'THE JEWISH NEWS

Time to Aid Israel's Defense

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 Post Office, Detroit, Mich. , under Act of March 3, 1879

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

SIDNEY SHMARAK

FRANK SIMONS

Editor and Publisher

Advertising Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Hol Hamoed Passover Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, Hol Hamoed Passover, the folloiving Scriptural selections will be read in

our synagogues:

Pentateuchal

portions,

Ex.

33:12-34:26,

NUM.

28:19-25.

Prophetical portion,

Ezek.

36:37-37:14:

Readings of the Torah for Concluding Days of Passover:
Pentateuchal portions: Monday, Ex. 13:17-15:26, Num. 28:19-25; Tuesday, De-ut. 15:19-16:17,
Num. 28:19-25. Prophetical portions, Monday, II Sam. 22:1-51; Tuesday, Is. 10:32-12:16.

Licht Benshen, Friday, March 30, 6:37 p.m.

VOL. XXIX. — No. 4

Page Four

March 30, 1956

Urgency of the Allied Jewish Campaign

The Weapons WE Can Give to Israel

Our Allied Jewish Campaign, has been
in progress, unofficially, through pre-
campaign activities, for a number of weeks.
But its official opening, marking commun-
ity-wide participation in the drive, has
been set for Wednesday evening, April 4.
It is a date of greatest significance in our
community and for Israel.
Responses so far received to Allied
Jewish Campaign appeals are ,heartening.
In most cases, contributors are adding to
their last year's pledges, to swell the
United Jewish Appeal Emergency Fund.
It is a pattern that must be followed by
the community at large if the emergency
needs are to be acquired.
This year's campaign serves as a call
to action to our people to stand on guard
in defense of the positions we have helped
to create in Israel. Eight years ago we
were partners in the establishment of the
Jewish State. For decades previous to
1948, we assisted in the settlement of tens
of thousands of Jews in the Holy Land.
Now the time has come not only to pro-
vide additional means 'for the settlement
of more Jews who seek haven from anti-
Jewish persecutions in the strictly Jewish
environment of Israel, but also for the
defense of the positions of those who make
up the Jewish State.
* * *
Such defense is not a mere Jewish
need: it is a human obligation to a people
that is threatened with extinction by
unfriendly neighbors, and it is an obliga-
tion in the quest for world peace. The
unfortunate war threats in the Middle
East no longer involve. Israel alone. They
are dangers to the peace of the entire
world. What we do here, therefore, to
help avert a war in that area, is part of
the international effort to protect the
peace of mankind.
Israel's security depends on the firm
stand to be taken by the nations of the
world against aggression from the Arabs.
It is dependent upon the security of Israel
and on the Jewish State's ability to defend
itself. An editorial comment in the Man-
chester Guardian adequately sums up this
angle, especially in its application to the
requests that are being made of the United
States and Great Britain for defensive
arms for Israel. We quote it:
"Israel has been given a little reassur-
ance in the last few days by obtaining
planes from France. But there is no sign
yet of a response to its appeal to America
for defensive arms. No single measure
would have so much effect In bringing
Colonel Nasser back to cautious policies
as a demonstration that he could not hope
to destroy Israel. That would bring a
pause in the inter-Arab conflict as well
as in the preparations against Israel. It
is extraordinary that this stabilizing
measure is not taken."
There is another "stabilizing meas-
ure": the word that must go forth from
Israel's kinsmen that we are aware of the
the dangers, that we are concerned over
the war threats, that we are determined
to exert all our influence for peace, that
we are dedicated to the proposition that
all Jews who are subjected to persecutions
must be rescued, that we are determined
to keep Israel's doors open for all who
seek haven there.
* * *
If, as the Manchester Guardian pointed

much effect in bringing Colonel Nasser
back to cautious- policies" as much as de-
fensive arms for Israel from the United
States, it is equally logical to assert that
"no other single measure" would have as
much effect as the aid that is provided for
Israel by American Jewry. As long as we
stand by Israel and refuse to let our kins-
men down, the young state will be secure.
As long as we affirm and reaffirm that a
threat to the existence of an entire people
will be treated. as if it were also a threat
to us, Israel will know that she is not
alone in the fight for security and justice.
The Allied Jewish Campaign symbo-
lizes this kinship. It represents such a
message to the people of Israel. It is a
warning to the enemies of peace in the
Middle East, to those who persecute Jews,
that we are determined to keep the door
to freedom open for the oppressed.
It is in behalf of such a program that
we must close ranks, that • we must clasp
hands with the Israelis. They are seeking
defensive arms through diplomatic chan-
nels. They shall have our philanthropic
dollars with which to welcome newcom-
ers who are in dire need of havens of
refuge in the land that is today the only
genuine democracy in the Middle East.
We must provide them with the means
with which to carry on their work of res-
cue, in order that they should not be
handicapped in their economic and mili-
tary struggle by demands for action; in
the field of rescue and rehabilitation: which
is our responsibility as much as theirs; in
a sense, more than theirs.
* * *
- Because this is our "one single meas-
ure" for action, the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign is a great duty in an hour of need.
That is why the date of April 4 is so vital
on our calendar.
There is much to be said for the Allied
Jewish Campaign's objectives in many
other areas of human endeavor. The many
causes provided for by our gifts include
our own community's educational, health
and recreational agencies. Without them
we are denuded of the basic elements of
group life. Without them, we are skele-
tons. Without them, we perish as a people.
We speculate on the assumption that these
needs are recognized and understood, that
they will not be ignored, that we shall be
as generous to them as we are to Israel.
Emphasis upon Israel, however, be-
comes a necessity under the trying condi-
tions in which the world finds itself today.
The honor and dignity of world Jewry is
linked wtih the status of Israel. The self-
respect of American Jewry is challenged.
A home has been created for the homeless.
Now that home must be protected. That
is why the regular United Jewish Appeal
funds now must be supplemented with an
Emergency Fund for UJA. That is why
we must exert all our energies to the
Detroit drive—the Allied Jewish Campaign
—in making these funds available with a
generosity that must match. the courage of
the defenders of Israel.
Israelis will not let Israel down. They
will fight for her safety. And the Jews of
America surely won't let the Israelis down
in their struggle for life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. This is one of the
battles to assure that the dignity of man
will not be lowered. This is one of the
aims in the urgent calls that go forth this
week to our great community under the

Tribute to Adam Mickiewicz

Great Polish Philo-Semite

Deserved tributes are being paid by Poland and by Polish
communities everywhere to Poland's greatest poet, Adam Miekie-
wicz, whose death occurred 100 years ago.
On this occasion, Columbia University Press (2960 B'way,
N.Y. 27) issued a commemorative valume, "Adam Mickiewicz,
In Commemoration of the Tercentenary of His Death," for
distribution by UNESCO. Another volume, by Mieczyslaw
Jastrun, was published by Polonia Publishing House of Warsaw,
Poland.
A non-Jew, Mickiewicz, who was born in Nowogrodek in
1798 (he died in Constantinople), depicted the ideal Jewish
patriot in his masterpiece, "Pan Tadeusz," published in 1834.
In this story, the deeply religious musician Jankiel is loyal
to Poland and arouses Poland's patriots to fight for their freedoms
against Russia.
While Poland was hesitant to grant equal rights to its Jewish
residents, Mickiewicz advocated their full emancipation.
Curiously, Mickiewicz believed that Jews and Poles were
destined to the task of liberating all oppressed peoples. He was
a mystic who was inclined toward Messianic beliefs.
He was an exile in France for many years for his views.
During the Crimean war, shortly before his death, together
with a physician, Levy, he attempted to organize a legion to
fight - against- Russia.
In a sermon in a Paris synagogue, he expounded Jewish
ideals. Polish anti-Semites called him a Jew while liberals said
he was poisoned by Polish reactionaries.
In the Columbia University Press volume, Mickiewicz's life
is reviewed by Jan Parandowski, pre-sident of the Polish PEN
Club. Prof. Jean Fabre, of the University of Paris, writes about
Mickiewicz and European romanticism. Maxime Leroy describes
Mickiewicz's activities in France and Giovanni Mayer about his
life in Italy.
Karel Krejci writes about Mickiewicz and the literature of
the western and southern Slays. "Poland in Pan Tedeusz," is
authored by Juliusz Kleiner. There is a section dealing with
Mickiewicz's poetry and prose works and another containing
tributes to him by Alexander Pushkin, George Sand, Ernest
Renan, Jules Michelet and Charles de Montalembert.

Albert Carr's 'Men of Power'

Dictators Exposed

Albert Carr first published his "Men of Power," the story
of world dictators, in 1940. Viking Press has just released a re-
vised and enlarged edition of this important book. It is as valu-
able—if not more valuable—today.
The author poses the vital question: "What mysterious force
enables the Cromwells and Napoleons and Hitlers to stride ruth-
lessly across the stage of human history, building, changing,
and destroying almost at will?"•
Mr. Carr has a warning for all of us: "We live at a time
when the men of power, whom we call dictators, are reaching
out to touch the lives of all of us, even in free countries like
our own'. . . You may hear them say that democracy is getting
us into trouble, and that when Abraham Lincoln spoke of 'gov-
ernment of the people, by the people, for the people,' he was
talking nonsense." .
The facts offered—through the lives of the "men of power"
analyzed in this book, teach important lessons, tend 'to guide
the reader to know the whys and wherefors of dictatorship.
There is an especially urgent warning in the chapter "Hitler
Challenges the West:" "There were many millions of Germans
who were weary of dictatorship, and who wanted no more war.
But the grOups that wish Germany to become once more a
great military nation increased their political power. A fear
arose that in time the new, armed Germany might even make
a deal with Russia, as Hitler had done. If that happened, and
war came between America and Russia, might not Germany
decide to remain neutral? Or even go over to the Russian side?
Such were some of the world's doubts about Germany's future,
within 10 years after Hitler's death."
The Stalin sketch is accompanied by the query why the
democratic and Communist peoples can not live in peace—a
question easy to ask, not easy to find an answer to.
The other dictators dealt with are Richelieu, Frederick, Bol-
ivar, Bismarck, Mussolini, Franco, Peron and Mao.
A concluding blueprint for the defense of democracy, on
how we are to be on guard against men of power, adds strength

