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July 28, 1944 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE 3 PRAYERS FOR VICTORY ON TISHA B'AB Meinirdl in toe ILIblbie By ARNOLD LEVIN WEEKLY REVIEW OF WWMdl Mew (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) supplies, for which they promised to release the Jews of Hungary and permit them to cross into a neutral country. Other reports, xater confirmed by the International Red Cross delegation in Washington, told of assurances given by Regent Horthy of Hungary that Jews would no longer be deported to Poland, that relief for the ghettos would be permitted, and that children under ten would be permitted to leave for overseas, neutral countries and Palestine, and that all adults holding Palestine certificates would be released. London newspapers were skeptical as to Horthy's ability to keep his promise. The Nazi radio discovered a "new angle" on the generals' attempted "putsch" against Hitler. The "new angle" was that the B'nai B'rith, the World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist organization had put millions at the disposal of the generals in recompense for a "successful mutiny," and had promised them sanctuary in Palestine in the event the mutiny fails and they have to flee for their lives.

all his facts, except for one thing we were merely reporting on issues that had arisen at the Conference and at the NCRAC, and did not go into the merits of the separate issues. Had we gone into the merits, we would have had to explain the background of the polemics, i. an extention of the original purview. Citations We like the enterprising spirit of the Zionist Record of South Africa. Maurice Samuel's, "The World of Shalom Aleichem," has been running serially in that publication and has caused a furore among the readers.

Serialization of this work is a service to the readers and adds substance and body to a newspaper. We recommend it as an example to be followed We congratulate Dr. Joseph G. Brin, managing editor or The Jewish Advocate of Boston and president of The American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, on his fine twenty-page brochure (each page containing four columns) consisting of his report of the Bridgewater Conference of Massachusetts Educators and his paper "An Editor Looks at the English-Jewish Press." The brochure includes remarks by Julius E. Warren, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education and by editors of the English-Jewish press, also the history of The Brin family's association with the Jewish Advocate.

The author of the latter is Robert R. Mullen. Hollywood-Broadway Line Albert Basserman, famed German actor, refugee from the Nazis, who has already created a niche for himself in Hollywood, will make his debut on Broadway in the Theatre Guild production, Embezzled Heaven. (Copyright, 1944) A if Leading Jewish news of the week in the United States was the inclusion by the Democrats in their platform of an endorsement of a "free and democratic Jewish Commonwealth." Zionist leaders and the American Jewish Conference hailed the Democrats' declaration, following the Republicans' statement on Palestine, as evidence of Americans' unanimity in support of Jewish demands regarding Palestine. Major internal Jewish news was announcement of the "unity mass meeting" to be called jointly by the Rescue Commission of the American Jewish Conference, the American Jewish Committee and other groups unaffiliated with the conference, in order to demand drastic steps for the' rescue of Hungary's Jews.This, it was hoped by some, might serve as a step toward the cohesion of the major Jewish groups for joint action on many other Jewish issues.

From "up North" news was disturbing. In Quebec there was tension over the elections which may result in a coalition of anti-Semitic forces, comprising notorious anti-Semite Maurice Duplessis' National Union and Andre Laurenbeau's Popular Bloc. Should such coalition result, Premier Godbout's Liberal party, while probably still the largest single party in the province, may lose its control over the legislative organs. A spokesman for the State Department refuted, by implication, charges made by Representative Emanuel Celler recently, that Car-leton Hayes, U. S.

ambassador to Spain, was circumventing and, at best, ignoring directives of the President that all diplomatic officials cooperate with the War Refugee Board in the rescue of refugees. The State Department spokesman said that through the cooperation of the Spanish government and the United States consular officials, American relief agencies had been working in Spain in the rescue of refugees, thousands of whom had been cleared through Spain. Jewish Palestine's press tended to view with a measure of confident anticipation the arrival of Viscount Gort to replace Sir Har-ld MacMichael as High Commissioner of Palestine. The newspapers recalled that the previous military men, Sir Arthur Wauchope and the late Viscount Plumer, had proven themselves Palestine's best High Commissioners. The Arab press was non-committal on the appointment.

Arab notables described their attitude as one of watchful waiting and of expressing no views prior to a proper appraisal of Viscount Gort based on his actions after settling in Government House in Jerusalem. Most Arab politicians seemed to hold the view that the White Paper policy was definitely on its way out and will soon be replaced by a new policy. To influence that new policy, Istakal (Arab Independence party) was reported sending emissaries to Lebanon, Syria and Egypt to drum up sentiment that would result in the adoption of extreme demands by the forthcoming Alexandria conference of Arab statesmen. The Istakal party was at one time accused of having entered into a pact with Mussolini promising him Arab military support in the Middle East in return for post-war Arab independence. In the Moscow radio's announcement of the setting up of a Polish Committee of National Liberation on liberated Polish territory, two Jews from the Galician section of Poland were mentioned as members of th3 "cabinet" which is to perform all the functions that the Polish government-in-exile, at odds with Moscow, had hoped to perform.

Dr. Emil Sommerstein, leading Zionist and member of Poland's pre-war Parliament, was named head of the Department of War Supplies. Dr. Bolislaw Drob-ner, independent socialist, was named head of the Department on Press Affairs. From Berne, London and Istam-bul came the news that the Nazis had proposed to barter the surviving four hundred thousand Jews of Hungary for supplies of a "non-military nature," such as medicine and foodstuffs.

The Nazis sought from the Allies 10,000 lorries of Jewish soldiers serving in the United Nations armies assemble at the bailing Wall on Tisha B'ab to pray for victory, as Jews throughout the world commemorate the destruction of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. In the United States Tisha B'ab will be observed not merely as a memorial for the dead, but as the occasion for the quickening of the organized effort to rescue the living through the instrumentality of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. By its generous response to the $32,000,000 U. J. A.

drive, American Jewry is making it possible for the Joint Distribution Committee, the Unite'd Palestine Appeal, and the National Refugee Service to expand their relief rehabilitation; and reconstruction programs in Europe, in Palestine, and among the refugees in the United States. Palestine's Cooperatives Best in All British Dependencies London (JTA) Palestine's cooperative associations are described as the "best developed movement in the British dependencies" in a report on the development of the cooperative movement in British colonies and dependencies issued by the colonial bureau of the Fabian society. Nazis May be Right, Argentina's Dictator Says Montevideo (JPS) Colonel Juan D. Peron, Argentine Vice-President, strong man of its fascist regime, replying to charges that he is organizing labor and capital along totalitarian lines, declared, "if the Nazis think along these lines, then the Nazis must be right." jBeJiJnd 1 mM TSins "(of SSffll Foai Bleetjrie Outlet United Nations Asked to Recognize "Hebrew Nation" New York (JTA) The United Nations were appealed to to recognize the so-called "Hebrew nation" as a "sovereign entity" with the full right of a co-belligerent, in an address by Peter H. Bergson, head of the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation.

Mr. Bergson also asked that the Allies use poison gas against the Germans in retaliation for the gassing of hundreds of thousands of Jews in concentration camps in Poland. He attacked the British White Paper policy in Palestine and urged that refugee shelters be established there as havens for all Jews who can flee occupied Europe. Luxembourg to Re-Admit Alien Jews New York (JPS) Alien Jews who lived in Luxembourg prior to the Nazi invasion will "be welcomed back to Luxembourg at the end of the war," Pierre Du Pong, Prime Minister of the Luxembourg Government-in-Exile, said in a letter addressed to the Luxembourg Committee of the World Jewish Congress. yy-v f4- in 1 Jewish Front The organization that participated last week in the meeting called by the Rescue Commission of the American Jewish Conference to discuss measures to be taken in behalf of the Jews trapped in Hungary, included those who had walked out on the Conference and organizations that had been refused admission to it.

This was the first time since the preliminary meetings at which last September's first session of the Conference was planned" that the prodigals, who had left it in a huff, met to consult under the auspices of the Conference. It was good to see sitting together the Orthodox Agudath Israel and the Zionists-Revisionists, who had left the Conference before its first session was convened; the American Jewish Committee, which left after participating in, and voting on the decisions of the session, and the International Workers Order that had so persistently sought and is still seeking admission ir; the Conference. Jewis catastrof le had brought them together. hope that this time something w.ll come of it. Our skepticism stems from the fact that all that has happened to Jewry in the past few years has been equally catastrophic (the events in Poland, for instnace) and yet cohesion has failed to take place The extreme leftist IWO, by the way, which had been previously refused admission on the grounds that it was not a Jewish organization, that it was merely the Jewish section of a non-sectarian organization, will re-apply for admission.

It has reorganized as an independent Jewish organization, merely affiliated with the non-sectarian body, its leaders will argue We wonder whether the refusal to admit this group into the Conference was not the cause for its becoming an affiliate organization, rather than the Jewish section of the IWO As a mere affiliate it can claim to be a fully Jewish organization At last week's meeting of the Rescue Commission of the American Jewish Conference the presence in the same room of representatives of the IWO and the Jewish Labor Committee, although they sat apart, was a dramatic spectacle It was the Jewish labor Committee that had fought hardest against the admission of the IWO into the Conference, and will continue this fight. Last week's meeting does not imply anyone's admission or re-entry to the Conference. The Democrats' Palestine Plank The most bitter battler against the conclussion of a Jewish Commonwealth plank in the Democratic platform was Breckenridge Long, the State Department biggie whose habit of giving red tape priority over human lives has contributed greatly to the fate that has befallen Europe's Jews Gentiles who have dealt with the refugee problem almost from the day Hitler came to power clench their fists and grit their teeth in impotent rage when discussing Long's refusals and procrastinations on rescue matters He is the man who withheld visas until it was too late, they say. They also credit him with delay in issuing special visas for Jewish children in France. By the time he got around to them, escape was impossible And yet, he apparently thinks his record is incomplete and he has turned heaven and earth against a Palestine plank We wish people would make up their minds about Justice Rosen-man, the F.D.R.

confidant. Latest rumor is that he was responsible for the obstacles against passage of a Palestine plank. He was supposedly the American Jewish Committee's private wire to the powers-that-be at the convention. He did nod his approval of a Palestine resolution, but the kind that could in no way be interpreted as an endorsement of a Jewish Commonwealth and that would be expressive of the American Jewish Committee's views on the subject Peter H. Bergson had lobbyists at the Democratic Convention pressing for inclusion of a plank that would call for the recognition of the Hebrew Nation In other words: the Democratic Convention was another occasion where disunity was manifested, with groups representing minority opinion (anti-Zionism) attempting to shape Jewry's fate in accordance with their conception of what that fate should be, by using their influence with non-Jews.

Consistency The most striking case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, is that of the Jewish Daily Forward. Several days after that newspaper carried an editorial denouncing the Bergson group and boasting that, contrary to other Yiddish newspapers, it had turned down Bergson advertisements, the Jewish Daily Forward carried a full page "ad" announcing Bergson's meeting at New York's Town Hall. Note From a Friend A colleague protests that when we wrote: "The American Jewish Congress is taking an adamant position on the inclusion of American i Jewish problems while the B'nai B'rith is taking the opposite stand," we did not indicate that the proposed inclusion of American Jewish questions is an extention of the Conference's scope going beyond its original purview. In dealing with an issue arising in the National Community Relations Advisory Council as to whether the NCRAC should take over "activities of the separate organizations piecemeal or. all at once," we had lost sight, he claims, of the fact that any such question is beyond the scope of the NCRAC.

The writer of. the letter is correct in Jit Tf 2Sfc-" i x-ccy-. iSffw-s-- if 1 mfi rrs. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR CAUSES OF ANTI SEMITISM Present Methods of Defense Not Sufficient, Rally is Told New York (JTA) The psychological causes of anti-Semitism and the appropriate counter-measures to be prescribed for this social plague were discussed at a closed Conference on Research in the Field of Anti-Semitism, held recently at the Hotel Biltmore in New York City under the joint sponsorship of a group of social scientists and the American Jewish Committee. In a discussion which lasted two days, the assembled psychologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists, sociologists, economists and social work and public relations experts pooled their experience and training in various scientific fields in an effort to measure and diagnose active and potential anti-Semitism as it exists today in the United States.

Some of those who participated pointed out that psychological frustration and the compensatory "need for aggression" very frequently find an outlet in anti-Semitic feelings and attitudes when favoring environmental and other conditions are present. To counteract this kind of irrational prejudice, it was suggested that present methods of defense, such as appeals to fair play, justice and reason, should be supplemented by a program addressed to the emotions, since it is at the emotional level that prejudice takes root. The Conference was informed that, according to experiments recently conducted by the Institute of Social Research, people with pronounced anti-Semitic tendencies are also usually anti-democratic and inclined to accept the fascist point of view. This recognition implies that the fight against anti-Semitism must be linked as closely as possible with the fight for democracy and all its implications, the conferees declared. It was also the consensus of opinion that prejudice should be combated not only by appeals through the press, radio, pamphlets, which are impersonally directed toward a mass of the population, but also by reaching the leaders of various groups, such as labor, business, churches, women's organizations, etc.

The Domestic Defense Coordinating Committee of the American Jewish Committee has assumed the task of integrating the results of the scientific studies into the general working program of the Committee. Ft. Ontario Refugees to Arrive in August Washington (JTA) The 950 war refugees coming from Italy for temporary haven in this country at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. will probably not arrive until after August 1, according to information available to the War Relocation Authority. When they arrive -the army will be responsible for their transport, probably by special train, from the port of debarkation to Fort Ontario.

Thereafter the War Relocation Authority will assume authority. Most of the adults coming over are above military age and most of the refugees are Jewish, it was learned. They are mainly Yugoslavs, Austrians, Poles, Germans and Czechs. There are many women and children among them. An envious man frowns when his neighbor "rejoices.

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