'Strangleholds'
and Realities:
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of Philanthropies
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VOLUME 17—No. 17 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, July 7, 1950
Editorial: The War Clouds
Stand Ready for Action
While Praying for Peace
War clouds again are darkening the universe.
Sinister forces in the world, ignoring the sad experiences
of two world wars in our own lifetime, are ignoring the basic
human principles of "live and let live" and are more concerned
with a lust for more power than they are with peace.
President 'Truman was compelled to act against the • ag-
g ressive forces which are threatening again the security of the
democracies.
It is natural that people generally should he concerned,
that so many in our midst should be jittery over the occurrences
in Korea.
The basic idea to be kept in view is that the world no
longer is divided into isolated areas, that we are one world, that
anything that may happen in the Near East, in Europe or in
Asia, on the Atlantic or Pacific, may affect all of us.
Therefore prompt and firm action is necessary in order to
prevent another world war, and our prayers therefore are that
the aggressors will see the light and will end their lust for more
and more territory; that the democracies, acting in defense of the
idea of untrammeled Freedom, will not fail in their present
firm stand.
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The support given unanimously — except for the pro-
Russian countries— by the United Nations to the stand taken
by the United States is an indication of the state of mind of the
forces which make up the world organization.
Dr. Ralph Bunche, eminent diplomat who understands the
spirit of the UN as well as any person in authority, has ex-
pressed the encouraging view that the world organization will be
able to cope with the present situation.
U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman, speaking in the Senate,
declared that "we have every reason to maintain our faith in
the United Nations" in the Korean war crisis, and pointed out
that the UN has succeeded in Palestine, Iran and Indonesia.
He expressed a strong desire for the isolation and containment
of the Korean ,war and the defeat of the Northern Korean
Communist forces.
. But the situation generally is not an altogether happy one
because of the conflicting forces involved in the new crisis.
Proof of the existence of dangers in the Middle East is con-
tained in a Reuters dispatch from Damascus, Syria. Premier
Nazim Kodsi of Syria is quoted as stating that the declaration by
the United States, Britain and France on arms to Arab states
and Israel does not imply division of the Middle East into zones
of influence. The dispatch reads: "Syria is free to purchase
.arms from any source, including Russia, Kodsi declared, adding
that the Arab answer to the tripartite declaration does not in-
dicate Arab alignment with the West."
Thus, Arabs again emerge as playing a pro-Russian game,
and in the Middle East the small state of Israel remains the only
hope for the democracies, The 500,000 members of the Israel
Histadrut Federation of Labor are strongly and avowedly anti-
Communist and, together with the 300,000 anti-COmmunist
members of the government-supervised Turkish unions, repre-
sent the major hope for the survival of democratic ideals in
that part of the world.
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The Korean troubles have cast gloom in Jewish quarters
in another field involving the relief and rescue of survivors from
Nazism.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Washington states
that although only a few hundred Jewish refugees, mostly aged
and handicapped, remain in the new war area, further evacuation
of Jewish refugees from Shanghai and the Far East is unlikely
as a result of President Truman's declaration of armed inter-
vention in the Korean war.
The JTA report points out that "the Jewish population in
Korea is negligible and includes only a few shop-keepers in
Seoul and Fusan. There are believed to be no World War II
refugees in Southern Korea other than a few who entered from
Russian territory and settled in the American-supported republic.
The Israel charge d'affaires in Washington, Moshe Keren, was
called to the State Department and presented with a copy of the
text of President Truman's announcement of American entry into
the Korean war. Israel's hopes of obtaining defensive arms from
the United States were considerably dimmed as a result of Amer-
ica's active entrance into the Far Eastern conflict."
The situation is grave and all lovers of freedom and dem-
ocracy must be on the alert, ready for the worst while hoping
and praying for the best.
It is encouraging to know that little Is-
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all our energies in support of the cause of the democracies against
the rising tide of autocracy and dictatorship.
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Minorities May Force
Debate on Israel's
Stand in Korea Crisis
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JERUSALEM—The entire Israel press, excepting the Communist paper Kol Haam
and Al Hamishmar, organ of the Mapam, left-wing Socialist party, welcomed Israel's
support of the United Nation's Security C ouncil's stand on Korea.
Little enthusiasm, however, was displayed by newspapers supporting the govern-
ment. It was pointed out that Israel could not have acted differently, due to its mem-
bership in the UN and the fact that national interests compelled the decision.
Al Hamishmar reported the decision supporting the UN was taken "under severe
American pressure," only after UN Secret ary General Trygvie Lie cabled for the third
time for a reply from the Israel Foreign Office. The paper also reported that Mapam
was requesting a parliamentary debate on "the Government's reply to the request to
intervene in the Korean civil war."
Herut members also demanded such a debate, which was expected to flare up in
the parliament by the end of this week. following discussion of the government's reply
before the parliamentary committee for foreign affairs.
JWV Lauds U.S. Action
BOSTON—"The Jewish War Veterans of the United States wholeheartedly en-
dorse and support President Truman's prompt action in countei-ing the Communist
invasion of South Korea" asserted Jackson J. Holtz, national commander of the Jew-
ish War Veterans.
"America's refusal to countenance the terror un-
leashed by Communists in South Korea will bolster the
Shanghai Jews
structure of the United Nations and give new heart to
Land at Bremen
freedom-loving peoples every-where" he continued.
BA,EMEN, GERMANY —
The 106 Shanghai refugees
who arrived here this week
from the United States
after being held at Ellis
Island for several weeks
were greeted by the Mayor
of Bremen.
The repgees, most of
them Jews, will be trans-
ferred to a DP camp in
Lechfeld, Bavaria, About
50 of them expect to re-
turn as immigrants to the
United States, while 30 ex-
pressed - their wish to emi-
grate to Israel.
Deny Israel-Egypt Clash
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TEL AVIV—Israel military authorities denied a report
from Cairo that a clash had taken place between Israeli
and Egyptian military forces in the Gaza area.
An official spokesman explained that what actually
happened was the following : 'An Israeli patrol in the
border area lost its way and entered Egyptian territory.
The Egyptians opened fire and the patrol, realizing its
mistake, withdrew to Israel territory without casualties.
The report from Cairo said that "light" Israeli forces
with air cover crossed the Palestine armistice lines on
Friday and penetrated into an Arab village 20 miles south-
west of Gaza. The Israeli forces were drawn back by Egyp-
tian soldiers, the Cairo statement said.
ZOA Delegates Vote to Support
Autonomy of Local, World Units
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
CHICAGO—General satisfaction was expressed among delegates to the Zionist
Organization of America convention here, with the stand taken by the Israel Govern-
ment in support of President Truman's and the United Nations move against the
communist aggression in Korea.
One of the major convention resolution s declares that the Zionist Organization of
America continues "to uphold the constitutional independence of the World Zionist
Organization and its autonomy in determining its policies and administering its activi-
ties" and supports "with equal vigor the autonomy of various local and territorial
bodies functioning within the fromework o f the world Zionist structure."
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver made this significant declaration in his stirring address
to the convention: "The Government of Israel should make up its mind whether it
really wants a strong Zionist movement to carry on for a considerable time in the
future. It it does, then it will have to curb its own natural propensities towards
centralization."
He said that every economic consideration calls for the strengthening of the Zionist
Organization, not for the sake of the Zionists but for the sake of Israel. He urged the
strengthening of the American Zionist Council, the adoption of a program to make
every Zionist an investor in Israel and the realistic plan of American chalutziut.
A viewpoint differing from Dr. Silver was expressed by Ezra Shapiro of Cleveland
who declared that General Zionists should f eel free to give support to the operations
of all parties in Israel which inure to the g ood of the total Israel population.
He warned against "any attempt to c onvert this traditional policy and platform
of General Zionism into one which would coincide with that of any party represent-
ing solely the business interests in Israel, e specially such as are inclined to wage con-
stant and unceasing combat against the L abor Zionist parties, simply because they
are labor parties."
Shapiro maintained that essentially the masses of middle-class Jews in this country
are totally unconcerned with the specific, extrame ideologies of either the Labor Social-
ist parties or the religious parties.
Rabbi Irving Miller similarly disassociated himself with a policy which would
identify General Zionism with specific party ideologies.
Vice President Alben Barkley, addres sing the convention, expressed pleasure at
having been elected honorary chairman of the Jewish National Fund project to estab-
lish Kfar Truman in Israel. He said that "down in Kentucky we would call it Truman
Town." Ninety Zionist leaders from nearly all states who were guests of Fred Mon-
nosson of Boston at a luncheon honoring the Vice President, pledged nearly one million
dollars towards the Truman Town Project.
Mendel Fisher reported that 308 thousand dunams were allocated for 107 new vil-
lages in Israel by the Jewish National Fun d and that the JNF had collected 140 million
dollars for land redemption in the last 38 years.
(See Earlier ZOA Story, Page 2)