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THE JEWISH NEWS
incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20. 1951
Member: American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co, 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26. Mich., WO. 5-1155.
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Entered ac second class matter Aug. 6, 1942. at Post Office. Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
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SIONEY SHMARAK
FRANK SIMONS
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Adve•tisIng Manager
City Editor
Editor and Publisher
Vol. XXII—No. 26
March 6, 1953
Page 4
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twentieh day of Adar, 5713, the following Scriptural selections will be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 30:11-34:35: Prophetical portion, I Kings 18:1-39.
Licht Benshen, Friday, March 6, 5:32 p.m.
Genocide: To Invoke it We MUST Approve the Pact
There is a sad note in the planned Ameri-
can protest against. Soviet anti-Semitism.
While many responsible leaders have called
upon our government to invoke the United
Nations Genocide Pact in condemning the
Communist attempt to purge Jews who are
trapped behind the Iron Curtain, they have
overlooked the fact that this . country has
obstinately abstained from approving the
Genocide Convention. We have therefore
placed obstacles in the UN's path of enforc-
ing it and of preventing mass murder of
peoples.
Governor Theodore R. McKeldin of Mary-
land, in his stirring address at the Miami
Beach Israel bond conference, proposed the
invoking of the UN Genocide Convention as
the first in a four-point program of action
in defense of oppressed Jews. Apparently he
did not know that the very men who propa-
gate action against genocide in Russia are
responsible for delay in enforcing the UN de-
cisions against mass murders.
Senators Taft, Ives and many others who
have spoken in strong terms in condemna-
tion of Russia's latest anti-Semitic outbursts
are, regrettably, among those who signed
the resolution proposed by Senator Bricker
in opposition to the Genocide Convention.
The American Bar Association's opposition
to the genocide act is directly responsible. for
the failure of the United States Senate to
concur in UN decisions.
There is an unfortunate inconsistency in
the issues involving crimes behind the Iron
Curtain. On the one hand, the Bricker
Resolution opposing the genocide pact charg-
es that. the 1_7N seeks "to interfere in mat-
ters essentially within the domestic juris-
diction of its members." On the other hand,
there are attempts to arouse public indig-
nation against the atrocities in Communist
countries.
Jews are not the only people whose ex-
istence is threatened . in Communist coun-
tries. The fate of many groups may be sealed,
unless the democratic nations take a strong
stand against genocide—and the only way An Affirmation of Faith
to do it is by cooperating with the United
Nations rather than hindering it. It is not
too late for the United States Senate to take
a firm stand in support of the Genocide Con-
vention. It is an urgently needed step in the
There is powerful affirmation of faith in "A Reporter In
',direction of repudiating Russia's anti-Semi- Search of God," the study of many peoples' thoughts on religion,
tism and of preventing mass purges of inno- made by the veteran newspaperman, Howard Whitman.
This interesting book, published by Doubleday (575 Madison,
cent people.
'A Reporter's Search of God'
USSR's Objective: Quest for Oil and Arab Favors
There is much speculation over Russia's
objectives which have motivated her attacks
on Jews, Zionism and Israel and her break-
ing relations with the Jewish state. There
is general agreement that the currying of
Arab favors is an important factor in the
new political game. There undoubtedly are
other reasons for Russia's actions, and one
of them is the Corninform's resentment of
the strong ties that have been knit between
Israel and the United States.
Virgil Pinkley, the publisher of the Los
Angeles Mirror, in a signed editorial, ex-
pressed the view that Russia's acts are aimed
at oil. Mr. Pinkley stated:
One of the cheapest, meanest tricks em-
ployed by a ruthless dictatorship when in
difficulties is to attack a race or minority.
We are witnessing such a maneuver now by
Russia. The Reds are threatening the young
Republic of Israel. Simultaneously, purges are
being carried out against Jews behind the iron
curtain.
The main objective is to win over to Rus-
sia's side the Arab states of the Middle East.
This is being done to try and gain access to
oil possessed by these countries. Approxi-
mately 42 percent of all the world's known oil
supplies is located in Arab lands. Russia and
her satellites have only 7 percent. We and
Canada possess 37 ,h percent and the Latin
Amei-ican countries about 12 % percent.
Modern wars are fought largely on petro-
leum, steel, and atomic weapons or energy.
11 Russia hopes to fight and win a global con-
flict, she must gain access to greatly in-
creased quantities of oil. It is doubtful if
sufficient supplies could be stockpiled. The
best statistics available indicate that t he
Soviets need most of the current production
to meet everyday requirements, already
largely devoted to building up a military
machine.
So when the Russians persecute Jews in
Poland or Czechoslovakia it is a sinister move
in a drive to gain oil. Jews are being used as
h u in a n pawns in this cold-blooded a n d
shocking game. But for years the Kremlin has
employed any and all means, fair or foul, to
win desired ends. These include complete
mastery over all men, mentally and spiritually
as well as physically.
Moscow is in a powerful position because
there are approximately 2,500,000 Jews in
Russia alone. If, in addition, the Soviets can
line up the Arab world against Israel, a
gigantic squeeze play could be effected.
In watching Communist moves in Western
Europe and the Middle East, keep two top
Kremlin objectives in mind:
1. To gain control of the Rhine and the
Ruhr with their tremendous industrial output.
2. Oil.
So desperate are the Communist bosses for
oil that they will gamble even to the point of
war. If they feel the Jews can be used as
whipping boys they will not hesitate. Like-
wise, if conditions on the homefront become
more serious and the attention of dissatisfied
peoples can be focused against the Jews, they
will do so.
Pray that when real peace comes to the
world there will be an elimination of unjus-
tified attacks against races, groups, or creeds.
NY22), delves into the thinking of men and women in many
walks of life. Scientists, factory workers, clergymen, rabbis and
people in other spheres were interviewed and gave interesting
opinions.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver offered a definition: "God is the
thinking and creating mind of the universe. He is the source of
all its laws, physical and spiritual. The `universe is a manifesta-
tion of God." In the chapter "Does it Do Any Good to Pray?",
Dr. Silver gave another interesting opinion: "In prayer you link
yourself with the source of all spiritual strength. You are not
alone in the world. You dwell where God is."
Dr Barnett R. Brickner, another prominent Cleveland rabbi,
is a bit pessimistic. Religion, he told Whitman, "has grown too
static . • Too many of our clergy have been peddling the trap-
pings of religion, not the essence. The trappings will not help
people. Only the essence will."
Dr. Albert Einstein spoke differently: "The most beautiful
thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, i3
as good as dead: his eyes are closed .. ."
Mr. Whitman probes Judaism's attitude on the afterlife, the
'different viewpoints of the Orthodox and Reform rabbis. In his
essay on "God and Psychiatry" he calls attention to the teaching
of pastoral psychiatry at Hebrew Union College.
The author finds faith to be an affirmation, "the light toward
which the men and women of our time are groping . . . the bread
of their heart hunger . • the safe port of their drifting skiff.*
He has compiled a most unusual set of views and has combined
them into a layman's truly magnificent study of religion, prayer
and the belief in God.
There is no doubt that there is a great
deal of truth in this contention. There also
is the possibility that Russia would like to
prevent oil and mineral prospecting in Israel,
especially in view of the friendship that exists
between Israel and the United States, one
of Russia's chief challengers in the UN. Com-
munist Russia also has an eye on church
properties in Israel, title to which originally
was in the name of the Czars.
'The Return to the Soil'
The USSR's chief aim is, clearly, to cur-
ry favor with the Arabs not only for their
oil but also in order to gain control of the
Middle East. This country will no doubt see
to it that this does not materialize, but it is
From Jerusalem comes a most interesting book—Alex Bein'
to be hoped that whatever action is taken
will not be in the form of counter-currying "The Return to the Soil," published by the Youth and Hechalutz
Department of the Zionist Organization.
of Arab favor at Israel's expense.
The name Alex Bein will be recognized as that of the author
of the fine biography on Theodor Herzl. His newest work is no
Israel remains the leading ally of the less important. It is basically a history of the land redemption
United States in the Middle East. With movement and the colOnization efforts in Israel.
Turkey, Israel stands out as the leading con-
Originally written in 1935, at the request of the late Dr.
tender for democratic principles in that area. Arthur Ruppin, it has appeared in translations from the Hebrevf
It is in this country's best interests that this in Hungarian, Dutch and English. The able author kept on adding
status be perpetuated. This is the task to chapters to it—during the 1936 Arab riots under the title "Tower
which Jews and their friends must exert all and Stockade," describing the struggle of those trying years;
others in 1945, after World War II; later ones upon the procla-
their influence in the days ahead.
mation of Israel's independence, and now we have the complet6
The firm stand taken by the United story, as of the end of 1952, in the translation from the Hebrew
States Senate against the persecution of by Israel Schen.
Return to the Soil" is most enlightening because it is
Jews and other minorities in Communist most The
factual. It delves into the early beginnings of Jewish set-
countries; the _ declaration of Henry Cabot tlement in Eretz Israel, describes at length the 1908-1914 experi-
Lodge, Jr., chief United States delegate to mental period and proceeds to outline the transition period of
the UN, that our country had "observed with 1918-21, the agricultural era and the Fourth Aliyah period that
indignation the persecution of Christians, followed, the dangerously explosive years 1929-36, leading up to
Moslems and Jews that has been taking the struggle for Statehood.
The value of this work lies in the facts about Jewry's return
place in the Soviet Union for some time";
and numerous similar declarations in pro- to the soil, gathered by an expert, the intimate evaluation of
share in this great achievement by Jewry's leaders, and the
test against recent happenings, should go a the
history of the Zionist movement inevitably resulting *
long way in checking further discriminatory virtual
from the author's compilation.
acts. Prompt action by spokesmen for the
The list of Jewish settlements, which can be traced on the
world's democracies should serve to check appended map; the important dates in the history of Jewish
the onslaughts on innocent peoples whose settlement; the bibliography of valuable books—these add to the
very existence has been endangered by the significance of the book as history, as the product of thorough
Soviets.
research.
Thrilling Study of Israel's
Progress in Colonization