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17 No. 13
Keek In Review
■|y MILTON SHOWN, J.T.A. |
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PRAISES RUSSIA
Standing in the news of the
C W as the speech of Prime
Igter Winston Churchill. Pal
|e ant i the whole Near East
■ special notice of Mr. Church-
Istatement that but for the
B ittnS that territory would
I overrun by the Nazis.
I must thank Russia because
■valor of the Russian armies
I warded off the dangers which
■undoubtedly ran in the Nile
ley, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and
Ej’, . the Prime Minister
Efisia, it appears, has saved
■ only Palestine, but a great
| of the British Empire and
Irchill, no Communist, admits
| proclaims it. It is a good
|g to hear men like him doing
I, for all of us who are not
Kmunists, have, I am afraid,
■been inclined to be quite fair
ft Russia. “Love me, love my
I” says the old adage, and in
■ generally, if we don’t love a
ion, we don’t love his dog
Er. We find some reason to
Benin everything about him,
ALL FILLED
leanwhile, the deportations of
h from Germany to Poland,
linue, according to reports this
Ik. Hitler, one might think,
I be reasoning well, if I can’t
■ Russia and I can’t get Eng-
I and I can’t get Turkey and
ftaltar and Suez, at least, I can
Ithe few thousand Jews out of
many. It reminds us of a
sty about the panic of 1837. It
ft the first severe industrial
Is in the country and it broke
ft about the time that Martin
ft Buren entered into office as
bident. A supporter of Van
ten, so the story goes, came to
I and asked him for a Cabinet
lA.ll filled,” said the President,
kid he have any embassy job,
pd the supporter,
porry, all filled,” said the Pres
k
pell, could he give him a job
Iclerk in some government de
jhnent, asked the supporter,
porry— there is no vacancy,”
pd the President.
pTell, Mr. President, maybe
f ve got an extra pair of
leches you can give me. Look,
[ present ones are full of holes.
HE NEW YORK TIMES AND
I THE JEWISH ARMY
Jewish circles in New York this
r k were quite a bit stirred up
l n t the editorial in the New
F Times opposing the creation
r Jewish Army. Dr. Stephen
r>se branded the Times editor
las a “blow below the belt.”
P ioath to believe,” said Rabbi
n 'Though all but constrained
r° so that this editorial is de
rjj to serve as a warning to
r ike Secretary Knox and Sec
p hforgenthau, whose brave
| generous words to the Cleve-
P Conference of the UPA are
jiy understandable to the Edi
[°f the New York Times. The
r 8 may have another more
rr r Purpose to sabotage all
to bring about understand
[hetween Zionists and non
ets. One is tempted to say
, e Ne w York Times that it
n ne^ r dared despite its Jewish
pership, to stand up and out on
[Jewish problem. Will not the
. York Times therefore be
enough to leave the Jews
thelr Problems, policies
difficulties ?”
Alex Brest
Is Head Os
Jax Council
Alex Brest, chairman of the
1942 Campaign of the Jacksonville
Jewish Community Council an
nounced yesterday that the cam
paign would be officially launched
on February 20, 1942, at a joint
service to be held in the syna
gogue of the Jewish Center. He
announced that the campaign
would get underway on Sunday
morning, February 22nd, with a
breakfast for the workers.
Brest announced the following
appointments for the forthcoming
drive: Harold Cohn will again act
as Brest’s co-chairman, D. H. Las
arow and Samuel Kipnis have been
appointed co-chairmen of the
Initial Gifts Committee, which has
already been soliciting pledges
for the past month; and Mrs.
Joseph Hackel, and Mrs. I. H. Ed
wards, chairman and co-chairman
respectively of the Women’s Divis
ion.
Up to the present time, chair
men for the Youth and Men’s Di
vision have not been appointed,
but these will be named within a
very few days.
Brest made a special plea to the
Jewish people of the community
to volunteer their services for the
forthcoming drive. He explained
that contrary to the general opin
ion now prevalent that the import
ance of the Council has diminish
ed, the need for service is greater
today than ever before. The war
has opened greater fields of ser
vice rather than diminishing the
number. He pointed out that the
demands for defense of the Jewish
rights in this country and the
opportunities for relieving distress
and suffering overseas are even
greater now than before the war
began.
An urgent appeal has also been
issued by Harold Cohn, co-chair
man of the drive that a large num
ber of volunteers are needed if
this year’s drive is to succeed.
D. H. Lasarow, president of the
Council, asked the cooperation of
all contributors in making the
campaign workers’ task less diffi
cult by attending meetings when
they are invited. He explained
that it required no more effort on
the part of the workers to con
tact twenty or thirty persons at
a single parlor meeting than it
does to contact a single contribu
tor at his place of business or at
his home.
Brest announced that already
one-third of this year’s campaign
quota had been realized and that
these pledges show an average
increase of thirty percent over the
amount contributed by the same
persons last year.
Soviet Allows
Parcels To
Polish Jews
LONDON, (JTA) The Soviet
and the British governments have
reached an agreement under which
Palestine inhabitants will be able
to send packages of Tood and
clothing duty-free to the Polisli
citizens now stranded in Soviet
Russia as refugees, it was learned
here this week. The package*MnU
have to be transmitted through
STr* Cross in Palestine and
their weight ie not to exceed five
Mos. about twelve and a half
pounds.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942
Spokesman For
Reformed Jewry
J & a
DR. NELSON GLUECK
Cincinnati, Ohio, January 23
Appointment of Dr. Nelson Glueck,
noted scholar and archaeologist,
as Executive Director of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega
tions has been announced here by
Mr. Adolph Rosenberg, Chairman
of the Board. In that capacity, Dr.
Glueck becomes the spokesman
for Reform Judaism in America.
He will assume his new duties on
July 1.
As Executive Director of the
Union, Dr. Glueck succeeds the
late Dr. Edward Israel, who was
appointed to the position follow
ing the retirement of Rabbi George
Zepin, but who died of a heart
attack on October 19, the day on
which he assumed the duties of
the office.
200 Polish Jews
Fighting With
Chinese Army
LONDON, (JTA) —Two hundred
Polish Jews stranded in the Far
East, en route to the Americas,
have joined the Chinese army and
are actively engaged in the re
cently launched Chinese offensive,
it was reported this week by Pol
ish circles here.
AID POSSIBLE FOR
REFUGEES IN CUBA
Refugees in Cuba are able to
cash checks sent to them through
local banks, and relatives and
friends who wish to send financial
assistance to persons in Cuba
should do so by check or money
order, according to information
received by the National Refugee
Service from the Joint Relief
Committee in Havana.
NAZIS ADMIT EXECUTION
OF JEWISH WAR PRISONERS
STOCKHOLM, (JTA)— Attempt
ing to justify their killing of Jew
ish war prisoners, the Nazis in a
radio broadcast this week from
Berlin alleged that “Jewish units
from Biro-Bidjan now fighting
on the Crimean front are ignoring
the rules of civilized warfare and
shoot wounded Germans.”
The Nazi broadcast also assert
ed that Jewish guerillas are snip
ing at German soldiers. In the
Minsk district Nazi military units
are still being attacked by Jewish
guerillas, the broadcaster said. He
disclosed that a German regiment
was recently engaged in a fight
Savannah Organizes Branch
of Am. Palestine Committee
Prominent leaders in the civic, religious and business
life of Savannah gave voice to their sympathy with and en
dorsement. of Jewish aspirations in Palestine by accepting
membership in the Savannah branch of the American Pal
estine Committee, which was organized at a dinner given in
honor of Prof. S. Ralph Harlow of Smith College, Northamp
ton, Mass., who visited the city on January 27th under the
auspices of the Z. 0. A.
Dr. Harlow, who occupies the
chair of religion and biblical liter
ature at Smith College, has been
a frequent visitor to the Holy
Land and is a warm friend and
admirer of the Zionist movement.
“An aroused public opinion in
America,” asserted the distinguish
ed visitor, “will do more than any
thing which Great Britain will
possibly do, to assure the estab
lishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people.”
Chosing as his topic “A Chris
tian Looks at Zionist Claims,”
Prof. Harlow .declared that the
Vichy Siezes
Rothschild Estate
VICHY, (JTA)—The 1,800 acre
estate of Baron Henri de Roths
child at Vaux de Cernay in the
Siene et Aise Department near
Paris was this week declared a
“public utility”—thereby providing
for its seizure under a decree
covering expropriations for mili
tary or other public purposes. The
order indicated that construction
was planned on the property.
Baron de Rothschild has been
deprived by Vichy order of his
French citizenship, and other
properties belonging to him in
France have been seized. He has
been recently in South America.
Ford Threatens
To Sue K. K. K.
DETROIT, (JTA)—Henry Ford
has notified the Ku Klux Klan
that he intends to institute legal
action unless the Klan immediate
ly ceases the unauthorized distrib
ution of the anti-Semitic pamph
let, “The International Jew,” writ
ten by Ford in 1920, it was report
ed here this week. At the same
time Ford’s attorney communicat
ed with the Mexican government
asking its cooperation in suppress
ing distribution of similar anti-
Semitic literature in Mexico. This
action by Ford follows a letter
sent by him to the Anti-Defama
tion League, on January 7, in
which he reiterated his repudiation
of anti-Semitism.
with the guerillas in the Minsk
section, and that as a result of
this battle “twenty-two guerillas
were killed and sixteen Jews were
executed in the city of Bogruisk
for assisting the guerillas.”
The Moscow radio this week re
ported that hundreds of bodies of
frozen Jews who the Nazis drove
to the Soviet front for compulsory
labor are being found every day
by the advancing Russian troops.
The retreating Nazi soldiers are
robbing the Jews of their clothes
and leaving the bodies naked, the
Soviet broadcast stated.
only hope for democracy and jus
tice in the Near East was for
America to take a firm stand and
see that a just and durable peace
is made.
Speaking on the European ref
ugee problem, Prof. Harlow de
clared that Palestine can easily
take care of three million people
and that there was no natural
and inherent antagonism between
Arabs and Jews there. Basically
they have always gotten on well
together.
In the evening the speaker ad
dressed a large gathering of the
Savannah Zionist District at the
Jewish Educational Alliance.
The Savannah branch, which is
affiliated with the national Amer
ican Palestine Committee, headed
by Senator Robert F. Wagner, is
composed of the following: Hon.
Thomas Gamble, mayor of Savan
nah, Rt. Rev. Middleton S. Barn
well, Rt. Rev. Mgr. T. James Mc-
Namara, Rev. Dr. John S. Wilder,
H. V. Jenkins, Rev. Dr. David
Cady Wright, Judge A. R. Mc-
Dowell, J. P. Miller, Sheriff Wilkes
S. MacFeeley, W. B. Scott, John
L. Sutlive, Richard M. Carlton,
Robert W. Groves, Arthur Funk,
Thomas F. Walsh, Judge W. Wal
ter Douglas, Rev. Vere H. Rogers,
Charles D. Russell, T. T. Shepherd,
Lowry Axley, Ralph H. Garner,
Dr. John P. Dyer and Andrew J.
Ryan, Jr.
Associated with Rabbi William
Drazin, who took the initiative in
organizing the committee, were
the following Jewish leaders who
helped with the general arrange
ments: Rev. George Solomon, D.
D., rabbi of Temple Mickve Israel;
Rabbi Irving Gordon of Congrega
tion Agudath Achim; Rabbi Labo
vitz, executive director of the Jew
ish Educational Alliance; Judge
Emmanuel Lewis, Alderman B. I.
Friedman and Morris Slotin.
The Savannah branch of the
American Palestine Committee is
the second local unit formed in
the Southeastern Zionist Region.
The first was organized in June
1941 in Atlanta through the ef
forts of Julian V. Boehm.
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