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Sabbath Chanukah and Roth Chodesh Readings of
the Law.
Pentateuchal porti , ns—Gen. 41:1.44:17; Num.
28:9-15; Num. 7:42-53.
Prophetical portion--Zech. 2:14-4:7.
Rosh Chodesh and Chanukah Readings of the
Law, Sunday, Num. 28:1-5; Num. 7:42-47.
Eighth Day of Chanukah Reading of the Law-
Num, 7:54.8:4.

December 19, 1930

Kislev 29, 5691

The Late Louis Duscoff.

The tragic death of Louis Duscoff comes
as a distinct shock to the community. The
United Hebrew Schools especially have
cause to mourn his loss which occurred
eight days after the death of another untir-
ing worker, the late David Robinson.
The Psalmist's words, "they were belov-
ed in life and inseparable in death" is es-
pecially aplicable to the two departed lead-
ers. Robinson and Duscoff were known as
the David and Jonathan of the Detroit com-
munity. The two were not only cemented
in a strong friendship, but were affiliated
together in every worthy movement. The
Talmud Torahs, Orphan Home, Old Folks
Home and other movements will share in
the loss.
Mr. Duscoff died as he lived—in the serv-
ice of his people. In his devotion to the in-
stitution for which he served faithfully on
the building committee, he climbed on a
third floor scaffold of the new Jewish Chil-
dren's Home to inspect the roof, and there
slipped to meet his death. But this build-
ing, as well as the buildings of the United
Hebrew Schools, will stand as monuments
to his blessed memory.

Campaign for Palestine Workers.

In the annual round of campaigns, the
National Labor Committee for the Organ-
ized Jewish Workers in Palestine will again
be on the Detroit program begihning with
next week.
Commonly referred to as the Gewerk-
schaften drive, this effort in behalf of the
Palestine workers deserves the support of
all Jews. The funds thus raised help to
strengthen the hands of the Jewish pio-
neers in Palestine who form the vanguard
of our position there. At the reception giv-
en him last week, Menachem Mendel Us-
sishkin, world president of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, addressing himself to the La-
bor government in London, said of these
workers: "Will you find in your England
a worker who has set himself to the ideal
of staying on the land, refusing to climb
higher in the social ladder than the rung
of the laboring class? You must respect
our workers, and not to slander them!"
The Jewish people, too, must respect
these workers, and that they can do by
strengthening their hands so that they may
proudly carry on their historic task. Sup-
port of the Gewerkschaften campaign will
in great measure express the respect that
is due them.
The opening of the campaign in Detroit
offers with it a treat with the coming to
this city of David Ben-Gurion, well known
Palestine labor leader. Mr. Ben-Gurion
has distinguished himself not alone as the
expounder of the cause of Jewish labor, but
as one of•the leading defenders of the Jew-
ish cause in Palestine. Detroit Jews will
welcome him with the honors he deserves
and will await with interest the message
he brings from Palestine.

The Poor Immigrant.

The poor immigrant is again the scape-
goat for the country's ills. Members of
both houses of Congress and President
Hoover are proposing a new series of immi-
gration restrictions. In his message to Con-
gress President Hoover said "there is need
for a revision of our immigration laws upon
a more limited and more selective basis flex-
ible to the needs of the country. Under
conditions of current employment it is ob-
vious that persons coming to the United
States to seek work would become either
direct or indirect public charges." Similar
sentiments are spoken by labor and other
leaders, with the result that a prejudice has
developed against the alien already here
threatening economic existence.
This new situation is not only unfortu-
nate; it is unjust. hardships are being cre-
ated as a result of discrimination which are
responsible for a very tragic condition in
the American community. The prejudice
against the alien results in the constant
growth of an army of unemployable and un-
employed who are willing to work honestly
for a livelihood but for whom the doors to
factories and business establishments are
shut for the only crime that they were born
overseas.
Harold Fields, executive director of the
League for American Citizenship, in a re-

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cent statement pointed to the dangers that
must arise from such a policy. He pointed
out that "investigations, queries and sur-
veys have indicated too clearly that a sig-
nificant proportion of the unemployed are
listed in that category because they are al-
iens. They are not in that classification be-
cause of inability or because of possessing
insufficient qualifications or because of a
dearth of jobs—but only because of their
political status. A recent general analysis
of the situation disclosed the astounding
fact that out of 2,000,000 positions more
than 1,200,000 were closed to aliens, re-
gardless of their qualifications. Nor should
it be thought that these closed positions or
jobs were all in one field of activity. They
were noted in our railroading industry, in
the field of public utilities, in our steel mills,
in the automotive plants and in many other
lines."
Mr. Fields closed his argument with the
following significant statement: "Here
then are other doors whose locks we must
examine. Restricting immigration will not
alone materially decrease unemployment.
After all we admit only about 250,000 al-
iens a year, fully 50 per cent of whom are
not immediate competitors for jobs. The
government must consider the bars being
raised against so many of those already
resident here. Perhaps the restrictions im-
posed outweigh the results sought. Unem-
ployment always furnishes a larger popula-
tion for our penal institutions, our alms-
giving organizations and our hospitals.
Perhaps such a cost is greater than the pos-
sible gains effected through such discrimi-
nation. Whatever the truth the situation
is worthy of study so that we may not de-
lude ourselves in the belief that we shall
improve the employment situation by shut-
ting our outside doors the tighter."
The unfortunate part in the entire immi-
gration problem is that men guide them-
selves not by reason and by economic
truths, but are swayed by prejudices. The
alien is suspected and mistrusted, therefore
it is right to shut him out of society and in-
dustry. Men are out of work, and this
country is now suffering with the rest of
the world because of economic depression
and unemployment, therefore the alien in
our midst makes a good scapegoat.
But the problem is not a new one. For
decades now the immigration problem has
fanned men's passions into hatreds. In the
days of the Nativist movement, the forerun-
ner of the Ku Klux Klan, Walt Whitman,
America's greatest poet and first editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle, attacked the then pre-
vailing spirit of bigotry in the following ed-
itorial:

On the shores of Europe are panting multi-
tudes, stricken with nakedness and starvation.
They weep—they curse life—they (lie. Partly
through the excess of population, and partly
through the grossly partial nature of the laws
and the distribution of property, half the ag-
gregate number of the natives of the Old
World live in squalor, want and misery. Some
seasons famine stalks through whole provinces
and thousands are struck down ere the new
moon fills her crescent. Then emaceated
corpses strew the fields, and the groans of pale
children are heard on the wayside, and savage
murders are committed to get the means of
life for dying women and infants. Amid the
cities, too (those great cities which many of
our people would like to emulate in grandeur)
poverty stalks unchecked, dragging by the hand
his brother, crime. There is too much man-
kind and too little earth....

And then look here at America. Stretching
between the Allegheny Mountains and the
Pacific Ocean are millions on millions of uncul-
tivated acres of land—long, rolling prairies_
interminable savannahs, where the fat earth
is covered with grass reaching to a height
unknown in our less prolific north—forests
amid whole boughs nothing but silence reigns,
and the birds are not shy through fear of
human kind—rich openings by the side of
rivers—trees and verdure making from year
to year their heavy deposits on the remains of
the trees and verdure that decayed before
them. The mind becomes almost lost in trac-
ing in imagination those hidden and boundless
tracts of our territory—

Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound
Save its own dashing.

We perhaps wonder what can be the inten-
tion of the Creator in leaving for so long a
time such capacities for human existence and
comfort undeveloped. We lose ourselves in
the anticipation of what may be seen there in
future times—the flourishing cities, the happy
family homes, the stately edifices of public im-
provement, the nights and sounds of national
prosperity.

How, then, can any man with a heart in his
breast begrudge the coming of Europe's needy
ones to the plentiful storehouse of the New
World?

Of course, conditions are different today,
with unemployment and economic uncer-
tainty revolutionizing everything in life.
But if people reasoned they would know
that the handful of newcomers to our shores
will not make matters worse, but may, on
the contrary, help conditions. And men
with reason and with a sense of justice
would refuse to be parties to wholesale dis-
crimination against an army of men and
women already in this country and entitled
to protection, but who are instead so dis-
criminated against that even naturalization
is matte difficult and in some instances im-
possible.

Chalk up another point in favor of !Intik-
vah, the Zionist national hymn: When New
York City officially welcomed Dr. Albert
Einstein last Saturday, Hatikvah shared
honors with the "Star Spangled Banner"
and "Deutschland Uber Alles" in the musi-
cal selections by the New York Municipal
Band.

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BY-THE-WAY

ELIOT WANTED BRANDEIS AS
HARVARD PRESIDENT
Norman Hapgood in his just
published "auto-biography" pre
sents some very interesting ma-
terial concerning Justice Bran-
deis. One of the most interest-
ing facts recalled in this connec-
tion is, that the name of Brandeis
was presented to President Eliot
of Harvard, as a possible elle-
censor to Eliot upon his retire-
ment from Cambridge.
}'resident Eliot, Hapgood remi-
nisces, was delighted with the idea
and announced that he would call
it to the attention of the Harvard
board of overseers.
Ile was delighted with the idea,
but he lamented that he did not
think the overseers possessed the
necessary breadth and catholicity
to appoint a Jew.
And of course. they hadn't.

HEBREW AT HARVARD
Things have changed at Har-
vard. There is no Eliot there
now. Nor, incidentally, is there
the respect for the Hebrew lan-
guage and Hebrew thought that
characterized Harvard of old.
There was a time, in the early
days of that institution, when no
student pursuing the cultural arts
there would think of omitting He-
brew from his curriculum.
The old Dr. Mather, that queer
blend of the witch-burner and
thinker who at one time was
P of Harvard, is on record
as having bemoaned the fact that
many of the students could have
acquired more proficiency in He-
brew if they spent some of the
time they wasted in smoking to
studying Hebrew instead.
The directors of the Jewish
Education Association are no
more anxious to instil a love for
Hebrew than the old masters of
Harvard.

A NEW USE FOR HEBREW
blather, by the way, used He-
brew for a very peculiar purpose
—that of teaching the dumb to
speak artificially. The ordinary
method then largely in vogue was
to speak and let the mute observe
the oral movements as each
sound was uttered.
But Mather found that they
learned quicker when he spoke Ile-
brew to them, for the reason, as
he explained, that the speaking of
Ilebrew required a more decisive
and hence a more visible mouth
movement.

FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD
FELLOW
Well, our friend Charlie Levine
is out, and I am glad to see it,
largely for the reason that Charlie
is too good a show to be confined
behind barred walls.
Charlie is always staging a good
show and yet he doesn't ask any
movie engagements in return nor
does he plague us with indorse-
ments of cigarettes or shaving
soap,
really needs some Drei-
ser to write him up—a In Dreiser's
"Twelve Men." For in I.evine,
you have a mighty interesting per-
sonality—full of queer antics that
sometimes suggest the unbal-
anced, but never the uninterest-
ing.
If one can believe all the stories
that are told about him, he is as
full of little "tricks" as the Jersey
meadows are of mosquitoes—or
were.

HOW HE STARTED FORTUNE
Raised virtually on the streets,
Levine laid the foundations of his
substantial fortune after the war,
when the government, confronted
by the problem of removing a
monumental mass of derelict war
material, offered to donate it and
add a bonus, to anyone who would
cart it away.
None could be found to take
the job. Charlie Levine got busy.
What did he do?
He merely bought some land
adjoining the government site and
on it dumped the material from
the government site. Now, I don't
know—I am not sufficiently aware
of the details to know how ethical
this was, but it is an awfully re-
freshing idea—and it must have
given everybody as good a laugh
as the Marx Brothers ever af-
forded.

LINDSEY AND GOULD
It has been wittily observed that
Victor Hugo made a fortune,
pitying the poor.
Something along a similar line
might be said of Simon Gould, ex-
cept that Gould is making his by
a different form of practical ideal-
ism.
You may have noticed in those
accounts of the clash between
Judge Lindsey and Bishop Man-
ning a little line to the effect that
Judge Lindsey made his entrance
into the church accompanied by
Simon Gould.
An interesting fellow is this
Gould! Ile was the initiator of
the first "little cinema" theaters
—that type of the movie house
which catered to the intelligent-
sia. Gossip has it that Gould put
aside a nice little nest egg from
that form of venture.
Then he took to fostering de-
hates—is the head of the Discus-
sion Guild, under which Darrow,
Lindsey and others such have ex-
Pounded their views before a pub-
lic which paid theater ticket prices
to hear the talk.
The Manning-Lindsey filht is
just so much velvet to Gould. An-
other who stand. to profit from
the publicity is Horace Liveright.
This publisher, who has recently
been going in heavy on the trans-
lation of Yiddish classics, is soon
to publish Lindsey's second book.
He will make more money on the
new Lindsey book than on the
Yiddish classics. If we could only
get some bishop to damn and kick
out the authors of the Yiddish
classics it, of course, might be dif-

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The trumpet sound; the echoes of the mountains
Answer then), as the Sabbath morning breaks
Over Beth-Moran and its battle-field,
Where the captain of the hosts of God,
A slave brought up in the brick fields of Egypt,
Overcame the Amorites. There was no day
like that, before or after it, nor shall be.
The sun stood still; the hammers of the hail
Beat on their harness; and the captains set
Their weary feet upon the necks of kings,
As I will upon thine, Antiochus.
Thou man of blood—Behold the rising sun
Strikes on the golden letters of my banner.
Oh, Elohim Jehovah! Who is like
To Thee, 0 Lord, among the gods?—Alas,
I am not Joshua, I cannot say,
'Sun, stand thou still on Gibeon, and thou Moon,
In Ajalon!" Nor am I one who wastes
The fateful time in useless lamentation;
But one who bears his life upon his hand
To lose it or to save it, as may best
Serve the designs of Him who giveth life.

Charles hfa Joseph

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this seems to be Poetry Week in the col-
W ELL,
umn. The first to arrive was this from a Pitts-

burgh physician:

REDUCTO AB ABSURDUM
To say, "I am proud I am a Jew
Because Einstein is a Jew,"
Is to common sense contrary—
For, "I am ashamed I am a Jew
Because Rothstein was a Jew,"
Would be its natural corollary,
Anti equally silly
Is the claim
To glow with pride
Or chill with shame!

not so sure, Doctor, about that. When Byrd
I AM
plants the American flag at the North and South

Poles every American thrills with pride. And we
thrill vociferously. On the other hand, if an Ameri-
can makes a fool of himself somewhere, or is guilty
of crime we are ashamed, perhaps, but we don't
make much noise about it, What you say is "silly"
is quite a human trait and not especially a Jewish
one. We glory in a Herbert Lehman or in a Sal-
mon Levinson or it Julius Rosenwald, but when we
have others not so famous, but rather infamous,
well, you see, Doctor, we're just weak humans—so
please forgive us.

THE following poem was sent to me by a faithful

reader who thinks that is worthy of a place in
this column, and so do I. It is written by Rabbi A.
B. Rhine, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and interprets
to us the meaning of Armistice Day:

NOVEMBER ELEVENTH

They kent their rendezvous, those youths across
the sea,
Who left these shores abloom with life, astir
with ecstacy;
They kent their rendezvous with death, and sleep
'neath alien sod,
Their sentinets the silent stars, and memory and
God.

In human agony they saw the Lord; and seeing
died—
For none can live who see the Lord—but 0, what
sombre pride,
That they, but temporary dust, co-mingling with
the clod,
Could climb the peaks, the heights divine, and
face to face see God!

Th•v kept their rendezvous with death—let us
keep tryst with life;
Above the clash and fury, the tulmut, rage and
strife,
The battle's din, the clamorous wrath, the savage
hate above,
Trinmnhant, rings the ancient law: Anti thou
shalt love.

I AM in complete agreement with the New York
World in its position on Einstein's discussion of
religion as contained in the appended paragraph:

When Felix Adler challenges the 'authority'
of Professor Einstein to discuss religion, he
takes, what at first glance seems a strange posi-
tion, for here it would appear that one man's
authority is as good as another's, with nobody
able to qualify as an expert. But when you
think about it you realize that Dr. Adler has a
case. If we understand him correctly, he means
that undue weight will he attached to Professor
Einstein's ideas on religion by reason of his
eminence in physics, a totally irrevelent sci-
ence. And in this we have a situation that has
often caused trouble. In the United States
we are entirely too fond of thinking that if a
man has achieved success in one direction he
is entitled to lead the way in all directions. Mr.
Henry Ford, for example, is pre-eminent as a
manufacturer of automobiles. Yet we have
felt from time to time that we should listen to
him on prohibition, the Jews, world peace and
a number of other things, Mr. Ford seems to
have this idea, too. Yet it has been demonstrat-
ed that Mr. Ford knows nothing about prohibi-
tion, rather less than that about the Jews, and
even less than that about world peace; listening
to him respectfully on these subjects only re-
sulted in mischief.

FROM Chicago a reader sends me this clipping
from the Chicago Herald and Examiner:

Charles V. Barrett's headquarters announc-
ed that Max Shulman, regional chairman of
the Zionist Organization of America, had ac-
cepted the chairmanship of the Jewish commit-
tee in favor of Barrett's nomination for Mayor.

Here we have the old issue of a group of Jews
forgetting they are Americans of the Jewish faith
and taking sides in a political campaign as JEWS.
It may be that Mr. Shulman believes in the Jews as
a race and not as a religious group, but I feel that
he is making a serious mistake in assuming such a
position. There are entirely too many Jews who
are guilty of thissort of thing.

THE rumor that Adolph Ochs, of the New York
Times is considering the purchase of the New
York World, is interesting, to say the least. Per-
sonally, I wouldn't like to see it, if such a transfer
would result in eliminating the World as a liberal
newspaper. Mr. Ochs, if see are to accept the Times
as a criterion, is an extreme conservative and it is
likely tbnt the World would become much more
coo onsvative under his ownership. This country
r^cds such newspapers as the World to carry on for
the progressive wing in American life

ONE OF the reporters on the ship when Einstein
landed in New York asked him about Hitler, the
notorious anti-Semite of Germany and he very
cleverly explained: "Hitler is living on the empty
stomach of Germany. When Germany's stomach
is full—that is when her economic conditions im-
proves—Hitler will no longer have any standing
there."

DR. JACOB MARCUS, of the Hebrew Union Coll-
eeo Faculty, Cincinnati, made some interesting
predictions for the year 2000, in an address the
other day. Ile said that our grandchildren's great-
eat problem will be that of meeting prejudice. That,
of course, may or may not be true. Unusual changes
take place in a generation and who can tell whether
there will be more or less prejudice in the year
2000. I agree with him when he says that the soc-
ial dominen et' of the Reform Jew will be ended at
that time. But what he says will happen to the
Conservatives and the Reform Jews has to our mind
already happened. The Conservatives are already
swinging to the 'left'. -more English in their ser-
vices; and Reform Jews are urging more ceremon-
ialism in their services. And the Orth oiox are join-
ing the right wing of the Conservatives. So the
Professor is quite safe in making his prediction. He
believes that we shall have philanthropy as it is tn.
day. But it will have more IIEART in it. I can't
agree with him. I think by the year 2000 all phil-
anthropy will be the job of the State. And every
citizen will have to pay his 'philanthropy' tax just
as he pays his income tax today. It should be the
duty of ALL those who are in better circumstances
to care for the handicanped. It is • social responsi-
bility that belongs to the city or the state and not
to a group of private citizens. The Professor thinks
that from law and medicine the Jew will go into en-
gineering and other professions and industry. A
good many ambitious Jewish boys will turn from
law and medicine a long time before the year 2000
is reached. if I can read the signs of the times.

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[ Will Catholic Church Repudiate
New Biography of Queen Isabella?

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ostentatious wealth justifies the
fiendish measures of horrifying
cruelty taken by Isabella against
her Jewish or Morrano subjects.
Sometimes, they staved off the in-
evitable massacres by the heinous
crime of bribery, though not a word
is said in condemnation of the good
Christians who took the bribes. If
it be not so in Walsh's ethics, in
Jewish teaching it is the hole which
is more guilty of theft than is the

moose.

A Shocking Accusation.
When persecution and massacre
no longer satisfied Isabella's sadis-
tic piety, the Jews had to be ex-
pelled. . Walsh would seriously
have us believe that otherwise the
few Jews in Spain might conceiv-
ably have managed with Mohamme-
dan aid, to destroy the Christian
civilization of Europe, ara that it
is the everlasting glory of Quinn
Isabella that she expelled the
Jews and averted this disaster. The
excuse given for their expulsion
was their daily increasing crimes
and offenses against Faith. Spain
had Pi tie static a hundred per cent,
Iberian, Catholic, Gentile, accord-
ing to the principles of what
Walsh depicts as veritable K. K.
K. K. (Katholic Ku Klux Klan),
headed by the saintly Queen and
her gentle Inquisitor General, The
horrors of the expulsion are passed
over very lightly. It being
described as a thoroughly justifi-
able measure, Walsh can not find
a word of regret or pity for the
Jews, nor of blame for the Chris-
tians, but only of condemnation for
the lust and cruelty of the Molars
among whom the wretched fugi-
tives had to take shelter! In fact,
throughout the whole book the only
words of sympathy which the au-
thor finds for Jews are in his ad-
mission that they excelled in the
art of healing, in his curiously iso-
lated description of them as "the
most richly endowed of all races,"
and (if this is not blame) in his
admission that the first European
who had the temerity to imitate the
savages in smoking tobacco was
Columbus' interpreter, Luis de Tor-
res, a Jew who had become a Chris-
tian in 1492 in preference to being
expelled from Spain.
The most shocking chapter in the
whole hook is the twenty-fifth, a
long chapter in which our author
labors to prove JewS guilty of the
Blood Accusation. It is almost in-
creditable that in a book published
in the United States of America in
November, 1930, of what Walsh
would call the Christian Era, an au-
thor can state that the charge that
Jews used to steal Christian boys
and crucify them in ignominious
mockery of the crucifision "can not
be dismissed as a mere evidence of
fanaticism or propaganda, for the
fact is that from time to time Jews
actually were convicted of such
crimes." Yes, indubitably, Jews
were convicted of such crimes on
such "evidence" as that extorted by
the Inquisition. The evidence which
Walsh quotes at length shows how
consistently the memory of the tor-
tured witness improves week by
week as suggestion after suggestion
is made to him under such persuas-
ive arguments as the Inquisition's
"water cure," which, so Walsh as-
sures us, did not inflict the excru-
ciating mental torment of certain
third degree methods used by the
pence in some of our American cit-
ies. In the "water cure," the cler-
ics of the Inquisition first stripped
the prisoner and tied him to a lad-
der by his hands and feet. They
then gagged his nostrils, held his
jaws apart by an iron prong and

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placed a piece of linen over hi
mouth. Water was then slowly
Poured by them on the cloth carry-
ing it into the throat, no that th
prisoner must constantly swallow
what water he could to make room
for air to pass into his lungs, other-
wise he would suffocate. If he
squirmed, the cords cut into him,
and if he proved too stubborn, the
attending servants of the church
gave the cords an additional twist.
It was the trumped up charge of
the Jewish murder of the holy child
of LaGuardia which triumphantly
justified the expulsion of the Jews
to the saintly Isabella and to her
admiring biographers. What mat-
ters it that no such child Wen ever
missed, that the witness gave the
most varying tastimony as to his
name, age and place where he was
seized, and that his body was not
found in the grave which the Jews
"confessed" to have made? Had
not the holy child risen from the
grave to share in the glory of the
resurrection of Jesus?

If anyone had deliberately set
out to blacken and excoriate the
Catholic Church, he could have
chosen no better method than that
which Walsh has used. For if his
picture of the saintly and kind Isa-
bella and the pious and gentle Tor-
quemada is true, it is an irrefut-
able indictment of a church in
which you may he a good Catholic
and a bloody minded, perverted,
ruthless woman; a perfect Catholic
and an infamous man. If Walsh
is, as he would have an know he is,
a profoundly loyal Catholic, that
high qualification which he claims
accords will with his unscrupulous-
ness in the use of historical mater-
ial, his lyrical praises of Isabella
and Torquemada, his lack of pity
for the victims of their misguided
religious zeal, his frank hatred of
Moors and Jews, and his maleficent
revival of the liked curdling legen-
dary crimes with which the terri-
fied, superstithus imagination of
the bigoted Middle Ages charged
the Jews. No avowed enemy of
Christianity would dare to have
written as Walsh does, that Tor-
quemada's chief ambition in life
was to imitate Jesus Christ, No
avowed enemy of the church should
have written a m ire incriminating
sentence than "the church in vain
attempted to prevent the employ-
ment of Jews in public offices." No
reputable enemy of the church
could have framed a more damning
indictment against it than does
Walsh when he tells us that several
of the Spanish kings, usually those
of luke-warm faith or those espec-
ially in need of money, showed the
Jews high favor. Does he not un-
derstand the malignant implications
of a statement implying that the
more piously Catholic was the mon-
arch, the less human was his treat-
ment of Jews?
"Isabella of Spain, the Last Cru-
sader," designed as a defense of the
Catholic Church, is a challenge to
it such as no fair-minded, scholarly
non-Catholic would have written.
The whole American public, Protes-
tants, more especially Jews, and
most especially Catholics, have a
right to ask that the highest au-
thorities of the Catholic Church in
this country, disavow in clear and
unambiguous wixds this exultant
spiritual pogrom penned by Will-
iam Thomas Walsh. The best tra-
ditions of the Catholic Chur•h eon
not afford to condone a work which
determinedly makes the dastardly
attempt, in the rime of the Church,
to revive to American soil the
Blood Accusation in its most fa-
natically virulent form.

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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS

MENACHEM MENDEL USSISHKIN: "Four months ago a high
English official sat in my office in Jerusalem asking me questions. I
said to him, 'For you English, and for the Arabs, Palestine is a place
for questions, investigations, inquiries. For us Jews it is a place for
upbuilding. You can help or hinder our work, by your attitude, but
You cannot prevent it from eventually being done.' Ile asked me for
figures, proofs. I said, 'Our Zionism is not a matter of numbers, but
of deep rnvstic belief.' For England and for the Arabs, Palestine rep-
resents perhaps 1 per rent of their interest. There are from 30 to 50
millions of Arabs from Gibraltar to Damascus. I respect this great
people; it has evolved one of the greatest religions in the world; to-
gather with us in the middle ages it saved world culture. it has its
centers in Damascus, and Mecca, and Cairo, but not in Jerusalem. For
us, Palestine represents 100 per cent of our interests. Without the
hope of a cultural center in Palestine, where a million Jews will create
a new learning and civilization, we are dead. Our mandate is the
Bible. It rives us Palestine, from the seas to the desert. We will not
recognize diplomatic dissections."
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FELIX NI. WARBURG: "The cause of the unhanding of Palestine
through all of its constructive channels of servise today, more than ever
before, requires the most earnest effort and the most harmonious co-
operation of all groups and personalities. Apart from problems of gov-
ernmental discussions, both the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the
Keren Kayemeth Leisrael are faced with the duty of meeting the needs
of their day-to-day programs,"
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DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER: "We have brought into Palestine
civilization, the canned art of peace. From a Mediterraneon poverty -
(stricken, backward, oriental province we are making of Palestine a
practical, healthy, modern commonwealth. The Arabs who live in Pal-
estine feel already the economic stimulus that has come with the incur-
sion of the new Jewish settlement. Our record is clear and therefore
our determination is undaunted. Our answer to Lord Passfield, Mr.
MacDonald, to all the secretaries and underlings of the Colonial Office,
our answer is today as it was yesterday, as it will be tomorrow until our
holy ideal is realized, 'we carry on.'"

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