The Phoenix Jewish news., 1949-04-22
The
World
Over
BY Deborah Jaffa Metz

VANISHING VICTORY
The late Fiorella La Guardia sug-
gested a chamber of Horrors" to
represent Nazi Germany at the
New York Worlds Fair 10 years
ago. But that, of course, was dur
ing naive age, when the United
States did look with horror on the
tyranny and organized butchery of
Hitlerism.
We are more sophisticated to-
day. Having in the interim fought
and won a war against this evil
thing called Fascism, we are now
in a position to forgive and for
get. We are not only allowing the
Nazis who remain to go unpun-
ished, but we have invited them
Carefully screened, of course) to
come to the United States to take
part in a German Industries Fair
in the N. Y. City Museum of Sci
ence and Industry.
This bitter lesson in how to lose
a war has been prepared for us
by no less an authority in postwar
politics than the American Mill
tary Government itself.
JOHN BULL TO THE RES
CUE With the news that
Britain proposes to help Trans
jordan absorb large number of
Arab refugees by reclaiming arid
regions and developing a road sys-
tenn for that backward country,
the Arabs who took flight from
Israel last May can take heart
again.
Incited to flee by the British
and by their own leaders, they
may perhaps have wondered dur
ing the past homeless year whether
they had made mistake in leav-
ing.
Word might have reached them
that the Israeli government had
restored their mosques, organized
consumer cooperatives in Jaffa,
Acre and LYDIA, nearly quad
rupled the pay scale of Arab
workers, set up social welfare pro-
grams and hospital clinics with
Arab and Israeli doctors working
side by side, and begun an ambu-
lance service and mobile clinics
which reach every distant Arab
farm. They might momentarily
have felt that their own lot left
something to be desired.
But their minds are now surely
set at rest. Their British protec-
tors have offered to give them
help, and a promise from the Brit
ish is a promise indeed!
UNIQUE PERSONALITY
eff you want to kill me, call
me diplomat" DIR. Chain Weiz-
mann, one of the worlds greatest
living statesman, once said.
But the man who was able to
convince Lord Balfour that 80
generations of Jews stood behind
him and that Jewish history spoke
through him, was clearly a diplo-
mat and statesman.
His achievements on behalf of
his people were monumental, and
all were made possible by his COM
plete devotion to- the idea of re-
turn to Zion, by his patience and
persistence, and by his boundless
faith in the fellow Jews whom he
knew so well.
ellis sense of responsibility for
his people is truly biblical" said
Jan Christian Smuts, one of the
many outstanding government
leaders who were completely won
over by this "Jew from Pinsk," 4"
with his charm of manner, wit and
courtliness, and his deep respect
for all humanity.
So have his contemporaries,
great and small, responded to this
warm-hearted, cool-headed, clear
thinking Jew who came out of the
Pripet marshes to lead his people
back to Zion.
DR.. Weizmann is in the United
States today. He is staying at the
Waldorf Astoria, in the suite re-
served for royalty and for the
presidents of other nations. 1t is a
great moment for all American
Jews. For DIR. Weizmann remains
the symbol of the dignity and the
nobility of our people, of the great
ideals and heroic deeds of which
Jewry has been capable under