THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March It I948

Honor SOS Leaders

Nazi Aide Discovered
In N. Y. Book Store

Page Seven

UJA Raises $35,000,000
Cash Within Two Weeks

NEW YORK, (JTA)—The sum
NEW YORK (JPS)—A top
of
$35,000,000 was contributed in
propaganda chief of Hitler before
and during the war was work- cash within the last two weeks
ing in one of New York City's to the United Jewish Appeal for
largest book stores while seeking defense needs in Palestine and
to turn his visitor's visa into one
the purpose of meeting critical
for permanent residence, Victor
rehabilitation needs of Jews in
H. Bernstein and Jack O'Keefe Europe, it
was announced by
reported. in PM last week.
He is Georg Otto Herman von
Lilienfeld, of the political divi-
sion of the Nazi Foreign Office,
who was brought to this country
to testify against Douglas Chan-
dler, an American who broadcast
for Hitler and is now serving a
life sentence, and against Ro,bert
Best, another American broad-
caster for the Nazis who goes on
trial for treason in Boston this
month.
Von Lilienfeld was recognized
in the Brentano book store on
Fifth Ave. recently by William L.
—Photo by Paul Kirsch, Jewish News Staff Photographer
At the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation, at Shirer, famous correspondent and
Temple Beth El, March 4, FRED M. BUTZEL (left) presented awards to author of '"End of a Berlin
MRS. HELEN SINGER and MANDEL L BERMAN for their dis- Diary."
PM also talked with Leo Cadi-
tinguished services in the great Detroit SOS (Supplies for Overseas
son, of the U. S. Department of
Survivors) campaign, conducted nationally under supervision of the Justice, who said von Lilienfeld
Joint Distribution Committee.
wasn't a Nazi, because "he
wouldn't be testifying against
and to relate this pattern to the other Best if he were in favor of those
minority situations in the country,
and above all, to get at the real nature fellows. now."
of this tenacious social disease. I
Brentano's discharged - Von
have tried to pull together a great deal
of the modern (last 10 or 15 years) re- Lilienfeld last week following
search on the subject and to make some the P M disclosure.

Henry Morgenthau Jr., general
UJA chairman.
The announcement was made
following a meeting of the UJA.
administrative committee at the
Biltmore Hotel at which Mr.
Morgenthau said that cash con-
tributions to meet the emergency
developments in Palestine would
reach the $50,000,000 mark by the
early part of next week.

McWilliams' Book
Views Anti-Jewish
Feeling in America

general sense of this material.
"The central theme is, perhaps, that
anti-Semitism differs In the United
States
from its European form in that
"A MASK FOR PRIVILEGE: Anti-
Semitism in America." Little, Brown most, If not all, forms of discrimination
against
the Jews are non-governmental
& Co., Boston, Mass.
in character and that this very circum-
With his new book, "A Mask stance has blinded us to the growth
undemocratic practices at variance
for Privilege; Anti-Semitism in of
with our traditions and ideals. Perhaps
America," Carey McWilliams adds the last great struggle against anti-
will center in this country
a searching analySis of the posi- Semitism
because of the changes that the war
tion of the Jewish minority in brought about in the centers of Jewish
AmeriCan life to his distinguished life.
"The book belongs to the school of
list of books on racial problems. thinking about minority problems that
problems as a part of a
"Prejudice," a presentation of the sees these
larger
much
rg set of issues., stressing the
plight of California's Nisei, was social o 1 in o of isuc.lar anti-Semitism
In
is ti Se mitism
r
quoted by Justice Frank Murphy pa t, the thesis
masks a privileged position and what
in the famous Korematau case in I have tried to do, therefore, is to re-
the United States Supreme Court. move this mask. A chapter is in-
on ways and means of combat-
`Brothers Under the Skin," which cluded
ting anti-Semitism with a critique of
examined the position of nearly methods now in use."

all of America's racial minorities,
was awarded the Commonwealth
Club Prize in California. In Mc-
William's words: "It hammered
home the then novel thesis that
the powers of government could
be used to prevent discrimination
and that the federal government
owed an affirmative obligation to
protect the civil rights of all citi-
zens, regardless of race, color, or
creed."
Today this thesis is substantial-
ly embodied in the report of the
President's Committee on Civil
Rights. In this same field, Mc-
Williams is also the author of a
Widely circulated pamphlet, "Race
Discrimination and the Law,"
which takes issue with the Amer-
ican concept that law reflects cus-
tom and reiterates that while pre-
judice cannot be outlawed by leg-
islation, discrimination can be.
"I deliberately omitted the Jewish

minority from 'Brothers Under.. the
Skin,' " writes McWilliams, "because
the complexity required- a separate
book. However. 'A Mask for Privilege'
Is not specifically about the Jewish
minority; it is an attempt to trace the
pattern of anti-Semitism in America

McWilliams is a graduate of the
law school of the University of
Southern California and since his
graduation in 1927 has devoted
himself and his work to the labor
and social conditions of his state.
In 1939, his "Factories in the
Field" was called by many the
non-fiction "Grapes of Wrath."
His present book may well be
the non-fiction "Gentleman's
Agreement."
Born in Steamboat Springs,
Colorado, Carey McWilliams-was
the son of a pioneer Colorado
cattleman, Jerry McWilliams, who
served in the Colorado State Sen-
ate for many years. "I grew up
on a cattle ranch," writes Mc-
Williams, "and my first mentors
were cowboys nor would I ask for
better guides to the business of
life." Upon the death of his
father, he came to Southern Cali-
fornia with his mother and broth-
er. He lives today in Los Angeles
with his wife and sons.
"A Mask for Privilege: Anti-
Semitism," is the Book Find Club,
selection for April.

Mrs. Levy Honored by UJA

More Arrests Expected
In Paris Arms Seizure

PARIS, (JTA) — Further ar-
rests by the French police are
expected in connection with the
discovery of a large arms cache
destined for shipment to the
"Jewish underground" in Pales-
tine. Ten persons have already
been seized by 'the police as part -
of the group attempting to ship
Sten guns, rifles, machineguns,
hand grenades and British made
bullets. Large sums of money in
British and French banknotes
were also found.
The arms were discovered in
the garage of a rag merchant, Eu-
gene Horn, in the La Chapelle
district of Paris. The police said
that they surprised the men load-.
ing the supplies for shipment to
Marseille from where they were
to be transshipped to , Palestine.
Among those arrested was Joseph
Kohn, said to have been born- in
the United States.

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STOCKHOLM, (JTA) — Hugo
Valentin, who has served as
chairman of the Scandinavian
Zionist Union for many years,
has been appointed honorary pro-
fessor of history at Upsala Uni-
versity.
Valentin is the author of a
widely-translated book exposing
anti - Semitism o n , scientific
grounds. He is one of Sweden's
most eminent living historians
and has written, among other
books, "The History of the Jews
of Sweden." At present he heads
a campaign in this country in
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Mrs, David M. Levy (left), honorary chairman of the National
Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal, received an il-
luminated scroll as a tribute to her leadership from Henry Morgen-
thau, Jr., general chairman of the UJA. The presentation was made
at the official launching of the nation-wide campaign of the-Women's
Division on behalf of the $250,000,000 "Destiny Campaign" of the
UJA which will be conducted under the chairmanship of Mrs. Ernest
G. Wadel (right) of Dallas, Tex., who has just returned from a sur-
vey of DP camps in Europe.

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