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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Friday, August 27, 1948
Pact Ends '_Materials for Palestine' Battle
more than in the collection of funds. A central author-
ity was to be established to carry out the new eco-
HE SERVICES controversy between the Zionist Or-
nomic program and this authority was to be the ZOA.
ganization of America and Materials for Palestine,
This did not exclude the existence of other organiza-
which was one of the principal obstacles to unity
tions, but all were to be under the jurisdiction of the
within the Zionist movement since the Pittsburgh con-
ZOA.
vention, has come to an end. Negotiations which had
Second, the ZOA insisted 'that party politics were
been going on for two weeks have terminated suc-
to be eliminated from these collections and the cam-
cessfully in a temporary agreement which will hold
paign for materials was to be conducted on straight
until Dr. Neumann and Dr. Silver return from Israel.
economic and rehabilitation lines without reference
•
to overt or hidden efforts to enhance party rule and
THE PRINCIPAL points of contention were: First,
strength,
•
• , •
the ZOA demand for unified control of all economic
THE
SECOND
POINT
was
the most difficult to
activities in behalf of Israel including the collection of
agree upon, for Materials for Palestine was founded
materials. This was a basic decision of the Pittsburgh
convention and one of the fundamentals of the new • and conducted by members of the former opposition,
and at least some of these members insisted on going
economic program of American. Zionism.
on with the work on the old lines of party identity
It meant that there was not to be any independent
and party credit,
ion in the collection of materials for Israel any
(By Jewish World News Service)
T
L
It took some time to convince these people that
'the old pre-Israeli era, when each party in the Zion-
ist movement was plugging for its own interests, is at
an end, and that the promulgation of the State of
Israel has initiated a new period, when united and
centralized effort rise above party and section.
It is on this general principle that the agreement
has been hammered out. Public opinion is definitely.
rising against petty party and personal interests with-
in the Zionist movement, and will not permit these
interests to hold up the new economic program upon
which the State of Israel depends now even more
than it did upon earlier political efforts.
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•
THE ENTIRE Jewish literary world mourned, this
week, the death of one of the most beloved Yiddish
writers and playwrights, Peretz Hirshbein, who died
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ff the Rectird
Keep Israel Out of UN,. Columnist Asks
prospect of parting- with their
ward. When they heard the child
was to be taken away from
them they became upset and
cried "If you take our child to
Palestine you must take us too
or else we will commit suicide."
HE ISRAELI government is the groom is working on the haven to a Jewish child during to compensate the couple for
The two elderly Dutchmen and
the Nazi occupation. Rabbi Gold their kindness.
• applying for membership in picture "The Prince of Foxes."
The elderly people had be- the Jewish child are now some-
Benjamin Miller, a New York told them he wanted to take
the UN.
I would prefer if Israel main- City detective, always has a the child to Palestine and offered come terribly attached to the where in the Holy Land, citi-
child and were frantic over the zens of the new State of IsraeL
•
tained permanent neutral State- "Mezuzah" in his police car. He
hood and kept out of the UN. says it has brought him luck.
Incumbent
'orn Hours; 111001141
The UN does not admit neutral Miller is a former president of
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"Shomrim,"
an
organization
of
thru Saturday,
states.
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Jewish
policemen,
and
a
ne-
There is little Israel can gain
from membership in the inter- phew to Bernard Semel, promi-
_national organization. It would nent Jewish communal leader,
Izler Solomon, conductor of
be much wiser for the State of
WOODWARD AT STATE
Israel to keep out of interna- the Columbus Symphony Or-
chestra, who was the first vis-
tional conflicts.
Britain and the United States itor to Israel, conducted 35 con-
are united in policy toward So- certs of the Palestine Philhar-
viet Russia. This development is monic Orchestra in Tel Aviv,
fundamental to the entire issue. Haifa, Jerusalem, Ramat Gan
and in encampments of the Is-
• • •
raeli army close to the front
BRITAIN AGAIN
Leon Blue's battle for.France's lines. ,
Solomon and the orchestra
recognition of Israel precipitated
a sharp debate at a recent ses- traveled the newly built "Mar-
sion of the French cabinet. cus Road" in armored buses to
Prime Minister Robert Schuman Jerusalem to give the first con- County Clerk Edgar M. Bran-
igin is a candidate for the
and a number of Jewish cabinet cert held there
• • in • nine months. clerkship
on the Democratic
members led the opposition.
ticket in the primaries, Sept.
Their argument was that France A GOLDEN TALE
cannot afford to antagonize Brit-
WHEN RABBI Wolf Gold, 14. Branigin, former county
ain and jeopardize the Western chairman of the World Mizrachi building reporter for the De-
European bloc.
executive, toured Europe with troit News, is a lawyer of 11
Belgium's negative attitude to- Chief Rabbi Herzog to redeem years standing. ibis chief dep-
ward Israel is motivated by the Jewish children from Christians uty is Mrs. Harry B. Keidan,
same considerations. But in this who had sheltered them during widow of the late circuit court
case there is a Hy in the oint- the war, he came back to tell judge. Since he has been in
office, Branigin has appointed
ment.
a startling tale. -
A number of high Belgium
In a small town in Holland, four other Jewish employes
government officials, some of they came across two elderly for a record total of six in his
office.
cabinet level, are plainly anti- Christian Dutchmen who gave
Semitic .
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actress whose parents are Epis-
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converted to Judaism soon. She
recently informed her parents of
her decision to adopt the faith
of her future husband, the noted
writer Milton Krims. The nup-
tials will be tied at Rome, where
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