Thursday, May 12, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Raps Wishy-Waslify Policy of Defense Bodies
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
wE'RE OFTEN ASKED why we keep on hammering
" at our defense agencies. They arc doing the best
they know how, we're told. Why make their task more
difficult. Well, there are times when -
we can not stomach the type of
polite restrained, ineffectual Jewish
diplomacy which these organizations
spout. It took long discussions to
reach an agreement among our six
national top organization s on how
to express disapproval of the Ger-
man (Nazi - sponsored) Industrial
Fair. Finally the American Jewish
Congress, the Anti-Defamation Lea-
gue, the Jewish Labor Committee and
Biron
the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations sent a polite request to the U. S. Govern.
ment to cancel the Fair.
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THE WORDING of that statement was the crux
of "the difficulty." The American State Department
is committed to the strengthening of Germany. The
rebuilding of a strong Germany as a bulwark against
the SovieJ. Union is one of the cardinal points in our
foreign policy. So the question arose: How can we
Jews oppose the promotion of good will between Ger-
many and the U. S, on any grounds?
The organizations finally agreed to a statement, pro-
vided it would merely express our disappointment at
the failure of the de-Nazification program. The Jewish
groups who picketed the Fair in New York were
promptly labeled Communist by our top organiza-
tions.
The policy of talk without follow-up action won
acceptance. If the Jews of Palestine had pursued that
kind of policy there would not be any Jewish State
today.
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THE NATIONAL education department of the
Zionist Organization of America deserves high praise.
Its most recent booklet "So You're Going to Israel"
is a wonder.
Its got everything! Style, information, imagination
and above all perfect presentation.
Anybody going to Israel without this concise guide
for American tourists should have his head examined.
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THE NEWS OF Stephen Wise's death hit us like
a bullet in the pit of the stomach. We haven't recover-
ed yet.
Of all the Jewish leaders, we loved him the most.
Sure, he was an actor and knew how to give an ins-
pressive public performance. But he was human,
genuine, and more a man of the world than any of his
contemporaries in Jewish leadership.
There was something heroic about Wise. His pres-
ence always dominated his surroundings. During the
last decade his classic features had become sharp, sort
of eagle-like. His gait remained springy to the very
OFF THE RECORD
Name-ChangingEbbs;
Yorkville Hats Back
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
TREND to name changing
T in Israel seems somewhat.
checked. Many are hesitant to
assume new names because of
sentimental reasons.
An old-time Israeli resident ob-
serves in a letter I received from
Tel Aviv that it would be a Chilul
Hashem if those who survived
the. hand of death disassociated
themselves so soon from the
HE
'
names Under which millions of
Jews perished in Europe. "The
names on the tombstones will be
obliterated by time and the ele-
ments but who are we to con-
demn the memory of those names
in one generation?" he asks .. .
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BAREFOOTED BEN GURION
A RARE AND interesting pho-
tograph is on display at the Li-
brary of Congress in connection
with an exhibition in honor of Is-
rael's first anniversary. It shows
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
as a young man with a group of
pioneers studying farm work in
Rishon L'Zion.
It was snapped in 1905. Ben
Gurion stands at the head of the
group and one of the Chalutzim
rests his hand on the shoulders
of the future prime minister who
stands barefooted and wears a
soiled apron and rolled-to-the-
knees trousers.
In his right hand he holds what
appears to be a cluster of grapes.
Looking at the photograph one
can't help thinking about the
fruit of his labor now.
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ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT
1 HE ATTEMPT to revive the
last day.
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FEW PEOPLE knew it, but Wise was a very sick
man for the last few years. Last summer, when he
presided over the World Jewish Congress sessions at
Geneva, he beat back several attacks that downed hint
and kept him in agonizing pain for hours,
His recuperative powers amazed the physicians.
That's why they delayed the inevitable major opera-
tion until the very last moment. They knew that the
operation would mean the end—and so did he, we
suspect.
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IN THE LAST ten months anti-Semitism in France
has increased. The number of anti-Semitic publ
tions is growing. There is even noticeable an injection
of anti-Semitic material in the political literature of
Gen. DeGaulle.
The most distressing aspect of this political anti-
Semitism, is the fact that DeGaulle counts in his ranks
a number of prominent Jewish leaders and financiers.
These pro-DeGaulle Jews are keeping quiet and
accept this political anti-Semitism as temporary
strategy of minor concern to them. But the Jewish
population in Paris is seriously alarmed.
The French government is reluctant to do anything
because DeGaulle, in his anti-Semitic literature, also
attacks the Communists. And the French government
would not like to stop any action designed to weaken
the Communists.
German Bund is progressing be-
yond the expectations of the
manipulators. The Yorkvilles of
America are being flooded with
anti-Semitic literature reminis-
cent of the days when the ped-
dlers fit' hate were running
amuck.
Twice within a week this writ-
er was handed anti-Jewish leaf-
lets in New York's Yorkville area
only to have them torn from his
hand when the distributors real-
ized he was a Jew. A number of
Jewish storekeepers told this
writer that sentiment against
Jews was running higher in York-
ville than ever before.
Standkeepers in that area are
afraid to display Jewish papers
for fear of bringing on customer
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