Soviet Bids UN Quit Palestine
Dethazt .Taurz'Ah,
CHRONICLE
Vol. 51—No. 29‹ , 1 74* 27
Thursday, August 11, 1919
Reds Ask
Lausanne
Talks Halt
ISTANBUL — (WNS) — With
the departure of 300 . Jews from
the southeastern Turkish towns
of Marash and Diarbakir, almost
all the small Jewish communities
in that area have been liquidated,
it was reported.
_Considered the most ancient
Jewish communities in Turkey,
Marash and Diarbakir were iso-
lated from world Jewry. The
only link they had with Judaism
was in their religion and Hebrew
tradition, which were different
from the Sephardic Jews living
in the country.
RAPS UJA PARLEY
On a plane to freedom in Israel, these Yemenite Jews offer
prayers of thanksgiving More than 7,000 Jews from Yemen and
Aden were rescued from degradation and persecution and air-
lifted to Israel in "Operation Magic Carpet" by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee. JDC receives its funds from the United
Jewish Appeal.
Discussing the United Jewish
Appeal, Frisch said that its future
success depends upon an agree-
meril, for the unification of all
Israeli fund-raising efforts in
America and that the ZOA "was
and is willing to forego the
launching of any independent
fund-raising campaign if such
unification is brought about."
He asserted that the recent Tel
Aviv conference on the future of
the UJA in the United States had
failed to meet the issue.
Ile said the conference covered
up its failure to achieve its pur-
pose by appointing a "coordinat-
ing committee which, in effect,
means the harmful continuation
of the splintering of our efforts
AJ Congress Flays Rebels
NEW YORK—(Special)—Hint-
ing that an American Jewish Con-
gress splinter group was serving
as a front for Communists, Rabbi
Irving J. Miller, Congress execu-
tive committee chairman, attack-
ed the opposition as a "tiny
minority" seeking to "foist" its
views on the majority. .
Rabbi Miller's statement was
made to the National Jewish Post
of Indianapolis.
'BETRAYAL' CHARGED
"The rebel group in announcing
its establishment had charged
betrayal of "proud traditions of
the American Jewish Congress"
by its present leaders. It calls
itself the Committee for a Demo-
cratic American Jewish Congress
and is headed by Rabbi Shepherd
Z. Baum of New York, former
national director of organization
for the Congress.
Among accusations leveled by
the committee are that the Con-
gress leaders revoked the charter
of the Metropolitan Chapter,
largest Congress unit in Detroit
"on most flimsy grounds."
Other charges alleged that
Congress members whose views
Ban on Bachelors, Old Maids
Urged by Pair Wed 75 Years
BROOKLYN — (Special) —
"There is no question that there
should be no bachelors or old
maids. After 75 years of mar-
riage, I think I am qualified to
recommend it."
Thus asserted Isaac Baskin at
the anniversary dinner celebrat-
ing the 75 years of happy wedded
life. He is 94 and his wife is 88.
The couple have six surviving
children of the original 14, 16
grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.
"Marriage should take place
while the people are young," Mrs.
Baskin commented. "The earlier
the better. I was married at the
age of 13. The companionship of
marriage is what makes life
worthwhile."
NEW YORK—(WNS)—Formation in Israel of a coalition guy
eminent including all parties but the Communists and the declarer
Lion of a three-year political truce were counseled by Daniel Frisch
president of th" Zionist Organiz-i
10e a Copy — $3 Pet Year ation of America.
Addressing a press conference
following his return from a foun.
week mission to Israel, Frisch
advocated a pro-western orienta-
tion because, he said, such a pol-
icy would encourage a more rapid
influx of private capital and lead
to Marshall Plan aid for Israel.
He said he urged the General
Zionists in Israel to adopt a pro-
vestern line in their political
platform.
Israel, he asserted, "is in dire
need of the generous help of the
United States government agen-
cies and is no less deserving of
such help than any other demo-
cratic nations in the world we
assist today."
Fly 'Magic Carped'
LAKE SUCCESS--(Special)-
Russia asked the UN to withdraw
from Palestine to permit Israel
and her Arab neighbors to reach
a final peace settlement without
outside interference.
Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Soviet
delegate to the Security Council,
declared that the stoppage of
fighting in Palestine ended the
need for military observers there.
HINTS AT PRESSURE
He suggested the dissolution of
the Palestine Conciliation Com-
mission now meeting in Lausanne
so that the parties can "come to
an agreement freely, on their own
initiative through direct negotia-
tions without any commission
whatsoever which would inter-
vene and in fact exert pressure
upon them."
Replying, Dr. Ralph Bunche, UN
mediator, whose final report was
being surveyed, warned that the
Soviet plan would nullify agree-
ments already reached between
Israel and the Arabs which re-
quire that UN personnel be on
hand to protect neutral interests
and sit as members of the armis-
tice commissions.
SLOW WITHDRAWALS
Aubrey Eban, Israeli repre-
sentative, suggested that the UN
withdraw all personnel except
those reqUired to carry out pro-
visions of the truce agreements.
Spokesmen for Syria and Egypt
favored a\gradual withdrawal.
Norway, earlier, deplored the
fact that the assassins of Count
Bernadotte had not yet been
brought to justice.
300 Jews Leave
Turkish Towns
Frisch Urges Coalition
for Israeli Government
To be happy in wedded life,
both agreed, "yeti have to make
the best of things, good and bad."
The Baskins are second cous-
ins. They were married in 1874
in their native village of Stolin,
Russia, near Minsk,
Mrs. Baskin came to America
in 1908. Baskin followed a year
later. The family settled in New
York's east side wnere Baskin
worked as a mason. He retired
30 years ago.
The aged man gets. up every
morning at 6 to attend Synagogue
services. He is particularly proud
of his grandsons. One was killed
in the war and three others re-
turned home safely.
do nut coincide with those of the
administration have been gagged
and condemned the expulsion of
the leftist Jewish People's Fra-
ternal Order and the American
Jewish Labor Council "at a time
when unity is more essential than
ever and in clear . deflance of the
decisions of the last convention."
The Metropolitan Chapter al-
leged pressure on it to bar a
speaker the Michigan council ob-
jected to; that it was reprimanded
for unilaterally issuing a leaflet
condemning Police Commissioner
Toy for an allegedly anti-Semitic
statement; and that it was criti-
cized for "acton without proper
DETROIT ASSERTIONS
clearance" in supporting the
In its bulletin "Congress Voice," Michigan Committee to Defeat
the Detroit Metropolitan Chapter the Callahan Act.
asserted that Congress reveals "an
atmosphere of fear and the witch- LINKED TO COMMUNISTS
In his statement to the "Post,"
hunt hysteria which plagues our
Rabbi Miller pointed to the simi-
country.
"Every Congress leader in De- larity of the splinter group's
troit has recognized the attacks charges to those of the Com-
upon the Metropolitan Chapter munist "Freihett."
He declared that "the expulsion
as having a political basis—de-
spite New York's loud insistence of JPFO and the Jewish Labor
that we are charged only with Council were voted 'upon and sus-
'organizational breaches of disci- tained overwhelmingly a f ter
thorough and lengthy discussion
pline'."
at very fully attended meetings
of the executive and administra-
tive committees."
The rebel group's call for demo-
cracy was labeled by Rabbi Miller
as "the old and familiar chant of
those who cannot bring them-
selves to accept and abide by the
results of the democratic process."
Education Aid
Bill Opposed
by 33 Gioups
NEW YORK—(WNS)—Opposi-
tion to government aid to reli-
gious schools was expressed this
week by six national Jewish or-
ganizations and 27 Jewish com-
munity councils throughout the
country, including the Detroit
Council.
Approving the proposal for
federal aid to public education,
a letter to chairman John Lesin-
ski of the house education com-
mittee said that public schools
are the matrix of democracy and
urged that government funds be
used only in "public schools in
which the schools are open equal-
ly to all children regardless of
race." The Jewish organizations
further emphasized that separ-
ation of church and state was im-
perative.
The letter made plain, how-
ever, the organization's belief in
the necessity of federal educa-
tional assistance to the states.
DANIEL FRISCH
• • •
at a time when complete unifi-
tion of all public drives for Israel
would, in my judgment, have
been the strongest stimulus to-
ward a more successful UJA for
1950."
LISTS 3 ZOA PROJECTS
At the same time, Frisch dis-
closed that the ZOA is planning
to launch a $2,000,000 annual
fund to finance three major
American Zionist projects in Is-
rael.
These projects are to embrace
the building of colonies on the
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Terror Blamed
in Syria Blast
BEIRUT. Lebanon—(Special)-
With the death toll in the bomb-
ing of a Synagogue in Damascus,
Syria, rising to 12, it was reported
that the criminals.were national-
ist terrorists who opposed peace
with the new State of Israel.
Eighteen Sabbath eve worship-
ers were hospitalized from in-
juries in the bombing.
A Damascus newspaper brand-
ed the criminals as cowards. It
asked if they wanted to be heroes
why they did not blow up some-
thing in Tel Aviv instead of the
Syrian capital.
Syrian leaders called the bomb-
ing a disgrace to the nation and
demanded that no stone be left
unturned in the hunt for the per-
petrators. Up to now, there has
been little violence against Jews
in Damascus despite the strong
anti-Jewish feeling.
PHYSICIAN TO KING
LONDON — (Special) — Air
Commodore Abraham Briscoe,
RAF, has been named as honor-
ary physician to the king.
Dr. Theodore Herzl Reburial
Is Set for Aug. 17 in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM— (Special) —The service in a Vienna Synagogue.
body of Dr. Theodore Herzl will The plane will be met over the
be reinterred in Jerusalem on Mediterranean by an escort of
Aug. 17. It will be brought by warplanes.
plane from Vienna on Aug. 16.
In Jerusalem there will be a
Dr. Herzl's final resting place three-mile procession to the final
will be on a hilltop between Beth resting placb. The general public
Hakerem and Bayit Vegan in the will not be able to participate but
southwest part of Jerusalem. will be able to hear a running
About 7,000 persons, including description over the Voice of Is-
representatives from all Jewish rael.
settlements in Israel, will wit-
Dr. Herzl's wilt said, "I want
ness the rites. They will place a modest funeral without speeches
little bags of earth from their and without flowers. It is my
villages over the coffin.
wish to be buried in a metal cas-
Dr. lierzl's body wi ll be ket beside my father and to lie
brought to Tel Aviv on Aug. 16 there until the Jewish people win
and will lie in state in the Knes- carry my remains to the Land of
set.
Israel."
An Israeli aircraft will fly the
On Aug. 17, this last request
body from Vienna following a will be fulfilled.