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THE JEWISH NtWS
Outstanding Highlights
On Palestine This Week
Dr. Liptzin to Give
Lecture on Terete
Noted Scholar to Speak Un-
der
Auspices of Sholem Alei-
Senate Committee Approves Wagner-Taft Resolution;
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Institute on Dec. 29
U. S. Inquiry Commission Meets with Truman;
Senate Adopts Resolution
Dr. Solomon Liptzin, head of
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Outstanding highlights of the existing situation affecting the
future of Palestine include the following:
1. Approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of
the Wagner-Taft revised Palestine Resolution by a vote of 17 to 1,
Senator Connally, chairman, casting the only opposing vote.
2. The meeting of the six American members of the Anglo-
American commission of inquiry with President Truman and the
indication that the commission's work will get under way by Jan. 1.
3. Issuance of explicit instructions to the inquiry commission
on the basis of an exchange of notes between Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes and the Earl of Halifax, the British Ambassador.
4. Announcement that the inquiry commission's sub-commit-
tees will make their inVestigations in Europe as well as in
Palestine.
5. Condemnation by the Smaller Zionist Action Committee of
the Bevin-reinforced White Paper policy as a repudiation of - inter-
national pledges and a reduction to "a rule by force".
6. The final decision as to whether representatives of the Jew-
ish Agency for Palestine will appear before the Anglo-American
Inquiry Committee on Palestine, will be left to the Jewish Agency
Executive, it was declared in resolution adopted at a day and night
session in Jerusalem of the Smaller Actions Committee which clos-
ed early this morning.
. 7. Washington and London were listed as the major cities
of a worldwide battle for Jewish statehood to be launched by the
Jewish Agency for Palestine within the next few days. Following
a series of emergency sessions in Jerusalem which lasted 10 days,
in which all but three of its 15 members in America, Britain and
Palestine participated, the Jewish Agency Executive declared that
while Zionism faces grave dangers, the Executive has not lost its
confidence at the prospects of the full consumation of Zionist aims.
"We are anxious, but by no means despairing," David ben Gurion,
chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, told a special session
of the Smaller Actions Committee to which he reported the out-
come of the Jewish Agency Executive's deliberations.
8. Rejection by the Small Actions Committee at its Jerusalem
meeting of the motion that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the
Jewish Agency, and the entire Agency executive, resign in protest
against the British policy on Palestine.
9. The decision of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee to
testify before the Anglo-American inquiry commission.
10 Adoption of the Palestine Resolution by the U. S ,Senate,
with only one dissenting vote.
In Lighter Vein
The Week's Best Stories
Mendelssohn's - "Despair"
During his - student days in
Berlin, Moses Mendelssohn wrote
to his father in Dessau asking
him for money. In order to
make the urgency of his needs
impressive, Mendelssohn wrote
that unless the money came im-
mediately he would be forced to
do something which no Jew or
Gentile had ever dared to do.
His father became frightened
and sent the money at once, but
he was • anxious, he wrote, to
know what his son would have
done had he not received it. To
this Mendelssohn replied: If you
had not sent me the money I
would have decided to lay teph-
ilin on the Sabbath day.
* * *
Goldwyn's "Why?"
At a producers' meeting in
Hollywood, Samuel Goldwyn—
the eminent movie personality—
interrupted the proceedings to
say:
"For your information, I would
like to ask a question."
* * *
A Rothschild Story
The story is told of the death
of one of the Viennese Roth-
schilds, who was carried to his
grave with the pomp that be-
fitted this leading Jew in the
pre-Hitler days. • At the far end
of the procession was an obvi-
ously - poor fellow, who cried
with a bitterness that seemed
greater than that shown by any
of the other mourners.
One of the others in the cort-
ege came back to the end of the
line and asked: "Was the Baron
a relative of yours?"
"No," was the answer. "That's
why I'm crying."
The story is so told that there
is nothing incongruous nor even
mercenary in the tale. It neith-
er reviles the dead nor shames
the living. That avoidance of
the barb of ridicule is one of the
distinguishing marks of truly
Jewish humor.
Screen star Lauren Bacall, who
has been taking a pasting from
the critics since her appearance
in "Confidential Agent", sent a
wire to her ex-boss, George S.
Kaufman, who has been getting
it, too, (on Broadway) which he
is having framed. It reads: "Hi,
neighbor!"
4,000 Jews in Vilna;
2 Synagogues Left
the German department of the
College of the City of New York,
and a member of the board of
the Jewish Scientific Institute,
DR.. SOLOMON LIPTZIN
will lecture on "J. L. Peretz-
His Time, Life and Works," on
Saturday night, Dec. 29, at the
McGregor Library, 12244 Wood-
ward, under auspices of the Sho-
lem Aleichem Folk Institute.
Dr. Liptzin is the author of
"Germany's Stepchildren," a vol-
ume that has aroused .nationwide
interest.
Prior to his lecture, books of
the Jewish Publication Society
will be displayed at the McGreg-
or Library by Albert Frieden-
berg of 825 Whitmore Road, rep-
resentative of the Jewish Publi-
cation Society in Detroit.
Friday, December 21, 14v.-
ur
Film
Folk
(Copyright.
1945 Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency)
By LEON GUTTERMAN
Somebody who likes to dabble
in statistics has figured out that
it cost Sam Goldwyn 44,800 man-
hours to film a sequence that will
run three minutes (!) in his new
comedy, "The Kid from Brook-
lyn." The man-hours cover the
star, Danny Kaye, and other
principals and 700 extras who
were paid from $7.50 to $25 for
an eight-hour day! 6
* * *
What is the price of fame? Re-
search experts gathering factual
data regarding the late George
Gershwin in connection with
Warner Bros.' screen story of his
life, "Rhapsody in Blue," dis-
covered that the great composer
suffered from an unusual malady,
known to the musical world as a
"composer's stomach." He could
not digest ordinary foods because
of the terrific pace at which he
drove himself; had to exist on a
diet of gruels and easily digested
foods!
* * *
Irving Berlin this week re-
ceived word at Paramount Studio
(where he's producing "Blue
Skies") from the Society of Au-
thors, Composers and Music Edi-
Mildred Grosberg Benin's
Jewish
Cook
Book
Mike Jacobs bids fair to hit
$2,225,000 as his gate receipts for
VILNA, (JTA) —This city, the year at Madison Square Gar-
den. He is over the $2,000,000
which had a prewar Jewish pop- mark already.
ulation of 80,000 today has 4,000
Jewish residents, it is reported
by Rabbi Isaac Azbanas, chair-
man of the Jewish religious
community.
Practically all of the Jews
have returned in the past year
from the interior of the Soviet
Union to which they were evac-
uated to escape death at the
hands of the Germans. Of the
The Wa#ch wrIti
Jews who were unable to flee
the 24flovr Did
in time, only five or six were
found when the Red Army lib-
You've heard hbout ii4 Now its here at
erated Vilna.
GRUEN
MN AMERICAN
80 Pct. of U. S. Jews
Supporting Zionism
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Eighty
percent of the American Jewish
community is actively in favor of
the Zionist program, and a great-
er part of the remaining twenty
percent are either indifferent or
uninformed, Dr. Felix A. Levy
of Chicago, chairman of the Com-
munity of Unity for Palestine of
the ZOA, said in a reply to the
one issued last week by Lessing
J. Rosenwald, president of the
American Council for Judaism.
Mr. Rosenwald had declared that
"an overwhelming body of Am-
erican Jews" opposed Zionism.
Some wise person said it in
Hollywood the other day, and it's
worth repeating. Said this man:
"No man should allow defeat.
For what a man swallows he di-
gests. What he digests goes
through his system—in part at
least to his head. And if the de-
feat idea gets lodged in a man's
head, he is licked indeed!"
tors of Paris that the association
has awarded him the title of So-
cietaire Definitif, "H onoris
Causa." Irving was notified of the
award in a letter signed by the
president of the society, who stat-
ed "this title is a mark of our
lively admiration for your great
talent and of our profound recog-
nition of the valuable „services
that you have rendered to music."
*
*
Paul and Lillian Langman of
New York City wrote their
friend, Danny Kaye, that after
seeing him in "Wonder Man," in
which he plays identical twins,
Mrs. Langman gave birth to
twins! "Better skip 'The Kid from
Brooklyn,' my next picture for
Sam Goldwyn," Danny advised
Mrs. Langman. "I play a milk-
man and along about the third
reel, Agnes, my delivery horse,
has a colt!"
*
*
Now the movies are figuring in
divorce actions! A Los Angeles
housewife, seeking separate main-
tenance in a Los Angeles court-
room, stated that her husband
was so influenced by movies
"that he wanted me to act like
Lauren Bacall one night and
Hedy Lamarr the next." The
judge awarded the housewife
$22.50 temporary weekly support!
*
*
Ingrid Bergman tells that when
she visited the. boys at Birming-
ham Veteran Hospital in con-
junction of the unreeling of Pro-
d u c e r Selznick's well-tilted
"spellbound," she was amused
by a wheel chair patient on the
back of whose transportation was
a sign: "Is this trip necessary?"
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