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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Friday, July 2, 1948
America's Security Will Be Yours
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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President
GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
Vol. 50, No. 24
Friday, July 2, 1948 (Sivan 25, 5708)
DETROIT 26, MICH.
Let Zionists Merge!
The strongest and most influential Zionist
organization in America will convene this
'weekend to define its relationship to Israel
and to chart a revised organizational program
in consonance with the needs of the new
State.
This body calls itself the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America but actually it represents
only a little more than half of American Zi-
onists and only about five percent of the
Jews of America.
Labor Zionists, Mizrachi, Hadassah, Revi-
sionists and other groups also call themselves
American Zionists and, to be honest, bicker
incessantly and only nominally work together
for the good of the common objective—the
rebuilding of a National Jewish Home.
Altogether only about 10 percent of Amer-
ican .Jews are active members of Zionist or-
ganizations. We venture to say that because .
of the stirring historic events of the past
few months, the huge unaffiliated masses
would' actively participate in the labors of
the Zionist groups if there were a unified
Zionist organization to which they could be-
long without the partisanship, the wrangling,
the politics and the self-interest of the sep-
arate groups.
Zionism must live in America. Israel will
be in need of moral, political and economic
support from American Jews for a long time
to come. Zionist organizations must be in
existence to encourage that help and to keep
American Jews alert to their kinship to their
brethren in Israel.
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We knew that we are not the first to sug-
gest this. What American 'Zionism needs to-
day is not "loyal opposition" within the ranks
of the ZOA, nor little parties of Zionists each
with t heir own visions of glory and their own
feelings of righteousnbss. What American
Jewry needs is a MERGER of all Zionist
groups into a single, solid Zionist organization
to be called American Friends of Israel or
some similar name.
The State is here. It will live on without
America, but it will be stronger with unified
American support. It is time to drop the sepa-
rate ideologies, the animosities, the disunity,
the self-seeking of the separate organizations.
Let the ZOA at its convention take the
first unselfish step towards unity, a happier
American Jewry and a stronger Israel. Let it
invite all Zionist groups to consolidate.
basis for admission and thus giving sanction
to the racial doctrines of Hitler.
"It discriminates in favor of the Baits
and thus against other Europeans among
whom the proportion of Catholics and Jews
is greater.
"One feature is so specifically discrimina-
tory against the Jewish minority that its in-
tent can scarcely be doubted. This is the pro-
vision which restricts eligibility to those who
arrived in the occupied zones before Dec. 22,
1945. Most Jews now in I)P camps arrived
a few months later than this."
It looks like the fight for a just I)P meas-
ure will have to start all over again.
Welcome BBYM-Y{1%
It is gratifying to watch Jewish youth in
action, working zealously and harmoniously
toward a better society in a manner that often
can be used as an example by their elders.
The Bnai Brith Yoong Women and Young
Men have'constantly set such an example,
and it is with a great deal of pleasure that
Detroit plays host for the next six days to
the national convention of these organiza-
tions.
DEFEN=li
Nothing has been overlooked by local lead-
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ers to make this convention the best ever. Dear Editor:
Although plenty of fun and excitement are In the news columns of last
in store for the hundreds of delegates, there week's issue of the Chronicle you
presented one side of the picture
will be a serious side, too.
of the Israeli-Irgun rift. May I
The birth of the Jewish State and the val- be allowed to tell the other side
iant battle by our Israeli brethren for its of the story, from uncensored
survival pose a prodigious challenge for Jews sources, and let the readers be
everywhere and in all age groups. Commu- the judges?
nity and national problems loom larger each The facts of the conflict are
these:
day.
Bnai Brith youth have shown a proclivity -to The ship Altalena (Jabotinsky)
800 Jewish fighters and
meet like challenges in the past. We are con- a carrying
considerable amount of arms
fident they will receive inspiration from their and ammunition badly needed
Detroit sessions to make Bnai Brith Youth for Israel's struggle reached the
a more vibrant asset to their parent organiza- shores of Israel. The Provisional
tion and a greater source of strength to all Government had known of the
ship's arrival and contents and
Jewry.
Letters to the Editor
ORT and NUT/
(tile acceptance .of which by the
Provisional Government was con-
sidered by the Yishuv as a grave
and dangerous blunder), the
Ben-Gurion governMent (the
Mapai and its allies) ordered its
army to sink the ship with its
valuable cargo and to make at-
tempts on the lives of Jewish
fighters and patriots. Jewish
blood was caused to flow on
both sides on Ben-Gurion's or-
ders.
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At a speiiia! emergency ses-
sion of the Provisional Govern-
ment Council of 37, Rabbi Melt
Berlin, leader of World Mizrachi,
categorically declared that re-
sponsibility for the bloodshed
had agreed to it plan to have 20 and the civil strife which broke
oercent of the arms go to Jeru- out in Israel rested upon Ben-
salem and to divide the rest be- Gurion.
tween Irgun men in the Israeli
Ile charged Ben-Gurion with
army and the rest of the army. acting independently in the gov-
But at that time of landing, the ernment and not consulting his
Plovision - al Government, headed ministers before making deci-
by men who have for years sions that affected the entire
hated and persecuted Revision- country and its future. lie de-
ists and Irgun, decided to vio- manded that an inquiry com-
late its agreement and launched mittee be established to prevent
a drive against those who dare dictatorship in Israel.
to disagree with its policies and
The two Mizrachi members of
ideologies.
the Provisional Government,
Under the excuse of Irgun Rabbi J. L. Fishman and Moshe
violating the "British-Arab truce"
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Two women's service organizations in the
Detroit area have announced expansion of
their activities here. We are happy to join
many friends in wishing them huge success
in these new undertakings.
The Detroit Chapter, National Council of
Jewish Women, is following up its consider-
able local effort with a campaign in behalf
of an overseas program which assists dis-
placed girls, provides for advanced schooling
for some of them in the United States and
helps support the college of education of the
Hebrew University.
Leaders Caught Napping
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The
Detroit
branch
of
Women's
Ort which
Jewish leaders were either caught napping
or were tricked by the maneuvers of wily only a year ago consisted of one chapter has wwwwwwwwwww. By Seymour Ti khin wisessemamoso i
anti-Semites in Congress who pushed through grown into four sections. In addition, groups COLDA MEYERSON appointed Israeli government is pursuing
have been formed in Huntington Woods and
a brutally discriminatory DP bill.
Israel's representative to the a policy of surrender and will
Mt. Clemens.
Union ... Mrs. Meyerson accept peace at any price.
had the leadership been more alert, it
The healthy growth of this organization Soviet
came to Palestine from the
While it is true that the ac-
might have been better prepared to fight the augurs well for its projects for vocational Utiited
States in 1921.
conference measure which accepted virtually training of Europeon Jews and its new pro- Dewey nominated presidential ceptance of the terms of the
truce with "suppositions"
all of the anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic pro- gram of preparing DP's for useful occupa- candidate on the Republican last
was a mistake and while it is
visions of the Senate version. A concerted tions in Israel.
ticket . . . Does that mean that further true that the withdrawal
campaign might have been able to defeat the
We are sure Detroit women will respond John Foster Dulles may become of all foreign armies from Pal-
bill or persuade President Truman to kill it swiftly and generously to the admirable pro- Secretary of State?
estine proper snould have been
.' James G. McDonald of the another truce condition, yet no
with a pocket veto.
grams of both these organizations.
Anglo - American Commission minority group has the right to
Certainly the exclusionist features of the
and one of the best friends of defy the recognized representa-
Senate bill were well known to defense lead-
the Zionist cause, appointed the tives of their government and
Britain Mangles UN
ers and they should have been prepared for
No one has made it more clear than Sumner American representative to the insist that unless they agree
the conference report in its favor. At least, Welles that the British policy with regard to State of Israel
with that minority, the malcon-
they should not have allowed themselves to Palestine has dealt the UN its deepest wounds Peter Bergson, self-appointed tents will start a revolution and
Hebrew Liberator, arrested by shed blood.
become befuddled by the strategy of the big- thus far.
the Israeli army and later re-
That is the danger of the Ir-
ots who shoved the bill through in the last
By supporting the Arab states financially leased.
gun today and why they should
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few minutes of the Congress session.
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and militarily, said the former Undersecre-
not be supported. If they dis
We can except from this criticism Bnai tary of State, "by her efforts in the Security PROPAGANDA WARFARE
agree with the policies of their
Brith and Henry Epstein, chairman of the Council to condone their aggressions and their WHILE THE TRUCE is on— government, let them use the
the
press
is
still
accepting
anti-
the bullet.
National Community Relations Advisory defiance of the authority of the UN," Britain Israel propaganda to discredit ballot and not
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Council, who sent telegrams to congressional has done much to lessen humanity's chances the Jewish State. Did you see THE NATION
leaders urging them to use their influence to of attaining collective security in the face of the article in the Detroit News "THE NATION" was banned
brink about the defeat of the conference re- threats of war.
on June 25? Its headline in from New York City school
Anglo-Arab aggression and deceit have cost large print read: "Communist libraries by the board of educa-
port.
the UN much prestige in the eyes of the
Grows Within 3 Israeli tion when it recently published
Epstein pointed out in his telegram that world. When a major catastrophe will con- Power
Forces."
series of articles discussing
the bill "gives special privileges to the front the nations and the UN will be powerless Why we are easing off in this a the
policy of the Catholic
Volksdeutche, thus not only rewarding the to act because of the disdain it has met, the country in our campaign against Church on education, medicine
enemies of the United States at the expense world will remember Palestine and belatedly Britain is beyond me.
and birth control.
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of the victims of Nazi tyranny but recogniz- regret its submission to British diplomatic_
Says Freda Kirchwey, dynam-
IRGUN REBELS
ic editor and publisher: "When
ing race rather than national origin as a chicanery and British domination.
IRGUN CHARGES that the
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Random Thoughts
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