Friday, August 9,

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Three

Position of Jewish DP's Is Called Appallin

(By Jewish World News Service)
N OF Jewish DP's in European camps
d
has eteiiorated
badly during the last few
months, ac cording to an
elaborate report by Z. Baum-
gold, secretary of the Labor Zionist Relief and Re-
habilitation Committee, who has just returned from
an
extensive tour of Europe and South America.
At least one outstanding reason for the change to
the worse, Baumgold said, is the fact that the camps
are now being depleted of their youth which is being
rushed to Palestine.

almost scandalous neglect, signs that the relief or-
ganizations which collect millions of dollars for
their work are evidently falling down on the job.
Baumgold said that men, women and even chil-
dren are kept in a state of literal semi-starvation
existing on a cup of filthy coffee and bread in the
morning and a plate of potato soup in the evening.
Meat is served only once a month. The children
do not know the taste of milk. There is one inex-
perienced young doctor for a camp of a thousand
Displaced Persons.

Those who have remained are mostly the old, the
sick, the feeble, as well as those who are too young
to
go to Israel. This naturally affects the morale in
the camps.
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The people live in tin huts which are unbearably
hot in summer and freezing in winter and the attitude
of the IRO officials is not at all friendly to the Jews.

THE POSITION IS worse in Italy than the rest of
Europe, according to Baumgold. The picture he
painted of the Italian camps was one of appalling,

THE SITUATION. HE revealed, is much brighter
in France which is rapidly becoming the largest
Jewish center in Europe. There the Labor Zionist
committee keeps up a number of modern children's

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homes, as well as workshops to train the DP's coming
from the camps, and free kitchens and a club for
Jewish writers and intellectuals.
The atmosphere in all these institutions is one of
friendliness, comradeship and self-help, not of char-
ity, he said.

IN A SIGNED editorial in the New York Post,
T. 0. Thackrey, pleads to the Israeli government to
release Pater Bergson and his fellow
Irgunists who
are "held without trial and without bail under
mili-
tary regulations
taken over from the previous
British military regime in the name
of the security
of the State.'

Thackrey argues that, in substance, there is
feil tnce between the position of the Irgun and no dd.
of the
government of Israel. Both want the same thing;
they
differ only in method and in tactics.
"From Haganah to Sternists all are
equal Israeli
(Continued on page 9)

How British Jew Looks at Dual Loyalty

the world, concerned with hu-
h, man brotherhood and
with a
just and peaceful order between
nations. In helping to develop
By NORMAN BENTWICH
Palestine and to make the Jew-
(In
the
London
Jewish
Chronicle)
ish
people there again an active
THE
ers of the principles of the
QUESTION of equal--not divided—loyalties of Jews in United Nations, we should the Arab countries or foreig n force of civilization, he will be
Britain is being raised again in connection with their relation speak out openly
subjects sojourning there, so loyal to the service of human-
. ?nd without
towards Israel, and it is desirable to clear up some misunder-
inhibition and endeavour to long as they live in the countr y ity, which, in a better world,
standings. '
and the state of war continu
should be combined with loyalty
Jews living in Britain, wheth- tice Brandeis, wrote with spe- give our fellow-citizens a true they may not do anything es,
t to the state.
understanding
of
the
position
in
er British subjects or not, owe cial reference to the Zionist
help the other belligerent, wh
For it is an essential idea of
political loyalty exclusively to outlook: "Eachrace and people, Palestine and the obligations of in international law, is the en 0,
a peaceful international order
this country. They feel also a like each individual, has a right this country as the former man- emy of of the country to whic
h that every person shall feel
deep loyalty to the Jewish peo- and duty to develop, and only datory and as one of the princi- they owe political loyalty.
himself a citizen of the world
ple, whom the great majority' through such differentiated de- pal powers of the United Na-
That is a hard fate, but man y community, as well as a citizen
tions.
regard not only as a religious velopment will a high civilisa-
people suffered it in the tw 0 of the multi-national state, and
On the other hand, as loyal world conflicts.
community but also a national- tion be attained.'
a member of a cultural national-
ity.
citizens, and, at the same time,
• • •
Any individual Jew in Eng ity which he inherits from his
loyal to the teachings of our
But they do not and cannot
land, on the other hand, wh 0 ancestors.
Judaism, and loyal upholders
owe any political loyalty to the CAN SPEAK FREELY
JEWISH LOYALTY to the of the principle of the United feels deeply his attachment t 0
Jewish 'State unless they are
Jewish people is not in conflict Nations to seek a way of peace the Jewish people in thei r Camp liabonint Gives
citizens of Israel.
• • •
with loyalty to the English in all international conflicts, we struggle is at liberty to go ou
state,
but supplements it. If we will refrain from rousing vio- and fight for them, just as Tree to St. Joseph's
COMPLICATED MATTER
many British subjects went ou
THE MATTER tends to be think the British government is lent feeling here or abroad to Spain to fight for the repub
In the spirit of amity, chil-
complicated because of the am- acting unjustly about Palestine against the British government lic in the civil war.
dren of Camp Habomin, present-
biguous use of the words "na- and the Jewish people, we feel or making Great Britain and
ed a tree to St. Joseph's Church,
• • •
located next to the Jewish Cen-
tion" and "national." The same compelled to make our voice the English people scapegoats LOOKING AHEAD
ter.
for all the troubles in Pales-
term is used to denote mem- heard.
FOR THE FUTURE, we look
As good citizens of the United tine.
The program was planned by
bership of an ethnic group,
forward to Israel being a mein
• • •
which is bound together by Kingdom and as loyal support-
ber of the United Nations and the children under the guidance
of Counselor Larry Applebaum.
language, religion, history and
AT LIBERTY TO FIGHT
taking part with the other
common aspirations.
Premier Sketched
HAPPILY, WE cannot con- states in maintaining peace and It included the acceptance of the
tree by the Rev. Thomas Ham,
Sometimes we use the word
ceive a condition of war be- 'international understanding.
after which the children danced
nation for the political unit,
tween Israel and Great Britain.
The Jew, wherever he lives
and nationality for the other.
The position of the Jews in will feel himself a citizen of the "Nora". and ‘sang Hebrew
songs of brotherhood •
The two things, anyhow, are
Egypt, Iraq and Syria is more
fundamentally different; and the
difficult and tragic. They may
modern nation-state is usually
not fight for the Jewish State.
composed of several ethnic na-
nor even may they try to help
tionalities.
the Jews fighting in Palestine.
So the British nation included
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Whether they are citizens of
the Welsh, Scottish and Irish
nationalities, and the Welsh,
Scottish and Irish have an at-
tachment to their national
home and culture.
To the Jewish people or na-
tionality we Jews owe moral
loyalty to preserve its princi-
ples and to contribute to the
progress and the development
Next time
of its national home and cul-
• order ...
tural life.
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