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THE JEWISH NEWS

Quentin '! eynolds Urges
Education Against Hatred

Friday,

Teachers Are Forbidden

To Join Committee for
Racial Understanding

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JPS)-

Makes Appeal to Audience of 2,000 in Behalf of $250,000 Citing at least five incidents of
violent anti-Semitism in the Cam-
Civic-Protective Campaign; Butzel, Friedman, Blumberg
bridge schools within the past
Present Reports on Drive; $115,000 Already Raised

year, 13 Greater Boston com-
munity groups signed a statement
of protest against the action of
the Cambridge School Commit-
tee forbidding teachers to join a
committee for better racial un-
derstanding.
Reports of attacks
against
Jewish boys, stoning of a Hebrew
school and anti-Semitic parodies,

June 29, 1945

by Cambridge high school stu-
dents, were brought out to refute
a claim by the school committee
and by Mayor John H. Corcoran,
that racial tensions do not exist
in the Cambridge school system.

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Buy War Bonds!

In a stirring appeal to an audience of nearly 2,000, on
Tuesday evening, at Hotel Statler, Quentin Reynolds, emin-
ent newspaper and radio commenator and war correspond-
ent, urged support of the current civic-protective campaign
of the Jewish Welfare Federation to fight anti-Semitism
and to protect the rights of Jews everywhere.

Arriving eight hours late from
New York, Mr. Reynolds was
Mr. Blumberg, president of the
nevertheless greeted by a patient
audience that waited until the Detroit Service Group, announc-
hour set by the chairman, Fred ed that $115,000 has already been
M. Butzel, for adjournment in raised toward the $250,000 goal.
the event the noted speaker He announced that 40 meetings
would not arrive. But five min-
have already been held, with Mr.
utes before the set time for dis-
Greenspun as speaker, and ex-
banding the meeting—at 9:25 pressed satisfaction with the re-
p. m.—Mr. Reynolds entered the sults of the drive to-date,
hall and was given a rousing
ovation.
Calls for Unity of Effort
Warning that it took Ameri-
cans a long time to awake to the
realities of conditions which
Declares
threaten the internal amity of
our land, Mr. Reynolds deplored
NEW YORK (JPS)—"Without
the fact that there are today in
this country people who are as the Syrian question and the
complacent as Jews were in Zionist issue as rallying points,
Berlin before the advent of it is doubtful whether the Arab
Hitlerism. He warned against Governments, torn as they are
those who say "let George do it" by mutual doubts and jealousies,
and called for unity of effort could have gotten together, A. T.
and cooperation in assuring a Steele, New York Herald-Trib-
strong fight against the anti- une correspondent, declares in a
Semites.
dispatch from Cairo describing
Stating that youngsters usual- the Arab League.
ly play well together but that
The military weakness of the
the minds of many are later Arab States "means that the
poisoned by their elders, Mr. Arab League will have to con-
Reynolds declared: "If you can fine itself to political, economic,
educate TO hatred, it is logical cultural and other non-military
that you educate them OUT of activities," Mr. Steele writes.
hatred."
"Arab leaders are obviously
Reports for Leaders
watching with interest for clues
Concluding his address with a to American policy, if any, on
glowing tribute to the memory the Jewish national home proj-
of the late President Roosevelt, ect. The death of President
Mr, Reynolds lauded him as a Roosevelt was a blow to the
man who dreamed that there will Arabs, coming so soon after his
be a brotherhood of man and an meeting with King Ibn Saud of
end of bigotry and declared that Saudi-Arabia and King Farouk
"that was his cause and that is of Egypt," Mr. Steele reports.
our cause."
"Abdel Rahman Azzam Bey,
During the hour of waiting for
the speaker's arrival, Mr. Butzel, Secretary of the Arab League,
Judge William Friedman and told this correspondent that the
Irving W. Blumberg "filled in" Zionist question was discussed at
to explain the purposes of the the Ismalia Conference between
drive for $250,000 for the civic- President Roosevelt and Ibn
protective causes.
Saud. The President, according
Mr. Butzel described the vari- to. Azzam Bey, gave Ibn Saud
ous movements included in the his hand and assured him that
drive—the American J e wish he would not support the Jews
Committee, the American Jew- against the Arabs. But he did
ish Congress, Anti-Defamation not say he would support the
League of Bnai Brith, Jewish Arabs against the Jews. One
Labor Committee and the Jewish condition of Ibn Saud's adhesion
Community Council of Detroit, to the Arab League, according
and told of some of the major to reliable reports, was that
Arab countries should insist on
objectives of these causes.
immediate solution of the Pales-
$115;000 Already Raised
Judge Friedman, who is chair- tine problem and not content
man of the drive, described some themselves with mild protests,"
of the manifestations of anti- Mr. Steele reports.
Semitism "which should cause
"In Azzam Bey's words: 'He
us alarm," told of the spread of will never accept Zionist dom-
hatred in schools and in indust- ination in Palestine. If they try
ries, and urged wholehearted to overwhelm our markets by
effort to assure the success of subsidization we will resort to
the drive.
boycott as a last resort'."

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Negativism Keeps
The Arabs Intact,
Reporter

PM Charges Anti-Semitic Essay Part
Of Army-Navy Course in English

NEW YORK (JPS) — U. S.
Army and Navy personnel tak-
ing the joint Army-Navy cor-
respondence course in "college
English," were until two months
ago, given a violently anti-Se-
metic, Nordic race theory es-
say to "sum up" as part of their
assignment in the official work
book.
The course was supplied to
members of the armed forces by
the U. S. Armed Forces Institute
under the joint official auspices
of ,the Morale Services Division
of the Army Service Force, War
Department and Educational
Services Section of the Bureau
of Naval Personnel Navy De-
partment.
The essay, since withdrawn,
according to USAFI officials,
was a reprint of a chapter "The
Melting Pot" from a book 'called
`America Comes . of Age," writ-
ten by Andre Siegfried, a for-
mer attache of the French
Foreign Office. The chapter con-
tains, accordini; to the newspa-

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