4 Page Four DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Detroit Jewish Chronicle Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 548 Woodward, Detroit 26, Mich., CA. 1040 SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year entered as Second-class mattes March 3. 1916, at the Post Office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President Vol. 50, No. 41 Friday, October 29, 19964(Tishri 26, 5109) Tiro Big Dates Next Week There are two big dates on your calendar for next week. One is Sunday when the SOS collection will be made. Open your heart to your needy and despondent brothers in the DP camps. And the other is Tuesday—Election Day. Be a good citizen. Show your love for free- dom by voting. Your vote will help pre- serve it. Bunche Is a Blunderer Only a few days following the Berna- dotte assassination, we advised the replace- ment of Dr. Ralph Bunche as acting UN mediator for Palestine because of his pa- tent bias for the Arabs and capricious Statements concerning the slaying. , Virtually everything that Bunche has said and done since that time confirms our view that he is singularly inept for the job that has fallen to him by accident. There is probably an explanation for his bungling. His loyalty to his slain chief has apparently prejudiced him violently against Israel, whose government he blames unjustly for the murder. As a Negro, he succumbs to a weakness of many leaders in minority groups who bend over backwards in performing their duty. Bundle should be expected, as an Ameri- can .Kegro and aware of the intolerance that equally besets Jewry and his people, to favor the Jewish cause. To demonstrate his ostensible objectivity, Bunche, instead, becomes a friend of the Arabs and goes so far as to play into the hands of Britain and collaborate in the writing of the evil Bernadotte plan. • • • in Lillie All the ugly details are Shultz's revealing article in in the Oct. 23 - "Nation". We wish more correspondents had Miss Shultz's reputation for fair and honest reporting. She discloses that it was Funche who conceived the idea of satis- ying British greed for the Negev as a po- tential air base by suggesting that the desert area be ripped away from the ter- ritory assigned to the Jews. Not Bernadotte but the State Depart- ment's Robert McClintock and Britain's Sir John Troutbeck, acting on Bunche's urging, wrote into the mediator's report the recommendation that the Negev be handed over to the Arabs, meaning Trans- jordan and ultimately Britain. McClintock then went over to Paris and wrote Secre- tary Marshall's statement fully indorsing the "Bernadotte plan". Satisfied with this state of events, Bunche went to work to belittle Israel in the eyes of the world and to impute to its leaders malevolent and brutish acts that would bring only enmity and contempt for the infant State. .• • • Ile began by holding the Israelim respon- sible for the Bernadotte tragedy, charging before the Security Council that the gov- ernment had been guilty of negligence in failing to provide the count with an escort. This was promptly proved to be false when the Jewish governor of Jerusalem pointed out that UN personnel consistently refused offers of protection on the basis that they wanted complete freedom of movement. . h refutation, Bunche Ignoring the Jewi s again-went before the Security Council and charged "negligence by the local Jewish authorities". Ile asked the Council to or- der Israel to detail exactly what she was doing to apprehend the slayers, forgetting all about Israel's continuous reports to the UN on the progress of the search. Later, in one of the most ridiculous prop-, esitions enunciated before the international body, Bunche declared that the war in Pal- estine was "brought about by the fact that the Jews had taken a political offensive and -proclaimed the State while the Arab states, in retaliation, took the military •• ■ •• GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief ....air. ■ ."•... ■■ •■ •• ■ •••••• •••••••••••••••••••• •• ••• DETROIT 26, MICH. offensive." This in face of the UN resolu- tion of Nov. 29 authorizing the promulga- tion of the Jewish State. Friday, October 29, 1918 Canada Plays Hitler's Game fcV Admit Vichy Traitors kEtvs While Jews Deported pc40OR tiERCI HEWS! NEWSY Explaining the resumption of fighting in the Negev, Bunche reaffirmed his hostility to Israel by charging that the Jewish re- taliatory action had been long planned. Such a remark was so absurd that the usually unperturbable Aubrey Eban, the Israeli representative at the Council table, clashed bitterly with the UN mediator over his version. Eban pointed out that because of its easy accessibility to the Arabs, the Negev areas had always been in a state of total mobilisation. - He pointed out to the UN aide some points on which he had remained silent, particularly the fact that the Egyp- tians had flatly violated Bunche's own rul- ings on convoy travel in the.disputed zone. By accusing the Israeli, Bunche thought apparently that he could conceal his fail- ure in enforcing the UN directives. From the above, it should be evident that Bunche should be persona non grata to Israel and that he should be replaced by someone wiser, and more open-minded than he. See You at Balfour Ball The Balfour Ball is traditionally the De- troit Jewish community's biggest and most colorful social event. Letters to the Editor THIRKELL SCHOOL GROUP Dear Editor: " - The news item titled "New PT at Thirkell School" which ap- peared in the Oct. 22 issue of the Jewish Chronicle inaccurate- ly reported that an independent parent-teacher group had been formed Ander my chairmanship. At the meeting of the parents and teachers held at Thirkell on Oct. 1, at which Dr. Sullivan spoke on "Children and Their Parents" and for which the use of the auditorium was paid for by the Board of Education, I presented a report and resolu- tion of a representative group of parents and teachers which had been meeting during the sum- mer, recommending that a Par- ent-Teacher Organization of Thirkell School be formed and that this organization do not af- filiate itself with any of the ex- isting local or national associa- tions. An alternate recommendation was made by one of the parents present that the proposed par- ent-teacher organization be a lo. cal branch of the National Con- gress of Parents and Teachers, commonly referred to as PTA. While it was evident at the meeting that the parents present were interested in forming an organization at Thirkell to work with the teachers in a coopera- tive effort and in mutual under- standing, time did not permit a full discussion of the form that such an organization should take and it was voted 72 to 22 that another meeting be held in No- vember to discuss and vote on that question. Such a meeting is now being planned. LOUIS MENK, 2237 Philadelphia west. Last year the entire ballroom floor of the Statler was jammed with gay dancers, swinging away to the music of two bands in separate halls. For those sitting it out, there were ample facilities for refreshment in an adjoining cocktail lounge especially set up for the event. This year's affair promises to be even better attended and more enjoyable in view of the fact that the committee is taking measures to avert the crowding which slowed up things at last year's dance. It is important that the ball have record support this year because in it are com- bined two fund-raising projects ford Detroit Zionism. In addition to helping finance local Zionist activities, the ball this year ~IImIIMMIN mIIMINtmmm gNNNmNmNmmmtlltlMampXtptlmmsmnlmmYlNlllll mIIlNllimvlllulllM BVNmRMmmII ~ I!ImNi1116AIm ~ ImMtNpfmmmlmlXlmlmmamllllilo nos will provide the funds for Detroit Jewry's annual contribution to the American Zionist Fund to foster Zionism nationally. Attendance at the ball Saturday, Nov. 13 , will assure everyone a good time. In ad- Z11111111111111111111111114111171111111 1111111111111111111111111111111IIIIN By Seymour Tiwnin onintimilammomionorormmi dition, they will help support one of the THE BIRTH OF ISRAEL: The lies with the parents. The chil- most significant enterprises of American Drama As I Saw It by Jorge then snould observe the holiday, Jewry. Garcia-Granados is, in the au- attend the Synagogue and not thor's own words: "A memorable make a comedy of their Jew,:ii We'll be looking for you at the 'ball. and tremendously rewarding ex-I observance. • • • perience." Granados recor d . a events as a member of the UN THE JEWISH VOTE Sloppy Journalism Special Committee on Palestine. THERE HAS BEEN a great • Ile was on the 11-nations com- deal of controversy as to whether We were talking last week about journal- istic irresponsibility when the Detroit mittee that proposed the parti- there is such a thing as a Jewish tion plan which was adopted in vote. While Jewish people in gen- Times came out with a flagrant example November, 1947 by the Assembly. eral vote with the liberal ele- to support our charges. He was probably the outstand- ments in this country, I person- In big headlines, the Times reported that ing friend of Israel on that com- ally don't think there is such a the fugitives Fleisher and Selik, wanted in mittee and the book certainly thing as a Jewish vote. the Hooper slaying conspiracy, were on their rates as high as Bartley C. However, in this election a ho- Crum's "Behind The Silken Cur- way 'to Israel to join the Stern Group. tain" or Richard Crossman's "Pal- mogeneous Jewish vote is possi- ble on a national scale. After all, The ,ktory was so preposterous that we estine Mission." one's vote IS determined on the • • • assume It must have given you a big laugh. policy and stand that the candi- But there is another slant to the situa- 'JEWISH HOLIDAYS. A SERIOUS PROBLEM has date takes with regard to domes- tion. World Jewry is trying to live down tic and foreign affairs., the vast harm done to Israel's prospects arisen in particular localities One of the hottest issues of the which may cause repercussions of by the assassination of Count Bernadotte, day is the Palestinian question allegedly by the Stern Group. Many per- an unsavory nature. On Jewish holidays like Suc- with which every Jew and the sons inclined to be friends of the struggling coth, Jewish children stay away world itself are concerned. At this infant State were alienated by the sense- from school for two days. They moment one candidate is in a po- less slaying. do nor go to the Synagogue; in- sition to take positive actihn in Stories like that of Time magazine two stead they put on their cold the same manner as he did when weeks ago to which we alluded in out Oct. clothes, go down to the Central 'Pm gave de facto recognition to 1 fthi el. • • 22 issue and the Detroit Times canard high school field and play ball..., The Gentile youngsters con see 'Elie 'other candidate is rinry in leave the impression that the Stern Croup them through the school windows a position to make promises. As is still all-powerful and plays an impoitant and can't quite grasp the signi- Agng as the incumbent refuses to part in Israeli affairs. ficance of a holiday where chil- take such action he cannot have The truth is that the Stern Group has dren get playground recreation the full confidence of the Jewish voter as to what he will do fol- been virtually wiped out. There is no gang all day. Oddly enough some of the chil- lowing election. left to which Fleisher and Selik could pos- dren whose parents belong to Re- sibly look for asylum. I think it's a grave error on his The Times story was an out and out fab- formed Temples stay away only part as he is bound to lose a one day and go to school the sec- great numberof Jewish votes by rication. It is another sad example of how ond day. Such children are har- careless, sloppy and vindictive writing can assed by other Jewish young- reason thereof. His statement on Monday, as well as Gov. Dewey's create harm and, most definitely, lessen sters and are called "goy." is ambiguous. Why doesn't he the average reader's respect for the jour- Something ought to be done stop quibbling and recognize Is- nalistic profession. about this situation. The blame rael in full? ' ! ! Random Thoughts • ■ •••••••••,••••••-• .