issue of July 20,.1951 Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle com'mencing' with Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Association. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road. Detroit 3S. Mich.. VE. 8-9364 Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6. Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich.. under Act of March 3, 18'79 SIDNEY SHMARAK PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Advertising Manager Editor and Publisher FRANK SIMONS City Editor Yom Kippur Scriptural Selections, Saturday 29:7-11; afternoon, Lev. 18:1-30.' Pentateuchal portions: Morning, Lev. 16:1-34, Num. 7:18-20. Prophetical portions: Morning, Is. 57:14-58:13; afternoon, Jonah 1:1-4:11, Micah Sukkot Scriptural Selections Pentateuchal portions: Thursday and Friday, Lev. 22:26-23:44, Num. 29:12-16. 4:1-21 F riday, I Kings 8:2-21. Prophetical portions: Thursday, Zechariah, 1 ht Benshen, Friday, 'Sept. 14, 6:20 P. M. VOL. XXX—No. Page Four September 14, 1956 The Suez Crisis and the UN's Future • VOTER'S CHECK LIST: liberation ignored the injunctions of this ' The crisis created by Egypt's nation- 1. Be sure you're registered. Council. This course of conduct, per- alization of the Suez Canal offers new sisted in for over two years, has resulted challenges to those who entertain the hope 2. Study the issues and candidates. in many ships, which would otherwise that peace can be maintained in the world have gone on their lawful occasions 3. Mark up a sample ballot in advance. through negotiations and amicable agree- through the Suez Canal or the Gulf of rnents among nations. Aqaba, being deterred from trading with 4. Set aside time for voting—and get there! It was evident at the very outset that' diverted at great cost over or Israel the Suez issue would be marked by corn- other routes to their destination. No Oct. 8 is last day to register in Michigan for Nov. 6 election promises, and that some of the comprom- government interested in the preserva- ises would appear in advance to be ap- tion of the rule of law in international The Play as Powerful as the Book peasements rather than agreements. affairs, and least of all any government But when there is evidence of appease- depending for the livelihood of its people ment,. the aggressor becomes even more on maritime trade, can contemplate this emboldened and refuses to compromise. unhappy state of affairs without an Diary of Anne Frank" was a sensation when it first Colonel Nasser apparently is playing high earnest desire to bring it to an end." was "The published in an English translation. For more than two stakes and is gambling for time, in his Perhaps it is useless, however, to refer years now, as a play, it is among the great productions on determination to defy the democratic world, in spite of French threats of action to complaints within the United Nations Broadway. in the matter involving the Suez Canal Random House now makes the play available to the public. and a firm stand that may lead to war. issue, the UN having been completely Awarded the Pulitzer Prize as the best drama * , * * ignored by the Big Three when they called of the year, the stage version, based on the The major question which will remain the conference in London to discuss the book "Anne Frank: Diary Of a Young Girl," in the minds of all concerned—although nationalization of the canal by Egypt. promises also to become a best seller. to many it will be an unutterable matter— The play, based on the book, is by Frances This being the case, it is fair to pose the - Israel ships from will be the exclusion of Goodrich and Albert Hackett: The Foreword question: the Suez. And realistic people will ask: What about the United Nations? What by Brooks Atkinson, the New York • Times if Israel's shipping is permitted to be is the UN's future? If this international drama critic, adds value to the Random House of the play. barred from the Suez today, which nation organization is to be ignored in a world text In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, "The will be the next to suffer similar in- crisis, what value can any rebuke to Egypt Diary of Anne Frank" took other prizes in dignities? by the UN possibly have—especially when the spring of this year: The Antoinette Perry This issue was brought before the - it involves the much-abused little state of Award and the Critics' Circle Award. - United Nations Security Council, and, on Mr. Atkinson points out that if Anne Anne Frank Israel? Sept. 1, 1951, the Security Council adopted It is our contention, therefore, that the Frank had survived the barbarism of the Nazis she would have a resolution calling on Egypt "to terminate SueZ crisis represents a challenge to all been 27 years old. The play, and the book, deal with the exper- the restrictions on passage of international lovers of freedorh, to all those who have iences of this girl and her family and friends who were in hiding commercial shipping and goods through prayed first for a League of Nations and in Amsterdam. Just before the downfall of the Nazis, betrayed, the Suez Canal, wherever bound, and to then for a United Nations. The first failed this group was caught and sent to extermination camps. Only tease all interference with such shipping because there were wilful men who ob- Anne's father survived. He found the Diary and .later had it beyond that essential to the safety of structed justice. The second is in danger published. Mr. Atkinson says of Anne and the awards given play: - shipping in the canal itself and to the ob- because those who should be fighting for the "How jubilant and proud she would have been if she - could servance of the international conventions its preservation and its integrity may be have been in New York during the prize-giving season! It in force." lacking in courage. * * * would have confirmed the ambitions she confided to her diary * * * during the two years when she was fighting boredom, bickering Egypt has flagrantly defied the UN on We pray that all men of good will, that and misery in an attic in Amsterdam. Everything that one this issue. The matter was brought back people with courage and strength of char- says about the play, one says about Anne Frank. For the for discussion several times, and from the acter, that all who value fair play and triumph of the play lies in the delicacy with which it preserves Security Council's records of March 23, justice, will not permit the destruction of a the bloom of her adolescence and the grace of her spirit." 1954, we quote this statement by Sir Leslie "Strange how the spirit of the immature, obscure girl in great instrument, and that a strengthened Munro, the New Zealand representative: Amsterdam during the war has and revived United Nations will be able " . . . Any impartial survey of events to compel the world's great powers to crossed the Atlantic and tested the since the resolution of 1 September 1951 respect the feelings of the smaller nations: skill and sensitivity of a group of must record that the Egyptian Govern- to work together for justice and the peace adult theater people!" Mr. Atkin- ment has with every appearance of de- son -comments. "Like an alert of the. world. Out of such a triumph could adolescent she (Anne) has some come freedom of the seas—for all, includ-. mature ideas rattling around in ing Israel—and a genuine international or- her busy head. She has enough ganization that will be able to speak for all skill as a writer to express ideas mankind against warfare and for the per- easily....None of the documents This message in the 58th chapter of petuation of the Ifrophet Isaiah's highest or statistics related to the abomi- Isaiah remains the guiding keynote for nations of the Nazis is so accusing ideal: Yom Kippur: "And they shall beat their swords into as this diary. It reminds us that The Diary of Anne Frank - Yom Kippur "Is not this the fast that I have chosen' To loose the bonds of wickedness, To undo the bands of the yoke And to let the oppressed "go free? Is it not to• deal thy bread to the hungry And that thou bring the poor that are- cast out • to thy house? When thou seest the naked that thou cover him And that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?' Then shall thy light break forth like the morning And thy health Shall - spring forth speedily; And thy righteousness shall go before thee The glary of God shall be thy reward." These are Days of Awe, of 'reshuvah, of repentance, of Return to the great values of life and to Faith. Through fasting and prayer we re- evaluate our life's attitudes and reaffirm our devotion to man's sublime duties.. "For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins; before the Lord shall ye be clean." (Lev. 16.30). In our prayers for a good life, and for peace, on these Days of Awe, we ask that the New Year should be one of amity for all mankind, and of better understanding among all races and faiths. plowshares, ' And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword cujainst nation, Neither shall they learn war any more." ShaperoNursingSchool A class of 50, selected from more than 400 applicants, will commence studies next Monday, for a full year's curriculum of supervised patient care, at Sinai Hospital, at the Shapero School of Nursing. There will thus begin a new function that is certain to enrich our community's contri- butions to the health and welfare of our city. • At the formal dedication of the school, last Sunday morning, Nate and Ruth Shapero were acclaimed for their $500,000 gift—the largest in the history of our Jewish community — towards the con.- struction of this school. They have earned the gratitude of all Detroiters for having made possible the establishment of courses to help alleviate the sad condition of a serious shortage of nurses. The new school is modern in every respect, the Shaperos having provided the finest facilities to fill a great need. We join in commending them for their gener- osity and vision. the Nazis murdered not only lives but life. They murdered a radi- ant part of the future." There is an interesting reference to the direction and preparation of the play in Mr. Atkinson's Fore- word: "Once Kermit Bloomgar- den had persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Hackett to write the play, 'The Diary of Anne Frank' became virtually a mission. Everyone ap- proached the production with a particular sense of responsibility. Garson Kanin, who had under- taken to direct the performance, went to Amsterdam to meet Anne's father, who came from Switzerland to help. Although Mr. and Mrs. Hackett had completed the script, they. went, too. For 10 days Mr. Kanin and Mr. and Mrs. Hackett visited the attic, studied. the neighborhood, listened to the street and canal sounds and ransacked Mr. Frank's mind and memory for details and general impressions. By the time Mr. Kanin called the actors together, he was ,able to provide them with a point of view and a mood . . •." There are some deviations from the book in the play. It is the license of the playwrights. The Hanukah observance is a bit different, the song is injected. But in the main the theme is Anne Frank's, the powerful story is the brilliant young girl's, the reminder of the Nazi threat is one for the ages. The play, like the bbok, beckons the reader for interest that will remain with everyone from the moment he opens the very first page of the play. He won't put it down until he will have finished it.