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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, April 30, 1948
Strictly Confidential
N. Y. Synagogue Gags Friends of Yishtiv
WELCOME TO a new columnist in the Anglo-
The pulpit of that Synagogue cannot be used by
Jewish press. We refer to Seymour Tilchin's "Ran-
any preacher who wants to voice criticism of the
dom Thoughts" in the Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
TO THE MANY inquiries about American or even of the British role in Palestine
Tilchin impresses us as a two-fisted, no-punches-
our item on Wendell Willkie's
today.
pulled
commentator. And there is need of that type
It is because of this- ruling that the New York
anti-Zionist memorandum: It is
of journalism ... Good luck.
Board of Rabbis was compelled to change the meeting
reported to us that among those
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place of their intercession service for the Jews in
who were present at Arthur Hays
WHAT
WAS
THE
cause
of
that fracas between Dr.
Palestine to a Synagogue of lesser prominence. Yet
Sulzberger's home when Dr. Louis
Finkelstein gave his anti-Zionist the Rev. Dr. David De Sola Pool, an active Zionist Simon Greenberg and Wild Bavli, two professors at
interpretation of Judaism to Wen- whose wife is among the leaders of Hadassah, is the the Jewish Theological Seminary of America? Was it
due to the reported criticism of the liaganah by the
dell Willkie were Alan Stroock, Rabbi of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue.
On the other hand, we learn that the most irn- president of the Seminary, or to the amazing criticism
Henry Hendrix, Judge Edgar Na-
of the Seminary?
than and other well-known anti- pressive Jewish intercession service in Philadelphia of Zionism uttered by the provost
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was held in its famous Mikve Israel temple, the his-
Zionists.
P. J. Biron
WHY DID Rabbi Irving Levey resign his librarian-
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toric Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue in the City of
ship at the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati? This
INCIDENTALLY, Judge Edgar Nathan, very active Brotherly Love.
One wonders whether the difference in the attitude came rather suddenly, after almost four years of oc-
in the affairs of the Jewish Theological Seminary, is
Syna-
of
these
two Spanish-Portuguese Synagogues toward cupancy of the post.
now the president of the_ Spanish-Portuguese
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Palestine is due merely to the difference in climate.
gogue in New York City.
By PILINEAS J. BIRON
Personal Problems
Yassky Dies
fongress Due to O.K. With Shalom • now Prisoners Keep
Passover Traditions
DP Bill This Session
on His Lips
Look Forward Many Weeks Ahead
Capital Letter
Ferguson Is Among Those Active
in Supporting Admission of 200,000
By CHARLOTTE WEBER.
of this session.
That is the opinion of informed observers on both House and
Senate sides of Capitol Hill. They base their optimistic predic-
tions on the fact that two DP bills, a House bill and a Senate
measure, are now in the works
with a vote on them not far off. in the DP's be "mortgaged"
So, from a time when no one against future quotas of the
in Congress would touch the DP countries of origin of those ad-
question because it was such a mitted, and requires authori-
highly controversial issue, we zation from each state to which
reach the point—climaxed the DP's propose to go that jobs
end of last month—when every- and housing exist for them.
one wants to get in the act.
It also provides that DP's
The first of March saw the shall be admitted in proportion
introduction of the Senate bill, to each group now under IRO
the product of many months of jurisdiction. (Some 28 per cent
work and careful investigation of the DP's under IRO care
by a Senate subcommittee.
are Jewish.)
It called for the admission of
The bill also sets up priorities
50,000 persons a year for two for certain types of workers
years, set up a 50 per cent pri- much needed in this country
ority for farm workers, required hut does not restrict them to
each DP to furnish proof that any specific number as in the
he had a skill needed in the Senate bill. It makes all persons
locality where he proposed to displaced until April 21, 1947
settle and that he would not be eligible for admission.
displacing some other person
The Senate bill ran into im-
from a job or housing.
mediate opposition. It was crit-
It was severely restrictive in icized for proposing to admit
. defining what DP's should be only 100,000 DP's when about
eligible under the bill. No per- 800,000 remained in the camps,
sons who became displaced after for requiring that half of those
Dec. 22, 1945 were to be eligible, to be admitted be agriculturists,
for example, eliminating many for placinct, so many restrictions
Jewish DP's who fled from Po- on eligibility for admission.
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lish pogroms after that time.
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by the House • immigration
subcommittee on April 5, calls
for the admission of 200,000
DP's over a two year period,
provides that quota numbers
used during that period to bring
to Services, Rest and Lots of Food
By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph.D.
FOR 10 PASSOVER holidays I helped Jewish prisoners enjoy the
privileges of being Jews, privileges accorded no other prisoners.
If we had not been careful, the usual year-round Jewish pop-
ulation would have tripled with sudden conversions.
To prisoners, especially to Gentile prisoners, "outside" food
was a delicacy they rarely saw. quota—he had to be paid off.
But when it was seasoned as
Whether it was Sam, serving
only Jews know how, in the 20 years for a fire (he had had
holiday quantities they could a night club on the West Side)
only dream
or Harry serving for misplacing
about, they
BRITISH GUILTY
mortgaged restaurant equipment,
would gladly
there never was a shortage of
The blood guilt which stains
It a v e become
cooks, good Jewish cooks, for
the Arab maurauders who per-
Jews for a
the holiday meals.
petrated this deed also covers
short time.
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the British authorities in Jeru-
Prison tradi-
3 SERVICES AT ONCE
salem who knew the convoy was tion is as mi-
CAME THE PASSOVER day
assembling in the city, whose nute, as well-
A and the service. The boys
troops stood 100 yards from the guarded as
were all gathered in the ware-
blazing vehicles in which the prison security.
house, tables all set, white
victims were trapped, who pre- Jewish prison-
sheets serving as table covers.
vented the Haganah from com- ers always had
Dr. Goldberg
Whatever the service, some
ing to their rescue.
10 days' freedom from work,
The British army did not permission to spend the days to- group didn't like it. So, there
intervene when the Arabs at- gether, to cook Jewish food—a were usually all three services—.
tacked the peaceful medical rare privilege for any prisoner. orthodox, conservative and re-
form—going at the same time.
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mission with hand grenades and
The food included chopped
automatic arms at 9:40 Tuesday
liver, chicken soup, fried chick-
WARDEN ON ALERT
morning.
IRST, the warden would re- en, steaks, salami, corned beef,
They waited until noon when
mind us about Matzoh, meal, pastrami, mashed and fried po-
67 Jews had been killed, 17 so
macaroons.
(One deputy once tatoes, peas, carrots, beets, on-
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complained that ordinary Mat- ions (large, raw), pop, ice
zoh didn't agree with him, his cream, macaroons, pie, cake, cof-
stomach tolerated egg Matzoh fee and milk. Once they made
Bernstein to Direct
beautiful knishes.
alone.)
Was it Kosher? Was It Milch-
Three months before Passover,
Palestine Orchestra
idiks? Fleishidiks? The boys
we
already
had
letters
from
Leonard Bernstein, famed
didn't ask. It was Jewish food
American composer, conductor three self-appointed committees
and the quantity and varieties
CHANGES PUSHED
and pianist, will assume the di- of inmates asking about our
were enormous. There was
HEREFORE, as soon as the rection of the Palestine Phil- usual money contribution for compensation in being a Jew at
Republican policy commit- harmonic Orchestra for the 1948- special food for Passover.
year.
Then the prisoners would this time of the
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tee announced on April 1 that 49 season, according to an an- scrounge food from the kitchen.
press
at
a
DP legislation would be the nouncement made
We always had to allow for some TRADITION HONORED
next major issue to be debated conference on board the Queen additional cash because, if the THEY HAD CIGARS and cig-
on the Senate floor, Senators Mary last week prior to his
arets. They sat around at-
cook diverted eggs to the Jew-
Cooper, McGrath and Ferguson, sailing to conduct in Paris, Mun-
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ish prisoners—above the official
Milan
and
Budapest.
ich,
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VIVASHINGTON—Congress will pass a DP bill before the end
FIGURE BOOSTED
THE HOUSE BILL, approved
"He died in the driver's seat,
with the greetings 'Shalom' on
his lips."
This is how eyewitnesses re-
ported the last moments of the
life of Dr. Haim Yassky, direc-
tor of the Hadassah Medical
Organization in Palestine, who
was brutally murdered with 67
members of his staff, patients
and professors and technicians
of the Hebrew University in an
Arab attack on a medical con-
voy outside Jerusalem on April
13.
F
T
Fantastic U.S. Bargain With Arab Moguls Reported
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
THE
ADMINISTRATION'S re-
versal of policy was ground-
try- on political hysteria.
Truman was told by the State
Department there was no hope
of saving Italy from communism
and that the western powers
would have to look to the Mid-
dle East as the core of opposi-
tion to Soviet expansion.
According to one source the
President was sold the idea that
If the Italians veered from the
democratic path the Arab states
House. Under Truman indus-
trialists have reasserted them-
selves in government. As an ex-
ample, see the April 23 column
of Drew Pearson how large
numbers of former associates of
Dillon, Read Company are hold-
ing key government positions.
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TOO MANY GREAT interests
here and abroad are involved to
base the approach to the Pales-
tine situation on the merits of
justice and decency alone. The
icy reception given by many UN
delegates to the American trus-
teeship plan has many people in
Washington wondering whether
there may not be another re-
versal—and for the worse.
Powerful interests are urging
Under the late President the administration to take the
the military clique and its de-
cynical position that if the UN
sign was to convince the Presi- Roosevelt the Wall Street gang reaches no satisfactory solution
was kept away from the White
the battle against communism if
only the U.S. played ball with
them on partition..
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PART OF THE reported mili-
tary deal with the Arab states
was a promise that the State
Department would kill the infor-
mation it has on the pro-Nazi
activities of the Mufti and some
of the leaders of the Arab re-
sistance movement.
If revealed the dossier on
Arab war criminality would
make some of our smelly Wash-
ington officials even more mal-
odorous. Nor is its suppression
unrelated to our private oil in-
was under consideration unless terests. The bargain was save
he had been given a green light. our lives and we will save the
It was a scheme concocted by oil for you
WHEN THE oil issue was sud-
denly catapulted into undue
prominence some weeks ago the
move was only a blind. This ex-
plains the- sudden drop of oil
talk in the past weeks.
This also explains the break-
ing of the story, several days
before the Italian election, that
King Abdullah of Transjordan
was preparing to come to the
rescue of the Palestine Arabs in
order to save the Middle East
from communist penetration.
It is doubtful Abdullah would
have disclosed his aggressive in-
tentions at a time when Trans-
jordan's admission to the UN
would agree to supply a huge
army for a possible expedition
against Italy if the U.S. agreed
to abandon partition.
The President's advisers
thought it a good bargain and
Truman fell for the trap. He is
now a sadder but not a wiser
dent tlfat the Arabs would fight
man.
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the U.S. should step into the
Palestine issue as an affected
party.
The blow to American prestige
at Bogota was nothing as com-
pared with prestige lost by the
U.S. as a result of its "still un-
explained" abandonment of a
UN decision.
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"ROITE POMERANZEN" con-
tinues to be popular with the
Jewish public.
It is a collection of Jewish
jokes published by Schocken.
The book is in Yiddish but in
Latin letters.
The number of high grade
books published by Schocken is
impressive. There can be no
doubt that Schocken Books are
exercising an ever increasing in-
fluence on our community.