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THE; JEWLSH NEWS

Strictly
Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)

YOU SHOULD KNOW

Before the year is over a distinguished
industrialist who fancies himself as a
diplomat, and who received a special
award for his great friendship toward
the Jews, will be exposed as having
cooperated with the Fascist anti-Semites
of an Axis country.
What's this about a new "American
nationalist" party being in the offing,
with its sponsors including anti-Semite
Gerald L. K. Smith and—Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker?
We're told that an official publication
of the Polish Government-in-Exile re-
printed the Nazi report on the Warsaw
ghetto battle without giving "credit" to
the source . . . In this "report" the Jew-
ish defenders of Warsaw are called
dangerous Communists . . We are in-
vestigating further.

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JEWISH NEWS
The Zionist Emergency Committee,
now clicking on all cylinders under the
leadership .of Dr. Abba H. Silver, will
issue its own publication, to be called
"Palestine" . . . It is intended for Jew-
ish and non-Jewish readers.
Believe it or not, the only ad in the 24-
page October issue of The Answer, or-
gan of. the Committee for a Jewish Army,
is an announcement by a New York
funeral parlor.
There's an A' my camp in Iceland that
has, at its entrance, a huge "Welcome"
sign in 16 languages . . . German isn't
one of them, but the greeting "Shalom"
appears on the sign, in Hebrew letters.

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LITERARY DEPT.
Now that Pierre van Paassen's new
book, "The Forgotten Ally," is sweeping
the country, we may tell you that be-
fore its • pUblication efforts were made to
suppress it.
It is a matter of record that it was
the late Hebrew literary critic Reuben
Brainin who discovered and sponsored
Saul Tchernichovsky, the HebreW poet
who . recently passed away, . . . Yet the
local Hebrew press ignbred this bio-
graphical fact . The Hebraists who
have delved in Jewish politics cannot
forget that Reuben Brainin, during the
last years of his life,. adrninistered some
public spankings to them for their re-
actionaryism . . Probably - they would
have tempeied their eulogies of Tchern-
ichovsky if they had known that the-.
Hebrew poet left instructions for the
posthumous return to the Finnish gov-
ernment of the decoration it had be- I
stowed upon him . . . Brainin and Tchern-
ichovsky saw eye to eye on international
affairs.
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ABOUT PEOPLE
Hitler will be interested to know that
an Austrian Jew whom he drove= out of
his home is now getting in quite a few
licks against Naziland .
• The refugee
is Dr. Paul Schwarzkopf of Yonkers,
whose metallurgical discoveries have
proved extremely valuable to America's
war industry.
Among the American war correspond-
ents who have been killed in the line
of duty since Pearl Harbor and whose
memory will be honored by the nam-
ing of Liberty ships after them are
Melville Jacoby of Time and Life and
Jack Singer of the International News
Service.
It's Pvt. Abe Fortas of the U. S. Army
now . . . In case you don't remember,
Fortas was, until his induction, Under-
Secretary of the Interior.

Remember Lidice!

Gerald Kersh's "The Dead Look On"
Effectively Exposes Relentless
Cruelty of the Nazis

Gerald Kersh's "The Dead Look On,"
puiblished by Reynal 8z Hitchcock, is a
challenge to the English-speaking world
to whom it is addressed to remember
Lidice.
Jewish readers will be as deeply,
moved by this story as the Czechoslova-:
kians. It • is a novel that reveals the
relentless cruelty of the Nazis.
The Heinz Horner in this story will be
recognized momentarily as the Heinrich
Himmler who ordered the execution of
all the Lidice male residents.
"The Dead Look On" is a moving story
that should be read by as many people
as possible. Better material to expose
Nazism will be difficult to find.

• Friday, ,Nov.arn be r

Purely
Commentary

Serving Jewry and Humanity

A Message to War Chest Workers
and Contributors of Detroit

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE A. J. C. CONTROVERSY

By DR. JONAH B. WISE

National Chairman, United Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine

As the Jewish community of Detroit prepares to engage in the
War Chest campaign, I should like to send you this word of greeting.
In view of the keen understanding on your part of the vastly increased
problems confronting American Jews
in relation to the position of their
fellow-Jews throughout the world, I
feel confident that your drive will
be marked with redoubled effort and
substantially increased results.
Momentous developments have
brought the turning point in the war.
Indeed the events of the past month
have imbued us with a justifiable
spirit of optimism. Victory is within
our grasp. This has been demonstrated
not only on the battlefield, but in the
enlarged needs of the agencies of the
United Jewish Appeal. The rescue
offensive must keep pace with the
United Nations offensive on the
battlefield. The forces of liberation
which have freed North Africa and
parts of Italy from the grip of op-
pression have opened up new avenues
of action for the forces of rescue and
rehabilitation. In those areas there
are new and enlarged tasks confronting the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee, which is working in close cooperation with the Office of
Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations. In the months to come
the scope of the work of all of the agencies represented in the United
Jewish Appeal—the Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine
Appeal and National Refugee Service—will be broadened by the new
opportunities resulting from new Allied victories.
There is, however, one pressing and urgent task confronting the
Jews of Detroit, as well as the Jews of other communities through-
out the country. I refer to the immediate need for large resources
to make possible the rescue of tens of thousands of refugee children
from the Balkans and other European countries. As you know, gov-
erninental sanction haS been granted for the emigration of large
nufriberS of children from war-shattered Europe to safety in Palestine
and North and South America.. How many of these 'youngsters will
be saved will in a large measure depend an the generosity and prompt
_action of American Jews throughout the instrumentality of the United
Jewish Appeal.
If these hopes for saving Jewish life are to be realized, the United.
Jewish Appeal must receive the unreserved support of every member
of the Jewish community of Detroit. Only in this way can you 'do your
full share in the battle for Jewish survival. Your full support of the
War Chest will serve the Jewish people and humanity as a whole.

ear in
The Lobbies

Between
You and Me

By DAVID DEUTSCH

(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

I 943

When the controversy aroused by the
American Jewish Committee's with-
drawal from the American Jewish Con-
ference will come to an end—if elimina-
tion of controversy over Jewish aspira-
tions in Palestine is at all possible—the
Committee will be the loser, and not the
Zionist movement.

The A. J. C. is admittedly a self-
appointed group. It is not a demo-
cratically-selected body in the sense that
the Conference is a democratic organ-
ization. In recent years, however, it has
made an attempt to enlist the aid of
Many individuals and organizations as
community representatives and affiliated:
groups.

Some of the individuals and groups
have resigned from membership in the
American Jewish Committee, in protest ,
against its action on the Conference.
Hadassah, Rabbinical Assembly, Free.
Sons of Israel are among the groups that
have left the Committee, whose position.
is not enhanced by its stand on Pales-
tine.
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BREAK IN UNITY

Neither, however, is the entire Jewish
position enhanced by the break in unity:
caused - by- the Committee's resignation
from. the Conference. There is a break
in Jewish unity which will not help our
position. - Instead of being able to pre-.
sent a front based on complete under-
standing among all Jewish . groupS, we
will be compelled to go before our own
government and before . the nations of
the world _ with the admission that a
powerful group of individuals is abstain-
ing • from participation in the presenta-
tion of the Jewish case before the trib-
unals of world public opinion.

The Committee could have remained
in the Conference with . the •reservation,
of not going along on all decisions in-
volving Palestine. True, its stand on a
Jewish Commonwealth will be repudiat-
ed by the vast majority of American
Jews. But by quitting the Conference
entirely, the Committee definitely has
broken Jewish unity and deserves the
criticism it is receiving.
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NOW COMES THE "COUNCIL"•

The American Jewish Committee's
action is certain to give courage to the
anti-Zionists. in the Council for Ameri-
can Judaism who were so emphatically
indicted for unsportsmanlike and un-
American action at the Conference.

Elmer Berger, , former Flint rabbi, is
now touring the country in an anti-Zion-
ist campaign, and the spread of .division
in Jewish ranks is becoming rampant.

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 19-13. J.T.A., Inc.)

THE JEWISH FRONT
The withdrawal of the American Jew-
ish Committee from the American Jew-
ish Conference may be just the first step
in the direction of independent action by
the Committee on Jewish matters con-
cerning which no unity can be achieved
. . . The storm raised by the withdrawal
will not subside for a long time, Zionist
leaders believe . Zionist groups are
determined to extend the fight against
the American Jewish Committee through-
out the country, urging provincial . Jew-
ish leaders to make the withdrawal of
the American Jewish Committee an issue
in local communities . . . The situation
may become even more aggravated
should the Jewish Labor Committee
follow the example of the American
Jewish Committee and withdraw from
the American Jewish Conference . . .
MISSION TO PALESTINE
The Hadassah convention which just
concluded in New York discussed many
subjects relating to its work in Pales-
tine . . . One subject, however, was not
revealed to the delegates: the resigna-
tion of Dr. J. L. Magnes from his post
as a sort of a high commissioner of Am-
erican Hadassah in Palestine . . . Few
in the U. • S. know that Dr. Magnes is
the head of a committee in Palestine
authorized to supervise distribution of
Hadassah funds . Even fewer know
that some leaders of the Hadassah in
America have indicated to Dr. Magnes
that. his political views cannot be con-
sidered as going hand in hand with
HadasSb.h interests . . .The result was a
letter from Dr. Magnes to the Hadassah
offering his resignation . . . This letter,
however, was not brOilght before the
Hadassah convention for decision, though
the Hadassah Board discussed it . . .
Can it be that the proposed trip to Pal-
estine of Mrs. de Sola Pool has some-
thing to do with Dr. Magnes' offer to

PERSONALITIES
Andre Maurois (lierzog) is expected
back from Africa, Where he . had gone to
serve with Giraud in the clays when .De
Gaulle was still treated as an ugly
duckling by the State Department . . .
Main-ois, you will recall, is the author
of many works, including apologetics
for Vichy France.
They tell us - that Rabbi -Fineshriber's
face has been a continuous red since
Rosh Hashanah. The rabbi, a member of
the American Council for Judaism, used
his sermon as the vehicle for an attack
on Zionism. Some members turned their
backs and walked out in the midst of
the harangue. It is rumored that they
demand an assurance that never again
will the rabbi give vent to such fulmina-
tions from their pulpit.
There is the nifty story about Harry
Wertheimer, shoelace peddler in New
York's City Hall Plaza. It seems that
"Little Flower" LaGuardia is in search
of a private secretary. Corning across•the
peddler, the Mayor queried: "Say, Harry,
how would you like' to be my secretary?"
The . peddler shook his head. Knowing the
MaYor's reputation for quarreling with
his aides, he replied: "Mr. Mayor, I may
be crazy, but that crazy I am not."
IS it true that the boys of - the Emerg-
ency Committee to Save the .Jews of
Europe have quite a job on their hands,
what with assuring both Ben Hecht and
Pierre Van Paassen that one-. is as good .a
writer as the other? . . . Van Paassen's
-"Jewish" book has -just appeared; 'Hecht's
is soon to appear.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau, crack
War' Bond seller; hasn't a bond in his
name. • Before the subversives jump at
this, let us disclose the reason — law
forbids the Secretary of the Treasury to
invest in governmental securities.
Jack Benny is preparing for another
overseas tour.
resign?

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If this 'Council," whose stand is so
repugnant to the overwhelming majority
of American Jews, should gain ground,
it will be due in great measure to the
latest act of the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
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JEWISH STATE AS "SOLE REMEDY"

The recalcitrants in the American Jew-
ish Committee and the Council for Am-
erican Judaism may be interested in the
leading editorial in the Oct. 27 issue of
the great liberal newspaper, the Man-
chester Guardian, which declared that
"only the establishment of Palestine as
a Jewish State can provide a permanent
remedy for the Jewish problem."
This editorial asserts that in view of
the benefits reaped by them the Arabs
"shouldn't begrudge the Jews their niche
of a National Home in Palestine."
What, however; are the Arabs to say
if Jews begrudge Jews an opportunity
for free development?
Can the breach be healed? Will the
American Jewish Committee return to
the Conference and the "Council for
American Judaism" be sportsmanlike
enough to quit its destructive efforts?
Perhaps American public opinion will
force just action in this controversy.

Magnum

Op us

Congratulations :to Dr. Isaac. Landman,
editor, and Louis Rittenberg, :executive
and literary editor, on the publication of
the tenth and- final volume . of the Un-
iversal JeWish En -Cyclopedia - . The
completed Encyclopedia is a major
achievement of which Landman and
Rittenberg and their Board of Editors
may well be proud . . Particularly
striking in Volume Ten is the colorful
frontispiece by miniaturist Arthur Szyk,
dedicated "To the Hallowed Memory of
Europe's Martyred Jews."

