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Friday, February 20, 1948
THE JEWISH NEWS
Detroit Wins SOS Certificate
Of Merit for Collection Success
The SOS Committee of Detroit has been awarded the
"SOS Certificate of Merit" by the National SOS (Supplies
for Overseas Survivors) Collection of the Joint Distribution
Committee, it was announced by Mandell Berman, campaign
director of the Detroit committee.
Berman announced that Detroit had received the Merit
Award in "recognition of Detroit's
successful 1946-47 campaigns
which had collected over a half
million pounds of relief supplies
for Europe's needy Jews." Ber-
man pointed out that the Detroit
SOS Committee had collected
111.8 percent of its original quota
of relief supplies.
Acknowledging "the generous
and unfailing support" of the peo-
ple of Detroit, Berman stated that
the SOS Committee will continue
its collection efforts in 1948 for
food, clothing and other relief sup-
plies "to help meet the critical
and urgent needs of Europe's
Jewish survivors."
Stating that the Detroit SOS
Committee won the certificate
only "because of a cooperative
community effort," Berman prais-
ed the generous contributions and
aid of the individuals and organ-
izations who participated.
The text of the award was as
follows: "Certificate of Merit to
Detroit S 0 S Committee. In
acknowledgment of your untiring
efforts to collect life-saving re-
lief supplies for the 1,500,000 sur-
viving Jews of Europe and in
recognition of your successful
1946-47 campaigns which alerted
the people of your city to the
SOS call for help and which rais-
ed generous amounts of contri-
buted relief supplies over and
above your original pledge, this
certificate of merit is awarded."
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Ignorance and III-Will: Deterrents to Judea
A most unfortunate situation has arisen on the front affecting
our position in Palestine.
We had hoped that all misunderstandings were clarified by the
lengthy discussions that fill the record of the United Nations, the
debates in Congress and the disputes. in the press, over the radio
and on public platforms.
Instead, the muddled situation has become even more muddled
due to ignorance and
Petroleum again is covering the surface. Arab propagandists
have reached high quarters in Washington, London and Lake Suc-
cess. The Russian-U. S. issue has become a-monkey-wrench in the
delicate machinery of the United Nations.
The widely-read Kiplinger letter has seen fit to predict "by
summer 40,000 United States troops in Palestine. That is the pros-
pect. Also the same number of Russian troops." The repudiation of
such nonsense on the floor of the House of Representatives by Con-
gressmen Holifield of California and Celler of New York proved
insufficient to offset the damage of such false prophets and the
rumor has found its way into many columns.
All of this means that our battle begins anew; that we shall
have to fight against the new trick — the Bevin-U. S. State De-
partment-Arab combination of forcing further negotiations in a mat-
ter which the world at large considered settled. Arab leaders pre-
viously had ejected even the Magnes-Hashorner Hatzair proposal
for a bi-national state. Now they talk in terms of a "unilateral"
solution. Anything seems right if it serves to postpone favorable
action for the implementation of the UN decision of Nov. 29, 1947.
Even the Jewish anti-Zionists—that handful of trouble-makers
who refuse to accept an overwhelming favorable verdict in our ranks
and among the nations of the world have resumed their destruc-
tive activities. Their propaganda found an echo in the recent Town
Hall radio forum. For their benefit it becomes necessary once again
to quote an important statement made by Richard Crossman, Labor
M. P., British member of the ill-fated Anglo-American Palestine
Committee, who wrote in his book, "Palestine Mission:"
The diagnosis of the anti-Zionist Jew is right enough. But
his conclusion is wrong. The dangers of nationhood must
and will be accepted by a people which has learnt to live dan-
erously and whose virtues and greatness are a product of that
danger. The Jew who opposes the National Home and tries to
convert Judaism into a religious sect is denying the greatest
Jewish achievement of our age and suppressing a part of his
own personality. Sex may be dangerous; but that is no ar-
gument for becoming a eunuch. In the 20th century a people
without nationhood is a people without virility.
JWF Membership Baruch, Barbara Greenberg
To Scan By-Laws To Lead Junior Campaigners
At Annual Meeting
Proposed by-laws of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit
will be reviewed and brought to
a vote at the membership meet-
ing of the Federation, at 8 p.m.
Thursday, March 4, in the Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth
El, Julian H. Krolik, president of
the Federation, announced this
week.
All contributors to the Allied
Jewish Campaign and to the
Community Chest are automatic-
ally members of the Federation
and are invited to attend the
meeting, Krolik said.
The proposed by-laws were pre-
pared by the Federation Commit-
tee on By-Laws, under the chair-
manship of Morris Garvett. Work-
ing with Garvett on the Commit-
tee are Aaron Droock, Harry H.
Platt, Krolik, Maurice Enggass
and Mrs. S. Glogower.
K
LEONARD BARUCH and BARBARA GREENBERG
Dr. Samuel J. Krohn, president of the Junior Service Group,
announces that Leonard Baruch and Barbara Greenberg will serve
as co-chairmen of the Junior Division of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. Both were Junior Division chairmen in last year's campaign.
As a member of the board of JSG, Miss Greenberg has charge
of the Dramatic Group. Her direction of Noel Coward's "Fumed
Oak," in December, was a determining factor in the play's success.
She has been active with the Junior Service Group since the SOS
drive of 1946.
The formation of a new organ-
Baruch, head of the membership committee of JSG, was largely
ization known as the Association responsible for the creation of the Young Adult Council, of which
of Parents of American Students he is president. He teaches at the Trowbridge School, conducts a
in Palestine, for the purpose of Sunday School class at Shaarey Zedek and is active in Masada. "
"safeguarding the interests of
their sons and daughters who are
students m institutions of higher
learning in the Holy Land," was
announced by Mrs. Selma Borow-
sky of New York, president of
Herman . Yablokoff, well-known and heard by some 185,000 Jew-
the association.
In expressing concern for the member of the Yiddish theatre, ish displaced persons.
safety and welfare of American will describe his experiences as
Yablokoff was born 45 years
students at the Hebrew Univer-
"the founder of the DP circuit" ago in Poland, coming to this
sity in Jerusalem, the Hebrew
Technical Institute in Haifa and to the members of the Yiddish country at the age of 22 after
other educational institutions in speaking organizations of Detroit serving his theatrical apprentice-
Palestine, Mrs. Borowsky assert- at 8:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in ship abroad. Since coming to the
ed, "Our sons and daughters are the Brown Memorial Chapel of U.. S. he has earned the reputa-
all in their majority and they in- Temple Beth El. The meeting is
sist on staying in Palestine to under the sponsorship of the Jew- tion of being one of America's
outstanding Yiddish actors.
complete their studies."
ish Welfare Federation.
She „emphasized that the stu-
This renowned Jewish actor,
dents had not requested special singer and composer recently re-
measures of protection on their turned to the United States from
behalf from the American gov- the most _unusual concert tour
ernment, adding however, "but ever undertaken by an American
we cannot understand why their artist — a Joint Distribution Com-
Plans for a reunion of the first
status as American citizens should mittee—sponsored tour of the
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graduating classes of the
be threatened if they defend displaced persons' camps of Ger-
Alumni
Association of the United
themselves against violence."
many, Austria and Italy.
Hebrew Schools were formulat-
A drive is under way to enroll
Originally Yablokoff left for
parents in other parts of the Europe as a representative of ed Feb. 15, at a meeting of rep-
resentatives of those classes.
country.
the Hebrew Actors' Union; his
The reunion will be in the
purpose was to bring makeup, form of a Purim Seudah, to
Hordes Endorses Objectives
music and other materials to the which all members and their
Of Parents' Organization
Jewish DP's so they might be able wives (or husbands) will be in-
William Hordes of 2308 Calvert,
to put on their own shows. When
whose son. Herbert, is a student
vited.
he reached Paris, the Joint Dis-
at the Haifa Institute of Technol-
The planning committe con-
tribution Committee asked him to
ogy, said he endorsed the objec-
give one or two concerts in the sists of Allan Weston, chairman;
tives of the organization and
camps of Germany. He agreed, Dr. Arthur Migdal, co-chairman;
joins with the parents of 500 DiP
and what started out as a two- Esther Charnas, secretary; Reu-
American Jewish students in Pal-
ben H. Isaacs and Max Chomsky, -
estine in urging the U. S. govern- night stand lasted seven months co-chairmen of publicity, and Dr.
instead,
covering
a
total
of
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ment to take action to lift the em-
Israel Weiner, program chair-
bargo and to strive for the imple- camps, children's centers and hos- man.
pitals.
The
concerts
were
seen
mentation of the UN Palestine
decision.
Parents Organize
To Help Protect
Students in Zion
Yablokoff to Describe Experiences
As 'Founder of DP Acting Circuit'
Early VHS Alumni
Map Reunion Plans
The battle for justice continues. We are obligated primarily to
retain our own faith in the ultimate triumph of justice over any and
all attempts to destroy Jewish hopes. We dare not fall prey to false
threats, to extreme predictions that Palestine Jewry will be ex-
terminated unless an international force is sent to Palestine. Given
a chance to defend their lives and property, we are convinced that
Palestine Jewry will be able to hold its own. It is imperative,
therefore, that a new campaign of education should be planned to
expose the fallacies of oil-soaked arguments and to refute false
rumors about alleged formation of Russian-U. S. military forces for
Palestine. A little light and good-will may go a long way in dis-
pelling ignorance and hatred and in putting into effect the fair UN NEW YORK, (JTA)—The new-
solution.
ly-formed Joint Council on the
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Resettlement of Displaced Per-
In the Interest of Economy: Publishers' Proposal
sons announced that it plans to
When the American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers
criticized the great amount of waste in publicity departments of conduct a nation-wide survey on
national Jewish organization, some of the public relations men resettlement opportunities for
"squawked." Most of them, however, considered it the better part of 100,000 displaced persons now in
Europe who are expected to en-
valor to be silent and to let the criticism blow over.
In a sense, the criticism not only fell on deaf ears but also was ter the United States when Con-
forgotten. The ignoring of it apparently proved "good politics."
gress passes the Stratton Bill or
The time may come, however, when "laymen" — average con- an equivalent immigration mea-
tributors — may start complaining. Then it will be serious issue. sure.
The fact is that all of our national organizations have set up
The Council is composed of
such tremendous publicity departments and are issuing so many representative organizations of
releases — most of which find their way in the editorial waste bas-
kets — that the suggestion for stock-taking should be treated with the three major faiths. These are
the Church World Service (Pro-
respect.
Whether it is JDC or WA or UPA or JWB, there should be testant), the National Catholic
emphasis on the importance of news announcements rather than on Resettlement Council and the
the aim to secure "more inches" of space. A few less bulletins and United Service for New Ameri-
organizational periodicals might hurt the vanity of publicity writers cans.
and individual officers, but they will clutter the waste baskets less
Joseph E. Beck, • executive di-
and will effect economics in national budgets.
rector of USNA, and Dr. C. E.
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Krumbholz and E d wa r d M.
And Those Bulletins!
Incidentally, do you suppose we could stomach a few more bul- O'Connor, of CWS and NCRC, re-
letins and house organs? Every center, congregation, auxiliary and spectively, told a press confer-
youth group, every lodge, every fund-raising group — big or little =- ence that of the 100,000 DP's ex-
local and national— has its own organ or "yearbook." They are a pected to be admitted to the
drain on the communities' energies and pocketbooks. In the main, United States the first year, only
they repeat and rehash news that already appeared in the communi- 40,000 would be employable
ties' newspapers, but — vanities MUST be satisfied. Meanwhile, the males, while the rest would be
communities suffer from unnecessary evils. Will we ever wake up
wives and children.
to our home-made inanities?
Three Faiths Form
Council to Consider
Resettlement for DPs
Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1948 Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Washington Notes:
Secretary of State Marshall indicated in a private talk that he
is disappointed in the lack of strength of the Haganah ... He was
under the impression that Haganah would be in a position to destroy
the Arab guerrilla forces within one month . . . All indications are
that the Secretary favors sending an international force to Palestine.
. . . However, he believes this force must come from small nations
only and not from the Big Powers . . . His influential subordinates
and advisers at the State Department are known to. hold a different
view • . • The big fight behind the scenes in Washington is between
President Truman's military advisers and the leaders of the Demo-
cratic Party . .. The military advisers urge an early and complete
reversal of the American position on the Palestine question . . The
Democratic National Committee opposes the abandonment of Ameri-
can support for Palestine partition . .. The American delegation at
the UN is also opposed to backing down . . . However, the military
argue that if the flow of oil from Arab countries to the U. S. is
blocked, the cause of partition is lost anyway .. They believe that
the Jewish stake in Palestine would probably be wiped out in case
of an Arab-Jewish war which would block the flow of Arabian oil...
American efforts to achieve partition and still control the oil have
failed, they assert . .. They insist that if a choice has to be made
between partition and oil, it should be made in favor of oil. -
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White House Action
President Truman received two important non-Zionist leaders
who are known to be among the staunchest supporters of Palestine
partition . . . He avoids seeing Zionist leaders .. But . the White
House is in contact with political leaders known to be extremely
interested in the Zionist cause . . . President Truman also conferred
with top leaders of the Democratic Party on the Palestine issue .- . .
He impressed them with the virtue of the policy of permitting the
Palestine partition issue to drift without making any further commit-
ments and implied that he cannot be guided on the issue by any
motives other than American security interests .. He left it to them
to seek ways and means of holding the Jewish vote in the forthcom-
ing Presidential elections and reaching an agreement with the Re-
publican Party removing the Palestine issue from election politics.