Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Permission for the players of the Moscow Hebrew theatre. Habimah, to come to Poland was granted by the Ministry of the Interior.
The Foreign Office instructed the Polish Consul in Latvia to vise the passports of the Habimah players.
THE JEWS ARE READY
The Jews are ready — are the non-Jews? asks the “Day” (Feb. 25), commenting on the Good Will Dinner last Tuesday in New York at which Chas. E. Hughes presided.
Greeting the Good Will Dinner as a step in the right direction, the paper stops to point out that the Jews are not responsible for the present digression in America from the spirit of traditional American democracy.
“The Jews are always ready for the spirit of unity and understanding. Jews are also ready in practice to be tolerant to others, in so far as it is humanly possible. Tolerance is imposed on us by the essence of our spirit, by our history and by the facts of life each day and each hour.
“We are ready — let but the other side be ready too!”
The “Day” thinks Mr. Hughes, and the other speakers at the Good Will Dinner, in denouncing intolerance and bigotry, should have mentioned by name Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan and the other individuals and organizations, all non-Jewish, that have been instrumental in spreading dissension and hatred in America.
“These corrupters of the noble American traditions. these underminers of true Americanism should be made to hear openly what those who are interested in the further progress of inner American life think and feel about them. An open attack on the dark forces will more effectively paralyze their influence and their destructive activities,” the “Day” concludes.
THE CHOICE
“Are we ready,” asks Florina Lasker, writing in the “Survey” of Feb. 15 on the question of the immigration laws, “to say to non-citizens — men who have contributed perhaps to the industrial and cultural life of this country even though they have not yet been drawn into its political structure — Take your choice. Go back to the countries from which you came, for we will not let your wives and children join you here; or remain alone in this country where you are now comfortably established, for it is better under the circumstances to forget the wives and children left behind.’
“We have spoken with hundreds of men who faced with these two alternatives, have accepted the one or the other. Some there are who, satisfied that they must abandon all hope of ever bringing their wives and children to the United States, have elected to return to their native lands, even though this meant beginning life anew — often life without the possibility of eking out a decent existence. Some there are who. satisfied of the impossibility of having their families join them in this country, have accepted their fate, consoling themselves by forming new ties…”
PRAISES JUSTICE PROSKAUER
Justice Proskauer’s action in averting a strike in the dress industry by bringing the conflicting parties to an agreement, is lauded by the New York “World” of Feb. 25. Instead of confining himself stricly to the formal proceedings in his court, the paper points out, Justice Proskauer “saw a larger opportunity and higher duty ahead of him.”
“It goes to show how in emergency a judge with imagination and common sense may rise above routine and serve the community in the highest measure by timely counsel and leadership in a worthy cause,” says the “World.”
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