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THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at P ost Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
VOL. XXVI. No. 14
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
ANNUAL .ailvtitilioti
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
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December 10, 1954
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath. the sixteenth dap of Kislev, 5715, the following Scriptural selections will, be
read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 32:4-36:43. Prophetical portion, Hos. 12:13-14:10 or s 11:7-12:12 or
Obadiah 1:1-21.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Dec. 10, 4:40 p.m.
Threats to West: Nasser, Danger
At the United Nations, last week, a Leb-
anese delegate, Dr. Karim Azkoul, made the
shocking threat to the Western powers that
the Arab states would become more and
more mistrustful of the West and would
begin to look toward the Soviet world, if
Israel's refusal to repatriate the 900,000
Arabs is condoned.
This threat came during the discussion
of the Arab refugee problem. It was uttered
in spite of the American delegate's appeal
to the Arab states to resettle their kinsmen
in Arab territories. The West, whose funds
and encouragement have facilitated the em-
ergence of several new autonomous Arab
states in the last 20 years, now is rebuked
for its good intentions.
These and many other similar outbursts
from Israel's antagonists point to the con-
tinuing war-mongering spirit among Arabs.
It is an unfortunate situation which seems
to defy solutions.
In Egypt, the problem has become in-
creasingly more acute. The elimination from
power of General Naguib posed the question
as to the effect of the new developments on
that country's relationship with Israel. The
Nation, in an editorial entitled "Naguib to
Nasser to Chance" offers these important
explanations:
In terms of power the ousting of Gen-
eral Naguib from the presidency of Egypt
on November 14 made no difference; he
had been shoved aside long before by the
junta of military officers, headed by Colo-
nel Gamal Abdel Nasser, that rims the
country. But his dismissal, under charge
of complicity in the October 26 attempt
by Moslem Brotherhood terrorists to as-
sassinate Colonel Nasser, was important
on other grounds. It served as a dramatic
announcement that the Revolutionary
Command Council headed by Nasser could
now afford to rid itself of the popular
general who symbolized the national up-
rising which had deposed King Farouk.
The absence of any serious public reac-
tion either to the ousting of Naguib or to
the sweeping round-up of suspect mem-
bers .of the Moslem Brotherhood testifies
to Nasser's present political dominance.
Reports from liTestern journalists in Cairo
indicate that both events, as the New
York "Times" correspondent put it, "are
regarded by impartial observers as stabil-
izing actions." So they may be.
Yet one-man rule is seldom a very de-
Israel
pendable basis for democratic • change.
Long before the ousting of Naguib, Nas-
ser and his officer henchmen had carried
out a purge of three leading universities;
arrests and beatings of. Jews on charges
of pro-Zionism had multiplied; and the
regime's basic attitude toward the West
was revealed in a series of vicious attacks
on France. Back in September the semi-
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official daily "Al Gombouria" announced
"a, new plot against the Arabs being
woven in France with Mendes-France a
Jew by descent and a Zionist by creed, as Lest We Forget!
the prime mover"; and on the following
day its' editor repeated the slander, re-
ferring to the French Premier as "this
Lord Russell of Liverpool, who served in both World Wars,
little Zionist imperialist Jew."
In addition Nasser and his Revolution- was Deputy Judge Advocate with the British Army of the Rhine
ary Command are responsible for the con- in 1946, serving in that capacity again from .1948 to 1951. He was
to the Commander-in-Chief in all trials of German
tinuing border warfare with Israel, as legaLadviser
war criminals conducted by British military courts.
they are for the economic blockade which
His findings and his sense of horror at the crimes committed,
resulted in the seizure of • the freighter especially the murder of 6,000,000 Jews, are •incorporated in his
Bat Galim. So the realities of military dic- book, "The Scourge of the Swastika, A Short History of Nazi War
tatorship are not as assuring as Colonel Crimes," which has caused a sensation. The book has just been
Nasser's admirers would have us think. published in this country by Philosophical Library, 15 E. 40th,
Above all they should demonstrate the , New York 16.
This courageous man returned to the office of Judge Advocate
dangerous folly of putting modern wea-
pons into the hands of men who will use General of the Forces in London in 1951 and took up the appoint-
of Assistant Judge Advocate General, but he was compelled
them for only two purposes—to maintain ment
to resign from this office on Aug. 8, 1954, because of his refusal
themselves in power and to attack Israel. to drop the publication of this book.
It is a grave and highly disturbing situa-
The book does not contain new revelations. But it offers, in
tion. It is a threat to Israel's security. It compact form, the evidence that is needed to keep alive the spark
saps the energy of all the peoples in the Mid- of horror that must be generated again and again in order that
dle East and threatens the peace of the , the world should remain aware of the immensity of the tragedy
world. Instead of devoting themselves to created•by the Nazis, so that mankind might be on guard against
developing the Mediterranean countries eco- its repetition,,
Lord Russell's "The Scourge o_ the Swastika" is the result
nomically, Israel and her Arab neighbors are
of
the
author's realization that men forget, that his own friends
compelled to strengthen their armies, and had begun
to erase from memory the tragedies of the Nazi era.
the nations of the world, primarily the
Of the German General Staff and High Command, Lord
United States, are pouring in large sums , Russell says:
which go to waste. The money is wasted
"They have been responsible in large measure for the
on the refugees who should become self- miseries and suffering that have fallen on millions of men,
supporting instead of being kept as pawns women and children. They have been a disgrace to the honor-
in the game of power politics against Israel. able profession of arms. Without their military guidance the
But as long as the Arab states refuse to aggressive ambitions of Hitler and his fellow-Nazis would have
recognize the reality of the warning of been academic and sterile . • they were a ruthless and military
. . ."
James J. Wadsworth, the U.S. delegate to caste
He makes the charge against the Waffen-SS which was under
the UN, that "the true destiny of most of the command
of the Wehrmacht:
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them (the refugees), lies in the Arab world,"
"There is evidence that the shooting of unarmed prisoners
we face dangers. To achieve peace, the posi- of war was the general practice in • some Waffen-SS Divisions
tion that was taken by the U.S. at the . . . units of the Waffen-SS were also involved in the widespread
United Nations—that the present Arab re- murder and ill-treatment of the civilian population of the
fugees should be accepted in the countries occupied territories. Waffen-SS Divisions were also responsible
now housing them "not as temporary .resi- for many massacres and atrocities in occupied countries such as
dents but as fellow citizens" — must be pur- the massacres at Oradour-sur-Glane and Lidice .. ."
In a special article released by the World Jewish Congress'
sued without a halt. The realization of such
Jewish Affairs, Dr. S. Roth of London stated about "The
aims will eventually bring us closer to a World
of the Swastika":
practical policy of amity among all the na- Scourge
"There ought never to have been an attempt to suppress this
tions involved.
book. On the contrary, it should be made "required reading" for
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Lord Russell's Expose of Nazis
Noteworthy Cultural Achievement
Detroit's Jewish community has reason
to be justly proud of another noteworthy
accomplishment: the successful direction of
our people's attention and interests to the
literary field, through the Book Fair.
For the third successive time, on the
occasion of annual Jewish Book Month, the
Jewish Community Center's staff has suc-
ceeded in attracting many thousands of
people to view book exhibitions, to hear
talks on books by able authors, to participate
in book reviews by locally trained literally-
inclined men and women. This must result
in an awakening of a warm feeling for books,
in inspiring desires to purchase and possess
books, to read them, to give them as gifts.
The unusually impressive displays at the
third annual Jewish Book Fair here, the col-
lection of thousands of volumes in English,
Yiddish and Hebrew, the appearance of
noted writers—these were only a few of the
elements that served to make the Detroit
event so inspiring and noteworthy. Most
important of all, the response that comes
from our community to these cultural under-
takings helps to reinforce faith in Jewry's
recognition of its own position as "the People
of the Book."
So distinguished a Yiddish publicist as
Shmuel Niger, the popular novelists, Louis
Zara and Charles Angoff, and the author of
children's books, Mrs. Dorothy Kripke, —
who were guests at .last week's Book Fair —
were unanimous in their admiration of De-
troit's achievement .through, th.e,annua. _cen z,
ter - sponsored book event. They were
amazed at so tremendous an undertaking
that remains unparalleled in the scope of its
attainment:
Our Book Fair this year has made a
great civic contribution. Voluntary gifts
from spectators have made possible the
presentation of several hundred books, as
Detroit Jewry's Tercentenary Year endow-
ment, to the Detroit Public Library.
The entire performance was one to be
justly proud of. The Jewish Community
Center Staff and the community's committee
on arrangements for the Book Fair have
earned commendations for a job well done.
Th e Bi a ofs at Work I
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every statesman, politician, civil servant and journalist, for
everyone whose world may have an influence on future policies
and, last but not least, for every German. Let the nations decide
whatever they consider wisest regarding the future of Germany;
but let them take their decision in the full knowledge of the facts,
past and present. A ban on remembrance, a policy of 'heads in
the sand, is no sound foundation for vital decisions. It is on the
memory of the sufferings of the past that we must build a happier
future.
"The British Chief Prosecutor in Nuremberg, Sir Hartley
Shawcross, was strikingly right in his prophecy when, in his
opening speech at the trial, he said that, with the passage of
time, people will 'tend to discount, because of their very horror,
the stories of aggression and atrocity that may be handed down.'
that was why he asked for 'an authoritative and impartial record
to which historians may turn for truth and future politicians for
warning.'
"Lord Russell has now recalled the truth and issued the warn-
Mg. And yet, it is sad to reflect that it needed the sensation of
the resignation of a, high government official for public opinion
to be jolted out of its complacency regarding the past crimes of
Nazism, just as it required—on a different plane and perhaps
from different motives—the misguided defection of another high
government official in Germany to rouse the world to the future
dangers of reviving Nazism."
The bigots in our midst have injected a
disgusting note into the McCarthy issue.
Members of the United States Senate have
revealed that they have been swamped with
anti-Semitic mail, most of the letters being Commentary of DamdKimht on Psalms'
aimed at Senator Herbert Lehman.
"The Commentary of David Klinhi on the Fifth Book of the
Senator Fulbright quoted, in his speech Psalms—CVII-CI," by Dr. Jacob Bosniak (Bloch P -Thlishing is
during the discussion of the McCarthy cen- a scholarly work in Hebrew. It was edited on the basis of 15th
sure resolution, from a letter by G. Gurley, and 16th century manuscripts made available to the author by
of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. .
president of Chemical Attraction Oil Corp. the Library
The commentaries are made in this volume chapter by chap-
of Texas who accused him of "fronting for
Dr. Bosnik studied in Yeshivoth in Europe and in this coun-
the Jew" and who dared invoke the Hitlerian ter.
try and 'was ordained at the Theological Seminary in 1917. He Is
spirit in this sentence: H. H. Lehman should now Rabbi Emeritus of Ocean Parkway Jewish Center in Brooklyn,
be deported out of this Nation to Russia, He is the • author of other scholarly' works.
or let Germany take that 'bird' in and give - His commentary on the Psalms already has won high com-
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him the gas like Hitler did . . ."
mendations from many scholars. Dr. . Louis Finkelstein, Chancel-
What the Texas oilman fails to realize ldr of the Theological Seminary, has pointed out that "in restoring
115.0?.11y go „the text of Rabbi David Kimbi" Rabbi Bosniak has ."rendered
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