Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1946-08-09

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Vol. 24, No. 31
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1946
D«vot«d to Amsrlcsii 4nd Jswiih IdMli
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By Phlneas J. Blron
New Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of JWB
ABOUT PEOPLE....
Sidney Matz, son of Israel' Matz was killed two weeks ago when his private plane crashed near Seattle..Sidney's father is well-k n 0 w n throughout the world as a generous philanthro¬ pist and Hebrew scholar,,He Is the founder of Ex-Lax, Inc., and has made wise use of his wealth ... Sidney, we knew hiih well, w^s the dashing type..He loved action and adventure... He had definite convictions on Jewish matters.. He, the son was much more conservative than the fath¬ er.,. But both - never argued about helping a good cause... We remember once discussing with Sidney a Jewish organiza¬ tion which was labelled left- wing... He objected vehemently to Its Ideology..But after stating
his case, he agreed to help	
Yes, we beheve that Sidney, the restless sportsman, and Inti¬ mate of celebrities, would have developed more and more into a very useful Jewish cotmnunlty leader, .notwithstanding his re¬ luctance to accept many symp¬ toms of a new changing world. His passing Is a genuine loss.. ANSWERS..,.
Is it true that John Foster Dulles distinguished adviser on Foreign Affairs contributed money to America First?. .The ¦::i;ecorij3,',o( Awerlia B^irst'wedlt, :%^:'(!onttit>Utl<)tLTirfaii'<it^pMoW Foster UullSs" of $SQQ,^.;xlie' (late was' November 5', 1941.,. Jiist one fnonth l)efore Pearl Harbor..No, the World Zionist leadership. Is divided on the question of partition "Welz¬ mann is for it and so are Lip- sky and at number of Palestin¬ ian big shots..Eabbi Sliver Is opposed to anything short of a Jewish state..,David Ben Cfur- 16n will accept partition If the Negev Is included in the Jew¬ ish region..,The Joint Defense Campaign has not been cancel¬ led but merely diseontintied for a few summer weeks, we're told....
REMEMBER THB  176...'
Henry W. Levy, Publicity Di¬ rector of the Union of Ameri¬ can Hebrew .Congregations writes "that a commission was not the easy rpad to personal safety In.World War II Is Indl-
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Winston Churchill Councils Britain
to Relinquish Palestine Mandate
if U. S. Does Not Share Burden
Joseph H. Cohen (left) of New I Navy  Committee  of  JWB   and ¦york,   who   has   been   elected   of the New 'X'ork City War Rec-
treasurer of the National Jew¬ ish Welfare Board, Robert K, Ralsler (right) Is the new assis¬ tant treasurer of JWB. Mr. Coh¬ en served as treasurer of the Greater   New   York   Army   &
ords Committee of JWB, Mr, Ralsler, a lieutenantrcommander in the Navy during the War, Is' acting-president ot the West End Synagogue, New York,
Local B'nai B'rith Lauded For Post-War Service Work '
A new kind of therapy for "closed., Vizard',' .Eattents In ths ¦y'eteran'a fibspltals- laecy .well ibe' the; putc'oine ot an "exifepliherit contJticted .by authorities of thi Chillleothe ¦Veteran's Hospital through the cooperi^lon of the Post-War Service Council of Columbus B'nal B'rith lodge.
The experiment was the out¬ growth of a series of weekly programs in which B'nai B'rith has been sponsoring trips of patients from the hospital's "open wards" to night ball games of the Columbus Bed Birds.
According to physicians at the Hospital these trips have inject¬ ed new enthusiasm and new life Into those who have made them. The contagion of this en¬ thusiasm has spread throughout the wards until now the men look forward to these trips.
At the request of physicians
at the Hospital, July 29th  trip
included a group of nine "closed
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Open International Conference Of Christians and Jews
New B'nai B'rith Yonng Men's Gronp to Bear Late E. J. Schanfarber Name
\ In memory of the late Edwin ^. Schanfarber, the newly organ- Ived 8BYM will be known as the Edwin J, Schanfarber chap: ter of Bnal B'rith YOung Men's Organization. It Is to honor the memory of an outstanding lo¬ cal leader who during his life¬ time had contributed so much to Jewish life In America. , This newly-formed group Is now open tp all men between the ages of 19 and 26, and all Interested are Invited to the meetings which are' held every Tuesday evening, 8 o'clock, tem¬ porarily at Schonthal Center,
The organization will follow a five-fold and full program (in¬ sisting of cultural, social, relig¬ ious, athletic and social service activities, '
Plun Hyrlde For Atlgnst 24th First affair wili be a hayritle and dance on August 24th. Plans
for this event are being formu¬ lated and complete details will be announced in the next issue of the Chronicle.
For athletically Inclined mem¬ bers, the chapter plans tb organ¬ ize a bowling league, which la to begin activities Sept. 15th. This league will be open to members^only, Neal Llbster ia chairma.n of the bowling league committee.
T. I. YOUlfH GROUP
T. I. Youth Group announces Its annual outjng and welner roast will take place on Satur¬ day Evening, August 31. The truck is to leave for Griggs Dam at 7:00. The charge is 50c per person. _
CsU <be Chronicle for yoqr next Printline lob. Oar work le dMlneilTe, yet reatnoftble in eoit. AD. 9994.
OXPOKD (WNS)—The Inter¬ national Conference ot Chijlav, iSJiia,-. and".'' Jew.Si litef.-"in ¦ closed sbsstoii Here and hearcl reports on prbblema of cooiseratlon be- Mveen Christians and Jews in the United States, Btirope, South Africa and Australia. •
The conference chairman, Dr. Henry Noble McCracken of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., head of the American delegation, said be¬ fore the closed meeting began that .conferees must decide whether to create an Interna¬ tional organization to function between conference sessions.
"The labor ot this conference may be described as the thir¬ teenth labor ot .Hercules," Mr. McCracken said. "We are aware ot conditions in the world and we know the people are waiting for guidance."
The conference established six cgmissions, the first deal¬ ing wjth "antl-SeraltIsm as the main 'instance, but not the ex¬ clusive one"; The others will consider "T h e Fundamental Postulates of Judaism and Christianity,''' "Religious Liber¬ ty," "Justice and lis Claims," "Mutual Responsibility in a Free Society" and "Training for Responsible Citizenship".
Everett R. Cllnchy, president of the .American National Con¬ ference of Christians and Jews, said that "laymen ot all faiths are fed up with hostilities be¬ tween religious leaders."
"People have been bombed out of their habitual moral shel¬ ters and they want spiritual values good enough for this era," he said'in a statement re¬ leased at the International Con¬ ference of Christians and Jews. "The mutual dangers all relig¬ ious groups face, and the wide- open opportunities to meet the needs of the unchurched, make religious  warfare  ridiculous."
Earlier, Rabbi Abrahams, South African Professor of He¬ brew, urged in an address that democratic nations ban publi¬ cation of "libels against an en¬ tire .community or group" to prevent "such a poisonous fab¬ rication ot the 'Protocols of the 'Ejlders of Zion.'" He urged ejftension of libel (Continued on Fage Four)
LONDO.V (WNS)—Winston Churchill, former Prime Minis¬ ter, asserted in the course of a debate in the House of Com¬ mons on the Palestine situation that Great Britain ought to re¬ linquish the Palestine mandate to the United Nations if the United States did not "come in and share burden of the Zion¬ ist causex;
At the sime time the former Prime   Minister   declared   that Britain had received the Pales¬ tine   mandate  on  condition  of carrying out a Zionist policy and that If he had been returned to office   in   the   British   elections he would have taken steps to¬ ward    fulfilling   the    mandate. Bluntly charging that the Labor Government    had    deliberately delayed   solving   the   Palestine problenj  because  it desired  to maintain  a   military   base   now that   Britain  has   "been  driven out of Egypt," Churchill called the Government's Palestine pol¬ icy "a complete failure" and "a monument   of   Incapacity."   He also accused the Government of alienating American support by the decision to quit Egypt since, as he said, "we can now be ac¬ cused of having a national stra¬ tegic motive for wishing to re- tatilh .In-Palestine •   -
•BecaJllng lifs' opiibsitloh t<3 the 'White Paper of a&39, and the services rendered by the Jewish
comniunlty to the defense of Palestine dufing the war, Mr. Churchill said that Britain had done Its "utmost to treat the Arabs In a way which their great status deserves" and that "they have had a very fair deal from Britain." He had "always intended," he said, "to put it to our friends in America from the very beginning of post-war dis¬ cussions that either they should come in and help Us In the Zionist, problem, about which they feel strongly and, as I think, rightly, on even terms, share and share alike, or we should resign our mandate, aa we have a perfect right to do," Simultaneously Mr: (JhurchlU stressed that he was "convinced that, from the moment we feel ourselves unable to carry out a Zionist policy as we have de¬ fined and accepted it and which was the condition on which we received the mandate for Pal¬ estine, it Is our duty at any rale to offer to lay down fhe mandate," Castigating the Gov¬ ernment for' having been delin¬
quent in laying down the law to the United States pn Pales¬ tine, he declared that it was the duty of Britain soon after the war ended, to "have made ¦ it clear to the United States that unless they came in and bore their share we would lay the whole care and burden at the feet of the United Nations, and we should have fixed the date by which all our troops and forces would have been with¬ drawn from Palestine."
Although the former Prime Minister made no direct refer¬ ence to the current Palestine partition proposal, he did so by implication when he asserted that the exclusion ot the Negev area from the Jewish zone was prompted by a poilcj; of making that sector a British military base in the Middle East. Colonial Secretary Defends
Federalization Scheme Following Churchill, Colonial Secretary George Hall said that the federalization proposal was still a tentative, that the "re¬ markable degree of agreement" manifested during the debate shoiild encourage the govern¬ ment to go through with its plan and that "It was our In¬ tention, U the schemb was lound soceptable,' that-<lt should'-te-'.. embodl&l Iri a tiniiteeshjp, agree¬ ment which we would prepare for submission to the • Unlt^ Nations, but it was not easy to lay the mandate at the feet of the United Nations unless there was some organization to take its place.
Referring to the eight tele¬ grams quoted in the recent Brit¬ ish White Paper, the Colonlat Secretary said that the "Hay- Im" mentioned in one of the telegrams was Dr. Welzmann. He noted, however, that the World Zionist leader was "a great Zionist and a great friend of this country" and that Dr. Welzmann was in no way In¬ volved or connected with illegal acts." Plan Depends on junericaD
Cooperation, Says Cripps 'Opening the Palestine debate for the Government, Sir Staf¬ ford Cripps stated that the Imi plementation of the scheme recommended by the Anglo- American experts depended "on the cooperation of America," which, he added,, he hoped would be forthtioming. He stres¬ sing that the final objective of (Continued on Page Eight)
Urge Truman To Press For Unconditional Admission of Jews
NEW VORK (WNS)—A re- qiiest urging President Truman to press for immediate immigra¬ tion of 100,000 displaced Euro¬ pean Jews into Palestine with¬ out making their admission con¬ ditioned by acceptance of the British Palestine partition pro¬ posal was sent this week by Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Com¬ mittee.
In a telegram to Mr. Truman, Judge Proskauer said that it would be "wholly unrealistic" to make such immlgratioii de¬ pendent on any long-range so¬ lution of the Palestine problem, that It would bfe "utterly • in¬ human to postpone t'hl? step, essential to the saving of hu- man lives, -rthUe thq" complex
B'NAI B'BITH WOMBN'R BOWLING LEAGUE TO BEGIN- SEASON AUG  IT
The B'nal B'rith Wojnen'a Bowling League will begin the season with a Ltmcheon Meet¬ ing at the Southern Hotel on Saturdsy, August 17, at 1230 P.-- M. Teams will he announced and captains elected at that tlmev
Members ot, the League a** being called' for reservations. For Information call Mrs Nat East, EV 2901 or Mrs. Milton Leeman, E'V. 6168
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political problems regarding the ultimate structure of Palestine are debated" and that It "is; perfectly possible to carry out the recommendation for Inune- diate Jewish Immigration made- unanlmously by the British and American members of the Ang¬ lo-American (Committee ot In¬ quiry on Palestine."
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