England Deported
Americans in 1812

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 12, 1947

JDC Executive Returns
To Describe European
Conditions at Parley

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

Rise Chalutz

BY MICHAEL ATZMONI

Wake Chalutz,
Rise Chalutz,
Ere the morning sun is up.
Strain your muscles hard.
Sing a song and guard
Faithfully the gathered crop.
Heat and glare.
Who does care.—
Keep on toiling. never rest.
Stamp out weed and thorn,
Deck the plains with corn
And with vine the mountAin's crest.
Firm and tall,
Wall by wall.
Grows the Holy City fast
Ere a day is gone.
New terrain is won.
Ship has donned a mast .
Swing your ax,
Don't relax,
Build the future's citadel .
Carry rocky loads.
Hammer out the roads,
To our freedom's welt.
Ev'ry leaf.
Ev'ry sheaf,
Ev'ry seed and ear of corn,—
You have made them grow.
Tended by your plough
Jewish land is born.

First Jewish Center
Set Up in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Af-
rica—The Jewish Center move-
ment made its bow in the Union
of South Africa when the Jewish
Center of Johannesburg, first
agency of its kind in South Af-
rica, was inaugurated. Rabbi I. J.
Harris is acting as the honorary
organizing director.
In Sydney, Australia, the es-
tablishment of the Australian
Federation of YM-YWHAs and
Jewish Community Centers high-
lighted the first Conference of
YMHAs of Australia.

Twenty-Three

Hungarian Zionists Finally
Get Permit for Publication

BUDAPEST (JTA)—After try-
ing unsuccessfully for a year, the
Zioriist organization has finally
secured approval from the gov-
ernment to issue a weekly news-
paper, "The Jewish Road." The
publication permit was obtained
allegedly as a result of interven-
tion by Social-Democratic depu-
ties.

Moses W. Beckelman, vice-
chairman of the European Execu-
If Jews are perturbed over the tive Council of the Joint Dis-
deportations of the Exodus pas-
sengers to German concentration
camps, we may be heartened by
reading of the deportations of an
earlier date, when the English
did the deporting, not of Jews,
but of Americans.
I am referring to the "impress-
ments" of the period of the first
decade of the 19th century which
brought about the War of 1812.
The British searched American
vessels for men who, they said,
had formerly served with the
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British Navy and carried them
off. Once an Englishman, they
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said, always an Englishman. In
JWB Names Herzig Head
carrying off these sailors, they
Of Business Committee
admitted they were not always
NEW YORK—Appointment of
too careful.
May the New Year bring
Leonard S Herzig. New York
The British Foreign Minister,
stock broker. as chairman of the
Lord Castlereagh, a man appar-
secess;on of hostilities
ently of the Bevin type, said that
business operations division com-
MOSES W. BECKELMAN
perhaps the British had carried
mittee of the National Jewish
off as many as 1,500 genuine tribution Committee and a lead- Welfare Board was announced by
thru-out the world . .
Americans, who had been forced ing authority on the Europear Frank L Weil, JWB president.
to work on British ships, but no scene, will be a featured speaker
understanding of all man-
more than that. The Americans at the second annual meeting of
insisted that the British had car- the JDC's East Central Region
ried off more than 3,000 genuine in the Hotel William Penn, Pitts-
kind . . . and a year of
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burgh, Sunday, Sept 28, it was
Americans
announced
by
Lester
D.
Alexan-
Same Colonial Policy
health and happine,s.
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The Americans held that the der of Toledo, regional chaii man.
More than 300 representatives
British had no right to carry off
even those who had formerly from communities in Indiana,
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been in the British employ and northern Kentucky, Michigan,
today no one would question this Ohio, western Pennsylvania and
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the
enjoy
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American point of . view. The the Tri-State area are expected
benefits of Koep-
British then did not recognize the to attend.
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right of naturalization, which
Beckelman, who will return
pHger's Health
meant that legally even the right to the U. S. by air in time to ad-
Bread because it
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to emigrate was not admitted. In dress the Pittsburgh meeting, will
is made without
this, the Colonial policy of Eng- discuss the latest conditions
sugar or fat and
land has scarcely moved appar- among Europe's Jewish men, wo-
with soft-, velvety
ently from what it was years ago. men and children and their
winter wheat com-
Opposition to Jewish immigration struggle to effect a genuine revi-
bined with mineral
to Palestine is but the heritage val.
of the idea that immigration is
rich wheat - bran
As second in command of the
essentially unlawful, unless under vast JDC European program,
flour. Cooled in
official auspices.
Beckelman has been stationed at
germ free environ-
Thomas Jefferson, the great ex- the Paris headquarters of the
ment under the
ponent of immigration, insisted Committee for the past year. In
ultra violet rays.
that everyone had the right to addition he completed inspection
Koepplinger's
settle wherever he wanted to be. surveys of the displaced persons'
Health Bread is
Jefferson worked to make nat- camps of Germany, Austria and
good and good
uralization easy.
Italy and visited many of the
Tories Pro-British
JDC-supported children's homes,
for you. Order
The Tories in America took the medical instittutions, feeding
from your neighbor-
British point of view. When the stations and other installations
hood grocer today.
general American anger over the throughout the continen.
British impressments threatened
Officers of the JDC East Cen-
to lead to war, Tory Federalists tral Region include: Fred M.
damned Jefferson for having Butzel and Mrs. Henry Wine-
made the path of the immigrant man of Detroit.
easy. One Federealist pamphleteer
wrote:
"Our country has become. in
the language of Democrats, the
asylum of distressed humanity,
which is the new name for the
vagabonds and wandering felons
of the universe."
NEW .YORK—Mrs. Frank Co-
But the Federalists did not win
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out. The people did not forget hen, New York, musicologist, has
the incident of the Chesapeake been appointed chairman of the
Detroif's Largest Store Devoted Exc%.,s ■ vely to
when the British arrogantly fired National Jewish Music Council,
upon that ship and took away Sponsored by the National Jew-
Furniture and Wngs for the Home
several of the crew and even ish --Welfare Board, it was an-
nounced by Frank L. Wed, JWB
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America went to war with Eng- president. -
Formerly co-chairman of Mai-
land chiefly on account of this
matter of impressment—of un- lamm, the American Palestine
lawful seizure and deportation of Music Association, Mrs. Cohen is
the author of numerous articles
men.
The Exodus is a companion ship on general and Jewish music and
to the Chesapeake.
co-author of "Fifty Yiddish Folk
Britain's Place Reversed
Songs."
Britain is still carrying on in
the spirit of the Chesapeake in-
cident. That is the sad moral
Parcels of Food & Clothing
which the Exodus incident re-
veals. Yet history brings one com-
forting lesson. Britain today
would not dare insult America
as she did then. She must come
now and beg of the people she
abused money to keep her from
total collapse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once re-
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marked that the Englishman him-
self is generally not unpleasing,
We are authorized by the
but that British foreign policy
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has always favored the wrong
side. Emerson pointed to various
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One might say that British
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(Copyright, 1947, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Inc.)

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