THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 11,
French Leader
World ORT Head
GENEVA (JTA) — Daniel
Mayer, prominent French states-
man and an active member of
the Jewish community, was
elected chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the World
ORT Union at the conclusion
of its two-day meeting here.
A former Minister of Labor
in the French government and
a one-time chairman of the
French National Assembly's
Foreign Affairs Committee,
Mayer is currently president of
the League for the Rights of
Man.
It was reported at the meet-
ing of world ORT leaders that
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee has agreed to provide $1,-
575,000 for ORT activities this
year, an increase of $75,000
over last year. The JDC alloca-
tion is to come from funds of
the United Jewish Appeal and
in part from the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany.
Emphasizing that the sum
granted by the JDC to the ORT
is approximately one-third of the
total annual requirement of the
ORT, the report submitted to
the meeting said: "Relations be-
tween ORT and JDC are not
limited to financing. In almost
every key area ORT and JDC
operate within an intimate part-
nership framework. There is
hardly an aspect of ORT activ-
ity that has not been affected
by this bond of mutuality."
Pro-Israel Article
by Soustelle in New
Monthly Periodical
A new monthly magazine,
The Mediterranean and Eur-
africia, has just made its ap-
pearance f o r
t h e purpose
of clarifying
issues
Middle East.
Its offices are
at 108 E. 81st
St., New York
28.
The editor
is A. G. Hor-
on. Checri
Kanaan, De-
troit Lebanese
editor, is a
Soustelle,
member of
the editorial board.
The first issue of the mag-
azine contains articles by
Israeli writers, and on Israeli
issues.
Reproduced is a "Letter to a
Leftist" by Jacques Soustelle,
who has just been named a
member of French Prime
Minister De Gaulle's Cabinet.
In it Soustelle made the com-
ment:
"We stood up to the chal-
lenge of Hitler and Mussolini;
yet the Leftists of today sup-
port the tyranny of Nasser and
Bourguiba, whose claims are
based on a plebiscite totaling
99.9 per cent of. the 'so-called
votes'. We rejected indignantly
the doctrine of racialism and
anti-Semitism; yet these men
of the 'new Left' show only
kindness toward the fanatics of
who openly an-
Jewish Writers Gain .Pan-Arabism
nounce . their intention to de-
Prominence in Canada stroy the State of Israel,. the
State which gives refuge and
Former Detroiter Ruth Brot-
to ' a Malkin survivors of
man writes in a signed article ' hope
Hitler's massacres."
in the Canadian Jewish chron-
icle of a recent Authors' Con-
vention in Canada at which the Auschwitz Documents
efforts of Canadian Jewish writ-
Delivered by Russia
ers were highlighted.
LONDON (WJA) — Docu-
"The trend of young Jewish
writers in producing novels, ments concerning Oswiecim
plays, poems, vignettes, etc. is (Auschwitz) concentration camp
proportionally far greater than referring, among other things,
the general membership in re- to .the. hiliilding of crematoria
lation to non-Jews in the Can- by a German, firm, the activi-
adian Authors' Association." ties of Dr. Clauberg, police
From meager beginnings just -photographs of prisoners, and
eight years ago, Jewish writers lists of prisoners killed by the
in the conference have begun Nazis shortly before the 'libera-
to make their mark. with this tion of Oswiecim (about 2,000
year's University of Ontario names), have been handed to a
President's medal and a check delegation' of the Polish "Union
for $250 going to Sidney Katz, of Fighters • for Freedom and
Democracy," a "group of Polish
for a magazine article.
Brotman also writes of the activists. representing. the Polish
president of the -CAA Prof. resistance movement and for-
Watson Kirconnel, a non-Jew mer prisoners of Nazi camps,"
who not only reads and writes by the Soviet War Veterans'
Yiddish, but reviews all Jewish Committee in Moscow.
This was reported by J. Izy-
poetry and literature sent him
and translates and prints them dorczyk, chairman of the Polish
delegation, according to the of-
in the Canadian Quarterly.
ficial Polish news agency, the
Jewish News Classified Number World Jewish Congress Infor-
mation Department learns.
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which produced the records.
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a presidium member of the
Union of Orthodox Rabbis, is a
famed Talmudic scholar and
lecturer of the "Talmudic Semi-
nar of the Air," a weekly series
of Talmud lectures broadcast on
radio in New York.
Canada Aroused at Communist's Anti-Jewish Talk
MONTREAL (JTA) — An
anti-Jewish speech delivered at
a meeting of the Ontario Com-
munist Party by a leader of
the party, who was introduced
under the party name Yakir,
has provoked indigation in the
press here following publica-
tion of the full text of his
speech, which was circulated to
all Communist clubs in On-
tario "for information pur-
poses."
The speech, which follows
the line of the anti-Jewish
interview given by Nikita S.
Krushchev, Soviet Premier, in
Moscow to the French news-
paper Le Figaro last April,
was devoted, to the fact that
Jews are leaving the Com-
munist Party en masse in pro-
test against the suppression of
Jewish cultural life in the
Soviet Union.
Declaring that Jews, more
than other people, have ac-
quired "bad traits" because of
the abnormal situation in which
they lived for 2,000 years, the
Canadian Communist leader
said:
"Why have Jews come to the
party and gone away? Jewish
working people, who had
come to Canada 30-40 years
ago, came from European coun-
tries where they were op-
pressed socially and nationally
without rights, lived in poverty.
It was natural that they should
pin their hopes for a better
life in the revolutionary
struggle to change their con-
ditions of life for the better,
and they joined in the fight-
Ida Silverman Fund
Makes Possible 33
Israeli Synagogues
Mrs. Archibald (Ida) Silver-
man, of Providence, R. I., in-
forms us that the fund she has
established for the construction
of synagogues in Israel already
has completed 20 synagogue
buildings and that 13 more are
under construction.
Thus, a total of 33 synagogues
will have been established by
the Israel Synagogue Building
Fund within a few weeks.
It costs $10,000 to construct
a two-room synagogue, Mrs.
Silverman painted out.
Israeli and American leaders
are commending Mrs. Silverman
for her sponsorship of this
project which is enabling settle-
ments without means to acquire
houses of worship.
ing ranks. And living in Canada
at that time in conditions of
poverty and exploitation, they
continued their struggle
through the Communist Party.
"With the beginning of the
second world war, Canada en-
tered a period of war and post-
war prosperity and large sec-
tions of Jewish workers took
to business, opened up small
shops, and in time they re-
grouped themselves socially.
Things here were not too bad:
they became prosperous.
"Why did non-Jewish work-
ers fail to become prosperous?
We know from experience that
in the capitalistic countries
Jews have been discriminated
against, have not been per-
mitted into the basic industries
of the countries. The Jew re-
mained therefore, in the light
industries and in commerce.
A miner cannot open up a
mine in his house, an auto-
mobile worker cannot estab-
lish in his home an automobile
plant. It takes million to do
it, apart from this.
"A needle trades worker can
indeed put up a sewing ma-
chine in his cellar, and he has
a shop. A Jewish peddler takes
a suitcase with small articles,
goes from door to door tryirig
to sell, and he is already a
merchant. A Jew has historic
inclinations to commerce, and
in prosperity years he worked
himself up. A wage earner in
the basic industries can never,
in years of crisis or in years
of prosperity, become well-to-
do. At present the largest part
of the Jews no longer belong
to the working class, engaged
in production of goods, in fac-
tories and plants.
"It is, therefore, understand-
able, why they left the party.
A party of Communists is not
a charitable institution. Since
they no longer belong to the
working class, they don't any
more see in the party the de-
fender of their social interests.
Correct is the principle; with
the change in the social posi-
tion, the social outlook and
thinking also changes.
"For a considerable time
they were thinking of leaving
the party. They didn't have
enough 'courage' for such a
step. The more 'courageous'
had left before. They were
waiting for such an opportunity
and such an opportunity ar-
rived. Jewish culture in the
Soviet Union. Behind this
screen they found it possible
to hide petty ambitions, the
truth, their cowardice and they
left."
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Buchenwald Butcher
Asks New Trial
BAYREUTH, Germany,
(JTA) — An appeal was on
file by Martin Sommer against
his conviction in a Bayreuth
court to life imprisonment for
the murder of 25 inmates of
the Buchenwald concentration
camp after a trial which was
widely covered by the West
German press.
Members of the audience in
the courtroom were restrained
from trying to lynch Sommer
after the one-time "Butcher of
Buchenwald" pleaded not guil-
ty and told the court that he
had never treated anyone bru-
tally and that he had not killed
"a human soul" on his own ini-
tiative.
The close of the trial was
marked by a verbal clash be-
tween the court president, Dr.
Paulus, and a defense attorney
when the latter declared that
inmates of the concentration
camp had been nothing but "a
hodge-podge and criminals."
Leading West German news-
papers, devoting considerable
space to coverage of the case,
have pointed out that many guil-
ty members of the Gestapo and
the SS were still at large. The
German press also drew the
moral that young Germans must
be brought up to repudiate sad-
ism in every form.
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