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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 11, 1947

Michigan Senator Sees Senate Passage
Of Measure. Granting DPs Entry to U.S.

GI Law Requires Remarriage
Of Detroit Vet and Refugee Wife

Sponsors Insist U. S. Has 'Moral Obligation' to Survivors;
Stratton's Similar Bill in House Attacked by Texan
As 'Jewish-Inspired' for 'Selfish Ends!'

NEW YORK—Just reunited after an eight-year separa-
tion forced on them by Nazi persecution and war, a U. S.
Army veteran and his wife will be remarried to comply with
immigration requirements, it sys reported by United Service
for New Americans, principal- welfare agency serving the
adjustment of newcomers in the United States.

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Senator Homer Ferguson of
Michigan, who introduced into the Senate, with the co-spon-
sorship of eight other Senators, a bill to admit an unstated
number of displaced persons to the United States over a four-
year period as non-quota immigrants, told the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency he was hopeful that the Senate Judiciary

Semitism within this country to
the serious detriment of all.
"Unless they desist and refrain
from such activity, they will
bring great sorrow upon this_na-
tion," he added. • _
President Truman this week
signed the joint resolution au-
thorizing him to accept member-
ship in the International Refugee
Organization. He also signed the
necessary instrument of accept-
ance which Warren R. Austin,
American representative to the
United Nations, will promptly de-,
posit with the UN Secretary
General.

Committee would set hearings
T-
on the measure within the next the same opinion, Senator Smith,
few weeks. He expressed con- Republican of New Jersey, added
fidence that the measure would that "America throughout her his-
be passed.
tory has grown in stature and
The measure purposely did not vision by her welcome to immi-
fix the number of DPs to be ad- grants from other countries."
mitted, as does
?resident- Truman's message European Jews Face Crisis
the Stratton Bill
to Congress urging immediate Due to Inflation, Flight
in the House.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Fresh and
action in behalf of measures to
S e n . Ferguson
admit DPs to the U. S. served continuing movements of Jews
explained that
greatly to encourage sponsors across Europe, coupled with
whatever refu-
spiralling inflation in nearly every
of pending bills.
gees were to be
American Jews were accused country on the continent, are
brought here
on the floor of the House of Rep- causing a crisis among Jewish
should be ad-
resentatives by Rep. Ed. Gosset, survivors and are impeding as-
mitted immedi-
Texas Democrat, of attempting to sistance efforts in their behalf, it
ately, "so they'll
tear down the country's immigra- was stated by Moses A. Leavitt,
know there's
tion barriers and to "control the executive vice-chairman of the
some hope," in-
press and radio for selfish ends." Joint Distribution Committee, who
stead of having Sen. Ferguson
The charge was made in a brief returned from a 10-week survey
to wait four more years. Having address scoring the Stratton Bill, of conditions in Europe.
viewed the DP camps just after
Leavitt reported at a press con-
Gosset attacked as Jewish-
liberation
liberation in 1945, ' Ferguson de- inspired. He also accused Jewish ference that 5,000 Romanian Jews
Oared, "anybody who had seen „ groups of using non-Jewish groups are in an unorganized, panic-
them couldn't object to this bill.”
individuals to achieve their stricken flight from famine, fear
own "obviously selfish purposes." and inflation in their native coun-
Hatch for Quick Action
Senator Hatch, Democrat . of Eschelking anti-Semitism and try, crowding the roads and
New Mexico, one of the bill's lauding the contributions made to refugee centers of Hungary and
sponsors, hopes for "quick action" the nation's development by Jew- Austria.
Approximately 3,000 fleeing
to fulfill the "moral obligation" ish immigrants, Gosset warned
of the United States toward . the U. S. Jews that "when they band Romanian Jews have reached
DPs. "I do not see how we can themselves together in Jewish or- Vienna , Leavitt revealed. But be-
, possibly take the position of in- ganizations, when they use their cause the U. S. Army is unable
sisting that others perform similar power and influence for obviously to aid newcomers entering after
obligations resting upon them," selfish purposes, when they seek April 21, 1947, responsibility for
Hatch said in the Senate, "unless to control the press and radio for providing full maintenance for
we evidence a willingness to per- selfish ends, when they conspire the group has fallen to the JDC.
form some part in the discharge , to destroy immigration barriers, Many are being cared for in the
of our own obligations." Voicing they stimulate and promote anti- Rothschild Hospice, which the
Army has turned over to the JDC
to care for the newcomers, he said.
The JDC is spending $1.500 per
day for food alone for the refu-
gees; Leavitt disclosed.
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
DP Situation Desperate
Unless the problem of the dis-
Motivating Force Behind Survivors' Zionism
What is it that drives displaced Jews to Palestine? Why is Eretz placed Jews is settled by next
Israel the preferred haven of at least 95 per cent of the Jewish sur- winter, "it will result under
chaotic conditions which will:
vivors from NaziSm?
Raymond Daniell, New York Times correspondent in Berlin, make the end results unpredict-;
explained it in a special article in the N. Y. Times Magazine. Here able," George Backer, president!
is the- tricttlent which clarified it for him and undoubtedly will make of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
the issue easier to understand for those who seem perplexed by the said on his return from Europe.
Jewish preference for Zion:
Describing the DP situation as
"Briton, Frenchman, Italian, Belgian and Dutchman all agree
"desperate," Backer, addressing a
that life is becoming too difficult to bear in the old country. But
reception in his honor tendered
of all the explanations of the wish to migrate that this corres-
by Herbert Bayard Swope, noted
pondent has heard the most eloquent and most moving was the
impromptu oration of a 16-year-old Jewish schoolgirl who had
editor and chairman of the board
fled from Poland illegally and was bound for Palestine. I found
of the Overseas News Agency,
her among a group of illegal emigrants in Munich some months
said that the present conditions
ago and asked her if she had her choice whether she wouldn't
in the DP camps "cannot last and
prefer to go to the United States.
unless some solution is reached,
"'No,' she said, 'that would not be my country any more
there will be a wave of emigra-
than Poland was. I am going to a place where I belong and where
tion from the camps."
my children when I have them can feel as well as say that the
"The only way an orderly
land they stand on belongs to them.'
"The girl's eyes flashed and she tossed her blond head before
solution of the problem can be
she continued: 'My parents were killed by the Nazis. All their
reached," he said, "is by some
lives they knew persecution. Life is meant to be more than that
solution of the Palestine problem
for parents and children. Perhaps your people know that now.
which, while not immediately
But will they, ten or twenty years from now? Who knows? I
taking all of the refugees, will
prefer to cast my lot with my own people. That is why I am here
permit an orderly and systematic
and that is why other people, however friendly they may be now,
scheduling of immigration that
frighten me a, little. I am going home'
will leave those remaining in the
"That is Zionism speaking. It is the motivating force behind
camps with some hope for the
one massmigration that is already under way and it is akin to
the mass movement of escape that grips all of Europe now."
immediate future."
The serious problem is how to fulfill the dreams and hopes of
International Action Needed
the remnant of European Jewry. Presently their roads to Zion are
Unless international action is
blocked. There is not a single power to help them. International
political games are played at the expense of the survivors. A UN taken soon, thousands of displaced
committee is seeing many sites in Palestine but appears to be gaining persons may have to remain in
acquaintance only with the surface elements in Palestine. It is not Germany from 10 to 20 years
UNSCOP's fault that they are learning little. It is the result of an with disastrous consequences,
accumulation of circumstances which is keeping even the best-inten- David Bernstein, representative
tioned from learning all the facts in Palestine and in the camps where of the American Jewish Commit-
the people who must go to Zion are concentrated.
Jewry's chances for a better future are not bright. Once again tee, told a press conference upon
we are looking to a miracle to provide complete justice for unfor- his return from a seven-month
mission in Europe.
tunte people.
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Bernstein, former adviser to the
Philippine government, reported
Emanuel Neumann—New ZOA Prexy
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, successor to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver to the that with the exception of Ger-
presidency of the Zionist Organization of America, is an interesting many, anti-Semitism has not
person.
reached critical proportions in the
An able linguist—he is one of the outstanding masters of Hebrew western part of Europe. A very
in the ranks of American Zionist leaders—he speaks and writes substantial number of Jews there,
well, thinks clearly and is splendid at repartee.
he stated, retain their confidence
He began his Zionist activities as a Young Judaean, was a
national leader in the Young Judaea movement, later actively en- in their Christian neighbors, and
tered the ranks of Zionism and was among the small group that firmly intend to rebuild their lives
succeeded in mobilizing Zionist opinion against the policies of in the countries where they had
Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis at the 1921 Cleveland con- long since taken root as integrated
vention.
citizens. But the democratic forces,
While Dr. Neumann is called conservative by labor Zionists, he on which they depend, need en-
is radical in faVoring militant action (some even accused him and couragement from America.
Dr. Silver as leaning to Revisionism). It is no secret that he became
a pro-Brandeisist during his several years' stay in Palestine.
He was in succession teacher, banker and lawyer, became an
Our Columnists
expert on Palestine investments and an excellent organizer.
There is a powerful minority that will constantly heckle him.
Boris Smolar's "Between You
But he knows how to handle situations and is certain to make a
and Me" column and Arnold
good record as president of ZOA.
We join the 217,000 American Zionists in wishing ltim well and Levin's "Heard in the Lobbies"
in pledging him our support;
column appear on Page 16.

Purely Commentary

The veteran is Jacob Klueger,
of Detroit. His wife, Florentine, The"Flandre" went on to Vera
from whom he was parted in Cruz, where Mexico also turned
Vienna in 1938, arrived in this the wanderers away. The "ship
country aboard the S.S. "Sobie- went back to Havana, and once
ski" June 27 with their three sons, again the passengers were re-
Herbert, 10, Joseph, 16, and buffed. Finally the "Flandre" had
Simon, 17: records of the to return to France with the ref-
Kluegers' - original marriage in ugees still aboard.
Vienna vanished during the Nazi
K
occupation, together with the Klueger's
only glimpse of his
rabbi who performed the cere- fam ily was a photograph pub-
lished in a Detroit paper, show-
mony.
ing one of his boys
peering
Since Klueger is a veteran, Mrs.
Klueger was admitted
to the through a porthole at the New
United States under the "GI fi- World as the "Flandre" set sail
ancee" act. Reunion of the fam- back to Europe. •
Klueger continued his rescue
ily was brought about through
the efforts of United Service for attempts, and his wife finally
New Americans and the Joint was granted a United States
Distribution Committee, both of visa, but before she could use
which are financed by the UM- it, this country entered the war,
000,000 campaign of the United and escape from Europe was cut
Jewish Appeal for 1947, and the off. Klueger entered the Army,
Jewish Social Service Bureau of and served in Alaska. He was
Detroit. discharged in 1944, and returned
A woman immigrating under to his job as a machine operator
the "GI Fiance" law is required at Ford's.
he
to marry within three months When the war ended,
after arrival in this country, to learned that his family was still
establish her right to remain. Mr. alive, and resumed his attempts
and Mrs. Klueger therefore plan to bring them here. He sought
Social
to have a civil wedding before the aid of the Jewish
setting out for Detroit. - Service Bureau, which enlisted
Klueger came to the United USNA and JDC in the effort
States early in 1939 and settled Which ended with the arrival of
in Detroit, hoping to have his his wife and children last week.
family join him promptly. The Since the religious wedding
wife and children left Austria, ex- cannot be re-enacted under Jew-
pecting to go to Cuba temporarily ish observance, the Klueger's re-
where they would wait for United marriage will be a civil cere-
States visas. They sailed aboard mony. In addition to their chil-
by
the French steamer "Flandre," dren, it will be attended
which reached Havana in May, Klueger's brother, Leon Klueger,
1939, but the Cuban government and his family, of 966-42nd St.,
refused to allow the refugee pas- Brooklyn, and other New York
sengers to land. relatives.

Strictly Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON •

(Copyright, 1947. Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)

Warning

Lena Horne, the famous Negro movie star, told a .hair-raising
story of prejudice against Negroes in Hollywood in an interview
with Earl Wilsoil . . . One phase of it is of special interest to us
Jews . .. Lena had asked a friend, who happened to be a Jew, to •
find her a Hollywood home, "something where I don't offend any-
body" . . . The friend later reported that he'd found amazing race
hatred, but was determined to persist • . "I'm afraid we Jews are .
next," he added ... To which Miss Home answered: "I've got news

for you—you're now" . . . In the scene interview Lena Horne re-
ported: "Sections of Beverly Hills won't let in Jews ... Everybody

knows it, but nobody does anything about it."

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Accounts That Don't Mix

We're told that the busiest of the Jewish publicity outfits, Sidney
Wallach Associates, handles the publicity for the American Council
for Judaism and the Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation League, among
other accounts.
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Correction

William Zukerman, the gifted journalist, protests- that we didn't
treat him fairly when we mentioned the article he published in the
Ladies' Home Journal . . . Zukerman writes: "I did not intend to
say there were no dark clouds on the Jewish horizon in Europe, but
that these dark and heavy clouds had a silver lining" . . . We're
sorry if we gave the wrong impression in our comment . . . The
point we tried to make is that, measured against the horrible record
of anti-Semitism in Europe, the help of Christians to Jewish victims
was so minimal that it cannot even be called a "silver lining" • . .
What lining there was didn't amount to even a tattered rag, let

alone silver.

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Star Is Born

Within a few months Hollywood will unveil June Holliday, a
native New York Jewish girl, as one of its screen sensations . . .
June's real name is Tuvim . . . She was hailed on Broadway as the
star of "Born Yesterday," and besides being a beauty is a real
actress . . . June Holliday's name will loom big on movie marquees
in the coming season.
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Wrong, Mr. Farley!

To those who knew Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Farley's
articles in Collier's don't make sense . . . Especially unbelievable are
the passages in which Farley implies that Roosevelt was submissive
to anti-Semitic trends and afraid to appoint Jews to office because
he wanted to avoid displeasing Jew-haters . • . His appointment of
Frankfurter and Morgenthau and his close cooperation with Sam
Rosenman, just to mention three examples, contradict Farley's ac-
cusation.
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Music

You'll be able to play Dr. Stephen S. Wise on your phonograph
this fall . . . RCA has just completed three 12-inch records of Rabbi
Wise speaking against the background singing of the Free Syna-
gogue Choir.
You can get a record now of Yehudi Menuhin playing Bela
Bartok's violin concerto . . . And of Vladimir Horowitz interpreting
Mendelssohn's piano music . . . Not to forget the Red Seal Records
of Leonard Bernstein conducting Marc Blitzstein's "Airborne Sym-
. And to top it off there are records, just issued, of Serge
phony"
Koussevitsky leading his Boston Symphony Orchestra through a
series of Bach concertos.. • . It all sounds like a swell summer eve-
ning at home, doesn't it?

