Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-07-16

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Volume XVII—No. i86
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY i6, 1937
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Br PHINEAS J. BIRON
.George Gershwin, Com¬ poser and Pianist, Dies at 38
Things lo Watch Keep your eyes peeled on those vigilante and law and order groups that are mushrooming up in thc strike- artectcd areas.. .Too many of their big shots were formerly identified with the Kn Klux Klan and the Black Legion .:.The real reason for Lady Astor's warning to Jews not to spread anti- German propaganda was her discov¬ ery that official Washington circles arc militantly anti-Nazi...The Virginia belle's American visit was part of a scheme .to win American approval for an Anglo-French-German bloc ... But Washington wouldn't bite,.,.,'. The focal point for ;Nazi ' propaganda amoiig the American upper crust h the Thomson, Conn., estate of Ana- stasc A. Vorisiatsky, leader of a Rus¬ sian Fascist party, 4nd bosom'pal-of most of_ America's anti-Semites ... Agents' of' Vonsiatsky's party are tak¬ ing an ipiportant part in the organi¬ zation of a united Fascist front in America ... Among the plirtiestb this union are the remnants of the KKK," the ; German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts,'. . Herbert S. Houston; who was an officer of thc Good Neigh¬ bor League in lOSQ, is now advocating German participation iii the New, York WorldFair .. .   ,
Bed Herring Sonieonc ought to throw a hefty brick at the author of that Jewish , Daily Forward editorial warning Jews to have nothing to dp with the World eoiigress Against Racism and Anti- Semitism which is to be held in Paris , in September. ..The Forward's writer alleges that the congress ''will tint only not help weaken anti-Semitism, but on the coritrary, wi!^ strengthen it because the real aim of this congress is not to combat anti-Semitism, but to make propaganda for the Stalin government , in Russia and for Communism in all countries" ... Wonder whether the Forward knows that Samuet Unter¬ myer and the Chief Rabbi of Great -Britain are among those.backing the Congress.^.-. We never heard them, caiied Communists . . . And'when, the Forward claims that the non-Commu¬ nist . organizations initiating the con¬ gress are Stalin's stooges it is.simply cflckeysd ... The Non-Sectarian Anti- Nazi League is among those, non- Communist organizations and on its board of .directors are such notorious "Stalin stooges" as James W. Gerard, .George Gordon Battle and Clarence H. Low . ..
Flashed Through the Ether Not-that we're proud of it, but the late General Emilio Mola,'commander of tlie Spanish rebel armieL who was killed in a mysterious plan¥ crash a couple of' weeks ago, was a Jew,. . .' It is whispered that his death had something to do with the belated dis¬ closure that.this bosom pal of Nazis was no Aryan . . .Although most people have forgotten about him, some of his devoted friends in Paris are still trying to win a pardon for David Frankfurter, the young -Yugoslavian Jew who is serving a long prison term in Switzerland for the killing of a Nazi chieftain . . . Nearly 500,000 ' names have been obtained for a peti¬ tion asking mercy for Franltfiirter... Incidentally, rumors that he has em¬ braced Catholicism are poppycock... Looks like the Eexists, the Belgian Fascists, are kaput .. . The entire su¬ preme political council of the party has resigned en masse . ., . Leslie Hore- Belisha, Britain's minister of war, has been promoted from a major to colonel ... If it weren't so tragic it would be poetic justice that the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, militant anti-Nazi Protestant leader of Germany, is now under arrest ... He was once an ardent Nazi . . . Commemorating the centenary of the Danube Steamship Company, the Austrian t>ress conven- ' iently forgot to mention that it was Martin Unger, a Hungarian Jew, who first operated steam boats on the Danube and laid the foundation for the Danube Steamship Company . . . to prove that she hasn't been giveii the gate by Hitler, Leni Riefenstahl is parading around Paris handing out autographed pictures of herself and the Fuehrer . . . The Irish Fascists took an awful licking in last week's elections .. . They didn't elect a single member to parliament ...
H?    Gee!
Visitors returning from Berchtes- gaden, where Hitler has his private residence, are talking about his curi¬ ous predilection for people with names beginning with the letters G and H ...His most intimate friends have names beginning With H—Rudolph (ConHtHuti <» pagt S)
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. (WNS) —The boy who once regarded playing the piano as "sissy stuff" but who grew up into bnc of thc greatest composers of his day, was cut, off at the acme of his brilliant career, when George Gershwin, Tin Pan Alley's' most dis¬ tinguished alumnus, died here at the age of 38. Gershwin's brief life was packed with amazing successes that took .him out ,of the ranks of run-of- the-mine song,writers.and made him thc first man to employ successfully jazz forms in the classical manner. Author of songs that w^'l *'ve for: ever, Gershwin, was no mere. tune- smith . 'but a master of composition whose works were played by all' the leading orchestras of two continents. A talented pianist, the Brooklyn-born composer got his first important job in 1017 as a rehearsal piaAist for Vic¬ tor Herbert's '^Miss 10i7." His ability Won immediate recognition, and soon his fi'rst songs,, "YoUrJiist-You'! and
There's More to, a Kiss" Were big hits. Then hc went into vaudeville as an accompailist for I-ouise Dresser. Gershwin was: only 20 when Alex. Aarons gave him his first tnusical comedy commission. The resiilt was the 1919 hit, "La La Lucille." This triijmph Was followed by innumerable others, .'among the best known , of which were "Lady Be Good,'* "Tif Toes," "Song of the Flame," "Strike Up the Band," "Girl Crazy," "Of Thee I Sing" and "Let 'Em Eat Cake."
Although most of his compositions, were in the field-of popular music, where his musical' comedy and' dance tunes ' made :him. supreme, Gershwin was also the composer of the immortal "Rhapsody in Blue" composition for piano and orchestra,. which was first heard in 1924 in a concert by Paul Whiteman's band. Five years ago he agaifi stirred the musical,world' with "An American in Paris," .a brilliant orchestral piece first performed by the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under' the direction' of .Walter Dam- rpsch.—Hi» greatest musical "W6rk"was the opera, "Porgy and Bess," which created-a sensation when first produced in Boston in 1935. In recent months he had .been working on a new musical comedy in addition to doing songs for a musical picture. He had five of the latter finished: when he suffered a brain tumor,  . .
TISHAHB'AB
A Dny pf III Omen in the Jewish Calendar
By BERTRAM JONAS
The Nli,lh ,>( Ab. which fall* m July I7II1, ha. Inhg been n'dav nf ntoumlna In Israel.: In thij last 2500 yeara of Jaw- Ith hlnlnrv fifteen nulpr calamHIes have occurred on- this ilale. And this vtaT, with the Poleatine situation Browing . more tense hoiu-lv. It seems net ImiKW- eible ihni Ihe hlatortcal dates adduced by Mr. Jnnaa may li,* tragically fat- creased lo include 1D37.—The Editor.   .
Germany's Jane Addams, Dr.
Alice Salomon, Mfssing
After Exile
NEW YORK (WNS)^-Germany's Jane Addams, Dr; Alice'Salomon, hias been missing since she left the Reich on June 13th on orders of the Nazi secret police,- according to word; re- ceived'here. A member of a family that has lived in Germany for more thjin two centuries, Dr. Salomon, now 05 years old, was the organizer of the first professional social workers course in Germany, one ofthe founders of the International Congress of. Women, of which she was'a vice-president, artd director bf the German School for So¬ cial Work.,She holds decorations from several German universities.
i)r.  Ottolengui, Kinsman of Pioneer Georgia Jew, Dead
NEW YORK (WNS)—Dr. Rod- .rigues Ottolengui, eminent dentist and author of mystery novels, who was a descendant of Joseph Ottolengui, de¬ veloper of the Georgia silk industry in the 18th centui-y and a member of the Georgia general assembly in 1701, is dead here, at the age of 76. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Dr. Ottolengui was also related to Count Aguilar, personal dentist to former King Alfonso of Spain, and a cousin of Octavius Roy Cohen, the novelist.
Strike of Jewish Social Work¬ ers on Coast Settled
LOS ANGELES (WNS)—The H-day strike of 80 Jewish social workers, [employes of the Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations, was settled when the dispute that led to the first walkout of social workers on the Pacific Coast was left to an arbitra¬ tion committee for final settlemeht after a conference. The three vet¬ eran employes' whose dismissal on al¬ leged charges of inefficiency precipi¬ tated the strike will be reinstated pend¬ ing arbitration.
Co MUCH of Jewish history is a record of tears and tragedy that almost every day in the Jewish cal¬ endar is the anniversary of one or nioj-e sanguinary or disastrous epi¬ sode^ in" the life Of the Jewish people. , Nj/ single day, however, has more tragedy associated with it than the Ninth of.Ab, the twelfth month of the Hebrew Calendar. Jewish philos¬ ophers have always, cited the extraor¬ dinary series of disasters that befell the Jewish people on -the Ninth, of Ab, or Tishah B'ab, as we call it, in sup¬ port of the belief that some divine power and'not coincidence regulates Jewish destiny. But whether it is co¬ incidence or riot, it is fact that the Ninth of Ab has been Israel's unluck- iest day, a. veritable date of catas¬ trophe. So numerous have been the major tragedies that overtook Jewry on that fateful day that rabbinic legend even fixed thc Ninth of Ab as the day on Which God decreed that of. all the Israelites who had gone duf of Egypt into the wilderness, none btit Joshua should see the Promised Land:. ¦
Tishah B'ab in the Jewish calendar is the'saddest day of the year, for it commemorates the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B. C. by the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar, and the destruction of the Second Temple iil 70 A. iJ. by Romans under Titus. These calamities were the major tragedies that occurred on the Ninth of Ab, but by;no,,means,the last. Six and a half centuries elapsed betweer. that Ninth of Abin 386 B; C, and the Ninth of Ab in 70 A. D. But less than 50 years separated the latter af- Hiitioh. from the next 'Tishah frab' misfortline. Then came two more tragedies on the Ninth; Ab within 19 years. After that a whole millennium passed before the ill-omened day again worked its spell in Jewish history. But from thenon the Ninth of Ab brought at least one mijor catastrophe, for Jewry in every century until the year 1684, after which there was a break until 1929.
The following chronology lists .the fifteen' momentous, and -calamitous events in Jewish history during the past '2,500 years that have occurred on the Ninth of Ab:
586 B. C. E.—THE FIRST TEM PLE DESTROYED: Although the tragedy of the destruction of the first, Temple by 'the Babylonians occurred, according to the biblical account, on the tenth day of Ab, the traditional day of mourning over this catastrophe has always been, the ninth day of that month,,. except , among the Karaite Jews. Probably, though the Temple was finally destroyed on the tenth, the Babylonian attack on Jerusalem began on the ninth, which is the day that has been remembered through the cen¬ turies.
70 C. E.--THE SECOND TEM- PL^ DESTROYED: On this day the Jewish nation ceased to exist as a nation; for with the destruction bf the Second Temple the conquest of Jeru¬ salem by the Roman emperor Titus became complete. This time also the culmination of the tragedy came on the tenth day of the month; but it was on the ninth that the Romans set the fire which consumed the Temple on the next day.
UT C. E.-ALEXANDRIAN JEWS MASSACRED; Until- this date thc Jewish community of Alexan¬ dria had been the center of the Judeo- Hellenic culture. At about this time, however, the Jews of Egypt took part in a revolt against the Romans, in which the Greeks also had a share. But wh^n a defeated Greek army was forced to retire into Alexandria the furious soldiers took vengeance on the Jews of the city,- massacring them and thus destroying not only the Jewish community but the great period of Greek-Jewish culture as well.
13S C. E.-BAR KOCHBA RE VOLT CRUSHED: It was on the ninth of, Ab. in thia year that the great Bar Kochba revolt, which had been expected to liberate Palestine from its oppressors, was definitely crushed with the fall of the city bf Betar,
IU  C.  E^FINAL   DESTRUC¬ TION OF JERUSALEM:   To con- iCmliime'd e» page*);
BOUNDARIES OF THE
JEWISH STATE MAY
BE EXPANDED
LONDON (WNS) —Indications that the bonndarits of the proposed Jewish state in Palestine will be ex¬ panded were seen here with the state¬ ment by Colonial Secretary Ormsby- Gore in thc House of Commons that a map of the Jewish state was not submitted to Parii^ent because it is riot yet ready. A Jsimilar intimation of probable changes in the Jewish state's border was Imade by the Daily Telegraph which s^idjew.s would be given substantial concessions iu. thc Negev region of Southern Palestine, an area now assigned to the Arab state. I':
LONDON (Wrfs)~Opt)osition to the Palestine partition plan was voiced in a. series of resbrations adopted by the council of the English Zionist Federation. The r)esolution . declared that, the plan wa^ iinacceptable in its present form. Six demands for changes in the plan were urged in the resolutions. ': -
JOHANNESBURG, Soii^h Africa (WNS)—Because of the crisis result¬ ing from England's plan to partition Palestine, the South African Zionists have abandoned the election for dele¬ gates to the Zionist CTpngress and agreed oh a unified; slate of ten dele¬ gates.. ¦¦-   .,'....;¦;
.ROME (WNS).—Unanimous oppo¬ sition to the Palestme partition plan is the keynote of;! comment: on the Royal Commission t;ieport in the Italian prless. The papers,, emphasized that England was niovcid to this radical solution of the Palestine problem be¬ cause of fear of, Italian influence, among, the Arabs.   '.     . j
J ERU S A:LEM: (WNS - Palcor Agency)—The Ar;ih nationalist press was completely muzzled with the sus¬ pension by the government of Al Liwa and Ad Difaa, organs of the Grand Mufti, leaving only Fatastin, the news¬ paper of Emir Abdullah, who has been sympathetic to the[ British goverii- inent, to present: tlie Arab point of view in the weeks :|p come. It is un¬ derstood that .the Gi-ind Muftrs papers were suspended'because they reprinted a .manifesto originally published in "Alahram". in Cairo signed, by the Palestine Defense Committee which criticized the report of the Royal Com¬ mission for allegedly transfierring Moslem and Christian Holy Places to ultimate Jewish control. A! Liwa was prohibited from publishing for the next six weeks arid Ad Difaa was sus¬ pended for a month. Only very re-- cently Al Jamia Al Islaniia, another paper controlled by the Mufti, was ordered closed by tlie government for a period of two months..
LONDON (WNS—Palcor Agency) -^In a debate on the report of the Royal Commission, in the House of Commons, the governmcirit was criti¬ cized for failing to make available to the Mandates Commission the minutes and public evidence upon which .the Palestine Commission, had based its findings iand conclusions. Com. Oliver Locker-Lampson, conservative,, de¬ clared that it was a mistake for Great Britain to take Its marchinig orders from Mussolini. Tlie criticism of the government's procedure regarding the evidence originally placed before the Royal Commission precipitated > brisk exchange between Major Harry Louis Nathan, Lafjorite, and Colonial Secretary W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore.
Palestine has never been part of the British Empire, the Colonial Sec¬ retary pointed out in replying to a question by Somerset pe Chair, con¬ servative, who inquired whether it was the intention of the government to put into effect the recortimendations of the Royal.Commission and thereby sever Palestine from the British Em¬ pire. The Colonial Secretary said that he could not add anything to the statement of policy issued by the gov¬ ernment. He did not reply to the statement referriilg to Italian influence made by Com. Locker-Lampson,
Assails  Rich Lps Angeles
Jews Who Give Nothing
To Jewbh Charity
LOS ANGELES (WNS)—"Prom¬ inent Los Angeles Jews who thirik nothing of gambling for large stakes and otherwise indulging themselves extravagantly" by spending as much as $1,000 a year on golf clubs have given as little as $2f> or $50 to the 1037 drive of the Uiiited Jewish Wel¬ fare Fund, it was declared by Federal Judge Harry A. HoUzer, president of the Western States Region of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Fund. Scathingly denouncing the.failure of the Jewish community here to raise more than ,60 per cent of the Welfare Fund's $300,000 qriota, Judge HoUzcr said Jhat the Jews bave contributed only $90,000 out of $150,- 000 set for allthe jews, of the city be¬ cause the 550 individuals in the movie colony have agreed: to raise the other $150,000.
Secretary of State Hull
Voices Sympathy for
Polish Jews
WASHINGTON. D.C (WNS) Expressing deep sympathy, with the plight of Polish Jewry, Secretary of State Hull promised a delegation of the American Jewish Congress ¦ to make the best possible use of the data supplied him in a. memorandum which the group, headed by Dr, Stephen S. Wise, president of tlic Congress, left with him after an audience at the State Department. The! delegation of 19, representing   17   commiinities   in   151
Palestine Labor Asks Vigorous Cam¬ paign Against Commission Report
TEL Aviv (WNS-Palcor Agcncy)-^After two days of .discus¬ sion and debate on the report of the Royal Commission, the Mapay Coun¬ cil.(Labor Council), the first Zioriist body to consider the British Govern¬ ment's plan to revise or terminate the Mandate, unanimously adopted a reso¬ lution in which it affirmed its deep at¬ tachment to the Herzlian conceiHion of a Jewish state, whose aim, it said, was not to satisfy the cravings for *'false prestige" but to solve the Jewish prob¬ lem through the salvation of millions of homeless and unemployed, Jews. The 190 delegates from all parts ofthe country who participated in the con¬ ference called upon the leadership oi the Zionist movement and the Jewish public in general to .wage a vigorous campaign against "the unprecedented and far-reaching restrictions" pro¬ posed in the Royal Commission's rec¬ ommendations.' The resolution stresses the fact that the British Government arrived sit its decision to propose .the partition of Palestine before it sub¬ mitted its policy either, to the League of. Nations or.to the XJnited States* without whose consent a revision or modification of the Mandate cannot be made, and in discussing the palliatives suggested by the Commission, asserts that the report; arbitrarily fixes the riiaximuro of Je'wish immigration in all categories, adding that by this pro¬ posal the Mandatory Governmet^t-has destroyed with, one stroke the entire status of Jewish immigration which is based; on the recognition of the Jewish right to enter Palestine ac¬ cording to. the principle of thc eco-
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of. some 20O delegates from all parts of I ?!"''', j^^";:^'^.:''^^"!*^:"^ the country, had assembled herel  The
Priest   Jailed  for   Marryingr Converted Jew to Aryan
BERLIN (WNS)—Found guilty of "abetting racial defdement" because he performed a niarriaae ceremony for a German Christian of Jewish parentage and a German Aryan woman, the Rev. Ulrich Kaiser of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Berlin was sentenced to three months in prison. Father Kaiser, who testified he had consulted his ec¬ clesiastical superiors before uniting the couplci was left off with a com¬ paratively light sentence because the marriage occurred in 1935 before the enactment of the Nurembergr racial laws.
memorandum left with Secretary Hull emphasized that the United States was tbe chief factor in the reconstitution of Polish .independence arid urgently re¬ quested the U. S; goyernmerit to inter¬ vene with the Polish government, to bring about an end to the oppression of Polish Jewry and the restoration to tbem of their full and equal right? as citizens."';
¦ Jn the course of his conversation with the delegation,'Secretary Hull re yealed an intiniate knowledge of the. conditions under which Polish Jewry lives, expressed regret that he was re¬ ceiving the delegation under siich un¬ happy auspices and voiced the hope that he might again confer.with Jew¬ ish leaders on a more auspicious occa¬ sion. The detailed memorandum left with him charged the present Polish authorities with a policy toward their Jewish citizens which has made them "the most oppressed and perhaps the most desperate group: of human beings in modern Europe" and accused the Polish government of denying to Jews "not only the rights guaranteed to them by .treaty and constitution, but all the basic and elemental human rights." The chief spokesmen for the delegation were M. Maldwin Fertig, former counsel to Franklin D. Roose¬ velt when the latter was governor of New York; Representative Henry El- lenbogendf Pittsburgh; and Dr. Sam¬ uel Margoshes, chairman of the Con¬ gress' committee on. Poland.
Mr. Fertig pointed out that the en¬ tire Jewish community of this country is stricken with anfiUish as a result df daily letters received from Poland de¬ scribing the disastrous plight of their fellow-Jews in Poland. Dr. Margoshes expressed the hope that the United States would follow its traditional policy as the cham[non of human rights wherever oppression occurs and Rep- i resentative Ellenbogen informed Sec¬ retary Hull that the overwhelming opinion in Congress today is in favor of United States government interyen-, tion in behalf of 'persecuted Polish Jewry. The memorandum submitted by Drl Wise expressed the view that as American citizens they had a right to petition our government in the in¬ terests of Polish Jewry "in view of recognized -principles of international law and the usages which have long been established among civilized na¬ tions!"
In addition to Dr. Wise, Mr. Fertig, Mr. Ellenbogen and Dr. Margoshes, the delegation included Simon Sobo- loff of Baltimore, David Wertheim of New York, Leon Gellman of New York, Max Hollander of New York, Oscar Berman of Cincinnati, Abraham KoUin of Cleveland, Irving Epstein of St.ipaul, L M. Padw^y of Milwaukee, Jacob Ginsberg of Philadelphia, Oscar Kobins of Pittsburgh, Samtiel Lieber¬ man of Detroit, A. S. K^nengeiser of Newark, Louis Levine of New York and Rabbi Israel Dushowitz of New York.
The decapitation of Jerusalem; thc ex¬ clusion of thc Gaza, region where abundant .^prospects for settlement are available; the closing of the Ncgcv to. the Jews where only. 60,000 persons inhabit 12,000,000 duriams of land; the casting out of the two Deganias which were the cradle of Labor colonization and. the neighboring network of Jew- . ish settlements in the main portion of the Beisan Valleyi the Jewish state would be deprived of thc Rutenberg works and the Dead Sea concession.    ^
In addition, the scheme denies the Jews sovereignty over most of the cities in its state and exacts a humili¬ ating tribute for'the Arab state and subjects the state to! the officialdom which proved so inept and hostile pre¬ vious to the partition plan during the period of transition.
Arab Delegation Going to Geneva to Fight Partition
Threaten Anti-British Boycott as Reprisal
try, and has thus flagrantly violated its obligations tmder. the Mandate to facilitate Jewish immigration.
The. Mapay Council points, out that the Royal Coriimission, was appointed as a result of the Arab disturbances which the Palestine Government failed to. prevent arid which spread because of the breakdown of Government au¬ thority. Although the Commission was charged with the task of examining the grievances of Jews arid: Arabs within the framework of the Mandate, it Has overstepped the limits of its terms of reference pronouncing judg¬ ment on the Mandate itself as lih-. workable, Emphatically rejecting this verdict, the Labor Council asserts that; the. failure was not inherent in thej Mandate but in the administration'in Palestine which should have carried it out.: The Palestine Government, the Council charges, has been disloyal to thc Mandate ever since its establish¬ ment and has from the beginning uh-^ dermined it both by acts of commis¬ sion, as well as of omission.. In re¬ viewing the two parallel proposals of the Royal Commission, of recommen¬ dations under the Mandated and of the plan for partition with the'terriiina- tion of the Mandate, the resolution points out that while the first .pro¬ posal maintains the form of the Man¬ date it kills its spirit. The restric¬ tions on immigratioii contained in the first category of proposals .would doom the Jewish people to the status of a perpetual riiinority in Palestine, ex¬ cluding the hill regions from Jewish colonization and reridering impossible or severely difficuU the Jewish pur^ chase of land els.ewhere, the Council declares. All of this, it maintains, contradicts the Mandatory's. obliga¬ tions. Moreover the proposals under the Mandate also call for the estab¬ lishment of an Arab agency with par¬ ticipation of representatives of Arab countries whose connection with Pal¬ estine is not recognized by the Man¬ date and whose own future is fully assured through their own independ¬ ence, the resolution of the Council argues, condemning this proposal ais a liquidation of the Jewii^h National Home.
The Council fails to see any solu¬ tion in the second proposal, that of partition. Declaring that the partition scheme does not revear any prospects for mass absorption, the Council's resolution asserts that the allocation to the Jewish state of an area of five million dunams which are already for the most part inhabited, while exclud¬ ing vast unsettled areas, represents and attempt to "cranip the developments of the Jewish National Home." The Council stresses the fact that while the Balfour Declaration originally ap¬ plied to sixty million dunams in both parts of Palestine, and the Jewish Na¬ tional Home was restricted in 1022 to the western part of Palestine, the pres¬ ent truncation limits it to one-fifth of the remaining area.
'The resolution lists as follows the chief defects of the partittbn proposal
JERUSALEM (WNS —Palcor Agency)—An Arab delegation con- sistirig of the Grand Mufti and five other prdmincnt members of the Arab Higher Committee was formed to sail for Geneva on July 19th in order to protest against the tri-partite division of Palestine that is to be considered by the Mandates Commission on July 30. Discussing the. situation .with foreign. newspaper correspondents, Arabs close to the Higher Ckimmtttee threatened to institute ^n anti-British boycott ex¬ tending from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean if the British .goverri.- ment proceeded to carry out the rec¬ ommendations of the Royal Commis¬ sion for partition. The delegation to Geneva is to hfe headed by Auni Bey Abdiil Hadi, General Secretary of the. Arab Highei' Committee and negotia¬ tions arc now under way for coopting Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, leader of the opposition, to go to Switzerland, as a ;member of the antt-partition delega¬ tion. The entire Arab press is filled with protests and resolutions against partition from various parts of Pales¬ tine and neighboring countries includ¬ ing E^pt arid Iraq. The Arab news-^ papers'also published a statement by Hukmat Suleiman, Preriiier of. Iraq, which appeared in the Baghdad press in whicli he urged Arabs throughout the world to light partition, maintain-.. ing that Arabs should govern the whole of Palestine.
GERMAN EXPORTS TO US. A. HIT NEW LOW
Exports from Nazi Germany to the United States during the first four months of 1937 amounted to only 2.7 per cent of the total exports from the entire" world to this country during the same period, according to a report re¬ leased today by the .Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Samuel Untermyer,. president. ,
Translated into other, terms, the League's statement means that since Hitler cairie to power four,and a half years ago, Germany has lost more thaln fifty per cent of her importance as an exporting nation to the United States.
During the first four mouths of 1933, tbe first year of Hitler's reign, Ger¬ many's share of our world trade was 5.6 per cent which was a slight in¬ crease over the previous year. The boycott which soon followed Hitler's assumption of power, however, has been so vigorous as to cause a rapid decrease in Germany'a share of our world purchases.
Based on the figures of German- American trade during- the first four months of each year since 1933/ the decrease has been from 5.6 per cent iri 1933 to 4.5 per cent in 1934: to 3.8 per. cent in 1935 to 3.1 per cent in 1936 to 2.7 per cent in 1937.
The League's report declares that the indicated decline in German trade with the United States is entirely due to the anti-Nazi boycott movement and in support of this contention points to a rise in Gennan trade during Hitler's first few months in power. At that time the boycott had not yet been launched; once it was, however, trade began to wane, till now it has reached the new low of only 2.7 per cent.  '
Freud Seriously 111 VIENNA (WNS) ^Repeated at¬ tacks of angina pectoris are reported to have seriously impaired the already failing health of Professor Sigmund Freud, world-famous father, of psycho¬ analysis. Professor Freud, who is 81, is reported to he in a serious condition.