Thursday, July 28, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
$1,000,000,000 Loan Needed to Ease Israel Crisis
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
DP PROBLEM has not been solved. It has been
moved from Germany to Israel. This is a sad but
true fact. The DP situation presents a tragic spectacle
in the Jewish State. Tens of thousands of men, women
and children are herded in huge immigration cutups,
living under canvass, standing in line for hours under
the broiling sun to get their meals. •
No wonder these DP's, who waited
and waited for their liberation from
Hitler's concentration camps are get-
ting fed up. Their nerves are shot to
pieces, their enthusiasm has melted
to zero and their anger is rising to a
danger point.
THE
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Reliable reports from Israel tell of
serious clashes between DP's and po-
lice guards ... Unless drastic action
is taken by the government to ameli-
orate their status, these men and
Biron
women will break loose and set out
on the march as a roaming army of beggars. The
situation is very critical, notwithstanding the polite,
diplomatic' utterances of Israeli spokesmen. This gi-
gantic problem could be solved and solved quickly if
big funds were available. Even the UJA with its $250,-
000,000" quota (of which only $100,000,000 is antici-
pated) cannot tackle this terrific problem.
Yet in the midst of this tremendous human wave,
which threatens to engulf Israel, the young State is
confronted with the problem of the return of Arab
_
refugees. Britain and influential circles in the U.S.
are shedding crocodile tears on the fate of the poor
Arabs who were driven out of Pa k•stine by British
officers. Only a
united American Jewry, girding its
loins fur a supreme, unprecedented effort could solve
the DP situation in Israel. But the DP's cannot be
expected to wait for the billions to be collected by
voluntary contributions. World Jewry AND the Israeli
government must obtain a loan of at least $1,000,000,-
000 immediately, And don't say it cannot be done.
The Lehmans, Baruchs, Morgenthaus and Warburgs
• know their way around in international finance. They
could unquestionably underwrite an action to finance
a loan , which would be repaid in five or 10 years.
Unless measures of that scope are undertaken, the
DP problem will remain for years a tragic, shameful
blot, a heritage of Hitler, which instead of solving we
have merely shifted from Europe to the Middle East.
The time for parades and celebrations of army days
and navy days are over. The slogan must be: "No
more concentration camps in Israel." All the other
problems in Israel are of secondary importance.
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PASSENGER SHIP from Europe recently brought
a unique group of settlers to Israel. Down the
gang-plank marched seven midgets, members of a
midget show who had decides! to live in their home-
land. One of Israel's newspapers commented that
considering the size of the country, these mid •t
, •
will sure) feel at h ome
Paul Dennis is the emcee
OFF THE RECORD
at the Pecklo•r Hotel in South Fallsburg, this summer,
Ile is a splendid concert singer, and in his free time
works on a monumental history of Hebrew religious
music. Once you know that Paul Dennis is Henry
Rosenblatt, son of the immortal Cantor Yossele Rosen.
blatt, you no longer wonder.... We discovered that
the permanently best selling book of Jewish interest
is a Jewish cookbook . . . And many of its readers
are
non-Jewish housewives who consider Jewish
dishes an exotic novelty on their menus. . . . In any
case if you can compile an interesting Jewish cook-
book you will have no difficulty finding a publisher.
r!
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G. GROSS OF BROOKLYN writes: "In a democracy
it is eusotmary to make public the salaries
la
earned by public officials and civil service e
mployees.
In Jewish communal work, however, the salaries of
our social workers and professional organizational
workers are kept secret. It is wrong because experi-
enced social workers are entitled to good salaries. Si
why the secrecy? The same applies to the State of
Israel.
'I'd like to loose how much Ben Gurion and other
cabinet members receive for their arduous work. And
is it true that Weizmann does not get any salary?
The president of Israel should be a paid position or it
would be only open to wealthy men." (We cannot
enlighten you Mr. Gross, but the Jewish people in
and
merica are certainly entitled to know
these figures.—P.J.B.)
longs to a brother of Premier the first Jew elected governor of
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customers; one of the states—Idaho. Alex-I The August 3 Mid program of
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nt of the JWB.. . story of the Mississippi and "Peo-
having the premier as a brother.
ples of the U.S.S.R." The show-
Arnuf Pins is the only Jew
Bored with the questions poi-
ings begin at 9 p.m. The public is
among
the
four
American
dele-
ple ask of him, the storekeeper gates to the World Youth Con- invited.
decided to ignore all such in-
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By NATHAN ZIPRIN
play in influencing Jewish quirk's.
; news which meets in Brussels
JAMES G. McDONALD, Ameri- , can
literary and artistic life in the
, early in August
I One d
day, an elderly Jew asked
can ambassador in Israel, is! United States.
A non-Jewish composer, Lou'
: why it is that he is so indifferent ; Maury
apparently impressed with the
won second
d prize' in a
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coshin these men to remain in crest statesmen. Ben Gurion : nal Friday evening service spon-
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In a letter to Leon Gellman, the U. S. permanently. Certain- brother
brother looked at his torturer for cured by the Valley Jewish Corn-
president of the Mizrachi Organ-
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raphy written to date of Emma
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is delighted at the U. S. ambaasa-: woman who settled in Palestine c hampion of decency whose cen-
dur's personal invitation, and ex- , some years back in the hope of tenary is being widely observed
pests to take advantage of it next spending her last days on holy in the Jewish world now. The
week, when he leaves with a soil was recently visited by her Schocken Books press has added
ho flew to Israel from the another excellent volume to its
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modus operandi between Miz-
rachi and Hapoel Hamizrachi.
Choosing a World Mizrachi presi-
dent to succeed the late Rabbi
Meir Berlin will also be a major
feature of the world parley.
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I "To tell the truth," the mother
replied. "had I known that I
would live so long I would have
remained longer in the United
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TWO GIFTED Jewish poets
who escaped Hitler's hand of
death are in danger of being
forced to leave our country. Na-
hum Booze and Joseph Rubin-
stein came a year ago as delegates
to the Jewish Culture Congress.
They came on temporary visas.
Their time has expired and un-
less granted a stay or permitted
to remain permanently they are
doomed to an eternal status of
homelessness.
When these victims of totali-
tarianism came to our shores they
breathed freely. In verse and
prose they praised American
democracy and freedom from the
moment they arrived on our soil.
Jewish cultural organizations
are interested ih having them re-
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only out of humanitarian mo-
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