THE

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Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

HOPE IS NOT LOST
The demonstration of sympathy for the
cause of complete liberation of the Jewish
survivors in Europe provide us with
strong hope that all is not lost, that jus-
tice will triumph, that better days are
coming for the oppressed and the suf-
ferers.
Non-Jews were magnificent in their
stand in support of the Jewish cause in
Palestine.
It is clear that a just cause can not be
throttled.
It is equally as clear that most people
are good at heart and that entire peoples
must not be blamed for the iniquities of
their leaders.

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WE MUST BE PREPARED
But we must be prepared for all
eventualities.
Suppose we do not win our case?
Then, new means will have to be found
to carry on the battle against the White
Paper and for unlimited immigration of
Jews to Palestine.
Suppose we DO win our case, NOW?
In that case, large sums of money
will be needed to make possible the
settlement of 100,000 Jews in Palestine
this year.
The first step in the preparation of
ground for the great rehabilitation effort
is to assure the success of the War Chest
and to prepare for future drives for the
raising of funds in- follow-up efforts—
after the 100,000 new settlers will be
ready to take in another similar num-
ber who have no other place but Pales-
tine to go to.
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JEWS WHO "DIFFER"
We would not be telling the complete
story of the triumph for justice, as ex-
pressed in the Christian demonstration
in support of a Jewish Palestine, if we
were to fail to mention the activities of-
a handful of Jews who recalcitrate and
who interfere with progress.
Our reference is to such recalcitrants
as Lessing Rosenwald, Elmer Berger,
Rabbi Morris Lazaron.
While the overwhelming sentiment in
this country was and remains in support
of a Jewish Palestine; and at the time
when Jews and Christians, including
President Truman, Earl G. Harrison, the
President's personal investigator of Jewish
conditions in .Europe, Governor Thomas
E. Dewey and many hundreds of national
and state leaders, supported the Jewish
demands for free immigration to Pales-
tine, the recalcitrants. chose to dissent.
It was an ideal time to cause trouble.
The recalcitrants started by placing
emphasis on an anniversary—the 154th
of the Emancipation Act of the Emanci-
pation of Jews. (WHAT NEXT?).
Then, on the heel of every important
statement, the dissenters made it a point
to state that not all Jews are Zionists. As
if any one was interested in this view-
point—at a time when lives are at stake?
And as if there were any truth to this
claim.
And to top it off Rabbi Lazaron wrote
a two-column letter against the idea of a
Jewish State.
It is disappointing that a great news-
paper like the New York Times should
have seen fit to serve as the mouthpiece
for most of these outbursts in a time of
crisis.
And it is thoroughly disgusting to know
that men who could serve the Jewish
cause with truly great contributions, and
who could be participants in efforts to
rescue lives, have instead decided to hurt
humanitarian activities.
Those who have survived the terrors
of the concentration camps, their rela-
tives and those who are : concerned over
their well-being can have only one de-
scriptive word for such actions:
SHAME! ; .

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AN EFFECTIVE DEMONSTRATION
Detroit's downtoWn protest meeting, in
front of the City Hall steps, on Monday,
was effective.
Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, speaking from
experience, knew whereof he spoke when
he pleaded for the right of Jews to go. to
Palestine. He had visited in Palestine
and made a deep study of the situation.
Dr. James G. Heller was as powerful in
his plea from the City Hall balcony as
he was at the War Chest meeting, under
Allied Jewish Campaign auspices, earlier
in the day.
Rabbis I. Stollman and Leon Fram
added significance to the meeting.
And the pickets, orderly, serious, re-
flecting the urgency of the cause, lent
importance to a significant undertaking.
Now we pray that all these efforts, to-
gether with the thousands of wires sent
to Washington and London, will bring the
desired results.

JEWISH NEWS

My Sons, My Sons

An Epic of J. D. C. Achieveinents

Friday, October 12, 1945

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

One of the Many Human Interest Stories Revealing the Great

(Copyright, 1945, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

Humanitarian Tasks of the Joint Distribution Committee

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS •
Some persons in the capital maintain
that several members of the Labor cabinet
In 1939, two Jewish brothers from Austria came to this country. Fifteen-
in Britain were ready to agree that 60,-
year-old Max and Henry, his junior by one year, had been sent away from
000 Jews from Europe be admitted to
their home in Austria by their father, who sensed that his •country would be
less and less safe for Jews. They reached France and were brought there by
Palestine, but Foreign Secretary Bevin
the aid of the Joint Distribution Committee with funds provided by the
objected to it . . . The person who plays
United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. With the
a very important role in guiding Mr.
aid of the European Jewish Children's Aid, an affiliate of the National
Bevin on the Palestine issue is Sir Walter
Refugee Service, they were placed in foster homes pending the time their
Smart, counsellor of the British Embassy
father might come there and provide for them. One thing after another pre-
in Cairo.
vented his immigration, and suddenly in 1940, his letters stopped. The boys
There is a good deal of astonishment in
were terrified—all kinds of reports from Austria were reaching the U. S.,
Washington over the fact that the Hadas-
and each painted Jewish prospects blacker than the one before it.
sah was not permitted by the British to
By 1941, they had nearly given up hope of ever seeing or hearing from
send a transport of DDT to Palestine
their father again. After Pearl Harbor, Max enlisted in the U. S. Army, and
under the pretext that there was plenty
last year he was killed fighting on the Normandy beachhead. His brother, who
was not accepted by the army despite his attempt to enlist, remained in New
of disinfectants here . . . Hadassah se-
York, seemingly alone in the world. And then, late in May this year, after
cured United States permission to ship
Buchenwald was liberated, a wizened old man approached one of the first
the DDT from here, but the British re-
JDC workers to reach the former concentration camp. He told his story of
fused the import permit . . . Many Amer-
having sent his two fine young sons to America where it would be safe. He
ican firms which are prepared to estab-
himself had been imprisoned in the notorious concentration camp in the few
lish enterprises in Palestine are post-
months after the boys sailed for America.
poning their plans until after the British-
Asking nothing for himself despite his obvious hunger and the hacking
American monetary negotiations are con-
cough which indicated medical treatment was necessary, he wanted only
cluded ... They expect that these nego-
help in finding his children. A cable crossed the Atlantic, immediate action
tiations may bring tariff relaxations for
was taken in New York, and within a few days, the JDC official was able
to give news to the old man who waited so patiently in his office every day
American products sent to Palestine.
"just in case .. ." He didn't know how to tell the aged -father that his older
Ampal, Jewish cooperative trading cor-
son had died, but when he said, "Be proud of your son who fought for his
poration, is seeking to secure representa-
adopted country," the old man understood. "But what of_my baby? Only of
tion in Palestine of important U. S. manu-
course, he's a grown man now." He was told that his son was well, very
facturers.
happy to hear from his father and that a letter was on- its' way. Today, the
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aged survivor is in much better health. He is now living in Paris helped by_
PERSONAL AFFAIRS
American Jews through the United Jewish Appeal. On both sides - of the
Leonard Lyons, the columnist of the
Atlantic every effort is being made to reunite this father and son.
New York Post, tells an interesting story
The success of the War Chest campaign, which includes the United
about Bernard Baruch . . . Baruch listened
Jewish Appeal causes and the other agencies of the Allied Jewish Campaign
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, will guarantee continuation of
to Sylvia Porter, the New York Post's fi-
the humanitarian efforts in behalf of the survivors from Nazism.
nancial editor, declaring that many for-
tunes were made 'during the paSt 10 years
by men who speculated in U. S. govern-
ment and War Bonds . . • "I don't call
that speculation, because goveinment
bonds don't go down," said Baruch . .
"I'll give you a true example of fortune-
making and speculation . . ." Then he
told her- of a day, long before she was
born, when Baruch sold short on one
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By ARNOLD LEVIN
company's stock . . . He sold short more
and more, and then told his office: "To-
Copyright, 1945, Seven Arts
(Copyright, 1945. Independent Jewish
Features Syndicate, Inc.
Press Service, Inc.)
morrow is Yom Kippur . . . I'm spending
it with my mother, in prayer and fast-
HATE SET TO MUSIC
FASCIST FRONT
ing.
Under no circumstances am I to be
The hate groups have additional com-
The sedition trials will be re-opened
disturbed . ." When Yom Kippur was
pany—IMP
(Independent
Music
Publish-
_• • . U. S. Attorney-General Clarke is in
over, at sundown, Baruch went to his of-
possession of brand-new material from ers) and the American Society for the fice and read a pile of phone messages
Preservation.
of
Sacred,
Patriotic
and
Op-
Europe showing the, tie-up:' between
left for him . • . "In that one day," said
American and Nazi Fascists . . . Profes- eratic Music, rigidly following the "na- Baruch, "I became a millionaire."
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sor Haushofer, Hitler's Geo-Political tionalist line." The two groups consist of
braintruster, will not be tried for treason a motley of stuffed-shirts frightened SOCIAL RESEARCH
. • . He was permitted to return to his. deepest yellow by "modern music," and
Under a grant from the Lucius N. Lit-
Jewish "wife" who isn't Jewish at all . . of music scribblers whose Tin-Pan-Alley tauer Foundation, the New School . for
Leni Reifenstahl, former Nazi film star ambitions have come to naught . . . Now Social Research will open this fall a
and producer, is _treated like an Ameri- they are united on a single theme—hate Center for Study of Near and Middle
to the bar.
can glamour girl by the American gen- them, buddy, eight
Eastern Civilizations and Languages under
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erals stationed in Germany.
the direction of Prof. Abraham S. Yehuda.
JAP
CODE
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Irving Berlin, who last month received
When you hear persons exchange this the Medal of Merit at President Tru-
A JESSEL TRUE STORY
greeting—Ayak and Akai, you may be
George Jessel sure is branching out .. . certain that they are not members of an man's direction, brought $9,000,000 into
Not content with being and actor, author ordinary fraternity. The abreviation of the Army Emergency Relief Fund
and producer, he is now entering the bus- Ayak is — ARE YOU A KLANSMAN? through his musical revue, "This Is The
iness end of the book publishing field The abbreviation of Akai is—A KLANS- Army".
Congratulations to Dr. Mordecai Katz,
as well ... And incidentally, we'd like to MAN AM I!
Hebrew scholar and former editor of the
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tell you of George's comeback when the
Jewish Daily Courier in Chicago, on the
headwaiter of a Manhattan night club CHICAGO REPORT
40th anniversary of his literary activities —
stood rather goggle-eyed because Jessel
Gentile News, organ of Eugene Flit- • • • Modest Dr. Katz is now connected
was escorting Lena Horne, the beautiful craft's The Gentile Cooperative Associa-
with "Bitzaron", only Hebrew monthly
Negro actress ... "Are you sure you have tion, has been enlarged to 16 sheets.
magazine
published outside of Palestine.
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a reservation?" the waiter insisted on
The Jewish National Fund in Chicago
asking, though at other times he always NOPE!
will plant a William Kadison Komaiko
had welcomed Jessel with open arms
Nope, contrary to the frequent reports,,
. . . George repeated that he had made and contrary to the wishful thinking of Grove in Palestine as a memorial to the
the reservation . . . "Who made the res- the native fascists, Walter Winchell will heroic son of the Jewish leader S. B.
ervation for you?" the waiter then- in- not retire. He will .continue banging Komaiko, who was killed while serving
quired ... Jessel replied "Abe Lincoln". away at them with his own verbal brand as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal
Canadian Air Force.
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of atomic bomb.
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IN PRINT
We note- the recent announcement by GERMANY
When Thomas Mann, the former Ger-
Dr.. Henry Noble MacCracken, president
David, a little . boy from Poland, spent
of Vassar College, to the effect that 700 man, left the Reich because he found
textbooks at Harvard- University are now Hun air too oppressive, the German Gov- three years in a concentration camp.
being examined with a view to purging ernment confiscated his Nobel Prize When J.D.C. workers came in he refused
them of any references tending to in- money which he had on deposit in a Ger- to leave. "I am waiting for papa. He
man bank. He has now engaged counsel promised to come back for me," David
crease prejudice.
That autobiography on which Bernard to recover the money. Mann's rejection said.
The J.D.C. worker shook his head in
M. Baruch has been working is just of an invitation to return to Germany is
agreement. How does one tell a nine
about up-to-date now, but he has no in- in fine contrast to the attitude of some
tentions of publishing it at this time . . so called Jewish Deutsche Sozial Demo- year old boy that his father has been
The 75 year-old Baruch has no intention kraten who are helping to whip up pro- murdered? Other children left for tem-
porary shelter in France, England, Sweden
in America.
of bringing his life story before the Pub- German sentiment
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and Switzerland. David still "waited for
lic until he's ready to retire from active
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papa."
work—something he doesn't expect to do GOOD MOVE
Weeks passed before David was per-
Washington was wise indeed in mixing
for many a year.
the plans of Pastor Niemoeller, who ap- suaded to leave on the promise that the
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proved of Nazism but hated individual J.D.C. -would tell his father where he
AMONG STARS
Nazis, to lecture-tour this country . . . A was. In a home for Jewish children in
Arthur L. Mayer, the theater man, who queer sort of saint this Niemoeller, who, France he sees other happy children leav-
did such a swell job for the Red Cross by his own confession, offered his aid to ing for -Palestine, and he thinks he would
during the war, is now headed for the Caesar at the outbreak of the war, but like to go too.
Far East, where he will continue the good Was turned down ... His tour would have
With the aid of the J.D.C., which re-
work by cooperating in a March of Time precipitated rioting in many lecture halls. ceives its funds from the United Jewish
film about the Red Cross in that area.
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Appeal, some 24,000 Jewish children in
Gone to Hollywood is Luther Adler, BOLIVIA'S GUEST
Europe are now receiving care and as-
who'll be making his screen debut in
Heinrich Himmler's brother is having sistance.
your neighborhood movie theater before himself a good time in Bolivia, where he
Support for the J.D.C., U.P.A. and
long.
has acquired an estate and industrial af- N.R.S.—the United Jewish Appeal
Sorry to hear, of Fannie Brice's. illness fluency .. ..He was, and is still, a Nazi, agencies—is secured in Detroit from the
which may force her to retire indefin- although he mily neat have as many skull- Allied Jewish Campaign, through the
War Chest
notches on his belt as his brother had.
itely from the entertainment field.

Strictly
Confidential

Heard in
The Lobbies

Waiting for Papa