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THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 23 No. 4
Columbians Planned Hate Campaign
Capital Spotlight
BY BEATRICE HEIMAN
(Copyright, 1947, JTA, Inc.)
Secretary of State Marshall’s
first public statement on Palestine
has caused considerable specula
tion.
In the midst of his first press
conference since entering the State
Department, the Secretary, after
a lengthy review of our foreign
problems, volunteered some iv
marks about Palestine. A warmth,
and sympathetic note entered his
voice, in rather sudden contrast
to the brisk tone with which he
dispatched a longs list of other
questions, from disarmament to re
organization of the Department.
Marshall is not a man to talk
for the sake of talking. Nor in
the manner of many diplomats,
does he talk to becloud an issue.
Therefore, the words he uses carry
significance. When he tenped as
not the case at all, the generally
assumed implication that the Brit
ish plan strong military action in
Palestine, he must have had good
grounds for so saying.
In the face of the chaotic, panic
inspired measures so far enforced
by the British, Marshall’s state
ment is not easy to accept. But
weight is lent it by reports from
other sources. They indicate that
Foreign Secretary Bevin, concern
ed at the interpretation put on the
ultimatum to the Jewish Agency,
and at the nature of the publicity
hare, has been assuring this gov
ernment that repression is not
Planned, and that the ultimatum
was misconstrued.
In any case, the American Em
bassy in London has observed the
negotiations of the British Gov
ernment with Jewish and Arab
representatives, and, as Secretary
arshall said, we arc being kept
closely informed about the critical
discussions.
Forseeing a chain of investigat
ory bodies to add to the almost
wo score which already
°°hed into the Palestine situation,
an acid cartoonist in a Tel Aviv
newspaper took a long look into
e future. He pictured a stratis-
ere meeting of two planes in
7. Called out one pilot to t v e
other:
* I ’ m carrying a party of explor
ers from Jupiter to Mars.”
Hallooed the second pilot:
-i fiave an Inquiry commission
>mg from London to Tel Aviv
~° c °nsider remo\al of a traffic
light.”
* * *
Preparatory Commission of
e International Refugee Organ
ization hrs opened meetings in
eneva to plan the transition to
e IRO. It is scheduled to be
es ablished July 1, if the necessary
unds are allocated. High on the
Priority list of Secretary Marshall
egislation deemed necessary by
e State Department, is a bill
Providing for United States partic
ipation in the IRO.
Radio Program,
Feb. 23, For Jewish
Music Week
The Eternal Light marks Jewish
Music Week on Sunday, (February
23, 1947, NBC 12:30 PM, EST)
with the broadcast of The Song
of Berditchev by Morton Wishen
grad.
The Eternal Light, a coast-to
coast radio program presented
under the auspices of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America,
is a public service presentation of
the National Broadcastng Com
pany. Dr. Moshe Davis is program
editor.
The Song of Berditchev is the
story of how Reb Levi Yitzhok,
c mrnamed The Compassionate, first
came to sing the liturgy known as
the Kaddish of Levi Yitzhok.
Music for-the Eternal Light is
composed by Morris Mamorsky and
coridticted by Miltoh Katims. Can
tor Robert Segpl will sing the lit
urgical music. The production will
be under the direction of Frank
Papp and Milton E. Krents is pro
ducer for the Seminary.
At the conclusion of the program
there will be a brief address by
Mr. Fred Jacobi, composer, teach
er of Composition at the Julliard
School of Music and chairman of
the music contest of the National
Jewish Music Council.
Jewish War Ms Praise Haganah For Its Resistance Program;
Urge Liberalization of 11. S. Immigration Laws
CLEVELAND, Ohio —Praise for the Jewish
resistance movement in Palestine and criticism
of Great Britain’s threat of martial law in the
Holy Land was voiced in resolutions adopted at
the quarterly meeting of the National Executive
Committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the
U. S. A. which met here last weekend.
The Haganah, official Jewish resistance
group in Palestine, sponsored by the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, was likened to “the Amer
ican Minute Men of the Revolutionary War”.
Declaring that the “Haganah has taken up arms
only for defense,” the resolution said that “the
Haganah has shown remarkable forebearance,
ddlpite constant provocation by the British,
through acts of violence directed against the
Jewish community, and through Britain’s refusal
to allow 100,000 Jews into Palestine as recom
mended by the Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry on Palestine.”
(The Haganah is not to be confused with
Irgun Zvei Leumi and the Stern group, two
smaller resistance groups not officially sponsored
by the Jewish community through the Jewish
Agency.)
In the other resolution on Palestine, Great
Britain was urged not to “impose martial law in
Palestine because it would further injure rela
tionships between the Jews and the British and
would, in all likelihood, result in greater conflict
with consequent loss of life.” The resolution
also criticized Great Britain for its dilatory
tactics” in implementing the recommendations
of the Anglo-American Committee on Inquiry
for Palestine. President Truman and Secretary
of State Marshall were urged to continue to use
“diplomatic pressure” on the British government
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1947
Acquires a Family
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Bencyen Szerman, 22, above, concen
tration camp survivor, was discovered
in a DP center in Germany by Lt. Nor
man H. Gold, who saw in him a close
resemblance to his brother, Berwyn,
killed in action in France. As a result,
young Szerman was brought to the
U.S.A. with the aid of United Service
for New Americans, who'se work is sup
ported by the {170,000,000 campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal for 1947. Lt.
Gold’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jakob
Gold, of Philadelphia, gave him a home
and Szerman, who lost his father,
mother, sisters and brothers in concen
tration camp, now has a new family.
to get an early and favorable solution of the
Palestine question in accordance with the Balfour
Declaration which pledged Great Britain to aid
in the establishment of a Jewish State in Pal
estine.”
The JWV also urged Congress to “amend
the present immigration laws so that displaced
persons could be admitted into the U. S. to the
extent that unused American immigration quotas
have accumulated during the past ten years.
The JWV pledged itself to “undertake a vigorous
legislative program to influence the Congress of
the United States to take the initiative in help
ing solve the problem of the wbrld’s displaced
persons.”
Another resolution criticized the motion
picture, “Abie’s Irish Rose” as being “inimical to
the development of better relations in the United
States between peoples of divergent back
grounds.” The resolution declared that the pic
ture “tended to perpetuate the caricature of Jews
and Irishmen.” At the same time, Walter Win
chell was praised for “initiating and carrying
through his campaign against dialect comedians
who hold persons of foreign background up to
ridicule.”
The JWV protested, “against the use of the
word ‘veteran’ in connection with press stories
of crimes”. It was maintained that the identi
fication of a criminal as a veteran "was, in most
cases, not essential to the news story and that
it tended to degrade all veterans unnecessarily.”
The 52nd annual encampment of the JWV,
it was announced, will be held in St. Paul, Min
nesota, from October 15 through 19. The next
meeting of the National Executive Committee
will be held in St. Louis April 26 and 27.
Rev. A. C. Shuler of Jax Charged
By Anti-Nazi League As Supporter
Atlanta Plans of The Columbians to expand their Nazi-like
organization into at least seven states outside of Georgia and to com
bine their activities with other subersive or hate-breeding groups were
revealed recently in the office of Solicitor General E. E. Andrews on
the eve of the trial of three leaders of the terrorist organization.
World Jewish
Congress Prepares
For Conference
Dr. I. Schwartzbart, head of the
organization department of the
World Jewish Congress, announced
that preliminary preparations had
been completed for the Latin-
American conference of the World
Congress to be held at Montevideo,
Uruguay, starting April 20.
Pointing out that more than
600,000 Jews, or better than 10 per
cent of Jewry- in the Americas, re
side in TLatin American countries,
Dr. Schwartzbart, who will attend
the Montevideo parleys, said:
“The Latin American Jewisn
communities represent an immense
source of devotion for our Jewish
heritage and are imbued with a
readiness to make sacrifices for
the good of the Jewish people.
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in 8 States
Emory Burke, president, Homer
L. Loomis, Jr., executive secretary
and organizer, and Ira Jett, a
charter member, are being tried in
Fulton County Court on four
charges of riot, inciting to riot,
usurpation of police powers and
illegal possession of dynamite.
They are being prosecuted by
Andrews and, if convicted, are
liable to terms of one year on each
charge. Other indictments are
pending.
Burke and Loomis, according to
newly discovered information turn
ed over to Georgia authorities by
Prof. James H. Sheldon, adminis
trative chairman of the Anti-Nazi
League, had already established a
branch of The Columbians in Indi
ana under direction of an individ
ual arrested 14 times since 1931,
and had taken steps to extend their
fascist activities to Wisconsin,
Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Califor
nia and Minnesota.
At the same time, Prof. Sheldon
revealed that on February 13, 1943,
when the tide of war had not yet
turned in our favor, Emory Burke,
president of The Columbians, de
clared in a letter: “If Germany
falls, the entire white race falls
and the world will be turned over
to the barbarian Asiatic and filthy
jew!” By his own admission,
Burke also worked in the National
ist movement with George E.
Deatherage who was indicted for
sedition by the U. S. Government.
New evidence was also offered to
show that rabidly un-American
groups in this country had been
actively communicating with the
Columbians and some had offered
financial, moral and political sup
port. These groups included the
American Gentile Army with head
quarters in Conyers, Georgia; the
underground Nazi-like organiza
tion called the Democratic Nation
alist Party (the same title current
ly used by the underground Nazis
in Germany); Gerald L. K. Smith
and his Christian American Veter
and Organization; the Protestant
War Veterans of America, headed
by the indicted seditionist Edward
James Smythe; The Stoner Anti-
Jewish Party of Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, and others. Frank W.
Clark, also indicted for sedition,
sent financial support and 15,000
copies of a violently anti-Semitic,
anti-Catholic tract called “Anti-
Gentilism”.
The first “colony” set up by The
Columbians outside Georgia, was
at Indianapolis, Indiana. In early
November, 1946, Loomis was In
communication with one Raymond
C. Vick of 2810 College Ave., Ind
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