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Show EDITORIAL: A Jewish View There are many Jews in the United States who are opposed to present efforts of some Zionists Zion-ists to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. At a recent meeting in St. Louis, the American Council of Judais, headed by Lessing J. Rosenwal, declared that, "our allegiance al-legiance to the United States is single, indivisable and exclusive," exclu-sive," and dedicated itself, "to take such action as shall make clear that Jews living outside of the proposed Zionist State have no part in the nationalism of that state and to make certain that spokesmen, representatives, agencies ag-encies and instrumentalities are precluded from representing all American Jews." We call attention to this statement state-ment because it is important for all American citizens to understand under-stand that there exists a large number of Jews in this country .vho are more interested in the United States thai; in Palestine, or any other Jewish State. An example of his point comes from the Rev. Elmer Berger, executive ex-ecutive director of the Council, who warns that, "Americans of Jewish faith will add an historical histor-ical blunder to the already dub- ious wisdom of the partition decision de-cision if they allow the inevitable political differences over partition parti-tion among Americans to appear to be a choice between Arabs or Jews." He warned that the Unit-ed Unit-ed States must not become a base of operations for foreign political po-litical forces because "the American Amer-ican people will not stand for it," and he added, "Nor should they." Earlier, the Council heard a report of a special committee, re stating the position that Jews are Jews by religion and rejecting the concept of Jewish homelcss-ness. homelcss-ness. The committee insisted that the nationalism of the Zionist State must be confined to its boundaries and that the United States Government alone represented repre-sented American citizens in po-i litical matters. I Another address was delivered by Dr. Paul Hutchinson, of Chicago, Chi-cago, editor of the Christian Herald, Her-ald, in which he deplored the effort ef-fort to commit Judaism to a national na-tional solution, "when national- ism is revealing its moral and political bankruptcy." He contended con-tended that he shared suspicions that the partition would not be 1 carried out, "without a long, bloody, ruthless civil war, and I concluded that "If American I boys are shot down in operations in Palestine there would develop the most rapid spread of anti-Jewish anti-Jewish feeling that the United States has ever known." Carrol Binder, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune, warned that the fight to create a Jewish State in Palestine might cost the democratic powers the oil of the 'Middle East. He said that President Presi-dent Roosevelt, seeing the vital need of this oil, secretly assured ' King Ibn Saud that Arab interests inter-ests would not be sacrificed and that, subsequently, President Truman reaffirmed these-plcd-ges. He declared that, "the desire de-sire of his (President Truman's) party to win the Jewish vote in the United States and the need of his country to retain the goodwill good-will of the Arab world caused ' President Truman to talk out of ; both sides of the mouth." |