Britain Plotting War on Israel,
U. S. Zionist Leaders Charge
Oscar Cohen to Quit Council
for Post With AN in N.Y.
Oscar Cohen, executive direc- ation League in New York, it was
tor of the Jewish Community revealed this week. A successor
Council, will leave April 1 to take has not yet been chosen.
Cohen, who is 40, came to De-
troit in November, 1946 after a
distinguished career in Jewish
communal work and as a colonel
in the Canadian army. From 1931
to 1934, he edited the Jewish
Standard of Toronto.
He graduated from the Uni-
versity of Toronto in 1929 and
did graduate work at Columbia.
In 1936 he left the Standard to
become executive director of the
central division of the Canadian
Jewish Congress. He entered the
army in 1941 as a probationary
second lieutenant and guilty
rose to a colonelcy, being in
charge of all ordnance depots in
tho dominion.
OSCAR COIIEN
Last summer, Cohen and his
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wife and daughter spent a month
over the post of director of ad- in England and France studying
ministration for the Anti-Defam- labor and other social institutions.
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HRION'ICLE
Vol. 51, No. 2
52
Friday, January 14, 1949
head League Musical
a u0PY $3 Per Year
London
Pledges
Restraint
(Special to The Chronicle)
Despite the tendency in in-
ternational quarters to be-
lieve that the Israeli-British
crisis would soon blow over
in view of U. S. pressure on
Press Quiz of the Experts
Sot for Zionist Program
Because of the widespread in- of the Jewish News; and Sey-
tii est in the program "The Press mour Tilchin, publisher of the
Que.,tions the ExpertS on Israel," Jewish Chronicle.
the Zionist Organization of De-
The chairman for the evening
troit is inviting who will act as moderator is
1.1.Io 5) J. I< Illgelman
its entire mem- Robert Ettinger, education chair-
Rehearsals for their colorful musical production, "Shoot the
bership to t h e man for Chapter I, under whose
Breeze," are helping to fill the days for Youth Education League
Wednesday, auspices the program was devel.
members. The musical will be presented Jan. 25 at the Masonic
Jan . 19 meet- oped. Micki Lancet is program
Temple. At the left above is Mrs. Eli Gross, writer, producer
ing at Bnat chairman.
and director of the show; Mrs. Irwin Buchalter, center, is in
Moshe.
Also on the program for the
charge of piano arrangements; and Mrs. John West, right,
Leading evening is the showing of the
planned the dance routines. Proceeds of the presentation will
newspaper and new film "A State Is Born." The
finance the organization's many projects on behalf of youth
radio personal- meeting will start at 8:45 p.m.
education and recreation.
ities who will with the film.
\
participate i n -
Howes
elude Col.
Royce Howes, editorial writer for
the Detroit Free Press; Russell
Barnes, correspondent for the De-
troit News; and Vera Brown, of
Representatives of the three
the Detroit Times.
Detroit
Jewish hospital groups
In addition, Carl Cederberg,
Claims Arrest of
Gov. G. Wnnen Williams will
newscaster for WWJ; Joseph speak at the January regional have been meeting to. iron out
Leader in Moscow
Hainline, of WJR; and Lee Smits, meeting of Womens' American their differences, the Chronicle
news analyst for WXYZ, will Ort, a luncheon at 12:30 p. m. has learned.
take part.
NEW YORK—(WNS) — Itzik
Monday.
There are excellent chances Pfeffer, leader of Soviet Jewry
Leading Detroit Zionists who
Aaron Tart, a member of Ort's
will be on the platform as ex- national executive committee, for an amicable solution, a and head of the dissolved Jewish
ports to answer the questions of will tell the members of his trip spokesman said. He revealed Anti-Fascist Committee in Mos-
the press representatives include through Europe during the past that payment has been made by cow, was held in custody 10 days
by Soviet police who raided the
Rabbi Leon Fram, Lawrence W. summer, and specifically, of the
the Jewish Welfare Federation of offices of the organization, ac-
Crohn, former president of the work of the organization in the
interest payments due to the •Ile- cording to a report received by
Zionist district; Leon Kay, pro- rebuilding of Europe.
gram chairman, Z.O.D.; Sidney
Mrs. Harry Becker, regional brew Hospital Association. Ifhe the Jewish Morning Journal,
Shevitz, president of the Zionist president, urges all members and third group involved is the Mt. Yiddish daily, from its Vienna
correspondent.
Council; Philip Slomovitz, editor friends of Ort to attend.
Sinai Hospital Association.
According to the correspondent,
details were given him by a
Jew, Fete Detroit Hero
Jewish officer of the Red Army
who recently arrived in Vienna
from Moscow. The officer, he re-
lates, told him that on Dec. 4,
Russian secret police raided the
offices of the Jewish Anti-Fascist
CHRISTMAS DINNER in the strawberries, Christmas pudding, for national independence. You Committee, confiscated its be-
longings, ordered it to become
Jewish State of Isr .ael with coffee, liquers, raisins and nuts, are part of a noble tradition of dissolved and closed down its
the Israeli army as hosts.
olives and pickles, wine and beer. men who have volunteered to publication, Einigkeit, the only
That was the experience of a Cocktails and appetizers prefaced fight for justice and righteous- Yiddish-language paper published
Detroit non-Jewish pilot who has the dinner and cigarets were ness which know no national in Soviet Russia.
been a member of the Israeli air passed out to the diners.
boundaries.
The action was taken, accord-
force since June, 1948, according
The last page of a printed
"You are pioneers—pioneers in ing to the officer, because of the
to a letter received by his father, menu contained a message from thought and action. To my alleged opposition displayed by
a prominent attorney here.
Gen. Yaakov Dori, chief of staff knowlddge, you are the first the committee against the new
The young man, a veteran of of the army of Israel. It read:
Christians in history to take part anti-Israel policy of the Soviet
the RCAF and the U. S. air force,
"On behalf of the general staff in the field in Jewry's struggle government.
joined the Israeli army as an and of the officers and men of for independence. You are cer-
The official Soviet press, the
expression of his sympathy with the Defense Army of Israel, I tainly the first in history to cele- officer said, has recently beer
the cause of the new State where send you Christmas greetings and brate Christmas on the soil of the conducting a campaign against
he has several flier friends, ac- good wishes for a bright and State of Israel.
the Israeli government, and par-
cording to his father.
happy new year.
"I take this opportunity of ticularly against Goldie Meyer-
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thanking you for your help, ex- son, Israeli minister to Moscow,
DELICACIES LISTED
NOBLE TRADITION
pressing our appreciation of your who was accused of conducting
THE MENU of the Christmas
"YOU CHRISTIAN volunteers courage and zeal and of your a nationalistic campaign among
dinner given to all Christian sol- in our army may be few in solidarity with our cause. You
Russian Jews and thereby ham-
diers in the Israeli army includ- number, but you represent the will be remembered in our an-
pering the movement to settle
ed mushroom surprise, cream many millions of non-Jews in nals.
Jews in Biro-Bidjan.
thicken soup, roast fowl, potato many lands, who, we are con-
"A happy Christmas to you,
There are now 500,000 Jews in
croquettes, garden peas, cauli- vinced, are with us in our slrug- and may the New Year bring
Moscow, Mrs. Meyerson has re-
flower, apple sauce, salad, fresh gle for freedom and our battle peace and goodwill to all men." ported.
Ort Luncheon
to Hear Williams
11 -•• •
Hospital Groups'
in Peace Talks
A Merry Christmas in Israel
Soviet Pressure
on Jews Reported
Britain and a British promise to
exercise "great restraint," Amer-
ican Zionist leaders charged in
large ads in the New York press
that "Britain appears to be pr'e-
paring for a 4w war against
Israel."
The accusation was made by
the American Zionist Emergen-
cy Council of which Dr. Abba
Billet Silver is chairman.
CITE TROOP MOVEMENTS
The Zionists charged that in
addition to the British troops
sent to Aqaba, Transjordan,
there are reports of large num-
bers of British war planes being
landed in Transjordan bases and
that Britain is training troops
in Tripolitania under conditions
similar to tAse in Israel.
"British propagandists," the
statement declares, "are trying
to make it appear as if current
British military moves were
'provoked' by the shooting down
of RAF planes by the Israelis.
It should, therefore, be remem-
bered 1,0t the aforementioned
British troop movements to
Aqaba were first disclosed by Is-
rael almiist two weeks ago."
APPEAL TO U. S.
The statement appealed to the
U. S. to warn Britain firmly to
halt its "policy of war and in-
trigue against Israel." It point-
ed to the fact "that Great Bri-
tain's current moves to frustrate
the peace which now seems to
be in the making between Is-
rael and the Arab states, along
with her threats of unilateral
military action, flaunt the
United Nations and its efforts
to hasten a settlement between
the Arab states and Israel."
Statements by Aubrey Eban,
chief Israeli delegate to the U.N.
in the Israeli protest to the UN,
seem to support the fears of
the American Zionists. British
military movements, he implied,
were aimed at an ultimate at-
tack on Israel. "Since no Bri-
tish territories are interested in
the East Mediterranean or in
any way threatened," he point-
ed out, "it is difficult to assume
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Haber Predicts
Full DP Exodus
VIENNA (WNS) — By next
September, all Jewish Displaced
Persons who wish to go to Israel
will be out of the European DP
camps, Prof. William Haber, re-
tiring adviser on Jewish affairs
to the American military com-
mand in Europe, who is returning
to his post at the University of
Michigan, declared.
The only Jewish DP's who will
then be left in the German and
Austrian camps will be those
wishing to emigrate to other
countries, he said.