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Vol. XV. No. 47
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1940.
Price, Ten Cents
New Palestine Party Calls for
Zionist Administration Change
Will Select AZA’s Best Book Review
Serving as judges of the book review competition launched by Aleph
Zadik Aleph to stimulate increased interest in literature of Jewish
content will be Maurice Jacobs (left), executive secretary of the
Jewish Publication of America; Mrs. Maurice Goldman (center), pres
ident of the National Council of Jewish Women, and Irving Fineman,
novelist and member of the faculty of Bennington College.
Names in The News
Washington (JTA)—Chief Jus
tice Charles Evans Hughes will re
ceive a citation from the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews “in recognition of contribu
tions toward the improvement of
human relations” at a ceremony
at his home here on December 27.
Justice Hughes is the only sur
viving member of three Christian
leaders who were among the
founders of the Conference in
1928.
New York (JTA)—Charles J.
Rosenbloom, of Pittsburgh, leade"
in business and philanthropy, has
been named treasurer of the
United Palestine Appeal to suc
ceed Arthur M. Lamport, of New
York, who died on November 8.
He is president of the Pittsburgh
Federation of Jewish Philanthro
pies and treasurer of the Pitts
burgh United Jewish Fund.
London (JTA)—A special issue
of the Jewish Weekly has been
published in honor of the 70th
birthday of Jacob Rosenheim,
president of the Agudath Israel.
The issue contains messages from
Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Dr.
Chaim Weizmann, Prof. Selig
Brodetsky, Neville Laski and Dr
Ignacy Schwartzbart.
Tel Aviv (JTA)—Former Polish
Premier Felicjan Skladkowski,
who arrived here from Rumania
with four former ministers of his
! cabinet, praised Jewish achieve-
i ments in Palestine at a press con-
I ference. He said he was surprised
to find Tel Aviv such c modern
city.
London (JTA)—Senator Heni'i
Polak, president of the Dutch Dia-
j mond Workers’ Association, has
been arrested in Amsterdam, the
I newspaper France, organ of Gen.
I Charles de Gaulle, reported.
Preserve Democratic Principles, Says
Ben Gurion in Answer to Rutenberg
New York (JTA)—David Ben tions as “expensive and absurd,” i
Gurion, chairman of the Jewish a ban on strikes and distribution
Agency in Jerusalem, declared «t of work through labor exchanges,
a press conference that he wel- organized by the Vaad Leumi.
corned Pinchas Rutenberg’s call' Ben Gurion made these three
for Palestine Jewish unity, but reservations regarding the Ruten-
supulated that the principles of berg call for unity:
democracy, organized labor and I (1) The Yishub’s activities must
separation of powers between the i be continued on constructive lines,
Vaad Leumi and Jewish Agency 1 preserving internal unity and the
must be preserved. j democratic organization of the
Rutenberg, in Jerusalem No- Jewish community,
vember 7, had announced a re-! (2) The local activities of the
newed effort for unity through Yishub, as carried on by the Vaad
establishment of “a small body of i Leumi, must remain separate from
authoritative persons to whom all the Held of the Jewish people as
practical work in Palestine will be a whole, as represented by the
transferred,” abandonment of the j Jewish Agency,
proposed Asefath Hanicharim elec- (Continued on Page 5)
Developments In Holy Land
Add Significance to Zionist
Conference at Birmingham
Outcroppings of political differences in Palestine furnish additional
significance to the third annual conference of Southeastern Zionists
summoned at Birmingham November 30 and December 1.
Edmund I. Kaufmann, president, Zionist Organization of America,
and Rabbi Isadore Breslau, executive director of Z. O. A., will be
; present long with other national
; and sectional leaders to guide the
conference discussions.
As a prelude to the convention,
Rabbi Breslau will speak at joint
services of Emanu-El, Knesseth
Israel Beth-El Congregations at
8 p. m. Friday at Temple Beth-El.
The executive secretary will
also be the principal speaker at an
Oneg Shabbat set for 3 p. m. Sat
urday at Temple Beth-El. A re-
Solicitor-General Pleads
Fairness at N. C. of J. W.
New York (JTA)—Mrs. Maurice
L. Goldman, San Francisco, was
reelected president of the National
Council of Jewish Women at the
Council's triennial convention at
the Hotel Astor.
Resolutions supported the Pres
ident's policy to keep the United
States out of war; favored admis
sion of refugee children from the
war zone to the United States over
and above the quota for perma
nent residence; endorsed legisla
tion for waiving of educational re
quirements for naturalization of
legally admitted aliens 50 years
of age and over, who entered the
United States prior to May 5, 1917,
when the Literacy Act was passed;
agreed to continue to render serv
ice on a non-sectarian basis in
the interpretation of the Alien
Registration Act to those it af
fects; opposed legislation which
tends to discriminate against the
legally admitted alien.
Solicitor-General Francis Bid
dle urged the reaffirming of “our
traditional American, generosity_:c
aliens,” in a plea for unity before
the convention. His address was
broadcast by CBS.
Declaring that alien-baiting was
“the country’s basic incongruity”
and asserting that the “almost
hysterical reaction to everything
we thought of as alien” was based
on unjustified fear, Biddle urged
Americans to be kind, gentle and
tolerant with aliens.
“They form a very small minor
ity in our country—three or four
million out of 130,000,000,” the
Solicitor General said. “The con
querors whose ways we hate have
persecuted and tortured minorities,
small countries, alien groups.
Here is our chance, our spiritual
opportunity to be kind, to be
gentle, to be tolerant. We can re
assert our American tradition,
build for ourselves a precious
unity of the American spirit.
"If we are wise and generous
we may be infinitely enriched by
the artists, the craftsmen, the
| sciemtists, the scholars who are
taking refuge on our shores. Arc
we to accept these newcomers,
Virgin Islands
Will Serve as
Refugee Base
Washington (JTA)—State and
Justice Department officials will
confer with Interior Department
representatives on the question of
regulating admission of European
refugees into the Virgin Islands,
it was learned following a report
that Governor Lawrence Cramer
had signed a proclamation waiv
ing all passport and visa regula
tions for entry of refugees into
the islands.
eeption is planned for delegates
and visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. Smolian at 10 p. m.
Saturday.
Mendel N. Fisher of New York
executive director of the Jewish
National Fund will make the prin
cipal speech at a luncheotn. at 12:30
p. m. Sunday, December 1, while
at 6:30 p. m. President Kaufmann
will be the featured speaker.
An administration committee
meeting will be held at 8 p. m.
Saturday while a session featuring
the presidential report and another
by Albert Freedman, field director,
will begin Sunday at 10 a. m.
from every country, if they seek New officers will be selected
shelter here? It is a magnificent during the Sunday afternoon ses-
opportunity.” sion, starting at 2 p. m. I
for Alien
Conference
Group Seeks
Altered Policy
For Holy Land
Tel Aviv (JTA)—A non-parti
san “United National Front” was
established this week on the initi
ative of a group of 300 persons
after a two-day conference. The
new organization’s program was
outlined by Gustave Schocken,
son of Zalman Schocken and edi
tor-in-chief of the Hebrew daily
Haaretz.
The organization supports Pin.-
chas Rutenberg and aims at (1)
unity of the Yishub, regardless of
class and political strength of
parties, by a non-partisan admin
istration, (3) coopertion on all
economic matters, particularly be
tween employers and laborers and
among laborers themselves, by
establishment of general labor ex
changes, (4) a unified taxation
system, (5) support of the military
recruiting campaign.
The World Maccabi Central
Committee called on the Jewish
community and Jewish youth to
support Rutenberg’s proposal for
unity.
Rutenberg replied to criticism
of his unity plan voiced by the
American Yiddish press.
“We are here on the edge of
an abyss, trying to liberate our
selves from ruinous, talkative,
petty differences and fights and
to unite forces and adapt our life
to the emergency,” Rutenberg
stated to JTA. “The Jewish press
in America cannot afford, in the
present circumstances, to inter
fere with ignorant, futile, irre
sponsible discussions in our life.
Our disaster would be American
Jewry’s disaster. It is the duty
of the press to learn the facts,
understand and help. Otherwise,
do not interfere. The situation*
is grave.”
Haaretz also defended Ruten-
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-TRIBUTE OF THE SEVEN**.—Armistice Day
observance ceremonies by seven Welfare organi
sations of the World War, held at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Represented
were the National Jewish Welfare Board, the
National Catholic War (Vmnra| Knights of
Columbus, Salvation Army,National Recreation
Association, Young Men's Christian Association,
and Young Women’s Christian Association. Mr.
George G. Cohen (Center) ia the Jewish Wel
fare Board Representative. The National Re
creation Association sponsored the ceremonies.