Friday, March 26, 190

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Strictly Confidential

Leahy Blamed for Truman Pro-Arab Policy

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
LOT OF INK is being spilled
about Loy Henderson (of the
State Dept.) as the most influential
anti-partition advocate in Washing-
ton. Much is being written about
Secretary James B. Forrestal as
the chief opponent of Jewish claims
in Palestine.
But the real power influencing
President Truman in his new pro-
Arab policy is Admiral William
D. Leahy, chief of staff to the
Commander-in-Chief.
P. J. Biron
It is Leahy who drummed into Truman's head
Loy Henderson's slogan: "The good will of 80,000,000
Arabs is more important than the 'fate of a few
thousand Jews."
Admiral Leahy, Marshal Petain's Ifosom friend,

tells the Jews of Palestine to eat cake if they have
no bread. Familiar words, aren't they?
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WHEN REPORTS REACH us that members of
the British army in Palestine participated in anti-
Jewish acts of violence, don't let us forget that there
are still thousands of General Anders' Polish army in
Eretz Israel,
These Polish pogromchiks wear British uniforms.
They have a. Polish insignia, but it's easy to confuse
them with the regular British soldiers.

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ADVANCE NOTICES about "Sword by His Side,"
a three-act play to be presented by the Zionist Orga-
nization of America next month, point to a big
Broadway success. Miriam Goldina of the original
Moscow Habimah will be the female star . . .
Here is something new: A solvent Jewish orga-
nization is liquidating itself because it has fulfilled

its function. The American Jewish Council to Aid
Russian Rehabilitation, organized during the war as
the Jewish Council for Russian War Relief, is wind-
ing up its affairs. It considers its work done • .
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver has definitely decided to
move to Palestine for permanent residence and be-
come a citizen of the Jewish State.
Ben Gurion wants 1,500,000 'Jews from Europe
to settle in Eretz Israel during the next ten years.
But where are they to come from, once you exclude
Russia?
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THE JEWISH Morning Journal has a new man-
aging editor and a New Look.
The old orthodox daily, which aspired for 40
years to be the Yiddish Times and succeeded in keep-
ing up a high record of decent journalism in Yiddish,
has suddenly had a change of heart and face and is
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Arbitration
Compassion Needed,
Youths Ask Parents
Has Big Role
to Respect Job Choice
Even for a Haman
in Community

Plain Talk

Personal Problems

Dad Should Not Insist Son Follow
His Vocation, Let the Boy Decide

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By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
THREE MAJOR AREAS of concern to adolescents were pre-
.. sented in a panel discussion at our high school as "advice"
by youngsters to their elders. These were: Parental help to
children in choosing a vocation; gaining independence from the
family; dating and allowances.
Too often, they said, parents
The youngsters were forceful
and clear in their views, yet shield their youngsters for a
respectful. They gave their long time and then awaken to
opinions n o t the fact th3t the child shirks
as individuals responsibility.
When shall a child learn to
but as mem-
bers of an be on his own? Obviously, re-
age-group and sponsibility must be taught as
presented them the child grows, increasing the
without feel- opportunities with general per-
ing bound to sonal development.
say "nice
But again came the plaintive
things."
note from the youngsters: How
N o
young- far can we go? This re-empha-
ster wishes his sizes the problems we counsel-
Dr. Goldberg pa r en t s to lors see.
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force a vocation upon him. It
does not necessarily follow, they LEAN ON PARENTS
said that a son must take his ADOLESCENTS wish to to be
father's profession when his
independent of their fami-
wishes are to the contrary— lies. They wish to think as
whether the pressure is direct adults, act as adults. Yet they
or indirect.
have no experience for it. They
The high school youngster, fear the breaking of family ties
is
too
young,
too
in-
they felt, -
because this is not a pleasant
experienced, however, to make situation.
his own vocational selection.
This separation from home
Each youngster — whether and family is a situation which
young man or young woman— every mature person must face.
definitely expected that his par- But there is reluctance to make
ents would give good explana- decisimis (and stand back of
tions for a choice of vocation. them), to assume complete self-
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authority. And it comes, mainly;
LEARN RESPONSIBILITY
from lack of experience in self-
1HE MAJORITY of these guidance.
youths earnestly asked their
The implication here too, in
parents to give them overall the words of these young peo-
guidance in their own choice of ple, was that the parental job
—if well-done—is to encourage
vocation.
One young man expressed his responsibility in children yet to
belief that it was a parental be ever-ready to step in when
duty to teach his child respon- inexperience may lead tb dif-
ficulty.
sibility.

By RABBI MORRIS ADLER

ONE OF THE FIRST Jewish
institutions set up in Jewish
communities in Europe was a
Jewish court. This took place
centuries before the courts of
the land developed a system of
law and legal procedure that
could be compared to Talmudic
law.
Disputes among Jews' were al-
most universally referred to the
Beth-Din and resolved by the
application of Jewish legal prin-
ciples.
In addition, the Jews being
both urban dwellers and men of
commerce required on the whole
a more complex system of law
than the people about them who
led a simpler mode of life. Nor
could the feudal courts of the

World Would Be Better Place
If Revenge Were Obliterated

By ALFRED SEGAL
]%1Y RESEARCH department lately has been looking deep into
Jewish history to discover how it happens that Haman still
is around in the world. He has been reported seen not only in
the darker places of the world, such as Europe, but even in more
enlightened spots such as the U.S.A.
(Currently I have had reports
ish plot to weaken Germany by
of Haman being loud on the the morality of the Jewish
streets of London. Ile has been prophets.
appearing in the guise of an
The manifest destiny of Ger-
Englishman named Moseley.)
many, they said, would be sub-
My investiga- verted by his subtle Jewish mor-
tions into this ality which was in Dr. Nimmer's
phenomenon book.
started one
It was one of the books
day (sometime burned in the big Nazi bonfires.
before Purlin) The great and good doctor man-
when I called aPd to get out of Germany
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in my head re- a few steps ahead of the Ges-
s e arch man. tapo. Thus he finally came to
the renowned me in my research department.
Bruno Nim-
I could welcome a scientist
ItilA
mer, who was who in his work emphasized the
Al Segal
professor
o f ethical content of his Jewish
psychology in the University of being. Nimmer was a man after
Garnicht in Germany before my own heart who even to his
Hitler.
science brought the moral lights
Dr. Nimmer is the one who of Torah and prophets.
Letters have been received
So when I thought of looking
from 26 Palestinian Yeshivoth wrote the monumental work en-
and charity institutions acknowl- t i t led "Die Besserung des into the further history of Ha-
edging the $3,750. sent them by Menschheit," which in its time man, I called in Dr. Nimmer for
was esteemed as the last word consultation.
the Vaad Hayeshivoth.
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The money was raised by the on how to improve the human
race
wholesale.
HAMAN
STILL
ALIVE
following: Mrs. Jacob Baker,
It was said at first•by the most "DOCTOR," I said, "we're go-
1695 Taylor avenue, $2,057; Mrs.
ing to look into the amaz-
Sarah Goldman, 3261 Fullerton authoritative German critics that
avenue, $1,000; Mrs. Zelda Bloom, Dr. Nimmer's book was a mile- ing fact that Haman Still is alive
3357 Calvert avenue, $47; and stone of the science of psychol- and vigorous, though we have
ogy and, in fact, of the human the written report that he wcs
Jacob Baker, $245.
hanged.
Contributions of $140 from race on its difficult upward
"Purim is at hand and our
climb.
Mrs. Goldman and $260 from
readers certainly would be in-
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Mr. and Mrs. Baker also were
terested to know why, so long
'PLOT AGAINST REICH'
made.
after the hanging, Haman re-
Vaad Hayeshivoth sends money
WHEN HITLER came mains an influential person in
to Palestine twice each year,
along, many of the same the world which is called civil-
before Passover and before the critics said that the doctor's ized."
High Holy Days.
work was an ill-concealed Jew-
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Vaad Hayeshivoth
to
Sends $3,750
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Zion Institutions

BUT

World's Faith in U.S. Shaken by Betrayal of Partition

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
TIIE IMPACT of America's
sudden reversal of policy on
partition is so stunning that it
is impossible at this moment to
react with any degree of ob-
jectivity, or even of subjectivity.
The hurt is too deep, the wound
too painful, the insult too heavy,
the betrayal too unbelievable.
Less than four months ago
our country, faced by an essen-
tially moral problem, rose to
world leadership in steering the
Palestine issue to the only ap-
parent solution. Today, after
having raised false hopes in the
hearts of the Yishuv and in the
souls of the tragic Jewish figure
in Europe whose -longing for
Zion is the sole mainspring of
their existence, the United States
stands with the Arabs in shear-
ing Jewish hopes, in subjecting
our men, women and children

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in Palestine to slaughter by
semi-civilized peoples and in
frustrating a dream which stood
as a pillar of light in Jewish
life over the centuries.
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LESS THAN four months ago
our spokesmen at the United
Nations gained the admiration
of the world by meeting Arab
threats and challenges with a
forthrightness and courage be-,
coming a great nation. Today
we cringe and yield to Arab
violence. (
Less than four months ago
we sounded a call of encourage-
ment to a bewildered world seek-
ing comfort and peace in in-
ternatirmal organization. Today
we carry a message of divisive-
ness, a message of despair and
hopelessness to the' frightened
people of the world.

THIS SUDDEN transition from the architects of the plan will
light to darkness is even more suggest that two cantons—paral-
ominous when considered against lel to the proposed Arab and
the background of last week's Jewish states—be established,
presidential mesage to the peo- with each having full local
ple of America and the world. autonomy under the trusteeship.
For how cart the people of Italy, It might even be suggested that
of France, of Greece—all the each have a currency of its own.
people to whom the message The advocates of the plan will
was directed—repose faith in a even insist that the Trusteeship
government, in a President and Council allow wider immigration
in an Administration which so into the Jewish area than was
shamefully reneges on a decision allowed by the mandatory.
to which it had been pledging
Such a "temporary approach"
adherence to the very last mo- to the problem, it will be main-
ment?
tained, would prepare both
The faith of the world in Arabs and Jews for ultimate
America has long been tottering. self-government.
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The painful display of shame-
fullness before the Security
IN ADDITION, it will be ar-
Council may well shatter that gued that such a course would
faith completely.
ultimately convince both peoples
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that they can live in peace un-
TO MAKE the trusteeship der independent states. That it
proposal palatable
to the Jews, would simultaneously remove
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the pressure of the Arab states
on the Palestine Arabs .
The obvious purpose of the
design is to put over the "fed-
eralization" plan. This plan is
close to the hearts of Morrison
and Sevin, who once said a
Jewish State in Palestine would
be established only over his
dead body.
Too muds Jewish blood has
been shed in Palestine for the
Jewish Agency to retreat from
its "irreducible minimum" 'par-
tition .position.
The partition decision will
either he carried out, or, as Dr.
Emanuel Neumann recently de-
clared at a luncheon in honor
of Dr. Jorge Garcia Granados,
Guatemalan chief delegate to
the UN, the Jews will demand
all of • Palestine. There will be
no retreat.

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