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Helen Hayes `Adopts' Refugee

One of the leading ladies of the American stage, Helen Hayes,
has a new "leading man," a nine-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee,
whom she adopted through Rescue Children, Inc., 1480 Broadway,
New York., The child, with his mother, was hidden from the Nazis
by a friendly Christian family in France. Miss Hayes became his
foster "parent" by guaranteeing his maintenance for a year. Over
1500 refugee children have been "adopted" in similar manner.

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Economic Factors, Not Religion
Seen as Basis forAnti-Semitism

Dangerous signs of disunity
among the American people, ap-
parant even under the emergency
unification of wartime, are clear-
ly brought forth by Katherine
Archibald in her "Wartime Ship-
yard," a recent publication of the
University of California Press at
Berkely, Calif.
Stepping down from her ivory
tower of academic idealism, Kath-
erine Archibald went to work_ in
a bustling California shipyard in
the early days of the war, when
all America was—or should have
been involved in a gigantic mass
effort towards victory.
Instead, Miss Archibald quick-
ly discovered, the "men behind
the men behind the gun" were
almost as busy fighting among
themselves as they were support-
ing the armed forces. Every con-
ceivable economic, social, racial,
religious and even sexual differ-
ence was apparent in the rela-
tionships of shipyard workers,
accounting for her sub-title "A
Study in Social Disunity."
The Social Abyss
"I found differences and - gaps
—social abysses so deep that- the
possibility of spanning them never
,occurred, apparently, to right-
minded people • reared after a
righteous custom ... Where I had
confidently expected unity of
purpose and action, I found only
antagonism and turmoil," she de-
clares.
Prejudice toward racial, religi-
ous and national minorities was
rampant among the shipyard
workers, Miss Archibald reports.
Although Negroes.bore the brunt
of the intolerance, Orientals, and
other non-Anglo-Saxon groups
came in for much in the way of
vicious remarks, snubs, and non-
humorous jokes.
"Jews were unique among the

Leo Katz's `Seedtime'

"Seedtime," Leo Katz's novel,
translated from the German by
Joel Ames (a Knopf publication),
deals with the period of the Ro-
manian agrarian revolt of 1907
and the pogrom 'of that era.
The author, who now makes
_his home in Mexico City, is a
well informed, able writer, who
reveals a deep knowledge of con-
ditions which underlie his stir-
ring story. Thtre is a combina-
tion of pathos, humor and poetry
in his fine writing; and there is
deep-rooted understanding of
Jewish conditions in his narrative.
A native of Sereth (Bukowina),
Leo Katz has infused in his story
about Sereth an intimacy that
goes with personal knowledge of
the scene, the people, the events
and the land he - deals with. His
story will be read with much
interest, and "Seedtime" will un-
doubtedly receive deserving ac-
claim.

Friday, November 28, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

disapproved minorities of the
shipyards in being credited with
certain qualities which were su-
perior, rather than inferior, to
those with which the ordinary
run of humankind are gifted,"
Miss Archibald found.
"It was their very cleverness,
in fact, this willingly conceded
superiority' that was resented most
bitterly, since it was the basis
on ,which the reputed power and
wealth of the Jew was presumed
to rest."
Jewish 'Superiority' Suspicious
Little of a religious tone exist-
ed in the shipyard attitude to-
ward the Jew; the principal issues
were economic and social, she
says. Jews,-in the shipyard view,
were "loan sharks, shyster law-
yers, union-breakers, capitalists,
and everything in capitalism that
was destructive of the welfare of
the common man."
Miss Archibald's study offers a
clfallenge to thinking people,
particularly those minorities who
are the victims of ignorance and
malice. It is a challenge of edu-
cation, to avert the unpleasant-
ness caused by ignorance. Most
important, however, it utters a
warning against complacence on
the part of those minorities, urg-
ing them to be watchful, lest the
elements of disunity become so
powerful as to completely over-
come the forces of reason.

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U. S. Denies Visas
To 2 Polish Leaders

National Council's
Committee Starts
Constitution Draft

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e
Jewish National Council has ap-
pointed a six-man committee to
draft a constitution for the pro-
jected Jewish state.
Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog an-
nounced that he was preparing
the draft of a constitution to be
submitted to a committee of rab-
bis for approval before being
presented to national institutions.
Five Arabs were lined up
against a vaall and machine-gun-
ned to death by eight armed
Sternists who had dragged them
from a house near Herzlia a short
distance from the scene of a Brit-
ish massacre of five Sternists last
week. It is thought that the
Arabs were responsbiie for tip-
ping off the British to the Stern-
ist training camp. The .five
Arabs were not selected at ran-
dom, but were individually
sought out by their executioners.
Several hours later nine Jews
were wounded vy nen a Jewish-
operated bus was fired upon
when it passed an Arab village
on the road between Tel Aviv
and Holon.
A former German woman mem-
ber of the Gestapo and a super-
visor at the Georghoff concentra-
tion camp was recognized by a
Jewish refugee at a Jewish'
Agency hostel in Haifa. The wo-
man, Betty Kellman, 26, who es-
caped from Germany after the
collapse of the Hitler regime dis-
guised as a Jew, did not deny her
true identity. It is expected that
the authorities will deport her to
Czechoslovakia.

FCC Ignores Charges
Against Daily News

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Mr. and Mrs. Jerome - Allen
Weingarden are honeymooning
in Montreal and New York after
their 'Nov. 9 'wedding in Colum-
bus, 0., Nov. 9.
The bride is the former Shirley
Mae Stein, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Max. Stein of Columbus,
and the bridegroom is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Weingarden,
formerly of Detroit.
The informal ceremony took
place at the Seneca Hotel in
Columbus. The bride wore a
winter white suit with brown ac-
cessories and an orchid- corsage.
After their wedding • trip, the

The Jewish Soldiers' Hall at
Givataim is being built by the
local Council and residents of
this workers' suburg of Tel Aviv.

Heirless Property Order
Prepared in Hungary

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BUDAPEST, (JTA)—Although
the government has not yet trans-
ferred jurisdiction over heirless
and abandoned Jewish property
from the Abandoned Property
Bureau to the Jewish Rehabilita-
tion Fund, it is learned Justice
Minister Istvan Ries is preparing -
a proclamation ordering the
transfer, which. will go into effect
30 days after it's publication.

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LONDON, (JTA)—Two fascist
meetings were broken up by anti-
fascist crowds. A number of per-
sons were arrested.
The Duke of Bedford, pro-
fascist leader, addressed a meet-
ing in Westminster of the British
People's Party.
Dr. Joseph McCambridge, con-
victed of breaking the window
of a Jewish-owned shop was fined
$400 and costs and received a
suspended two-year sentence. He
was placed on parole.

Jewish Labor Leaders
Guests of Russians

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A party
of 10 Palestinian Jews represent-
ing various labor groups will de-
part for the Soviet Union within
the next few days to participate
in the celebration of the 30th
Jewish Secular Day School
anniversary of, the Russian Revo-
Established in New York
NEW YORK. (JTA)—The es- lution, as guests of the Soviet
tablishment of the Kinneret Jew- government. The invitation was
ish National Day School, the first extended through the League for
Friendship with Russia.
secular JewiSh school of its kind
in the United States, was an- Belgian Jews Commemorate
nounced at a press conference Government's Aid to Jews
here. The school, which has 40
BRUSSELS (JTA) — A depu-
pupils in the kindergarten and tation of the Council ,of Jewish
first year class, and offers in- Associations of Belgium has pre-
struction in Hebrew, Yiddish and sented to Premier Paul-Henri
English, is sponsored jointly by Spaak a bronze plaque in com-
the Jewish National Workers Al- memoration of the Belgian peo-
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liance and the Pioneer Women.
ple's and government's efforts to
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aid the Jews during the Nazi oc-
More than 85% of the Jews in cupation. The plaque, designed
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0 tal care, according to a recent Levici, was presented by Prof.
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FLUSHING MEADOW, (JTA)
The U. N. General Assembly
adopted a resolution instructing
the Economic and Social Council
to start drawing up a draft con-
vention on genocide.
The action, which came on a
joint Panama-Cuba-Egypt resolu-
tion,, was approved 38 to 9. The
vote reverses the majority of the
Legal Committee which had re-
ferred action on the draft con-
vention to the Economic and So-
cial Council subject to opinions
of the member states.
Passage of the resolution means
that work can begin immediately
on the preparation of the con-
Vention, instead of waiting for the -
opinions of all the UN meme-
bers, which might have resulted
in a delay of three years.
The resolution implements the
Assembly's decision of Dec. 11,
1946, calling for the earliest pos-
sible international convention to
draw up an agreement among the
nations of the world, declaring
that genocide was an interna-
tional crime and making violators
subject to the Nuremberg penal-
ties and extradition.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Federal Communications Com-
During 1947, JDC increased its
mission reversed a pr e v i o us feeding canteens in Romania from
UN. 2-9292
"tentative" decision to grant an 17 to 108, to feed 38,000 destitute
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FM radio channel to the New Romanian Jews.
York Daily News, but announced
that its decision' had - not been
affected by charges made by the
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British Crowds Break Up
Two Meetings of Fascists

NEW YORK (JTA) — Two
leaders of the Central Jewish
Committee of Poland have been
denied American visas for a pro-
posed visit to the' United States
to consult with Jewish organiza-
tions, the Polish Press Agency
reported.
The two are Dr. Adolph Ber-
man, a Poale-Zionist who was a
guerrilla leader during the war
and is presently chairman of the
Central Committee, and Jacob
Egis, a member of the 'Commit-
tee's executive board.
The Polish Central Jewish
Committee declares that "there
is no possibility now for the rep-
resentatives of the Jewish sur-
vivors in Poland to make person-
al contact with their brothers in
the United States who have them
and continue„to give them moral
and material help,"

Genocide Ban
Adopted by UN

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