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THE JEWISH NEWS

Purely
Commentary

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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE_ FUTURE IN EUROPE .

Aviation Prospects in Palestine

Between
You and Me

(From Palestine Information, Published by Tieehalutz Oiganization of America)

With the resumption of international flying serviceslarge English, American
and Dutch companies will be in need of trained ground personnel for civil airports
in Palestine. Efforts are being made at present to revive air traffic between Haifa,
By BORIS SMOLAR
Tel Aviv, Tiberias and Jerusalem, and to establish auxiliary lines for the inter-
national companies, to Cyprus and Greece, for'example. Moreover, Jewish aviation .
(Copyright, 1946, Jewish Telegraphic
circles are preparing to organize ari 'air-taxi" service.
Agency, Inc.)
Other' functions of Jewish aviation include, : above all the transportation of
UNITED
NATIONS
NOTES
goods. During the winter MontliS Palestine can supply Europe by air with a variety
Although the United Nations . came . to
of vegetables and fruits. It is also possible to dispatch citrus fruits by air, thereby,
saving the costs of packing and protracted storing. Besides, Jewish fishing activities --the heart' 'of the JeWish section of the
can be assisted 'by observation planes.
Bronx in New York, the JeWs of that
. . To carry out these plans three factors are needed: money, the support of public •borough are paying little attention to the
opinion and Capable men. The present budget of the Aviation Council, in whiCh a
session of the 'UNO Security' Council'
There are few Jewish faces aniong 'the
number of Jewish public institutions and aviation circles participate, includes 30,000
pounds for. the purchase of airplanes and 15,000 pounds for other expenditures.
curiosity seekers lining the gates of the
The Council has called on all Jewish youth organizations to take an active
Hunter College campus where the ses-
interest in gliding and flying and has been pleased to see that in response to , its
sion is taking place . . . And. to think
appeal 250 boys will take up training in the near futUre. Lotal branches of the Air
that only one block from those premises
,
club now exist in Rehovoth, Haifa and Tel.AVi., while preparations are in progress
there are "Kosher" signs on the butcher
for the opening of another branch in Jerusaleni. Negotiations are also being con-
shops and . the delicatessen stores'
ducted with the Farmers Federation With a vie* toward establishing similar clubs
. In
in all big plantation villages. •
fact, many of the reporters and phdtb-6
• graphers , covering the session 'Of 'the
At present 90 Jewish pilots in Palestine hold flying licenses. 'The Council has
Security Council sneak out for a XOSI-ier
decided on the early acquisition of 15 dunams of land for its purposes. A glider
factory is in the course of erection at Rishon Le Zion, while a gliders' camp will be
corned beef sandwich at one Of the
opened next year for the training of 110 men.
neighboring deliCatessens in preference

Reports- of conditions in EurOpe do not
augur well for the surviving Jews, liber-
als and others who, unfortunately, re-
main in the. minority.
Eye-witness accounts of existing con-
ditions • indiCate that anti-Semitism is
growing as part - of an expanding spirit
of reaction and •despair.. American troops,.
forming. the .army •of :occupation, have.
been "taken in" by the Germans and they
are displaying an unfriendly attitude to
J ews. • ' ' • • •
In the meantime, the Nazis,. whose ide-
ologies have not been uprooted by a long
shot, are preparing to recapture control
of Germany, and the future is none too
bright for those who will have to live
-under new conditions in that accursed
land.
Should the Nazis regain control of the
land—and if they do the shrewd. fascists,
will have another name for their revived-
party—one can well imagine ::what'
inferno middle and eastern EilroPe'. will
become once again for the surviving. Jews.
That is why there is so much resent-
ment against the Anglo-American Inquiry
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Copyright, 1946, Seven Arts
Committee for its procrastinating action
Feature Syndicate, Inc.
and its failure to recommend the imme-
diate admission of at least 100;000 Euro- ATTENTION, STATE DEPARTMENT;
pean Jews into Palestine.
'The case of Sol Feldman should be in-
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veStigated . . ..P- We-suggeSt 'that our read-
ers peruSe .his story carefully, and ask
RESISTANCE, NOT TERROR :
Some unusual things are happening in. their Congressmen to look- into it
Palestine. We have always prided our- We give it to you in Mr. Feldman's own
selves, as we shall continue to do, that words.: "I_ ain_erpployecl by the TWA Air-
"Israel's mission is Peace." Yet, Jewish lines in Abadan, Iran . . . I have recently
resistance forces in Zion are resorting to been discharged to accept employment
I have a story that I think
force in seeking recognition of Jewish with them .
the American ..people. should know about
rights in Eretz Israel.
Newspaper correspondents and radio . . . My contract with the company has
commentators continue to refer to the ended and I signed, ,a contract with the
actions of the brave Jews in Palestine as civil Service for six months to work the
"'terrorism." Yet, it is not an act of new air base at. Saudi Arabia . . . This
"terror" for the liberty-loving people in -job would have given the a start in life,
Zion to seek the same freedom for other after sexOng - with the armed service for
survivors from Nazism which they had two years, of. which. I spent a year and a
themselves acquired through sweat and half overseas . . . The day after - the con-
tract Was signed, the 'Army officer who
blood.
"signed me up came to me and told me he
There are very few Palestinian Jews could •
not accept me and asked me for
who do not count the major portions of
the contract back .. I asked the reason,
their families among the casualties of the
and this is what he told me: He said .that
war. They know that most of these peo-
'because I am a JeW the Arabian•gOern-
ple could have been saved had the doors ment wouldn't let
: me'. into the country;
of Palestine been opened for the hun-
even though I arn , an Americ0. citizen
dreds of thousands who could have been . . . Now I don't
see Why the American
rescued through prompt action.
Government does businesS with a country
When, therefore, an opportunity arises that doesn't even.accept their own Ameri-
to secure the admission of another few cans . . ."
scores of men,' women and children who
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have no other place to turn to, the Pales-
ATTENTION,
VVAR
DEPARTMENT:.:
tinian resistance movement rightfully
It is` reported" to us that Gerrnan Prison-
feels that it is its duty to assure asylum
ers of war in this country are being sys-
for them—by force if necessary. _
What is happening in Palestine is not tematically indoctrinated against . the Sov-
terrorism. It is resistance to injustice. iet Union by certain Ji. S. authorities in
Millions of their kinsmen, in this country New England camps, at Fert Devon and
and elsewhere, and very many Christians Camp Stark . . . The Poles among these
sympathize with them in their Irish-like prisoners are frankly being recruited for
General Anders' legions . . . Anti-lewish
maneuvers.
propaganda is openly permitted, and the
"ON WHITMAN AVENUE"
anti-Fascist newspaper The German-
Detroit Jews will find a great deal to American is prohibited in these camps .. .
interest them in the play "On Whitman. Visitors report that the anti,-Fascists
Avenue," which comes to the Lafayette among the prisoners are having a tougher
Theater next week.
time than those who still continue heiling
In the first, place, the author of this the defunct German Fuehrer . . . If you
drama is a former. Detroiter, .Maxine want. the whole -story, get Germany TO-
Finsterwald, who writes under the pen day, a newsletter published by Albert
name of Maxine Wood.
Norden.
Secondly, the promotion man for the
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play is David Lipsky, son of the eminent.. WE ARE PUZZLED
Zionist leader, Louis Lipsky.
We don't understand why certain de- .
But the play itself is the thing to con- fense 'organizations have been minimizing
cern us.
the implications of Elmo Roper's Fortune
It is the story of inter-racial relations, poll of February, 1946 . . . We have read
of Negro-White conflicts, of problems of comments interpreting the survey as in-
housing and segregation.
dicating that anti-Semitism is on the de-
In many respects, the play could easily cline . . . But did it ever occur to the
be turned into a Jewish drama—by sub- complacent gentlemen that even accord-
stituting Jew for Negro in those areas ing: to that, poll xriore. than 12,0 . 00,000
where anti-Semitism, like anti-Negroism," Americans show definite signs of anti-
Jewish -feelings? • And this even though
has raised its ugly head.
"On Whitman Avenue" portrays Amer- the questions were so framed as to get a
ica's problem. It is a play _that should be minimum of positively anti-Semitic re-
seen by Americans of all races and creeds plies.
and of all shades of opinion. Here is
hoping that it will receive a good re- SWEET JOB
That smiling lieutenant whom you see
sponse from Detroit's theater-goers.
in the fieWsteels escorting Herman Goer-
ing to judicial hearings has a reason to
smile . . . He is Lt. Rolf Wartenberg, a
"If there are ranks of suffering, Israel young German whom the National Refu-
takes precedence of all the nations; if gee Service had assisted and who is now
the duration of sorrows and the patience . a member. of the American Army of Oc-
with which they are borne, ennoble, the cupation . • . In his letters to hiS mother,
Jews can challen-ge the . aristocracy of Mrs. Hedi Hevar, a composer, he never
every land; if *a literature is called rich specified what he was doing, but, merely
in the possession of a few classic trage- said: "I'm doing the Most interesting work
dies—what shall we say to a National
Tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred I've ever done in my life" . .. The mili-
years, in which the poets and the - actors tary secret of Rolf's job was revealed by
the screen, however, and today all his'
were also the heroes?"
LEOPOLD ZUNZ, 1855.
family beams with pride.

Strictly
onfidential

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Israel's Martyrdom

Friday, April 5,. 1946

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Heard in
The Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

(Copyright, 1946, Independent Jewish

Press Service, Inc.)

PARAGRAPH OF THE MONTH
By Allen
Allen Roberts, in the April "Read"
magazine: "The world's No. 1 Jew-baiter
is a red-robed, red-headed, red-mus-

tachioed Arab, now living in southern
France. His name is Amim el Husseini;
he is _ the former Grand Mufti of Jeru-
salem. MonsieUr Husseini, as they now
call him in Fran:de, prefers the title. of
His Eminence,- though his only claim to
eminence is in the field of mass murder,
which he has . diligently pursued as a
career for a qUarter of a century."
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TALKING HORSE GAG

They're laughing at the 100% Amer--
cans rather subtly these . days. In the
lobbies they tell the story of the hate-
monger who was given the opportunity
to buy a talking horse. He listened to the
horse • rattle off long passages from
Shakespeare, and then refused to bUy it
because - it' had a foreign accent.
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WIIAT IS A REFUGEE?
: -Tom• Van Hyning is quoted in "The
Home Front" as having said at a meeting
of We, the Mothers, that "it is up to us
to send the refugees back, inasmuch as
eleven million boys are coming back to
homes now occupied by seven million
refugees." It would be interesting to
learn where he' got the figures, and whom
they are supposed to include. (As though
we didn't already know). It would also
be interesting to know whether Tom Van
Hyning would .giVe some of the homes
to returning JeWish or Negro boys. Speak
up, Tom.
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APOLOGY IN ADVANCE
One of the most extraordinary bits of
editorial curiosa appears in hate-Monger

A. W. Terminiello's new sheet, "The Cru-
sader." Fearful:that despite every cau-
tion he may give himself away, he pub7
lishes the folloWing note: "The Crusader
never intends to cast, reflection on any
authority of the Catholic Church. Any-
thing which might now, or hereafter, be
judged contrary . to the teachings of the
Church, is hereby retracted without qual-
ification or reservation." To what depths
of mental and spiritual bankruptcy must
a human being sink, before he dares not

utter a word so sincerely meant that it
can be said without a contingent apology
in advance? (In fairness to Terminiello,

it must be admitted that he is not quite
as cautious in speaking of Jews; here he
exposes himself unashamedly. The reasons
are not lovely to look at.)

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SOME OF MY :BEST FRIENDS
ARE REFUGEES
Proabably with the best intentions,.Rita

C. Anthony, in "Everybody's Digest," in
an article entitled "Don't Damn All Refu-
gees," attempts to divide the newcomers'
into two groups: Emigres and Refugees.
The Refugees are good; the Emigres are
bad. "Just because a feW visitors to our
shores have abused our welcome," says
Rita, "there is no reason to vilify the rest
of the quarter-million victims of Hitler-
ism who fled to America for sanctuary
in the past dozen years." Then follows a
lurid account of arrogant, wealthy, lavish,.
tax-evading Emigres, running almost five
columns, with a: concluding pat on the
back of a little over a column for the nice
Refugees. Something like showing Amer-
ican .gangster films in foreign lands - with
a foOtnote: "Ndt. all Americans are like..

ths." "

to eating at the UNO cafeteria

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In
contrast to the United Nations ..Confer-
ence at San .Francisco, no JeWish
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gations"- • or "observers" are to be seen

at . the ',Minter College session . .

-The
most interesting "Jewish" feature is the
fact that there are two Benjamin Cohens
there . . .: One is Benjamin Cohen, the
assistant: secretary general Of the UNO,
and the other is Benjamin 'Cohen, the
counselor of the state department.
The first is a veteran Chilean diplomat,
born in Concepcion, Chile . • The second
is a • former New York lawyer. born in
Muncie, Ind . . . Both Cohens have been
in service in Washington for many years,
the first as counselOr of the Chilean
Embassy, and the second with the U. S.
government . The Chilean ' speaks
. many, .languages and is on the faculty
of Georgetown University.
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AT THE CROSSROADS
- The controversy between Dr. Louis
Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Theo..
logical Seminary, and Dr. Maurice Eisen •
drath, director of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, over the question
of whether conversions are mounting
among Jews in America, is attracting
wide attention . .. Dr. Finkelstein, who
sounded the alarm, claims that the basis
for his statement are 60,000 letterS whiCh
the Jewish Theological Seminary 'received
in the course. of one year, in addition to
private confeSsions . . . Those who doubt
his facts do not have sufficient. contact
with Jews, except with nationalist-
minded Jews, who are not the majority
in American Jewish life, he argues . . .
Many Jews, he says, are joining • the
Christian Science movement, others join
the Unitarian Church, while some are
even embracing Catholicism . . A large
percentage of Jewish youth not only :con-
siders intermarriage normal, but defiriiie ;

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ly speaks of Judaism as a detriment to
themselves and their children, he charges

The fact that one can see Jewish
yOuths at some of the Zionist gatherings
means very little, he points out In
one. city on the Pacific coast,, about 30

per cent of all Jews are intermarried,' he
reveals . . . And there are many small
towns in the United States where there
__is intermarriage in every Jewish family
. —Growth- of intermarriage' is ' ALSO .
noticeable in New York • . . Jewiih doc-
tors, lawyers and high school teachers
prefer not to be known as Jews in many
cities Outside of New York . . . And. many
Jews are contributing large sums to
Christian churches ... One priest publicly
arinouriced recently that 50 per cent of
the income of one of: his institutions
comes from Jewish contributors . , in
many cities, the Community Church, the
Ethical Culture Church, the Christian
Science Church, and similar churcheS
where no baptism is required, have so
many Jewish •members that the leaders
are worried over the possibj,lity . that ;the
Jews may soon outnumber the non-JeWs,;
and thus influence the character of the
local groups . . . Dr. Finkelstein also tells
the story, of a president of a synagogue

f`in a large city not far from New York,.".
who was simultaneously the president 'of
the local Community Church, which he
Used to attend every Sunday . . One
Sunday .coincided with Rosh Hashanah,
and • the- poor fellow could not deCide
whether to attend services in the syna-
gogue or at the church . . . He finally
attended the synagogue services . . . An-

other interesting incident repOrted by
Dr.' Finkelstein is that a leader of
United Jewish Appeal "in an , Eastern
city" joined the Unitarian Church and:
severed his relations with Jewish life.,
, J.D.C. is now sending to Europe 'a .0p,
. flight social worker to organize special
emigration offices in various cities'
He is Irving Rosen, who is leaving an"
important position in the New YOrk-
seratiori: of Jewish PhilanthropieS': to be=
corrie the director of the J.D.C.
tion Work *in
"i i i Europe.