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THE   CANADIAN   JEWISH   REVIEW
TUNE 8. 1945
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VOL. XXVH. No. 36
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{Continued from Page One) to power, should be observed in Germany as a day of national repentance and atonement.
Lord Addison, who was one of the delegation, said that so far as he noticed the attitude of the Germans who were being made to visit the camps, he saw no indication whatever of shame. They no doubt regretted that they were defeated and were compelled to witness these things, but that waa another matter. He thought it was really undeniable that the majority of the German nation knew sufficiently well what was going on in these places. It had been going on for 12 years or more. He considered that the Allied Nations must set up an organisation which contemplated the occupation of Germany and its deliberate re-education over a long period of years.
The Lord Chancellor (Viscount Simon) said that the Government entirely agreed with Lord Den-ham's description of the experiences of the German citizens who had been compelled to Visit Buch-enwald as salutary* and educative, and they would be very glad if it was possible to apply the experiences in other parte of the country.
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{Continued from Page One) needs of the Jewish disabled in 78 veterans hospitals.
The Women's Division of JWB is also increasing its work program, which includes the following projects: Serve-a-Camp, through which committees are organized in communities throughout the country to provide comfort articles to men in isolated stations in this country snd overseas; Serve-a--Chaplain, which furnishes the ssme service to chaplains overseas; and Serve-a-Hospital, which provides similar  services  to  hospitalized
veterans.
JWB Bureau of War Records is engaged in compiling the war record of Jews in the Armed Forces, plans to establish a branch office in Washington to work with the Army and Navy Bureaus of War Records and to publish the results of its research.
Army and Navy plana lor the occupation of Germany, the redeployment of Armed Forces to step up the wsr against Japan and service to the wounded s^d discharged veterans, makes the work of JWB more vital than ever. '
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the Jewish Agency for Palestine
and the Nakhshon Corporation of the Histadruth, Jewish Federation of Labor.
The first hundred dwelling units of a total of 3,000 for newly arrived immigrants have been erected in the vicinities of Bnei Brak and Khar Saba. The housing project is bains; undertaken by the Immigrants Housing Dept- of the Jewish Agency in conjunction with bodies a* a cost of
000,000 represents 52% of the combined budgets of all the 24 municipalities in Palestine. Of the total expenditure of $836,000 for educational purposes by all municipalities, Tel Aviv's share was 8687,000.
Lt Herzog, son of Chief Rabbi Herzog of Palestine, who is serving with the British Army on the Rhine; captured a Nazi Flag which was displayed on the Nazi Party headquarters. The flag was sent by Lt. Herzog to Palestine, the first to reach that country from conquered Germany. Palestine now numbers 2,620 lysieians of whom 2,247 are ltt Christians and 88 Mos-
physi Jewa,
For some reason or other, the Review, although far from the) scene of battle, ha* been included among those) whom the Zionist Council Public Relations Committee, of Seattle, Washington, wishes to keep informed on the ructions that occurred there recently when Rabbi Elmer Berger, executive director of the American Council For Judaism, visited their city and established a unit of his organisation. Moreover, the Public Relations Committee even adds, a little recklessly, that it would appreciate it If this column would comment in any way it sees fit and proper.
Well, it seems that ten businessmen of Seattle issued invitations to all members of the Jewish community -to a public meeting to be addressed by Rabbi Berger of the Council For Judaism. Immediately, the Zionist Council asked the chairman of the meeting to permit two speakers of the Zionist group to participate in discussion after the Rabbi's address. After consultation with the Rabbi and hi* colleagues, the chairman refused to permit discussion but said that questions could be asked. Rabbi Berger is said to have invited a reporter from the Seattle Post-fatelBgencer, the only morning paper there, for an interview and the result appeared in it The account contained the following: " Tn America, for instance, we feel that a Jew should be an American first and a Jew afterward, Just as another is an American first and a Protestant afterward.' He pointed out that this is diametrically epposed to the Zionist movement, which seeks to set up a separate Jewish nation in Pcdestino."
Do you feel the heat? The Zionist Council, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Sam L. Levinson, called a meeting at which there was unanimous agreement that Rabbi Burger's statement Was a defamation of American Sonists and those American Jews who are in sympathy with the cause of Zionism. Representatives of all 2onist orgcaiiixrtJona held the opinion that non-Jews must get the impression from the Rabbi's statement that Zionists regard their loyalty to America in second place to their loyalty to ZJrw*�� and Palestine. And that such a statement was in strict violation of the traditional principles of Judaism. A Public Relations Committee was appointed to release to the Jewish public, and. if neceesary, to the public at large, any kind of material which would help to destroy the implications of the Berger statement.
The first step taken by the Public Relations Committee was to ask the temporary officers of the new unit of the Council For Judaism if they wished to retract from the Berger statement The answer was no. So the Committee sent to the entire Jewish community of Seattle and its environs a letter and a photostatic copy Of the press release by ftxbbi Berqer.
The letter is in crescendo style, with shrieks and screams denoted here and there by capitalized sentences and exclamation marks, over four signatures. It contains the following in part: "We are accustomed to attacks on the Americcaism of Jews from non-Jewish ant^Setnitic sources. We are allocked to find fee TTissili mi rnnnrtl Por fuxUuni resmfeei to ahs>
prepared a release to the Transcript the Pacific Northwest's
community-owned monthly paper printed in English, but mat paper would not publish it due to its controversial contents. The Committee then offered their material as paid advertising and It was accepted as such at first but was later rejected. At an open meeting of Seattle Lodge, 503, of the Bncd Brith. a motion brought to insist that the Anti-Defamation League take action on the Berger statement was carried by all against one vote.
The pay-off is contained in "Statements From The Seattle Zionist Council" which says: "A special meeting of the Seattle Zionist Council called by Mrs. Sam L Levinson, chairman, resolved to launch an intensive educational campaign in the general and Jewish community and to utilixe the aroused interest in Zionist issue for adding to the ranks of Zionists, We applaud the increased interest in Sohism which the Council For Judaism has stimulated in Seattle/' declared Mrs. Levinson, recently elected president of the newly-created Northern Pacific Coast Region of Hadassah. "After Rabbi Berger's visit in San Francisco, over 1,800 men and women flocked to Zionist organisations to .join as members. We hope to outdo San Francisco in proportion to our numbers."
On the same page there is an excited statement by the chairman of the Public Relations Council which contains several lines that were blacked out with crayon. On first thought they must have looked good, in the wisdom of the man qualified to be at the head of public relations. But when they were printed they did not look so good and might even have given grounds for libel'if Rabbi Berger had wanted to make something out of them, perhaps. t
This column has told the above story in detail so that you would get as much of the whole picture as possible under the circumstances because it concerns a matter of gravity and importance to every Jew, and because this is not the end but the beginning of something new in Jewish communal life, having nothing special to do with the local affairs of the Jews of Seattle. Washington.
For years the American Jewish community has been deeply divided over the Pcdesttne question, into Zionists in favor of a Jewish state in Palestine, and non-Zionists or arrt-Zlonists or both, against a Jewish state anywhere. The Zionists did not ask the permission of the non-Zionists in the propagation of their cause. The struggle, which has affected all communal and or-ganizauonal activity in some way or other, went on, for the most part, out of public view. Then, in the past couple of years. Leasing Rosenwald organised his American Council For Judaism which was not non-Qonist but aggressively anti-Zionist and without asking the permission of the Ein�i�tf in the propagation of this undertaking. Feeling threatened, rightly or wrongly, in me security of their American dtixenship by the aggressive activities of the Zionist Organisation on behalf of Jewish nationalism, the Council For Judaism has been organizing units to oppose those activities.
Always differing, these two groups are now at an open impasse. Their differences are honestly held and may never be compoeed. However, something will have to be done to prevent or avoid a thing like the hysterical Seattle business if for better reason than to protect people with weak hearts own anger. The main thing is that the Zionist Oiijfiuisntion the American Council For Juo\xism are probably and should try to get together an how to fight
^l^docks, watches, cameras, cinema films were announced by the Palestine Government. The duties on cognac and brandies have also been raised.
The annual budget of the municipality of the all-Jewish dty of Tel Aviv, amounting to over $e>
According to s report suUalttsil � a conference of the Palest hie Jewish Medical Association, there, there were only thirty Jewish physicians in the whole of Palestine during the first world war. The Jewish population then was around 60,000. The present Jewish Community numbers 600,000.
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Pos^mtonig�icer and mounted on a reproducttori of part of a front page of the daily paper, with huge red arrows pointing to these scraps, and a wide red border at the top which carries in whitee^pe the following: "American Council For Judaism Defames Jews In Public Press." . The Public Relations Committee of the Zionist Council also
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There is nothing very simple about this whole situation it is high time for men to come together from both sides arrive at a few rules and regulations for combat They to the vast majority which wUl never Join up with either they don't stop arousing so much bitterness in each other much general concern over the constant evidence of strife.
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his "deep interest" in the work of the conference and wished it success "in all efforts to improve the condition of mankind in the poet-war world.'*
Governor Dewey sent a message terming it a "tragic fact that despite the end of the war in Europe, and that the oppressors have been crushed, the destiny of the remnants of Polish Jewry is stffl umcilain grave difficulties.- He added that there was an "imperative need for organized unity in planning reconstruction of the shattered lives of a people who have suffered so much.1'
Other messages came from Henry L. Stimsou, Secretary of War; Bishop William T. Manning, Sumner WeDes, former Under-Secretary of State; Gov. Dwigkt H. Green of Illinois; Gov. Walter E. Edge of New Jersey; Henry Wallace, Secretary of ator Robert F. Leverett SaHonatall, Henri Bonnet, the French Ambassador, and Rwr Dr.
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Britain of Palestine to the Jewish survivors of the Nasi terror or brand itesff as
(Oaf fa was! from Page One) the doubling of laboratory new scientific equipment to replace worn-out apparatus, substantial additions is Bngiiah for the library end erpatnuon of the
The contemplated opening of a School of Economics snd Social Sciences will meet a need which has become increasingly acute with the progress of Palestine in general snd of its Jewish eosa-munity in particular. This school will train Jewish young
and for tions and
as executives for public, public, and private industrial and sgricultural prises. The University wfll open up a new pinfssarine to Palestinians It that graduates of the school wfll also be called to serve in oose-muual Jewish poets abroad, tn eddi Inn to fasseructsou there watt oe researCtt tn economics and the social sciences, with special emphasis on Jewie the problems of the whets Middle offers uaiqw and
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