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, " -"."'.-" , II J II Page Three I,: Thursday, October 28, 1943 Thursday, October ,28,1943 THE JEWISH POST ,'i' --~~~~~------~~- -~~------:~ ,, THE JEWISH POST i i Page Two Inquart follows: I' ; I I • uAfter many happenings -in the ,:1 I years of occupation which have ,·NEWSY I B.ackground Of A caused the Christian churches of the » , Netherlands to feel forced to com- « 01ES , Palestine plain to Your Excellency, notably aILlI ..IltIUIlIIUlnIIlIIIIUI .. I ..I .. IIIIlII ..1 ,ranlnlltlll'lIltIIlfl!!II"'" The Oldest AngI<>-Jewlsh Weekly in WesternOanado. l' The Year In !'. (lE:illled weekly in the interests of Jewish Com.munity activitiefl regarding the question of Jewish By BORIS SMOLAR i in Winnipeg and Western Cnnada) Jewish Philosopher I (Poles, Czechs, Greeks, and Fighting French) citizens, there now occurs something (Copyright, 1943, JTA) , By ABRAHAM REVUSKY g-arrisoned in the East. These figures include so terrible that we cannot desist DELEGATION-With religion again fully recoguized in Soviet Russia, " Published every Thursrlay By ROSELLE ROSS book of which Thomas Mann has by about 2,000 PATS (Palestinian Women's Terri­ from addressing these words to Your don't be surprised if you read soan in the press that a religious delegation HE year 5703 will be marked as. a year of said: "So colorful and brilliant a Excellency in the name of the will shortly proceed from Moscow to Palestine.... This will not exactly EMPIRE PRESS LTD. torial Service), but do not include the 7,300 Settle­ A true cosmopolite of Russian­ salvation in the history of Palestme J ewr.y. collection of aphorisms has not been Lord. be a Jewish delegation, although representatives of the Moscow Jewish Printers and Publishers T ment police now receiving regular military train­ Polish - Gennan - Swiss and now While the political future of the country. IS published since Nietzsche." "We have already complained religious community may also be included in it... '. The delegation will ( BEN M, COHEN, Business Mana.ger ing. Palestinian Jewish volunteers now number American background is Jacob Klatz­ ; still in doubt, and the application of the WhIte Even as a small ,boy, Jacob Klatz­ about several acts on the part of the be headed by the Russian Patriarch Bergius.••. The Jewish members n kin, noted European philosopher of Phone 54400 Evenings 54 345 Paper restrictions causes much apprehenslO , the 22,000 kin knew that he would be a writer occupying power which clash with of the delegation are expected to visit the Wailing Wall, Jewish colonies In line with its general attitude toward the our time. Yishuv was tremendously relieved when General and a philosopher - nothing else. the spiritual principles of our people, and the Rabbinate.... The Christian members will make a pilgrimage to Head Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., Winnipeg, Canado. Jews of Palestine the British Government rejected Dr. Klatzkin was born in Russia Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at Ottawa Montgomery turned back Marshal ~?mm~l's And throughout his life he has which has at least attempted, since Jerusalem, Nazareth and Bethlehem... , . At the same time that the the new army offer. It decreed, however, as a in 1882 in what is now the Polish ,Afrika Korps and the danger of a NaZI mvaslOn worked unswervingly to that end. its hirth, to live with its government Palestine Government was asked to grant visas to the delegation, it was Thursday, October 28, 1943 slight deviation from its previous policy, the for­ district Grodno. But he studied and He served as editor of various pub­ Vol. XIX-No. 43 was definitely over. in accordance with God's word. also requested to permit the visit of five Soviet cameramen and eight press I mation of a Palestinian "regiment" with Jewish lectured at German and Swiss uni­ lications. In 1908 he visited Amer­ " While the Yishuv showed much bravery and IINow beginning has been made representatives.... While on the subject of Palestine, it is interesting to ! cool headed efficiency even in the worst of and Arab battalions. The size of the regiment was versities-living for 20 years in Ger­ ica as representative of the Hebrew I d~ys with the sterilization of members of know that the Iraquian Military Attache in Washington has published an I not specified, and the impression was given that many, -20 years in Switzerland. Sillce Immigrant Aid Society in Europe to ~ Declaration and a Paper Rommel's break-through in Egypt, t~e endmg. of so-called mixed marriages. But God, article in the A.merican press emphasizing that Hwhatever happens in there would be no obi ection if it would actually 1941 he has made his home in the study inunigration conditions in this i the imminent Nazi threat doubled Its energIes who created heaven and earth and Palestine has the strongest repercussions in Iraq" .... He insists that "the reach and even exceed the size of an average United States. . country. He has taught and lectured and helped to accelerate the tempo of its creative 'Whose commandment applies to all extreme propaganda of ,certain Zionists can only have a detrimental effect Twenty-six years ago this corning Tuesday brigade. ' Long known as a writer of works in various Wliversities. But he i:; I activities. men and to Whom Your Excellency i on the good relations that have always existed among ChristianJ Moslem I, Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild received a letter on philosopjly and psychology pub­ chiefly known for his great work. , Most of Palestine's Jewish volunteers are not ll Their own homes now safe again, the Jews of also must give account one day, told and Jewish Arabs • , •• Well, we never knew that there was such a ,I ' from Arthur James (later Lord) Balfour that Palestine were extremely distressed by the whole­ serving with this Palestinian "regiment" which lished in Gennall, Hebrew, Russian as editor-in-chief of the Encyclo­ and French Dr. Klatzkin's first book men, 'Be fruitful and multiply'. thing ,as a HJewish Arab" .... Needless to say, he considers Palestine a marked the beginning of an epoch in Jewish his­ remains within the country, but in various units J paedia Judaica, and for his books on ,, ", sale Jewish massacres in Nazi dominated Europe. "Sterilization con.stitutes physical country which belongs to the Arabs and believes that the Arabs, in any 'I ' tory for which Jewry had dreamed and longed for in English has just been published. philosophyJ ethics, aesthetics, and Nowhere did a Jewish community react in a on the African and Mediterranean fronts. Many i,l over two thousand years. The letter, later to It is uIn Praise of Wisdom" - the and spiritual mutilation directly at of their territories, will never accept what he calls I'overlordship from , stronger or more imposing way. Strikes, mass of them were commanded by a fellow Palestinian, metaphysics. H become known as the historic Balfour Declaration, Fully aware of the rising evil of variance with the divine command- a1i.en Zionists' in any form .... demonstrations and fasts were proclaimed and Brigadier General Frederick Kisch, the former ment that we shall not dishonor, TERRITORY-Dr. I. Steinberg, the ICfather" of the project to settle :,'I stated briefly that "His Majesty's Government scrupulously observed. Th~ most hardened ~bse!­ political representative in Jerusalem of the Jewish J.T.A. News - Twenty Hitler influence, Dr. Klatzkin left views with favor the establishment in Palestine his Munich home for good just be­ hate, wound or kill our neighbors. Jews in the Kimberley section of Australia, tells us the curious fact that , vel'S were touched at the Sight of a commumty 111 Agency, who was killed in Tunisia. Kisch was the Years Ago This Week Sterilization constitutes a violence the entire "area, which is larger than Belgium, belongs to one family ... .­ of a national horne for the Jewish people.... " chief engineer of Montgomery's Eighth Army and, (Copyright, 1943, J.T.A.) fore Hitler came to power. ~e was : deep mourning and in bitter, although helpless of divine commandment as well ~s This family, named Chaduck, now resides in England and' is willing to One of the greatest epics of achievement has protest. At the same time carne practical sugges­ after his death, it became known that much of the 'Jerusalem - Complete freedom invIted to this country from Swit­ been witnessed in these 26 years when through for all the Arab countries and the zerlandby a college in Chicago of human rights. lease the land for Jewish mass-colonization providing the Australian ! tions that the gates of Palestine and of the lands engineering and pioneering work of the victorious "It is the last consequence of an Government approves the deal. . . . In this h~ge territory ther~ are, at il Jewish toil, determination, ingenuity, aspirations of the United Nations, wherever pos&ible, be desert army was done by Palestinian units which early establishment of an Arab where he lectured for some time. and money the barren plains and hills of ancient Federation to include all the Arab Later on, he came to New York to anti.:.Christian racial doctrine which- present, no more than forty white families and a few hundred colored opened wide to as many potential victims of Hitler had performed their extremely dangerous' tasks states, were urged in two resolu­ Judaea were turned into a flowering oasis. The spend all his time preparing books destroys nations and of a self- people.... It is amazing to think that OI'J.e family possesses so much land, as could be saved. with great efficiency and unusual bravery. tions adopted by the Pan-AJab progress made in Eretz Israel in reclaiming it as in English on philosophy, social exaltation without bounds. It repre- leased to it by the government for 99 years for having brought into Underneath all this, like the steady throb of Another important contribution toward the Congress which has just concl~d­ a Jewish Homeland during this period was not ed in Mecca. The meeting ~lso questions, Spinoza-on whopl he is sents a view of the world and of Australia, same years ago, the first 1,000 head of cattle.... By the way, ,. a machine, there continued Jewish efforts to build desert victory was made by large units of Pales­ "I" without hindrance. Constant obstacles were decided to boycott French, Brit­ an authority-and his own theory 01 life which undermines real Chris- there is another family which possesses even a larger area of land in I',, Palestine. Capital influx since the start of the tinian drivers serving with the Eighth Army, ish and Jewish goods. placed in the path of the heroic pioneers who biophilosophy about which Thomas tian and human existence, making it Australia.... And this happens to be a Jewish family whose ancestors I, war and up to the end of 1942 amounted to whose duties involved considerable danger. Re­ Cleveland - L loy d George, ultimately impossible. were the first to breed sheep in Australia.... Many persons will be inter- virtually bare-handed removed the rocks from Britain's war-time premier, this Mann wrote: "It is an event, a £15,000,000 (over $60,000,000); a third of this ested to learn that the Kimberley section, which may become a Jewish the soil and cleared the malaria-infested swamps cently Palestine was saddened by a report of the week told a Jewish Telegrapbic revelation" and 'a benefit to human- "You, Your Excellency, are the sum was, according to reliable sources, transferred drowning of 138 of its military drivers sent by E:ettlement after the war, is now being developed by American military " that dotted the country through hundreds of Agency correspondent th~t "Israel ity." prominent de facto highest political during 1942. The foreign trade of Palestine also Zangwill is a great wrIter, but f:::xperts who are building air fields and roads there for military purposes. years of neglect. Obstacles to them meant only sea to North Africa. In all countries conquered it has been a long road since (Oont. on page 14) surged ahead during that year. While the statis­ by the British in Africa, Palestinian policemen not a great diplomat," and d~r:led I one thing; they must be hurdled. Added to the tics available here do not go beyond October, the Zangwill's assertion that pohtlcal Jacob Klatzkin published his fir;t difficulties placed in their path by nature were were used to maintain order and to instruct local Zionism is dead. book-on Herman Cohen, Foun¢Let· II preliminary estimates for the whole year show constabulary organized by the victors. Units of New York -, Louis Marsh.all, I the political snares and the indifferance of many that imports doubled, and that exports increased of the New Kant School; 'since he DONi" of their own people. All that is history. Recogni­ such police served in Eritrea, Somaliland and president of the American JeWish translated the 'Ethics ~f Spinoza into '- A\-1\) , even more. And these figures exclude military Committee this week scored the !, Cyrenaica, and are now fulfilling this task in Hebrew and published a biography fORGEI tion and moral support for the Jewish Homeland goods or strategically important materials. nroposal ~ade by Israel Zangwill -rI-lAI" ,HEY RE. I was voiced throughout the years by men in the Tripolitania. of Spino~; since preparation of his Palestine's remarkable progress in the fourth that the Jews of Ameri~a sho~ld TELL H\M highest public offices in England and the United In every North African city taken by the Brit­ vote as a uJewish bloc. Durmg Thesaurus Philosophocus - to th~ ,0 States. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Presi­ year of the war is manifest in the increase of its ish in the course of their offensive, Jewish units his address at the American Jew­ present day when he must stad • ish Conference, where ~e made GOfMG-10 fOR HIM dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, Field Marshal Chris­ agricultural production, and a still greater ad­ from Palestine immediately sought out the local work anew in English. 'N~'RE I, vancement in its industrial output. About five the proposal for a JeWIsh vote, tian Jan Smuts, former Prime Minister David Jews to bl"ing light and hope into their darkene~ I\1r. Zangwill declared that Amer­ "In Praise of -Wisdom" . is o:qly a I: Lloyd George were only a few of those who looked hundred new factories have been established since homes and help them reorganize their commum­ . iean Jewish life operates under beginning for this writer and phil­ "GuY MORE '-NI-\El\1 f-\E COMES , , with favor upon the re-establishment of the Jew­ the outbreak of the war, and the current rate of ties and resume their normal pursuits interrupted "Marshall law." osopher. Now he is at work on the ," Berlin-The danger of pogroms ish Homeland. Even the Arabs approved the Zion­ industrial production is nearing £35,000,000 a by Axis persecution. I second volume of his Biophilosophy year, of which 75% represents the contribution of hangs over the Jews of Germany, VICTORY ~OM-r:: I , ist program as the record shows. The increasing contribution of Palestine's in­ it was stated by delegates to the -and is headed toward realizing his I ' Jewish shops and factories. i, Then carne the White Paper,or, as it has been dustry ahd its scientific laboratories toward the conference of Jewish Front sol­ dearest dream, the compilation of a , On the reverse side of the medal was the un­ Allied effort in the East was fully recognized by die~s here. A resolution was new and greater edition of the "BONOS I correctly termed, the infamous "Black Paper". It carne at a moment when Diaspora Jewries in precedented rise in the cost of living. Retail price leading British statesmen, including Prime Minis­ adopt.ed urging the gover:r;ment I Encyclopaedia J udaica in English. \ I, indices, especially for foodstuffs, dimbed hig-h' to take steps to curb the vlo1ent Europe were in the depthS of despair. There was ter Churchill. anti-Semitic agitation. , • no hope for their future. The White Paper, the 260 in May 1943 as compared with 100 in Aug-ust A part of Palestine's war effort is its endeavor London-The authorities today A Letter To Seyss·lnquart official policy of the British Government today, 1939. Mitigated only slightly by the relative to aid in every way the Soviet Union, and to create t:\rohibjted further performances By Dutch Church Leaders I stability in rents and some other items the cost of Sholem Asch's "God of Vpn­ I, calls for the termination of Jewish immigration thereby a basis for mutual understanding and y into Palestine by the end of March, 1944, unless of living for an average working family has in­ closer relations between the two communities in ~eanee.n which the SJnda Ex- creased by about 140% since the war began. pres~ described as a foul spec- London (Aneta)-Church leaders I, the consent of the Arabs is obtained. It would the future. Continuing the policy inaugurated by t.::tc1e". The play was banned in of all denominations in Holland have ,: Although wages and salaries also increased, they ;, , , I mean the termination of the Balfour Declaration. the late M. M. Ushishldn in the beginning of the New=~ York some months ago. joined in a letter to Reich Com~ ,, ______--'_ I I, Canadian Jewry, together with Jews living in did not keep pace in most cases with the cost of , ; , , year 1941-42 in a radio address to Russian Jewry, , missar Arthur Seyss-Imluart pro- , , , ' democratic countries throughout the world must living. Thus purchasing power generally is lower a Victory League for Russia was founded at a , , ' \ perforce turn the anniversary of the Balfour than in,1939, and only longer working- hours keeps meeting- on August 25, 1942, in Jerusalem, attend­ TT7 kl'''' G; dc1le testing against newly-instituted I: the living standards of the working- popUlation rr Iee "J "~b sterilization of Jews as "a violation , I Declaration into a day of protest. Jews every­ ed by two Soviet emissaries, 1*. Mihailov and M. of divine commandment, as well as " where, together with an ever-growing enlightened from dropping much below the pre-war level. Petrenko, from the Russian embassy in Ankara. NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS , Jewish War Effort In Palestine of human rights," according to the I' liberal people, are demanding the abrogation of The League participated not only in Russian war text of the protest received here At the beginning of the period under review When Bitler was in Denmark the White Paper through the. fulfillment of the relief but sought to enlist Soviet support for the The protest was signed by all nine ,I the danger of a Nazi invasion stimulated the de­ some time ago he planned to visit Balfour Declaration. We refuse to believe that Jewish National Horne in Palestine. By the end of of Holland's religious bodies - the i I' I , , men in high public office have grown so callous mand for a Palestinian Jewish force to serve in 1942 it had enrolled 18,000 members in 86 branches their police headquarters. the defence of Palestine and the neighboring- East A tactful Nazi official sent the Netherlands Reformed church, the that they do not recognize that the Jewish people and developed a considerable activity. Am!>u­ Roman Catholic church, the three , , Undaunted by previous refusals, the Jewish police, in advance, six ?ifferent' . ; must be given the same consideration on the lances, tons of bromides thermometers, surgIcal Agency in London offered to the British Govern­ photographs of Adolph, hopmg they Calvinist churches, the Mennonite ( grounds of justice to their valid claim for the instruments, serums and vaccines, sweaters and church, the Remonstrant Congrega­ ment a military force of 72,000 men, consisting of would be displayed for the Fueh- I restoration of their Homeland as will be given to (Cant. on page 9) tion and both Evangelical-Lutheran every other small nation whose land has been 32;000 for fighting duty and 40,000 for home . rer's visit. guards.' It was proposed to form the fig-hting - When the Fuehrer arrived, how~ churches. overrun by the Nazis. The letter denounced the steriliza­ force by merging the 12,000 Palestinians then ever, none were on view, so .the N~l To those of our people who have been over­ tions as lithe last consequence of an serving with the British armies of the East with official took the police chief aSl~e come by the apparent hopelessness of our present anti-Christian racial doctrine which 20,000 new recruits enrolled in Palestine. Without J~ish . k d' "Did you get those SIX position we say: "This is no time for despair. Let The Calendar And as: e . destroys nations" and a "physical and waiting for the acceptance-or re.i ection-of this photographs I sent you.?" . us remember that 26 years ago we did not have spiritual mutilation directly at vari­ proposal, the Yishuv intensified its recruiting cam­ *~(lsh Chodesh Cheshvan... " ...... ;, ...... Oct. 30 The police chief pondered a ll11n­ the unity that we have today within our own Chsh Chodesh Kislev...... Nov. 28 ance with the divine commandment ranks. Remember that the basis for Jewish con­ paign. In July alone 1,870 Jewish volunteers Ch o.nukah. 1st Day...... Dec. 22 ute then replied: UWhy, yes, I re- • "'R nnukah. 2nd Day ...... " ...... ~ ...... Dec. 23 , b And you'll be glad to that we shall not' dishqnor, hate, structive enterprise in Palestine is the legal obli­ joined the British forces, and by the end of 1942 cfsh Chodesh Tebeth ...... ,...... Dec. 28 meTIl er. gation assumed by Great Britain. Keep in mind . the number of Jewish volunteers from Palestine lanukuh. 8th Day ...... Dec. 29 knoW we've caught five of tJ:te W~e~ o:ti~~~urp~:~:~bO~~." Seyss- \ in the British army numbered 19,207, and in d I" , that the present leaders of the United Nations * Also ohserved :previous dny. crooks alrea y. (Cont. on page 14) addition, 3,000 men joined other Allied forces " ,

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