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CLIFTON AVENUE

29, 1946.

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elon that the council's complex affairs are once again in capable hands.
He sounds like a young man just out of school who looks forward
to his first big chance with zest and anticipation. Yet actually, this
youthful executive (he is only 38) has already guided enterprises that
might be compared with a J. L Hudson Co. many times larger. For
several years during the war, he
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Ordnance depots In Canada and
Newfoundland and supervised their
accounting and warehousing oper-
ations among others.
The enormity' of this responsibi-
lity can better be gauged when one
learns that in Canada the Ord-
nance division included the Quar-
termaster Corps.
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that he would today be a major
executive in one of Canada's big-
gest industries had he not stuck
to his principles and returned to
the community service field which
was more stimulating and exciting
to him than what he considers,
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THERE IS STILL another
facet to Cohen's background of
multiple activities. From 1931 to
1934, he edited the weekly Jewish COL. OSCAR COHEN
Standard of Toronto and supervised its business department too. In-
deed, journalism was to have been his profession, but he took a fling
at a communal enterprise and decided that was the job for him.
"Working for the community is part of me," he explains. "We
all express our Jewishness in different ways. Some do so by re-
ligious activity. I do It by communal labor sand the work per-
meates everything I do."
Cohen's Jewish consciousness did not come early. He was born
in Dundas, a small Ontario town 50 miles from Toronto. His was the
only Jewish family in the area and he did not come to realize his
Jewish heritage until he had spent some time at the Cambridge-like
University of Toronto. He received his degree there in 1329 after tak-
ing the coveted Tracy Prize in Ethics.

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Outlaw Bias,
Open Doors,
CIO Demands

ATLANTIC CITY (JTA) — The
eighth national convention of the
CIO unanimously adopted a reso-
lution calling for Federal legisla-
tion outlawing ''anti-Semitism and
other forms of anti-racial preju-
dice." The delegates also demand-
ed that the government "stop quib-
bling" and open the "doors to the
thousands of homeless and despe-
rate Jews in Europe."
The convention also adopted a
resolution urging the U. S. govern.
ment "to take all necessary meas-
ures" to influence the British gov-
ernment to admit Immediately 100,-
000 Jews from Europe to Palestine.
The resolution supported the de-
mand that a Jewish Common-
i5ealth, in which the rights of all
minorities a r c guaranteed, be
established in Palestine. It also
condemned the British White Pa-
per.
Anti-Semitism is a challenge to
democracy and therefore it is also
a problem to the American way
of life and especially to organized
labor, Dr. Stephen S. Wise told
the convention. He urged Ameri-
can labor to combat the anti-Sem-
itic efforts in this country.
Dr. Wise reminded the conven-
tion that anti-Semitism In Ger-
many was the forerunner of anti-
labor action by the Nazis. "Let
us not forget that anti-Semitism
was the winning election slogan
of Nazism and that as soon as the
Nazis won, they struck down first
of all the labor unions, robbed
them of their fun45, imprisoned or
slew their leaders, "he said.

Jewish DP'S
Called 'Unfit'

Assailed in Report
of Senate Prober

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jewish
displaced persons in Germany are
termed unfit material for immigra-
tion to the United States or any
other country and are charged
with black marketing, laziness and
unwillingness to work, in a con-
fidential report submitted to the
Senate war investigating commit-
"I THINK THE COUNCIL Is a vital part of the community and tee by George Meader, committee
that it has a tremendous role to play in Jewish life. The conduct counsel, after a two-week trip to
of Jewish affairs in accordance with democratic principles by which Germany.
all sections of the community express themselves is a matter of
The report asserts that the Jew_
fundamental importance.
"I believe the council idea is basic to the just and ethical conduct ish organizations are organizing
of Jewish affairs. We should be the first to demand democratic prac- and financing a campaign to bring
tices in general. Certainly we should exemplify the principles we Jews out of Poland into the
American zone of Germany, and
espouse In the broader community."
Cohen is a widower and has a daughter Myra, 3. They live at 1674 recommends closing the zone bor-
ders to further migration. Ameri-
Atkinson avenue.
can expenditures on the care of
refugees are criticized.

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HE DID GRADUATE work in English and journalism at Colum-
bia University and then took over the Standard in Toronto. The
opportunity for a social work career came In 19313 when he joined
the Canadian Jewish Congress as executive director of its central
division, a much more diversified position than he now holds because
he also had to supervise refugee problems, educational and farming
enterprises and the youth division.
He entered the army in 1941 as a probationary second lieutenant.
By 1944 he held the confirmed rank of lieutenant colonel.
He was called from Toronto this fall by the Detroit Jewish com-
munity to take over the vacated post of Isaac Franck.
"Whoever succeeds Franck has an enormous task ahead of him,
Cohen says knowingly. "I have been very much impressed by the
great tributes paid him by all people and the great amount of work
he has done.
"I have met a cross-section of the community already," he
adds, "and I have found Detroit an exciting city with warm people
who are alert to the Jewish problem locally and nationally.
"I see here an opportunity for a tremendous amount of construc-
tive work with broad avenues for its fulfillment.

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NEW YORK—A donation of
$10,000 which Cardinal Spellman,
president of the Alfred E. Smith
Foundation, designated for the
United Jewish Appeal was given
last week to William Rosenwald,
national chairman of the UJA.
Charles H. Silver, vice-president
of the foundation, presented the
check as part of New York City's
quota of $35,000,000.

Cardinal Spellman in giving the
suns said: "I am happy to carry
out what I know would be Al
Smith's own wishes and with
gratitude and affection I entrust
to his friend Charles H. Silver,
who works in charity for all men,
$10,000 to be given to his own peo-
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Arabs because of his advocacy of
Arab-Jewish cooperation.

An appeal to the delegates to
the World Zionist Congress to re-
main in Switzerland after the
meeting 'and form a permanent
Jewish parliament to elect a Jew-
ish Government and form an army
was made here by the Irgun Zvai
Leumi In a secret radio broadcast.
The broadcast also called for a
dismissal of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine promising ''you the full
unity and discipline of all Jews
in Palestine if you do, but if you
agree with Dr. Chaim Weizmann
and send delegates to the London
conference and if you accept par-
tition you will break the unity
and discipline of Palestinian Jews."

Chanukath Habayis Celebration

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While pursuing his Inquiries in
Germany on the DP situation,
Meader's chief source of informa-
tion was Col. Stanley R. Mickel-
son, director of the displaced per-
sons division of the Military Gov-
ernment. Ho did not consult with
Dr. Philip Bernstein, adviser on
Jewish Affairs to Gen. McNerney,
U.S. Commander, nor with UNRRA
officials.
Because of objections to the re-
port by Democratic Senators Kil-
gore of West Virginia, chairman
of the committee, Mead of New
York and Tunnell of Delaware,
and by Secretary of State Byrnes,
Senators Vandenberg and Con-
nally, the proposal for an investi-
gation by the committee of the
American Military Government in
Germany has been postponed.
Senators Brewsters of Maine, who
is expected to succeed Kilgore as
committee chairman in the new
Congress, Ferguson of Michigan
and Ball of Minnesota support the
proposed investigation.

World News in Brief

Synagogue Destroyed
in Romanian Rioting

Law to Restore Citizenship to Jews
Awaits King's Pen as Clashes Flare

BUCHAREST (WNS)—A synagogue and a number
of Jewish shops were destroyed during rioting in the city
of Foscani during the general elections last week.
An anti-Semitic demonstration also occurred in
Szolnok, Hungary, during a soccer match between a Bu-
dapest team, many of whose players were Jews, and a

local group.
At the same time, it was dis- July, during which 42 Jews were
closed that a law calling for the killed.
restoration of citizenship of Jews
Nine persons have been executed
who had been disenfranchised after conviction at an earlier trial.
through legislation of the former
regimes or through territorial
changes had been submitted for
signature to the king of Romania.
The law, it was stated, will also
grant citizenship rights to Jews
LODZ (JTA) — A Polish Red
who failed to apply for Romanian
Cross train left here this week
citizenship during 1919 to 1921.
The government announced that for France carrying 350 orphaned
it Intends to devote heirless Jew- Jewish children who are bound for
ish property to the relief of Jew- eventual resettlement in Palestine.
ish survivors of deportations and
massacres which occurred In Ro-
PARIS (JTA)—Two hundred and
mania during the pro-Nazi regime. forty Jews from displaced persons
camps in Germany sailed from
Marseilles for Australia. The trans-
port was arranged by the HIAS.

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300 Children Leave
Poland for Palestine

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DP's Rations Slashed;
Germans Feed Well

MUNICH (WNS)—Displaced per-
sons in the American zone in Ger-
many have been restricted to local
food supplies because of lack of
army funds, Gen. Joseph T. Mc-
Nerney, U. S. commander, an-
nounced.
The DP's received the news with
a noticeable lack of enthusiasm
and 500 Jewish teachers in the
DP camps went on strike for
greater food rations Leaders of
the displaced Jews in Germany
and representatives of the volun-
tary relief agencies protested that
"the already drab diet available to
the displaced persons will become
drabber," causing further discon-
tent and unrest.
"What can you expect when
the DI"s see all Imported Ameri-
can food going to the Germans
and nothing to the Germans' vic-
tims," one spokesman declared.
In the meantime reports reach-
ing hero indicated that the situ-
ation of the displaced Jews in
Austria is bad. Rabbi Philip S.
Bernstein, advisor on Jewish af-
fairs to the U. S. commander in
Europe, reporting on his five-week
tour of the DP camps in the
American zone in Germany and
Austria, said "the displaced per-
sons face a grim winter."

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Official Sees Future
For Jews of Poland

WARSAW (JTA)—Addressing a
conference of Jewish workers in
Cracow the commissioner for pro-
duction declared that the Jews
have a future in Poland and that
the government is ready to aid
them in the reconstruction of their
social, economic and cultural in-
stitutions /and to assure them full
civic rights.
The Central Jewish Committee
announced that it has allotted
250,000 zlotys for the evacuation
of the Jewish community of Mie-
dzyrzec to Lower Silesia. The Jews
of Miedzyrzec decided to leave the
town after receiving numerous
threats.
A district court at Czenstochowa
has sentenced four Polish youths,
ages 17-19 to terms ranging from
three to 10 years for murdering
and robbing a Jewish couple named
Herckowicz. The couple were re-
turning to Czenstochowa from a
concentration camp.
Several additional men, includ-
ing the chief of the security police,
are to go on trial soon as parti-
cipants in the Kielce pogrom last

Bulgarian Party
Supports Zionism

SOFIA, (JTA) — A four-point
"Jewish program" has been adopt-
ed by the Bulgarian Social Demo-
cratic Party In its platform.
The plank calls for continuation
of the struggle for the economic
rehabilitation of the Jews; corn-
plete eradication of fascism and
anti-Semitism under the provisions
of the new republican constitu-
tion; sympathy for Zionism, and a
demonstration of solidarity with
Palestinian workers and the Haga-
nah; and freedom of emigration to
Palestine for all Jews who wish to
go there.

Hold Up British Loan,
Maine Senator Advises

BOSTON—Senator Owen Brew-
ster (Rep.), Maine, in Boston to
address the Greater Boston Chris-
tian Conference on Palestine, de-
clared at a press conference last
week that the United States could
hold up future payments on the
loan to Britain as a means of
moving the British government to
change its present policy on Pal-
estine and fulfill its pledges to the
Jewish people.
Pointing out that if the United
States means to bring about a
Jewish National Homeland in Pal-
estine, it could use economic weap-
ons in the present situation, Sena-
tor Brewster said that "if this
country held up $400,000,000 or so
for a week, they—the British—
might be quite respectful."

Revisionists to Urge
Provisional Regime

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The estab-
lishment of a provisional Jewish
government for Palestine to con-
duct Jewish affairs until a Jewish
State is set up will be urged upon
the forthcoming World Zionist
Congress by the Revisionists, a
nationwide conference of tho party
decided.
The conference also adopted a
resolution urging that an appeal
be made by the Jewish Agency
to the International Court of Jus-
tice and the United Nations de-
manding the abolition of the
emergency de f e n s e regulations
which "have converted Palestine
into a police state."

Sunday, December 15

The celebration will continue throughout the

1:30 P. M.

afternoon.

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All Are Invited To Come and Take Part In This Impressive and Outstanding Event