DETkoiT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday, April 11, 1947

Strictly Confidential

British Anti-Semitism
Tied Anew to Mosley

Palestine's Youth
Plays Ball

Page Three

Personal Problems

Better to Have Home
in a Jewish Section

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By EDWARD BRAND

ALESTINE WILL BE in the
P news
for a different reason

That Is How Parents Will Be Able
to Avoid Difficulties Over 'Dates'

this spring. It will be a major
sports event here, when the all-
star Hapoel Soccer' Team—cham-
pion of Palestine—criss-crosses the
country in a goodwill tour that
will match the Palestinians against
selected American soccer groups.
By DR. W. A. GOLDBERG
By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
The first game comes off at A N OLD SCHOOLMATE of mine stopped me on the street with this
NOBODY DENIES that anti-Semitism is on the increase in Eng- Yankee Stadium on May 4. They
problem. Her nusband is in business in an outlying section. The
land. Some observers wrongly interpret ' this growth as the result are due in Detroit June 1.
business, I presume, is a source of a comfortable income. A few Jews
of the terrorist activities of the Irgun in Palestine. Those who follow
The Hapoel boys should make live in their neighborhood but not many. Their home, I presume, is
British politics seriously know that it is due to the alarming rebirth a good showing. They're top-notch more than usually attractive. But the area is predominantly Protestant.
of fascist activities in England.
athletes in a country of sports The family gets along well with its neighbors.
Fascism in England is experiencing a respectable renaissance. enthusiasts. Jewish Palestine with
The children are growing up.
Mosley is very much in demand
its youthful population-50 percent They are sent to the congrega- for later marriage. They wanted
by the most exclusive hostesses post-graduate college students for are between 30 and 40—goes in tion of the parents' affiliation for their children An meet enough
Jewish children to be able to se-
of the English aristocracy. Yet one year's study at the American for athletics with vim and vigor. Sunday School
lect a husband or a wife. They
the weekly of University—Washington, D.C. The
Of the three sports organiza- and all other
grant
is
for
quite
a,
number
of
also wanted the pattern estab-
the American
tions,
Hapoel
is
the
largest
with
religious
activi-
lished that Jews marry only Jews.
Jewish Con- years . . .
a membership of 12,000. It's the ties.
ATTENTION
PUBLISHERS
• •
gress published
national
physical
culture
and
aid
"But,"
s
E.
FRANKL
is
a
Vien-
RELIGION A BAR
an article last 'VICTOR
sports
association
of
Histadrut,
we
the
mother,
nese psychiatrist who spent
IT IS WELL-KNOWN that chil-
month which
general federation of Jewish Pal- might as well
dren of all religions, all colors,
states: 'There two years in the Nazi torture estinian labor.
live 100 miles
camps
at
Auschwitz.
The
Experi-
• • a
all economic groups play together
are few Fasc-
away
since
the
Psychiatrist
in
a
Con-
well, up to a point in time.
ists in Britain, ences of a
NATIONAL GAME
children have
But when boys and girls are
but many anti- centration Camp" is the absorbing
few Jewish
SPORTS
are
popular
in
story
of
•s•iat
he
saw
happen
to
MANY
old enough to go on dates, each
Semites." Have
playmates.
the
minds
of
the
men
with
whom
Palestine
but
none
can
compete
family exerts pressure. Gentile
we learned
"Am I going
with soccer for the interest it
he suffered.
girls are discouraged from dating
nothing?
Dr. Goldberg
P. K. Biron
Clinical incisiveness is combined arouses. As in continental Europe to be forced to
Congress Weekly surely should with deep sympathy and under- and England, soccer is Palestine's move into a predominately Jewish Jewish boys and vice versa. Par-
know that anti-Semites must be standing in this unusual book. It's national game. Crowds stand in neighborhood (which she doesn't ents demand that ther children
classified in the political category been published in German, but line for hours to get tickets for like)? Am I to change their form friendships within their own
school and playmates and make groups. Eventually, they marry
of fascist . . .
not yet in English. Alert publish- the big games.
within those limits.
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ers can contact the author at
In Tel Aviv, city of 250,000, the them go through a major re-ad-
All known studies of marriage
POT POURRI
game thaws crowds of 25,000 spec- justment?" • • •
103 Park avenue, N. Y. C.
reveal that a husband or wife is
Edward G. Robinson,- who made tators, who follow the action with
COALS TO NEWCASTLE Dept.:
chosen from among the people in
OWN PROBLEM
A young woman named Marcy his fame in films as public enemy all the enthusiasm of baseball or TIER
KNOWING THE background of the immediate neighborhood, the
Jacobson opened a record stand in number one, will play a beat- football fans here.
place of work, the same congre-
The boys are genuine Pales- " this friend, I pointed out the gation, the same school.
the lobby of Carnegie Hall, tit pounding member of "New York's
tinian products. The 18 young parallel in her own life. Her own
New York, last November. The Finest" in his next film.
Propinquity plays a terrific part
Groucho Marx will guest star Ilapoel players, who were picked family lived in a distant small in circumscribing the choice. Very
stand has done so well that she
plans to open another near the on a couple of Bing Crosby shows from Hapoel's top teams, are town. The community had less few people go outside these usual
dress circle to catch the balcony soon. Frank Sinatra may be Peg- part-time athletes. They work as than 15 Jewish families. Their sources of contact with the other
crowd that doesn't go through the lerized soon. Westbrook likes to mechanics, craftsmen, agricul- only contact with formal religion sex.
smear people who fight bigotry tural workers, and train twice was on the High Holy Days.
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lobby.
Fred Brainin, a successful Vien- and discrimination as Frank does. a week after their regular jobs. When the oldest child was 14, PARENTS MUST YIELD
the
business
was
sold
and
they
all
Charlie Chaplin's new film, They have received special leave
nese poet before 1938 and nephew
rrHE ANSWER SEEMS clear:
of the late great author Reuben "Monsieur Verdoux—A Comedy of from their employers to make came to the city.
I My friend will be forced to
The
reasons
were
obvious:
As
Brainin, won a prize in the New Murders," is the best he's done the tour.
move into a Jewish neighborhood.
Eleven of the 18 were born in Jews, the parents wished both the She and her husband will travel
Republic's short story contest for yet, according to a friend who
a tale entitled The Eisenhower saw a private showing. Which the country, while most of the girls and the boys to have Jew- across the city to their business.
Jacket." A World War II vet, means it is so good that critics others came there as small chil- ish friends, to get a closer view By moving their home, they will
Fred has been happpy to learn will invent new adjectives . . . dren. Average age of the players of Jews and Jewish life, to ab- place the children in a Jewish at-
Johnny Garfield slated for the is 24, and only three are married. sorb it from within their own mosphere, right with other Jew-
that recently some of his poems
group instead of from the outside.
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were read over the air in Vienna... lead in "Moonrise," a hard-hitting
Her parents had seen the pat- ish children.
Dr. Maurice Hochschild, Bolivi- film about lynch-terror in the 7 ARE VETERANS
In the long run, their children
terh of small towns, with its
an tin magnate, believes in cul- South . . .
DURING THE WAR seven of frequent inter-marriage and the will remain Jews, marry Jews and
Is Milton Be•le's new air show the boys served with the British
tural inter-relations between Latin
raise their children as Jews. The
America and the USA. So he has suffering from backstage squab- forces, and several of these were easy acceptance, by Jews too, of parhts will make this sacrifice
intermarriage and of Gentile ways.
established the Hochschild Fellow- bling?
star players on British army
Her parents knew that child- as their contribution toward the
Jack Warner finally has "Life soccer teams. Back in civilian
ship Which provides enough funds
hood
friendships paved the way perpetuation of Judaism.
to cover tuition fees and living With Father" ready for the life, they found themselves fre-
expenses for three Latin American public .. . .
nuently matched against British
Army soccer teams while playing
with the Hapoel.
Until recently games between
Palestine Jewish soccer groups
and British army groups were a
regular occurrence. Only a few
weeks ago, the all-star team corn-
ing here played a British army
team before 6,000 spectators at a
Palestine army base. The British
were defeated 4 to 1.
Although soccer is the most
popular game in Palestine, Ha-
poel members, men, women and
children in 120 branches through-
out the country, engage in many
sports. They play basketball and
volley ball particularly in the col-
By ALFRED SEGAL
lective settlements, because those
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
games don't demand many players FROM DES MOINES, Ia., I have a report on the brethren there
problem
of
what
to
do
about
Greece
and
WASHINGTON—The
getting together to behave in a way really becoming to brothers.
on a side. They engage in gym-
VT Turkey continues to be the biggest story coming out of Wash- nastics, track and field activities, Anyway that one night they got together before God and acknowl-
ington. Palestine, as everyone knew it would, has slowly but surely swimming, rowing, sailing, boxing edged themselves to be all God's children, and what's all the back-
crept into the discussions of the proposed program of aid to the two and other sports as well.
biting about?
Balkan countries.
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Yes, even only for a night it's all right for the brethren to be
were
made
to
Palestine
when
the
At first, only vague references
brotherly. If they see how lovely got together for religion in the
SWIMMING POPULAR
question was raised as to whether
IS FAST coming it is they might get around even- Jewish temple in Des Moines, the
aid to Greece and Turkey would public it appeared that there had up SWIMMING
to soccer in popularity among tually even to a day of being rabbi and the Christian minister
been
a
number
of
questions
raised
not set a policy of taking up other
and small wonder brotherly, or a
didn't just recite their own favor-
British commitments throughout in congressional circles, seeking Palestinians,
with the country's intense heat. week, but that's
to
determine
the
relationship
of
ite ritual words, each his own.
the Middle East.
a
long
time
for
They read from the Mohamme-
Republican Congressman George Palestine to the Greek-Turkish Hapoel has 25 swimming pools, the brethren to
most of which are located in set-
dans, the Buddhists, the Taoists
Bender of Ohio asked the question crisis.
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tlements, where irrigation water respect each
and the Zoroastrians, too.
in three speeches to the House
other,
the
hu-
is
held
in
swimming
pools
during
It happened in Temple Bnai
within a week. He also wondered COST TO BRITAIN
man race being
Jeshurun where the Jews had as
HOSE WHO WANTED to the day and run out into the fields what it is.
whether the British should not
their guests the congregation of
know 'how much it had cost at night. The yearly swimming
give us an equal voice in ad-
The brotherly
the Des Moines Plymouth Con-
ministering Palestine and permit for the British to maintain mili- race across the nine miles of doings in Des
gregational Church. It was broth-
the entry of 100,000 Jews if they tary operations in Palestine might Lake Tiberias, which has been Moines suggest
erhood evening in memory of Dr.
have been thinking back to a held by Hapocl since 1943, is a exceptional in-
seek our assistance in Greece.
Al
Segal
Stoddard Lane who was the broth-
On another day he wondered statement by British Minister of great national event.
telligence
among
In 1946, Miriam Feiner, mother
erly minister of the church until
whether their pulling out of Defense Alexander that it had
these particular brothers. They his death several years ago.
of
two
and
a
member
of
the
Da-
Greece meant that that country cost $222,400,000 to keep British
were Christians and Jews and
gania
settlement,
set
a
record
of
Rabbi Martin Weitz and Dr.
was "not Important to them," and troops in the Holy Land for some
they hadn't met just to tell each
whether the British were less in- 18 months. The sum was about three hours and 15 minutes to win other they were all right and to Fred Hoskins, the Congregation-
alists' minister, stood side by side
terested in the "battle against half that spent in Greece--a the race.
Part of the proceeds of the Ha- pet each other on the back.
the Jewish pulpit and alter-
Communism" in Greece than they country three times as big as
They were willing to say the in
peel
Good-Will
Soccer
Tour,
which
nately read formulas for brother-
were in "the battle against the Palestine—during the same period.
other
guy
was
all
right
too.
That
Democratic Senators Pepper of is sponsored by the Jewish Na- is to say, the other guy may be hood as given by the several great
Jewish people In Palestine."
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Florida and Taylcr of Idaho in- tional Workers Alliance in co- a Mohammedan, a Buddhist, a Zo- faiths.
Dr. Hoskins: What (loth the
troduced a resolution calling upon operation with other labor or- roastrian or a Taoist but he has
BARKLEY PLANS VISIT
ENATOR ALBEN BARKLEY Congress to request an immedi- ganizations, will go toward the something to contribute too. He Lord require of thee? . • . To
building of a huge new sports
said that while he was in ate emereency session of the Gen- arena in Tel Aviv. It will be called is a foreigner and doesn't speak speak justly, to love mercy, to
Cairo in April representing the eral Assembly to consider the the Dov Hos Memorial Stadium, English and has odd ways of liv- walk humbly with thy God ...
American membership of the In- Greek crisis and other "situations after a founder of Hapoel and ing, but he calls the same God Love the Lord thy God . and
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ter-Parliamentary Union, he would in the Near and Middle East leader of the Histadrut, and will his Father, and that puts him in thy neighbor as thyself. (This
Jewish.)
take a side trip to Palestine, areas which are endangering the hold 18,000 people.
the family.
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Greece and Turkey, because he peace."
s
Sports-loving Palestinians are
CIIRISTIAN TEACHING
These, the resolution stated, in-
wanted to get a "bird's-eye view"
already looking forward to the
%SMITH: God is love and
of the situation in those countries. cluded "armed conflicts in Greece new stadium, which will make 2 OCCUPY PULPIT
this commandment have vat
And when the list of questions and Palestine." All these problems possible more and bigger sports Q0 WHEN ON A recent Friday
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submitted to the Senate Foreign were Interrelated," it pointed events.
:fea ■
" evening Christiana
Relations Committee was made out.

Aristocrats Foster Fascist Rebirth;
Link to Palestine Extremists Denied

Plain Talk

Capital Letter

Greek Issue Linked
to Eretz in Congress

Speeches in Both House and Senate
Reveal Doubts on Britain's Policy

Christians, Jews Join
to Hail All Religions

Brotherhood of Man Is the Basis
of Every Faith, Congregation Learns

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