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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 49, No. 36

Friday, September 5, 1947

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager

CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Manager

Friday, September 5, 1947 (ELUL 20, 5707)

The UN Recommendations

The Palestine committee's recommenda-
tions to the United Nations for the parti-
tioning of Palestine came as an anti-climax
since they long had been a foregone conclu-
sion.
The delineation of the proposed Jewish
and Arab states was, in general, in conform-
ance with expectations, except that most
of the Negev was happily assigned to the
Jewish State and Jaffa, singularly enough,
also allotted to the Jews.
What proved the greatest surprise and,
frankly, a most gratifying one—was the
committee's unmistakable slap in the face
for Britain when it unanimously recom-
Mended her ouster from Palestine "at the
earliest practicable date."
* * *
This means only one thing. The neutral
group of diplomats and lawyers on the com-
mittee admitted that Britain had botched
her'job and had been faithless to her trust.
Otherwise, the committee could not have
been so categorical in its demand for the
Holy Land's liberation from Britain and
would not have made the additional sug-
gestion that the UN supervise the land in
a two year transition period.
' Thus, the world's conscience, at last,
has been aroused and the pleas and accusa-
tions of the Jew vindicated. But there can
be little satisfaction in this triumph, for
the damage Britain has done will not be
rectified by a juridical acknowledgment
of Jewish claims.
Not until Britain makes amends by help-
ing build the new Jewish State when it is
,finally set up and encouraging its industry
And development will Britain even in part
heal the wound it gouged' in Israel's heart
and soul in the last decade or more.
* * *
Britain, we believe, will yield to the UN
Assembly's judgment. She will hedge, to
be sure, and seek to annul the committee's
findings by offering tricky counter-proposals
'that would leave the status quo undisturbed.
But the nations will be on their guard and
Britain will be forced to acquiesce.
The lion's claws have been dulled in re-
cent months; the bully has had his come-
uppance. Britain will not dare to defy the
whole world at this time when she needs
sympathy and support more than ever. She
will accept the Assembly's verdict, we pre-
dict, and proclaim that the UN program
iwas what she had in mind all the time.
The Arabs will fight tooth and nail but
the cards are stacked against them. At
long last, the nations want to do something
about the world problem of the Jew, and
they will start by creating a Jewish State
in Palestine.
* * *
We must withhold a comprehensive dis-
cussion of the provisions of the committee's
report until it is published in full. In the
meantime, we must rely on the summary
made by the UN secretariat in advance of
the General Assembly meeting the second
day of Rosh Hashonah 1 a most auspicious
augury, by the way.
Let us make this point clear, first of
all. We oppose partition, and the UN
committee's recommendations cannot make
us deviate from this view which is a cor-
nerstone of the program of American Zion-
ism.
. We have said, as we say again, that par-
tition is surrender, that it is illegal and
unconscionable, that it will not be a full
answer to European Jewry's needs nor to
the world problem of the Jew. A tiny,
truncated state will be a joke in the coun-
sels of the nations and may be forced event-
ually to seek elbow room at the expense of
its neighbors.
How ironic it will be if tiny Israel will
be forced to engage in a policy of exploita-
tion and "imperialism" because of the lack
of foresight of its leadership today.
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We say this to the Jewish Agency, which

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in the long run, will have to make the
decision. Do not consent to partition! The
nations may subject Palestine to division,
but a Jewish hand must not be laid to abet
it. We may have to accept it but we dare
not ratify it, lest our hands be tied in
future negotiations.
The proposal for the immigration of
150,'000 Jews during the two year transition
period is a sound one. We would have
liked to see that number raised to 200,000
but we must not forget that the UN en-
visions a partitioned Palestine which limits
the absorptive capacity of the land.
* * *
A Wise provision is the plan for an
economic union of the two states. It fore-
shadows amity and some cohesiveness be-
tween the two halves.
We deplore the suggestion that Jeru-
salem be internationalized. A Jewish State
without the ancient capital is an anomaly.
Moreover, this business of international
areas has never worked out and we can-
KROLIK GOOD WISHES
not see, at this time, a bright future for
Mr.
Seymour Tilchin,
an international Jerusalem with three re-
Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
ligions vieing for control.

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Remember the Exodus!

Whatever the final outcome of the cruel
wanderings of the Exodus victims, this
barbarous episode in Britain's long history
of crimes against mankind will be among
those longest remembered.
Here was not the customary act of de-
pravity in which hounded souls were turned
back from a blessed haven as they neared
its shores.
Here was not only, the murder of inno-
cent civilians by British military forces
wielding heavy bludgeons.
These have happened time and again,
and mankind has become somewhat cal-
loused over the bloodshed and savagery and
British inhumanity to fellowbeings.
What capped the crime and finally
stirred the conscience of the civilized world
was what the petty British colonial mind
thought was a clever retributive act—
the shipment of the 4,000 former DP's back
to the hell they had fled—back to the very
crematoria of Hitler himself.
*
* *
Here was another blunder in Britain's
long wearisome list.
How long, then, will the peoples of the
earth tolerate blunder after blunder which
brings death and destruction to the inno-
cent?
How long will they accept blunder after
blunder which costs hundreds of millions in
treasure and fans the fires of hatred and
war?
Some day, there will come the straw
that finally will break the camel's back and
the world will sit back in judgment. and
cheer the disintegration of a rotten regime.
And in justification, they will point to
the treatment of the Exodus victims as the
final proof of Britain's venom and irra-
tionality which led to her disappearance as
a power among nations.
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Yemen in the UN

Transjordan, which Britain illegally broke
off from the rest of Palestine, remains out-
side of the United Nations because of a
Russian veto motivated chiefly by political
considerations. But humane considerations
went unrecognized when Yemen's name
' came up, and that backward Arab nation
was welcomed into the fold of the UN.
In Yemen, Jews live in misery and de-
privation. They are discriminated against,
humiliated and terrorized, yet they are for-
bidden to leave the country. Jewish testi-
mony is not valid in court and Jews may
not use the common means of transporta-
tion.
Despite protests of international social
organizations, Yemen was approved by the
UN. The prestige of the international
body is hardly enhanced by such decisions.

Letters to the Editor 1

Detroit, Mich.
Dear Mr. Tilchin:
I have just returned to the
city, and am glad to take ad-
vantage of this opportunity to
wish you success in your man-
agement of the Chronicle.
We who are especially active
in the Federation are particu-
larly pleased with your an-
nouncement of your paper's
policy towards the' Federation.
We will be happy to cooperate
with you in every possible wa
Best wishes and good. luck.
JULIAN H. KROLIK.

LIKES 'SOPHISTICATES'

To the Editor:
As a teen-aged reader of the
Chronicle, I would like to take
this opportunity to commend a
fellow teen-aged writer on the
Chronicle, Helen Tennenbaum,
author of the "Teen-Age Sophis-
tocates" column. Helen's bits of
news about teen-age doings and
"about the town gossip" are
written in such a manner that it
is of interest not only to the
young but the older folks as
well. But I have one criticism
to make of this Chronicle col-
umn, it is too short.
LINK RACEY,
3000 Glendale avenue.

RAPS STEPINAC STORY

Dear Editor:
Re: your Aug. 22 article en-
titled "Prove Stepinac Link to
Death of 60,000" by a certain Mr.
Biron. That such a misleading
statement appeared in a paper
of our faith is unfortunate.
Mr. Biron bases his so-called
"facts" upon a publication of the
Embassy of Yugoslavia in Wash-
ington. Numerous recent events
have established beyond a sha-
dow of a doubt that Communist
controlled trials are a legal farce
and that official Communist pub-
lications are mere vituperative
mouthings of puppet officials
containing only a totalitarian
government's propaganda and
having no regard whatever for
what is truthful and humanly
decent.
The fact that Archbishop Step-
Mac was imprisoned only be-
cause he was a powerful anti-
Communistic influence, as most
Catholic clergymen are, should
be apparent to any competent
observer.
This policy of the Communists
has been amplified recently by
the shocking sympathy shown
by the Communist controlled
ATI News Agency toward 33
apprehended members of a mob ;
which brutally beheaded one
priest and viciously beat another.

XII toward European Jews has
been illustrated by his actions,
which saved countless thousands
of Jewish lives during the war.
His opposition. to fascist prin-
ciples has been shown by his re-
fusal to interfere when Catholic
clergymen, guilty of collabora-
tion, have been condemned.
However, Pope Pius person-
ally condemned the trial and n.
imprisonment of Archbishop
Stepinac as unjust, and Mr. Bi-
ron's assertion to the contrary
is not only an attack on a
sincere friend of the world's
Jews but also a straw at which
anti-Catholic bigots can clutch.
It is regrettable that such an
ill-advised communication as Mr.
Biron's was given such promi-
nence in your paper. I think an
apology is due both to Detroit's
Catholics and Pope Pius himself.
MARVIN C. GROSS,
18900 Woodingham drive.

FROM RABBI AUERBACH

My Dear Mr. Tilchin:
It has come to my attention
that you are the new publisher
of the oldest Anglo-Jewish week-
ly in the State of Michigan.
I wish you a full success to this
new undertaking.
Though no longer a resident
of the State of Michigan—I was
rabbi of Cong. Mount Sinai in
Port Huron from September
1943 till January 1946—I still am
interested in the Jewish life
there, especially the smaller
outstate Jewish communities.
and have visited Michigan twice
since I left. If there is any
contribution I can make to your
paper, feel free to call on me.
May I suggest a weekly col-
umn on the Portion of the Law?
RABBI SELIG S. AUERBACH,
719 South 10th Street,
St. Joseph, Mo.

ARTICLE CRITICIZED

Dear Editor:
"Bing Crosby Now 'Father' of
Jewish Girl" on Page 13 of your
Aug. 15 issue is inaccurate, in-
cautious and in my opinion in-
discreet. It is the type of pub-
licity release reporting that fills
space without the necessity of
brainwork on the part of editors.
I doubt if you would have let
it get into the "Detroit Collegian"
when you and I were on the
staff in 1926-27.
I think it important enough
to mention because you appar-
ently are going all out for the
Zionists, and I feel that accur-
acy and fairness should never be
sacrificed for editorial policy.
Your open letter on page 14
is good. I look forward to more
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"research writing".
The sympathy of Pope Pius •
A READER.

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