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
+ssociation.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co.. 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 48235 Mich.,
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK
CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Advertising Manager
Business Manager
CHARLOTTE HYAMS
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the ninth day of Adar II, 5725, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion: Levit. 1:1-5:26; Deut. 25:17-19; prophetical. portion: I Samuel
15:2-34.
Licht benshen, Friday, March 12, 6:17 p.m.
VOL. XLVII, No. 3
Page 4
March 12, 1965
An Honor Roll of American Firms
When a firm yields to the Arab threats
and refuses to deal with Israel we are quick
to register a protest. When individuals or
groups or governments yield to blackmail,
we show indignation.
There is also a long honor roll of firms
that have refused to yield to the Arab boy-
cott, industries in America that have stuck
to fair dealings and have rejected threats
of Arab reprisals. They should be known.
There are many of them. The Hilton Hotels
have refused to kow-tow to Nasser just
because there is a Hilton in Cairo, and there
soon will be a Hilton in Tel Aviv. There are
other firms that have rejected threats from
Cairo.
Let it be known, therefore, that there has
been compiled a list of firms that is just in
its dealings with Israel. As compiled by
ADL, firms that have rejected Nasser threats
include:
Adamas Carbide Corp., Alden Interna-
tional Products Co., American Biltrite
Rubber Co., American Export Lines, Beau-
nit Mills Inc., Joseph Bancroft & Son, E. W.
Bliss & Co., Brunswick International,
Burnhim & Co., Chase Manhattan Bank,
Chemstrand Co., Columbia Broadcasting
System Construction Aggregates
Corp., Dawe's Laboratories Inc., Dayton
Rubber Co., Dun & Bradstreet, Emerson
Radio.
Fairbanks Whitney Corp., First Penn-
sylvania Banking & Trust Co., Foster Grant
Co. Inc., Foundry Design Co., General
Tire & Rubber Co., Genesco Inc., Gulton
Industries Inc., H. J. Heinz Co., Helena
Rubinstein Inc., Helene Curtis Industries
Inc., Hilton Hotels Corp., Hudson Pulp &
Paper Corp.
International Business Machines World
Trade Corp., Inland Steel Co., Interna-
tional Paper Co., Israel Investor's Corp.,
Jantzen Inc., Henry J. Kaiser Co., Kearney
& Trecker Corp., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Arthur
D. Little Inc., Litton Financial Co., Lock
Joint Pipe Co., Macco Corp., Maritime Over-
seas Corp., Miles Laboratories Inc., Mon-
santo Chemical Co., Motorola Inc., National
Cash Register, National Spinning Co., New
Holland Machine Co. Nopco Chemical Co.,
Philadelphia Investment Corp., Phil c o
Corp.
Radio Corp. of America, Raymond De
Leer & Engineering, Republic Steel Corp.,
Revlon Inc., Laurance & David Rockefeller
Associates, Rusco Industries, S c h e r r-
Tumico Inc., Sheraton Corp. of America,
Sonneborn Chemical and Refining Corp.,
Studebaker-Packard Corp., Twentieth Cen-
tury-Fox Film Corp., United Bag-Camp Pa-
per Corp.
United Carbon Co., United States Shoe
Corp., Van Der Horst Corp. of America,
Vineland Poultry Laboratories, Welbilt
Corp., Westinghouse Electric Corp., and
Willys-Overland Export Corp.
This list is mounting, just as that of firms
that are yielding to Nasser is remaining
static and may decline.
All honor to those who are motivated by
fairness and refuse to yield to blackmail!
Numerous Lessons of the Purim Festival
Purim is one of the very joyous festivals
on our calendar. It is preceded by a fast
day: the Fast of Esther. That, too, is part of
a great tradition: to pray for righteousness
and for God's mercy and then to be ready
for action.
In the Purim story, the action primarily
emphasized is that of vigilance, as stated in
the famous words of Mordecai to his niece
Esther:
"For if thou altogether holdest thy
peace at this time, then will relief and
deliverance arise to the Jews from an-
other place."
In this request that Esther intercede with
Ahasuerus is contained first the plea for
action and then the expression of faith that
deliverance will come to the maligned.
Purim, with its powerful spiritual note
that encourages Jewry always to be confident
in its struggle for survival, has inspired Jews
through the ages. It retains its joyous as
well as its heartening powers. Its message
is akin to that in Isaiah 54:17:
"No weapon that is formed against
these shall prosper;
And every tongue that shall rise against
thee in judgment thou shalt con-
demn.
This is the heritage of the servants of
the Lord,
And their due reward from Me, saith
the Lord."
In this spirit we await the Purim festival
and shall again celebrate it with joy, with
confidence in a better future, with an assur-
ance that "no weapon formed against us"
shall ever prosper.
Freulich's 'Soldiers in Judea'
Tells Story of Jewish Legion
Roman Freulich has retained fond memories of the Jewish Legion
in which he served in Palestine during World War I. His recollections
are vivid, and his stories of the Legion's soldiers, in this country before
they sailed for Palestine, and in Eretz Israel where they labored for
the capture of the Holy Land from the Turks, are incorporated in
an interesting book, "Soldiers in Judea," published by Herzl Press.
Freulich, a free lance writer now associated with United Artists,
also shared in several Hollywood productions, and he directed two
motion pictures.
While, as Edwin Herbert Viscount Samuel states in his preface
to "Soldiers in Judea," Freulich "is not a polished writer," he does
have "an eye for detail," and he also displays a sense for the
dramatic — accounted for by his Hollywood experiences. That is why
his story of the Judean soldiers serves so well as the first history
of the Jewish Legion.
He does not include all of the Legionnaires; that would be
an utter impossibility. There were 10,000 of them. There were
several from Detroit, and he does single out Samuel Gach, the
former Detroiter who now is the editor-publisher of the California
Jewish Voice, and he relates interesting details about Gacl -----`\
role in the Legion.
Freulich's accounts of the activities of Joseph Trumpeldor and
Vladimir Jabotinsky are especially noteworthy, and the names of many
world notables who were in the Legion — David Ben-Gurion, Itzhak
Ben-Zvi, Jacob Epstein, Louis Fischer and many others — contribute
to the special interest that is certain to be shown in this historical
analysis of the first Jewish fighting force since the Dispersion.
"Soldiers in Judea" has the added importance of having traced
the background of Jewish military efforts in the present century
through the formation and functions first of the Zion Mule Corps,
the formation of which was approved by General Maxwell, who com-
manded the British forces in Egypt. Its formation resulted from
the urgings of Trumpeldor and Jabotinsky. The famed friend of
Jewry, the Irishman Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson, was the com-
manding officer. There were 727 volunteers in this force, and 600
of them were sent to Galipoli. Trumpeldor was Patterson's chief
assistant. Many of the men received citations for bravery but when
the British exacuated Galipoli the troops were returned to England.
Before the disbanding of the Mule Corps, some of the men were
ordered to Ireland to suppress the uprising. They refused to accept
such an assignment. That was the end of the Zion Mule Corps and
the beginning of the Jewish Legion.
Trumpeldor and Jabotinsky commenced their campaign
a Jewish Legion. After some difficulty, permission was grant
for the formation of the Legion and again Patterson was its
commander. There was recruiting in the United States, some
activity in Detroit, and Windsor was one of the enlistment centers.
Freulich's account deals with the experiences of many of the
men in the Legion. He refers to Gershon Agronsky (later he changed ,<1
his name to Agron) as having strutted.
Gach gets special attention and Freulich makes note of the
former Detroiter's illness and his. experiences during the trying days
of the impending battles.
lished that of the 6,000 men who were on
There is an account of the visit paid to the Legion by Justice
duty at Auschwitz during four years of opera- Louis D. Brandeis, who was accompanied by Jacob de Haas.
Germans Who Oppose Crime Exposure
There undoubtedly will be an extension
of the time limit on trying German war
criminals. But there is in evidence a lack of
sincerity in some quarters that is most de-
plorable.
In the course of the trials currently being
conducted it has been evidenced that 90 per
cent of the German people are opposad to
conducting trials of any sort. This is an evi-
dence of fear lest exposure should reveal the
extent to which most Germans have been
guilty of genocide.
During recent trials it has been estab-
i t
tion, not one German had refused to take
orders to conduct the Nazis' criminal tasks.
The guilt is known and there is evidence
of only isolated cases of anti-Nazism among
Nazi cohorts.
What a tragic record for a people that
now seeks to hide behind a statute of limita-
tions!
How well it proves that there should be
no limitations whatever on the search for the
criminals and on trying them!
The author relates how the Legionnaires had gone to Jaffa
to protect the Jews there who were being attacked by Arabs.
They went on their rescue mission in defiance of British military
orders, they saved many lives, but their action meant the end
of the Legion. It was then ordered disbanded.
Col. Patterson emerges as one of Jewry's wonderful Christian
friends. Col. Eliezer Margolin was one of the heroes of the Legion.
Freulich makes use of many ancedotes 'in relating his story. He
also tells how the term Yahalilis, after a popular song, was given the
Hebraists in the Legion.
General Jacob Dori, now president of the Technion, is one of
the famous former Legionnaires, and others listed by Freulich have
risen to prominence. His "Soldiers in Judea" is an important addition
to the history of Israel's military developments.