Friday, December 20, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Eight .
Palestine 'Bright
Economic Spot'
Head Temple Sisterhoods' Drive
Labor Body Maps Canadian Congress
Center in Warsaw Sets Parley Date
TORONTO—The seventh plenary
session of the Canadian Jewish
Congress will be held in Montreal
at the Mount Royal Hotel on
Sunday and Monday, March 16
and 17.
The plenary session of the con-
gress is the gathering of the rep-
resentatives of Canadian Jews.
Delegates from all parts of Cana-
da attend and each Jewish group
is entitlefi to representation.
Among the subjects which will
be discussed at the forthcoming
session are combating the residue
NEW YORK—The erection of a
trade union center in Warsaw,
Poland, was announced in a cabled
dispatch released by the New York
office of the American' Jewish La-
bor Council.
Five million zloty was contrib-
uted by the European delegation
of the American Jewish Labor
Council and the International Fur
and Leather Workers Union, for
the erection or the union center
in the devastated capitol. A wing
of the new labor structure will be
named in honor of the American
Jewish Labor Council.
The trade union delegation also
cabled that it had placed a wreath
on the grave of the great Jewish
author, I. L. Peretz. Wreaths were
also placed on the mass graves
of thousands of lowish dead in
the Warsaw ghetto.
Unrest and Boycott
Fail to Curb Trade
NEW
YORK — Despite political
tensions, Palestine today is
"one of the brightest economic
spots in the world," Eliahu Ben-
Horin, author and Middle East ex-
pert, declared this week upon his
arrival here after a four-month
visit to Palestine as correspondent
of Hitler-induced anti-Semitism,
for Harper's Magazine.
the assistance of Jewish war vic-
Ben-Morin, who is author of
tims overseas, the settling of some
"The Middle East: Crossroads of
Jewish refugees in Canada, the
History," and was for many years
protection of the civic rights of
editor of a Palestine news service
Jews in Europe and the religious
in Tel Aviv, declared he was
and education problems of Cana-
"overwhelmed by the tremendous
Mrs. J. Walter Freiberg (left) of Cincinnati, honorary chairman,
dian .;every.
economic and industrial develop-
and Mrs. Edward B. Schulkind (right) of New York City, chair-
ment" he had found in Palestine
man, head the postwar victory fund-raising project of the National
after an absence of nine years.
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods to raise funds for the House of
"Not only is there a shortage of
Living Judaism which will provide headquarters in Cincinnati and
labor in both urban and rural Pal-
in New York for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations
and its affiliates. The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods,
estine," he said, "but scores of
with 65,000 members in over 400 Sisterhoods throughout the world,
new industries have sprung up in
is headed by Mrs: A. Rosette of New Rochelle.
the last decade.
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staggered by what they could do their curren prosperity for a
"WE HAVE NO IDEA in this with this million acre area if they doubtful political fight in which
they may lose not only their
country as to the extent of the are only given the opportunity."
arts and skills which have been
New Jewish settlements are be- wealth but their lives."
Ben-Horin added that he had a
brought into Palestine before and ing established in Palestine al-
during the war years. I was as- most at the rate of one a fort- narrow escape when a taxicab
tonished to find French merchants night, he said, "and some of the in which he was riding in Tel-
Office Equipment and Supplies
placing orders in Palestine for older colonies look like small gar- Aviv was shot at by British
soldiers who passed by in an ar-
fashion goods made in Tel Aviv, den cities."
"Politically," Ben - Horin said, mored car.
and manufacturers showed me or-
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"I still don't know why," he
ders on their books from Switzer- "the Palestine picture is quite
land for leather products, from confused. Scarcely a day passes said, "except that British soldiers
Denmark for textiles, and Greece without its own rumor as to what are pretty jittery in Palestine."
disposition the British will make
for industrial chemicals.
The diamond industry in Pales- of Palestine. I think there is no
ti
tine is now perhaps the most flour- question that the British have
ishing in the world, with exports failed miserably in their attempt
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exceeding $24,000,000 annually." to assert an iron hand. For ex-
He added that he had investi- ample, the curfew as a measure
gated the effectiveness of the Arab has proved futile."
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boycott against Jewish products,
and found it observed cursorily, ROADS MINED
if at all.
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"WHEN THE CURFEW was in
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p.m. all civilian traffic was for-
"PURCHASERS FROM ARAB bidden on the roads of Palestine.
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Giountries continue to buy their The Jews on the whole took it
goods in Jewish Palestine for two rather cheerfully but the British
reasons: (a) many of the things paid a terrible price.
they need are manufactured no-
"Since it was absolutely certain
where else in the Middle East, and that only British vehicles would
(b) goods from abroad simply be on the road after dark those
cannot be had. Many orders plac- reads were mined by extremists."
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ed in England cannot be filled for
"It was not long before the and Best Wishes to Ml
at Jeaat two years."
British realized that it would be
He added that some of the Arab practicable to have the protection
importers from neighboring coun- of Jewish vehicles op the roads
tries developed ingenious methods after dusk and so the curfew was
to circsnvent the boycott.
removed."
"I was assured by representa-
As for the Arabs — "the
Interior Decorating Studio
tives of the Palestine manufactur- Arabs do not appear in this con-
ers' associations that whatever loss flict at all. They have profited a
was caused to Jewish industry by good deal during the. last few
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the boycott had been more than years; most of them are far bet-
balanced by orders from Europe ter off than ever before and some
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and the opening of new markets." are actually wealthy.
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foundly, he said, was the fact that few of them would risk changing
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in the uncultivated Negev — the
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and agriculturists have found an
area of 2,000,000 acres of which
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Ben-Horin said, at least 1,000,000
acres is definitely cultivable land.
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