How Long Will This Go on ? THE JEWISH NEWS . 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 Subscription $4 a year. foreign $5. 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 Page 4 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." * 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. t)(4 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 TURKEY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA Alexandria - -:LEBANON Beirut Port Said f'i -Z'1 •Z' sr Ismailia ? „,.1-4:7) / ■ , A-. T \ I SAUDI ARABIA H I STOR I ETTE 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 SEA 100 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.