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" ' , ' ,' .______p:,.a.,:g::.,:e_Three THE JEVVISH POST Thursday, April 27, 1950 -----.. ----~~~~~~~- ______• ______~T~H~E~J~E~VV~I~S~H~:P~O~S~T~ ______------Th~U~r~s~d:ay~,~A~pr~i~I:27~,~1:95~O _ ..... _ .... *' ..... r Page Two Winnipeg ... at this meeting, and at Saturda' Council U.N. Reporter been filling his column in the National .Jewish night's overflow session when he spoke in Yiddis~ PASSING Post with exclusive and inside reports on the He was touched by the surviving strength of Y Anniversary Men's ea.gerness of Israeli leaders to see Rabbi Abba Yiddishkeit in this "farvorfeneh shtetle" and wa" PARADE lEWtSH PeST HIllel SHver return to Zionist work ... and per­ unsparing in his praise and appreciation of th~ SPBCTATCJ& haps, assume a responsible post in Israel. Frank role Yiddish, as the carrier of Yiddishkeit played Dinner Monday Eve • 1'" s* • - zO - '* - '* ..- quotes the.leade~· of the Knesset Yosef Sprinzak Speaking of the decline of Yiddish on this con: -:An elderly Jewish gentleman rid­ I'M Oldut Anglo.Jewiol> Weekl\l in W.otem C,,"" as regrettIng SlIver and Neuman's resignation tinent and throughout the world, he said "it is not (l3sued weekl~ in ~e ~nterest,g of Jewish Community aetivitia ing on the Bronx subway spied a m Wlonlp-eg and Western Can.a.d&) from the American section of the Agency 15 a subject for discussion alone; it is our mutual months ago ... and says Sprinzak at that time Negro reading with obvious interest Member of the Jewish Telegrapbic Agency tragedy." At the same time, he said "it was the the Yiddish morning Journal. ... accuse? Silver of the sin of "self-ostracism." Now height of the absurd to expect the hundreds of Published every Thum.d.ay by that SIlver has dropped his carping attitude and He moved over to him and asked THE JEWISH POST LTD. thousands of new immigrants who speak Ladino him: "TIlr seit a Yid?" (Are you a Publishers actually participated in his first UJ A appeal 'since and Arabic, and know no Hebrew, let alone Yid­ Jew'!) . _ . The Negro retorted in BEN M. COHEN Jan~Jary 1949, Frank predicts that Israel will dish" to show ~nterest in learning Yiddish. He BUAinees Manalll!.r and HanBirlni' Editor agam make her interest in this matter known. excellent Yiddish, ('Dos fehlt mir Phone 54 400 Evenings 591129 was only reportmg fact when he dismissed hopes nach." (That's all I need.) MELVIN FENS ON, B.A. LEO J. LEZACK How a "coalition" can be effected between the for the growth of Yiddish in Israel as unrealisti~ Recently, one of the new arivals Editor Advef'tilling Manager Government of Israel and Rabbi Silver and the His name bespoke his character, and charge~ in Israel enquired of a Gerrnan- He~d Office: 213 Selkirk Ave., VVinnipeg, Canada ~ovement he led and still, in a sense, leads, is for attempting to transform his ,visit to America Authonzed aa second etaall mail, Poet Offiea Department. Ottaw. speaking owner the monthly cost dIffIcult ~o see at this time. What is apparent, into one of the fronts of a Kulturkampf over of a single rOom in her four-room though, IS that the Government of Israel still language, must be laid squarely at· the door of flat. She replied: "Twenty-five wants pll;rtners in her heavy duties ahead. When sensationalist joumalism. pounds." \, Nuremberg Laws Still Alive B~n .GurIon to.1d the inner executive of the World The enquirer was shocked at the ZlO111St OrganIzation a week ago that the Govem­ high price demanded and ex­ men~ of Israel had spent on absorption and immi­ claimed, HEfo hazedek und do II A. M. SHlNBANE, KC. The Nuremberg Laws will never be eradicated gratIon . a sum equal to the total income from New "Holy Land Group D, A. GOLDEN hayosher?" (Where is the justice from the soul of Germans ... as they were from world ZlOnI~t collections during the past five years , .. Toast to the Y. ... Answers Y Toast. and where is the fairness'?) i, the statute books '... w~ile the promulgators he was ... m effect ... bidding for more support Whitewashes Mufti (Cont. from page 1) the affair. All New Canadians are To which the lady replied: . J of those laws contmue WIth the tacit or open ... for a more responsible partner. These facts Aid By MILTON FRIEDMAN Tumblin"g, weight lifting, spring invited to atter::.d. "AUes inclusiv.n con~ent of the U.S. and other Western powers WOUld. seem to indicate that the Govemment to­ board jumping and by Suess" are part of a pattern. And the EUROPEAN JEWS GETS REBUFF Haila and Tel Aviv runs the single- vel' at the United Nations for the Cristalt Past president Mrs. M. Arab. sp.eech at Sy~acuse, N.Y., on May 8. Uat the moment when 100,000 Je.ws pattern ~s no less discernible in Mr. Adenauer's ZIOnIsts were I n dig nan t recently when Toronto, Onto - HAn openly anti­ . . line rai]waymuch patronized these N.C,J.W.; recently attended the 3rd Wolinsky is active in arrang.ements. o~'!l uptImely delay:s on. complying with already in Israel must live in tents . H.E.~.P. ai.ded Yus~f. EI Bandak, an Arab propa­ democratic policy proclaimed from without homes, work, or the prospect days by Yeme.ni Jews, to whom it e?tabl1shed Ind~mnIficatlOn and restitution poli­ a public platform" was the way gandIst, WIth publICIty. El Bandak, it was re­ thereof ..." Asking if the U J A is is a"source of pel'petual wonder. It B.B. DISTRICT 6 PRESIDENT SPEAKS cIes where JewIsh persecutees are involved. leftist columnist Sam Lifshitz char­ is really fortunate that it is a single Among those who participated in a recent This year's anniversary week celebration of ported, :'fas linked with Haj Amin El Husseini, being conducted to serve the causes ex-MuftI of Jerusalem. Haj Amin joined the Nazi,; acterized the impassioned plea of of Jewish reaction, Mr. Lifshitz lists (COl1~. on page 6) AT NEW INDUCTION N.~.C. A~.eri~a~ Jewish Congress protest against the Y.M.H.A. must elicit an especial interest on Avraham Harman, Israeli Consul Jerusalem (JTA) _ The Palestine The three local B'nai B'rith lodges will be honored this week-end by antI-SemItIc mCldents in Germany was Telford th.e part of her community-wide circle of well­ and broadc.ast" from Berlin for Hitler during the topics Mr. Harman' ignored. among . He sard, ... the Germans know how to get General, to save the 600,000 Jews in post an~,ounced that it is changing I a visit of the President of District Grand Lodge No.6, Samuel W. Leib, Tayler, fo~mer. U.S. Chief Counsel at the War WIshers and membeY8. More than merely marking v.: ar them "the frequent instances of rId of the Jews" and for that reason he pledged Eastern Europe. The Vochenblat attacks against Jew!? in the United its masthead to "Jerusalem Post." of Detroit, Mich. Several meetings are being held in his honor. Crl~es. Trials m Nuremberg ... a man whose another mlle~tone I~ regularly increasing activi­ columnist condemned the address at specralI.zed knowledge of German race theories tIes ~nd serVlCes, thIS occasion will mark the be­ the Arab world to Nazi ideals. "Arabs, arise as States and Canada." one man," he exhorted, "Kill the Jews wherever the Massey Hall UJA opening rally and cru~es should make his testimony on this ~I~~!ng of the :'Y's" greatest year of expanding matter ~r~efutable. He knows well how Nurem­ 8:1\ Ices thl:, CIty has yet seen. Doubtless the you find them." I be.rg polICIes are al:'fays tied up with Nuremberg fmall~ed bUIlding plans will be revealed at Mon­ The H.E.L.P. organization inc Iud e s "do­ SEES IMMIGRANTS ADJUST TO FRONTIER CONDITIONS: I mInds ... and whIle those minds still serve the da~: mght's Men's dinner ... and the community gooders" who lend their 11ames without knowiuO' Bonn ?,overnment, little change may be expected. whIch responded so generously and effectivelv t~ the anti-Israel leanings of H.E.L.P.'s director~, . It IS up to free .J ewry once more to speak out the rece~tly concluded appeal, will learn when pro-Arab writers and officials of the American Israel's Rapid Switch from War to Peacetime boldly and loudly, !,nd call upon their governments ground WIll be broken for the handsome new mid­ COLll;CII for .Judaism. A typical member of its ex­ to ferr~t out thIS element, lest this infection town y.r.:I.H.A.-Community, Centre. How indis­ ecutIve ~ommit~ee, Millar Burrows, recently wrote Construction Impressed New U.S. Consul Here \ cQ'.'tammate even their own governments today pensable Its announced facilities will be has been a book, Palestme Is Our Business." It tells Chris­ Israel;s driving tempo in changing over from war to peacetime reconstruction and, ------­ vymg so brazenly and shamelessly for German demonstrated but recently when the absence of h~n .Americans they have done wrong to tolerate refugee absorption was the outstanding impression Eugene L. Padberg Jr.! new Arr;erican I tively for Palestinians, Christ~as favor. centrally located meeting facilities worked to the ZlOl1lSm because "Zionism is basically and tragic­ Consul who has arrived in Winnipeg to replace Mr. Sherburne DIlhngham In the eve of '48, he crossed the linescm !Uto exclUSIOn of one half the city from participation ally wrong." American Consulate General, brought over with him from his sixteen-month stay in T~l Abdullah's portion of Jerusal and'\ ' In a -:ery ~ssenti::l and vital cultural enterprise. AI~red M. Lilienthal, counsel for the American Aviv. 'fhe friendly, young-looking foreign service official arrived in Israel back .111 district to attend services with mem­ , Certamly, ItS servIces as a community centre must CounCIl for Judaism, is also counsel and secretarY November '48 with the American special mission, and later rose through consular dutIes bel'S of the diplomatic corps at I , ' Mapam Silver's Dollars vs. r;rove a bo~n to general adult community cultural of H.E.L.P. Lessing J. Rosenwald chairman of to the post of ~econd secretary at the American Embassy, serving under Ambassador Bethlehem., \ hfe ... as It~ ath.1etic .and guidance programs will the Council, is on H.E.L.P.'s executive committee. James G. MacDonald. With service in South America and SAMUEL W. LEIB to an ever-wldenmg CIrcle of youngsters. Another executive committee member Mrs. Arriving shortly after the Berna- \ _ Western Europe rehind him, Mr. MI'. Leib is .n attorney, baving , ) Politics dotte murder, he recalled .among \ ' were returning. "High American Padberg found little exotic or lor- g"aduated Irom the University of ' , As the J;'.M.H.A. faces ahead to its elegant Mar~ ~thridge, stated that she regretted Israel's others the New Year's mormng at- , standards did not always adjust well eign about Israel. "Almost everyone Michig.n L.w School. He is. past,: and commo.dlOus quart~rs, it carries the blessings ~dmlsslOn to .the United Nations. Mrs. Ethridge The complete silence for over a month on all recently pubhshed her views in "Going to Jeru­ tempted shelling of Tel Aviv by the with the frontier-like co~ditions of there seems to have picked up some pl'esident of the Michigan B'n.;:, of t~e entIre c?mmunIty with it that all of its Egyptian navy, and sporadic fighting the neW settlements in Israel today," English,; and many Americans com- B'rith council and has servedittee as talk of new coalition governments for Israel must ~~rvlces work dIrectly. and. successfully towards a s~lem." Her husband served as U.S, representa- be taken as a sign that hopes of finding common through January '49 belore the final he said. Among the more advanced pared the country's climate during a member of the general com1'1 ucher and fuller JewIsh hfe on this continent. t~ve on the U.N. Palestine Conciliation commis- truce suspended hostilities. Kibbutzim he mentioned Ain Gev spring arA summer months to that of the District for the past six ground between the Mapai-Mizrachi government SIOn. ' and the two interested groups outside the govern­ ~.E.L.P .. Chairman Henry Sloane Coffin and "When we first arrived .nd and Affikim. of Florida." years. He was elected district ment . . .' Mapam and the General Zionists . . . Speclal.Ad~lser ~ayard Dodge are noW engaged in drove down from Haifa to Tel For Tel Aviv's cultural life he He seemed to enjoy reminiscing president at the 1949 convention!: have evaporated. With so strange a combination A Rare Cultural Treat an enel getIc natIOnal lecture tour. I{ermit -Roqse- Aviv, heavily armed soldiers and, had nothing but the highest praise. about acquaintances developed in held in Winnipeg. '! as Mapai-Mizrachi scoring up a successful reign ,velt, ~n old enemy of Zionism, is due back in road blocks gave tbe countryside "Symphonies .nd oper. we,'e ex- ISI'.el's foreign ministry ... and A luncheon at noon, Sunday, April I for the past 14 months, it seems difficult to ~ashmgton from a hush-hush visit abroad for a wartime aspect. Come January cellent, but I did not visit the was curious to hear something of 30, will be held at the Marlborough: 1949, and along that same road" theatre because I hadn't managed Hechalutz activities in Winnipeg. hotel, where Mr. Leih will meet! imagine that other equally extreme political com­ Shal~m's ~'eadings Shin and interpretation (in .he U.S ..C~~tral .Intelligence Agency. He will re­ people were working on the land, to pick up more than a lew con- He particularly enquired whether with executive members of binations could not have been effected. In one Hebrew) ?f hIS epIC poem "On Ben Pele" last Fri­ Gan:e actlVltJe~ WIth H.E.L.P. Another H.E.L.P:er , VVinni~! sense, however, encouraging signs may be read and a rapid program of housing versational phrases 01 Hebrew." the local MAHAL organization peg lodge No. 650, Manitoba lodge: day evenmg, under the auspices of the Keren f IN:nd"HChoP~ll:s, has been named associate edItor construction was in progress." He prelerred both Jerusalem and was planning to return some of its No. 1616 and Maple Leaf lodge No. from this 'failure'; the fact that the present HaTa~'~ut, was a rare cultural treat for which the a ;'. rI~tIan Century," a widely circulated government, though faced with the. most crucial surpnsmgly large audi~nce of close to 200 will maIgazll1e whIch has printed matel'ial unfavorable Mr. Padberg would not speak Haila to Tel Aviv because of their members to Isr.el. \ 1655. of immigration and military problems ahead sees long, be grateful. Choosmg to eschew politics and t o srae!' about politi(!al conditions in Israel, \ easier tc1'1po, climate and un- Winnipeg's we a the r did not Climax to the president's visit its way. ~I~ar to continue alone, bearing ~ajor platItudes, the warm-hearted and intensely Jew­ Wallace Murray, authoritv on the Arab world but did have somc perceptive ob- crowded conditions - and found fl'ighten the st. Louis born west-I will be an initiation night to be responsIbIlIty on all fronts without abandoning Ish poet. laureate of Israel expounded . . . in a 1and formel' A'merlcan ambassador' to Iran has servations to make on the adjust- most Israeli amI foreign govern- erner. Hc had spent quite a bit of held at the Hebrew Sick Benefit ment of Americans and Canadians 1 ment personnel whom he met \ time in Minnesota . . . and knew! hall on Sunday at 8.30 p.m. This '(' those tenets it considers indispensable in order ~ephardlt Hebrew heard, regretfully, only at rare Je.en appointed to H.E.L.P.'s special advisory' com- to conditiorD. While the immigrants ' shared this opinion. what to expec\. With his posting to meeting is open to members .nd I:," ''\ to cajole Mapam into sharing the burden'. It would Int~rvals here ... his personal faith that the de­ mIttee. ' I seem that in this case the issue was purely one VO~IO~, effort and pains that went into the re­ Recc\1tly H.E.L.P. bragged that its leaflet:; arriving today from Europe and Asia By oou,'''' uf The Winni":" TribUne I, While on Leave, Mr, Padbel'g man- \ Winnip.eg, his "foreign tour" was \ their ladies. of foreign affairs, in which Mapam allegedly bUIldIng of Israel could never have been in vain' th'were bell1'h g. no t edb' y top publIc relatIons.' people impressed him with their ready E. L. PADBERG J1. \ aged to visit Beirut and Cairo, pop- over,,· and he said he looked for- Ovsr 100 new members will be ' sought the ministry of foreign affairs in order tha.t th~y themseh:es ... these "wonders" fron:: E \o~~ out the country. The American Public adjustment to conditions, he met from the Unit.-;d States and Canada, \ ular in pre-war d,ays as the summer ward to visiting this part of the \ inducted into the order by a local to bind Israel's future in more securely with that whIch hIS hero derIved his name "son of wonder" I,ea IOns ass?ciation said it was "good public reo groupS 01 MAHAL army personnel and some kibbutz mcmbers who and winter vacation spots respec· country. Cont. on page 12) of the Eastern democracies. In which case no . . . ruled out the possibility that defeat could atr0tns matenal ~ecause it sheds light on a critical regrets from this quarter attend her conti~ued ever crown them. facet of a . .sel'IOUS SI't ua t'lOn w h'IC 1I Impmg . . e.>" role as opposition party. Mr. Shalom was touched by his reception in s rongly on mternatonal public relations." Recently M. Z. R. Frank, Zionist publicist, has /

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