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,(copyright, 1943, Independent .
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SItALOM ALEICOEM
T,gssing Ttosen,w. alci,. who sayeda,c):1 . of

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Friday, Sepfem r 17,-1941

Purely

the Neek

"Our present silence is growing audible irk,Berlin. For us to say
that we will do our best to find_ a solution for the, Jewish question
..'.after the war is a mockery 'arid' only evokes laughter in -Hell . .
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"In the . hour of victory that i.8 surely eoniing,ithe grandeur of the . '
United 'Nations will be'fot eaeli to be crowned with the freedom- of •
others. ',Is the Jewish' people: to be excluded by reason of it having
"ceased to exist?.
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`` • "One - word, Sfrs; from you, eipecially to the leaders of Germany's- •
satellite . i5ovier,.. at this time when the fortines of. the Akis di:e . in
rapid decline, 'would be sufficient : ' to. stop the horrible deportations
'which they carry out at Germany's demands .
"Set up an Anglo-American"inter-governmental .agency with
powers and prerogatives - td act immediately . and on .a large scale for
the rescue of the Jewish people of'EUrope . . . „
"Open the doors of the Holy`Land to its children!
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"In this eXalted hour, when the victorious 'American and British
armies are battling on the continent of Europe and the onslaught •of
the United Nations is proving irresistible, I, appeal- to you, Mr. Presi-
dent and Mr. Prime Minister, to lead the moral offensive against thiS
cold-blooded massacre as yciii have led the Military offensive againSt
....brutal. aggression.
"Only then we shall be able to. say 'Our hands have not shed
this blood'."
. — PI7,17 VAN PAASSEN, In Open Letter to • ,

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THE J.
PRESIDENCY
With the elevation of Dr. Israel Gold-
stein to-the' presidency o•the -Zionist Or-
ganization • of "AmeriCa, •the .
tiOriel•''Vtind . is in
of. an`'effiae'rit
leader
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- Sinee' these - 'are ••reVOlUtio. riary
yottr -Commentator -propbses an eXtraor-
clina7.-y . 'change in" this'officel •
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`Simon • Shetzer,..Detroit's..- gift. to.•the
Zionist movement, has -proven his ability
'as'• executive 'director • of the • ZOA. Why
not take him out of that job, noW that"he
has 'succeeded in establishing an excel-
lent routine in • membership enr.ollirient,
and has wiped 'Out.' - the deficit,','.
riiv.e.
him . the. p r residency,
esidency, of the : ;J.. „N. • V.?
would do a commendable piece of. work
with. the land-redemption agency,._and.he
would be in position-•.to render service
without being stymied by political.. diffi-
culties.
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You can bet that this proposal will not
be• - considered•favorably......But it is about
time .that ..our • national .. leaders. : gave
thought;:to able material 'outside- -the
..i ‘known"-:•names.
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A TWO-MAN''ARMY
- For -many . months : to: Come, - Americari
Jewry. will ,:have. ..rauch....:to• think --about
with regard to the rise of ,new ;leaders-in
our• ranks. ••• - - ••••
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dominated the .recent
American .Jewish Conference: Henn-3r
•Monsky; •brilliant president- of the - Bnai
Brith; and. Dr.•Abbe Hillel Silvei; chain-
man of the United Palestine Appeal and
Co-chilli-Man - of Ifie*Eifiei4gene-y
tee' for Zibriist
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These two men were- - responsible•-fOr
the action which squelched any thought
'regarding-. CompromiSe on - the Jewish
Commonwealth proposal. -
Both are .able. speakers. Both repre,
sent .. the young. element .in American-.
Jewry,• not being over- -:Both • --ard
steeped An- Jewish, knowledge and in de-
:vation to, .Jewish.•causesy':! _ -
The _we4 ori,which they emerged,
Amerioan--Israel
the principal_ leaders
was a period for rejoicing for all of us.
If we fail in our demands; we will at
.be. able to, say., that the- conscience
of our ;People Clear m all 'efforti,.:iiria
der able leadership, to secure just rights
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for...our people.
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"GABE" COHEN OF INDIANAPOLIS
G. .M.. :Cohen, wide-awake., editor:: Ca .t.he, •
Jewish Post of Indianapolis, was the
Visest-:*af tfie.'71.i-nei'lban* . JeViiSh. ` -COnfer-
enCe when-he refused to admit that there
will be a compromise on the Palestine
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resolution.
Most of the 151 men and women in the,
e - inicrei. 'the
e ction
pre s s s wer
that the Zionists would ykld in &der "tii*
prevent- a" walk - out bie some ‘-of
Zionist delegates: _ .:.`.Gabe" Cohen, was
contrary... He ...was.%
willing _to. bet,
right, The . statement of :the American :
Council for"Judaism helped to sPur fa-
votable. action • on the' JeVii*Sli' Cbititnon-
wealth bropOsal.'- LeSSing'aciS'entVald
his cohorts must- have- thoUghtlhey . weiV•t
timing the statement. to disrupt the: Con-
fe •ence.. : Instead,. it ,kioked.- back. to: dis n,
rupt. this _Council of `.`Arnericans. of. the; .
Jewish persuasion:"
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Hats off,..to : "Gabe',', Cohen for. being
the better prophet of •results at the
Ionic Conference.

money' in the last few years 'keeping it
away from the Jews abroad who'desper-
.now •
ately needed every' assistance;
to 'finance' the Arileribah
spending
He the
Council for 'Judaism, Inc:'
same fellOw• • Who' insisted 'that • the •price
of his support for - -settlement; in: - Santo
Domingo must be strict : definition of its
"non-sectarian'' character ''in* its charter: -
Now the burden is being unloaded on
Jewish public funds, the -Very same
funds to which Mr:•Rbsenweld., a •choosy •
philanthropist, refuses to give. , .• •• -
Rabbi Elmer Berger is touring --the
countryside, getting money to finance an
organization — unique in the history of .
Judaism—specifically dedicated to. the•
defamation of. a cause in, which. the ma-
jority. of the Jews of the world (what's
left of them) are deeply interested . .
President .Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
Rabbi Berger is trying to sell the "Flint
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plan" wherever he can. The plan takes- -
its name • from the •, community- from .•
which : Berger was plucked•to. save :world
Judaism. in.,his. present .-post. The, basic
achieverrient..of:_the . plan". was to.
counsel Jews not to give money over-
seas . . . Rabbi Berger left behind'iiiM'e
sadly rent. ,con:imunity,..„ ..,.He .promises,
the .same results
any..`Other.
By BORES SMOLAR
,,By PHINEAS J. BIRON
/lily which -Will accept
acbePt the "Flint plan."
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(Copyright,
1943,
Seven
Arts
Fedture
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The first time bomb Planted,' in ,the
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Agency, Inc:). ...-.:, „
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Southwest is Rabbi Judah Schachtel,
THE VISIT . OF IBN SAUD'S .: SON •
whose : sublimely orthodoX father. muSt YOU SHOULD KNOW
wonder what his son -.learned 'in...his..
-Otto Lilienthal, German Jewish- glider . With the : expected arrival in the U. S.
house to.. make .him despise. the _tenets of expert of the. 19th century, also, had de- of
• King Ibn Saud's son, Feisal, some
traditional-Judaism,. ..Houston ought to, signed a regular motor-driven airplane, Zionist leaders are asking Whether it
be a . good, test . .*e.for this, new device _ but was killed in a glider . crash the day would not. be :practical for- , American
of splitting . co m
muni by making it • before he was to have made' his first 'Jewish grOups to meet him 'arid Weleorrie
ties
appear • that onlY -ineinbers of the Amer- flight in that plane': . . This is just one him . .•His 'arrival here will be utilized
ican COUrieil . • for ''Judaisni, -. Ind., ' are of 'the innumerable facts on flying you
Washington for the purpose ,of nego-7 .
Americans while , all others are actual or can find in 'Milton- Figen-'s"Pocket Avia- Aiating .• Arab-Jewish reconciliation in
potential traitors to the country ... How tion ,Quiz Book," which will help you Palestine though it is known that Ibn.
happy Father Coughlin must _be • -t6';:get keep up with the news from the world's Saud is . outspolcenlY against . the Jewish
this corroboration! • ;
espiratiorit in Palestine . ... In case you-.
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The,lete Leon S. Moisteiff, the famous don't know, ca „third of King Ibn Saud's
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worked is war through total' revenue - is Supplied by the Califor.
HARMONY
the
Columbia
School
of Igines by writing ,nia Arabian Staridard.:Oil,Co.,- which, has
Prof. Shalom Spiegel, who teaches at
the Jewish Institute of Religion, headed articles for the Yiddish presS,- and leaSed, since '1939, a third of Saudi Ara-
introduced to the :Yiddish - reading bia for the exploitation of the oil -Walls:
by Dr. Stephen Wise, ha.s..:aecepted a call
to the..chair in Medieval 1--tebre*:',Liter- masses the writings of. Walt Whitman there .
With the Palestine problem attracting
ature at the Jewish. Theological . Semin- and Henrik Ibsen.
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wide: ‘attention in Washington, the sug-
ary, a chair occupiedl:by the late Prof.
gestin is made by some mernbers of Con- •
Itrael Davidson. Thia i it said to. be the LISTEN HERE:
Aftermath of the American Jewish gress that the entire Palestinian situa-
first time that the ConserVative seminary
has turned to an institution for the train- Conference:, There's a possibility of the tion be examined by a group of out-,
ing of Reforin Rabbis; .in search of a com- ConferenCe reconvening within the next_ standing :Americans who should. render
an unbiased report . . 'Names listed for
few months, probably M „Chicago .
petent scholar. Rapprochement.
Clamor will not die as to w.hy,the. Con- • this . group* include Gerald Swope of the
ference didn't take up the problems of General Electric Company, Supreme.
Cotirt Justice Owen D. Roberts, _ Hamil-
anti-Semitisni - in' this country .
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editor * of FOreigii
may not have known but there was a ton FishArMstrong,
Strong group .Which wanted•the..Confer- Affairs, Gen. Harold Knutson, Alfred -
ence completely dissolveid after this first Srhith; former governor of New York,:
and John W. Davis;' -forther 'Democratic'
conclave.
Angna Enters'. "LoNie ,, Poss e ssed
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, :candidate TOT president • . Also sug-
who celebrated her birthday in exile. a gested are; 1-Iarold•Glenn Moulton ; .presi.-.-.
Juarfa His Signifi c ance ' '. -
couple of weeks ago, hopes to mark the dent of the Brookings . Institution, :Wheel-.
Today
occasion in her traditional -manner next er Sarninons, publisher of "Who's-Who,'.'.
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- Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New
With Spain -eirratnitg
. - ::: a, _couritry, of summer . . . The traditional manner in- York Times, Gerald ShattUck, president
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cludes,
in
addition
to
any,
number
of
offi-
doubts in the presentworld Situatbn, a
of the Schrafft
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play written by Apgna EnterS, "Love cial receptions and other. functions, a ri s, vice-president
of the U. S. Steamship -
to the Joy
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Possesseduana,"
assumes •,grqat signifi- personal visit by Her Majesty
den Breetstrast (Main Y Street of the -Lines:
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cance.
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Jews) in other parts of±the--Amsterdam.
Mime, winter ai•*-.1..%authar,!.X.ngria
„. Jewish quarter.
MILITARY INFORMATION
ters has earned nevi. glorY
-th-is,--leer --
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An editor - of .a non-Jewish daily news-..
first . play :
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WEEKLY GIGGLE
paper asks me. Whether any .U...S. ; ships,
Dealing with InquWIion ', Spain, this - -. Have you heard the story of how
are named after. Jews„The answer
four-act drama has mtcdern. signifi•8ance. ler fell ill and none of his Aryan doctors that -so far five destroYerS and four' Lib-.
The heroine, Queen of Castile, opposed Were able to diagnose h6 case? . . . Fi- erty Ships have been named after JeW-
the Inquisition and aroused the Wratli
nally, in desperation, he Sent for an aged ish patriots . . . The Liberty Ships - Tarr:3i
Torquemada and her parenik Ferdinand non-Aryan physician who had managed the names of . Louis Marshall, Samuel
and Isabella of Spain.
to .survive, in enforced, retirement of Gompers, Haym Solomon. and Judah
The intrigues at, court, described, in the course . . . The old man; who had been Touri. The destroyers, named after Jew-
play, appear familiar in view of some of famed as one of Germany's greatest di- ish •heroes in the navy, three of whom
the modern happenings. - • • . - agnosticians, looked the feuhrer over have fallen in the present war in the Pa-
By BEN' SAMUEL -
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Of greater importance, :01 course; is the carefully, and then said the case wasn't cific .. These three are Lt. Ira Jeffery of
condemnation of the_ tagticS....of.
In- so complicated after all . "It can.easily Minneapolis,. Ensign Robert Leopold of . Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic Ass;eilc;', Inc.
quisition and the outspokenness.of..4tiana„ be cured by bathing," h added • . . So Louisville, Ky..; and Ensign Daniel-..Seid.
(This • story is tia.Od on ..informatic4 ;;.
To Torquemada, for instance * -she ad- one of-Hitler's personal Physicians :asked of Brooklyn,. N. Y.. . The -records of supplied,. by. the . Na,tional Jewish
whetlier there were any! special instruc- their heroic deeds Will be made public -
dresses herself thus:
fare Board.) . ,,.,.-.. ,„
to how this bathing was to be when-the war is over, but the fact that
"I cannot believe that He who preach- tionk.as
ddne...;
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"Why,"
said
the
diagnositician:
the
U.
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Navy
has
found
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fitting,
to
--Fifteen:years ago..Ben .Gale.,was. a stn.,.
ed love and forgiveness can be worship-
"Tfte , 130ient must be'i4ompletely sub- name fighting ships in their memory dent at the Yeshiva of...Bensonhurst.. in.,
p,ed under the . guidance of those who . merkWiii.
preech `torture On• tfie-iacIV .Ierre'd •whoe once."' , the bath twice; and-taken out- speaks .for itself .. • The other two Jews Brooklyn. Samu.el, :Chesheri .was, a ...teach-
after. whom destroyers haye been named - . ...el:, there: They• became very- good friends.,
lust for , heresy,:and. failing to.:find..it,
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recently. are -Commodore
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much so.that,wh•Chethen•deeided,
v e st the innocent with it."
. ABOUT PEOPLE :
and Captain John. Ordroneaux who did-- to.•leave. , for - Palestine.to- accepf•a-ard-ge's"
Juana's
is
A quiet celebration.,makkecl Max Rein- no small service. in•the :War of -1812.
another major theine which. -influenced:- hardt's 17th birthday lasV week The •• Edward M.• M.: Warburg.,...chairman •of ,. :appointnent, 12 •L' year 'cad
away aboard his;ship: He was dist'dver-
the Queen's actions which led to her be-- . Professor is deep in wQk on • hit : next - the •JOint• Distribution .Committee who 'ed,
however; and sent
Mg kept in-6Onfiriefrierif• du/Trig
'las t Broadway production, a Reihardt version enlisted in the Artily, is now a .captain •
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2n years of hek life. ,
Ben,
heartlar_aken r „felt- he v.would. never,
• of Offenbach's opera "Le, Belle. Helene."
▪ .•:He' received his promotioris the hard':
see. his-friend again.; But the-years -past-, ,
There is incidental music, ballets, il-
By the time you read this the 'appoint- way starting in February 1942 as a
ed, and with 'the .coming -of-the sear; he
histrations and stage sets in this splendid ment of Dr. Herman BatUch, brother of vate.•
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enlisted'iri the; air corps' as' •a mdid- gun-
book, which was published by Twice-A- Bernard M., as the American envoy to
Miriam E. Greenberg,.
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Year Press, 509 Madison Ave., New Portugal, may be an ac'Omplished - fact. born 'girl; 'hat' the distinction of coming ner.
York. Dorothy Norman is the able editor - pital.
all the way from Palestine to -join the
Several, weeks ago Ben?.s• plane , -Iset
of Twice--A Year,: the distinguished semi:-
One man who hopes ,ithat the hduse Wacs here ... Her.father, Max A: Green ,: . down , at a Palestine airport:• Ben stepped-
annual of literature, the arts. and civil where he was born will be blasted td bits' berg, is the representative, for .General. out . of- the : plane end-376u guessed •
liberties, and of incidental books spon- is Hollywood's Fritz Feld:;..' . That house Electric in Palestine and her mother came • face. 'to' face With'-hiS 'old' friend,'
sored by this publishing house.
-,stands.--xie-xt- door-. te-Hitier's chaneellery'. kuriS the- SeiVit'e Club in Tel Aviv.
Judge Samuel Cheshen.

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