THE JEWISH NEWS issue of July 20, 1951 Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial Associ- ation Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075. Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $8 a year. Foreign $9 PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher CARMI M, SLOMOVITZ CHARLOTTE DUBIN City Editor Business Manager DREW LIEBERWITZ Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the 15th day of lyar, 5731, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Lev. 16:1-20:27. Prophetical portion, Amos 9:7-15. Candle lighting, Friday, May 7, 7:19 p.m. May 7, 1971 Page Four VOL, LIX. No. 8 Urgent for the M. E.: No Appeasement Israel's anniversary has passed, with all of the expected manifestations both of acclaim and disdain. Israel's friends have extended greetings, her enemies utilized the occasion to spew hatred. Israel, undeterred in her will to live and to survive, indicated her readiness to defend herself, to continue to function for the good of her people and in the interest of a basic fact: that the world dare not again condone a Holocaust, that an historic element that has proven its indestructibility will not be annihilated, as the enemies threaten, and that life must go on. It's far from heartening for people who will not submit to destruction to be com- pelled to argue in such terms. How much better it would be if neighbors could sit together in friendship and would be on speaking terms! Then an anniversary would be an occasion for celebration, not as a time to emphasize the readiness of those who are threatened with insecurity to defend them- selves and their families. But the enemies of peace are not acknowl- edging the rights of their neighbors in the Middle East and the war threats are unend- ing. Secretary of State William P. Rogers has visited the Middle East and the results remain problematic. Israel asks for talks with the Arab cousins; the latter answer by rattling their saber These are the events post-Yom Atzmaut. Now comes another fatal date: June 5. It would not be surprising to hear of additional threats, to learn about more terrorism, to anticipate additional trouble on a date that marked Israel's successful repulsion of ene- mies who were massed on her borders to destroy her prior to June 5, 1967. If it were only a matter of Israel's de- termination to carry on a battle for survival the problem would not be as serious. But there are forces outside the Middle East that are involved. The Soviet Union keeps provid- ing the sinews of war for the Arab states, making it necessary for Israel to increase her defensive media. And there are those who fail to learn the lesson of history: that appeasement of war mongers may lead to the renewed warfare which must be averted under all circumstances. Is it any wonder that Senators Henry M. Jackson, the Washington Democrat, and James L. Buckley, the New York ultra- conservative, should have concurred in views, expressed to a gathering of 3,000 at the Israel anniversary celebration arranged by the American Zionist Federation, in New York, in warnings against appeasement? Senator Jackson, who has consistently reminded our government of the dangers stemming from the Middle East and to the American position in the Middle East from the USSR, calls attention to the Czechoslo- vakian lesson that was so vital in the last world war. If another Czech tragedy is to be prevented, there must be an assurance that Israel will be supported and will be provided with means to offset the dangers that come from Soviet sources which enable Israel's enemies to carry on an intransigent position. Senator Jackson's plea is that this country use its influence to prevent further intrusions by Russia into the Middle East. He, and many others who realize the dangers to world peace from Russian actions in the Middle East, keep admonishing that full support for Israel and a firm stand with Russia can save the situation and help bring either a permanent cease fire and a possible eventual peace. A vital report about warnings to Secre- tary Rogers by Asian delegates to the South- east Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) which he attended deserves special attention. A re- port from London states that the Asian dele- gates sought to convince Mr. Rogers that it was both "futile" and "dangerous" to force Israel to pull back from the Suez Canal be- cause they view a reactivated Suez as remov- ing an obstacle the Soviets face in supplying weapons to North Vietnam. The report that the USSR has sent 25 SAM-3 ground-to-air missile batteries to North Vietnam has thus seriously weakened the U.S. position, Rogers was warned, and he was admonished not to yield to Soviet pressure in the Middle East. These matters must be taken into con- sideration as June 5 approaches. There must be no yielding to warmongers. Indeed: There must be no appeasement. World Personalities Listed i Stamps' in ' Great Jews in For stamp collectors a new Sabra book, "Great Jews in Stamps," by Arieh Lindenbaum, will prove an addition to their treasures. The small, 70-page, beautifully illustrated volume, however, has even greater value for students of Jewish history. For instance, there is the reproduction of a stamp dedicated to President Zalman Shazar. It appears on the same page as the stamp of his predecessor, the late President Itzhak Ben-Zvi. But the latter was issued by Israel, while the Shazar stamp is an Uruguayan issue. The author explains: "Israel does not issue postage stamps in honor of living per- sons; however, Shazar has been honored on stamps of Uruguay and' Brazil during his visit to those South American countries in 1966.' So, there also are two Israeli stamps that were issued in memory of President Chaim Weizmann, one upon his death in 1952 and the other, in 1967, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. "Great Jews in Stamps" is subdivided into various classifications. It starts with medicine, and the doctors honored are: Karl Landsteiner, Austria; Garcia de Orta, Portuguese India; Fernand Vidal and Elie Metchnikoff, France; and Paul Ehrlich, Federal German Republic. Many areas are covered and there are numerous revelations of many of the world's most distinguished people who were Jews. There are the inventors and the countries that honored them: David Schwartz, Hungary; Ludwig Zamenhof, Brazil; and Robert von Lieben, Austria. Then there are the many patriots: Simone Michel-Levy, Pierre Masse, Georges Mandel, Jacques Bingen, France; Herbert Baum, Rudi Arndt, Walter Rathenau, Germany; Paul ,Hymans, Belgium; Ziegfried Meierovics, Latvia. Scientists listed are: Heinrich Herz, Czechoslovakia, and four honored by Sweden: Adolph von Bayer, Albert Michelson, Henri Mois- san and Gabriel Lippmann. Israeli statesmen who were honored by their country are listed, and included are eminent Zionist pioneers. Notable among them are Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharett, Henrietta Szold, Mania Shochat, Eliezel Ben Yehudah, Zvi Jabotinsky and Joseph Trumpeldor. For their courage stamps were issued in memory of the martyred Dr. Janus Korczak, the Four Chaplains, Dr. Leo Baeck; and the Yemen Arab Republic even issued a stamp in tribute to the man who under- went a heart transplant, Philip Blaiberg. Poets, journalists and authors who were honored with stamp issues and who are listed in this book are: Chaim Nahman Bialik, Heinrich an interest is being taken in his plight and Heine, Julian Tuwim, Joseph Pulitzer, Kurt Tuchalsky, Rene Blum, it is hoped that the efforts being exerted in Sholem Aleichem, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Abraham Mapu, Herzl. his behalf will bring the desired results of Theodor Listed are the masters of the atom—Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi assuring his being settled in Israel. and Robert Oppenheimer. The Tragic Case of Mikhail Zand Academicians and responsible government officials are taking a deep interest in the case of Dr. Mikhail Zand, who is being perse- cuted in Russia and for whom there must be If Dr. Zand can be rescued, others will found a way of escaping the harassments that be assisted in escaping the Russian scourge. are threatening him and his family. Senator Robert Griffin has recognized the It is to be hoped that Senator Griffin and validity of his case and he is making an others who are laboring on this case will get the desired results in their humanitarian appeal to help secure his exit from Russia. Prof. Herbert Paper of the University of efforts. Michigan, who has met him and who knows his case, is heading a group of scholars who are appealing for him and who hope for his release. For entirely too long a • period there has Dr. ,Zand is a noted scholar. He is a been tension in our schools and threat to the Jewish loyalist. The poem he has written, unity between teachers and administrators. which we are privileged to publish on the The position taken on the question of first page of this issue, presents his views teachers' dismissals by the Hebrew Teachers' and his desire to retain his Jewish identity. There are many who seek refuge in Israel. Association may not be entirely justified, but its request for arbitration is rational. Dr. Zand's is a special case. The difficulties encountered in seeking Hebrew Union College and Bar-Ilan Uni- versity have honored Dr. Zand in absentia. the best teachers and the most responsive An associate of the Institute for Asian Studies attitudes from parents and children are seri- in Moscow Dr. Zand who has been in touch ous enough without endangering the schools with the Israeli Bar-Ilan University, has been by unnecessary squabbles. We therefore fail acknowledged as an authority on ancient to see why the teachers' request for arbitra- Iranian 9th and 10th Century poetry, on tion is being ignored and we join with them Tagic and Bukharan literature, and in Jewish in saying to the schools' administrators and folklore in, Asian lands. It is encouraging that executive committee: ARBITRATE! Arbitrate! ' 0.....01 4 , ettalidDitikairfeciekilett"eket.:YritA.i .t. 4/EiC:4 For Maimonides, one stamp was -issued by Israel and another by Spain. Others who had been honored in a variety of fields of endeavor include: Emanuel Lasker, Helene Mayer, Boris Volynov, Louis Gustave Binger, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Rubinstein, Uri Wienawski, Joseph Joachim, Hanns Eisler, Karl Goldmark, Paul Dukas, Elisa Felix, Sarah Bernhardt, Max Reinhardt, Edmund Rothschild, Al- fred Beit, Albert Bailin, David Henry Brandon, David deCastro, Ama- deo Modigliani, Issac Levitan, John Monash, J. D. Tchernichovski, Boris Gamarnik, Lev Dovator, Zalka Mate, Elsa von Guttmann, Luis de Torres, Armin Vambery, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Danielle Manin, Rene Cassin, Hirsh Lauterpacht, 'Edward Myers. 'Children of the Resistance' Simon and Schuster has issued as a paperback a valuable and de- scriptive work relating the dramatic role of youths who fought in the underground during World War II. "Children of the Resistance" by Lore Cowan describes the tragic events, the heroism of children who joined the resistance, the suffer - ings and courage of mere youngsters who defied danger. The stories related here serve as a valuable addition to the avail- able literature on the Holocaust because they indicate that not all had fallen prey to Nazi terrorism, that there were many who fought back in their unique ways—and the most unique were the methods of the youngsters who served in many capacities to overcome the dangers from Hitler's hordes and to seek cans of survival. :.:11Antilk:',TA."10616011-111;11MECIInarli • " '`""