Friday, January 2, 1948

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A New Year Resolution

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ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 49, No. 53

Friday, January 2, 1948 (Tdmit? 20, 5708)

A Challenge for 1948

A quarter of a billion dollars is a stu-
pendous, an incredible sum in the realm of
Jewish giving.
Seeing is believing, however. If we are
to deserve the privilege of having the Jew-
, ish State realized in our generation, if we
are to retain our self-respect, if we are to
be able to face a skeptical world with the
pride of accomplishment, American Jewry
must gm over the top in the United Jewish
Appeal campaign for 1948.
The time has passed when we must
speak of our brothers' misery and the salv-
ing of our conscience. That is last year's
story.
Today, we speak of the culmination of
2,000 years of waiting. The land is reborn.
We must nurture it, those in the Yishuv
and we in our own blessed country.
We must hasten to defend it.
We must propare for the. greatest mi-
gration of Jews in centuries, a migration
back home.
Only we in America can finance it and
we must display a spirit of self-sacrifice
and liberality never before equalled to do it.
It is a challenge. May we be strong
enough spiritually to meet it.

DETROIT 26, MICR.

were laid with the formation of a self-de-
fense unit whose watchword was restraint.
Today, Ilistadrut is the largest orga-
nized group in Palestine and takes in three
out of every four Jewish workers.
Combining Zionist ideology with its pro-
gram of economic security, Ilistadrut has
become one of the greatest factors for the
reconstruction of Palestine.
Most of the manpower for the actual
reclamation of the land and the establish-
ment of colonies came from Ilistadrut. And
out of Ilistadrut's sense of responsibility
for the survivors of European bestiality
came the magnificent rescue job which`
snatched thousands from Hitler's clutches
and brought many of them safely to Pal-
estine.
It has been said that Ilaganah is Ilista-
drut. From this can be deduced the con-
tribution Ilistadrut makes to the defense
of the land and to the ultimate assurance
of the peaceful establishment of the demo-
cratic state.
This effective organization looks to all
Detroiters for assistance. Every organiza-
BLASTS MENCHIN
tion ought to send representatives to the
ZOA LIFE MENIBER
Dear Mr. Biron:
conference Sunday to learn how Detroit Dear Editor:
,Two weeks ago you asked in
Jews can actively (participate with Ilistadrut
With the favorable United Na- your "Strictly Confidential" ar-
in building a land under a Jewish flag.

Treachery in State Department

It makes one's blood veritably boil to
learn the .shameful behind-the-scenes story
of the attempts at a double-cross of Jewish
hopes in the UN Assembly.
The only deduction allowable is that,
with Britain and the Moslems excepted,
our own country's diplomats were the chief
enemies of Jewish . goals. Indeed, were it
not for the personal intervention of, Mr.
Truman, the State Department underlings
would have succeeded in defeating the pro-
posal.
They did succeed in crippling it: At
their insistence two million precious dunams
were torn away from the area allotted to
the Jews. The Jews failed to gain con-
cession in Galilee and almost lost the port
of Aquaba in the southern tip of the Negev.
Time and again during the deliberations,
President Truman and Secretary Marshall
were forced to take personal action to pre-
vent the U.S. from delaying the session to
death or proposing vitiating amendments.
Not until Nov. 28, following another
presidential directive, did the State Depart-
ment small-fry hold their lines to insure a
vote before adjournment. Nevertheless,
the Americans made hardly a move to per-
suade states in the U.S. orbit such as Haiti
and Liberia to vote for partition.
• When it was all over, that evil genius
in the State Department, Loy Henderson,
publicly reprimanded Herschel Johnson, the
American representative at the Assembly,
for having successfully carried out the
President's wishes,,on Palestine.
But Henderson and his henchmen had
the last word. The U.S. insisted that the
Palestine commission to implement the As-
sembly decision be changed, and nations
friendly to the Jewish cause were replaced
with several hostile to the Jewish State
idea.
The time has come when the forces of
equity and justice must put it bluntly be-
fore the President of the United States
whether his own policy on Palestine or the
machinations of the State Department sub-
ordinates should prevail.

Histadrut Day

Sunday is Ilistadrut Day in Detroit. On
Sunday, a citywide conference will open
the annual Histadrut (Geverkshaften) cam-
paign here for funds to support the workers
of the Yishuv.
The goal is $200,000, a sum much
greater than last year's quota because of
the new obligations imposed by the new
State.
Ilistadrut is the General Federation of
Jewish workers which though founded offi-
cially in 1920 actually goes as far back as
1906 when the foundations of Haganah

Letters to the Editor

tions

Brotherhood in Northwest

One of Detroit's most forward-looking
Synagogues is the growing Northwest lie-
brew Congivation. It has the zest and
vitality of youth with all of youth's ambi-
tion and ingenuity.
Its Synagogue building is hardly above,
the basement level, but its deeds and the
promise they hold happily confirm the
aphorism that it is not mortar and stone
but the enthusiasm, the faith and devotion
of its leaders and members that make an-
institution great.
Northwest's relations with its non-Jew-
ish neighbors are an example of its vision
and good sense. Rising alongside a Con-
gregational church, the Synaglgue took ad-
vantage of its proximity to get to know its
neighbors. There have been exchanges of
holiday greetings and intermingling of
men's clubs and sisterhoods. Jew got to
know Gentile as a responsive friend and
Gentile got to know Jew as one so much
like themsepes.
If brotherhood is ever to come, it will be
through the type of social gatherings and
reciprocation of ideas that have marked the
relations between the Mayflower Congrega-
tional Church and the Northwest Hebrew
Congregation.

The Visiting Editor

. New Homes for the Homeless

decision regarding the ticle to let you know our opinion
establishment of the Jewish about Yehudi Menuhin. Here it
State in Palestine, I feel that is:
He never did anything for
many Zionists throughout the
country will want to take the Jews nor Judaism! Last
special notice of this achieve- year he visited Romania and
ment and their participation in had the most enthusiastic recep-
tion by the Bucharest Jews.
its success.
As Life Membership Chairman At a banquet in his honor,
of the Zionist Organization of he urged the Jews to "try" to
America, I want to call to your live in brotherly agreement
attention and the attention of with their non-Jewish neighbors
your readers, many of whom and to take an example from
are my personal friends whom "him and Enescu."
This advice was absolutely
I can reach best through this
medium, that Life Membership ridiculous, because the coma-
in the ZOA would constitute nians don't practice brotherly
such special cognizance of this love with the Jews and, as a
important event in the history matter of fact, never have.
His second statement however
of our people.
was worse, because it upset the
Life Membership in the Zion- entire audience, and I quote:
ist Organization of America is "Palestine will always remain a
secured by payment of $100 to dream for you." I attended that
the organization and represents banquet and I still remember
even more than permanent affil-
the . terrible impression which
iation with our work. For it those words left upon all of us.
makes possible the purchase of
I was also in the DP camps,
land in Palestine, as each $100 which he visited last summer.
check is invested in Jewish Na- He preferred at all times to
tional Fund securities. Life entertain the "music minded
membership also eliminates the and understanding" Teutons in-
necessity for annual renewal.
stead 'of those poor Jews, who
This is truly a time when life are the most pitiful remnants
membership should be taken by of their victims.
My opinion, dear Mr. Biron,
as many thousands of Zionists
throughout the country as can is that Menuhin is not worth to
afford it. Th Jewish State will be mentioned in your column,
continue to grow only with the unless you advise the Jews in
this country not to patronize
help of American Jewry.
his concerts.
WILLY NORDWIND,
MRS. JOSEPH GRUENBLAT.
National Chairman.

Recently at the annual convention of the
IIIAS Council in New York, Samuel A. Tel--
sey, president of the organization, pointing
out that Palestine during the next few
years will not be able to absorb all of the
the sinister and dangerous pol-
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displaced Jews who will need to emigrate,
icy of "Common Sense".
• • •
called upon the nations of the world to its readers . . . The other day
permit the immediate entry of Jewish refu- "Common Sense" said: "Ameri- CHICAGO SCANDAL
cans are giving serious thought
gees.
THE RECENT court proceed-
Since immigration into Palestine must to Hitler's statement 'if Germany
not stop Communism, noth-
in the beginning be selective and not all does
ings in Chicago, where the 19
ing will' ". Such a statement
who will be eagerly knocking at the door may, on the surface, read like accused as seditionists and then
of the Jewish State can, with the best will just an anti-Communist state- let loose by the U.S. Department
in the world, be admitted, "the world must ment. Actually it is an appeal of Justice- charged "The Senti-
be larger for them than little Palestine," to build up Germany as the nel" with libel, is a big story
declared the head of the Hebrew Sheltering mainstay of an anti-Communist that we propose to tell as soon
Europe.
as we conclude our research job
and Immigrant Aid Society.
Well said, Mr. Telsey. In line with this,
If one takes that sort of on it.
we here in the United States, Christians propaganda in conjunction with
Mrs. Dilling & Co. sued The
of good will as well as Jews, should make the hate slogans that Commu- Sentinel for libel. The trial was
every effort to get Congress to pass the nism is a tool of Judaism, a slo- conducted in hush-bush style be-
Stratton bill for the admission of 400,000 gan which the hate press—such cause the leadership of a Jewish
organization insisted on
refugees to this country during a four- as "The Cross and the Flag," defense
"The Defender," "Broom," "Gen- clamping down on all publicity.
year period.
tile News," "Western Voice," In the first legal battle The Sen-
During 1948 HIAS will ask of American Upton Close's "Close-Ups" and tinel lost. The plaintiffs felt safe
Jewry $4,000,000 so that it may carry out other • confreres •of "Common becauk American public opin-
its intensified efforts to find homes for Sense" are spreading week by ion was not permitted to brand
week—if you remember these them as the notorious anti-
homeless Jews wherever possible.

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