Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-08-10

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, PRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1045
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Tidbits   From   Everyivhere By Phineas J. Biron
AT HOME .. .
1^ 'The town ot Springfield, Mass., famous for the Spring¬ field Plan of jsro-Democratic education, recently discovered to its siiame tiiat a number of win¬ dows in tlie local synagogue liad been smashed ... If a certain letter written by Senator BUtro to a certain Jewish resident of Chicago were made public In New Yorlc, it might provoke the Jewish war veterans to a march on the Senator's home towTn with placards asking tor his impeach¬ ment . . . That Dr. David Gold¬ stein who wrote to our editors criticizing our interpretation of Father Riley's pamphlet is none other than the notorious mis¬ sionary who believes that only Jews who become converted are good Jews . . . Yet Dr. Goldstein presumes to advise Jewish edi¬ tors on their editorial policy . . . We shall, incidentally, answer Dr. Goldstein's complaint in full next column . . . ABROAD . ..    ,
)ia This year's Fourth ot July celebration in the home town of the Nuremberg laws was something its Nazi denizens won't forget so soon ... It took place in the Nuremberg Sport- spiatz, and featured, among oth¬ ers, screen star Jack Benny and harmonica virtuoso Larry Adler . . . The audience was GI, ot course . . . Don't forget to read Chaplain Teitelbaum's incon¬ spicuous letter in a recent issue of the New Republic ... He re¬ ports at first hand that after Hitler's downfall Pastor Nei- moeller delivered himself ot un¬ mistakably anti-Semitic senti¬ ments . . . The story told by a columnist that Dr. Leo Baeck, former Chief Rabbi of Berlin, re fused to name the Nazi Gesta po torturers at the Terezin con centratlon camp is a stupid tale without any foundation what^ soever in fact . . . The fixing ot prices and rationing in the Amerlcan-admlnlsterred zone of Germany will be in the hands of Capt. David Ginsburg, former OPA counsel . . .
ZIONIST NEWS ...
|8a The Labor government ot Britain will definitely Issue no less than 75,000 Immigriition vis¬ as to the Jewish Agency for Pal¬ estine within the next tew weeks . . . The Hebrew Committee of NationaUlJberaUon is due for a new lease "on life and will be more dynamic than ever . . It Is true that Senator Guy Gilette has accepted the post of politi¬ cal adviser to Peter Bergson's Committee . . . Paul Gervasi, the foreign correspondent. Is prepar¬ ing a book on Jewish Palestine . . .The Zionist Organization ot America has completed its 7th War Loan Drive with a total of $125,000,000 . . . Congratulations.
FILM ECHOES . . .
|Bb It lias Just been revealed that on a certain night of Mlay. 19-11 Winston Churchill was very much annoyed at being inter rupted by the news that Nazi Rudolf Hess had landed In Scot¬ land . . - The then Prime Mln ister had been having a wonder ful time seeing a Marx Broihers picture . . . The death of film producer Winfield' Sheehan re¬ calls that his first Hollywood success, thirty years ago, was his build-up of that era's Num¬ ber One glamor girl,- the "vamp" Theda Bara. who up to that time had been Just plain Theo- (Contlnued on Page 8)
Justice For Jews Demanded By Nazi Camp Survivors
GENEVA (WNS)—An appeal to "all the free peoples of the world" for Justice for the Jews, In the form of a manifesto which will soon t>e published through out the world, was Issued here b.v representatives of 4.000 sur¬ viving victims ot the concentra¬ tion camps ot Buchenwald, Ber gen-Belsen, Dachau. Auswitz Thereslenstadt and Mauthansen who are now In Switzerland.
I "Representatives of all other ot - Hitler's victims are called upon to gather within the United Nations and to collaborate with a view to compensation tor the damages suffered through Hit¬ ler's wai nachine and to prepare for a b aer future", the Mani¬ festo reads. "However, we mem¬ bers of the .lewish people.who In many cases are without nation¬ ality and have no place to go, are left aside. Seemingly, the world wants to forget about us. No gov¬ ernment ot our own is backing us. "We were not Invited to send representatives to the San Fran¬ cisco conference, and no mem¬ ber of the Jewish people Is par¬ ticipating in the work of the United Nations War Crimes commission.
"In the name of Jewish sur¬ vivors ot the German concen¬ tration camps, and in the name of all organized or non-organized Jews who have not had oppor¬ tunity to voice an opinion, we demand, first, equality with all other nations; second, a national home in the country of our fore¬ fathers; third, representation wherever other nations are gath erlng; fourth, compensation for damages suffered by the Jewish people.in their totality; and fifth the right to influence the migra¬ tion of Jews in former occupied countries".
"In the name of our victims and our fighters tor freedom. In the name of the heroes ot War¬ saw, Blalystok, Lwow, in. the name ot the Yugoslav, the Greek and the French ma«ulsards, we appeal to all men ot good will to come to our aid In the strug¬ gle tor freedom ot equality of the Jewish people", the mani¬ festo concluded.
Catholic Paper Says Race "Tolerance" Not Enough
HAUTFOUD (JPS)—Declaring that tolerance is "not enough" to eliminate prejudice and bigotry, the Catholic Transcript, of Hart¬ ford, Conn., editorially denounc¬ ed as "sickening" a letter writ¬ ten by Thomas .B. Dawson, pub¬ lisher of the Metropolitan News In West Hartford, praising Sena¬ tor Theodor G.- Bllbo, (D. Miss.) for his antl-FEPC stand and his attacks on minority groups. Dawson's letter, lauding Bilbo and "his friends" for trying to "save" America and complaining that "real White Christian Americans' in the North are out¬ numbered by Johnny-c o rti e- latelys fr<jm Europe" who speak with "broken accents", was read by Bllbo on the Senate floor and was Inserted Into the Congress¬ ional Record.
The editorial In the Catholic Tra.nscrlpt asserts that Dawson's letter may shock some readers into making an "Impassioned plea for tolerance". The edi torlal adds, however, that "to tolerate Jews or Protestants or Catholics, Negroes or Asiatics or Eskimos means simply to put up with them temporarily In the expectation of being eventually rid of them. Tolerance, then. Is not enough, it is not worthy of human beings What Is required is Justice arid charity".
Weizmann Demands Hew Palestine Policy at World Zionist Conference
Ben B'riths Attend War Service Council Meeting
Ed Schlezinger. member ot the general committee of B'nai B'rith District Grand Lodge No, 2, and David Cheses, Vice-Chalr¬ man of War Service for the State of Ohio, accompanied Al¬ bert A. Wolman, President of the District Grand Lodge to Michigan City, Indiana, this week to attencl the meeting of the War Service Council for the IMstrlct, today and tomorrow, (August 10-11). Reports will be made of the War Service activities, and plans will be for¬ mulated for the coming, year.
War Dept, Appoints Jewish Liaison. Relief Officers
WASMINGTION, D. C. (JPS) — The War Department has ap¬ proved the American Jewish Conference's proposal for the appointment of special Jewish liaison officers to assist with the problems ot Jewish stateless and non-repatriable persons in the United States zone of Ger many The contention of the American Jewish Conference has been that displaced and state less Jews still heid In camps In Germany, have not' been con¬ tacted by relief workers who un¬ derstand their specific problems.
The Conference was Informed that Its representatives will work In cooperation with the UNRRA which will facilitate then- departure for Europe and their activities in Germany, ¦ The proposal was originally made hy the Conference, four weeks ago, in cooperation vrtth the Board of Deputies, for Brit¬ ish Jews and the Wdrld Jewish Congress.
Danish Jews Pay Tribute To King Gustav
STOCKHOLM (JPS) — Six thousand Danish Jews,- who found a haven In Sweden during the war and have since returned to Denmark, enthusiastically greeted King Gustav, ot Sweden, on. his recent visit to Copen¬ hagen. The Jewish Community CouncU presented him with a document thanking hini on be¬ half of Danlshi Jews for his re¬ peated Interventions tor the res¬ cue of Norwegian, Hungarian and other Jews under Nazi dom¬ ination, and tor grantitig them asylum in S\yeden. In a mess- ago to the Jewish community. King Gustav replied that ele¬ mentary humanity liad prompt¬ ed his actions and that thanks are due to God tor the rescue of the Jews.
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OFFICERS  OF  PALESTINE ECONOMIC COUNCIL
NlBW YORK (JPS)—Robert A. Halpern and Samuel Felngold have been appointed co directors for the New York area in the capital expansion program ot the Palestine Economic Corporation, it was announced here by Ed¬ ward A. Norman, chairman of the Corporation's committee on capital expansion.
LO.NDON (WNS) — The first World Zionist Conference since m.'i!) opened here this week with an appeal hy Dr. Chalm Welz mann, president of the World Zionist Organization, urging the United Nations to recognize the establishment of a Jeivish state In Palestine as "one of the fruits of victory".
Addressing the opening session of the conference to the cheers o-f the delegates and. about 1,000 visi¬ tors, including many American SC! vlcemen. Dr. Weizmann ap¬ pealed to the British Govern¬ ment for a Palestine policy bas¬ ed on the acceptance ot Zionist principles and on the recogni¬ tion ot Jewish rights to unre¬ stricted immigration and settle¬ ment In Palestine. The Zion¬ ists, he said, will not deviate from the objective of develop Ing Palestine Into a Jewish state as envisioned by the Balfour declaration.
Assails White Paper Policy Pointing, out that because of the WTilte Paper only 65,p00 Jews were able to find" refuge from the Nazi terror, the leader ot the World Zionist Organiza¬ tion stressed that "if It had not been for the Impediments plac¬ ed in our way by the White Paper policy, many tens of thou¬ sands might have been saved". The White Paper, he added, "set a gulf iietween the British gov¬ ernment and the Jewish people". Dr, Weizmann .disclosed that a Zionist program on the major political Issue had been submit¬ ted to the British Government last October and May, and he asked for a speedy decision on a recent request for 100,000 cer¬ tificates to allow remnants of European Jewry to enter Pales¬ tine,
Stressing that the allocation of certificates under the White Paper was almost exhausted, he asked: "Are we then, to read over the gates ot Palestine; 'No Jews need apply here?' Could any fair-minded man read it— after all that has happened—and hot hide his head In shame?" Slmult;meously he appealed to ,all governments to gram free exit to all Jews desiring to go to Palestine. "I appeal to the con science of the world", he said, "to let my people go".
Deplores Exclusion of Jews Prom   San   FranclBco
Conference ,
He described as "a sad com mentary on. the peculiar polili cal morality of this world" the fact that States had been admit¬ ted to the San Francisco Confer enco with the ink on their war declarations hardly dry. while the Jews, who had lost 0,000,000 victims to Nazism In Europe, had more than 1000 soldiers in all Allied armies, ;)5,000 Palestin¬ ian volunteers and a iirigade of their own were "relegated to the corridor". The continuance "of this anomaly is intolerable". Dr. Weizmann said. "Is that strug¬ gle", he asked, "to bring to the Arabs all the fulfillment ot all their hopes, and to the Jews merely the reayzation of all their fears?".
Cooperation With Aiubs Dwelling on the contribution made tiy the Jews to the United Nations war effort. Dr. Weiz¬ mann said the Arabs had "tre¬ mendous gains to register In terms of political emancipation and potential unity as a result o( the last war-end the present war
—gains which 1 do not begrudge them, but which in simple truth must be admitted to be utterly incommensurate with their suf¬ ferings and sacrifices and with their contribution to the com¬ mon  cause,"
He pledged cooperation with the Arabs In a Jewish Palestine, declaring that the Arai>s in Pal¬ estine will retain their posses¬ sions, their cultural, religious and lingui.stlc Indentlty as well- as complete equality of rights. I.jibor Party Ijeaders Sup¬ port Zlonlsni Dr. Weizmann, referring to the new British Labor Govern¬ ment, said that the Zionist move¬ ment had never linked its des¬ tinies- with any political parties. He noted, however, "with singu¬ lar satisfaction" the Laiior Party leader's support of Zionism In the past. He recalled the solid vole of the British Labor Party against the White Paper and its pro-Zlonlst resolutions, stress¬ ing that when the White Paper was adopted Hertiert Morrison, now Lord President of the Coun- cU, had declaretl that that docu¬ ment would not be binding on subseciuent  governments.
He paid tribute to Winston Churchill, calling him a sincere friend ot the Zionist movement. Warns Apfalnst Prolonga¬ tion ol Agony The Zionist leader emphasiz¬ ed that the primary responsibil¬ ity of enunciating a new policy with regard lo Palestine is Brit¬ ain's, hut he recalled the dec¬ larations on the Palestine prob¬ lem by both major. American political parties and the endorse¬ ment of the Zionist cause both by the late Presitlent Roosevelt and by President Truman, Hp appealed to the United Nations, particularly the United States and Soviet Russia, "to give their approval and support to the righting of an ancient wrong". While disclosing that he had good reason tolieileve that the British Government will revise Its Palestine policy "aa soon as the European *ar was over", and that the tendency toward, postponing settlement of the question was not surprising in view ot the urgent questions on the International agenda, Dr, Weizmann warned that delay would only mean 'the prolonga¬ tion of the agony of the Jewish survivors in Europe the grow¬ ing of ten.sion, and finally a crisis,"
"Unless there Is a clear road", he said, "the position Is bound to deteriorate. Our people in Europe are going under, while in the Middle East new tacts are being created which are cal culated lo prejudge the Issue, It cannot bo expected that a peo¬ ple shoitid look with equanimity on the agony of their brothers who have survived so tearful a holocaust, and on the liquidation of their national home, the foun¬ dations of which are laid with so much devotion. I am speak¬ ing as a person for whom co¬ operation with His Majesty's Government has been a funda¬ mental article of faith amd.who for twenty-eight .years has preached forebarence In relation to Britain",
Dr. Weizmann concluded his address with an appeal to the Jews in Palestine 'not to lose heart, to atand fast and continue with set face against attempt by a handful of irresponsible men (Continued on Page Four)
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