How Long Will This Go on ?
THE JEWISH NEWS
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Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of Jul?) ZO. 7951
Member' American Association al English-Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 708-10 David Stott 131dg., Detroit 26. Mich., WO. 5-1155
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Entered as second class matter Aug b. 1942. at Post Office, Detroit. Mich.. under Act of March 3, 1879
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
SIDNEY SHMARAK
it.dve , tising Manager
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
June 26, 1953
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VOL. XXIII. No. 16
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the fourteenth day of Tammuz, 5713, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Nunn. 22:2-25:0. Prophetical portion--Micah 5:6-6:8.
Scriptural Selections for Fast of • Tarnrnuz, Tuesday
Pentatenchal portions—Ea:. 32:11-14; 34:1-10. Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.
Licht Benshen, Friday, June 26, 7:12 p.rn.
The Continuing German DP Camp Problem
Near Munich, a camp named Foehren-
1,vald still houses 2,000 Jewish survivors from
Nazism. German officials have asked for
its liquidation,, but the director of Joint Dis-
tribution affairs in Germany, Samuel Haber,
has indicated during his brief stay in this
Country that the camp cannot be closed until
all the DPs housed there are enabled to emi-
grate abroad or to find suitable employment.
The Foehrenwald DPs represent only a
remnant of the survivors, nevertheless they
remain a symbol of that age of horror which
has given rise to displaced human beings.
Because of the "hard core" cases—the exist-
ence of at least one person in each Foehren-
wald DP family who is barred from normal
resettlement channels because of ill health-
, the position of these 2,000 people is Pre-
carious.
Of special interest in Mr. Haber's state-
ment is his estimate that under newly-spon-
sored Eisenhower-supported legislation to
admit 240,000 Europeans to the United States
in the next two years, several hundred fami,
Lies living in Foehrenwald would become eli-
gible for settlement in the United States.
While it was believed hitherto that Jewish
DPs would not be helped by the present
U. S. Administration's new proposals, Mr.
Haber has indicated the existence of a ray
of hope for the survivors from Nazism.
Unfortunately, latest reports from
Washington are to the effect that there is
little hope either for action on President
Eisenhower's request for the emergency
admission of 240,000 Europeans or for re-
vision of the McCarran-Walter Act—and
the plight of Foehrenwald DPs and others
who might have been helped continues.
Thus, another ray of hope is being ex-
tinguished.
But the total solution is not an easy one.
Last year several hundred Foehrenwald
refugees were assisted in emigrating to the
United States, Canada and Israel, but an in-
flux of returnees from Israel' and elsewhere
has kept the camp full. Sweden and Norway
have helped resettle a number of the DPs
and some of. them have been integrated in
the GerMany economy, but the entire group
must to to look for solution to its prob-
lem to the Joint Distribution Committee,
which operates with funds of the United
Jewish Appeal, a beneficiary of the Detroit
Allied Jewish campaign.
Irrational Map Study: State Dept. vs. Israel
Irrational and unjust exhibitions of a
map, aimed by the State Department to show
the differences between the proposed UN
partition area and the present boundaries
of Israel, point to the -unending animosity
displayed by some members of
U. S. State
Department towards Israel.
the martyrs and the victims who survived
Such a map was displayed before the
House Foreign Affairs Committee by Arthur
Z. Gardiner, politico-economic adviser of the
State Department's Near Eastern Division,
who raised many points against Israel, stat-
ing inter. alia:
CYPRUS
Now if you listen to the Israeli propa-
ganda line—and let us call it that because
that is what it is — they show how they
doubled and trebled production . . r but any-
body with two eyes in his head can go
through Israel and See abandoned orange
groves and see other abandoned lands that
are not cultivated."
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Those who have studied Israel's economic
conditions know that this is a false issue. We
are yet to locate an assertion, anywhere, to
the effect that Israel has claimed all of , its
land to be under cultivation. The fact is that
Israel needs assistance and encouragement
because there are large stretches of unculti-
vated soil, but there is need for large sums
of money for the building of homes for new-
comers and for their integration in the
"abandoned" areas.
It has never been denied that lands
abandoned by Arabs, who fled from Pales-
tine unwisely, at the instigation of their
leaders who had told them that eventually
they would return to take everything from
the Jews, remain uncultivated. To correct the
shortcoming, aid is vitally needed.
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There may even be much truth in the
charge made by Technical Cooperation Ad-
ministrator Stanley. Andrews that Israel's
new settlers "just do not know how to farm";
and to the interjection of Rep. Francis P.
Bolton of Ohio that these newcomers "are
interested in busineSs . . . the orchards were
good when the Arabs owned them." But it
is necessary that the status of the newcom-
ers, who have fled from - persecution, should
be taken into consideration.
The world dare not forget that six mil-
lion people were murdered by the Nazis
only a few years ago. The democracies
fought a war to end Nazism. To forget
the German terror would mean a revival
of the spirit of destruction which had des-
cended upon the world under Hitlerian
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Belated Tribute to Heinrich Heine;
Eminent Poet's View of 'The Bible'
An American Jewish
Press
Feature
Heinrich Heine's poems are sung throughout Germany. The
honorable people who speak German—in and out of that land—
credit him with ;ais great works. The Nazis either reject his writ-
ings or are using them anonymously..
Kaiser Wilhelm II refused to honor Heine because the poet,
who was born a Jew, opposed the monarch's nationalist extremism.
Heine's works were barred and burned by Nazis..
But last month the statue of a -female, entitled "Harmony"
was presented to the German city of Dusseldorf as a memorial to
Heine. His name survives his maligners, who know that the man
who was born a Jew but who was baptized nevertheless retained
an affection for Jewish values, as is indicated in this piece he
wrote on "The Bible":
"The Bible, what a book! Large and wide as.the world, based
on the abysses of creation, and peering aloft into the blue secrets
of heaven; sunrise and sunset, promise and fulfilment, birth and
death, the whole drama of humanity are contained in this one
book. It is the book of God. The Jews may readily be consoled
at the loss of Jerusalem, and the Temple, and the Ark of the
Covenant, and all the crown jewels of King Solomon. Such for-
feiture is as naught when weighed against the Bible, the indes-
structible treasure that they have saved. That one book is to the
Jews their country, theL: possessions—at once their ruler and their
weal and woe. Within the well-fenced boundaries of that book
they live and have their being; . they enjoy their alienable citizen-
ship; are strong to admiration; thence none can dislodge theno..
Absorbed in the perusal of their sacred book, they little heeded
the changes that were wrought in the real world around them.
Nations rose and vanished, states flourished and decayed, revolu-
tions raged throughout the earth—but they, the Jews, sat poring
over this book, unconscious of the wild chase of time that rushed
on above their heads."
This explanation is in order: the above was written long be-
fore the rebirth of Israel, in days of trials and tribulations, when
Jews suffered humiliations and the Bible was their guide and
protector.
Palestine's New U Truce Chief
By ARTHUR. LEWIS
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guidance. Jewish efforts in and for Israel
mean a repudiation of Nazi ideologies.
We are primarily disturbed, however, by
the State Department official's display of
the map intended to show that Israel has
robbed territory. Let us look at the facts and
at the map. Study this true picture:
Here is a factual picture. Amidst a vast
territory owned by Arabs — the combined
enemies who surround Israel—the little Jew-
ish state possesses an infinitesimal piece of
land which is being begrudged them. And
this is called humanitarianism! We had
hoped for a more just and a more human
approach by our State Department:
Fortunately, Congress is more fair. The
traditional policy of American friendship for
Israel is being perpetuated by the latest ac-
tions, as incorporated in the Mutual Security
Act. Under these conditions, even the hard-
headed and hard-hearted State Department
officials may be expected to become more
realistic and a bit kinder towards the strug-
gling Israelis.
The majority of Michigan's members
of Congress supported the Mutual Secur-
ity Act, assuring that $65,000,000 — an
amount equal to last year's—will be al-
located for assistance. Thus, our country's
traditional friendship for Israel continues
without interruption.
(Copyright, 1953, Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS=Israeli delegates here welcomed the ap-
pointment of Major General Vajn Bennike as chief of staff of
the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine.
At the same time, they are sorry to see Lieut. Gen.:William
E. Riley of the United States leave as they have always considered
him a very honest and fair mediator; at no time did the Arabs
hide their dislike for General Riley, but that would be typical of
them for they could not stand anyone impartial. Their morality,
or lack of it, was shown in the local commanders agreement;
within 12 hours of its being signed, ai=med infiltrators from Jordan
killed a farmer in Tirat Yehuda, a village two and a half miles
from Lod Airport.
General Bennike, 65, son of a former Lieut. Colonel of the
Danish Army, led the life oft, an officer ; rising steadily through
the ranks, until he reached the rank of his father at the time
of the Second World War. He served mainly in units of the en-
gineering and telegraph corps, and is a leading military engineer,
having on several occasions taught military engineering in Den-
mark and abroad.
As the Danish newspaper, Berlingske Tidende, reported at . the
time of his appointment to head the truce supervision organiza-
tion, General Bennike is best remembered as the leader of the
resistance against the Germans in Denmark. He organized the
sabotage of the railway lines in Jutland during 1944 and 1945,
and he was so successful at this, causing so much havoc for the
German army of occupation, that the Nazis put a high pride on
his head.
When the war ended, he was made a Major General, an ex-.
ceptionally high rank in the Danish 'Arm
y, and was appointed
the military commander of the Jutland-FUrnen area, which is half
of Denmark. The following year,' he was named the chief of his
own unit, the engineering corps; shortly afterwards, he rea0ed
retirement age and left active service, HoWever, his ability and
special knowledge were still required and he served as an instrUe-
tor for the Danish Home Guard in railway and land mine, explo-
sion techniques.