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Friday, January 23, 1948
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SEYMOUR TILCHIN,
Vol. 50, No. 1
ROBERT KRAUSE, Business Manager
President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Friday, January 23, 1948 (Shebat 12. 5708)
Contemptible!
An excerpt from a United Press dis-
patch from Jerusalem concisely sums up
the situation in Palestine. "In the near-
anarchy that prevails," says the dispatch,
"British troops and police often are not
present when Jews and Arabs fight. Se-
curity forces are under. instructions not to
`interfere' by taking sides."
So we have the situation where the
British piously assume the responsibility
for keeping order and then let their 75,000
troops and the honor of the British em-
pire be mocked by tiny Syria and a few
thousand mercenaries of a satanic relig-
ious panjandrum.
The ridiculousness of British policy can
be assessed from the armed forces' grovel-
ing plea to the Arabs and Jews that
Jerusalem be declared an "open city." This
is patently a confession that the British
have no intention to clean out the few
nests of the Arab snipers beleaguering
the Jewish quarter of the Old City and
would rather be held up to contempt by
the world than perform a simple military
sortie to oust the guerillas.
When the Jewish State is finally estab-
lished, and let no mistake be made about
it, established it will be whether by legal
means or by upheaval, the government of
the Jewish State should be ready to cite
Great Britain before the International
Court of Justice for flagrant crimes against
humanity which cost thousands of Jewish
lives under their Mandate.
These lives can never be paid for, but
reparations should be demanded from Bri-
tain to facilitate the growth of a State she
attempted to sabotage with every contemp-
tible trick of a decadent empire.
The UN Commission's twiddling of the
past 10 days can hardly inspire much con-
fidence. To do an effective job, the Pales-
tine Commission should either demand
that an international police force be ready
to take over in Palestine by May 1, just
before the British finally leave, or that
llaganah be fully armed forthwith.
The Stratton Bill
The hubbub and the fanfare over the
Jewish State had shunted aside the pro-
posal to move a big proportion of the
DP's to the United States. President Tru-
man in his State of the Union message
revived interest in the Stratton bill which
seeks the admission of 400,000 DP's, Jew-
ish and non-Jewish, during the next four
years.
Our paramount concern with Eretz
Israel should not permit us to overlook
the prospect of easing American immigra-
tion restrictions. Palestine will never be
able to absorb all the Jews who want to
put Europe far behind them. Other hav-
ens must be found and reasonable ones—
no hell-holes like Madagascar or impossible
equatorial regions like Dutch Guiana, well-
intentioned as plans for the latter might
be.
The DP's who would come here under
the Stratton measure can be easily inte-
grated into American life. President Tru-
man has been seconded by labor leaders
in his declaration that the• newcomers will
be an asset to this country.
Phillip Murray of the CIO and William
Green of the AFL have testified that the
admission of the refugees would not affect
the employment situation. On the con-
trary, Green went so far as to assert that
their entry would alleviate shortages
We should flood our legislators with
telegrams and letters urging the passage
of the Stratton bill. Indeed, our appeals
for the DP should be as urgent as our
plans for Zion. It is chiefly because of the
plight of the DP that we struggle today to
build our Homeland.
God only knows, there will always be
enough DP's who will look for a haven of
refuge in Eretz Israel. If some of
them can be brought to the United States,
the immediate load on the budding State
would be so much the lighter. And to
America will come the boon of thousands
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of newcomers with vision and hope and
with gratitude and love for the land that
befriended them.
Home Relief Society
A few weeks ago we had occasion to
allude to the sefiless deeds of service of
the ladies of the Zedakah Club.
Earlier this month, we pointed to the
benefactions of the Youth Education
League.
Today we speak of a third women's
service organization, the Home Relief So-
ciety which will mark its 25th birthday
at a dinner Jan. 31.
Formed at a time when organized Jew-
ish charities were still in the groping
stage, the Home Relief organization per-
formed a necessary function in easing
poverty, illness and despondency among
Jewish families who had no other recourse
for relief.
It is idle to talk about the tireless la-
bors the group's membership performed
through the years to bring comfort and
hope to hundreds in our community who
would otherwise have been faced with re-
jection and despair. Their generosity and
their unselfish works are so well known.
We do speak for the entire commu-
nity, we are confident, in congratulating
the Home Relief Society and its founder,
Mrs. Harry Shulman, and in wishing them
many more quarter centuries of devotion
to the ideals of neighborliness and brother-
hood.
The Visiting Editor
International Dishonor
War is being waged upon the United
Nations by its Arabian members, covertly
assisted by a member of the Security
Council, Great Britain.
From Nov. 29—date of the United Na-
tions decision on Palestine—until yester-
day, 702 deaths from bullet, bomb and
bayonet directly attributable to Arabian
attack on Judea had been recorded, with
casualties multiplying each hour.
In that time the United States, mem-
ber of the Security Council most respon-
sible for the organization of the United
Nations, has poured money, arms, food
and military advisors into Greece and
China to help reactionary governments kill
their own citizens rebelling against in-
tolerable oppression.
But in that same period the United
States has never once even raised its voice
in protest against the Arabian rebellion
against the peace of the world ; never once
offered our support to the Jews of the
new Palestine State against Aritbian in-
vasion and terror; never once offered our
arms to the United Nations to enforce its
decision; never once demanded the crea-
tion of a United Nations army ; never once
even indicated that we had any interest
in seeing such a force created, or that we
would support such a move if it were
begun.
Our indifference puts national honor to
shame ; our inaction paralyzes the world's
only machinery for peace; our silence
makes a mockery of our pretentions to be-
lief in international justice. . . .
The Jewish Agency is demanding aid
—and properly—either trom the United
Nations, the United States, or both.
We cannot withhold it and ever dare
to speak of honor, or decency, or justice,
among ourselves or in any councils of the
world again.
The United States must demand, at
once, before the Security Council, the for-
mation of a United Nations Army to en-
force the peace.
The United States must at once lift
its embargo on arms to Palestine, so that
the new state's police forces may equip
themselves adequately to maintain order
within the state. . . .
—NEW YORK POST
Letters to the Editor
RAPS DR. WEIZMANN
Dear Editor:
In your editorial of Friday.
Jan. 3, you quoted Dr. Weiz-
mann's assertion that we "must
find a way back to friendship
with the Britain of the Balfour
Declaration."
It is very interesting to note
that his plea for friendship with
Britain came on the heels of
news from London quoting
"usually reliable and authori-
tative sources" that the British
government hopes for close co-
operation between Britain and
the forthcoming Jewish State
in Palestine.
After all, Whitehall is quoted
as saying, haven't the two—Pal-
estine and Britain—cooperated
for the past 30 years? Did not
Britain give the Balfour Decla-
ration, and are, not Zionist
friends in Parliament constant.
ly pleading the Zionist case?
Is it a mere coincidence that
these two items 'allowed one
another, or is it perfect timing?
Dr. Weizmann is the holder
of a very enviable record. He
has not revised his attitude nor
changed his policies and tactics
ever since World War I, as far
as Palestine and the British are
concerned. Strangely enough,
his policy always coincided with
the wishes and desires of White-
hall and the British Colonial
Office. . . .
cited the Arabs to pogroms and
massacres, have issued White
Paper after White Paper re-
stricting Jewish rights and in-
stituting a ghetto in the Jewish
Homeland, have trampeled upon
the most elementary principles
of justice and law, have turned
over most of the mandated area
of Palestine to some foreign
Arabs for their private pastur-
age, have been instrumental to
a great extent in the destruc-
tion of European Jewry by
closing the gates of Palestine
to Jewish immigration in 1939
and are now desperately trying
to abort the partitioned Jewish
State before it is even, born.
To Dr. Weizmann the situa-
tion—even when most critical—
always appeared somehow satis-
factory, and instead of fighting
those who were destroying our
last hopes, he fought those who
refused to accept his abundant
optimism and his implicit faith
in British honesty and good-
will.
LOUIS PANUSH. •
CAREER GROUP
THANKS
Dear Editor:
I would like to take this op-
portunity to thank you on be-
half of the Career Group for your
encouragement and cooperation in
advising us with our Inter-Faith
Forum.
PEARL DEVENOW,
"Our partners in the great
President, Career Group
efforts of building of Eretz Yis-
National Council of Jewish
roel" have instigated and in-
Women.
Rabbis Assailed for Carol Furor
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timed the whole matter is. In
a moment when there is hope
of the gates of America being
opened to admit numbers of dis-
placed Jews, these Rabbis slap
at a sentimental custom of
Christian neighbors. Nor do they
relent.
In a moment when we plead
for rescue from the bigotry of
these times, these Rabbis give
themselves to what to a multi-
tude of Americans looks like
another insulting bigotry. In a
moment when we need friends
they make new enemies.
It's absurd to speak of uncon-
stitutionality in a matter that
is deeply constituted in the
basic spiritual law of the ma-
jority of Americans. Rabbis be-
come ridiculous little men when
they take steps to overthrow it.
Let Rabbis devote themselves
to the building of Judaism in
their own congregations. Juda-
ism needs to be protected not
from Christmas carols but from
the cynical indifference of Jews.
`Voice of JWF' to Sift Foster Home Problem
The problem of providing
foster homes for children will
be discussed by three members
of the Jewish Social Service
Bureau on "The Voice of the
Jewish Welfare Federation" at
8:30 p.m., Jan. 24 and Jan. 31
over WJLB. They are Harold
Silver, Goldie Goldstein and
Mrs. Belle Baskin.
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