THE JEWISH NEWS Page Sixteen t94 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 /IA 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.