Knesset to Investigate Clash
Of Arabs, Police in Nazareth
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to
The Jewish . News
2—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 3, 1950
Honor Leo Polk
At First Event of
Red Cross Drive
Joseph Bale Post Basketball Squad
To Play at Benefit for JWV Home
Pfc. Joseph L. Bate
Post basketball team,
shown here in action a
a recent cage contest, wimp
be featured at a triple-
header benefit for the
new J W V Memorial
Home Saturday evening,
March 25, at Central
High School gym. Two
Bale post teams will meet
two Catholic Youth. Of.
ganization squads. Danc-
ing will follow.
Jerusalem area and the number
and type of artillery which may
'be maintained by both sides in
Jmi,USALEM — The Israel Jerusalem and the "triangle"
parliament voted to inquire.into area.
The Detroit Chapter of the
the recent demonstration of un-
An attempt to achieve a divi- American Red Cross is seeking
employed Arab's in Nazareth and sion of the area surrounding $575,000 in the annual March
the causes of the incident, fol- Government House, UN head- solicitation of funds for its serv-
lowing charges of police brutal- quarters in Jerusalem, failed. ice and relief activities.
ity by a Communist deputy and The House itself will continue
That amount will supplement
charges of Communist sedition to remain under United Nations funds raised in businesses and
by a Mapai leader.
control while an Arab agricul- industries in the Torch Fund
The issue arose in the Knes- tural college adjoining it will re- last fall, to complete Detroit's
set when Tewfik Toubi, Arab main in Israel hands.
quota of $1,400,000 for local and
Communist, accused "Ben-Guri-
(At Lake Success the UN re- national needs.
on's government" of shooting leased a year - end report by
The campaign was officially
unemployed workers demanding Brig. Gen. William E. Riley, UN opened. last Tuesday at a lunch-
bread and work. Two Arabs Chief of Staff in Palestine, 9n eon at the Statler Hotel, at
were wounded when police open- the activities of the four mixed which Henry T. Ewald, chapter
ed fire during the Communist- armistice commissions operating chairman, and William J. Nor-
led demonstration eight days between Israel and the Arab ton, luncheon speaker, pointed
ago. Toubi declared that only in states. Timed . to coincide with Out that United Foundation
Fascist states or states heading the first anniversary of the sign- contributions in some 600 firms
for Fascism do police fire on ning of the Israel-Egypt armis- included Red Cross allocations.
workers, and demanded a parli- tice pact, the report says that Other businesses and individu-
amentary investigation of the Arabs and Israelis are cooper- als will be solicited this month.
behavior of the police and. ating to alleviate innumerable
Spurring the assembled chap-
"punishment of the guilty po- human problems arising be-
ter chairmen and volunteers,
licemen."
tween them. It records a num- Norton described the Red Cross
Police Version Differs
ber of successes negotiating
Toubi was followed by Minis- exchanges of prisoners, demar- as "the greatest emblem of lay
ter for Police Behor Shitreet cation of front lines, return of charity that exists anywhere in
who gave his version of the Arab families to Israel and the the world." He explained that
surplus funds raised by the or-
clash. He said that 60 demon- solution of other problems.)
ganization in wartime cam-
strators attacked four unarmed
Abolish `No-Man's Land'
paigns are now being used to
policemen, forcing the latter to
TEL, AVIV—(JTA)—Israel and reduce the quotas in current
fire into the air twice. The bul-
lets ricocheted off a nearby wall Egyptian members of the mixed drives.
and struck two persons not in- armistice commission signed an
Most prolonged applause at
volved in the affair, the minis- agreement dividing equally 40 the luncheon was received by
ter said. During his recital the square kilometers of the demili- Leo Polk of 4774 Cortland
Communist deputies interrupted tarized zone between Beth Na- known as the "one-man blood
with frequent and loud objec- hum and Deirsuneid, northeast factory." Polk, 41, has donated
of Gaza, and establishing a sin- 63 pints of
tions. •
blood since the be-
Phinnas Lubianiker, secretary gle demarcation line between ginning of liVorld War II to the
the
two
countries,
thus
abolish..
general of the Histadrut and a
Red Cross Blood Bank and to
leader of the Mapai party, asked ing the "no-man's land" zorie hospitals outside Detroit.
which
existed
since
the
signing
By PHILIP SWMOVITZ
that the inquiry committee also
He is chairman of the Bnai
invesigate the activities of the of the Rhodes armistice pact, Brith Red Cross blood donors David Frankfurter—The Jewish 'William Tell'
Communists; whom he accused concluded a year ago this week. committee and is currently ar-
War daMages registered to
At Davos, Switzerland, in February, 1936, a Jewish medical
of inciting the workers and "be-
ranging a group donation by
smirching Israel's name before date with the Ministry of War Bnai Brith
student,
Frankfurter, shot and killed Wilhelm Gustloff, Nazi
members on May 2 Gauleiter David
in Switzerland, to avenge the mass persecutions and
the world." The Communists and Sufferers exceed $28,000,000,
at
the
Workmen's
Circle.
A
res-
with
Jerusalem
alone
accounting
murders of Jews by the Nazis. He was ,given an 18-year jail sen-
Mapam deputies opposed Lubi-
anikers request but the Knesset for $8,400,000 entailing damages ident' of Detroit for nine years, tence by a Swiss court but was released in 1945, after serving nine
incurred by industrial, - agricul- Polk is business manager of the years, and has since then settled in Israel where he has written
voted the joint inquiry.
tural and commercial establish- Amalgamated Clothing Workers the story of his life and his murder.. A chapter from his book
Mapai Outvoted
ments.
of America.
pears in the current issue of Commentary Magazine under the
For the first time in the
Registration of . war damages
At the luncheon Tuesday, he title "I Kill a Nazi Gauleiter—Memoirs of a Jewish Assassin."
history of the Israel 'govern-
does
not
include
damages
suf-
was presented with a certificate
ment, the Mapai party found
Frankfurter's story is interesting from many points of view
fered by national institutions, lo- of appreciation for his out-
itself in a minority position
Like Herschel Grynszpan, the 17-year-old Polish-Jewish boy who
cal
municipal
councils,
major
en-
standing
cOntribUtion
to
the
when parliament voted for an
terprises like the Dead Sea pot- American Red Cross blood pro- in 1939. assassinated Ernst vein Rath in Paris, Frankfurter was un-
inquiry into education in the
ash works and the electric com- gram, personally signed by Gen- familiar with revolvers or any other type of weapons but secured
immigrant camps.. The depu-
one to -avenge the plight of his people. In both cases, libertarians
ties of the orthodox parties panies, as well as Jewish prop- eral George C. Marshall, na-
applauded the acts of the assassins because they recognized that
who are at odds with Mapai erty in the Arab-held Old City tional Red Cross president, and their motives
were to protest against indignities hurled at their
of
Jerusalem,
which
is
estimated
Ewald.
over religious education in the
Jean T. Sheafor, secretary- kinsmen. In both instances the courts of the respective countries--
camps sided with the opposi- at $19,600,000.
treasurer of the Michigan Bell Switzerland and France—acted harshly with the "murderers" out
tion. Mapam, with whom the
Telephone Co., is 1950 carnpaign of fear for Nazi wrath.
religious bloc voted, accused
In Frankfurter's case, when he was faced by the widow of
chairman.
the orthodox forces of "shame-
The national goal is $67,000,- Gustloff who demanded to know why he had committed the
less instigation" of clashes in
the camps.
000, with the bulk of the money crime, the Jewish assassin replied that it was not for personal
Israel's newspapers welcomed
At a meeting in New York of destined for services to men and reasons but "because I am a Jew." There followed a flow of
vituperation against all Jews by the widow. Young Grynszpan,
the announcement of the return 80 professional workers on staffs women in the armed forces:
when he faced the police, tearfully exclaimed, as quoted in the
of the Orthodox Ministers to of national and local Jewish
NeW York Times an Nov. 10, 1938: "Being a Jew is not a crime.
Cabinet meetings for discussion community relations agencies — Holtz Hits 'All American
I am not a dog. I have a right to* live and the Jewish people
of the education of immigrant including Boris Joffe, • Walter
have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I
children.
Klein and Joseph Fauman of Conference' Critics
have been chased like an animal."
Debate on the need for a con- Detroit—a professional organi-
Too many have forgotten the indignities that were heaped
situation was interrupted in the ization was formed to be known
Criticism of the recent "All-
Knesset in order to give priority as the Association of Jewish American Conference" in New upon Jews in Europe fully to appreciate the tragedies which have
to budgetary issues. A bill was Community Relations Workers. York was groundless in many forced young Jews like Frankfurter and Grynszpan to turn assas-
introduced providing for a new
Maurice B. Fagan, executive instances, the subject of mis- sins. Frankfurter's memoirs serve as a grim reminder of the hor-
IL5,000,000 popular loan.
director of t h e Philadelphia representation in others, accord- rors under the Nazis.
Further efforts are being Jewish Community Relations ing to Jackson J. Holtz, national
Frankfurter's act of vengeance moved the eminent author,
made by Premier David Ben- Council, was elected chairman. commander of the Jewish War Emil Ludwig, to write a book—"The Davos Murder," in 1937.
Gurion to broaden the Cabinet The purposes of the association Veterans.
Ludwig reviewed young 'David's reactions to Nazism while in
by including Mapam and the are:
Holtz charged that the at- Frankfort where, switching on his radio, he once heard the "Jew'S'
a. To maintain high standards for those tacks on the American Legion
Progressives.
Alphabet," a popular lampoon, the bawdry lines of which contain
engaged professionally in the Jewish com-
Limit Jerusalem Arms
sponsored meeting ignored the the following disgusting reference to Jews: "A tasty dish is jellied
munity relations field.
b. To provide opportunities for the ex- Legion's action in dropping
The mixed Israel-Jordan arm-
eels, The Jew he likes to belch at meals, A. sow, a Jewess; they're.
change of views on problems in com-
istice commission ratified an munity
Merwin K. Hart's anti-Semitic just twins, As like each other as two pins." • He was "torn between
relations work.
c. To encourage cooperation with other National Economic Council from
agreement limiting the type of
depression and horror," left for Switzerland, pursued his studies
associations in related fields.
armament which may be car- professional
d. To encourage the application of Jew- the list of participating organ : there, but his despair haunted'him. Ludwig, who described
Frank-
ried on armored cars into the ish ideals of social justice and human izations after Jewish organiza- furter as "the Jewish William Tell," justified the act of vengeance
dignity in community relations work.
tions presented the record of and wrote in "The Davos Murder";
Hart's activities to officials.
"For three years the budding.:.physician, the embryo phil-
Holtz said critics of the con- osopher, a man of altruistic and thoughtful temperament, saw
ference neglected to point out the woes of his people undergoing daily intensification,
Purely Commentary
Jewish Community
Workers Organize
i
Between You and Me
• ,llyrhon,
By BORIS SMOLAR
Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
Zionist Moods
The national convention of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ika Will this year be held in Chicago, it can now be revealed
This is an innovation since the conventions have been held . . .
either
5ri New York or Atlantic City in recent years . It will take
place either the end of June or early in July . . and will be one
of the most decisive ZOA
conventions . . . It should be remem-
bered that the ZOA - administration
still has on its hands a report
on the future of the World .Zionist
movement, prepared by a
commission under the chairmanship of Judge Simon H. Rifkind,
dealing with a number of problems •
which basically affect the
present system of the World Zibnist Organization. • . On these
that participating organizations
included the CIO, AFL, Federal
Council of Churches in America,
and other civic, religious and
veteran groups.'
• Amplifying charges that de-
velopments of the conference
were suppressed, Holtz noted a
resolution establishing a "con-
tinuations committee" as "a
clearing house and information.
center."
Holtz -concluded that if res-
responsible Jewish organizations
such as the JWV had not par-
ticipated, Mervin K. Hart would
have found his way to the floor
of the meeting before. the Legion
had an opportunity to discover
for itself the presence of an ele-
ment in American life that has
been regularly recognized in
Legion convention resolutions as
"on a sub'versive par with the
problems the forthcoming ZOA convention will have to take de-
cisions . . The plan prepared by the American section of the
Jewish Agency on the reorganization of the machinery of the
world Zionist movement will soon undergo certain revisions . .
It then will be presented in final form to the Zionist Actions COM-
miteee meeting in Jerusalem in April . . Until that time, no
further discussions will take place on the suggestion of merging,
the Jewish National Fund and the Keren Hayesod.
Communists."'
saw
the race to which he was most deeply attached by the ties of
blood and religion degraded a.nd outlawed. .
"From amid this ancient and persecuted people, from amid
the Jews, in the_ garnish light of the twentieth century, a David
has once more arisen. Nothing could testify more strongly to
the purity of his heart than the question which, in her aston-
ishment, the wife of the murdered man addressed• to him within
an Mtnr of the murder:
"'How could you do it? You have such kind eyes?'
"David looked her in the face and answered:
"'I am a Jew. That ought to explain.'"
. Does this story explain that act of retaliation in our own
time? In the days of the two assassinations, the Frankfurter and
Grynszpan acts were easily underStandable. Are we too far re-
moved from the horrible days to recognize the justice of Ludwig's
approval of the Frankfurter act or the general acclaim at the
time when Grynszpan ended the life of a representative of Hitler?
In principle, assassinations like murders are never to be con-
doned. By the same token, one must never forgive the horrors
that were perpetrated upon the entire Jewish people—in fact,
upon the entire European continent—by the Nazi beasts. If we
forget their crimes too quickly, we shall be unable either to re-
build the lives of the survivors from Hitlerism or to prevent the re-
currence of Nazi tragedies.