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Friday, October 10, 1947

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
DETROIT 26, hlICI•
Friday, October 10, 1947 (Tishri 26, 5708)
Vol. 49, No. 41

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them to dry, fertile areas for in igation ...
"How can such a project be financed?
For the reader who knows little or noth- The Nazis confiscated eight
billion dollars
prope y. Of this, $250,-
Jewish well
ng about the manifold issues of the Pales- worth of might
be rte actedas repara-
000,000
' e problem and for the initiat e interested tions from Germany and expended on the
in some of its special aspects, the Nation JVA, . . ."
*
special supplement on Pal-
.
has p ublished a
estine and the Middle East as part of its
With regard to the bogy of an Arab up-
Oct. 4 edition. It is well worth reading
thoroughly as the objective presentation of rising, J. L. Teller, writing on "Inside Arab
a non-Jewish organization whose purpose is Politics", confirms Prof. Laski's deductions.
information and not propaganda. • Ile says:
"Although students of Palestine affairs
_We are printing some excerpts which
wile give the reader some idea of the keen do not rule out the possibility of Arab at-
perception and analysis of the contributors tempts to thwart partition by means of
guerilla warfare, they see more evidence of
to the supplement.
another kind of bloodshed in that country—
* a *
a struggle between the Grand Mufti and
In an article, "Power Politics Spells his political opponents."
We hope that the above extracts have
War", Harold J. Laski, formerly chairman
of the executive committee of the British whetted the appetite of the reader and
Labor Party, writes: "It is nonsense to say that he will get the full supplement which
that to carry out Labor's pledges to the can be completed in an hour or so. It
Jews would throw the Arab states into the will be good reading.
arms of Russia. No one knows better than
the Arab ruling classes that their author-
Hearing on Conference
ity would be completely destroyed as soon
as they came under Russian patronage. ...
The Jewish Community Council has in-
"It is nonsense to say that fulfilment
vited its delegates and other interested Dear Editor:
from every communal leader that
contacted.
of the pledges to the Jews would mean
to
a
hearing
Sunday
at
the
hotel
As president of the Jewish we I have
Detroiters
am sure you are aware that
an Arab rising of important dimensions.
proposed
organization
of
a
Youth Federation, I would like to coordinated effort on behalf of
Tuller on the
First of all, such deep disagreement di-
permanent body to succeed the American express my thanks for the won- the community is a very impor-
that
they
would
vides the Arab states
Jewish Conference. Dr. Maurice E. Eisend- derful assistance your paper has tant goal, and we likewise feel
not effectively cooperate. Secondly, not
rath, who more than anyone is responsible given us in publishing our weekly the same. I sincerely hope that
one of them has the equipment for
calendar of events.
for the plan, will be here to explain it.
we will be able to fulfill our goal
This is but one item that we during the coming year and that
modern warfare. . . . Thirdly . . . the
The proposal is one of the most sig- are
planning on doing for the
whole thing would be nothing 'more
nificant in the history of American Israel. organized and unorganized young we will have your valued as-
The
than a big police operation. . .
Everyone interested in a unified American adults of the Jewish community. sistance in this program.
LEONARD P. BARUCH
argument, fourthly, that fighting in
Jewry should be present to take part in a Our plan has received support
Palestine might affect . . . Pakistan
truly historical movement to develop a
The other day', for instance,
and India is adequately answered by
central Jewish body in which all types of
the master of ceremonies on the
saying that both have sufficient prob-
Jewish organizations and agencies will work
radio program "People Are Fun-
lems of their own to handle without
together for the common good.
ny" drastically demonstrated
taking on the troubles of the Arab
Without such a body there will continue
the influence of the sha-sha pol-
states.
to be confusion and conflict. With it there
* *
ky. A woman contestant of the
will come order and authority in the affairs
I
program said to the m.c.: ''Are
(Continued from Page 3)
that
Jewish
immigration
of
American
Israel.
We
should
all
feel
"The truth is
tents itself, year after year, you jewing me down.
means honored at the opportunity given us by the with floating in meaningless And Mr. Linkletter, the m.c.
into Palestine on any large scale
material progress there. This has reper- Community Council to help create the per- generalities, giving well-publi- in question, replied: "Please
I
cized lip service to the "all men
manent organization.
I don't use that expression—
cussions over the whole of the Middle East;
are created equal" type of s ' o- know what you mean."
and it will in the long run produce a situa-
Instead of immediately dis-
gans.
Arab lords
tion fatal to the functionless power
The organizers believe that qualifying the anti-Semitic con-
'We Remain Independent
as the
whom Britain maintains in
anti-Semitism can be defeated testant and scolding her for her
easiest form of insurance for its oil sup-
The Jewish • Chronicle is 'proud to by advertising copy, by huck- un-American mentality, the m.c.
plies• .. . The present pattern of power publish a weekly page of Bnai Brith High- ster methods, by good wishes
makes Great Britain sure of the oil. Any- lights. We were happy to de this as a from movie stars and cardi- shushed her and appeased her.
Do you think that this contes-
thing else is of minor importance.
tribute to one Israel's most loyal organ- nals. Yet the militant prose- tant, who was permitted to in-
"Let me say here with emphasis that be- izations whose local and national contri- cution of those guilty of anti-
the Jews over the radio
hind this British pattern is the profound butions to the unity and progress of Semitic violence would de sult
without penalty, will take the
more
to
discourage
such
hooli-
conviction of American support. . . . Mr.
Week seriously? She won't even
ganism than all that soft-
Ptvin likes to say that if Britain withdrew American Jewry are proverbial.
know it concerns her .. •
It must not be assumed, however, that soapy, smooth' slogan-swinging.
from the Middle East, there would be a
large vacuum which someone must fill. . . • the Chronicle in any way surrenders its — • _
The simple truth is that nothing except independence by publishing a Bnai Brith
complete breakdown would compel Britain Page-
to create the vacuum; and if it did so, it
The Chronicle remains the unaffiliated
in might,
Oh glorious King and grandee SiT0110
would have made arrangement for the organ of every Jewish organization in the
with fright.
You filled mu heart with anguish and
United States to-till it. . . ."
that
wishes
to
use
its
columns.
You
asked
iellu
I
do
not
obey
your
toil!.
city
* * •
Limited to 16 pages until last week, the
Why I adhere to mg old faith still. •
Chronicle
had
been
unable
to
give
compre-
It is a story sod and long of age,
In Isis study, "What Price Arab Oil"?,
coverage of the doings of all of
Dating front Egypt's flight, and stage by stage
hensive
farsighted
Washington
cor-
I. F. Stone,
Detroit's 300 and more Jewish organiza-
The vilest lies, the greatest sinful crimes
respondent, "suspects that oil is rather an tions . But now, with the addition of four
Have stung thy people, oh, so • many times.
than
a
conclusive
fac-
•
additional argument
•
pages weekly, every recognized and reputa-
tor" within the State Department as the ble society or agency in the city cats be
you
know
the work so well,
King,
You, mighty
"general undercurrent of policy toward assured of recognition through our publi-
You know what good and bad our history does tell.
Jewish aspirations in Palestine would be cation of its events and undertakings. We
In blasphemy some lire and in deceit,
hostile even if there were no oil in the request only that material and photos be
Because stupidity and a false creed
area".
sent
before
the
deadline
which
is
noon
on
Darkened their minds and led them far astray
life
and
To Stone "Arab oil is not a
kept at bay.
Like angry beasts which could not be
death matter for the United States. A Mondays.
grateful
for
the
sup-
and
in
ire
The Chronicle is
Their masters cruelly
purely unnecessary struggle for oil between
given it by Bnai Brith members. Since
Delivered those who kept their faith to fire.
the U.S. and Britain on one side and the port
•
•
•
paper is not subsidized, it must depend
USSR on the other will make life miserable this
exclusively on circulation and advertising
faith will live, the lies will surely die.
The
for both Jew and Arab and may well set
to finance its publication.
No matter how to lire they still may try.
the world aflame... ."
Organizations whose members are not
In future time, when people will be fair.
W. C. Lowdermilk of the Department on our subscription lists but who have de-
They will deliver all of the despair.
of Agriculture gives the view of the expert manded much space for their news items
Meanwhile, oh King and grandee good and sound,
on soil conservation. "Palestine and South-
reciprocate by signing up
to
Think
in your veins some Jewish blood is found.
are
invited
ern California", he writes, "are similar in with the Chronicle. In this way they can
topography, climate, rainfall and crops. help assure the growth of the paper and
The King awoke, the dream caused him much pain,
What has been done in California can be a resultant increase in space for their
"The man is right, all contradiction vain."
done, proportionately, in Palestine. Water
Hundreds of years have passed, the faith lives on
for irrigation and power for industry are publicity.
A stronger Chronicle, let it not be for-
And will still lire when Kings and Nes are gone.
are two chief needs. The Jordan Valley gotten, means stronger Jewish organizations
A-
the sweet water of
Authority would divert
other streams and carry in this city.
the Jordan and

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