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U. S. Support Strengthens
Jews' Claim to Palestine
Churchill Continues to Favor Balfour Declaration Providing
for Jewish Homeland; Dr. Silver in Washington Sees
No Organized Opposition to Resolution
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American Zion-
ist Emergency Council, revealed this week in Washington
that Prime Minister Churchill, after a recent interview with
Zionist leaders, gave them permission to quote him as con-
tinuing to favor the Balfour Declaration which provides for
the establishmerit of a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
Dr. Silver's statement w a s('>
made on the eve of public hear- were • sent to Washington from
ings held before the House For- D e t r o i t this week and that
eign Affairs Committee in Wash- thousands more would follow the
ington, under the chairmanship same procedure in .t h e coming
of Rep. Sol Bloom, on the Pales- few days:
tine Resolution introduced • by
'Vandenberg's Reply
Reps. Wright and Compton.
Responding to testimonials sent
Rabbi Silver's testimony be-
t him by several thousand pe-
f ore the House Foreign Affairs to
troiters two . weeks ago ureng
Committee left a deep impres-
his continued support of the Pal-
sion. Others who testified
estine c a u.s e, Senator Vanden-
eluded Rep. J. W. Wright, co-
berg, in a letter to Morris Lieber-
sponsor of the Resolution, and
man ; . chairman of 'the executive
Mrs. Moses Epstein, national
committee of the Zionist Council
president of Hadassah.
Rabbi Silver, who is devoting of Detroit, stated:
"I am very hopeful that the
his entire time to the present
effort for the defense of t h e new War Refugee Board which
Jewish position in Palestine, was created by executive order
stated that he does not anticipate on Jan. 22, 1944, may make early
organized opposition to the Pal- and substantial progress. But the
greatest of all objectives is the
estine Resolution.
ultimate achievement of the
Visited Turkish Embassy
great Palestine ideal. You may
It also was disclosed by Dr.
depend upon my complete inter-
Silver that he had visited the
est and activity in every practi-
cal advancement of these hu-
in an effort to increase the nuns- mane ideals."
ber of Jews permitted to pass
through Turkey on their way to Urges Mass Support
Palestine. Pointing out that this For Resolutions
number is now limited to 400 a
month, he attributed British op- NEW YORK (JPS) — The
position to the establishment of American Jewish Conference has
a Jewish Commonwealth to a called on its 64 affiliated Jewish
group of officials in the British organizations and its delegates to
civil service and predicted that lend "their utmost support" to
a change in British policy would the resolutions which were in-
come soon. troduced in Congress urging the
Secretary . of State C or dell U. S. "to use its good offices
Hull, according to • Dr. Silver, and take appropriate measures to
had - expressed himself publicly the end that the doors of Pales-
as supporting the position of the tine shall be opened for free
U. S. in favor of the Balfour entry of Jews into that country.
Declaration.
The resolutions favor the recon-
stitution of Palestine "as a free
Resolution in Senate
A resolution urging the U. S. and democratic Jewish Common-
to "use its good offices and take tvealth."
The Conference statement
appropriate measures" to open
p
the doors of Palestine for the pointed
out that these resolu-
"free entry" of Jews, was intro- t tions "reflect the spirit of the
duced in the Senate by Robert Palestine resolution which w a s
F. Wagner (D.) of N. Y., and adopted by an overwhelming
Robert Taft (R.) of Ohio. vote" at the Conference session
The resolution w a s endorsed here last September.
Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers (R.)
by Sen. Alben W. Barkley, ma-
jority leader, • and by Sen. Wal- of Massachusetts, a member of
lace H. White, minority. leader. the House Foreign Relations
It was referred to the Senate's Committee, has pledged her sup-
F or eign Relations Committee. port for the Wright-Compton
The resolution also urged estab- Resolution on Palestine.
lishment of a Jewish Common-
Orthodox Rabbis
- wealth.
"This resolution," Sen) Wagner Issue Manifesto
told the Senate, "reaffirms the NEW YORK (JPS)—Aligning
historic policy of the government themselves with the American
of the United States, formulated Jewish Conference and the
by the Congress in June, 1922, American Zionist Emergency
when it unanimously passed a Council and hailing the biparti-
joint resolution sponsored by the san resolution introduced in the
late Senator Lodge of Massa- House of Representatives calling
chusetts, then chairman of the for a Jewish Commonwealth in
Committee on Foreign Rela- Palestine, 600 Orthodox rabbis
tions."
and 1,200 delegates participating
in the National Conference of
Cite Jap Atrocities
Sen. Taft said: "Until a place Orthodox Jewry for Palestine
is found where the unhappy and Rescue, meeting in this city,
Jews of Europe can go and get issued a manifesto calling upon
a new start in life, free of the free world to "keep open
unreasonable economic sanctions the doors of Palestine to the tor-
and a blind religious and -racial mented and uprooted Jews of
hatred, the fundamental causes Europe."
The manifesto expresses "un-
for anti-Semitism will continue
shakable faith that the time for
in Europe."
Sen. Barkley in his speech on the ingathering of the unhappy
the floor, said: "I am glad to exiles of Israel into the Land of
join with my colleagues in an their Fathers in fulfillment of
expression of sympathetic inter- the Divine promise and purpose
est with the objective to be at- is at hand." After commending
tamed by the resolution just the President's action in creating
presented. There is a perfectly the War Refugee Board for the
natural link that hinds the Jews rescue of European Jewry, the
to Palestine, which we can all manifesto points to Palestine as
understand." He emphasized that a key to the success of the rescue
in light of the reports from the program and asks that "the stain
Philippines concerning Japanese of the White Paper" be erased
atrocities against American war from "the shield of the United
prisoners, the people of the U. S. Nations."
can see what the Germans have
been doing to the Jews of Eu- Says Europe's Jews
See Palestine as Goal
rope
Dozens of Jewish organizations
JERUSALEM (Palcor) — The
of Detroit—Christian and Jewish Jews of Europe do not debate
—and thousands of individuals, for or against Palestine, they are
this week sent messages to mem- only interested in the possibili-
bers of both Houses of Congress ties of getting there, David
urging them to support t4b Schweitzer, representative of the
Palestine Resolutions. HICEM (HIAS-ICA Emigration
It is estimated that more than Association), arriving with t h e
10,000 such letters and telegrams 754 Jewish refugees aboard the
THE JEWISH NEWS
Canadian ORT Head
To Speak on Feb. 23
Friday, February T I, 1944
Two Men of Vienna
Prof. Ehrenhaft's Epic Story
of Magnetic Currents
Louis Fitch, K. C., author and
lecturer, will address the Detroit
Women's Chapter of the Amer-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
ican ORT Wednesday afternoon,
Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
Feb. 23, at the Belcrest Hotel.
(PLACE: Laboratory of Prof. Felix
(There is a knock at the door...
A member of the Provincial Ehrenhaft, Prof. of Physics at the
Prof.
Hilderkrantz enters.)
University
of
Vienna.
TIME:
A
little
Parliament of Canada, Mr. Fitch, more than 10 years ago. Child enters.)
Prof.
Hilderkrantz: Prof. Ehr-
a law graduate of McGill Uni-
Child: Papa! mama says you
enhaft, you must leave at once.
should come down to dinner.
Prof. Ehrenhaft: I'll be down I hate to tell you this. You know
presently. Tell mama that. Will I do not share Nazi views. But
for your own good, you must"
you, son?
Child: But Mother says you leave at once. If not, you will
promised her that before and you be thrown in a concentration
camp.
didn't come down. Mother says
Mrs. Ehrenhaft: But surely
you didn't have any sleep last
night at all; that you have been they can not throw my husband
working in your laboratory all in a - concentration camp. He has
done nothing to harm anyone.
day.
Prof. Ehrenhaft: Sonny, will All he has done is to make one
you please go away. You are a discovery after another which
very nice boy. But I am very has helped the people of Austria
busy now. It's a very important and of the whole world. Surely
matter I am working on. It may they can not throw a man in a
concentration camp for making
mean much to the world.
Child: Papa, what are you discoveries in science.
working on? Mama says you
Prof. Hilderkrantz: My dear
are working on a magnetism in- Mrs. Ehrenhaft, please under-.
vention. Papa, what is mag- stand! The old order of justice
netism?
and decency is dead. There is a
LOUIS FITCH, K. C.
Prof. Ehrenhaft: (Looks _up and new order Hitler is building and
versity who has studied in takes child in arms and kisses it is being made out of the cur-
France, has made a deep study. him.) You see, my child, that rents of injustice and hate.
I
of Jewish problems. He is pres- is magnetism. The thing in you am your friend. Take my advice
ident of the Canadian ORT, hon- that causes me to want to kiss and flee at once to America.
* *
orary president of the Canadian you. Now, you understand. The
Zionist Organization, an organiz- power of attraction.
Last week the . story was re-
Child: Is magnetism love, vealed of a demonstration given
er of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress and the Canadian Immi- papa?
by Prof. Ehrenhaft at Columbia
Prof. Ehrenhaft: Well, I guess University. Present were the
grant Aid Society. He is chair-
that
is
as
good
a
definition
as most famous . physicists of the
man of the Aid to Russia
campaign. in the Province of any.
country. • The newspaper story
Child: lArell, papa, what are said that Prof. Ehrenhaft had
Quebec.
you trying to invent?
offered proof that magnetic curr
Cantor Robert Tulman, accom-
Prof. Ehrenhaft: I. am not try- rents flow through the universe.
panied by Rose Bassin Stein, will ing
to invent anything. I am The story went on to say that
provide the musical program at
just trying to prove that there scientists who were present said
the Feb. 23 meeting. Mrs.
are magnetic currents flowing in that the discovery by the refugee
Moritz Kahn, president of the
the universe. If I can prove that, professor from Vienna might be
Detroit chapter, will preside.
then we can harness these cur-
A subscription dinner in honor rents and make them work for as important as the invention of
of Mr. Fitch will be given at the us just like electric currents do. the electric dynamo and would ,
Book Cadillac Hotel on the eve- If we can do this, we can maybe likely usher in a new era in tech-
nology.
ning of his address.
introduce a new era, a neW or-
der in technology.
Child: So you are trying to Marshall Lodge Holds
Portuguese liner Nyassa, told the
prove that _these are currents of Bond Auction, Feb. 15
Palcor correspondent.
Mr. Schweitzer, who was ac- love flowing through the air,
Louis Marshall Lodge No. 120
tive in settling refugees in San aren't. you, daddy?
Prof. Ehrenhaft: . Yes, maybe of Bnai Brith, together with its
Domingo, declared that he was
now "fully aware of the diffi- that's what I am trying to show, Women's Auxiliary, will sponsor
culties and defeats involved in sonny. (Prof. Ehrenhaft pauses a Bond Auction Feb. 15 at Edu-
t h e San Domingo experiment" a moment: A look of terror cational Center, Linwood and.'..
and described it as "a mouse. spreads over his face. Mrs. Burlingame. M. Cerkowski, child
guidance instructor at Merrill
to which 'Mount Evian' (the con- Ehrenhaft enters.)
Mrs. Ehrenhaft: Do you hear Palmer School, will speak on-
ference for r e f u g e es held at
that, Felix?
"Leisure Pastimes for Children."
Evian) gave birth." In view of
Prof. Ehrenhaft: It fills me A large assortment of articleS
all that, he has now the greatest with foreboding.
will be sold and War Bonds will
interest in settling refugees in
Mrs. Ehrenhaft:
Everywhere be issued.
Palestine.
you go, you hear that 'Horst Wes•
Palestine Exports $1,000,000
Worth of Medicaments
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The ups
and downs of Palestine's eco-
nomic system are illustrated by
various reports on exports of
Jewish-made products made
public this week.
One report discloses that more
than $1,000,000 worth of Pales-
tine-prodticed medicaments were
exported to neighboring coun-
tries last year. At the same
time, it was announced at a press
conference that the situation in
the citrus industry is "catastro-
phic."
Jewish orange growers speak-
ing at the conference said that
if the Palestine government does
not b u y, immediately, 100;000
tons of citrus fruit at a price of
$24 per ton, the entire industry
will be ruined.
LITTMAN'S PEOPLE'S THEATRE
TWELFTH AND SEWARD
TRinity 2-0100
sel song of hate: Hate for the
JewS. Hate seems to be the only
principle they have. They would
fill the universe with the currents
of hate, the_se_ Nazis. And we
r
Viennese are responsible
fOr all
this. This man Hitler,. you know,
comes from Vienna. I heard him
speak yesterday and all he did
was to breathe hate against Jews,
hate against • the Russians, hate
against the Poles, hate against
England—and out of all this new
hate he would create a new or-
der.
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February 17, 8:30 P. M.
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Detroit Institute of
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