16—THE JEWISH NEWS

Shades of Vilification!

Friday, March 2, 1951

Notorious Rabbi Schultz
Gets Backing of Pegler

NEW YORK — (AJP) — The
controversy raging over the
Jewish anti-Red league grew in
scope as columnist - Westbrook
Pegler devoted a full laudatory
column to Rabbi Benjamin
Schultz, director of the Ameri-
can Jewish League Against
Communism, under attack by
America's major Jewish organ-
izations.
The organizationS, members
of the National Community Re-
lations Advisory Council, assail-
ed Rabbi Schultz for his recent
address in which the director of
the J e wish anti-Red league
termed Gen. Marshall and Adm.
Nimitz as unwitting "fall guys"
in the pro-Communist network.

The Treason of FDR

Pegler told readers' that he
thought they would "like to be-
come acquainted with Rabbi
Schultz who has suffered so
much for his opposition to the
creeping treason which became
systematic in our government
under Franklin, Delano Roose-
velt."
Pegler, who recently attacked
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith, turned in the same
column to assail "organizations
which profess to fight 'intoler-
ance' and anti-Semitism." He
termed the Anti-Nazi League a
"durable old fake" which has
"made a lot of unpleasantness
for Jews by . whipping up scares,
ostensibly in their interests."
Earlier, AJLAC national chair-
man, Alfred Kohlberg, charged
that the "large staffs" of Ameri-
ca's major national Jewish or-
ganizations, members of the Na-
tional Community Relations Ad-
visory Council, contained "a
certain number of Communist
Party members" and "a vast
majority of either strong or
mild sympathizers with Commu-
nism."

Six Page Rebuttal

Kohlberg's rebuttal was con-
tained in a printed six-page
pamphlet entitled "A Letter to
Members of the American Jew-
ish League Against CoMmunism
From the National Chairman."
Upwards of 100,000 reprints of
Kohlberg's statement, it was
learned, are scheduled for mail-
ing to prominent Jewish coni-

Red Cross Starts
Drive for $408,000

The 1951 Red Cross fund cam-
paign for Detroit Chapter and
its 21 Wayne county branches
was opened with a kick-off lun-
cheon Thursday at Hotel Book
Cadillac.
The campaign will continue
through the month of March
for a goal of $408,000, to com-
plete the chapter's quota of $1,-
665,000. A total of $1,257,000 was
subscribed for the Red Cross
during the Torch drive last fall,
in which Detroit Chapter par-
ticipated on a limited basis.
Detroit's March drive is part
of a nation-wide Red Cross cam-
paign, in which more than 3,700
chapters, covering every city and
county in the United States, are
participating. The national goal
for 1951 is $85,000,000.

Australian Jewry Urges
Ban on Volksdeutsche

Direct JTA Teletype Wires
to The Jewish News

munity leaders and League
members. The statement will not
be released to the general press,
however.
In his rebuttal, Kohlberg
charged that the "NCRAC rush-
es to denounce anti-Communist
statements, never pro-Commti-
fist statements. He told mem-
bers of the organization that
the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith and the American
Jewish Committee had conduct-
ed a "vilification of the AJLAC"
during a three-year period.
Late in 1950, Kohlberg said,
employees of the American Jew-
ish Committee called an Rabbi
Schultz "hinted our League
should close, and a good posi-
tion could be created for Rabbi
Schultz on the AJC staff."
Kohlberg attributed NCRAC's
hostility toward AJLAC to a
number of factors, including
their dislike for competition;
large staffs of the organization
contained "a certain number of
Communists," etc.
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Silver Shuns Dinner
Honoring Indicted Red

NEW YORK,
(AJP)—Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, a leader in
the Zionist movement and ac-
tive on the Jewish American
scene withdrew as honorary
chairman and featured speaker
at a scheduled testimonial din-
ner honoring Dr. W. E. B. Du--
bois, indicted leader of the
Communist-dominated "peace"
movement in the United States.

`Always a Cohen.,' Flier
Says Being Jewish
Was Never a Disability

LONDON, (JTA)—Wing Com-
mander Lionel Cohen may be
76 years old, but he has lost
none of the fire and dash he
showed 11 years ago when he
volunteered as an air gunner in
the Royal Air Force.
Cohen first saw service in the
Matebele War of 1893. He was
in the Boer War and two World
Wars. Last week he told a Jew-
ish war veterans' dinner:
"My name is Cohen and it
has always been Cohen. I have
served in the Royal Marines,
the Army and the Royal Air
Force and I have never found
that being a Jew was a dis-
ability in the services."
He told the veterans that Is-
rael would find a true friend in
Britain and perhaps final solu-
tion of her difficulties by join-
ing the British Commonwealth.

UN Radio Station Has
First Hebrew Program

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(AJP)—The first language to
be put on the air last week
as radio studios were inaug-
urated in this new metropol-
itan skyscraper headquarters
of the United Nations, was
the language of the Book
which preached brotherhood
of man.
A Hebrew-language script
directed to Israel and the
Middle East was the first
scheduled broadcast of the
UN radio, an accredited cor-
respondent of "Kol Yisrael,"
the Voice of Israel, Moshe
Meczini, devoted a program
to the UN World Economic
Report issued last week.

'The Wall' Cancelled

Women's Division Plans One-Day
Allied Campaign Effort April 29

But New U. S. Film
Glorifies Rommel

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON—The nation's
picture industry is being geared
to State Department efforts to
revive German military power
as indicated by the production
of "The Desert Fox," a film
which will do much to glorify
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel. Another indication is the
cancellation of the filming of
"The Wall," a story of the anti-
Nazi battle waged by the heroic
Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Selznick film interests,
purchasers of the film rights of
John Hersey's saga of Polish
Jewry, decided against produc-
ing such an anti-Nazi film,
When our government is mov-
ing heaven and earth to re-arm
Germany and jail doors are
being thrown open for S.S. offi-
cers and concentration camp
commanders, it is not consider-
ed desirable to remind the
world of Nazi atrocities by a
film such as "The Wall." On the
other hand, our young men will
soon be marching side by side
with unrepentant Nazis and a
film like "The Desert Fox" will
serve the purpose of showing
that German generals are really
not such bad guys.
Objections to this trend are
met with the explanation that
German cooperation is needed
to save Western Europe from
Communism. Therefore, if you
oppose the revival of a German
military machine, official Wash-
ington might check your loyalty
file to see if you ever had lunch
with a Communist.
Who was the Nazi, Rommel,
who is now called "The Gen-
eral's General?" He is described
by Field Marshal Earl Wavell
as "among the chosen few,
among the very brave, the very
true." British Field Marshal
Auchinleck salutes Rommel "as
a soldier and a man." Desmond
Young, a war-time British brig-
adier, wrote the popular bio
graphy, "Rommel, The Desert
Fox," which is being made into
a movie by 20th-Century Fox.
Young gratuitously said, accord-
ing to "Time" magazine, that he
just can't help liking German
generals.
Everyone seems to have for-
gotten that it was Rommel who
admired Hitler, trained the Hit-
ler Youth and who was hand-
picked to command Der Fuhrer's
personal bodyguard.
Rommel's loyalty to the Nazi
cause never wavered but he
joined the bomb plot against
Hitler. Rommel was a true Nazi,
Hale found. He joined the bomb
plot against Hitler because of
frustration over the Normandy
strategy. Even after his role in
the plot was discovered and he
committed suicide, Rommel was
honored by Hitler with a state
funeral. Hitler ordered a mon-
ument built in Rommel's mem-
ory. Hollywood is helping to
carry out that wish of Hitler.

'Oliver Twist' Cut by Censors
Before Showing to U. S. Public
NEW YORK (AJP) — Nearly

one-tenth of the controversial
motion picture "Oliver Twist"
was sliced by the Breen Depart-
ment, reducing the character
Fagin to the role of a somewhat
secondary villain before the
British film received approval
from the Motion Picture Asso-
ciation of America for exhibi-
tion in the United States.

MELBURNE — Ben G r e e n,
president of the executive coun-
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When the Women's Division stages its one-day drive for the
1951 Allied Jewish Campaign on Sunday, April 29, the secretaries
to the vice-chairmen of general solicitation will have a big job on
their hands at the State Fair _Grounds headquarters. Left to
right the secretaries are: Seated, Mesdames Mark Dale, Milton
Sorock, Donald Schiller, Ellis Fisher; standing, Morey Rosenthal,
Harry Winkelman and H. R. Nathan.
With 24 divisions in general solicitation for the Women's Di-
vision this year, each of the six vice-chairmen under Mrs. Sidney
J. Karbel, chairman of general solicitation, will be responsible for
four divisions.
Vice-chairmen, under who're the secretaries serve, include
Mesdames Benjamin Coggan, David S. Diamond, Herbert Frank,
Arthur I. Gould, Emil D. Rothman and Raymond A. Sokolov,

Daniel Persky's Latest Book

Reviewed by Bernard Isaacs

TZEHOK ME'ERETZ ISRAEL. (The Hu-
morous Side of Israel). By Daniel
Persky. Futuro Press, New York.

American - Hebrew Literature
has been enriched with a new
book by the veteran Hebrew
author, Daniel Persky. This
book, with a deluxe binding, has
original engravings by Luba .
Krugman-Gordos.
The book contains 266 pages
and is divided into three parts.
The first part deals with Tel
Aviv, the second with the coun-
try in general, the third with in-
teresting types he has met in
Israel. While the book, as im-
plied by the title, deals with the
lighter aspects of life in Israel,
there are serious articles, al-
though written, in Persky's usual
light vain.

Mobilization for Work

Mr. Persky describes how the
high school pupils of Tel Aviv
are being mobilized for work on
the farm to assist in the gath-
ering of the crop. He tells of the
joy of the children upon leaving
the school desks and being rush-
ed in trucks and buses to var-
ious points in Israel. He depicts
the parents and their joy in see-
ing their off-springs on such an
important patriotic m i s s i o n.
This incident is illustrative of
the effort made in Israel to cre-
ate a bond between the city and
the country.

Former Freiheit Editor
Labels Iwo, 'Communist'

NEW YORK (AJP)—A one-
time editor of the left-wing
Yiddish newspaper "Freiheit"
and now city editor of the larg-
est Yiddish daily in the United
States, the Jewish Daily For-
ward, testified this week that
the International Workers Or-
der was "Communist controlled."
The editor, Simon Weber, ap-
peared in behalf of the State
Insurance Department's effort
in Supreme Court here to liqui-
date the 162,000-member frater-
nal benefit society. Weber de-
nied he was testifying to lend
support to an anti-IWO cam-
paign of editorials by the Daily
Forward.

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$4,000,000 Tewish Hospital
Opened in Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, (JTA) — The

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American Business Ventures

He tells of interesting at-
tempts which were made by
business people to introduce
American business venture s.
One of them is an Automat—a
restaurant where you drop a coin
and get your food. It did not
succeed. People came to see it,
and for curiosity sake, • dropped
a coin and got a hot cup of
coffee, but as a business ven-
ture in failed. You need a dif-
ferent type of tempo to eat in
an Automat. Tel Aviv is a trifle
too slow for that. Another en-
terprise which failed is a self-
weighing scale. In this case it
failed for an obvious reason. In-
stead of giving your weight
on the scale itself or on a card,
a record which announced the
weight loud enough for all to
hear. Naturally, nobody wants
to advertise his weight.
An interesting incident is what
he calls "Children's Revolt".
There was a celebration f o r
school children in the Beth-Am
in Tel Aviv. The famous author,
Asher Barash, delivered a talk
and the well-known Br o c h a
Zefirah entertained them with
some of her songs, and then an
actor recited a chapter of the
prophet Ezekiel, but he recited
it without a cap. The children
protested—they yelled that they
didn't want the Bible read with-
out a hat and they shouted him
down.
T h e Hebrew reader will be
richly rewarded if he will spend
a few hours in the company of
Daniel Persky as he strolls
through Israel.

—WE'VE COME TO
YOU, THERE'S
AN ARAB RAIDING GUNS,
PARTY APPROACHING TO THERE
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DO YOUHAVE), NO
SOLDIERS H ERE-
GUNS?

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Jewish community here cele-
brated the opening of Mt. Sinai
Hospital, a 200-bed institution
constructed at a cost of $4,000,-

The author als o describes
many interesting trips in the
company of scientists, to study
archeological discoveries.
The author fairly effervesces
with joy when he talks of his
walks in the streets of Tel Aviv,
and he sees that one street is
called Lo Zu Haderech, which
is the title of the first essay by
Achad Haam, meaning '"this is
not the right way", or when a
a department store is named
"Hephzibah," "Here I find all I
desire."

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