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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLL

'thursday, April 27, 1950

Catholic Church Backs Canadian Hate Preacher

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ETTY ZIMMERMAN, editor
of the Detroit Northwest Rec-
ord, in a letter to the Jewish
Chronicle, takes issue with one
of our recent
columns in which
we stated that
the notorious
Canadian ant
Senlite Adrien
Arcand is enjoy-
ing the support
of • the Catholic
Church in the
Province of Que-
bec.
Writes Miss
Zimmerman:
Biron
"Whether Adrien Arcand is an
anti-Semite or not is his own

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business, but I'm sure that he
does not receive the support of
the church in this respect .
`The church supports Arcand
in his loathing for Communism
and renounces Communism whose
intent is to, overthrow our form
of government, but it does not
discriminate against any race or
creed" .. .
We do not agree with the edi-
tor of the Northwest Record.
It just so happens that Mon-
sieur Arcand's anti-Semitism is
not his own business because he
is functioning as a public anti-
Semite, making anti - Semitic
speeches, inciting _ the French
Canadians to violence against the
Jews and making the Jews of the

world his particular target, us- entitled to the support and eulo-
ing in his rabble-rousing words gies of the Catholic Church?
the same kind of poison gas as
Let Miss Zimmerman answer
Herr Streicher, Goebbels and Co. this question.
• • •
The Catholic Church of the
WE
ADMIRE
Ludwig Lew-
Province of Quebec supports Mon-
sieur Arcand, dear Miss Zimmer- isohn as a critic of literature.
man, and if you wish any evi- He is truly a cultured man of
dence take time out to read the letters, with a beautiful cadence
in his style and an unfailing flair
Catholic press of Quebec.
for differentiating the genuine
The statements by high digni- from the phony in literature.
taries of the Catholic Church do
Yet in his recent series of ar-
not differentiate between Mon- ticles "Reflections on the Jewish
sieur Arcand's anti - Semitism Situation," this master of English
and anti-Communism.
prose sinks into the morass of
They agree with Arcand and meaningless phrase-making.
proclaim him a useful French-
Dealing with "Redemption and
Canadian.
Survival," Lewisohn says among
Is a gangster, a public enemy, other things:
holding anti-Communist views "A - Jewish community in Amer-

Writer Weighs Israel's
Achievements, Failures

Legislature to Discuss
Rosh Hashanah Vote

By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
ANNIVERSARIES ARE TIMES for stock-taking, not only for ela-
!. tion and self-praise. Friends of Israel should be excused for
utilizing the occasion of the second anniversary of the establishment
of .the new state (April 23) for an evaluation of it in all of • its
aspects, instead of confining themselves only to self-congratulations.
There is meth in the record of''
Israel that •justifies satisfaction that of the Arab refugees. Allow-
and pride. The new state has ac- I ing for the fact that the Arab
complished much that is of last- leaders were chiefly responsible
for the flight of the Arabs, Isra-
ing .value:
1. Israel's greatest achieve- el's action in not admitting back
ment is that it has helped 350,000 the bulk of Arabs to their. homes,
Jewish people to find a new and -taking over their fields, and
property (with a promise of com-
home.
pensation) is something of which
2. The last two years have also Israelis will not have cause to be
demonstrated that the people of
Israel were fully justified in de- proud.
manding their independence and
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statehood. The law and order,
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the self-discipline and democratic
behavior displayed by the Israelis w
showed that they were worthy w
of _d emocracy and that they are
likely to become- a powerful in-

LANSING — (Special) — In a
message to the special session of
the Michigan Legislature, Gov.
Williams asked that the election
law be amended to the effect that
voters prevented from voting by
religious reasons be allowed to
vote by absentee ballot.
This year's primaries in Michi-
gan will fall on the first day of
Rosh Hashanah, a fact which will
make it impossible for orthodox
Jewish voters to exercise their
voting rights.
The amendment to section 1 of
chapter 10 of part 4 of Act No.

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been giving this bill his active
support.
The original proposal to give
Jews the right to vote by ab-
sentee ballot was submitted by
351 of the Public Acts of 1929 the Jewish Community Council.
reads in part:
"Sec. 1. For the purposes of
this act the term 'absent voter'
shall. be construed to mean any
qualified and registered elector
who, an account of physical dis-
ability, is unable, without an-
other's assistance; to attend the
13900
polls,. or any qualified and regis-
Hamilton
tered elector who, an account of
the tenets of his religion cannot
TO. 8-2424
attend the polls on the day of
Res.:
election or primary election ..."
TU.
3.3960
Charles S. Blondy, Michigan's
only Jewish state senator, has

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orkers Hear Straight from the shoulder...

• Novice for the- derriOcratizatloil of

their . neighbors.
S. Israel's record in the United

Nations has been one of construc-
tive effort, chiefly in the various
non-political commissions and
agencies of the UN v:orking for
huinanitarian causes such as the
advancement• of human rights.
the prevention of . genocide, on
thE status of the minorities and
various other measures designed
to :do away with discrimination,
persecution and exploitation.
• • •
THIS LIST • OF POSITIVE
achievements does not give a com-
plete picture. Some errors, fail-
ures and defeats also have to be
mentioned.
1. Politically, Israel is not
closer to peace than it was a year
ago after the victory on the bat-
tlefield. All moves for peace,
even the long expected and al-
most . signed peace with Jordan,
have failed. Israel has won the
war. but not peace. The Arab
world is united against it politi-
cally, militarily and economical-
ly, as it has never been before.
While chief responsibility for this
position falls undeniably on the
Arab states, nevertheless Israel
is not entirely without its share
in it.
2. Economically, Israel is in a
precarious position. The country
has never been economically
sound and could not exist without
a continuous flow of capital from
abroad in the form of contribu-
tions, or semi-private capital in-
vestments. Other factors. apart
from need, and political maturity
are needed to assure the existence
of a state, and among them a
sound economic foundation is
most important.
3. One of the chief reasons for
Israel's economic deficiency was
its immigration policy during the
first 18 months of its existence.
That policy, one of unlimited im-
migration, irrespective of the ab-
sorptive capacity of the country,
was an error and a failure and
has practically been admitted as
such by the government introduc-
ing limitations during the last
six months. It was a policy de-
termined more by political and
military motives than by eco-
nomics.
4. The most acute problem is

DOv Joseph,

Living in Israel today is more
austere than that in any other
democratic country in the world,
Dr. Dov Joseph, minister of ra-
tioning and supplies of Israel.
told a meeting of Allied Jewish
Campaign workers in the Jewish
Community Center Sunday.
Speaking on the second anni-
versary of Israel's independence,
Dr. Joseph recalled, "The day we
proclaimed a. state, though six
Arab armies were invading, we
announced to the Jews of 'the
world, 'The gates are open, come
in'—and they are still open."
Appealing for Detroitels' sup-
port for the task of immigrant
absorption, Dr. Joseph declared,
"The Jews of Israel spent $100,-
000,000 last year to take care of
the immigrants."
"The future of Israel is not yet
secure," Joseph said.
In his capacity as minister of
supplies- and rationing, Joseph in-
troduced Israel's austerity pro- -
gram a year ago. Since then,
prices in Israel have come down
20 per cent, and wages eight or
nine per cent.
Dr. Joseph• came to the United
States as Israel's representative to
the joint national conference of
the United Jewish Appeal and the
Christian Committee for the
United Jewish Appeal, which was
held in Washington. April 16.
In Detroit, funds for the United
Jewish Appeal and for 54 local,
national and overseas causes a
raised by the Allied Jewish Cam-•
paign, which was opened April 18.
Harvey H. Goldman, chairman
of the trades and professions cab-
inet of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, presided at the meeting at
which Dr. Joseph spoke.

ISRAEL IMPORTS DOUBLED
TEL AVIV—(ISI)--Israel's im-
ports totalled 8,127,000 pounds in
January of this year, as compar-
ed to 4,000,000 pounds during the
same month last year. Exports to-
talled 7,000,000 pounds in Janu-
ary, 21.2 per cent of the imports.

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ica can be preserved from dwin-
dling, from corruption and decay,
only by Jews who, having des-
cended to the depths of their
souls, have recovered themselves
and with those selves have re-
covered and regained the history-
willing, the history-creating, the
self-determining power of the
Jewish people."
Now really, Lewisohn, how does
one "descend to the depths of
one's soul?
In these days of spec is evils
which undermine the fundamen-.
tals of American democracy, a
Jewish thinker of the stature of
Lewisohn owes it to us to speak
clearly, specifically, even at the
risk of sounding less erudite:

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