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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, February 26, 1971

AFL-CIO Reaffirms --
Solidarity Witt" Israel

MIAMI BEACH (JTA)—The ex-
ecutive council of the AFL-CIO
meeting here this week adopted a
resolution that stressed the impor-
tant role of the United States in
guaranteeing world peace.
The top echelons of American la-
bor warned that Soviet interven-
tion in the Middle East was against
the American policy of peace and
freedom and that "the AFL-CIO
reaffirms its wholehearted solider-,
ity with Israel and its labor fed-
eration, Histadrut. We urge our
government to give Israel full dip-
lomatic, political and economic
support for her efforts to secure a
just peace settlement"
A second resolution on the right
of Jews to leave the Soviet Union
demanded that Jews be allowed to
exercise their rights to leave for
Israel and other lands.

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75th • AnniverSary of Herzl's `Jewish State'

By JOSEF FRAENKEL
Feb. 14 marked the 75th anni-

versary of the publication of "The
Jewish State" by Theodor Herzl,
which laid the foundations for the
Zionist movement and the present-
day state of Israel.
Theodor Herzl's occupation with
the Jewish problem began in his
student days. He used to read
books on the Jewish question and
participate in the debates on Jews
in the students' corporation "Al-
bia," where he put in several
hours almost daily, but where he
soon came to be regarded with
mistrust. Years before the last
world war, while studying the ar-
chives of the "Albia," I spoke to
one of its oldest members, a man
who had known Herzl, and he told
me that Herzl's friends consid-
ered him an "alien element." He
was the only Jew in "Albia" to
revolt against the "German Wel-

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PARIS. (JTA.--Ali
authori-
tanschauung" and because of his king of Italy; by Pope Pius X
views was nicknamed "Tancred, and other leading statesmen and ties liave:started.,tlfe expropriation
of land on which the Jewish ceme-
Prince of Galilee." When in March, personalities.
1883, he learned that a member of
England officially -- - recognized tery in, Oran is located, it was _
"Albia" had given an 'anti-Semitic the authority of the Zionist Organi- learned here. The Jewish consis-
speech and that his student-friends zation, and with the approval of tory in Oran said that , about 2,500
had participated in a Pan-German the government an expedition was bodies would have to be exhumed
demonstration, he resigned from undertaken to El Arish to study and re-buried elsewhere.
the corporation.
the possibilities for Jewish settle-
From that moment on the Jew. ment in that territory. But the
project
was dropped. Then the
ish problem gave him no rest.
As a journalist, he wanted to British government offered East
Africa
(Uganda),
but after heated
write a Jewish novel which, in
the end, turned out to be his play discussion within the Zionist move-
"The Now Ghetto." The hero of ment the proposal was rejected.
the play dies with the words: as the Jewish people were inter-
"Jews-ont-of-the-ghetto!" Then, ested only in their historic Holy
in the midst of his work on this Land.
play, came another Jewish ex-
Modern Zionism was welcomed
perience — the. Dreyfus trial in by thousands of non-Jewish writers,
Paris. Herzl sat at the press priests, Nobel prize winners, pro-
table as representative of the fessors, philosophers and members
Sat. & Sunday
Viennese Neue Freie Presse, of Parliaments; by Bertha von
sending daily reports to his pa- Cuttner, president of the World
per. Alfred Dreyfus was convict- Peace Association, Maxim Gorki,
ed, and the story goes that while Jan Masaryk, Bjoernson, G. B.
the verdict was being pro- Shaw, Mark Twain, Georges Cle-
nounced a colleague at the press menceau and Winston Churchill.
10:30 to 4:30
table who did not know that
In his Utopian novel "Old New-
Herzl was a Jew remarked: land" (1902), Herzl described his
"What does it matter if Dreyfus vision of a Jewish State: Herzl's
is convicted, after all, he is only greatest ambition was tolerance
a Jew." It was then that Herzl for all citizens, justice, freedom
decided to devote himself entire- and equality for all in a Jewish
ly to the Jewish cause. He wrote State. Herzl asked the Jews not
a booklet entitled "The Jewish to forget the unhappy situation
State: An Attempt at a Modern of the Negroes and to fight the
Solution of the Jewish Question." slave trade. The leaders of Zion-
Herzl was not yet 36 when he ism, he said, should also co-oper-.
presented his plans to the Jewish ate in preparing the independence
and non-Jewish public. But ideas of the African states.
After the First Zionist Congress,
alone are not enough. In contrast
to all Zionist forerunners, Herzl Herzl noted in his diaries: "At
was also the first great organizer Basle I founded the Jewish State.
of the Jewish people. He convened If I were to say this today, I
the First Zionist Congress in Aug- would be met by universal laugh-
ust 1897, attended by delegates ter. In five years perhaps, cer-
from all over the world. He re- tainly in fifty, everyone will see
garded Zionism not-merely as "an it." Herzl died at the age of 44,
internal affair of the Jewish and in 1949, one year after the
people," but also as a political establishment of the Jewish State,
question affecting all civilized his remains were transferred from
Vienna and re-interred in Jeru-
nations.
The First Zionist Congress form- salem.
ulated the "Basle Program," es-
FENBY - CARR
tablished the Zionist Organization,
and listened to the projects of
EDDIE SCHICK
Prof. H. Schapira, concerning the
\VARNEY RUHL
preparationi for the foundation of
J OE LOCO
the Jewish National Fund and the
STEVE MCPORE
Hebrew University.
JERRY FENBY
Herzl explained modern Zionism
MUSIC FOR BAR MITZVAHS
to the Sultan in Constantinople,
WEDDINGS and PARTIES
met the German Emperor in Jeru-
salem; was received by Ernst
GAIL
von Koerber, prime minister of
Austria, by its foreign minister,
A. von Goluchowsky, by Joseph
Chamberlain at the British Colon-
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ial Office, by the Russian mini-
sters Plehve and Witte; by the a

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reclaimed after the Six-Day War. Lipchitz says: "This will be the
crown cf my work: I have a few things to finish, but the 'Tree of Life'
will dominate my whole existence for the next three or four years.
The Hadassah ladies will have to pray for me."

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Aldo Moro and Senator Pietro
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next few weeks.
Moro's four-day visit early next
month is in response to an invita-
tion extended to him by Israel's
foreign minister, Abba Eban, when
he was in Italy- last year. Nenni,
founder anti= until recently ; leader
of the Socialist Party, wilr - be in
Israel for. a short tour:
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Israel recently, following those
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