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SEYMOUR TILCHIN, President

Vol. 51, No. 4

GEORGE WEISWASSER, Editor-in-Chief

Friday, January 28, 1949 (Teveth 27, 5709)

In Brief' .. .

We do not agree with those who would
interpret Foreign Secretary Bevin's sud-
den surrender to Israeli aims as a strata-
gem. It is an expedient, but it was moti-
vated, we believe, by the belated recogni-
tion of Israel's supremacy in the Arabian
world in the face of the Arab coalition and
the very considerable assistance given to it
by Britain. Those who see in Bevin's assur-
ances just another trick misconstYue British
imperial policy. Until just a short time ago,
that policy was predicated on an Arab vic-
tory which would assure Britain plenty of
bases in the Arabian peninsula to help in-
sulate her new defense core in Africa. With
the Arabs failing to unite in spirit and
with the continued whippings they got at
the hands of the tiny new State, there sud-
denly dawned upon the foreign secretary
the realization that there was no hope for
a British base in Israel, close to the Suez
canal, as long as the Israelis looked upon the
British as their mortal enemies. This ex-
plains in large measure the happy Bevin
turnabout. Ile will now, we believe, start
courting Israel with the same ardor that
he expended only a few weeks ago in re-
viling and weakening her.

* * *
Truman Plays a Role

President Truman and his new regime
are generally believed to be greatly respon-
sible for the British reversal. Most Wash-
ington correspondents agree that the break
in British policy came under the friendly
pressure by Acting Secretary Lovett who
was acting on orders of the President.
While Bevin yielded also, in part, to the
pressure of the liberal public opinion in his
own country, a main cause for his change
of heart was the British unwillingness, or
inability, to pursue a different policy in
the Middle East from that of the United
States. For two years Bevin had been try-
ing to swing the American government to
his hostile attitude. Ilaving failed in that,
he did the next best thing that Britain
could do in order not to be out of step
with the United States politically—he fell
in line with the march of American policy,
climaxed by approval of the $100,000,000
loan to Israel.

* * *
`Redstone Boulevard'

It soon will not be amiss to label Dexter
as Redstone boulevard. Louis Redstone,
brilliant and imaginative architect, is slowly
giving the business thoroughfare a sense of
dignity and a Jewish identity by means of
the splendid religious edifices for which he
is responsible. He takes what can be in-
congruous, "modern" monstrosities of ar-
chitecture and lends them a beauty that is
orientapewish and yet retains the feeling
of modernity. His conception of a 1949 Syn-
agogue, as exemplified in Congregation
Beth Shmuel at Dexter and Buena Vista,
has drawn admiration and applause. Next
comes the beautiful building of the Young
Israel Center which will be completed be-
fore summer. Yeshivah Beth Yehudah,
which he designed, is in more classical
lines. These three buildings are helping to
give Dexter a valuable face lifting.

* * *

Race Riots in S. Africa

The recent race riots in South Africa in
which 300 Indians lost their lives is a
shameful indictment of the white race
which failed to stop the carnage. If the
government of South Africa thinks that in-
cidents such as this are the answer to its
"Indian problem," let it be informed that
the conscience of mankind will not long
tolerate such depraved logic. There is a
"Jewish problem" in South Africa, too.
Perhaps, it would be wise for Jewish lead-
ers to head off the government if it is
thinking of similar methods to alleviate
that problem.

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* * *
Transjordan Talks Peace

Peace talks with Transjordan are going
on independently from those with Egypt on
Rhodes, and these talks have advanced
further than the Egyptian, according to
reliable Israel foreign office sources. The
talks with Transjordan, which have been
going on for some time, have already passed
from the military to the political stage, and
will soon open officially in Jerusalem. It
appears that the two countries are eager
to reach an agreement before the UN con-
ciliation comrhittee arrives in Palestine and
that they want these talks not to be made a
part of the Rhodes talks. In fact, both coun-
tries have already reached an agreement on
the most controversial point, that of Jeru-
salem which is not to be internationalized
as the UN resolution called for, but divided
between the Israelis, who will get the New
City and the Arabs, who will get the Old.

EXISTANcE Hoff

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•Is the Plural

Arthur Liverhant, second secretary of the
Israeli Mission to the U. S., informed us on
his visit here to address services at Bnai
David, that the official plural of the term
Israeli, to designate a resident of Israel, is
Israelis. We shall, therefore abandon the
use of Israelim, the ..style which we have
followed. ,LiverhaUt also pointed out that
the term Israeli as the plural is not correct.

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Dissidents Peril UJA,
Zionist Unity in U. S.

By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Servike)

YORK—American Jewish public opinion was shocked. by
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a revelation that the unfortunate controversy between the so-

called "dissidents" and the official leadership of the Zionist Org-
anization of America, which had
been reported several times as selves as the agents best suited
settled and disposed of for good, to carry out that reorganization.
is far from settled.
By what democratic right
* • * *
On the contrary, it has now they have come to this conclu-
flared up with a new intensity sion has not been revealed, but
so that the American Zionist they clearly act as if they were
movement stands on the thres- chosen for that task by the man-
Yiddish is no longer "persecuted" in Is- hold of a new internal war sim-
of the people, although
rael and its use is no longer forbidden as ilar to that of the Brandeis- date
they are, admittedly, an insig-
before the war, said Chone Gottesfeld of Weizmann and Wise-Silver con- nificant minority.
the staff of the Jewish Forward, who has troversies that rent American The result is that the UJA
just returned from
visit to Israel. This Zionism for decades.
campaign for 1949, upon which
According to highly reliable so many historic hopes have
is partly due to the thousands of Yiddish-
speaking immigrants who are arriving daily information, the new trouble been laid both in Israel and in
and who cannot speak any other language. goes back to the old Montor Europe, has practically bogged
But Gottesfeld thinks that the old Hebrew incident and is, in fact, but a down from the very beginning.
continuation of the same, except The new drive has not even
zealots, who used to beat up every Jew that
now has become even been mapped out, still less org-
who spoke Yiddish publicly, are generally more it complicated
by the intro-
disappearing. He judges it by the warm- duction of the auestion of Henry anized, and it looks as if it will
in a still greater failure
hearted reception he received everywhere Morgenthau's chairmanship for end
than did the 1948 campaign
although he spoke only Yiddish. IIe fails, the UJA.
which fell short of its goal by
however, to make allowance for the fact
$100,000,000.
• • •
that he is a well-known writer and a staff ASKS ZIONIST CURB
member of a powerful New York daily.
MORGENTHAU has been per- GET ISRAELI SUPPORT
suaded to demand .the reinstate-
TO MAKE THINGS even
* * *
ment of Montor as a condition more tragic, the information dis-
for his acceptance of the chair- closes that the "dissidents" seem
manship of the campaign for to have some support in certain
A milestone in the history of Jewish 1949. What is more, the dissi- sections of the government of
philanthropy in America was marked Jan. 16 dent "Contributors and Workers," Israel, particularly of that ex-
when the National Jewish hospital at Den- who had on several occasiofts tremist nationalistic section
ver held its Golden Anniversary meeting in agreed to the liquidation of its which had consistently opposed
and its independent the strict separation of Israel
New York City. The meeting commemorated organization
activity, have broken their pro- from the Jews of the Diaspora
the opening of the institution by Bnai Brith mise and are continuing both and wants to establish the hege-
50 years ago.'More than 40,000 men, women their propaganda and activities. mony of the 'Jewish State over
and children from all parts of the country
Mentor and his supporters are the whole of world Jewry and
have been treated at this world-famous in- reported to have appeared before to proclaim every Jew of the
stitution.
gatherings of-c ig UJA donors Diaspora as an automatic mem-
advocating the ie,organization of ber of the Jewish State.
the UJA with a view practically
How the "dissidents," who
to eliminate the Zioiiist majority have always laid claims to a
from participating in the fund greater liberalism and democ-
We would like to believe that the an- collections and distribution.
racy, and especially how Morg-
• • •
enthau, who has the reputation
nouncement of the U. .4. loan to Israel was
of a libVrai statesman, can sub-
deliberately released on the eve of the in- SEES FAILURE
auguration ceremony in order to assure THE ideological ground for scribe to such a dangerous and
clearly disruptive activity chauvinistic theory, is difficult
doubting elements that it was the inten- this
is that the Zionist movement. in to understand.
tion of the administration not only to abide this country, as well as abroad, But more difficult to compre-
by its avowed Palestine policy but to im- has outlived its usefulness with hend is why Jewish public opin-
press them with its intention of carrying the formation of the Jewish ion has been kept in the dark
through that policy to its successful conclu- State; that economic and other about this entire affair for so
sion within and, if necessary, without the aid to Israel is now a matter long and why information of
councils of the international organization. for American Jewry as a whole, such urgency was kept from
The move should put London on notice that not only for the Zionists. There- the people until now. These rev-
the U. S. is determined to keep its prom- fore, all previous organilations, elations should have been made
and institutions have to public months ago and not arti-
ises to Israel and about Israel, as well as funds
either liquidated, or at least ficially suppressed until they
to use its good offices in influencing the be
radically, reorganized, and the have now reached a state of
Arab countries into making peace with the "dissidents" have elected them- explosion.

More Friendly to Yiddish

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• • •

Denver Hospital Hailed

* *
The U.S. Loan to Israel

new State. One thing is certain, as so ad-
mirably expressed in an editorial in the
Yiddish "Day," "if Bevin's anti-Israel policy
hasn't been shattered enough, the announce-
ment of the American loan will shatter it
even more." As Americans we are proud
over the step taken by our President, for
the loan, after all, was the fruition of a
policy which had the backing of the over-
whelming majority of the American people.

Butzel Memorial Set for Monday
The memory of the late Fred ist. It is open to the public with

M. Butzel will be honored at a
memorial concert at 8 p.m.,
Monday, in the children's room
of the Detroit Public Library.
The concert is sponsored by
the Detroit Public Library and
friends of the late philanthrop-

no admission charge.

The Karl Haas String ensem-
ble will play Mr. Butzel's fav-
orite musical compositions.
Ralph A. Ulveling, library dir-

ector, is chairman,