Friday, May t2, 1944
Page Five
THE JEWISH NEWS
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WRB Determined to Rescue
5,000 Children In Romania
Justice Murphy Urges All
To Combat Anti-Semitism
Katz to Address
Temple Secretaries
at Two Meetings
'Ws Not Only Un-American, But Un-Christian,' He Says
The National Association of Hirschman, War Refugee Board's Representative in Turkey
Temple Secretaries, an agency of
Who Recently Returned, Reports Efforts to Move
the Commission on Synagogue
Jewish Youngsters Out of the Balkans
Activities of the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations, has
In Address Before Interfaith Unity Session of Bnai
Brith War Service Convention in New York
NEW YORK—A call to Christians to unite their efforts
to combat anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism "is not only
contrary to the teachings of democracy but contrary to the
teachings of Christ," was sounded by Supreme Court Justice
Frank Murphy, outstanding Catholic layman, in an address
before the interfaith unity session of the national war service
convention of Bnai Brith Monday;;›
night at Carnegie Hall.
R. J. Thomas, Lowell Van Auken
Speaking as chairman of the and Dean W. Whitehouse.)
Mrs. Roosevelt Talks
National Committee Against Per-
Other speakers at 'Monday
secution of the Jews, Justice
Murphy said the committee "was night's session were Mrs. Frank-
organized solely by Christians." lin D. Roosevelt, who read a mes-
sage from President Roosevelt;
The American Way
Asserting that the committee and Senator Alfred M. Cohen,
*wwill be militantly opposed to honorary president of Bnai Brith,
anti-Semitism because of the who dedicated on behalf of Bnai
dangers that it presents to Amer- Brith a service flag in honor of
ican ideals and to Christian prin- 22,000 members of Bnai Brith
ciples," Justice Murphy declared: and its youth affiliates who are
"We shall do so in the American in the armed forces and in mem-
way. We shall not try to de- ory of 177 members who have
prive those who may differ with been killed in the war or are
us of their right to free speech missing in action.
Mrs. Roosevelt received from
and press.
a delegation of Bnai Brith
"But we shall energetically and Women a plaque to be hung in
relentlessly oppose by every therecreation room furnished by
means at our command their
the'Bnai Brith Women of Wash-
vicious and- insidious propaganda
ington, D. C. and the Bnai Brith
through a campaign of enlighten-
National War Service Committee
ment and education in which we
as part of Bnai Brith's national
shall expose the tragic error of
war service program. This rec-
their teachings.
reation room, the 825th of its kind
Shall Be on Guard
equipped by Bnai Brith for the
'We shall be on guard from army and navy in 42 states, is for
Ocean tt ocean—by day and by the • men attached to the White
might; - we shall carry on the cam- House Barracks.
paign in the market place and
Make Presentation
.4in the forum in order- that the
The presentation was made to
freedom for which our fathers Mrs. Roosevelt by Mrs. Maurice
sfought and for which our chil- Turner, - Chicago, president of the
dren are fighting shall not perish Women's Supreme Council of
:from the new world."
Bnai Brith; and. Mrs. Lawrence
Henry Monsky, of Omaha, na- Koenigsberger, Washington, D. C.
).
rtional president of Bnai Brith,
The attitude concerning the
;who introduced Justice Murphy, Jew of a considerable segment of
proposed a five-point program of the American public, "is the di-
:action to bring home to the rect result of the German pre-
American people the "viciousness war propaganda which, in the ex-
rand the dangers of subversive penditure of money and in vol-
ypropaganda" by "hate-mongers:',' ume, exceeds any effort along
1. Let us arm them with the these lines in all of history,"
Sigmund Livingston, founder and
;weapon of understanding.
2. Let us tell them the truth chairman of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, said Sun-
•about this menace.
his report.
3. Let us teach them how to day in
After reviewing the extent of
recognize the symptoms of_ this
anti-Semitic propaganda in the
dread social malady.
United States today, he said "it
4. Let us tear aside the veil of is a tragedy unparalleled in
::dec,ption, usually in the form of America when we see the poison-
a super-patriotic slogan or a ed dagger of intolerance, bigotry
..11igh-sounding
statement of pur- and fanaticism ready to strike
,
.pose so frequently used to cover American democracy in the back"
'up this nefarious purpose.
at a time when "our country is
• 5: Let us show the contribu- engaged in bloody conflict with
:;tions of each of the diversified forces of intolerance, bigotry and
cultural, religious and racial hate."
groups to the composite culture
Equip Navy Ships
and welfare of America.
Bani Brith has furnished 825
Hinders Solution
recreation facilities f or the
Justice 14rphy pointed out armed forces at 300 Army and
that "anti-Semitism as well as Navy installations in 42 states
other racial hatreds have never and provided recreational equip-
contributed in the slightest to the ment for 485 Navy and Merchant
solution of any problem—eco- Marine ships as part of its na-
nomic, social or political. On the tional war service program, Mr.
contrary, racism hinders the so- Monsky declared Saturday in his
lution of such matters by divert- presidential message to the open-
ing our efforts from finding a ing session.
solution to finding a scapegoat."
Reporting on the war service
An American citizen, true to efforts of the organization since
the heritage of his country, Pearl Harbor, Mr. Monsky said
Justice Murphy- continued, "can- that Bnai Brith's 1,200 men's and
not be anti-Semitic. He cannot women's groups in over 500 com-
persecute, or support the unequal munities, had spent approxi-
or discriminatory enforcement of mately $1,000,000 on war service
taw against any person whose activities, in addition to contrib-
ideas, practices or beliefs he dis- uting $200,000 toward Bnai
likes or loathes. He cannot deny Brith's national war service
to any such person the right to projects.
speak freely and fully, the right
Since 1941, Mr. Monsky point-
• to pursue unmolested his profes- ed out, Bnai Brith contributed
sion and calling and the right to $200,000 to the Red Cross in cash
practice his religion in an orderly and mobile equipment, obtained
manner."
109 Torah Scrolls for use in Jew-
Held Anti-Christian
ish religious services at Army
Calling anti-Semitism "not only and Navy chapels, sold $250,000,-
..un-American" but "anti-Chris- 000 in War Bonds and recruited
tian," Justice Murphy asserted 54,000 -blood doners.
that it is impossible to under-
The convention, which marks
stand how a man can hate or the 100th anniversary of Bnai
persecute the Jews and at the Brith was attended by 237 -dele-
same time pretend to. 'keep al- gates from 41 states and four
legiance with the principals of Canadian provinces.
Christianity.
(Detroit members of the Na- Dr. Weizmann to Visit
tional Committee Against Nazi
-Persecution and extermination of Palestine Shortly
LONDON, (JTA)—Dr. Chaim
the , Jews, of which Justice
Murphy is chairman, are: Mal- Weizmann, president of the
ec> 101 W. Bingay, Hon. Vincent Jewish Agency, will soon leave
M. Brennan, Dr. Henry H. Crane, for Palestine, it is learned here.
Edg4r Guest, Prof. Edward W. This urill be his first visit to-
McFarland, John J. O'Brien, Hon. Palestine since the outbreak of
Frank Picard, George M, Read, war, .
NEW YORK (JTA)—The War Refugee Board is deter-
mined to rescue 5,000 Jewish children from Romania, it was
revealed here by Ira A. Hirschmann, who recently- returned
from Turkey where he was the Board's special representative,
Speaking before a group of editors at the Lotus Club,
Mr. Hirschmann praised the Joint Distribution Committee,
IRVING I. KATZ
completed plans for its first an-
nual regional conferences.
The Eastern Seaboard Regional
Conference will be held May 22
and 23 in New York City, and
the Midwest Regional Conference
on June 3 and 4 in Chicago.
Papers dealing with synagogue
publicity, administrative proced-
ure and personnel relationships
will be presented by professional
secretaries, congregational offi-
cers and rabbis. The Commission
on Synagogue Activities of the
UAHC of Cincinnati, the New
York Federation of Reform Syna-
gogues and the Chicago Federa-
tion of Reform Synagogues are
cooperating with the NATS in
these Conferences.
Irving I. Katz, president of the
National Association of Temple
Secretaries and executive secre-
tary of Temple Beth El, is sched- -
uled to address both conferences.
He also will preside at a meeting
of the executive committee of the
NATS in New York City.
the Jewish Agency for Palestine
and the U. S. Ambassador in
Turkey, Laurence Steinhardt, for
the efforts which they are mak-
ing to save as many Balkan Jews
as possible. He emphasized that
the Joint distribution Committee
enjoys a very fine reputation
abroad for its efficient relief ac-
tivities. He also commended the
International Red Cross for co-
operating with him in the rescue
of Jews from Romania.
The Romanian Government,
Mr. Hirschmann said, promised
to place no difficulties in the way
of Jews desiring to leave the
country. So far three ships car-
rying Jewish passengers have
succeeded in leaving Romania
and reaching Turkey. The passen-
gers were permitted to land on
Turkish soil, in transit to Pales-
tine, as a result of efforts made
by Ambassador Steinhardt.
New York Times Backs
Plan for "Free Ports"
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Support
for the plan to establish "free
ports" in the U. S. for refugees in
order to save as many Jews from
occupied. Europe as possible, is
given by the New York Times in
an editorial which urges that the
War Refugees Board be the
agency to carry out this plan.
"When the idea of 'free ports'
in this country for war refugees
was brought up in Washington
recently there seemed to be two
possible objections to it, one good
and one bad," the editorial says.
"The first objection was that it
would be inhuman to establish
what might be regarded as con-
centration camps for refugees we
were not willing to admit. The
second was that some of these
refugees might eventually get
into the country, beyond the re-
strictions of the quota law. A
study of the situation indicates
that neither argument is valid. •
"A refugee brought, say, to
Ellis Island and there comfort-
ably housed and fed and treated
with consideration, would be in
heaven compared with the same
person in Germany or Romania.
As for the danger of refugees es-
caping into the United States
from their places of detention,
this is hardly a menace to the
safety of the Republic. We take
this risk with our captive
enemies. Why not with our luck-
less friends?"
2 Senators Support
Plan for Refugees
NEW YORK (JPS)—Senators
James M. Mead of New York and
James E. Murray of Montana
have declared themselves in favor
of the plan for "free ports" in
the United States for refugees
from Nazi-occupied Europe, in
messages addressed to The New
York Post. The plan is now un-
der consideration by the War
Refugee Board.
Jascha Heifetz Becomes
Red Mogen Dovid Sponsor
Jascha Heifetz, celebrated vio-
linist, has accepted membership
on the Board of Sponsors of the
American Red Mogen Dovid for
Palestine, it was announced by
the offices of this organization at
220 5th Ave., New York.
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