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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Strictly Confidential
AP Tag for Ben Gurion Fosters Arab Hoax
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By PHILEAS J. BIRON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS has
taken to describing David Ben
Gurion as "Russian-born," and
y
when queried as to why this des-
ignation was being used replied
that this was not done with ma-
licious intent.
And then the world's largest
news service added that Rabbi
Abba Billet Silver, for example,
is often called "the American-born
Zionist leader". Well, for the in-
formation of the AP, Rabbi Silver
P. J. Biron
was born at Neinstadt, Lithuania, which at the time
of his birth was part of Russia.
And Ben Gurion is just as completely a Pales-
tinian as Silver is an American. That foreign-born
tag the AP uses as identification just serves as fuel
for the anti-Zionist Arab propaganda which is trying
to put over the hoax that the ZiOnist army in Pales- geles this year,
The reason for this location thousands of miles
tine is Russian-led.
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from New York is a simple one: The ADL leaders
were not anxious for a large delegation from eastern
INCIDENTALLY, Ben Gurion, who is to be the
cities
premier and war minister of the Jewish State, never
New York in particular has a large number of
rose beyond the rank of private in the Jewish Legion
ADL men who are severe critics of the organization's
of the British Army during World War I. Ile could present policy. And Los Angeles was selected to
never master the intricacies of "forming-fours" and make it tough for New Yorkers to attend.
"presenting arms," and so was, most of the time,
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used on incinerator duty.
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"STUNNED" IS the word for how we felt .when
we opened the April issue of Bitzaron, the Hebrew
DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN'S autobiography is being Monthly of America, edited by Chaim Tchernowitz.
readied for publication, by Maurice Samuel. Before
A half-page advertisement of the "Standard Oil
it appears in book form the Daily Forward will pub-
Company (New Jersey) and Affiliated Companies"
lish it serially in Yiddish, and the New York Herald- stared us in the face. The Arabian-American Oil
Tribune in English.
Company, which is responsible for many of our
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troubles in Palestine, is one of the affiliated compa-
WHY WAS THE annual meeting of the Anti-
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Defamation League of Bnai Brith held at Los An-
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Plain Talk
Breakdown
rUlame Is Ugly Word in Morale of How to Balk Jones
Who Spouts Hatred.
to Delinquent Parents
DP Is Denied
Personal Problems
Refuse to Admit Their Own Guilt
for Misbehavior of Their Children
(Special to the Chronicle from
Jewish World News Service.)
NEW YORK--A strong denial
of rumors about alleged demor-
alization of the Jewish DP's was
issued by one of the greatest
authorities on Europeari Jews,
Dr. Israel Yefroikin of Paris,
who is on a visit to this country.
Speaking at a testimonial
luncheon given by the Zionist-
Labor Relief and Rehabilitation
Committee, Yefroikin who is the
chairman of the French section
of that committee, said that there
was not a particle, of truth in the
reports.
Theoretically demoraliz a ti on
should have set in among the
DP's because of the many heart-
breaking mental trid physical dif-
ficulties to which they are sub-
jected. Other people might have
been demoralized under such cir-
cumstances, he said.
Normally, crime should have
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By W. A. GOLDBERG, Ph. D.
A FTER EVERY TALK I give before congregations and clubs,
the audience asks questions. They ask about themselves, their
children, their fiances. They_ don't use the word "blame" but
they inevitably bristle with indignation if they think the answer
to their questions implies they may be the one at fault.
Children's attitudes are de-
Physicians ask, instead: "Why
rived from their parents and these pains and aches, these
associates. Their parents, in symptoms if there appears to
turn, obtain their views and be no physical basis?"
reactions from their own earlier
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conditioning.
MENTAL LINK
Almost every
IN MANY OF these cases, 'there
parent—uncon-
is a direct mental involve-
sciously wants
ment, an emotional involvement
to make out-
whose expression is in the form
side forces re-
of physical ailment and com-
sponsible f o r
plaint.
the "misbehav-
We all know of the child's
ior" of his
"stomachache" when forced to
child. Far too
play the piano, the child who
many parents
vomits when faced with a diffi-
cannot be suf-
ficiently real- Dr. Goldberg cult situation or a loveless home,
istic (and many of them are the child who breaks out in a
not mature enough) to know rash when thwarted.
All of these are ways of re-
and to admit, to themselves,
their part in their children's acting to situations—some more
visible than ethers. None of
conduct.
them belongs to a normal per-
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son.
PARENTS BLINDED
civilization has taught us
I WOULD like to throw out of to Our
repress many things we
the picture, forever, any
concept of blame, however. would like. Our civilization says
That is a red flag because par- we may tell "white lies." As
ents then become so self-de- long as we can disguise feel-
ensive that they cannot see ings in socially acceptable ways,
all is well.
clearly the difficulty at hand.
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At an allergy meeting, medi-
SUBSTITUTE
FOR HATE
cal specialists talked of many
cases which do not react to the A YOUNG LADY cannot say
that she hates her father's
usual tests or drugs helpful to
others. They also present other tyrannization of the home. She
conditions more aggravating cannot say this and still retain
her self-respect as a child who
than the allergy.
Medical science is now alert has been taught to "honor thy
to the relationship of mind and father and mother." So she re-
body. It is no longer sufficient acts otherwise.
It is more acceptable to be
for a physician to say to a
patient, "There's nothing wrong physically ill and seek medical
with you. It must be your treatments for the physical ail-
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imagination."
Have the Courage to Speak Up
When Bigot Shouts His Malice
By ALFRED SEGAL
HE OTHER EVENING in our town, there was a show to dra-
matize what to do about Jones. Jones? Well, his name may
not be exactly Jones. Maybe it's Smith, or Arbuthnot, Aber-
crombie or Fothergill. Just for short they called him Jones.
Jones is a kind of Typhoid Mary, you might say. (Typhoid
Mary is the historic girl who
carried typhoid germs on her said what he did. But his words
person and innocently spread take immediate effect. One of
them all around. There was his fellow-passengers s a y s:
no telling how many people she "Well, maybe there is something
gave typhoid to.)
to what that fellow said. May-
Jones isn't
be the Jews do push a bit. I
at all as in-
hadn't particularly noticed it
nocent as Ty-
but maybe they do."
phoid Mary
Another
passenger
says:
was. He is the
"Well, I think that man is wrong
guy who in
to speak that way, but there
public places
might be a bit of truth in what
spreads dirty
he says. A lot of Jews don't
cracks against
know our ways. They just can't
Jews and 4 .
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other minority E
groups.
HOW TO ANSWER?
Let's take an Al Segal
THE QUESTION was how can
incident on a bus. (The inci-
Jones be answered right on
dent was enacted in a show
that was given in our town.) the spot? What's one to say to
NEW YORK—An urgent ap- It's a crowded bus. One of the him intelligently with words as
peal for a loan of $1,000,000 to passengers is trying to get off. loud as his stupidity?
How to floor Jones wherever
reconstruct the economic life of "Out, please, out," he's saying.
he is heard was the subject of
Bogota Jewry, which was virtu- "I'm trying to get off."
ally wrecked during the recent
He squeezes his way through the dramatization. The script
riots in the Colombia capital, has and while so doing he inad- had been prepared by the com-
been issued by the Jews there. vertantly pushes one of the mission on community interre-
lations of the American Jewish
The financial losses suffered by other passengers.
Congress. Abraham F. Citron,
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the Bogota Jewish community
research associate of the com-
amounted to 9,600,000 pesos.
SPEAKS AGAINST JEWS
mission, had come to our town
In addition, Jewish business
losses outside Bogota came to A ND WHO DO you think the to help our people put on the
other passenger is? Sure show.
1,500,000 pesos. These figures do
Well, then, how were they go-
not include debts of several mil- enough, it's Jones. He glares
lion pesos owed by non-Jews to and shouts: "Hey, quit your ing to tell Jones off? A punch
Jewish businessmen. A peso is pushing. Do you think you own in the nose? That might be
satisfying but it wouldn't be an
the bus?"
worth 40 cents.
He looks around as if to ad- answer. It wouldn't convince
"There is no doubt that the
entire Jewish economy in Bogota dress everybody in the bus, the other people in the bus and
faces the danger of a breakdown then says: "Isn't that just like most of them would resent the
which may force Jews to emi- a Jew, always shoving. They disorder.
Jones finally gets an answer
grate," Jews there warned in think they own these buses."
Jones is no great mind, for but not in the bus. He is in a
calling upon Jewish organizations
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if he were he wouldn't have
to come to its aid.
T
ms
:
Bogota Jews Ask -
Loan to Rebuild
Return to Partition Seen in NM* Appointment
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
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OUR WEEKS ago this column
" started off with the disclosure
that informed Washington circles
believed "circumstances may yet
compel another change in Amer-
ican Palestine policy."
We revealed at that time that
a high diplomat in Washington
had told his friends that the
Administration "may be squeezed
into backing partition again." As
this is being written word reaches
us from excellent sources at Lake
Success that the appointment of
Gen. Hilldring as assistant to the
Secretary of State in charge of
Palestine Affairs presages a ma-
jor reversal in U.S. Palestine
policy.
derson, bitter foe of partition,
train Palestine policy-making it
is a virtual certainly the U.S.
will again espouse partition. In
fact the administration keeps on
claiming it never retreated from
that position.
The argumint is the trustee-
ship proposal was designed as a
move in the direction of ultimate
implementation of partition. How-
ever, many obstacles still must be
hurdled before the U.S. openly
and officially backs down its or-
iginal trusteeship plan.
If you care to speculate on the
motives behind the expected
change you would do well to fol-
low two tracks—(1) the certainty
that a motion before the Assem-
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bly to abandon the Nov. 29 de-
WITH HILLDRING'S return cision would be defeated and (2)
and the elimination of Loy Hen- the growing realization that the
Jewish forces in Palestine are
not only strong enough to defend
the Jewish state but to strike, if
necessary, against the rest of Pal-
estine.
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WHAT COULD the Arabs do
if their territory were seized first
as a defensive move and then
kept on the ground that "to the
victor belong the spoils?"
Rever;ion to partition is now
grounded on saying the military
prestige of the Arab states. A
military defeat for Transjordan
would send Abdullah into exile
and lead to a scramble for his
country.
Washington also realizes that
there is major discontent in the
Arab states and that in the event
of war the restive elements
would come to the fore. For in-
stance, if Iraq were to send
troops to Palestine there is no
doubt the suppressed Kurds
would resume their warfare.
If Egypt were to fight—and
that country's military history is
marked only by defeats—the re-
moval of major forces from the
country would open the flood-
gate to the government opposi-
tion and lead perhaps to revolt.
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KING IBN SAUD of Saudi
Arabia, who was so bellicose
when the partition decision was
made, has been strangely silent.
He and Abdullah love each oth-
er like poison.
Haganah's victories since it
went on the offensive has con-
vinced Washington the Arab
dome it hoped to build in the
Near East would collapse into
shambles once it came into corn-
bat with the powerful and intel-
ligently led Jewish forces.
Neither the Arabs nor Ameri-
can interests in the Near East
care for a real showdown. This
may sound like icy irony, but it
is nevertheless true that many
military experts in Washington
are now inclined toward letting
partition go into effect rather
than risk the possibility of the
Arab bloc suffering an irrepar-
able military and political defeat.
The fiction of Arab strength
must be maintained, is their slo-
gan.
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ANOTHER CONSIDERATION
is the indisputable fact that the
Arabs in Palestine are showing
no enthusiasm to fight. Intelli-
gence reports show that the Arab
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