Ernest Bevin's Anti-Semitism Ex p osed By S. J. GOLDSMITH (rrA. Correspondent in London) THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, May 12, 1967-13 Weizmann Institute Acclaimed as One of World's Great Scientific Centers The Emperor Titus is recorded Palestine during a by-election. I in history as a good king and a went down to Whitechapel and (Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.) REHOVOT — The Weizmann In- mitted after a two-and-a-half year good man. It is said of him that fixed it up with the Jews." He was LONDON—Ernest Bevin is in the there was not a day in his life referring to an incident years ear- stitute of Science was termed "one study of the institute's work by 26 News again. Like John Brown in without a good deed. Yet in Jewish lier, when East End Jews refused of the world's great scientific cen- distinguished physicists, chemists, that famous song, his body is buried tradition he is known as "Titus to vote Labor because of Lord ters" in a report submitted by a biologists and mathematicians. The commission was set up in distinguished scientific survey com- but is soul marches on. The sec- Harasha," which means Titus the Passfield's Palestine policy. mission to the institute's board of April 1964 on a proposal by the ond volume of Alan Bullock's tril- Wicked. For he destroyed the Tem- This is the talk of ate'anti-Sem- governors, which held its three- president of the institute, Meyer ogy; "Ernest Sevin, His Life and ple and laid Jerusalem waste. ite. One knows the genus when one day annual meeting in Ilehovot. W. Weisgal, in his capacity as Times," reopened the argument. We do not have to apologize for comes across it. There are more The survey commission's pro- chairman of the executive council. The saga is now brought up to ! our attitude to Bevin. It was he examples of Bevin's crude anti- 1945, and the dissolution of the posals for the institute's scientific who made a tremendous effort to Semitism, such as his references war-time coalition under Churchill, crush the Jewish National Home to "the interferring Jews of New program were welcomed by the in which Ernest Bevin served as and strangle the Jewish State in its York." I seem to have been des- board, which was presided over by Minister of Labor and member of infancy. He did not succeed, but tined tor-collect Bevin's anti-Semitic its chairman, Dewey D. Stone, of the War Cabinet. For Bevin's ac- he had a good try. And he was a remarks. I cannot remember one Brockton, Mass. tivities as Foreign Secretary in the formidable enemy. The scientific survey commis- speech of his on Palestine or the Labor Government under Clement Middle East without a couple of sion was headed by Prof. J. B. Richard Crossman, one of the An established local firm has Attlee (now Lord Attlee) we shall these Bevinisms. This is the time Weisner of M.I.T. and Prof. I. I. opening for individual with most perceptive Labor leaders, have to wait another four or five to remember Bevin as we Jews see Rabi of Columbia University, with bookkeeping knowledge and the man whom Bevin put on the years. Prof. W. A. Nierenberg of the Uni- him. Alan Bullock is entitled to his aptitude for sales order su- Anglo-American Committee of In- view—and so are we. But this is the year of the 50th versity of California, La Jolla, as pervision who is willing to quiry to do his bidding and found anniversary of the Balfour Declara- secretary. Its findings were sub- become familiar with all Bevin's original anti-Semitism him taking the side of Zionism, tion, and it is a good opportunity facets of the firm. We will has nothing to do with his later told us the other day: "The evil to have another look at the man train as office manager. Sal- men do lives after them. Bevin implacable hatred of the Jews who Dayton Jews to Erect ary and salary increases com- who finished it all. is dead now but he destroyed thwarted him and his rage over Memorial to Six Million mensurate with ability and Bevin left no diaries or any pri- forever the possibility of peace- Ben-Gurion's defiant answer to his experience. vate papers. According to Lord threats. The anti-Semitism was DAYTON (JTA) — The Dayton ful relations between Jews and Butler, now Master of Trinity Col- Write Box 796 Arabs." "Forever" is perhaps there long before Bevin knew where Jewish Community Council ap- lege, Cambridge, and during the Palestine was—I doubt if he knew proved a plan for the erection of THE JEWISH NEWS going a little too far, but Cross- war, as R. A. Butler, another mem- man is patiently right as far as even later—and long before fly- a permanent memorial to the 17100 W. 7 Mile ber of the war Cabinet, Bevin the next few decades are con- blown portraits of Bevin appeared six million Jews killed by the "could neither s p ea k, write or Detroit, Mich. 48235 Nazis. The monument will be lo- in Arab homes all over the Middle cerned. read." No wonder he left only a cated at the site of the Jewish East. few notes which are ungrammati- This alone is enough to classify Churchill kept Bevin in check as Community Center Complex. cal and illegible. Bullock had to Bevin with the- most evil anti-Sem- far as the Jews were concerned work from official papers and his ites of history. He could not very well frustrate choice of oral evidence is rather An anti-Semite is a man who tries the Jewish Brigade once Churchill selective. He makes little of Bevin's to undermine the existence of the had decided that it must be created. hates, rages, rudeness and intoler- Jewish people. Bevin did just that. A Churchillian memo could over- ance. When somebody remarked I lie started as an anti-Semite in come any opposition, even from that Aneurin Bevan was his worst sense. Bevin and the Chiefs of Staff. But enemy, Bevin exclaimed: "Not the humdrum, ordinary In October 1945, long before we under Attlee, after the 1945 elec- while I am around." Ile accused great Labor leaders, men like Iler- knew of Bevin's ideas for Palestine, tions, Bevin had a complete power there took place a press conference over foreign affairs, and he used it bert Morrison, Emanuel Shinwell and Lord Citrine, of "naging. on Europe after the war. To a per- to try and destroy the Jewish peo- fectly fair and straightforward ple by destroying the reality and ' Quisling policies." Alan Bullock question of mine about the British the dream of the National Home. forgives everything. should But Bevin had intuition, was a contribution to UNRRRA, Bevin The Jews made sure that he him less natural leader of men and an in- barked the f ollo w ing answer: fail. This does not make Haman also spired organizer on a grand scale. "Everybody will be looked after, of an enemy. After all, He gave a lifetime of service to the but the Jews must not push them- failed. BOOK AND MUSIC STORE selves to the head of the queue." trades unions and won their com- selves Courage plete trust. Ile was no doubt a ! I did not mention "Jews" in any turn, 13535 W. 7 Mile at Schaefer DI 1-0569-DI 1-3268 The smallest worm will question. If this is not the talk of great Minister of Labor, and some being trodded on; even claim that he was also a great an anti-Semite, what is? And doves will peck, in safe- Another, less offensive but equal- OPEN ALL DAY SUNDAY Foreign Secretary. His impact on the war and his ; ly telling remark of Bevin's, also guard of their brood. Shakespeare.] the ignorant and virulent reveals beneficial contributions to the ad- vance of the working classes is not i anti-Semite inside the Labor politi- in dispute. but we Jews are en- elan. He told a labor conference at titled to our own attitude and our Bournemouth. in June, 1946: "With own yardstick. There is nothing Whitechapel Jews I always got on. Why, there was once trouble over new in this. Office Manager BUY YOUR 'YIDDISHE MOMMA' Her Mother's Day Gift BORENSTEIN'S Sisters Separated at Auschwitz Reunite How to go to a New York delicatessen without going to New York. suPtrnsro ■ OF tto 2. t wu Kit wt. 4 (IL NEW YORK'S SLICED • SMOKED CURED Kosher Corned Beef Separated by the guards at Auscwitz concentration camp 22 years ago, sisters-in-law Lisa Mulch of Miami and Gope DeLange of Amsterdam are finally reunited at Miami International Airport. 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