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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Thursday, June 16, 1949

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Ben Gurion
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SEYMOUR TILCIIIN
President

Thursday, June 16, 1949

GEORGE WEISWASSER
Editor-in-Chief

(Sivan 19, 5709)

Detroit 26, Michigan

- No Vacation for Berry

Louis Berry promised at the Golda Myerson dinner that he
would take no vacation this summer so he can finish up the job
in the Allied Jewish Campaign, and no one in the community
doubts his word. With due respect to the many competent and
zealous chairmen of the campaign through the years, we can
safely say that Berry has been the most devoted and the hard-
est working.

By his quiet enthusiasm, has affability and his acumen, he
has been able to infect his chairmen and his workers with a
sense of duty that has made many of them produce results that
are almost unbelievable in this difficult campaign. He has gone
into the contest with an ardor and sincerity that only mean that
to him the job is all-heart.
Berry received a standing ovation at the dinner. No one
deserved it more.

Ghastly and Shameful

This is a strange land. On the one hand, we have an America
that is kind, generous and neighborly; that pauses in the mael-
strom of daily life to wonder if Kathy Fiscus will be rescued and
then bows in grief when the news comes that she is dead. On
the other hand, we have an America that tolerates lynchings in
Georgia because of the color of a man's skin and prevents Dr.
Ralph Bunche from 'becoming an assistant Secretary of State
because the nation's capital forces his children to go to a school
set ,aside for Negro children only.
It is indeed strange. What is more, it is ghastly and shame-
ful. How decent people must have winced when they read of
Dr. Bunche's refusal of the Washington post because Washington
is Jim Crow.

There is a social ferment a-working in these times. Some'
day, it will result in a better life for all of us, good as life is to-
day in our beloved land. But men will ever blush in shame and
chagrin if the national stigma of racial intolerance is not some
day effaced. A beginning to eradicate it has been made. All men
of good will and good 'conscience must strive to bring it to
fruition.

Lausanne Parley Mwddles On

In surveying the muddle at Lausanne, the intransigence Of
the Arabs and the stubborness of the Israelis should not alone be •
blamed. Power politics has had quite a hand in the deal and
this time it was manipulated rather by France and Turkey than
by the Anglo-American entente.
The choice of France for the Conciliation Commission was
an unfortunate one. France seized at tae opportunity to bolster
her relations with Syria, her former mandate, by indorsing the
program of Syria's dictator Col. Zayim, and incidentally further-
ing the Arab viewpoint to offset her recognition of Israel and
her favorable vote on Israel's admission into the UN.
As a result, we find France, backed by pro-Arab Turkey,
nullifying American attempts to get the Arab and Israeli con-
ferees together around a table to discuss their problims directly
rather than continue with the indirect method of UN discussions
with each of the parties separately. There is no question that the
French attitude is responsible for the ineffectiveness of the
conference, and the American delegation made that clear when
it accused the French of having sabotaged the commission's
work.
The prestige of the commission is evaporating nor is it being
enhanced by such reported maneuvers as attempting to "re-
ward" Abdullah with a slice of Palestinian territory north of
Gaza on the Mediterranean plus a corridor from the Jordan.
Such an idea is monstrous, and the Israelis would be justified in
walking out of the talks if it is seriously projected..The very
idea of proposing further mutilation of Palestine and of dividing
the Jewish territories in half is preposterous and demonstrates
the confused thinking of the commission.
In view of Israel's military victories, anything less than
her pre-war frontiers in the north and south would be un-
warranted.

Our 'Colonial' People

The next big Jewish relief problem overseas is not Europe,
but in North Africa. The Jewish DP camps are being gradually
emptied, and by the end of 1949 they will be a cruel memory of
a most brutal war. But another, and much bigger problem looms
ahead for Jewish relief and social organizations, one that is much
bigger and more difficult than that of the camps, and it will
occupy the minds and energies of Jewish communal life for
decades to come.
This is the conclusion of a series o • articles in the "Day" by
Z. Baumgold, secretary of the Labor Zionist relief and rehabilita-
tion committee, who relates his personal experiences of a tour
of North Africa which he has recently concluded. As a good
Labor Zionist, Baumgold sees the solution of the new North
African problem in Israel. But as a conscientious reporter, he
reveals horrible facts which indicate that before the million
Jews in the North African countries are all transferred to Israel,
there is a big task before American and world Jewry outside
Israel.
It is a task of human slum clearance, of curing the thousands
of needlessly blind and consumptive who perish by the thousands
because they do not know the first rules of hygiene; a task of
raising the standard of living of a backward community which
lives under conditions of medievalism; a task of physical sal-
vaging of a million people before they can be salvaged nation-
ally. In a sense; the million North African Jews are our "Col-
onial' people and they are clamoring for immediate help.

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By HEN FREEDMAN
WHEN I WAS ushered into his
I was greeted by a
husky man of medium size, with
grey hair and kindly blue eyes.
He wore a simple grey suit and
an open sport shirt.
David Ben Gurion, head of a
new nation born in blood and
anguish, startled me by his over-
whelming simplicity and humil-
ity.
He welcomed me with a hearty
"Shalom," shook my hand warm-
ly and, after a few minutes, made
me feel so much at home that I
thought we were sittingsin his
living room discussing the many
mutual friends in the States, and
not in an official place—the for-
eign office — spacious mansion,
flooded wth light, furnished in
good, simple, appealing taste.

• • •

Dorothy Thompson
Replies to Criticism

MAN OF NOBILITY
DURING OUR long conversa-
tion I felt that I was in the pres-
ence of a man of unusually rare
stature, of iron will and warm
heart.
It was a thrilling experience
to talk to the man who devoted
his life to the restoration of the
Jewish Homeland and who saw
his dream fulfilled on that his-
toric day of May 15, 1948, when
the Israeli declaration of inde-
pendence was proclaimed.
But he cannot sun himself in
the glory that he had secured a
Homeland for eternal wanderers
and had made true Isaiah's word:
"I will bring you home to Jeru-
salem on the wings of an eagle."
The hardest tasks are still be-
fore him, and manifold tasks they
are. Although he and his people
have performed true miracles in
war and peace, yet much is to be
done still and heavy problems
weigh on Ben Gurion's strong
shoulders. There is before all
the struggle to care adequately
for an influx of 1,000 immigrants
daily.

By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
(Jewish World News Service)
DOROTHY THOMPSON has published a vigorous reply in the
New York "Day" denying accusations made against her that
she had turned anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, almost anti-Jewish be-
cause she had criticised certain<i
actions of the Israelis and of Am-
to "prove" that Soviet Russia and
erican Zionists.
its satellite states, have turned
Miss Thompson dealt with a anti-Seniitic in the Nazi sense.
few specific cases of criticism
Yiddish newspaper men are, as
which she had raised on various
occasions. These were: (1) The a rule, better informed about the
massacre lay the Sternists and Ir- real condition of the Jews in
Eastern Europe. They have
gunists of the Arab civilian pop-
ulation, including women and sources of their own which the
children, in the village of Deir non-JeWish press has not, and to
Yessin in the beginning of the most of them the countries behind
Palestine war; (2) The tumultous the so-called "Iron Curtain" are
reception given by American not mere abstractions, but former
Jews to the fascist Menachem homes that they know intimately
and about which they cannot be
Biegin; (3) The various antics of easily deceived.
Ben Hecht in his anti-British
It is significant therefore that
propaganda; (4) The campaign
against "Oliver Twist;" and (5) all Yiddish newspapers, except
The tendency among many Zion- those of the professional anti- MESSAGE TO AMERICANS
ists and other nationalistically in- Communists, have avoided the
BEN GURION, full of bound-
clined Jews to classify themselves big stories which for weeks less enthusiasm for past accom-
as a minority group in the United cheapened the columns of lead- plishments, full of sincerity and
ing American newspapers with
States.
the form of news. warmth, filled me with respect
"Israel is a secular political propaganda in
and great admiration. Although
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state, subject like other states to
his high forehead is furrowed by
criticism," Miss Thompson said AJC GIVES BACKING
deep lines of suffering and stren-
TINS WAS THE position taken uous work, he is untired and full
and implied that not only Israel,
but Zionists and even Jews are by-all Jewish dailies and weeklies of hope in a final peaceful de-
except the "Forward" and by velopment and a lasting recon-
not immune from criticism.
• • •
most Jewish public men and or- ciliation with the Arabs.
ganizations. The only exception
And, I am proud to say this
LEGITIMATE BASIS
was the American Jewish Com- man entrusted me with a message
IT SO HAPPENS that Miss mittee.
to all American Jews and to all
Thompson has lately strayed far
Why this old and responsible Americans of every race. And
afield from many of her previdtis
Jewish
body
should
have
lent
it-
here is his message:
liberal views and much of the
"We need American money
criticism levelled against her is self to support a cheap propa-
fully justified. But in this partic- ganda stunt which at best, was badly. And, yet, funds alone are
ular case she was and is on per- not started in the interest of the not enough. Israel needs people
fectly legitimate, liberal grounds. Jews, but for an ulterior political from America and other free
purpose having nothing to do
Miss Thompson was not alone with Jews; arrd at worst, could do countries to come here and help
in her criticism of the acts enum- infinite harm to European Jews, us in the upbuilding of our na-
erated above. Many other non- is something which is difficult to tion. By the hundreds of thou-
sands we need Americans to
Jewish and Jewish liberals voiced explain.
come here and make a home
opposition to every one of the
There are some who say that with us, for Americans embody
issues mentioned by her. And for
this criticism they, too, were de- the AJC has no Jewish program all the attributes Israel requires
its own at present and is there- in its great pioneering.
nounced as anti-Israelis, anti- of
fore in a mood to jump on any
"We yearn for American in-
Zionists and anfi-SeMites. In the
case of Jews, they were shouted popular bandwagon in order to genuity, genius for organization
justify
its
existence.
and building. We want ArlaCr
down as "traitors."
There are others who believe lea's technical skill, the "know-
Super-sensitiveness to criticism
is, unfortunately, one of the most that the AJC is influenced by a how" that made the United States
short decades.
morbid aspects of Jewish life at group of former and present Trot- great in relatively
• • •
present. Strangely .enough, this zkyites who would sell their
morbidity is beginning to lose souls, not only the interests of the NEED AMERICAN SKILL
people, for a dig at Stalin-
"WE WANT American capital
some of its intensity in Israel Jewish
ism.
to be infested in the multitude
where good, strong frank criti-
Torn O'Conner who wrote a of industrial, commercial, agri-
cism like that of Miss Thompson's
is heard frequently and no one series of seven articles on the cultural, housing and other proj-
dreams of denouncing it as ahti- subject in the "Daily Compass," ects.
"In the first, most difficult
Israelism, anti-Semitism, or as advanced a theory which seems
"treason," as is the custom in more logical than the others. Ile year, Israel has won its spurs as
says that the AJC was dragged a nation among nations and it has
certain sections of Jewry here.
into this stupid affair while the made good its pledges to offer
• • •
real leaders were away in Israel sanctuary to the homeless and
STUNT THAT FELL FLAT
and that when they found out persecuted Jews of the world.
TO THE CREDIT of the Jewish about it, they were greatly dis- And now we must create homes,
press it should be mentioned that, pleased, but it was too late to jobs and technical training for
with a single exception, it re- do anything.
the newcomers. They must be
jected the stupid and cruel prop-
trained to become creative citi-
aganda stunt that was caught up
3,350 BUSINESSES
zens in a new State. Only Amer-
so avidly by a section of the non-
TEL AVIV—(Z0A)—A total of ican skill, only American labor
Jewish American press which 3,350 industrial enterprises are
published scores of news stories functioning in Israel with 32,250 can help the State of Israel to
flourish as a bastion of progress
articles and features purporting workers.
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