Thursday, August 4, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Is New Stephen Wise to Be Found in AJ Congress?
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FISIIBEIN, IN A militant editorial in the Chicago
J• Sentinel calls for a new Stephen S. Wise to re-
vitalize and re-establish the American Jewish Con-
gress as a democratic Jewish defense organization.
And Fishbein knows whereof he speaks.
The Jewish Congress in in imminent danger of
losing its status of a liberal democratically constituted
r
body. Ever since illness prevented
the late Dr. Wise from asserting his
philosophy of Jewish life, the Con-
gress has deteriorated. It has ceased
to heed the principles on which Dr.
Wise's philosophy was based.
Dr. Wise believed all his life in
mass action. He rarely put his faith
in secret diplomatic negotiations. ilk
epic fight against Nazism was an open
mass offensive. Dr. Wise considered
controversy on important issues
Biros'
healthy and constructive. When Dr.
Wise disagreed with the leadership of the American
Jewish Committee or with high dignitaries of the
Catholic, Protestant or Jewish churches he did not
mince words. He fought issues regardless of personal
friendships and political associations.
.,
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• DR. WISE IN ALL his actions was motivated by
the Itindaiaentally important progressive currents in
world politics. He believed in world peace as an
essential for all humanity. Just like Thomas Mann
and Albert Einstein, he differentiated between fascism
OFF THE RECORD
Herzog's Son Wonders
H ow Holy Is' o y Year?'
By Guest Columnist
! As further indication of the
MARC H. TANENBAUM
Vatican's mounting month-by-
ACOB HERZOG, sun of Israel's month attacks on Israel, observ-
chief Rabbi and head of the Is- . ers point to the most recent and
raeli ministry of religion's Chris- • most inflammatory assault by
tian bureau, was sunk in ambiva- Franciscan Father Alberto-Geri,
the Vatican's ''Custodian of the
lent bewilderment,
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The ambivalence was in reac- Holy Land * "
lion to an announcement by Ba- ; Under a front-page, double-
ron Litterio di Madam, a high : column headline in the New York
official of the Italian foreign min- "Times" (June 7), Father Gnu
istry and newly-designated papal nut only blasted Israel for "a pol-
appointee in Israel. Last month, icy hostile to the interests of the
in Jerusalem, the baron declared ' Roman Catholic Church in Pal-
that "at least 100.000 Catholic estine," but resorted to an old,
pilgrims will visit holy places in well-worn subtle device.
Israel during 1950," the Holy Year
"We are," the Vatican's custo-
recently proclaimed by papal dian asserted, "deeply chagrined'
bull,
• and have lost all our truat in a
It is, therefore. Herzog's duty people who after all, should be'
to assist the baron, who is in' grateful to us since we have —
charge of Catholic pilgrimage ar- even in recent times — risked our
rangements in Israel. But the ; lives to protect it
question, and the obvious source
Hatzofe, the Mizrachi daily in
of ambivalence, which troubled Israel. answered Father Cori
Herzog is this: just how "holy" thusly: "The Jewish people re-1
will the ''holy year pilgrimages" jects with horror and disgust the ;
be'
accusations of those who were in- 1
Apparently, Herzog is skepti- different to the fate of 1.000,000
cal. "A mighty demonstration of Jewish children in Nazi Ger-
the political views of the Vati- many."
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can . . . " is his quoted reaction,
to the forthcoming pilgrimage.
VATICAN SHIFT?
Herzog will not be alone in his
ACTUALLY, SOME. observers
skepticism. Observers of Vatican
policy toward Israel. have noted claim the past few weeks mark a
an embittered and steactiv-in- discernable shift in the Vatican's
creasing hostility toward the Jew- stand. Realizing, they say, that
ish State. They wonder now Rome's anti-Israel campaign has
whether holy year will be but gotten out of hand, retractions—
another stage in the Vatican's albeit half-hearted--started filter-
ing out from "unofficial sources."
campaign.
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It is generally hoped that the
latest Rome-Jerusalem negotia-
'REGRETTABLE'
A SIGN OF antipathy toward lions will burgeon forth fruitful
Israel was Radio Vatican's broad- results, will end once and for all
cast (in May) sahich charged Is- the campaign of villification
raeli soldiers with desecration of which has for so long scarred
the Ein Karim convent and mal- Catholic-Jewish ties.
Until such burgeoning takes
treatment of local nuns: a charge
which Father Terence investigat- place, however, and until the Vat-
ed, then denounced as 'inaccu- ican extends a clear, unequivocal
rate." "exaggerated," and which, gesture of friendship toward Is-
he publicly declared, was "re- rael, many. like Jacob Herzog,
grettable" because it "builds false will have little alternative but to
impressions and creates serious wonder, just how ' holy" will the
Holy Year pilgrimages be?
miaunderstandings."
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DR. 011'0 STRASSER, one time side-kick of
Adolph Hitler, now living in Canada, is very anxious
to return to Germany and try his own brand of Nazi-
ism on the confused German people • .. Rather signifi-
cant that Thomas Mann. Germany's greatest literary
figure had to be protected by bodyguards on his recent
visit to Germany because the Germans have not for-
given him his uncompromising anti-Nazism.... Judge
Proskauer, permanent honorary president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee is very unhappy about the de-
fense of Mrs. Roosevelt in the Spellman-Roosevelt con-
troversy by former Governor Lehman and Barney
Baruch. He counselled hush-hush , • . President Weiz-
mann, who does not receive a salary, gets, however, an
expense account of approximately $140,000 per year,
Benjamin Schultz, director of the American Jewish
League Against Communism refuses to divulge the
sources of his "information" on anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union, his recent communication on this sub-
ject to the secretary of the UN was placed in a special
folder filed under the heading of "Crackpots" . . •
and communism and never permitted himself to be
maneuvered into a red-baiting position.
Until his very last breath, he fervently fought for
these principles. Those in the American Jewish Con-
gress, who today use his name to carry out a reaction.
any, anti-democratic policy are betraying his memory.
It will be difficult, almost impossible to find among
the present Jewish leadership a new Wise. Whom
would Jack Fishbein suggest for the leadership of the
American Jewish Congress? Rabbi Irving Miller, Shad
Pother, Joachim Prinz have disqualified themselves.
They are the very men who undermined Wise's leader-
ship during the •last few years of his life. They are of
the type who belong in the council chambers of the
American Jewish Committee. Well—is there a po-
tential Wise anywhere? •
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I BELIEVE THAT Rabbi Louis I. Newman of New
York has given evidence of courageous liberalism,
The only paradoxical twist in his makeup is his flirta-
tion with the extreme Revisionist Zionist wing,
But Newman has the stature to battle a la Wise
for a progressive Jewish policy on the American scene,
Rabbi Moaton Berman of Chicago is another true disci-
ple of Stephen Wise. He might be the man to break
with the anti-Wise forces and return the Congress to
its former vitality.
We say "he might" because we are not informed
on Berman's recent position on internal Congress
issues. In any case. Fishbein's call for a new Wise re-
quires serious thinking. Perhaps our readers can sug-
gest where a new Wise is to be found. We would be
very much interested.
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THERE ARE RUMORS that William O'Dwyer,
mayor of New York, consented to run for a second
terns only after he received assurance from President
Truman that the White House will maintain a favor-
able policy toward the Jewish State ... It was only
after Emanuel Neumann applied pressure that the
ZOA agreed to conduct national celebrations on the
occasion of the centennial of Max Nordau's birth....
Rabbi Silver, now vacationing in France,. does not see
eye to eye with Daniel Frisch on many Zionist issues.
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held.
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