Progress Made in Adjusting
Kosher Meat Issue; M-Day Set
UN Aide Studies Peace Difficulties
Simultaneously with the an- meat and that. the three pro-
nouncement made by the Kosh- posals made to the Kosher
er Meat Women's Action Com- Butchers Association -by the
mittee of an M-Day campaign Council are: 1. Price markings
to limit purchases of-- meats to are wrappers and packages; 2.
cuts sold under 70 cents a pound, standing committee of rabbis,
came the statement of the butchers and Council represen-
Kosher Butchers Association of tatives to adjust grievances; 3.
the availability of meat in mar- bulletin boards of cuts and
kets of its members ranging in prices.
The butchers agreod to the
price from 20 cents to 65 cents a
pound.
first two points but rejected the
A statement from the Jewish third which is considered im-
Community Council is to the portant by the Council because
effect that improvements have many women are denied free
been noted inn the sale of kosher selection of meat when prices
meat and this gain is traced to are shown only on cuts in show
the activities of the Council and cases while butchers keep many
cuts in their closed refrigera-
its women's committee.
The Council's statement de- tors.
clares, however, that "the .wom-
On the wholesale level, ac-
en insist that Bulletin Boards cording to the Council's state-
must be placed in all butcher ment, the difference in cost be-
shops in the city.
tween kosher and non-kosher
meat is only a few pennies,
Telephone Squads at Work
Telephone squads of all Sister- while the retail kosher prices
hoods, Bnai Brith Women's are 20 per cent and more above
Council, American Jewish Con- the non-kosher price levels.
The charge is made by the
gress Women's Division, League
of Jewish Women, Pioneer Worn- Council that kosher butchers sell
Mizrachi and other organ- large quantities of less expen-
izations are being . utilized to sive cuts to non-kosher restau-
publicize the M-Day campaign -rants and butchers. The Coun-
to limit purchases of meat to cil proposes that these less ex-
cuts selling under '70c cents a pensive cuts be sold at reduced
pound and to get the Kosher rates to Jewish women who
Butchers Association to accede want kosher meat.
to the Council's request for
Here are the additional facts
offered by the Council:
bulletin boards.
The hind end is more expensive only
Meanwhile a question and an- because
of the general demand for sirloin,
swer bulletin issued by the porterhouse. round filet steaks.
Shechita
inexpensive. costs a half
Council outlines the background cent a pound is and
rabbinical supervision
of the kosher meat inquiry, is only $1. per week per store.
kosher butcher does not lose much
shows that similar investiga- on The
trimming fat which he resells in large
tions have been conducted for quantities.
Jewish women would buy less expensive
15 years under the leadership of
if prices were not excessive and
the late Fred .M. Butzel, Dr. B. cuts
they learned about them on bulletin
Benedict Glazer and others but boards.
Council desires the kosher butchers
that this is the first time such to The
sell large quantities of meat at reason-
able
prices
an investigation is being con- high prices. rather than small quantities at
ducted on advice of experts.
Prices have not gone up in spite of a
college buildings next to Government House where the UN Medication Commission is
meeting. Reuters referred to an unnamed official whO said that the UN staff is "dis-
turbed'by the Israeli action." Reuters reports that the Israelis were asked to withdraw,
that the matter was reported to the Security Council, and that it is not known whether
the Arabs contested Israeli entrance into the college buildings.
Trygve Lie's Aide Dispatched to Lausanne
LAKE SUCCESS.—Andrew W. Cordier, executive aide to UN Secretary General
Trygve Lie, left for Lausanne to investigate difficulties holding up the progress of
Arab-Israeli conferences now taking place there under auspices of the Palestine Council,
iation Commission.
Well-informed sources here believe that Mr. Lie decided to send Mr. Cordier to
Lausanne because of incomplete reports being received at UN headquarters on the
parleys designed to bring about an Arab-Israeli agreement. on the question of Palestine's
Arab refugees, disposition of Jerusalem and the establishment of permanent boundaries
for the Jewish State.
One report circulated here on Tuesday states that the Counciliation Commision
is considering revival of the Bernadotte plan which would give Israel all of Galilee and
hand the southern Negev over to the Arabs. Another unconfirmed repoit said that mem-
bers of the UN Commission in Lausanne are considering a plan whereby Egypt would
receive all of Gaza while Transjordania would receive territory in the Majdal sector,
north of Gaza, as well as a corridor linking Transjordan with the Mediterranean.
Israel Subject of Holy See—U. S. Diplomatic Talks
ROME.—Diplomatic discussions on the Palestine situation are taking place between
the Holy See and the United States, it was learned here Tuesday. It is believed that the
Pope is asking the U. S. to use its good offices with the Israel government to secure
the internationalization of the Holy Places and to grant status for Christian religious
bodies.
Israeli Government Attacked by Vatican Official
NEW YORK.—A Vatican official who deals with Catholic church interests in Pale-
stine has loosed a blast against the Israel o'overnment for allegedly carrying out a policy
hostile to the church's interests, the New i'-ork Times reported. on Tuesday from Rome.
The dispatch quotes a Vatican report from Rome, released on. Monday, in which the Fran-
ciscan Father Alberto Gori, who bears the official church title of Custodian of Holy
Land Estates, that freedom of movement of religious orders has been prevented by the
Israeli government. Father Gori asserts that the Franciscan Fathers in Galilee and
Judea have been isolated since the beginning of the Palestine war and "are still isolat.
ed." He charges that they have been victims of spoliation and other "base" actions, the
Times reports.
The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Syrian Premier Husni. Za.yim have reached an agree-
ment on military cooperation, the New York Times reported from Beirut. The dispatch
said that a special regiment of Mufti followers will be formed and attached to the
regular Syrian Army.
The report noted that "ostensibly they (the Mufti's troops) are to aid in the event
of an Israeli attack on Syria, but they could equally well be used in the event of a dispute
with King Abdullah." The new agreement provides that 2,000 picked Palestinians with
previous military training will be formed in a special unit, with about one-tenth of
them reported to be German-trained. The dispatch added that the Mufti will provide
his unit with a full shipload of small arms, which is said to have already been received
from Greece.
U. S. Delegation Withdraws Support for Gaza Plan
LAUSANNE, (JTA)—A striking change in U. S. policy in the UN Conciliation
Commission has taken place since the arrival here of Raymond Hare, deputy director
of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs in the State Department. As a result
of new directions from Washington, Commission sources state, the American delegation
has withdrawn its support for the "Gaza Plan" as formulated in letters to the Coin-
mission by the Israeli delegation. It was first broached from UN quarters and called
for ceding the Egypt-held Gaza strip to Israel along with its population of Arab resit.;
dents and refugees.
The Americans have now thrown their weight behind: the latest Arab proposals as
a token of good faith. They require that prior to any peace settlement the Israeli Gov-
ernment should allow the immediate return of all refu gees from western Galilee, Lydda,
the .R amleh district, Beersheba and those from the Musra ra quarter of Jerusalem—a
total estimated at 100,000 to 150,000 Arabs.
It is already becoming clear that the conciliation theory advanced by the Com-
mission has been singularly unproductive. The gap between the ISraelis and the Arabs
is wider than five weeks ago before the conciliation process was started.
Council's Demands
slight increase at the wholesale level.
If the Council's proposals are followed,
The Council's question and an- more
women would buy kosher meat to
the
welfare of the community, the butchers
swer sheet asserts that many
and Jewish traditions.
Jewish young housewives are
buying non-kosher meat because 2—THE JEWISH NEWS
of the high prices of kosher
Friday, June 10, 1949
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Study in Mass Action
There never has been a' doubt, in the past foUr years. or more,
that Dr. Abba Hillel Silver is the most dominant factor in the
ranks of General Zionists in America. It would be foolish to ask
for proof, but for those who desired it, it was available in full
measure at the convention of the •Zionist Organization of America
in New York last week.
At one point, Louis Lipsky was the victor in an effort to shelve
a resolution which many of us considered damaging to the Zionist
movement. An administration supporter moved to table Mr.
Lipsky's motion for referral of a resolution for autonomy for the
ZOA to the ZOA administrative committee. His effort failed and
it appeared to us that even Mr. Lipsky's original motion would
have been adopted. Then came the inevitable. Dr. Emanuel Neu-
mann supported the resolution and Dr. Silver made a personal
appeal for it on the ground that it constituted a vote of con-
fidence in him and his supporters. Momentarily, sentiment shift-
ed. It took a few moments for fully 80 per cent of the assembly
to swing its weight in support of the Silver-Neumann requests.
All Dr. Silver needed to do at that convention—and that was
true of the preceding four conventions—was to wave his hand
and the delegates bowed to their mighty guide. Nowhere else have
we witnessed such domination over a large public assembly.
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*
Partisanship, Vindictiveness
—
and Peace!
Nowhere, for that matter, have we seen such decided partisan-
shpi and so many evidences of vindictiveness as at the last ZOA
convention. It was not limited to Drs. Silver and Neumann. Their
followers shared with them the resentment over what had hap-
pened in the Jewish Agency and the UJA some weeks ago.
Dr. Silver's attacks on Hadassah, the Agency leaders and the
Mapai (he referred to Socialism) were bitter. He spoke for 105
minutes and—let it be repeated to his credit—it is never tiring to
listen to him. Why deny, however, that the rancor that marked
• his address. was disturbing?
But it did not last long. Ezra Shapiro, who dissented on behalf
of the opposition, made his apology. (Dr. Silver referred to it as
"a correction"). In the interests of peace and of divided spoils in
the national executive, the attacks were overlooked. There were
smiles on the faces of the leaders who finally, near midnight on
May 29, appeared on the platform with a slate of officers. Peace, o
peace, what concessions are made in. thy name!
Now, Rudolf Sonneborn is in the administration—as chairman
of the national administrative committee. Men who were not pre-
viously on speaking terms are sharing places on the national
executive. Dr. Silver and Isaac Carmel were seen arm in arm.
The lion and 'the lamb—together! And if the former opposition
should acquire power and arouse displeasure, we may soon see
the rise of a new oposition movement. That's how it is in mass
movements. That's one of the enigmas of public life.
`If I Forget Thee'
—
and the Left Hand
The best story from Israel is that many Jews have become
left-handed. The reason? It has happened .. the consequence of
the oath "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, may my right hand forget
its cunning."
Continued from Page 1
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Mrs. Welt Heads
World Council
.
'Between
You
and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
Mrs. Joseph M. Welt, of De-
troit, president of the National
Council of Jewish Women, was
elected president of the Inter-
national Council of Jewish Wo-
men, which ended its four-day
meeting June 1 in Paris.
Mrs. Welt rep-
resented her or-
ganization a t
the meeting of
the Internation-
a I Council o f
Jewish Women,
which w as at-
tended b y rep-
resentatives o f
Jewish women's
organizations
Australia, South;:_..:...
...
Africa, Greece,
Mrs. Welt
Switzerland, Italy, Great Britain,
and Canada, as well as the
United States.
The international organiza-
tion, established in Rome in 1912,
has been inactive since 1929 be-
cause of world conditions. At
the meeting, delegates unani-
mously voted to reestablish the
organization "to unite Jewish
women in all nations in behalf
of the urgent needs of their own
country - and world Jewry."
The officers of the interna-
tional organization will serve
three-year terms. The sessions
were held at the home for un-
attached Jewish women which
the National Council of Jewish
Women maintains in Paris as
part of its Overseas Service Pro-
gram.
(Copyright 1949, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Zionist' Trends
Now that peace has been. achieved in the ranks of the .
Zionist Organization of America, efforts will be made by the .new
administration to improve relations with the White House , . It
has been no secret that while Truman was actively aiding the
cause of Israel, he nevertheless maintained a cool attitude to-
ward the ZOA leadership • , incidentally, the message of greet-
ings sent by Truman to the ZOA convention last week was not
discovered until a day after the convention was over . . . It was
among a batch of letters which. reached the ZOA headquarters
on Friday, but the letters were not opened until Monday . . . This
explains why Truman's message was not read from the platform
at the convention The big question among Zionist leaders now
is what to do with the Rifkind Report which recommends a basic
reorganization in the structure of the world Zionist movement
. . The abolitio
n of the shekel, which the report favors, will be
one of the major issues in the forthcoming discussions ... Serious
opposition is also expected to the recommendation that. the
present practice of giving the Jews of Israel representation at
twice the ratio given Jews from other lands be abolished .
Othr features of the report. are also ticklish and will be the sub-
ject of animated debates in the Zionist movement for many
months to come.
Community Currents
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds is
pressing for a broader inclusion of agencies within the United
Jewish Appeal or the United Palestine Appeal .. . This is being
done to have more agencies come within a single drive and there-
by reduce fund-raising expense . . It would also insure greater
stability for worthy agencies entitled to receive support on a con-
tinuing basis, in proportion to their relative requirements . . .
Israeli Government representatives in the U. S. have now received
instructions not to endorse any fund-raising drive other than.
the ILIA, except with specific government authorization . .. This
came as' a result of the negotiations between the CJFWF and
the Jewish Agency aimed at checking multiple drives in this
country ... In line with this new policy, the Jewish War Veterans
"Kits for Israel" project has been ended, while the "Food for
Israel" drive is no longer being conducted ... The CJFWF also has
asked for greater supervision of how funds raised in America for
various Israeli institutions are being spent in the Jewish state.