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 • • • 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. Ettu3- 1.± 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- • • • • • • 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 (Continued on page 6) 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.