No Armistice for Him

THE JEWISH NEWS

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

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PHILIP SLOMOViTZ

Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Advertising Manager

FRANK SIMONS

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-seventh day of Heshvan, 5716, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Gen. 23:1-25:18. Prophetical portion, I Kings 1:1-31.
Rosh Hodesh reading of the Torah on Tuesday, iNhon. 28:1-15.

Licht. Benshen, Friday, Nov. 11, 4.57 p.m.

VOL. XXVIII. No 10

Page Four

Nov. 11, 1955

An Appeal for Defenseless Israel

No one who has a human spark in him
will dare propagate war when there is even
the remotest possibility of effecting peace.
In the Arab-Jewish conflict, there is interna-
tional responsibility to enforce peace, be-
cause a war in that area most assuredly may
result in another world conflagration.
It is tragic that Arabs and Jews, kins-
men and neighbors, should be unable to get
together. In the days of Dr. Haym Arlosoroff,
before the assassination of King Abdullah
of Jordan and prior to the infiltration of
Communist influence in Egypt, there were
excellent chances for. peace: for an amicable
understanding under a partition agreement
during the negotiations conducted by Dr.
Arlosoroff with moderate Arabs; for a peace
that was destroyed with Abdullah's death
and for a lasting truce originally favored
by Gen. Nasser. In -all instances, destructive
forces appeared On the scene to create a
war - atmosphere.
Appeasement of the Arabs by the West-
ern powers has not helped the situation. For
several years, it has been felt that a firm
stand by both the United Nations and the
United States would lead to peace. There
was no such firmness.
- In an evaluation of the Middle East's
situation, W. K. Kelsey, brilliant Detroit
News commentator, had this to say:

For 38 years the_ Foreign Office has been
regretting the Balfour Declaration in favor of
a Jewish homeland in Palestine. From that
attitude flowed the collapse of the British man-
date for Palestine after restrictions were placed
on the territory to be occupied and the number
of immigrants to be permitted.
Why either the Egyptians or the Arabs
should have to be "appeased" is beyond the
commentator's understanding. Some of the Arab
potentates are making huge profits out of oil;
they are tied to British and American capital.
Egypt has no oil, but she acts as if she - had
favors to bestow. What in the world can they
be?

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Indeed, why have democratic nations
yielded so completely to the Arabs, whose
record in both World Wars was so bad that
there always existed the fear of their align-
ment with the Germans?
It is painful for all of us who are clamor-
ing for peace to be forced to recall some of
the declarations that have been made by
Arab leaders against the West. To keep the
record straight, in view of the Arabs' aspira-
tion to destroy Israel—and because of the
virtual declaration of war againt all Jews
by Gen. Nasser—we offer the following Arab
anti-Western statements as evidence in our
urgent appeals for protection for defenseless
Israel:

"Egypt will never join any Western Mid-
dle East Defense Organization."

—Joint statement by Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser,
Egyptian Premier, and Major Saleh Salem, Egyp-
tian Minister of National Guidance, May 23, 1954,
AP dispatch

The Arabs oppose the Iraqi-Turkish Pact
"because Turkey is an ally of Israel."

Jordan Foreign Ministry spokesman. as reported
in New York Herald Tribune. January 19.1955
King Seif el-Islam Ahmed of Yemen, March 10,
1955

Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdul Nasser, in
Calcutta en route home from Bandung, de-
scribed Red Chinese Premier Chou en Lai as
"a nice man—not aggressive at all."

Report carried in New York World Telegram
•April 28, 1955

President Eisenhower and Dr. Jonah Salk
are golf and business associates and together
promoted the Salk anti-polio vaccine for per-
sonal profit, although knowing it would en-
danger the lives of children.

Al Tahrir (Egyptian Government weekly) as
reported in Newsweek, June 6, 1955

Egypt nominated Russia and the Ukraine
as members of a five-man committee to super-
vise a self-determination plebiscite in the
Sudan.

Akhbar el-Yom (Egyptian daily), August,

19a5

"If the Western Powers continue their
policy of splitting the Arab world with alliances,
the only solution for Arabs will be to ask aid
from Russia since Russia is in a position to
the Arabs want."
render an y

Major .Salah Salem, Egyptian Minister of Guidance,
August 1, 1955

"The big powers had thrown an iron cur-
tain around the Chinese People's Republic, but
Egypt has broken through to further the in-
terests of her people, promote her trade and
protect her main crop."

Al-Ahram, largest Egyptian daily, as quoted by
Associated Press, August 9, 1955

"Colonel Nasser had, with one stroke, re-
trieved Egypt's position in the Arab countries,
which had suffered as a result of the signing
of the Turkish-Iraqi defense pact early in
1955 . . .
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"Western' envoys endeavored to impress
upon Premier Nasser the danger of an arms
race which would disturb the existing balance
of power and the potential danger of Com-
munist infiltration into the Middle East.
"Colonel Nasser remained unmoved. He
brushed aside these arguments as a 'big de-
ception'."

Arab News Agency, October 7, 1955

"The Arabs should not deceive themselves
and the world by stating that they will recog-
nize Israel, once the latter carries out the
U.N. decisions of 1947 and 1948. We will not
recognize Israel; nor make peace with her even
then. We demand that Israel should vanish
from the Middle East map."

Dr. Mohammed Salah ed-Din, Egyptian Foreign
Minister, May 16,1954

"Egypt is very pleased to have the support
Of Chou en-Lai on the question of the Arab
refugees, on the rights of the North African
nationalists and in recognition of the struggle
Egypt has carried on to obtain its rights in the
Suez Canal Zone."

Major Salah Salem, Egyptian Minister of National
Guidance, April 20, 1955

"The Arab nations should sacrifice up to
10 million of their 50 million people, if neces-
sary, to wipe out Israel. Israel to the Arab
world is like a cancer to the human body and
the only remedy is to uproot it just like a
cancer . . . We don't have the patience to see
Israel remain occupying Palestine for long."

King Saud of Saudi Arabia, January 9, 1953 (AP)

"Israel is an artificial State which must
United States Information Service libraries
disappear."
in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, set on fire by
Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser, Egyptian Premier, May
mobs on July 14, 1954.
9, 1954
"I have seen some people who visited Com-
Will the oil interests continue to domi-
munist China and I know from them that the
nate, or will the world powers make a serious
people like their Government. This whole thing
is a cause of the cold war. You recognize a effort for peace in this trying period of Arab
feW people on Formosa and neglect Red China's threats to Israel's security?
This country has played an historic role
millions. It is a sort of international joke."

Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser, Egyptian Premier,
in an interview with 'U.S. News and World Report,
September, 1954

"Let us take American arms and attack
Israel while we can. I guarantee to justify our
position before the United Nations and the
International Court of Justice too. The im-
portant thing is to possess the means of attack."

Faris el Khoury, Syrian Premier, in interview
with Cairo weekly El Musawwar, December 26,
1954

"Egypt rejects the American offer of mili-
tary assistance in exchange for a security pact,
even if it means that she would not receive
millions of dollars worth of arms."

Major Salah Salem, Egyptian Minister of National
Guidance, December 28, 1954

"The peoples of Egypt and other Arab states
now believe that Russia will make no aggressive
move in these regions. We would renew the
mistrust and fear of foreign domination to
enter such a pact (Middle East Defense Pact)
with the West."

Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser, Egyptian Premier, in
an interview with Karl Von Weigand of the
Chicago Herald American, January 7, 1955

in Israel's rebirth. All the Presidents and
Administrations of the last 36 years are on
record as having favored the restoration of
Israel. They favored putting an end to Jewish
homelessness, which, for millions of Jews—
half of whom were exterminated by the
Nazis—always represented the threat of
pogroms. Such threats continue in Moslem
countries, whence our kinsmen must be res-
cued and settled in the reborn Jewish state.
This great land, which has backed other
peoples that were fighting for their free-
doms, can not and must not let Israel down.
There must be speedy action for peace,
and there must be an end to appeasement.
Israel and the Arabs must be transformed
into good neighbors—for the good of all
concerned and in the interest of world peace.
We pray that this may materialize imme-
diately—and • we appeal for the protection
of defenseless Israel.

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Harry Bloom s Powerful Novel

'Episode in the Transvaal'

Harry Bloom, a Johannesburg, South Africa, barrister, emerges
as another young writer whose works should be watched for the
power of their messages. If we are to judge by his first novel,
"Episode in the Transvaal," just published by Doubleday, notable
products are to be expected from his pen.
"Episode in the Transvaal" is powerful. It carries a message
that will stir to action all who wish to see the abandonment of
discrimination in his native land.
It is the story of the sufferings of the black population hi the
mythical city of Nelstroom and their revolt against the barbed
wire entanglements in which they are enslaved.
The inhumanity of the existing situation is described at the
very outset, in the author's description of the difference between
the white man's town and the black man's counterpart: "The
people of both towns walk in the street, but somehow one pays
attention only to the white people. The black people seem to have
a way of effacing themselves. When they meet a white man on
the pavement, they slide out of his way, out of sight. . . . They
wait in the shops until all the white people are served: they wait
at their special window at the railway booking office until the
clerk decides to notice them. They sit in silent, patient groups on
the lawn of the Magistrate's Court, waiting for hours; days, for
news of a case. . . . The place where they live is something
different. . . . They call this place the location, which is itself a
significantly unique use of the word, for it denotes not a - place
where people live, but one where something is to be found. .
The inhabitants of the location live like a captured people. They
are bound and tethered by laws that have no application to the
inhabitants of the white - town. There is a mass of prohibitions—
and what is not prohibited has to be specially permitted. .. ."
Thus, the black people live, and suffer, until a number of
things happen to them. A washwoman rebels against the white
woman who accuses her of stealing a collar, a fight breaks out,
she is arrested, her husband murdered. The uncompromising
administrator seeks to introduce a new permit measure for women
as well as for men—permits for labor without which they could
not remain in the location. The riots break out. The Nazi idea
emerges. Innocent people—as in the instance of a white couple
that wanders into the location to help their maid and they, in
turn, are murdered by the ruffians whose tactics are not approved
by the blacks—and a distinguished barrister from Johannesburg
undertakes to fight their legal battle without charge, marking
the end of the rule of the hard-hearted administrator who packs
up to leave Nelstroom.
Harry Bloom has an interesting description of one of the
inciters to trouble against the blacks: "He was always holding
forth about Indians, Jews, Kaffirs, Englishmen, Greeks, a n d
Chinese. He hated them all, in a particular order and for different
reasons: Indians because they were dirty, dishonest, and bred too
fast; Jews because they were all fabulously rich and crooked and
seduced Afrikaner girls; Kaffirs because they were lazy and
treacherous and were savages who had massacred the whites and
would do it again, given a chance; the English because they had
stolen the land from Paul Kruker, and killed off millions of
Afrikaner women and children in Concentration camps in the
Boer War. , . . He disliked even certain people he had never
come aCipss. . . . Only the Germans, first cousins of the Afrikaner,
had his respect. . . ."
This is the picture of a hater who has his counterparts else-
where. By exposing these haters in the Transvaal, Harry Bloom
exposes them all, wherever they may be. That is why his novel
offers so important a lesson - to all libertarians. That is why it
serves so important a purpose in the quest for justice: in his
novel it is in Transvaal; on the larger scene, it is in defense of
all who are persecuted.

'Seven Stories on Big Subjects'

Healthy Attitudes for Children

"Seven Stories on Big Subjects" is a unique type of publication
for which the publishers, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith,
deserve a great deal of credit.
Prepared for children, the seven titles, in brochure form, boxed
as a collection, are aimed to arouse healthy attitudes among children
towards major problems facing our country.
Gladys Baker Bond, the author, has written the stories for 7-12-
year-old children, but older folks will find them equally interesting.
Maurice Sendak, winner of a Newberry Award, is the' illustrator.
"On Your Mark," the first title, is the fascinating story of chil-
dren at play who start off with enmity and end as friends. "Jacob's
Friendliest Town" tells, similarly, how fears among neighbors are
dissipated by proper approaches which lead to kind relationships.
"The Crankiest Man on Main Street" is the story of a children's
ball game, a crashed window, the anger of a merchant, his pacifica-
tion and the realization that children at play must have a wide
area for their games.
Similar patterns are followed in the four other stories—. "Down
the Old Bear Trail," "Johnny Red Feather", "Lonesome Feet" and
"The Secret." This type of literature should lead to good under-
standing among all Americans and for the elimination of bias
among them.

