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VOL. XVII
No.
Kislev 10
VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA,5^ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1949
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Pacific Congress Meeting to Hear Goldmann's Address
The first meeting of the newly established Pacific Region of Canadian Congress will be held, Monday evening, December 5, at the Community Centre. A highlight of the meeting will be playing of a recording of the main address at the convention by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, acting president of the World Jewish Congress.
Esmond (Bud) Lando and Moe Cohen, who were the delegates from B.C. to the recent eighth plenary^ session of Congress held in Toronto, will report on the proceedings of the convention.
Mr. Lando, who was elected a national vice-president of Congress at the Toronto session, is expected to outline the responsibilities and work to be undertaken by the new Pacific Region.
All the community is cordially invited to attend.
Canadian Permits For Shanghai Re^fugees Extendecl to Dec. 31,1950
Shanghai refugees now in Canada on temporary permits have been
■ granted an extension of their stay in this country until December 31
' 1930, according to advice received by Esmond Lando, chairman of the Pacific Region of Canadian Jewish Congress. Saul Hayes, national executive director of Congress, has adyiS;ed ^Mr. Lando that the one-yeir perniit extension was • aiiran^-
; ed for in an; interview with I^.; H. L. Keenlyside of the immigration department in Ottawa.
All of the Shang^ha.i refugees were welcomed^ in Yancouyer upon their ' "> irrivSl^''of receiving the 250 to 300 people in-
; volved was probably the biggest job done by Congress in B.C. during the past year.
Most of these people came io Canada to await permission to en-ten the United States following the
liberation of the immigration law in that country. The bill that would have made this possible, was passed by the House of Representatives, but failed to reach the floor! of the U.S. Senate during its re-: cently ended session. It wasi for this main reason that an extension! of permit was requested.
According to further advice fromj Mr. Hayes, elTorts are also being made to obtain peimanent entryj for some of these people. The pos-j sibility of permanent entry being^ granted will depend on the findings .oJ„^4is;^CKfi3^ lhe.^^^el^ Heaitlvand capabilitiespif these peo^*^ pie. Canadian Jewish Congress' will be undertaking this survey in' the near future. The Pacific Re-i gion will be expected to cooperate insofar as obtaining the required information concerning those of the Shanghai refugees still in B.C.
Behind the Headlines
The child victims of the air crash! near Oslo, lasifc weeic were being; transferred from homos, such asj tliis hovel, in; North Africa .. .
Only One Child Survived Air Gash on Norway Flight
NEW YORK—Advised that the Aero Holland plane bearing child refugees from Tunis to Norway have been found crashed near Oslo with one survivor and 31 dead, members of the Executive Committee of the Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewish relief agency which chartered the plane, offered a prayer for those lost and issued a plea that continued help be made available to tens of thousands of needy Jewish children still in North African slums, in distressed areas of Europe and in Israel.
Rabbi Johna B. Wise, Vice-Chairman of the JDC, and spiritual leader of the Central Synagogue of New York» led the prayer at the meeting of the group which took place last week in New York.
Israel faces Hew Crisis iii UN Over Jerusalem Issue
LAKE SUCCESS (YIVNA).—By This is a full return to the original
to an event*ual destination in Israel where they would have
bean transformed into constructive youngsters lil<e Simon Ker-ner who is learning to l)e a shoemaker in a children's village at Raanana, Israel.
■x strange accident of history, the "ast week in November of this /ear found the new state of Israel
in a political crisis as acute as the me of two years ago when the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine. Even the scene if the crisis, Flushing Meadows, is ■he same. But while the former crisis ended in a great victory tot the Jews,-the present one threatens to become the first great political defeat for the new State.
The crisis revolves around the question of the internationalization of Jerusalem. The partition plan of Noyi 29, 1947, provided for the complete internationalization of the city and its severance from the new Jewish State. Israel accepted the proposal, but the Arab Siraf^s' not only rejected it in words, but waged bloody war against Isr'ael and Jer-r usalem. The war ended with a victory, foi: the Israeli forces, and. because of that and in the interest of the future security of Jerusalem, Israel has reversed its original stand on the. internationalization ! of Jerusalem and proposed instead ■the internationalization of the Holy Places only. The UN, under the ; legBwieiehlp rrofc- the'^IAjnetloan, Government, has partly recognized the validity of the Israeli claim, and through its Palestine Conciliation Commission, recommended an amended plan of internationalization which allows the Jews and Arabs in the city to retain the citizenship of their respective countries.
Until this week, these were the only two proposals for the solution of the Jerusalem problem. This week, a thii'd proposal ai'ose which seems to overshadow the other two.
Expansion of Centre Youth Work Asked by Board of Governors
Moses A. Leavitt, Executive Vice-Chairman of the JDC, pointed out that the Children, after their rehabilitation in Nor«way, were scheduled to become wards of the Youth A.liyah, the organization which cares for and educates orphan and other Jewish child immigrants in Israel. JDC, which pays the cost of numerous Youth Aliyah children's homes in Europe and North Africa, has also paid the transportation costs of 11,000 Youth Aliyah children to Israel from various EmOpean and Moslem lands this year.
The children lost on the Aero Holland plane were being brought to Norway to stay at a special rest center for six months before being transferred to Israel. One plane bearing 29 children landed safely and the youngsters are now in a home near Oslo maintained by the Noxiwegian government and the Norwegian relief organization, "Europe Help". Just previous to
LONE CHILD SURVIVOR OF CRASH TO BE ADOPTED
NEW YORK (YIVNA):—A wealthy American Jew, who prefers to remain anonymous, has cabled to Dramen, Norway, the scene of the plane crash in which 28 Jewish DP children perished, and only one sui-vived, offering to adopt the survivor, 11-year-old Isaac Allam, and bring him to the United States. Isaac'^s escape was proclaimed by all as a miracle, and his fate has attracted the attention of the entire world. He was overwhelmed with presents and is convalescing in the hospital of Dramen.
the crash the same planes evacuated 130 children to Israel last week who had spent six months in Norway and were considered physically recuperated.
Mr. Leavitt stated that the JDC which this year will help 240,000 emigrants leave Europe and North Africa by ship and plane, has al-i<eady moved 42,500 by plane without a previous fatality. Of the gi'oup, 210,000 have gone, or will go, to Isi-ael.
The demand that funds be made available to expand and improve Community Centre program activit ties was voiced at the meeting ot the Board of Governors of the Van-couver Jewish Administrative Organization, following a report by Lou Zimmerman on existing activities.
Mr. Zimmerman reported that groups now being sponsored by the Community Centre include the Oak Centre Teen Town, the Ralph Mos-tei" Club for young newcomers, the women's gym class, the Jewish Choir, and the recently started young adult program. He commended the Vancouver section of the National Council of Jewish Women for the grant of $25 per month to make possible the hiring of a professional adviser to work with Oak Centre Teen Town. Since Miss Barbara Greene assumed this post a considerable improvement in the functioning of the teen-age group has been noted.
The Centre executive director also announced that the Sub-Senior Council were assisting in planning
for a Chanukah party at the Centre.
Max Dodek declared that teenage work required greater attention and effort. Mr. Zimmeiinan pointed out that the centre was seveiiely handicapped by a deplorable shortage of funds. Mrs. M. Brown declared that the deplorable situation with regard to funds for youth activities at the Centre had existed for too many years and that something must be done about it. She suggested that when the budget committee of the Administrative Organization meets to pass on allotments for the coming year several interested women's representatives should be invited to attend and piiesent the case for an expanded youth program at the Ccmmunity Centre.
Paul Heller was appointed as representative from the Administrative Organization on the executive of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.
S. K. Rosen, acting chairman, announced that he would soon be convening the nominating committee to prepare a slate of nominees
partition plan of two years ago without any modifications as the Americans propose, and without taking into, account the war in Palestine and its consequences, as the Israelis demand. The new pi»>-posal is harsher to Israel than the UN-USA conciliation plan.
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LAKE SUCCESS.—According to a furfrher report from UN circles, the liarsh Australian plan was introduced as a subterfuge, in order to win greater support .for.-the "compromise proposal" of the UN conciliation commission, which the Uinited States and Britain are supporting.
* ★ ★ ISRAEL REMAINS NEUTRAL IN COLDWAR DEBATE
LAKE SUCCESS (YIVNA): Israel will not support the Soviet resolution before the General Assembly calling for the indictment of the USA and Britain as war-mongers, but will support the Soviet proposal for» atomic control; and vote against any effort to termin-a,te the veto. In the General debate on peace, before the first political committee, Eban expressed his nation's continued neutrality in th«i cold;'wartand ineiter^^^ ments's conviction that the UN can harmonize divergent views and ideologies in the interests of world peace. In announcing his intention to support the Anglo-American twelve-point peace plan, in prefer*-ence to the Soviet resolution upon which the debate is based, Eban said that although he could not endorse all parts of the plan, he "generally .saw a greater degree of conciliation" in the plan of the western nations." The veto, he claimed, must remain to protect minorities.
★ * * A BLOW TO ANTI-SEMITISM
CHICAGO (YIVNA) — "The historic significance of the decision reversing the trial court's verdict in the famous Sentinel case flows from the fact that it establishes as an accepted American law the principle that anti-Semitism is a tenet of Nazism." It is in these words that I. J. Fishbein, editor of the Sentinel, desciiibes the reversal by the Illinois State Appelate Couri; of a decision by a lower court, two years ago, which held the Chicago Sentinel, a leading Anglo-Jewish weekly, guilty of libel against Joseph McWilliams. Elizabeth Dil-ling, George Deatherage, and a group of seven other American anti-Semites and Nazis.
In reversing the lower court decision, Justice Scanlon, speaking for the entire court of appeals, administered a sharp rebuke to Judge Donald McKinley, who handed down the or'iginal verdict, for allowing the "plaintiffs to becloujd the real issues by injecting into the case the false theory that jt was a contest between Christians and Jews,
"In our consideration of the case we found it difficult at first to believe that the evidence and the arguments to which we have referred form a part of the transcript of the record of a trial in an American court. The outrageous record presented results from the failure or the refusal of the trial judge to
for office in the Organization for j hold plaintiffs or their counsel to foi the coming year. an orderly trial."