and soul for their dream so long
that when the prospect of a compromise
offer of half of Palestine impends, they
are weighing surrender — for they are
weary, beaten and disillusioned.
It is difficult to turn a deaf ear to re-
vered elders. Yet the young of spirit and
the strong of heart shout out their no to
partition with such decisiveness that we
must listen.

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Not another spadeful of the holy soil
must he s urrendered to the tyrant who
holds Zion captive in scorn of the laws
of God and of man, they declare. The
men and women of the Yishuv say no;
the leaders and rank and file of the
ZOA and Mizrachi cry no; the DP's
who have most to gain from comprom-
ise cry no; and plain common sense
cries no.

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editorial explaining why your pa-
per carries , this or that columnist.
Granted, that once a columnist
writes for the Chronicle he or she
should be allowed complete free-
dom of expression, even when tha'
columnist's material differs Iron
your editorial viewpoint.
Still, it seems to me, that unless
the columnist writes material that
is informative, enlightening, or en.
FROM MILWAUKEE
tertaining, the columnist does not
Dear Editor:
belong in your paper. Unless the
A good thing should be passed columnist has audience appeal or
In our shock and indignation over the on, and in my trips about the raises the stature of the paper,
speaking before various what purpose is served by retain.
brutality of the British soldier in Pales country
audiences, I find occasion ing him or her?
tine and the treachery of the diplomats Jewish
to discuss publications and their
Specifically, a few examples, First
in the Foreign and Colonial Offices, it is value to our people.
Al Segal. The material he writes
heartening to learn that our friends in I was pleasantly surprised to is not amusing, nor humorous, nor
Britain have not deserted us and that find the number of people who witty, nor satirical, nor informa-
or had heard of your paper; tive, and most certainly not pro-
some leaders still exhibit a deep sympathy read
they all seemed to express excep- found.
for and keen understanding of Jewish tionally high opinions of it.
He's not even a third rate jour.
problems and aspirations.
I particularly was impressed nalist nor a fourth rate story-
The following are words in criticism of with the large group of young and teller. I've been trying desperately
discover, not only why your pa-
the Labor government's Palestine policy middle aged persons who read the to
"Round' n' Round the per prints him, but why the good
spoken in a recent House debate by Lt. column
Town" by Phil Rothschild. Many fellow writes in the first place,
Col. Morris, Conservative:
of them classed this bit of re- for he impresses me as a confused,
Jew who has nothing
"No one excuses or seeks to condone porting as an equal to columns ap- bewildered
to say, and who says it in a man-
in our big dailies.
terrorism, but it seems to me that if we pearing
For myself, I think this young ner dull. Soporifically dull.
do not examine the background of ter- man
Next, Phineas Biron. The man is
has unusual talent and is do-
rorism we are manifesting a fundamental ing a wonderful job in giving your progressive, even to the point of
been red-baited, one of the
disregard of the whole question. Why publication much favorable pub- having
marks of being distinguished in
licity.
His
writings
have
a
tang
all the delay about the present solution, about them which compels one to our times for fighting for the
which the government have kept to them- want more. This is true in spite rights of the common people. But
selves while the tension has been getting of the fact that I personally rec- his column?-0i veh. This may
ognize but a name here and there be supposed to be a gossip col-
worse? . • .
umn, but I find it flat, Insipid, and
"We are, I think, on the threshold as one which I met in the past.
With kind regards and best generally void of anything but
of a new chapter in the history of the wishes to your paper and with words slapped together for some
indiscernible purpose.
Jews. There are many chapters in that Zion's greetings.
Yes, I know they have to earn
SHERWOOD SLATE
history that have been written in blood,
a living somehow, but isn't there
Director,
Veterans'
Division
ZOA
and there are many chapters soaked in
any other means for charity? Be-
Milwaukee, Wis.
tween Segal and Biron, I'll wager
tears. We ask the government not to
you have your two least-read col-
write another bloody chapter in that
umnists. I wonder what the rest
history, but to write a new chapter,
DISLIKES SEGAL, BIRON
of your readers think.
with a pen dipped in the well of Dear Editor:
MIKE HECHT,
I am puzzled by some of the
justice."
4850 N. Avers avenue
that appear in The Chron-
Perhaps the force of British public things
Chicago, Ill.
icle. Perhaps you could devote an

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1946, (Chesvan 14, 5707)
Vol. 48, No. 45

No Half Measures!

LEITER.°

Young Chalutzim gave their answer to
the partition scheme when they estab-
lished 16 new settlements in Eretz Israel
during October with the British looking
on helplessly and Arabs offering water
and fruits as gestures of friendship.
"We shall not accept" they declared,
"a symbolic independence in a dwarf-like
token state which will not give us the
chance of developing all the resources of
the country and creating here a safe asy-
lum for ALL Jews who are compelled to
or wish to come."
The ZOA and Mizrachi told the world
how they stood when resolutions at their
conventions last week reaffirmed Israel's
historic claims to the whole of Palestine.

PLEASED
Dear Editor:
It is refreshing and instructive
to read your editorials.
May God grant you strength to
continue.
MOE S. PERLIS, D.D.S.

A Friend's Voice in Parliament

opinion will arouse what Jewish sweat,
blood and tears have failed to stir in the
hearts of Britain's mighty—a sense of
justice and a decision to compensate Is-
rael for her two thousand years of travail
with a Homeland of her own.

The Visiting Editor

How Law Abiding Are Zion's Jews?

Goldberg Advises Confused Veteran
to Feel the Strength of His Heritage

a hand to see this future. I'd like
to re-Introduce you to till
strengths of all humans—family
friends, religion, the home town-
the heritage of the past whicl
governs you too. They are asset
but you try to deny it by cuttin
loose.
You give me your time and
I'll give you mine, with the sole
condition being your sincerity
The fact that you are dissatis•
fled enough to want to do some
thing is in your favor. All yin
have to do is to get off the sea
of your pants and on to you
feet.
I wonder which veterans' grol
or community-minded citizen
Detroit will support me in a pie
ect to show GI Sammy and oth
disillusioned GI's how to face fc
SURMOUNT HARDSHIP
OST PEOPLE ACCEPT their ward?
Will we assume responsibil
loss, their hardship and keep
for them and give them a ft
going. They use this to point the
way for them. I'd like to give you hand up and ahead?

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is a complete change of ideas and
surroundings?
As a recent dischargee, nobody
makes a fuss over you. Jobs are
harder to find. Employers demand
proof of ability and employes have
to use their heads.
One answer is your idea to re-
enlist, to escape from the compe-
tition, to slide back into a routine.
In that way you can run away
from becoming a civilian.
You can if you stay in the
service permanently. But if your
re-enlistment is a temporary meas-
ure, you will have to make the re-
adjustment to civilian life upon
discharge.

In these days of turmoil in Palestine
when careless press and radio commenta-
tors, as well as government officials pic-
ture Palestinian Jews as law-breakers and
gangsters, it is constructive to look at the
record of crime.
And what does plain common sense
The figures, compiled by the Govern-
tell us? It says: Partition may secure
ment
Department of Statistics at Jerusa-
peace for a few years but will lead to
lem cover the criminal cases decided by
a more acute problem when the ab-
the courts of Palestine.
sorptive capacity of the tiny principal-
The Court of Criminal Assize tried 49
ity is exhausted. Shall a midget Pales-
cases
of murder involving 99 persons dur-
tine then have to tell Jews clamoring
ing
the
whole of last year. Twenty-three
at its doors, "We are sorry, but our
men were convicted—seven receiving the
immigration quotas force us to bar Eretz
death sentence and 16 a prison sentence.
Israel to you?"
Of this number 20 were Moslems and
Partition will lead to artificially un- three were Christians. No Jews.
manageable frontiers. Jews will be ruled
The District Courts tried cases involving
as a minority by Arabs and Arabs will be 2,462 persons. Of 1,374 convicted, 1,146
ruled as a minority by Jews. If we ever were Moslems, 159 were Jews, and 69
expect Jews and Arabs to live like broth- were Christians. Of 59 convicted of at-
ers with equal rights no matter who is in tempted murder, all were Moslems.
the majority, we dare not place barriers
Of 81 persons convicted and sentenced
for manslaughter, 76 were Moslems, four
between them.
And as for Britain, when she finally were Christians, and one was a Jew.
Fifty-five Jews were convicted and
becomes willing to let us have half of
sentenced
for offenses against property
Palestine at Jewish terms, it will be but
one step more before all Palbstine is ours. (including 20 for housebreaking—a crime
A little more pressure from the United for which 109 Moslems and 11 Christians
States (and the next two years when the were also convicted) and 14 for breaking
Presidency will be at stake will be deci- into buildings with intent to commit
sive) a bit more sympathy in United Na- felony.
These figures becomes all the more sig-
tions ranks; a strengthening of the re-
nificant
when it is recalled that the Jews
sistance in the Holy Land itself; a few
concessions to the Arabs outside of Pal- in Palestine have come from practically
estine; perhaps the threat of an organized every country in the world and have
a Con- brought with them different standards and
Jewish boycott or the return of
servative government — any o ne or all viewpoints which might very readily serve
as a basis for violent disagreements, even
might help do the trick.
No, now is not the time to give up and murder.
Furthermore, quite a few of them have
to take half of what we ask. Now is been driven desperate by the treatment
rather the time to press all the demands, accorded them in Europe and by their
to turn the screw tighter, to make things financial condition. That they have suc-
more unhappy for the oppressor in his ceeded in livng in harmony speaks well
illegally held outpost.
for the future.
American Jewish Outlook
Now is the time to cry out again and
again: Let us have Palestine today, un-
• Pittsburgh, Pa.
diminshed, undivided and unfettered.

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