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of a silent rebuke to the Government, without public meetings and addresses. All work and trade were halted at 2 o'clock and people went to their homes silently. With traffic suspended at 3 p.m. all streets were deserted, while only stewards and a few authorized Jewish cars were visible.
In Tel Aviv and in the Jewish quarters of mixed towns, police did not have to patrol the vacant thoroughfares, merely standing by in their barracks. In the all-Jewish city the inhabitants had received instructions from the municipality to remain indoors and not to walk in the streets. The completeness of . the protest strike was seen in the participation of the Agudath Israel, ultra-orthodox group which has always acted independently of the Jewish Agency and the Vaad Leumi in political issues.
Arabs Hail Inunigiatlon Bar as Concession by Brifteh While the intensity of Jewish bitterness against the latest British act continued to mount, Arabs hailed the suspension as a victory. It was claimed by Arab sources that negotiations are in progress for a new agreement between the British Government and a section of the Arab Higher Committee through the mediation of Premier Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha of Egjrpt. The Arabs asserted that the suspension of immigration is a result of these negotiations and represents the first concession by the British Government to their demands. They also report that several members of the Arab Higher Committee, exiled for almost two years will be permitted to return to Palestine shortly, presumably to be able to carry oi^ fiurther negotiations.
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meeting between United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, and Dr. Solomon Goldman, president of the Zionist Organization of America, it was understood that Mr. Kennedy does not believe Britain's new Palestine policy is practicable. Dr. Goldman stopped off here on his way to Palestine where he will confer with Jewish Agency leaders and others on the situation in the Holy Land.
Informed circles were of the opinion that the American diplomat did not believe the White Paper was workable in view of the fact that Great Britain decided to suspend Jewish immigration into Palestine for a six-months' period beginning October 1st. Dr. Goldman was assured by the Ambassador that th^ sentiments of the State Departni6nt in Washington were constantly l)(Sing brought to the attention of the British Government.
Mr. Kennedy was given a complete outline of the Palestine sitUatioh and the views of American Jtei^rry with regard to the White Paper. He showed deep interest in ever^ phase of the problem as well as in the Jewish refugee situation in Europe. Dr. Goldman revealed that th^ Ambassador was keenly sympathetic with the plight of the refugees ahd that on several occasions had personally interviewed with Home Secretary Samuel Hoare.
Protest British Ban on l^alestine Immigration: Decree Bom of Despair Says Stode
BOSTON (WNS)—"Thte recent announcement in Parliani6ht by Colonial Secretary MacDonaid to the effect that the Governnient contemplates closing the doors of Palestine for six months, is a manifestation not of strength, but of dtespair," declared Elihu D. Stone, meinbOr of the Jewish Agency's administrative committee, who denounced tfae British measure banning Jewish immigration to Palestine. Speaking to members of the local Zionist organization, Mr. Stone said that the Jew's right to return to his homeland was 6qual in sanctity to the Englishman's right to return to England.
"This cruel coersion of the Jewish people on the part of the Chairiber-lain Government is doomed to failure," asserted Stone. "The Jews of Palestine, as well as the Jews of the world, will never make themselves a part of the execution of the White Paper ahd betray the Jewish National Home, regardless of the penalties. I am confident that the majority of the British people do not condone the MacDonald decree. The future generations of Great Britain will be ashamed of Malcolm MacDonald. As
tant surf beating on my sequestered island; I shall have nothing to do with it.
I am interested more in the two squirrels that operate on my lawn. They get along without, any strife as they go about the processes of their economy. It's a rich world full of acorns and they are content with a fair division between them as they store up against the winter.
Elmer (he's the bigger one) makes no effort at all to accumulate a pile at the expense of Lawrence who looks sickly and feeble to me; he lets Lawrence gather acorns in accordance with his needs. . In t±ds happy world I abide during these three weeks without having to shave every morning.
Yet, having come this far, I an^ awarey that the readers must be seriously aggravated to find nothing Jewish in all this. Prom a columnist in the Jewish press they expect col-i^mns of Jewish significance; they expect a Jewish colmxmlst to rub salt Into their wounds every week; they are probably asking, "Nu, Segal, what has your vacation to do with the Jewish problem? What connection is there between your squirrels and anti-Semitism? And you mention your toothbrush. What has that got to do with the White Paper and everything else that ails us? The house is afire, you might say, and he worries about his toothbrush!".
Well, that brings up a matter: In the cool of. last evening I was sitting on my porch thoroughly enjoying my vacatioa Yes, I was saying, this is the ideal way ... just to retire within one's own shell, so to saiy ... to be a man away from the world and all Its aggravations . . . to hear no clamor but only the whispering of the winds in my favorite trees.
Then in the gathering dusk I saw a stranger coming up the walk to my doorway. "I have come," he explained, "on very important matter." • (What; could be more impofirtan^ lhan this perfection of peace t&at I was enjoying?)
"I have come to spettk to you about Coughlin. What are' we dohig about Coughlin? Nothing! It's time we were doing something^ and that's what I came to speak to you about."
Ifc seemS'you just can't hide away, if you atfe a Jew. Besides, my wife has been troubling me ... "You mean you^e gotag to hide out in this house f<kf three weeks? Not going ansnwhere? What kind of a vacation is this?"
SPORTING SPIEL
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The summier months seem to have set up a quid pro quo in the affairs of Irv Kupcinet, oiir wandering sports editor. Although we feel no kindred sympathy for a nian who recently joined the ranks of the ben-"edicts we're not called upon to sit in judgment of that tliirrfc called "love." This happens to he the first summer Kup finds himself inebriated with a love-potlpn of his own brewing and if a man has marital responsibilities who are we to deny him a request to Ipmch-hit in nmning down a pillar.
THE PROJECT
^ Let's elaborate on Dan Parker's story in Ken about Mike Jacobs—a purveyor of pugilism—who is said to
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Is there anything to ttiis J>ig reciprocal trade deal between Naziland and Rumania, which gives (Sermany 50,000 carloads of Rumanian wheat? .. .Those who favor the Rublee plan and approve of the J.D.C.' turning over $1,000,000 for that purpose should read the news from Danzig carefully. . . Here is a.glaring example of how Jews, even when they follow to the letter the Nazi's Instructions on the transfer of their holdings, are still made the victims of special decrees tha,t rob them of their lawful percentage of the naoney they were compelled .to tumin to the Nazis. . . We don't ;know how compatible the political independence of Denmark and Norway is with^the. decision of the governinents of .these two countries to ban ;Warher.Brothers' "Cqn-. fessions of a Nazi Spy'' . . . No movies showing HiUer or M^ are permitted to be screened in Mexico. . . . Italy, on the other hand, doesn't O.K. any film scenes depicting labor strikes. . .
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for the Jewish people, this will serve as nothing else to unite them for the purpose of combatting the latest effrontery with all the means at their command."
Announce Cluistian Pilgrimage to Palestine. Pavilion . NEW YORK (WNS)—Plans for a mass Christian pilgrimage to the Palestine Pavilion at the ■ Worid's Pair were announced by the newly formed American Christian Emergency Council for Palestine which proposes to protest against the British policy on Palestine. The Council denounced the White Paper as a "gross violation of the Palestine Mandate" and held the suspension measure "a veritable calamity of catastrophic proportions to the hapless refugees seeking escape from virtual extermination."
The proposed pilgrimage to the Palestine Pavilion is the initial step in a campaign set up by the Council which was organized by the Pro-Palestine Federation of America. The American Christian Emergency Council is made up of prominent clerical leaders and educators who decided to inaugurate an educational campaign to enlist nation-wide support for a resolution, to be introduced in Congress, against the "violation of an international covenant by Great Britain to which the United States is a signatory."
BELGRADE (WNS)—A joint cable was sent to the British Government and labor leaders by the Union of Jewish Communities and the Zionist Federation protesting the British ban on immigration into Palestine.
KAUNAS (WNS)—Suspension of immigration for a six-months' period was scored by the rabbinate and Zionist organizations here who joined ih cabling Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain protesting the ban.
be acquiring a complete set of bunions in a sustained attempt to fill the late Tex Rlckard's boots. As a sports writer Dan Parker has few peers but as a master of innuendo, cue, byplay, insinuation, hint, whisper, and subaudition, he has no equal. That is our opinionated opinion but it may be a matter for conjecture, and we certainly wouldn't want to come within five miles of the gentleman whilst: mouthing suppositions lit so demar gbgic fashion. I^tt ^rker claims that no one has yef tumbled to the fact that M3ke Jacobs has proved a ttetterman than was Rickard but if that elusive quality known as color isn't on Slike's side, a ream of facts and figures are. Fittthermore, Parker steadfastly maintains. If Tex had the Depression Decade and Joe Louis as his working material instead of the Terrific Twenties and Jack Dempsey, iie might have been just another small-time promoter with nothing i^ore than local fame and small profits to reward his flier Into pugilism, si^e Jiacobs took an imknown col-bred boy and, after overcoming the nation's prejudice against a Negro hieavyweight champion, sold him at Immense profits toi a nation so hard-hit it wasn't even buying the heces-sitles of life. If that isn't a better job of fight promoting than Tex Rickard s|lling Dempsey to a country that was throwing its money at him, opines Parker, . .then the origtoal salesman of the Brooklyn Bridge was R tongue-tied, unpersuasive moron.
PENOUMENT
r After Rlckard's death, Mike Jacobs either refused or failed to recogmze the opening that was available only to him. But after Johnson failed to size up the situation during the five years he served as promoter, Michael Strauss Jacobs was practically eased into the job after sensing In Joe Louis the talent necessary as a fighter and a gate attraction. Step
London (WNS) — Negotiations were begun here between Dr. Emil Kafka, president of the Prague Jewish Community and representative of the Supreme Council of Jewish Communities in the "protectorate" of Bohemia-Moravia, and Jewish organizations' leaders on urgent problems involving emigration of Jews from the "protectorate."
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by step Jacobs built up the colored boy and It seemed as if no power on earth could stop Max Sohemelling from beating Braddock and taking the heavyweight title back to CJer-many to hold until death or Hitler did him and It part. But, with a series of maneuvers that made those Eiuropean diplomats look like clumsy bumpktos, Mike not only grabbed the heavyweight championship fight right out of the Garden's lap but made his libwerful rivals like it so much they Abound up by dropphig their damage sliits agamst him and taking him in as their partner. That meant the ^t of Johnson as Mike's rival for the role of occupant of Tex Hiekard's
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I At the height of the depression, he restored the million-dollar gate with a colored heavyweight champion although the history of the prize rmg ^ould have told him such a thing couldn't be done. Clacking his 111-flttlng mail-order molars, giving you d smile' more Inscrutable than that 6f the Sphinx and twinkling his blue eyes in a sly wink, Mike Jacobs, sjr a personality, has little color. But as a fight promoter, Mike has developed corns and bunions not from amply filUng Tex Rlckard's shoes but find-tag them too small. Well, there you have the boiled story of Michael Strauss Jacobs, erstwhile piurveyor of pugilism. He's not a bogeyman but a bustaessman and has sewed up the whole boxing world so tightly that London promoters hold Important matches only by his permission, as in the case of Henry Armstrong versus Ernie Roderick recently.
An interesting report reaches us that Cardinal Gasparri, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the-Apostolic Signature x>f Rome, is combing here to put a stop to Father Cough-lin's increasing delusions of grandeur. . . The mystery; of who is financing Coughlin's radio time is becoming thicker.He has contracted for daily quarter and half hour periods on almost'fifty stations. .-. In order to circumvent the new radio Code that prohibs dissemination of "racial" propagranda Coughlin 'books his time through his .Social Justice ^organization. .. The New York Pbs^S Ludwig Lore knov^ what he's talking about. . . when he claims that the Italian Fascists are going in for the organization of Italians in America in a big way, the State Department had better take notice. . . Believe it or not, there are 1,500 Gter-man clubs in New York , .. but iiot all of them are Nazi in their.leanings. . :.
THIS AND THAT
Hollywood still has illusions about European markets for its film products. . . The Cohn brothers of Columbia are making two versions of "(Solden Boy," one being toned down to the extent of substituting the word "anarchism" for the term "Fascism" used in the version intended for domestic consumption. . . Interesting statistics: Out of the 38.000,000 immigrants who landed at Ellis Island between 1820 and 1930 fully a sixth remained in New. York. .. The iiltra-kosher Poliakoff Restaurant in New York City features in its window a big poster bearing the . inscription "Gentiles Are Welcome."
OPINIONS DIFS7QB
There's something fishy about twenty-year-old University of California graduate William Bardwell Curts. . ; Young Bill spent a month in a Nazi pail for insulting Hitler... Now, back in this country, he sings the praises of his jailers for the treatment they accorded him.... And when a reporter asked him about the beating he received, he sweetly replied
that he hadn't: been beaten up very badly, , . A different reaction is that of Gregor Zimer .former headmaster of the American School at Ber-, lln,,who has come back to this country for good.. .When asked to define the difference between American democracy and German 'Nazidom he delivered this nifty: "Here, when you hear footsteps at the door at: 6 a.m. it means that the milkman has arrived. .. If ysu hear a knock at 6 a.m. in a home in Germany you. kiss your family good-bye, because' the Gestapo is paying you. a visit." FORECAST
A few prognostiflcations on the World Zionist Congress opening on August 16th: From the first day of the Congress Jewish newspaper correspondents will cable home the inside dope on Dr. Weizmann's definite decision to resign- from the presidency of -the World ionist Organization. ... The question of whether Weizman naight possibly reconsider will be the focaj^; jipint of every newspaper rejport on the. conclave. . . The McCoy is that althoujgh Weizmann is a very tired" man in hlsi middle sixties the efforts to coax him to stay on at the helm of the' Zionist shi^ of state; will be successful. . . Therft will bie plenty of rumors about a reconciliation with the Revisionists and the inclusion of Jabitinsky in the SbMcutiv^ . V V Forget ahbut it; though. . . It won't>happen» . . . You will, furthermore, read sensational dispatches declaring: that in view of the present European political setup ah Aniert head the W(Mfld Zionist . Dr: Stephen S. Wise's xiame will be prominently mentioned. . . But that won't happen either. . ; As for the American delegation — although it's the strongest eyer sent to any Congress It won't be very much in the plc-turie.'. . The reason being that the representatives of American Zionism have no specific plan of itheir^iwn to present and defend.
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James McDonald, former High Commissioner for Refugees, is being picked for' the presidency of the amalgamated City College and Hunter College of New York... It's a bit late in the day, but we've Just dis-cbviered that Pearl Levlson, virho wott that $1,000 World's PaJr poem prizef a couple: of mon^ ago, is a niece of > the Yiddish poet Michael Persal and the greatgranddaughtcT of the famous Tzaddik of Radlni, Heifetz Chaim. . . If you want to realize how time flies just ponder over the fact that youthful-looking—and, for that matter, young—Sidney Wallach bif the Amer^ ican Jewish Committee is celebrating his tenth wedding anniversary, this-month. . . Jane Manner, the former. Cincinnatian who now heads one of New York's finest schools of speech; has published a "Better Speech Home Study Course" for the beneJQlt of those who would like to use her method but Jive too far away to attend her classea It is Miss Manner who. is coaching Bla Roden and Johni Banner, outstanding refugee players in the revue "Prom Vienna," in the intricacies of English pronunciation. . .
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