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THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

ATONEMENT
Tonight we commence the perennial
atonement and we shall deplore the sins
of 5706. Our synagogues will resound
with affirmations of faith and with re-
grets over the blunders of the past 12
months.
All of tis have mixed emotions as we
gather in our houses of worship on Kol
Nidre night and all of Yom Kippur Day.
Rightfully do we ask whether a sinning
world is not guiltier than we are for Is-
rael's status, for the sufferings which con-
tinue to be the lot of more than a million
Jews in Europe, for the outburst of horri-
ble acts in Palestine resulting from an
entire people's desperation.
These grievances must be taken for
granted. Jews do not have a monopoly on
sins, and when pledge-breaking tactics of
"democratic",governments result in tyran-
ny, it is inevitable that there should be
wrong-doing, inexcusable as it may be.
But this in no sense absolves Israel of
sins. We have sinned and we continue to
sin. Too many of us, lulled into self-satis-
faction by the benefits we enjoy in free
countries like ours, have learned to be
complacent.
On the fund-raising front, the ice has
been broken and Jews, generally speak-
ing, are more liberal in extending help
to their less fortunate kinsmen. But po-
litically and socially we have much to
learn. We must form a united front in
the battle for justice; we must submit to
discipline whenever firm action is re-
quired in demanding justice from the gov-
ernments of the world; we must be fear-
less in our actions.
Serious conditions will challenge us
during the coming year. We shall have to
close our ranks in the demands that the
nations of the world should back us in
our rightful claims in Palestine as well
as for the easing of the pains of the hun-
dreds of thousands who remain in Eur-
people. If we do not create solidarity for
these purposes, we shall be continuing to
sin in 5707 as we have in 5706.
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ANOTHER INDICTMENT
As a P. S. to an interesting article on
the Palestine situation (in which he con-
demned the Grady-Morrison proposal for
the partitioning of Palestine as a "Mock-
ery of humanity"), Edgar Ansel Mowrer,
one of America's ablest foreign corres-
pondents, stated as follows:

Recently I received a protest from
my colleague, Noel Monks of the Lon-
don Daily Mail, Mr. Monks was indig-
nant that I should have insisted that
Palestinian Jews have been systematic-
ally beaten by British soldiers. He bade
me ask my nephew, Richard Mowrer,
himself an "unintended" victim of Jew-
ish terrorism in Palestine, now lying
in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
So I wired my nephew: "Is it true
there have been systematic beatings of
Jews by British soldiers?" In.due time
the reply came:
"The answer is yes—at Latrun and
at Rafa."
As an objective reporter, Mr. Monks
will doubtless wish to publish the cor-
roboration with ail appropriate apology.

This speaks for itself and no further
comment is necessary—other than to re-
mind Detroit Jews that Mr. Mowrer will
speak in Detroit on Oct. 22, at the Shaarey
Zedek, under auspices of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund Council. We predict that his
address and this meeting will be
the most important on our year's cal-
endar.

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A LANDMARK IN SURVEYS

Surveys frequently conducted by vari-
ous Jewish communities throughout the
world are helpful in planning educational
and relief activities. Ainerican communi-
ties have made marked progress in plan-
ning their varied programs by sponsoring
surveys not only of their fund-raising
status but also of their social, economic
and populational positions.
To the Jewish community of Winnipeg
goes the .credit of having completed a
survey which is truly a landmark in sur-
veying the various aspects of its popula-
tion. Conducted by Louis Rosenberg, F.
B. Econ. S., director of the Research Bu-
reau of the Canadian Jewish Congress,
this study reveals an unusually fine un-
derstanding of the problems facing a
Jewish community.
Mr. Rosenberg was thorough in his
population study, of the shifts in popula-
tion centers, the trends and changes in
occupational distribution, the trade and
professional associations of the Jews, the
occupations of the Jewish women, the
educational problems of the community,
the housing issue, etc.
We recommend this pamphlet, which is

available from Saul Hayes, national ex-
ecutive director of the Canadian Jewish

AU in the Word ALL

The Great Ainerican Code of Justice

By THE REV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN

Executive Director, Institute for American Democracy

If we want a word which describes American society—its aim and goal and
practice—we have it in the word "all." From the Code of Rhode Island, 1647: "all
men may walk as their conscience persuade them, everyone in the name of his
God." From the Declaration of Independence, 1776, and Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address, 1863: "all men are created equal." From the Virginia Declaration of
Rights, 1776: "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, accord-
ing to the dictates of conscience." From the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious
Freedom, 1786: "all men shall be free to profess, and by al-gument to maintain,
their opinions in matters of religion." From the Pledge to the Flag: "with liberty
and justice for all."

No matter how we look at it—no matter how some people may wish it were
otherwise—the undeniable significance of Americanism is, and must always remain,
its passion for justice for all, without respect to race, class, national origin, or
religion. As Charnwood once wrote with clear insight into what we are after in
America,
"h e founders of the United States did deliberately aspire to found a
c(e l
commonw lth in which common men and women should count for more than
elsewher ."
We have striven, we still strive, to create here a society that includes all, that
excludes none. It is the most difficult of all social goals to achieve—yet the most
worthwhile.
We have rejected, we shall continue to reject, every exclusive social system—
fascism, which excludes some men because of their race or religion—communism,
which excludes others on account of the class to which they belong—both. because
a group,
they are single party dictatorships representing the special interests of
permitting no opposition, denying freedom and civil rights to everyone.
"Courage, then, in), countrymen!" cried Samuel Adams a long time ago, "our
free, but whether there shalt be
contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be
left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty."
That was the issue in America 170 years ago. That is the issue today.

Heard in
The Lobbies

By ARNOLD LEVIN

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

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

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

ZIONIST AFFAIRS

EDWIN PAULEY

Edwin W. Pauley, some have reasoned,
is an oil man and hence anti-Jewish-
Palestine. They now owe an apology to
Mr. Pauley, whose memorandum to the
President on the situation of Europe's
Jews shows him to be, above all, a gen-
uine humanitarian, a quality rare in the
official family these days. It isn't only
what he said, but the way he said it,
that has convinced us that Mr. Pauley
has real heart and conscience:
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Zionist leaders in the United States
were not kept informed by the Jewish
Agency concerning the negotiations which
were carried on in London with regard
to participation in the conference on Pal-
estine. . . . Jewish Agency leaders who
conducted these negotiations are not
happy about the Zionist Actions Com-
mittee's vote against participation. . . .

HOLLYWOOD
Bill Perlberg, Academy Award-winning

position vis-a-vis the members of the
British Cabinet with whom they bar-
gained. . . . The truth of the matter is
that the protracted talks practically re-
sulted in the Cabinet members becom-
ing indifferent to whether or not the
Jewish Agency joined the conference
The feeling in British official circles is
that the Jews will submit their views
in writing, even if they don't attend the
conference. . . . The government is plan-
ning, therefore, to have these views, to-
gether with the memoranda submitted
by the Arab delegations at the confer-
ence, analyzed by a special comrlission.
. . . Only after this commission submits
its findings, will the Cabinet take a final
decision with regards to Palestine. . . .
This tends to indicate that no new policy
with regard to Palestine will be _an-
nounced by the British Government for
at least another two months.
The Jewish Agency office in New York
is concentrating on mobilizing the maxi-
mum possible good-will of Latin-Amer-
ican statesmen on the Palestine issue,
-which may come up before the General
Assembly of the United Nations next
month.. . . With the European countries
cool towards the Zionist demand for a

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producer, helped engineer Truman's nom-
ination at the 1944 Democratic conven-

tion. Last week he resigned from the
California State Democratic Committee,
explaining: "I'm a man willing to admit
his mistakes. Truman was mine."
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PEOPLE, ISSUES
Zalman J. Friedman and Rabul Pene
du Bois will sponsor "Mirror for the
Sky," a musical making its Broadway
bow in January and bowing into the
theater a congeries of new staging, scene
and lighting techniques. '
Kenneth Fearing, author of the sensa-
tional mystery-highbrow-satire, "The Big
Clock," enjoys the reputation, in case
you don't know it, of being one of Amer-
ica's finest modern poets, but despite his
literary skill he made his living as a
member of the UJA publicity staff until
a year and a half ago, when he retired
to write his novel, bought by Hollywood
before publication. . . . Another author
in Jewish publicity work is Martin Pan-
zer, of the UJA staff. Martin authors at
the rate of a volume a year, and had
been the editor of one of the famed
"little magazines," which have small cir-
culation but made American literary
history.

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OIL
The New York World Telegram, a
Scripps-Howard newspaper, is running a
series of articles on Arabs and oil, warn-
ing Americans that we have "only five
years" in which to lure the Arabs away
from the Soviets. . . . Where Zionism
stands in such propaganda is self-ex-
plicable.

Congress, 1121 W. St. Catherine St.,
Montreal, Canada, to all communities and

e:Ipecially to those leaders who are suf-
ficiently interested in sponsoring surveys
of their own.
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THE NAZIS' GUILT
There is little,' f any, gloating over the
verdicts issued against the Nazi fuehrers
who were responsible for the murder of

nearly six million Jews, for the death of
millions of Christians and for plunging
an entire world into a blood bath.
It took so long to produce an indict-
ment of these murderers, and so many
doubts have been aroused regarding the
sincerity of the victors, that there is much
to worry about in the era of "peace."
We are compelled to entertain the
question whether Nazism will die witti

the Nazis in view of the indifference
shown the sufferers by the world powers.

They have been placed in a peculiar

Friday, October 4, 1946

Strictly
Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON •

Copyright,
Feature

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PREDICTIONS FOR 5707
The Jewish Palestine question will still
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be unanswered.
A new British Commission will be con-
sidering the "problem."
Dr. Chaim ,Weizmann will still be pres-
ident of the World Zionist Organization.
A debate will be raging whether the
American Jewish Conference should be

liquidated.
A survey will show that anti-Semitism
is on the increase in America.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise will head a Jewish
delegation to the Soviet Union.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein's project of a
non-sectarian Jewish University will -still
be a project because of lack of funds.

The Anti-Defamation League and the
will run
separate fund-raising campaigns.
A dispute between the JDC and the
United Palestine Appeal will threaten
the United Jewish Appeal campaign ifor
1947.
Rumors will be circulated about the
establishment of a Jewish daily in Eng-
lish.
The two major parties, the Democratic
and Republican, girding their loins for
the presidential elections, will promise
full support to Zionist aspirations in Pal-
estine.
No, we are not too pessimistic. . . .
But we may be wrong and hope we are.

American Jewish Committee

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POT POURRI

John Rothstein, son of the late Sir
William Rothstein, the famous painter,
is not very proud of his Jewish heritage.
. . . As a matter of fact, to judge from
a letter written to Franz Landsberger of
Cincinnati, John Rothstein seems to have
abandoned the faith of his fathers and
would prefer to conceal his connection
with it.
On October 11, a convention is to be
held in Palestine for the purpose of
establishing "the Council for Progressive
Culture." . . . Abraham Shlonsky, emi-
nent Hebrew poet, is the chairman of

the council.
Applying to a national veterans' or-
ganization for a charter, a group that
fought in the U. S. forces in World War
II received a runaround, apparently be-
cause of the color of their skin. since
they are from India. ... So they formed
the "Moslem Veterans of American
Wars." . . . In their announcement the
Moslems specify that "there is no color
line" in their veterans' organization.

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NOTE TO THE EDITORS
Remember the name Jack Woodford.
. . . He is the author of such books as
"Trial and Error" and "How to Write
For Money." . . . He poses as a mentor
to young writers. . . . But if you take
the trouble to read Mr. Woodford's arti-
cles in one of the many magazines he-
uses to dispense his wisdom you will find
that Mr. Woodford is a dangerous rabble-
rouser and a notorious Jew baiter. .. .
His most recent diatribe is published in
the "Independent Writer" issued by "The
Blackstone Press" in Sommerville, N. J.
. . . Beware of contributions from Jack
Woodford.

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READER'S GVIDE
Edmund Wilson's "Memoirs of Hecate
County" was banned in Boston for al-
Jewish state, and with Russia advocating legedly pornographic passages. . . . We
the independence of Palestine as a whole, didn't find any pornography in this
Zionist leaders lay much hope on Latin- well-written volume, but discovered a
American representatives at the United decidedly anti-Semitic reference. .
Nations. . . . In fact, they believe that Describing a certain type of refugee from
these representatives could play a very Germany, Wilson remarks that this type
important role counteracting the efforts had characteristics "which did something
to make Hitler comprehensible."
of the Arab states.
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Volume 3, No. 7, the September, 1946,
issue of "Palestine," prints the full text
HERE AND THERE
American Jews whose funds were of Bartley C. Crum's speech at a lunch-
"frozen" in Palestine under war emer- eon meeting at Washington, D. C.—a
gency regulations are beginning to get speech which U. S. State Department is
annoyed. . . . They wonder why these still embarrassed about and never man-
accounts are not being "de-frosted." .. . aged to explain.
Congratulations to Penguin Books Inc.
In fact, the British Government prom-
ised to "defrost" the accounts of Amer- for publishing James Parkes' "An Enemy
ican citizens when it obtained the huge of the People," a really illuminating
U. S. loan. . . . However, no indication analysis of anti-Semitism.
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has been given so far by the British as
to when Americans will be permitted to RATHER INTERESTING
The story of Al Jolson, which yon
freely transfer their deposits from Pal-
will soon see on the screen, does not do
estine banks.
Gerald L. K. Smith recently came up "too well" about his Jewish background.
B. Z. Goldberg, noted Yiddish col-
with the "revelation" that -there is a
"campaign" on to bring a million Jews umnist who spent i year in Russia, Eu-
from Europe to the U. S.r . . . How and rope and Palestine, is back in the U. S.
where this alleged campaign is being con- with a book on the after-war world.
Maurice Wertheim, the captain of the
ducted is not indicated by him ... How-
ever, in the same breath he says that American chess team which recently
British Foreign Minister Bevin was right visited the Soviet Union, is a great chest
in asserting that the reason American enthusiast but a below average player.
In the first six months of 1946, $246,020
Jews want European Jews to go to Pales-
tine is because they do not want them has been collected for orphans in Stalin-
grad and help in Biro-Bidjan.
in the United States.

