The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1943-04-02
Committee For A Jewish Army Threat
ems To Sue For Libels In Anglo
Jewish Press

The committee for Jewish Army of Stateess and
paestnian Jews has issued letters AngO-Jewsh
uauers throughout the country warning them in the treat
men of news reporting and concentrating wherein the
activities of the Committee are concerned.
Writes the Committee:
During the past month"; there has been in progress
the AngO-Jewish press and in the syndicaed columns
1ied bv this PRESS campaign of vificatiOn. In many
the aspersOns caumny upon u.s. with their
natural insinuatOns and nuendOs constitute prma facie
libel against the Committee for Jewish Army and its
activities.
During the eighteen months of it's existence, Com
ee ignored such attacks in the interest of the Jew
sh people, The for this has been that public air
ing of the partisanshp which features Jewish life
America will not the best interests of the Jewish
However, this campaign has fallen so low within
the past weeks that must hereby notice that
any such articles items published in the future will be
met by appropriate action from Legal Committee
At this moment, when stand at the deathbed OF
great portion of people, unfortunate and noppor
tune time for partisan attacks However 1t is our primary
duty to the many prominent people who share our fight not
Orbear but to defend good with courage and
to every resource at disposal"
Not only do object to this letter offensive to the
freedom of the press but also do the action taken as
sign of nfantasm taken by organization we believed
would grow into ripe maturity and make an outstanding
contribution to ChriStian-JeWiSh relations.
Although have disagreed with some OF the actions
taken by the committee in the past have seen in its
eright action in demand for Jewish Army and In Its
demands for the moral rights of Stateess and Paesnan
Jews new type of presentation OF the jewish question 70
he nOn-Jewish public.
Whether not Jewish Army is ever granted Che
homeless Jews the committee has by it's constant clamorlng
Kept before the American people the will to fight which
burns in the Jewish breast.
Some may criticize the action of the committee for the
spectacular exhibit staged by Ben Hech and Billy Rose as
protest of the Jewish massacres in Europe But the
pageant gained attention from the general press which the
aratOn made by the United States Congress against
heSe same atrocities failed to receive.
Some may criticize the committee for the sensatona
vertising it has made in metropolitan papers, but the aus
gam more in respect from the average reader tnan an
article written by black robed minister who pleads Tor
rational brotherhood and who has his ad running IN
he newspapers for his coregionists to attend services OF
ner church.
True many of the leaders of the Committee have come
MY of late into the Jewish fold but they have been con-
lbung part of the American and coming from pO
ca cultural and artistic forces that today playing
uge part in moulding the American nation may De Deer
qpped to Judge the action that should be taken ny Tie
ews In presenting their and in in reeducaIhg e
On-Jewish cOuntrymen.
However, if the Committee is to make It's marx at all
must first grow up and learn to take criticism IS one
mig to stand aside and yell partisanshp and announcer 70
Hamne the accusations and then state the case as
cen An infant yells-an adult cOnfers Why does MOI 'ie
committee" grow up?
=. 1t has been unjustly accused why doesn't Tie COi
A'''ee speak outright to the press?
The policy of the Committee" in demanding JEWISH
y Tor Stateless and Palestinan Jews has been one u
nc policies of this publication. .,y
etter. w ' w