Jerusalem vs. Nuremberg
Inquiry Session Exposed
As More Like Inquisition
Council to Act
On Conference
Decision Monday
Delegates Urged to Attend
Important Session at
JERUSALEM (JTA) (By Wireless) —There is only onetopic
Community Center
of discussion in Palestine as its Jewish citizens had made on the
By MEYER LEVIN
(Copyright, 1946, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Anglo - American Committee of •
inquiry on Palestine by his
testimony before it.
Anyone who was within a block .
of the Y.M.C.A. building where
the commission's hearings were
held, offers portents—Sir John
Singleton cupped his ear; Rich-
ard Crossman crossed his leg, and
it was an American member who
yawned.
Seriously Impressed
The most knowing rumor is
that the commission was serious-
ly impressed by the deep reason-
ableness and patience of Dr.
Weizmann's tone. But all I can
report as a witness to the ses-
sions is a most profound sense of
the miserable inadequacy of the
human spirit when the greatest
tragedy of the world's oldest peo-
ple plays itself out in the cramped
little lecture hall in an atmos-
phere—despite the most intense
politeness between the hearers
and the witnesses—that is one of
quibbling
and pleading that
would better suit a misdemeanor
court than a jury deciding the
fate of a people.
During five hours of testimony,
1 could not exercise from my
mind the image of a group of sur-
viving Jews, gathered in a bar-
ren, broken Leipzig room shortly
after the Liberation, asking:
"How long? How long must we
still wait?"
I said, "maybe a few weeks,"
and I escaped from Leipzig. I
escaped from Europe, being un-
able to face their questions.
It is nearly a year now, and
they are no nearer an answer.
I am in the further position of
a prophet unhappily proven right
since, in an article in the Nation
last Summer, I foretold that these
100,000 survivors would be heart-
lessly turned into a political issue
with Zionist opponents talking
about millions of Jews overrun-
ning Palestine and outnumbering
and kicking out the Arabs. While
the admisSion of the survivors
would not even seriously ap-
proach giving the Jews a major-
ity, the entire debate has swung
off onto the question of a Jewish
State and political Zionism.
Practically all the questions
to Weizmann had the sharpest
anti Zionist flavor, often seem-
ing to be more of an inquisition
than an inquiry, seeming to be
trying to trap the witness into
an admission that the Jews
dreamed of statehood, as
though this were the rankest
heresy.
An Accomplished Fact
I was also astonished by the
lack of psychological perception
of the Jewish question by some
of the committee members who,
after months on this subject,
should be experts, but still don't
understand how the self-respect
of Jews outside of Palestine
would be bolstered by the knowl-
edge that a Jewish National Home
was an accomplished fact.
Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, the
American co-chairman, seemed
greatly troubled trying to under-
stand how "such a strange meta-
morphosis" could come about in
the Jewish character just by
knowing they had a home.
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Friday, March 22, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-two
Dr. Weizmann's answers, in a
low voice frequently unheard by
the spectators, gave the impres-
sion of a great, somewhat despair-
ing man persisting in hope de-
spite a lifetime of disappoint-
ments, making one final effort to
explain for the millionth time
what life itself had made utterly
clear.
Most Brutal Irony
One could not help contrast-
ing it with the imposing set-
ting of that other trial resulting
from the war. Nuremberg and
Jerusalem—and by the most
brutal irony, one could not help
realizing - that Jerusalem, too,
had an atmosphere of a trial
for war guilt rather than of an
inquiry into the sufferings
caused by the war.
When an inquirer suggested that
some of the Jews in the survivors
camps were said to have a na-
tionalist intensity resembling fas-
cism, the perversity of the world's
treatment of the survivors came
down on the spectators like a
wall.
The only hopeful note in the
room was the ugly' chromeo of a
rainbow. Maybe this was an as-
surance that the world is not try-
ing a case here in which Nurem-
berg is innocent and Jerusalem
guilty.
JNF Ladies Auxiliary
Serves at Main USO
Under the chairmanship of
Mesdamse Harry Schwartz, John
Hayman and Albert Potiker, the
following representatives of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Jewish
National Fund served at the
Downtown USO on Monday eve-
ning:
Mesdames J. Krass, H. Schum-
er, L. Gold, L. Kost, M. Schubin-
er, J. Grossbart, J. Deytsche, D.
Sabbath, B. Rosenthal, J. Good-
man, P. Goodman, H. Sott, S. B.
Farber, S. Perlman, • S. N. Hey-
man, P. Slomovitz, B. Schwartz,
M. Maisel, P. Miller, C. Frieden-
berg, M. H. Newcorn.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Jewish National Fund has been
among the most active organiza-
tions in the JWB-USO program
throughout the war and during
the past few months.
Aaron Droock, president of
the Jewish Community Council,
urges a maximum attendance at
the delegates' conference next
Monday evening, at the Jewish
Center auditorium.
The agenda will include a re-
port on the recent sessions of
the American Jewish Conference
held in Cleveland.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Rabbi
Leon Fram, Judge Charles Rub-
iner, Irving Schlussel and Rabbi
Max J. Wohlgelernter, who at-
tended as Detroit's delegates,
have been invited to report on
the decisions of the Conference.
The Community Council dele-
gates will be asked to take action
upon the recommendations
adopted by the Conference con-
cerning the future organization
of American-Jewish life.
Part of the evening's meeting
will be devoted to the 1946 Al-
lied Jewish Campaign. Isidore
Sobeloff, executive director of the
campaign, will discuss the needs
to be covered by the United
Jewish Appeal in 1946 and will
outline the manner in which in-
dividuals and organizations will
be called upon to help with their
time and money in this campaign.
Council delegates also will
have before them an appeal from
the Jewish People's Fraternal
Order of the International Work-
ers Order, whose application for
membership in the Council has
been rejected by the executive
committee.
Delegates will be required to
show their delegate cards to
qualify for voting by secret bal-
lot.
The community-at-large is in-
vited.
20,000 Palestine Farms
JERUSALEM (ZOA) — The
number of Jewish farms in Pal-
estine at the end of • 1944 ex-
ceeded 20,000 according to the
latest issue of the Economic Bul-
letin of the JNF. Of that total,
some 50 per cent are situated on
land of the Jewish National
Fund.
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