Friday, December 27, 1946
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Fourteen
And when one considers that
aid to the Jews of Europe was
deemed by the Allies damaging to
the war effort, that Mr. Hirsch-
mann had to work largely in great
secrecy lest the Germans or the
British or the Russians discover
his plans, the success of his mis-
sion is all the more remarkable.
life Line' Reviewed
by Bartley C. Crum
British Support Scheme to Kidnap
Arabian Boycott Extremists Told
• • 4.
(Continued from page 3)
States is exporting anti-Semitism
Jews Offset Losses,
Find New Market
to Germany.
A
• • •
CTING
ON A TIP that they
building was mined, British
AIDED BY BRITISH
TEL AVIV (Palcor)—The Pal- soldiers at the Government louse
FORTUNATELY FOR him, he
Palestine recently machine-
lad the undercover help of British estine government not only falls in
an ominous looking parcel
aitelligence officers who, contrary to cooperate with the Jews in their gunned
in the High Commissioner's room...
.o official government policy, had counter-boycott against the . Arab
parcel belonged to High Com_
hoped for their own purposes to countries, but it goes out of its The
missioner Sir Alan Cunningham
By BARTLEY C. CRUM
see traffic resumed across the way to help the Arabs make up and contained his new $60 suede
Black Sea and the Jews rescued. for whatever losses they may in-
Member, Anglo-American Commit-
For they knew, as Mr. Hirsch- cur as a result of the counter- shoes.
tee of Inquiry on Palestine
Pierre Van Passen's "The For-
mann did, that the Jews of Eur- boycott, the economic expert of
IN JANUARY, 1943, President
ope were not only a natural and Haaretz, writes in an analysis of gotten Ally" will be filmed by one
Roosevelt issued his historic em-
extremely important part of the the effect of the Arab League's of the major companies .. . Three
ergency order, setting up the War
resistance movement, particularly boycott on Jewish Palestine for the Hollywood outfits are bidding for
Van Passen's Palestinian epic.
in the Axis satellite countries, but past eight months.
Refugee Board.
Orchids to the European dele-
During the first quarter of 1946
would also furnish strong support
Continuing the Anglo - Saxon
for the Allied cause when they the Palestine government received gation of the American Jewish
tradition of Magna Carta and the
45,000 tons of wheat from Canada Labor Council which placed a
reached Palestine.
Bill of Rights, its purpose was to
Thus smuggling human cargo at a price of $108 per ton, and cluster of flower wreaths on the
rescue, regardless of nationality,
, was not only a great humanitar- nonetheless imported an addition- mass graves of the thousands of
the remnants of persecuted minor-
ian effort, but also was the al 13,000 tons of Syrian wheat, an Jewish dead in the Warsaw glint-
ities, particularly the Jews; and
... After which they donated
• shrewdest kind of psychological inferior product, which cost $160 to
to check their slaughter.
5,000,000 zlotys towards the erec-
ton.
warfare.
It
gave
confidence
to
per
Using a familiar government
the people of the world, who even
The government has also re- tion of a trade union center in
tactic the War Refugee Board
today
still
look
hopefully
to
Am-
fused
to facilitate Jewish firms' Warsaw .. • The American Jew-
was superimposed upon the Inter-
ish Committee is now engaged
buying
from non-Arab countries.
erica.
•
governmental Committee for Re-
in a membership drive.
Mr.
Hirschmann's
book
is
of
Despite this, and despite the fact
fugees. The Intergovernmental
Sammy Kaplan, the popular as-
value
if
it
is
widely
read,
as
it
that Jewish Palestine never really semblyman from Brownsville sec-
Committee is described, I think
should be. It will make the people acted to organize an effective tion of Brooklyn, will return to
properly, by Ira Hirschmann as
IRA HIRSCHMANN
of the United States increasingly counter-boycott against the Arabs, pro basketball this winter if his
"nothing more than a decorous
facade concealing the inactivity of power of dealing with the enemy.' aware of today's international is- neighboring Arab countries are legislative duties permit . . . Leon-
the 32 governments which had set Our Ambassador to Turkey, Laur- sues. It will help to prepare them suffering for their participation in ard Bernstein will conduct a series
ence A. Steinhardt, knew how to to assume the obligations of a the Arab League's boycott. The of concerts with the Palestine
it up."
Beirut newspaper La Comperce Symphony Orchestra this winter,
use diplomacy to get action and great nation.
Ably written and thoroughly L' Levant says "the counter-boy-
Cecil Brown, the radio com-
did. The Jewish underground,
CAN SAVE IN WARTIME
Haganah, was aggressive, resource- documented, it poses for the Am- cott by the Jews has hit our ex- mentator, is a patient at Gotham
erican people the question as to porters and producers harder than Hospital in New York . . . Drop
WITH THE FIRM backing of ful and tireless.
our boycott hit the Jews,"
him a card . . Have you heard
President Roosevelt and the. per-
The Nazi satellite Balkan states, whether Palestine and the needs
about the UN function where a
sonal interest of Henry W. Mor- fearful that Germany might lose of the displaced persons of Europe LEBANESE LOSE OUT
the
point
genthau Jr., the War Refugee Are war, were not unwilling to are being attacked from
When Jews in Palestine refused featured singer broke into "Hatik-
Board proceeded to prove that we deal with a representative of the of view of human need or from to purchase Lebanese fruits and vah" as she saw Ernest Bevin
the point of view of imperial vegetables even when sold through leaving.
can save, as well as kill, in time of United States.
Jaffa middlemen without labels,
war.
Mr. Hirschmann harnessed these strategy.
It puts to us in the strongest the Lebanese fruit industry was
It had marked success largely forces to effect the rescue of those
because. John W. Pehle, its execu- who were in danger of death, par- terms the proposition that these hard hit. In July and August
tive director, and his aides were ticularly of children. This book remnants of a lost people, who this year, the months when al-
carried along by a powerful emo- nas some of the flavor of an Eric have been rescued at a heavy most two thirds of the Lebanese
tional urge that made short work Ambler story of international in- price in blood, cannot now be fruits and vegetable exports nor-
of red tape. They did not hesio trigue, with only one difference: forced to die a second death. mally pour into the Palestine mar-
Their rehabilitation, as Mr. Hirsch- ket, no more than $200,000 worth
tate to take chances when there this is true.
was the slightest chance of rescue.
Mr. Hirschmann's secret inter- mann writes, obviously is a charge was bought as compared to $1,-
400,000 bought during the same
Ira Hirschmann's book, "Life iiews with officials of the Nazi rpon civilized society.
WITH
a.
two months the year before.
Line to a Promised Land," is a atcllite states under the nose of
Jewish
importers
have
been
able
particularly timely account of rfficial Ankhara, the desperate ef- Democratic Body Uses
or will be able to divert their trade • 21•Psigr. DC-3 Luxury Liners
some of the 1 , :ard's work. The orts of Ambassador Steinhardt.
Delicious Meals and Stewardess
from Arab to non-Arab countries. • Service
War Refugee Board's work was shose name is written in the Gol- Radio to Fight Bigotry
Flour,
onions,
and
tobacco,
bought
• Guaranteed Round-Trip Reserva-
ended in September, 1945. In the len Book of Jerusalem, and his
tions
NEW YORK — Radio transcrip- from Egypt, are also obtaina'ele
meantime we have had little ac- ight against official lethargy and
Leaving Detroit City Airport
tion, much talk, a variety of com- nilitary fears make a truly fas- tions will be used as an emergency from Turkey and Argentina. Tex-
Vs Fare for Children
missions, committees, special en- •inating story to all whO are in. neasure in the tense racial situ- tiles, particularly cotton, which Is
Reserve
Space Today
one
of
Egypt's
leading
exports,
voys and a gmat deal of stalling. crested in the constant struggh ation which threatens the Chicago
Coll Cherry 7554
trea, according to an announce- can be bought from India. Cigar-
The problem of Europe's' homeless or human freedom.
Consolidated Air Travel
lilt David Stott Bldg.
millions still remains.
This book, of course, is only one nent by Harold Franklin, program ets, formerly imported, are manu- Service,
or Your Travel Agent
:hapter in the titanic struggle. lirector of the Institute for Demo- factured in Palestine.
• •
cratic Education.
CITES COMPENSATIONS
3ut it is an important one.
Franklin revealed that the insti-
4 MILLION DEAD
While there is no doubt that
tute Is rushing to Chicago 20
BY 1943 THE NUMBER of MUFTI HIS RIVAL
transcriptions containing the one- Jewish Palestine's exports have
refugees in the Balkans who had
WHAT MR. HIRSCHMANN ap- minute spot announcements of its decreased in the past eight months
been either persecuted or killed parently didn't know, and what Keep Faith with America series, since the Arab boycott, the loss
ran to four millions. Mr. Hirsch- we of the Anglo-American Corn- designed to fight prejudice and incurred has been compensated for
mann's book tells the story of a :nittee found out, was that during intolerance. These are being sent by a number of factors, Haaretz's
private American citizen who vol- he entire period he was seeking at the request of the mayor's com- economist writes. Confections,
medicines, chemical products and
unteered to go to Turkey in order to rescue the fragments of an op- mission on human relations.
bicycles normally sold to the Arab
to see what could be done to halt pressed people and give them the
Martha Gleicher of the commis- countries were hardest hit.
this avalanche of sad statistics.
:lance to rebuild their lives in sion's department of public infor-
With the help of Oscar Cox, the Palestine, his principal opponent
and education is arranging
brilliant young lawyer who had was another Palestinian — Haj mation
have these dramatic transcrip-
first conceived lend - lease, Mr. !min el Hirsseini, the Mufti of to
tions played over every radio sta-
Lire ON The Ocron Front
Hirschmann was named first spe- icrusalem.
HOTEL
tion in Chicago, both on major
Centrally. Located
cial attache of the State Depart-
While Mr. Hirschmann was us- programs and spotted at station
On the Bench nt 12th St.
ment, charged with carrying out ng his unprecedented authority to
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Palestine Inquiry Member Terms
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• • •
VICTOR
Board in Turkey and the Middle
East. He had formidable oppo-
nents.
flourished
F"‘117, von Palen still
in Instanbul. Nazi intrigue, the
White Paper policy of the British
- government, the former Mufti of
Jerusalem, the fear of traditional
diplomats, of undirlomatic meth-
ods were against him.
He had formidable friends, too.
President Roosevelt was determin-
ed to take all measures within
the government's power to rescue
the victims of enemy persecution
who were in imminent danger of
death.
• • •
or Cretsianu to persuade the
"azi satellite Romanian govern-
ment to disband the disease-ridden
amp of Transnistia, to release
1,000 children and to facilitate
heir removal to the port of Con-
;tantia, the Mufti was writing per-
mptory letters to Bucharest in-
sisting that these Jewish children
're sent to Poland, where of course
,hey were doomed to the gas
thambcrs.
DEALS WITH ENEMY
MR. HIRSCHMANN was, there
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