Thursday, August 4, 1949 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page Three 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. ., • • • • 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, • J 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." • • • 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. • • • 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." - - GAS HEAT FOR YOUR HOME PHONE LEONARD L. RADNER MAdison 5300 NO DOWN PAYMENT SG MONTHS TO PAY Northern Heating Company • • 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? • • • • 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. • • 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. Judaism Institutes Attract 15,000 Daniel G. Cullen Opens New Office tu•es are usually followed by question and answer periods. Addresses by Christian clergy- men are also part of the confer- NEW YORK—During the past ences, which include a tour of Daniel G. Cullen, prominent three years, more than 15,000 , the Synagogues where they are Detroit patent lawyer, celebrated held. two decades of service in the persons, including Protestant and profession by announcing the Catholic clergymen and lay lead- , MUSICAL AT FOX opening of new offices in the ers throughout the U. S. and "You're My Everything," gay Penobscot Bldg. Canada, have attended "Institutes Technicolor musical which ex- In addition to enjoying a na- on Judaism," designed to ac- ploits the flamboyant twenties— tional reputation in patent work, quaint Christians with the be-, the days of the bunny hug and Cullen has long been active in liefs, rituals and traditions of flappers with painted knees— community affairs, having served Judaism, Miss Jane Evans, which starts Friday at the Fox. as secretary of the Jewish Com- sponsors the Institutes, discloged. munity Council, vice-president of Various aspects of Judaism are , Why wait? Read all the worth- Shaarey Zedek Men's Club and interpreted to Christian church while Jewish news on Thursdays president of Probus. He is secre- leaders at the institutes through in the Chronicle. 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