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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110
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Friday, November 29, 1946.
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Jews Defend a Bishop
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Protest Arrest of Stepinac Who Asked
That the World Be Freed of Jews
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AMERICAN JEWS are today in the unique position, ludicrous
M ing ANY
were it not so tragic, of protesting the imprisonment of a lead-
collaborator with the Nazi hordes that massacred six million of
their brethren. This man controlled a press from which we quote the
following: "The movement for the restoration of man's dignity is the
movement for freeing the world from the Jews."
That statement appeared in the
Croation "Catholic Weekly" of anti-Semitism illegal, tribute should
May 25, 1911 . . . As supreme head be paid to the defunct National
of the Catholic Committee to Combat Anti-Semit-
Church in Cro- Ism.
atia and Arch-
It is this committee, chartered
bishop of Zag- a few years ago by a small group
reb, the Cro- which Included Joseph Brainin and
atlan capital, Johannes Steel, which carried on
the man who an effective campaign among la-
controlled, this bor organizations to back a bill
press was Aloy- to outlaw Jew-baiters. If the CIO
ins Stepinac ... and AFL can get together on this
In February, program, no Congress could re-
19 4 2, Stepinac sist them.
P. K. Biron
became the
Some of the gentleinen of the
apostolic chaplain of the Ustashi American Action Inc. must feel
army. The crimes of the Ustashi sick today, after the public expose
against the Jewish people are fully of their recent dinner at the Wal-
documented in the American Jew- dorf-Astoria Hotel.
ish Yearbook, Issued by the Ameri-
It was only a few weeks ago
can Jewish Committee .. . that the leaders of American Ac-
People who claim to oppose Jr- tion Inc. denied that their group
responsible journalism should keep is anti-Semitic. How will they
their own houses clean . . . We explain the featured distribution
suggest that PM, New York's at their dinner of a pamphlet
progressive" newspaper, take a demanding the investigation of
look at their Billy Rose . . . When the Anti-Defamation League of
we call your "political" column of the Bnai Brith . . . Reaction and
Novel- fiber 19th irresponsible, we're anti-Semtism go hand in hand...
• • •
being nice, Bill.
It isn't funny to pour fuel on THE ZIONIST FRONT
American-Soviet relations just for THOSE WHO EXPECT Rabbi
the sake of a Broadway wisecrack.
Abba H. Silver to fight Dr.
That sort of stuff is strictly from Chaim Weizmann at the forth-
hunger . . .
coming World Zionist Congress at
• • •
Basle, Switzerland, are due to be
POLITICAL ACTION
disappointed. Silver will staunchly
OW THAT THE CIO conven- support the policies of the vener-
tion at Atlantic City has moved able leader, but will demand com-
towards Political Action to make
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Koppelman Beaten by GOP Rival;
Bloom, Sabath to Yield Top Posts
Palestine Visitor
Tells Arab View
(This is the fourth of a
series of eye-witness articles
on Palestine by Balfour Peis-
ner, who returned from the
Holy Land in September.)
By BALFOUR PEISNER
THE ARABS OF PALESTINE
Personal Problems
Questions for Parents
on Child Relationship
Opinion Youngster Has of His Father
or Mother Is Acid Test of Parenthood
are divided in their opinion
of the Jews and of further Jew-
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
ish immigration and land pur-
A MONG OTHER ITEMS, perhaps the acid test of parenthood is
chases.
the opinion which a child has of his parents. When I was a child,
At the top of the Arab com-
munity stands the Arab Higher we didn't even dare think such things, less express them. Of course
Committee, completely antagonis- we were angry when dad or mother acted against our wishes. In
tic to everything Jewish and re- those days parents gave orders and children obeyed.
Today, happily, this has changed, even though some parents try
fusing to admit that the Jews
have helped Palestine. At the to wield the stick of authority.
bottom of the structure stand the Not that authority has lessened follow any general rules. It Is
workers and fellahin (small farm- today; rather it is exercised demo- learned as one is experienced with
ers) who, having greatly benefitted cratically in progressive house- children and other human beings.
from the Jews, are not quite so holds. Children
It can also be learned from pro-
have a voice in
antagonistic.
fessional sources and under expert
their lives, to
guidance.
Were it not for the constant the advantage
The parent who is even tem-
tension and political agitation, of both parents
pered, whose life is at ease or
they could easily get along with and children.
who has sought skilled help In
the Jews.
Parents c a n
solving his or her difficulties,
learn
much
For the time being, however,
is a better parent. Ile under-
from
their
chil-
we must ignore the Arab masses,
stands himself and hence under-
dren's
view
s
for they have no political voice
stands why Ile acts as he does.
and have to be content to follow about them,
Ile has more knowledge and
They
can
see
the leadership of the reactionary
more equipment, in dealing with
how
their
ideas
children.
Higher Committee which is under
the spiritual guidance of the have been ac- Dr. Goldberg
jt never hurts to say to a child
cepted, as well as the effect of
Grand Mufti.
or to a grown up, or to be able
their methods. This they can see to say to either of them, "I am
unless they are intentionally blind. sorry." "I don't know the answer."
This they can see if they are se-
Those admissions make a person
FEEL DEPRIVED
cure in their views and methods
stronger, be he adult or child.
BECAUSE OF Jewish coloniza- as parents. Some people, not being They give the other person a
tion, Arabs feel they have been mature individuals, cannot risk sense of fairness, a sense that no
deprived of all the privileges of an this acid test.
one individual is all-knowing.
I have often stressed the fact
autonomous state enjoyed by their
Naturally, you couldn't expect a
neighbors. Because of the man- that an outsider more discipline child to say nasty things about his
date, they feel, they suffer econ- another's child more fairly than parents, even if true. Such non-
omic discrimination, arbitrary laws the child's parents since he is not conforming ideas are hidden deep-
with the child.
imposed by the administration and emotionally involved
ly in the unconscious by both
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all the evils suffered by a colonial
children and adults. They are ma-
EXPERIENCE
TEACHES
people when under the yoke of a
den because the world expects
IN A MOMENT of anger, in fool- nothing but love and affection
foreign administrator.
... ish excitement, parents say or among members of the household.
When asked if the Jews had do things to children (and one
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helped the Arabs while helping another) that they would give QUESTIONS FOR PARENTS
themselves in the rebuilding of eternity to recall.
IF A CHILD WOULD give such
Palestine, Nairi Nashashibii, pub-
Knowing when to act, when to
answers, if he gave them to a
lic relations officer in the Arab be silent, when to be deaf, dumb or
Office, Jerusalem, said: "The blind to a child's conduct does not stranger knowing they would not
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Jews have hindered the Arabs.
We cannot compete with Jewish
capital in the establishment of
industry, nor can we compete
with them in trade."
• • •
Plain Talk
When asked for a solution to
the Palestine problem, Mr. N. said:
"The British should evacuate the
country, and, under the present
setup, Jews and Arabs could get
along well. A government would
be formed on a democratic basis
with the rule of the majority.
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MUST DROP ZIONISM
Compassion Viewed
as Jewish Attribute
Tale of Cantor's Fish Points Morals
on Life's Sanctity, Humanity of Man
"TO ACHIEVE PEACE and
harmony, the Jews must give up
By ALFRED SEGAL
the idea of a national home, and
WASHINGTON—The Democrats took their heads out of their hands they must also give up the idea of MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, the cantor, had caught a fish. He had
" and surveyed the rubble of what had been 14 years of adminis- further immigration and must be
waited patiently on the bank of the Ohio River and, sure enough
tration without a serious challenge by the Republicans. Then they content to remain a third of the his patience was richly rewarded at noon.
population
of
Palestine."
began to add up their remaining party assets and to plot a strategy
Was that a fish! In length, breadth and weight It was all a
that would allow them to save as much face as possible in the next
When asked about the plight of patient chazan dared hope for in the way of a fish out of the Ohio
two years.
the displaced persons, Mr. N. said River. The Ohio River gives fish only meagerly and in stingy size.
The Republicans, after the first
that he sympathized with them, This fish was like a whale by
glow of a sweeping victory wore through despite an unwieldy Con- but that Palestine was too small comparison, you might say. With in which the householder sings
off a bit, took stock of their new, gress will be liberalization of the to hold any more people.
such a fish In hand, the cantor daily to God. . . "But what can
advantageous position and began immigation laws to make possible
called it a day.
we do". . . The cantor's phil-
When I asked him about Dr.
to size up the responsibilities the entrance of 50,000 additional
When the can-
osophy was at a loss. Ile had
which they had incurred as a re- displaced persons above the Lowdermilk's survey of Pales- for got home
brought a big living fish Into
suit of their new role as majority quotas. With Administration sup- tine, with the conclusion that with it, the fish
the house and the conscience of
party. porters in Congress placed in an the country could hold another was as lively as
his whole family was against
This game of taking stock important position, it will be a 9,000,000 persons, he answered: at the moment
killing and eating it.
"Dr. Lowdermilk is a Jew and it was pulledi.,.
was not confined to party lead- stiff fight to pass the measure.
So the troubled matter was this
a Zionist." Dr. Lowdermilk Is out of the Ohio
era. Everyone, and especially
way and that until the cantor's
The Administration will espe-
a Christian.
River by the
Washington reporters, began to
s wife spoke up with decision:
cially miss the strong support
cantor's s t o u t
speculate on how the new floor
"You'll take this fish back to the
In contrast to Jewish claims to line. His fam-
leaders and committee chair-
of Congressman Adolph Sabath, Palestine on political, religious and
river."
fly's
startled
men would shape national pol-
Illinois Democrat, when he steps humanitarian grounds, the Arab
It was at least five miles from
icies.
eyes gazed at
Alfred Segal the river but the cantor thought
down from his important post claim is based on squatter's rights. the happy phenomenon.
• • •
The fish's it was a happy solution. Going
as chairman of the powerful They have been in the country for tail was wagging bravely: "You bacit five miles was a much hap-
ONE ELECTION VICTIM
some
1200
years
now,
and
feel
DOING A BIT OF speculating House Rules Commiittee.
expect me to be dead, maybe? No, pier pain than killing a fish with
that it is their's.
" on our own and looking over
I refuse to die. You've got me deliberate hands. Yes, the cantor
In
the
79th
Congress
this
com-
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here in your house alive and what agreed, tomorrow he would take
the new Congress, it is interesting
mittee
numbered
eight
Democrats
are you going to do about me? the fish back to the river.
' . note that out of six Jewish
DENY THE OBVIOUS
and
four
Republicans.
The
order
Tell
me."
esentatives in the House — all
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will
likely
be
reversed
when
the
It was like a challenge: What
'aocrats — five will return to
THERE IS NO DOUBT that the
new
committee
is
drawn
up
and
it seats in January, this de-
Arabs have as good a right to Pal- to do with a living fish in the PUT IN BATHTUB
spite the overwhelming Republi- Leo Allen, Illinois Republican, estine as the Jews despite the fact house? The cantor's gentle wife
WHAT WAS to be done
can victory. The one victim was takes over.
that they have no documents to said: "We can't kill it. How can
with it in the meantime? Well,
we kill something?" Yes , ho
Herman Koppelman, congressman
prove
it
as
the
Jews
have.
Sol Bloom will lose his spot as
w there
the
bathtub.
It it
could
could the hands deliberately take
swim was
in the
bathtub
until
was
from Connecticut with eight years
The thing which amazes the ob- hold to kill it, to bash it on the
of congressional service behind chairman of the House Foreign
time
to
take
it
back
to
the
river.
server,
however,
is
the
fact
that
him,
head, perhaps, or let It perish
Affairs Committee. He will .be re-
The fish in the bathtub inter-
A newly elected member of the placed, however, by Charles Eaton they try to deny what is as ob- miserably by depriving it of
fered with the family's regular
vious
•
as
their
faces.
One
only
water?
view York City delegation is Ja- of New Jersey who has always
bathing habits but the members
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cob K. Javits, 42, author, lecturer gone along with the main tenets has to compare Palestine with the
could happily endure this until
sad state of the surrounding Arab NONE TO KILL IT
and expert on corporation law.
of the Roosevelt foreign policy.
the moment the fish could start
Serving first as a civilian assis-
The House Immigration Com- states to see what Zionism has THE • CANTOR'S DAUGHTER on its journey back to the river.
said: "Who of us can kill it?"
tant chief of the Army chemical mittee, thrciugh whose hands the done for the country and its peo.
It was a question purely rhetor- They couldn't bathe but, anyway,
warfare service, Javits went on quota-amending legislation would pie.
One would think that the Arabs ical since nobody in the cantor's that wasn't as terrible as delib-
active duty in the military forces have to pass, has lost five mem-
erately killing a living thing.
In 1942, emerging three years lat- bers. Two of the five were south- would be thankful to the Jews house could take hold of It to
Next day the cantor took hold
er as a lieutenant colonel.
ern Democrats. This could work for improving living standards. kill it.
of the fish and traveled the five
• • •
The cantor himself felt ab-
to the Administration's advantage Instead, there are bigotry, preju-
miles to restore It to its right-
SABATII TO LOSE POST
if they were replaced by liberal dice and blind nationalisms pul- ashed to bring such problems
ful way of life as a fish. The
ling
In
opposite
directions
and
of
morals
Into
his
house.
It
had
Republicans
who
repudiated
the
ONE OF THE MOST important
grateful fish swam away into
keeping
the
people
apart
and
the
been
a
typical
southern
Democrat
stand
quite
untroubled
house,
pieces of legislation that the
A
conflict
alive.
as
might
be
expected
of
a
house
opposing
further
immigration.
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By CHARLOTTE WEBER
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