Friday, Angusi t
DETROIT
Strictly Confidential
Irgun Grooms Beigin
as Yishuv's Leader
Launches All-out Drive for Power
in Plan to Supplant Jewish Agency
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
THE IRGUN IN PALESTINE is making an all-out drive for po-
litical power.
Menahem Beigin, commander of the Irgun, whose authority
and power over that organization are absolute, is being built up
as the leader of the Yishuv in Palestine.
When Henry Montor, executive 'vice chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal; warned the delegates at the Zionist convention, a
few weeks ago, that it is the ul-
timate aim of the Irgun to sup- approves of an intensive anti-
plant the Jewish Agency and to Semitic drive in the Argentine.
do so by a military coup, he was
Observers who have just re-
jeered by the turned from Buenos Aires are
Irgun support- extremely worried. They report
porters at the that a number of anti-Semitic
convention.
groups are preparing anti-Jew-
From relia- ish demonstrations of which the
b 1 e informa- bombing of the chief Synagogue
tion received of Buenos Aires was the first
here, however, item.
it would seem
The tragic aspect of this re-
that Montor newal of anti-Jewish activities
knew what he is to be found in the lethargic
was talking attitude of Argentine labor.
about.
P. J. Wren
which is being sold the idea
It's not so long ago that Peter that Jewish businessmen are
Bergson, leader of the Irgun in their greatest enemies. The
America, was hardly known. He trouble, of course, is that there
studiously kept in the back- are a few unethical Jewish busi-
nessmen who with their sharp
ground.
In those days he once con- practices endanger the entire
fided to us: "Don't worry about Jewish community.
my modesty—when I decide to
During Roosevelt's presidency
give myself publicity I'll do it the Argentine government was
in a big way." And he surely well aware that the president
of the United States was watch-
did.
Today he is one of the best- ing the Jewish situation closely
known figures in Jewish circles, and viewing anti-Jewish ex-
and that's just the beginning
cesses as manifestations of fas-
Yes, Montor knew whereof he cism.
More than once FDR signified
spoke .. .
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his irritation at anti-Semitic
THERE WILL BE no Roose- acts sponsored or condoned by
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velt to stop Peron when he
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Capital Letter
Big Fat Zero Given
Congress on DP Bill
Noblest of 'Women,
Rebecca Gratz
By GLORIA B. ROMAN
‘4IR WALTER SCOTT'S book
"Ivanhoe" has as its heroine
a beautiful and virtuous Jewess,
Rebecca, who belongs, as one
critic stated, to the great woman
of the ages.
By CHARLOTTE WEBER
WASHINGTON—Last week the Senators and Congressmen cocked
Tv an ear for the closing gavel rap. When it finally fell, after
many grinding hours of debate and voting, they gathered their
things, turned the key in the lock and went home to do their
summer's work of cultivating constituents. ' .
If we were handing out repo t cards to the Republican leader-
ship they might look something
American Intentions toward the
like this:
They might get A- for pass- DP's are honorable.
•
Personal Problems
2 Venerable Women
Mold Serene Lives
Despite Age and Loss of Families,
Active Days Drive Off Loneliness
What most people do not know
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
,
is that Rebecca was not some- I SPENT SEVERAL hours with a sweet lady who likes company.
one Sir Walter just imagined.
You would have difficulty guessing her age. I failed to come
but the literary recreation of a within 20 years of the correct age.
famous American Jewess Rebecca
Despite her infirmities, despite loneliness, she is alert and oc-
Gratz.
cupied. She is a living example of the adage that your troubles
Scott was inspired to describe are insignificant when compared to the troubles of other people.
If more people had experience
the Rebecca of "Ivanhoe" after
a dinner conversation he had with the usual troubles of some by phone. She is not a shut-in
with none other than Washington others, their own complaints because her mind is alert and
Irving. Over the teacups Irving would vanish. she is resourceful. Occasionally
she leaves the house, with much
told Scott that he knew a lady
They would
physical difficulty because she
who was like a heroine of the
give thanks to
cannot walk well. These are
Old Testament.
state occasions, for her.
their Maker for
• • •
She was, he said, beautiful of his blessings to
face, pure of heart, and loyal to them.
LIKED BY YOUNG
her people—a Jewess whose
SHE OCCUPIES herself with
This lady
beauty and nobility glorified all
the young people she meets.
came to the
womanhood.
She is their "mother-confessor"
United
States
• • •
and guide. They call her on the
as a married
phone and ask her advice. They
woman. If e r
WOMAN OF WIT, CHARM
come to see her.
children were Dr. Goldberg
SCOTT WAS DAZZLED and married and they remained in
Does she fret and . complain
fascinated. When he completed Europe. They paid several visits becaus_ she cannot walk? Does
the manuscript of "Ivanhoe" he to their father and mother, plan- she feel the loss of the outside,
sent a ✓ copy of it to Irving, ex- ning to come again.
she who is confined to four
pressing the hope that the Re-
The war intervened. Their walls? If she does, which I doubt,
becca of his novel measured up parents hoped to hear from them. you never hear it from her.
to the standards of the real prayed for that one chance that
She has found other things to
Rebecca.
the children had escaped Euro- do. She has made a substitution,
not the ideal situation, to be
Such stories were not uncom- pean terror. But the hand of sure, but a reasonably satisfac-
the
Nazis
was
long
and
n'ow
the
mon of Rebecca Gratz. She in-
tory one.
spired great men to greater ac- children are gone.
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tivity and less talented ones to
LADY
THE
SECOND
READS AND PHONES
higher flights . •
A S 'A SENSIBLE PERSON, she THE SECOND LADY, in some-
Born in Philadelphia, the
knows she cannot bring her '''. what similar situation, lost
daughter of a wealthy merchant, children back. What shall oc- her husband almost 20 years ago.
she was a girl of exceeding cupy her mind? Fortunately, she She has her little white house,
charm and culture, a woman of enjoys reading and has managed always clean within and with-
wit and a hostess of fine social to study the European masters out.
Could you, at eighty-seven, fix
grace.
and American writers also.
the furnace every day, shovel
Also,
she
has
a
telephone
and
When in her teens she already
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she keeps busy with her friends
became mistress of her father's
salon which became a gathering-
place of men of letters, scholars,
statesmen, financiers and fashion- Plain Talk
able society.
High Grades Go to House Members
for Resolutions on Palestine Issue
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Page Three
JEWISH CHRONICLE
ing the bill to permit U.S. par-
ticipation in the International SOME GOOD GRADES
Refugee Organization, and for ON THE PALESTINE question
a group of House Republi-
passing it in substantially its
original form. The minus mark cans headed by Congressmen
they get for delaying action on Jacob K. Javits of New York
it in the House until the July 1 and Robert J. Twyman of Illi-
deadline had overtaken it and nois get A's for two letters to
emergency measures were neces- the t ecretary of State seeking to
sary to make the IRO possible clarify American policy toward
Palestine and for the introduc-
at all.
tion of resolutions outlining
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Congress' willingness to co-
REFUGEES SCORNED
operate in carrying out a solu-
CONGRESS GETS a big fat tion along the lines of our tra-
‘'" zero on the matter of im- ditional American policy sup-
migration, or perhaps a nice E porting the Jewish National
VP for effort to a few members. Home.
To Senate Republicans goes a
In spite of the fact that some
immigration bills were intro- good grade for completing hear-
• duced on the very first day of ings on the Ives-Chavez bill to
the session, Jan. 3, it was six create a permanent Fair Em-
months later that hearings ployment Practices Commission.
Senator Allen J. Ellender, a
opened on the Stratton bill.
Louisiana Democrat, however,
When the hearings were draws a big black mark is de-
closed several days ago no de- portment for his delaying tac-
cision had been made on the tics.
bill. The companion bill in the
House Republicans flunk out
Senate was not introduced until on the FEPC question because
too late to schedule hearings. of their failure to take any ac-
But some effort had been made. tion on the House bill.
In the civil rights department
Through the medium of the
open hearings, U.S. spokesmen, the House gets credit for passing
such as Secretary of State Mar- an anti-poll tax bill, even though
shall, Secretary of War. Patter- little hope can beheld out for
son and Attorney General Clark, its passage by the Senate next
had testified to the fact that session.
•
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LOYAL TO HER RACE '
TRAGEDY STRUCK Rebecca
Gratz when she was in her early
twenties. She fell in love with
a Christian. Although their love
never progressed beyond the
hand-holding stage, she broke it
off quickly.
A devout Jewess, she knew
that of such a relationship noth-
ing but heartbreak could ensue
and therefore she realized it was
better to end it at once.
Although many famous men
afterwards proposed to her, Re-
becca Gratz never forgot her
first and only love. If she could
not marry him, she said, she
would not marry at all. Nor did
she.
She dedicated her life to the
poverty-stricken and other un-
fortunates and became a worker
in charitable and religious
causes. Possessing a wealthy in-
heritance, and never in want
herself, she founded orphanages
and religious schools.
Her popularity exceeded imag-
ination. It is told that when she
alighted from a carriage Sena-
tors and bootblacks rushed to
assist her.
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ALWAYS GRACEFUL
REBECCA GRATZ never lost
her charm and grace; nor her
origin. She died at a ripe old
age, mourned as the foremost
Jewish woman in the United
States and one of the noblest
women in the world.
On the deathbed, her last
words were, "I commit my spirit
to the God who gave it, believ-
ing with a firm faith in the
'religion of my fathers."
Then, she uttered the famous
prayer which Jews have said
immemorially, whether they died
as martys or in peace and tran-
quillity: "Hear, 0 Israel, the
Lord is our God, the Lord is
one."
(♦ World
NOW/
!Puy
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Hotel Clerks Remind
Us We Are Jewish
`Restricted Clientele' Is Password
That Scorns Founders of Moral Law
By ALFRED SEGAL
GENTLEMAN REPORTS on how his vacation has started,
Jewishly speaking. He says he was hoping for a vacation in
which he could put away all the cares of being Jewish, but what
does he get?
With him being Jewish is not just a matter of feeling Jewish
on occasions when, Jewishly, he gets hurt. It's an everyday, all day
adventure with him. Scarcely is
he out of bed when some one tend a dinner preliminary to a
is calling him at home and tell- campaign in behalf of a Jewish
ing him to be
theological school. His wife has
sure to be at
been waiting up for him. She
the meeting '
asks him what he had done
that intends to 4
about her ri*ly found relative
d o something
in Paris.
about the black
That has been the pattern of
Jews of Abys-
Mr. Zilch's daily Jewish life
sinia.
since last summer. So he was
looking forward happily to va-
He is in his
cation time 'and escape: To go
office in the
to distant places, on top of some
very midst of
mountain, or to some sequest-
Al
Segal
making the fall
ered ocean coast, or to hang
trade a stimulating enterprise around serene coast villages
when he gets a summons to rally fragrant of American history.
to the cause of needy Rabbis
He would travel by auto be-
in Europe.
cause in trains he might meet
His wife calls up to report she people and pretty soon he might
has just had a letter from a find himself in an argument
new-found relative, a refugee in about Palestine.
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Paris, and he should send him
some money at once. At 3, Mr. JUST THE PLACE
Zilch has to be at a meeting MR. ZILCH wasn't going to
of the initial gifts committee of
stint himself on this vaca-
the big campaign. The chair- tion. It had been a hard year,
man will make a speech to tell what with all the Jewish mat-
all those present to do some- ters he had had diligently to
thing handsome by the cam- look after, and he was going to
paign.
get as good accommodatians as
He will seem to stare through were to be found. As he liked
and through Mr. Zilch, as if to say, you can't take it with
saying, "And what are yott go- you and you may as well enjoy
ing to do about it. Zilch? I hear it here.
you've had a good year."
The travel agency had exactly
the right places . • • "Hotels
IT'S' 11 P.M. BEFORE he gets within everybody's means," he
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