Mail Appeal Is Sent to Those Who Have Not Given to Campaign "If they came knocking on your door, you would give to every one" is the theme of the mail appeal sent to all members of the Jewish community who have not yet contributed to the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign. The full text of the mail ap- peal is as follows: If they came knocking on your door, you would give to every one. I am a new arrival in the United States. Will you help me and my family to find housing, a job and schooling? I am a resident of the Jew- ish Home of Aged. Will you give something for my shelter, medical care and recreation? I am a former DP, now wait- ing at Marseille for passage to Israel. Your help can make it possible for me to end the many years of waiting for a Homecoining. I am a young Jewish high- school graduate and I need ex- pert counseling to help me find the best kind of future job. Will yoyt contribute to- ward the maintenance of the Jewish Vocational Service so that I can get the kind of guidance I need? I have just arrived in Israel and am living in a tent with my family. Will you help pro- vide us with housing, vocation- al training and adjustment services? If they came knocking on your door, you would give to every one . . . and to the myr- iad other causes supported by the Allied Jewish Campaign. The Jews of the world can- not come to your door in per- son and so I am calling on you for them. One gift from you will help them all — please make it your best gift. Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Soviet Anti-Semitism—Not Murderous—But It Exists What actually is happening to Jews in Russian satellite coun- tries? Is Soviet anti-Semitism myth or reality? There is so much talk about it that it is necessary to search the facts and to have them known. The conviction of six Zionists in Hungary aggravates a situa- tion which was believed to have been adjusted as a result of Russian support of Jewish aspirations to statehood in Israel. But while Russia has consistently supported the Israeli position, the Soviet Republics and their satellites have been unfriendly—in fact antagonistic—to the movement which has been working for statehood in Israel: Zionism. Dr. Max Lerner, in one of his articles in the New York Post on the spread of anti-Semitism, discussed Russian anti-Semitism and came to this conclusion: The trend is against the Jews both in Russia and its satel- lite countries. It is an obvious exaggeration to compare these trends, as Frederick Woltman does, to Nazi anti-Semitism. The Nazis killed the Jews. The Communists grant them physical survival, but they are crowding them hard to make them stop being not only Zionists but Jews. That is not murderous anti- Semitism but it is anti-Semitism nonetheless. It is not mysticism, as some put it, for a Jew to want to remain a Jew, whether under a democratic or a Communist system. Nor is it racism. It is part of cultural inheritance, common memories, common sufferings, and hopes. That applies to others also, but the Jews have purchased their right to be whatever they wish to be too dearly to give it up willingly. The experience of our time shows that Jews, like other minority groups, thrive best as whole persons under the old democracies of America and western Europe, and the new de- mocracy of Israel. For there is something about a Jew that recoils from a storm trooper and there is something about a storm trooper that hates a Jew. 2—THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 1, 1949 Small Communities See Greater Role On Jewish Scene ST. JOSEPH, Mich—(JTA)- Problems concerning Jewish communal activities in small towns in the United States were discussed at a three-day con- ference of representatives of Jewish communities in Michi- gan, Ohio and Indiana arranged by the Council of Jewish Federa- tions and Welfare Funds. The conference adopted the follow- ing recommendations: 1. That the Committee on Stable and Unified Fund-Raising of the CJFWF con- tinue its study of problems related to national Jewish fund-raising, multiplicity of campaigns and excessive promotional programs. 2. That the small communities give fur- ther thought to the role of the central Jewish community organization with re- gard to problems of fund-raising, alloca- tions, Jewish education, cultural activi- ties, : community relations and social wel- 3. That the small communities consider seriously new methods of inter-community cooperation for joint communal problems and that the Council of Jewish Federa- tions and Welfare Funds continue to furnish communities with factual infor- mation on the programs and budgets of all organizations which depend upon them for support. It was revealed at the confer- ence that 50 small Jewish com- munities raised $3,800,000 last year for .national and overseas causes. Keynoting the confer- ence, Rabbi Harry Essrig of Grand Rapids stated that "the time is indeed ripe for the small community to assert itself on the American Jewish scene." He added that the recent huge fund-raising campaigns _"have helped to mature the small com- munity with respect to its re- sponsibilities toward Jewish sur- vival." The importance of a sound budgeting and allocation pro- cess as one of the major means by which communities . can achieve participation in policy- making of national agenCies was pointed up by William Av- runin, associate director of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federa- tion. Other discussants included David J. Ross of Benton Harbor. 'French Free Vichyite Accused as Anti-Semite PARIS, (JTA) — Rene Pous- quet, former Undersecretary of State for Police in the Vichy Government, who was charged with responsibility for the per- secution and death of thousands of French Jews during the war, was • deprived of his civil rights Last week Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, speaking for five years by a Paris court, to the Knesset, condemned the actions of the Hungarian court but the sentence was immediate- in sentencing six Zionists for aiding the immigration of Jews to ly suspended because the court Israel. But in the same address Mr. Sharett indicated that he found that the defendant, al- considered it unfair for a commission representing the United though serving as a Vichyite of- Nations to be one-sided—without representation from Soviet Rus- ficial, had secretly rendered sia. But while Israel tries to be fair, without becoming involved service to the resistance move- in the East-West struggle, Russian satellites are displaying ani- ment. mosity to Zionism. Here is additional proof: The Polish Research and Information Service periodically UJA in Cleveland Ends issues a bulletin, "Jewish Life in Poland," from its New York Near $5 Million Mark office. Its May release carries the following item under the head- line "The Central Committee of Jews in Poland Refuses to CLEVELAND, (JTA)—The Jew- Cooperate with the Institute for Jewish Affairs": ish community here has con- When a request by the Institute for Jewish Affairs of the cluded its 1949 campaign in be- Jewish World Congress was addressed to the Central Committee half of the United Jewish Ap- of Jews in Poland asking for material on the Polish Jews for peal after having raised a total their Bulletin, the latter replied as follows: of $4,848,770 — approximately $25,000 more than was obtained "Your first Bulletin convinced us that the bias and ten- in the 1948 drive. dentiousness with which you view the situation of Jews in Europe, and especially in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, does not give us guarantee that the material we furnish would be used objectively. The nature of your Bulletin proves that your anti-democratic attitude is in glaring contrast with the public statements made by your representatives at the session of the Jewish World Congress in Montreux. Your Bulletin advo- cates the fallacious theory of the exodus of Jews from Europe and repudiates the fact of the rebirth of Jewish life and of the progressive Jewish culture in the countries of People's democracies, especially in Poland. The information you dis- seminate is biased and ignores the great achievements of the Jews in the Soviet Union and in the countries of People's democracies. "On the other hand, however, your Bulletin fails to report on the growth of anti-Semitism in the U. S., as a significant symptom which goes hand in hand with the reactionary anti- Soviet policy. "Not until your Bulletin changes its anti-democratic atti- tude, will we be able to supply the requested informative material. There is no mistaking the line followed in this declaration. Without mentioning Israel, Zionism or Palestine even once, the Polish Jewish Committee adheres to a policy that has been inherent in Russian satellite practice: to interfere with the migration of Jews to Israel. This, as Dr. Lerner states, is not murderous anti-Semitism, but it is anti-Semitism nonetheless. In the long run, it militates against Russia and her satellites as much as it does against Israel. It is a most regrettable situation, find it proves the validity of accusations of the existence of an Iron Curtain between East and West. • Merchants Aid Negro Drive Advises on Correct Israel Addressing NEW YORK, (JTA) — Israel Consul-General Arthur Lourie warned all persons writing to residents of Jewish sections in Jerusalem that they must ad- dress their mail, "Jerusalem, Israel." Letters marked "Jeru- salem, Palestine" are liable to be delivered to the Old City of Jerusalem, which is in the hands of Arab Legion, and will not reach the addressees, he said in a statement to the press. Israel Now Member Of UN Health Group LAKE SUCCESS (JTA) Is- rael became a member of the World Health Organization. This is the third specialized agency of the UN which Israel has joined since its admission to the international body in May. The East Side Merchants Association presents a check for $240 to the United Negro College Fund. This business- men's association has been organized for the past few years to promote better understanding between Negroes and Jews in the East Side area. The president, of the East Side Mer- chants Association is Meyer Silverman. Left to right: SAMUEL LIEBERMAN, LOUIS ABRAMOWITZ, ALBERT BOESKY, LaMARR WEBB, DR. A. W. CURTIS, JOHN DANCY, MEYER SILVERMAN, SAM LIPSON and HENRY S. DUNBAR. Yeshiva U. Receives Gift For Future Public Award NEW YORK (JTA) — A gift of $50,000 to Yeshiva Univer- sity's endowment f u n d from Morris Morgenstern, to be used for a public award for an out- standing personality, was an- nounced by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of Yeshiva, at the closing event of its Dedication Week. Vice President Alben W. Bark- ley was the principal speaker at a banquet in behalf of Yes- hiva at the Waldorf-Astoria. Dr. Belkin revealed that Yeshiva's $7,500,000 expansion program envisaged-an enrollment of 5,000 students as compared with the 1,500 now attending. UN Body in Jerusalem To Survey. Refugees JERUSALEM (JTA) — Herbert Cundy of the United States, Jean Lucas of France, and Rich- ti Zorlu of Turkey, members of the technical committee on Arab refugees for the United Nations aPlestine Conciliation Commis- sion, arrived at UN headquarters in Government House here from Lausanne. The technical committee has been ordered to make an on- the-spot survey of Arab refugees in the Middle East. Their re- port, will form the basis for the Conciliation Commission's find- ings on this subject. Between You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright 1949, Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Washington Trends Important changes will soon be made in the Middle Eastern section of the State Department . . . There will be the kind of switch in top officials from which Israeli interests may suffer . The anti-Israeli forces in the State Departtnent will gain tre- mendously in power as a result of the proposed changes in per- sonnel . . . Even at present these forces have the upper hand inasmuch as the State Department is pressuring Israel on the questions of admitting Arab refugees and territorial changes .. It is believed that Chaim Weizmann will soon make the position of Israel on these matters clear to President Truman . . . It is known that the Israeli President is now considering sending a letter to Truman with a view to bring to his attention the situ- ation as it actually is . . . Meanwhile, anti-Israeli forces in Wash- ington are trying their utmost to block further remittances to Israel from the $100,000,000 credit granted the Jewish State by the Export-Import Bank . . . They want to use this as a "stick" against Israel in order to have the Israeli Government submit to State Department pressure. Diplomatic Moods Those who originally believed that Truman is not fully aware of the pressure which the State Department is now using on Is- rael are beginning to change their minds . . . Evidence is piling up to prove that the State Department is not acting without Truman's knowledge . . .It is pointed out that Truman more than a rear ago ordered the State Department to take no im- portant action toward Israel without his specific approval . . The fact that he has not cracked down on State Department of- ficials who have been making strong statements recently with regard to Israel is indicative of his mood . . . However, it is known that the State Department recognizes that its request for the mass admission of Arab refugees to Israel is not a simple matter . . Higher officials admit that with Jewish immigrants pouring into Israel, and with considerable opposition within the country to the U. S. demands, it is not easy for Israeli Premier Ben Gurion to submit to these demands . . . Nevertheless, it is now known that the secret note which the State Department sent to Is- rael through the U. S. Ambassador in Tel Aviv was so sharply worded that the Ambassador was hesitant as to whether he should deliver it. Domestic Problems How do mixed marriages fare in the United States? . . . A study recently made in an unnamed city among several hundred intermarried families provided interesting results . . . It showed that few homes were completely broken by religious differences, but "in numerous families the tension continues to be acute, even after 20 years of marriage" . . . In 80 percent of the cases in- volving a Jewish partner, the husband was the . Jew and did not attend synagogue . . . In interfaith marriages between Protes- tants and Catholics both parties continued going to separate churches or one spouse joined the other's church . . . Dr. Mur- ray H. ,Leiffer, professor of sociology, who conducted the survey, • came to the conclusion that interfaith marriages "have -unfor- tunate results" for organized religion . . He established that often both husbands and .wives drop their earlier allegiance, and when they do persist in it, there is confusion for the children' and perhaps conflict in the home.