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Bettered as Second-clan matte' March 3. 1916,
ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, Prtiient
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
DETROIT 26, MICH.
Friday, November 28, 1947 (Kislev 15, 5708)
Vol. 49, No. 48

Unity First of All

largest unit, the Charles A. Learned Post.
Jewish members of the Legion and
JWV are symbols of Jewish loyalty and
patriotism. It is not an easy job for the
hate merchant to peddle his wares. when
the vets are about.
For this reason, particularly, we regret.
that of a potential membership of 12,000
Jews here, fewer than 2,500 are members
of Legion or JWV posts.
Unaffiliated Jewish veterans who would
strengthen Jewish defenses against hate
and madness would be wise to join a vet-
erans organization and by their united
support help to overcome intolerance and
infuse a new spirit of liberalism and mutual
understanding in the ranks.

This coming weekend, American Jews
can establish the basis for a permanent
union or they can continue to have par-
rule by cabals, which will
+isanship -and
certainly lead to eventual disintegration.
For if history has taught us nothing else,
it has demonstrated that "we must all
hang together, or assuredly, we shall all
hang separately."
This may sound like hysteria but we
hear the rumblings on all sides and they
are ominous. American Israel must be
forearmed with solidarity and selflessness
and these can be cceitributed in their full-
est measure this weekend.
In 'Chicago, leaders of virtually every
American Jewish community and belief
Hospital Plans
will gather for the fourth session of the
The report that the Jewish Hospital As-
American Jewish Conference They will
range from tacit American Council for sociation was 'planning a start on the new
Judaism adherents and assimilationists to hospital in the spring evoked an electric
James- O'Neil, which appeared
BIRON REBUKED
in the press several clays ago,
American League for a Free Palestine ex- response , from the - community. Everyone
commending Gen. Clay on his
thrilled at the news that the institution "Dear Editor:
ponents and Chassidim.
to its
In his column which appeared directive for restitution
Some groups will not be officially repre- was about to be built after many years
rightful owners of Jewish prop-
in
last
week's
issue
of
the
sented, and we do not mean fringe or of waiting.
While the hospital association is actually Jewish Chronicle, Phineas Biron erty seized by the Nazis.
crackpot organizations only, but, and this
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only
a few years old, plans for a Jewish charged that the Americanism
is to deplored as obstructive, the Ameri-
Commission of the American
The
tens
of thousands of
hospital
have
been
talked
of
for
several
can Jewish Committee Will send no spokes-
decades, and one of two predecessor orga- Legion was in Jeague with no- members of the Jewish War
torious anti-Semites and promot- Veterans of the U.S.A., most of
men.
The delegates in Chicago will be asked nizations had gone so far as to purchase ing anti-Semitism.
whom, like ourselves, are also
to set up a plan for a permanent organiza- a valuable site on Wyoming avenue.
As our largest general vet Legionnaires, deplore and resent
The announcement that building was eran organization, numbering this baseless charge. The Ameri-
tion. While henry Monsky was alive, little
opposition to the proposal manifested itself. iminent was , accordingly a climax to years several million members, the can Legion stands for the prin•
Shortly after his death, the murmurings of planning and of hope and it stirred American Legion is composed ciples of Americanism. It re-
of a cross-section of the Ameri- gards anti-Semitism as a form
made themselves audible. Frankness corn- the community deeply.
to point out that, on the whole,
The Jewish Hospital Association is led can people. Thus, it undoubted- of un-Americanism and has
40 f)els us
criticism and hesitancy come from those by civic figures in whom the entire corn- ly includes individual anti-Sem- fought it as such both on the
ites. It also includes thousands national and local levels.
groups which fear that a united Jewish Munity puts great faith, The campaign of Jewish veterans, many of We in Detroit have found our
American body will reduce some of their for the hospital resulted in the collection whom have attained positions comrades in the American Legion
individual authority and independence.
of nearly $2,000,000. While as things go of distinction and responsibility not only sympathetic towards
To appease these voices, Dr. Eisendrath these days, this will not build the type of within it. When Mr. Biron, how- our problems, but extremely co-
and his committee outlined a plan with hospital first envisioned, it will be a good ever, brands the leadership and operative in dealing with local
some faults, most of them, it should be start and will help fill a need that has long policy of the American Legion incidents of an anti-Semitic na-
emphasized, of a technical nature that can been an embarrassing communal omission. as anti-Semitic, he not only ture. To mention one of many,
displays his colossal ignorance when sometime ago unknown
. be easily obviated.
The time seems ripe for another effort
The American Jewish Congress, recog- to unite the three hospital associations in- upon the subject but grossly persons defaced and desecrated
graves at a local Jewish
nizing that the defects can be corrected, to a single organization. We feel that a and gratuitously maligns the the
cemetery, our Gentile comrades
American Legion.
forthrightly listed its objections to the concession or two on the part of each orga-
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of the American Legion patrolled
plan, yet announced that it would attend nization might result in a merger that
At its last session, the Na- both night and day for over
a
the sessions to support the creation of
would be beneficial to the entire community. tional Executive Committee of week in an attempt to appre-
representative and democratic body speak-
the American Legion, which de-
and to dis-
With the chances of a second and smaller termines the policies of that or- hend the offenders
courage a repetition of the of-
ing for American Jewry.
hospital
being
built
confronting
the
Jewish
ganization, placed the latter on fense.
The Congress was well aware that its
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sovereignty might have to be surrendered community, it seems that the time to press record as favoring the passage
of
the
Stratton
Bill
for
the
ad-
for
the
long
sought,merger
is
now.
Finally, Mr. Biron is rendering
to any acceptable Conference plan. Yet
mission to the United States of a disservice to American Jewry.
it will bey there at the session, pushing its
displaced persons :n Europe. In The organized veteran group
proposal that the new organization be
the resolution passed on the sub- is a large and powerful group.
Vindictive Britain
made an even stronger body with decision-
ject, it further declares:
Its attitude and thinking help
making powers and with all affiliates re-
"That in the event the United formulate our nation's policy.
Bevin's psycopathic hostility to Zion-
quired to accept decisions as binding.
ism and typical British bullheadedness have Nations organization adopts the both foreign and domestic. Its
The fourth session of the Conference evidenced themselves again in London's re- program now advocated by the goodwill is important to the
should, by all means, establish the perma- jection of the UN plans for Palestine and United States for the partition Jewish community
nent body at its meeting this weekend, its insistence on surrendering the Mandate of Palestine, that all displaced The circulation by sensation-
persons who 'desire to find haven seeking columnists of unfounded
leaving technical matters to be ironed out only in its own good time.
in Palestine be permitted and charges of anti-Semitism against
by democratically - chosen committees re-
As it was too aptly put last week, aided in doing so."
America's leading veteran or-
quired to report in no more than 30 days.
This dec)aration, favoring not
In the meantime, the permanent Con- "Britain had a magnificent opportunity of only the admission of Jews to ganization is detrimental to
community relations and
ference should organize itself and start withdrawing from Palestine with honor, Palestine, but international as- good
and she missed it". The sole inference left sistance to enable them to do so, to the interests of American
working.
from Britain's flouting of UN authority coupled with the lowering of Jews.
and her criminal stubborness is, that come our immigration barriers so that We know, of course, that the
and opinions of Mr. Biron
what may, she will delay and hamstring some of them may find haven in views
The Legion Advances
are his own and not those of
the United States, is hardly con-
the Jewish State to satisfy her pique.
the Jewish Chronicle.
Phineas Biron, we are told by American
Lest this conclusion be adjudged the sistent with the charge of anti-
HARRY J. SCHAEFFER,
Legion and JWV leaders, was talking of a product of prejudice alone, we refer the Semitism. Further light is shed
JC .3EPII JONES,
upon
the
general
attitude
of
repudiated phase of Legion history when reader to an editorial, "Palestine Pros-
SAMUEL J. RHODES,
American Legion with re-
he linked the Legion Americanism com- pects", in the Nation of Nov. 22. It at- the
HARRY T. MADISON,
spect to the Jews by the state-
mittee with the Lizzy Dilling hate crew.
MAURICE BORDELOVE.
tributes .Britain's perversity to a sense of ment of National Commander
Tle new national commander, we are guilt, Bevin's morbid animosity and a ju-
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reminded, can hard dl y be said to be in sym- venile spirit of vindictiveness.
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Due 'Here Dee. 8
pathy with the reactionary forces that
The Jewish State is inevitable. It will Civil Rights Croup
have controlled the Legion for so long in be created in 1918 with the concurrence Members of the President's first hand report of the commit-
'lew of his many liberal utterances, par- of the world's nations—or without it. A Committee on Civil Rights will tee's recommendations to insti-
ticularly his support of legislation to per- shrewder Britain would have decided to address a mass rally at 8 p.m.. tute civil liberties in the United
are James B. Carey, sec-
mit the entry of a limited number of DP's accept a foregone conclusion and court Monday, Dec. 8 at the Rackham States
Memorial Building, Bishop Fran- retary-treasurer national CIO,
into the United States.
Jewish favor to neutralize a quarter century cis J. Haas, member of the Boris Shiskin, American Federa-
We sincerely hope that a new era that of shabby treatment.
committee and honorary chair- tion of Labor; C. E. Wilson,
rejects intolerance and reaction has been
Because Britain is foolish, she is losing man of the Michigan Council chairman of the President's
inaugurated. here in Michigan, the rela- a potential customer and an ally on the for Fair Employment Legisla- Civil Rights Committee and
President of General Electric;
tions between the Legion and Jewish groups lifeline of her empire. We have learned tion, announced.
and causes have always been cordial. The
Members of the President's Channing Tobias, director.
h
Foundation, New
Julius Rosenwald Pst
forgive those who lacerate us, but tere
o is one of the most to
our committee on Civil Rights which Phelps Stokes
- is no forgetting those who pour salt in
York
City;
and
Bishop Haas.
the
state
and,
Joseph
been
invited
to
bring
a
have
highly resp ected in
Jew, is a past commander of the wounds.
Jones, a

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