The Sentinel, v.125 no. 04, 1942

              A NEWSPAPER
AND MAGAZINE
COMBINED
DEVOTED TO
AMERICAN AND
JEWISH IDEALS
Vol. CXXV, No. 4 Thursday, January 22, 1942 Price l0c per copy-$3.O0 a year U.P.A. MEET CALLS FOR JEWISH ARMY
Stress Strategic Importance of Palestine for America
Cleveland, Jan. 21 (JPS)-A call ference, which in normal times would Jewish community in Palestine is the
not only to the Jews but to all the ie another 1 idab e appeal to American only one in the Middle East fighting
people of America to realize the Zionists for the Zionist cause, in our unreservedly for Britain and her
strategic importance of Palestine as a turbulent days rises immeasurably in Allies."
key center for the winning of the war importance. The appeal today is no Admiral Stirling Stresses Importance
and to strengthen the Jewish com- longer addressed to Zionists alone, but ofmPalSting fre Amra
munity of Palestine by giving it greater to all Zionists, non-Zionists and non- of Palestine for America
material resources and by permitting Jews who believe in justice and free- Speaking from the point of view of
it to establish a Jewish Army was dom. It no longer appeals to Amer- the naval strategy of the war, Admiral
sounded at the National Conference of icans, alone, but to the people of all Stirling told the delegates that it is to
the United Palestine Appeal, held in free nations. And the cause is iden- "our advantage as Americans to see a
Cleveland last week end, by Secretary tified with the all-embracing cause of Jewish Army utilized."
of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of Democracy. Declaring that "the importance of
the Treasury Henry Mongenthau, Jr. "The appeal of this/Conference is to Palestine must be recognized," the Ad-and
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, National fortify the ideals of social good, the miral said: "To think of Palestine as
Chairman of the United Palestine ideals of true democracy, the ideals of a remote country is to lapse into the
Appeal. a just peace which will secure to the kind of thinking which has brought
In the keynote address of the Con- smallest nations equal justice with the one new disaster after another to the
ference by Dr. Silver, he presented a great-ideals which are the corner- Allied cause. Palestine today has a
broad program for present and future stone and foundation of the Jewish great reservoir of manpower which
Jewish needs which included the arm- spirit, unconquered and uncoquerable. could be organized into an army
ing of the Jews of Palestine by "To all at this Conference dedicated whether under British control or given
America if Great Britain cannot do so, to victory in our just cause, I send my some autonomous powers under its
the definite guarantee of a self-govern- heartiest greetings." own leaders . . . The Jews in Palestine
ing commonwealth in Palestine and a The significance of Seceretary Mor- should make the most effective fighters
broad program to facilitate Jewish im- genthau's message was highlighted by against Hitler . . . As long as there are
migration to Palestine which would the fact that he is the supreme ad- Jews in Palestine we can be sure that
bring from two to four million Jews ministrator of the Lease-Lend Act. Palestine will remain faithful to the
into the country in the postwar period. Dr. Silver, in his opening address, had Allied cause."
Other speakers included Admiral urged that if Great Britain cannot arm Messages were received from Field
Yates Stirling, Jr., former Chief of the Jews of Palestine America should Marshall Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime
Staff of the United States Fleet, who do so. Minister of South Africa; Queen
said that it is to "our advantage as Jewish Army Essential, Says Silver Wilhelmina of the Netherlands; John
Americans to see a Jewish Army Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, re-elected for Winant, American Ambassador to
utilized"; David ben Gurion, Chairman a fifth term as National Chairman of Great Britain; Sir Archibald Sinclair,
of the Executive of the Jewish Agency the UPA, told the 1,300 delegates and British Air Minister; Myron C. Taylor,
for Palestine, who in a stirring address visitors representing American-Jewish Chairman of President Roosevelt's
denounced the White Paper regime in communities and national organizations Inter - Governmental Committee for
Palestine; Prof. William C. Albright, from coast to coast that every dollar Refugees; Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of
former Director of the American spent for the support of the Yishuv is New York; Paul V. McNutt, Federal
School of Archaelogy in Jerusalem and a defense bond for the victory of Security Administrator; Lord Stra-now
Professor of Semitics at Johns America. An essential for not only bolgi; Lord Wedgwood; Viscount
Hopkins University, who said that he Palestine but for all the free peoples is Cecil; Capt. Victor Cazelet, and the
believes that "political Zionism is the a Jewish Army, he declared. Ministers at Washington of the Nether-only
alternative to heartless cynicism"; White Paner Regime Denounced lands, Denmarks, Czechoslovakia, Nor-
Senator Alben W. Barkley, majority by Ben Gurion way and Poland. Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
leader of the United States Senate, and David ben Gurion, in one of the most the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, the
a host of Jewish leaders, including stirring addresses of his career, de- Vaad Leumi, Lady Reading, Lord Mel-
Judge Louis E. Levinthal, President of nounced the White Paper regime in chett also greeted the Conference.
the Zionist Organization of America; Palestine, declaring that the pledge Elected as Co-Chairmen- with Dr.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, President of the given in the Balfour Declaration, Silver were Dr. Stephen S. Wise of
American Jewish Congress; Dr. Israel which had the endorsement of the New York, Louis Lipsky of New York,
Goldstein, President of the Jewish Na- American Government as well as Great Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago, Dr.
tional Fund of America; Dr. Nahum Britain, surely did not mean that the Israel Goldstein of New York, Judge
Goldmann, member of the Jewish Jews were to return to Palestine as a Louis E. Levinthal of Philadelphia and
Agency Executive, and Henry Monsky, death trap. Judge Morris Rothenberg of New York.
President of B'nai B'rith. Discussing the demand for a Jewish The Honorary Chairmen are Professor
Secretary Knox Lauds Yishuv Army, he declared the Jews have no Albert Einstein of Princeton, Governor
In the most forthright emphasis on need to apologize for their demand for Herbert H. Lehman of New York,
Palestine's strategic value for the win- such an army. "We are one of the na- Judge Julian W. Mack of New York,
ning of the war, the pioneers of the tions fighting Hitler and whom Hitler Henry Monsky of Omaha, Nathan
Yishuv were called "the valiant is fighting," he asserted. "We are Straus of Washington and Henrietta
defenders of our common cause in neither French. Poles nor Americans. Szold of Jerusalem; National Treas-
Palestine" in a stirring message from We are Jews of Palestine. I speak for urer, Charles J. Rosenbloom of Pitts-
Secretary of the Navy Knox, who em- Jews of Palestine and those whose only burgh; Associate Treasurers, Abraham
phasized that "the Jewish haven in future is in P alestine. We are Jews L. Liebovitz of New York and Jacob
peace-time has become a bulwark for in our own country who are entitled Sincoff of New York; Vice-Chairmen,
democracy in wartime." just as Enpjlishmen and Americans are Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner of Cleveland.
Appeal to All Free Peoples: to fight under our own flag, and in our Leon Gellman of New York, Rabbi
Morgenthau own name even though we are not as James G. Heller of Cincinnati, Edmund
In the first message ever written by strong as they. But right does not J. Kaufmann of Washington, Charles
Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau depend on strenvth. Palestine must be Ress of New York. Elihu D. Stone of
on the subject of Palestine since he has defended not only for the sake of the Boston, Robert Szold of New York, Joe
been in the Cabinet of the American Jewish community there but for the Weingarten of Houston and David
Government, he declared: "This Con- whole strategic plan of the war. The Wertheim of New York.
Jew's Device Saves
Lives of Hawaiians
New York, Jan. 14 (JPS)-Trib-ute
was paid here to Samuel Ber-man
of this city, whose shrapnel
"locater" has helped save the lives
of countless wounded men in
Hawaii, by Dr. John J. Moorhead,
medical director of New York's
transit system.
Dr. Moorhead, who recently re-turned
from Hawaii, told of the
Berman device which enables doc-tors
to find the smallest pieces of
shrapnel imbedded in the flesh of
wounded persons. The removal of
these fragments eliminates the
danger of gangrene gas, Dr. Moor-head
emphasized.
Berman is a member of the en-gineering
staff of the city subway
system and his invention is a simple
rod-like device. Other "locaters"
will be sent to Hawaii as soon as
possible, Dr. Moorhead said.
Jewish Filer To Be Cited
For Bombing of Jap Ship
Washington, Jan. 20 (JTA) - The
War Department has recommended
that President Roosevelt award the
Distinguished Flying Cross to a Brook-lyn
Jewish youth, who, very likely,
actually launched the bomb from Cap-tain
Colin P. Kelly's plane which sent
the Japanese battleship Haruna to the
bottom of the Pacific, it was an-nounced
here this week. The hero is
Corporal Meyer Levin, U. S. Army Air
Corps, son of Samuel and Leah Levin
of 1504 East 33rd Street, Brooklyn.
He, it was disclosed, was the bom-bardier
on board the Kelly plane, which
twice attacked and finally sank the
Haruna off the Philippines.
Levin is 25, a graduate of Brooklyn
Technical High School, who also stud-ied
at the Brooklyn Engineering
School of Aviation. He enlisted in the
Air Corps June 6, 1939, served at
Fort Slocum for a while and then in
Hawaii. Last September he was one of
the 75 men who made the hazardous
flight to Manila under Major Emmet
O'Donnel. He is still "somewhere in
the Philippines" among the seven
members of Captain Kelly's bomber
crew who survived, bailing out to
safety at their commander's orders
when the plane was hit after the
Haruna sinking.
New York (JTA)-The first group
of a series sof portable altar paintings
which will decorate Jewish and Chris-tian
chapels in army and navy bases
throughout the country went on exhi-bition
last week at the Museum of
Modern Art. The Citizens Committee
for the Army and Navy paid for the
paintings.