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THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
CHARLOTTE HYAMS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 27th day of Shevat, 5725, the following scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentatcuchal portion: Exod. 20:1-24:18; prophetical portion: Jeremiah 34:8-22;
33:25, 26.
Licht benshen, Friday, Jan. 29, 5:25 p.m.
VOL. XLVI, No. 23
January 29, 1965
Page 4
RELAXATION OF
IMMIGRATION
LAWS
Zionist Role in Churchill's Career
This is a period of mourning over the
passing of the Man of the CenturYi. Sir Wins-
ton Churchill belonged to the world. That is
why President Johnson has ordered our flags
to be at half staff until after the state funeral
for the British leader.
Churchill left his mark on history. He was
more than a war hero: as an historian he
must be ranked among the great literary
figures of all time.
As the leader in the battle against
Hitlerism he must be recognized as the genius
who succeeded in mobilizing he world's forces
and international public opinion against the
crimes that were perpetrated by a madman
and by a people that conceded to the mad-
man.
He may have acted a bit late against
Nazism, but that is ascribable to the blunders
of Neville Chamberlain.
Perhaps he could have contributed a great
deal more towards the efforts to rescue Jews
from the clutches of the insane Germans.
But that was a collective sin; it was guilt in
which all the statesmen of the world shared
in a period of trials and tribulations, in an
era of a destructive war.
Winston Churchill was, as he had pro-
claimed himself, a "lifelong Zionist," and his
help in advancing the cause leading towards
Jewish national rebirth rates among the
great achievements by the most distinguished
diplomats.
On November 2, 1930, shortly after the
British Labor Government had issued a
statement, contained in recommendations
made by Sir John Hope Simpson on behalf
of a commission which proposed suspension
of Jewish migration to Palestine. Churchill
submitted by cable to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency a long article in which he affirmed
his support of Zionism and declared at the
outset:
The year 1917 marked perhaps the most
dreary and somber period of war. It was the time
when many hitherto unswerving despaired of
victory of the Allies. It was the moment when
most resolute elements of the British govern-
ment sought to enlist every influence that could
hold allied the associated nations to their task.
The Zionist movement throughout the world was
actively pro-Ally, and in a special sense pro-
British. Nowhere was this movement more notice-
able than in the United States, and upon the active
share of the United States in the bloody strug-
gle which was impending rested a large propor-
tion of our hopes. The able leaders of the Zionist
movement and their widespread branches exer-
cised an appreciable influence upon American
opinion and that influence—like the Jewish influ-
ence generally—was steadily cast in our favor.
Throughout the world of allied nations, Jews
(Zionist and non-Zionist alike) sympathized with
the Allies and worked for the success of Great
Britain and the close cooperation with Great
Britain of the United States.
The Balfour Declaration must, therefore, not
be regarded as a promise given from sentimental
motives; it was a practical measure taken in the
interests of a common cause at a moment when
that cause could afford to neglect no factor of
material or moral assistance.
He then proceeded to criticize the actions
of the British Colonial Office which had
attempted to introduce steps to interfere with
Jewish progress in Palestine and to under-
mine the Zionist program. Condemning the
subsequent Passfield White Paper, which
would have dealt a death blow to Zionism,
Churchill wrote:
"When it is asked," says the White Paper of
1922, "what is meant by the development of the
Jewish National Home in Palestine it may be
answered that it is not the imposition of a Jewish
Nationality upon the inhabitants of Palestine as a
whole, but the further development of the existing
Jewish community, with the assistance of Jews in
other parts of the world in order that it may be-
come a center in which Jewish people as a whole
may take, on grounds of religion and race an
interest and pride. But in order that this commu-
nity should have the best prospect of free de-
velopment and provide full opportunity for the
Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essen-
tial that it should know that it is in Palestine
as of right and not of sufferance. That is the rea-
son why it is necessary that the existence of the
Jewish National Home in Palestine should be in-
ternationally guaranteed and that it should be
formally recognized to rest upon the ancient his-
toric connection."
The record is clear. Winston Churchill
indeed was one of the great friends of Jewry,
one of the most consistent supporters of
Zionism. His Zionist role contributed greatly
towards the humanitarianism which marked
his active career.
We share in the world's sorrow over his
passing and we join in paying tribute to his
blessed memory.
LBJ'S Proposed Immigration Bill
Although President Johnson's proposals
for changes in the immigration laws have
been widely acclaimed, there is evidence of a
newly organized opposition to it based on old
charges that an enlarged immigration will
deprive Americans of their jobs.
Our country is, so vast, we are Fri such
great need of skilled labor, that the renewed
opposition puzzles and appalls.
But the President himself has indicated
that the measure he has proposed neither
alters the "many limitations in existing law
which prevent an influx of undesirables and
safeguard our people against excessive or
unregulated immigration," nor changes the
total number of immigrants who come to this
country each year.
He said that under this bill, the authorized
quota immigration. which is now 158,361
each year, would be increased by less than
7,000.
From all indications, it will be necessary
once again to conduct an educational cam-
paign to enlighten Americans on the values
of the President's humanitarian proposals.
When the President released his message
on immigration, Secretary of Health, Educa-
tion and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze
made this statement:
"President Johnson's proposed revi-
sions to the Immigration Law would end
the present discriminatory country quota
system—a system which has never been in
keeping with American principles of free-
dom and justice and equal opportunity for
all.
"In this nation of immigrants and
descendants of immigrants, we are all
proud of our heritage—different though
we may be from one another. We recognize
and respect those differences, for they are
the hallmark of a free society, and the
source of much of its strength.
"Let us no longer ask the people of the
world who want to make this nation their
home, 'Where were you born?' Let us ask
only if they have the skills to aid us, or if
their coming will free them from oppres-
sion, or make a family whole."
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Pearl Buck s New Book Appeals
for Adoption of the Unwanted
Pearl S. Buck, a Pulitzer Prize winner for a best-selling novel,
eminent authority on China, where she spent her childhood and where
she learned Chinese before she knew English, a strong supporter of
movements to aid the retarded, has emerged as one of the strong
pleaders for the adoption of unwanted children. She has herself adopted
youngsters of mixed blood and she pleads for the many unfortunates
without parents and homes.
Her latest work, "Children for Adoption," a Random House classic,
makes a thorough study of the subject. It is a 'review of the problems
as they affect all faiths, as they strike the needs of the less fortunate
human beings and as they are faced by social agencies.
Her basic plea is that "we must consider the nature of love,
how to give it, how to receive it. It is the loveless man and woman
who threaten our national life and culture." She suggests that "our
education of the young. expressed in factual knowledge and ideal-
child.
ism, should include respect for the unborn child, the possible
The gravest responsibility in life is to bring a child into the world.
. . . Where society does not welcome the child, where he is not
wanted, is not anticipated, and worst of all, where there is no fam-
ily to receive him, where even his mother considers him a disaster
is a
and his father does not recognize him, where his very existence
sorrowful secret, then indeed he is to be pitied. He will never
receive the respect and love due him unless he finds a substitute
family through adoption.. . ."
Mrs. Buck's impressive work is a study also of changing attitudes,
differing patterns, revolutionary occurrences throughout the world in
viewing sex.
She is critical of some of the legal aspects involved in adoptions,
and of agencies with the problem.
In her resume of the work of "a good Jewish adoption agency,"
Mrs. Buck, calling the agency she deals with "a liberal" one, states
about it:
"There is no income requirement except the assurance that the
family can support another child. There is no age limit for adoptive
parents. The only question to be answered is whether these parents are
the right ones for the child.... All that is asked is that there be room
for the baby. Families who already have children are allowed to adopt."
social
Mrs. Buck also points out that "this agency has excellent
workers and does a careful job of selection, usually, of course,
within the limitations of the Jewish faith. That it is able to do this
and maintain such liberal standards makes it an example of what
can be done to bring parents and child together when require-
red tape."
ments, though functional, are simple enough to eliminate
She enters into lengthy discussion of the merits of this Jewish
an unusual
agency, citing cases it handles, and declares that "this is
agency."
revolu-
Mrs. Buck's is a deeply moving story. It should lead in
tionizing the legal methods that restrict adoptions in some areas; it
more im-
should encourage reform in existing agencies; and what is
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portant, it undoubtedly will encourage an increase in adoptions.
interest it arouses in the "unwanted children all over the world" will
the parentlesS
certainly move many hearts to turn compassionately to
child and to provide a home for it.
'Religion From Tolstoy to Carnus'.
"Religion from Tolstoy to Camus," selected by Prof. Walter
Kaufmann, has been issued as a Harper Torchbook paperback.
morals
Containing the basic writings on religious matters, on
within the teachings of the numerous faiths, this has been prepared
as a companion book to Kaufmann's "Existentialism From Dostoyevsky
to Sartre."
Participants in this volume, as discussants of a variety of issues,
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include many noted scholars, and the views of Sigmund Freud,
Buber, Morris Raphael Cohen and many of the most distinguished
It is to be hoped that this appeal by a
responsible member of President Johnson's Christian theologians, are presented.
In the introduction to Pope John XXIII's "Speech to Non-
administration will go a long way in enlisting
Prof. Kaufmann discusses the most recent developments
support for the new proposals which would Catholics,"
at the Vatican, and the accusations against Pope Pius XII in. Hoch-
introduce an immigration policy devoid of huth's "The Deputy," and he makes the comment: "It is nice to note
discrimination and based on a first-come, that the schema on the Jews and the crucifixion is largely the work
first-served basis.
of the German Cardinal Bea, and that it was a young German (Roll
Our country's aim should be to strengthen Hochhuth) who has succeeded in getting the world to discuss questions
the humanitarian goals. May the President's that it has long preferred to ignore."
Thus, there is timeliness in the extent of the issues discussed in
efforts prove fruitful in this area of Ameri-
can activity. Many wrongs can be corrected this work which first appeared three years ago and which now, in the
by the speedy adoption of the newly-proposed paperback, is extended with additional material such as the Vatican-
regulations.
Ecumenical issue.