Thursday, May 19, 190

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

Weak Fight on Ineffectual DP' Act Is Deplored

PIIINEAS J. B14 ON
T HE UNITED By STATES
is virtually closed to the

defense agencies are doing little about this outrage.
Our Jewish leadership, fully aware that there is a
large section of refugees on the other side who would
like to join their relatives here instead of going to
Israel, keeps quiet. Why?
There is a betrayal of Jewish interest involved in
this non-protestation against the DP act. And this
story when told will make some of our most respected •
leaders look none to respectable.
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ZIONIST OPPOSITION evaporates, Such would
be the headlines in a daily Zionist press these pre-con_
vention days. And actually this is the truth. The
CPZ, which until so recently was pushing its nose
militantly into the Zionist picture, demanding reforms
and insisting on more "progressive" policies in Zion-
ist organizational issues, was unable to mobilize more
than a corporal's guard . - And so we predicted a
long time ago, this year's convention will be a rather
tame affair.
Dan Frisch will be elected president of the ZOA.
Dr. Neumann will before long leave for Israel. Dr.
Silver will gradually return to his Rabbinical and
other duties.
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THE METABOLISM of the Zionist movement will
go way down. The death of Wise, the virtual retire-
ment of Lipsky, the indifference of the young Zionist

victims of Nazi-Fascism. Last June, tht, President
approved the Displaced Persons act. Yet until now
fewer than 6,000 refugees have en-
tered this country. Why? Because 7
the DP act defines a Displaced Person
as one who was in the western zone
on or before Dec. 22, 1945, thus cut- ,.
ting off the majority of the refugees
who fled into the camps during 1946.
Because the act awards 40 per cent
of visas to Displaced Persons from
the Baltic countries, unmercifully re-
ducing immigration opportunities
for
other

groups.
Because it requires Displaced Per-
sons to have jobs,and homes
waiting
for them, sight unseen.

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And primarily because it awards 30 per cent of visas
to
Displaced Persons previously engaged in agriculture
and thus discriminates against the many refugees who
have no agricultural background.
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THERE IS NOT the slightest doubt that the DP act
opens the gates of the U. S. to the wrong kind of
immigrants, ignoring the plight of those refugees who
barely escaped Hitler's Iron fist, And yet our Jewish

OFF THE RECORD

Washington. His plans were
thwarted by Truman himself who
personally briefed "a top-level
State Department official on
American policy on Israel's mem-
bership application
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not with the same spirit of dejec
AS EXCLUSIVELY predicted
titan as when they heard the re- in this column three weeks ago,
sults of the partition vote. Iron- Zionist differences in the U. S. are
ically enough Israel's first official
position coincided with the Arab
stand on the Libyan question.
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It is a certainty that Israel will Chevrolet for many years.
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diplomats. Nor will it involve
itself in commitments with re-
gard to the projected -Mediter-
ranean alliance.
Israel's admission to the UN
was a personal defeat for Ernest
Bevin who worked earnestly and
feverishly during his recent visit
to the U. S. to have the appli-
cant shelved until September.
He had many willing ears in

Truman Would Visit
`Good Friend Chaim'

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

TRUMAN has told
P RESIDENT
intimate friends that in the

event he decides to make a trip

to Europe he will visit Israel to
see "my good friend Chaim."
The President has been cool to
the idea of conferring with top-
ranking diplomats on European
soil. However since the easing of
the tension over' the Berlin
blockade the advocates of such
a visit have gained the upper
hand.
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ISRAEL AND THE UN
THE PRIVILEGE of being a
. UN member will cost Israel about
$200,000, The membership dues
are based on the national income
of a given country.
The irony of the alphabet
places Israel between Iraq and
Lebanon in the Assembly.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett was so overcome with
emotion that when he began ad-
dressing the Assembly he could
hardly raise his voice above a
whisper. Festivity at the Assem-
bly when the membership appli-
cation was approved was almost
as great as when the Assembly
voted for partition in November
of 1947.
The Arab tactics were the
same. They just took a walk but

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ISRAEL NOW HAS a Jewish population of about
800,000 and an Arab population of approximately 150,-
000. The density of population in Israel today is 58
per square kilometer. Without the Negev it would bd
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It is estimated that three and a half to five billion
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