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GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor•in•Chief
NATHAN J. KAUFMAN, Managing Editor
CY AARON, Publisher
CHARLES TAUB, Raciness Manager
Vol. 49, No. 8
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21 (Adar 1, 5707)
A Victory for Militancy
Detroit 26, Mich.
th e dream of a Homeland where all men
ar e brothers.
Histadrut is in the midst of a nationwide
ca mpaign in support of the Yishuv. De-
tr oit's quota is $175,000, a small sum as
qu otas go nowadays. Much of the support
fo ✓ Histadrut will come from laboring men
w hose own toil tells them what a superb
jo b Histadrut is doing in the face of crisis
an d adversity. But business and industry,
to o, have joined the campaign knowing that
h e who labors and builds is the preserver
of a nation's economy.
There are many who would like to con-
tribute to the rebuilding of Eretz Israel u
who want the reassurance that their money
will be utilized fpr the materials of growth
and construction, that they will help lay
one more brick on the edifice of the Home-
land. For that reassurance, let them make
their contribution to Histadrut. Labor Pal-
estine will not fail them.
Campaign headquarters is at 9141 Lin-
wood avenue. Sam Rabinowitz is the inde-
fatigable and self-sacrificing director.
The British cabinet's decision to turn over
the Palestine issue to the United Nations is
a victory for the Zionist forces of militancy
and the philosophy of Rabbi Silver and is a
vindication of the vote at Basle to boycott
the London conference.
Had Dr. Weizmann's program of modera-
tion won at the Congress, Jews, Arabs and
British would today still be wrangling and
counter-proposing at a conference that would
have dragged on interminably and, in the
end, accomplished no more than did the
abortive Arab-British talks of the past three
weeks. Britain would not then have con-
sidered itself beaten and the issue would
have been put off to be fought over at
another day.
Foreign Secretary Bevin has now taken
his last recourse. No one was foolish enough
to believe that Britain was going to com-
promise either with the Arabs or the Jews.
Bevin's plan for settlement was projected
only to circumvent the charge that he had
no plan at all.
His proposals were preposterous. He
may have reasoned that because some
deluded Jewish leaders are willing to
accept any kind of terms in exchange
for 100,000 entry permits that the
Agency might agree to the , freezing of
the Yishuv as an eternal minority and
accept a cantonal scheme that would
squeeze the Jews into a couple of dozen
non-contiguous ghettos and thus doom
the idea of a Jewish State for all time.
The categorical rejection of this farcical
proposal' by both Jews and Arabs saves
face for the British. They can now shrug
their shoulders and say: "We have made
every attempt to conciliate and compromise
with two irreconcilable parties. We have
acted in good faith, as you can well see,
and we have been rebuffed. It is now up
to you."
If the United Nations acts promptlY, and
the United States must lead the demand for
' speedy action, there can be little doubt that
the Jewish plea will be heard and approved.
The UN is not Britain. Appeals to justice
and humanity which the British flouted
can be expected to influence the UN diplo-
mats. What is more important, the UN is
an assembly with a legal basis, made up
primarily of statesmen and lawyers whose
natural inclination is to respect international
law and commitments.
As the heir to the League of Nations,
UN will perforce have to recognize the
League's Mandate for Palestine, which Brit-
ain has ignored, as decisive in reaching
their judgment. Nowhere else is there a
clearer definition of Jewish rights to a Pal-
estine Homeland.
It is true that the UN may confirm Brit-
ain as the holders of the Mandate but it
will take on itself controls powerful enough
to bring Britain to task for derelictions.
Syria, Iraq Egypt and the other Arab
states will be a bloc to contend with in the
discussions, but there will be sincere spokes-
men for the Jews in Assembly and Security
Council, too. If international law and honor
are not again to be disavowed and humanity
rebuffed, if the United Nations is to prove
itself worthy of the world's faith, it can be
counted on to atone for 20 centuries of
misdeeds and for a quarter of a century
of broken promises by a state in whom the
nations had put their trust.
The Visiting Editor
A New AJCommittee Trend
Yewish Periodical
Letters to the Editor 1
DECRIES BRUTALITY
Dear Editor:
The pictures in the Detroit
Free Press of Feb. 15, showing
British troops manhandling ref-
ugees brought heartache and
sadness to me as it should to
every red-blooded Jew everywhere.
The answer now must be boycott
Britain and help the Jews of Pal-
estine!
3. E. B.
announcing and poularizing our
donor luncheon March 18.
LILLIE HOCHBERG
American Haven Club
LEO FINK SOUGHT
Dear Editor:
I received a latter from a Mrs.
Helena Funk, of Poland, asking
me to try to locate a Leo Fink,
originally Leo Finkelhaus of Pol-
and, who may now be residing
in Detroit.
•
If your readers have any news
of this man, please contact me.
YOU'RE WELCOME
MRS. GEORGE H. BERMONT,
Dear Editor:
47 Sickles street,
Thanks a lot for the excellent
New York 34, N.Y.
cooperation you have given us in
•
Superman Gives
Bigotry the Boot
The film is based on Laura .Hob-
(Continued from page 3)
Jewish hero of the War of 1812, son's unpublished novel in which
who fought side-by-side with An- the hero, a newspaper man as-
drew Jackson at the Battle of signed to investigate anti-Semit-
ism, does so by posing as a Jew.
N ew Orleans.
Here's a story almost as old as
New York Times' owner Art-
hur Hays Sulzberger's recent Hollywood: (this time the cast of
statement that the Biitish were characters consists of Arthur Mil-
justified in their occupation tact- ler, the author of "Focus" and of
ics brought this reply from one the new Broadway smash-hit "All
Zionist leader, "Why should he My Sons," and Warner Brothers).
worry? Ills national homeland It seems that Warner Brothers*
had Miller under contract a few
is in Wall Street."
The Zionist Review is running years ago—couldn't use him. Now
they're waving six figure contracts
a crossword puzzle in Hebrew.
Charles Luckman, 37 year-old under his nose . . .
Two members of Hashomer Ha-
president of Lever Brothers Inc.
(they make soap) is rumored as tzair, leftist Zionist youth move-
a candidate for the United States ment, have been arrested by Phila-
Chamber of Commerce chairman- delphia police . . . The would-be
chalutzim were distributing anti-
ship.
Moss Hart will do the screen terrorist" leaflets in front of the
version of "Gentleman's Agree- theater where Ben Hecht's "Flag
ment" for Twentieth Century Fox. Is Born" was playing . . .
Confiding in Others Good for Soul
(Continued from page 3)
in an outsider. That should dem-
onstrate to you, in part, that
your child is maturing, is cast-
ing off his dependency upon
you.
It demonstrates his capacity to
find himself with outsiders. This
he will need to do when he is
fully grown.
It should assure you that he
values himself in the light of
someone not close to himself. The
parent's job is to see that this
type of mental medicine Is avail-
able to his child from the proper
sources.
During the war years, the American Jew-
ish Committee seemed to be undergoing a
transformation which brought it closer both
to Jewish Palestine as the solution of the
roblems of European Jewry and to the
dea of Jewish peoplehood in general. Two
ade by important
recently
statementss
y
spokesmen of the American Jewish Com-
mittee point to a new trend in the thinking
Events as compiled from the files of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle
of that organization.
On Jan. 9, Max Gottschalk, director of
25 Years Ago
the foreign affairs department of the Com-
For the first time in history of Pisgah Lodge No. 34, ladles will
mittee, stated that many European Jews be permitted to attend an initiation of officers.
Morris Kirsch is coach of the United Hebrew Schools play, "Sam-
"must adjust themselves to remaining where
they are and of reestablishing themselves son and Delilah," to be presented March 5 at Orchestra Hall.
economically and psychologically."
20 Years Ago
In order to bolster his point, Dr. Gotts-
American Jewish Congress meeting in Washington, D. C. hears
chalk also declared that "Poland is the only the Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown condemn Romania's mistreatment
place on the continent where anti-Semitism of Jews.
Elsa Adele Freeman is chairman of the masquerade ball of the
is really a menace."
Young People's Club of Temple Beth El.
• This statement was published in the New
10 Years Ago
York Times of Jan. 10. The statement was
Vladimir Jabotinsky demands that England yield Palestine man-
given the lie in the same newspaper the date; asks liquidation of Jewish Agency as being unrepresentative.
next day by Ira I. Hirschmann, who de-
Ilya Schkolnick, violinist, and Mischa Kottler, pianist, to be guest
clared on the authority of a high American artists at donor luncheon of Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish National
army official that he "wouldn't give a plug- Fund.
ged nickel" for the life of a Jew in Austria
5 Years Ago
when the American forces withdraw. As
Dr. Chaim Weizmann's son is missing on Royal Air Force mission.
Oscar Levant to play at Allied Music Festival Feb. 24 at Masonic
to Hungary and Romania, there are author-
itative statements by other observers to Temple.
the effect that there would be little guar-
This Is American Brotherhood
antee for Jewish safety in those countries
today if the Russian occupation army sud-
denly decided to leave.
Dr. Gottschalk could have discovered the
same facts had he wanted to. But he is
evidently set on following a policy which
seeks to discourage Jewish hopes of large-
scale immigration to Palestine . . . What
is apparent is the new "party line" of the
AJCommittee which evidently seeks to gloss
over the stark reality of the Jewish situ-
ation in Europe.
An equally significant revelation of the
new thinking of the American Jewish Com-
mittee was made by its executive vice-
chairman, Dr. John Slawson, at the St.
Louis conference at which the Committee
and the Bnai Brith asked for and received
a commitment for a six million dollar budget
for their Joint Defense Appeal. Mr. Slawson,
according to the Jewish Post, declared that
the committee is opposed to the concept of
Histadrut Merits Backing
Jews as a world nationality and urged "the
Among the true builders of the Home- full integration of the U. S. Jews." The Jews
land, the men at the plow, the forge and as citizens of the United States, he said,
the lathe, those in Histadrut will be found do not share nationality with Jews in any
among the most devoted, the most industri- other lands.
These statements by Dr. Gottschalk and
ous and the bravest.
Slawson
seem to indicate that the Ameri-
Labor Palestine has played a paramount
role in the miracle of rebuilding. In agri- can Jewish Committee,—or some of its lead-
culture and industry, by founding new set- ers—is again moving towards the Jewish
tlements, reclaiming the swamps and in- isolationism which, for a time, it gave prom-
vigc rating the cities, IIistadrut has ever ise of abandoning .. .
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been in the forefront, bringing to realization
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