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THE 'JEWISH NEWS

Community Council Month
To Be Observed in April

Delegates Ratify Detroit's Affiliation With the National
Community Relations Advisory Body; Reports
Heard on Important Decisions

At the quarterly meeting of the Jewish Community
Council held Monday, at the Jewish Community Center, the
delegates ratified the recommendation of the executive corn-
mittee that the Council affiliate itself with the newly-estab-
lished National Community Relations Advisory Council.
Plans also were announced for the observance during
April of Jewish Community Council Month.

Action on the affiliation was
taken unanimously following a
report by Aaron Droock on the
discussions at the Pittsburgh
General Assembly of the Coun-
cil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds where the na-
tional body was created to serve
as a central policy-making group
for national and local agencies
engaged in civic-protective work.

Droock Praises Ellmann

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Mr. Droock stated that this
was the first major constructive
step towards coordination of
these activities. He praised the
part played by James I. Ell-
mann, Council president, in pro-
posing the resolution on which
the action of the General As-
sembly was based. It was an-
nounced that Mr. Ellmann and
Isaac Franck, executive director
of the Council, will represent
Detroit's Jewish community in
the first session of the new na-
tional body to be held in New
York this week-end.
In response to comments from
the floor it was further indi-
cated that the Detroit delegates
have submitted a list of recom-
mendations for questions to be
considered by the national coun-
cil. These recommendations, cir-
culated among other participat-
ing agencies, are expected to
provide basis for a national and
local program.

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take measures to prevent similar
occurrences in Detroit.

Internal Relations
Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, chair-

man of the internal relations
committee, reported on the work
of his committee to encourage
self-discipline and high ethical
practices among Jewish groups
and by individual Jews in the
community. In the discussion
that followed his report it was
indicated that the committee
uses only persuasion and educa-
tion as means of securing com-
pliance with its recommenda-
tions.

Abraham Cohen, newly-ap-
pointed internal relations direc-
tor for the Council, was intro-
duced to the delegates.

President Ellmann, who pre-
sided, acknowledged the help
given to the Council by Her-
man Pekarsky, acting executive
director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, and wished him
well in his new position as
managing director of the Coun-
cil of Social Agencies.

Report on Congress Parley

Rabbi Leon Fram reported on
proceedings of the National Con-
ference to Combat Anti-Semi-
tism, held recently in New York
Under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress. Rabbi
Fram, who attended as an un-
official observer, stressed the
a ' adherence of the Congress to
the National Community Rela-
tions Advisory Council. He told
of the impression made by the
address of Assistant U. S. At-
torney General Norman M. Lit-
tell, .who made it clear that the
Department of Justice realizes
fully the subversive character
of anti-Semitism. Rabbi Fram
reported that the Congress is
continuing to do - outstanding
work in the fields of discrim-
ination in employment and leg-
. islation against anti-Semitism.
Rabbi Fram, reporting for the
community relations committee,
stated that the Detroit Police
Department, taking cognizance
of developments and incidents
in other cities, is preparing to

Palestine Honors
70th Birthdays of
Hantke, Smilansky

brated their 70th birthday here
last week. One is Moshe Smilan-
sky, noted Hebrew writer and
president of the Jewish Farmers
Association, and the other is Dr.
Arthur Hantke, director of the
Keren Hayesod.
Smilansky came to Palestine
from Russia in 1890 and was one
of the first farm laborers in the
first Jewish settlement, Rishon-
Le-Zion. He has greatly contri-
buted to the cultural and agricul-
tural development of Palestine.
In 1934, on his sixtieth birthday,
a colony Kfar Moshe was found-
ed in his honor and the British
government made him a member
of the Order of the British Em-
pire.
Dr. Hantke, who was born in
Berlin, was a pre-Herzlian Zion-
ist and one of the founders of
the Zionist movement in Ger-
many. He was a member of the
Inner Actions Committee for ten
years and a member of the Board
of Directors of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund for five years. From
1922 he directed the activities of
the Keren Hayesod in Central
Europe and since 1926 he has
been the managing director of
the World Keren Hayesod in
Jerusalem. He is also a director
of the Anglo-Palestine Bank.

Named to Direct AZA
Educational Efforts

Shakespeare for Pantaloons

"Will exchange nine volumes
of Shakespeare for a p air of
trousers."

* * *
So Forgiving!

Rabbi Michael Alper, well-
known Jewish educator, editor
and author, who has been ap-
pointed national educational di-
rector of Aleph Zadik Aleph,
Bnai Brith youth organization.

Phil Baker arrives momen-
tarily to star in the flicker
version of "Take It or Leave It."

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which we are fighting are free-
dom of the individual and free-
dom of all peoples, both of which
are most violated in the case of
the Jews."

"Homeland Only Guarantee
For Freedom," Says Laski

"A Jewish Homeland in Pales-
tine is the only basis for per-
manent freedom for the Jews,"
it was declared here by Harold
Laski, member of the executive
committee of the British Labor
Party, addressing a mass meeting
in West London, under the au-
spices of the Jewish National
Fund in connection with its cam-
paign to raise funds for a Pales-
tine forest in the name of King
Christian of Denmark.

Biltmore Plan Opposition
Criticized by Laborites

JERUSALEM (JPS) — The so-
called Tabenkin group of the
Mapai, Workers' Party of Pales-
tine, was severely criticized in
a resolution adopted by the party
council at a special session here,
for its opposition to pressing the
Biltmore program's Jewish Com-
monwealth demands. The Taben-
kin group, led by Isaac Tabenkin,
veteran of the communal settle-
ment of Ein Harod, reiterated its
position for a Jewish Common-
wealth as the ultimate objective
of Zionism, but warned that at
this juncture Britain might use
the Jewish demands for its own
purposes, by announcing the
establishment of a Jewish Com-
monwealth in a negligible area
of a partitioned Palestine, which
would be unacceptable

Racquel Rojas, the dancing-
acting-writing daughter of the
late Hugo Riesenfeld, has become
an integral part of the Mexican
film industry . • . speaks Espag-
nol like a native . . . is currently
starring in a picture which she
also wrote.

Final

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the Jewish National Fund and
the Foundation Fund, providing
means for Jewish colonization
and constructive work in Pales-
tine, comes at a time when the
United Nations are poised for
the final great struggle for the
liberation of the world. It is an-
other reminder of the profound
suffering endured by the Jewish
people of Europe and of the set-
back to their cause in Palestine.
But through all trials the Zionist
Federation of Great Britain and
its kindred bodies overseas re-
mained faithful to the ideal of
the National Home. They con-
tinued, amidst the turmoil and
dislocation of war work, their
appointed task.
"Twenty-seven years ago the
Allies renewed the ancient prom-
ise to Israel that a National Home
will be founded for them in their
ancient Homeland. It is part of
the international law of the
world and even mere it is a
matter for the conscience of man-
kind. This cause, therefore, has
our sympathy and it is from this
standpoint that I send you best
wishes for success of the United
Palestine Appeal."

The Jewish people, regardless
of their differences on all other
subjects, must unite on the ques-
tion of Palestine, Sir Wyndham
Deeds, Chief Secretary of the
Palestine government in 1920 and
known as a friend of the Zionist
cause, declared in a speech at
the Northwest Jewish Communal
Conference. The Conference un-
animously endorsed the demand
for a Jewish Commonwealth.
Another speaker at the confer-
ence was Dr. Israel Goldstein,
president of the Zionist Organi-
zation of American.
Sir Wyndham Deeds said that
the two chief principles "for

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LONDON (JPS-Pa)cor)—Keep on despite setbacks—this
was the message of Field Marshal Jan C. Smuts, Prime
Minister of South Africa, to the United Palestine Appeal of
great Britain, which aroused the 'protest of the Premier of
Egypt. The text of Marshal Smuts' message follows:
"The inauguration of the appeal of the Jewish com-
munity of Britain for support of

"Jews Must Unite on Zion,"
Says Sir Wyndham Deeds

The Week's Best Stories

Chronicler in London Jewish
Chronicle tells the following as
a commentary on tendencies to
deal leniently with Nazis:
There is a story going the
rounds in America just now apro-
pos of the release by Mr. Herbert
Morrison of Sir Oswald Mosley
(and no doubt its life will be
doubled by the further promised
release of Arnold Leese). A tour-
ist in London after the war rec-
ognises a "newsboy" near Char-
ing Cross Station. "Excuse me,"
he says, "but aren't you Herr
Himmler?" "Yes," replies the
former Gestapo chief, "but the
British are so forgiving." The
tourist takes his lunch in a big
restaurant, where he is astonish-
ed to recognize the rather stout
head waiter hovering round him.
"Aren't you," he asks, "Herr
Goering?" "Certainly," replies
that individual, "but the British
are wonderfully forgiving!" That
night, at a big boxing match, the
tourist sees a familiar figure, tall
and broad, clothed in a beauti-
fully . cut dinner jacket, sitting
in a ringside seat. "Excuse me,"
he begins again, "but aren't you
Herr Rudolph Hess?" The re-
splendent gentleman adjusts his
monocle and stares at his inter-
locutor, and then replies coldly:
"Lord Hess."

`Keep on Despite Setbacks'
Smuts Tells Zion Builders

His Message to British UPA Draws Egyptians' Attack; Sir
Wyndham Deeds, Harold Laski Support
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two
Cause of Jewish Palestine
Jewish personalities quietly cele-

In Lighter Vein

Council Month in April

Joseph Bernstein reported on
plans for Jewish Community
Council Month to be observed
throughout April. He indicated
that the primary purpose was to
intensify - the relations between
the Council and the 200 member
organizations, and to bring about
greater consolidation of Detroit's
Jewish community.
Speakers will address meet-
ings of organizations, - describing
the work being done by the
Council. Other means of inform-
ing the general community about
the Council are being devised,
and will include radio pro-
grams, sermons by rabbis and
direct mailings to organizations.

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