Friday, January 30, 1948

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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER. Editor-in-Chief

Vol. 50, No. 2

Friday, January 30, 1948 (Shebat 19, 5708)

Save Jewish Lives

The United States arms embargo de-
prives the Jews of Palestine of the means
of self-defense.
Wire or write to President Truman,
Secretary of State Marshall, Senators Van-
denberg and Ferguson or Congressmen
Dingell, Youngblood and Coffin in Wash-
ington urging them to press for the lifting
of the embargo.
You can help save Jewish lives!

Christian Friends

Christian friends of. the Jewish State
are appalled at British toleration of Arab
aggression in the Holy Land and the im-
position of the United States arms embargo
which prevents Jews from defending them-
selves adequately.
In newspaper advertisements, editorials
and public statements, they have supported
Jewish protests at British connivance with
the Arabs and demanded that the embargo
be rescinded.
The American Christian Committee for
Palestine has urged President Truman to
warn Britain that as long as her forces
remain in Palestine, she "cannot be neither
neutral nor quasi ,-neutral, but must act
in defense of public law and the UN de-
cision."
Commenting on British exhortations to
the Jews that they restrain -themselves
from fighting back in Palestine, W. K.
Kelsey in the Detroit News makes this
derisive comment:
"Can you think of greater nonsense
then to tell a man he must not defend
himself even though the authorities cannot
or will not defend him?"
Said the conservative N.Y. Herald
Tribune: - "It is indefensible for the United
States to put its whole influence behind
the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine
and then impose an embargo on the export
of arms which are more and more plainly
indispensable to such a State's survival.
The first and simplest answer to the sud-
den question of arms for Palestine is to
lift the embargo at once."
Writing in the Nation of Jan. 17, Frieda
Kirchwey, its editor, declared: "The United
States can still make or ruin partition .. .
We can insist that a UN force be sent to
Palestine immediately to restore order .. .
We can insist that the British shall use all
their available armed strength to end the
Arab rebellion . ."
These statements are only a fraction of
those that men of goodwill have spoken
in denunciation of British policy and Amer-
ican inaction. They prove that the Zionist
Emergency Council was justified in inform-
ing the British ambassador in Washington
that "a growing segment of public opinion
is unable to explain the British attitude on
any other grounds than that the British
have deliberately embarked upon a policy
of benevolent toleration towards the Arab
riots in the beginning to encourage their
growth; and that now, with the riots having
assumed major proportions, British forces
become somewhat more active in combating
them in the hope that this would lead to a
request by the UN or by the Jews them-
selves for continued British occupation of
Palestine".
That tragic day must never be allowed
to come.

Council for Judaism

Two great American Jews have answered
the increasingly irrational American Coun-
cil for Judaism which has just concluded a
particularly disruptive convention.
Commenting on the group's chief buga-
boo of "dual loyalties", Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer, president of the American Jew-
ish Committee, couples "malicious anti-
Semites" with "a small number of mis-
guided Jews:: who feel . than; .the Jewish

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State raises a problem for the American
Jew. Said Judge Proskauer:
"I hold the profound belief that there
is no such problem. Clear thinking requires
that we begin with the axiom that there
can be no 'political identification of Jews
outside of Palestine with whatever govern-
ment may there be instituted.
"The first corollary of this axiom is
that the Jews of America suffer from no
political schizophrenia, that politically we
are not split personalities, and that in faith
and in conduct we shall continue to dem-
onstrate what the death rolls of our army
on many a battlefield have attested, that
we are bone of the bone and flesh of the
flesh of America."
Daniel Frisch, vice-president of the ZOA,
charged that the council's convention was
called "for the purpose of intimidating and
blackmailing American Jewry in deserting
the cause of Jewish Statehood and to ally
themselves instead with the fascist and
Nazi forces now attempting to undermine
the decision of the United Nations and thus
prevent 'the implementation of partition.
"At no time in Jewish history", he as-
serted, "did any group of Jewish 'informers'
so recklessly and unjustifiably reflect upon
the patriotism of the Jewish community".
With these views, we are in hearty
accord.

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to employ no Jews, he gets up
in the air, as they say.
Immediately he orders a want
ad printed in all the daily pa-
pers: "Wanted—A secretary, a
competent person is desired, re-
gardless of race or religion."
Strangely, the Jewish secretary
who had obtained her job by al-
tering her Jewish name, isn't at
all happy to hear about this. She
speaks to Philip Green, to whom
she has been assigned as private
secretary. (She had told him in
strictest confidenhe that she was
Jewish.)
No, she says, she doesn't like
this in the least. If Jews are to
be accepted for work in the mag-
azine's office, it might turn out
to be bad for her. There might
be some undesirable Jews getting
into the office and that would do
her no good if they ever found
out that she was Jewish . . .
"You know how that is, Mr.
Green. A bad Jew hurts all of
us" . . . No, she didn't want any
more Jews in the office.
Philip Green turns angrily: "So
you, too, are anti-Semitic" . . .
• • •

all right but there are those oth-
er Jews. They're the ones who
get us all in bad. Now, if only
all Jews were like us.

We parrot the anti-Semite who
says "You, personally, al e all
right, but there are those others.
You are a white Jew." We take
up the anti-Semite's lash and lay
it on other Jews.
We are tolerant of sinners in
other groups. "Well," we say of
them, "it takes all kinds to make
the human race."
But for Jewish sinners we bor-
row the way of the anti-Semite
who puts the Jewish sinner on
the back of every Jew.
The Jewish secretary, distressed
because thereafter Jews were to
be accepted for employment in
the magazine office, was not
unique. I have heard of Jews
who reside in select neighbor-
hoods bitterly deploring the re-
port that another Jew was about
to move in on the street.
"We are well accepted here,
and you can't tell what another
Jew may do to our happy situa-
tion. How did he manage to get
in here?"
Well, after two hours the show
was over and Gentiles and Jews
started home, feeling refreshed,
as after a cleansing bath. (Thanks
to Twentieth Century Fox for
meeting an embarrassing social
problem head-on.)

Detroit's orthodox and conservative Rab-
binate has made a mild start in tackling
what has grown to be an embarrassing and
sometimes disgusting situation.
We refer to the tendency among certain
groups to make weddings a vulgar exhibi-
tion of one's financial standing.
The Rabbis, in a needlessly guarded
statement, fired their first shot by request-
ing that only ordained Rabbis connected
with a house of worship be engaged to
peform the ceremony.
The nuptial rites are a solemn, religious
obligation steeped in tradition and cere-
monials of ecclesiastical origin. Certainly,
only Rabbis qualified by learning and the THE OTHER KIND
nature of their office ought to officiate at THIS MUST HAVE fallen heav-
the marriage ceremony.
ily on the consciences of the
The Rabbis should not have hesitated to several Jews in the select audi-
go further and to condemn the practices of ence. Yes, wasn't this the same
recent days when many thousands were kind of anti-Semitism that is in
a lot of us? We say, sure, we're
spent at weddings for liquors and Lucullian
feasts which turned holy occasions into
revelries.
We do not criticise moderate celebra-
tions in keeping with one's social and finan-
cial status. What we do deplore is a gaudy
himself to Jewish cultural ac-
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display of wealth and vanity that turns out thing that can be labeled 'Fas- tivities exclusively. Ile is in-
to be a profanation of the holy vows solemn- cist' that his eyes are blind to terested in the magazine Jewish
ly spoken a few moments before under the any good that may be done in Life, in the Jewish Cultural
Conference and in American
canopy.
lands 'where a Fascist govern- Jewish history.
These are days for moderation and re- ment is in power" . . .
Bittelman is in distinguished
Really, Karl, can anything
straint. Rabbis can fulfill a definite obli-
company.
Among the "subver-
gation by insisting that celebrations be kept good come out of a Fascist sives" listed by Attorney Gen-
source? It seems to us that you
within the confines of reason and good are the frightened liberal, and, eral Clark (who, incidentally,
taste.
what is more, you speak with was a featured speaker at the
American Jewish Committee's
We feel that the Rabbis themselves can the voice of frightened Jews annual conference last week)
whose
frightened
forefathers
play a greater role in creating the proper
are Rep. Adolph Sabath, Sena-
people.
atmosphere. Many of them speed through left the faith • of • their
tor Harley M. Kilgore, Senator
•
the ceremonial by rote and dash oft either
Glen H. Taylor, Rep. Helen
to perform other hasty nuptials or to the
ALEXANDER BITTELMAN, Gahagan Douglas, Rep. Ema
who recently was arrested by uel Celler, Rep. Vito Marcan
quiet of their study.
the FBI on charges that "he ad- tonio, Rep. Adam Clayton
They should remain for a time, we be- vocates the overthrow of the Powell and Senator Claude Pep-
lieve, mingle with the guests and even par- U.S. government through vio- per—all spokesmen for Roose-
take of the refreshments. By their pres- lence," has for years devoted velt's New Deal policies.
ence, they display a personal interest in the
bridal couple and in the celebration and
help keep the spirit of sanctity within the Arian Honored by Jewish Center ,
group. •
The board of directors of the Mrs. Arian a gift from the
We are sure the reverend gentlemen will
forgive us if we also suggest that some of Jewish Center paid tribute to board.
Arian, who has resigned
Arian, a native of Cleveland,
them revise or improve on the nuptial ser- Harold
as assistant director of the Cen- was on the staff of the Cleveland
monettes they deliver to the bride and ter to accept the executive di- agency prior to his entrance in-
groom and that they should perhaps allude rectorship of the Council Educa- to the army. He accepted the as-
to day-to-day problems that might be over- tional Alliance of Cleveland.
sistant directorship of the Center
come with mutual understanding and for- Samuel H. Rubiner, Center upon his return from overseas
president, presented Mr. and duty in February, 1946.
bearance. - • - -

Zionists Urged to Fight Embargo

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