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GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
SEYMOUR TILCHIN. President
Vol. 50, No. 15
Friday, April 30, 1948 (Nissan 21, 5708)
Dexter to Get Center
The entire community will greet with
enthusiasm the announcement that $200,000
had been allocated from Allied Jewish Cam-
paign funds for the projected $500,000
branch center on Dexter.
This is a move that should have been
made years ago, but it is nonetheless wel-
come.
While few will challenge the decision of
the fiscal leaders of the community to give
priority to overseas needs in view of the
desperate situation in both Palestine and
the DP camps, there has been a tendency
in the last few years to minimize the ur-
gency of local demands.
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None can accuse Young Israel of Detroit
of being unsympathetic to the preeminent
needs of the Yishuv or of the DP. Yet
for several years now, Young Israel has
bent all its efforts on plans for the estab-
lishment of a center for the whole Dexter
community because it recognized its trans-
cendent importance to the locality.
Unhappily, Detroit Jewry on the whole
failed to respond and Young Israel has been
forced to delay its plans.
Belatedly, now comes the disclosure that
communal funds are being set aside for a
Dexter branch center. This will certainly
be large enough to accommodate not only
Young Israel and its program but also many
more organizations and activities.
Such a building will be tangible evidence
to the skeptics and cynics that their gifts
to the 1948 campaign are supporting the
vital needs of our own community.
It will prove an inducement to those who
are unjustifiably reluctant to contribute to
overseas causes to give generously to this
year's campaign for the good of their own
neighbors.
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Sigler Breaks His Word
DETROIT 26, MICH.
trained and officered by British subalterns
and is commanded by a taciturn but sin-
ister British colonel, Glubb Pasha, who
while technically subordinate to Abdullah,
of course, takes his orders from London.
It would be well for Emanuel Shinwell,
the Jewish war minister of the Labor gov-
ernment, to inquire why Britain's Trans-
jordan forces are being permitted to attack
Jews in defiance of all morality and the
authority of the United Nations.
The Jewish victories should not be al-
lowed to breed overconfidence. We are
counting on the good sense of the prime
minister, Ben Gurion, who is also comman-
der in chief, to continue hoarding his
strength and to rely on men with more
military erudition than he possesses.
The Scene at Lake Success
Random Thoughts
An opposition which has rapidly grown
into a revolt, particularly among the smaller
nations, has shown that none of the big
powers, not even the United States, can
fully control the UN and dictate a policy
to it.
The revolt was voiced eloquently in a
speech by Sir Carl Berendson, the delegate
of New Zealand. Sir Carl not only voiced
the well-known arguments of the average
UN delegate and man in the street against
the American reversal of policy, but also
the emotional response, the chagrin, regret
and feeling of injustice which the recent
American action has called forth among
liberal people.
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Mr. Gromyko and the so-called Slavic bloc
voiced the reasoned arguments against trus-
teeship in a number of speeches. The fact
is that Mr. Gromyko can be said to have
taken the straight-Zionist line in the gen-
eral debate, except that he was far
more outspoken than the Zionists would
ever have dared to be in an open debate
with the United States government.
Gov. Kim Sigler's failure to include fair
employment practices legislation on the
schedule of the legislature's special session
is amazing.
The governor had explicitly pledged his
word to present the lawmakers with an
opportunity to study FEPC legislation.
His sudden turnabout without any ex-
The sum total of the discussion was, as
planation or excuse is an evasion of his the Jewish World News Service succinctly
promise and can be likened to the tragic put it, the American delegation faced d
reversal by President Truman on partition. curious situation of having undermined one
The governor was not dealing with ward decision of the UN Assembly (partition),
heelers and politicians when he gave his without being able to secure the other one
word, but with respected community leaders, (trusteeship) to take its place.
clergymen and educators.
To them his action is unexplainable for
The real motive behind the American
they are not used to the trickery and double plan has been confirmed by inspired reports
dealing of politics.
from London and Washington. It is that
Gov. Sigler owes the good people of Great Britain should be induced to remain
Michigan an explanation for his broken in Palestine after the expiration of the
promise.
mandate.
Haganah Is on the March
Ilaganah's recent military successes have
been heartening, more so because of earlier
reverses and the failure to lift the Arab
siege of the old Jewish quarter in Jerusa-
lem.
A banner headline reading "Jews Cap-
ture Ilaifa" is exhilirating and confirms
earlier predictions that the Haganah war-
riors, now strengthened by the fearless
men and women of Irgun, will be able to
hold their own in battle against the Arabs.
The evacuation of the Galillean city of
Tiberias by the outnumbered Arabs gave
the Jews another strongpoint in the north
and offered due notice to Syria and Lebanon,
whose frontiers are not far away, that it
will nea be a trifle to meet the trained and
inspired Haganah army on the battlefront.
At Neve Yaacov, not far from Jerusa-
lem, crack troops of wily Emil Abdullah of
Transjordan were thrown back after several
attacks.
The open participation of the Transjor-
dan Legion in battle against the Yishuv is
another example of British brutishness and
criminality.
The Legion is tacitly an adjunct of the
British army in the Middle East. It is
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The sessions of the UN Assembly have
revealed that the American plan to abandon
partition in favor of trusteeship has not
found the support in the United Nations alettetstaattottamiantation
that Washington expected.
By SEYMOUR TILCHIN
101IN HOWARD LAWSON, au-
thor of "The Jolson Story"
and of other movies, was con-
victed of contempt of Congress
because he refused to answer
whether he was a communist or
not. Dr. Edward U. Condon, di-
rector of the National Bureau of
Standards, is being investigated
for allegedly consorting with
communists. Eating Russian
caviar may soon become treason.
When I go to the voting booth
the government has a drop cur-
tain over me so that no one can
see how I vote.
I take a ballot by number and
then tear the number off, so that
no one can tell who voted. And
on these ballots, the communist
party appears.
I am not a communist, Mr.
Un-American Committee, but I,
too, would refuse to answer that
question, because it hits at the
core of American democracy and
it is a violation of my constitu-
tional rights.
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ANTI-ZIONISTS
THE READER'S DIGEST ar-
ticle is the latest in a series of
anti-Zionist articles and editor-
ials which began appearing in
some of the major magazines
Feb. 16, coinciding with the
opening of the debate in the Se-
curity Council. Since that date
anti-Zionist articles or editorials
have appeared in Colliers' Life
and Look.
As expected, the U.S. reversal
of policy was indorsed by the
American Council for Judaism.
Others who supported this re-
versal were the anti-Semitic
Rankin and Hoff-
This is to be done not in her old capacity congressmen,
man.
as a mandatory power, but as one of several Says a gloating Councilite:
nations who would keep order in the Holy "You Zionists were a little pre-
Land for the trusteeship committee of the mature in your celebration over
UN.
partition. Why don't the Zion-
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ists send their sons and brothers
This seems to be the ace card of the now to Palestine to disarm the
trusteeship plan but whether it .would meet Jews and Arabs, or how do you
with more success than the first proposal propose to save the Jews there
from being exterminated, thanks
by Senator Austin is questionable.
to the dumb Zionists in the
Many new difficulties have arisen to ob- U.S."
viate this plan. First, there is the parti- Mr. Anti-Zionist: You have
lost your soul and your con-
tion decision which is still legally the policy science.
You are a tragic figure.
of the UN. Secondly, the proclamation of I feel sorry
for you. I don't
the provisional Jewish government; thirdly, suppose you ever read the Hag-
the opposition of Congress to sending troops, gadah on Passover. Read it, par-
even if only nominally, to Palestine; finally, ticularly the section dealing
England's reluctance to act again as Amer- with the four sons, and see
ica's messenger boy in a nasty international which category you fit into.
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situation, not to mention the opposition of
MEETING
WITH
AUSTIN
the Arabs and of the Jews.
I WAS one of 300 lawyers who
Until this week, trusteeship had seemed met with Warren Austin last
the ideal solution to the State Department week in N.Y.
Our own Judge 0. Z. Ide
because it would have kept the Russians headed
the Detroit delegation
out of Palestine since Russia was not a and Gerald K. O'Brien, former
member of the Trusteeship Council. The prosecuting attorney, was co-
Soviet decision on Monday to send a repre- chairman. Included in the group
sentative to the Council, after all, may were also a Negro lawyer, an
Italian lawyer and the president
bring a change in United States plans.
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of the Detroit National Lawyers'
Guild.
The trip was definitely a sue-
cess because our delegation com-
posed of liberal thinking lawyers
who help mould public opinion
made it their task to become
better informed on the Palestine
question and spent most of their
time on the train and in New
York reading and discussing the
question.
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LEAGUE AND ZIONISM
I ATTENDED two meetings
last week, one a Zionist mem-
bership meeting; the other, out
of curiosity, the meeting spon-
sored by the League for Free
Palestine. Both were held the
same evening.
The Zionist meeting was for
the purpose of devising plans
for enlisting new members into
the organization. A great deal
of discussion went on on how to
go on with the membership
campaign without hurting the
Allied Jewish Campaign. Ap-
proximately 50 persons were
present. And how pleased Mor-
ris Jacobs, our president was,
that so many people showed up
who were willing to work on
the membership campaign.
Approximately 700 persons
filled the Central High School
auditorium to listen to Major
Weiser of the League for Free
Palestine. He came here to re-
cruit young men to join the
George Washington Legion to
fight in Palestine.
Naturally, after a blistering
emotional speech, the first order
of business was to empty every-
one's pocket, and sure enough
about $2,000 was collected.
Over an hour was spent In
completing that job with the
Major constantly prodding and
insulting the people into giving.
After that, five minutes was
spent in calling on young men
to volunteer. About a dozen
went up on the platform.
The legion will be formed
only if the U.N. will accept the
offer of the League to form an
international army. Such
thing will never happen, but A
makes good publicity. It's ex-
cellent bait for drawing crowds
and emptying their pockets.
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WORD OF WARNING
ZIONISTS BEWARE! These
doings are a definite threat to
Jewish unity and effort. The
people present were good, sin-
cere Jews who were bewildered
and confused by the present
tragedy and were seeking for
the truth.
They gave their last dimes.
Its up to the Zionist organiza-
tion in its membership drive to
tell the people the truth. Don't
let "fringe organizations" take
over.