C arter CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Thursday, July 27, 1950 Page 3 Canada Opens Its Gates to Fascist Immigrants By PHINEAS J. BIRON THE CANADIAN JEWISH community seems baffled and stunned, trying—in vain—to understand why the Canadian government is preparing to open the gates of Canada to a mass-immigra- tion of several hundred thousand po- gramshicks from the Ukraine and as many Volksdeutsche from other parts - of Europe. The attitude of the Canadian gov- ernment towards immigration of vic- tims of Nazism has, at all times, been stingy, to speak mildly. It never reach- ed mass proportions, Every applicant was screened as to profession, back- - ground, and had to produce miles of documents . . . The former followers of Hitler, however, most of whom Biron have art impressive record of crimes against Jews will be admitted in the hundreds of thousands into Canada and will be given free land and financial support. Canada will have the dubious distinction of housing the largest number of tested Nazi-fascists. A welcome addition to the growing pro-fascist anti-Semitic groups In other parts of the Western hemisphere. • • TO THE UNINITIATED the Canadian Social Credit movement is a sespectable political party In reality however, it is an anti-Semitic outfit whose main function consists of the publishing of a magazine under the mast- head of "Social Credit." Its editor is the 31 year old Ron Gostick, who natur- ally denies that he is an anti-Semite. He explains his hate-peddling activities as patriotic duty to his country. But if you happen to read Ron Gostick's "patriotic" edi- torials in his magazine you will realize that Gostick qualifies as Canada's Streicher or, if you prefer, as Can- ada's Merwin K. Hart. For instance, commenting on the victory of the lib- eral party in the general elections last June, Gostick merely says: "It was a victory for political Zionism and its policy of aggression and slaughter." This, according to Canada's Streicher is the result of the party being advised by Socialists and Jews. As you can see, Canadian Jewry has the same kind of headaches we have here. • • • JABOTINSKY MEMORIAL DAY was observed most solemnly in Israel on July 14. Party lines were forgotten in paying national tribute to the late leader of the Revisionist Party and the founder of the Jewish Self- Defense Corps in Palestine. It is rather s'gnificant that the founder of a party which has not even one single representative in the Knesseth, is so universally honored in the Jewish state. The reason: he is regarded as the father of the Haganah. France is rediscovering the greatness of Enrico Gli- censtein, the Jewish sculptor who, some years ago, was killed by a racing truck on the streets of New York . Jean Cassou, curator in chief of the Museum of Modern Arts in Paris has declared GI icenstein an equal of Rodin. Did you know that the American Jewish Committee is issuing a monthly Yiddish magazine digest for distri- bution to the press in Latin America. The digest is mim- eographed but quite intelligently edited. • • • THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION of America has issued Daniel Frisch's Zionist writing in an attractive volume with a foreword by the present president of the Z.O.A. and in introduction by Dr. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin who also edited and selected Frisch's pieces with loving care. We have the highest regard for Trude Weiss-Ros- marin's literary taste and judgment, but as much as we tried, we failed to detect any literary talent in Daniel Frisch's collected articles, or any original thinking in his observations on Zionism and evaluation of several of the Zionist world leaders . His failure to achieve lit- erary distinction does not diminish the selfless contribu- tion of Frisch as a molder of Zionist unity. The ZOA performed a service in publishing Frisch's writings. But why an attempt is being made to set up a niche for Frisch as a great thinker and original man of letters escapes us. Opens Office France Is New Center 1 Kurdistan Jews Move to Israel to NCWJ Aid DPs' Indemnity of European Jewish Life (Jewish World News Service) ARIS IS RAPIDLY becoming a new big Jewish center in Europe. Indeed, it is already the largest Jewish community on the . European continent. The city now has a population of a quarter . of a million Jews which is larger than it was before the war. Considering that about 120,000 Jews were deported from France I issued very liberally and even and killed during the war by the generously to anyone who wants Nazis, the increase is remarkable to settle and work in the coun- and reveals a growing tendency try. on the part of European Jews to The government is also very remain in Europe, at least in the liberal with those Jewish immi- Western part of it. It is obvious grants who arrived illegally in now, five years after the war, France since the war. For a time that the Jewish exodus from these people were more or less Europe is not complete. I molested by the police and fre- Jewish communities are con- quently arrested. But, thanks to ,solidating in France, Belgium,' the intervention of the Jewish Holland, the Scandinavian cowl- organizations, t h e government tries and in Italy. But the largest has lately legalized the stay of community of all is the French,' most of the immigrants who ar- with Paris taking the former rived illegally since the end of place of Warsaw, Wilno and the war. There is also an interesting Lodz. Economically, Jews in France tendency on the part of the new are adjusting themselves to post- • Jewish arrivals to acquire French war conditions not any worse citizenship—a practice which was than the rest of the population.. very rare before the war in France after the war is economi- France where Jews had been cally better off than it was be- , known to live for fifty years or fore the war and this is reflected more, never thinking of acquir- in the position of the Jews. Most ing citizenship. The government, of the new arrivals in France as a rule, raises no difficulties for are artisans and workers who those who wish to become French are engaged in small shops and citizens. • • • -factories. IMPORTANT than the Most of them are either for- MORE mer workers from Eastern Eu- friendly attitude of the French rope, or they were trained for government is the friendly atti- work in the DP camps and, upon tude of t h e French people their arrival in France, by Jew-1 towards the Jews. The French ish organizations, particularly by are a naturally tolerant people the "Ort," which did an excellent with a taste for cosmopolitanism. During the war and the Nazi job for them. • • • occupation, the French people re- THE FRENCH government and vealed a kindness to Jews which people are generally very friend- is only now beginning to become ly to the Jews. Although there is known and appreciated as one a law against aliens being per- of the finest manifestations of mitted to work in France, never- humanitarianism of that brutal theless labor permits are being period. . P NEW YORK — Two thousand recently arrived and settled in The Detroit Section, National Jews from the remote mountain Israel. Their numbers are ex- villages of Persian Kurdistan have pected to be doubled very short- Council of Jewish Women, an- ly, according to a Jerusalem dis- nounces that they have opened Wherever one goes among Jews patch received and made public an office in the Jewish Center for in France now, one hears re- by the Keren Hayesod (Palestine any former Displaced Persons markable stories of how plain, Foundation Fund). who wish help in filling out in- ordinary French men and women The same report, describing the demnification forms for property helped Jews to hide from the plight of the Kurdistans, states in Germany. Nazis for months and years, often that "on hearing the call of the Those who need this assistance at the risk of their own lives. This chapter of French hu- great Sultan of the Jews, David should call immediately TR. manitarianism to the Jews during Ben Gurion," they left in large 1-3700 or TR. 1-3701 between 9 the war will one day be told to masses. 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