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DETROIT JEWISIT CIVRONICLE

Friday, January 30, 1948

Strictly Confidential

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Urges Zionist Clamor Against the Embargo

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON

THE U.S. EMBARGO on arms to
the Middle East is jeopardizing
Jewish safety in Palestine. It is
virtually preventing the Haganah
from defending the Jewish popu-
lation of Palestine against the
Mufti's hordes, who are well
equipped with British and Ameri-
can arms supplied by Egypt, Tur-
key and Iraq, countries which
receive Anglo-American war ma-
terial.
P. J. Biron
The Zionist leadership is nego-
tiating with the U.S. State Department to relent a nd
modify the embargo. Yet no Zionist group has pub-
licly raised the cry that Washington do something
immediately, , •
It- was left to the progressive, non-Zionist Ameri-
can Jewish Labor Council to institute public action.

Why didn't the ZOA launch a membership clamor
against the embargo?
(The ZOA this week announced a campaign to
flood the White House with pleas for an end to the
ban.)

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SHLOME MICHOELS, who died at Moscow the
other day, was a remarkable personality. Not only
was he the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Com-
mittee in the USSR, but he also, and perhaps 'Sri-
rnarily, was the famous director, producer and star
of the Moscow Jewish State Theater .. .
Ann Rosen, whose one-man show of oils and
watercolors at the Barbizon-Plaza, New York, is at-
tracting many visitors, has a lot of fighting spirit.
A few years ago she barely escaped death in a
terrible railroad accident. Doctors despaired, and
predicted permanent partial paralysis. So Ann began
painting, as an escape.
Today she is one of the promising young artists,

and Pierre van Paassen says of her: "Her art is the
forthright expression of an honest artist who has a
wide range of sympathy fur humanity" . . . Con-
gratulations, Ann!
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THE PARADE OF books and films on anti-Semit-
ism grows, longer daily. Forthcoming in March is
"A Mask for Privilege: Anti-Semitism in America,"
by Carey McWilliams • . • A powerful non-fiction
work on the causes of anti-Jewishness, which will
make many leaders of defense groups blush.
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KARL M. CHWOROWSKY, minister of a Unitarian
church in Brooklyn, who here and there writes a
column under the title "A Christian Speaks," went
over the top the other day.
Karl wrote about "the Frightened Liberal," and
said, among other things: "The frightened liberal is
so thoroughly committed to fight everything and any-
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Plain Talk

Sabbath Rest:
Jewish Anti-Semites
(pie Future President
Physical
and
Are Exposed in Film
of Zion Gets Advice
Spiritual Need
To Avoid Troubles, Better not Run

Personal Problems

at All Is Letter Writer's Opinion

By A. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.

DEAR

MR. GOLDBERG:
With all Jews, I rejoice that we now have our own country,
that Eretz Israel is a living reality.
But I am fearful for the new President. I know he is heading
for trouble because the very same thing happened to my friend,
Shmerl, the president of the BV
Congregation.
"Shul-politik." His family wait-
The members of the congre- ed, hungry and starving, for
gation came from around War- him to come home, one or two
saw. It would have been dif- hours after services. And, of
ferent had
course, it was unthinkable for
they come
a respectable Jewish family to
from Warsaw
sit down to eat without the
but they came
head of the house!
from around
And the fights, oh, the fights
Warsaw. G o-
with the members? Why,
ing to War-
Shmerl (never was he addressed
saw, for any
as Mr. President, with dignity),
one of them,
did you give Mr. PP Shlishih?
was a lifelong
I have waited for ten weeks for
ambition, like
the honor to be called to the
getting m'a r-
Dr.' Goldberg Torah (and then it was only
ried or coming
Shish L
to America. It was done once
And why, Shmerl, did you
and lasted for a lifetime.
accept your wife's cookies for
The BV Congregation was the Oneg Shabbas instead of
formed in the heart of a man my wife's? Does the congrega-
ambitious to be a Shamos. Soon tion belong to you? How much
he gathered a congregation of did you contribute, in cash,'last
25 members; they bought a year?
house and formed the BV Con-
It's an honor to be the first
, gregation.
President of Eretz Israel. But
The would-be Shamos also of- he will be attacked . . . After
fered the use of a house he all, everybody else knows how
owned as a residence for the to do things better than him
Rabbi. • •
and they will tell him so. They
The women toiled to clean will tear him apart and call
the house and in due time they him names.
sent passage money to the Rab-
So, if he wants my advice,
bi in their own village around let somebody else have the hon-
Warsaw. Just after Succoth, the or. I warn him: Don't let them
Rabbi and his family arrived elect you President.
and were duly installed.
Yours,
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MAURICE PEBBLEHILL.

HUNT FOR PRESIDENT

RUT

THE BV CONGREGA-

w tion was still incomplete

they had no officers. Casting
about, they believed that Mr.
ZZ would be eligible for presi-
dent. Mr. ZZ, unfortunately,
liked to zoop—you know, a
schnepsel, a bracer and Then,
after morning services, he first
took a schnapps. So he was out.
By elimination they came to
the name of Mr. FF, the "gvir",
a millionaire (he had $20,000).
But he had one major disad-
ntage—he was quiet. No one
‘r: heard him yell.
ilow, then, could he keep or-
der? How could , he bang his
palm down on the reading stand
and, with a loud "shah," call for
. But he was their
er? .
II! n and he was duly elected.
To the end of his days, Mr.
FF regre,tted having been elect-
ed president.
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NEVER ON TIME
HE WAS ALWAYS late for

dinner, after services on
Saturdays and holidays. That
made his family very angry.
The members, it seems, had
first call on his time to talk

pEOPLE LIVING in strenuous
times require periods of com-
plete relaxation if they are to
function effectively. This was
proven during the war when in-
dustrial plants, mobilized for the
war effort, were forced to place
their workers on a seven-day-
week schedule.
The foremen soon noticed a de-
terioration of the workers' ef-
ficiency, and they immediately
recognized the wisdom and neces-
sity of preserving the physical
and mental health of their work-
men by giving them a day of rest.
So fundamental was this to the
very existence of civilization that
God Himself rested, so to speak,
on the seventh day, after having
created the universe in six days.
Thus Ile Himself set the example
for mankind.
Our Talmudic sages understood
this well. When they read the
sentence in Genesis "And God
finished his work on the seventh
day," they queried, "Does that
not contradict the passage in Ex-
odus (Chapter 20) which reads
`For in six days the Lord made
the heaven and the earth, the sea
and all that is therein'? Was not
His work completed at the end
of the sixth day and not On the
seventh?"
With their keen insight they
found the answer for they said
"After the world was created
there was something lacking—
that was, rest.
"When God brought rest upon
the earth, then and only then was
the creation completed." There-
fore, God actually completed the
creation on the seventh day, al-
though He did no work on that
day.

Off the Record

`Gentlemen's Agreement' Aims Blow
at Self-Hate as Well as at Prejudice

By ALFRED SEGAL
IN OUR TOWN, a private showing of the film "Gentlemen's

Agreement" was given in advance of the public presentation.
The audience was a selected group of citizens. Among those
present were the superintendent of public schools, the superin-
tendent of Catholic schools, the executive director of our mayor's
friendly relations committee
which has to do with keeping Agreement". A magazine writer
racial and religious peace in the (Gregory. Peck) is commis-
community.
sioned by a magazine to blow
"Gentlemen's Agreement" is the lid off anti-Semitism and
a document on anti-Semitism show it up for what it , really
and our citi-
is.
zens were all
After long troubling, he de-
glad to hear
cides on an angle: The best
the vile whis-
way to know and to write about
perings of an-
anti-Semitism was to suffer it.
ti - Semitism
So this writer, Philip Green,
o u t
brought
plays Jewish for six months in
into the open
order to feel what it is to be a
of a moving
Jew. He becomes Philip Green-
picture that's
berg.
to show in the
As the Gentile Philip Green he
best theater. a
writes letters of application to
Al
Segal
Yes, it was
the best universities, the best ho-
better that a festering garbage tels, the best clubs, to employers
can that has been deep down who have good jobs to offer, and
in a dark cellar, poisoning the is accepted. As the Jew, Philip
inhabitants of the house, be Greenberg, he writes to the same
brought upstairs and exposed universities, the same hotels, the
to the fresh air. -
same clubs, the same employers
The picture gave our citizens and is rejected or gets no reply.
all the familiar anti-Semitic
Mind you, as Philip Greenberg
cliches they had heard about nothing has changed in him. He
Jews, all the dirty little names is exactly the same guy as Philip
that have been applied to Jews. Green—same good character,
They had heard all- this often same intelligence, same capacities,
before; now, in this picture, it same honorable reputation—but
was brought out as the vile he isn't wanted because of his
thing it always had been, some- Jewish label.
thing to be ashamed of.
There were several Jews at this
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private showing of, "Gentlemen's
THE SAME FELLOW
Agreement" to whom the case of
NOW YOU doubtless know
Green was an old story
BY the story of "Gentlemen's Philip
that reflected experiences of their
own or which they had heard
about from others.
They could see, though, that
"Gentlemen's Agreement" was not
alone for the moral instruction of
Gentiles. There was something
in it for the anti-Semitism of
Jews as well. It was just a
brief, quick incident but it hit
hard.
and
ideological
indoctrination the taxi drivers, and their num-
ber
is
insignificant
..
.
from Germans who were operat-
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PRACTICES SELF-IIATE
ing in the Arab countries during
the war. They expect to aug-
1N
THE OFFICE of the maga-
KAREL LISICKY, the chair-
ment their strength with recruits man of the U.N. Palestine Imple-
zine for which Philip Green is
from the reactionary Poles in mentation Commission, is a writing his series on anti-Semi-
Palestine who served under Gen. Czech. He is familiar with Pal- tism a certain young lady secre-
Anders.
estine's problems, having been a tary is employed. She is a Jew-
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member of the Mandate Commis- ish girl who, by changing her
ONLY BEVIN'S animosity and
name, managed to get her job
sion of the League of Nations.
personal opposition to the estab-
He is the solid and sober type with the magazine.
lishment of a Jewish state has
It had been the policy of the
of man one so frequently en-
kept the matter from being ex- counters in Czechoslovakia. Ile magazine's personnel manager to
posed in all its ugliness.
can be trusted to be thorough hire no Jews, but this girl had
Bevin's antagonism to a Jewish
deceived his prejudice.
and conscientious.
State is, incidentally, the result
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One day the publisher of the
of an obsession. He fancies Jew-
BY A RUSE that was as trans- magazine finds himself carried
ish communists were behind the
parent as it was vicious the angrily away by his own new-
opposition which developed
American University of Beirut found zeal against anti-Semitism.
against him in the transport
has driven out approximately GO When he hears from Philip Green
workers union.
Jewish students. This was ac- that even on his own high-mind-
In fact the only Jewish trans-
complished by an order of the ed magazine It had been a policy
port workers in England, Berl
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Locker once told this writer, are

Story of 4,000 Mosleyites Aiding
robs Is Blot on Britain's Honor

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
THE STORY BEHIND the Arab
boast that 4,000 Britons had
enlisted to fight against the Jews
in Palestine is one of the most
sordid in Britain's postwar his-
tory. It has the elements of a
scandal which may have serious
repercussions on the international
scene.
The enlisted are anti-Semites
and fascists who were picked by
Mosleyite leaders in England.
These fanatics not only consider
themselves the vanguard of a
crusade to crush the remnant of
European Jewry through nullify-
ing the UN partition decision but
the core of a "Storm Troopers'
force which, its leaders hope, wil
ultimately seize control of Britain
itself.
Scotland Yard has evidence tha
these men are to receive military

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