Page Three DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Friday, May 7, 194k Strictly Confidential AP Tag for Ben Gurion Fosters Arab Hoax • 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. • • 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, • • used on incinerator duty. • "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 • • troubles in Palestine, is one of the affiliated compa- WHY WAS THE annual meeting of the Anti- (Continued on Page 11) Defamation League of Bnai Brith held at Los An- • • • 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 (Continued on Page 7) 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 • • • 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- • • • 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. • • • 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- (Continued on Page 4) 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 . help it." - • • • 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, 4 • • 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 (Continued on Page 11) 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 je 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- • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • ANOTHER CONSIDERATION is the indisputable fact that the Arabs in Palestine are showing no enthusiasm to fight. Intelli- gence reports show that the Arab (Continued on Page 6)