Between
You and Me

ZIONIST HIGHLIGHTS
Dr. Weizmann is having the busiest
time of his life in London holding pri-
vate discussions with members of the
United Nations on the post-war status
of Palestine.
Now that the hearings of the Palestine
resolution have been completed by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee in
Washington, it can be revealed that
some leading Zionists are not at all sat-
isfied with the text of the resolution .. .
At the last minute they noticed that the
resolution contains the word "ultimate-
ly" when speaking of the establishment
of a Jewish Commonwealth . . . This is
against the spirit of the Biltmore Declar-
ation which asks not for the "ultimate"
establishment of a Jewish Common-
wealth, but for the establishment of a
Commonwealth immediately after the
the war . • . It can also be revealed now
that no less than seven Congressmen
consulted Secretary of State Cordell
Hull as to what their attitude should be
with regard to the Palestine resolution
. . These seven later testified before
the Foreign Affairs Committee in favor
of the resolution.
Many persons will be interested to
learn that the Palestine resolution would
have been passed by Congress without
any hearings, had it not been for a few
influential Jews who oppose the estab-
lishment of a Jewish State in Palestine.
These anti-Zionists did much lobbying
in Washington, resulting in the fact that
the resolution was referred to the For-
eign Affairs Committee.
Zionist circles believe that a statement
on Palestine from Prime Minister Win-
ston Churchill can be expected soon,
now that the pro-Palestine sentiment
of the majority of Arnerican Congress-
men and Senators has been emphasized
through the Washington hearings.

THE RESCUE FRONT
We are asked to • draw the attention of
Jewish organizations interested in Jew-
ish relief and rescue work to the fact
that President Roosevelt's War Refugee
Board is anxious to have the views and
cooperation of any such organizations
no matter how big or small . . Those
private Jewish agencies which have not
received a letter from the. Board solicit-
ing, their suggestions as to the measures
it can take to rescue and otherwise bring
relief to Jews in• occupied Europe,
should communicate -::. with. the Board
promptly . . . Although the War Reftigee
Board has communicated with all:;i1IL
ter_ested private - Agencies, - I says that
it is possible that a:few were inadvert,
ently omitted . . John W. Pehle, the
director of the War Refugee Board, is
'losing no time in doing what is neces-
sary to carryout
, . . the Board's rescue
program.
Two members of .:the J•D.C. overseas
staff had infornial talks with Vice-Pres-
ident Wallace and Mrs. Franklin • D.
Roosevelt recently . . . Louis H. Sobel,
J.D.C. representative who recently re-
turned from a 16-month stay . in. South
America, discussed the refugee • situation
in the South..American countries with
Mr. Wallace . ; The VicePresident,
who is regarded as . an expert on Latin
American affairs, showed great interest_
in the refugees' progress . . . Laura Mar-
golies, the J.D.C. representative in
Shanghai who was interned by the Jap-
anese, and who was repatriated' to this
country last December, spent an hour
with Mrs. - Roosevelt at her New York
apartment.

THIS - AND THAT
Who said that Prof. Einstein is a Jew?
. . . From a propaganda booklet issued
by the division of the. National
Board of the Y.W.C.A. we learn that
Einstein is—believe it or not—a German
. . . This despite the fact that the book-
let's apparentintention is to spread
goodwill among people of different races
and religions . . . The booklet, entitled
"By. Different Boats:" brings out vividly
the idea that we're 'all. Americans and
preaches equal opportunitY •for White
and . Negro, Christian and Jew, foreign
born and: native born.
The latest issue of "The Island Glick-
en" published ,"somewhere in New
Guinea' . ' by and for American Jewish
servicemen • of the, South-West Pacific
Area devotes two of its eight pages to
teaching, Jewish soldiers how to write
Yiddish . .. The purpose is to encourage
: the servicemen to write Yiddish letters
to their parents who read Yiddish better
, than English . . . In one lesson entitled
"Yiddish in a Jiffy" the soldiers learn
enough to be able ' • to write • a ten-line
letter in Yiddish ... . A can of "Gefilte
fish" is offered by the publication for
the best-written letter.

Heard in
The Lobbies

The Germans Hate USA

By Franklin P. Adam-s (F.P.A.)

(Of Infamation Please)

By BORIS SMOLAR

ECOpyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc-)

Friday February 18, 1944

TH JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

By ARNOLD LEVIN

The Germans hate the U.S.A.;
They hate all people who are free.
Easter they hate, and Christmas Day
They don't like you, they dislike Me.
They have a hundred dirty hates;
They scream, they holler, and they curse,
And this here citizen of the United States
Hates them immeasurably worse.

Purely
ommentary

Strictly
Confidential

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

By PHINEAS J.-BIRON

A MASKIL'S CENTENNARY
Under normal conditions, much would
have been made of the centennary of
the birth of Moses .Leob Lilienblum,
which occurred three months ago. How-
ever, new interests created by the war
seem to have shelved this anniversary.
In only a few periodi-
cals has the Lilien-
blum anniversary
been referred to at all,
and this interesting
personality r e mains
hidden in encycloped-
ias and in Zionist and
Haskalah literature.
It is worth over-
looking the exigencies
of the war for a few
Lilienblum
moments, and to
glance at the experiences of this great
Maskil. They are applicable to our own
time, and they should be reviewed in the
hope that they may convert some of the
members of the misguided American
Council for Judaism, or ; those who,
ostrich-like, refuse to see the signs of
the times with references to Jewish
needs..
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THE PROGRESSIVE. "RADICAL"
Nahum - Sokolow, in his "History of
Zionism," _refers to Lilienblum as having
been a "Progressive 'radical" during the
first half of his literary career, Then
came. the pogroms of 1880-1, and this
brilliant man • commenced to write
Hebrew and • Russian articles pointing to
the re-establishment of Palestine as the
only solution of the Jewish problem. He
became the • secretary of the Hoveve
Zion, played an energetic part in the acti-
vities of the organization which preceded
the World Zionist Organization, and
wrote a number of pamphlets setting
forth the Zionist viewpoint.
Lilienblum was a Talmudic genius
who turned rationalist and who emphas-
ized his quest for "realism" in his Hask-.
alah activities. He wanted the Jews to
turn to handicrafts and artisanship. Un-
til the pogroms which shook him out of
his dreams and his' skepticism, he re-
fused to admit that .governmental de-
crees were responsible : for the unpro-
ductivity of many Jews.

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"THE WAY OF PENITENCE"
The pogroms caused him to abandon
criticism of those who found refuge in
the Shillhan Arukh and, the Talmud. In
1882, stirred by the horrors of the Rus-
sian massacres, he *rote a book, "The
Way of Penitence," in which he stated:
"Now my eyes have been opened. We
are strangers, strangers everywhere.
How can we dream of equality to. be
brought about by the knowledge of civil-
ization? Even civilization will not induce
a man to consider a ..strariger' as a
ber of his family. NoW I' realize that there
is only one cause of • our misery-.--our'
homelessness."
The man who only five" • years . pre-
Viously had attacked the Talmud and the
Talmudist's now asserted that even if all
Jews 'had turned to productive pursuits
it would not. solve the problem of • our
people miles a home . is provided for the
homeless people. * * *

(Copyright, 1944, Independent Jewish
Press Service, Inc.)
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rosenwald May Be Proud of Self
By the time this hits your eye, t h e
hearings before the House Foreign -Af-
fairs Committee on the Jewish Com-
monwealth resolution will be over. You
have read of lessing rosenwald's notor-
ious testimony against the resolution. It
wasn't pleasant to see this man, gener-
ally unidentified with Jewish relief, ap-
pear before a House Committee to speak
against the redemption of his people.
But there is more to it than that. The
Jewish 'Commonwealth resolution had
such solid backing in the House, that it
was expected it would be brought up
for a vote without public hearings. But
then rosenwald showed up in Wash-
ington. He and his trotted from official
to official, whispered, cajoled, assured,
that there was Jewish opposition to the
Jewish Commonwealth resolution, and
that a hearing had better be held to
give the opposition a chance to be heard.
By maneuvering these hearings, he did
succeed, in delaying the passage of the
resolution which has been well-timed
for approximately the period the White
Paper is to go into effect.
CHURCHILL'S POSITION
From Washington • we should like to
take you to behind-the-scenes in Lon-
don. It is quite definite, some outstand-
ing Zionists say, that Winston Church-
ill will shortly issue statement on
Palestine, and that he will use the words
Jewish Commonwealth. (Hear that, less-
ing rosenwald and Mr. Joseph M. Pros-
kauer? He will use the words J e w i sh -
Commonwealth, not just Common-
wealth!) The White Paper will not be
officially withdrawn,, but the new state-
ment will make it invalid.
JUSTICE ROSENMAN
Orchids to Justice Samuel Rosenman.
Here is a man who is not a Zionist, does
not personally, we are told, share the
belief in a Jewish Commonwealth, and
yet—when ' President Roosevelt asked
him his frank opinion on how American
Jewry feels about a Jewish Common-
wealth, he replied: "I personally am not
a Commonwealth man, but the masses
of American Jewry want it. The Anieri-
can Jewish Conference was evidence of
that. If you are asking my candid opin-
ion as- to how American Jews feel about
it, here it is."
GEORGIA'S VOICE
Gene Talmadge, ex-governor of Geor-
gia, has been engaging in his old antics
again-. He is - reported to have attended
a meeting - of the KKK recently held
at Porterdale, Georgia. But the local
press would not let- 'him live it down.
The Augusta Chronicle wrote: "It is
enough to arouse the ire of broad-mind-
ed, enlightened and tolerant Georgians
to know that Talmadge centered his. fire
on Secretary Cordell Hull for his advoc-
acy of neighborliness and good will, and
on the Jews and Catholics who fled to
this country to escape the brutality of
Adolf Hitler."

(Copyright. 1944, by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)•

LISTEN HERE

Here's a tip for the FBI: The Bund is
still active, behind the front of German-
singing societies and athletic clubs . .
The Friends of *Democracy have some
dope on this .. . . The day before New
York's police officer Drew made his ap-
pearance on the LaGuardia radio broad-
cast he spent hours closeted with the
mayor-in the latter's home . . . It is ru-
mored that LaGuardia helped Drew
write his apologia for the things he is
supposed not to have done.

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"JEWISH NEWS
The Zionist Organization of America
is seriously convinced that when its
1944 membership campaign will be com-
pleted the total of its members will sur-
pass 150,000.
We hear that when the Naples Opera
is reopened, next spring, by a group of
Metropolitan Opera singers who will fly.
to Italy, the instrumental musical back-
ground will be supplied by the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra.
March issue of New Currents will car-
ry an exclusive piece by Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, publisher of the New York
Times . . . It will be his answer to the
question: "What Makes Me a Jew?"
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YOU SHOULD KNOW
Hans Jacob, the • radio commentator,
who was Gustav Stresemann's English
interpreter, and who now lives in' this
country, tells us: "In the Berlin Psycho-
logical Warfare Department there is a
folder marked 'In case of defeat' . . . In
it is a blueprint on how to promote ra-
cial and religious prejudice in the U. S.
. . . The anti-Negro riots in Detroit cost
American war production a million man-
hours . . . More, that is than aerial bom-
bardment of Detroit could have achiev-
ed.
Witichell tells us that an 'organized
anti-Semitic group is Making things un-
comfortable for Jews in prominent New
York Hotels . . This group is now or-
ganizing nationally . . . And it's about
time that the constant increase of anti-
Semitic incidents- in Miami be fully ex-
posed . . . It's getting to be worse than'
New York .. . A Jewish woman wheel-
ing a baby carriage was forced from - the -
sidewalk into the gutter by hoodlums
who shouted: "Jews don't belong on the
sidewalk."

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Dr. Magnes Most
Recent Brain Child

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jaCOb FiShman, veteran Yiddish editor
ABOUT PEOPLE
and Jewish Morning Journal columnist,
Marc ahagall's stirring oil painting discussed the most recent plan of . Dr
"Crucifixion, 1943," which symbolically J. L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew
depicts the. mass massacres of JeWs by University, "to appease the .Arabs." Dr.
the Nazis, 'is in demand by several mu- Magnes, in a letter to the London Econ-
seums ... It is said that the MOscoW Art omist, proposed that another half-
. rnilliOn Jews be admitted into. Palestine
Museum also has Put in its bid.
After ,his private chat' with President so that they balance the million Arabs,
Roosevelt recently, actor John Garfiel.a and then Palestine' be constituted - as a
was heard to observe that deMocracy is bi-national state and included .1 in a Le-
a wonderful thing . . . "I 'can't get over : vane Federation.- The Arab newspaper
it," he said, "Little Julie Garfinkel of Falastin, published in Jaffa, has replied
the East Side ts to t the President to this suggestion by stating that the
"Arabs do not need the advice or plans
of the 'U. S.!" •
F. NI. Raskin, the American . Jewish. of others."
Fishman, analyzing Dr. 'Magnes's
poet who recently • died, left two vol-
arguments, Saysi. "What will happen if
umes of unpUblished verse . . . In his
the_. Arabs, thrOugh their high ., birth
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will he asked that his body be :taken to
THE LOVER OF ZION -
rates, will increase over the Jews,.. even
Palestine as soon as possible.* • •
after . Dr. Magnes will have established
It is interesting that this - Maskil who
One David Volk - of 516 Hudson, Hobo:- his parity? And_ what will happen if
himself turned Zidnist when he was
is looking 'for unpublished' thousands. of unfbrimate Jews will seek
ken,
nearing his 40th year should -have
letters 'by the Hebrew poet and critic admiSsion into Palestine even after Mag-
come a - leader in the Hoveve
Lovers of Zion. He: brought into the Naplitali Heri Wessely, whose biography nes's 'quota' will have been fulfilled?
movement men like..Dr. Leon • Pihsker, he is writing . . And if any, persons Does Dr: Magnei'• intend to introduce
author of one of the "best Zionist pub-. whO have documents of Wessely happen his own White Paper? • . . And how will
to read this, Volk w _ ill be very happy he create the magic- called • binational
liCations, "Auto-Emancipation."
Lilienblum, who died in March, 1910, to hear from. them ;w
state? . Were it even. pessible to consti-
tute a government on a parity basis, it
served as, president •Of the famous Kat-:,
towitz Conference. He was a leader of are guided by prejudices against the - would only mean, a paralysis of all pro-
the Odessa Committee of the Russian Jewish national movement. Jewish" home- gress, because the Arabs will not allow
Hoveve Zion and among his 'contem- lessness is responsible for most Of our any Measure that might in the least
poraries were the outstanding Masklim troubles. Lilienblum recognized' it after favor the Jews; and the Jews will cer-
and ZiOnist leaders of Herzlia and pre. Jewish life was sacrificed in Russian tainly not permit the Arabs to 'dominate
Herzliari' days.
pogroms. Must 20th century skeptics be them. A majority is needed for all de-
Moses • Loeb Lilienblum's experiences influenced by tragedy to recognize the , cisions, and if that is not attained then
should serve as a lesson for those who feasibility .a the Zionist ideal?
[the,. goverprnent, suspends. its tunctio.4s."

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