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Arabs' Presence at Frisco
British Doings, Laski Says
Hadassah B & P Unit
Lists New Officers
For Corning Year
Junior Hadassah to Inaugurate
Group System at Teas Sunday
British Labor Party Leader Predicts Policy of Appeasement
May Lead to "a Transfer of Scene of Jewish Massacres
From Central Europe to the Middle East"
New officers elected by the
Business and Professional Div-
ision of Hadassah for the corn-
ing year are:
Miriam Goldstein, chairman;
Roslyn Corn, vice chairman;
Betty Utley, recording secretary;
Pearl War tell, corresponding
secretary; Lillian Abramsohn,
financial secretary; Ricca Kaye,
treasurer.
Chairmen of committees are:
Ethel Rosenthal, Rose Lipsitz and
Tess Rabinowitz, membership;
Dorothea Richmond, honor roll;
Rosalind Schubot, youth aliyah;
Betty Morrison, • Jewish National
Fund; Rose Poskel, Zionist poli-
tical education; Mrs. Morse Colt-
en, cultural; Helen Kass and
Roslyn Corn, program; Lillian
Gordon, American Affairs;
Bertha Farber, sponsor hostess;
Florence Dann and Bess Deutsch,
representatives to the chapter;
Sophia Blanche Schwartz, dir-
ector of publicity.
Additional members of the
board of directors are Ida Silver-
man, Rose Crohn, Freda Rich-
mon, Ann Baron, Sara Harrison
and Dorothy Levenson.
Mrs. Morris Adler is Hadassah
Chapter advisor to the Division
which is entering on an extensive
membership campaign. An in-
vitation to become affiliated with
the group is extended to all busi-
ness and professional women in
the city. Information may be ob-
tained by calling the office at
9144 Linwood, TY. 7-8216, or the
chairman, TY. 5-0237.
Miss Corinne Perlis, president
of Detroit Chapter of Junior
Hadassah, announces that a group
of organizational meetings will
be held at 2:30 p. M. Sunday to
inaugurate the group system
LONDON (JTA)—The charge that the British govern-
ment, appeasing the Arabs, facilitated the presence of Arab
delegations at San Francisco, but excluded Jewish represen-
tation there, was made by Harold Laski, noted economist
and a leader of the British Labor Party, in a statement to
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Mr. Laski also predicted that
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Friday, June
the present British policy may
lead to "a transfer of the scene
of Jewish massacre from Cen-
tral Europe to the Middle East."
"No one can say that the
Arab states, at least Iraq and
Syria, were helpful to Britain in
the war," Laski said. "It is com-
mon knowledge that a large in-
fluential party in Egypt was pro-
Axis in sympathy until the Ger-
mans and Italians were defeated
in Africa. The necessity for mili-
tary action in Iraq and Syria by
Britain to defend its lines of
communication from the attack
which must have been envisaged
and was intended to aid the Axis
powers, who had bribed Arab
leaders in both countries, is still
in our memories. Nor must we
forget the large-scale, half-hid-.
den Axis propaganda in Pales-
tine, of which the Mufti was the
chief agent and to which the
main British reply seems to be
maintenance of the infamous
MacDonald White Paper of 1939
and refusal to withdraw it even
after the need to appease the
Arabs on strategic grounds has
largely passed away.
Outcome of Jewish Effort
"No one knows better than
Churchill and Eden that almost
all the help, both in men and
materials, they received from
Palestine during the European
war was the outcome of Jewish
effort. Yet it is hard not to in-
terpret British policy, at this
time, toward the Jews, despite
all the fine rhetoric by Churchill
about the White Paper when it
was published, except upon the
assumption that the Jews are
once more to be sacrificed and
offered upon the altar by buying
the goodwill of the Arab peoples
despite all solemn pledges.
"It is the British government
which facilitated the presence of
the Arab states, including Arab
Palestine, which is not a state,
but excluded Jewish representa-.
tion at San Francisco. It is the
British government which agreed
to discuss the colonies there, with
all the repercussion this involves
regarding the position of Pales-
tine, despite the pledge to the
unrepresented Jews that • this
would not affect their hopes
built on the Balfour Declaration.
"Britain must be aware that be-
hind a facade of parliamentarian-
ism in its pathetically crude form
each Arab state today is an
oligarchy of exploitation of the
many fellaheen by the few ef-
fendi and often absentee land-
lords.
Churchill's Politics
"It is intelligible that Churchill
should be unwilling, in his fa-
mous phrase, 'to preside over the
liquidation of the British Em-
pire.' It looks as though he is not
Davidson to Speak
At Marshall Lodge
Installation Tuesday
With Archie L. Davidson, re-
gional director of the Anti-Defa-
mation League, as guest speaker,
the three Louis Marshall groups
of Bnai Brith will install their
officers for the coming year next
Tuesday, 8:30 p. in., at Educa-
tional Center, Linwood at Law-
rence.
The program will mark the in-
stallation of officers for the De-
troit Louis Marshall Lodge, Louis
Marshall Women, and Louis Mar-
shall Business and Professional
Women, which now comprise of
membership of approximately
1,400.
Harry Yudkoff, first vice pres-
ident of District Grand Lodge No.
6, will be. the installing officer.
Past presidents of the three
groups will make presentations
and awards for meritorious serv-
ice during the past year.
equally unwilling to assist in
liquidation of French interests in
the Middle East and a little
later to see a transfer of the
scene of Jewish massacre from
Central Europe to the Middle
East. Why Syria and Iraq should
be regarded as fit for the free-
dom and self-government which
Churchill continues to deny to
India, I do not know. I can only
say that the price he and his col-
leagues seem willing to pay for
Arab good-will is not substantial
today and will not continue long-
er than Ibn Saud and his Allies
see no alternative.
• "As they bought appeasement
during the war, so are they buy-
ing appeasement after it. The
cost is likely to be paid immedi-
ately by the Jews. But in the
long run it will be paid by the
poverty-stricken peasants in the
Middle East who will be denied
the chance of that increasing
standard of civilization which is
so long overdue."
1,000 Sewing Machines
For Birobidjan Orphans
One thousand. sewing machines
will be sent to Birobidjan as a
contribution of the sewing ma-
chine industry in New York to
the Jewish War Orphans settled
there. The contribution is a result
of the joint efforts of the mem-
bership of the Mutual Sewing
Machine Dealers Association, the
Fur Sewing Machine Association
and the United Mechanics Union,
Local 150, 115 of these machines
having already been transported
to Birobidjan by the American
Birobidjan Committee (Ambi-
jan).
Ambijan is sending to Birobid-
jan large transports of other im-
plements as well as clothing,
medicinals, and food products
needed for the rehabilitation of
the 3,500 Jewish war orphans al-
ready settled there. Ambijan
aims to create in Birobidjan pos-
sibilities for the settlement of the
rest of the 30,000 Jewish war
orphans who have escaped into
the U.S.R.R. from Poland, Rom-
ania, Czechoslovakia and other
neighboring countries.
Zionist Work Resumed
By the Jews of Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazilian
Jewry will again take full part
in the political and financial ef-
fort for the establishment of
Palestine as a Jewish Common-
wealth, following the formal re-
sumption of Zionist educational
and fund-raising work in this
country, it was declared here by
spokesmen for the recently re-
organized Organizacio Sionista
Brasil.
The prospect of full coopera-
tion was emphasized at a fare-
well function tendered in honor
of Mrs. Rachelle Sefardi Yarden,
director of the Latin American
Department of the Jewish Agency
office in New York, who left for
New York, after an extensive
tour of the country, in the in-
terest of the Weizmann Institute
of Science and the Jewish Agency
for Palestine.
A substantial sum toward the
$100,000 quota assumed by Braz-
ilian Jewry for the Weizmann In-
stitute was raised during Mrs.
Yarden's stay in this country.
The organization of a campaign
for the benefit of the Keren
Hayesod with the World Jewish
Congress, with a set goal of
$600,000 was also inaugurated.
CARD OF THANKS
The family of the late Harry
J. Shulman wish to thank their
relatives and friends for the
kindnesses shown them during
their recent bereavement..
Palestine Economic
Conference Sunday
Eminent industralists and
Government Officials to
Address Sessions
NEW YORK—Prominent Am-
erican industralists and Govern-
ment officials will address the
Palestine Conference which will
meet in all-day session next Sun-
day, at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, according to an announce-
ment by Michael Schaap, chair-
man of the board of directors . of
Bloomingdale's, who heads the
conference sponsors committee.
Arranged under the auspices
of the Palestine Economic Bureau
of the Zionist Organization of
America in association with the
Palestine Foundation Fund, the
conference is designed to present
a factual picture of the economic
development in Palestine and to
provide. an opportunity for Am-
erican businessmen and industri-
alists to consider how Palestine
and the Middle East offer a field
for economic expansion and in-
creased business relations with
America in the postwar era, Mr.
Schaap declared.
Speakers at the session will in-
clude: William Fondiller, assist-
ant 'vice-president of Bell Tele-
phone Laboratories; Prof. Jacob
S. Joffe of Rutgers University;
Sidney Musher, president of the
Musher Foundation; Philip
Joseph of Montreal, formerly of
Tel-Aviv.
Eliezer Kaplan of Jerusalem,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, who is in this
country for a short visit, will out-
line the program for the eco-
nomic expansion of Palestine.
Palestine Rabbis Appeal
For Return of Children
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An appeal
to the nations of the world "to
return to the Jewish people the
children and orphans who are
now in monasteries and in other
Christian institutions throughout
Europe," was issued here at a
rabbinical conference attended
by more than 500 rabbis and
heads of rabbinical institutions
of learning.
The conference adopted a reso-
lution recommending the est-
ablishment of Jewish religious
schools in every town and vil-
lage in Palestine. It appealed to
the Palestine government not to
discriminate between religious
and non-religious educational in-
stitutions.
MISS CORINNE PERLIS
similar to that in Senior Hadas-
sah and in Junior Hadassah in
Chicago and Philadelphia.
These teas will be held as fol-
lows:
University Group, at home of
Senior-Junior a dvis o r, Mr s.
Joseph Geschelin, 17546 Penning-
ton.
Russell Woods group, at home
of Senior-Junior advisor, Mrs.
Herman Cohen, 3230 Glendale,
where Mrs. Joseph Ehrlich will
speak. Helen Karabenick and
Frances Waterman are arrange-
ments chairmen for this meeting.
Central group at home of 'Mrs.
Saul Davidson, 2445 W. Boston..
Mrs. Simon Diamond is sponsor
of this group. Mrs. Sydney Moss-
man, director of the Detroit
Zionist Youth Commission, will
speak. Rhodene Unger and Flor-
ence Lipshitz are in charge of
arrangements.
Miss Perlis and Mrs. Maurice
Landau, Senior-Junior advisor to
the entire unit, invite all girls
interested to attexid one of the
teas.
Brazilian Govt. Repeals
Bans On Immigration
RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA) —
Repeal of all war-time bans on
immigration 'was announced this
week by the Brazilian Govern-
ment. As a result, the immigra-
tion law of April, 1941, becomes
effective, allowing immigration
on a two percent quota, as well
as the issuance of temporary
visas.