Friday, June 8, 1945 THE JEWISH NEWS Page Two Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ PUNISHING THE SUFFERER It is not too late to call attention to the accompanying cartoon by Herz in the April 27 issue of the Zionist Review of London, England. Basing his theme on the invitations extended to nations declaring war on the Axis before March 1, 1945, to be repre- sented at the San Francisco Conference; the artist - appended this legend under- neath the cut: SAN FRANCISCO _ Quotation of the Week "T saw in Camp Opelika, Alabama, recently, 1,000 Arab prisoners of war. These men carried on their shoulderstraps Rommel's red- fettered badge of the `Afrika Korps'. They were captured members of the Arab Brigade which the Mufti of Jerusalem raised in Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and Transjordan for Adolf Hitler. They fought at El Alamein and in the other battles of the North African campaign against Britain and America. These men did not merely 'fraternize' with the enemy, as some of the Zionist Realpolitiker timidly suggest op the rare occasions they dare to mention Arab-German collabora- tion. They fought shoulder to shoulder with the Nazi butchers. These Men actually killed Americans and Britons. "These enemy prisoners of war were well-fed, and smiling; as well they might. For they are going to be represented at the San Francisco' Conference and at -the Peace Conference. It is their, representatives who are going to sit in judgment over the martyred remnants of the Jewish people, over the Jewish homeland, over the fighters of the Yishuv and over the destinies of Judaism." —PIERRE VAN PAASSEN, In . Article "Rommel's Men at San FraUcisco" in Protestant Magazine. "How can you expect a seat if you came into the war as far back as 1933?" It is a reminder that the world's greatest sufferer has been and continues to be punished instead of helped. * * * PESSIMISM AND IMPATIENCE Notes of - pessimism recorded in re- actions to the San Francisco meetings of the UNCIO are traceable in the main to impatience. Many weeks before the. United Nations Conference opened, we expressed our resentment over the fact that Jewry was not to be. represented at San Francisco. It was an accepted fact, and the feeling on the part of those who knew some- thing about what was transpiring in the inner sancta of statesmen was that hear- ings to be accorded our people would be only "pro forma." The truth is that our voice was heard not only in • the lobbies of San Francisco meeting places and at press conferences, but also in closed meetings of the UNCIO. The concerted efforts of Jewish corre- spondents, of spokesmen for . national organitations and our friends among the United Natioris delegations were respon- sible for whatever protection was accord-. ed the Jewish position. * * * GAINS AND LOSSES Have we gained anything? The answer, of course, is: NO. Bid the activities of Jewish spokesmen may have prevented harm to the Jewish cause—and that is something to be thankful for. The major gain is that we have learhed the attitudes of the world's statesmen and - we have acquired new techniques in ap- proaching issues affecting us when they come up at the Peace Conference. We have a battle on our hands, and there is reason to believe that we shall not lose the battle. The reason? We doubt whether Democratic and Re- publican members of the S. Congress will want to have it said that-the party pledges on Palestine were broken.' We doubt whether even Great Britain will want to have it recorded that the Balfour Declaration had been torn into scraps of gaper by Arabophiles in ex- change for a few barrels of oil. • We doubt whether the smaller nations countenance a .betrayal of .sacred cov- enants between :the world's powers and the Jewish people. The troubles in European countries to- day may be only a passing phase in a tragic post-war era. This is our hope—for without hope we perish. * * * THE BLENDING OF NATIONS As a result of . the -discouragement that had set in among many groups at the San Francisco Conference,' Jews and non- Jews have begun to advocate the blend- ing of nations and the creation of a single world language: One of our printers ' serving overseas • writes from EUrope that he would like to see the nations blended into one, with One language . as their medium of expres- , siOn. It sounds plausible when it is suggested by an English-speaking person. to a Yugo- slav or a .Bulgarian or a Romanian. But try to propose it to the French- Man! Do you suppose he will give up his • beloved French? . Will the Englishman give up his native tongue? --• • - • . Even the German will refuse to aban- don his Deutsches sprache. As for the Palestinian pioneers—just try to take their Hebrew away from them! Strictly Confidential Heard in The Lobbies By PHINEAS J. BIRON By ARNOLD LEVIN Copyright, 1945. Seven. Arts Features Syndicate, Inc. YOU SHOULD KNOW One of these days we shall have to look into the affairs of a certain office located at 42nd St., New York . . . Re- cently that office syndicated "Extracts frOm Remarks on the Problem of the Jewish Race" by a writer named Alice A. Bailey . . . We did not like these "re- marks" one •bit . • . We shall report fur- ther on Miss Bailey. Secretary Morgenthau is fighting for the Yalta agreement providing for the use of German prisoners in the rebuild- ing of destroyed properties in the Soviet Union . . . He is encountering strong opposition from State Department guar-, ters.' • A. S. Yehuda, who is attending the -San Francisco Conference as a member of the Zionist Revisionist"delegation of observ- ers, is unquestionably the greatest au- thority on Arab- affairs at that interna- tional confab. There is not, incidentally, a crumb of truth in the rumors . that Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver. will accept the presidency of the Revisionist World Zionist Organiza- tion: * * * LITERARY DEPARTMENT r on the late A major biOgraphital Supreme Court Justice Louis -D. Brandeis is in the making . . The. author is the husband of Brandeis' daughter, Susan Gilbert. Novelist Howard Fast is .looking ward to competition from within his own family . . . A new novel to be published soon; entitled "Watchful at Night", is by his brother, -Sgt. Julius Fast. Varian Fry; who "helped rescue so many refugees from _France early in the Euro- pean • war, reports that the Most difficult of the 'jobs he •undertook was the rescue of novelist Franz Werfel . . "I even had to carry a large part of the manuscript of 'The Song of Bernadette' across the Pyrenees myself," says Mr. Fry, who re- counts -some.. of his adventures in his re- cently published - • .book "Surrender on Demand".. * * * MUSICAL NOTES Soine years ago violinist Nathan Mil- stein acquired a beautiful Stradivarius, con- Which, however, he didn't use in : In fact, he took a vow that he ceit§ . wouldn't Play .it until after the defeat of Hitler . . So now he's planning to use that . priceless - fiddle at his future per forinariCes.. ' • . Coinposer Robert Stoli (he's not Jewish, by the way) prepared for recent events as long ago as 1938. . That's when he composed a piece he called "Hitler's Funeral March"—and now he's looking forward:to' giving it is first public . per- formance: • • • :The Victor record people are celebrat- ing the issuing of their thousandth • Red Seal album—and you'll be interested to know that it's a recording of "Boris Godounoff" in. Russian, starting basso • Alexander Kipnis. (Copyright, 1945, Independent Press Service, Inc.) Jewish ELSA APOLOGIZES Elsa Maxwell, partymaker and column- ist, ends up - the fourth of her columns on the glorious Prince Feisal (whose father, Ibn Saud, is an old-time-pirate- type of ruler), and the third of her columns, describing her party for the Prince, by stating that this should in no way be interpreted as support for the cause the prince may represent. Apolo- gies are certainly in order, dear Elsa .. • They would have been more effective had they not come toward the end of another mushy column of Feisal adula: tions. * * * BEST REPLY OF THE YEAR Were there a Pulitzer prize for the best reply- of the. year, the First Unitarian Church of Miami would get.it for its re- ply to Congressman Clare Hoffman's charge that Jews constitute a dispropor- tionate percentage in certain occupations. As reported' by Walter Winchell, the church 'bulletin carried the following comment: "There is 'some justice in the feeling' that , jews tend to monopolize cer- tain occUpations. The Jewish Yeat Book (1944-45) shows , Jewish rabbis are ex- clusively Jewish.' There is not a single reformed Presbyterian operating a kosher delicatessen on Hester street, New York City. Jews have consistently refused- to become Episcopal bishops. We might pile' fact on fact to show their a.voidande of typically American endeavors,. such as joining. the Ku Klux Klan, the •`Christian' Americans or the •Deutsches Bund." * * * "PITY THE GERMANS" ADVOCATE University of Chicago President Hutch- ins has joined the "have mercy -on the Germans" chorus. Milton Meyer,. whose Saturday Evening Post article several years back outraged AineriCan Jewry, and who subsequently questioned the "atrocity stories" about the Japs, is President Hutchins' public relations man. They both belong to the "we think dif- ferent" school, regardless of the issue. * * * GIVE HIM A HAND ! Congressman Augustus W. Bennett (D.; N.Y.) is sponsoring a bill which would prevent members of Congress from mass- mailing public documents in franked en- velopes, to others than their constituents, which means that a' future Hain. Fish would not be able to mail out his speeches to people residing Outside his' owri trict. - , * HATEBOYS We learn from- The Propaganda Battle= . front, _:published by Friends of Democracy, that Fundamentalist preacker E. J. Rol- •lings, abroad for the Americas Red Cros§, belongs to the Gerald Winrad hate- • for the Red Cross school. Is it too . to do something , about it? . . . The same source reports that Walter • Maier, Luth- eran minister, and Gerald L. K. Smith, drew a crowd- of 23,000 at a recent Chi- ABOUT PEOPLE The exhibit of 22 canvases by:Emanuel cago $tadiurn rally. , Romano, son of the late sculptor Enrico Glicenstein, at the Lilienfeld Galleries in commercial 'airline pilots, spends his New York, is attracting national attention leisure composing popular 'tunes . . . . . HiS painting "Warsaw Ghetto" is de- You'll be glad to know that Louis goes scribed as . . "at once Monumental, pas- to shule quite regularly. sionate and spiritual". Lee Kalech, .21-year-old assistant to Arlene Meyer has been appoirited as- sistant secretary of the Jewish. Pan- theatrical Trodueer Billy Rose, is an un- American Committee, a body furthering usual girl . . She has many duties, -but closer inter-relationship between the her real job is to keep every member of Jewish communities of Latin American the cast in good, humor . . . Billy is so much impressed With Lee that he is con- countries. Louis J. Smith, one of the topnotch sidering starring :her in 'a play, • Between You and Me By BORIS: SMOLAR (Copyright, 1945, Jewish 'Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) THE SOVIET REQUEST Behind the Soviet request for elimina- tion of the so-called "Palestine Clause" from the UNCIO's revised proposal on trusteeship is neither opposition to Zionist aspirations, nor support for the Arab delegations at San Francisco . . . The request is aimed at annoying Britain which, under the present trusteeship proposals, will be the sole power entitled to decide whether Palestine should be placed under international trusteeship, or remain under British- trusteeship . . With developments in the Middle East being what they are today, Moscow does not seem inclined to let Britain remain the only big power in the Middle East. Zionist leaders were criticized in New York for departing from San Francisco in a hurry, prior to conclusion of the United Nations Conference . . . The mistake was realized even before the Soviet delega- tion voiced its requeSt for dropping the "Palestine Clause" Strom the trusteeship propoSal . . . It became obvious that by their premature departure from .San Francisco, the Zionist leaders left the field open for the Arab delegationS. One of the ambitiOns of the Arab -dele- gates. at San Francisco is to secure formula in the trusteeship plan 'Which would enable either Egypt or Iraq to be- come one of the trustees over Palestine. . . . The speedy return of Louis Lipsky and Dr. Nahum Goldmann to San Fran- cisco may help to correct matters, but itussia's sudden request and the intensi- fied Arab activities in San Franciseo will serve as a lesson to Zionist leaders not to rush home. before making absolutely certain that victory is really in the bag. THE BRITISH ELECTIONS The parliamentary elections in England balked• plans of the Jewish Agency to force the British government to issue a clear-cut statement on Palestine . . . It will be remembered that after his re-: turn from the Yalta conference, Churchill announced that the solution of the 'Pales- . tine problem would take place after the war , . . With the war in Europe over, the, Jewish Agency lost no time in sub- mitting a memorandum to the British government asking for speedy action on the Palestine issue . . . But it so hap- pened that Churchill, in the meantime, had submitted his resignation in order to force a parliamentary election . obvious that in his present .position Churchill is not inclined to act on such a compliCated matter as the status . of Palestine . . . The entire issue will , thus be left open- until after a new permanent cabinet is formed in Britain . . This works not only to Britain's benefit; but also to the . benefit of the Arabs' whose position is now strengthened by - the fact n that they have become full-fledged mem- bers of the United Nations and presented a united front • at the San Francisco Con- ference . • FROM OVER THERE . The first Jewish newspaper being pub- lished in Germany is named "Forward!", and carries on its masthead the . word "Kadimah" (Forward) in Hebrew let- ters - . It is' published for the Jewish Men of Maj. Gen. Terry Allen's Timber- Wolf Division ... . We just received the sixth issue of this paper carrying news of - the 'Jewish Telegraphic Ageney and numerous articles of Jewish interest . . The six-page .publication carries, . mov- irig .story of the service for German Jews in a , re-dedicated. temple in Cologne . . After the. service, one woman came up, •and with tears in her voice, said to the Jewish chaplain: "Herr Rabbiner, where . you. stood today, my son was bar-mitzvah 20- Years 'ago" • . The Nazis -used the abandoned ante-rooms' to store important recordS, evidently considering that this was the, safest place . . . Silent groups of German civilians looked on as the*:Jewish services `were conducted by Chaplain W. C. Plaut of the Timberwolf Division . . Services were also held for 500. Jewish girls from Hungary liberated from. a Nazi camp . . The sight of 'the Sefer:Torah moved them so much that the service most had.to be.interrupted . . . There: was" .., a near-riot when Chaplain Plaut ,distrib7_ uted his dwindled stock of prayer books: and • mezuzaS, while chocolate and candy --things the liberated Jewish • girls , ' had also not seen in years--created only the usual flurry of grateful surprise , . At one' of the. concentration camps : a - Young Polish -JeW offered himself as a guide to the American Jewish soldiers . He Was 19' years old arid spoke fluent" HebreW . . . But half a mile outside of the : camp he Changed his mind and wanted to re- turn to the camp . . "You see ;''. he ex- plained, -"this is my first. trip outside the barbed wire M over four years. I cannot • take my freedoni all at once!"