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Powerful Novel Contains
Plea for Jewish Rights

WA's C-Day

"C" stands for Cash in the special appeal
issued by the United Jewish Appeal for im-
mediate payment of pledges to the cause of
Israel's upbuilding and the rescue of oppress-
ed Jews from Eastern Europe and Moslem
countries. The more than 60,000 volunteers
who are expected to participate in the "C-
Day" efforts are being mobilized under the
banner: "See the Job Through With Cash."
It is a rather mild appeal, considering the
difficulties that are being encountered by
the Jewish state and by the liberation forces
which are striving to continue the large-scale
transfer of Jews from Iraq, Romania, Tripo-
litania and other countries to Israel. Only a
week ago, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European
director of the Joint Distribution Committee,
issued a warning in Paris that JDC's re-
settlement and emigration program may be
forced to a sudden halt because funds allo-
cated for the rest -of 1950 will be exhausted
this week and that this "may cause 75,000
Jews in Romania, Poland and Iraq to lose
their chance of emigrating to Israel."
With prospects of rescuing the remaining
Jews in Europe and Asia constantly dimin-
ishing, the future holds forth horrible as-
pects. Dr. Schwartz made this important
point: "With three months still to go and
thousands clamoring for emigration aid, a
crisis situation has developed, caused by
JCD's inability to pay for further emigration.
If the funds are forthcoming, a decent future
is assured for tens of thousands of human
beings whose destinies we control, but if 'we
do not get the response we hope and pray
for, it means their final catastrophe."
The outstandinc, pledges of the UJA,
which is served in Detroit by the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, stand between continuation of
humanitarian efforts and the danger of ca-
tastrophe. Therefore the "C-Day" efforts as-
sume greater importance today than any
other campaign collection efforts of the past
years.
All response should be utilized on "C-
Day"—on Sunday—to gather in the funds
that are due to the UJA through our Allied
Jewish Campaign. Surely, every Detroit
contributor will wish to have a share in pre-
venting catastrophe.

'Social Laboratory'

Dr. Earl J. McGrath, United States Com-
missioner of Education, in his report on the
acute problems facing Israel in the educa-
tional field, stated that his impression of the
infant state was that it must place emphasis
on vocational training.
Reporting on his study of conditions in
the Jewish state, Dr. McGrath emphasized
that the policy of inviting unlimited immi-
gration is proving a great strain on the state,
in education as well as national economy.
His education survey, which is to be followed
up by an American educational mission to
Israel in the early spring, at Israel's request,
is expected to establish closer cultural rela-
tions between this country and the Jewish
state and American experiences should prove
very helpful to the builders of an oasis in
the neglected area of the Middle East.
Dr. McGrath clearly caught the spirit
of Israel, if we are to judge by this summary
of his over-all impressions: "Israel seems to
me to be a social laboratory of the first
order. If I were a young social or political
student, Jewish or non-Jewish, I would want
to go to Israel for a year or two.". This ex-
plains why some students are craving for
such an_opportunity and also why Israel so
eagerly welcomes participants in its program
from this country. Pioneers to Israel from
this country are good for Israel and at the
same time benefit from their experiences.

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Vol. XVIII—No. 24

Page 4

October 6, 1950

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-sixth day of Tishri,
5711, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 1:1-6:8.
Prophetical portion—Is. 42:5-43:10.
On Wednesday and Thursday, Rosh Hodesh
Heshvan, Num. 28:1-15 will be read during
morning services.

In order fully to understand the importance
of Fritz von Unruh's "The Saint," (published bY
Random House, 457 Madison, New York 22), ii
is necessary to know the background of the
author. There is a "Jewish angle" in the book!
which was ably translated by/Willard R. Trask
The author, whose book is described as "a novel
of sacred and profane love amid the pageantry
and splendor of the Renaissance," is a poet
playwright and novelist "whose ancestors for 30(
years served the Prussian government as gener-
als and high ranking officials" and who "today
is among the leading intellectuals fighting fol
the cause of democracy." Dr. Albert Einsteir,
said that "Fritz von Unruh is in truth an in-
spiring model for all mankind" and that he
knows "only a few such people—a very few, whc
have so completely overcome their innate preju
dices and who have, so devotedly, in the face 9,1
the greatest sacrifices, giVen themselves un-
selfishly to the services of their newly won under
standing of mankind."

_ This is the author whose story deals with
dramatic action in the 14th century, with pagan-
ism and profanity, with church and politics. The
two chief characters are Saint Catherine of Si-
ena, who tells the story in the first person, and
Niccolo Toldo, the pagan painter whom she loves;
There is dramatic action throughout the story
which ends in Toldo's death, in spite of Cathl
erine's heroic efforts to save him. The story in
volves the attempt of the Siennese to prevent l
transfer of the Blessed Shroud of Golgotha
Gen. Wladyslaw Anders, rabid anti-Semite and reaction- the France.
Toldo ridicules the shroud, refers to
ary Polish militarist, has been welcomed to this country by to
it as "The most gigantic of superstitions."

A Dangerous Visitor

Dur government. Wearing the cloak of an anti-Communist,
his visit here assumes menacing proportions in view of his
past record which proves that his opposition to democratic
ideals is as much a part of his ideology as his stand against
Soviet Russia.
Our able Washington correspondent, Milton Friedman,
exposes his record as follows:

1. Before World War II, Anders attempted to unite all anti-
Semitic elements in Poland in a fascist-type political party.
2. After Poland's defeat, Stalin loaned Anders 300,000,000
rubles to equip a new Polish army. Anders moved his army to
Iran in August, 1942. Anti-Semitic feelings were encouraged
throughout the ranks. Anders made no secret of his prejudice.
In Anders' camp at Teheran the Jews were separated into a
ghetto. When 300 Jewish children were ready for evacuation to
Palestine, Anders' elite Poles pressured Iraqi authorities in an
attempt to block the children's journey.
3. Anders' army served in Italy as the Second Polish Corps
of the British Eighth Army. Anders freed thousands of Nazis
from allied prisoner of war camps under the pretext that they
were really Poles who had been forced into the German Army.
There was some question as to whether a great number had not
voluntarily joined Hitler and eagerly aided in the extermination
of Polish Jewry. The New York Herald Tribune reported in 1946
that 20 percent of Anders' army were Nazi veterans. Anders
provided a haven for Nazi war criminals and made them offi-
cers in his army. Among them were Roch Mankowski, com-
mander (lagerfuhrer) of the Nazi concentration camp at
Krems; Henryk Gutman, lagerfuhrer of torture camps in Aus-
tria; Dr. Wladyslaw Dering, named on the international list of
war criminals for his surgical experiments on living Jews at the
Auschwitz extermination camp; Henryk Szatkowski and Alexan-
der Prymak, Poles who aided Hitler and assisted in the massa-
cre-of Jews, and the Rev. Father I. Nahajewski, chaplain of the
Hitler Ukrainian S. S. Division "Galicia," a division credited in
Nazi archives with having "the time of their lives" killing thou-
sands of Jews.
4..."The full story" of what Anders did in Italy "is an ugly
one," said the New York Times in 1946. Anders terrified the
peasants, looted the countryside, and interfered in local politics.
Jewish refugees were beaten and killed. Anders' officers, in
addition to aiding fascists and Nazis, were involved in currency
manipulations and black marketeering which caused the Rome
government no end of trouble.
5. Refusing to disband, Anders moved his army to England.
Dispatches in the New York Post, Chicago Daily News, Chris-
tian Science Monitor, and the New York Herald Tribune attest
to Anders' black record in England. His thugs broke up Labor
party meetings, cooperated with Oswald Mosley's fascists, and
even "openly wore Hitler medals."
6. About 10,000 of Anders' officers and men showed up in
Palestine in 1947 to train and reinforce the Arabs. They mur-
dered a number of Jews at Rehovoth and elsewhere. The
Palestine Post and Reuters reported many such Anders
atrocities.
7. Anders was found to be closely linked with the anti-
Semitic group in Poland which carried out a series of post-war ,
pogroms which resulted in the murder of hundreds of Jews.
8. Merwin K. Hart, head of the anti-Semitic National Econ-
omic Council, in 1947 praised Anders' army.
9. This year a special provision was written into the dis-
placed persons law to admit 18,000 Anders men to the U. S. as
DPs. A number have arrived and refused to serve in the Ameri-
can Army, saying they came here as "political refugees." Rep.
Donald L. Jackson, R.-Calif., has introduced a bill which would
make possible the deportation of this element.
10. Anders was wined and dined at the Waldorf-Astoria
on Oct. 1 and will be otherwise honored by Polish-Americans
during this year's Pulaski Day celebration in New York City.
He will be principal Pulaski Day speaker and will be featured
in a parade and has been invited to address Georgetown Uni-
versity Oct. 13.

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Throughout the book, Catherine, "the be-1
trothed of Jesus," pleads for her lover, makes
appeals in defense of Jews, and there are some
strong statements throughout the story chalH
lenging Christian dogma. For instance, she is
deeply moved by Giacopo Viterbo, Toldo's Jewish
friend, and even tries later in the story to ac-J
company him to the Holy Land. There are long
discourses, Viterbo expressing the Jewish view.
And Catherine states: "My Jesus—when Viterbo
told me his experiences among the madfolk,
seriously asked myself whether we sane peopl€
were not living in a madhouse, while the mad-
folk talked perfect sense to one another up and
down the long corridors." And the following,
spoken by Catherine, after she sews the yellow
badge on Viterbo, is one of the most powerful
portions of the novel:
"Oh, Jesus, Signor Viterbo does not persecute
you . . . No, he does not persecute you, he IS
persecuted . . . The yellow patch that I sews
onto his cloak for him shines now as magically
as all these yellow buttercups here in the grass.1
Oh, Our Father in Heaven! Does the night
know whether a man is a Jew or a Christian?.
Does that bat care, or that owl? Or the wind in
the matted coat of the donkey which is carry-
ing Signor Viterbo to the, coast? No, nothing that
breathes and grows in this spring darkness either
knows or cares. Hares, rats and weasels whisk
past me. They are free to love and play in my
beautiful Italy. But this Israelite must leave you
forever, my Italy—because, as he told me. he
,wants once more before he dies to live in a
land where he is not despised."

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There is power on every page of this novel
which undoubtedly will be received with mixed
emotions. Whatever is said about it, in the final
analysis, the passionate appeals for justice for
the Jews stand out as daring assertions in a,
Christian novel.

Columbus Set the Pattern

By MAEANNA CHESTERTON-MANGLE

Did Columbus really "discover" America? TheI
idea has been challenged many times. Yet what
we do know is that the Santa Maria, the Nina,
and Pinta ventured into the unknown and made
history. We know, too, that these gallant crafts
were manned by a mixed crew of Italians, Moors,
Portuguese and Spaniards—Christians, Jews and
Mohammedans. In succeeding centuries, m11116118
more of every faith, race and country followed,
bringing what it took to make this America. _:
The name of Columbus ought to remind Us
that there is no easy road to success. It was
more than an inherent spirit of adventure that
carried hini through. Even his belief in an ideal
would not have been sufficient. He could not
have done it alone. He won because he and his
"mixed crew" laboured together against what
they must have felt were insurmountable odds.

More than four centuries later, the men'
who fought their way through the blood and.
muck of the Argonne and Chateau-Theiry, of
Anzio and Iwo Jima, did not have to be told
that they and their buddies must stand to-
gether lest they fall together. Today the same
holds good in the logging, battering struggle of
our early GIs in Korea. The casualty lists point
up the moral. George Webster, Soloman Resnik,
Jacinto Reinosi, James Donahue.
Today, the land that Columbus "discovered*
stands as a bulwark for the whole free world
Americans—a "mixed crew" of white and color - `,
ed, Protestant, Jew and Catholic, and proud gat
it—are the strong arms and heart that the world.
relies upon to safeguard freedom against the

Gen. Anders is a menace to our way of life and his ac-
tivities should be exposed wherever he may make an Ap-
pearance. Our own community has a large percentage of
Polish citizens with whom we desire to live in peace and
harmony. Their position is as much in danger from the
views held by Gen. Anders as is that of Jews and other
citizens. We sincerely hope, therefore, that the Poles will
take the lead in repudiating the anti-democratic ideas of
the Polish general. His itinerary may include Detroit and
we should be on guard lest he spread his venom against
Jews and liberal ideas while he is a guest of this free
community.
threat of Communist aggression.

