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DETROIT JEWISH
Friday, July 16, 19411
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GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief
SEYMOUR TILCIIIN, President
DETROIT 26, MICE
Friday, July 16, 1948 (Timuz 9, 5108)
Vol. 50, No. 26
For God and Israel
The blood of Israel's heroic youth is flow-
ing again on the sana of Zion, and as indi-
viduals, we stand helpless, unable to rush to
their suinfort.
But there is much that we can still do
here. Though the Allied Jewish Campaign
has officially ended, the United Jewish Ap-
peal on behalf of Palestine and the DP still
goes on.
This is the official agency to which you
can send your contribution, if the headlines
and the news stories stir your indignation
and your sympathy and make you wish you
could help in some material way.
In Detroit the appeal is channeled
through the Allied Jewish Campaign, whose
staff at 51 W. Warren is ready to accept
your contribution and see to it that your
money will go directly to strengthen the
army of Israel, to buy arms for it outside of
the 'United States, to equip the brave young
men and women of the Homeland, to pro-
vide medical supplies and healing to the
wounded and burial for the dead.
- Yes, many will die, happy that they
could give their lives for the age-old ideal:
We in America cannot offer our lives, but
we can give of our fortunes.
Even if you have given more than your
share, give again for God and Israel.
To President Duman:
•
defying international decisions. Such a
course, Mr. President, would bring peace to
Palestine and enhance our prestige in world
affairs.
We Must Boycott Britain
"Whenever newsreels of Palestine are
shown in London movie houses, the public
hisses the liaganah and cheers the Arabs,"
our keen and outspoken columnist, Phineas
Biron; reports from London.
This helps confirm our view that the
British public approves the monstrous proj-
ects of Bevin with regard to Palestine that
have cost the Yishuv 2,000 of her sons so far
and much destruction of laboriously built
settlements and towns.
Biron attributes British hatred to the Ir-
gun-Stern Group program of attrition which,
regretfully, took the lives of a handful of
Britons; but we cannot accept this self-
righteous explanation. Imperial Britain
should be hardened by flow to the loss of
some of its men in the process of forcing a
"native" population to its knees.
Despite its pretenses of justice and al-
truism, when it comes to matters of aggran-
dizing its empire, the British can be. as
petty political sniping on the lo-
BACKS EDITORIAL
vicious, as barbarous, as violent as any.
cal scene, it is all a part of a
strategy wh'ch places party
What the Briton can not forgive is the Dear Sir: •
Your editorial on the JNF is in abave people and Which tolerates
fact that, at a time when he was surrender- line
with your policy of calling a a fratricidal front while engaged
ing India and Burma, and the whole empire spade, a spade It is hoped that with the outside enemy.
was tottering, he could not retain his grasp these will be no lapsing from This situation has been brought
even on tiny, strategic Palestine because the this forthright stand into ap- about through a freakish philoso-
"natives" not only would not submit but peasement.
phy holaing that the "bible" of
speeded their departure by killing off some Revisionists have outgrown the apostate Marx ought to super-
naivete of believing that there sew, L'havdil. that of Torah
of the invaders.
and the tragedy is that
, As far as Israel was concerned, so-called can be c . 00peration with a cer- Moshe;
certain of those who preach a
tain
element
in
Zionism
that
British sportsmanship and justice were just prattles most about unity and is Torah-Judaism have allied themt
as fictitious as in South Africa in the early the first to break it. Perhaps if selves with the disciples of
1900's, in Ireland in the Black and Tan days you, too, bore that in mind, you Marx.
M M. MERZON.
and in India for decades and decades.
should save yoorself future un-
It is as plain as can be. The average pleasantness.
MUSIC GROUP GRATEFUL
The small domineering
Briton wants revenge for having been
kicked out of-Palestine, and this explains his clique" as you rightly term it, Dear Editor:
has succeeded in importing into
concurrence with Bevin's brutishness.
I would like to take this op-
our present struggle the idea of
We Jews have a strong counter-weapon. a second front, made famous by portunity to thank you for help-
ing our Junior Group establish
Let us boycott Britain and everything Brit- World War II.
itself in the community.
ish.
Whether it is discrimination
In the two years that we have
Boycott British Scotch, cigarets, films practiced in Israel against those held meetings, our membership
who
do
not
possess
a
certain
un-
and goods. Look at the label and if it reads
has increased at. an amazing
"Made in England or Scotland," refuse to ;on card, or whether it be a rate. We feel it is greatly due to
wanton attack against Jewish
buy and warn the tradesman that if he patriots bringing on the Altalena your assistance.
continues to keep British products in his precious tools to defend the corn-
MRS. SAMUEL ABETS,
Junior Counsellor.
shop you and your friends will take your mor Fatherland, or whether it be
business elsewhere.
We are helpless, otherwise. We should
only weapon.
not fail to use
Letters to the Editor
As recently as two weeks ago you de-
clared, in a message to the 51st annual con-
vention of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
:ea, that you were proud of the fact that the
United States was the first country to recog-
nize the new State of Israel. •
You referred to the 'partition plan as
having been "overwhelmingly voted by the
United Nations" and you expressed the con-
viction that Israel will "find its rightful place
in the United Nations." You said the United
States was determined to secure peace and
safety from aggression in the Middle East,
and you voiced the hope that the Palestine
truce would lead to "a lasting peace con-
sistent with the 'principles and recommenda -
tions of the United Nations."
Now there is war again in Palestine, and
only because the truculent Arab war-lords
have more to gain from war than from
peace.
Israel accepted the original truce pro-
posal knowing full well that the peace period
would be utilized by the Arabs and the Brit-
ish for the waging of a diplomatic war
against its existence. Yet, when the truce
WA Convention
mw By Seymour Tilehin
period expired Israel agreed to having the
Although
the convention of the Zionist
truce prolonged. But the Arabs want war
Both sides are anticipating
FOUR WEEK truce
and they are at it again despite world pub- Organization of America last week-end in THE
another forced truce; therefore,
a
failure
from
an
Pittsburgh was not expected to take its rank
. ce fighting in
lic opinion.
among the great conventions of Zionist his- international standpoint. From look for some fter
Mr. President, we realize the world is in tory, yet its achievements are not such as an Israeli standpoint it was a the next couple of weeks with
no holds barred. The victor
turmoil and strain. But it is firmness, not can be passed over lightly.
success.
will be in that much stronger
vacillation, that is required in times of crisis.
1. It enhanced Israel's position
Many of the resolutions passed, which in the eyes of the world, be- a position to bargain at the
To let a number of small Arab states defy
truce table.
the will of the United Nations can only lead for ZOA conventions are in the nature of cause she cooperated in every
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t only body directives to the administration, were d, .- respect with the Bruce mediator. CHRONICLE ANNIVERSARY
to the tragic liquidation of he
of the keenest political thinking, and
2. It placed the Arabs in
IT IS NOW one year since
capable of maintaining peace in our disturbed ments
embodied in a much fuller extent than was the position of aggressors, and the
Chronicle has been under
world.
We believe, Mr. President, that the U.S. thought possible, the thinking of all the the UN must now act in ac- its new management.
cordance with its threat to ap-
As president of the Chronicle,
holds the key to the Palestine situation by delegates.
In the matter of the Irgun, in the matter ply sanctions, or lose out. com- I'm indeed proud of our first
virtue not only of its bigness but because of
pletely
in
prestige.
year's record. People are con-
the position it holds today in world affairs. of the espousal of a liberal economy in Pal-
3. The U.S must now act stantly telling us that our paper
We believe, Mr. President, that a clear estine, in the matter of the dignified reac- (and
can justify its acts), lift has improved considerably, but
declaration, under your own name or under tion of the delegates to the events of recent the embargo and recognize the we make no pretense at being
months
and
weeks,
the
convention
revealed
the name of any of your leading spokesmen,
Jewish State de jure.
satisfied.
warning the aggressors that unless they stop maturity and clear thinking and a knowl- 4. Britain can't possibly con- This last year has really been
edge
of
what
it
wants.
defying the UN and world public opinion you
tinue assisting the Arabs in the one of experiment and attempts
On the important question of the rela- face of her own promise that at counteracting false and un-
would lift the arms embargo and bar arms
to the aggressors would bring the Arab war tionship between American Jewry and Israel, if the Arabs fail to cooperate, fair rumors and competition.
the feeling of the convention was apparent she will cease to recognize her We are now prepared and ready
lords to their senses.
We believe, Mr. President, that you can and the commission which is to decide this treaty obligations with the t o go ahead with renewed
strength and vigor.
translate your hope for an Israel with "a question will have before it many indications Arabs.
• • •
5. Aside from- that, Israel was
rightful place in the United Nations" into of what its approach should be.
steadily increasing her war po- INTERPRET EVENTS
reality by directing our representatives to
Dr. Neumann's report clearly indicated• tential, such as the manufacture WE NEVER CLAIM to be an
the UN to move for the admission of Israel that on the political level, there will be a of mortars, sten guns and other up to the minute international
clear line of demarcation. Even so militant
into the family of nations.
or national news source. No
short truce •has not realized a Zionist as Daniel Frisch, at one point, took weapons.
6. The withdrawal of Britain Anglo-Jewish weekly can truth-
Since the
for a "lasting peace consistent
fully claim that. Wednesday
your hopes .
a stand which can be described as cautious from Haifa, last week, gave Is- noon
is the latest that both
with. the principles and recommendations of when he thought the convention's taking rael a first class harbor.
Anglo-Jewish papers in Detroit
United Nations," it becomes, we believe, notice of the fact that 15 nations have rec-
A
real
truce
can
come
about
the duty to direct your efforts toward ful-
go to press; the reader receives
yoUr
ognized the State of Israel might be mis- now—only if the UN or U.S. his paper on Friday at the very
aet in accordance with their
fillment of the UN Palestine decision.
interpreted
in
this
regard
...
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promises and obligations.
We believe, Mr. President, such a course
National Jewish Post.
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would convince the Arabs of the futility of
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