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Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, November i6, 1945

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Dm Saud and Feudal Control

An Editorial in The Washington Post

Recently there was made public the text of an exchange of letters between
the late President Roosevelt and his "great and good friend," Ibn Saud.
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In this exchange Ibri Saud spoke bitterly of the Zionist experiment in
Palestine. His letter was a curious melange of crooked history and dour threats.
The one thing he was careful to avoid discussing, however, was whether the
mandate in Palestine has been of advantage or disadvantage to the Arabs.
Ibn Saud happens to be one of the few absolutist rulers left in the world.
Within his realm there isn't the shadow of a suspicion of the "four freedoms."
Indeed, in Saudi Arabia, no Christian, Jew, or dissident Mohammedan is allowed
to take residence. But that system of exclusion has not led to any great im-
provement in the lot of the nomadic tribes who inhabit the vast region. They
still live lives that, for the most part, are the same as that lived by their ances-
tors a millennium ago.
It is clear that what Ibn Saud is afraid of is that the example of what is
happening in Palestine, where western science and technology have transformed
a desert into an oasis, will undermine the foundations of his rule.
In this respect Ibn Saud reflects the views of the rest of the top crust of
Arab spokesmen. The banner they raise is the banner of self-determination.
But what they seek is the perpetuation of their feudal control.

Strictly
Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

BIALIK STORY MAKES ROUNDS
Copyright, 1945, Seven Arts
Features Syndicate, Inc.
The Christian Science Monitor, quoting
an exchange, tells the following story:
UNTOLD STORY.
"A merchant heard that the natives of
The story of a rabbi in a small town in
an island in the South Seas had more
Long Island would, if told in full, make
gold than they knew what to do with, so
you wonder "Whether we live in a de-
he decided to help them out. He sailed
mocracy . . The rabbi has been so :
to their island with a boatload of onions.
thoroughly terrorized by anti-Semitic
The natives had never tasted onions, and
hoodlums that he is afraid to take a walk
were so delighted with them they ex-
on the street after sunset ... He prefers
changed a shipload of gold for the onions.
the security of the cemetery, because, as
"The merchant's business rival was
he puts it, "dead people can't throw .
enraged when he heard of this, but de-
stones".
cided that if the natives liked onions they
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would surely like garlic better. He, there-
THERE AND HERE
fore, took them a shipload of garlic, and
The British concentration camps for
true enough, they were delighted.
Jews in the Sudan and Eritrea are a dis 7 ,
"When he asked for gold in return,• they
grace to humanity . . . Prisoners . are
told him they wouldn't think of giving
lashed with cats-o'-nine-tails and then
him anything so common, and insisted
dipped in salt water, so that the victims
upon turning over to him their most
are left smarting for many days . . Did :
prized possession—the shipload of onions."
you know, by the way, that British cen-
This story interested us not so much
sorship forbids „any quotation from the
for what it, in- itself, is worth, but as
By BORIS SMOLAR
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By ARNOLD LEVIN
Hebrew Bible in the Hebrew press of
proof of what happens to a tale once
(Copyright," 1945, Jewish Telegraphic
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Palestine?
(Copyright, 1945. Independent Jewish
told, how it can be taken over by any
Agency, Inc.)
Press Service. Inc.)
one and used to suit a purpose.
Martin. Niernoeller hasn't given up the
UNHAPPY INFORMATION
Originally, this story was told by POLITICAL TALK
Danton Walker reports that Chancellor .idea of an American good will tour . . .
Coinciding
with
Prime
Minister
Attlee's
Hayirn Nahman Bialik, the great Hebrew
Robert Hutchins of Chicago University The former German submarine corn
poet, in a story he wrote for children visit to the United States, the British are
may
get the job of organizing the "re- mander still is considered the most in-
fluential - Protestant clergyman in Ger=
under the title "Knight of Onions and disseminating here a private report cal-
education"
of Germany . . . Hutchins
Knight of Garlick." Now it can be claimed culated to undermine the prestige of the heads the famous
many—but those who know him don't
group of blundering in-
by any one. That's the way with any tale. Jewish Agency . . . The report says that tellectuals,
which includes the Jewish quite trust his verbal liberalism.
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the Jewish Agency "seems unable to curb
extremism" in Palestine . . . It - expresses neo-Catholic writer Mortimer Adler and . Senator Theodore F. Bilbo is virtually •
THE MONITOR AND PALESTINE
the mayor of Washington, by reason of
Since we are on the subject of quota- the "fear" that the Jewish Agency, rather Milton Meyer, author of the infamous his chairmanship of the Senate District
tion from the Christian Monitor, we must than lose its influence, may go with the Saturday Evening Post article on Jews Committee, which controls the govern-
make note of the unfairness of this great tide and even be completely submerged of several years back . . . They are the ment of the District of Columbia.
"pity the German group" . . . Appoint-
newspaper when dealing with the prob- by it . . . It charges the Agency with ment
of Hutchins would be catastrophic,
Washington Times-Herald, which pub-
tending to assist illegal immigration and
lem of Palestine.
many feel.
lished - John O'Donnell's famous Patton
Its editorial policy has been pro-Arab. says that the Agency may presently direct
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column, made no attempt to apologize,
It has not been anti-Jewish, but it is it . . . It indicates that the British Govern-
but, on the contrary, supported O'Don-
consistently anti-Zionist. Its recent edi- ment may "denounce" the Jewish Agency, JACKSON AIDE
Lt.-Col. Murray Gurfein of New York nell's slurs on Jewry.
torial—"Jew—Gentile--Arab"—is proof of in which case it predicts that Dr. Weiz-
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such a general attitude. We regret it, mann will resign from leadership and the was appointed an aide to Justice Jackson,
ORGANIZATION
NEWS
Chief
American
war
crimes
prosecutor.
"extremists" will take control . . . "All
since we respeqt the Monitor as a great
this suggests bitter fighting soon with im- Gurfein, one of Governor Dewey's former
The inside' dope is that it's in the bag
newspaper.
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mense consequences throughout a vast assistants in the New York County Dis- for Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver: He will be
ZION VS. MEDICAL SCHOOL QUOTAS "area," the report points out . . • The trict Attorney's office, credited with hav- elected president of the Zionist Organiza-
Opening the drive for a fund of $4,000,- American Jewish Conference and the ing been among Dewey's mentors in Zion- tion of America by a unanimous vote at
000, to be raised in this country for the World Jewish CongreSs have submitted a ism, speaks Hebrew and has had Yeshiva the Atlantic City convention . . . Dr.
training.
Emanuel Neumann will have to take
first medical school to be built on Mt. memorandum to the State Department
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charge of the presidential administrative
Scopus, Jerusalem, under the joint spon- supporting the claims of the Jewish
duties for Rabbi Silver.
sorship of the American Friends of the Agency with regard to -reparations.. . . QUERY
Top men connected with the atomic
Serious differences are developing be-
Hebrew University and Hadassah Wom-
In a recent interview in the New York
en's Zionist Organization of America, Ira tween the American Jewish Com- bomb research wonder why President Post Rabbi James G. Heller; chairman of
Truman
did
not
confer
with
Professor
the United Palestine Appeal, made an in-
A. Hirschmann, member of the New York mittee and the American Council for Ju-
Board of Higher Education, emphasized daism over the Palestine issue . . . The Einstein, regarding the May-Johnson bill. teresting autobiographical revelation • .
that the projected school will be non- Arab Office in Washington is preparing He did confer with two other scientists, Rabbi Heller claims to be the last in an
to intensify its activities during Dr. Weiz- distinguished men, but below the measure unbroken line of rabbis that goes back
sectarian in nature.
This is significant in a period when the mann's visit in this country . . . Its guide of Einstein who authored the formula 500 years in his family . .. James is the
minds of many people are being confused and adviser is a highly paid American which was the start of the atomic bomb. last becatise his three children are all
by an exaggerated Arab-Jewish conflict. public relations man connected with oil President Roosevelt, who started the pro- girls.
confabs with Einstein.
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There is not .a department in the Hebrew companies which have an interest in Ara- ject, had frequent
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ABOUT PEOPLE
University in Jerusalem that does not bian oil.
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PERSONALITIES
welcome Arabs and Jews and whoever
Within three months Albert Einstein
When Abe Feller resigned to join the
FACTS AND FIGURES
else may desire admission.
will
once more make the headlines of the
Of even greater significance, however,
There are 65 Jewish hospitals function- UNO staff of Mr. Stettinius, his colleagues world press in connection with a revolu-
is the statement made by Mr. Hirschmann ing throughout the United States, open to on the UNRRA staff were very reluctant tionary scientific discovery.
that—
Jews and non-Jews alike . . . An average to see him go. His two secretaries showed
Is it true that Robert Moses, New
"In Europe the opportunity for med-
of 700 Jewish students are graduated each their reluctance by refusing to type out York's Park Commissioner, will succeed
ical students of all races and creeds is
year from medical schools • . . Few of his letter of resignation. He had to write Harold L. Ickes as Secretary
it in longhand.
of the In-
virtually cut off, while in the United
them have an opportunity to continue
terior?
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States a quota system operates in many
their studies in specialized fields, since
ANECDOTE
Ilya Ehrenbourg, the distinguished
medical schools. Thus the need for an
non-Jewish hospitals are virtually closed
This, from Leonard Lyon's column, is a Soviet writer, is coming to America to .
to them.
additional school that will be interna-
pip: "During the London session of the write a novel dealing with American.
tional and democratic in its selective
Union of American Hebrew Congrega- Council of Foreign Ministers, when Molo- life.
system grows more acute daily."
tions, now 73 years old, has a membership
The book "The Art of Max Band" by
This indictment needs no further clar- of 324 congregations representing 85,000 tov and Ernest Bevin became heated in
ification, especially in view of the recent families . . . More than one half of the their arguments, Bevin told Molotov: Arthur Millier, just published by the
expose of the quota system in our medi- total number of the congregation have be- "You forget, sir, that I represent British Borden 'Publishing Company, •confirms
Labor". . . "YOU forget," replied Molo- that Band belongs to the great modern
cal school prepared by Dr. Frank King- tween 25 and 100 members each.
tov, "not I." Observers of British Labor masters of the brush.
don for Mercury Magazine.
The Bnai Brith. has two Yiddish-speak-
Recently, however, so many new facts ing lodges in this country in Milwaukee policies in Palestine will agree with Mr.
Arthur Koestler, the novelist who is
Molotov regarding Bevin's general for- enjoying so great a vogue in this coun-
have come to light, revealing the sad and in Detroit.
getfulness
of
the
principles
on
which
his
status of Jews who are affected by the
try, has applied for Palestinian citizen-
There are at least 300,000 Jewish boys party was elected to Government.
quota system, that there ought to be no
ship . , He intends to make the Holy.
and girls of high school age in the United
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let-down in the fight for justice.
Land his permanent home.
States . . . Of these, only 15,000—one of
A very short time ago, the American 20—are getting a Jewish education in NO FORGIVENESS
Friends of Wilhelm Furtwaengler, that
OSE Committee issued a statement mak- various Hebrew, Yiddish and Sunday
ing it known that only about 100 Jewish schools and in the Hebrew classes in pub- Kosher Nazi conductor, former conductor
of the N. Y. Philharmonic, are seeking to
doctors out of a pre-war total of 3,700 lic high schools.
bring him to the United States, in the be-
have been identified as living in Poland.
As many as 125,000 Jewish boys and
OSE appended to its Statement the names girls of high school age are members of lief that all has been forgotten and for-
given. They have succeeded in obtaining
of the surviving Jewish doctors.
Jewish centers and synagogue clubs and for him refuge in Switzerland. Let him
By CHAIM NAHMAN BIALIK
At the same time it has become of national Jewish youth organizations.
stay there. Remember Majdanek, and you
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(Translated from the Hebrew by
known that 88 towns in the state of
won't forget that while colleagues struck,
Helena Frank)
Michigan are without physicians and that PERSONAL HISTORY
fled or were tortured, Furtwaengler was
compared with pre-war days Michigan is
And
shouldst
thou wish to know the
Dr.
Robert
Elman,
associate
professor
Reich Music Director and waved the
now short of 2,287 doctors.
source
of clinical surgery at Washington Univer- baton for the Horst Wessel song, which
Nevertheless, our medical schools, in- sity, was awarded the $1,500 Samuel D.
From which thy tortured brethren drew
cluding the Detroit and Ann Arbor col- Gross award by the Philadelphia Acade- eulogizes the "Knight of. the long knife, In evil days their strength of soul
leges, continue to enforce quota systems my of Surgery, made for an. original con- when the ebbing blood of Jewish life To meet ..their doom; stretch out . their
aganist Jews who are seriously and sin- tribution to surgical research and prac- tastes doubly sweet." r*
necks
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cerely desirous of pursuing medicine as tices . . Dr. Elman received the prize
To each uplifted . knife and axe,
DOING WELL .
their life's work..
for pioneering in use of animo acid injec-
Mrs. Dorothy Schiff Backer Thakery, In flames on stakes to die with joy,
What's wrong with the world?
tions in cases where patients are unable the dynamic publisher of the New York And with, a whisper, "God is one."
What's wrong with America?
To close their lips?
to digest normally . . . He is credited with
MUST we follow a Nazi pattern of saving the lives of thousands of starving Post, who' has recently acquired a radio
station, is now angling for the ailing Then enter thou the House of God.
the numerus clausus?
victims of the Nazis and the Japanese,
And at the moment the only solution as well as of servicemen who were unable newspaper across the bridge from New The House of Study, Old and gray,
York's Manhattan, Brooklyn Daily Eagle. ThroughoUt the sultry summer days,.
offered us is that - Palestine's proposed.
to eat because of intestinal injuries.
She may soon-, emerge as a real press Throughout the gloomy winter nights,
medical college will refuse to discrimin-
Lt. Robert Rosenberg, son of James N. mogul.
ate and will be non-sectarian!
At morning, . midday, or at eve;
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Perchance the eye may still behold'
It is good to know that "out of Zion Air-Medal and the Distinguished Flying
"DEPORTED" FBI
In some dark corner, hid from view,
shall come justice." But we had hoped
Cross . . . He has just been demobilized
Leonard Lyons reports that the G-Men A cast-off shadow of the past,
that justice would be guaranteed by the . . . He was co-pilot of a plane engaged
were ordered out of Germany by high The profile of some pallid face,
end of Nazi-Fascism.
in bombing Vienna, and when the pilot army authorities—the day before Ley
_Upon an ancient` folio' bent,
This sick world of ours certainly needs
was killed, he saved the plane and the committed suicide. What's the matter-L-
a lot of doctors!. _
'Who seeks to drdwn unspoken woes,
crew.
were the boys turning in too many Nazis? In the Talmud's boundless waves.

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