Purely Commentary

By PH 1 LI P SLOMOV I TZ

Dean Virginia Gildersleeve Never Liked Israel

Israeli Artists'
Exhibit Here
UntilMarch10

Real Estate Division Plans Dinner

Once again, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, whose anti-Zionist
activities were in evidence at San Francisco, during the forma-
Miss Yurika Mann, director
tive months of the United Nations Organization, is on the scene, of the Jerusalem Art Galleries;
who is supervising the exhibi-
with an attack on Israel. .
In a letter to the New York Tithes, the anti-Israeli supports tion of works- of - Israeli artists,
those who refuse to sell arms to Israel. The charming lady at Temple Israel, this week an-
makes much of the UN censures of Israel and writes, with nounced that the exhibit will
regard to arms for Israel, that "if anything can drive the Arab remain here through Saturday
night, March 10.
states into the open arms of Russia, this would."
Miss Mann is giving a series
How very profoUnd a statementfrom a former United
Leaders in the real estate and building division of the
States delegate to the UN! Up to this point the Arabs are of lectufes for special groups
staying far, far away from the embracing arms of the Russians! visiting the exhibit. She will Allied Jewish Campaign, associate chairman Irving Rose
speak Sunday to the Unitarian
But defensive arms alone will drive them there!
(right), Joseph Slatkin, Jacob Schreier, Marshall Rogers and
Church Club, at the exhibition.
When you read the mind of this darling of the un-American
On Monday she will explain Harold Victor (left to right), are planning their annual dinner
Council against Judaism, you begin to wonder about her heart. the exhibit to a visiting group
on March 21.
Isn't there a place in the souls of such humans for a people from the Council of Jewish
whose . very existence is at stake unless it has the means for Women, and on Wednesday to
Self-defense?
ORT women.
"On what part will ye be stricken,
A Christian s c h o o l group
Seeing ye stray away more and more?
heard her lecture last Wednes-
day. Last Tuesday, the Sholem
The whole head is sick,
Aleichem women hear d her
And the whole heart faint."
—Isaiah 1:5.
evaluations of Israel art and de-
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cided to purchase a painting for
A new scholarship fob voice the outstanding young pianist
the Sholem Aleichem Building. was announced Tuesday eve- of the year. As the program
Miss Lucy—Twenty Years From Now
Rabbi Fram delivered a ser- ning at the annual Artist Con- progressed, Mr. Rosen continu-
SEC, under the title The Rioters," treats us to the following
mon last Friday on the Israeli cert of the Music Study Club ally showed gathering strength
in the current issue of The Reporter:
art w o r k s at Temple Israel.
.7„:7, at the Art In- in his interpretation of the
Our -children twenty years front now will say,
Purchases of works by Mane-
various numbers he selected
stitute.
Why did they do that to Miss Lucy then?
Katz and other artists have been
M r s. Sidney for his concert.
And you will say you were not there that day;
made by Garelik Gallery, Louis
Jackson, presi-
He showed real power in
That was another time, with other men.
Redstone, Charles E. Feinberg,
dent of the his interpretation of Chopin's
That just about sums up the evolution of humanitarian and a number of others. Addi-
club, announc- Sonata in B Minor. He was
action. We are a bit better now than we were two decades tional purchases were assured
ed the creation able, in his evaluation of Ra-
ago: we will be a bit better two decades hence. But there are this week.
of the scholar- vel's Le Tombeau de Cou-
always some additional evils to keep SECs sentiments alive—
ship by Emma perin, to coordinate the vari-
Schaver, emi- ous moods with great skill.
with a mere, change in the name of the now.
Dr. Rosen Resumes
n e n t Detroit
Throughout, his interpreta-
Israel Cabinet Post
soprano. It is tions pleased the very critical
Hopkins and Thompson: Quarterbacks for Om Arabs -
to be known as audience of musicians and their
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dr. Pin-
Arab propagandists, in this country, who are fortified by
the Mary Cap- friends, members of Music Study
millions of dollars of funds providea for them, possibly from the chas Rosen, leader of the Pro-
lan Scholarship Club whose encouragement to
oil incomes from this country, no longer need to conduct their gressive Party, re-entered the
, for Voice, and young artists, through the an-
own anti-Israel campaign. They have their quarterbacks—Dorothy Cabinet as Minister of Justice
Mary Caplan was established nual concerts, has created a
Thompson and Dr. Garland Evans .Hopicins, of the American following his party's decision
to rejoin the coalition in the by Mrs. Schaver in recognition tradition of great worth in local
.riencis of the Middle East.
wake of the settlement of the of the encouragement she and
At the time when the entire country was shocked by the strike of professional workers. many others received from Miss musical circles.
In the slow, as well as in the
_f
delaying
action
inconsistent policy of our State Department, o
Caplan, while she was director fast movements, in the Chopin
On Israel's application for defensive arms, but at the same time
mission to provide a haven for fo the Mothers' Clubs of the selection as well as Liszt's and
of shipping heavy tanks to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Hopkins saw fit
persecuted and disadvantaged Jewish Center for a quarter of Milhaud's, Mr. Rosen proved
to speak of Israel's "partisans" as going on record "in putting
a century.
his worth and justified his hav-
Israel's interests ahead of those of America and the free world." -Jews. Some 16 of 17 Jewish
ing being selected as this year's
organizations
in
America
vig-
It was a shocking statement from many points of view. The
The concert featured Jo el concert artist by Music Study
Peace of the world, not of the Middle East alone, is at stake. Our orously champion this cause
State Department was outraged by the Soviet arms shipments to —in much the same way as Rosen, whom many consider Club.
Egypt, but it saw nothing wrong in sending arms to an enemy of the Syrian-Lebanese federa-
tions, the Hibernian Societies,
Israel. It will be recalled that the King of Saudi Arabia not so
proselyte on behalf of their
long ago threatened "to sacrifice ten million" of his people in
`homelands.' Zionists are not
order to destroy Israel.
This brings us to the major issue. Every human element only good Americans, but they
have some claim to being good
has cried out for recognition of the fact of Israel's existence.
By BORIS SMOLAR
Near Easterners, too. They
Spokesmen for - many nations—including our own—have em-
(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
have, for instance, lobbied in
phasized this basic fact. But the Friends of the Middle East are
Washington for economic aid Washington Moods
propagating Israel's destruction. By their latest actions, they
indicate that they are unconcerned with the fate of 1,700.000 to the Arab peoples.
The discussions between the United States, Britain and
people who are threatened by 45,000,000 saber-rattling Arabs.
"A few days ago, I came France on the Arab-Israel situation are moving forward in a
Isn't there a human spark in that movement to inspire its leaders
across the report of an inter- faster tempo . . . The "Big Three" are no longer discussing
to acknowledge the right of people to survive?
view Hopkins recently gave whether to sell arms to Israel or to the Arab countries. but when
to a Virginia newspaper. In
The Rev. Dr. Karl Baehr, of the American Christian Palestine
to sell the arms and what kind of arms should be sold . . . Also
Committee, recently dealt with the Thompson-Hopkins campaign
this interview he is asked to which of the three powers should sell what, so as to maintain
of venom against Israel as follows:
explain 'the apparent lack of complete coordination in the sale of arms to Middle East coun-
understanding of the problems tries . . . Until recently France had a liberal policy on arms sales
"The American Friends of the Middle East radiates
of the Middle East on the part to Israel as well as to Egypt . . Now she is prevented from
pressures which are diametrically opposed to the spirit of Arab-
of the average American.' His shipping arms to . any of the countries in the Middle East until
Israeli conciliation. They also usually run counter, I cannot help
cue having been given, Hop- the "Big Three" reach an understanding on the arms problem,
feeling, to the democratic aspirations of the Arab peoples them-
kins then 'explains' that 'a
.. . Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has hinted to Repub,-
selves. The organization's closest ties are with the oil sheikhs,
conspiracy of silence. in con- lican Congressmen that perhaps in March Israel may be per-
the feudal land-owning class, the Arab League propagandists.
nection with the Middle East mitted to purchase some arms in the United States for self-
"Although on carefully selected occasions this Thompson-
'Hopkins enclave have publicly acknowledged the existence of is promoted by special interest defense . . . This hint was given by Secretary ,Dulles when some
groups for whom it is to their of the 40 Republican Congressmen advocating arms for Israel
Israel, the actual influence exerted on public opinion, being
best interest that the Ameri- saw him personally on this matter . . . He made no definite
motivated by quite contrary emotions, is patently inimical to
can public not know the facts.' committments, but he asked them not to pressure him for at
Israel. Hopkins was reliably reported to have said recently:
In Virginia, Hopkins charges
The Balfour Declaration is a fraud; the Partition Decision of 1947
least four weeks . . . This was interpreted to mean that within
that a 'conspiracy of silence'
was bought with 30 pieces of silver; therefore, Israel has no
four weeks he may come up with some kind of a proposal on
• right to exist.' In his public utterances on Arab-Israeli issues, has been responsible for a
permitting Israel to acquire defensive arms in this country.
misunderstanding of Middle
Hopkins, using a trick made familiar by Father Coughlin, has
Eastern issues, while, in New
in effect been saying that unless Jews in America support what
York, he does his best to form Communal Trends:
he wants them to support, a wave of anti-Semitism may sweep
Much has been said lately of the growth of the Jewish Com-
one."
the country. Consequently, in a patently contrived effort to
head off any charges of anti-Semitism, a Jew, Elmer Berger,
It is most unfortunate that we munity Centers . . . But the bitter truth is that young adult
has been given office, and prominence, as a member of the should be called upon, in an membership in the Jewish Centers is constantly declining . .
Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Middle East. hour of crisis for our kinsmen, It is no secret that the number of young people—between 18 and
The significant point here, however, is that Berger is also one to devote so much space in de- 30 is currently about five percent of the general membership of
of the leading lights in the American Council for Judasim, the fense of justice and fair play; the Jewish Centers, whereas in the period before World War II
one Jewish entity which violently opposed the creation of Israel. and to expose so evident an it exceeded 30 percent . . . In some community centers the young
"It is worth noting here that at the beginning of this month, anti-Jewish movement as that adult membership is even less than five percent and all indica-
the executive secretary of the American Friends of the Middle sparked by the Thompson-Hop- tions point to a further decline . . . This development is causing
alarm and concern among those who look upon the Jewish
East, William Archer Wright Jr., defended the Syrian ambassa- kins clique. But the venom
dor against charges of anti-Semetism, and went on to say that being spread so thick that _ it Centers as a source of young Jewish leadership in communal
Dr. Farid Zeinedinne was 'well aware that . . . Zionism and reacts not alone against Israel life ... A questionnaire relating to young adults was sent to 100
Judaism are two different things; and that he bore no ill will but also against all who seek Jewish Community Centers throughout the United States .
against the later.
to protect the lives of Israelis. Returns from 56 Centers were far from encouraging . . . They
"Here again, the leaders in the campaign of vilification Therefore, the facts must be show that these Centers have only 5,707 young adults among
and abuse directed at Zionism are the American Friends of the made known, and all who strike a total membership of 138,389 . . . In other words, men and
Middle East.
the tracks of hate-spreaders women between 18 and,30 years of age constitute only slightly
"First, a brief word—probably quite unnecessary—defining should assist in exposing them over four percent of the membership . . . If this figure holds up
.what Zionism is. A Zionist is an individual who, having once and in enlisting American un- as representative throughout the country, it would mean that
supported the , creation of- a , National .Homeland for the Jews derstanding of the true facts in Jewish Community Centers have suffered about a 50 percent
in Palestine, now approaches the emerged State of Israel as the a sad case now being so miser- loss in their young adult membership during the last year alone.
spiritual center of civilization. On the contemporary ably muddied and bungled in . . Jewish Center experts doubt whether returns from Centers
which did not reply would increase the four percent figure . . .
American scene, the specific objectives of the Zionists are to world capitals.
They assume that most of these Centers probably did not reply
gain U. S. supports in securing Israel's borders, in strength-
to the questionnaire because they had very little or nothing to
2 Detroit Jewish News
ening her economy, and in enlarging her democracy. In-
report.
Friday, March 2, 1956
spiring these efforts is a profound faith in Israel's historic

Mary Caplan Honored by E. Schaver
With Scholarship Fund; Joel Rosen's
Recital Highlights Music Club Event

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