Friday, January 11, 1946
THE JEWISH
JEWISH NEWS
Morgan Charges Held Plot
To Bar Zion Immigration
British UNRRA Official's Statement Called 'Anti-Semitic'
By Dr. Weizmann; Jews, Non-Jews and Press Protest
General's Utterance Against Refugees
Monsky to Speak
At Bnai Brith
Meeting Mar. 13
Detroit Jewish Youth Called
To Zionist Rally on Jan. 20
National President to Ad-
dress Membership Cam-
paign Session at Staffer
The storm of criticism aroused by the statement of
Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick E. Morgan that Jews had organized
Culminating a city-wide drive
a mass movement for an , exodus from Europe to Palestine
and that the reports of Polish pogroms were exaggerations, to increase local Bnai Brith men's
has resulted in the forced resignation of Gen. Morgan as membership by 2,000, Henry
Monsky, national president, is
chief of UNRRA operations in Germany.
Protests against his statements
include condemnations by news-
papers and outstanding leaders,
Jews and non-Jews, throughout
the world. .
, (Strong editorials - in the
Detroit News and the Detroit
Free Press demanded Gen.
Morgan's resignation and
branded his actions as stupid.)
Although Gen. Morgan had
refused to submit his resignation
after being recalled from his post,
it was definitely established that
he will be restored to his post in
the British war office in London.
Investigate His Charges
The British Foreign Office has
decided to investigate Gen.
Morgan's charges.
LT. GEN. F. E. MORGAN
In Frankfurt, Judge Simon H.
Rifkind, adviser on Jewish affairs
to the U. S. military command in
Germany, branded Morgan's
charges as "poppycock."
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency, said
the Morgan statement was "palp-
ably anti-Semitic."
The American Zionist Em- Drive to Enroll 1,000 New
ergency Council condemned the
Contributors Encouraging,
British officer's charges as "an
Officials Declare
outrageous libel" against the Jew-
ish people.
At a meeting of the member-
Condemned by Chaplain
ship
enrollment committee of the
Gen. Morgan was condemned
United Hebrew Schools at the
in statements issued by Capt.
Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., Philip
Robert S. lfarcus, who recently
J. Gilbert, chairman, submitted
returned as a chaplain with the
an encouraging report on the
U. S. army in Germany, and by
progress of the campaign.
the Trade Union Committee for
Mr. Gilbert stated that "the.
Jewish Unity.
community is responding gener-
U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner
ously to the membership appeal
of New York asserted that the and many persons have been en-
Morgan statement is part of a listing as members of the United
plot to stop Jewish immigration Hebrew Schools as a result of
to Palestine.
letter. We are hopeful that
The Manchester Guardian de- the goal of 1,000 new members
clared editorially that Jews re- will be reached."
turn to Poland only in hopes of
In response to Mr. Gilbert's
locating lost relatives. - letter, Alfred Hecker,. an alufn-
Charles S. Zimmerman, vice- nus of -the schools, sent in his
president - of the International annual dues with the following
Ladies' Garment Workers Union, notation: "Being a graduate of
upon his return from a tour of the first class, it is indeed a
Poland on behalf of the Jewish privilege to carry a membership
Labor Committee, branded the in this fine institution."
statement as being at variance
Membership dues checks . of $5
with the facts.
may be mailed to the United
`Thought Hitler Dead'
Hebrew Schools, 4000 Tuxedo,
Eddie Cantor, .in a two column attention of Philip J. Gilbert.
paid advertisement in the New
The membership enrollment
York Times, took exception to committee consists of Philip J.
the statements by Gen. Morgan, Gilbert, chairman, -Abe Kasle,
and declared: "I Thought That Lawrence W. Crohn, Maurice
Hitler Was DEAD," and charged Landau, Max Bachman, Henry
the resurrection of Hitlerism in Fineberg, Julius Berman, Samuel
remarks like those made by Schwartz, Dr. A. E. Bernstein, -
Morgan.
Morris Fishman, Harry Davidoff,
Prof. Oscar Lange, new Polish Jack Tobin, Joseph Yolles, Harry
ambassador to the S., inter- Cohen, Robert Marvil and Wal- -
viewed by correspondents at • the. ter Field.
State Department in Washington,
virtually gave : the lie to Geri.
Morgan by confirming that there
had been one pogroin in CracoW;
Poland, and numerous individual .
acts of violence against Jews in,
that country.
Ambassador Lange compared
The annual dinner meeting of.
present7 day underground -anti-
Semitism with the murders corn- the Jewish House of -Shelter will
mitted by the '"Feme" elements be held next Tuesday, at 6:30
in Germany during the early p.m, at the Jewish Home for -
Aged, 11501 Petoskey.
days of the Weimar Republic.
Milton M. Macklin, president,
Anti-Semitism Nest
Lange further charged that a will present a report outlining
nest of the Polish underground the activities during the past
anti-Semitism was located in year.
A feature of the meeting will:
Colmirg, Bairaria, , Anierican 7OC-
be presentation of memorials: b!),.
cupied zone in Germany.
the agency to the -families ,of the
Peter I. "AleXeev, .chief of
late , Hyman Altman and Louis
UNRRA's mission to Czechoslo- Dann. Mr. Altman was chairman:
vakia, said that there' is no- 'of the HOuse Committee of the
evidence, that Polish Jews who institution for several years prior
fled to CiechoslOvakia have any . to his death and Mr: Dann *as
:organized plan for a mass. exodus the treasurer of the organization
to Palestine. He .said that dis- since its inception.
placed persons - Were no great'
The meeting has been arranged
problem in =Czechoslovakia since by a committee consisting , - of
their number was "very very Max M. Silverman, chairman„
small."
Barney Barnett, Max Chariness
Cables received in London and David Goldberg.
from Warsaw express surprise at
The memorial committee con-
Gem Morgan's statement that his sists of Max M. Silverman, chair-
representatives had been unable man, David Goldberg, Henry
to find concrete examples of a Rottman, Dr. David Kliger and
pogrom inside Pdland.
Aaron Weiswasser.
Hebrew Schools'
Membership Plea
Gains Response
Pag e Rye
scheduled to speak at a public
meeting sponsored by the Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Council, at
the Statler Hotel, on March 13,
according to Samuel Hersch,
membership chairman.
Bnai Brith Detroit Lodges now
comprise 5,000 men. With the
successful completion of the cur-
rent campaign, it is expected
that more than 6,500 men will be
members of the order here. Two
new lodges are in the process of
formation, making a total of nine
in Detroit. More than 2,500 worn-
en are members of the Detroit
- women's groups of Bnai Brith.
The visit by Mr. Monsky will
follow initiation of newly-in-
ducted members into the "Henry
Monsky class" of Bnai Brith, Mr.
Hersch stated.
vail
Delegate from Palestine, Local Leaders to Address Meeting
at Central High; All Young Groups Urged
to Participate in Program
To inform and arouse interest been invited to participate in the
in the problems of Palestine and direction of this program and
world Jewry, Young Zionist Ac- all youth are urged to turn out
tion Commission, composed of en masse for this initial Zionist
representatives of all Detroit youth rally.
onist youth groups, has called a
The steering committee con-
mass meeting for all Jewish sists of Ben Saferstein, Yak Wod-,
youth to be held Sunday, Jan. row, Kiev Finkelrnan, Lillian
20,. from 3 to 5, at Central High Rudack, Basha Cutler, Elaine
Schbol.
Shiffman, Rhodine Ungar, Dr.
A feature of the program will Sam Krohn, Corrine Perlis, Ger-
be an address by a youth dele- trude Strauss, Echanon Ross,
gate who just arrived from Pal- Rachel Klein and Mrs. Esther
Mossman.
estine.
Mrs. Esther Mossman, direc-
tor of the Detroit Zionist Youth Infants Service Group's
Commission, will be chairman Cafe Society Fete Jan. 20
for the afternoon.
Other speakers will be Philip
The Cafe Society dinner dance
Slomovitz, who will bring the
and
show of Infants Service
adult Zionist message; Elchanan
Ross, former lieutenant in the Group will be held Jan. 20 at 7
Army Air Force, who will speak p. m., at the Book Cadillac Hotel.
Mickey Woolf will be featured
on behalf of the veterans in the
as master of ceremonies and his
Chalutz movements.
A memorial prayer "yizkor" orchestra will provide the music.
For reservations call Mrs.
will be presented to memorialize
George Lubin, HO. -4896 or Mrs.
the masses of Jewish dead.
All Jewish youth groups. have William Kaye, TY. 7-3932,
n ILI
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