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Drs. Silver, Wise Charge Insult, Betrayal;
Hit Anglo-American inquiry on Palestine

Zionist Leaders Declare Statement by Foreign Secretary
Bevin Dodges Labor Party's Pledges fo Jews; Cite
Failure of Other Plans to Aid Emigration

Friday, November 23, 1945

‘LaY ehudim b'Japan'

Chaplain Adler Describes
Oneg Shabbat in Yokohama

problem
-
of Jewish national Tells of Meeting 18 Detroit Servicemen; Describes Chasms
homelessness and of Palestine is
of Jewish Community in Kobe Where He Failed in •
warmly to be welcomed, but we
deeply deplore the form which
Effort to Organize Jewish Community Council
NEW YORK—Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Stephen this cooperation has taken.
Capt. Morris Adler, 13:-• S. Army of Natalie Morrison, 8621 La
S. Wise, joint chairmen of the American Zionist Emergency
It is with the utmost regret
Council, on Nov. 14 issued the following comment on the that we charge our Government Chaplain now serving in Tokyo, Salle.
. Spoke Over Tokyo Radio
statements on Palestine and on Jewish emigration from with having allowed itself to be Japan, has been so taxed with
Manifold duties that he was com-
Capt. Adler has just concluded
Europe made Nov. 13 by British Foreign Secretary Ernest involved in a procedure whose pelled
for a time to call a mora- a series of six broadcasts over
main purpose is delay where
Bevin and by President Truman:
torium on his voluminous corres- Tokyo radio, and his discourses
action is long overdue. We desire pondence.
1.—The statement by Foreign€
were so popular that he was
Secretary Bevin, on Palestine and words while, physically and to draw attention further to the
Last week, however, he took a asked for copies by Jews and
on. Jewish emigration from Eur- spiritually, they rot and perish. fact that the terms of reference few
moments
to
inform
The
Jew-
ope brings to a climax the self- The President has done an ill- of the proposed Joint Committee ish News that he had met the fol- non-Jews stationed in Japan.
In the northern part of Japan,
omit all mention of the basic
stultification and the betrayal of service
the cause of saving commitments of the British Gov- lowing Detroiters in the course of Chaplain Adler writes, there are
pledges which have characterized the Jews to
his visits in Tokyo and Yoko- two Jewish Chaplains, but he is
of Europe by cooperat-
the policy of the British Labor ing in a procedure which will ernment in regard to the recon- hama:
still the only rabbi of the Tokyo-
Government on the Palestine is- postpone for many months any struction of the Jewish National
Detroiters He Met
Yokohama area in which is lo-
sue since its assumption of office. possibility of a solution of their Home in. accordance with the
Pvt. Bert Caplan, son of Mrs. cated the heaviest concentration
Cite Labor Party's Pledge
Balfour Declaration and the S. R. Caplan, 18296 Woodingham
of American personnel.
2.—As recently as April 1945, problems and any decision in re- Palestine Mandate.
Drive. •
gard to the opening of the doors
First Oneg Shabbat
Under no circumstances can
the National Executive Commit- of Palestine.
Pvt. Avery Clarfelt, son of Mr.
tee of the British Labor Party
this Committee be allowed under S. Clarfelt, 9373 Broadstreet.
"Last Friday night," he writes,
Gross Discrimination
the guise of an impartial inquiry
reaffirmed its support for the
Harold Feldman, son of Mr. "we had our first Oneg Shabbat -
7.—At no point in Mr. Bevin's to stifle the agonized cries of the Morris Feldman, 1993 Monterey. in Japan, at Yokohama, and
Jewish National Home in the fol-
lowing terms:
statement of policy is there any surviving Jews of Europe and to
Lt. (jg) Harold Frank, son of some 300 lads, including several
"There is surely neither hope direct reference to the obliga- , undermine and eventually destroy Samuel Frank, 5533 Woodward. Jewish Britishers, attended. A
nor meaning in a Jewish Na- tions of His Majesty's Govern- the rights of the Jewish people
Sgt. Aaron Gelfend, 2737 Glad- baker from quartermaster com-
pany prepared a mammoth `Chal-
tional Home unless we are pre- ment in regard to the establish- to Palestine, internationally guar- stone.
pared to let the Jews, if they ment of the Jewish National anteed by 52 nations of the
T/3 Irving Gerger, son of Mrs. leh' and the boys pitched in with
wish, enter this tiny land in Home. The British Foreign Sec- world, including the United T. Gerger, 2084 Virginia Park.
salmon, tuna and sardines re-
such numbers as to become a retary has, on the other hand, States Of America.
Pfc. Herman Ginsberg, husband ceived from home. The JWB was
majority. There was a strong by implication, accepted the con-
of Mrs. Ginsberg, 4298 Fullerton. represented with tins of exceed-
Hadassah Attacks Bevin
case for this before the war, tinuance of • the infamous policy
T/Sgt. Harry Halpert, son of ingly tasty • gefillte fish and it
H
a
d
a
s
s
a
h,
Women's
Zionist
was laYehudim b'Japan.'
and there is an irresistible case of the Chamberlain White Paper
Mrs.
M. Halpert, 2212 Taylor.
for it now."
with its gross discrimination on Organization of America, from an
Capt.
Morton
Helper,
Atkinson
"The Lind brothers, a trio of
emergency meeting of its na- Ave.
. This may be compared with racial grounds against Jewish tional
gifted cantors, sang Hebrew and
board
at
the
group's
head-
Mr. Bevin's insulting remark purchase of land in Palestine quarters, 1819 .
Cpl. Nathan Kusnit, son of Mr. Yiddish selections. In the midst
Broadway, Nov. and Mrs. A. Kusnit, 2334 Richton. of
when dealing with this issue. and its limitation of Jewish im-
this former citadel of brutali-
14, issued a sharp attack on
Lt. Burton Marks, brother-in- ty we succeeded in building a
"If the Jews, with all their migration to a trickle.
Foreign
Secretary
Bevin
for
his
law of Sidney Cohen, Grayson's, Sabbath atmosphere.
sufferings, want to get too
All this, ciespite the fact that
much at the head of the queue, the party of which Mr. Belvin speech to the House of Commons Woodward Ave.
Describes Activities
on
Nov.
13.
Pfc. Max Mindlin, husband of
you have the danger of another is a leader, in 1939 condemned
"Sabbath morning I hold a ser-
The
statement
went
as
a
direc-
Mrs.
E.
Mindlin,
2689
Virginia
Pk.
anti-Semitic reaction through the White Paper policy as a
vice in Tokyo proper on the 7th
it all."
T/Sgt. Abraham Pelfon, son of floor
"cynical breach of pledges given tive by airmail and wire to 700
of a huge office building. I
1—Instead of carrying out its to the Jews and the world, in- chapters in 48 states. It char- Mr. and Mrs. M. Pelton, 5974 14th have a portable Ark and have
Street.
acterized
the
reported
comment
unequivocal commitments, the cluding America," and despite
become an itinerant circut rider
William Schumer, son of Mr. of
Labor Government has sought in the express • statement by Mr. of the Foreign Secretary on the
the Jewish faith. In the after-
every way to procrastinate and Herbert Morrison, now Lord Joint Anglo-American commis- and Mrs. Harry Schumer, 18220 noon We make . the rounds of the
to avoid the fulfillment of its President of the Council, that sion which wilL be established to Pennington Dr.
Four times weekly we
Alvin Solomon, husband of Mrs. hospitals.
pledges.
that policy would not be auto- deal with Jewish rescue and the
hold services aboard ships. There
Betty
Solomon,
2536
Tuxedo.
status
of
Palestine
as
"an
insult-
4.—In this policy of delay it matically binding upon the suc-
are visits to outfits 80 to 100
Cpl. Jack Shapiro, son of Mrs. miles
has now succeeded in enlisting cessors of the Chamberlain Gov- ing, provocative and dangerously
away.
loaded attack on the Jewish M. Shapiro, 3710 Burlingame.
the inadvertent support , of the ernment.
"Last
week I took a flying trip
Capt. Bernard Stamel, Calvert
President of the United States.
8.—Finally, we must point out people, the Zionist movement Ave.
to Kobe • where formerly there
and
on
the
honor
and
prestige
By agreeing to the proposal for that the President of the 'United
Lt. Robert Morrison, husband' had been two synagogues —.a
a joint Anglo-American Commit- States has associated this country of the British Government."
Sephardic and an Ashkenazie. •
tee of Inquiry, the United States with a Committee of Inquiry
Basing its reaction • on reports
The Galuth in all of its far-fung
Government has fallen into a whose conclusions have already, of the Foreign Secretary's speech Silver, Wise to Speak
extent was vividly reflected when
carefully prepared trap.
'in important respects, been de- to Parliament, and on his At H.U.C. Celebration
I asked the refugee Jews with .
Truman Urged Action
termined in advance by the press conference, afterward, the
whom I was meeting to give the
Some
of
the
nation's
outstand-
5.—In his letter to Mr. Attlee British Foreign Secretary.
Hadassah statement said, "Mr.
names of their birthplaces. A
of Aug. 31, 1945, the President
Bevin's injection of the very ing laymen and a number of roster of cities was called, many
Unequivocal Commitments
Hebrew
Union
College
alumni
stated on the basis of the in-
In spite of the unequivocal brand of racialisro which, with-
of which have for us historic as-
vestigation conducted at his direc- commitments of our Government out foundation, he accuses the will receive honorary degrees sociations. Natives of Alexandria,
tion by Mr. Earl G. Harrison, and people to the reestablish- Zionists of-symbolizing, is shame- during the ,Dec. 7-8 celebration Vienna, Jerusalem, Odessa, Vilna,
of the Reform seminary's 70th Aleppo, Damascus, Bialystok, Sa-
that the main solution for the ment of Palestine as a Jewish ful."
anniversary in Cincinnati.
non-repatriable Jews of Europe Commonwealth; in spite of the
fed, were gathered in the one
On Dec. 7 the speaker will be MOM.
was the quick evacuation of those statements of President Wilson,
Dr.
Abba
Hillel
Silver
of
Cleve-
Zionist Ouiz Contest
who wished it, to Palestine. •
of Prime Minister David Lloyd
"The community is in the tra-
land, a past president of the Cen-
"If it is to be effective," wrote George, of Mr. Winston Church- At Schechter Home
ditional Jewish manner quite
tral
Conference
of
American
Mr. Truman, "such action should ill, of General Smuts and others
segmented. Its 200 Jews fall into
Rabbis and H. U. C. alumnus.
not be long delayed," and he 'at the time of the Balfour Declar-
A Zionist Quiz Contest will
At the anniversary dinner at three categories—Sephardic, Ger-
urged the immediate grant of. ation that what was contemplated feature the open meeting of the Netherland
Plaza on Dec. 8, Dr. man, .Russian. I sought to lay the
100,000 immigration certificates to was the ultimate establishment League for Labor Palestine this Jonah B. Wise, rabbi of Central
foundations _ of a Kobe Jewish
Palestine. Instead of acceding in Palestine of a Jewish State, Friday evening at the home of Synagogue, New York, H.U.C. Community Council — bz.k.t alas,
to this request, the British Gov- the British Foreign Secretary has Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schechter,
alumnus and a son of H.U.C. the chasms were too wide, the
ernment turned - it aside by the already declared that the estab- 2347 Richton.
founder, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, prejudices too stubborn."
proposal for a joint Anglo-Ameri- lishment of Palestine as a Jew-
Latk8 will be served at the and Dr. Stephen S. Wise will be
can Committee of Investigation,. ish State is precluded.
annual Hanukah Party scheduled the speakers.
President Truman now states
Mr. Bevin has further pre- for Saturday, Dec. 1, at the home
Dr. Julian Morgenstern i s
that he continues to adhere to judged the issue by declaring of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Richard- president of H.U.C. Dr. Hiram
the views expressed in his letter that Palestine cannot, by itself, son, 12 132 Wildemere.
B. Weiss is chairman of its board
to. Mr. Attlee. But his acceptance "provide sufficient opportunity
Eleanore Levenson, national of governors. Alfred Segal is
of the British scheme, with its for grappling with the problems" executive director of the League, chairman of the committee for
provision for a paltry fifteen of the surviving Jews of Europe will be the guest speaker of the observance of the institution's
hundred certificates per month —a conclusion which is in dia- annual membership dinner, Sun- 70th anniversary. Rabbi. Samuel
until such time as the Commit- metrical conflict with authorita- day, Dec. 9, at the Lee Plaza. Wohl of Wise Temple is planning
tee makes its recommendation, tive investigations, such as those Tickets may be obtained from committee chairman.
represents a complete recession of Dr. Walter Clay Lowdermilk Leah Chafetz, TO. 8-4951.
from his original position.
of the United States Department
RECEPTACLES
Emigration Talks Failed
of
Agriculture.
Mr.
Bevin's
state-
Garbage, Ash and Rubbage Reinforced.
6.—The possibilities of Jewish ment, further, altogether ignores
Concrete. Fully Guaranteed.
Priced Rigid.
emigration to countries other the fact that as was stated by
than Palestine were exhaustive- the British Royal Commission on
TO-te6
AMERICAN
solA14'
ly considered at international Palestine "unquestionably the
GOODMAN-GITLIN: Dr. and
RECEPTACLE CO.
conferences at Bermuda and at primary purpose of the Palestine
579 Kenilworth
TO. 8-5889
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)5°g
Evian in 1937 and 1943 and the Mandate was the establishment Mrs. Julius R. Gitlin announce
the
marriage
of
their
sister,
results were nil. The Intergov- of the Jewish National Home."
ernmental Committee on Refu-
Esther, to Julius L.. Goodman,-
Closer Cooperation
gees, further, has been in exist-
9.—The closer cooperation of On Oct. 26. Mr. and Mrs. Good-
ence for years with a like object our own country with Great man are residing at Highland
and with a like result.
Britain in the settlement of the Towers.
The burning desire of the ma-
jority of the Jews of Europe to
emigrate to Palestine is establish-
ed not only by the reports of
Mr. Harrison, of Judge Rifkind
(Chesed Shel Ernes)
and of Mr. Gibson of the Red
Cross, but by every unbiased
Requests all those in need of ifs
observer. In these circumstances,
the appointment of another Com-
services to contact its office at
mittee of Inquiry is a mockery.
Instead of concrete measures in
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conformity with clearly defined
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and valid international agree-
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