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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

A GAIN FOR ZIONISM

W F.S H N EW S

Pecomber

World Leaders Indicted

Dr. Albert Einstein's Address by Transcription to Fifth Annual
Anniversary Dinner in New York
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Nobel

By PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Territorial-questions and arguments of power, obsolete though they are, still
prevail over the essential, demands of common welfare and justice.
Allow me to be more specific about just one.. case, which is but a symptom
of the general 'situation: the case of my own people, the Jewish people.
As- long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews the
rest of the world looked on passively, and even treaties and agreements were
made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.
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Later, when Hitler was on the point of tak-
ing over Romania and Hungary, at the time when
Maidanek and Oswiecirn were in Allied hands,
and the methods of the gas chambers were well
known all over the world. - all attempts - to rescue
the Romanian and Hungarian Jews came to
naught because the doors of Palestine were
closed to Jewish iminigrants, and no country
could be found that would admit those forsaken
people. They were left to perish like their broth- .
ers and sisters in the occupied' countries.
But after all that has haPpened, and was
.not prevented from happening, how is it today?
While in Europe territories are being. distributed .
without any qualms about the •wishes of the
people concerned, the remainders of European
Jewry, one-fifth of its pre-war population, are
again denied access to their haven in Palestine
and left to hunger and cold and persisting hos-
tility. There - is no country, even today, that
PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN would be willing or able to offer them a place
where they could live in peace and security. 'And the fact that many of them
are still kept in the degrading conditions of concentration camps by the Allies
gives sufficient evidence of the shamefulness and hopelessness of the situation.
These people are forbidden to enter Palestine , with reference to the principle
of dervcracy, but actually the Western powers, in upholding the ban of the
White Paper, are yielding to the threats and the external pressure of five vast
and 'underpopulated Arab States. It is sheer irony when. the British Foreign
Minister tells the poor lot of European Jews they should remain in Europe be-
cause their genius is needed there, and, on the other hand, advises them not to
try to get at the head of the queue, lest they might incur new hatred and
persecution. Well, I am afraid, they cannot help it; with their six million dead
they have pushed at the head of the queue, of Nazi victims, much against their will.

. Favorable. action on the P al e s t i n e
• Resolution by the, Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee (the -vote: 17 for, Sen. Tom
Connally against) and by the Senate
(with only one dissenting vote) is a•
heartening occurrence.
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- If it will not help too much With the.
Anglo-American commission, it will at
least prove encouraging to the Jews. of
-America and especially to the unfortun-
ate people in Europe for whom it will
be a signal that we have friends in the
world, that not all hearts are calloused.
Michigan Jews will have special • rea-
son to be grateful to Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg who has been an influence
for good in securing favorable action on
the resolution.
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WHO SHOULD RESIGN?
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Jewish Morning Journal's favorite
columnist and editor, Jacob Fishman,
asks a good question with regard to the
proposal of the Jewish State Party and
the left Poale Zion that Dr. Chaim
Weizmann resign as president of the
Jewish. Agency for Palestine in protest
against British. policies.
Mr. Fishman wants to know 'why Da-
vid Ben 'Gurion does not resign since
the latest betrayal comes' from the La-
'.'bor Party.
It is a logical question, and we con-
cur with Mr. Fishman..
We 'reiterate our earlier view that
it remains to be proven whether Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver or David Ben Gurion
or any one else could have accomplished
- more than Dr. Weizmann, with all the
odds against us.
That does not 'exclude the need for
By BORIS SMOLAR
a firm stand and an unyielding deter-
By ARNOLD LEVIN
(Copyright. 1945, Jewish Telegraphic
mination to carry on the fight for jus-
Agency, Inc.)
(Copyright, 1945, independent Jew;sh
tice in Palestine.
Press Service, Inc.) •
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WASHINGTON NOTES
GERSHWINIANA
WHY ZIONISM?
There is quite a gap between the ori-
An interesting question was placed to ginal text of the Wagner-Taft resolution
More than 30 tunes by the late George
us:
on Palestine and the modified text adopt- Gershwin, hitherto unpublished, were dis-
Palestine is so important to us, why ed by the Foreign Relations Committee. covered by his brother Ira among the
should the fight for the cause of opening It is now a resolution that any non-
the country to unlimited Jewish immig-
Zionist will support. Zioriists who in- papers of Kay Swift who worked with
ration be concentrated in 'the 'handS . of sist on the immediate establishment of George.
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Zionists?
a Jewish Commonwealth will not be
The answer is a simple one:
happy. There is an unpleasant feeling PATRIOT
The truth is that ALL Jews are today about the stipulation restricting the free
Rich, spoiled, Nazi pal Merry Fahrney
participating in this battle for justice. entry of Jews into Palestine to the max- is trying to persuade Uncle Sam to for-
But since some 'one has to take - the imum of the country's agricultural and
• lead, and the Zionists have for half a economic potentialities. Who is to de- give and forget her "indiscretions." She
may yet convince him, should her efforts
century directed the - movement for the - cide on theSe "potentialities"?' And lwhy remain unpublicized.
colonization of Palestine by Jews, it is should there be any restrictions? Here
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natural that Zionism should direct the is where the findings of the Anglo-Amer-
battle for the removal of restrictions af- ican inquiry commission will play an LITERARY NOTE
fecting Eretz Israel.
William Saroyan coming into a book-
important role-.
But, suppose it were true that some
store some time ago to ask for books
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about Jews.
people may have to assume the label
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"Zionists" in the course of assisting in THE MARCH OF TIME
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this fight?
When the new year starts, the Joint WELCOME, BOB!
In Belsen and in other portions 'of Distribution Committee will have in Eu-
Welcome back, Chaplain Robert S. Mar-
Europe, unfortunate Jews are fighting rope close to 110 staff members. The
for the right to go to Palestine. When situation of the displaced Jews is getting cus! A near-shy; highly affable young
Belsen Jews raised the Zionist Blue and more and more complicated in Germany, man, graduate of Yeshiva College, mili-
White banner in protest against British but in the American zone in Austria no tant executive of the Joint Boycott Coun-
Foreign Secretary Bevin's damaging less than 4,500 of the 6,000 Jews from cil (with Israel Posnansky), did a bangup
statement on Jewish aspirations in Pal- camps have been housed in apartments, job for refugees in Europe, exceeding
estine, and some of the inmates in Ger- hotels and homes with adequate protec- anything the professional social workers
maxi concentration camps expressed their tion against the winter. An appropria- have done ... With no funds on hand, but
.views on the subject in their periodicals, tion of $1,000,000 was recently made by with plenty of guts, Bob defied French
the flag was dragged down and the camp the JDC for food and cldthing to be authority to retrieve Jewish children.
organs were censored.
distributed in Russia on a non-sectarian Most Jewish chaplains in Europe did a'
These people need encouragement. If basis in those regions where there is a superb job, but Bob's was one of the
superbest, although he'll probably smile
the assumption of the label "Zionist" by predominantly. Jewish population.
a non-Eionist will serve as a message of
Very few people know that the JDC and say: "I did nothing at all . . ." A
• solidarity to these people, it will in it- this year financed _the emigration- of book should be written about the rescue
8,462 Jews to Palestine from various work of Bob and * his * colleagues.
self be a good deed. In fact, it will be,
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to them, as strong as a Congressional countries in Europe and North Africa.
resolution and as effective as a gun in This represented 80 percent of the re- PERSONALITIES
The M.B.E. has been awarded to three
the hands of a defender of a Jewish col- corded Jewish immigration to Palestine.
ony in Palestine.
All these facts are culled from a report Jewish officerS who commanded Pales-
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which Moses A. Leavitt, the extremely tinian units—Major Wellesley Aron, scion
GOAT FOR MORGENTHAU, BELISHA
active secretary of the JDC submitted to of an assimilationist family who - became
The Jerusalem correspondent of the the annual- meeting of the organization one of the founders of the Habonina Zion-
Zionist Record of Johannesburg, South last week. Dr. Joseph Schwartz moved ist Youth movement in Britain, and
-Africa, has sent his paper an interesting the meeting to tears with his report on Majors Isaac RapOport and Eliezer Aranov
story which contains the following:
, the surviving Jews in Polarid. Especi- —all of them of Tel Aviv. J. Jacobs,
Where is Morgenthau? Where is
ally stirring was his story of a' 70-mile O.B.E., has been promoted from Assistant
Hore Belisha? This.question was put
trip to .see the only surviving aged Jew- Secretary to Principal Assistant Secretary
to Sergeant-Major Bankover by one
ish woman in Poland; no old Jews were Of the Palestine government, the first
of the Kazets:
left aliVe there by the Nazis. He report- senior Jewish official to reach this rank.
For the benefit of the reader, it
ed, that he found only eight .rabbis alive His brother, :Norman Jacobs, is active in
should be explained that "Kazet" is
in the whole of Poland, and that only the United Palestine Appeal in Manches-
a new and distinguished title. it
one synagogue--of the . thousands' that ter, England.
means "former inmate of concentra-
existed in pre-war Poland—was left in-
tion camp."
tact by the Nazis. Curiously enough, this CARTEL
Together with the Jewish Brigade,
synagogue is in Cracow, the seat of the
There would.be louder squawks for the
Sgt. Major Bankover visited the
former Nazi governor for Poland. And arrest and trial of I. G. Farben Trust's,
there was no one in the city who could officials as war criminals if more people
Jewish Kazets of Europe, and on his
explain to Dr. Schwartz how the syna- knew that I. G. Farben produced ferti-
return to Jerusalem told the follow-
ing story:
gogue miraculously escaped Nazi des- lizer from the bones of the millions
truction.
One Kazet asked me, "Where is
gassed at Oswiecim and other Nazi death
Morgenthau? Where is Fiore Belisha?
camps; also that German industry em-
For four years I suffered for them.
similarly a signal for beatings. So was ployed slave laborers who were worked
Each time the guard beat me he
that of Churchill and of many other non- to -debilitation- and executed when they
would say, 'this is for Morgenthau!,'
Jews.
had become too weak to work . . . Amer-
`this is for Hore Belisha' • . . Where
There is only one way of compensat- icans involved with I. G. Farben and
are they now when I need them?"
ing the sufferers—by opening wide for other German trusts are rightfully to be
Morgenthau and Hore-Belisha are not them Palestine's doors.
regarded as accompliceS . . Fortunately,
the only ones whose names have been
But pepole forget. so easily!
the American appointed to de'Majdanek
I.
used as excuses for beating Jews. The
And Israel remains the eternal scape-
G. Farben is Dr. Joseph Bates, a Mor-
name of the late President Roosevelt was goatl
genthau appointee.
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By

PH1NEAS J. BIRON

Copyright, 1945. Seveh Arts. ,
Features Syndicate._ Inc.

CHARLIE'S COMEBACK . . .
American First is on the march again.
One of the country's shrewdest public
relations experts is handling the
cal- publicity,
. . This expert .devotes
much of his time to a Charles Lind-
bergh revival campaign . • . The idea ,is
. to -rebuild. Lindbergh's heroic halo. and
run him , for the U. S. Senate. That • be-
lated news release about Lindbergh
shooting down 'a JO plane is part of the
rebuilding campaign . . The group
sponsoring the flier are very very anti-
Soviet and anti-Jewish.
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THINGS THE PRESS IGNORES - .
Rankin's Un-American Committee
was asked to investigate among others
Gerald L. X. Smith, Joe E. McWilliams,
E. A. Rumley, Gerald B. 'Winrod;: td-
ward James Smythe, Col. Eugene N. San-
ctuary, Mervin K. Hart and Joseph P.
Kamp,. . . Nothing was done .about it.
Winchell suggests that Rankin should
be asked to investigate Rankin.
Newspapers are keeping mum,. about
two sensational "libel" suits ag-anist-the
Chicago Sentinel. One asking • $50;000,
entered in the Circuit Court by GeOrge
VOse, former lecturer and
'ein-
ploy-ed by Gerald L. X. Smith's Amer-
ican FirSt Party, is based upon, an -
pose written by Archie Greenberg, na-
tional commander of the Jewish War
Veterans, which the- Sentinel published.
The other; suit, asking a total of $90,000,
has been filed in the Superior Court by
Joe McWilliams, George E. Deatheridge,
Eugene N. Sanctuary, Ernest F. Elmhurst,
Robert E. Edmonson, Lawrence • Dennis,
E. J. Parker; Sage, William H. Lyman,
Jr. and Charles B. Hudson, all notorious
anti-Semites, charging that an article
published" in the Sentinel "brought ridi-
cule and disgrace on the plaintiffs"' . .
Hats off to the editor of the Sentinel,.
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IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY . .
Approximately 40% or nearly . 2,000
pupils of the Brooklyn Technical High
School are of the Jewish faith. All stu-
dents (inclUding 'of course the' Jews) are
required to attend assembly exercises
during which the recitation of the Lord's
_prayer and the Doxology are performed.
This practice is in direct violation of
the stipulations in the by-laws .of the
Board of Education which state that the
Bible alone is to- be read and without
comment. • The New York State 'Consti-
tution forbids the use of a public school
building for religious purpose. Surely
compulsory attendance at services .' at
Which mass prayer is practiced is a viola-
tion of 'this law and destroys our &Ito-
cracy.
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COLLEGIATE SPIRIT . .
The smug Aryan theory of our col-
lege fraternities is in for a rude jolt.
A non-Jewish anti-fascist Organization . is
preparing a full dress campaign' against
the fraternities who' pride themselves
on adhering to Hitler's philosophy. One
of the fraternities on a large eastern
campus recently mailed a letter to a
prospective brother. That letter read
in - part . . -"any male member of the
Aryan race of good moral character, etc.,
is eligible" . . . "No person, either of
whose parents is a full-blooded Jew is
eligible • ." And they are trying Goer-
ing in Nuremberg.
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MISCELLANY . . .
This is the final lowdown on Hank
(baseball) Greenberg's marriage. His
bride-to-be is Carol Gimbel, twin sister
of Hope.
Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois is. one
of President Truman's closest friends.
The Hollywood columnist who is an-
nouncing the marriage of Franz Werfel's
widow to Bruno Walter the composer is
all wet, . . . Mrs. Werfel was Married
three trines and has decided to call
quits. -
Dina Shore, the songster, will soon
startle screen fans with her brand 'new
face, , the jwork of Hollywood's greatest
beauty. experts.
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PURELY PERSONAL . . .
Benjamin De Casseres died the other
day and the Hearst papers lamented the
passing of their. "beloved columnist"•:!..-:
We -knew Ben. when he was a Militant
starving progressive who boasted of be-
ing the only living collateral descendant
of the great Jewish philosopher, Bene-
dict Spinoza: Ben was a gifted 'Writer.
In his pre-Hearst days he protested with
prophetic white anger against the - a-
ploitation of his brethern.
Joe Brainin published his lort:37:*
mortals", a beautiful volume of literary
criticism, .

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