THE-.11\6 /1.S-H NEWS
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Four-Point Pledge, for Equality
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You and Me
By
ORS SMOLAR
(CopyrIght. 1944. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc,) .
POLITICAL STRAWS
The four-point pledge for human equality and brotherhood, first proposed
by Judge 'Proskauer in a 'radio forum, promises to become an effective instru-
ment in the campaign to combat group animosities arid to strengthen American
unity. It has received the endorsements of Archbishop Spellman of New York
and of Bishop Tucker, president of the Federal Council of Churthes. In
printed' form it has been widely distributed and favorably received.
ApproxiMately 50,000. copies of a leaflet containing the pledge , and the
endorsements were printed and distributed by the National Conference of
Christians and Jews during . Brotherhood Week. Through the official Catholic
parochial school bulletin, the pledge and Archbishop Spellman's letter of en-
dorsement were distributed to every parochial School.in. the New York diocese.
The pledge reads as follows:
I will daily deal with every man in business, in social and in political
relations, only on the basis of his true individual worth:
I will never try to indict a whole people by reason of the delinquency
of any member.
I will spread no rumor and no scandal against any sect.
. In. my daily conduct I will consecrate myself, hour by hour, to 'the
achievement of the highest ideal of the dignity of mankind, human equal-
ity, fellowship and brotherho6d.
- Friday, April. 14, 1944 ,
Strictly
Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright. 1944, by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)
There is . a descrepancy between the
SLANTS ON SLANTS
-report brought _., from London . by Dr.
In reporting Rep. James M. Curley
Nahum Goldmann and that brought by
defense of the Jewish record in thiS wa
Dr. Israel Goldstein . . . The first is
the Associated Press slanted its Wash
. optimistic on the sentiments of the Brit-
ington dispatch very oddly . . . It em
ish government with regard to Jewish
phasized that the reprint of Curle'
aims in Palestine, and the . second is
speech in the Congressional Record cos
pessimistic . . . The most remarkable
$900 . . . The AP should be ashamed o
thing is that both of the Zionist leaders
itself, for using a Nazi angle in a story
formed their opinions on the basis of talks
that should have been utilized to coun
with the same British statemen . .. The
teract the anti-Semitic whispering 'cam-
truth is that as the situation stands in
paign.
London today, no fi.trther developments
Eliahu Ben Horin is the author of
with regard to Palestine are to be ex-
very interesting article in the April is,
pected until the end of the war . .
It
sue of Harper's Magazine, entitled "T
can can now be revealed that the British
Soviet Wooing of Palestine" . . . T h
government drew up a statement on Pal-
article purports to show why the Sovie
estine, which was to have been issued
Union might be interested in entertain
some time ago . . . The fact that the war
ing "into an active alliance with Pales
is being prolonged makes its difficult to
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
tine Jewry" . . . The only thing wron
• issue such a statement.
By ARNOLD, LEVIN
with the article is ' a between-the-lines
VAN
PAAgSEN
vs.
IRGUN
At present practically every member
anti-Soviet slant . . . But the genera
(Copyright, 1944, Independent Jewish
Pierre Van Paassen's repudiation of
of the British cabinet, except Churchill,
Service,
ervice, Inc.)
thesis of the article contains more truth
the . Emergency Committee to Save the
has in one way or another made it clear
than poetry.
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Jewish People of Europe, the Free Pales- ATTENTION, F.B.I.!
in private conversations with Zionist
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tine League, the Committee for a Jewish
Some persons in this country, we ar e
leaders that he is not inclined to favor
THE..
ZIONIST
ANGLE
Army and the numerous other titled or- told; are trying to peddle off antique
. any of the Zionist demands for the dura-
Major-General Orde Charles Wingate,
ganizationsWhich are offshoots of the and rare manuscripts that formerly be
tion . • . This does not mean that the
who recently was killed in an airplane
longed
to
the
Berlin
JewiSh
museum
Revisionist
Zionist
in
o
v
e
m
e
n
t
has
• Jewish demands will be ignored as the
crash behind the . Jap lines in Burma
brought a reply and a challenge-from, S. How did these people get hold of mate
war approaches its end . . . It should not
Merlin, one of`, the Revisionist leaders in rial the Nazis had looted from the Jews ? was a very close friend of Dr. Chaim
be expected, however, that Britain will
this country.
These salesmen have _approached, w e Weizmann . . . While he was not a Jew,
be in a hurry to admit to Palestine the
Merlin does not spare words. He hear, a number of people interested in it was his plan to devote himself to the
20,000 Jews that can still enter even
upbuilding of Jewish Palestine after the
accuses Van. Paassen of being a "tool" rare Jewish manuscripts, - but were re
now, after the expiration of the White •
in the hands 'of.LouiS Lipsky and Dr. S. buffed. We feel, however, that rebtiffin g war. . . He. was a firm believer in a
" Paper.
S. Wise. He - dethands a retraction and is not enough. The matter deserves th e Jewish Army, and, is reported to- have
British authorities want these 20 ;000 . -
said to Weizmann: "Once you have a
reminds
Van PaaSsen of his early state- attention of the F.B.I.
. visas doled out in small amounts 'until ,
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Jewish state in Palestine I'll apply for
ments
in
;which
he
admired
the
Zionist
the end of the war, when the status of
the job of Minister _ of Defense" . .
COMMON BOND
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rightist-eXtremists.
Palestine will have to be defined •anew
Wingate spoke Hebrew fluently, and was
The on
_
1y.
point
which
may.
have
some
We
wonder
what
Father
Coughlin
said
. • . For the time being, they refuse to
validity - is the Revisionist claim that they or will say, on learning that a Jewis h well verged in HebreW 'letters and Bib:-
issue immigration certificates for Yeme-
heal literature.
not fascists. OtherWise, public opin- refugee, Eugene Spiro, is doing the of fi
nite Jews in Aden and for Turkish Jews
Among the delegates attending t h e
ion will side with Van Paassen. Those cial diocese portrait of Archbishop Ed
on the pretext that these Jews are not
who are not taking issue with him; after ward Mooney of Detroit. - Archbisho P national convention of Hashomer Hat-
refugees, and that the 20,000 remaining
zair at Chidago this week are Mitzi
visas are intended for Jewish refugees having_ capitalized on his name for sev- Mooney, Coughlin's direct superior
eral years, have broken discipline in balked a Fuehrer's career by bannin g Brainin and Helen Weisgal—the former
only.
being a granddaughter of Reuben Brain-
Jewish ranks. They have been outside Coughlin's radio perorations.
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in, the latter the daughter. of Meyer W.
the
fold
insofar
as
unity
and
We
like
Walter
Winchell's
descriptio
n
ARAB TRENDS
Weisgal . . . HOw time does march on!
is concerned, and their advertising cam- of Congressmen • Dies and Hoffman a
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There are very few Palestine Arabs in
paigns, while they have brought some "two wrongs looking for a write-up.
FORA
FACT
the U. S. . . . Most of the Arabs in this
good to the Jewish cause, have not been The reference is. to the publicity these
. country are Syrians . . . But their press
Leonard Lyons tells this amusing story
constructive where they sensationalized. two Congressmen have 'obtained by their
these days is full of articles on the "vic-
about the 80-year-old father of movie
If the Revisionists, whom Van Paassen feud with • Winchell.
tory" which the Arabs in Palestine have
producer Boris Morros . . . The old
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has linked with the 1 Irgun, the group
won both in LondOn and in Washington
gentleman came to Hollywood only very
responsible for the terrorism in Pales- SCIENCE
. . . Al-Hoda, New York Arab daily
tine, wish to prove their sincerity, let
Dr. Isaac J. Silverman, an experiment- recently—how recently you can judge
from the fact that he lived through the
newspaper, says that undoubtedly Amer-
them submit to discipline of the Ameri- er at the Gallinger Hospital, Washington,
ica's interest in Saudi Arabia's oil and
can JewiSh Conference 'and let them en- D. C., has - for the past five years been entire siege of Leningrad — . So now
her policy of "gaining the friendship of
dorse the national funds—the Jewish Na- working on a new cure for alcoholics. He he lives in a beautiful Hollywood. home,
has an opportunity, now and then, to
the Arabs by various means" has been
tional Fund arid he Kern
Ken e Hayesod, in - found that 5 per 'cent solutions of salt
harmful to • "the Palestine Jewish home-
eluded ill the United Palestine Appeal— injected into the veins of alcoholics over see his young soldier-grandson, a nd
meets all the great entertainers of the
land." . . . It is due to the "oil policy".
as the essential agencies for Palestine's a protracted period brings good results.
that the 'voices that protested against
redemption. Failing to do that, they lose Other medicos, who assisted or witnessed film capital . . But instead of basking
contentedly in -all this splendor, not to
the White Paper "were silenced," the
the right to - speak With authority for these eXPeriments, agree with him.
paper asserts . . . It emphasises that tha more. than the Jew -dozen people whom
mention the California sunshine, the se-
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fact that Gen: Marshall' found it rieces-s
they count in their r:anks.
STORY OF GRIPSHOLM - PASSENGER nior.Morros seemed a bit unhappy and
restless . . . Se _
sary to appear before the 'House Foreign
Matilda Metzel, 77 years old, . was the • tressed; and eing this his son was .
Affairs CoMthittee :in person and advise
determined to do some-
oldest of the Gripsholm repatriates. She
Congress to , drop the Palestine resolu- THE HOUSTON. TRAVESTY
.' Capt. Robert I. - Kahn, Army .chaplain resided in historic Prague, with its Jew- thing about it . . . "I can see there's
tion "shows the. importance of the role
serving in: . - New Guinea, haS resigned as ish land/narks, for a great many years. something you want, father," he said to
oil in the Near East is playing-. in the
his sire, "and yOu know that I'll give
aSsoAate rabbi - of Congregation Beth Is- She is a distant relative • of the world-
struggle for power."
it to you if you'll only ask for it .
rael of Houston, Tex:, as a protest against renowned scientist, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Her So please tell- me What I can do to malei!
.Other Arab newspapers in America
synagogue's •so - called "basic prin- father, Leopold Ehrlich, who arrived in you really happy" . . . After consider-
b ring out the interesting .point
that the
ciples"—which have been repudiated of- this country aboard a sailboat in 1856; able urging the father finally spoke
Jewish protests against the White Paper
ficially by the Ceptral Conference of was president of the Minneapolis Bnai what was in his mind . "I have
were of great help to the Arabs 'since
- only
American
Rabbis and the Union of Am- Brith lodge.. Adolph `'Kraus, one time in- one wish," he said, "to return to Lein-
they attracted public attention to the
ternational • Bnai Brith president, " was a grad.".
erican
Hebrew
Congregations.
Chaplain
Arab-Jewish problem . • . They predict
member of this family . . . Congressman
that economic developments in favor of Kahn wrote to the Texas congregation's
Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, president of the
Adolph Sabath, another relation of Mrs.
the Arabs in Palestine will folloW the board of directors: .
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society
Metzel,
helped
to
arrange
her
repatria-
`',The same self-respect and respect for
since its inception, and One of the foun-
present political developments . . . "The
tion. Her brother, Robert, was for many
'Palestine question is going to be settled f principles which led Ime to don the uni:
ders of that organization, also founded
orm of my •country -now compel me to years Berlin representative of the Fire- the American Society of Chemical Path
according to Arab wishes," the New York .
stone
Tire
Company.
It
seems
that
a
ologists. and served as its first president.
Arab paper Al Akhlak boasts . . . As. disassociate myself from the spiritual
ead rship of Congregation
e
Sameer, another New York Arab news-
Beth Israel:" number of her brothers and her children
Congratulations to publicist and author
had
settled
on
the
European
continent
In a sense, this is harsh judgment. A
paper, especially rejoices over what it
Constance Hope (she wrote "publicity is
c ongregation has been misled, and now and failed. to escape in time.
calls "the Zionist retreats" and the As i
Broccoli") on her appointment as direc-
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is_ members are receiving a severe rep-
tor of artist relations
for Red. Seal Rec-
Sayeh, a semi-weekly New York news-
.,
FOR
YOUR
SCRAPBOOK
ords . .
paper, urges Arabs in this country to r iand. By right, it is Rabbi H. J.
We
like
this
about
Adolf
Hitler
and
send to members of- Congress : a copy of Schachtel, who had brought about the
Temple's action, who should be his - psychiatriSt. Adolf complained of
Prof. William Ernest Hocking's book, Houston
c astigated. Perhaps the erring Jews of his urge to jump out of windows. Ad-
"The Spirit of World Politics."
vised the doctor: "Jump." No :report
By BEN 'SAMUEL •
Houston will yet mend. their ways.
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has been . received on the psychiatrist's
(Copyright, 1944, J.T.A., Inc.)
•
MAURICE SAMUEL WINS AN AWARD fate.
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'Pfc.'- Harry Schrek, of the Bronx, N.
We hear that the War Writers Board
When Maurice Samuel comes here this
Y., spent- a harrowing afternoon recently
unday to address the labor. Zionists in is planning to promote the sale. of the —battling a
German machine gun nest
ehalf of the Jewish National. Fund pro- late Josiah Wedgwood's "A Testament in Italy. • -
to
Democracy,"
sponsored
by
the
Wedg-
pet honoring MOrris
Schaver;. he will
•. Schrek and a corporal.. from Iowa were
By DAVID BEN GURION
eceive the congratulations of his Detroit wood Memorial Committee; '55 Leonard' inernbers of.
a five-man patrol on a
Street,
New
.York
City.
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Chairman lof Jewish Agency Executive
upon receiving the $1,500 Anis-
Strange happenings: The Iranian Em- 'mountainside when 'they heard German
f ield Award for 1943 for the best book
He was a British patriot , proud of the, o
Althost an enemy ma-
n racial relationships. He has • well basy has sold its - building in WaShing-: chine gun . opened fire. Between bursts,
fact that his people were the first to e
ton:
The'
new
tenants
are
the
Free
Pal-
.
al-Fled this award, which' was' created
the Germans called upon the five Ameri-
stretch out a helpful hand to Israel and b
y Edith Anisfield Wolf in memory of estine League, alias Emergency Commit- cans to surrender. Schrek
to assist him in the creation of his Na- h er -father, John Anisfield; and which
translated
, is tee to Save The JewiSh People of Eu- for 'the igroup. Silence was the rebuttal.
tional Home in his ancient homeland. .s ponsored by the Saturday Review of rope, alias Committee. for a Jewish
The patrol crept - closer and closer to
He was certain that the present devia- L iterature.
Army, aliaS, etc.
ton from British policy in Palestine (as
the Nazis, tossing grenades as they ad-
Of particular interest is the :fact that
forthulated in the Balfour Declaration) ' t he award came to Mr. Sathuel for his guages, and his translations' from t h e vanced, but even the barrage of gren-
was reparable, and that the British peo- b ook "The World of Sholom Aleichem.". Yiddish into English have given the ades failed to' silence' the German gun.
The 'enemy replied with a .couple of
pie would fulfill their pledged word to- I t is, as we haVe indicated in this
English-speaking world some of 'the out-
ward Jewry. With the death of Wingate u Inn some months ago, a great:.work standing literary creations -of the past grenades of their own.. One landed near
the British Army lost a military genius w hich interprets admirably the'.Jewish few years—Sholem .Arch's works among Schrek, killing his companion. .
The. young man from' the. Bronx , then
of the first order, humanity lost a fear- c haracters of the ghetto as they,....were them. The honor accorded Mr., Samuel
less fighter for righteousness arid justice, p ortrayed by the great Yiddish master, is a welcome recognition of the accom- crept to within. 10 yards of the German
nest. 'He 'hurled one well-aimed grenade.
and the Jews lost a 'noble and faithful S holom Aleichem.
,plishmentS.,;of one' of the world's• most - The' MaChine gun' . and its crew were
friend.
no
Mr. Samuel 1. 1 a master of many lan- brilliant writers.
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more.
Purely
Commentary
Heard in
The Lobbies
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No Fear for Schrek
A Tribute to
Mai Gene Wingate
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