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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHWEST JEWRY
FORTY-FIRST YEAR
HOUSTON. TEXAS
JUNE I, 1444
NO. •
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Daniel Schlanger Elected President
Of The Jewish Community Center
AMERICAN JEWISH
CONFERENCE REFUSES
FURTHER DISCUSSION OF
PALESTINE REPORT
Judge Hutcheson Explains The Task
Of The Palestine Inquiry Committee
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Mr. Daniel Schlanger was el-
ected president of the Jewish
Community Center Board at a
meeting held Monday, June 3rd,
at the Center. Mr. Schlanger is
a native Houstonian, a graduate
of the University of Texas, class
of 1926, where he received his
Law Degree, and is a member of
the Harris County and Texas
State Bar Associations. Mr. Sch-
langer has been a leader in com-
munal affairs for many years. He
is chairman of the Public Rela-
tions Committee of the Jewish
Community Council and holds
the position of secretary-treasur-
er of the Council. He is a past
president of the Beth El Congre-
gation.
Mrs. Joe Robinowitz, Mr. Joe
Weingarten and Mr. I. S. Broch-
stein were elected vice-presi-
dents; and Mr. Albert Myerson,
secretary-treasurer.
Mr. Maurice Dannenbaum is re
tiring from the presidency and
New York (JPS)—The Ameri-
can Jewish Conference has de-
clined the invitation of the State
Department to submit its views
on the report of the Anglo-Am-
erican Inquiry Committee.
In a letter to Under Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, Henry
Monsky, chairman of the Confer-
ence’s Interim Committee, pro-
tested that a discussion of the
long - term recommendations of
the Committee would be "prema-
ture and harmful” and would de-
lay the immigration of homeless
European Jews to Palestine. Mr.
Monsky declared that the Confer-
ence was in full accord with
President Truman’s endorsement
of the recommendation that 100,-
000 Jews be transferred to Pales-
tine in 1946.
Mr. J. L. Zuber from secretary-
treasurer. Newly elected mem-
bers of the Board of Directors
are Aaron Farfel and Joe Darsky.
4*0 BRITISH SURROUND
GALILEE VILLAGE
IN SEARCH FOR ARMS
1ST 867 QUOTA
IMMIGRANTS LAND
New York (JPS)—Singing in
English the “Battle Hymn of
the Republic” which they learn-
ed en route, 867 survivors of
Nazi death camps, representing
all faiths and 17 nationalities,
arrived in New York May 20,
aboard the former troopship
Marine Flasher. They were the
first contingent of the 39,000
European immigrants admitted
into this country this year un-
der President Truman’s direc-
tive to speed up immigration
under existing quotas.
The immigrants, ranging in
age from a 5%-montths-old in-
fant to an 82-year-old man,
were greeted by thousands of
relatives and friends jammed
behind a picket fence at the rear
of the pier. Some of them had
not seen their brothers, sisters
or children since they emigrated
to America after World War I.
Many, sole survivors of entire
communities wiped out in Nazi
death camps, broke down as
they told their only living rela-
tives here that their mothers,
fathers, brothers and children
were sent to gas chambers.
Among the arrivals were 67
orphans, ranging in age from
infants to boys and girls in
their ’teens. They were brought
here under the auspices of the
United States Committee for
* Care of European Children.
Other agencies which co-oper-
ated or worked alone to arrange
passage for the immigrants in-
cluded the ioint Distribution
Committee, the Hebrew Shelter
and Immigrant Aid Society,
Vaad Hatzala, rescue and relief
agency of the Union of Ortho-
dox Rabbis of the United States
and Canada, the National Refu-
gee Service, the National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women and Pro-
testant and Catholic organiza-
tions.
Jerusalem (JPS-Pnlcor)—Four
hundred British polic? and troops
surrounded the JewUh settle-
ment of Yakuk near Graoasar on
the shores of the Sea of Galilee,
on May 30, and with the aid of
magnetic detectors, carefully
searched for arms. None was
found nor was anyone arrested
although police questioned resi-
dents for a long time.
Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson ad-
dressed the Bar Association at a
luncheon held Friday. May 31. at
the Rice Hotel. As co-chairman
of the Anglo-American Palestine
Inquiry Committee, his message,
the first public address on the
findings of the Committee, was
of great importance. He dealt with
the various problems which the
Committee faced and the con-
flicts between Jewish and Arab
claims.
Because of its extreme import-
ance, the Jewish Herald-Voice
is reprinting Judge Hutcheson’s
address in full. While we do not
agree with the report in its en-
tirety, we do feel that our read-
ers should have this analysis fay
the American chairman. The ad-
dress is too long for one issue,
and we will conclude the report
in the next issue.
On Friday night, Judge Hutch-
eson addressed the annual meet-
ing of the Y. M C. A. In this
address he spoke of the religious
implications in the vexing prob-
lem facing the nations of the
world in regard -to Palestine. His
solution is bound around a trus-
teeship of Palestine under inter-
national control which would
guarantee to the three faiths,
Christian, Jewish and Moslem,
the sanctity of their holy places.
Judge Hutcheson stands une-
quivocally on the report In re-
gard to the admission of ths
100,000 to Palestine, he said, in
private conversation with the ed-
itor. that the recommendation of
the Committee had no strings at-
tached to it and that the Com-
mittee, as a whole, felt this was
a necessary step which must be
taken immediately.
Points of difference are bound
to arise. The membership of the
Committee brought in the re-
port which they felt they could
recommend. The Integrity of the
Committee, judged by the sin-
cerity and vision of Judge Hutch-
eson and the other American
members of the Committee known
to the citizenry of the
cannot be questioned. Judge
Hutcheson feels the Committee
made no compromise with reali-
ty. His observations were
tive, and his recor
reflective of his admirable
dicial career, certainly cama
ter much drift
thought.
The Jewish Herald-Voice
reprint Judge Hutcheson's ad-
dress in brochure form, a copy
of which may be had by
the Herald.
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INDIAN DELEGATION
VISITS JEWISH AGENCY
AGRICULTURAL STATION
Rehovoth (JPS-Palcor)—A del-
egation of five Indian end Brit-
ish officials and farmers, spon-
sored by the Government of In-
dia, visited the Jewish Agency's
agricultural experimentation cen-
ter here on May 30, ; r: ompanied
by a Jewish Agency representa-
tive .
Georgia Governor Arnall Out To
“De-Hood” The Rejuvenated K. K. K.
WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS
POSTPONED TILL DECEMBER
Jerusalem (JPS-Palcor) — The
Smaller Actions Committee of the
World Zionist Organisation has
J decided to defer until December,
V^'1946, the World Zionist Con-
tress scheduled orlgtnaRy to op-
V^/en here in August
The reasons for the delay were
. " the general Jewish situation, the
I J need to assure satisfactory eom-
^pletion of the Shekel (voting cer-
tificate) campaign, especially In
European countries, and prepar-
ation for the election. The Con-
gress will be held in Jerusalem
as planned.
Atlanta, Ga. (JPS)—Governor
Ellis Arnall has instructed State
Attorney General Eugene Cook
to bring action to revoke the
charter of the Ku Klux Klan in
Georgia, a place referred to as
the birthplace of the Klan. In a
series of directives the Governor
* asserted that if efforts through
the courts are unsuccessful be
might call an extraordinary ses-
sion of the legislature to enact
laws to “de-hood” the Klan and
“prohibit activities which the
General Assembly might deter-
mine to be detrimental to the
public good.”
The Governor's directives char-
ged that the Klan had violated
its charter as a social and be-
nevolent order by engaging “in
unlawful activities . . . aimed at
the destruction of civil liberties
as guaranteed by the State and
Federal constitutions . . . The
Klan is not a bona fide fraternal
organization tut exists primarily
for the purpose of arousing, fos-
tering, promoting and effectuat-
ing prejudice, hate and intoler-
ance through the concerted ac-
tion of its members.” Governor
Arnall ordered the Attorney Gen-
eral to seek assistance of the De-
partment of Justice and the FBI,
if necessary, in outlawing the
Klan in Georgia.
At the same time, the United
States Collector of Internal Rev-
enue here filed a Federal tax
lein against the Georgia Klan for
8685^05, allegedly due the Gov-
ernment in income taxes for the
years 1921 through 1942 and the
year 1946.
Dr. Samuel Green, Atlanta phy-
sician who is Grand Dragon of
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JUDGE HUTCHESON’S ADDRESS
PALESTINE AND THE WESTERN WORLD
Before proceeding to sketch with broad and rapid strokes the
picture I came here to draw, T should like to say a few words to
you in greeting and appreciationJn greeting, I should like to tdl
you how lovely and pleasant it is after long wandering in pastures
far and strange to be a Longhorn among Longhorns on the home
range again. In appreciation, I should like you to know how heart-
warming it is when, cursed by politically minded Palestinians, Jews
and Arabs alike, from Dan even to Bcershcba, indeed from hell to
breakfast, and sniffed at by the van Paassens of the world, I come
unto my own and my own receives me. And so I thank you most
sincerely that you have come in such goodly numbers to show your
loyalty to me, a local boy who has made good on the big time cir-
cuit, and to give me your accolade for having done so.
This said, I shall proceed at once to my subject in the hope
and belief that in the time allotted me, I can make you see the
true whatness and whereness
in its relation to the western
and whereness in relation to
ucularly will it be my purpose to make you see, despite the excited
claims of Arabs and some Jews to the contrary: that the western
world has a great, a legitimate interest and stake in Palestine; that
Palestine, as we know it, has never had a separate and independent
existence as either a Jewish or Arab nation or state; that neither
Jew nor Arab, therefore, can by claim to Palestine as his very own;
and that the recommendations the Anglo-American Committee has
made under its terms of reference are just and fair, indeed, could
not in justice and fairness have been otherwise.
In “The Historical Geography of the Holy Land,” published
in 1894, appears this passage:
“Palestine, formed as it is and surrounded as k is, is
emphatically a land of tribes. The idea that it can ever be-
long to one nation even though this is the Jews, is con-
trary both to nature and to Scripture."
I cannot say whether the idea is so contrary, but k is certainly the
verdict of history that this tiny land, the seat of faiths and doctrines
susceptible
briefest
. and k never
ought to be, a land of narrow nationalities, chauvy<im and xeno-
phobia. Its history as the meeting ground of pd£ples and the de-
veloping ground of ideas dedicates it not to the service of a small
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