THE JEWISH NEWS

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UJA Helped 60,000 Jews
Find Homes During Year

Beth El Speaker

Friday, January 9, 1948

JDC Speakers Prophesy
Progress for Jewry In '48

relief and rehabili-
NEW YORK—Continued
tation assistance, combined with
with implementation of the UN
decision on Palestine and enactment of legislation speeding
the entry of displaced persons into the United States, can
held Europe's Jews achieve marked progress towards recovery
this year, four leaders of overseas assistance efforts declared

NEW YORK, (JTA) —Approximately 60,000 homeless
European Jews, the majority of them DPs were helped by the
United Jewish Appeal to find new homes in Palestine, the
United States and other lands in 1947, according to a year-
end report made public on the relief, rehabilitation and re-
settlement assistance extended to Europe's 1,500,000 remaining

at the 33rd annual meeting of the
sr,
Jews by the UJA.
Joint Distribution Committee.
children abroad. In 1948, he
Of this number, 30,000 were
An audience of more than 2,000 stated, JDC faces a turning point
resettled in Palestine, 25,000 in
persons, meeting in Hotel Com-
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the United States and the remain-
modore, heard this hopeful out- year, for, "given continued and
ing 5,000 in other countries, the
look for 1948 expressed by for- expanded assistance during 1948,
report said. Funds for this mass
mer Gov. Herbert H. Lehman, a large numbers of additional Jews
migration, including the cost of
JDC vice chairman; Judge Louis vcrill be able to assume new lives
preparing the emigrants for their JERUSALEM, (Palcor) — Dr.
E. Levinthal, who returned to of security and productivity."
journey and of their care, recep- Hugo Lehr, superintendent of the
Reporting on the European
the U. S. Saturday from Europe,
tion and resettlement upon ar- infectious disease section of the
where he held the post of adviser scene, Dr. Schwartz declared that
rival, were provided by UJA
on Jewish affairs to the American JDC's activities since liberation
- at the Arab
agencies, which spent a total of Government Hospital
Military Governor of Germany form a sturdy foundation for re-
village
of
Beit
Safara,
was
shot
$158,000,000 in 1947.
and
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, chair- covery. "JDC's support of chil-
DR. SOLOMON B. FREEHOF man of the JDC European Ex- dren's homes and medical insti-
On the basis of present esti- to death by an Arab gang on the
mates, the agencies of the hospital grounds after two Arab will be guest speaker -at Temple ecutive Council. Edward M. M. tutions, its rebuilding of Jewish
United Jewish Appeal are gear- colleagues, a doctor and a nurse, Beth El Men's Club's Institute on Warburg, JDC chairman, pre- communities, its support of loan
centers and producers' coopera-
ing their programs to provide for indicated to the gang that he was Judaism session Monday evening, sided.
the resettlement needs of close
tives, its shipments of raw ma-
Jan. 12. His topic will be "Re-
`Accident of History'
a Jew.
to 125,000 European Jews :in
terials and machinery are the
form Jewish Practice." Rabbi of
Several
hours
later
Dr.
Michel
In
his
address,
Gov.
Lehman,
tools
with.. which Europe's Jews
1948, the report said. In accord-
Rodef Shalom Temple, Pittsburgh, former director-general of UN-
ance with the UN decision on Pal- Mallouf, Christian Arab head of
Dr. Freehof is past president of RRA, declared that 1948 is des- can go forward towards revival,"
estine, a minimum of 75,000 Jews the Government Insane .Hospital
the Central Conference of Amer- tined to be an extraordinary year, he declared.
are expected to enter the new at Bethlehem, was shot and kill-
"Those who will remain in ELF;
ican Rabbis and a leader in Re- one in which "there can be an
Jewish, state within the next 12 ed while en route to Bethlehem,
rope
in 1948 cannot be forgotten,"
end
to
homelessness
for
hundreds
months. It is anticipated that a apparently by the Irgun in re- form circles.
Dr. Schwartz added. "They —
of
thousands
of
Jews
in
Europe."
Walter Schmier is chairman of
minimum of 25,000 displaced and prisal for Dr. Lehr's murder.
He pointed out that "by an acci- and the DP's preparing for Pal-
refugee Jews will find a haven
the Institute committee. Dr. Julian
are the reasons why
dent of history" the JDC com- estine
in the United States, and several
Morgenstern will address an In-
t,ongressrnen
Protest
pletes its first third of a century JDC must, in 1948, carry forward
thousands will be able to find new
stitute meeting Jan. 27.
at the time of the creation of a its life-saving, life-sustaining —
homes in other lands.
Death Sentences
Jewish state in Palestine. "The and now, life-building—work."
The report stressed, however,
A resolution, adopted unani-
prospects before us add fresh
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Pro-
that these were minimum esti-
hope and a realizable goal to our mously at the meeting, called for
mates and that favorable legisla- tests against the recent death sen-
full support of the 1948 campaign
work," he stated.
tion at the forthcoming session of tences imposed on four Jewish
Judge Levinthal hailed the for $250,000,000 of the United
Congress may permit a greatly DPs in the British zone in Ger-
work of the JDC in the DP camps. Jewish Appeal, from which the
expanded flow of refugees in this many have been directed by sev-
Recalling that JDC first came to JDC receives its funds, in dedi-
country. It estimated that -UJA eral members of Congress to
Europe in 1914, he stated that cation "to the task of making
agencies will require $113,000,000 General Lucius D. Clay, U. S.
NEW 'YORK, (JTA)—The U. S. "since that time, it has repeated- 1948 a year of fulfillment which
military commander in Europe.
in 1948.
government stands committed to ly responded . to the call to feed will usher in a brighter future
Sen. William Langer of North
for our suffering brothers over-
Dakota and Rep. Andrew L. Som- implementation of the partition and to heal and to sustain Jews
:Gentleman's Agreement' ers of New York jointly cabled decision of the United Nations, in distress." He declared that dur- seas."
President's Greeting
Wins N. Y. Critics' Vote
General Clay that "political ven- Dr. Abba Hillel Silver declared ing the six months in which he
Warburg read messages of
carried
out
his
mission
for
the
U.
geance rather than justice" moti- at a dinner given in his honor at
S. Army in the DP camps, "the greeting from President Truman,
NEW YORK (JTA)—"Gentle- vated. the sentence of the British
D.
-Iotel
Astor
on
the
eve
of
his
de-
JDC
provided the elementary Gov. Dewey and Gen. Lucius
military
court
which
sentenced
man's Agreement," a film dealing
Clay, American Military Gover-
relief
which
kept
thousands
of
parture
for
Palestine.
with anti-Semitism, was this the four men, Abraham Hubert,
Romanian Jewish refugees in nor of Germany.
week voted the best English- Richard Orlinski, Jacob Redlich
"The United Nations plan for
The President's message hailed
speaking film of 1947 by the and Jacob Kryszek. They were the division of Palestine into a Vienna from dying of hunger and the JDC upon its completion of
New York Film Critics. The mo- sentenced to death after a four- Jewish and an Arab state is now perishing from cold. The JDC one-third of a century of assist,
tion picture, based on the best- day secret trial during which cefinitely a part of American also provides opportunities for ante to distressed Jews abroad
selling novel of the same name, they were charged with collabor- foreign policy and should be as vocational training, for produc- and pointed out that JDC is mak-
by Laura Hobson, was directed by ating in an alleged plot to blow aggressively and determinedly tive work, for cultural develop- ing "an impressive and significant
up a British troop train.
advanced as other major policies ment and education and recrea-
Elia Kazan.
of our government," Dr. Silver tion in behalf of thousands of contribution within the frame-
in
said. "Our government should as- DP's in all the camps." work of the gigantic effort
Warburg
revealed
that
since
which
this
nation
is
now
engaged
sist t.le UN in every •way pos-
sible and should employ all of the founding of the JDC it has to rescue from want and misery
and
its diplomatic machinery and in- appropriated $300,000,000 to pro- the millions of men, women the
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
fluence to expedite the matter." vide assistance to literally rail- children who have survived
Sarona's Acquisition: End of Nazi Nest in Zion -
Emphasizing that "the Zionist lions of Jewish men, women and war."
A great act of historic justice was enforced with the acquisition movement has no orientation
of the 1,500 acres of land in the Sarona Colony adjoining- Tel Aviv. either to the West or East," the
The expansion of the great Jewish city by another third of its Zionist leader bitterly criticized
size and the possibility that the area acquired may become the seat persons spreading propaganda
of the government of the Jewish state are secondary in importance
By BORIS SMOLAR
compared with the eradication of the evils which were represented in Washington as well as in the
(Copyright, 1948 Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
American
press
aiming
at
des-
by Sarona's traditions. -
The nest of the Nazis in the Middle East, Sarona was a danger troying American-Soviet cooperas The Palestine Scene
spot for Jews in Palestine. Out of Sarona came Hitler's expert on tion on Palestine and at prevent-
As the Palestine security situation deteriorates, competent ob-
ing the implementation of the I servers are leaning more and more to the belief that the United
Jewish extermination programs, Adolf Eichmann.
Sarona was established in 1870—a decade before the beginning partition decision.
I Nations will have to send an international police force to Palestine
. of the modern Jewish colonization movement. The German Reich
Dr.
Silver expressed the • • • A d the earlier the better ... Non-Jewish experts believe that
had hoped to gain a foothold in the Middle East through that colony.
a force must arrive in Palestine within the next three months
Sarona was a German-supported center and it represented the hopes opinion that it would be highly such Otherwise,
serious bloodshed on a greater scale than at present
desirable
to
have
an
internation-
.
.
.
of the Kaisers as spearhead for the control of Palestine and neigh-
al force accompanying the UN can be expected . . . If this happens, it will be because of the cold-
- boring countries.
blooded refusal by the nations concerned to take any steps to pre-
German hopes began to fade with the rise of Jewish coloniza- Jmplernent ation Commission to
it . . A situation may then be created under which nations
tion. Until the very end, however, the Germans struggled to retain Palestine. "But," h e added, vent
which voted for partition and for the creation of a Jewish State will
the colony and to create controlling influences around it. Even "whether an international force have connived at its almost certain destruction . . . It is taken for
during the war, the Nazis placed great hopes upon this community is sen, to Palestine or not, it is granted that the U. S. government could exert considerable influence
of Germans.
immediately imperative that the upon the UN to obtain the establishment of a voluntary force .. .
The Nazis failed in Palestine because Jewish progress was too Jewish people of Palestine shall In fact, this was the original plan suggested by the American deiega- •
strong for the Germans.
tion when the Palestine issue was discussed by the General As-
It is most regrettable that acquisition of this colony involved be enabled forthwith to defend
. the high cost of $9,000,000—$5,000,000 of which came from the Jew- themselves. They have the man- sembly.
The grave illness and undetermined period of convalescence of
, ish National Fund. The imposition of this high price, the fund being power. They need arms. Surely
Herschel
V. Johnson ; American delegate to the UN, who negotiated
earmarked for reparations, is due to British policies of selling state those states—and foremost among the Palestine
decision, leaves an open link in the American contact
and enemy territories at high prices before their evacuation from them the United States—which with the Palestine problem at the UN . . . Maj. Gen. John A. Hill-
voted
to
create
a
Jewish
state
Palestine.
dring, the other principal American delegate to the UN, is no longer
Nevertheless, the fact that Sarona now is part of Tel Aviv is must feel honor-bound and duty- in the picture since he has retired to Arizona because of poor health
a matter for jubilation. It is one of the first steps in expansion of bound to see that the citizens of . . . Thus, a gap remains at the most critical time, when American
Jewish authority in Palestine. May it augur well for the future that state in the making are prop- action at the UN is most important . . . It will have to be filled
of the Jewish state.
erly protected against murderous shortly, if the plans for the UN Implementation Commission which
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assaults." He expressed confi- should soon proceed to Palestine are not to suffer for lack of positive
"Schwitzland"
as
Name
for
State
Palestine Jests:
ience that the UN will not per- U. S. representation.
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Will the Jewish state be called Judea, Zion, Eretz Israel? What- mit itself to become the victim
ever it will be, Palestine is not abandoning its sense of humor, in of "insolent intimidation" of Communal Trends
spite of difficulties in establishing security. One of the names sug- Arab hoodlums.
Now that the leaders of the American Jewish Conference have
gested is "Schwitzland." C. Gershater, writing from Tel Aviv for the
decided that its successor organization should be named the Ameri-
Principal
speakers
at
the
din-
Zionist Record of Johannesburg, South :Africa, states:
, there will be a new issue in American Jewish.
ner included Mayor Israel Rokach can Jewish Assembly American
The wags of Palestine are busy interpreting events in their
Jewish Assembly was originally se-
Am
life
.
.
.
The
name
of Tel Aviv, Rep. Irving M. Ives, lected for the American Jewish Conference when the late Henry
own way. What is to be the name of the Jewish State?
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Her- Monsky mappd plans for the conference in the early years of the
"Schwitzland," is the reply.
The name has many connotations. Firstly, its similarity to
bert Bayard Swope, Dr. Emanuel war. . . However, some Jewish leaders objected to having any
Switzerland, also slightly partitioned. Secondly, all the cool parts
Neumann, Dr. Israel Goldstein Jewish central body named the "Jewish Assembly" . . . Hence a
of the country are in the Arab State. The Jewish territory is hot.
compromise was reached, and Monsky agreed to name the organiza-
and Rabbi Meir Berlin.
Thirdly, the schwitzer is a well established humorous Jewish type.
tion "American Jewish Conference" instead of "American Jewish .
that
the
Jewish
State
would
be
divided
into
say
They also
Assembly" . . . Nov the old name has popped up again, and will
Dr. Goldstein Re-Elected
Yekestan and Frankistan. The "Frank" is a name applied to
probably again be a matter of controversy.
Head of Conciliation Board
Oriental Jews. Yeke is of course the German Jew.
The Jewish Publication Society of America will this year cele-
Speaking of the "Yeke" it is recalled that Nahariah, the
The Jewish Conciliation Board brate its Diamond Jubilee . . . It is now entering its 60th year of
small-holders settlement near Haifa is famous throughout Pales-
of America, at its annual meet- helpful service to Jewish literature . . . It is also the Bar Mitzvah
tine as an exclusively German establishment. According to the
ing on January 7, at Federation year of Maurice Jacobs as executive vice-president of the Society
UN Commission's report, Naharia is to go to the Arab State.
. . . Under Mr. Jacobs' administration, its membership has quad-
Bldg., 71 W. 47th St., New York, rupled . . . The Society has now double the business of any Semitic
The "Yekes" of Nahariah had the following comment to make:
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Jewish State or Arab State—Nahariah bleibt inner Deutsch.
re-elected Dr. Israel Goldstein, press in the world, with the largest collection of Hebrew type under
As long as Eretz Israel has a sense of humor and is able to jest president.
one roof.
face of danger, the Jewish state is secure.

Arabs Kill Jewish
Doctor In Hospital
Revenged by Irgun

DP

Silver. Asks U.S.
Use All Influence
To Aid Partition

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