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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLICATION IN THIS TERRITORY
VOL. 24 NO. 1
Capital Spotlight
BY BEATRICE HEIMAN
(Copyright, 1948, JTA, Inc.
WASHINGTON—
In the election-minded year of
1948 politics permeates every
where. It affects Senators and
photographers alike.
Senator Raymond E. Baldwin
(R.) of Connecticut was recently
honored at a luncheon in the priv
ate Senate dining-room by the
Jewish War Veterans, for his
“advancement of understanding
and cooperation among citizens of
all racial, religious, social and
economic strata of American life.”
A large number of the Senator’s
colleagues, both Republican and
Democrats, attended the lunch, in
cluding Senator Arthur H. Vand
enberg. He was introduced to the
gathering as the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, our es
teemed colleague, etc.
A slight feeling of irritation an
imated him, Vandenberg said, at
the regularity with which the
“pro Tempore” was tagged on to
him. “After all,” he point ed out
with as much gravity as he could
muster, “you are all just as ‘pro
tempore' as I am.” In the ensuing
laughter, the persistent photog
rapher asked everybody to look
his way, calling out that he too,
was only “pro tempore.”
*****
Even the March of Dimes is
affected by politics—partition pol
itics.
A long table annually makes its
appearance on Washington’s main
downtown F St. The table is cov
ered with milk bottles, each labeled
with the name of one of the 48
states and of foreign countries.
The Palestine bottle was well
filled, and with bills. A day later,
at the end of the line suddenly
appeared a bottle called “Palestine
Arabs.” It, too, was similarly
filled.
• * * *
The members of the United Na
tions Commission on Palestine will
do well, on their arrival in Pales
tine, not to be too prominently
labelled, if Iraq-sponsored threats
of attack have any basis of truth.
Jamal al-Husseini, deputy chair
man of the Arab Higher Execu
tive, and cousin of the ex-Mufti,
announced after conferring with
the Deputy Premier of Iraq, that
a group of Arabs had been formed
into a suicide squad to attack
members of the Commission.
More regular Arab military
forces are being assembled in
Syria, under the command of
Fawzi el-Kawuji, wartime Nazi
collaborator. Several thousand
Men of this “People’s Army for
the liberation of Palestine,” have
already entered Palestine, and re
ports from Damascus and else
where continue to be received that
Syria is sending in armed guer
rillas. There is, in fact, some
Mudety among Syrian representa
tives in this country that Syria
May be charged before the UN
Security Council with threatening
the peace.
Radio Play
Announced for
Sunday; Feb. Ist
Meyer Levin, noted foreign cor
respondent, has written a radio
play for the Eternal Light, based
on his wartime experiences, “The
Torah and the Jeep”, which will
be broadcast on Sunday, February
1, 1948 (NBC netwark, 12:30-1:00
PM EST).
“The Torah and the Jeep” tells
one of the stories which Mr. Levin
did not file in his daily dispatches.
When Cologne fell to the allies,
Levin and • an Army Chaplain,
among the first Americans to
enter the ravaged city, sought out
evidence of what had been one of
the proudest and most historic
Jewish settlements in Germany.
Their search produced one Jew
who led them to an ancient Torah
(Scroll of the Five Books of
Moses) buried beneath a stone
floor—all that remained of the
town’s synagogue which was razed
by the Nazis in 1939. When ten
Jewish survivors returned to Co
logne, prepared to re-dedicate
their Torah and themselves to a
new and free spiritual life, Mr.
Levin states:
“It might have sounded fine in
a news story ... it could have
been made to sound brave and
optimistic. In spite of everything,
I might have intimated the Torah
is alive in Germany, and a free
Jewish life will grow and thrive
again. I did not send any story.
Why should a Jew bear false wit
ness?”
Mr. Levin, author of the current
novel, “My Father’s House”, and
producer of the film of the same
name, is now abroad shooting
scenes for a new movie ort the
Poland-to-Palestine underground
route, followed by Jewish refu
gees.
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Dr. Maximo G. Yagupsky, Arg
entine Jewish editor and youth
leader who has been named field
representative in South America
of the World Federation of
YMHAs and Jewish Community
Centers.
LAKE SUCCESS (JTA) —Urgent action on the part of the
United Nations to prevent the adoption of drastic anti-Jewish laws
in Arab countries has been asked by the World Jewish Congress in
a note submitted to the IT. N. Economic and Social Council.
Emphasizing that the Jews liv
ing in Arab countries face “ex
treme and immediate danger,” the
World Jewish Congress asks that
the United Nations open an im
mediate investigation into the
situation of the 240,000 Jews liv
ing in the countries which are
members of the Arab League.
Attached to the memorandum
submitted by the Congress was
the text of the following draft
law prepared by the Arab League
for promulgation in Arab coun
tries:
“1. Beginning with (date) all
Jewish citizens of (name of coun
try) will be considered as members
South America
Representative
Anti-Jewish Law Drafted by
Arab League
JDC Southeast Region Meet
Set For Feb. 15 in Atlanta
The second annual meeting of the Southeast Region of the Joint
Distribution Committee, major American agency aiding distressed
Jews abroad, will be held Sunday, February 16, in the Hotel Ansley,
Atlanta, Georgia, it was announced yesterday by William P. Engel
of Birmingham, Regional Chairman.
Jewish War Vet Leader
Asks Aid for Palestine
Peace in Palestine can be assur
ed only if legitimate defense
forces of the Jewish State “are
given the tools with which to do
the job called for by the historic
decision of the United Nations,”
Col. Julius Klein of Chicago, Nat
ional Commander of the Jewish
War Veterans of the United States
of America, declared in Washing
ton at a luncheon tendered him in
the dining room of the Senate by
Albert W. Hawkes of New Jersey.
Col. Klein’s guests of honor at
the function were Senator Ray
mond E. Baldwin of Connecticut
and Mayor and Mrs. Israel Rokach
of Tel Aviv.
of the Jewish minority state of
Palestine and will have to regis
ter with the authorities of the
region wherein they reside, giving
their names, the exact number of
members in their families, their
addresses, the names of their
banks and the amounts of their
deposits in these banks. This for
mality is to be accomplished with
in seven days.
“2. Beginning with (date) bank
accounts of Jews will be frozen.
These funds will be utilized in
part or in full to finance the move
ment of resistance to Zionist am
bitions in Palestine.
“3. Beginning with (date) only
Jews who are subjects of foreign
countries w T ill be considered as
‘neutrals.’ These will be com
pelled either to return to their
countries, with a minimum of de
lay, or be considered as Arabs and
obliged to accept service with the
Arab army.
“4. Jews who accept active
service in Arab armies or place
themselves at the disposal of those
armies will be considered ‘Arabs.’
“5. Every Jew whose activities,
reveal that he is an active Zionist
will be considered as a political
prisoner and will be interned in
places specifically designated for
that purpose by police authorities
or by the government. His fin
ancial resources* instead of being
frozen, will be confiscated.
“6. Any Jew who will be able
to prove that his activities are
anti-Zionist will be free to act as
he likes, provided that he declares
his readiness to join the Arab
armies.
“7. The foregoing (par. 6) does
not mean that those Jews will not
be submitted to paragraphs 1
and 2 of this law.”
The meeting, featuring special
reports on the conditions of Jews
overseas and their needs this year,
will be attended by regional offic
ers and executive committee mem
bers from Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North *
and South Carolina, and Tennes
see. The Sunday afternoon gen
eral session will be open to the
public. No funds will be solicited.
The annual affair will also fea
ture a report of JDC relief, re
construction and resettlement ac
tivities in 1947 on behalf of almost
1,000,000 Jewish men, women and
children in Europe, North Africa,
the Middle East and the Orient.
Last year the JDC appropriated
$75,092,000 for the most extensive
overseas aid operations ever under
taken in a twelve-month period
by any wholly private, voluntary
organization. In Atlanta, JDC
funds are provided through the
campaigns of the Federation for
Jewish Social Service.
Vice-Chairmen of the JDC
Southeast Region are Day J. Apte
of Tampa, Leo W. Kuhn of Nash
ville, Armand May of Atlanta,
Stanley C. Myers of Miami, Edgar
B. Stern of New Orleans and
Lionel Weil of Goldsboro. William
W. Goodman of Memphis is secre
tary and Hyman Rubin of Colum
bia is chairman of the program
Committee.
Jewish community leaders of
Atlanta among the Region’s exec
utive committee members are
Frank Garson, Nathan Katz, Don
ald Oberdorfer, Samuel Rothberg
and I. M. Weinstein.
The meeting also marks the
completion of one-third of a cen
tury of local assistance to dis
tressed Jews abroad through the
JDC. Since its inception in No
vember, 1914, the agency has ap
propriated more than $300,000,000
for life-saving and life-building aid
to Jews in distressed areas
throughout the world.
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World Jewish Congress
Asks UN Inquiry of
Arab Outbreaks
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The World Jewish Congress to
day called on the United Nations
Economic and Social Council to
place {Re question of the critical
situation of the Jews in Arab
countries on the agenda of its
next meeting scheduled for Feb
ruary 22.
In a memorandum submitted to
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that body, the Congress also asked
for an immediate investigation by
the Economic and Social Council
of anti-Jewish outbreaks in Mosr
lem and Arab lands.
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