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Thursday, July 6, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Good Neighbor Policy

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Jordan Yields
to Pressure ,by
Arab League

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

Joran's rejection of the UN
Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion's bid for direct peace nego-
GERIIARDT NEUMANN
SEYMOUR TILCIIIN
tiations with Israel was not an
Editor
Publisher
unexpected development. No
Tammuz 21, 5710
clouding of the issue at the recent
Thursday, July 6, 1950
Arab League conference could
conceal the fact that the rest of
the Arab states were seeking to
make a bargain with King Ab-
In his message to the Bnai Brith District Convention held
dullah.
here over the week end, Samuel W. Leib, the outgoing president
They threatened expulsion of
Jordan from the League in the
of District 6, covered a - number of important problems which
are .confronting Bnai Brith and, for that matter, all Jews.
event a separate peace was ef-
fected with Israel. It is now clear
"Shall we continue here in American and Canada," he
that Abdullah has yielded to
asked, "to be mere money-lenders or money-givers? Our
Egypt on that issue. But what
relationship with Israel must be more intimate than just render-
did he get in return?
ing financial aid. There must be a cultural exchange between
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It is this corner's prediction
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the people of Israel and those of the United States."
that the League will give official
146 1- P
Continuing this line of thought, Leib demanded a re-
sanction to Abdullah's annexation
evaluation and revitalization of American Jewish life and stated
GIVE GENEROUSLY TO
of the Arab sector of Palestine.
THE NATiONALCHRISTIAN
that "the time has come to take cognizance of our own neglected
This deal has all the earmarks of
UNITED
E
of
Tat
COMMIE
local problems and needs."
product.
a London-made
JEWISH APPEAL kw the
The two tasks are not as far apart as it seems. In fact, they
• •
relief
of
homeless
Jews
belong together like Siamese twins. Those Jews who have
Premier David Ben Gurion re-
overseas, local refugee
not yet revaluated their place in the Jewish sphere and have
addressed a small, inti-
cently
resettlement and other
not taken stock of the needs and efforts of the Jewish people,
domestic charities
mate gathering in Tel Aviv. The
will understand neither the overseas problems nor the local
Premier spoke glowingly of
Israel, its tasks and accomplish-
necessities.
"We want a couple of HALF-price tickets to see HALF the show.
ments. He was lavish with praise
It was therefore only logical . that Leib called for a new
We're
saving
HALF
our
spending
money
for
the
United
Jewish
approach to the problem of the unaffiliated Jews whose
for everyone, particularly the
Appeal." This cartoon, "Bessie and Tessie," was featured by the
"absenteeism" weakens the cause of Judaism both morally
young whom he painted with
Denver Post.
language bordering on the artis-
and financially.
Action was the keynote of Leib's speech, and it also was
tic.
reflected in the proceedings of the convention. "Bnai Brith,"
When he was through a charm-
Leib said, 'has never shared in the obsolete philosophy of let-
ing woman rose to applaud the
ting things alone. We have pursued a course of action, of
minister. She agreed with every-
making things happen in places where they have never happened
thing he said except about the
. . . No other organization in America has the broad and
youth.
comprehensive program, the manpower resources and program
She was willing to give the Ben
resources, to meet the great challenging opportunities and dis-
Gurion regime credit for every-
The
thankful
Jews
of
America
By ALFRED SEGAL
charge the greater responsibilities we face."
thing but she couldn't see what
HIS SEMI-ANNUAL buying have shared their light with others right the minister had to boast
In recent years, Bnai Brith has grown into one of the most
trips to the East, Eli Elias stumbling in the darkness!"
influential groups in Jewish life. We are sure the Order will
about the youth. The Israel
Mr. Elias' eyes were glowing youth, she burst out in laughter,
always drops in on me at my
heed the call for action and help revitalize the forces which will
with the vision of the Statue of is after all a product of private
desk. He has a
carry Judaism to its fulfillment.
Liberty in Haifa harbor, just as initiative.
department
• • •
they did long ago when they were
store in Hunting-
A new book by Lionel Gelber,
young and saw the Statue for the
ton Park in the
"Reprieve from War." has just
first time
Los'Angeles area.
The formal close of the Allied Jewish Campaign revealed
Would I bring the idea to the been published by Macmillian.
And here he was
that this year's drive was the third best in Detroit's 25-year
American Jewish community? Gelber, formerly political ad-
calling on me
for
history of communal drives. A total of $4,515,000 was collected,
This, he said, may not be the visor to the Jewish Agency
several weeks
chapter to
which was topped only by $5,750,000 in 1948 and $5,300,000 in
exact moment to start raising Palestine, devotes a
ago, and'how has
the problems of Israel. The book
it gone with you
money for a statue of liberty at deals with the international situa-
1949.
It is, of course, a matter of conjecture whether the Jews of
Haifa, he said. There are so many
since the last
to
Detroit could have done better. Theoretically, they might.
time, Mr. Elias?
other things on which to spend tion and will be of interest
every
student
of
the
complex
But considering a number of psychological and economic factors
money for Israel. Mr. Elias was
First of all, Mr.
which have entered the picture, the result may still be con-
Segal
just tossing out the idea, like a problems with which our world
Elias had certain
sidered as satisfactory and a sign of willingness to acknowledge
significant Jewish events in his seed, in the hopes that it would is confronted.
In time for the Chicago Con-
responsibility toward the desperate situation of Jews in many
family to report: His grandson grow.
vention, the ZOA has published a
Richard had just taken Bar Mitz-
parts of the world.
"All right," I said, "we shall
It is particularly gratifying to hear that this year's returns
vah in Rabbi Magnin's temple in sow the seed at once. And 50 book of essays and addresses by
indicate that, as in previous years, Detroit will continue to
Los Angeles and his granddaugh- years from now your ghost and its late president Daniel Frisch.
lead the country in per-capita fund-raising and its share for
ter Nancy had been confirmed in mine shall be at Haifa to attend The volume, entitled "On The
the Westwood Community Syna- the dedication of another Statue Road to Zion," was edited by
the United Jewish Campaign.
Trude Weiss-Rosmarin.
Of all the money still coming in, 85 per cent will go to
gogue.
of Liberty."
Incidentally New York's New
That news showed how the line
113A which, in turn, will use it for help to Israel and other
"It's a date," Mr. Elias agreed. School for Social Research is do-
between reform and orthodoxy
overseas Leeds.
•
•
•
ing for the great Jewish books
It is expected that with the prospects to be covered in
was getting to be more fluid, Mr.
"AND WHAT ELSE?" — Mr. what the Chicago University has
the next Weeks, another $150,000 or $200,000 will be added to
Elias thought. None of the old Elias brought out a pamphlet on
rigidity any more, and in one the rough hardships of being an done for the Christian classics.
the campaign total.
No explanation should be needed as to how much it means
family there may be orthodox, anti-Semite. It was from a ser- For the fall term the New School
The Great
that all those who have not yet contributed their share do so
conservative and reform Jews mon by the Rev. Dr. Harry , H. announces a course on Dr.
Trude
Jewish
Books,
with
immediately and generously. We are in a period of reconstruc-
without any conflict between the MacArthur of the Eagle Rock
instructor.
as
Weiss-Rosinarin
tion since the last war has decimated the Jewish people to
brothers, cousins, uncles and Baptist Church, Los Angeles. The
• • •
two-thirds of its pre-war size.
aunts.
To
the
nation's
baseball fans
title
was
"You
Can't
Rub
Out
the
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Lives have to be rebuilt, the desert has to be made into a
Brooklyn is the home of the
blooming garden, defense lines have to be set up against a
MR. ELIAS had brought an idea Jew" and Dr. MacArthur was Dodgers. To lovers of poetry it
hostile world. All of us are in this fight for a new lease on life
to me. He himself discovered the showing how an anti-Semite has is famed as the birthplace of Walt
for the Jewish people. The sooner we strengthen the hands of
Statue of Liberty all of a sudden to suffer if he's really a consistent, Whitman. To us, however, it is
the pioneers, the better it will be for future generations.
one morning long ago. He was an practicing anti-Semite.
Such as, an anti-Semite, if he's the center of the largest and most
immigrant on a ship approaching
syphilitic
couldn't take salvarsan, concentrated Jewish community
these shores and was up early for
a
discovery
by a Jew, Ehrlich. in the world.
a first glimpse of the new land
Every other inhabitant of that
He'd have to reject being tested
through the mist.
borough is a Jew. There are more
We still have a long way to go until Germany is denazified.
Then, all at once, the Statue of by the method of Wasserman who Jews in that borough than in all
The mass meeting last Thursday by the Detroit chapter of the
Liberty rose up before him dazzl- was a Jew. He gets a heart attack of Israel. The Irish play a second
American 'Association for a Democratic Germany again called
ing in the sunlight of that morn- but, as a consistent anti-Semite, role. But one of their own,
our attention to the crying need of setting up a democracy
ing. Mr. Elias could have knelt who has no use for anything Jew- O'Dwyer, is now Mayor of New
in Central Europe.
then and there hadn't he been ish, he won't take digitalis which York City.
A first step was taken on April 17 when Senators Gillette,
brought up on the Ten Command- was developed by a Jew, Trabo.
The former policeman may 1?e
Pepper, Hendrickson, Ives, Lehman, Kilgore, Douglas and
ments which strictly forbade him Is he about to have a tooth pull- Irish but you wouldn't guess it
ed?
He
must
take
the
pain
raw
Chavez introduced Resolution 260 which demands that the
to bow down before any graven
since novocaine is a derivate of from the way he speaks Yiddish.
President appoint a six-man commission to study "all matters
image.
When Isrtel rose there was re-
Jew
relating to the conduct and status of American policy in
Mr. Elias had to content himself cocaine, the discovery of a
joicing
among Brooklyn's Irish-
Solomon
Stricker.
Germany and its coordination with American foreign policy."
with setting up the Statue in his named
The anti-Semite may fall victim men.
The resolution asks such pertinent questions as whether
heart as one of the more beautiful
Brooklyn has over 600 Jewish
to typhus, but consistently he
antidemocratic ideologies are arising in Germany, whether
memories of his life.
organizations and more than 200
tosses
feverishly
on
his
bed,
scorn-
German cartels have re-emerged, whether there is a revival of
Yes, the lamp now had been
congregations.
anti-Semitic propaganda, whether the Germans are rearming,
lifted beside another golden door ing the treatments developed by
According to legend the first
whether former Nazis have penetrated into all fields of life
and Mr. Elias thought it would be the Jews, Weill and Widall. As if Jew to settle in Brooklyn was a
syphilis,
heart
attack,
toothache
and what we are doing to strengthen prodemocratic elements.
the perfect fitness for American
Dutchman from Braeklen. Brook-
The Senate referred the resolution to the Committee on
Jews to set up a replica of the and typhus were not enough for lyn Jewry is preparing to cele-
one
man,
our
anti-Semite
takes
Foreign Relations where it has been gathering dust ever since.
Statue in the harbor of Haifa, as
brate that event in 1955, the
Our present preoccupation with Far Eastern developments is not
testimony of other "the homeless, pneumonia. He simply has to take 300th anniversary of the settle-
likely to speed up any action on Resolution 260.
tempest-tossed" who came to Is- it and keep it because as an anti- ment of the first Jew.
However, the shift of attention from one center to another
rael and there found freedom, too. Semite who will have nothing to
If you are interested in more
does not solve any problems. On the contrary, while we are
"Don't you see," Mr. Elias was do with anything of Jewish deri- details about that colorful
vation,
he
can't
allow
himself
to
concentrating on the Far East, the Germans may make the most
saying, "we have helped to hand
borough read Brooklyn Is Ameri-
of the situation and try to extract a few advanages for
on that lamp. Haven't we lit the accept streptomycin. That's the ca, by Foster Weld, published by
product
of
the
Jew,
Selman
Waks-
way for the hundreds of thou-
themselves.
the Columbia University Press.
The perils of renazification are just as great as the perils
sands who have found freedom in man.
The volume is a work of love and
"It's
so'
hard
to
be
an
anti-
of Communism. We have to fight both with full determination.
Israel? That statue will stand
understanding.
Semite,"
said
Mr.
Elias.
Jewish people all over the world are looking anxiously toward
there to tell the wonderful story:
America as the last bastion of freedom.

Bnai Brith: Call for Action

NEEDS

Haifa's Harbor Needs
A Statue of Liberty

O N

Allied Jewish Campaign Ends

Again: Denazification