Page Three 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 • • • 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 • • was held in its famous Mikve Israel temple, the his- Zionists. P. J. Biron WHY DID Rabbi Irving Levey resign his librarian- • • • 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 (Continued on Page 14) 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. • • • lish pogroms after that time. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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- (Continued on Page 6) 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 • • • 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- (Continued on Page 12) ish prisoners—above the official Milan and Budapest. ich, (Continued on Page 15) 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. • • • 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.. • • • 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. • 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. • "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.