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Tidbit!! From Everywhere By PHINEAS .T. BIRON
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Dorothy Tlioinpson
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The    .-innouncemerit    of   the White Paper on Palestine might have been delayed iC Ambassa¬ dor  ,Joe  Kennedy  had  spoken out stralglit from the shoulder dm'ing tho    last    week-end ho spent    with    Prime',   Minister , Chamberlain. . . As a matter of "fact,   three   day.s   before   the White Paper was made public there was rclotcing in American ZionLst   ranks,    a   very,    veiy high  Washington  official  hav¬ ing told the Zionist leaders that a.ssurance.s   had   been   received from London that no announce¬ ment would be made for a long time. . . It seems, however, that when  the   British   government asked      Kennedy    polnt-blanjc whether ho thought that Ameri can public opinion would vui-y much resent the White   Paper, he implied that American public opinion     had  other  things  to worry   about. . . Well-informed source.?  insist  that the  British government timed the publica¬ tion of the White Paper to coin¬ cide with    the   visit    of King George to this continent, in the .helief   that   America'.s   interest in royalty   would -drown  .out whatever   resentment   the     in- . justice toward the .Tews might cail forth. . . MORK ON ZION ,'  American Zionist Iciders arc being  submerged    with    lole- Srams   and   cables   from   Bevl- sionisfs pleading that    Jabotin¬ sky be given a chance to take over Welzmann's place. . . Don't lie surprised if Stephen S. Wise, Louis Lipsky and Israel Gold¬ stein take an immediate trip to Palestine. . . It is felt that the American     Zionist     leadership Should   be represented   on the spot in these momentous days... Some of the best known foreign correspondents will  proceed to Palestine shortly. .  . American editors expect the Holy Land to be hot new.'S   for   quite   some time.  .  .  Pierre van Paassen'g ."Days of Our Year.s"    will be published    in    England    next month, but the English edition will substantially curtail his at¬ tack   on the   British   govern¬ ment  for   its  anti-Zionist   poli¬ cies. . . HRARD HKRli:
NBC reports that the most frequent request its gets from German listeners . to its Short¬ wave broadcasts Is for rendi¬ tions ot "The Star-Spangled Banner". . . Apparently there are lots of people left in Nazi- land who like at least to hear about the home of the free. Being peddled around New York these days are nickel book' lets hearing the title "Hitler's Good Deeds" . . . The suckers ¦who buy them find they've pur¬ chased blankbooks. . . Culled from the Nation: "In Italy ppo pie are beginning to grumble that things were better under Mussolini". . .The man who presented the authorities with a great deal ot material In thia matter of perjury charges a gainst Fritz Kuhn is none other than T. H. Tetens, who Is the gentleman we mentioned some columns ago as a one-man fight¬ ing battalion waging war against the Nazis, . . We are also happy to note that Uncle Sam is, removing his post office from German ships, where they have been most useful to Nazi spies, and that the Federal agents are
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The Chronlclo i.s this week piiblishing an excerpt from a speech made by I-Iarold Ilicgel- man, Past Chairman of the National Intertraternity Con¬ ference and former executive of the Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, on the occasion ot the presenta¬ tion ot the Gottheil Medal to Miss Dorothy Thompson, last Wednesday, May 24th, at the Harmonic Club in New York City. ^
"Those who live their lives in tho high valleys seldom re¬ flect upon the pure, clear air thoy breathe.
"Those whose lives are en¬ riched by the four freedoms .seldom reflect upon the inse¬ curity of those blessings, for thoy have never been without them and cannot imagine that thoy over will be.
"But the air of the high val- Icy.s can become acrid with the smoke of tires that destroy for¬ ests and homes, and the bless¬ ings of democracy can be de¬ stroyed by insidious fumes ot false philosophies which de¬ grade and divide the people and deity the State.
"Those who live in the high valleys and : have survived de¬ stroying fires, build towers where men stay day and night watching for the fir.st thin haze that reveals the source ot danger, - Eternal vigilance is their security. /,
"Tho.i, hazards thpt threaten democracy are loss apparent and the people aro less aware of them. The watch-towers are few and far between and many of the watchers aro not schooled in the signs ot danger.
"But watchers there are who know those signs, who pene¬ trate the illogic of plausible and destructive panaceas, who divine tho mischievous mean¬ ing of false and lying standards which create helpless minori¬ ties and at one stroke both quicken and feed the basest pas¬ sions. Watchers there are who know the signs and who have the power and the will to sound the alarm, to rouse a free people from their lethargy, to quicken them to tight the forces which threaten their priceless herit¬ age.
Today we pay tribute to such a watcher, to a gifted wO' man whose instinct for freedom, whose talent for giving that in¬ stinct voice and volume, -whose Indomitable courage and , self¬ less devotion aro both sword and shield of our Americali in¬ stitutions.
"Wo who are conscious of our blessings as Americans and of the dangers which beset those hiessings from within and without are deeply grateul tViat these trying times have given America this alert, inspired, elo¬ quent watcher.
"In token of that gratitude we award the Richard J. H. Gottheil Medal to Dorothy Thompson."
Dorothy Thompson was the unanimous choice ot a jui-y of editors from the leading Jewish ncwsp-ipers throughout the country for this annual award.
ThoiiMnds Protest Britisli
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Urges B'nai B'ritli To
Work In Defense
NKW YORK (WNS)—Two thousand members of District Lodge No. 1, B'nai B'rith, meet¬ ing here on the occasion ot the 87th convention of delegates, were urged to defend freedom in the United States by Secre¬ tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace who spoke of B'nai B'rith's record of nearly a cen¬ tury ot service to the cause of Jewry, "We havo cherished our Bill'of Rights, freedom of speech freedom of the press, freedom ot religion, freedom of science ot art and culture," he .=a!d, "the-so have been our most sacred herltago."
Mayor F, H. LaGuardia, greet¬ ing the members and delegates, delivered a vigorous demand for tolerance took his theme frotn the spirit ot the New York World'.s Fair which, he said "demonstrates the spirit of democracy." The Mayor spoke of the work accomplished- by B'nal. B'rith's anti-Defamation League whoso duty, he said, it should be to put a stop to the exploitation of minorities, races or religions. "I am not at all fearful," he added, "that any¬ thing will happen to our form ot government because the Americans, fundamentally al¬ ways right, will not stand for it,"'
Discussing the present crisis in Palestine, Henry Monsky, president of the National or¬ ganization, believed the occasion called for cool deliberate and careful action on the part ot world .lewry.
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jSIEW YORK (WNS)—Condemning the British White Paper on Palestine, tiiousands of persons at a mass meet¬ ing here appealed to "the conscience of Great Britain not lo destroy the right of the Jcvirs" to return to Palestine. The denunciation of the White Paper and the plea to Britain virere embodied in a resolution adopted by the as¬ sembly -which declared;
"The Jews in Palestine as of right, a right based on the his¬ toric continuity of Jowlsh resi¬ dence in Palestine, justified by Jewish achievement in rebuild¬ ing of the country for the bene¬ fit of all its inhabitants, .now mado supremely necessary by the barbarism which has doom¬ ed tons of thousands of Jews to homelessness." The reso¬ lution also pledged American Jewry's support lo the Jews of Palestine "in their resistance to the imposition ot the illegal and immoral, policy of the- Chamberlain Government."
Two points wero empha.sized in many ot the addresses: That the White Paper itself is illegal and that therefore the entry of Jews into Palestine cannot be illegal, and that tho Jews in the
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On next Thursday    evening, hujVding of the Jewish Nation- June 1, in the Ball Room of the al Home in Palestine will not
BAB IMMIGRATION PENDING PEFINITE liEGISLATION
AN APPKECIATION
The B'nal B'rith Hlllel I'^oundation wishes to acknow¬ ledge with sincere thanks a con¬ tribution from Mrs. Albert Luchs in honor ot the 1930 Con¬ firmation Class at the Bryden Road Temple.
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(WNS)-^No more Jewish, Czech or Spanish retugees are to be admitted pending the adoption of a definite, comprehensive immigration policy by the' gov¬ ernment according to an an¬ nouhcement in the newspaper "Tiempo" ¦ which pointed out that 3,500 .lewlsli refugees en¬ tered Columbia ' in the past eight months. -Applications ot 5,000 persons for entry to this country are being held in abey¬ ance and include those from refugees already here. Pre vlous immigration to Columbia has been so light that no de¬ finite immigration law or pol¬ icy had been adopted.
"STATELESS" JEWS ORDERED TO UiAVE GERMANY
MUNICH (WNS)—The Munich police served notice on about 1,001) "stateless" Jews that they must leave Germany by July 31 or be placed in concentration camps. About 700 of those homeless persons are . former Jews trom Poland who lo,st their citizenship by decree last November. It is reported that the Reich will not transfer any of their property as is done in cases of German Jew.s.
Southern Hotel, the Columbus Jewish community .will have an opportunity to hear Dr. Solomon Goldman o£ Chicago, one of America's outstanding rabbinical -scholars and noted Jewish loaders. Dr. Goldman is coming here to address an important meeting of The Unit¬ ed Jewish Fund of Columbus to which every member of the local .Jewish community is in¬ vited to attend. According to E. J. Schanfarber, United Jewish Fund president, the presence of every man and woman of this city is being urged. The meet¬ ing is called for 8:00 o'clock.
Dr. Solomon Goldman is the first leader from the Midwest to hold the President's oftice in the Zionist organization of America. A native of New York, Di'. Goldman who is forty- four years ot age, was graduat¬ ed from the Jewish Theological Seminary which also awarded him the degree of Doctor ot Hebrew Letters. He received his Ph. D. from Columbia Uni¬ versity.
Dr. Goldman is the author and editor of many Hebrew and theological publications. Among his best known xvorks are "A Rabbi Takes Stock," "The Golden Chain," a five-volume anthology of Jevvish literature and "The Jew and the Uni¬ verse." Dr. Goldman is a member of the Board of Gover¬ nors of the Jewish Theological Seminary "and a trustee ot the .rew'tsh Publication Society. He was also a former presi¬ dent ot the National Hebrew As¬ sociation and associate editor of Character Magazine. He has been a contributor to .symposia on Philosophy and religion pub lished by the University ot Chicago.
Before coming to Chicago to occupy the pulpit ot Congrega¬ tion Ansche Emet whose spirit¬ ual leader he is today. Dr. Gold¬ man was the rabbl of .synago¬ gues In Brooklyn and Cleveland.
Don't forget to "be at the Southern Hotel next Thui'sday evening, June 1, at 8:00 o'clock and bring along a friend.
acknowledge defeat and will persistently resist the measures ot the White Paper.
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R-cibbi- Stephen S.- Wlso,«jiiBj.» president of the Zionist Organi¬ zation ot America, warned that the Palestine Government will meet with resistance on the part of the Jew.s. "We will not stoop to violence," Dr. Wise said, "but in a militant, in a passive way, we will offer re- .sistanee to the lawlessness and perfidy of the White Paper. This will not be insubordina¬ tion, for the .Tews in Palestine are not subordinates and therefore cannot be guilty ot insubordination."
Called by the National Emer¬ gency Committee for Palestine in response to thousands ot re¬ quests that "American Jewry denounce the White Paper", the mass' meeting heard ad¬ dresses by Senator Robert F. Wagner, Louis Lipsky, Ameri¬ can member ot the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Pales¬ tine; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president ot the Jewish Nation¬ al Fund; Chaim Greenberg, of Poale Zion; Gedaliah Bublic, honorary president ot Mizrachi; and Mrs, Moses P. Epstein, president of Hadassah. Con¬ gressman Hamilton Fish ot New York and Mayor F. H. La¬ Guardia also decried the new British policy.
Congressman Blsh, member ot the Foreign Atfairs Committee, in a telegraphed message, urged Zionists "not to retreat, sut^ render or compromise with the British betrayal ot the promises and pledges given in the Bal¬ four declaration."
Speaking on the illegality of the White Paper, Dr. Wise said: "We meet to declare that notlV Ing more lawless in it than the use of the term 'illegal immi¬ gration.' We reaffirm the truth that no .Tew can return illegally to Palestine."
Dlslionor And Deceit
Asserting that "the Jewish National Home will declare the new British policy null and void ot no effect/' I..ouis Llpsky said: "That policy was born in (Coutluuea ou Vago 9)
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