Happy Birthday
Off the Record
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(Copyright, 1948. Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
Wiley Says Senate
DP Law Definitely
Will be Liberalized
Here and There
Vindictive Bevin is determined to intensify his cold*war against
Israel during the period of the General Assembly's recess . .
Against the advice of leading Laborites in Britain he plans sending
personal emissaries to a number of countries in his diplomatic war
against the new state . . . He and he alone stands in the way to
British recognition of Israel . . . At a secret meeting of government
officials following Churchill's blast against Britain's Palestine policy
Bevin used such profane language that one of his own party mem-:
bers threatened to expose him if he did not control himself . . . His
profanity was directed against Jews and Israel . . . Both Attlee and
Morrison are disgusted with the venom he has been displaying
toward the Jewish state . . It is feared at 10 Downing Street that
Bevin may go so far as to "create an incident" involving the open
use of British might in Palestine . . . The recent British charge of
an Israeli incursion into Transjordan and the fanfare about the
British plane alleged to have been shot down over Israel betray
Bevin's pattern . Bevin's alignment with reaction and reactionary
elements in the Arab states is a source of deep concern to sincere
ictealists in the British Labor Party . . . Sealed in Bevin's desk is a
manuscript signed by at least 40 leading laborites warning him that
by subverting true socialist principles to imperialism he has de-
livered a fatal blow to the cause of socialism . Bevin is bent on
going to the furthest extremes against Israel .. . Informed London
MORRIS L. SCHAVER
circles are convinced his Course will lead to an irreparable- rift in
MOrris L. Schaver, one of
the Labor Party and to the dissipation of Bevin's power . . . Bevin
dbesn't dare ask for a vote of confidence on his Palestine policy . . Michigan's most prominent labor
He knows that at least 50 of his own party members would join with Zionist leaders, will celebrate his
the Opposition in a vote of censure.
55th birthday on Dec. 25. The
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entire staff of The Jewish News
About People
joins in congratulating Mr. Schau-
Robert Nathan is about to assume an important function in the er on his birthday.
effort to mobilize capital for the economic development of Israel.
Abe Tuvim, new executive director of the Zionist Emergency
Council; is an expert at staging mass meetings . . . The Council has Council. Sponsors Two More
in him a devoted, able and energetic leader.
Radio Programs This Week
A story by Herbert Bayard Swope has done more than oratory
A radio series, "Stories to Re-
in the fight against wire tapping by the government . . . About a
year ago Mr. Swope held a telephone conversation with General member," presents the 11th and
Eisenhower, Who was then taking treatments in a Miami hospital 12th in the series of 13 pro-
. .. A day after the conversation an Army representative called Mr. grams this week over station
Swope. to check on the phone call . . . It appears the transcription WXYZ, both to be heard at 4
of the talk showed that the caller had asked whether the General p. m.
Was still in the Army . . . The Army representative feared that the
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, "My
caller- was an imposter since it sounded illogical for a man like Mr.
Swope to ask such a question . . . Mr. Swope told the anecdote to Song Yankee Doodle," starring
members of a commission studying the wire tapping problem . . . Helen Claire, will be on the air
The committee members laughed when Swope told them that he It tells the story of a young
said to the Army representative "they're nuts—the question I asked Chinese boy who weathers the
vc as 'Is the General still in Miami?' " ... "But it makes me wonder," unthinking taunts of school-
he went -?in to say, "how much value could ever be attached to evi- mates and whose refusal to re-
dence gained by tapping wires. In my opinion, it should be stopped. linquish his
rights as an Amer-
It is an invasion of privacy and a travesty of-justice."
A movement is afoot to revive the American Jewish Conference ican ultimately wins him their
or else to form a similar body. The leader of the movement is Louis companionship.
Segal, Secretary General of the Jewish National Workers Alliance.
The Thursday program,
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"Watch That Play, Little Man,"
Author Meets Critic
is the action-charged drama of
In a recent review of Dr. Cecil Roth's "History of theJews in a football coach who loses a
Italy," Dr. Sonne questioned the accuracy of the author's assertion
that ninth century southern Italian liturgical poet Menahem Corizzi game to prove a point about pre-
had been a mohel . . • In a letter to the reviewer Dr. Roth quoted judice.
This series, the last of which
the authority for his information .. . It was none other than Dr.
Sonne himself ... One of the finest books of the year incidentally is will be heard Jan. 4, was produc-
Dr. Roth's illustrated edition of "A Short History of the Jewish ed by the Institute for Democrat-
.People."
ic Education and is .sponsored
locally by' the Coordinating
THE JEWISH NEWS-7 Council on Human Relations of
JDC Sends 15,618 DPs
which the Jewish Community
Friday, December 24, 1948
Council is a member.
Enroute to U. S., Israel
,
WASHINGTON , (JTA).—Sen.
Alexander Wiley, chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee,
in a statement to the press, as-
serted that "beyond the shadow
of a doubt," the new Congress
will amend the present DP law
to remove "its administrative
snarls and iron out its inequi-
ties." The Judiciary Committee
handles displaced persons ques-
tions.
The Senator also made public
a letter he received a few days
ago from Ugo Carusi, chairman
of the Displaced Persons Com-
mission, in which the latter
points 'out that the complexity of
the DP immigration law is one
of the chief factors holding up
progress in the program. Carusi
also sharply attacked the dis-
puted "cut-off" date in the law—
which makes only those DP's
who entered the refugee camps
before Dec. 22, 1945, eligible for
admission to the U. S., and thus
bars thousands of Polish Jews
who fled Poland to -the U. • S.
zone in Germany soon after the
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outbreak' of post-war progroms
in Poland.
Sen. Wiley listed five -goals
which he said should "remain
among the most important ones
in our future displaced persons
policy." They are: 1. Fulfillment
of our humanitarian responsi-
bilities to the displaced persons,
"irrespective of race, creed or
national origin"; 2. Re-uniting of
relatives and kin; 3. Adeauate
screening "against the possible
infiltration of Soviet agents and
subversize-minded individuals;"
4. Advancing -the national wel-
fare by trying to bring in per-
sons who can fill manpower
shortages in key job specialties;
and, 5. Fullest cooperation with
church, citizens and other groups
seeking homes and jobs for the
DPs "to avoid unnecessary de-
lays and prevent dislocation
among our own citizens."
Jewish Informer Hanged
WARSAW (JTA)—Isidof Sil-
biger, reputedly the most feared
Jewish informer in a number of
Nazi concentration camps dur-
ing the war, was hanged in
Bytom for his war crimes.
USE OUR CLASSIFIEDS
THEY BRING RESULTS!
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NEW YORK—In- the largest
monthly emigration movement
since the end of the war, 15,618
Jewish men", women and chil-
dren left Europe for Israel, the
United States and other lands
during November, it was report-
ed by Moses A. Leavitt, executive
vice-chairman of - the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee. JDC assist-
ed the migrants on their journey,
paying for almost all passages
and providing food, clothing and
in transit medical care.
JDC emigration officials in
Europe estimated that the emi-
gration xate during December
would be even greater. If realized,
this would raise the number of
JDC-aided emigrants during 1948
to more than 100,000.
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