THE JEWISH NEWS
Futile Plea by Dove of Peace
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Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
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 35, Mich.,
VE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Circulation Manager
Advertising Manager
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twentieth day of Adar Sherri, 5717, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Shernini, Parah, Lev. 9:1-11:47, Muni. 19:1-22, Prophetical portion,
Ezek. 36:16-38.
Licht Benshen, Friday, March 22, 6:28 p.m.
VOL. XXXI—No. 3
Page Four
March 22, 195'1
There Must Not Be Another Munich!
The world faces the danger of a repe-
tition of the Munich betrayals which pre-
ceded the tragic second world war.
Shocking bargaining is going on be-
hind the scenes. 6First Dr. Ralph Bunche
was reported to have acceded to Egypt's
right to govern the Gaza Strip, then came
a denial from Bunche that he had issued
such orders, and on the heels of his denials
an Egyptian governor marched in, con-
trary to decisions of the United Nations
that the area was to be governed by the
United Nations Emergency Force.
• It is no wonder, therefore, that the
term "betrayal" is now bandied around,
that there are charges of high-handed
Welcome, Mr. Briscoe
The remarkable thing about Robert
Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland,
is that he has the courage of his convic-
tions and stands up for his rights. This
became evident on two major occasions:
when' he allied himself with Eamon de
Valera, in the militant nationalist Sinn
Fein movement in Ireland, and joined the
forces of Vladimir Jabotinsky in the fight
for Jewish rights during the critical years
when the great British Empire had to be
challenged by world Jewry to live up to
promises for the establishment of the Jew-
ish National Home in Palestine.
Now, Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe is in
this country to continue his efforts along
both lines — to represent the Irish as a
spokesman for his Free State, and to en-
list support in defense of the embattled
Israelis.
He has already led St. Patrick's Day
parades in New York and in Boston. Now
he is in the process of mobilizing our
forces for the protection of the rights of
Israel as an autonomous state in the Mid-
dle East.
He has succeeded in the past -- on
behalf of both the Irish and the freedom-
seeking Jews. We are confident that the
spirit of a man who has been described by
a Detroit Irish leader as -"Faithfully Jew-
ish, Fiercely Irish" will continue to see
triumph for his two ideals- 7the freedom
of the Irish and the Jews.
Robert Briscoe has earned respect for
other reasons. He is a successful electrical
engineer. He is an observant Jew and he
is credited with having been instrumental
in introducing kashrut laws in his coun-
try. He and his wife were active in find-
ing homes for Jewish refugees after the
last war, and themselves housed a number
of them.
This distinguished guest will help our
community in a very great effort to up-
hold the hands of the Israelis in their
struggle for liberty. Lord Mayor Briscoe
comes here to spur the activities of the
great allied Jewish Canipaign, whose
major allocation is for the United Jewish
Appeal, the supporter of immigrants des-
tined for Israel from the Moslem and
Communist lands of oppression.
The enthusiasm Robert Briscoe has for
liberty invariably passes on to his audi-
ences, and we expect that to be the result
of his visit in our community. In wel-
coming him to Detroit we, therefore, are
boosting the Allied Jewish Campaign. He
will no doubt have a full house at the
Shaarey Zedek next Thursday evening.
The result of his visit here should be to
help us oversubscribe our enlarged Allied
Campaign goal. It is the only way in
which we can say to Israel that we are
here to back her up against blackmailers
and dictators who seek to destroy her. It
is the only way of our proclaiming that
we shall not permit tyranny to stand in
the way of liberty, and that we are happy
to have a - great libertarian share with us
our battle for justice.
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methods resorted to by UN officials, that
the integrity of the United States is being
questioned.
Is it any wonder that many news
analysts speak of the new Middle East
situation as packed with "double talk"
and others insist that Israel was
"double-crossed?"
Our Government can not afford to
have it said that it was a party to a
"double-cross," and if our Secretary of
State is responsible for a policy that dis-
graces us in the eyes of the entire world,
the American people should speak up in
protest against it.
While this is a matter -that was primar-
ily a UN responsibility, - no one forgets
that the Eisenhower administration exert-
ed the main influence in forcing Britain
and FrAce, and later Israel, to leave the
disputed areas. Now there are threats
again that the Nasser regime will bar
Israel's boats both from the Straits of
Tiran and from the Suez Canal, contrary
to assurances given Israel that her rights
to the freedom of the seas will be pro-
tected.
It is in order, therefore, to demand
that there shall not be another Munich,
that there shall be complete adherence
to - the assurances given by President
Eisenhower, in his letter to Israel Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion, on March 2,
"that Israel will have no cause to regret
having thus conformed to the strong sen-
timent of the world community as ex-
pressed in the various United Nations
resolutions relating to withdrawal."
The hour for a showdown has been
reached. Whatever happens, we are cer-
tain that Israel will not again submit to
humiliation, that she will acquire her
rights to free passage through interna-
tional - water s, that all the combined
threats of the Arab nations will not suf-
fice in the enforcement of her rights.
The State Department has denied
having given assurance to Israel, but if
it is true that the Department had seen
an advance copy of Mrs. Golda Meir's
address to the UN General Assembly on
March 1 and had made some changes in
it, then it must be viewed as a pledge
and the State Department must be held
to its assurances.
We pray that our Government should
not again have to be asked to make good
on its promisory notes, and not to permit
the assurances and encouragement given
Israel to be defaulted. A firm stand by
the United States—as firm as that which
was taken against her 'best friends„ in-
cluding Israel—will assure world peace.
Any other stand will perpetuate chaos
and lead to world warfare.
What's to Be Done?
A legitimate question is posed by
those who are anxious to help Israel and
to assist in avoiding a war in the Middle
East: what's to be done?
It is becoming evident that the time
has come for all libertarians to let their
voices be heard against a betrayal of
Israel, to demand justice in the Middle
East, to protest against the support -that
apparently is being given Egypt's dictator
Nasser by UN elements, after he had gone
down for a count of ten last November.
This is the time to bombard the White
House, the State Department and our rep-
resentatives in Congress with requests for
action for Israel's defense and with de-
mands that U. S. promisory notes be
honored.
The time has come to demand that
technical aid be restored to Israel and
that the ban on travel to Israel should
be removed forthwith.
Congress 1956 Institute Annual
Reviews World Jewish Affairs
While the population figures of Jewish communities through-
out the world—already enumerated in our issue of Feb. 15—
forms one of the most important chapters in "The Institute An-
nual 1956" of the Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish
Congress, it is only one of the basic questions covered in this
volume.
Wolf Blattberg's analysis of cultural Jewish developments
is a very important portion of the book. Similarly, Dr. Jacob
Lestschinsky's studies of migrations and geographical distribu-
tion of the Jewish people and Gerhard Jacoby's analysis of Un-
ited Nations activities, are valuable collections of data.
Dr. Nehemiah -Robinson's review of the reparations, resti-
tution and compensation status in Germany and Austria, and
their implementation, provide authoritative information on one
of the most vital subjects that has faced Jewry in the present
era.
The reports on various countries include the Arab states and
an analysis of the position of the Jews in Egypt. The section on
Poland is especially interesting in this critical period.
Other essays deal with Fascism, Poujadism and anti-Semi-
tism in France; the war criminals' question; and the anti-Semi-
tic issue in the United States.
The latter section makes reference to a story in the Michi-
gan Catholic regarding the flood, as of last April, of anti- Semitic
propaganda that is reaching newspapers in this country, "coming
from a variety of unknown or half-anonymous sources—an indi-
cation that the sheets were still very much alive." A number of
these sheets are mentioned in the article.
Congress Survey of World Jewish
Press Lists 1 036 Publications
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A revised edition of "The Jewish Press of the World," by
Josef Fraenkel, published by the cultural department of the
World Jewish Congress_ (55 New Cavendish St., London, W. 1,
England), contains all the basic facts regarding the publications
—daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly—of Jewish communities
throughout the world.
The 80-page brochure contains the facts about 1,036 publica-
tions. It provides the results of a statistical survey, based on
geographical and linguistic distributions.
A new feature in the revised edition is an index of the
editors, editorial boards, political affiliations and circulation of
most of the periodicals.
There are a few errors. For instance: a weekly listed as
still published in Chicago is hardly ever seen by any one other
than advertisers. Copies that have been seen do not carry any
news, and the jokes that are reprinted periodically—in rotation—
and a few features, also frequently reprinted, hardly rate to be
called contents of a newspaper.
This survey also lists more than one Jewish weekly in Mich-
igan: that, too, is an error.
There are, also, many exaggerated circulation figures.
The largest number of publications is in Asia, which is
credited with 422. But of this number, 416 are printed in Israel,
and it would have been proper, perhaps, merely to list Israel
rather to refer to the entire continent of Asia. Of that total,
22 are daily papers, 73 weeklies, 18 fortnightlies, 131 monthlies
and 1'78 other papers.
The second largest number of Jewish newspapers appears
in the United States-254, three of which are Yiddish dailies, 74
weeklies, 16 fortnightlies, 76 monthlies and 85 in other cate-
gories.
Europe has the third largest number-158—also with three
Yiddish dailies. -
Central and South America has 123 papers, including four
Yiddish daily newspapers. There are 45 papers in Africa, 18 in
Canada—two of them Yiddish dailies—and 16 in Australia and
New Zealand.
Linguistically, the 1,036 periodicals are divided as follows:
Of the 34 dailies, 14 are Hebrew, 13 Yiddish, two German, one
each in English and French and three in other languages.
By virtue of the large number of English weeklies-82;
monthlies-115; fortnightlies-17; and otherS-138, making a total
of 353 English publications. The English publications constitute
34.07 per cent of the total, while the Hebrew are 28.38 per cent
of the total.