Friday, August 10, 1945
THE JEWISH NEWS
World Zionist Conference
(Continued from Page 5)
which will not be acceptable
to local Arab leaders.
"Any solution for Palestine
which will not provide for Arab
demands, or which will not be
acceptable to the' Arab popula-
tion, will aggravate the situation
and will threaten the peace of
Palestine," says the message.
Polish Government Won't
Bar Jewish Emigration
LONDON, (JPS — Palcor) —
Concern in Zionist circles that
emigration of Jews from coun-
tries within' .t Soviet sphere of
influence might meet with ob-
stacles, was dispelled here when
a delegation of seven Zionists
from Warsaw, headed by Dr:
Emil Sommerstein and including
three former Jewish guerilla
leaders, arrived with a 'letter
from the Prime Minister of Po
land pledging the support of Po-
- land's reconstituted Government
to the rehabilitation of the Jews
within Poland' and to institu-
tions organizing the voluntary
emigration of Jews from Poland.
Dr. Sommerstein called on the
conference to concentrate on sav-
ing the surviving Jews of
Europe and bringing them to
Palestine and to leave questions
of high politics.
The Polish delegation included
Chayele Grossman, a young girl
witli'a noble record as a leader,
of the Jewish resistance move-
ment against the Nazi; Berman
and Zukerman, all Labor Zion-
ists. Zuckerman led the Warsaw
ghetto revolt, and another dele-
gate, Meller, led a unit of _800
Jewish partisans..
Martyrdom Unfolded
Dr.
Sommerstein's speech
-
sounded like a recital of Lamen-
tations, and hardly an eye re-
mained tearless as he unfolded
the tale of Polish Jewry's mar-
tyrdom. He also told of rehabili-
tation efforts undertaken since
Poland's liberation, and praised
the U.S.S.R. for having saved the
80,000 Jews that have survived in
the Soviet Union.
The American Zionist delega-
tion, including Mizrachi and the
Labor Zionists, plan to propose
Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, co-chairmen
of the American Zionist • Emer-
gency Council, to constitute with
Louis Lipsky, member of the
World Zionist Executive Commit-
tee, the
• Executive Com?nittee's
resident members in America
with power to participate in the
making of the Committee's de-
cisions. Dr. Weizmann will pro-
pose that Berl Locker, Laborite
and the World Zionist ExecUtive
Cominittee's liaison officer in
London, be co-opted as a 'mem-
ber of the Cimmittee in London.
Dr. - Silver paid tribute to Dr.
Weizmann, ben Gurion and other
members of the Jewish Agency's
Executive Committee under
whoseleadership, he said, Pales-
tine made great progress in an
era of political defeat. ',-
However, he said, he did not
always agree with their policies.
He criticized Dr. Weizin.ann's
conference speech for its "de-
jection," and Ben Gurion's "fear
which is p&ralyzing." .
Wants U. S. Set Example
Dr. Silver said that American
Zionists wanted the American
Government to set an example to
Britain by passage of the Pales-
tine resolution, but unfortunately
his aim is not yet achieved, in
spite of wide support in both
houses of Congress.
"The resentment of the Jews
must not be suppressed," Dr. Sil-
ver said, "but must be properly
prepared for any emergency; not
by meaningless reassurances re-
garding position, but by - main-
taining a fighting spirit and a
consistent fixed line of policy
/ aiming for a Jewish state which
is the most common normal aim
of any people. We must never
again • confuse Zionism with
refugeeisin but concentrate on
the establishment of _a Jewish
state, not merely on certificates."
Judge Lo.uis Levinthal, of New
York, vice president of-the Zionist
Organization. of " America, de-
clared that Dr. Weizmann had ap-
pealed to the conscience of man:
kind, but that his warning "trust
. not in princes" must not be taken
literally. Judge LevinthaI said he
found Ben Gurion's pessimistic
tone disappointing and called for
-"abandonment of talk of resist-
ance, and stressing of self de-
fense."
Meir Grossman, leader of the
Jewish State Party, said that
when surveying the general situ-
ation "ohe cannot bib- me only
circumstances and t outside
world, but to some extent, our
own leadership." Grossman criti-
cized "political negotiations be-
hind closed doors, which kept the
movement in ignorance." He con-
ceded "the considerable achieve-
ment of American Zionists, but
criticized Hadassah for emphasiz-
ing refugeeism • in its Zionist
propaganda. •
He demanded the resignation of
the World Zionist Executive Com-
mittee and called on the Confer-
ence to make changes in leader-
ship and reorganize work in Lon-
don and in America. He criticized
Ben Gurion's speech• which, he
said, was open to misunderstand-
ings.
Hashomer Hatzair Position
L. Chazan, representing Has-
homer Hatzair, depreciated the
mood of disbelief in any change
of policy under the Labor Gov-
ernment, considering that "the
whole world recognized the tre-
mendous significance of this
political change."
Rabbi Wolf Gold,_ president of
the World Mizrachi, said: "Jewish
life in exile has gone completely
bankrupt. Only Palestine presents
any hope for the future."
Dr. Isaac Schwartloart, said:
"The World Zionist Executive
Committee must • no_t be con-
demned for failure which is due
to outside circumstances."
Zerubavel, of the Left Poale
Zion, said: "Zionists must ap-
preciate t h e significance of.
Labor's assumption of power in
Britain, and note that not only
in England, but throughout the
world, the general trend is to the
left. Zionists must equally assess
the Soviet Jews' who are un-
severed from the Jewish people
as was demonstrated during the
war, as a factor."
Rabbi Schenk, of Australia,
said that Australia, is unprepared
to absorb Jewish refugees and
Jews must concentrate all their
efforts on opening Palestine.
Berl Locke-, Labor Zionist
leader and World Zionist Execu-
tive Committee representative in
London, told, the opening session
of the conference of Ichuf Poale
Zion Hitachduth (World Zionist
Labor Organization) that While
the Labor Party's pre-war and
wartime committments on Pales-
tine presage a more favorable
policy toward Zionism under the
Government, and he is convinced
that the prospects for Zionism
have become much brighter, he
does not feel that 'Zionism is em- -
barked on a period devoid of
political fighting and unclouded
by disappointments.
Moshe Shertok, Zionist Labor-
ite and Chief of the Political De-
partment of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, said that the British
Labor Party's victory opened
great possibilities for the Jewish
people and that this places spe-
cial responsibility on the Labor
Zionist movement.
Revolve Around Zion
Polish partisan leader Meller,
one of the Warsaw delegates,
stated that the hopes of Poland's
Jewry revolved around Palestine
and demanded at least 1,000 im-
migration certificates a month for
Polish JeWs. He said that in the
past seven months, 17 kibbutzim
(Palestine pioneer collectiv e
groups) have been founded in
Poland, and a seafaring kibbutz
was founded in Danzig.
Despite the strenuous efforts of
the Government to extirpate the
clandestine • anti-Semitic, fascist
terrorist societies, he said, Jews
are still being killed in Poland
as Jews.
The, Arab statesmen, not in the
least sure of their position de-
spite their attitude, are bolstered
by expressions of pessimism re-
garding the Jews, emanating
from Jaws themselves, Moshe
Shertok warned in a political ad-
dress. Depicting conversations
with Arab statesmen, he said that
he was convinced that agreement
with them is only possible if the'
great powers decide the issue in
favor of the Jews.
Wezemael featured
11 n Open-Air Concert
At Center Monday
Page Thirteen
38 Months Overseas,
Maj. Sugarman Glad
To Be Back in U. S.
The Jewish Community
er's seventh
in the
of open-air concerts,
con
certs, next
day, at 9 p. m. will feature
Cent-
"There is no place like the
series
United States," is the comment
Mon-
of Maj. Marcus H. Sugarman
Cyril
who has just returned from 38
months of service in Europe.
Maj. Sugarman, assistant div-
ision surgeon of the 5th Infantry
Division, has served in Iceland,
England, Scot-
land, Northern
Ireland, France,
Luxembo u r g ,
Belgium, G e r -
many, Czechosl-
ovakia and 'Aus-
tria — but after
seeing _ all these
lands "the goo
old U. S. re-
mains the best."
He is spending Maj. Sugarman,
his 30-day leave at the home Gf
his parents on Philadelphia Ave.,
CYRIL WEZEMAEL
after which he and his wife,
Eleanore, (nee Bierman), will
Wezemael, ,Detroit baritone, solo- leave for Hopkinsville, Ky.,
ist at the Dirt St. Presbyterian where they will reside while Maj.
Sugarman will be stationed at
Church and Temple Beth El.
Camp Campbell.
Mr. Wezemael; who will be
heard in a full recital of arias
Cpl. Deitch Returns
and songs, will be- accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Edwin S. For 30-Day Furlough -
Sherrill. Also on the program will
Cpl. Joe Deitch is spending a
be Al Caroselli, guitarist.
30-day furlough with his wife,
Mr. Wezemael has chosen songs Edith, of 2702 Glendale, after 16
by Beethoven, Martini, Schubert, months in England. He entered
Thomas, Zamecnik, Costa, Edi service in_ 1943. His parents re-
Capua, Denja, Guion, Case and side on Clements Ave.
Hageman. There is no charge,
His brother-in-law, Pfc. Abe
and in case of rain, the concert Slotnick, a veteran of the- North
will be held in the auditorium.
African campaign, is home on a
10-day furlough from Percy Jones
Cpl. Feldman Home;
Hospital... Entering service in
April, 1942, he was sent overseas
Wounded on Okinawa
in 1943, and has been back in
Cpl.. Robert Feldman, son, of the States a year. His wife, Rose,
Mr. and Mrs. William JackS`on, lives at 2702 Glendale.
3224 Rochester, is home on a
Jewish Chess Stars Hit
30-day convalescent leave.
Cpl. Feldman was wounded on Champion as.Fascist •
Okinawa. and was transferred by
hospital ship to a hospital in the
NEW YORK (JPS)—Alexander
Marianna Islands where he met Alekhine, world champion chess
,his brother-in-law, Cpl. Irwin player, who extolled the Nazis
Lee Weiler, a medic stationed and once wrote that Jews belong .
there.
to an inferior race which must
Cpl. Feldman preyiously fought be eradicated, was repudiated by
on Leyte and Luzon. He was in- Jewish chess players here despite
ducted in March, 1941.
his assertion, in an interview in
A younger brother, Alvin, a Spanish magazine in 1944, that
PHM 3/c, is now in the Pacific the Nazis had forced him to
with the Navy.
spread anti-Semitic propaganda.
If you like suspense, in-
trigue and dark adven-
turt, you'll get a big thrill
from this new beauty of
the color comic pages,
Miss Cairo Jones, who
discovers thrilling drama
in her first appearance be-
fore readers. Watch for
this new feature
Sgt. Ginsberg Writes
Of Greenland Blaze
Sgt. Saul Ginsberg, who has
been in Greenland more than a
year, writes of a devastating fire
which caused 'great excitement
in their camp. He writes:
"It was not an
ordinary fire. In
two moments
the barracks
were trans-
formed into an
inferno.
"Three of us
were in bed
after having
worked on the
night shift. So .
intense were the Sgt. Ginsberg
flames that the steel beds melted
and the steel springs fell apart.
Live cartridges exploded.
"We dashed for our lives. One
man wore his pajamas and the
other had the good fortune to
grab his fatigues, but I didn't
-have time to salvage a thing.
"We finally brought the fire
under / control. The next day a
boat -arrived with the necessary
replacements in equipment."
Sgt. Ginsberg, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ilyman Ginsberg of 9503
McQuade, is a Central High' .
graduate. He left Wayne U. to-
enter service in December, 1942.
He
is
o.
. radio
man a
attached
t
the Air Cor
ps.
Liberated Jewish Girls
Now Police Berlin Zone
PRAGUE. "(JPS)—Hundreds
of Jewish girls, from Russia,
Bukovina and the Baltic coun-
tries, many recently liberated
from Nazi concentration camps,
are now policewomen in the
Soviet-occuPied zones of Berlin,
Vienna pnd other towns in Ger-
many- and Austria.
Off duty the girls engage in
helping Jewish survivors to cul-
tural and social rehabilitation.
Most of them have mastered the
German language and are high-
ly praised by Soviet authorities.
PROF. ISADOR RABI NAMED
COLUMBIA U. EXECUTIVE
NEW. YORK (JPS)—Prof. Isa-
dor Rabi, winner of the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 1944, has been
named executive officer of the
Department of Physics of Col-
umbia University. Prof. Rabi
has been on the Columbia Uni-
versity teaching and research
staff for . 15 years. -
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by Answering These Questions
1. Who is Judge Mongibeaux?
2. Who is Col. Herman Beukema?
3. Who is Arthur E. Wood?
4. Who is Paul B. Wurtsmith?
Answers hi Sunday's News, Page 2; Also Maga-
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