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Strictly
Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)
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Friday, SepTember 3, 1941
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Why did the newspapers suppress the
news about that Jewish cemetery in the
Catskills being desecrated by anti-Semi-
tic hooligans?
Emil Ludwig, the distinguished biog-
rapher, has been lecturing at the Army
School for Military Government at
Charlottesville, Va. .. . Ludwig urged a
strong United Nations army of occupa-
tion in Germany after the war . . .
"What I fear," he said, "is that the day
after the death of Hitler the Junker
generals will kowtow and say: 'Come,
let us be brothers again,' and that some
of you will say: 'Now, let us make peace
—they are good people • . . But they are
no better than the Hitlers . . . They only
have better manners."
Founder of the idea of the "Pledge
of Unity" designed to prevent racial
conflicts in this country is a Mrs. Henry
Jaffee of New York . . . In public life
Mrs. Jaffee is Jean Muir of the stage and
screen (no, she's not Jewish, though her
husband is, and she calls her baby son
a representative of racial unity).
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Quotation of the Week
"From the Civil War came the A.P.A.; from the World War came
the Ku Klux Klan, and already there are rumblings of religious
hatred heard in this present war. You hear someone say that a cer-
tain race is not in the war effort, that their members are staying
home. That's a lie—they are serving faithfully and draft boards
make no distinctions. The American Legion can make this a war
from which will come a truly great Americanism, and not the hatred
of Americans for Americans."
—LAWRENCE QUIGLEY, Commandant of Chelsea, Mass.,
Soldiers' Home, in Address before convention of
Massachusetts Department of American Legion.
Heard in
The Lobbies
By DAVID DEUTSCH
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)
IMPERTINENT
Wonder, if the allegation is true that
Sumner Welles: urged that the Bermuda
conference ought not to be held because
he was convinced that the British and
Americans were only prepared to stage a
show — and a poor one at that — while
Cordell Hull said it didn't matter as long
as there was some appearance of dealing
with the problem about which Jews had
been shouting?
Why is it that the various Jewish or-
ganizations which have first-hand infor-
mation about Breckenridge Long and
Adolf Berle continue to hurt liberalism
and the Jews as well by concealing their
state of impatience and resentment?
ABOUT PEOPLE
Dr. Israel Schapiro, head of the Jewish
Division of the Library of Congress, is
about to retire, after more than two
decades of tenure of office.
Who do you suppose is now taking
dancing lessons, very Seriously? Your
old friend Eddie Cantor, no less.
Boy, oh boy, just watch the fireworks
TRUE STORY
Orson Welles makes this revelation when the house of Putnam's issues the
about the late Houdini's resourcefulness new book by Sholem Asch this month!
while at the late Imperial Russian Court You won't be able to miss it. It's called
—which of course never suspected the "The Apostle: a novel based on the life
famous magician of being a Jew • . . It of St. Paul." Already, 110,000 copies have
printed. The publishers are plan-
seems that in a certain tower of the been
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Kremlin there Were,. some bells .3.intised ping the biggest advertising campaign in
for 300 yearsrthe--bell ropes having rot- their history. If anything, Paul stirs
ted away . . . Yet at the Czar's'reepiest more:-bitter` memory among Jews than
Houdini caused the bells to ring by the Nazarene.
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simply standing at the palace window
and making a mystic gesture . . . The PERSONS
secret? Houdini's gesture at the win-
Credit is being given to Max Warburg,
dow was a cue to his wife, who was at brother„of the late Felix, for the opening
a nearby window with a rifle—and it a. a-Yeshiva (parochial school to you) on
was the impact of lead on the bells that ; Mew York ' s West Side — sometimes re-
caused them to ring.
. hued to as the home of Manhattan's al-
riglitniks. They'll begin taking young-
JEWISH NEWS
at five for a secular and Jewish ed-
The number of American citizens in sters
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Palestine has dwindled from 10,000 to.. ucation.
2,500 since the outbreak of the war . .
yolf; been noticing those illus-
Many Americans who were living in. trated diagrams used by yoUr loCal news-
Palestine have volunteered for service. , `'paper to show industrial- and war pro-
in the U. S. Army . . . The war'4 1 . 0's duction gains? A small legend at the
brought about equalization of Atab bottom. says: "Graphic by Pick-S." That
wages in Palestine, so that Arabs ..:...and standS- for Joachim Silbermann and
Jews now get compensation according to Franz Pick, refugees, who have made a
the same standards . . . An important real contribution to American journal-
development, which will make pOssible - ism. Silbermann and Pick, both experi-
common labor unions ... A new Hebrew •enced in financial news services abroad,
daily, "Hazman," has made its apPear- started on a .capital of $200.. They now
ance in Palestine . . . This brings the employ seven artists and statisticians and
total of Hebrew dailies in Eretz Israel their stuff is used by many magazines
up to six .. Electric current sold in and advertising agencies. Now they have
Palestine in 10 months of 1942 -totalled added the Newspaper Enterprise Asso-
over 114,000,000 units, an increase of ciation, a leading syndicate, to their
20,000,000 over the corresponding period
clients.
in the preceding year . . . An amazing
The Marshall family is a writing clan.
growth, demonstrating that Jewish Pal-
estine is on the march despite the chi- James, the father, a few months ago pub-
lished a volume giving hiS conception of
caneries of the British Colonial office.
Pierre van Paassen's new book, "The the American freedoms. Now, his wife,
Forgotten Ally," will be published sim- Lenore, has put out her first collection of
ultaneously in Spanish, Chinese and Eng- verse, called "No Boundary." Two fine
lish next month . . . The advance sale novels have already come from her. The
has already- passed the 50,000 mark . . daughter, a reporter on • PM, recently
Congratulations to Pierre on his fourth smashed the champagne bottle across the
prow of the Victory ship named for
consecutive best-seller.
The young lady 'whose picture appear- grandfather Louis Marshall.
ed in the pages of the Aug. 9 issue of .
Congressman Samuel Weiss is a pretty
Life magazine under the 'Caption Of "Life unhappy fellow because of that heavy
Goes to a Service Men's Country Club" slap on the wrist he got from Secretary
is the daughter of a well-knewn. Chicago of War Stimson after sports-loving Weiss
Jewish family . . . Her name is Ruthe had .gotten up a petition, signed by 255
Baskin, and among 6,000 hostesses, many other COngressmen, asking for more
of whom are very, very pretty girls, she sympathy for intercollegiate sports from
was the one chosen . for the pictorial the Army. No, said Stimson, but loud.
record . . . And Ruthe's photos don't
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, too, is plan-
really do her justice, because they do ning a visit to Palestine shortly. Story is
not show the striking coloring of her he wants to get himself completely
blue-gray eyes, olive skin and dark equipped before he takes over that Jew-
brown, naturally curly hair.
ish Agency .office in _Washington. Won-
Purely
Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Rosh Hashanah is approaching, and
with it will come an avalanche of "greet-
ings" which will fill the columns of the
English-Jewish newspapers.
These "encomia" usually come "by re-
quest." Rosh Hashanah has become a
Roman Holiday for politicians who are
able, "by invitation," to present their
names before the Jewish public in the
thick holiday editions which are packed
with "congratulations" from non-Jewish
firms.
At the United Palestine Appeal confer-
ence in Philadelphia, in May, Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver took occasion to condemn
this practice. He referred to the holiday
messages to Jews from non-Jews as
"stale and tasteless." But we doubt
whether his excoriating criticism will
bring the necessary. results. Even our
Jewish news agencies have fallen for this
kind of tripe.
Between
You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
MARCH OF TIME
The Italian Government, we learn, has
communicated to British authorities its
readiness to permit the emigration of
Jews from Italy and Italian-occupied
Yugoslavia . . . It is willing to start with
several • hundred Jewish children. all to
be escorted by : their parents . . It is
understood that this first group is to
proceed to Palestine . . Zionist leaders
in America are aware of this proposal.
By the time these lines are published,
Dr. J. N. Steinberg, .who has spent sev-
eral years in Australia negotiating. for a
Jewish . territory in the waste land of
Kimberley, will have arrived . in the
United States with a report on his ne-•
gotiations.
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SOMETHING TO REMEMBER'
With the American Jewish Conference
opposing the British White Paper policy,
it is important to remember that this
document contains other restrictions in
addition to closing Palestine for Jewish
immigration . . . These restrictions give
the High Commissioner of Palestine gen
eral powers to prohibit transfers of land, - .
and provide for the setting up of an in-
dependent government which would in,.
volve the political subordination of the
Jewish National Home to an Arab ma-
jority . . . It is also worthwhile to re-
member that the Council of League of
Nations had no chance to 'discuss the..
White Paper and that the Mandates
Commission rejected this document by a
vote of four to three . . . The White
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Paper is thus actually illegal, since it
OUR NEIGHBORS' GOOD WILL
was declared by the Mandate Commis-
Our attitude in support . of Rabbi Sil- sion to be in .conflict with Article VI of
ver's stand must in no way be interpret- the Palestine Mandate . .' Article VI
ed as opposition to any effort to enlist requires the administration of Palestine
the support of Christians for the : cause . to facilitate Jewish immigration and to
of Jewish rescue work, or in behalf of encourage, in cooperation with the Jew- -
..Palestine's redemption as the Jewish Na- ish Agency, the close settlement of Jews
- tional Home.
on the land . . . For those who may not
The misfortune in the entire procedure know, it will also be interesting to learn
lies in the. fact that very few of the ex- that Winston Churchill, in 1939, prior to
pressions that usually come from Chris- his becoming Prime Minister, bitterly
tian leaders are above the "stale and criticized the White Paper as a breach
tasteless" standards.
of the Balfour Declaration.
We need the co-operation of non-Jews,
HebreW has been ,included in the of-
and every friend gained helps us attain ficial list of modern languages, for which •-•
justice in the world..
examinations may be taken by the Army •
Unfortunately, too few of our friends trainees at Ohio State University . , -
have stuck to their guns; and our posi- Rabbi' Harry Kaplan, . director of the
tion remains precarious because there Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the uni-
are so few iwho will fight for our cause versity, has been asked to give the ex-
to a finish.
aminations in modern Hebrew.
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AMERICAN PALESTINE COMMITTEE
PERSONALITY PROFILES
For a time, we lOoked with pride to
Harry Sackler, who celebrated his 60th
the efforts of the American Palestine
Committee and to its personnel, which birthday this week, is perhaps. the only
included the best brains in America. It Jewish author in America who • writes
is perhaps the fault of Jewish leadership equally well in English, Yiddish and He-
that this committee has declined in influ- brew . . . He writes in these three lan-
ence and has failed to function during guages perfectly, in addition to knowing
the past year. - • a number of other languages which he
does not use for literary work . . . He
Arab propaganda and pro-Arab influ- is also the best conversationalist I know
ence 'in the State Department have been among Jewish writers . . In _fact, it
contributing factors in the decline of the would be no exaggeration to say that he
work of this committee.
is really a walking encyclopedia . . He
That is why the effort • to draft Dr. has a profound knowledge which is by
Abba Hillel Silver for leadership in
no means limited to Jewih subjects .
Zionist Organization of -Anaerica -and as His erudition on Jewish subjects can be
the head of the political. affairS of• -ZiOn- matched only by few scholars . . . His
ism is an important step the :direction - English novel "Festival at Meron" was
of improving the situation.„.1::
obe of the best I have ever .read, while
Unless drastic steps are
to
his plays have been produced with equal
vise the previous policy • of inaCtibri . 'at.
success in New York and in Palestine
the Zionist Organization'S convention -viii
.:;. indicative of Sackler's standing in
Columbus next week, the Zionist catise7
will be weakened in p.oliticaLcirOes.:
the-:vzorld of Hebrew literature - is the
.fact that a group of his admirers' have.
der if the State Department Avill
.grant
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now ri;aised a special fund to publish
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him an. exit permit.
some - of his works in Hebrew, in addition
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to those_ already published . . . He was
NOTE FOR
Why doesn't some organilationJolloW at one time the administrative secretary
up this tip: Not so many • months 'ago of the' Jewish Education Association in
Lord Moyne, Deputy SeCr'etary Of State; New York . . . Executive secretary of
bitter anti-Zionist, visiteclI‹ing Ibn
the - WA from 1918 till 1923, Sackler is
at Jedda. With him went - Alexander.
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-to
-day -no longer active in the Zionist
Kirk, American Minister. Was that'
where that Anglo-American policy on movement as an official, but does his
Palestine was cooked up?
share as - an ardent Zionist.