State Dept. Urges Senate Group
To Ratify Treaty with Israel
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sam-
uel C. Waugh, Assistant Secre-
tary of State for Economic Af-
fairs, urged a subcommittee of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to ratify a treaty of
friendship, commerce, and nav-
igation which was negotiated
some time ago with Israel along
with similar treaties with other
nations. Treaties now before the
subcommittee with Israel, Den-
mark, Greece, Ethiopia and Italy
were considered by the body at
the last session but were not
finally acted upon.
The Technical Cooperation
Administration announced that
a total of 80 persons, including
Americans and Israelis, are now
employed by TCA in Israel on
Point Four operations. Half of
this number represents Ameri-
can employees and the other
half are local workers. A sum-
mary of Point Four activities
showed that the TCA operations
include the expanding of agri-
,
cultural production, health, san-
itation, education and develop-
ment of natural resources.
Seven Arabs Killed
In Border Clashes
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Seven
infiltrees were killed, two
wounded and 16 arrested during
clashes with Israel border pat-
rols.
A military spokesman dis-
closed that a private car travel-
ling along a road in northern
Israel was fired upon by sev-
eral armed men who were then
seen to withdraw toward the
Lebanese border.
Israel will demand a meeting
of the Israeli-Lebanese Mixed
Armistice Commission to discuss
the incident, the sixth along the
Lebanese frontier in r e c e n t
weeks.
Purely Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVIT2
Hillaire Belloc's Anti-Jewish Attitudes
The recent death of 82-year-old Hillaire Belloc, the noted poet,
historian and novelist, who has been described as the "genially
pugnacious protagonist of the Catholic faith in English literature,"
revives interest in his Jewish attitudes which caused him to be
branded as an anti-Semite.
Belloc, who died from burns incurred when he fell into a fire-
place in his home at Guilford, England, professed friendship for
Jewry. But his writings belied his affirmations. In "The Jews,"
which appeared in three editions (1922, 1927, 1937) he made
simple statements which were intended as compliments but which
were, by the magic of his pen, transformed into weapons of hate.
Take this as an example:
Referring to Renan's charge that the Jews were not demo-
cratic, Belloc wrote: "The Jews are, as a fact, strongly demo-
cratic—no nation more so—in their national relations among
themselves; they • only appear undemocratic to us because they
openly look down on us among whom they live."
We say this is untrue : we preach and practice the democratic
ways of life. We do not high-hat anyone. But when a noted
writer gives us a left-handed compliment, attaching to it the
statement that we look down upon our neighbors, he instigates
hate for us. It is our conviction that he did just that in all his
writings.
His "The Battleground: Syria and Palestine" is a very schol-
arly work. He did, indeed, pay tribute in it to Jewish accomplish-
ments in the Holy Land. But it is evident that he was not confi-
dent about the ultimate triumph and that he was not convinced
about the justice of the Jewish cause. He was more certain
about Moslem opposition.
Rabbi Fram to Speak
On "Message of Israel"
Bermuda Bureau Charged With Usi* .
Code to identif,,T Tourists' Origin
Rabbi Leon Pram, of Temple
Israel, will deliver a series of
four successive radio sermons on
the coast-to-
coast broadcast,
"Message of Is-
rael." .
Beginning on
Aug. 2, Rabbi
Frain will speak
on the . general
topic "The Es-
sentials of the
Judaeo - Chris-.
tian . Tradition."
The program,
Rabbi Fram heard in Detroit
over Station WXYZ, at 10 a.m.,
each Sunday, is a public service
program sponsored by the Am-
erican Broadcasting Company
in conjunction with • the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions.
On Aug. 2, Rabbi Fram will
speak on "Human Dignity." Fol-
lowing topics will be "Human
Freedom" on Aug. 9; "Universal
Peace" on Aug. 16; and "King-
dom of God" on Aug. 23.
The Message of Israel was
fcunded by Rabbi Jonah Wise of
Central Synagogue, New York,
son of Rabbi Isaac M. Wise,
father of Reform Judaism in
America.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The codes and conspiracies to in-
American Jewish Congress called volve New York agents in their
upon the Bermuda Government discriminatory policies." It added
Information Office to investi- that the Bermuda Government
gate the Bermuda Tourist Bureau
which suggested in circulars to office should, at the very least,
New York City travel agents that take steps to prevent the distri- -
they use code words in their bution of the offending circulars
correspondence to identify tour- and other violations of New
ists as Gentiles, Jewish, Negro York laws.
or Asiatic because some hotels
are restricted'."
The circular marked "confi- Shapiro 'Foundation Grants
dential information to travel Scholarships to 62 Students
agents," suggests the use of the
following code words to dehote
NEW YORK, (JTA) —Sixty-
racial origin: "Gentile-Oleander;
Jewish-Hibiscus; Negro - Geran- two scholarships averaging $200
ium; Asiatic-Poinciana." The let- each have been awarded by the
ter of protest pointed out that Shapiro Foundation to students
"under New York law, it is ille- in New York, New Jersey, Mass-
gal for any agent or any place sachusetts, a n d Pennsylvania,
of public accommodation, resort David L. Cole, president of the
or amusement to display any Foundation, announced.
notice that the patronage of
The foundation has awarded
any racial or religious group is 1,045 scholarships since it was
not acceptable."
established in 1934 by Benjamin
"It is bad enough," the Ameri- and Max Shapiro, brothers who
can Jewish Congress declared, were textile factors. Some of this
"that hotels and other resorts year's winners were receiving
in Bermuda discriminate against the scholarships, awarded on
guests otherwise qualified, be- the basis of need and scholastic
cause of their race or religion, ability for a second, third and
but intolerable when Bermuda fourth time, while 32 winners
tourist bureaus attempt by secret , were receiving their first award.
Israel May Get -
German Ships .
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
possibility of obtaining several
ships from Germany under the
terms of the reparations pact
are being investigated, Joseph
Saphir, Minister of Communica-
tions, told a meeting' of the Is-
rael Economic Advisory Council.
The Minister stated that the
Kishom project—the enlarging
of the port area adjoining Haifa
—provides for the establishment
of a "free area" and the es-
tablishment of a "free port" at
a later time. He stated that the
planned consolidation of the
Jaffa and Tel Aviv ports will re-
sult in a financial saving for the
government.
Saphir reported that Israel
now owns 31 merchant vessels
which carry a considerable por-
tion of the passenger and cargo
traffic of the state. He disclosed
that improvements are planned
on the nationalized railroa d
system to improve public ac-
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comodations and attract more
His Instigation of Anti-Semitic Feelings
business, particularly on the
Belloc is best to be judged about his Jewish attitudes in "The long-distance routes.
Jews." He wrote about the "unavoidable evil" of Jewish super-
iority, taking it for granted, declaring "it will never be removed,"
asserting: "The Jew in the East End of London, the poorest of Dangers Facing Israel
the poor, feels himself the superior of the magistrate before whom Are Grave--Eisendrath
he is hauled, of the policeman who keeps order in the streets, and
immensely the superior of the simple-faced soldiers and sailors..."
NEW YORK, (JTA) — "The
Is this true? We deny it. The point is that the manner of stating dangers facing Israel are graver
it invites resentment; and invitation to resentment is the creation than most people realize," Dr.
Maurice N. Eisendrath, presi-
of anti-Semitism.
The eminent Catholic writer placed emphasis on "the Jewish dent of the Union of American
habit of secrecy." It sounds like the fake known as "The Proto- Hebrew Congregations, told a
cols." If there is any secrecy, we have yet to learn about it our- press conference here following
selves. Belloc accepted and spread a lie and can not be forgiven his return from the Jewish
State where he had led a pil-
for it.
Even in his intended defense of Jews on the charge of Bol- grimage of 30 American Reform
shevism Belloc, by branding it "A Jewish movement" rendered Jewish leaders.
Dr. Eisendrath warned that
harm. This is the exact quotation from his book: "The Bolshevist
Movement was a Jewish movement, but not a movement of the the survival of Israel will re-
Jewish race as a whole." The truth is that Bolshevism in itself quire greater aid than it is now
was un-Jewish, but by calling it a Jewish movement—the empha- receiving. "The shortage of food
and vital raw materials plus the
sis on the a being Belloc's—he was harmful.
never-ceasing menace of her
True: he said some good things about Jews; but his expert- neighbors seriously impair the
ness at patting with one hand and stabbing with the other was very future of Israel," he re-
his unique weapon which created the feeling that he was anti- ported.
Semitic. But if there still are doubts, his conclusions prove that
The leader of American Re-
he nourished bias.. He believed Jews to be aliens among the form Jewry said that Israel's
peoples; he accused them of seeking to dominate their neighbors; chief desire is peace. He took
he charged them with seeking citizenship everywhere while re- issue with Secretary of State
taining Jewish nationality and he called the Russian revolution John Foster Dulles who report-
Jewish.
ed that the Arab nations fear
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aggression from Israel. The con-
trary, he said, is the case it is
His 'Shalom Lelsraer —An Anti-Semite's Ruse
His views of late, especially since the creation of the State of Israel which fears a "second
Israel, are unknown. It is possible that he was enlightened by round" initiated by the Arabs.
Expressing hope that a Mid-
the reality of Jewish statehood and the manner of Communist
operations—as a result of which the Soviet Jewish population of dle EaSt defense pact will in-
nearly 4,000,000 is becoming extinct, proving the menace of Bol- clude Israel, Dr. Eisendrath
shevism to Jewry whom he accused of fomenting it. But on the warned Americans "not to mis-
record, on the face of what he wrote, Belloc was an anti-Semite. take the real nature of the Is-
Yet, his book, "The Jews," contains on its title page, in He- rael problem." Israel, he de-
brew, the words "Shalom Lelsrael"—"Peace to Israel." And the clared, is not only safeguarding
book was dedicated "To Miss Ruby Goldsmith, my secretary for Jews, but the cause of democ-
many years at King's Land and the best and most intimate of our racy. "Its preservation is as
Jewish friends, to whom my family and I will always owe a deep vital as the preservation of
debt of gratitude." Is it possible that in spite of his harm to South Korea," he pointed out.
fall would be as catastro-
Israel he believed himself Israel's friend? Or, was he like the "Its
phic as the fall of Greece, Tur-
Russian moujhik, who, when asked what he thought of the People key
or Italy."
Israel, said the worst; and when asked about Mister Israel praised
him as the finest man living. The peasant knew one Jew but was
biased against the Jews as a group. Inconsistency, as in Belloc's 2—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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case, can be criminal.
Friday, July 24, 1953
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Between You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1953, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
Community Trends:
The question whether the time has come for Jewish com-
munities throughout the United States to introduce a system
of priorities in making allocations for various Jewish causes is
now under wide discussion among Jewish community 'leaders
It was raised by Edwin Wolf II, vice-president of the Philadel-
phia Allied Jewish Appeal, at a conference of leaders of Jewish
federations and welfare funds ... The questions he asked were:
Do Jews in this country need more, larger and more expensive
Jewish hospitals which are "non-sectarian" — serving more non-
Jewish patients than Jewish? . . . Is it not true that government,
and industry too, are now providing more and more of the serv-
ices for the youth, the sick, the poor and the aged that Jewish
charities provide? . . . Old age pensions, he pointed out, will cer-
tainly help take oldsters off charity rolls as mere pensioners of
community organizations . State relief payments have already
done away with direct grants to the poor . . . Blue Cross and
company health insurance plans are cutting down the need of
free beds in hospitals . . Public school recreational programs
for youth and adults are making new settlement houses unneces-
sary in many areas . . . Most of the Jewish health, welfare and
recreational agencies are receiving their funds from Community
Chests, the expressions philanthropically of the whole community,
Jewish and non-Jewish alike . . . Under such circumstances, he
argued, is it not high time for Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds to rethink their position on making allocations? . . Is
it not clear that if American Jewry wishes to have a Jewish
community and raise money from Jews for Jewish and non-
sectarian causes, it must first of all have Jews? . .. And if this
is so, is it not true that Jewish education and Jewish culture must
receive the first priority? < Is it not fundamental that if we
are to raise money through Jewish welfare funds, we must be
assured of a supply of Jews for the futures to help raise it, and
to give the money? . . Next priority in allocations, Mr. Wolf
suggests, must be given to those agencies which have Jewish
content, because they can receive support only from a sectarian
fund . . . The agencies to be placed in the third category —
which should be financed differently than they are today —
should be those which could just as well not be Jewish, the
leader of the Philadelphia Allied Jewish Aweal urges . . Mr.
Wolf's provocative views will remain a major subject of discussion
in communities throughout the country for quite a time.
Inside Story:
I am not often impressed by listening to 'Inside stories" on
major developments of direct interest to Jews . . . But I was
highly impressed this week when Adolph Held, chairman of the
Jewish Labor Committee, reported the "inside story" of the Jew-
ish reparations talks with the Austrian Government . . . Mr. Held, -
_who was one of the principal participants in the Vienna talks,
made his report at a meeting of the executive committee of his
organization . . . From what he had to say, it became clear to
me to what extent Jews must stick together with the liberal
elements not only in our own country, but in every country , •
Some of the details which Mr. Held reported are not for publica-
tion, but it can now be said definitely that without the active aid
of the anti-Communist labor leaders in Germany, the German-
Israel reparations pact would have never been sanctioned by the
West German Parliament . , Nor will the Austro-Jewish repa-
rations talks be concluded successfully without the active sup-
port of the democratic labor leaders in Austria . . . Both the
Communists and the reactionary elements in Germany voted
against the reparations pact, and this combination of forces is
also active in Austria to prevent the conclusion of an agreement
on payments to Jewish victims of Nazism . . . However, organ-
ized free labor is determined to see that justice should be done
to Jews by the Austrian Government as it was done by the West
German Government . This was. clearly indicated to the Aus-
trian delegates at the convention of the International Confer -'
eration of Free Trade Unions which took place this month in
Stockholm . . . Mr. Held raised this question at a luncheon of
the convention delegates and was heartily supported by George
Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor and Wal-
ter Reuther, leader of the CIO . . . There were more than I i
prominent labor leaders from various countries at this luncheon,
which was arranged by Mr. Held on behalf of the Jewish Labor
Committee . . .• And it was at this luncheon that German. and
Israeli labor leaders for the first time sat together at an
formal function. '