Holtz Describes MY as Vehicle
For Defense of All Jast Causes; Joins
In Dedication of Memorial Home

Community Leaders
Meet with Vets' Chief

The impact of veterans' activ-
ities in support of important
causes affecting social move-
ments was described eloquently
by Jackson J. Holtz of Boston,
national commander of the Jew-
ish War Veterans of the United
States, in an address at a lunch-
eon meeting at the Standard
Club in-the Book Cadillac Hotel
last Friday.
Heads of important Jewish
organizations in Detroit joined
in honoring Mr. ,Holtz during his
visit here to preside at the
meeting of the JWV national
executive committee. Julian
Krolik, president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, and Sidney
Shevitz, vice - president of the
Jewish Community Council,
spoke briefly. Harry Madison,
national JWV executive commit-
teeman for this area, presided.
The prayers were recited by
Rabbi Leon Fram.
In his address, Mr. Holtz stat-
ed that the veterans are in the
position of serving as the ve-
hicle of fighting for liberal
causes like FEPC and in defense
of fair DP legislation. He de-
clared that veterans are best
suited to repudiate the canard
of dual loyalty in the issues in-
volving support for the state of
Israel.
800,000 Jewish Vets
"We have actuated a front
for every Jewish cause," he
stated. "Our anti-totalitarian
position, on the right and on
the left, is firm. In speaking
for 800,000 Jews who fought
through the last war, we are
the best argument against
canards of disloyalty on occa-
sions leveled against us. Every
word in our name —newish,
War and Veterans—is an ar-
gument against falsehoods
about Jews." •
To prove his point, Mr. Holtz
pointed out that half of the
members Of Congress belong to
veterans' organizations. He de-
plored the lack of similar inter-
est in Jewish ranks and in em-
phasizing the need for promot-
ing the Jewish veterans' organi-
zation referred to the "shocking
poverty of statesmanship in
Jewish life." He declared that
"there must be a single organi-
zation to serve as a front for
Jewish causes" and asked for a
realistic recognition of the values
of the Jewish War Veterans.
He pointed out that those who
f avor Brandeis University, advo-
cate the Bn•,i Brith causes and
favor Jewish hospitals neverthe-
less accuse the Jewish War Vet-
erans unjustly of seeking "seg-
regation." He was emphatic in
declaring that the veterans can
reach the non-Jewish groups in
matters which can not be cov-
ered properly by others.
During the luncheon meeting,
Benjamin Levinson presented to
the Michigan JWV state com-
mander, Philip Cantor, a photo-
graph of President Truman, au-
tographed by the _President, and
presented by t h e President
through Mr.. Levinson, for the
Jewish War Veterans Memorial
Building on Davison and Petos-•
key.
Inspect Arab Arms Race
At an afternoon press confer-
ence Holtz further condemned
British arms shipments to the
Arabs. He outlined four possible
plans the JWV backed, for com-
batting the Arab arms race; in-
quiry by the United States, or
the United Nations; demands
on Egypt for an explanation of
her enormous expenditures on
arms, or, as a last regrettable
alternative, strive to increase
Israel's strength in and out-
and-out arms race.
Saturday afternoon Gov. Wil-
liams and other civic leaders
attended a luncheon in the
Standard Club. At 8:30 p.m. the
JWV executive met at the Mem-
orial Home on Davison.
Holtz is now in Washington,
where, with the heads of other
veteran's organizations, he is
the guest of Department of De-
fense head Louis Johnson, in
the interests of national secur-
ity.

24 — THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 10, 1950

Conferees Rap Delay
In Execution of Nazis

National Commander Jackson
J. Holtz officiated at the dedi-
cation of the Jewish War Vet-
erans' Memorial Home at 4095
W. Davison last Saturday, dur-
ing the meeting here of the
JWV national executive com-
mittee.
An oil painting of Congres-
sional Medal of Honor Winner
Lt. Raymond Zussman, in whose
memory one of the JWV posts is
named, was presented at the
dedication. It will hang. in the
foyer, along with an auto-
graphed photograph of Presi-
dent Truman.
The JWV leaders, at their
meetings, urged a review of U.S.
policy in Germany to determine
whether original American ob-
jectives are being carried out.
They renewed their protest over
the delay in executing 16 con-
victed Nazi war criminals.
The veterans also voted to
participate in a national ob-
servance of the birth of Thomas
G. Masaryk.

Justice Douglas Lauds
Israel in Yearbook
Of Technion Society

"Israel, a testing ground for
new ideas, can guide all hu-
manity to a higher standard of
living through science," says
Supreme Court Justice William
0. Douglas in the lead article of
the Technion Yearbook, pub-
lished by the American Tech-
nion Society, 154 Nassau, New
York City. Justice Douglas, who
visited Israel and other states
of the Middle East last summer,
writes on "Israel, Teacher of the
Middle East."
This theme and the close ties
being forged between America
and Israel are stressed in the
current Yearbook, volume eight
of the 256-page annual publica-
tion, edited by Judah Wa•ten-
berg, which features 28 papers
and illustrations on topics per-
taining to technical, industrial
and educational progiess in the
United States and Israel.
The photographs presented in-
clude two striking full-page por-
traits, suitable for framing, of
Prof. Albert Einstein and Chaim
Weizmann. A special pictorial
section offers a graphic portray-
al of how the Greater Technion,
Israel's only Institute of Tech-
nology, will look when its cur-
rent construction program is
completed.
The list of authors includes
Dr. Weizmann, Dr. I. I. Rabi,
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics;
Philip Sporn, utility executive;
James R. Killian, Jr., president,
M.I.T.; Bryn J. Hovde, president,
New School for Social Research;
Joseph Weil, Dean, School of
Engineering, University of Flor-
ida.
Prominently featured in the
section c a 11 e d, "Israel, New
State in Action," are articles on
the N e g e b, Israel's economic
achievements, reports on the
Jordan Valley irrigation project,
and proposals for new industries
including establishment of a
lumber industry and an ex-
panded railroad system for the
new State.

Chorus Entertains Old Folks at Purim

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44,

DAN FROHMARI is shown conducting
the chorus of the Music Study Club as the
entertainment feature of the Purim party for

elderly residents of the Jewish Home for th
Aged. The party was held at the Home o -
Sunday, March 5.

Senators Argue Revisions
For Liberalized DP Law

Iraq May Permit Jews
To Leave Country

LONDON, (JTA)—The Iraq
Chamber of Deputies has
passed an emergency bill per-
mitting Iraqi Jews to re-
nounce their citizenship and
leave the country, the London
Times reported from Bagdad.
The report adds that passage
of the measure by the Senate
is considered certain.
The bill is said to result
from the large-scale smug-
gling of Jews out of the coun-
try to Israel. The report also
states that it is understood
that the Iraq government in-
tends, at the earliest oppor-
tunity, to restore the Jews to
full citizenship rights. These
rights were abrogated during
the Arab war against Israel.

On behalf of the Jewish Community Council, Senators
Homer Ferguson and Arthur H. Vandenberg this week were
urged by the Council's president, Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, to
assist in removing the objectionable features in the pending
displaced persons bill and to work for the adoption of the
substitute bill which liberalizes the McCarran proposals.

They were asked to oppose the
allotment of $2,500,000 for un-
derwriting the overseas trans-
portation to this country of Ger-
man expellees, since such a pro-
vision would mortgage future
immigration quotas.
Major Jewish organizations
endorsed the bill for amendment
of the Displaced Persons Act
proposed by a minority of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, but
only with the proviso that the
term "German ethnic orgin,"
the allocation of United States
funds to finance the transporta-
tion to this country of the so-
called Volksdeutsche and the
charging of visas issued to dis-
placed persons against the fu-
ture immigration quotas of their
countries of origin be elimi-
nated.
Sen. Pat McCarran charged in
the Senate that the Displaced
Persons Commission tolerated
fraud in the operation of the
DP Act of 1948.
Scores Present Law
Sen. Harley M. Kilgore, speak-
ing on behalf of 18 Senators
sponsoring a substitute measure
for the DP Bill reported out of
committee by the Senate Judi-
ciary, disagreed with Sen. Mc-
Carran. He said that the present
act is "flagrantly discrimina-
tory," adding: "The conscience
of America is ashamed of our
present niggardly, restrictive,
and unfair DP law."
Stating that the American
spirit of fair play demanded ac-
tion, Seri: KilgOre said that the
leaders of religious, business,
agricultural, and labor groups,
agreed on the urgency of liber-
alization of DP legislation.
`Irony' to Favor Germans
Sen. Herbert, H. Lehman said
that the changes proposed by
the Senate Judiciary Committee
would make it harder than ever
to bring in the true victims of
Hitlerism. He pointed out that
however much he might sympa-
thize with the ethnic German
expellees, he believes it would be
"cruel irony" to favor the Ger-
mans over their victims.
Resolutions calling on the
Senate to enact DP immigration

Levinson Aids Vets with Mortgages

PHILIP,r7.7tc.
CANTOR,'
comman d-
er, Jewish War
Veterans, De-
partment of
Michigan, is
shown present-
n g BENJA-
MIN LEVIN-
SON, head of
the Michigan
Mortgage, Corp.
a certificate
appoinfing him
as mortgage
counselor t o
the JWV in
Michigan. Lev-
inson has been
active in assisting Ex-GIs in obtaining housing loans.

legislation to liberalize the pres-
ent act and appealing to the
U.S. Government to pool unused
quota numbers for redistribution
to would-be immigrants were
adopted at the HIAS 65th an-
nual meeting in New York. The
conference adopted a budget of
$4,230,000 for HIAS in 1950.
Other resolutions endorsed the
proposed expansion of HIAS ac-
tivities in Israel.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York, addressing the meet-
ing, revealed that in the sum-
mer of 1948, when the Celler Bill
to liberalize existing DP legisla-
tion was introduced, "I person-
ally labored earnestly to try to
procure the passage of the
amendments." He added that
the Kilgore-Ferguson Bill, de-
signed to alleviate the injus-
tices in the Senate Judiciary
Committee's bill, "is a desirable
bill."
Charge Opposition Filibuster
A sudden move on the Senate
floor last Tuesday cut debate on
the revised DP bill. With only a
few Senators in the chamber in
midafternoon, Sen. William Lan-
ger (R., North Carolina) moved
for an overnight recess. It was
carried before Sen. Russell B.
Long, only Democrat on the
floor, could object.
Democratic majority leader
Scott Lucas charged the move
was preliminary to a filibuster
on the bill by Republicans and
Southern Democrats who oppose
the liberalized measure.

Jerusalem

By BENYAMIN SAFERSTEIN

Jerusalem is us
A throbbing heart
The longing of the oppressed
The seeking and striving
The endless search for absolutes
The fate and folly of intense man.

Jerusalem is soft
The scholars speculations
The poets flaming emotion
The beauty of soft songs
The mountains rising overhead
The moon casting pale glances
On heroic man.

Jerusalem is hard as steel
The warriors devotion
The conspirators singularity
The heroes heart
The unflinching devotee
The unyielding city.

Jerusalem is the past
The capital of our ancestors
The center of our dreams
The promise of redemption
For which we prayed
In squalid ghettoes
For which the trickling tear
Flowed into the dust of idle

Jerusalem is the future -
where we shall fulfill
In much detail
The prophets noble dreams
Where man in stately dignity
Shall in peaceful pose
Live as brother to man.

Ask Neo-Nazism Protest
On Warsaw Ghetto Day

Affiliates of the World Jewish
Congress in 66 countries were
called upon to hold world-wide
observances of the seventh an-
niversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
uprising on April 19, anniversary
of the day in 1943 on which the
uprising was launched.
In a communication to the
affiliates, Dr. I. Schwarzbart,
member of the World Jewish
Congress executive and chief of
its organization department,
urged that this occasion be used
for global protest against the
emergence. of neo-Nazism in
Germany and Austria.

Solicitation Secretaries
To Get Instructions

In prepration for the 1950 Allied
Jewish Campaign, Mrs. Samuel
M. Croll and Mrs. Selden Koblin
have called a meeting for 10:30
a.m. Friday, March 17, at the
Dexter-Davison Center, of the
31 secretaries who will work
under their guidance in general
solicitation for the Women's Di-
vision.
At this meeting each secretary
will receive her instructions for
carrying out her function as a
liaison between the chairman of
the division to which she is as-
signed and that division's cap-
tains and workers.

feet.

Jerusalem is the present
The waterless days
The lines for food
The battered and blood soaked sire
The hope for better things
The eternal faith
The heroes smile.

-

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sa ferstein, a former
Detroit Zionist youth leader, is now a
member of Kibbutz Dorot,

Judge Levin Elected
To Publication Board;
JPS Plans Expansion

A program designed to "put
Jewish books into every Jewisl,
home" was adopted at the 62nd
annual meeting of the Jewisl.
Publication Society of America ,
in Philadelphia.
To make this possible, the So-
ciety will inaugurate an inten-
sive campaign and will call upo7
American Jewry, through its oe-
ganized channels, to give a
greater measure of support tc
the various literary and culture:.
projects in which the society i.
engaged.
Judge Theodore Levin of De-
troit and Kurt Peiser of Phila-
delphia, former head of the De-
troit Jewish . Welfare Federation.
were .elected to the booard of
directors of the society. Judge
Louis E. Levinthal, who was re •
elected to the presidency, an-
nounced that 110,310 books were
distributed in 1949.
The board has set $250,000 as
a national goal to be raised dur-
ing the current year to strength-
en the • society's capital struc-
ture.

