THE JEW1S.H NEWS

rage Two

Strictly
Confidential

Quotation of the Week

As a well fed •person can never truly understand the sensation of
. starvation ; so it is impossible for most of us well-established citizens to
grasp the plight of a people who have neither a roof over their heads .
nor even a homeland they can call their own.
There is a land which historically belongs to the Jews but was lost
to the military power of more aggressive nations. Now the Jews are
scattered all over the world, their families broken by the war, their
spirits crushed by Nazi brutality.
Alone they do not have the strength to regain what is rightfully
theirs. They must have the. active help of those who, even though they
have never experienced homelessness, can at least understand, from
the lesson of their forefathers, the commendable desire for indepen-
dence and freedom under a national flag.
It is to be hoped that the splendid example of fortitude which the
Jews have set in this last decade of incredible suffering will *win them
—not just sympathizers but supporters—men who will stand at their
side in the struggle to attain that one thing so cherished by all mankind
—a home.

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright, 1943, .Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)

LISTEN HERE

The Jew most popular among Negroes
today is Judge Jonah J. Goldstein . .
This is so not only because he resigned
from the N. Y. Bar Association when it
refused to admit a Negro . .. He for
years has been fighting against racial
prejudice, and many years ago, when
he was a practising attorney, sacrificed
a juicy fee by sending to his client a
Negro lawyer who worked in his office
. . . That lawyer, by the way, has just
been elected to the bench in N. Y.—his
name is Justice Francis Rivers.
Despite the opposition of members of
the Jewish Community Council of Los
Angeles, a statue of Haym Salomon,
noted patriot of American Revolutionary
c:ays, will be erected in one of the city's
parks on Jan. 6 . - The originator of
the project is Dr. Monte Salvin, and the
chairman of the Statue Committee is the
celebrated painter Max Band.

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—CLARE BOOTHE LUCE, Member of Congress

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

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(Copyright, 1943. J. T.A., Inc.)

REMEMBER THIS

King Carol of Rumania is sending SOS
calls to Jewish leaders in the U. S. ask-
ing for their political support . . . That's
returning the compliment with a ven-
geance, Carol • . . Remember when Jew-
ish leaders in the U. S. used to send you
SOS calls, and got no answer?
The Polish-Soviet diplomatic situation
is becoming even more strained than it
was . .. Jewish leaders should take care
avoid all entanglements.

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POLITICAL TALK

It can be told now that the Jewish
Agency has known for several months
that a new "partition plan" for Pales-
tine is in preparation . .. A hint to this
effect was given in Cairo to Moshe Sher-
tok, head of the political department of
the Jewish Agency, by Richard G. Casey,
the British Minister of State for the
Middle East . . . Shertok mentioned .this
fact to a few Zionist leaders in New
York during his recent visit to the United
States.
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READER'S GUIDE

Pierre van Passsen's "The Forgotten
Ally" will be published in Hebrew and
serialized in Yiddish ere long.
Latest to join the ranks of memoirists
is- Henri Bernstein, the French play-
wright.
Fannie Hurst's forthcoming novel,
"Hallelujah," is said to be her greatest
. . It has already been bought for the
movies.
Rose Franken, the well-known play-
wright, novelist and short story writer,
and creater of "Claudia," is the highest-
paid magazine writer in the world „ .
She gets almost $2 per word.

Strasser's Flight
From Nazi Terror

Otto Strasser is one of the men to
watch in the planning of German post-
war reconstruction. A former Nazi
leader, he turned against Adolf Hitler
when the latter murdered his brother.
But Otto Strasser's views remain, in the
main, Nazi; and he should be strenuous-
ly opposed in any effort to assume con-
trol of events in Germany.
Nevertheless, his book "Flight From
Terror" which was published by Robert
M. McBride & Co., 116 E. 16th St., New
York, is an important document in the
study of German affairs.
His headquarters are now in Montreal
and from there he conducts . a battle
against Hitler. In his book he relates
how Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," tells
the intimate story of Nazi brutality and
exposes the Hitlerite machine and its
terrorist philosophy. "Flight From Ter-
ror" will undoubtedly be used as an
exhibit in the case against Hitler by fu-
ture historians.

By DAVID DEUTSCH

(Copyright, 1943, independent
Jewish Press Service)

RAIDING PARTIES

Jewish organizations are out hunting
for big-time executives. It is rumored
that at least two organizations are ogling
people who formerly were high in the
Administration. The same source claims
that Peter Bergson's Emergency Com-
mittee has offered to one high-spotter a
big G figure as salary . . . The American
Jewish Conference is said to have pirated
an executive director from a Welfare
Fund in the South. He is a Zionist, but
We hear that President Roosevelt, the son-in-law of a big-time adviser to
the non-Zionists.
when receiving a very important Zionist
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leader some time ago, was interested in
"RESTRICTED"
his opinion as to whether Jews would
be satisfied with free immigration to If you didn't know it before this, you
some other country instead of Palestine may be interested to know that famed
. . . And we also hear that one of the ballet dancer Serge Lifar is Jewish. His
Zionist groups in the United States very name, some say, was Leifer. He was
recently received a letter from a very brougt up in a Orthodox Jewish family
important person in Washington asking in Eastern Europe. But that, of course,
why the Jews are fighting the White didn't prevent him from continuing his
Paper . . . The writer of this letter, work in Nazi-Occupied Paris. Honorary
though a great friend of the Jews. naive- Aryan, or something.
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ly thinks that the White Paper embodies
nothing but immigration laws . . . And OCCUPATIONAL NOTE
says the writer, each country is entitled
The Educational Alliance, the famous
to introduce its own immigration laws, Jewish settlement house on the lower

IN RE PALESTINE

A delegation of veterans of the Jewish
Legion of the first World War has pre-
sented to the British Ambassador at
Washington a memorandum asking for
the repeal of the White Paper.
Any one who has doubts on the "ab-
sorptive capacity" of Palestine for furth-
er increases in population is hereby re-
ferred to Maj. Francis P. Frazier of the
American Army . . . Speaking of the
problem of feeding our forces in the
Middle East, the Major says: "The Army
Service Forces in this theater of war
have partly solved one of the most
pressing problems faced by armies in
the hungry Middle East by raising large
quantities of their own food . . . On a
model farm in Palestine 100 acres of the
richest land are used to raise food crops
and livestock" . . . Boys from American
farms are doing this farming in the Holy
Land.
Did you see Elsa Maxwell's proposal
to the League of Nations of the future?
. . "Make Prussia a National Jewish
Homeland," cracks La Maxwell, "and
send all the Prussians to Palestine . . .
Then let the bumber-jumbo-Junkers ar-
gue Pan-Prussia with the paranoiac pro-
ponents of Pan-Islam."

Heard in
The Lobbies

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Friday, December 3 - , 1943

Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

"GALGEN-HUMOR"

Only those who are not seriously at
fected by tragedies fail to distinguish be
tween "humor" and "galgen-humor."
The latter, meaning "humor on the gal.,
lows," usually predominates where stor•
ies about Jews in European countries ar(
involved.
Here is a typical example of "galgen-
humor" for which we are indebted tc
the Zionist Record of Johannesburg
South Africa. The story, entitled "N(
Sale," reads:
Members of the Jewish community it
England are encouraged to distribut(
pamphlets devoted to the fight agains
anti-Semitism amongst their non-Jewisl
friends and customers. The following
secene is reported as having taken plac(
in a London barber shop:
Barber (making the most of his war.
time stock) : "Would you like some hah
lotion, Sir?"
Customer: "No, thanks, I've got som(
already." (Pause for scissors work).
Barber: "Would you like some shaving
soap?"
Customer: "No thanks, rye got soml
already." (Another pause.)
Barber: "Would you like a pamphle
on anti-Semitism?"
Customer: "No thanks, I am an anti
Semite already."
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THE GIFT OF THE "FREE"

This story comes to us as a "gift" fron
a free country. .
In quoting it, we must remind thos(
engaged in the battle for liberty not t(
overlook the fact that the danger of big
otry and reactionary thinking is not Ern
ited to German-held territories. It exist
in England. It is to be found in our OW'
midst, in free America.
To know these things will mean to b(
better prepared to fight against the man.
ifestations of indecency.
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TRIBUTE TO "HES ALEPH"

"Friedland Education Center" is th(
name that has been given by the Bureat
of Jewish Education of Cleveland to it
newly-acquired headquarters, at 1050:
East Blvd.
Equally as important as the acquisi•
tion of a "home" by the Cleveland Edu.
cation Bureau is the fact that a tribut(
is thus paid to the memory of the lat(
A. H. Friedland, who became affectiOn.
no matter how strict they may be . . • East Side. no less famous for its alumni ately known to educators in Jewish com-
Which only proves that even highly
than for its backers, has begun 50th an- munities throughout the world as "He:
placed people in Washington, about niversary celebrations last week. One Aleph," . by the initials of his first names.
whose friendship for the Jews there can of its better known alumni, sculptor- The late Hes Aleph Friedland was
be no doubt,. are lacking sufficient in- Chaim Gross, recipient of many
a prize great poet and story-teller. He was
formation as to why every liberal mind- in art contests, now walks the beat as a linguist, humorous lecturer, essayist anc
ed person in America must help the plain New York blue-coat, i. e., cop, i. e. Zionist of note. The new Cleveland Cen-
Jewish people in their fight against the policeman. ter should serve as a reminder to thi;
White Paper.
Henri Bernstein, the playwright and and the next generation of the great,
American - Jewish organizations may battling De Gaullist, is writing his auto- contributions this man made to Jewisl
be "scooped" at the Allied peace talks biography. Should make a good movie, learning.
by the Jews of Russia on the question because besides writing plays and know-
The director of the Bureau of Jewish
of international outlawing of anti-Semi- ing the people who count in the Capit- Education of Cleveland, Dr. Azriel Ei-
tism . . . We hear that Jews in Russia als, Henri Bernstein has fought duels senberg, deserves highest commenda-
are preparing material which may re- for motives which were often romantic. tions for exerting his effort,S to the end
suit in the Soviet Government asking Bill Goetz, of International pictures is that the Friedland Education Center
the Allies to outlaw anti-Semitism -competing with his father-in-law, Louis should be established.
throughout the world in the same man- B. Mayer, for, the rights to Moss Hart's
There is added interest - in the an
ner as it has been banned in Russia. "Winged Victory."
nouncement made this week by Bloch
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Publishing Co. of New York that the
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DINNER
GOSSIP
estate of the late A. H. Friedland has
YOUTH OF TODAY
designated these New York publisher:
We
weren't
at
the
big
Jewish
Theo-
The pride of the Jews of New York
as selling agency of his three Hebrew
logical
Seminary
dinner
at
the
Hotel
last week was 25-year-old_Leonard Bern-
books—Sippurim, Shirim and Sonnets,
:7=--w-ho conducted the New York Phil- Waldorf-Astoria at which Attorney Gen-
harmonic Orchestra; their pride this eral Biddle spoke, but we have this on N
week is 22-year-old Thelma . Altman • . . the sworn hearsay of several reliables
Miss Altman, daughter of a Jewish fruit who were present. They point to some A
merchant in Buffalo, N. Y., is the first things that were both amusing and dis-
Jewish American-born girl to make a tressing. The Jewish flag was conspic-
The problem of prejudice and race
debut as a star of the Metropolitan uous by its absence among the United
Opera in New York • . . She appeared Nations flag. . . There was some delay hatred has an unusually interesting in-
in one of the principal roles in the opera about communal Hatikvah singing, but terpretation and a novel approach in
"Boris Godounoff" at the opening of the aware that the audience of distinguished John Sanford's novel, "The People From
60th season of the Metropolitan Opera members of the Conservative rabbinate Heaven," .recently published by Har-
this week, and took the audience by might understand if communal singing court, Brace & Co., 383. Madison. Ave.
of Hatikvah were omitted, Dr. Louis
Taking Warrensburg, a typical Ameri-
storm.
Finkelstein prefaced by announcing that can town, as the locale for the story's,
It is worthwhile to mention here the it is a song that the Jews of Palestine action, Mr. Sanford introduced a number
results of a study on Jewish youth made sing . . . The hesitancy was doubtlessly of characters, including a Negro woman
in Baltimore and in New York . . Two caused out of deference to some fellow- and a Jew. Through them he portrays
youth groups may furnish clues to sig- travelers of the American Council for the hatreds that dominate people's mindsJ
nificant uniformities in the background Judaism who were present at the affair
The bigot in the story is out to make
and behavior of the Jewish youth in the .. . Rabbi Max D. Klein of Philadelphia his 'town "white all over again." He
entire country . . The Jewish youth in delivered the kind of speech that was aims at the Negro woman, but he also
both cities, the study shows, were al- very upsetting to the handful of the drags the Jew into the wholesale aim
most all native-born . . Most of their Lessing Rosenwaldites.
to clean out those he hates. But the Ne-
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parents were foreign-born . . . In Balti-
gro woman shoots him down in cold
more more than 85 percent of the fem- OVERSEAS NOTE
blood, and there are no regrets.
ales and two percent of the males—
A moving portion of the novel is the
Walter
Winchell
insists
that
Depart-
between the ages of 16 and 24—were
story
related by the Jewish character,
married . . . In New York City 13 per- ment of Justice has negotiated with the David Novinsky, who tells of the hor-
cent of the females and three percent British about bringing Rudolph Hess rors in the old country where a group
here for trial of the over 30 names in-
of the males were listed as married . .
of young girls, including his sister, were
In comparing the occupation distribution dicted for subversive activities.
fitst humiliated then shot down. He tells
of the parents in these two cities, sig-
the story to indicate why he likes to go
nificant similarities were also observed JOKE OF THE WEEK
to the community church to pray.
. . . In both instances the largest single
Milton Berle tried a fountain pen pre-
Mr. Sanford's novel should prove
group of Jewish fathers were found in sented to him and groaned: "Hm . . . good instrument in the fight against big-
proprietary and managerial occupations. just like my brother. Doesn't work."
otry in this country.

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ovel Is Weapon
gainst Bigotry