DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, Febivary 20, 1948
An Open Letter:
Page Eleven
Mizrachi.ASSPits
Synagogue Gilt
Promoted to 'General
Demands Dr. Magnes' Resignation
for Sabotaging Jewish State Plan
Dear Editor:
The flood of propaganda re-
leased through our various
newspapers and magazines the
last week with regard to Pales-
tine aims to liquidate not only
a Jewish State, but the Jewish
people.
The editorials appearing in
the Detroit Free Press and Life
Magazine as well as the articles
by feature writers like Russell
Barnes are honeycombed with
misleading statements and in-
nocent-looking phrases.
In effect, these articles lead
an innocent and uninformed
....reader to believe that the par-
4Y *ion scheme, as worked out
.411111vby the UN, is impractical; that
if it were implemented, it
would bring about a World War,
would spread Communism, and
would be unfair to the British
and the Arabs.
• • •
TILE PROPAGANDA further
attempts to discredit the Dem-
ocratic Party by claiming that
even the United States, domi-
nated by the Democratic Party,
supported the partition plan by
reason of cheap politics.
All that is not a surprise to
us because .at no time did we
feel that Britain was going to
step out of Palestine without a
last ditch fight to destroy with
it any hopes the Jewish people
may have for the right of sur-
vival.
• • •
on parity. It may take a long
time . . ." Page 167.
When asked by one of the
members of the UN Committee
"Q. Do you think that there is
a chance of your plan or any
other plan being carried out
under a mandatory or do you
think it would have more chance
Dr. Magnes answered, "It is
difficult, I must confess, for me
to say. Mr. Bevin proposes five
years. I think that is too short
a time . . ."
• • •
WHEN ASKED "How would
you fit in the ideas of Jewish
representation in a bi-national
state? How would you fit in
the idea of Jewish representa-
tion in the United Nations?"
Dr. Magnes answered, "I must
confess it is a problem that I
have not seen discussed as thor-
oughly as it should be . . . I
have not worked out in my own
mind just those specific things
in which he would be the repre-
sentative of the Jews . . .
"I have not worked it out
for myself, and I have not seen
that anybody else has. But I
think that one of your func-
tions ought to be to try to do
that and come back with a pre-
pared plan."
HOWEVER, NO little credit
will be due to Dr. Judah Magnes
for sabotaging the partition
plan. Dr. Magnes, who pro-
claiins himself to be merely a
scholar and not a statesman,
has been doing everything in
his power without authority or
ability to push his bi-national
state scheme even as recently
as a few weeks ago.
British and American propa-
gandists are now using him as
a tool and as proof that the
partition plan is unworkable.
Dr. Magnes is now consid-
ered the moderbte Jew and the
rest of Jewry are now the ex-
tremists who insist on the im-
plementation of the partition
plan.
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(Continued from Page 3)
ly. The U. S. will keep its par-
tition commitment.
The gloomy atmosphere which
prevailed the last few weeks is
quickly evaporating. Our only
danger is a defeatist attitude.
If Zionist leaders retain self-
control our enemies will lose
the war of nckves. Zionist lead-
ership in America proved its
mettle in the past.
Emanuel Neumann was quite
right when he recently declared
it was too premature to think in
terms of redefining the functions
of the Zionist Organization of
America.
The year 1948, as was predict-
ed weeks ago, will see the emer-
gence of the Jewish State. There
will be intrigues, obstacles and
bloodshed. But all obstacles will
be overcome.
If there should be a UN mili-
tary force, opposition to a Rus-
sian token force will be greatly
reduced if Russia promises not
to move its troops via land
routes but by ships from Odessa.
• • •
APRIL 1 is the next important
IT IS INTERESTING to note
that when Dr. Magnes proposed
his scheme before the UNSCOP
Committee as published in the
official records of the General
Assembly, Supplement No. 11
VoL III Annex A, he admitted,
"It will not be easy to work
out a draft of a Constitution
for a bi-national Palestine based
WHILE ADMITTING that if
he had a free hand, he would
rather create a Jewish State
and while further admitting that
the Jews of the world want a
Jewish State, yet he proposed
this plan to the UN speaking,
naturally, for himself.
We disagreed with Dr. Mag-
nes then but had no quarrel
with his right of free speech.
But once the will of the Jelvish
people of the world had been
expressed, even though reluc-
tantly, in favor of partition, for
a man like Dr. Magnes to write
letters to the New York Times
and to make representations
knowing full well that those who
are opposed to a Jewish State
would grab at such arguments
because of his position as chan-
cellor of the Hebrew University
in Palestine, it is out and
outright treachery which we
Jews must not sondone or tol-
erate.
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government for the Jewish State.
This will be a decisive step.
When, on May 15, the man-
date is surrendered, Tel Aviv
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After May 15, British authority
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parts of Palestine where British
troops have not yet been evacu-
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at present in Tel Aviv.
With the surrender of the
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will cease. The Jewish govern-
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port arms and bring in immi-
grants.
• • •
A CANADIAN GENERAL is a
strong candidate for the govern-
orship of Jerusalem. He will at
the same time be the mayor of
the city.
The French member of the
Trusteeship Council suggested
that the membership of the leg-
islative council be equally di-
vided between Jews, Christians
and Mohammedans. It is our
prediction that the final solution
will be an equal division be-
tween the Jews and the rest of
the population on a 50-50 basis.
Both groups will be separately
elected and vote in blocs. This
will give dictatorial power to
the governor. Invariably when-
ever the two blocs will differ,
his decision will prevail.
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IT WOULD to appropriate,
at this time, for the Yishuv
and for the Jews of the world
to demand that Dr. Magnes re-
sign from his Position as chan-
cellor of the University and
that he be repudiated by Jewry.
S. T.
B
Tel Aviv BowYng
Called Wanton Act
NEW YORK, N. Y.—A vehe-
ment protest against the bomb-.
ing of the oldest Synagogue in
Tel Aviv by British military
forces was registered in a cable
from the Mizrachi movement in
Palestine which was received by
Leon Gellman, national president
of the Mizrachi Organization of
Amcrict.
The cable declared that the
British have "ruthlessly bombed
COL. JULIUS KLEIN of Chi- and destroyed completely with-
cago, national commander of out cause" this Synagogue which
the Jewish War Veterans of also houses the Yeshivah Or-
the United States, who has Zoreach, while they have not
been appointed to the rank of even instituted a search of the
brigadier general and placed nearby mosque, Hassan-Bek, a
in command of the 109th Anti- "brooding nest of snipers who
Aircraft Artillery Brigade, a have shot down Jews without
newly-activated component of any interference from the Man-
the Illinois National Guard. A datory."
Terming this destruction of
veteran of both world wars,
he saw combat service in the the Synagogue which stood
South Pacific and the Philip- south of Tel Aviv, on the border '
pines. After V-J Day, he serv- of Jaffa, "a damnable act of wil-
ed as special assistant of for- ful destruction and provocation,"
mer Secretary of War Robert Gellman asserted, "this last ditch
effort of Bevin to discredit the
P. Patterson.
Jewish people and the Jewish
State by wantonly destroying
L. A. TELCOVE CLUB
The Los Angeles Telcove Club religious sanctuaries will not
will hold a leap year dance, succeed. Either Britain will aid
in the partition of Palestine, or
Feb. 29 at the Jewish Center.
she will cause the partition of
the United Nations."
its stories about Communist in-
filtration into Palestine, tried to
make amends this week. It ac-
tually carried an editorial de-
manding enforcement of the UN
partition decision. But the writ-
The culture commission of the
ing was of a wishy-washy kind. Jewish Community Council will
The New York Herald-Tribune, honor Emma Schaver, interna-
which consistently ignored the tionally known Detroit singer, at
Communist canard which the a reception, Wednesday, March
Times featured twice within one 3, at Shaarey Zedek.
month, spared no language in
Mrs. Schaver's new album of
its editorials. It. not only de- records, "I Believe," was recent-
manded firm UN action on the ly issued. It contains DP songs
ground that the prestige and very which Mrs. Schaver collected on
existence of the, international her recent European tour. The
body was at stake—it took up reception is being held in honor
the cudgels on behalf of the of the release of this album and
Jewish cause.
of her previous contribution to
So did the New York Post the musical life of the corn-
with brilliant editorials—some on mum iy.
the front page.
Council to • honor
Emma Schaver
liar Mitzvah
Cantor Slavensky
in Center Concert
Jewish Music Month will be
celebrated by the music depart-
ment of the Jewish Center at
2:30 p.m., Sunday.
Guest soloists will be Jerome
Stasson, violinist, and Cantor Pa-
vel Slavensky.
The program also will feature
the Center orchestra, Center
dance group, under the direction
of Fannie Aronson, and Temple
Israel Youth Group, directed by
Mrs. Shirley Subar Sklash. Lil-
lian Robbins will be at the piano.
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