Friday, April 4, 1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-56

Community Called Upon to Maintain
High Level of Help for Israel and
Scores of Local and National Causes

Detroit Jewry Must Face and Master
Scores of Challenges Facing Agencies

Contributions to Allied Campaign
Fufi11 Prayers of Oppressed Jews

By ISIDORE SOBELOFF
Executive Vice-President, Jewish Welfare Federation

Chairman, 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign

Facing the day-to-day problems and minor crises of living is often more
difficult for both communities and individuals than facing a major crisis.
This is a year, when beyond the large sweeping considerations on the
world scene, we as a community, must face and master a series of small
undramatic problems. This year, while maintaining and intensifying our
support of the United Jewish Appeal in its life-saving and life-giving program
of overseas rescue, we must also support our own agencies in Detroit a
little more adequately. At the same time, we must maintain the level of
our assistance to essential national agencies.
In this season. freedom not only means freedom from bondage, but
freedom from fear and freedom from want, freedom of expression and
freedom to learn. Our case-work agency, our community centers, our
community council and our Hebrew schools help members of our community
maintain these freedoms, and help all of us live fuller and better lives.
This summer we would like to accept additional non-paying children into
our camping program. We are a large community. We are certainly able
to offer this additional evidence of our concern for children and their needs.
We have built an addition to the Home for the Aged for the chronically
ill aged. We must finance the operation of this addition so that a hundred
people who have been productive and useful members of our community
can live out their existence with the care that the Home for the Aged is
equipped to provide them.
We would like to add additional beds to the Sinai Hospital program
of providing medical care for those who would otherwise have none. Surely,
within the resources of our community, we can find a way of helping additional
people who will be sick and unable to help themselves.
Because we are a good community and an organized community, we are
able to raise funds for all these purposes and to provide overseas rescue
through the United Jewish Appeal with one annual drive, the Allied Jewish
Campaign.
This year, by working together, we will meet the small crises any good
community faces and masters, while, at the same time, maintaining our high
level of help for the United Jewish Appeal and the other great causes.

I recall the picture of the little boy carrying an only slightly smaller
boy on his back with the caption, "He ain't heavy, he's my brother."
Each time I visit Israel, that picture comes to mind because Israel, a
ten-year-old nation, is so -concerned about the plight of the Jews in Arab and
East European countries.
Although surrounded by hostile neighbors and beset by a great many
economic and social problems, Israel, as a nation, keeps immigration at the
very top of its list of continuing tasks. In this task, the government has the
complete and enthusiastic backing of its citizens, despite the fact that halting
immigration would certainly reduce their tax burden, and in all probability
lighten security worries, too.
On my last visit to Israel, I was again surprised at the amount of
activity wherever I went. Israel is building and growing at a tremendous
rate and immigrants are becoming productive members of her economy
amazingly fast.
No Israeli with whom I spoke asked that Americans help Israel. What
they did ask was that American Jews join Israelis in the humanitarian work
of rescuing Jews from untenable positions in other countries and bringing
them to Israel.
"How can we rest easily," an Israeli asked me, "when in Tunisia Jews
must still wear special costumes and are forbidden to walk on sidewalks. I can
see in this the yellow arm-bands of Hitler's Germany and I cannot rest and
Israel's government cannot rest as long as there is yet one Jew in such
countries."
Hearing such sentiments, which were repeated often and wherever I went
in Israel, made me proud of Detroit's part in helping bring Jews to Israel.
There are many. Jews in Arab and East European countries who will ask,
at whatever Passover observance they are able to arrange, or in their minds
if they are unable to celebrate this season of freedom, that next year they
may be in the land of Israel.
Our Allied Jewish Campaign, with the support of every member of
Detroit's Jewish community, will help make that prayer a reality by helping
build Israel while at the same time strengthening our social agencies and
services on the local and domestic scene.

By MAX M. FISHER

Artukovic Case Creates Shocking Issue

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — A "Madi-
son Avenue" type of publicity
campaign has begun in the
daily press to prevent deporta-
tion of Andrija Artukovic, the
Yugoslav war ' criminal who
murdered many Jews.
Yugoslavia for many years
has sought extradition of Ar-
tukoVic. The Nazi collaborator
entered the United States un-
der a false name after World
War II. He was then promi-
nent on the international lists
of war criminals. Today he
lives in luxury in California.
Artukovic claimed he was an
anti-Communist and for that
reason should not be deported
to Yugoslavia. Appellate and
District Courts of Los Angeles
ruled in his favor. But the
U. S. Supreme Court consid-
ered the charges against Artu-
kovic so heinous that the case
was re-opened on Jan. 20. The
State Department had urged
that it be reconsidered.
U.S. officials in Washing-
ton consulted O.S.S. files.
They knew Artukovic's true
record. As head of police in
the Croation Nazi puppet
state, Artukovic personally
established 24 concentration
camps. He personally or-
dered and supervised the
murder of thousands of
Jews, Serbs, and Gypsies. He
masterminded and
signed
edicts on "special insignia
designating Jews . . . pre-
vention of hiding Jewish
property . . . nationalization
of Jewish property . . . the
legal establishment of con-
centration camps . . ."
Nevertheless, such important
U.S. dailies as the Los Ange-
les Mirror-News and Washing-
ton Daily News have come to
the defense of Artukovic. In
a frontpage editorial disguised
as a news feature, the Mirror-
News made a sensational plea
for Artukovic. The Mirror-
News sought to discredit

charges against him. It
stressed that "his strongest
support comes from the Ro-
man Catholic Church, of which
he is a lifelong member."
An Artukovic supporter, the
Rev. Father Robert Ross of a
California Catholic Church, al-
leged that "the numbers of
Jewish people in Croatia
showed an increase beyond
normal figures between 1939
and 1946 . . . indeed, Andrija
(Artukovic) aided many Jew-
ish people to escape . . ."
The truth is that Andrija
Artukovic organized the mass
murder of Yugoslav Jewry.
He was a known anti-Semite
years before Hitler took over
Yugoslavia. One of Artuko-
vic's own followers later ad-
mitted: "Artukovic was fre-
quently prone to boasting
how successfully he had
solved the Jewish question
. . . 'I take their property
away first thing,' Artukovic
said, 'then I have them
killed. In this way, inside a
mere few months, I have
solved the Jewish question
in the independent State
of Croatia, not like the
Germans who procrastinated
matters with the Jews for
years.' "
The Washington Daily News,
a Scripps-Howard newspaper,
published a heavily-slanted ar-
ticle, actually an open apologia
for Artukovic. The newspaper
said his "greatest support
comes from the Catholic
Church .. . His supporters say
the charges were trumped up
because he is a leading Catho-
lic layman." He is portrayed
as the loving father of wonder-
ful children. His young daugh-
ter is quoted as asking: "Will
we have to go to court again,
mama?"
Artukovic's de votion to
children did not apply to
Jewish, Serbian, or Gypsy
kids. He had them put to
death with poisonous insec-
ticides.

Is the Catholic Church ac-
tually universally in support
of Artukovic? Archbishop Ste-
pinac wrote Artukovic during
the war: "Already there are
so many (anti-Jewish) meas-
ures that those who know the
situation will say that not even
in Germany were the racial
laws applied with such rigor
and speed. I do not think it
can bring us any glory if it
is said to us that we have
solved the Jewish problem in
the most radical way—that is
to say, the cruelest."
Archbishop Stepinac termed
Artuk ovic's concentration
camp, Jasenovac, "a shameful
stain". . ."A disgrace to
Croatia."
The Archbishop begged
Artukovic: "Let the personal
and civil liberty of Jews .. .
who after their conversion
to the Catholic Church no
longer consider themselves
Jews, but who take part in
all Croatian activities, relig-
ious and patriotic, be pro-
tected." ,
A question does exist as to
whether the legal processes of
Tito's Yugoslavia assure a fair
trial. The Djilas case increased
doubts. But the fact remains
that Artukovic is a war crimi-
nal and certainly undesirable
as an inhabitant of the United
States. Will he go entirely
without punishment?

Rescue 21 Jews
from Sinking Ship

SYDNEY, (JTA)—Twenty-
one Jews were among the
1,000 passengers and crew
members rescued from the
burning Norwegian immi-
grant vessel which sank Mon-
day night in the Indian
Ocean. The 21 Jews aboard
the Skaubryn were Jewish
immigrants bound from Pol-
and to join relatives in Aus-
tralia.

The Destruction of Pharaoh

—Painting • by P. J. Loutherbourg, British School (1740-1812)

And when the mighty Egyptian army with their heavy
chariot's pursued the Israelites, Cod said unto Moses:
"Stretch out thy hand over the sea that the waves may
come back upon the Egyptians, their chariots and their
horsemen . . . even all the hosts of Pharaoh that went iia
. . And there remained not so much. as one of them . .
(Exodus 14:26-30).

By JOHN RUSKIN

Mourn, Mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave
Wails loudly over Egypt's brave
Where lowly laid, they sleep:
The salt sea rusts the helmet's crest,
The warrior takes his ocean rest,
Full far below the deep.
The deep, the deep, the weary deep;
Wail, wail, Egyptian! Mourn and weep!
For many a mighty legion fell
Before the God of Israel.

Wake Israel, wake the harp. The roar
Of ocean's wave on Mizraim's shore
Rolls now on many a crest.
Where now the iron chariot's sweep? •
Where Pharaoh's host? Beneath the deep
His armies take their rest.
Shout Israel! Let the joyful cry
Porn- forth the notes of victory.
High let it swell across the sea,
For Jacob's weary tribes are free!

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