The Canadian English-Jewish Weekly
VOL xxxu
MONTREAL, JUNE 30, 1950
No. 39
Israeli Apology For Killing Of Bernadotte Concedes Most Of Swedish Findings
Israel apologized to the Swedish Government for the assassination of Count Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator for Palestine, by terrrorists on September 17, 1948. A memorandum explaining the incident was presented to Foreign Minister Osten Unden in Stockholm by Dr. Walter Eytan, director general of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who made a special trip for this purpose.
The memorandum resulted from a note presented at Tel Aviv last March by the Swedish Government asking for a full explanation. The Israeli Government appointed a special committee composed of a Supreme Court justice, the Attorney General and Dr. Eytan to investigate the Swedish allegations.
Israeli concedes most of the findings of the Swedish Chief Prosecutor, who conducted his own investigation, says the New York Times. There was failure to take immediate steps for the apprehension of the criminals; failure to cordon the scene of the crime; delay in carrying out an examination of the scene of the crime; failure to examine the leading car of the convoy and Count Bernadotte's own vehicle, and failure to collect evidence from four members of the Mediator's party.
All these admitted shortcomings were attributable "to the absence of any clear understanding and a conflict of competence between the civil police on one hand and the Army, which was carrying out parallel activities, om- the other." Two sets of inquiries were carried out without effective coordination.
Although it was suspected but never proved that the Stern Group was responsible for the murder, Israel's official report mentions this organization in its summation. It declared that the inability of any of the investigating committees to hold proper identification line-ups "was due to most unsatisfactory, indeed chaotic, conditions existing in military prisons in which the Stern Group detainees were held."
The report also declares that the state was new at the time, being only four months old, and says that its mistakes were obvious ones that result from inexperience.
"For reasons of internal security, the Government was not able to make a full report on the results of the army's activities, which have proceeded uninterruptedly since the date of the murder and are still in progress," the report says.
"It is, however, well known that it is not the main function of the army to assemble evidence of a kind which would sustain a conviction in a court of law, and its inquiries were not conducted with this primarily in view. Nevertheless, material in possession of the army has been re-examined to see if it is of a character suitable to form the basis of a criminal prosecution or further inquiries by the civil police."
The report says that while the material casts suspicion on certain persons, there is not sufficient evidence to bring about an indictment.
The   Government  rejected  the suggestion by the Swedish Prose-(Continued on Page Twelve)
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Visits Israel, Raised Millie For II
When Eddie Cantor arrived at Tel Aviv to take his first look at Israel, his famous eyes were as big as silver dollars when he saw the welcoming committee that in*-eluded United States Ambassador James G. McDonald, Government officials and representatives of the United Jewish Appeal.
With him were his wife, Ida; Mac Kriendler, New York restaurateur, and Mr. and Mrs. Yoland Markson of Los Angeles and Boston. The Marksons, like Cantor, have been instrumental in raising millions for the U. J, A.
"As a good American and a good Jew, I believe that we in the United States should see to it that the youngest of all democracies, the only one that has emerged from the ashes of World War II, should survive," he said. "If we can pour millions of dollars into the Marshall Plan in order to convince people that democracy is the only worthwhile form of government how can we refrain from helping this democratic state, Israel?"
Cantor, who has raised $10,000,-000 for the U. J. A. in the United States, came to Israel to see at first hand what he has been talking about. He is extremely interested in the immigration! problem and will investigate this issue by visiting camps and talking to inhabitants.
Wants Jews In U.S. Census By Religion
Albert M. Greenfield, president of the Jewish Statistical Bureau, urged the bureau's board of directors at the annual luncheon meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria, to fight for the continued designation of Jews as a religious group rather .than as a race. Mr. Greenfield, chairman of the board of several banking, merchandising and realtv concerns, charged that "powerful quarters have tried to impose the racial status on Jews in the national census with attendant information on occupation and financial position."
Mr. Greenfield did not identify the "powerful quarters," but he said data gathered on Jews through such a census would be misused by "hostile" quarters in an exaggeration of the economic position of the Jews.
Mr. Greenfield stressed the desire of the Jewish Statistical Bureau, which has been gathering information on Jewish religious life since 1914, to have Jews counted as a religious body in the religious census made by the government in the seventh year of every decade. This census is made by polling religious organizations on their membership. The J. S. B. does the counting for American Jewry. The government does not make an individual count as it does for the population census.
Mr. Greenfield said that in 1947 the government called a conference of Jewish organizations in Washington to discuss the place of Jews in the census. Demands were made at that conference, and were opposed by the Jewish delegations, to record congregational Jews separately from non-affiliated Jews, Mr. Greenfield said.
"Such a procedure," he noted, "contrary to the teachings of our religion and the practice of our communities � would have caused great harm, and ultimately it would have led to the enumeration of American Jews in a different manner from that of the Protestants and Catholics."
Mr. Greenfield noted that the Jew's "statu* in the census has been attacked from two sides. On the one hand the cry has come thai American Jews should be enumerated differently from other religious groups; and statistics of the Jewish people would give how many Jews are in this country or in that; how many Jews are employers, employees, skilled, unskilled, etc., etc. From another side, it has been suggested that the government draw a line of demarcation between those Jews who are directly affiliated with congregations and those who are not."
Sylvan GoUchal, chairman of the statistical bureau's board of directors, who presided at the asked for $100,000 to conustue the work of the bureau nnde#Dr. g. S. Linfleld, the exec-utiw* secretary. The bureau is prtANPff ^Th� Jewish Directory1 f
Was One Of America's Great Benelactors
Samuel S. Fels, Philadelphia industrialist and philanthropist, died in Temple University Hospital after a brief illness. His age was ninety. Since 1914, Mr. Fels had been president of the Fels Naptha Soap Company, founded in Philadelphia by his father, Lazarus, an immigrant from Bavaria. During his lifetime he reputedly donated more than $40,000,000 to the cause of humanity.
Long active in civic affairs, he was recognized as one of Philadelphia's foremost benefactors. Amqng his many gifts to the city was the $200,000 Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Mr. Fels founded the Crime Prevention Association of Philadelphia and helped organize the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which honored him at its golden anniversary in 1934. He received the $10,000 Bok Award as the city's outstanding citizen of 1948, and an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937.
His principal philanthropy was the Samuel S. Fels Fund, which he established in 1935 to aid research projects, especially in the fields of medicine and government. Among the activities sponsored by the fund are the Institute of Local and State Government at the University of Pennsylvania, the research institute at the Medical School of Temple University, and a basic study on nutrition at the University of North Carolina.
Other projects sponsored by the fund include a research institute for the study of human development in a new laboratory near the campus of Antioch College, and research projects in photosynthesis and the protein molecule at the University of Chicago.
Mr. Fels avoided recognition as a "man of good deeds?' but he sought to stimulate public interest and support of research in the fields of government and medicine. "1 regard research as almost a spiritual thing," he said when interviewed on his ninetieth birthday last February.
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Interfaith Event Barred By Ruling
An interfaith baccalaureate service for the Pleasantville, N. Y., High School graduating elass, scheduled to be held in the school auditorium June 25, was cancelled because of the withdrawal of the Rev. James C. Gunning, pastor of Holy Innocents Roman Catholic Church, who was to have addressed the class.
Harold Davey, Superintendent of Schools, said that Father Gunning notified him of his withdrawal; citing a ruling by Lewis A. Wilson, Acting State Commissioner of Education. On June 5, Mr. Wilson held, in a similar case at Somers, N. Y., that a baccalaureate service as a "religious service" could not be heid kv a public school, and should be cancelled if there was local objection to it
The Somers case was resolved when school officials changed the baccalaureate service to a patriotic event, with representatives of all religious groups agreeing to participate on that basis.
The service planned at Pleasantville was to have included Bible readings, singing of hymns, invocation and benediction. Father Gunning contended, that, in view of Mr. Wilson's ruling, he could not participate. Later, four Protestant ministers and a rabbi announced that a baccalaureate service would be held on June 27 in St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church.
They are Rabbi Solomon Kahn Kaplan, of Temple Beth-El, Mount Kisco. N\ Y.; the Rev. Edward I. Campbell, of the Presbyterian Church; the Rev. George Chant, of the Methodist Church; the Rev. Brandford W. Ketchum, of St. John's Episcopal Church, and the Rev. Kenneth J. Dale, of Emmanuel Lutheran Church, all of Pleasantville.
FatheT Gunning explained that, under canon law, Catholic students may not take part in a non-Catholic religious ceremony. Forty of the high school's ninety-seven graduating students are Roman Catholics, Mr. Davey estimated.
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Jews Of Europe Need Trained Leaders, Economic And Legal Aid To Restore Group Life
Jews in Western Europe have a "real neeo"' for a Jewish Point Four program, for technical and specialized assistance with which to rebuild and maintain their community life, according to the American! Jewish Committee. In a comprehensive report on the situation of Jews in Europe, North Africa and the Moslem lands prepared by its Paris office, the Committee notes that many of the 500,000 Jews who have chosen to stay on the Continent do not yet feel adjusted.
With financial help from the United States and other aid from international sources shrinking, the report found, the problem of adjustment in the face of decreasing emigration is made more acute by legal, language, economic and racial barriers that vary in size from country to country.
Jewish leadership was largely annihilated in the last two decades, the Committee reported, and qualified Jewish welfare workers, educators and rabbis must be trained for community service and a new lay leadership attracted and developed. In many areas new bases for fund-raisfrig to support Jewish activities must be found, and elsewhere the social and community
know-how is needed to fight anti-Semitism where is appears, according to the report.
The Committee reported that in Belgium the problem was fundamentally a legal one; how to make the acquisition of citizenship for 90 per cent of the Jewish population of 40,000 quicker and easier. In France, barriers of language and custom stand in the way of complete adjustment of more than half the Jewish population, moBt of whom came from Central and Eastern Europe.
In Sweden, 6,000 refugee Jewish girls who came from German concentration camps and who like the country and its people cannot find Jewish husbands.
One problem common to many of the countries, according to the Committee, is economic adjustment. Since Jews are often newcomers in many countries, they find it difficult to get employment, and in some states they are being cut off from job possibilities because of their lack of citizenship.
The Committee reported that while anti-Semitism was not particularly potent in Western Europe, with the exception of Germany and Austria, it was en-(Continued on Page Twelve)
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July and August in Public Parks in the City of Montreal for the |
benefit and enjoyment of the people of this City at the places and |
on the days mentioned below at 8.30 in the evening. |
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Concerts will close on or about 24 August
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