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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

U. S. Bigotry Still Rampant, Roper Poll Discloses

By PHINEAS.J. BIRON
E WONDER whether many of you had occasion to
read the most recent Elmo Roper survey on
prejudice in our nation. Although President Truman
has contributed to the debunking of public polls,
Roper's fact-finding organization is one of the most
accurate instruments to measure pub-
lic opinion.
The poll was completed a few
weeks ago and only a week after the
national observance of Brotherhood
Week. The poll reveals that almost
90 percent of our population thinks
that the Jews are acquiring too much
economic power."
Almost 20 percent singled out the
Jews for "having too much influence
in our political life"; 56 percent said
"they'd rather not have Negroes in
their home as guests." Biron
Bunched in second place were Mexicans, Filipinos
and Chinese. And just behind these groups came
Jews and Italians. Just under 50 percent said "they'd
be against marriage to Jews."
Roper's conclusion states among other things: "I
have tried to give you in as objective a manner as
I know how this inventory. Much of it is personally
shocking to me, as it must be to anyone who takes

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the trouble to learn the elementary facts about the
status of minority groups in our country today."
Reliable sources insist however, that this Roper
poll was watered down after consultations with one
of our top defense agencia. ?:; not that the figures were
changed but the tone of the presentation was edited.
Th millions of dollars spent by the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews and its expensive pub-
licity machine are not generating much good will to-
wards minority groups, it would seem.
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"STATEMENTS FROM the right, like those of
Cardinal Mindszenti, Catholic Primate, making peace
between Jews and Gentiles dependent upon the li-
quidation of the political police and abandonment of
the prosecution of war criminals, revived the ancient
pattern of collective Jewish accountability . . . The
Jews were to blame for a situation entirely outside
their influence and control" .. From the American
'Jewish Year Book, page 418, 1947-1948... The Year
Book is published by the American Jewish Committee
which now defends Mindszenti's Jewish record . . .
And "Under the Horthy regime the Hungarian people
were economically oppressed by the Jews . . . But
today, after the war, the Hungarian people suffer
political persecution from the Jews" statement by
Cardinal Mindszenti. in an interview published in
the London News Chronicle.

Plan New Pressure
on Israel to Join West

The mother was seen talking to
the boy loudly but evidently
without results. She then burst
out in an avalanche of the Yid-
dish idiom.
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
A passing soldier overheard her
A MUCH OVERLOOKED state- ding her young son. The boy was wrath and suggested to the
sulky and disobedient.
woman she might make better
" ment by Secretary of State
Dean Acheson may yet be a
source of much political trouble
to Israel. Acheson spoke casu-
ally of American growing interest
in the Near and Middle East in
connection with the North At-
lantic pact.
Ostensibly Bevin's visit to this
country early next month is con-
Meted with the pact. Actually it
is Bevin's mission to map similar
strategy in the Mediterranean

"TODAY, AS IN the past, anti-Semitism serves
only the enemies of Poland. The Russian Tsars used
anti-Semitism to combat our striving for independence.
Hitler tried to make German slaves out of us with
the aid of anti-Semitism.
"Today, those who would exploit the Polish
people rely upon anti-Semitism to achieve their goal"
. An excerpt from the "Manual of Political Educa-
tion" for soldiers in the Polish army.
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THE FORTHCOMING Zionist convention will be
the battleground between the Silver-Neumann and
Lipsky-Wise forces. But the conflict will be short
and bloodless.
The Progressive Zionist Committee led by Amer-
ican Zionism's shrewd politician, Louis Lipsky, will
hardly make a dent in the Neumann forces. The ad-
ministration candidate for president, probably Daniel
Frisch, will be overwhelmingly elected.
Nobody will be able to explain why the Neumann
administration took the opposition seriously. But we
can tell you right now that the weakness of the
Progressive Zionists is an organizational pneumonia.
It has no stamina and therefore will have no delegates.
How do we know all this so definitely? We an-
alyzed the situation and the persons involved and
came to the conclusion that there is too much talk
and too .much "strategical gossip" and no organiza-
tional action among the Lipsky-ites.

headway if she chastised her un-
willing youngster in Hebrew.

Turning upon her new tor-

mentor the woman shouted "since
when can't a person in a free
country give her child a Jewish
education?"

TEEN BRUNCH BUNCH
The Center Teen Club Council
will hold a "Brunch BLnch" over
a "lox and bagel" breakfast Sun-
day at 10 a.m. Topics on local
and world affairs will be discuss-
ed. Teenagers are invited, Ken
Rosenthal, bunch leader, an-
nounced.

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area.

In his talks with Acheson he
will sound out the Secretary of
State on the advisability of test-
ing Israel's reaction to the possi-
bility of joining such a pact.
Previously it was Greece, no
doubt as agent for the British
Foreign Office, that tried to sound
out Israel on that proposition.

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NEUTRALITY IS GOAL
ISRAEL IGNORED the pro-
posal and wisely since it is bent
on following a policy of neutral-
ity in the East-West political tug
of war. It is Bevin's intention to
raise the issue publicly in order
to embarrass the new State and
impute to it political sympathies
it does not share.
Diplomatic circles in Washing-
ton and London are keeping their
eyes riveted on Palestine. They
believe that when peace comes to
that area of the world Israel and
the Arab states will enter into a
pact aimed at eliminating foreign
influence of all kinds from that
part of the world.
This explains London's sudden
eruption against the peace move-
ment. Continued tension and dis-
turbance would give Britain an
excuse to widen out' there and
bring a halt to the evident Arab
tendency toward getting rid of
British shackles.
• •
IN LIGHTER VEIN
IT HAPPENED in the early
days of the fighting in Palestine.
Supplies were inadequate and
Jewish soldiers were training
with brooms. One night while an
Haganah militiaman was guard-
ing a public building with a
broom in his hand instead of a
gun he heard footsteps. He
shouted "halt" but the moving
figure ignored the order and kept
on moving closer and closer.
When the figure came close to
the building the sentryman recog-
nized it as that of his closest
friend, Ephraim.
"Tell me, Ephraim, why did
you ignore my halt order and
take the risk of being shot," the
sentry asked his friend.
"How could I have answered
back when I am supposed to be a
tank?" Ephraim replied. . . . Tel

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