THE JEWISH NEWS A Proud Accomplishment incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of .7ulv 20 7931 Member Adieriean Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association. Pubiisheci every Friday by The Jewish new Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich., VE. 8-9384 Subscription S4. s year. foreign 95. filtered as second class matter Aug. 8, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under At of March 3, 1879 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher SIDNEY SHMARAK Advertising Manager FRANK SIMONS City Editor I.P•■•••■•----• Sabbath Nahamu Scriptural Selections This Sabbath. the fifteenth day of Ab, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will be read in ttur synagogues: Pentateuchal portion. Dela. 3:23-7:11. Prophetical portion, Is. 40:1-26. FORTUNE''Stik ■ EY: EXTRAORDINARY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF YOUNG AMERICAN SCI 111S1$ COME MIA JEWISH itie Licht Benshen, Friday, Aug. 13, 7:37 p.m, VOL. XXV, No. Z3 Page Four August 13, 1954 An Appeal to President Eisenhower Will End of Suez Issue Mean Peace for Israel? Israel expected peace to be spurred by Jordan under King Abdullah. His death post- poned realization of such hopes. Then came the rise of Naguib in Egypt. Once again there was talk that the Egyptian strong man would propagate good relations with Israel. That, too, proved abortive. Now .hopes for peace are renewed again by Israel's latest concessions and by the possibilities that a Solution of the Anglo- Egyptian conflict, through the evacuation of British troops from the Suez, may lead to peace talks between Israel and Egypt. If that were to materialize, it would mean the beginning of peace talks with the other Arab states. This is certain: unless a serious effort is made to effect peace in the Middle East the new situation will create an increasingly grave situation for Israel. The new issues are analyzed by Israeli spokesmen as follows: --- 1. British evacuation of Suez will leave Egypt In the possession of one of the great military bases in the world. Once in Egyptian hands, the stores, equipment and vast military installa- tions of the base will bring Egypt's powerfully increased military strength right up to Israel's southern borders. This fact alone seriously jeopardizes the already shaky security situation in the Middle East. 2. If, as reported by American and Egyptian spokesmen, Egypt will now also receive free grants of arms from the United States, the delicate balance in the area is likely to be further disturbed. 3. Israel's apprehension with rega.rd to Egypt's war-like designs were confirmed, prac- tically on the eve of the preliminary Anglo- Egyptian agreement, when the Egyptian Minis- ter of National Guidance, Salah Salem, and Premier Gamal-Abdel Nasser publicly renewed their threats against Israel. Such menacing statements, coupled with the advantages which Egypt` will derive from the impending agree- ment, give Israel every reason for anxiety. 4. A paper repetition of the 1950 Tri-Power Declaration affirming the status quo in the area cannot reassure Israel as to its security in face of the greatly strengthened power of the Arab states. This feeling has been strengthened by the fact that the existing Declaration lost much of its validity when the United States decided to grant arms to Iraq without equally strengthening Israel. 5. The stability of the area requires, there- fore, that Israel's defensive power be strength- ened proportionately to that of the Arab coun- tries. Anything less would inevitably be inter- preted by Egypt and her Arab partners as an open invitation to renew their full-scale armed aggression against Israel. Expressing its readiness to assist in the defense of the Middle East, Israel appears prepared to make many concessions in the interest of good relations among all involved. An Emergency Need An emergency appeal has been issued by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis for an urgently needed sum of $20,000,000 without which work of. the Foundation will be jeopardized. The Foundation's president, Basil O'Con- nor, points out in his emergency message. that the patient care and polio prevention program of the movement will be threatened unless public support comes forth from Aug. 16 to 31, during an Emergency March of Dimes. According to Mr. O'Connor, the $20,000,- 000 sum is required to pay the cost of caring for 67,000 patients who were stricken with polio in earlier years and to care for the unknown number of victims of the current record outbreaks. In addition, there is need to meet the cost of increasing the supply of gamma globulin and to assure uninterrupted polio vaccine study. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that the Ern e r g e n c y March of Dimes- should be a success and that the $20,000,000 be subscribed speedily, But before amity can be assured there must be an end to blockades, and there must be an effective method of cooperation in that area. It is of the utmost importance that the United States should assume a leading role in encouraging peace talks between the contending forces. The Eisenhower Admin- istration has an opportunity to extend a hand of friendship to Israel by its choice of a successor to Henry A. Byroade, who is being sent to Egypt as our Ambassador. If successor will be Loy Henderson, as is 'October '43': Epic Story of the War rumored, suspicictis may. increase, in view of Mr. Henderson's known previous antag- onisms to Israel and to Zionism. .. a is most unfortunate that so many of the "predictions" as to Israel's future are so gloomy,. For example, an analysis of the situation in the Middle East.. by Newsweek magazine concludes by stating that "the U.S.. hopes that it will never be put in the posi- tion of having to choose between Israel and the Arab states . because world strategy in the present era would necessarily • dictate the sacrifice of Israel." This is a shocking augury. We prefer to believe that it is a figment of the imagination of a magazine writer, rather than even the remotest pos- sibility of an international development, since it is in the best interests of world peace that the two contending forcesIsraelis and Arabs—should be gotten together on peace terms rather than that there should be any risk of a possible conflict in the Middle East. We appeal to President Eisenhower to strive towards the fulfillment of his many assurances that he will help bring peace to the Middle East. He can do it by avoiding the selection, for important offices involving responsibilities in Israel, of men who are con- sidered unfriendly in Israel, and by taking firm steps to call Israelis and • Arabs to talk peace. We believe he could thus assure himself a Nobel Peace Prize award. Accredited Ex-Nazis A report issued in London by the World Jewish Congress information department reveals that the latest • lists of members published by the ,Foreign Press Association in London and trie Association of Foreign Correspondents in Vienna includes a number of editors who served under the Nazi regime. Among _them are: F. E. Gruber, representing the Koelner Stad- tanzeiger in Vienna, acted as Bucharest cor- respondent of the Koelnische Zeitung during the Nazi period. Hans Schaffelhofer, now ac- credited correspondent of the Frankfurter Neue Presse and of a Nurembilrg daily, was the Vienna correspondent of the German- language daily Der Neue Tag in Prague during the Nazi occupation. In London, Dr. K. H. Abshagen, a prominent author under the Hitler regime, is now ac- credited correspondent of the Dusseldorf In- dustriekurier, the Muenchener Merkur, the Kieler Nachrichten and the Hamburger An- zeiger. Dr. Heinz Hoepfl, now official corres- pondent of the Frankfurter Ailgemeine, was one of the political editors of the Voelkischer Beobachter in 1943 and 1944. Emil Walter, one of the London correspondents of the official West German News Agency (Deutsche Presse- Agentur) acted as political editor of the Ham- burger Anzieger during the Nazi period. The fact that former Nazis are in re- sponsible positions may or may not indicate a growing danger for all who are concerned that democratic principles should not be abused or misrepresented. But they certain- ly call for additional and extraordinary vigi- lance. And if the correspondents are earnest in their abandonment of Nazi ideas they should themselves not be averse to having their true opinions known 'at all times. In . any event, whenever an ex-Nazi enters a position of importance, in any sphere of ac- tivity, libertarians are called upon to be es- pecially watchful in their observance orthe trend of affairs in which. Germans have a share. How Danish Jews Were Saved From Nazis and Semi-to Sweden . In "October, '43," published by G. P. Putnam's Sons (210 Madi- son, N. Y.), Aage Bertelsen, headmaster of one of the leading grammar schools in Denmark, an eminent educator and author, tells the dramatic story of the flight of the Jews of Denmark from the Nazis to find haven in Sweden. Bertelsen himself and his wife were forced to seek haven in Sweden during the war and he headed the Danish Refugee School at Lund. It was in the tragic year 1943, after Rosh. Hashanah, when it became known that the Nazis had intended to round up the Jews of Denmark for deportation to concentration camps. Brave Danes accepted the challenge and at personal sacrifice spirited the Jews out of the Nazi-held country into neutral Sweden. Bertelsen himself collected funds to help the menaced Jewish refugees. He arranged with boatmen to make the rescue tour. pre- pared forged passports to facilitate the rescue work, endangered his own position and was therefore compelled to escape from Denmark. There was a price on his head, with a Gestapo an- nouncement that he was "wanted , dead or alive." Thus, the 6,000 Danish Jews . were saved by their Christian neighbors,. and the author of "Octbber, '43" played a leading:role in .this .historic effort. • In a foreword to this important book, (translated by Mau- rice Samuel), Sholem - Asch calls it "a book not of hatred but of .the noblest form of love which man is capable of demonstrating ... an ode to the human species . not a sad. book but a joy- ous one, a book not of human degradation but of human exal- tation." The noted novelist emphasizes that it is not a book by a single person but that "it was written by an entire people, from its highest citizen, old and noble King ChriStian X who took from his head the glorious crown of Denmark and set it upon the bloodstained head of the Jewish victim when he elected to wear the sign of death, the Jewish Shield of David, on his breast, to the hurpiblest fisherman who risked his life in his little boat helping to save thousands of Jews from the mur- derous Nazis. It is written not in words but in deeds, performed under supreme peril to life and limb." Similar tributes to the book and its author, with an historical reference to the Nazi plot against the Danish Jews, was written by Denmark's Prime Minister Hans Hedtoft. An analysis of Danish- Jewish friendship is incorporated in Bertelsen's introduction to the American edition. An interesting chapter, written by the author's wife, Gerda, who was tortured and arrested by the Nazis, describes Hitlerian •cruelties. The author's Epilogues—"On Anti-Semitism"—show that he possesses knowledge of the Jewish position and of the Zionist dream. It is a Christian's tribute to Judaism. • "October, '43" is a great personal account.. It is an important chapter in the history of our time. It is an indictment of tyranny and a vindication of the great men—like Aage Bertelsen himself and the King of Sweden—who defied the Hitlerian threats and succeeded in securing justice for 6,000 Jews who, if not for their efforts, would have been added to the 6,000,000 who died at the hands of the Nazis. Progress of Reform Judaism Told in Book for Children "The Story of Reform Judaism" by Rabbi Sylvan D. Schwartz- man, professor of religious education at Hebrew Union College of American Hebrew Congregations, evaluates the Reform movement for young people. It is in story form. Two girls, one Reform and the other Orthodox, exchange experiences, visit each other's synagogues. Out of it grows the story of Reform. The Reform youngster's great-grandfather explains the rise of Reform since its first manifestations 150 years ago. He tells her about opposition to Reform's leaders and their early set of principles. Out of this story there develop also the changes—with an explanation of the new platform of 1937 which did not oppose Zionism—and the progress made in recent years. After Betty hears great-grandfather's -story, she takes the Orthodox girl, Mildred, to her Temple and there impresses her with the Reform service. The book is illustrated. It is written in conversational form, and each chapter concludes with a set of questions, thus turning the volume into a textbook.