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History Has Last Word

History is being written in London.
The United Nations Organization is
weighing the problem of trusteeship while
the Anglo-American Inquiry Commission on
Palestine is "studying" the well known facts
regarding Jewish homelessness.
It remains to be seen how political ex-
pediencies, which admittedly motivate the
actions of governments and which are the
major factors in Great Britain's action, will
affect the future of the Jewish people.
But in the long run, peoples, not politi-
cians, decide the destinies of the world.
The Jewish people will and must decide
its own destiny.
At present, a grave injustice is being per-
petrated.
In the JEWISH National Home, Jewish
immigration is being restricted.
In the JEWISH National Home, Jewish
land-purchasing power is restricted to 5 per
cent of the total.
When U. S. Senator Owen Brewster
spoke- in Detroit, he expressed the view that
the British government had never dreamt
that Jews would take the Balfour Declara-
tion seriously and had believed that Jews
would never .settle in Palestine. The discrim-
inating government was fooled.
It is possible that other banal hoaxes are
being planned.
But the will of the Jewish people, and
what is more important, the NEEDS of the
Jewish people, compel mass immigration, in
Palestine.
The peace of the world can be assured
through recognition of these basic facts, and
if the statesmen who are using Palestine as
a pawn will be sincere they can avert
tragedies.
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In the meantime British perfidy carries
on a policy of shameful disregard of human
decencies in Palestine.
Instead of cooperating with the official
Jewish community and with the Haganah,
the Jewish self-defense group, in putting- an
end to the acts of the terrorist groups, the
great British Empire proclaims martial law!
Under any martial law, innocent victims
are certain to lose their lives.
And the British Empire will be able to
boast that she had declared war on the mini-
ature Jewish "commonwealth" in Palestine!
Perhaps the better sense of the people of
England will prevail in the long run over
the stupidities that are being perpetrated by
their colonial officials.
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In the interim, another fiasco must re-
act to the shame of a great people.
Will the great British Empire undertake
to make a jail for the 600,000 Jews in Pales-
tine who will NEVER submit to the exclu-
sion of Jews from Palestine?
Will the British place American and
British Jews who, also, NEVER will ap-
prove of a policy of exclusion for* Jews in
Palestine, in the category of terrorists?
When will Great Britain recognize that
,the granting of 6,000 visas for Jewish set-
tlers is an insult to our people and that
only complete adherence to pledges for un-
limited settlement of Jews in Eretz Israel
will vindicate the honor of the Mandatory
Power?
If we MUST wait for time to provide
adequate answers to all our questions, we
shall know how to await victory for our
just cause.

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VOL: 8-21

FEBRUARY 8, 1946

This Week's Scriptural Selections

Sabbath, the eighth day of Adar Rishon,

5706, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 25:1-27:19.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 5:26-6:13.

Candle-lighting time this Friday is at 5:07 p. m.

EWISH NEWS

Friday, F-ebruary• 1946

Be Vigilant or Sink

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Another Palestine Betrayal

Dr. Nardi's Book on Education in Zion Bares
Britain's Failure to Finance Proportionately
the Jewish Education Program

Welcome, Federations' Delegates

Spokesmen for Jewish communities throughout the land
will gather in Detroit this weekend for the General As-
sembly sessions of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds.
In spite of all the fuss of the past few months regard-
ing the subject of national budgeting, which will be one
of the major issues for consideration at the four-day sessions
of the Assembly, emphasis is being placed on the common
problems of Jewish communities, on the care to be given the
sick and the aged, on the advances made by Jewish hos-
pitals in this country, but more especially on the overseas
relief and rehabilitation responsibilities of American 'Jewry.
For the Jewish community of Detroit this convention
has special significance because of the opportunities • that
will be afforded those attending the sessions as guests to
bear the various discussions on Jewish needs everywhere,
and more especially because of the great meeting arranged
for Saturday night at Temple Beth El, for the discussion of
`'Community Planning for Overseas Needs," when Dr. James
G. Heller, Prof. William Haber and Mrs. Adele Rosenwald
Levy will speak.
The public meeting will provide an opportunity for the
Jews of Detroit to hear an outline of the needs of the sur-
vivors in Europe. In a sense, this public meeting should
be helpful in preparing the community for the forthcoming
Detroit campaign for $2,000,000, our share of. the national
United Jewish Appeal goal of $103,000,000.
An overflow audience should be present at the public
meeting Saturday night, and it is important that as many
of our people as possible attend the convention sessions.
We welcome the delegates to the Federations' General
Assembly, and sincerely hope that their deliberations will
meet with great success; that their decisions will serve to
unite American Jews in the great task of strengthening our
communities and of effecting the rescue of survivors
from Nazism.

Anti-Semites on Many Fronts

Those who had chosen to criticize protesting Jews for
having condemned Lt. Col. Frederick E. Morgan for his
shocking charges of the existence of a "secret conspiracy"
to rescue Jews had better look at the record and learn to
judge dispassionately whether injustice should be con-
demned lest it is perpetuated.
In the past two weeks we had several manifestations of
bigotry. References to "white gentiles" in the U. S. Senate,
the disgusting outbursts of Gerald L. K. Smith before the
Congressional investigation committee and the disgraceful
comparison of Zionism with Nazism by Maj. Gen- Edward
Spears all belong definitely in the category of anti-Semitism..
Maj. Spears' attacks on the Jews of Palestine can not
be limited to a description of being merely the anti-Zionist
sentiment of a British colonial official. It was out-and-out
anti-Semitism, and it is encouraging to know that an Amer-
ican niember of the inquiry committee, Dr. James G. Mc-
Donald, was sufficiently outraged to call the Britisher to task.
Should we keep quiet every time one of the bigots,
whether in London or Washington, attacks us? Not by a
long shot—if we are to retain our self-respect.

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L Insult, Private Apology'
Tuvac

Lt.-Gen. Frederick E. Morgan, UNRRA director in
Germany, who stirred the. protests of liberals everywhere—
not merely Jewish organizations, as the press and some'
columnists stated last week—has been re-instated by Herbert
Lehman, director-general of UNRRA. , .
It was an unfortunate 'incident and it has ended most
unfortunately because the damage for which Gen. Morgan
apologized privately was done publicly.
And it is _especially regrettable that an eminent Jewish
leader had to be the "goat" in reversing.. the earlier verdict
which called for the removal of Gen. Morgan from the re-
sponsible UNRRA post.
One thing is certain: Gen. Morgan acted in accordance
with British anti-Zionist policy. His most, damaging refer-
ences to the "well-fed" Jews who were engaged in a "con-.
spiracy" for a mass exodus to Palestine was couched in ,
terms intended to hurt the cause of free Jewish immigra-
tion to Palestine.
The redeeming feature is - that the deeds of our people.
in Palestine speak for themselves, that the needs. are too
great to be overshadowed by damaging statements made
by tools of the Colonial Office, and that persistent efforts
must lead to triumph for the great Jewish • rehabilitation
program.

"Education in Palestine," Dr. Noah Nardi's
latest book published by the Zionist Organization
of America, should more properly have been
labeled "An Educational Betrayal in Palestine."
This splendid volume exposes British reaction
and misrule in Palestine. It describes, in facts
and figures, how the Palestine government con-
tributes only 10 per cent of the cost of Jewish
education and health services and is thus taxing
the Jewish population for the needs of the Arabs.
Dr. Nardi shows that the Palestine government
pays at the rate of one pound per Jewish child's
education, as against three and a half pounds
per Arab child.
"The present discrimination against the Jew-
ish taxpayer is hardly conducive to an attitude, of
confidence on the part of the Jewish community
towards the government," Dr. Nardi writes. He
adds that "the Jewish community has never sug-
gested that the government restrict its services
to the Arabs. The argument of the Jewish popu-
lation has been that public expenditures and ser-
vices should be provided on an equal basis to
the various sections of the population."
Nevertheless, the high standards of the Jew-
ish schools are being upheld.
Of interest in Dr. Nardi's book is his descrip-
tion of the status of the Palestine teachers, their
inadequate salaries, their struggle to create better
teaching systems. However, we learn that Pales-
tine teachers, despite their shortage in the Jew-
ish Homeland, are willing to come to the United
States to reduce the shortage in this country. The
problem thus becomes double-barrelled.
In describing the various school systems, in-
cluding , the Alliance, non-public and J. D. C.-
financed schools, Dr. Nardi outlines the efforts
now being made by Dr. Eliezer Rieger to effect
unification of the school system—the labor, Miz-
rachi and general Zionist schools. This is one
of the serious problems affecting the status of
Palestine's educational system.

FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE

Dear Boys and Girls:
On Feb. 14, the Jews everywhere will celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the appearance of Dr.
Theodor Herzl's "The Jewish State."
A correspondent for the Vienna Neue Freue
Presse at the famous Dreifus Trial. in. Paris,
France, Dr. Herzl began to realize the enormity of
the Jewish problem, and he
proposed
the re-establishment of the Jewish -homeland in
Palestine.
His pamphlet "The Jewish State" aroused
worldwide interest and electrified the Jewish
people.
Today, the great, movement of Zionism which
ke founded is helping thousands of Jews to settle
in Palestine: A great Commonwealth is being built
by Jews, and Dr. Herzl was the father of the idea
of creating this structure through political means.
Until Dr. Herzl's "The Jewish State," the idea
was merely a spiritual dream and a promise in
Scriptures. Dr. Herzl stirred Jews to action,
created the World Zionist Organization and the
World Zionist Congress and elevated the spirits
of our people,
So that you may understand his views, I am
sharing with you in this column some of his views
as they appeared in "The Jewish State."
A pleasant Sabbath to all.
UNCLE DANIEL

Excerpts — Herzl's 'Jewish State'

The artificial means heretofore employed to
overcome the troubles of Jews have been either
too petty —such as attempts at colonization—or
mistaken in principle—such as attempts to convert
the Jews into peasants in 'their present homes.
. What is achieved by transporting a few thous-
and Jews to another. country? Either they come
to. grief at once, or prosper, and then their proV
perity creates Antf-Semitism. We have already
discussed these attempts to divert poor Jews to
fresh districts. This diversion is clearly inadequate
and futile, if it does *not actually defeat its own
ends; for it merely protracts and postpones a
solution, and perhaps even aggravates difficulties.
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The whole plan is in its essence perfectly
simple, as it must necessarily be if it is to come
within the comprehension of all.
Let the sovereignty be granted us over a por-
tion of the globe large enough to satisfy the right-
ful 'requirements of a nation; rest we shall
manage for ourselves.
The creation of a new State is neither ridicul-
ous nor . impossible. We have in our day witnessed•
the process in connection with nations which were
not in the - bulk of the middle class, but poorer,
less educated, and consequently weaker than our-
selves. The Governments of all countries scourged
by Anti-Semitism will be keenly interested in
assisting us to obtain the sovereignty, we want.
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But we must first bring. enlightenment to men's
minds. The idea must make -its way into the most
distant, miserable holes where our people dwell.
They will awaken froM gloomy brooding, for into
their lives will come a • new significance. Every
Man need think only of himself, and the move-
ment will assume vast proportions.
, And - what glory awaits those who fight un-
selfishly for the cause!
Therefore I believe that a wondrous genera-
tion of Jews will spring into existence.; The Mac-
cabeans will rise again.
Let "me repeat once more my opening words:
The Jews who wish will have their State.
We shall live at last as free . men on_ our own
soil, and die peacefully in our own homes.
The world will be freed by our liberty, en-
riched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness.
• And whatever we attempt there to •accomplish
for our own we'fare, will react powerfully and
beneficently for the good of humanity.

