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GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
CY AARON, Publisher
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
7,
1947
Letters to the Editor
MORE ON 'FLAG'
small Minority strives to impose
its methods and political ways on
the majority by means of threat
and force. Anyhow, we in Pales-
tine are very sensitive with re-
gard to our democracy and free-
dom and we are not ready to take
a dictatorship neither from inside
nor from outside.
ZVI FRISCH
2269 Euclid avenue.
Dear Editor:
As a Palestinian who came to
this country a short time ago and
as a delegate of the Youth De-
partment of the Jewish Agency,
SIDNEY STEARNS, Advertising Manager.
Jerusalem, I would like to add a
Detroit 26, Mich.
few points of information on "A
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1947 (Shevat 17, 5707)
Flag Is Born."
Vol. 49, No. 6
1. I understood that the artistic
value of the performance was not
the topic of the discussion in your
APPLAUDS HISTORY
paper. 'Both sides agreed that the
much
is
it
worth
to
you
that,
by
the
ARTICLES
so-called "whisper-campaign" was
How
not directed against the play as Dear Editor:
grace of God, you escaped Oswiecin and
On behalf of the members of
such but against its organizers.
Buchenwald? That your father or grand-
2. This play was organized by Pisgah Lodge No. 34 of Bnai
father had the foresight to flee Europe in
the "Committee for National Li- Brith, I wish to express the appre-
11(5 LORD
ciation of the lodge for the splen-
beration."
Lime?
MuSt LOVE: 1145
3. The Zionist Congress in Ba- did series of articles by Irving L.
Is it worth $1,000, $10,000, every cent
COMNINP6OPLC.
sle condemned the "Committee for Katz on the History of the Jews
you own?
National Liberation" and the in Michigan and the history of
THATS WHY HE
"League for Free Palestine" as Bnai Brith in particular.
Yes, six million Jews would have given
MADE So MANY J
represent
The articles are another exam-
which
organizations
every cent they owned never to have seen
lor at-1
only a few individuals who were ple of the enterprise and commun-
the inside of those death camps.
not elected by the Jewish people ity service that the Jewish Chron-
and who, inspite of this fact, dared icle has been showing in recent
By some miracle, a few hundred thousand
■
to collect money and to contact months. All members of Pisgah
European Jews escaped the camps just as
foreign governments and the UNO Lodge join in expressing their
you did.
in the name of the Jewish people. ;ratitude for your cooperation
4. Even the Revisionists, of with Bnal Brith and in extending
But unlike you, they have no peace, no
whom these organizations are off- you best wishes for continued suc-
comforts, no home.
springs, declared at the Congress cess.
MAX H. GOLDHOFF,
not to have any relations with
They look to you for help because you
them and even expelled one of the President, Pisgah Lodge.
escaped before they did and because you
delegates,
American - Revisionist
have comforts and a home.
Mr. Ziff, from their ranks because
DEFENDS GIRLS
of his connections with the above
In Detroit this spring, 90,000 of us will
Dear Editor:
mentioned
organizations.
be asked to give $4,000,000 for the rem-
I wish to comment on two ar-
5. Every Zionist who feels him- ticles in the Jan. 31 paper.
nant in Europe and those who have suc-
self bound to the disciilline of the
The first was a Letter to the
ceeded in finding a haven in Palestine or
Zionist Congress . and the World Editor by Norman Gold, criticiz-
Zionist
Organization
should
there-
elsewhere.
ing Jewish girls. I don't think it is
fore refrain from supporting those
fair that all the young Jewish
Together with local and national needs,
organizations—whatever his stand
;iris should be put in the Category
we shall be asked to contribute $5,335,000,
to the problem of Jewish resist- that Norman puts us in. I am
ance in Palestine is.
a record quota.
afraid he hasn't met up with the
6. Official Zionist information right crowd. To me and my girl
This is about $60 a person. Some will give
denies strongly that among the friends, it doesn't matter where
more and some will give less, it is true. But
refugee-ships which reached the our dates take us but who he is.
shores of Palestine was even a
$60 is what it amounts to for each Detroit
A man's car, his father's wealth
single one sent by the above and how much he spends on you
Jew.
named organizations — although
makes no difference to most girls,
their fund-raising campaign is
Is it worth $60 that, by the grace of God,
I am certain. I just can't imagine
now
going
on
for
months
and
you escaped Oswiecin and Buchenwald?
whom Norman has been taking
months . . . .
What does the thinking non-Jew say about . .. 9. It is understandable that out.
The second article, by Dr. Gold-
good performance may confuse
extremist activities in Palestine. Here is the a people
berg, was on the same subject. I
whose sources of informa-
agree with him. Why take
In the face of the Palestine deadlock, opinion of Dr. Alfred McClung Lee, chair- tion are not first-hand ones. As don't
about 10 percent of the Jewish
man
of
the
department
of
sociology
at
a
Palestinian
I
can
only
assure
Alvin Johnson, president emeritus of the
girls and build them up to 100
you that the spirit of this per-
New School for Social Research and former- Wayne University and public relations ex- formance does not express the percent and say .that most of
them are after large rings and
ly associate editor of the Encyclopedia of pert:
general atmosphere in Jewish Pal-
"Just as Irish bombings and hangings
estine and that the political con- trips to Bermuda?
the Social Sciences, offers a "possible solu-
I think that most girls look to
won them admiration for the plucky but
clusions of this performance are see how much ambition a fellow
tion" in his "The Case for a Non-Territorial
not shared by the majority of the has. Why build thitt up, as if it
outnumbered
underdog,
I
am
sure
that
State" in the January Commentary.
Yishuv.
the activities of Jewish extremists in
It is very regrettable that there were a crime?
It seems that everyone is taking
The article is patently the product of deep
Palestine have raised the whole Jewish
are American Zionists who did not
the girls apart. Why not take the
thought and learning. It certainly merits
understand until now that the
people in the esteem of many people
fellows to task? The man is the
Yishuv is more concerned with one who has to phone for his date,
consideration.
who had previously been indifferent or
constructive up-building and real-
so he has the advantage. If he
even contemptuous.
Johnson starts off by rejecting a
istic resistance than with Irish wants a rich girl, he can call her
this
connection,
we
should
remember
and
irresponsible
"In
majority-minority status as something
comparisons
take her any place his heart
that our public-school textbooks glorify the methods of fighting which en- and
neither the Jew nor the Arab will ever
desires, but a girl has to wait
danger
our
creation
in
Palestine
names and deeds of those .terrorists and sab-
until a man finally decides to call
accept if either is the "minority." As
—the only hope of the Jewish
oteurs who made life difficult for British sol- masses.
her up.
for territorial partition, he brands that
That is why I disagree with
diers in the American colonies in 1775-1783." It is to be assumed that Jews Norman
suggestion as fatal "because economical-
Gold and Dr. Goldberg.
born
and
educated
in
democratic
Americans
like
the
show
of
force
of
the
ly, Palestine is either an integrated unit
HARRIET BAKST,
America
will
be
able
to
under-
Jews in Palestine, Dr. Lee says. He advises stand a situation, in which a very 2511 Monterey
or it is an Arab-Jewish poorhouse. . .
avenue.
-•
What's It Worth?
With Malice Toward None
Reaction to Extremists
A Possible Solution
No territorial separation corresponding
to present majority relations can cor-
respond with (Palestine's) hydro-
graphic contours. Either unity or no
water. Either water or poverty for Arab
and Jew."
Instead, Johnson proposes a "non-terri-
torial federal state" in contrast to the Mag-
nes and Morrison proposals for territorial
segregation. To control foreign relations and
commerce, taxes, customs and other pre-
rogatives of sovereignty, he would set up a
"federal government established on the prin-
ciple of absolute equality forever of Jew
and Arab irrespective of population figures."
In domestic affairs, "Jews would rule
Jews and Arabs would rule Arabs in all the
ordinary concerns of life. Arab courts would
handle all disputes between Arabs, Jewish
courts all disputes between Jews. Disputes
between Arabs and Jews would be handled
by mixed courts of Arab and Jewish jurists
. . . Arabs and Jews would be free to bring
into Palestine as many of their co-religion-
ists as they could support . . ."
Johnson points out that this scheme, with
some differences, was the guiding principle
of the Roman Empire. He reminds us that
the French in Algiers have lived harmon-
iously for nearly a century with Moslems
permitted to live under the law of the
Koran.
"I am not to be charged with originality,"
Johnson says. "The system I propose has
been far more widely employed in historical
times and has worked far more successfully
than our recent shallow, unrealistic and in-
human monolithic state! It has a future."
Can it be that in Johnson's proposal there
lie the germs of the Palestine solution?
its continuance among the other tactics used
by Jews to battle intolerance.
The Visiting Editor
`The Sea'
Those who have watched with interest and
sympathy the gradual growth of the South
African branch of the Palestine Maritime
League will be gratified at its latest achieve-
ment, the publication of a most useful little
magazine entitled "Ha-Yam" .. .
There was a time when the idea of a
Jewish return to the sea was the sublime
dream of idealists. Under normal conditions,
perhaps, it would have remained so for gen-
erations, but it was only part of Zionism in
general which was the fulfilment of an even
more ambitious and far-reaching dream.
A generation after it was no longer im-
practicable to talk of Jewish farmers and
land redeemers, the Maritime League came
into existence, and in a short space of time
has already established for itself an im-
portant place in the structure of the Zionist
Home at present being rebuilt. All this
would not have been possible without the
efforts of a devoted band of workers, but
it has needed, and will continue to require,
substantial backing and the co-operation of
the Jewish public at large.. .
The booklet is a worthy reflection of a
branch of the Jewish National revival which
will continue to grow in importance in the
years to come.
SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH
CHRONICLE, Cape Town
Histadrut Aids New Immigrants
TEL AVIV—From January to
September, 1946, a total of 6,606
Jewish immigrants were regis-
tered by the Histadrut immigra-
tion department and directed to
places of employment. This repre-
sented 84 percent of the men and
women of working age who ar-
rived in Palestine during this pe-
riod.
Of these immigrants, 2,231 ob.
tained employment in towns; 2,637
were absorbed in the Histadrut
agricultural settlements and the
remainder went to private villages.
Of those who went to the agricul-
tural settlements, only 53 entered
small-holders' cooperatives and
the others went into collective set-
tlements.
These new arrivals came from
29 countries, the largest number
having come from Poland (3,301),
Romania (805), and Hungary
(468). Among the other countries
of origin were the U.S.S.R., India,
Sweden, Iran and Afghanistan.
Histadrut cooperating with the
Jewish Agency immigration de-
partment, looks after the newcom-
ers from the day of arrival and
helps them find their place in the
Jewish community.
Looking Back Through the Years
Events as compiled from the files of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
25 Years Ago
Detroit Jewry responds to appeal for rebuilding Jewish Homeland
by giving $25,000 for Keren Hayesod.
NV. Lester Levy is director of the Hadassah minstrel show to
take place Feb. 18 at the Elks Temple.
20 Years Ago
Rabbi Abba Silver sounds keynote as United Palestine Appeal
campaign gets under way in Detroit.
Mrs. Max Weksler installed as president of Women's League of
United Hebrew Schools.
10 Years Ago
lauding Jews.
British M. P. barred from Palestine radio
Mrs. David Silverstein again heads Jewish Vv omen's European
Welfare Organization.
5 Years Ago
Henry Ford's warning to Ku Klux Klan to refrain from dis-
tributing anti-Semitic literature acclaimed.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter represents Detroit at Mizrachl's
Sabbath Congress in New York.
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