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SEYMOUR TILCHIN. President

Vol. SO, No. 23

GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Friday, June 25, ISO (Sivan 11, 51611)

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prestige of Dr. Stephen Wise, president of
the American Jewish Congress, and of
Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok's min- Nahum Goldmann, Zionist executive.
imal terms on which he would be ready to
The World Jewish Congress is one of the
negotiate with the Arabs for a lasting most democratic Jewish groups in Jewish
peace are based on the premise, succinctly life. It rises above parties and includes all
described by the "Nation" as "an irrever- sections of Jewry from extreme right to
sible act.of history," that Israel is a sover- extreme left including Communists, who,
it must not be overlooked, are a big force
eign•State.
Israel, accordingly, cannot meet with in Europe today.
Finally, the Congress has a vast ex-
Arab officials unless they are ready to re-
cognize the Jewish representatives as perience of nearly a generation of work and
abokesmen for a State and not a Palestine achievement in the field of Jewish rights
in the Diaspora which is as imposing as
minority group.
We think that the foreign minister will that-of any other Jewish body.
A session of such an organization is,
be justified in breaking cif negotiations if
this proviso is not accepted. That it may in a sense, a session of a "Jewish world
lead to a resumption of the war is a chalice parliament." Its deliberations will be fol-
he must take,• for to enter the discussions lowed with great interest by every Jew
on any other basis is an acknowledgement interested in the welfare of his people
of Jewish failure, for without a State, Pal- everywhere.
estine Jewry has nothing.
With regards to immigration, Shertok
`Time' the Goody-Goody
has enunciated the only proposition accept-
'Time' magazine self-righteously re-
able. There must be no restriction as to bukes the N. Y. Post for publishing car-
either volume or source, he said, and the toons picturing Bevin marked with swas-
State of Israel alone will decide how many tikas, leading the Arab League around on
immigrants it will receive, and where they a rope, and showing a monkey faced John 5tionetiememosaiiiionnomm BY Seymour Tilehin milimmsrom „„
HERE ARE RUMORS around melodies and music that would
will come from.
Bull stomping on a prostrate United Na-
If either the UN or the Arab League tions, pointing with one hand to British- T town that there will be a be an excellent addition to any-
were permitted to limit or supervise immi- armed Arabs awl with the other to a delay in the building of the one's record collecii .n. There
Jewish Hospital, not because of is no need for the vulgar
gration to Israel, the country would have pygmy Israel armed with a popgun.
to surrender its right to make its own de-
'Time' asks: "How far may a cartoonist high prices or the inability to repartee.
• • •
get labor and materials, but
cisions on internal matters.
go in penning hateful labels on those he because
ZIONIST
UNITY
of
dissension
within
the
Shertok made it quite clear to Count disagrees with. Thoughful readers might
ON JULY, the Zioo!st Orga-
proper.
Bernadotte that Israel would not agree to well wonder about the journalistic eth- committee
hold
There is a great deal of con- nization of America
any reduction of the territory allptted to ics . . . "
cern on the part of the people its convention in Pitts')urgh
it by the UN partition decision of Nov. 29,
May we point out to 'Time,' firstly, that who have campaigned for the purpose...ISRAEL. This week
1947. To surrender even a sliver of that this type of cartooning has been an Ameri- funds and on the part of those Mizrachi held its convention
area would create a precedent weakening the can practice since the early days of United who have contributed.
purpose... ISRAEL. The Ameri-
partition decision and act as an invitation State journalism and that it is still followed
There were a great number of can Jewish Congress is having
to revolt inside of Palestine and withdrawal daily by such "100 percent American" news- doctors who helped promote the a world convention in Switzer-
movement and a great number land and one of its main pur-
of support by Jews outside.
papers as the Chicago Tribune.
community' minded people poses...ISRAEL.
The partitioned area was the minimum
If 'Time' is shocked, let it condemn all of
Jewry could accept in November and still of this type of caricatures without sud- who raised the money from Other organizations are about
small contributors and who have to hold such conventions. With-
retain its self respect. There must be no denly becoming concerned over any parti- worked
long years to attain their in the community, hundreds of
more amputations.
cular examples.
groups are meeting individually
goal.
To agree to cession of Jerusalem to Ab-
Secondly, may we remind 'Time' that it
It would indeed be tragic if . . . purpose . ISRAEL. Must we
dullah would be strengthening Jewish ene- has frequently stooped to low caricaturing clashes among the 'high moguls continue dissipating our efforts
mies and condoning the Arab aggresSion. and innuendo in its own front page por- delayed the building of the hos- in this matter?
Jerusalem should retain its U. N. status as traits; that a magazine which could con- pital.
American Zionists most now
• • •
unite as one group. Partisan
a neutral city.
tinue to call attention to the "cripple" in
Zionism can no longer be tol-
Likewise, the decision to create an inde- the White House and label Americans of JEWISH RECORDS
pendent Arab state in Palestine should be Italian birth in its columns as "Dagoes" THERE HAS BEEN a sudden erated and must not eist. If we
fulfilled to prevent its incorporation into ought not be squeamish about realistic influx of. the so-called bur- are looking forward to unity
lesqued Anglo-Jewish records. within Israel there must also be
British-fianced Transjordan, Israel's only cartooning.
Most of these are vulgar and unity within Jewry on the ques-
enemy with an army strong ,enough to
Thirdly, may we make it' known to are a take-off on a supposed tion of Israel in this country.
• • •
challenge it. •
Time,' since its hundreds of correspond- Yiddish prototype that does not
The Israeli cabinet was wise in sticking ents and vast news networks have appar- exist.
HAGANAH AND IRGUN
to its guns and refusing to make conces- ently not apprised it of the facts, Bevin is
LAST WEEK, I suggested
They apparently are Yiddish
sions which might mean chopping up and pathologically prejudiced about Palestine only because the words pickle. that American Jews recognize
weakening the Jewish State. World Jewry, matters, and he does not deny that he is herring, and schmaltz are used and support one army in Israel
in them. They are certainly and that should be Ilaganah.
we are certain, will back them in their an anti-Semite.
self-degrading, and why any Actually, there is no liaganah
resoluteness.
By lifting his little finger he could have Jewish home would buy them is anymore. There is a Jewish
stopped the Arab attacks on Israel and ar- beyond me.
army.
State with a Jewish
We certainly have a fine se- This army does not belong 1•
ranged for a peaceful settlement.
World Jewish Congress
(Continued on Page 5)
The British people, have on the whole, lection of Hebrew and Yiddish
In the excitement over the proclama- condoned his frauds at the' UN and his
tion of the Jewish State and - the war fol- determination to continue arming the Arab
lowing it, Jewish World News Service invaders threatening -the peace of the world.
paints out, the fact that not all Jews are
These are the facts. The cartoons were
in Palestine and that not all important mild in their interpretation of them.
lewish
problems
are
concentrated
there
has
I
been overlooked.
Chinn Not Our Friend
There are many Jewish problems outside
NEW YORK (Special)—Faced tensifying the anti-Se oitic tone
The
Chinese
ambassador's reply to the by the quarantine treatment, an of their addresses, the collec-
Palestine of vital importance to 'millions
of Jews in postwar Europe, North Africa, American Jewish Conference's protest at investigation by the Un-Ameri- lion proving meagre in spite a
China's unfriendliness to the Jews at the can Activities Committee and a this.
Latin America and South America.
general defection by moat of
Hamilton also deplored the re-
These Subjects will be discussed at an UN was pure equivocation.
"I wish to assure you," he wired back, his lieutenants and collaborators. cent action of the Veterans of
important gathering at Montreaux, Swit-
L. K. Smith has reached Foreign °Wars of Edwardsville,
zerland starting Sunday. Jewish leaders "China fully sympathizes with Jewish na- Gerald
the lowest point of his career Mo., in cancelling a meeting
tional
aspirations
and
sincerely
hopes
that
from 64 countries will take part in this
in hatemongering.
scheduled at their quarters, at
conclave, the second session of the World full realization may be achieved by peaceful
which Lohbeck and Hamilton
cooperation."
and
means
of
conciliation
Recent
reports
are
that
Smith
Jewish Congress.
were to speak.
Those
means
were
amply
offered
the
is
casting
about
for
a
second-
Outside of the United States, the Con-
Smith's publications remain as
ary
role
in
any
substantial
gress is the central Jewish organization of Arabs in the recent Assembly session and
his principal source of revenue,
movement
that
will
have
him.
world dimensions which unites all Jewish in the Security Council meetings. If China With this in view, he is now One of the most recent pamph-
communities of the globe and attempts to were honestly in sympathy with Jewish making overtures to the British- lets to appear is written by
represent the interests of the Jewish peo- plans, she would have backed the Israeli Israel movement, and has sent Hamilton, and is titled "I Was
ple outside of Palestine, as the Jewish government, particularly in the Security John Hamilton and Donald Loh- Branded 686."
Council where her vote would have helped beck to confer with Briti4i- Purporting to be "the life
Agency united all Jews for Palestine.
of a young man trained
Since there is talk of "liquidating" the to impose economic sanctions and other Israel leaders in the midwest. story
to be a leader in the Communist
Jewish Agency, now that it has ostensibly curbs on the Arab aggressors.
Smith's Chi istian Nationalist Party" it is replete with scur-
If China were being governed by demo- Crusade
accomplished a major portion of its task,
held a meeting in St. rilous smears, of Jews individ-
the World Jewish Congress looms high on cratic rulers who might be sympathetic to Louis which a mere 35 attended. ually and collectively.
the horizon as the prospective heir to the oppressed groups, the instructions to her Smith, as usual, was not "pres- Meantime, a new depot for
Agency for the protection of Jewish rights UN delegates might have been different. ent. The speakers, Hamilton, anti-Semitic literature has been
Because her government is an oligarchy and Lohbeck and Kenneth Goff, en- started by Conrad Grieb in New•
outside Israel.
The World Jewish Congress receives a dictatorship, China is going the way of deavored to make up for the York City under the trade-name
deficiency in numbers by in- of "Examiner Books."
much of its support 'from Americans of the imperialistic Britain and feudal Arabia.

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