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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
AN UNAFFILIATED,
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NEWSPAPER
and The Legal Chronicle
Vol. 49, No. 2
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1947
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Schools Are Set Up for Youngsters
Truman Urges
Refugee Aid,
Fight on Bigots
ATHLETES, P. 16
Attlee Calls Cabinet
to Weigh Partition;
Irgun Denies Truce '
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Presi-
dent Truman, in his State of the
LONDON—The British cabinet was summoned to a
Union message to Congress, em-
special
session Thursday to discuss the Palestine ques-
phasized that the United States
has not done enough with regard tion following a second conference Wednesday °between
to the admission of displaced per- David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency, and
sons to this country and called Arthur Creech-Jones, colonial secretary.
for congressional legislation to en-
Lt. Gen. Sir Alan G. Cu mingham, high commissioner
able the entry of more refugees
for Palestine, who was to have re-
from Europe.
turned to his post Thursday, is
The President also said that ex-
Heads Anneal
remaining in London for several
isting legislation does not reach
days In view of the cabinet dis-
"the limit of federal power to pro-
cussion.
tect the civil rights of its citizens."
Prime Minister Attlee's call to
He decried "racial and religious
the cabinet came following a 10-day
bigotry" and declared that free-
conference on the Palestine prob-
dom to engage in lawful callings
lem by high government officials
has been denied to many citizens
including Foreign Secretary.Ern-
as a result of such bigotry.
st Bevin and the sudden strength-
"The will to fight these crimes
ening of the Resistance In the
should be in the hearts of every
Holy Land.
one of us," the President said. He
Speculation was rife in govern-
declared that the Department of
ment • circles that the cabinet
Justice is carrying on the "fight"
would ponder a plan which calls
for the Federal Government to the
for independent Jewish and Arab
full extent of its powers.
states. According to authoritative
Emphasizing that only about
sources, Bevin and Creech-Jones
5,000 displaced persons have en-
will urge partitioning of Pal-
tered the United States since May
estine in such a way that several
1946, President Truman said that
areas probably including Jerusa-
he did "not feel that the United
lem and Haifa would be left un-
States has done its part" in ad-
der British trusteeship as "neutral
mitting refugees. He pointed out
regions."
that the executive agencies "are
The Colonial Office refused to
now doing all that is reasonably
make any comment on the cabinet
IIENRY MORGENTIIAU
possible under the limitations of
call but it categorically denied
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the existing law and established
that Britain had offered conces-
quotas" and asked for "congres-
sions to the Zionists in the Ben
sional assistance" in the form of
Gurion talks to persuade them to
new legislation.
participate in the London Confer-
"I urge the Congress to turn its
ence on Palestine an invitation to
attention to this world problem,"
which the Arabs have formally ac-
the President stated," in an ef-
cepted despite earlier threats that
fort to find ways whereby we can
they, like the Jews, would boycott
fulfill our responsibilities to these
Sees Moral Obligation the talks. Jrai ntigeommist
thousands of homeless and suffer-
ing• refugees of all faithS."
for'Eveey
Morgenthau Takes
UJA. •Chairmanship
Dr. Wise Chided
for Quitting ZOA
Called Tragic Figure
of Zionist Congress
NEW YORK—The action of Dr.
Stephen S. Wise in withdrawing
"from all offices in the Zionist Or.
anization of America" as an af-
termath to what he declared was
'he ZOA's misuse of power at the
Basle Congress, was condemned by
Daniel Frisch, chairman of the
ZOA administrative council.
Frisch conceded Dr. Wise's right
'o express dissatisfaction with the
deliberations of the Congress, but
he characterized his resignation
and attack as "undemocratic."
CALLS CONGRESS TRAGIC
Dr. Wise had stated that the
Congress was "nothing less than
tragic in its inadequacy in relation
to a great .hour. Measured by the
Zionist Congress, the Zionist cause
has fallen on evil days and ways."
He described the new Zionist
executive as a "cabinet not of all
talents but of all ambitions, un-
holy and unlimited, a cabinet rep-
resenting a maximum of comprom-
ise and a minimum of conviction."
In reply, Frisch declared:
"Grand old fighter in so many
causes that Dr. Wise is, and con-
stant proclaimer of his faith in
democracy, he seems unable to
endure differences of opinion or
political defeat without flaming
anger."
NEW YORK — Henry Morgen-
thau, former Secretary of the
Treasury, has been chosen general
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal which has undertaken to
raise $170,000,000 In 1947.
In a statement Issued on the
acceptance of leadership in one of
the largest voluntary relief cam-
paigns ever conducted in the
United States, Morgenthau said:
"The American people dedicated
their resources and manpower to
the destruction of the menace that
Hitler represented to our security
and freedom. It is now equally
their will that those who were the
first and most tragic victims shall
have their fullest sympathy and
support until they are able to
stand on their own feet, to make
their own way.
"I have accepted the general
chairmanship of the United Jew-
ish Appeal because I regard it as
the moral obligation of every
American, man, woman and child
to save from despair and destruc-
tion the pitiful remnant of Jews
who remain alive in Europe."
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"He was, and I say it with re-
gret, the most tragic figure at the
Congress in Basle. His friends, the
very people who fought for Chaim
Weizmann to the last hour, found
it neither feasible nor even pos-
sible to assign to Rabbi Wise a
normal
life
thanks
to
a
Jewish survivors in Europe are returning to
race In the new executive, or
the efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee. In the top picture,
other position of importance.
a Jewish woman happily displays products she has turned out after
"It is true that his devotion to
learning the weaving trade in a Czecholslovakian cooperative found- Zionism in America has been long
ed with a loan from JDC. Center is a group of youngsters in Klads-
and unswerving, yet it is a fact
ke, formerly Glatz, Poland, who never miss a day of school in an
that when his many followers
Institution financed by JDC funds. Below are two former concentra- made him president, he left that
tion camp inmates who proudly show samples of their leather work
organization poor and ineffectual
to Philip Ruby, JDC representative in Slovakia. JDC receives its
and with but a handful of mem-
funds from the United Jewish Appeal which is supported In Detroit
through the Allied Jewish Campaign.
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U.S.-Jew-
Ex-Internees Learn Leather Craft
SEE TAX COLUMN
bers."
32 Seized 'ut.Raids;
Flogging Is Hated —
JERUSALEM — In a pre-dawn
raid on Rishon-le-Zion and Reho-
voth, south of Tel Aviv, British
police arrested 32 suspected mem-
bers of the Irgun Zval Leumi
Wednesday. Four women were
among the prisoners.
A few hours afterwards, Sir Hen-
ry Gurney, acting high commis-
sioner, canceled the flogging Im-
posed on Aaron Cohen, 16-year-
old youth, whose sentence brought
retaliatory floggings upon four
British soldiers last week. Irgun
had threatened to shoot British
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Gen. Morgan 'Retired'
by the British Army
LONDON (WNS) — Lieut. Gen.
Sir Frederik E. Morgan, former
head of UNRRA operations in
Germany, has been "retired" by
the British Army, it was disclosed
here by the British War Office.
Sir Frederik was the author of
the notorious statement to news-
papermen at Frankfurt-am-Main
last January that the exodus of
Jews from Poland was "well or-
ganized" and that the Jews were
entering the American zone in
Germany "red-checked with pock-
ets full of money."
House Group Asks Curb
on Non-English Press
WASHINGTON (JTA) —Revoca-
tion of the second class mailing
privileges of all foreign-language
newspapers and periodicals which
do not carry English translations
in parallel columns is recommend.
ed in the final report of the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties for 1946.
It is one of several legislative
proposals by the committee, many
of which urge restriction of the
rights and privileges of aliens.
London Vandals
Raid 3rd Synagog
12 Burned Scrolls
Buried After Rites
LONDON (WNS) — The Bays-
water Synagogue was attacked
here by a number of youthful van-
dals, the third attack on a Jewish
house of worship within a week.
The incident occurred within a
few hours after the ceremonial
burial of the 12 sacred scrolls that
were burned in the Dollis Hill
Synagogue a week ago. The van-
dals broke into the Bayswater
synagogue and smashed the win-
dows and stained glass. They were
discovered by the caretaker and
fled before police arrived.
While the police were searching
for the perpetrators of the recent
anti-Jewish outbreaks, a chain
store, owned by Jews, was blasted
by a bomb. A gang of men were
reported also to have blown up
a car owned by a Jew.
At Bristol, where many anti-
Jewish posters appeared during the
week, the only synagogue was
placed under guard when oil-
soaked rags were found near the
entrance of the building.
Meanwhile, the anti-Jewish ter-
rorists are seeking to create ten-
sion and confusion by repeated
telephone calls, generany to news-
papers, warning that public build-
ings would be blown up. Follow-
ing such an anonymous call, the
police placed guards at the King
Cross railroad station.