Friday, Sepreen6er 8,1944

THE JEWISH

The Status of Palestine

Red Cross Issues
An Urgent Call for
Staff Assistants

Washington Is Main Sector
In the Battle for Zionism

'Jewish Press Service Writer Reviews Year's Activities o
American Zionist Emergency Council Under
Leadership of Dr. Silver and Dr. Wise

NEWS

The Detroit Chapter of the
Red Cross is now making its
plans for post war activity and
is issuing a call for more staff
assistants to be fitted into a. pro-
gram that will last long after
hostilities have ceased.
Women who have had business
training, 'stenographers and typ-
ists are badly needed - now, and
their _services will be required
in practically all departments of
the Red Cross - for many -years'-to
come.
A special _course of training
for the staff -assistants will begin'
Sept. 26 and run through Oct. 17,
under the • direction - of Mrs.
Frank A. Patterson, chairman of
staff assistants. Those wishing to
assist the Red. Cross are asked to
contact her or Mrs. Raymond G.
Lambe, vice chairman, at 2163
E. Jefferson, Ft.* 9000.

Page Seventeen

1,500,000 Jews Still Alive
In Europe Outside Russia.

Eliahu Dobkin, Jewish Agency Official Now in London on
Rescue Mission, Reports Many More Can Be
Saved; Outlines . Rescue. Activity
_ . LONDON (JPS-Palcor)--LOne and a half million Jews, and
perhaps more survive in Europe today, besides the Jews re-
siding in Russia, according to reliable information in the
possession of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, it was reveal-
ed here by Eliahu Dobkin, deputy member of the Agency :
Executive in charge of immigration, who is now here on a
rescue mission. .

By BERNARD LERNER
• Iraq's former Premier Nuri es-. Committees were established in
Said Pasha is reported coming hundreds of communities and
o the United States to establish they received constant directift
headquarters for the advocacy and inspiration from headquar-
Of his Greater Syria plan which ters.
. . .
rules out sovereignity for Pales-
"It would be total irresponsi-
By
'December
the, first confer-
tine and would abolish the Jew-
bility," he said, "to give way to ganizing the escape of trapped
National Home. Arab poli- ence of representatives of the
reSigntion and assume that Jews. Migration to Palestine is
ticians are meeting in Damascus, local Emergency- Committees Was
those Jews cannot be saved. the most effective way for com-
held
in
Cleveland.
:There
detail-
Beirut and Cairo, and are sched- ed plans and programs - were
Ways :and means for rescue defi- pleting the rescue of 'Jews."
uled to meet in Alexandria for
Fifteen thousand have reached ,
nitely exist;" he stated.
the purpose of camouflaging, by cussed and agreed upon and the
Palestine in the fifth year of the
local
leaders
given
full
instruc-
France now holds about 100,- war, while the total of Jewish
Concerted attacks on Zionism,
000 Jews, he said, including immigrants since the war has
their failure to bring about co- tions to make a strong bid for
20,000 Children, orphans of peo- been 50,000. "Thus Jewish Pal-
hesion among their states. Arab winning public opinion and in-
ple deported for extermination. estine absorbed more refugees
• parliaments have protested t h e suring support of influential citi-
"These. children are -scattered all than any country in the world:'
adoption of the Palestine planks zens and :political leaders every-
where. A second conference took
over the country, hidden in mon- he said.
by America's two major parties. place
in May in Washington; D.
asteries: • and other . places and
Fortune magazine points out the
C. There had thus come into be-
will be lost to the Jews unless Bulgarians Jews to Get
Urgency of the United States de- ing
a powerful machinery, rep-
they are absOrbed in Palestine," Confiscated Property
termining its Middle East policy, resenting
hundreds of communi-
he pointed out. "When all of
especially- with regard to Pales-
ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Sofia
ties, highly organized, and close
Poland is liberated, probably radio
tine. In this complex picture, ly
broadcast a lengthy ex-
knit.
180,000
Jewish
u
20
survivors
will
be
American Zionism faces new
planatory statement concerning
found.
They
will
have
to
be
The Palestine Resolutions
tests, new obligations. It is there-
brOUght to Palestine. Rescue the abolition by the Bulgarian
fore appropriate to review, as
An important step, of course,
Mrs. Kathleen Snow Stringer, work therefore will not be over government of anti-Jewish leg-
the year is coming to an end, 12 was the introduction of the Pal- director of the Detroit Town Hall
islation, emphasizing that all
Months' activity by the reorgan- estine Resolutions in both houses series to be held at the Fisher . even when the Jews are freed confiscated property will be re-
from
the
Nazi
yoke."
iZed American Zionist Emergen- of Congress. Through the . intro- Theater on ..Wedn.esday mornings,.
turned to Jews and that the de-
Tells Rescue Activity
cy Council under the joint chair- duction of the Resolutions, and at 11 a. m., announces that the
cree covers all anti-Jewish
He
otulined
the
extensive
res-
manship of Dr. Abba Hillel Sil- the hearings on them, one great new series of 20 peograins -will
measures
whether of a "political
cue - activity, patent and under-
ver and Dr. Stephen. S. Wise.
and immediate objective was re- commence on Oct. 11, with Don- ground, directed by Jewish Pal- moral or police character."
alized. The conspiracy of silence ald Dickson, -opera, radio a n d estine and - the' Zionist move-
Statement Shelved
According to JPS, Bulgarian
During 1942 and the first half was broken and the Zionist issue stage star, as the first speaker„
fascists, including students, civil
ment, as follows:
was
placed
-
upon
•
the
agenda
as
of 1943, the years when the cause
Guthrie McClintic, distinguish-
1—Relief and material aid ex- servants and ex-servicemen, all
'was anathema in Washington, one of the gr ea t and burning ed producer-husband of Kather- tended, -by the Palestine Central members of the fascist Aranik
official quarters there grew in- questions of the day and part, ine Corn.61-1, -will speak act. 18 on Committee to Jews in 12 Euro- organization, have demonstrated
creasingly reticent on the subject and parcel of the great, debate the "Theater."
pean countries. Jewish Palestine in the streets of Sofia against
of Zionism, and messages ad- going on regarding the shape of
Oct. 25, David Dietz, science alcine raised over $2,000,000 for the abolition of the anti-Jewish
the
postwar
world.
dressed to Zionist gatherings be-
laws. They carried banners in-
editor of Scripps Howard news- this _purpose last year.
came increasingly cautious,
The deferment of action on the papers, will discuss "Science and
2—Contact is maintained with scribed: "We Won't Return to
- Vague and non-committal. At Resolutions - precipitated Some-
-the JeWish underground, which the Jews the Loot Confiscated
the Future."
the same time representatives of thing of a crisis, • the first serious
is the most important activity from Them!"
"Your
Glands
and
What
They
the Government, or at least the crisis which the American Zion-
in the sphere of rescue. In res-
State Department, were engaged ist Emergency CoUriCil had to Do to You!" .1s, the fascinating cue, Zionist youth organizations
title
of
Dr.
James
H.
Hutton,
in an effort to discourage Sena- face since Dr. Silver assumed
Chicago . physician, author of have played the leading part
tors, Congressmen and others leadership.
3—BeSides Jewish Agency of-
books
on endocrinology, and. spe-
from expressing themselves in
•Apart from the great public
fices to- be established in Istan-
cialist
for
25
years
in
the
study
favor of Zionism.
agitation and -education ; the: Re-- of ductless glands:
bul, Geneva, on the Iberian
Matters went so far that a joint solutions. also produced the his-
Two new attractions announc- Peninsula, in Teheran and other
statement was planned by Prime .torical declaration of President ed by 'Mrs. Stringer are Lee Ya- strategic places, three rescue
SEWERS on women's apparel.
MiniSter Churchill and President Roosevelt on March 9 that the Ching, China's "First Lady of the committees are operating within
Roosevelt, demanding a cessation United StateS Government h a d Air" who describes "Chinese Nazi-occupied Europe.
Full or part time work.
Thousands Saved
of all discussion of the Palestine never 'approved the White Paper Youth- and Aviation," -
and Maur-
"By theSe means," he revealed,
question, a plan which was for- of 1939 and that "full- justice" ice Hindus, authority .on
Russia. "thousands • of Jews have been
tunately shelved after strenuous would be done to those who were
Other '44-'45 season celebrities saved, while hundreds of mem-
efforts made by Zionist leaders. seeking the Jewish National are Percy Grainger, famous pian-
1448 Woodward
The effort was repeated in an- Home. The statement was giVen ist, playing his own compositions; bers of the Zionist underground
other form, when a little later it by the President to _ Drs. ,,SilVer Frank Gervasi and Red Mueller, -have laid down their - lives or-
was suggested by the State De- and Wise as a Sort of ComPensa-, ace war correspondents; H. Na-
Partment that - the projected tion for the_temporary shelving . pier Moore, Canadian publisher;
holding of an American Jewish Of the . 'Resolutions. To the pres- Sigrid Schultz, formerly Berlin
Conference be "postponed" as ent day it is the only hopefUl Bureau director of the Chicago
being untimely in ,view of dis- official statement of a public
KOSHER
Tribune; Dr. George Crane, psy-
cussions with Ibn. Saud. By the character which the Zionist lead- chologist; Margaret Bourke
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uation was at an extremely low either here or in England and a battle areas; Blair Moody, De-
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ebb. The Zionist Emergency promissory note bearing the .
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troit NeWs columnist; Major Pe-
Council had done some ' good nature of the President of the ter Rainier of Gen. Montgomery's .
work and a considerable amount United States.
Staff; Osa Johnson, famous ex-
*- * *
of propaganda and agitation had
plorer with pictures of the Solo:-
been carried on. The American
The Palestine Planks
mons; Colin Mackenzie, Mer-
Palestine Committee had been
Interior and Exterior
The agitation in connect ion
ay chant Marine hero; Robert. Bel-
organized as far back as 1941 with the Congress Resolutio
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laire, former United press Tokyo
ns
and subsequently the Christian also carried over
to b- correspondent; Devi Dja and her
.W. L OPPENHEIMER
the Repu
Council for Palestine was - estab- lican a n Democratic
d Democratn
.12622 Woodrow Wilson .
Natio al Bali Java dancers,. publicized by.
Week Day Mornings: TO. 8-1334
lished. Other significant steps Conventions held i n Chica
go, Life and other periodicals.
had been taken. There was nev- both of which adopt ed
For information call- CHerry
excell
ertheless a widespread feeling Palestine planks
in pl
at- 5617, Detroit Town Hall, 220 Ho-
their
that by far not enough was being forms. This was
th of tel Statler.
e result
done.
months of careful
ion
preparat
* * *
,undertaken under the e leadersh
Theriesensfadt Jews
Reorganized Council -
of Dr. Silver, who a attended t he
The Family of the Late ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
The feeling of concern. and Republican Convention. After Threatened With Death
of 3340 Calvert Ave. wish to invite their rela-
even bitterness among Zionists the adoption of the p
he
tives and friends of the Czenstochwar Und
GENEVA (JPS)—The Jews in
was enhanced by the growth of Republican Convention, cam e
Rajoner Verein, Arbeiter Ring branch III, and
the Bergson. group. It was felt the plank adopted by
y the Dem - the ghetto of Theriesenstadt in
Czechoslovakia, where conditions
Bakers Union Local 78, to the unveiling of the
that they were thriving on- the ocratic ConVention,
which w a s were
in- recent months reported
inadequacies of Zionist political attended by- Dr. Stephen S. - Wi se.
tombstone which will be held Sunday, Sept. 10,
to
be
"moderately
good" in com-
1944, at 2 p.m. at the Workmens Circle. (Ar-
activity and were building up In both cases, howev,
great
er, a
for themselves an increasingly deal of work was d
beiter Ring) ' Cemetery.
the parison with those of Jews in
strong position in Washington representatives of the Emergen cy other places, are now faced by a
fate: similar to that which has be,
and throughout the country.
Council on the spot.
This is he
t
It was , at this time that the first • time in Ameri can histo
ry. fallen Jews in other ghettos --
American Zionist Emergency that Palestine was i ncluded in total extermination it is reported
Council was reorganized' with the party platf or rri sWhich
here from non-Jewish sources in.
, *hi
Dr. Abba . Hillel Silver as co- strengthens the Zionist position Prague. There are at this time
approximately 20,000 Jews in the
chairman. The Emergency Coun- immensely and paves the 'w
cil, reorganized with a compre- . for the eventual ado ption of a Theriesenstadt ghetto.
hensive program of activities, Jewish Commonweal th Resol u-
and increased personnel, and a tion by Congress.
toward more militancy in its
permanent office in Washington,
This is a brief cummary of: the presentation.
established a new procedure of achievements and inevitable
Whatever the obstacles and
Zionist presentation.
frustratioris of the American impediments in the past, the
Community Organization
Zionist .E.mergency Council. In American Zionist Emergency
: The new program and,the new considering what the Council Council is faced with even more
policy required also a new bud- has done in 1944 a
gains the serious - ones in the near future
get ten times as large as the bud- background of the restricted ac- qp the determination of a Pales-
get with which the work had tivity of 1942-3, one cannot omit !tine policy is placed on the agen-
been carried on in• the past. An reference to the personality of da of Great Britain, the United
adequate staff was installed in Dr. Abba • Hillel Silver who stood States and, probably, other Uni-
Washington. Throughout t h e at the helm of this reorientation ted Nations governments.
ACopyright, 1944, by Independent
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