Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-08-03

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Vol 2.1, No. m
Entered as Second-Class Matter, Poatoftice   Columbus,. Ohio,
COIA'MBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, Al'Ol'ST .1, IM.'i
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   From   Everywhere By Phineas J. Biron
"A Misunderstood Man' Says Siegfried Of Himself
TBAATRI; REPORT . . .
H^ We're back from a flying trip tn Ciilia and Moxicn . , , It tonlt us longer ttian wo liad anticipa¬ ted   becaiL'^e   laclt   of   priority binnpod  u,* every  few  lumdred mile,s ,   ,   ,   Once,   in   dosiKiir  of ever getting a  plane out nf siz¬ zling   New   Orleans,   we   wired Captain     lOfldio     Ricl<enl>acker, Pre,'ii(ient   nf   the   Eastern   /Mr- lines, and pleaded for bis person¬ al attention , , , .And Eddie came through   effectively   by   arrang¬ ing to get us hack to S.'e\v Vnrk in time tn ilash off our cnUinin , , FROM MEXICO . . . pS) We visited Cuba and Mexico in  tile company of .loo Rrainin. who was on a mission on behalf of    tho    Pan-,.\merican    Jewish Committee . ¦  , ,Too is a rather tiresome   tr;ive]ing     companion who insisted on dragging us to all kinds nf odd places and still (Killer peo|)le , , , In Mexico City, for   instance,   he   visitetl  .Egon Envfn  Kisch,   the   (^zochoslova- kian  .lewish author now  living in   tho   land   of   Camacho   ,   .   , Ki.sch is the autlior of over two dozen books, and because of his flair  for  the unusual  has  been nicknamed "the dynamic neport- er" , , . Kisch has just publi.shed a bnok, 'Di,scoveries in Mexico", in  Spanish and German , ,  ,  It would  be  a  l)est-,sellcr  In  Eng¬ lish , , , In any event. KLsch told us that he hits discovered a quite Inexplicable  similiarty of  ti-adi tion among certain Mexican In¬ dian tribes and  Orthodox .lew.s . , ,   It seems that these Indian women have a mikveh . , , CIr cumclsion is compuLsory among these   peoiile.   and   Saturday   is rigorously observed as the Sab¬ bath , , , And the religious head¬ man   grants   audiences   in   the same manner as a wonder rabbl wlio    answers    ciuestions    and cures illnesses . . , FROM CUBA . . . 1^ Cuban Jewry enjoy real un¬ ity ,, , The four largest organi- 2atlons — to  wit,  the Zionists, the   Jewish   Chamber   ot   Com¬ merce, the Centre Israellto and the Jewish  Peoples'  Center  — work together In great harmony . .   in both Cuba and    Mexico antlSemitism Is on the Increase . . . The Falaganglsts and Slnar- quists are carrying on a double- ban-eled attack against the Jews In both countries . , . They keep up a campaign of slander against them,   designating  them   alter nately as "exploiting capitalist" and "Godless Communists" , , . YOU SHOULD KNOW . . )^ If you want to get the real lowdown    on   developments   In present-day   Germany,   get   the news  letter  "Germany  Today", edited    by    t h at    t r u s tw o r- thy   antl-Fasclst   fighter   Albert Nojden , . . One of the most stir¬ ring documents to come to our desk is "An Appeal to the Con¬ science of America", signed by 1027 Jewish .spiritual leaders , . , Its appeal  Is  in  behalf  ot  the stricken  Jews  of  Europe  .  .   , You   can   get   copies   from   the Committee on Unity for Pales tine. -11 East 42nd St„ New York City  ,  ,  ,  Victor  Riesel writes from Washington that the Ger¬ man-American  Bund la  prepar ing  for  a   big  comeback,  with uniforms and all, and with the Horst Wessel song as its anthem , . ,-He also tells us that some Italii'n-Amerlcan   clubs   will   be collecting funds for the revival ot "glorious Fascism"     . , Carl Nicolay.   who  was  chief  Bund¬ ist   p r 0 p a g|-a n d i s t   In   this (Continued on Page 8)
'NOT AN ANTI-.1RMITE"
PARIS (WNSi^-nenlal that his bonk. "Amoi'lf;) Cnmos nf Ago" was anti-Semitic, uiis made by Andre .Siegrfie<i, auth- i>y nf the hook in P.-u'i.--- (hi', week.
It was fi-nm Siogfriocl's book that Ihi' anti-Semitic cxcor|>ls wore taken wliiih uoro oinbnd led ni a cnn-ospnndcnco cnur,se sent mit by the fnilod Slate- Army. Tho lionk was stili>i', qitvnt)y withdr.iu'ii .-iftrr (he Army's attention lo the ami Semitic  cnntont   was drawn,
Siegfried says it -is all ;i inis- iindorstandlng, ".My bonk is tint anti .lewish tmd I do not h.-ivo anti-Jowlsh feelings, I made an nbjectivo stuily of c-nnditlnns iti Ihe United Slates and nnticed tho cxKstence in that cnuntry of a ccrtiiln amnunt nf racist feel ings as expressed In the imnii- gratinn laws nf i'.rfl.'Si. which were, to all practical |nir|)nscs, racial 1,-iws seeking tn favor Im mlgi-alinn nf so-called Nordic elements at Ihe c,v:pcn,se nf .^led itorranean and Slavonic ele¬ ments,
"The raci;Tl issue has proliably l(«t Its importance in the I'nited States since then", hv continu¬ ed, "and during my recent stay there (as tin adviser to the French delegation at San Fran ci.sco), as well as through my contacts with Americans here, I have noticed ,serious progress In all-around Americanization of the various eleijient.'! composing the population of the L'nlted States, although there still ex.lsts a certain amount of anti Semi- tism".
Siegfried charged that "no one but people seeking to further anti-Semitisin could have been Interested in segregating isolated excerpts from my book in a way that, might misrepresent them as an expression of anti-Jewish feeling on my part".
(In "America Comes of Age". Mr, Siegfried says, among other things, that 'the Gentile fears, and with reason, the competition of the Jew in business, and de¬ spises him as a matter of course". In the same chapter he writes: "The Jew passes through the first phases of his Ameri¬ canization with disconcerting rapidity.. There is something suspicious about his excessive ¦zeal. Caught suddenly into the rhythm of the New World, he is soon more American than the .Americans themselves. He joins societies for the promotion of ethical culture, where he mixes with broadmlnded Pro¬ testants anxious alX)ut their duty to society".)
PROP. EIN8TEIN HEADS MILIjION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN
Silver And Wise Hail Labor Victory
\K\V VORK iWXS)— The olortnrial victory of the British l.tihnr Party was htiiiod l)y tho Aiiifi'icitn Zionist Fmofgcncy Cnuncil, as 'fnroshadowing posl ti\e .ictinn hy the now IJrllish gn\(M'nniont nn tho (|iiostinn nf l'al("itino, in ;i statement Issiioii a~ I)f. AiWia Ilillcl Silvof tuid Dr. Slophon S. Wise, wore pre paring tn loiivo fnr l,nn(lnn In attcn'd the Wnrld Zinnist cnn- fcfonco,
"Tho eloctinn nf a I.tibor iii.'i- jnrlty In the Ibmse nf Cniiininn. .'ind the ctniscfjn.'nt appoiiitmont of [..v/inr (,'o\"rnment gi\'os hopes that tho intnlorabic ro- u'iino of the White I'apor ln-P;il- cstiiio. which has Ix-on contin- iiod c\on jtftor the torminalinii of the war in I'Uifopo, will tmw 'nnio In an end ;ind that iho ;('i(.'ly iriofi ,1^'wlsh |.ioo|)lo nia.\' .-It la'si look rrirward m offoct, he itciinn In boh.'df of the cs- tablishmont nf a Palestine as u .lowisi) Cnmmnnwoalth", tho ,lowish statement of the Einoi- goiicy Cnuncil dcclaro([,
liofnre his dopaiture, Dr, Sil, vol- said:
"I am leaving fnr l.nndon in llio hope tliat tho first Wnrld Zionist Cnnforcnco since tho war tna,y define tlic fixed cnurse n.ur jiinvonient is to follow In .nrtler In reach <iulckly tho goal nf the ,lewish Stato. If encouraging words loacii us from the llerlin meeting of the Big Three, then our conference will devote ll.self tf> tho practical question of mass .Tewi.sh Immigration into Pales¬ tine and tho many co-relateil ttisk.i. If not ^- we shall have to plan for the ma.xlmum nm- biii'zation of all our Strength for a protracted struggle In defehse of our Inalienable Ughts in Pal¬ estine. It should he clear to all that the Jewish people inside and outsiile Palestine is deter¬ mined to fight for the Jewish State until it is achieved,"
Leaving for London also to attend the World Zionist Con¬ ference were Dr, Howard M. Le- Sourd pf Boston University and Dr, Carl Herman Vose, execu¬ tive secretary of the Church Peace Union.
Their object will be»to help develop a program for further extension of Christian support for the Jewish people's aspira¬ tions In Palestine,
Their departure was announc¬ ed by" the American Christian' Palestine Committee, which speaks for the American Pales¬ tine Committee, composed of Christian laymen, and the Chris, tian Council on Palestine, whose membership Is drawn from the American clergy. Dean LeSourd directs the activities of the American Palestine Committee and fJr, Vose Is executive secre¬ tary ot the Christian Council In Palestine,
LABOR LANDSLIDE IN ENGLISH ELECTIONS SEEN AS HELPING ZIONIST ASPIRATIONS
I.OMION (WXRl—Tho land¬ slide swoop of the Labor Party in tho English oloctinns nffors groat hope fnr ,lewish aspir.t linns in F'tdostino, This is tho \iow enlort;iinod by Zionist lotidofs IVoni m;)n,\' countrio^ gatliofoci    for   the   ffirthcnming
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.Ii'« i-li f.iiirliilatos cif till' olhor p;iitM's w ofo :ill ilofi-atoil Willi Iho r.Ni'i piiiin 111 ,il):niiol Liiisnn, liiilliondont. Ciiii^oiv.itivo and I'hilifi I'ir.itin, (¦'•miiiuni.-t. Sir !-]il\\;ir<l S](o,,i-s, fiiiiuor Britisll ininisior of S\fia, whn has boon iiiiispiikoiily jjio ,\f:il> anil anli- Ziiiiii.>i, was ainnng tho dofoal- od ('nn~oi vathi's.
Tho inii~t :iitl',o tinti-Somites in I'omninns ;iisn wont down to dofoat. ,kwish le;idcrs pointed to this as tin indloatiniv that the onuntt'y as ;i whole is nppnsoti In anii-Jouish prnpag:inil:i, Thoy vtrossoii, hiiwovof, that ftisoist tigitatinn and" prnp.iganda may itkoly Inoroaso in an :illoinpl to offset tho crushing ilofoai at tho linlls. It will lio up In tho now Homo Soorottiry, thoy s:iid, to curb tho dovolopmonl n( such ai W. iiio>.
BILBO THREATENS JEWS AND NEGROES WITH VIOLENCE AND DEPORTATION IN USA.
NEW YORK (WNS) — Prof, Albert Einstein had accepted the honorary chairmanship of a nation wide drive for, $1,000,000 for the Jewish Institute ot Re¬ ligion in New York.
In a message, Professor Ein¬ stein asserted that "in the past, Europe was the center of Jewish culture and education . . , but the advent of Nazism drove Jew¬ ish culture and education and all free academic learning out of the continent. Spiritual and scientific teaching can thrive only on democratic soil. If the world IB once again to know the viilue of cultural and spiritual inspiration we Jews In America
U. 8. HOSPITAL SHIP NA.MED FOR JEVVISH NURSE
NEW YORK (JPS)—The for¬ mer Italian luxury liner Satur- nla, has been re-christened the Francis Y, Slanger, In honor of the first American nurse to be killed in the European theater of operations, and Is now the largest and fastest hospital ship In the world. Five hundred con¬ valescent kits, in honor of nurse Slanger, were donated to tho ship by the National Jewish Welfare Board,
must preserve and expand our institutions".
WASHINGTON (JPS)~Ainor- Ican Jews, Italians and Negroes were threatened with mob vio¬ lence and deportation (the Ne¬ groes to West Africa, the Jews to Palestine) by Senator Theo¬ dore G. Bllbo (D,. Miss,) last week. In some ot the many let¬ ters , the senator penned off to correspondents who wrote him to protest , against bis recent maneuvers to block FF:pC leg¬ islation and against his siieeches attacking various so-cglied min¬ ority groups in America,
In a reply to Leonard E, Gold- itch. Executive Secretary of the National Committee to Combat aml-Semitism.    Bilbo    warned:
"There are five million Jews In the United States and the majority of them are very fine Amei-ican citizens, but It Jews of your type don't quit sponsor¬ ing and fraternizing with the negro race you are going to arouse so much opposition to all of you that they will get very strong Invitation to pack Up and i-eseltle in Palestine, the homeland of the Jews just as we propose to provide for the \'oiuntary resettlement of the American Negro in West Africa, their fatherland,
"Now do not pop-off and say that I am in favor of sending the Jews to Palestine, What I am trying to say to you is that there are just a few of you New York Jews "kikes" that are fraternizing and socializing with the negroes for selfish and political reasons and It you keep It up you will arouse the oppo¬ sition ot the better class ot your own race,
"You had better stop and think".
In reply to Miss Helen Feld¬ man, of Chicago, Bilbo wrote: "the Interest and welfare of 120,000,000 American citizens when Negro and Jewish minor¬
ities aro tr.ving to destroy our freedom and Ainerican way of life through tho damnable un¬ constitutional, un-American, Communistlcally-tnsplred mon¬ strosity known as the FEPC , ,''
"There ai'e only l.l million Negroes in America and five million Jews, making a total ot IS million: yet there are 1.38.- 000,000 people in this country and 1 am defending this 120,- 000,000 against the outrageous efforts of these two groups of 18 million that are trying to run roughshod over the rights and freedoms of the 120,000,000 white American citizens,
"I wired a bunch ot these fanatics in New York the other day and told them it these Com¬ munists and fanatical groups did not quit trying to pass such tlamnfooi legislation through the Congress to oppress the peo¬ ple ami rob them of their free¬ dom that eventually the great mass of tho American people would revolt and , figuratively liquidate every member of their group", Senator liilbo wrote.
HAYS LONDON ZIONIST CONFERENCE IS CRUCIAL
NKW YORK (WNS)—The \\'orld Zionist conference In London has been called at a mohient when a definite decis¬ ion on Palestine must be reach¬ ed, Dr. Nahum Goldmann said last night before leaving by air for London, where he will at¬ tend the conference,
"Palestine", said Di-, Gold¬ mann. "will never become an Arab Country", "The 600,000 J ews there are ready to sacrifice their Uves so tiiat the promise made twenty-five years ago Is fulfilled".
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