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Public Pressure Needed to Beat Subversive Bill

By PIIINEAS J. BIRON
THE AMERICAN JEWISH Congress has pledged
itself to support the efforts of 10 senators who seek
to repeal the McCarran-Wood (anti-subversive) bill
which President Truman vetoed un-
successfully, a few months ago.
Commenting on the decision of the
executive committee of the AJC, Rabbi
Irving Miller, president, said:
'The effect of this bill will assuredly
be to create such fears and uncertain-
ties in the minds of Americans that •
freedom to hold, let alone express,
views which may border on the liberal
or the unorthodox, will become ex-
tremely dangerous adventure."
These are forthright words indica-
Biron
tive, we hope, that the American Jewish Congress is

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returning to the liberal traditions of the Stephen Wise
era.
Whether this resolution represents a definite trend
or is merely one of the, alas too many, never-followed-
up publicity releases only the future can tell.
The senators who supported President Truman's veto
of the bill, however, may not have an opportunity,
during the short lame-duck session, to do much about
repealing the McCarran law.
The President himself is taking a rather defeatist
attitude towards legislative repeal attempts. He has not
even mentioned the McCarran repeal on his "must
actions" for the present session.
That is why we are skeptical about follow-up action
by the Jewish Congress. If the Congress means what it
says, it will have to resort to mass-action and appeal
to American public opinion.
Only an aroused public opinion may possibly exer-

cise sufficient pressure on the newly-elected House of .
Representatives to repeal or even revise the measure.
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A PARIS NEWS STORY relates that the "French
Student Committee Against Racial, Political and Re-
ligious Discrimination, which was involved in the re-
cent demonstrations against a scheduled showing of the
Nazi-made film "Jew Suess," called on the Paris police
to take action to prevent any further attempts at racist
and Fascist propaganda."
In our own country this committee would have been
listed on our Attorney General's list of subversive or-
ganizations.
Not that there is anything subversive about this
youth group which fights racist and Fascist propaganda.
As a matter of fact the sons of France's most re-
spectable families (Christian and Jewish) are members
of this committee which, incidentally, is also very active
as a peace organization.

Robert Nathan to Quit JNF to Mark 50th Birthday
as Jewish Agency Aide

R OBERT

print.

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
NATHAN'S resignation as economic adviser to the
Jewish Agency will become official before this appears in

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Leo Pressman, noted labor law- 1Hebrew. Jerusalem is only three
yer, is leaving for Israel for an
1 points behind while in Haifa only
important mis-
57 per cent employ Hebrew.
mon. He w i 1 1
A breakdown of the statistics
stay there two
shows that 71 per cent of the men
months or more.
In Jerusalem speak Hebrew
Ben Gurion
against 61 per cent for women; in
has not left the
Tel Aviv the ratio is 74 to 62 for
confines of Israel
women; in Haifa it is 62 to 51;
since its estab-
in Tiberias it is 72 to 57 and in
lishment. His
Sated, bastion of hassidism and
first vacation
mystieffm, it is 52 to 39.
outside Isr ael

will be spent in
Ziprin
Greece where he
will further pursue his great
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Gkli
c ass cs.
Lord Samuel, the first Pales-
tine High Commissioner who just
reached the age of 80, is said to
have turned orthodox. People
close to him say in the past few
years he has been strictly ob-
serving all orthodox practices.
Sid Caesar of television fame
is the son of a Jewish family.
' He is therefore neither a Greek
nor an Italian.
• • •
WHEN DEFENSE Secretary
Marshall addressed the Weiz-
mann Institute dinner last week
he remarked that Moses was the
architect of selective service but
that the deferments Moses grant-
ed could not be wisely used to-
day.
Under Mosaic Law the weak in
spirit, the builders of still un-
dedicated homes and those who
were about to consumate t h e
marriage union were excused
from military service.
More men than women speak
Hebrew in Israel. Over 68 per
cent of Tel Aviv's residents speak

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JWF to Send
UJA $400,000

With the collections on 1950
Allied Jewish Campaign pledges
running ahead of those of 1949 at
this time, Samuel H. Rubiner,
president of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, announced at the re-
cent board of governors meeting
that Detroit would send the
United Jewish Appeal $900,000 to
ease its cash shortage.
Including this amount, Detroit
will have sent more than $2,-
000,000 to Israel and other over-
seas beneficiaries out of its 1950-
51 allocations.
The financial report showed
that more than 93 per cent of the
$5,362,000 pledged in 1948 has I
been paid and that collections on
1949 pledges have reached 8'7
per cent.
Rubiner urged that all Federa-
tion members pay up their
pledges as soon as possible so that
commitments to all local, national
and overseas beneficiaries can be
met.

Israel Prepares
for Bond Issue

Jolson Awarded
Medal of Merit

JERUSALEM—(WNS) —Plans
for floating the $1,000,000,000
bond issue in the United States
were considered by Israeli gov-
ernment officials following the re-
turn from the United States of
Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan.
Kaplan presented a report of
his American visit, where he had
gone to sound out government
officials and Jewish community
leaders on the bond issue. A spe-
cial committee will be named to
make arrangements for floating
the bond issue.
The Israeli parliament has
passed the bill requested by
Minister of Justice Pinellas Ros-
en, extending the government
price and rationing controls for
another six months.

WASHINGTON — (Special) —
The citation reads "for extraor-
dinary fidelity and exceptionally
meritorious conduct," and the
man it describes is the late Al
Jolson.
The defense department, on the
recommendation of the president,
has awarded the Medal of Merit
to the cantor's son, who sang his
way into the heart of a nation.
It was shortly after entertain-
ing American troops in Korea and
Japan, that Jolson died of a heart
attack. The trip was taken at his
own expense.
The medal will be awarded to
his widow, Mrs. Erle Galbraith
Jolson, by Defense Secretary
George C. Marshall.

afforestation plan involving the
planting of 225,000,000 trees, the
draining of the Huleh Basin Re-
gion in Galilee, the building of
200,000 housing units and a vast
land cultivation scheme that will
double the agriculture output of
the country.

Mapai-Mapam Coalition
Planned for Local Rule

T E L AVIV—(Special)—Hista-
drut announced that its party,
Mapai, has come to an agreement
with the left wing of Mapam to
act together in municipal govern-
ment affairs.

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SEASON ...

BUT NOW!

VIENNA — (WNS) — Resent-
ment is running high in the Jew-
ish community over the action of
Kurt Healer in sending a mes-
sage of greeting to the recent
Warsaw Peace Congress ,in the
name of the entire Jewish com-
munity in Vienna.
Zionist and orthodox elements
are protesting that a member of
a minority group in the com-
munity had neither the legal nor
moral right to send greeting to a
gathering about which there was
such deep division of opinion.
The incident, it is believed,
will lead to new Jewish com-
munity elections.

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The golden jubilee conference
of the Jewish National Fund
will be held in Washington on
Jan. 19, it was announced by
Dr. Harris J. Levine, president;
Dr. Israel Goldstein, member of
the executive of the Jewish
Agency and national chairman
of the JNF golden jubilee com-
mittee, and Mendel N. Fisher,
executive director.
Dr. Abraham Granott, world
president of the board of direc-
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