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Thursday, August 17, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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Canada Seeks Way Out to Let Ukranian Nazis In

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
WALTER
WALTER HARRIS, minister of citizenship and Canadian minister is rather baffling, since he surely editor of Commentary, the monthly magazine published
must have known the background of the Ukrainian
in the Canadian government, as a groups, slated for mass immigration to Canada.
by the American Jewish Committee, at a press con-
result of a letter of protest from the Canadian Jewish
ference in Paris, made some startling remarks about
We
are
afraid
that
the
Canadian
Jewish
Congress
Congress, has promised that if the
American Zionism.
has won only a temporary delay and that Harris is
charges against the Ukrainian Nazis
The American Jewish Committee editor, anion . , .;
merely preparing to find the right formula under
of the S.S. Halychyna were substan-
other things, stated: "In America, since the founding
which the Ukrainian Fascists can be admitted to
of Israel, we have
tiated, the government would deny
no ideological Zionists are motivated
Canada.
them entry into Canada.
U.S. Jews who call themselves Zionists are motivated
The C.J.C. will have to follow through and insist
The protest by the Canadian
by philanthropic impulses."
that the evidence at Halychyna's collaboration with
Jewish Congress couched in polite
The Cohen statement, of course, contradicts the
Hitler's elite S.S. corps, whose criminal record was
diplomatic language stated that the
Council of Judaism, which maintains that American
the major item on which the Allies based the war
Halychyna group had enlisted as vol-
Zionists because of their ideological attachment to
guilt and genocide charges against the German, be Israel, cannot be loyal to America.
unteers in the German S.S. as an
accepted.
infantry division.
Yet, leadership of American Zionism will not and
It also pointed out that the
Much of the incontrovertible evidence Harris
cannot ignore Cohen's statement which classified
"requires" is in Washington. A letter from Supreme
Nuernberg military tribunal, in de-
Zionism as non-existent since establishment of the
Court Justice Jackson, who presided over the Nuern- Jewish state.
claring the German S.S. a criminal
Biron
berg trials would be of immeasurable help to the
organization, encompassed all voluntary groups
It would seem that the American Jewish Com-
such Canadian Jewish Congress.
as the IIalychyna division.
mittee is no longer anti-Zionist because it considers
Zionism dead. The Zionists now have the floor unless
•
Under these circumstances, the reply of the
they agree with the Cohen definition of present-day
WE READ THAT, the other day, Elliott Cohen, Zionism.

Anglo-Jewish Papers
Seem to Gai n i in Stature

Labor Zionists Oppose
Proposed Franco Loan

NEW YORK—In a telegram ad-
dressed to President Truman the
Labor Zionist Organization of
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
NAME WILD WOODS is perhaps a misnomer for a beach America came out against the
resort but it is one of the finest this vacation-seeker has ever Senate resolution to grant aid to
visited. It is located in the southernmost tip of New Jersey.
Franco Spain in the form of a
The city was virtually built
$100,000,000 loan.
some 30 years ago by Jewish va-
If out of a group of eight or 10
cationists from Philadelphia,
The LZOA urged the President
Pittsburgh, Baltimore and adja- guests almost all of them admit to avert any action in favor of
subscribing
to
the
Anglo-Jewish
cent regions. In time it grew and pave• in their community
the ine- Fascist Spain which would only
prospered. The barren land gave
vitable
conclusion
must
be
that bring confusion and dismay to all
why to homes and hotels.
that press is gaining in stature the free countries of the world
It reached its zenith some 15 and importance,
I thought to my- which are rallying under the
years ago. And then the decline self.
leadership of America in the
set in. Presumably one of the at-
struggle against totalitarianism.
tractions was the location, some
Yet some doubts crept into
miles away, of a Jewish farming my mind. Most of the people I
colony.
spoke to were immigrants with
Now that the colony is almost good or fair Jewish background.
extinct the city has lost some of What about the new generation?
its attraction to Jewish vacation
I received the answer soon
seekers.
enough. Near my table sat three
However, my trip to Wild young men woh looked as typic-
Woods had rewarding aspects too. all:• American as imaginable.
It brought me new friends and a They were students of the Uni-
fresher outlook on the Anglo- versity of West Virginia, hailing
•
J'avvisti press.
from a small city in that state.
The first person I was intro-
They had heard I was a Jewish
duced to was a Baltimorian.
When he heard my name he writer and were excited about
paused for a while and knitted meeting the first creature of that
his brow as if trying to recollect type. When I inquired about the
something. Before long he iden- source of their curiosity the re-
tified me as the man whose col- ply, in unison, was quite simple.
- umn he has been reading for
They were all readers of An-
many years in the Baltimore Jew- glo-Jewish papers and they en-
ish Times. Sure enough he him- tered into a discussion with me
- self was still a reader of the about that press: • They found
Yiddish press but his children, much to criticize, but on the
he said, would be totally alien- whole they were pleased that the
ated from Jewish news and in- Anglo-Jewish press opened an
terests if they did not get the avenue of information that would
Anglo-Jewish paper.
otherwise be closed to them.
A Pittsburgh businessman told Moreover, they told me that many
me he was a subscriber to the Jewish students in the univer-
• Jewish Criterion and the Jewish sity were getting Anglo-Jewish
Outlook.
papers from their home towns
A Jersey City insurance man and cities.
told me he was a steady reader
I am no statistician. But I
of the Jewish Standard.
There was also the Philadel- understand that if the statistical
phian who told me it was a real measuring rod were applied to
treat to get the Jewish Exponent. the cases which fell tinder my
Dresnck himself, a Miamian, was attention, the conclusion would
a steady reader of the Forward, make a strong and healthy case
but his daughter in Miami Beach for the Anglo-Jewish press in
subscribes to the Jewish Flori- America.
dian.
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mized the need and influence
of the Anglo-Jewish press were
engaging either in wilful idle
talk or speaking through their
hats out of ignorance.

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