THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, *July 28, 1944

Dems' Policy on Palestine
Hailed by Zionist Leaders

Congress Sets Up
Chicago Office

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Jewish Organizations View,
Stand on Protestant Row

A Chicago office to centralize

'Free and Democratic Jewish Commonwealth' Wording activities of American Jewish American Jewish Committee, Congress, Bnai Brith and
Congress units in Comunities of
in Democratic Platform Praised by Dr. Wise, Dr.
Labor Committee Do Not Favor Support of
seven midwestern states has been
Silver and Jewish Conference
Magazine and Textbook Commission

, CHICAGO (JPS)—The Democratic National Conven-
tion went unequivocally on record in favor of "a free and
democratic Jewish Commonwealth." The Democratic plat-
form's reference to Palestine reads:
"We favor the opening of Palestine to unrestricted Jew-
ish immigration and colonization and such a policy as to

result in the establishment there
of a free and democratic Jewish
Commonwealth."
The Palestine plank of the
Republican platform reads:
"In order to give refuge to
millions of distressed Jewish
men, women and children driven
from their homes by tyranny,
we call for the opening of Pal-
estine to their unrestricted im-
migration and land owenership,
so that in accordance with the
full intent and purpose of the
Balfour Declaration of 1917 and
the Resolution of a Republican
Congress in 1922, Palestine may
be constituted as a free and
democratic Commonwealth."
Assail Roosevelt Critics
Inclusion in the GOP plank
of criticism of President Roose-
velt has been denounced by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise and Henry
Monsky, president of the Bnai
Brith.
With both major political par-
ties on record supporting Zionist
aims, observers here were ana-
lyzing the wording of the Re-
publican and Democratic state-
ments on Palestine. The Demo-
cratic reference is directly to a
"Jewish Commonwealth," while
the Republican plank does not
contain the word Jewish.
A Reaffirmation
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, co-chairmen
of the American Zionist Emer-
gency Council, issued statements
hailing the Democratic plat-
form's Palestine stand. Said Dr.
Silver:
"The Democratic Party, under
the leadership of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, now reaffirms its
loyal support of the Zionist
movement which more than a
quarter of a century ago was so
eloquently championed by an-
other great Democratic Presi-
dent, Woodrow Wilson."
Dr. Wise said: "By this act,
the Democratic Party once again
reaffirms the historic policy of
Woodrow Wilson and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt."
Conference Statement
The American Jewish Confer-
ence statement follows:
"The adoption of the Palestine
plank calling for the creation of
a free and democratic Jewish
Commonwealth in Palestine by
the Democratic Party today
places both major political par-
ties in the U. S. on record in
favor of the implementation of
Jewish rights to Palestine.
"The resolutions of the two
parties reflect the viewpoint of
the overwhelming majority of
the Jewish people of the U. S.
as affirmed by the American
Jewish Conference last Sep-
tember."
Policy on Palestine
WASHINGTON — Dr. Israel
Goldstein, President of the Zion-
ist Organization of America who
with a delegation headed by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise presented the
Palestine case before the Reso-
lutions Committee of the Demo-
cratic Convention in Chicago,
hailed the adoption of the Pal-
estine plank calling for the
establishment in Palestine of a
free and democratic Jewish
Commonwealth, as a "significant
reaffirmation of the traditional
American policy from Woodrow
Wilson to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt."
(Adoption of the Palestine
plank by the Democratic Na-
tional Convention was criticized
in Cairo by George Mansour,
Palestine Arab nationalist, in a
letter to Pinckney Tuck, Ameri-
can Minister to Egypt).

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NEW YORK (JPS)—The Protestant, a monthly, and the
Protestant Textbook commission, both of which were the
targets of criticism in the press in recent months, are the
subject of statements issued - by the American Jewish Com-
mittee, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and the
Jewish Labor Committee.

Christians Here
Urge Rescue of
Hungarian Jews

Council of Churches Sends
Pastoral Letter; Lamentations
to be Read in Churches

Christian leadership in Detroit
is adding its voice to the outcry
against barbarism and to the
chorus of demands that Jews who
are still alive in Hungary be
rescued.
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Detroit announced that
Protestant as well as Catholic
churches are taking cognizance
of the Hungarian situation at
their services, and in special pro-
grams.
The Detroit Council o f
Churches has included in its
pastoral letter an urgent request
that ministers devote part of
their services on July 30 to pray-
er and action on behalf of the
Jews of Hungary. Its communi-
cation mentions the fact that
July 30 is observed as the fast
of Tishah b'Ab in commemora-
tion of the destruction of the
Temple of Jerusalem and it sug-
gests to ministers that the Book
of Lamentations be used as scrip-
ture reading for this occasion.
The Council of Churches further
suggested that those in attend-
ance at church services be urged
to communicate with the State
Department and ask for extra-
ordinary measures to save the re-
mainder of Hungarian Jewry.
With its pastoral letter the
Council of Churches also sent
to all its ministers a compre-
hensive account of the Hun-
garian situation, quoting author-
itative sources, and statements
by united nations and neutral
governments.
The Catholic Hungarian
churches of Detroit will observe
Aug. 19 and 20 as Hungarian
Catholic Day in Delray. On this
occasion, Detroit will entertain
Bishop Basil Takach, Prelate of
the Hungarian Church in Pitts-
burgh. At the 'request of Arch-
bishop Edward Mooney, part of
the program on each of these
two days will be devoted to the
Jewish situation in Hungary, and
to recommendations for action
in a program of rescue.

Did you know that "Up in
Arms" is not Danny Daye's cine-
ma debut? He played in a num-
ber of Vitaphone Shorts years
ago in Brooklyn—but why bring
that up now?

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RABBI ASHER T. KATZ

opened by officials of the Mid-
west Region, according to Max
A. Kopstein, Chicago attorney
and president of the region.
Rabbi Asher T. Katz, formerly
assistant rabbi of Temple Isaiah
Israel, Chicago, has been ap-
pointed executive director.
The Midwest Region was cre-
ated at a conference of 200 dele-
gates, representing 22 comuni-
ties, in Chicago, in 1943. Its ter-
ritory comprises Illinois, Indi-
ana, Michigan ,Minnesotta, Mis-
souri, Iowa and Wisconsin.
The new headquarters, with
offices at 8 Dearborn St., will
coordinate the Congress pro-
gram in the territory and give
local impetus to the movement
of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is
national president.
Leon Kay of Detroit is a vice-
president of the region.

The American Jewish Commit-st%
tee advises "to give no financial
Congress' Position
support" to The Protestant and
The
American
Jewish Con-
to the Textbook Commission.
Stating that The Protestant is gress resolution read in part:
backed by no official Protestant
"The executive committee of
organization and is circulated the American Jewish Congress
largely among Jews, seeking its does not conceive it to be its
major support from them, the duty to enter into a discussion
committee says:
of The Protestant and its Text-
"This is inherently wrong, the book Commission. As for the dif-
more so when a careful study of ferences which are said to have
the files of The Protestant re- arisen between The Protestant
veals that the periodical tends and another Christian com-
to arouse animosity and distrust munion, the American Jewish
between the people of different Congress deems it the very es-
sence of unwisdom on the part of
creeds."
Jews to enter into a discussion of
Attacks on Vatican
such differences."
The Protestant frequently has
The following statement was
carried attacks on Vatican pol- made by Dr. Wise to the Na-
icies and on Catholic clergymen tional Community Relations Ad-
in the U. S. It has also published visory Council:
a series of articles by Joseph
"The American Jewish Con-
Brainin, a co-editor, calling the
American Jewish Committee gress wishes to state, without
undertaking to pass upon the
"fascist."
merits
of these bodies, that such
The Anti-Defamation League
statement declares that "it looks support should come largely
with disfavor on any controver- from the Christian groups for
sy between Protestant, Catholic whom The Protestant and its
and other religious publications Textbook Commission purport to
or groups. Indeed," the statement speak."
continues, "we are interested in
any move to counteract prejudice
Nat Carr, veteran actor of stage
or defamation of Protestant, . and 'screen, took his last curtain
Catholic or Jew,- Negro or White. call this week. He played in the
Therefore, we do not favor The "Cohens and the Kellys" pictures,
Protestant or its Textbook Com- "The Jazz Singer," "Kosher Kitty
mission or approve any sectarian Kelly" and many others. He was
publication which does create the brother of Alexander Carr of
"Potash and Perlmutter" fame.
such controversy." ,

Hungarians Here
Protest Bigotry

Christian Service Condemns
Anti-Semitism; Clergymen,
Rabbis Deliver Address

Christian Hungarians of De-
troit last Sunday morning regis-
tered strong protest against the
atrocities in their native land, at
a special service held at the Hun-
garian Reformed Church, Dear-
born and Vanderbilt.
An overflow audience heard an
impassioned address by Rev.
Bibor Toth, who outlined the his-
tory of the Jews in Hungary
and pointed to the important
place they have in the cultural,
civic and political progress of the
land.
Rev. Toth was assisted hi con-
ducting the service by Rev. Julian
Harnb or sky.
This unique service assumed
added importance by virtue of
the participation of two Jewish
leaders—Rabbi Moses Fischer of
Congregation Bnai Moshe and
Rabbi Harry A. Greenfield of the
Delray Hebrew Congregation.

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