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Friday, November 3, t944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Arab-Jewish Relations

As part of the program to promote Arab-Jewish relations in Pales-
tine, the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, whose source of
American support is the United Palestine Appeal, has established a
permanent institute near Haifa •for the purpose of training -leaders of
Jewish settlements in the Arabic language and in Arab relations. Eight-
month courses will be given annually and it is expected that 30 persons
will graduate at the end of each session. An initial sum of $40,000 was
expended on this project, which is being carried out with the-coopera-
tion of the Agricultural Workers' Federation. It is hoped in the \course
of time to' convert the institute into a training center for Jewish Pales-
tine's civil servants.

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Strictly
Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyrigh ► . 1944, by Seven Arts
VOTE ON TUESDAY!
Feature Syndicate)
Every man and woman who prizes his
LISTEN
HERE
or her citizenship in this great land owes
One of Father Coughlin's "mother" or-
an obligation to - our land, to humanity,
ganizations is once more • distributing, by
to family and friends, to cast a ballot
the chain-letter method, :a falsified anti-
in the important election next Tuesday:
Semitic statement , purporting to be a
Those who fail to exercise: this right
quotation from Benjamin Franklin. This
do not deserve the privilege of citizen-
—U. P. A. Bulletin
statement was exposed as a fraud sever-
ship.
al years ago.
This is especially true NOW—with the
fate of mankind in the balance and with
"The National Record," Senator Robert
our own government being held respon-
Rice Reynolds' newspaper, is carrying on
sible for most important decisions affect-
a foul campaign with very, pronounced•
ing the future of all mankind.
racist undertones, yelling for "an Amer-
ica for Americans."
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Reply to an inquiry from a reader:
STUDY THE ISSUES!
By ARNOLD LEVIN
By BORIS SMOLAR
Those election buttons that say "Don't
We are confident that whatever the
be a Jew-ey—Vote for Dewey" are not
(Copyright. 1944, JTA, Inc.)
(Copyright, 1944 Independent Jewish
results, this great land will be safe.
Press Service. Inc.)
authorized by the Republiban National
But we are equally as confident that . POLITICAL NOTES
Committee. They are, 'however, being
RESCUE
PARTNERSHIP
whoever is chosen President must have
Zionist leaders in this country, as well
distributed by Some irrespsonsible Dewey
the support of a Cohgress that will be as in London and in Palestine, have no
-In speaking of the aid extended by the supporters.
above partisanship in deciding on future doubts now that there will be a Jewish Catholic Church in Italy to Jews fleeing
Norman.. M. Littel, Assistant ,United
Commonwealth established in Palestine. the Gestapo, special mention should be
issues.
Therefore, it is the duty of voters to . . What can be revealed now is that made of Pere Benoit, of the Capuchin States Attorney General,. has this to say
study the issues and to make sure that President Roosevelt definitely discussed Order. In a back room of Pere Benoit's - about fighting anti-Semitism: "While , bi-
they are well posted on our country's• the Palestine problem with Prime Min- library sat Aba Furmansky, , a Warsaw gots have raved, we have been too
obligations on foreign as well as domestic ister Churchill during their last meeting tailor, forging- passports and visas to silent."
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.in Canada. . . . Ther.e is good reason to rescue -Jews and others hounded by the
affairs.
NEWS OF ZION
believe
that
Roosevelt's
outspoken•
pledge
Gestapo..
Residence
for
foreigners
in
Wise choice of Congressmen is as im-
to support the Zionist demands for a Jew- German-occupied Rome was not a simple
We're reliably informed that the Brit-
portant as wise choice of the President.
We agree on this point with President ish CoMmonwealth is based on the re- affair. To 'subsist they had to have food ish -Government considers President
ration 'cards, which were granted only Roosevelt's most recent statement. on .a
Roosevelt and with those who are anxious sults of this . discussion.
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upon presentation of passports period- Jewish commonwealth in Palestine as an
to prevent return to Congress of those
ically confirmed by the legation. The important political pronouncement and
men who have followed the line of the ZIONIST TRENDS
The convention of the Zionist Organiza- passports would be prepared by. Furman- not merely as an election campaign prom-
crack-pots.
tion of America is hardly over, but specu- sky. Pere Benoit would then present ise.
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You will soon have the opportunity to
lation as to who the next Z.O.A. presi- them wholesale to friendly officials in
DON'T LISTEN TO SLANDER!
dent will be is already going on. . . friendly legations who would stamp see the best Palestine motion picture
In making final decisions affecting the Robert Szold is mentioned as one of the them, knowing full well what it was ever made. Henry Montor tells us that
casting of ballots on Tuesday, voters candidates. . . . Dr. James Heller is an- all about. Thus several thousand Jews the technicolor film he has just received
should learn to distinguish between other name mentioned. . . . All depends continued their residence in Rome — as from the Holy Land is outstanding.
truth and libel, between fact and' fiction. on how the ZOA will get along during Aryans.
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They should .know, for instance, that the year , with the American Zionist
THIS
AND
THAT
injection of racial or religious issues in Emergency Council of which Dr. Abba FISH CREATOR
If you live in Birobidjan you have to
The only kind of fish associated with
the campaign, by supporters of either of Hillel Silver . and Rabbi-Stephen S. Wise
the major parties, is deserving only of are chairmen. . . . Rumors have it that Jews is gefilte fish. But along comes study Yiddish whether you. are Jew or
it is the ambition of the present ZOA Fabius Gross, a German refugee now Gentile. Yiddish 'is a required subject
condemnation.
in all schools there.
They should reject canards like the administration to start a campaign for residing in SCotland, and adds to the
We like that front-line rep6rt telling
Jewish
fish
reputation.
Seeing
that
the
the
dissolution
of
the
Zionist
Emergency
Hillman fables which merely confuse
of a Jewish soldier supervising a detail
Scottish
fish
industry
was
on
the
down-
Council
in
order
to
take
over
its
political
clear. thinking.
of a dozen Nazi war prisoners who were
Also—they should recognize the right functions. . . . Should this be true, it can grade because of submarine warfare scrubbing the entrance to a synagogue
of individuals to support whomever they be expected that the rift between Dr. which eliminated ocean-fishing, he under- in a liberated European town in prepar-
please. 'Roger W. Straus and • George Silver as chairman of the Council, and took to create a breeding ground for ation for the high holy days.
Medalie have a right to support Gov. Dr. Israel Goldstein as president of the big fish in Scotland's lakes. What he did
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Thomas E. Dewey. Walter Lippmann and ZOA will become even wider than it was to dump nitrates and phosphates
the New York Times have an equal - right turned out to be at the . ZOA convention into dikes, thus generating the growth LITERARY NEWS
to back .President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Atlantic City. . . . Dr.' Silver has more of the plants on which little fish are fed.
Orchids to the Oct. 20 issue of Congress
for re-election for a fourth term. Jacob than once refused to becomes the president The more smaller fish, the more larger Weekly, published by the American Jew-
Billikopf exercises the duty of a free man of the ZOA, but a situation may develop fish . . The Scots are eternally grateful, ish Congress ... In that issue Elias Gil-
where he may- give in to his supporters and fishing will become a much safer ner exposes certain aspects of Lloyd C.
when he condemns the Hillman canard.
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and run for president at the next ZOA trade.
Douglas' best-seller "The Robe" as his-
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convention just to spite the present ad-
torically false and anti-Semitic to boot.
AN INTERESTING POLL
ministration. . . . Should this turn out to HE GAVE EISENHOWER ORDERS
Trend of Events, the Jewish newslet-
The polls being taken to indicate the be the case, no other candidate will have , Jerome Friedman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
election trends may reveal a great deal. any chance of being elected. since there Max Friedman of. Wilkes Barre, Pa., is ter, will soon be celebrating its fifth
But the children's polls more often than • is no candidate who can stand up to Dr: the only lieutenant in the U. S. Army fre- anniversary.
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- not reflect the thinking of the adults and
Silver. . • All indications point to -the quently in a position to give Gen. Eisen-
the general trends in the community.
fact that any attempt by the ZOA.- ad- hower orders. Lt. Friedman is in charge ABOUT PEOPLE
Your commentator. is,-especially inter- ministration to swallow the Zionist Em- of the crew of a plane often put at the
Brigadier E. F. Benjamin, who - has
- ested in one poll reported from an East ergency Council will hardly be success- disposal of General Ike and other high been appointed Commander of the Jew-
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Side Detroit school.
ful; . . . In addition to Dr. Silver, • the officers and Allied officials. All passen- ish Brigade, is one of the most-decorated
, In one class in this high school, the Mizrachi and the Zionist Laborites Will gers are subject to the orders of the crew British officers. His military record
49 children balloted . -as folloWs: leooSe- also strongly oppose it, since they are chief aboard planes.
places him at the top of the list of high
.` velt, 47; Dewey, 1; Gerald L. K. Smith, 1. represented on the kmergency Council:
Jewish officers in England.
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This is interesting, especially as a - re- ... Not to speak of the Jewish Agency HOTTEST RUMORS
The Charles Weizmann whose articles
minder to the people of this state that executive which is elated over the politi-
The hottest rumor is that some of the on various 'branches of organic chemistry
the arch rabble-rouser, Rev. G. L. K.
cal achieements of the Zionist Emergency German generals reportedly fallen in appeared frequently in British scientific
Smith, has his name on the ballot as Council now that Roosevelt has promised battle or executed for activity against journals during the decade beginning
the candidate for the Presidency of the. support for the establishment' of a Jewish
Hitler are very much alive and kicking— with 1904 is none other than Dr. Chaim
America First Party.
Commonwealth in Palestine, and with the as a matter of fact, seeking to kick up Weizmann, president of the Jewish
• Furthermore, it is a reminder that in Palestine resolution about to be passed
trouble for the democracies by engin- Agency.
• most unsought-for places you may find by Congress.
Did you know that the late Harry
eering a Nazi comeback via Argentina.
Smith followers.
Being ghosts, they can -work in safety, Houdini, the famous magician, was the
MISH
MASH
When the November election is over,
There are about 100,000 colored Jews unexposed to prosecution for war crimes. son of a rabbi? We didn't either till Elsa
, either of the two major candidates_who
Maxwell told us—though of course
will have to content himself with 'resi- in the United States . . . Some 15,000 You may hear of many more casualties, we've known right along_ that he was
dence 'outside - the White House will of them live in New York, where many of those responsible for this intriguing Jewish.
will tell you, but take them all
nevertheless be an honored and respected them are kosher cooks • .. Negro Digest rumor
with .a grain of salt
wherever Nazi
Another item- that's news to us, and
reports
that
orthodox
Jewish
families
citizen
of
this
great
land.
But
the
rabble-
_
generals may die, they do not die on the therefore seems worth passing on, is that
prefer
colored
Jews
as
servants
because
rousers will have to be watched more
battlefield.
Mischa Elman can boast of having been
they adhere to Jewish dietary laws.
than ever.
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the first major musical artist to tour the
Watch some of the Yiddish newspapers
Far East, his first concert tour to China
in New York soon appear with English FROM CANADA
Ethel Stark is one of the leading having taken place in 1921.
pages . At least two of the Metro-
politan Yiddish daily papers have decided figures in music. in Montreal. A violin-
Latest figures on the acquisition of to. publish English pages because of the virtuoso, She • founded a women's sym-
orchestra with 70 musicians which
• land in Palestine by the Jewish National increasing interest in Jewish affairs on phonic
the part of Jews who cannot read has already attained a reputation among
Fund show .that 720,000 dunams (180,000
One of the important by-products of
music lovers.
acres) have been purchased to date. Yiddish.
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the. establishment by the Palestine Foun-
Countess 'Illia Tolstoy, former daughter-
• Among the recent allocations made by the
datiOn Funds of hundreds of agricultural
Karen Kayemeth is the provision for 100 in-law of the great Russian writer, was BRICKER-PEGLEW
We wonder whether it was mere coin- settlements in the country is the recent
building plots for the construction of commissioned by the Hebrew Committee
homes for workers at Afuleh, in the Val- for National Liberation to decorate its cidence that Governor John W. Bricker, indiigtrial development in many of -these
"Hebrew Embassy". in. Washington . . . Republican- ViCe-':Presidential candidate, settlements to supplement income from
, ley of Jezreel. Another plot of land, com-
prising 234 dunams on a hilltop near She had draperies made in New York attacked the Oswego free port for refu- agricultural produce. A survey- made by
Maaleh Hachamisha, has been allocated and bought period furniture at auction gees in alrriott the identical language the Fund shows that- already. 51 factories
—producing jams, margarine, preserves,
• for the planting of a "Garden of Prophets ' . . . One of the best known professional used by alien-baiting columnist West-
packing cases and boxes, tools, metalware,
..• and Sages," a- c011ection of plants, trees decorators in Washington, Countess Tol- brook Pegler. *
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printing presses,. -baked goods, soap,. oil,
. - and flowers mentioned: in the Scriptures, stoy will start out next month on a
and shoes, among other items-- — •have
HOLLYWOOD
IN
FRANCE
lecture
tour
for
:the
Hebrew
Liberation'
Apocrypha, Mishn.ahl M_idrash andGaonic
*Film director Anatole Litvak, now a been established, in... the. co-operative
:`literature. The Jewish National Fund is Committee.
It can be revealed now that it is diffi- lieutenant colonel in service in France, settlements„ and an additional number
supported by American Jewry through
cult to exchange certain categories of is effective as 'a linguist. ,He has been area in operation in the small-holders'
the United. Palestine Appeal, through the
Jews interned in Germany for civilian known to question Nazi P. W.'s in Ger- . settlements. All . these industries are on
War Chest,
Germans interned in Palestine and other man and White Guard-Russians in Rus- land owned by the jewish . National Fund
A grouP of l more ihan . 80 Dutch-Jewish
- refugees : who arrived in Palestine in. ,July, Allied countries . . . The reason is sim- sian, negotiate with Frenchmen in and in settlements founded by the Pales-
ple: No interned German civilian wants French, and to throW in a little Yiddish tine Foundation Fund, both constituents
as participants in a •prisoner-of-war ex-
to be sent to Germany now that an for conversation with some of the Jewish of the United Palestine Appeal, a bene-
. _ change have: been settled at Sde Nehemia,
_ . ficiary of the..War Chest.
survivors in Paris.
• in Northern Palestine.

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