Friday, January 7, 1549
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Page Three
Strictly Confidential
• Negev
Israel Thwarts British Tank Plot in
B PHINEA J . ON
THE NEWSPAPERS omitted an important aspect of
the recent fighting in the Negev. The Egyptian army
had been equipped with new tanks by the British and
British officers had worked out a
plan to defeat the Israeli on the bat-
tlefield. It was only after the Jewish
army had smashed the Egyptians
and captured a half a dozen of the
new tanks that British diplomacy
got busy and insisted on an immed-
iate truce and withdrawal of the Is-
raeli from the Negev. In other words
Bevin was handed the coup de grace
during the last week of December
and now is determined to halt the
P. J. Biron Jewish army via the Security Coun-
cil. The U. S. could stop Britain but is. influenced by
political considerations which have no direct bearing
on Israel. And so the U. S. permits Bevin to get away
with his scheme by default.
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THE AMERICAN SPORT world will soon welcome
Van Dam, the Dutch middleweight boxer. Van Dam is
tall for a middleweight and very good looking.
Here is the story that makes him a real champ, as
far as we are concerned. Next door to the Van Dams, in
a small Dutch town lived a Jewish family. When the
Nazis invaded Holland, Van Darn, the fighter hid them
in the cellar of his home. One night a Gestapo man in-
sisted on searching the Van Dam home. Our hero gave
him so thorough a beating that the Gestapo never again
knocked at the Van Dam door.
Luc, that's the first name of our champion, married
the daughter of the Jewish family and now they have
three children. Mrs. Van Dam 'is her husband's manager
and also his fight promoter. And the combination works
fine.
Off the Record:
Israel Acted it i.Negev
to Oust a Trespasser
By NATIIAN ZIPRIN
Chief Rabbi
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1949 at 8:30-p.m.
Panel to Discuss
Dexter Needs
Groups Join to Study
Facilities for Youth
self against an attacker a crim-
IMAGINE A COMPLAINANT
inal? That would seem to be the
and his lawyer acting as judges case as far as the UN is concern-
in a case and you will have a pic- ed. But the trouble is that the
ture of % what transpired last week
alien principle seems to be ap-
at the special Security Council
plicable only when Israel is in-
session on Palestine.
volved.
Egypt, the complainant, and
We don't pretend to know
Britain, the advocate of Arab in- what Israel's official answer will
terests and aggression, both voted be to the Council. We know
for the resolution. What respect
can there be for the international what the average American
farmer, if an invader entered
organization when it tolerates
his land by force and refused
loaded dice?
to leave, would do. We also
The cease-fire order was not a know what Britain for that
surprise. It followed tht well-
matter would do if an invader
known pattern of stopping Israel
settled himself on British ter-
whenever it gained military as-
ritory in any part of the world.
cendancy over the Arab trespas-
Bevin in such case would not
sers.
take UN dictation.
What is a trespasser? Take any
Contrast the speed with which
book dealing with the law of
the Council acted on Israel with
trespass; divest it of its legal
terminology and you will find the delay it tolerated on the In-
donesian question and you have
that the rightful owner of prop-
the answer to the puzzle. We
erty can use all force necessary
to dislodge a trespasser. And if wonder what would have hap-
a trespasser resists you can use pentd if the Indonesians were by
accident Israelis?
a gun. Ask any American farm- • • •
sr and he will tell you the law. ON THE HOME FRONT
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HENRY MONTOR is now pub-
UNDER UN GRANT
licity director for the Palestine
Apart from other considera- Economic Corporation ... Henry
tions, Israel is the lawful owner Morgenthau Jr., who resigned as
of the Negev under a grant by the general chairman of the UJA, is
United Nations. That grant has slated to become chairman of
not been rescinded. FEC . . . Jacob Blaustein is the
Israel holds what real estate next president of the American
mut and lawyers call good title. Jewish Committee. He will suc-
The Egyptians have no right be- ceed Judge Joseph M. Proskauer.
ing, there except by invitation, Blaustein'is chairman of the AJC
And they are there only on the executive and former board chair-
invitation of Bevin. man of the Jewish Telegraphic
What legal or moral justifica- Agency.
Lion did the UN have of sitting
Speculation is rife in Jewish
by idly while the Arab states in- circles
over the question of a sue-
vaded territory which did not cessor to Morgenthau in the UJA.
belong to them? And doesn't the According t o well - informed
UN charter say that aggressors sources the general chairmanship
are subject to expulsion from the may go either to former New
international body? Why weren't York Gov. Herbert H. Lehman or
Egypt and the other Arab states Mortimer May of Tennessee.
warned with expulsion?
Lehman, who declared two
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years ago at the annual JDC
APPLIED TO ISRAEL
meeting that he plans to devote
IS HE WHO DEFENDS him- the
rest of his life to Jewish at-
ODDS AND ENDS—Ira Wolfert's new novel "Act of
Love" deals with a Jewish soldier in the American
army during the war. Wolfert's hero in the end rejects
the Jewish religion in favor of Christianity.
The trouble with Wolfert's novel is that the author,
who is himself a Jew, doesn't know beans about the
Jewish religion. If he had, his climax would have been
another story.
The newspapers outside of California ignored the
death of I. George Dobsevage, one time secretary of
the Jewish Publication Association of America. He was
one of the builders of that valuable institution.
Sholem Asch tried to join the Ilistadrut in America
but the efforts of Chaim Greenberg, editor of the
Kaempfer, • to whitewash him failed completely and
merely precipitated a new violent controversy in the
Yiddish press.
Doesn't it strike you as strange that Joseph Proskauer,
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CHIEF RABBI ISAAC HA-
LEVI of Israel who celebrated
his 60th birthday last week,
"What Can We Offer Jewish
Youth in the Dexter Neighbor-
hood?" will be the, subject of a
discussion to be held at 8 p.m.,
Friday, Jan. 14, at Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah.
Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter
will serve as moderator. Re-
presented on the panel will be
the Jewish Community .Council,
Jewish Center, Young Israel
Sholem Aleichem Schools.
The program is part of a
series of forums conducted by
Rabbi Wohlgelernter in con-
junction with his Friday night
classes for residents of the
neighborhood.
Leaders of Jan. 14 meeting
point out that the topic is es-
pecially important, since there
is a crying need for recreational
facilities on Dexter.
The Council is cooperating
with the Center in the latter's
Dexter extension progra m.
Young Israel is erecting a youth
center at Dexter and Fullerton.
fairs, needs no introduction in this
corner.
May is a man of learning and
erudition as well as a successful
business man. He is a popular
figure in the south and western
part of the country.
There is quite a possiblity,
however, that a persidium may
replace the single UJA general
chairmanship which Morgenthau
held for two years.
David Pinski, noted labor Zion-
ist and Yiddish author, is leav-
ing for Israel where, he said, he
wants "to live the young life" of
the new State apart from fulfill-
ing a life-long dream. He is 80
years old and expects to do more
Chronicle Synagogue social
creative work under the "at-
and club news deadline is
mosphere of energy in Israel."
noon Mondays.
Youth Education
Pushes Campaign
Every member has fulfilled her
pledge to the Pledge Fund drive,
the Youth Education League re-
ported at a meeting Monday in
the home of Mrs. Samuel Ger-
ber.
The campaign will culminate in
a luncheon, Jan. 25 at Masonic
Temple.
Highlight of the affair will be
a musical production, "Shoot the
Breeze," written, produced and
directed by Mrs. Eli Gross.
Tickets may be obtained from
Mrs. Benjamin Gelman, UN
1-5714; Mrs. Harry Spector, UN
3-3546; or Mrs. Maurice Silver-
man, TO 8-2219. Proceeds wilt
be used for the group's many
projects.
LZO Branch 6
Slates 2 Speakers
Al Goodman will speak on
the Habonim, and Norman
Drachler will discuss "Introduc-
tion to Labor Zionism" at a
meeting of Branch No. 6, Labor
Zionist Organization, at 8:30
p.m., Friday, Jan. 7, in the home
of Dr. and Mrs. Alex W. Sand-
ers, 12342 Broadstreet boule-
vard. The latest Histadrut flint
will also be shown.
on all Kathleen Mary
Quinlan Toiletries
for a limited time only!
Now, you can select from the entire
line of Kathleen Mary Quinlan
beauty preparations at this
excellent saving! included are her
delightful face and hand creams,
deodorants, precious night creams,
make-up lotions, face masks
and other fine products.
cosmetics, main floor
-non. Arthur C A el l iverAant
Secretary of the kraeli Minion to the United States
will speak on "THE STATE OF ISRAEL"
Rabbi Joshua S. Specie, Cantor Hyman J. Adler and Choir
will officiate
WOODWARD AT STATE
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