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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Friday. May 30. 1941

Strictly Confidential

Gromyko 'Confirms'
Zionist Sympathies

Stalin Reportedly Wants Nations
to Solve Palestine Problem Justly

Shertok - The Man
With a Dream

By DAVID I). SPIGLER

WHEN PALESTINE was still
under Turkish rule in 1913, a
young Jewish visionary who
dreamed of a Jewish Homeland in
the Holy Land turned his steps
toward Constantinople as the city
from which to begin the pursuit
of his dream.
In 1920, after World War I and
Turkey's defeat, lie journeyed to
London seeking the same goal.
Today Moshe Shertok„ head of
the political department of the
Jewish Agency, is in Washington
on a special mission, which actu-
ally has the same goal as that of
the young student of 1913.
Many aspects of Shertok's early
dream have already been realized
but he and his colleagues in the
Jewish Agency are still fighting
for the unhampered right of de-
velopment for the Jewish Home-
land. This, they believe can only
be guaranteed through the estab-
lishment ()la Jewish state in Pal-
estine.

By PIIINEAS .1. antoN
HE IMPORTANT declaration by Soviet representative Gromyko
on Palestine at the UN special session has taken many Zionist
leaders and journalists by surprise .. .
Gromyko, in a way, confirms the report that Stalin, in numerous
private conversations, has expressed himself in favor of a just solution
of the Jewish problem in Palestine ... When Prof. Solomon alichoels,
the Soviet Jewish leader, was here
a few years ago he told Dr. Weis- Per cent answered condemning
ti-Semitism.
mane that the Soviet Union is in an Rep
lies came from all sections
no way opposed
to a Jew s h of the country. urban as well as
state . . . And rural. This is some record, and
the late Reuben the Protestant church can righPy
Brainin almost be proud of this amazing result.
twenty years Is there organized anti-Semitism
ago maintained in education, in industry, in police
in Congress and in some
that Stalin's forces,
churches? You will find an an-
govern in e n t swer to this question in Bucklin
would stand by Moon's "The High Cost of Preju-
the Zionists dice," just out . . * •
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when the sti-
REAL CHRISTIANITY
preme crisis THE OTHER DAY we met Jo-
r. J. Blron
would come . .
sephine Bush-Smith, a collat-
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eral descendant of Napoleon Bona-
BIAS CONDEMNED
parte, who lives near a small tows
S EV ERAL, MEMBERS of the in Connecticut. Josephine believes
congressional committee on un- in American democracy, and is
American activities are determined launching a movement which we
to use the Hollywood probe for consider unique. Josephine wants
anti-Semitic purposes . . .
all childless couples who own
We came across an Interesting houses to bequeathe them to poor
Item in "The Committee Re- European refugees who find their
porter" of the American Jewish way to this country.
Committee . . • It seems that over
"That would be a way %f aton-
95.7 per cent of this country's ing for the wrongs done to Jews
8,000,000 - Methodists are opposed by so many Christians under Hit-
to anti-Semitism according to so- ler," she explains .
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ciologist Murray H. Leiffer' .. .
The bureau of social research at THINGS TO KNOW
Northwestern University made a NTLADIMIR JABOTINSKY fought
survey which took two years to
the Jewish Agency for many
complete. To the question: "How
acceptable will a minister be in years. But a few months ago the
your church if he is outspoken Jewish Agency helped to estab-
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against the Jews as a class?" 95.7

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Capital Letter

Personal Problems

Memorial Day Brings
Consolation and Faith

Visit to Cemetery Will Inspire One
to Live the Good Life of Those Gone

By DM w: A. GOLDBERG
PERSON'S guidance and inspiration may conic from the living
and from the dead. At least once yearly, when living outside this
city, I Arne back to see my' people. But I also made a special visit,
alone. my inspirational visit.
For 30 or more minutes, my thoughts Belonged to my Fattier,
Mother and 4rother lying these years in the quiet green spot before
me. This was my Temrile, a bit
of the cemetery. The congrega- working , and gentle man, was at
tion was small, just the four of us. work by four in the morning pr
was away for his health. So
I needed no
Mother. reluctant to leave her
throngs. There
family for primitive surroundings,
I repeated the
managed the store, the property
appropria t e
and the children.
prayers, the tra-
Fair she was with all the chit- ,
ditional and ex-
dren. Every child received an
ternporaneo u s
identical gift for graduation, con-
ones.
firmation and birthdays.
The quiet is
She believed ardently in educa-
restful.
I
can
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tion and gave each child the un-
he alone with
limited opportunity for education,
BORN IN UKRAINE
these loved
that is, for serious attention to
SHERTOK, who has suffered ones. I can
education. Were she alive today,
imprisonment in search of his throw off life's Dr. Goldberg
she would have honest pride In
goal, was born in the Ukraine in non-essentials and concentrate on her children's accomplishments. '
the city of Khersoq in 1895. He realities. I can ask: What is my
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was instilled with a love for Zion direction? Where lies my goal': SYMBOLISM OF DAY
Where
is
my
life
and
my
Maker
at an early age, for his father had
THIS YEAR. Memorial Day car-
been a member of the Mu, the and my fellowmen?
ries a more personal meaning
Here I can think as I wish,
first modern Zionist pioneer group
in 1882, and had worked in Pales- without the confusion of crowds. for thousands of Americans. This
tine as an agricultural laborer be- Tears flow naturally and quietly. year, many more people have a
fore returning to the Ukraine to Not hysterical tears, disturbing personal grief to symbolize. The
the peacefulness of this resting loss of immediate family members
be married.
In 1906, after 'a new wave of place. No, these are tears of self- is here for far too many. Grief Is
.pogroms, the Shertok family appraisal, of renewed kinship and personal and cannot be shared.
For the youth who died in this
moved to Palestine and settled in of resolution to go forward.
war, all is serene. No mortal act
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the Arab village of Samaria, where
can restore them to life. There Is
young Moshe learned much of the
CLOSE TO MOTHER
a finality to death. Words, acts
Arab way of life.
Three years later the family HERE I CAN COMMUNE with are meaningless to them.
With my family, I go to com-
my mother as I can with no
moved to Achuzath Baith, a sub-
urb in the outskirts of Jaffa which one else. Circumstances and her mune with my people, dead these
later developed into the great all- personality brought Mother closer years. I go to renew the prom-
to me than any one else in the ises a frail human forgot or failed
Jewish city of Tel-Avi".
to carry out.
Moshe became one of the first family.
I ani tied to a past which knew
Brother, being older, lived in an-
students at the recently estab-
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lished Herzaliah secondary school other generation. Dad, a hard-
and he was a member of its first
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graduating class in 1913.

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EACH

Plain Talk

GOES TO UNIVERSITY
WITH PALESTINE under Turk-
ish rule at this time, the young
people who were beginning to
think of a revived Jewish Home-
land, including Shertok, David Ben
Gurion and Isaac Ben Zvi, decided
to work' for the realization of
their dream within the Ottoman
Empire. Thus Shertok journeyed
to Constantinople to enter uni-
versity, and to pursue his dream.
When World War I broke out •
Shertok was in Jaffa on vacation.
Unable to return to Constanti-
nople to resume his studies, he
By ALFRED SEGAL
By WILL SHERMAN
became an instructor in the Turk-
GUESS NELSON GLUECK would rather have kept on digging
ish
language
in
Herzaliah.
At
I
It
would
be
much
easier
for
the
State
Department
WASHINGTON -
around in the Palestine earth, which had been speaking very
' if Bartley Crum, champion of a sane Palestine policy, were not this time he met his wife, Zip.
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plainly to him these many years like a well-beloved old grandfather
such a good Catholic. The trouble is that Crum's personal life and porah, then his pupil.
At 21 he was called up to serve telling stories. Like a bright grandchild, Nelson Glueck was an in-
associations are quite irreproachable-and thus even the sly smear
attempts members of the State Department's Near East division have with the Turkish army and when quiring listener to the earth of Palestine speaking lovingly to him.
It has been a wonderful life for Nelson Glueck to be able to get
Britain occupied Palestine and
tried with correspondents in Washington have failed.
Syria, he was stationed at Allepo. away from it all and live amid College, to which office he has just
But, stung by Crum's honesty on persuasion. The correspondents, When the Turks were ordered to
the Palestine double-dealing, the many of whom were obviously retreat Shertok deserted and went the ancient dust and trace the been elected.
This job has to do with the most
footprints of the prophets and let
only vaguely familiar with what over to the British.
career boys are not giving up.
modern manifestation of Judaism --
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the river Jordan
fast month a friend called Crum was going on, felt that the
the
training of Rabbis for Reform
the St. luncheon had been worth while. GIVEN POST IN ZION
Clow between his
at his New York hotel -the
temples, and maybe Nelson Glueck
Silver spoke of the continuing
toes.
Regis. The operator asked him to
UPON HIS RETURN to Pales-
finally accepted the place because
The privilege
hold on a moment, turned to an betrayal of the Jewish aspirations tine Shertok was given the post
of the hope of raising up sonic new
operator sitting next to her and for Palestine and especially of of secretary of the Arab depart- of being like a
prophets in Israel. There hadn't
asked, quite audibly to Crum's the need for a haven for Jewish ment of the Zionist Commission, b o y listening
been any for a long time.
friend, '"Here's a call for Mr. DPs left in Europe.
the Jewish Agency's predecesor. every day,
He had been at first reluctant to
Crum. How do we handle it?
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But in 1920 he left this job and through the
take the presidency of the Hebrew
years, to grand-
went to London.
"Oh. Daisy listens in on that," STANDS HIS iiROUNI)
Union College. It meant giving up
Here he resumed his studies pa's never - end-
the reply came.
the articulate earth of Palestine,
ing stories had
SPEECH
was
effective,
but
and
continued
his
work
for
the
HIS
More than one client of Crum's
except for occasional nostalgic
a Zionist cause with but one inter- kept him young
it
was
the
questioning
of
San Fiancisco law firm has re-
visits that he might make. It
despite his 47
ported that he has been inter- young British lady which fixed the ruption (he returned to Palestine years; his eyes
might mean putting on the frock-
Al Segal
viewed, and the idea skillfully im- entire controversy In the minds of to aid in combatting the Arab still were wide with wonderment. coated pomposities of scholarship
riots
of
1921)
until
1921,
when
he
most
of
those
present.
Just
about
planted that he ought to find an-
and Nelson Glueck's simple, boyish
as the guests were preparing to graduated from the London School
His trade was that of archaeolo- heart could feel more comfortable
other lawyer.
push hack their chairs, Miss Su- of Ecohomics.
gist
but
that
suggests
a
mortician
the shorts he wore at the Pahl-
But Crum Is not likely to end up san Strange of the London Sun-
Returning again to Palestine, in reverse and Nelson Glueck was in
tine diggings.
as a martyr.
Shertok
became
an
editor
of
De-
day
Observer
asked.
in
clipped
just
a
dusty
digger
anything
but
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tones. "Rabbi Silver. among the ver. the Histadrut Hebrew family. at the graves of civilizations.
many misleading things you have During the next six years he
DR. SILVER SPEAKS
He breathed life into the Pal- A HUMAN BEING
wrote, lectured and worked in the
WASHING'T'ON has been be- said--"
estine dust and made it live again I RECALL AN INCIDENT at
wildered as well as upset by
She then proceeded to question building of Jewish Palestine.
private dinner table. People
In 1931, when Labor Zionism and in his several books, the dead
the strange position its represen- him about his assertion that the
walk sprightly again in the old were sitting around waiting for
tatives have taken at Lake Suc- British had made it clear they won the election to the World scenes restored by his creative profundities out of the mouth of
cess. Until a few hours before would not be bound by any de- Zionist Congress, Shertok emerged mind and heart. Out of the time- Nelson Glueck, the great archaeol-
our official opposition to the ap- cisions reached at Lake Success. as one of the national leaders of less dust he dug 1,000 communities ogist. The conversation had been
pearance of the Jewish Agency on Silver stood his ground firmly the Palestine Yishuv as political of Biblical Palestine and gave their embarrassed by the presence of an
the A-sembly floor became known as she became more and more secretary to Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff, story to the new world. He had archaeologist and everybody was
head of the political department become most famous among arch-
officially, usually reliable inform- angry.
hoping that Glueck would toss out
of the Jewish agency. When the
ants were telling newsmen the
The issue of the argument was latter was assassinated two years aeologists.
something archaeological to break
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United States would have to sup- unimportant. except that it was
the ice. Instead he did some tricks
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later, Shertok was elected to suc-
port the Jewish Agency.
something so recent in origin that ceed him and became one of the
with a napkin and pleased every-
luncheon
SEMINARY
PRESIDENT
a
most correspondents in the room world leaders of the Zionist move-
Well timed was
body with the discovery that arch-
called for May 5 by the Zionist were certain that Silver was
BUT NOW NELSON GLUECK, aeologists may be people.
Organization of America for a right in his statement. More than ment.
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In Cincinnati nearly everybody
after the years of wandering
group of about 60 Washington cor- that they were amazed at the tone OFTEN ATTACKED
among the ancients of Palestine, had felt that Nelson Glueck should
of Miss Strange's questioning. For
respondents.
AS "FOREIGN SECRETARY" has settled down to modern living he the new president of the He-
Rabbi Abha Hlllel Silver spoke many, it was the Arst real instance for Jewish Palestine, Shertok has in his native city, Cincinnati, to he brew Union College ever since the
of
British
feeling
in
the
Palestine
the
entire
Palestine
question
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on
the president of the Hebrew Union
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ts, ,..Yrith his usual eloquence and affair.

State Dept. Finds Out
It Can't Smear Crum

Career Boys' Attempts to Discolor
His Personal Life End in Failure

Glueck Made Poetry
of Palestine's Soil

New Head of Hebrew Union College
Gave History Life With His Digging

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