OCTOBER 29, i960
THE CANADIAN JEWISH REVIEW
MONTREAL MEETINGS
(Additional Montreal Meetings on Page Six)
� KEREN HATARBUT �
The problem of youth education and leadership will be the theme of the Oneg Shabbat, in association with the Zionist Convention, on October 28, at 8.CO p.m., at Shaare Zion Synagogue. The guest speaker will be Dr. Samuel M. Blumenfield, head of the department of education and culture of the Jewish Agency in the U.S., and an outstanding educator, scholar, author, and lecturer. Lawrence Freiman, president of the Zionist Organization of Canada: and Rabbi M. S. Cohen, leader of Shaare Zion Synagogue, will speak. "Canadian Jewish Youth As We See It" will be discussed by: Moshe May, moderator; Sarah Rafman, Baruch Mar-gulis, Yitzchak Cutler. Leah Ki-brick will recite "Shalshelet Hame-' cholot". Singing; refreshments/ Rabbi A. Horowitz, national director, will be Chairman. Public invited.
Conference; YM-YWHAj Combined Appeal for the Blind; the Red Cross Society; United Red Feather. Working with her are: Mesdames N. Cayne. 4055 Vendo-me Avenue; N. Gaisin, 4885 Mont-clair Avenue; M. Walfish, 4982 Borden Avenue; M. S. Weinstein, 6947 Somerled Avenue. Mrs. Edgar Wener is founder chairman of the Young Women's Section of the Combined Jewish Appeal: vice-chairman of the Women's Division; was chairman of its insight tour; won the Barkof f Leadership Award; is active in Red Cross; Salvation Army; Canadian Cancer Society; Combined Appeal for the Blind; Red Feather. With her are: Mesdames H. Baker, 4877 Lacom-be Avenue; Gloria Caplan, 4841 Isabella Avenue; I. Gertsman, 4870 Fulton Avenue; N. Matalon, 10 Sixth Avenue. Dorval; L. Shapiro, 5157 Isabella Avenue.
� JOINT CAMPAIGN �
in support of the Combined Jewish Appeal and the Rescue and Survival Fund, which has Mrs. Joseph Cohen as chairman of the Women's Division, has divided the city into seven districts for the purpose of campaigning with these associate chairmen: Mesdames Sydney Adel-stein, 5082 Glencairn Avenue, the Snowdon-Circle Road area; E. I. Roll, 6922 Terrebonne Avenue, Westmount area; John Foch, 4775 Maplewood Avenue, Outremont area; J. A. L. Heppner, 3766 Yen-dome Avenue, Cote des Neiges-Snowdon area; Alfred Miller. 986 Dunsmuir Avenue, Town of Mount Royal-Ville St. Laurent area; D. L. Nadler, 28 Cressy Road, Cote St. Luc-Western Notre Dame de Grace area; Edgar Wener, 5689 Queen Mary Road, Snowdon-Hampstead and Dorval ar^ea. Mrs. Sydney Adelstein is past president of the Laurentian Service Organization; recording secretary of the Women's Division. Working with her as area chairmen are: Mrs. Jack Gordon, 729 Roslyn Avenue; Mrs. Stanley Guttman, 4725 Meridian Avenue. Mrs. Edward I. Roll was chairman of the Women's Division; chairman of the Jewish Women's Community Conference; on the executive of Rosedale Home and School Association; a leader in the Jewish Junior Welfare League. With her are: Mesdames Julius Briskin, 620 Victoria Avenue; T. Lande, 3496 Mountain Place; B. Louis, 551 Roslyn Avenue; B. M. Bloomfield, 3180 St. Sulpice Road. Mrs. John Foch has been active in the ladies committee of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and was publicity chairman of the Symphony ball; is active with the Junior Associates of the Montreal Museum. With her are: Mesdames M. Mintzberg, 46 Courcelette Avenue; A. Rosenberg, 126 Willowdale Avenue; E. Segal, 1845 Van Horne Avenue; J. Wax-man, 6370 De Vimy Avenue; S. Hitzig, 6285 De Vimy Avenue. Mrs. J. A. L. Heppner has held leading offices in the National Council of Jewish Women; was vice-chairman of the women's liaison committee of the Canadian Jewish Congress; worked for the Red Cross; Boy Scouts; was vice-chairman of the Women's Division. With her are: Mesdames R. Cha-rad, 2925 Bedford Road; M. Dover, 4704 Kent Avenue; Max Finestone, 4660 Queen Mary Road; G. Meta-lin, 5510 Bradford Place; Mrs. I. Simcoe, 4922 de la Peltrie Avenue. Mrs. Alfred Miller was president of the Jewish Junior Welfare League; and of Temple Emanu-El Sisterhood; vice-chairman of the Appeal for the Blind; is vice-president of the newly formed Women's Auxiliary of the Verdun Protestant Hospital; is treasurer of the Women's Division. With her are: Mesdames Sol Dermer, 595 Carlyle Avenue; M. Dobrin, 407 Lazard Avenue; S. Gasco, 2172 Fulton Road; S. Fed vis, 430 Kindersley Avenue; J. Zittrer, 2445 Valade Street. Mrs, David L. Nadler is a vice-chairman of the Women's Division; won the Barkof f Leadership Award presented annually by the Federation of Jewish Community Services for work by younger community leaders; is on the executive of the Hampstead Home and School Association; is active in the Jewish Women's Community
� SHE VET ACHIM �
D'Beth Abraham Synagogue, Joseph Grunblatt, Rabbi: For the Sisterhood meeting called "Dress Rehearsal", on October 31, at 8.16 p.m., will have as hostesses: Mesdames H. Clapoff, S. Breitman, L. Cobrin. Mrs. I. Scharf is president.
� HADASSAH �
Dagania Chapter "charming child contest" is on until April 15, 1961, for children aged six months to twelve years, and open to all. Judges are: Bob Washington, of Radio Station CKGM; Mrs. Dorothy Davis, Herman Heimlich, artist. Prizes to winners; and consolation prizes. All proceeds go to Hadassah. For entry forms call Mrs. Alvin Deskin, Mu. 1-8645. The convener is Mrs. Harold Stru-zer; president, Mrs. Saul Morris; publicity chairmen, Mesdames Bernard Bloom, Alvin Deskin.
THE FINAL CONFLICT
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college teachers had little or no useful employment.
As I said, we were lunching in the open potato field one day with only a tent for shelter in case of rain. But we did have a small battery-powered radio set with us. Newspapers had become a rarity and it was natural for us to take this set with us. After all, we were people accustomed to keep* ing- informed About world events.
Thus it came about that as we cooked our lunch �. which consisted of potatoes , baked in an open pit � we turned on the radio. There was no news of significance: some ground had been lost on one front, and some enemy positions taken on another front in heavy hand-to-hand fighting. We knew that the war had settled down to a temporary stalemate, and as historians we were not specially concerned with the outcome of minor battles.
We were finishing our lunch when the announcer began his concluding remarks. These were customarily of an uplifting and patriotic character and were read to the soft accompaniment of the national anthem. But this time they caught our attention and we looked at each other in amazement The national anthem was played as background music but the speech was astounding,, to say the least.
The announcer said: "We know that the people of the United States, loyal to the principles of liberty as these were so brilliantly expounded by our great Marxist teachers, Coolidge, Hoover and Garner, will spare themselves neither effort nor sacrifice in the struggle against the enemies of mankind who have set out to destroy the greatest achievement of
the human race, the victorious building of socialism within these forty-eight states.
"All men and women, nay, even children and the aged who have honorably won the right to enjoy peacefully the blessings of socialism for which they so courageously fought and labored all their lives, will gladly leap to the fray to defend this fatherland of the workingman, this toilers' paradise that already extends from the rocky coast of socialist Maine to the sun-drenched fields of socialist California, from the brutal onslaught of the enemies of peace, the Kremlin imperialists who would destroy us to satisfy the greed of a handful of Russian capitalists"
The announcer continued in this vein for some time, but we no longer listened. We looked at each other in consternation. What could have happened? Had the Communists, by some ruse, succeeded in invading this country at its very heart, in Kansas, whence the broadcast came? Or was it a case of fifth-columnists in the Government apparatus? The last seemed the most reasonable explanation and our consternation soon gave way to placid reassurance. It was a small matter. The enemy, to be sure, still had his agents everywhere.
But our own FBI was constantly on their track, and if one fifth-columnist managed to insinuate a subversive speech into a broadcast he would be silenced soon enough. Thus reassured we started back to our work. And then the same idea seemed to strike us all at once for we suddenly stopped and looked at each other. It could not be an enemy agent momentarily insinuating his voice into an American broadcast. Why should the enemy speak of a socialist Maine and California? Why should he refer to Kremlin imperialists?
We did not articulate these questions; it was not necessary. A great dread suddenly seized upon us. Involuntarily I raised my eyes and looked upward, to the weird bluish clouds that had been scudding high in the sky ever
since the deluge of atomic explosives hit the country early in the war.
My colleagues followed my involuntary movement and then exclaimed in unison: "No, No," and fled each to his own potato row. I followed them.
The strange broadcast troubled us deeply all that day but we were afraid to talk about it. It could not be laughed off, neither was there any reasonable explanation for it and, worst of all, we felt as if, confronted with it, we could not trust our own reason. There was something irrational about the broadcast as well as about our reaction to it. I for one decided to await future developments before reaching any conclusions.
Our work in the potato field lasted till it became too dark to continue and we then returned to .our respective homes. We were all very tired from the unaccustomed physical labor, and when I returned to my cubicle which, had been assigned to me in an army-type barracks where some hundreds of people lived, I spoke to no one and soon fell asleep.
The next day we returned to our labors in the potato field. I ached to bring up the subject of the preceding day's broadcast, but my colleagues on either side of me were strangely reluctant to discuss the matter. At lunchtime I eagerly awaited the one o'clock broadcast. It brought a shattering surprise for me. As the announcer recounted the daily score of small victories and minor defeats on the various fronts, he exceeded his own performance of the previous day,
Now he sounded like a stock-in-trade editorial from some Soviet paper. All the freshness and vigor had gone out of his speech and his words rattled dully like a memorized oration as he spoke of "the shock troops of the American socialist fatherland" who "inspired by the great example of our chief, the father of the oppressed everywhere, the liberator of the, working masses of the. world, President Charles Karl Marx Smith," and spurred on "by
the great determination to smash the mad dogs of Moscow imperialism" bravely assaulted the enemy positions and, "without suffering a single casualty themselves, caused the destruction of three hundred of the enemy." I looked at my colleagues and
my spine tingled with terror. Their faces showed no trace of surprise. They placidly ate their baked potatoes. One of them nodded his head approvingly and muttered something about "the Russian capitalist swine." '
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