New Organization to Unite
U.S. Activities in Support of I srael

Formation of Americans United
for Israel (Z'va Haganah), Inc.,
a new organization, is announced
by a committee including Rudolf
Sonneborn, Abraham Feinberg,
Nahum Bernstein, Charles Gut-
wirth, Adolf Robison and Samuel
Cherr.
The six spoke for a board of
directors of 100, including lead-
ing Jewish figures froin all over
the country. The new organiza-
tion plans to incorporate many
activities now carried by other
organizations, and to launch a
number of new projects involv-
ing public relations, publications,
collections of materials, speakers
bureaus, films and other activi-
ties which will serve _ to rally
support for the embattled popu-
lation of Israel.
This organization is designed
to appeal to all Americans with-
out regard to race, color, creed
or political beliefs. It is the hope
that this organization will pro-
vide a base on which persons
representing all party, political,
or sectarian views may stand to-
gether in support of Israel.
The new organization announc-
ed that Americans for Haganah,

Friday, July 23, 1948

Receives ADL Award

Inc., which has for the past year
or more performed th- task of
disseminating information in the
United States to help broaden
understanding of the Haganah
forces, will dissolve. Until Oct.
1, however, Americans for Hag-
anah will fulfill its contractual
obligations such as publication of
Haganah Speaks, its film, "The
Illegals," and various other corn-
mitments.
Americans United for Israel
also announced that on or about
Oct. 1 the organization known as
Materials or Palestine, which is
at present doing the job of gath-
ering and shipping non-contra-
band materials to aid the people
of Israel, would similarly be ab-
sorbed. In addition to its efforts
to rally support for the embat-
tled population of Israel, the new
organization intends to make
every effort to aid those forces
carrying on rehabilitation and
immigration of European Jews
destined eventually for Israel.

RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
(center) executive vice chairman
of the Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai. Brith, receives the ADL
1948 "American Democratic
Legacy Award" at the District
Grand Lodge No. 6 convention.
Looking on are BENJAMIN R.
EPSTEIN (left), ADL national
director, and LOUIS HARRISON,
outgoing
president of the district.
Americans United for Israel
plans to be located at an early
date at 250 W. 57th St., New
York.

Haganah Member
Condemns Irgun

SOS Committee Asks Community
To Reserve Nov. 14 for Campaign

Jewish organizations have
been requested not to schedule
any special events for Sunday,
Nov. 14, which will be SOS Day
in Detroit, members of the SOS
steering committee announced
following their first 1948 meet-
ing, July 21, under the chair-
manship of Mandel L. Berman.
Berman was chairman of last
year's highly successful SOS
drive here.
Extending greetings to com-
mittee members, Julian H. Kro-
lik, president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, said that the
Federation's facilities would be
available to help in the drive
for Supplies for Overseas Sur-
vivors.
Following the plan of last
year's drive, the SOS Committee
will send bags to every Jewish
family in Detroit so that pack-
ages of canned food and cloth-
ing can be prepared for the one-
clay collection. Theodore M a n --
dell, chairman of mechanical
processing, announced that t h e
committee hopes to collect, pack
and ship in one day, 500,000
pounds of urgently needed items
for European Jews.
"Anyone who has contributions

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ready at this time to send to Eu-
rope should bring them to Temple
Beth El or Shaarey Zedek. Here
they will be picked up by Jun-
ior Service Group members,
who have taken the year-round
responsibility for SOS," Mandell
said.
While SOS arrangements are
still in the planning stage, any-
one who is interested in t h e
drive or in preparations for it,
is invited to call Helen Alpert,
WO. 5-3939, and he will be
called upon when the commit-
tees begin functioning.
Members of the steering com-
mittee include: Helen Alper t,
Harry Becker, Mandel L. Ber-
man, Irving W. Blumberg, Wal-
lace Burke, Moe Caplan, Tillie
Feinbloom, Mrs. Belle Fields,
Lawrence A. Fleischman, Jonas
Gantz, Ruth Katz, Jerome W.
Kellman, Charles Levin, Goldie
Levinstein, Theodore Mandell,
Doris Moss, Dr. Martin A. Nai-
mark, Norman Naimark, Evelyn
Pollack, Elliot Robinson, Wil-
liam Shapiro, Samuel Shulman,
Arthur Shurgin, Ben Silverberg,
Mrs. Meyer Silverman, M r s
Helen Singer, Mrs. Leonard H.
Weiner and Paul Zuckerman.

AMPAL Enlists Cooperation
Of Local Organizations in
Israel Economic Program

Indemnification Asked for 41
Lebanon Internees; Prejudice
Against Jews Charged by Crohn

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
American. Jewish Congress is con-
templating making a request to
the United States to demand in-
demnification of Lebanon for the
41 American citizens who were
forcibly removed from an Israel-
bound vessel and interned in a
Lebanese concentration camp.
Rabbi Irving Miller, executive
committee chairman of the Con,
gress, said "it is shocking to real-
ize the complaisant attitude tak-
en in this case by the State De-
partment. The Department igno-
minously allowed the Lebanese
to remove U. S. citizens from one
of our vessels and further capitu-
lated to Lebanon's dictation that
these Americans be released only
if they returned to their starting
point."

David Crohn Returns;
Criticizes U. S. Course
The 41 Americans who return-
ed last week on the Marine Carp,
after being interned in Lebanon,
charged that. they were given
poor food, that the American
Consul John Bernard Faust was
anti-Semitic and did everything
mechanically.
David Crohn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Lawrence Crohn of Wilde-
mere Ave., one of the Americans
who was detained, charged that
he and the others did not go to
Palestine to fight but to study.
He said that the Americans were
taken to Balbeck, 70 miles from
Beirut, and were confined to an
upper floor of old French bar-
racks, being kept there the en-
tire period of their six weeks'
detention. He said that the food
consisted of Arab bread, kidney
beans and lots of rice. Only when
they went on a hunger strike
were they given tea.
David charges that the Amer-
ican Consul could have, with
some initiative, prevented the
abuse that was inflicted upon
American citizens. When the
Detroiter interceded with Mr.
Faust on behalf of 'the Pales-
tinian pasengers, the. U. S.
Consul said: "If there is a law-
yer among y.9u, r will be glad
to discuss the legal aspects of
the question with him."
The charge also is made by
Crohn that the assistant consul,
Arthur Allen, ,advised the Amer-
icans not to resist and that no
help whatever was given to pro-
tect the Americans' status; Crohn
stated that Faust's unconcern

about the Americans "in front
of our Arab captors made it more
difficult for us to remedy it" (the
food situation), and he explain-.
ed that the hunger strike
brought results in securing eggs,
vegetables and tea.
Lowell Pinkerton, the Amer-
ican Minister in Lebanon, never
visited the interned men. Faust
is quoted by Crohn as having
said that 5,000,000 (Jews) gave
the rest of the 130,000.000 Amer-
icans plenty of trouble. The U. S.
consul also made uncomplimen-
tary remarks about New York
Jews and justice. Faust constant-
ly kept asking the internees
whether they belonged to Hag-
anah, Irgun or Stern Group, im-
plying a prejudiced attitude.
Crohn stated: .
"We retainees fee1 there is a
strong legal case against Leb-
anon that should be pursued in
a determined fashion . . .
"The whole experience has
confirmed our feeling that the
State Department in the Mid-
dle East is not friendly to us
and it is sad but true that Jew-
ish American citizens in trouble
will not command the same
protection as others.
Crohn, a 1943 U. of M. gradu-
ate, a captain in the U. S. army
in World War II, was wounded
in Normandy.
Mrs. Crohn was in New York
to welcome her son on his return.

Addressing 250 representatives
of Detroit organizations on July
15, at Lachar's on Dexter, in be-
Chairman Schumer Asks
half of AMPAL (American Pal-
Cooperation
For Success
estine Trading Corporation), Zal-
man Wainer of Tel Aviv, Israel,
Of JNF Labor Campaign
a member of Haganah since 1936,
condemned Irgunist activities
In spite of the vacation period
and charged that the Irgun poli-
and the humidity, Detroit. Jew-
cies were harmful to Israel in its
ry's obligations to Israel are as
defense program.
great as those of the defenders
Wainer accused Irgun of inter-
of the Jewish State and all efforts
fering with plans for the capture
should be made to assure the
of Lydda before the truce. He
success of the labor Zionist drive
accused them of working for sel-
for the Jewish National Fund,
fish interests.
Harry Schumer, chairman of the
A former member of Wingate's
drive, said this week.
Night Raiders who checked the
Schumer is assisted in the
Arab attacks on Jews in 1936 and
drive by William Hordes as co-
of the Jewish Brigade, Wainer
chairman Shulamit Goldoftas,
described the military activities
Morris Lieberman and Morris L.
in Israel. He made a strong ap-
Schaver, vice chairmen; Sidney
peal for AMPAL and for partici-
Shevitz, treasurer, and M. Gold-
pation by American Jews in eco-
oftas, secretary.
nomic projects in Israel.
Contributions are being accept-
Louis Levine presided at the
ed at the JNF office on Dexter
meeting and Morris Schaver, and
and the Labor Zionist Institute
Harry Schumer outlined A11/1P-
on Linwood.
AL's program and invited co-
operation with the investment
agency which supervises the
work • of six corporations operat-
ing between the United States
and Israel.
Abraham Dickenstein, manag-
By J. L. TELLER
ing director of AMPAL, who was
The Security Council members who voted for the cease Lie
to have addressed the meeting,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
was prevented from coming here order can be categorized in two groups, those primarily concerned
by news of the death of his Moth- with terminating the bloodshed and those concerned with using
Less Jazzing .
More Respect for Hatikvah
the cease fire lull as an instrument to wage a war of psychological
"The United Nations officers saluted as the Jewish national er in Tel Aviv.
anthem was played . . . "
attrition against Israel.
This is an excerpt from a JTA report from Jerusalem during a Masada Elects Forty
The cease fire order is without a time limit. It implies an indefi-
demonstration of Israeli fighting forces.
nite freezing of the status quo, with Arab armies poised on Israel's
We quote it for a very simple purpose: to remind our people To Board of Directors
borders and, if the cease fire is maintained under the old conditions,
that Hatikvah—the national anthem of Israel—is not a jazz song,
that it calls for the same respect that is given to national anthems
At a general membership meet- a continuation of the Mediator's encroachment of Israel's sover-
of all member nations of the UN. Frequently, when the Hatikvah
eignty by imposing restrictions on immigration to Israel during
is played, people are seen conversing, -jazzing it up, giving it too ing of Masada this week, 40
little respect. The Song of Hope no longer represents a dream: members were elected to the the voter to conclude that the platform is mere verbiage and that
it is the fulfillment of aspirations. Let it receive the respect that board of directors to chart the an eventual revision of the Nov. 29 resolution by the General
program of the group for 1948- Assembly at its next session in Paris. Some wary observers suspect
is due it.
Speaking of "jazzing things up," it is with a source of deep 49.
that it is part of a scheme to drag out the Palestine issue until past
regret that this Commentator finds it necessary to remind many of
Eight persons were added to
our people that the age of "stage Jews" is long past and that mis- the board for the coming year to the November elections, until past the period when the American
representation of Jews and Jewry should be condemned. We have give a broader base of leadership people have the power to veto the career diplomats of the State
had several reports in the past few days of rather unsavory prac- for the organization, explained Department. After November, American policy will once again
tices by "entertainers" at resorts who "interpret" Jews in a stupid
fashion. The regrettable thing about the latest occurrences is that Dr, Sam Krohn, president. The be the captive of the State Department elite.
American representative Jessup stressed in his statement to the
Jews themselves encourage the mimickry. If these people, who newly elected board will meet in
laugh at and applaud intonations that are supposed to be Jewish the early fall to elect officers for Security Council that this cease fire is for an indefinite period and
would stop and ask whether they had ever seen a "Yankee Doodle the coming year.
that the November resolution of the General Assembly was not
Goy" or heard any one speak with the accent used by obnoxious
As one of its summer program
entertainers or see the hand-waving that is resorted to, they would features, Masada is sponsoring a the only resolution on Palestine adopted by that body. There have
stop ridiculing themselves and would not encourage such abuses. day-long outing Sunday, Aug. 8, been subsequent resolutions, he pointed out. It has been assumed
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at Middle Rouge Park. In addi- till now that the subsequent resolutions in no way superseded the
Israel's Ensign—Now in Zion—and at the UN
tion to sports and refreshments, original resolution of Nov. 29. In Mr. Jessup's statement, however,
When your Commentator, in his role as correspondent at the the program includes discussion one sensed the implication that the subsequent resolutions, dealing
UN at Lake Success, anticipated the emergence of the State of Israel groups on current problems of with the Mediator's role, were something apart, a fact the American
and, in the issue of The Jewish News of Nov. 28, 1947, illustrated Zionism. Members and their
his report with the Blue and White Flag of Israel, using the head- friends are asked to meet at 10 delegation had denied when it first endorsed them.
Is the selection of the Mediator a digression from the November
ing: NOW IN ZION—SOON AMONG THE UN FLAGS, there were
some readers who became frightened. They believed we were over- a. rn. at Tuxedo and LaSalle.
resolution? This question remains unanswered. It is now up to
Following are the new board
optimistic, too daring with a serious prediction.
President Truman to explain clearly and unequivocally what Amer-
Today, this augury is reality. When the plaque in front of the members:
Dr. Krohn, Ruth Felsot, Barbara ican policy is. Does the Mediator's whim supersede the November
Jewish representative at the United Nations was changed, on July 7,
Bill Fitzerman, Larry
1948, from its earlier indication that behind it sat the representa- Greenberg,
Fleischman, Elaine Zelden, Belle resolution in the view of the administration? Does the administra-
tives of the Jewish Agency to that of ISRAEL, our people assumed Ciliary, Herbert Seiten, Helen Alpert, tion plan to keep Israel dangling, or does the administration plan
a rightful place among the nations of the world. True, we do not Leonard Baruch, Bill Berman, Henry
Moshe Heyman, Helen Kara- to extend de jure recognition to Israel, economic aid, etcetera?
yet have a vote at the UN. But we are recognized as ISRAEL. And Ehrlich,
Dena Leep, Ted Mandel, Joe
The Philadelphia resolution by the Democratic Party does not
the first representative of ISRAEL is the youthful, able spokesman, benick,
Medwed, Doris Moss, Sophie Shulman,
Maj. Aubrey C. Eban.
Sol Schwartz, Bill Davidson, Bill Sha- suffice. The Democrats are in power. They must implement their
Another great aspiration has been realized. Mark down the piro, Ed Simons, Art Schurgin, Fran- resolution now. If the administration fails to do so, it might lead
Winokur, Hy Weiner, Eveleen Bud-
date of July 7, 1948, as one of the most important on the calendar ces
nitzke, Abe Medwed, Zelda Sachs,
of the State of Israel—on a par with Nov. 29, 1947, and May 14, 1948. Ernest Michel, Natalie Gaines, Bill the voter to conclude that the platform is mere verbiage and that
This is, indeed, another justification for the reciting of the SheheL Viner, Jerome Kelman, Rachel Rosen- the administration's true policy is embodied in Delegate Jessup's
Stan Wallace, Elaine Krohn,
cheyanu. Great events are being recorded in our own day. We are stein,
Herbert Zeme, Willie Stone, Norman strategy of delay.
witnesses to history in the making.
N-eirnark and Betty Greenfield.
Copyright, 1998, Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.

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Cease Fire---And What Else?

