Page Two

Heard in
the Lobbies

By DAVID DEUTSCH

(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

I TOLD YOU SO

THE JEWISH NEWS

Quotation of the Week

"The British White Paper limiting Jewish immigration and
land acquisition in Palestine will not be realized because we have
enough strength to prevent its realization. It is hardly imaginable
that the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem who works for the Axis, or his
representative, should have a seat at the forthcoming peace con-
ference and present plans to throw our Jewish immigrants into the
sea. We have enough strength not to allow our fate -to become
similar to that of the Syrians. It is not important that we are only
a half-a-million people in this country. We have a strong will and
we intend to use it to the utmost, and the civilized world will help
us."

Friday, February . 12, 1943

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

THE AMERICAN SCENE
The new executive of the American
Jewish Committee may soon reopen
negotiations with Zionist leaders for a
complete understanding on Palestine .. .
We understand that Judge Proskauer,
new president of the Committee, saw
—David Ben-Gurion, Chairman of Executive
What accounted for the mysterious dis-
Dr. Weizmann with whom he discussed
Committee of Jewish Agency for Palestine.
appearance of the "great demonstration"
the text of the statement by the Ameri-
which was to have been held at the
can Jewish Committee on Palestine sev-
same Garden under the auspices of the
eral days prior to its adoption by the
American Jewish Congress, Church
annual meeting of the Committee . . .
Peace Union, CIO and AFL? The date
The statement, we hear, was prepared
was Feb. 4 and the advance publicity
by three prominent Jewish judges who
was generous, but if you went there that
have a nation-wide reputation . . . Zion-
night you saw a basketball game.
ist circles on the whole are satisfied with
When President Roosevelt was having
the statement . . They consider it a
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
his pictures taken at Casablanca, he sud-
rebuke to the American Council for
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
denly noticed one of the photographers
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Judaism which is outspokenly against
Syndicate)
and roared out a welcome: "Hello Sam!"
political Zionism . . . It was quite a
Jewish Press Service)
The man in question was Sammy Schul- WE'RE TELLING YOU
pleasant surprise for many to learn that
man, now on army assignment for photo-
ABE COHEN'S MOTHER
Judge Levinthal, the president of the
Drew Pearson, the Washington Merry- SPEAKS FOR AMERICA
graphy and one of International News
Zionist Organization of America, is also
Photos most famous lensmen. He's been Go-Round scoopster, pointed out to us
Abe Cohen is a typical American. Of a member of the American Jewish Com-
almost everywhere in this war and the the other day that the proportion of Jews
mittee . . . Needless to say he was not
President told Sammy that he's the only in war service is considerably higher than a different faith and different origin his one of the three judges who drafted
name
might
be
Mike
Murphy
or
Stanis-
one who beats F.D.R. as a globe-trotter. their ratio to the entire population of the
low Stugloski or Benito Murlino. But the statement of the Committee .
Wonder how General Giraud felt at Casa-
country . . . Trenton, N. J., has a Jewish Abe Cohen happens to be a descendent At the Committee's annual meeting he-
blanca when Sammy was shooting his
population of 6.1 per cent, for example, of the Prophets. His People gave the opened the discussion regarding the
picture!
while Trenton Jews in the armed forces world the Bible and for many reasons statement . . . The Hadassah, too, was
"NO LAW AGAINST INTOLERANCE"
represent 8.4 per cent of the city's total which sometimes make human nature represented at the meeting . . It is
enlistment.
rather repulsive, his people are the tar- officially affiliated with the American
Rabbi Morris Lazaron et al who insist
gets for attack and discrimination. There- Jewish Committee and has its president:
A full-page advertisement, sponsored fore, the story has gone the rounds that on the executive board.
that heaven will be purgatory compared
with the paradise Jews will find in Eur- by the Textbook Commission of The
AMONG ZIONISTS
ope after this war ought to attend ses- Protestant, appeared in the Philadelphia while other peoples are brave, Abe is
Something very serious is now brewing,
sions of Congress occasionally . . . For Record last week .. . That ad showed a only concerned with getting new tires.
in London, bearing out a recent remark
example the session when Martin
Abe's
mother
is
upset.
Her
boy
is
in
mass of terrified Jewish faces, many of
Dies voiced his famous creed that
khaki, two other sons are in the service, by Dr. Weizmann that with regard to the
"there is no law against a man's being them looking more dead than alive • . .
all of his friends are either overseas or question of Palestine, Zionists will
intolerant." . . . It was at the same ses- The caption that started off the ad read:
at an army camp somewhere in this soon find London more important than
sion that John Rankin of Mississippi de- "2,000,000 Dead Speak to America" .
great
country, and their idols are many. Washington . Moshe Shertok, head of
bated "fundamentals" by pointing out And the copy' itself was the best we've
the political department of the Jewish
For instance, there is Sergeant Meyer Agency, who has been in London for
that I. F. Stone (of PM and the Nation)
ever read in denunciation of the un-
Levin,
Colin
Kelly's
bombardier,
who
has
was a "crackpot" and, anyhow, his name American, un-Christian phenomenon of
several weeks, will soon come to New
been awarded the Distinguished Flying York instead of returning to Palestine as
is Feinstein. As though that ought to anti-Semitism.
Cross; Lt. Commander Solomon S. Is- he originally planned.
clinch the argument . . . Dies wonders
YOU SHOULD KNOW
quith, saved crew of USS Utah, awarded
whether "some of the racial minorities
The question is whether Palestine has
fear that the gentleman from Texas, Mar-
The Committee of Jewish Writers and Navy Cross; Lieutenant Morris N. Fried- any food to export . . . As far as we
tin Dies, may be prejudiced." He asserts Artists iS preparing the publication of a man, for bravery in the Philippines, know, the Joint Distribution Committee
awarded Distinguished Flying Cross, would only be too glad to buy food in.
that The New Republic sent agents into Black Book . . .
In that book will be
his country to ask whether Dies was
Silver Star; Sergeant Lester Kramer, for Palestine to send to Polish Jews in Russia
recorded
the
full
story
of
Hitler's
war-to-
"anti-Jewish". . • And since one of
flight to Manila, awarded Distinguished . . . There is a shortage of food in Pales-
Dies' best friends is a Jew, the latter told the-death against the Jews all over Flying Cross; Private Louis Schleifer, tine, however, rather than an abundance
the agent all about Dies and his fight Europe . . . The chapters revealing the tried to save plane, awarded Silver Star; . . . It seems that the American Zionist'
against the Ku Klux Klan .. One wond- dreadful truth of what took place in the Lieutenant Gabriel Frumkin, downed plan to send a delegation to Palestine
ers how the Jewish members of Con- Nazi-occupied sectors of Soviet Russia five Jap planes; Lieutenant Henry Mark, has hit a snag . . No. priority for pas- ,
will be supplied by the Russian govern- met death in a rice field, awarded Dis-
gress felt when they remembered the
circumstances under which Michael ment, which, we are told, has collected tinguished Service Cross; and Ensign sage by plane can be secured for the
two delegates, . Robert .Szold and Dr.
Edelstein died on the threshhlod of the most complete statistics and data on that
Stanley Caplan, downed four Jap planes, James Heller . U. S. authorities have
subject.
House.
received commendation from Secretary so far refused to recognize the mission of
From Eretz Israel comes a story which of the Navy Knox.
A CASE OF PIRACY
the two Zionist delegates as warranting
indicates that not all of Hitler's second
Well, Abe's mother also happens to such a priority . • . Incidentally, the Z.
The recent death of the Matif Leumi, victims—the Poles—have as yet grasped
0. A. made a slight error in its release
famous Yiddish preacher, Rev. Zvi Hirsch the lesson of this war .. . It seems that know something about that JeiXrish hero announcing that the two delegates are the
who
is
going
down
in
history
under
the
Masliansky, calls to mind one of the a detachment of the Free Polish Army
first American Zionist leaders to pro-
most famous cases of literary piracy in- now stationed in Palestine was billeted name of "Yank" Levy. A great American ceed to Palestine since the outbreak of
volving the English version of his Ser- on Tel Aviv . . . The all-Jewish city poet, Robert Nathan, has written a trib- the war in 1939 ... The first American
mons which appeared in 1926. The legit- gave the Poles an- official welcome, with ute for Yank Levy for the Saturday Zionist leader to reach Palestine after
imate edition was issued in New York the Mayor making a speech in which he Review of Literature. The poem is in- the outbreak of the war was Hadassah's
by the Hebrew Publishing Company with urged the boys to make themselves at spired by the modern Maccabeeans who Mrs. Rose Jacobs, the only woman mem-
a preface signed "Abraham J. Feldman, home . . . Well, some of the boys, looking happen to be Jewish, but who may be ber of the executive of the Jewish
Irish or Scotch or Greek.
Hartford, Connecticut, July 15, 1926."
Agency.
around the avenues of Tel Aviv and see-
Well, here is this tribute to Yank Levy:
A few months later, there appeared on ing so many of the faces they had been
the market an exact reproduction of the
used to seeing in the ghettos of the Polish "This is the son of warriors, of the Macca-
book with these "modifications": on the
bees,
title page the letters Ph. D., Lit.D. were cities, began to act as if they were back Of David, of deep-thewed Samson, Godgiven
in
the
Poland
of
the
years
when
the
Jews
added to the name of the translator,
Gideon.
while the signature and date of the of that country suffered many indignities No banker this, no Doctor of German Phil-
By DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN
osophy;
preface were altered to read "Edward - at the hands of their Christian country-
President, World Zionist Organization
men . . . A Jew was killed in the ensuing This is the fighting Jew —the dark, tense
Herbert, New York, March 15, 1926."
face,
The strength V a movement.is gauged
The impression was created that the fracas, and some of Tel Aviv's shops were Fierce and aware, lonely, waiting and watch-
by the measure of support it draws from
popular rabbi of Hartford was guilty looted.
ing.
the masses. Governments and peoples are
of an act of plagiarism, since the date ABOUT PEOPLE
No banners here, no parades in front of the wont to apply the numeral yardstick to
mayor,
of his preface was several months later
Arthur Szyk, whose horripilant carica- With flowers and politicians, no surly boast- an ideal which must perforce derive its
than in the pirated edition. Rabbi Feld-
ing,
sustenance from the popular will. This
tures of Axis leaders appear in the New
man was quickly exonerated of any guilt.
Both the author and publisher as well as York Post, is very proud of the fact But the eagle's look, that once from the walls holds particularly true in the= case of
Zionism.
of Jerusalem,
others who had a hand in the production • that the Japanese used one of his pie-
Many times I have attempted to im-
of the legitimate edition vouched for turizations of Nazidom in their , own Fell like an arrow into the Roman legions."
press upon my fellow Jews everywhere
Rabbi Feldman's authorship of the pre- propaganda . . . The cartoon showed
Abe Cohen's mother is an American.
the scope and magnitude of the task that
face. But it shows how popular Masli-
And she is hiding. from her son a nasty
ansky was that a pirate thought he could Death wearing a Nazi elite guard uni- circular which insults an entire people rests .upon us as Zionists, individually
formand the Japs rained copies of it
capitalize on his name.
and collectively, to rescue from death
down to American troops in the Philip- who are fighting as Americans. It is a the remnants of our people who are
mother's
heartache
which
seems
to
go
pines, presumably on the theory that the
being decimated by the ruthless program
through the hearts of hundreds of thous-
Yanks would get scared to death.
of extermination by the Nazis. But, how-
ands of other American mothers whose ever warm and extensive the response
Boxer Barney Ross, who is fast be- heritage is Biblical prophecy.
in terms of financial and moral endorse-
By MARTIN PANZER
corning the chief pride and joy of the
Isn't this a pretty good time for all the ment, however strong the recognition of
Marine
Corps
in
the
South
Pacific
area,
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
mothers of America to be careful and not the justice of our cause, any effort
added to his laurels the other day by to stab into the heart of a Cohen, which
Jewish Press Service)
launched on a national or international
knocking out a 215-pound Samoan in the language of the ScriptureS means scale for the rehabilitation of our people
NAZI SHEET DENOUNCES NOGUS' champion . . . Barney, you must re- "Priest?"
in its own homeland Must be on• a con-
WIFE AS JEWISH—Headline. It might member, held the lightweight crown in
It sounds like a sad story. It is based certed and organized system if it is to
be said that that does Nogue good.
these parts.
*
on fact. But it will end well because attain its ultimate objective.
*
Zionism has long ceased to be a n-love-
Personal regards from his daughter, America's heart is too great to listen to
It is rumored in London that Mussolini
rnent
of. the few and for the few. The -
cheap
jests
at
a
time
when
humanity
is
Edwina,
were
brought
to
Ben
Hecht
by
will relax anti-Jewish measures in Italy.
war has accentuated its indispensible ne-
The poor fellow. With his troubles that's Walter Winchell on the latter's return bleeding.
cessity as an instrument -for the solution
the only way he can relax, no doubt.
from his South American mission . . .
of the Jewish problem. The Zionist Or-
* * *
cum
Weizmann
sound
at
all
familiar
to
Edwina, who is married to a Brazilian,
ganization . of .America, the parent body
lives in Rio de Janeiro . . . Among the you? . . . Of course part of it does, but of all Zionist groups in America, should
VICHY ORDERS JEWS TO ASSUME
JEWISH - SOUNDING NAMES — Head- interesting people Winchell met down what we want to tell you is that the and must therefore be strong in numbers
line. That's easy to understand; anything there was Herbert Moses, president of whole thing is the moniker of a cer- if it is to serve as a potent intrument...
tain type of bacterium which — you for the realization of the Zionist program.,
that sounds French is objectionable to the Brazilian Press Association.
Vichy.
guessed it—is named after the president and for the building of the Jewish Na-
Does the name Clostridium acetobutyli- of the Jewish Agency.
tional Home.

Is Ben Hecht being groomed to succeed
Pierre van Paassen as head of the Com-
mittee for a Jewish Army? Hecht is now
hard at work trying to arrange a huge
demonstration at Madison Square Gar-
den.

Strictly
Confidential

Purely
Commentary

An Instrument
Of the Masses

Tickling the News

