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MONTREAL, SEPTEMBER 14( 1951
No. 50
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W.J.C. Urges Court Free Of "Victor Justice"
The establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court which could not be accused of practicing "victor justice" or "party justice" has been urged by the World Jewish Congress in a memorandum submitted to UN Secretary General Lie for transmission to the UN Committee on International Criminal Jurisdiction meeting in Geneva. This position was in opposition to that of British Attorney General Sir Frank Soskice, who told the Geneva meeting that the nations of the world were not yet ready for such a court and that it might become ''the focus of international discord."
The WJ Congress, on the contrary, pointed out that an established international criminal court "has of necessity a much higher moral authority" than one created, as was the court set up at Nuremberg to try the chief Nazis after World War II, for a specific purpose. The memorandum also declared that a permanent court, backed by the full prestige of the UN, would rise above international politics and would, by its nature, prevent accusations that the victor was trying the vanquished or that "party justice" was involved. Further the establishment of special courts for every violation of international criminal law would require ^considerable time, "a very import-element in prosecution of cries," and that such cou ts cannot, ~'(Continued <m Page Twelve)
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A^ funeral service for Abraham Cahan, retired editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, was held in New York at 175 East Broadway, . the home of the newspaper he had headed for more than forty years. Five hundred persons filled a second-floor auditorium while 10,000 others jammed the surrounding streets to pay a final tribute to the Socialist 'leader and the lower East Side's first citizen.
The simple, non-religious, eighty-minute service for Mr. Cahan, who died in Beth Israel Hospital at the age of 91, was conducted by Alexander Kahn, general manager of the newspaper. Long before the service was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., thousands queued up in front of the eleven-story newspaper building from which Mr. . Cahan warred vigorously against Communism, on behalf of labor and social reform and the transition of large masses of Jewish immigrants to a new way of life, says the New York Times.
When the doors were closed on the 500 inside the building, Deputy Chief Inspector John Ferretti, in charge of a detail of thirty policemen, said 10,000 persons filled Strauss Square and Seward Park. They and others who took up points of vantage in tenement windows and on fire escapes heard the service through loudspeakers.
Taken together they were representative of every stratum of official life, of other faiths and every economic station. The stillness both inside and outside the building was broken by the rumble of near-by traffic and the muted strains of organ melodies, but the people were silently unanimous in .their reverence for, the man whose njiine was a > by-word among his own people. ".'� ''"''"';'"
His oak coffin, blanketed with gladioli, lillies, smilax and reft roses, stood iri the center of Forward Hall just in front of a small stage crowded with floral displays. At 1 p.m., Lazare Weiner, the organist, tread softly on his pedals and opened the service with Chopin's Funeral March. Asa's Death from the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg followed. Alexander Kahn. then arose and spoke of his former col-leagut.
"He was of the first to fight Communists," Mr. Kahn said. "He was of the first to relegate party tradition and support Roosevelt. His idealism was always guided by a sense of the real and when- the interests of the people and his country came into conflict with any tradition or dogma he resolved in favor of the interests of the people."
Mayor Impellitteri said it was his privilege as Mayor to pay tribute to "the late, great Abe Cahan" on behalf of the city's 8,000,000 people.
"He was a powerful voice for justice and equal opportunity for aU men/' the Mayor said. "Our troubled era will surely miss the greatness tnat was Abe Cahan, but his works' and his writings will sustain us in the job of building a better world for everyone."
Maurice Tobin, Secretary of Labor, eulogized the founder of The Forward as "a great fighter for free trade unions." He said not only Americans, but working men throughout the world "suffered a great loss" in Mr. Cahan's death. Praising Mr. Cahan for his contributions to improved living standards, Mr. Tobin said the former editor "lived to see the American worker getting the best minimum wage of the entire world." He paid warm tribute to Mr. Cahan for his leadership of the Jewish daily, which he held played "a great part in the elimination of sweatshops and tenement slums."
"We should as Americans say 'Thank God' for the day Abe Cahan arrived in the Uited States," he continued.
David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, recalled the role played by Mr. Cahan in staving off Communist control of his union. Were it not for the courage of the Socialist leader, Mr. Dubinsky asked, "how many unions would have been captured and how many workers would have been enslaved." Abba Eban, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, brought tributes from the Government and people of Israel. Alluding to Mr. Cahan's roles in furthering social progress and in Yiddish Journalism, Ambassador Eban said he preserved Jewish consciousness and culture against the tide of assimilation, says the New York Times. Others who spoke were Justice Jacob Panken of the Domestic Re-(Co*ti***d on P�0� Twelve)
Says Only Vast Flow Of U.S. Cash Can Keep Gates Open
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The United Jewish Appeal will undertake a special emergency cash moblizatiori drive in more tha� 3,000 United States communities to raise $35,000,000 before the end of 1951. This was announced In Jeru-jalem, by Edward M. Warburg, of \ New York, general chairman of "the Appeal, after a conference with Premier David Ben-Gurion. ^_
"v The fund is needed mainly because 60,000 Jews in distress areas in the Near East ami eastern Europe must be brought to Israel before the end of the year. Only a vast flow of cash from the United States could keep the gates open for those who must come and provide them with temporary shelter and other assistance, Mr. Warburg added.
'He said immediate steps were being taken to call a national report meeting in New York October 27. Communities throughout the United States would be invited to send representatives bearing the greatest cash sums possible toward fulfillment of the $35,000,000 goal. At a similar meeting last year in< Chicago a $13,750,000 fund was raised, Mr. Warburg said.
Mr. Warburg told Premier Ben-Gurion the United Jewish Appeal had raised more than $55,000,000 in cash since the start of the year.' The Premier expressed gratification over the results and praised the organization's effort.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York, president of the World Con>-f ederation of General Zionists, declared in a farewell message that American Zionists were going home "challenged and disturbed by the views of their colleagues in Israel. "The Americans will have to
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icing criticism of many United States delegates who felt they (Continued on Page Twelve)
Israel Endures Worst Food Crisis For Sake Of Future Production Plan
The worst of many food crises that Israel has faced in the three years since she became a state has developed in the last two months. Now that stocks bought in the United States last spring have been depleted the full effects of last winter's catastrophic drought are being felt throughout the country. Some relief is in sight. Aid now being discussed in the United states Congress and funds from the Israeli bond drive should become available soon. Part of this money will have to be used for immediate food purchases, says the New York Times.
Any improvement in the food situation is likely to be only slight and it can be only temporary. Every analysis of the cause of these endemic crises leads to the same conclusion � the unabated flood of new immigrants that increases the need far more quickly than production can be increased. According to present and apparently unalterable plans, immigration is to continue unchecked until the population is raised by another 500,000 to a total of 2,000,000 by the end of 1953.
Aside from supplies they can find on the black market, many Israelis have now been reduced to living mainly on bread and cheese. Although this is midsummer there have been virtually no vegetables' or fruit available in the last two months. The shops often remain closed for days because they have nothing to sell.
The meat ration has been cancelled for three weeks, and even when it is distributed it amounts to only one-quarter of a pound a person a week. There was no sugar ration last month. In the last five weeks there has been an- issue of two pounds of potatoes a person and "that only iq y^yiUF"purty yt � country. ~.
Even milk supplies for the children-maintained in the past de-
spite all difficulties � have suddenly been reduced to eight quarts monthly and there is no milk ration for adults. About the only non-rationed foods are olives, dry cheese, bread and frozen fish, but as a result they are hard to find. Although there have been no public statements about the situation, doctors and nutrition experts have privately expressed concern over the effects of this minimum and unbalanced diet on the country's health.
More and more people who have consistently refused to have anything to do with the black market have reluctantly turned to it^in the last six weeks in order to feed their children, according to the New York Times. As it isj there is a tendency for the country's women to deprive themselves to a, dangerous point in order to give a larger share to their children.
One family of four, which can be considered typical, said that last week it found itself with nothing to eat except a bit of bread and a small dab of margarine�and that after days of shopping, the housewife, who is a doctor, turned to the black market for the first time and for �15 ($42) was able to buy two large cans of bully beef and half -a small chicken for her child, and four pounds of potatoes.
Distribution has become erratic. The reduced energy available on the poor diet has to be expended more than ever before on shopping and searching for supplies. In most families men have to help out, as the task is too much for housewives alone. The ice shortage has placed an additional burden on consumers since what food can be found spoils quickly fa tire 4ntens4
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