`1 Don't See_Any State of Israel'

THE JEWISH- NEWS

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Incorporating 'the Detroit Jewish Chronicle• commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

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Member American Association of English-Jewish NewspApers, Michigan Press Association.
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3. 1879

SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and. Publisher

FRANK SIMONS
City- Editor

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Vol. XXV, No. 18

July 9, 1954

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath. the ninth .dav of TaMmuz.,_ 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read

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in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, . Num. 22 :2-25 :9. Prophetical portion, MiCah 5:6-6:8.

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Licht Benshen, Friday, July 9, 8:09 p.m.

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Historic Statements: Churchill's and Silver s

cially in view of the mounting tensions in
the Jewish state and the increasing number
of murders by Arab. infiltrees. Such policies
have caused Dr. Silver, at the convention of
the Zionist Organization of America, to chal-
lenge certain officials in the State Depart-
ment who do NOT "represent the true sen-
timents of the leaders of our Government
who have time and again given expression
of their deep and sympathetic interest in
the security and prosperity of Israel."
Dr. Silver, in his powerful address, which
has been hailed as one of the most out-
standing declarations ever heard at a Zionist
convention, answering the "u nfounded
charges" made against Israel by Arthur Z.
Gardiner, chief political and economic ad-
visor of the State Department's Near East-
em Division and by Representative Frances
Bolton of Ohio, whoni he described as "the
mouthpiece in the House of Representatives
for all pro-Arab propaganda," declared:,

Two men last week emerged as brilliant
defenders of the Zionist ideal. It was a na-
tural for Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, unquestion-
ably the ablest Zionist spokesman in the
world today, to present in blunt terms the
Jewish position vis-a-vis Israel in refutation
of the anti-Israel attitude of some members
of the State Department. But while he has
been on record as "a Zionist" friend, judged
by his policy pronouncements Sir Winston
Churchill's declaration before the Washing-
ton press corps- came as a real surprise.
Churchill's statement acquires special
importance because of its implied rebuke to
those, in this country, who are hesitant to
pursue a policy that would assure peace
in the Middle East without impairing the
status of Israel. In reply to a question—
"In view of the importance of strengthening
the Middle East against Soviet expansion,
do' you see any prospects for Arab-Israel
peace?" -- submitted by our able Washing,.
ton JTA correspondent, Milton Friedman,
Winston Churchill fnade this reply, taken
from a stenographic report of the press con-
ference:

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St. John's Powerful Exposure

Hatred Unlimited in Africa

One of the great threats to international amity stems from
the racial animosities in many portions of the globe. Mhile the
United States is beginnhig to solve its color problem, the issue
remains most serious in other parts of the world,WW: ,,'
and it is especially explosive and dangerous
South Africa. Its tensions are described by
Robert St. John (author of "Shalom Means.
Peace" and "Tongue of the Prophets") in his
latest book, off - the press July 6, entitled,
"Through Malan's Africa." It is a Doubleday;;
(575 Madison, NY22), publication.
In December, 1952, Robert St. John set sail for
South Africa. He spent Several months in the
"President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles Cape, attending sessions of the South African Robt. St. John
must know that Israel is no threat to the basic, Parliament, meeting :with: government and anti-government'
leaders, sitting in on the birth of the new Liberal Party, conferring
interests of American policy in the Near East. with leaders of the Colored people, living for a time
in
"They must know that there is a , large Stellenbosch, the Rome of the Dutch Reformed Church and the
"I am a Zionist. Let me make that clear.
reservoir of .good-will and gratitude to the intellectual seat of South African Nationalism, and spending much
/ was one of the original e-nes, after the Bal-
government and people .of the United States time on the Hill of the Six Splendid Mosques (the Malay Quarter)-.
four Declaration., and I have worked faith-
- In the Transkei, the principal "Native Territory," inhabited
among the citizens of Israel for having helped
fully for it. -
"I think it a most wonderful thihg that
so vitally in the establishment of their state almost exclusively by Africans, St. John attended sessions of the
this community should have establishell itself
and for the economic assistance which has Bunga (African Parliament), sat in on a trial of 17 young red-
blanketted tribesmen for the mass murder of a number of members
so effectively, turning the desert into fertile
been given to this day.
of a rival tribe, visited with one of the Paramount Chiefs, lived
gardens and thriving townships and should
"They must know that Israel wants peace for a time with the owner of a trading post and helped "tend
have afforded a refuge to millions of their
with all her Arab neighbors, and has time and store," thus learning a great deal about the dark-skinned people
co-religionists who had suffered so fearfully
again asked for it, only to be rudely rebuffed. of the area. He traveled by jeep with white-robed monks as they
under the Hitler and not only the Hitler, per-
"From all that has transpired in recent made a tour of their mission posts. He was a spectator at a Xhosa
•secution. I think it's a wonderful thing.
years, they .must know that the Ardb League circumcision ceremony. White lawyers who have spent their lives
"I also bashfully have great liking for the
is an instrument for perpetuating turmoil, dis- defending .dark-skinned people accused of crime told .him strange
Arabs. I was the man who appointed Abdullah
cord and belligerancy in the Near East and , stories of the supernatural beliefs of the Africans. At a boarding
to be King of Transjordania. I presented to
there is no way of appeasing its intransigence! school for young AfriCans,.he discovered why the boys had gone
the Cabinet that idea, and they put it into
short Of dismembering the State -Of Israel or on strike and why they considered their white benefactors as
force. Last . year he's been murdered. But I
enemies. He won the confidence of one educated young African
liquidating it altogether."
have the greatest regard for the Arabs, too.
who .talked to..him long and confidently about "what you have
Dr. Silver, calling attention to the done to us."
Really, I think we ought to be able, somehow
"amazing effrontery" of those officials un-
During his many months in South Africa gathering material
or other, to use our influence froM every quar-
friendly to the State of Israel, in including 1 for "Through Malan's Africa," St. John filled 17 notebooks with
ter to make them work`.out a plan together.
"It's so easy to reduce what little there is
in the figures on the American subsidies to facts and figures, besides collecting a suitcase full of pamphlets,
of that part of the world to the desert, to
Israel "what the. -Jews of the United States maps, books, government reports and other printed matter
on the South African Situation. -
the level of the desert, and that is all that
have ottheir own personal-contributions and bearing
Then the problem was how to get all this material out of the
could be done by their quarrels, whereas by
through the purchase of the Israeli Bonds, I
agreements and so forth, we may be able to given to Israel; also what the German gov- country. Mailing it out would have 'been hazardous, because under
a recently passed law the government had taken unto its e lf the
greatly increase the popuiation who can live
ernment has contributed by way of repara- right to -open any mail.. Taking it out in his baggage would have
in that area—there were far more 2,000 years
invited confiscation, for the South African customs men had
tions for Nazi depredations," said:
ago than, there are now in Palestine—and we
"Nothing is said by them of the hundreds already established the precedent of confiscating such material
not only can greatly increase the population,
of millions of dollars in oil royalties which the on the ground that it might be used to embarrass the Malan
in that area, but we can bring a harmony
Arab States have been receiving annually government.
there which will be a security and not an
The-ship on which Robert St. John was to sail from Durban
from American oil compahies—Iraq received in I.
eleMent of anxiety in the Middle East. Let
for
Europe
came into Durban on her way south to Cape Town.
1952, 110 million dollars, Saudi Arabia 170 mil- Visitors were
its be tolerant and let us be friendly and
permitted to go aboard during the day.
million—some
of
which
mil-1
lion,
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let us _support Arab rialits and help forward
St. John* tied the 17 notebooks around his -body under his
contributed
by
lions
might
well
have
been-
legitimate Zionists' aspirations."
clothing, obtained •a visitor's pass and went aboard without the
these solicitious Arabs to the cause of Arab necessity of going through customs.- Once aboard, .the notebooks
This is a reasonable and realistic state-
refugees. in the same way that Jewi'have been were placed in the captain's safe, technically international terri-
ment. Practical men, and all Jews in respon-
contributing , to Jewish refugees in Israel.
tory and out of the South Africa customs men's control. The most
sible positions, aspire to peace in the Middle
"But this is never referred to .- by these important pamphlets and reports were brought aboard later the
East and to a fair chance. for all for eco-
spokesmen who wish it to be known that they same day in the same manner. CUstoms men who admitted that
nomic and cultural development. That -calls
are impartial, for this would not be to the ad- they had been instructed to confiscate Ct. John's notebooks looked
for a speedy peace. .
thoroughly but in vain through his baggage for them. .
vantage of their pro-Arab propaganda.
In the chapter "Hatred, UnLtd." Mr. St. John reports that
Sir Winston's appeal for peace, .hts: cOn-
"The Arab States are committed to war
on the spot of the Johannesburg Zoological Gardens "years ago
hdenCe that it can be attained, his kind
against Israel and should not receive arms
the late Hermann Eckstein, a Jew, had a small collection of
words for Zionism — all combine to offer,
from the United States.
animals, and after his death his business partners decided to
comfort to those who seek a fair deal for
"The State of Israel has done nothing to give We . 000.6.0 to the city in his nierriory. In the deed they
Jews,.without harm to the Arabs. His state-
stipulated that there be no color bar." Then the eminent author
endanger the position of any Arab State in
ment should inspire continued Zionist efforts
the Near East, It is threatening no one. -- It proceeds to relate how white guards attack kaffirs, beat them,
in support of 'a strong Israel—and it should
covets no one's territory. It has instituted no drive them from the scene where it has been stipulated that
there be no color bar.
prove to the Arabs that a strong Israel also
boycotts: •and no blockades against any Arab
Mr. St. John also relateS the following story which 'throw;
will mean' a strong and a secure Middle East
State. It seeks to live in peace with everyone.
It ha's not flirted with Moscow • to 'impress light on conditions in. Africa:
in which Jews and Arabs must live in har,
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"Mother and small son were walking through a park in
Washington."
mony for the common good.
Pretoria. A little tired, the mother started to sit on a bench.
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" 'Oh, but you mustn't sit there!' the small boy exclaimed.
Seldoni does a public address deserve the
" The presence of Secretary of State John
" 'Why not?"
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"'Can't you see the sign says "For Europeans Only"?'
Foster Dulles at the press conference at wide' quotations earned by Dr. Silver's ad-
"'But I was born in Europe, Son, so it's all right,' replied the
which Sir Winston made his important Zion- dress. The courageous , approach he has
ist declaration may prove valuable in the made, in support of the just position of the Mother, not wanting at that. moment to explain what the term
meant.
weeks and months to come. Perhaps our Zionist idea must find an echo in all . .levdsh really
. "'Well, I wasn't., I was born in Israel, so that means I never
hearts.
It
should
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serve
to
strengthen
the
State Department will be induced to _continue
will be able to sit on park benches in SoUth Africa, doesn't it?'
Zionist cause, just as the Winston Churchill
maximum financial aid to "Israa as well as
"The little boy . who made this sad obseriatiOn was a son of
declaration
should
once
'again
help
inspire
steps in, the direction of .demanding that the
one of the most amiable and able diplomats the young state of
renewed interest in the great Zionist ideal Israel has `,developed, Cecil Hyman, .Minister to South Africa.
:Arab states talk peace with Israel.
"Mr., and Mrs, Hyman told me the story one evening when
In the meantime, however, some officials in among Jews and also among non-Jews.
Dr. Silver's address should accomplish I was a guest at the Pretoria Legation for the observance of
our State Department appear to be embroiled
this additional purpose: of strengthening the Seder, which takes place in every Orthodox Jewish home on the
in an increasingly-confusing set of pol-
first night of Passover."
icies which appear to be leaning in the direc- hands of those who are striving to offset the
"Through Malan's Africa" poses one of th'e gravest- questions .
anti-Israel
attitude
among
some
members
of
tion of an irrational pro-Arab position. Such
for the entire world. An explosive situation may well spread else-
an attitude has created suspicion inJewish the State Department and actually of assur-
ere and people of justice Ca,ll only hope -khat,there will soon be
end to hatred everywhere. -- 1
among` gi.aellS;- ekje';'' ing a repeal of stieli'''thflattitude. :."."
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