Friday, April 33, IN• DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Faxe your Detroit Jewish Chronicle A New Gibraltar Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 SUBSCRIPTION: 83.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year Entered as Second-class mane' March 3, 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879 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. • . • 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. sew 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. • • • 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 t111111111111MIIIIIIIII11111111111111111110111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111E11111111111111111111111:1MIIIIILIPTIVIIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIlliamitMeinumonammanal 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. • • • 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- • • • 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. • • • 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. 011111111111111114111111111111111illlallomIl1iffilla 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. • • • 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. • • • 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.