The Sentinel, v.125 no. 07, 1942

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Sen. Claude Pepper's Proposal Heard
at Zionist Rally in Carnegie Hall
New York, Feb. 10 (JPS)-If funds
are not otherwise available, "let us
open the storehouses of lend-lease in
America" to establish and equip a
Jewish Army in Palestine, it was urged
by Senator Claude Pepper of Florida,
close friend of President Roosevelt, at
a rally at Carnegie Hall sponsored by
the American Emergency Committee
for Zionist Affairs and addressed also
by Congressman John Sheridan of
Pennsylvania, D a v i d ben Gurion,
Chairman of the Jewish Agency Ex-ecutive,
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr.,
Nahum Goldn ann and Dr. Frank
Kingdon, President of the Union fore
Democratic Action.
The rally was convened in protest
against an editorial recently appear-ing
in the New York Times against a
"Zionist Army." Direct issue was taken
with the Times by Congressman Sher-idan,
who accused the publisher of the
New York Times, a Jew, of permitting
his personal views to color his paper's
editorial.
A resolution adopted at the close of
the meeting, which cheered Senator
Pepper again and again as he de-manded
Jews in Palestine be given the
right to fight under their own name
and flag, called upon "our beloved and
revered President to use his good
offices in conformity with the spirit and
traditions of this country to help se-cure
for the Jews of Palestine and for
stateless Jews legally free to join with
them, the right to organize a Jewish
fighting force under British command
or Allied command."
Reviewing the history of the pledge,
given by Great Britain and sustained
by all civilized nations, including the
United States, for the establishment
of a Jewish National Home in Pales-tine,
Senator Pepper, long a champion
of Britain's cause in the Senate, de-manded
to know whether the Balfour
Declaration established "a national
home in Palestine or an eleemosynary
institution." At a time when the United
Nations are fighting for honor and
decency, "we cannot leave even a sug-gestion
of doubt that any one of these
United Nations is not observing its
covenants."
The Florida Senator gave his en-dorsement
to a previous statement by
Dr. Goldmann: "The Axis powers deny
the Jews the right to live decently;
shall the United Nations deny the Jews
of Palestine st hieh ta to di deetl?
Mandate for Palestine be transferred
from the League of Nations to the
United Nations which are reshaping
the world.
In his address Senator Pepper said:i
"Who, more than the Jews, deserve the
honor of the battle's scars? A place
where the firing is! Were they not
singled out and persecuted most of all?
. How then can the Jewish nation,
the Jewish National Home, be denied
a chance to fight in the lines, be denied
the honor of returning a few of the
wicked blows which they have so pa-tiently
borne?
"All of us who make the policy of
the United Nations must remember the
big things for which we are fighting,
but we must not forget the right of
little nations, too, to be vindicated, to
have a chance to get at their mortal
enemy, to thrust their bayonets, to
shoot their guns, to loose their eagle-like
planes at this heinous hand of
tyranny which has been clutching at
their throats and tearing them in
brutal fragments apart."
"Let all nations," the Senator. added,
"take their place and have an oppor-tunity
to perform their honorable part
in this mighty victory which lies over
the hill."
Pointing to the various units of Free
Poles, Free Czechs and Free French,
Congressman Sheridan declared that
these groups set a precedent for a Jew-ish
force, which should obtain lease-lend
aid. The Jews, he asserted, need
"the engines, the tanks, the bombers,
the necessary equipment that is part
of the system of freedoms and code
of equalities built up by generations of
American heritage.
"How many of you," he asked,
"viewed the results of the efforts of the
Jews of Palestine, their toil, their
sweat, their blood, in developing the
waste lands through irrigation, in-stallation
of hydro-electric power? It
is that they want to defend."
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Chairman of
the American Emergency Committee
for Zionist Affairs, emphasized that
"in the United States, in Britain and
in other lands Jews fight in the armies
of their own countries. But the Jewish
population of Palestine rightfully de-mands
that it be enabled, with the ap-proval
of the British government and
the help of our own country and its
lend-lease offices, to stand as a Jewish
military force against the Axis."
David ben Gurion, Chairman of the
Executive of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, said: "So far there is only
one community in the whole of the
Middle East which is fighting, and
fighting passionately, on behalf of
democracy-the Jewish community in
He pited otthat "ao JwshiArmy
There was a Jewish Legion during the
last war. Whether we are recognized
or riot, we are one of the nations who
are fighting Hitler and one which
Hitler is fighting. We have the same
right to fight against Nazism as the
Americans, the English, the Poles or
the Czechs."
Sosua Colony Marks
Second Anniversary
Sosua, Dominican Republic, Feb.
10 (JTA)-A meeting of the Coun-cil
of Settlers here this week com-memorated
the second anniversary
of the agreement between the Do-minican
Republic and Dorsa, which
provided for the establishment of
this colony. The meeting expressed
"its profound thanks" to the Domin-ican
Republic Settlement Associa-tion
in a cable addressed to James
Rosenberg, Leon Falk, Jr., and Dr.
Joseph Rosen, executive officers of
the Dorsa, in New York..
The message stated: "On this
second anniversary of the agreement
with the Dominican government, we
express the profound thanks of all
Sosua settlers for the efforts and
work of Dorsa."
Gen. Todt Initiated
Jewish Labor Squads
London, Feb. 11 (JPS) - German
General Fritz Todt, the Reich's chief
of munitions who was killed recently
in a plane crash near the Eastern
Front, leaves no mourners behind
among the thousands of forced labor-ers
whose energies he regimented into
a huge slave population.
Major General Todt was the initia-tor
of the forced Jewish labor levies
which the Nazis conscripted from the
Baltic States to the Balkans for
civilian aid to the Reich's military
needs, and in addition it was he who
introduced the system of working the
Jewish forced laborers on starvation
rations.
General Todt, as Reich Minister of
Transport and Munitions, had charge
of all unskilled and foreign workers
in the Greater Reich, molding them
into what the British Broadcasting
Company in a broadcast here termed
as "the most gigantic slave drive the
world has ever seen." Under the Nazi
lash thousands of Jews have toiled in
the construction of road and railroad
facilities, in the clearance of mines
and debris, and in other dangerous
work behind the lines.
London, Feb. 10 (JPS) - A Pan-
Arab Conference whose purpose would
be to form an anti-Axis Arab bloc has
been proposed by the Saudi Arabian
Foreign Minister, Emir Feisal, to the
British government, the Daily Mirror
here reports. Emir Feisal is the son
of King Ibn Saud, powerful Arab
chieftain and bulwark of British
strength in the critical Near East
situation.
tionally committed." Ford was praised
for his "magnificent spirit of humility
and charity," in writing the letters
which rejected anti-Semitism.
Call N. Y. Daily News
Anti-Semitic, Defeatist
New York, Feb. 11 (JPS)-Quot-ing
copiously from editorials pub-lished
in the New York Daily News,
Wellington Roe, writing in the Jewish
Survey of February, accuses the tab-loid
of deliberate anti-Semitism and
of defeatism in the war against the
totalitarian powers.
Recalling that three years ago the
News published eleven pages of the
hate-filled comments of anti-Semitic
William Dudley Pelley, Roe asserts
that the September 10, 1941 News
editorial which glossed over American
anti-Semitism and defended the isola-tionists
who "seemed" to be anti-
Jewish was only one indication of the
anti-Semitic path taken by Captain
Joseph M. Patterson, publisher of the
News.
"The Bill of Rights," Mr. Roe
quotes the editorial, "does not mean
that Americans are forbidden to dis-like
other Americans on religious or
other grounds. Plenty of Americans
just now are exercising their right to
dislike the Jews."
That the News refused to condemn
Charles L i n d b e r g h ' s anti-Semitic
speech at Des Moines until a week
after its delivery, and then only to
call Lindbergh "mistaken," is assailed
by Roe as typical of the policy of the
outstanding isolationist paper in the
country.
Recollecting that Patterson's sheet
also advocated until a few days before
Pearl Harbor that the United States
appease Japan, Roe concludes with the
remark that Patterson's path is a
road which "leads to treason."
Ford's New Policies
Win La Salle Medal
Philadelphia, Feb. 9 (JPS) - Be-cause
Henry Ford, auto magnate, had
"the courage and magnanimity" to re-verse
his labor policies and because
he had "for once and for all" cleared
his record of anti-Senitism, the ven-erable
auto pioneer was awarded one
of the three La Salle Gold Medals pre-sented
this year by the La Salle Civic
and Social Congress.
In announcing the names of the
winners - Philip Murray of the CIO
and Daniel Willard of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad were the other re-cipients
- Ford's repudiation of anti-
Semitism was noted.
th harg that For was anti-Jews
an honorable act on his part to deny
the charge and to apologize to the
Jews for the harm he had "uninten-