Page Thre• DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Friday, October 29, 1948 Strictly Confidential Report Uranium Discovered in the Negev By PIIINEAS J. BIRON T IS MORE than a rumor that deposits of uranium have been discovered in the Negev. This is said to be the main reason for the adamant stand of the U.S. in support of the Bernadotte plan. . . . The British government is playing on tht. jittery nerves of the U.S. State Department and making the most of the situation. • • • DID YOU NOTE that the Jews of Poland raised 115,000,000 zlotys ($230,000) for, a large gift ship- ment of food to Israel? . . The Polish government has guaranteed that the cargo will be landed at Tel Aviv ... Yesterday's recipients of charity today are donors. • • • ARTHUR KOESTLER'S recent P. J. Rims article on the influence of, clericalism in Israel has I int•resting that the authors of the three best-selling war novels—Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw and Stefan Heym—are Jews, and quite versed in Jewish problems. The latest addition to the Fourth Estate, the "Na- tional Guardian," a progressive weekly, will devote much space to the question of Israel. . . . Com- mander-in-Chief Beigin of the Irgun is on his way to America. He will try to get men and money for the Freedom Party, the political movement of the Irgun. • . . A Jewish Brigade, manned 'and equipped by Czechoslovakia, will soon proceed to Israel to fight alongside the Israelim. aroused general resentment in the Jewish State. . . . It is generally accepted that the Israeli constitution will establish strict separation between the church and the State, in the same way as the U.S. constitution does . . . Officials of the Israeli government have stated in unequivocal terms that "there is no inten- tion of imposing any sort of Rabbinical rule on the Jewish population as a whole" . . . Koestler, however, more than insinuated that in Israel the Rabbinate dominates Jewish life and that all sections of the community are subject to its dictates. • •. • IN THE PRESENT controversy between the ZOA and the UJA, Henry Montor, an executive vice presi- dent of America's largest fund-raising agency, has the full backing of the UJA leadership. . . . The Ambijan Committee is considering a substantial do- nation to several institutions in Israel. The members of the committee are concerned over the pre-sent economic crisis in the Jewish State. • . . It is rather • • et. EMINENT ZIONIST leaders and self-assured com- mentators are urging President Truman to grant im- mediate de jure recognition to Israel. . . From all this clamor it would appear that Truman's de jure recognition of Israel would solve all the Jewish State's ills. . . . Nothing of the kind. . . • Unless the (Continued on page 19) His latest book, "Prince of the was able to reach a solution in historic UN decision is written the face of the intrigues and ob- in full the epic story of the Ghetto," is a masterful transla- stacles it encountered was a men and women of the ship tion of some of the stories of tribute to the courage and hon- Exodus 1947 will be written Isaac Loeb (Yal) Peretz, one of esty of the men on it who were down perhaps as one of the de- the early Yiddish literary giants. The world of Sholem Alei- determined to do honor to them- cisive factors in UN approval of chem, Mendele and Peretz un- selves and the cause they repre- Jewish statehood. Ruth Gruber tells the story in fortunately is no more. It is good sented. The book glows with human- all its tragedy, grimness and to see Samuel reviving it in the ity, sensitivity and perspective. glory in her recent book "Desti- English tongue. The chapters dealing with Jew- nation Palestine," published by ish life in Palestine as contrast. A. A. Wynn. Ra0.. ARTHUR to sustain a charge that she en- ed with the backwardness of the By NATHAN ZIPRIN Maurice Samuel holds a unique gaged even in minor criminal Arabs are illuminating. The pub- place in American literature. TURKEY'S DECISION NOT to acts in the camp. lisher, Alfred A. Knopf, deserves With his translations of the Yid- • • • join the Middle Eastern bloc CIRCUIT COURT COMMISSIONER to be congratulated for the fine dish masters he has gained for against Israel is a good sign PROPER INFERENCE himself an enviable niche in book he put out. NO NI where the wind is blowing. IF THERE WAS evidence that When the history of the Jewish literature. When a high neutral diplomat people with tattooed skins were in Istanbul heard about it he selected by Ilse for some mys. observed "this is a clear indi- terious purpose and that they cation that Turkey has no in- subsequently disappeared from tention of joining the 40,000,000 the scene then the military court who cannot beat 500,000." had every reason to infer that Bev in's anti-Israel mania shows she was responsible for their no signs of subsiding. He is de- disappearance. termined to protract UN action Because it is common knowl- -Tat- as long as possible in the hope edge what happened to people that Israel will have to bend who disappeared suddenly from ; r under his policy of economic Nazi death camps the court me , strangulation. • which tried her was certainly 4 Don't be surprised if Britain's justified in taking judicial no- puppets in the UN spring a new tice of the fact. plan. The discredited trustee- Because the victims of her de- ship idea is not yet dead. pravity did not testify does not 14 mean she is not guilty. Many a person in the United States has ik THE KOCH CASE 1 ,. .1 THE STORM of protest over gone to the electric chair on cir- alone. the .commutation of sentence of cumstantial evidence • • • (f Ilse Koch, the depraved creature who made lampshades from.tat- NEW LAW CONCEPT BEFORE THE Nuremberg tooed human skin at the notori- () • ous Buchenwald camp, has not trials began the jurists who ran it agreed that the procedure abated.. Camp inmates who survived was a deviation from interna- the horrors and American sol- tional law but that the enormity diers who saw the camp imme- of the crimes justified a new diately after liberation have concept of jurisdiction and guilt. testified to her crimes in letters The Nazis were no ordinary to the editors of their local criminals and it seems to this corner that it is a mockery of newspapers. Le• icy ye Gen. Clay has justified the justice to apply to them the or- commutation on the ground Koch dinary principles of law. We do not question Gen. Clay's was convicted on much hearsay honesty and sincerity. We be- evidence. Would hearsay evidence be in- lieve he has erred gravely. • • • sufficient to convict Hitler if he ever turned up? Isn't there, gen- BOOKS AND AUTHORS "THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL" by eral, what is known in law as general knowledge? If general Jorge Garcia-Granados should knowledge existed among the in- be on the book-shelf of every in one of the courses you have selected, and you may know, the more than 60 mates in Koch's camp that she person interested in what went a place is r es erved for you. Then you enlist, made household articles from on behind the scenes when courses offered by the U. S. Army human skins that evidence is ad- UNSCOP tackled the Palestine Technical Schools are rated among the finest complete basic training, and attend the missible if there is other proof assignment. That the committee in the world. And now you can choose the course you have selected. Off the Record: Turkey Scorns Arabs as too Weak to fight SEMPLINER 1 . ;41/ Choose Your Future! SELECT THE KIND OF TECHNICAL TRAINING YOU WANT ... EARN Good pay while you learn • • • I P ‹, \ f i ,..g.,..7,-„,_ \ A rmigiand mmmollu ittniumm We Urge :17 The Re-Election of Prosecutor James N. McNALLY (No. 50 on the Ballot) I overseas veteran Vigorous—Fair—Unbiased i . . _ , – WE THE JEWISH ASSISTANT PROSECUTING a- ATTORNEYS ON JIM McNALLY'S STAFF PERSON- E ALLY VOUCH FOR HIS FAIRMINDEI) AND UN- PREJUDICED TREATMENT OF ALL. Arnold Monath Julius C. Pliskow Herbert Burdick Mark Friedman • Ft .11 •••• useitnes I ' , VI/V..0 kind of technical training you want—before you enlist. Here's how it works. You select two of the several fields of interest. Then you name two specialty courses in each of these fields. The Army checks to make sure there's an opening If you've graduated from high school and are 18 to 34 (17 with parents' permission), here's the greatest educational opportunity you could hope to find! See your Recruiting Station today! HERE ARE ONLY SOME OF THE COURSES AVAILABLE! M•elstenlc•I Automotive Mechonk Medical Equipment Mechanic Locomotive Repairman Construction Equipment Mmhank litttrigerotion Mmhonk Office Machine Service Mos Marine Engine Mmhank Track Vehicle Mechanic Conservation Electtkion Water Su pply Technician Construction Machine Operator Bole, Maker Ship Carpenter k Tire Rebuidm Tailor Shoe R•pairmon Telephone and Telegraph Installer Repairman Llocerked end Roam Automat.< Telephone SM.. Maintenance Ma. Coble Splicer PEACE IS AMERICAS MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS pewo....., Ivy elger • •1001 0.011 Or (0.111111 IOU • WO 0.0.1../Y • Crofts Telephone Control 0ffic• Repairman 1/4/M1. toe ....Acuson •01•110 Power Omerotor Teletype Repairman Technical Sarakol Techniciao MedkolTecimicia• Medkal Aid Man Mop RoProdvation ► rodelee Tool Watch Repairmao fir• Control Instruntad Repairman MaNesry Sdonse end forties ek Ininaceor Leadership Canoe Sh••t•Metol Worker Leather and Cantos Worker 21 CADILLAC SQUARE er±hbF/•.tlttl'Fi:tRPt 1 1+f: 1 Id 1 s'.1 I,e, 11,7,...1