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THE JEWISH NEWS

Purely
Commentary

The Common Defense

'Who Hateth Is a Murderer'

By the REV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN

) By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

IS OUR PRESS GROPING IN DARK?
At its annual convention in Milwaukee
this week-end, the American Association
of English-Jewish Newspapers will reach
final decisions on an extensive program
of cooperation with all the leading na-
tional organizations. Central offices will
be established eventually by the Jewish
press, with the intention of servicing
English-Jewish newspapers and helping
them raise their standards to the highest
possible levels.
Milwaukee will be a testing ground
for the English-Jewish press. The news-
men's convention should prove whether
Jewish periodicals are ready to fall in
line with the general necessity of plac-
ing everything other than the major
Jewish relief and reconstruction effort
in the background; whether they are pre-
pared to lay down new laws of "playing
down" a multiplicity of campaigns and
centralizing activities in behalf of the
UJA; whether they are willing to begin
educating the Jews of America to the fact
that the only "parties" which are in order
today are those that will give new life
and new hope to the unfortunate masses
of Jews in Europe, especially the 150,000
children who must be rescued from
squalor, want and degradation.
The Jewish press, like the Jews of
America, are being tested. May we all
come out of it with a great sense of dig-
nity and with the satisfaction that we
have done our duty nobly.
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JEWISH SECURITY AMONG ARABS
With the Palestinian question rapidly
coming to a head, and with the possibility
of an early solution to the existing prob-
lem, there is one point that requires
clarification and understanding.
The Arabs, claiming that ALL coun-
tries should admit the Jewish sur-
vivors from Nazism, maintain that Jews
always were treated well in Arabic
countries before the advent of political
Zionism, and that in return for abandon-
ing claims to Palestine the Arabs will be
prepared to welcome Jews into their
numerous countries and will provide
opportunities for them to help them build
up these countries.
What are the facts regarding the vari-
ous "paradises" for Jews in Arabic
countries?
"Interpreter" writing in the Zionist
Review of London, makes the following
points:
A close examination of this argument
reveals that it (the Arab argument) is
contrary to the facts. It is true that in
Spain at the close of the millenium and
in Turkey in the 16th century, co-
operation and friendship between Alas--
lems and Jews resulted in outstanding
achievements. But in periods when the
moral tone in the Moslem world in
general and in the Arab world in par-
ticular was low, the Jews were the vic-
tims of misrule and fanaticism, al-
though they tried to be "as low as grass
and as still as water".
Take, for example, the condition of
the Jews in Palestine in the 19th cen-
tury. Kinglake, who visited Palestine
in 1834 or 1835, devotes a chapter in
Eothen to an account of an attack by a
fanatic Moslem mob on the docile
Jewish population of Safed. The Safed
Jews were in such a state of panic that
they appealed to him to use his in-
fluence to prevent the recurrence of
the disaster.
Moses Montefiore, who visited Pales-
tine seven times, also had much to say
on the treatment of the Jews at the
hand of their neighbours and on the
absence of security for life and prop-
erty. In 1838, on the occasion of his
visit to the Cave of Machpelah in He-
bron, an Arab mob threatened his life.
Soon afterwards Jews were beaten up
in the Jewish quarter of Hebron. The
position in other towns was not better.
For at the conclusion of his visit Monte-
fiore said: "I am now anxious to
have an interview with the Pasha at
Alexandria, for the purpose of claim-
ing of his Highness security for the
persons and property of the Jews in
Palestine, and particularly for those in
Safed and Tiberias, where they are con-
tinually exposed to insult, robbery, and
murder". (See Diaries of Sir Moses and
Lady Montefiore).
With regard to other Moslem areas,
anti-Jewish excesses occurred there just
as in the anti-Semitic zones of Europe.
Tn. 1840 the blood libel was revived in
Damascus which was followed by the
arrest and torture of a considerable
number of Jews. Some were so tor-
mented that they had to embrace the
Mohammedan religion. In 1860 the

Friday, February. , 1946

Executive Director, Institute for American Democracy
Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, addressing a gathering of Chris-
tian Youth at Christ Church, New .York City, told the story of a woman who-
had gone to meet a train bringing. some 1,300 refugees to Palestine.
She stood," said Mrs. Douglas, '`with an old man waiting with tears in his
eyes for a grand-daughter, the only living member of the large family he had
left behind him in Europe; with a physician whose wife had been gassed to
death in Germany but whose son had somehow escaped, and was coming to
him; with hundreds of other tremulous, bereft human beings, waiting for some
one miraculously rescued relative. Then the newcomers began to descend from
the train—an orphaned girl from Italy, an orphaned lad from France, a youth
who when asked from where he came, replied: 'What difference does that make?
What matters is where I have come to, not where I've come from. I've come
home."
"He stretched out his hands in joy—and the woman saw the number
scorched into his flesh-108223—his slave number in a labor camp. There were
such numbers on the hands of all the 1,300 newcomers, on the hands, too, of -a
little boy of six, who came shyly- upto the. woman and told her, in reply to her
question, that he had come originally from a town in Poland. He was six years
old and his eight-year-old sister was with him. 'She and I,' he said simply,
`are the only Jews left of all the thousands in our town. Just she and I'."
A boy—with a mark of a slave burned into his flesh! Has Twentieth
Century civilization come to that! Two little children—bereft of everything
and everyone—the only -members of their religion left in their town—the rest
liquidated.
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Anti-Semitic lies did it—lies nurtured by hatred—until hatred had ac-
complished its perfect •work—murder. Well did St. John say, "Whosoever
hateth his brother is a murderer."

Strictly
Confidential

__By PHINEAS J. BIRON

Copyright, 1946, Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate, Inc.

PERSONAL AND COMMUNAL
Hats off to the National Federation for
Constitutional Liberties . . . Its recent
publication, "They Still Carry On" is a
corker ... The copy on how to spot and
stop native fascists is first rate stuff .. .
Most of the text in the booklet has been
supplied by the U. S. War Department
. . . If interested you can order this book-
let by writing to the Federation at 205 E.
42nd St., New York.
Congratulations to Mrs. Dorothy Schiff
Hall Backer Thackerey, publisher of the
New York Post . . . She will be a grand-
mother via her daugher Mrs. Lt. Arthur
Gray Jr.
The Spanish Government in Exile will
soon make public an important declara-
tion on its attitude to the Jewish problem
. The inspiration comes from a recently
published book by Abraham Friedman
under the title "Towards a Rapproach-
ment Between the Hebraic and Hispanic
Worlds".
Ben Hecht is taking 'time off his Holly-
wood assignments to write the script of
a giant spectacle about the plight of the
Jews in Europe.
Albert Kahn, co-author of "Sabotage"
will be very much in the news because
of his new book "The Great Conspiracy".
The British American Commission on
Palestine will not issue any report till
sometime in September 1946.
The American Bible Society boasts that
a respectable number of the total of 12,-
172,138 Bibles, testaments and gospels
distributed by the Society in 1944 passed
through the channels of "Missions to the
Jews".

Jews of. Damascus had. to appeal to
England for help in consequence of
their persecution" following the "civil
war" . between Moslenis and Christians
in Syria. In 1862 panic spread among
the Jews of Morocco when Jews were
arrested on the false charge of poison-
ing (two were executed). In 1866 there
was a frightful outbreak against the
Jews in Persia.
When we come to our own times we
observe an ironic situation. It is the
"non-political" Jews of - the old type
who are the main victims of Arab
nationalism and religious fanaticism.
In the PaleStine riots in 1929, in Iraq
in 1941, in Egypt and Tripoli several
weeks ago, it was the humble, depressed ,
Jew, so beloved by Arab politician§,
who was thrown as prey to the tender
mercies of the mobs.
These facts must not be overlook either
by Jews, who must understand our posi-
tion in the world, or by non-Jews who
may be misled by the Arab argument,
The issue is one of assuring security
for the Jewish people and of guarantee-
ing that the survivors will not be called
upon to live in fear,*when they are final-
ly settled in a place of lasting refuge.
Palestine alone provides that oppor-
tunity—and the Jews of Europe know it.
It is not by sheer accident that they are
"literally sitting on their valises" (as Dr.
Joseph J. Schwartz of the J.D.C. put it-
in his testimony before the Anglo-Amer-
ican Inquiry Commission on Palestine)
awaiting an opportunity to settle in
Palestine, and it must not be a waiting'
in vain.

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Heard in
The Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1946, Indepndent Jewish
Press Service, Inc.)

DEFENSE FUND
Elizabeth Dilling is yelling her lungs
out, frantically seeking a defense fund
for that number one phony and Christian
Fronter, William Gerald Bishop, interned
on Ellis Island as a dangerous enemy
alien. Bishop can't be deported because
his antecedents are veiled in mystery,
and it can't be established whether he is
Austrian or German. Bishop has con-
tended of late that he's American, but
he can't prove it. At one time he claimed
to be an Australian . . • . He was one of
the Christian Front sedition defendants
in Brooklyn several years back.
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"PAPPY O'DANIEL"
Pappy O'Daniel (D., Tex.) who is still
grooming himself to become what Huey
Long might have become, thinks _ that
Britain is "totalitarian" because its Gov-
ernment preaches "full employment"—
a "communist" dream.

SMITH TOURS, INC.
G. L. K. Smith, having completed a
tour of the South and the East, is set to
tour New England within the next few
weeks. He is rubbing his hands in antici-
pation of the turn-out in Boston.
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STATISTICS
Did you know that one third of the
readers of the New York 'Daily News
are Jews? Apparently they don't read
its editorials and keep their ears and
minds shut to what is universal knowl-
gdge regarding the Daily News.
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FIRM CHANGES. NAME
The- Constitutional Government League
of Seattle, Wash., pleading for "racial
purity," will soon adapt a nom de plume,.
American Religiotis Education Assn.
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INTERNATIONAL HATE
The Imperial Fascist League, England,
has established contacts With Homer
(deport or castrate American Jews)
Maertz.

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Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1946, Jewish Telegraphic
Agelacy, Inc.)

THE TRUE FACTS

While colleges and universities thrOugh-
out the country are discriminating against
Jewish students, the American Council
on Education has issued a report estab-
lishing that America is entering the post-
war period with a serious, shortage of
doctors and dentists . . . At least. 30,000
additional physicians will be. needed. in
the. United States this year, and hardly
one-half of this number are available
. . . The shortage of dentists will be pro-
portionately greater, because the number
of dental graduates in the United States
decreased nearly 25 per cent during the
30 years immediately preceding the war
. . . Thus, today's supply of dentists is
not only inadequate in number, but also
predominantly in the older age grOups
. .. Yet, the quota system which certain
universities and colleges are now quietly
practicing against Jewish students is
aimed at eliminating Jews chiefly froni
the fields of medicine and denistry .
The tendency of Jewish students to con-
centrate in relatively few professions is
due, it must be borne in mind, to the
discriminating practices barring the
entry of Jews to many other professions
. There were no more than 100,000
Jewish studentS in the United States in
1935-36 . . . This means about one Jewish
student for every 47 Jews . . . The 1938
proportion of non-Jewish students is one
student to every 100 persons.

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MILITARY TRENDS

The American Military Government is
now considering a plan to evacuate all
the displaced Jews from the camps in
Germany to several European countries
and to North Africa for temporary resi-
dence there .. . The plan, submitted by
an American Jewish organization, was
presented following an investigation con-
ducted in the camps and a study made
for the temporary absorption of the Jews
in various countries willing to admit
refugees as transients for a stay of six to
12 months . . . Under this plan 10,000
Jewish refugees would be sent to Sweden,
Spain and Portugal each, while 5,000-
would be transported to Switzerland and
another 5,000 to UNRRA centers in North
Africa . . . France would also accept 10,-
000 Jewish refugees, provided that the
United States furnished food, fuel and
clothing from military supplies and sur-
pluses available in France . . . Thus, all
the 50,000 displaced Jews in the camps
could be moved within a couple of weeks
to countries which have had no had ex-
periences with refugees, and from where
they would emigrate within six to 12
months . . . The plan foresees that within
the new existing immigration laws in
various countries, it will be possible to
secure admission—within the above
period—of 20,000 Jews to Palestine; 15,000
Jews to the United States, 10,000 to
Canada; Australia, New Zealand and
South Africa and another 10,000 to some
15 Central and South American countries
. . . Sympathetic consideration was given
the plan by Robert Murphy, political ad-
viser to the U. S. commanding general
. . . Judge Rifkind, adviser on Jewish af-
fairs, is similarly interested in the project
which, if- carried out, will lead to the
liquidation of the camps for displaced
Jews before the winter is over.-

No Greater Love—

BOOK NOTE
February 3 will mark the third an-
Arthur_ Miller is the latest literati rave niversary of the sinking of the Dorches-
with his first novel (not his first book), ter. The front_ page illustration is dedi-
"Focus", describing how a man in Brook- cated to the four chaplains who gave up
lyn, a non-Jew, suffers from bigotry
their life belts and went to a watery
simply because he looks Jewish with his
grave to save four GIs.
glasses on. Book reviewer Harry Hansen
In "Religion at Work" Dr. Maeanna
suggests, in his review of the book, that
Cheserton-Mangle wrote the following
the Jews, had better fight back,' and that
-tribute to these four heroic men of God:
liberal Christiansassist them.
The troopship was - sinking fast The
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enemy had made his mark. GIs were
CUTE ITEM
dashing for their .stations, bedecked in
Two years ago, with a grant from the
lift belts; but for some it was too late,
National Federation of Temple Sister-
for four of them, to go below- for their
hoods, Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, director of
belts. The cry went out: "Abandon
the Commission on Education of the
ship!" Their companions were jump-
Union of. American Hebrew Congrega-
ing. The waters loomed black and cold
tions, set up a correspondence course on
below. Four chaplains: one Catholic,
Jewish subjects. One of the 136 students
two Protestant and one Jewish, learned
who enrolled for the course in Jewish
of the plight of the lads and immedi-
history was .a freshman co-ed from the
ately doffed their own belts and passed
University of Alabaina. So impressed was
them to four GPs that they might live.
she with the knowledge that she gained,
There was no fanfare on the "Dorches-
that she felt it incumbent upon herself,
ter" that fateful day in February three
while visiting her aunt in Cincinnati, to
years ago; no miracle of physical wings
personally thank her teacher, the author
provided. But the souls of those four
of the correspondence course,. MrA. Max
chaplains were borne to their God on
Singer. While visiting at the home of
the wings of a prayer they uttered as,
Mrs. Singer, she met Mrs. Singer's son
and thus began a romance which culmin-
locked in each others'• arms, they went -
down with the- ship.
ated in marriage.

