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and should be meow-
all Detroit Jewish organizations to call Chronicle,
Hitlerist Racism Called Product of Demented Men
PlInirti
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upon our representatives in both Houses entelope. b7 • self-addressed, stamped
525 Woodward Avenue
of Congress to support the Kerr Bill.
By DR. PIERA PARINI
tel•phonsi Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
Italian Minister of Propaganda
Q. Is there any historical ba- 1
The Federation is to be commended for
Landon Offices
for the story of Shylock?—
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
taking the lead, together with the Hebrew Si.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article presents the views of Dr. Piers Parini, Fascist
T. S. A.
Minister of Propaganda on Anti-Semitism, as told to our Rome correspondent. Dr.
A. The only historical basis
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Parini tells of a conversation he had with Herr Goebbels, Nazi high priest of propa-
(HIAS) is mobilizing support for this for the story about the pound of
• insure publication, allcorrespondence and tows matter
ganda, on the Jewish question. This is a most human document, revealing the con-
measure.
flesh reverses the position of Jew
reach this otlice by Tusod•y evening of each wtek,
trast between the Italian Fascist and the German Nazi leadership on the Jewish issue.
and Gentile. According to Letti
set mailingnotion. kindly u•• one side of the gam only.
Perhaps the most encouragng endorse - in his life of Pope Sixtus V,
in
•
ooliloright, 1535. Seoen Arts Feature 1 .indloate)
Ile Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondeate oat sab.
y 1587, Sechi, a merchant of Rome,
ment
for
this
bill
was
incorporated
recentl
Dela of Intereat to the Jewish people, but disclaims moons'.
Mktg for rat Indorsement of the flews expressed by the mite.
in an editorial which appeared in the New ear( that the English admiral,
York Times under the heading "Sound Drake, had captured San Dom-
Anti-Semitism is absolutely foreign to Italian mankind will thank the Ilitlerist regime for its
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
ingo. Cenado, a Jewish mer- Fascism, which knows of no distinctions between
Alien Policy." In this editorial support chant
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 19:1-25:9
spirited battle against the snake of Judah—the
of Venice, said: "I bet a
Prophetical portion—Micah 6:6-6:8
for the Kerr Bill is advocated as follows: pound of flesh that it is untrue." Jews and Christians. Such was the categorical Jewish people.'

Readings of the Law on Fast of Tammuz,
Thursday, July 18
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:1.10

.

Fascism Without Anti-Semitism

Strictly
Confiderstiol

'Tidbits from Everywhere

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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright, ma.

s A.

s)

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MANHATTAN SNAPSHOTS

At a luncheon in honor of
Mat
Reinhardt at the Ambassador Ho-
tel in New York ... Professor
Al.
bert Einstein, scheduled as main
speaker, runs up to toastmaster
ex-ambassador Gerard and pleads
with him not to forget to all on
him as he has something very im-
portant to say ... This naivete and
modesty of Einstein are genuine
M ax Reinhardt, in a speech
written by himself, proclaim s
Mey.
er W. Weisgal the strong m a n
of
the theater because Weisgal cured
him of his fright of air travel
• . . . Mrs. Reinhardt whispering
to us that the reason why Rein-
hardt has a prejudice against fly-
ing is that last year he was sched-
uled to fly from Italy to Austria
in company with Max Pallenherg
who was killed in a crash on that
trip ... And that Reinhardt can-
celled his ticket at the last ma
ment .. . David A. Brown on the
dais next to Maurice Samuel and
apparently enjoying the conversa-
tion, although not so very long
ago these two gentlemen banged
at each other in an editorial con-
troversy at the time of Samuel's
book, "Jews on Approval" .
Bernard S. Deutsch, interrupting
the last and all-important meeting
of the hoard of estimate just to
shake hands with Reinhardt and
welcome him officially in the name
of the City of New York .. . Fie-
ing so much in a hurry that he
donates his ice cream to Meyer W.
Weisgal who is no nervous that
he can't even look at it ... Mrs.
Eugene Meyer, Jr., wife of the
former head of the Federal Re-
serve Bank, discussing with Rein-
hardt the stage debut of her
(laughter in the forthcoming Franz
Werfel-Reinhardt production . .
All the ladies present staring at
the new Mrs. Max Reinhardt and
finding her most charming and un-
assuming ... Few realize that the
slim, elegant Frau Reinhardt is
generally acknowleldged the Ethel
Barrymore of Germany And
t hat her brother, Herman Thimig,
is the Lionel Barrymore of Cen-
tral Europe.

Secchi placed a sum against the assurance given me the other day by Dr. Piers
"You can imagine my astonishment that such
Jew's wager and a bond was Parini, the Italian Minister of Propaganda, in
an utterly ludicrous answer. I would see in a
drawn
up.
The
Jew
lost
and
the
the
course
of
an
interview
at
Salonica.
Prophetical portion—Is. 65:6-56:8
hundred years' time, indeed. I pointed out to
Christian insisted on the fulfill-
Dr. Parini is responsible for the spread of Goebbels that he did not seem very clear on
ment of his bond. Upon an ap-
July 12, 1935
Tammuz 11, 5695
the
Fascist
outlook
not
only
within
the
country,
peal to the governor they were
the subject, but he immediately switched off to
both arrested for making such a but among the many millions of his fellow- another topic of conversation."
bond, and were released only by Italians throughout the world. As well as being
Mr. Rothenberg's Re-Election
I asked Dr. Parini his views concerning Pal-
paying a fine toward a hospital Propaganda Minister, he is Director of Italian
Morris Rothenberg's re-election as presi-
estine.
which the Pope was building.
Interests abroad, and to him is entrusted the
• • •
dent of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
"I have visited Palestine annually for the last
Q. What was the attitude of supervision of all Italian schools, hospitals and three years," he said. "It is part of my duties.
ica is of extreme importance. It is much
the
Zionist
organization
toward
other
institutions
in
foreign
countries.
more than a triumph for an individual
Ne have several Italian schools and hospitals
the British offer of Uganda as
The Fascists of Italy," he said, "have no there which I go to inspect. I have noticed on
who has won for himself the highest re-
a substitute for Palestine— I. H.
connection whatever with any other political each occasion the marked growth of Jewish en-
spect of American Jews. It is a victory
A. At the Zionist Congress in
for the rank and file in American Zionism.
1906 the following resolution was group in a foreign country, which may describe terprise and achievement.
adopted: "That the Zionist Con- itself as Fascist. We are as far apart from
For years a small group has managed
"1 have seen with my own eyes the evolution
gress firmly maintains the princi- Nazism as heaven front earth. We have no
to control conventions. This group also
ple for the foundation of the alliance with the English Fascists under Sir of Tel Aviv and the development of a new life
came to this year's conclave in Atlantic
in
the
Colonies.
colony in the Jewish fatherland,
City and evidently expected that the mo-
Palestine, or in that vicinlcy, The Oswald Mosley, and certainly none with the 'Iron
"The earnestness and sacrifice with which
Congress thanks Great Britain Guard' of Rumania, or of any other country,
ment they begin to pull their strings, the
Jews have gone to build up their land has con-
for her offer of African territory,
"We regard all these as weak copies and vinced me that the Zionist ideal is by no means
puppets—the delegates from Jewish com-
the
consideration of which, how- distortions of the genuine Italian article, of the
munities throughout the country—will
ever, is terminated, and hopes Mussolini spirit, one of the basic points of whch Utopian. Italy looks on it with sympathy, and
dance to their tunes.
reckons with the possibility of a Jewish state in
that Great Britain will continue
But this time the puppets rebelled. The
to aid in the solution of the Jew-1 is the complete equality before the law of all Palestine."
ish question." This resolution peoples, races and citizens,
regrettable manner in which a few leaders
Says Italians Not Anti-Semites
was adopted after ■ six-hour de-
"We ask to be judged by the Jewish com-
who spoke under the auspices of the Zion-
This naturally led me to make inquiries of
bate and amid loud protests from munities by what we ourselves affirm, and not
ist Organization but in reality worked for
Dr.
Parini
concerning the publication in Italy of
the Socialiit section, the members
by the standards which are set by these traves- certain newspapers and periodicals which persist
the Poste Zion, attempted to place blame
of which left the building.
ties
of
Fascism.
•
• •
for the failure of the Zionist Organization
in the allegation that Jews are had patriots,
Q. How large is the newly pur-
"With regard to Ilitlerist 'racism,' our view being Zionists first and Italians second.
in the recent Congress poll on the shoul-
chased
Hulett
territory
in
Pales-
is
that
this
is
the
product
of
demented
men,
who
ders of Mr. Rothenberg, deserved rebuke.
The Minister thought in silence for a few
tine?--K. C. D.
are so blinded by their racial illusions as to re- moments and then answered in decisive tones.
This group—especially Maurice Samuel,
A. The Lake Iluleh land in-
gard
raceology
as
the
highest
form
of
science
Ezra Shapiro and A. H. Friedland—re-
cludes 200,000 dunams of land
"It is true," he said, "that such publications
located near the Syrian border achieved during the present century. Neverthe- appear, but you may rest assured that they have
ceived well-earned defeat in their attempt
between
Safed
and
IMetulah.
Part
less,
they
do
not
really
understand
it
at
all.
to organize a "revolution" which burst
of the territory is owned by the They regard themselves as members of the no following of any consequence. The average
like a bubble. And those who were to act
Italian has seen during the war the true extent
Syrian government. There are
or Jest nation in the world, yet forget that
5,000
like puppets revolted against this clique.
Arabs living in the district
of Jewish patriotism, and he has continued to
when
Rome
has
a
Caesar
and
an
established
cul-
and
by
the
terms
of
the
conces-
Demands were made at this convention
tu,rriete,. their forefathers could neither read nor see it in several departments of activity.
sion 15,000 acres are reserved ,,
that the delegates should take things in
"The Italian people and the Fascist party
for Arab occupation. •
their own hands and should choose new
•
•
•
are determined to regard every man as a full SPORT PARADE
Admonished
Goebbels
on
Jewish
Issue
dealers. The delegates went a long way
The Maccabi motorcycle squad
Q. Who was Benjamin F. Pei-
and patriotic citizen who works for the Zionisit
xotto?—L. W. G.
from Palestine now touring the
"When I was in Germany," the Minister con- idea and the upbuilding of Palestine
in taking things in their own hands. But
r rat •
,provi d e d
A. Peixotto (1834-1890) was tinued, "I had an opportunity of discussing the
e States makes a very ath-
they did not go far enough.
noted as a lawyer, journalist and Jewish question with Goebbels. We were sitting only that he pursues no illegal means to these letic impression ... They all speak
It is to be hoped that "tricks" will
ends.
Hebrew and refused personal do-
American consul. In 1870 at the at breakfa
st one day, talking about general
nations from a group of delegates
henceforth be eliminated from Zionist
time of the Rumanian Jewish per-
"There is one point in conclusion," said Dr.
secutions he was appointed by questions of international politics, and gradu- Parini, "which I wish to impress upon the Jewish who wanted to hand them money
politics and that an open and above board
President Grant, Consul-General to ally drifted into the Jewish question.
for a good time ... Detroit is bet-
method of deciding on Zionist policy will
masses everywhere. The Italian people and the ting that Hank Greenberg will
Rumania, and he was of great sem•
"I firmly believe," said I, "that your fight
be pursued by Zionist conventions. If,
Fascist Party in Italy are as far from anti- clout inure than 50 home runs this
ice to his co-religionists in the
however, those who have hitherto pulled
country. In 1876 President Hayes against the Jews is unnecessary for the establish- Semitism as is heaven from earth. The whole
season . . . At this writing he
sent him to France as a consul. ment of the new regime. You've got to 'get history of our people and party shows this leads both big leagues with 23 in
strings to make conventions go their way
Peixotto founded a magazine, was the sympathy of the entire world and not go forg-
64 games . . . Benny Friedman,
will continue to follow such tactics, it will
clearly
and
hundreds
of
fact
s atte st .
active in Jewish fraternal, charit- i
former Michigan all - American
be the duty of Zionist constituencies to in-
It is important that all our organiza- able and religious activity, and was ing weapons against yourself with your own hand,
"The Jewish people must regard us and judge quarterback and now coach of the
especially in the eyes of foreign powers. You us in
struct their delegates to strive for the tions should rally at once in support of an outstanding lawyer,
the light of what we are, and not in the City College eleven, is studying
• •
know very well that the Jews have considerable
law at Brooklyn Law School .
elimination of such elements from Zionist this bill. While it cannot solve the immi- va• Ora cle • now
light of those lamentable travesties of Fascism
mailaer ble
e In b00 k
body of public opinion on their side."
Leo Weiss won the national cham-
Dm, mi • In ma
leadership in this country.
IsT Jewlooh ref
nce h 00k .
gration problems, it goes a long way in Phase
which might appear elsewhere. Judge us rightly
your order with )00e 1.111 book-
pionship with his gasoline-powered
" 'Never mind,' answered Goebbels, 'you will and not in the light
The victory of Mr. Rothenberg at the humanizing them, and our representa- dealer or aril, the Oracle. care of The
model airplane which stayed in the
of a distorted view which
see that in a hundred years' time the whole of
air for 64 minutes and 12 seconds
convention held last week in Atlantic City tives should be informed of their duty Detroit Jealoh Chronicle.
makes us out like the Nazis."

Deportaton laws are no exception to the
rule that all legislation which contravenes
the dictates of humanity or violates our sense
of justice defeats its own purpose by becom-
ink virtually unenforceable. The public reads
about aliens of good moral character sent out
of the country on a technical invocation of
the statute and at the cost of separating hus-
bands from wives and parents from children;
the 'deportee may actually leave an American-
born wife and children behind. The public
reads of such Spartan severity and concludes
that its deportation laws are being effectively
and wisely applied. But it is rather a case
of the law mistakenly applied. The law is
harshest with the wrong persons. The undesir-
able alien and the dangerous alien whom it
was the intention of Congress to drive from
the country usually manage to escape the
dragnet. They actually profit by the revul-
sion of feeling which regularly follows upon
disclosures of the other kind.
The bill introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Kerr of North Carolina and favor-
ably reported by the Committee on Immigra-
tion and Naturalization seeks to remove such
anomalies, It vests limited discretionary pow-
ers on deportation of aliens in a committee
consisting of representatives of the Depart-
ments of State, Justice and Labor. The com-
mittee may not intervene in behalf of aliens
who are criminals, dangerous radicals or im-
moral persons, but it may prevent the expul-
sion of aliens who entered the country irregu-
larly and have been residents of good repute
for a period of 10 years or more. As things
stand now such a person, if he happens to
become a public charge, automatically becomes
liable to expulsion, whereas a criminal alien
who has had the good fortune to receive a
sufficiently short sentence is immune. The
Kerr bill would also do away with an anomaly
like the one which requires that student or
tourist aliens who wish to become citizens
must leave the country and re-enter.
No gates are thrown open to immigration
by the proposed law. It is not even a ques-
tion of the gate being unlatched. The volume
of immigration is not increased, because the
quotas remain as they are. Actually the num-
ber of aliens In the country is reduced by
subtracting from the national quotas all aliens
already here whose status is now regularized;
and the same thing is true of visitors and stu-
dents. Such "liberalization" as the Kerr bill
contains is in the interest of common sense,
humanity and the final effectiveness of the
deportation code. It takes cognizance of meri-
torious cases. It deals more drastically with
undesirable aliens than the present law.

points to the beginning of a new era, and to vote for this bill.
to the domination of the movement by the
rank and file in Zionism, Mr. Rothenberg
deserves to be congratulated for his con-
A New Day for Zionism
What the Orient Does to Our Brethren
sistent adherence to principle, and the
A
new
day dawns for Zionism.
reward that came to him took the form of
Not
only
have
the
Reform
rabbis
aban-
By ISRAEL COHEN
re-election to the presidency of the Zionist
doned their antagonistic attitude to Zion-
EDITR
O . , NOTE: The face of Internationai politico Ix turned loaani the
Organization of America.
East,
ism, but for the first time a Zionist, Rabbi Far
allich, realizing that Mumps le sick, la lobar la 'Janke Si,, domnotnee
of the nhite mom. llow do 4.0.
lore In this racial aid...al• Lowey (oiler.).
Felix A. Levy of Chicago, has been elected article will tell goo.
A Splendid Rebuke
president. Furthermore, the retiring
(Copyright, 1(35, Seto, Arts Feature Syndioate)
An amazing demonstration of ignor- president, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson of
ance, accompanied by a splendid rebuke New York, refused to accept membership
The leaders of Western Jewr y of Basra a few years ago, in the
from a non-Jewish editor in a letter to on the executive committee because he are always so bbsily engaged upon name of the Rabbis of Bagdad
whom the stupidity was displayed, is con- felt that the Zionist members of the Cen- their own problems, as well a against those Jews who continued
upon those of Eastern European their membership of a theosophi
tained in the June issue of Real America. tral Conference of American Rabbis are Jewry,
that they have little time cal society, threatening them with -
The letter was signed "Moses Goldman, not sufficiently represented on the board or thought for those of their exclusion
"from the congregation
Los Angeles, Calif.," and expressed the and he asked that the place offered him brethren in Oriental lands. The of Israel in circumcision, marriage
vast distances that separates them and burial, and other matters re-
following wisdom:
should go to a Zionist.
from those countries, as well as lating to the community, and all
I am for Huey Long and Adolph Hitler 100
These incidents are not only triumphs the comparatively little knowledge other religious affairs of Israel."
per cent, though I am Jewish. I am for these
that they have of the conditions
two men because they are after the bad Jews,
for the Jewish national cause, but are prevailing
Internal Discord
there, may be urged as
like Bernard Baruch. . . . Let Hitler and
indications of approaching unity in all sufficient reason for the lack of Two other incidents, different
Long do away with the "nation-wrecking
bo
Jewry in behalf of the movement for attention that is devoted to the th in kind and significance, the
Jews"! . . . I am a steady reader of your
occurring in Burmah and the
the upbui}ding of the only land which needs of Oriental Jewry. Yet if one
splendid magazine.
we are to be true to the ideals of other in Persia, are also to be at-
serves
today as a haven of refuge for the
But the editor of Real America, who
tributed
to the lack of proper re-
solidarity of Israel, we must
saw fit to label the writer of this letter as exiled and persecuted Jews.
recognize that the interests of our ligious leadership and of an en-
brethren in Asia must be of no lightened spirit in the communal
"A Rare Jew," knew how to rebuke such
less concern to us than those of our administration. The first was the
nonsense, and his brief comment directed
law suit that was recently tried in
brethren
in Europe.
Nazi Insanity
at the last sentence in the letter, was:
high courts at Rangoon to de-
Fortunately it is not their ma- the
termine whether the Bene Israel
"Even though we are not anti-Jewish?"
terial position that calls for con-
"There
is
no
room
in
the
National
So-
were
entitled to the full rights of
The letter and the comment speak for cialist State for an artificially created in- sideration and support, although
they have their share of poverty, membership of the local synagogue,
themselves. The former reveals an ap- ternational auxiliary language,"
and
the
other was the deplorable
states a but rather their spiritual position
palling attitude marked by a lack of in- decree issued by the German Ministry
of
—as understood in the widest sense. tragedy that overtook the Persian
formation. The latter is a splendid reply Education in outlawing Esperanto.
It is their condition in regard to Zionist, Mr. Haim, three years ago.
It was no dignified spectacle to
administering a deserved rebuke.
religious leadership and communal , see
But
the
German
bigots
reveal
their
true
the judge and lawyers in the
organization,
as manifested in the
There are evidently some Jews who
Rangoon
Court discussing niceties
when they make the following numerous colonies dispersed
ought to read and think a bit more than insanity
'
of
religious
observance and ritual
explanation through the official gazette throughout the East, from Bagdad practice, which
are far bet-
they do. Only genuine information will of the Ministry of Education:
to Singapore, and from Aden to ter qualified to rabbis
pronounce upon;
save them from the type of reprimand
Shanghai, that forms a problem
either there are no rabbis there,
deserving of serious inquiry and but
which we quote from Real America.
"Esperanto was conceived and evolved by
or their authority is not recognized.

Jews of Another World

Victor Hugo's Sense of Justice

It is natural that Jews should play a
prominent role in the commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of Victor Hugo's
death.
Not only was his name among those
who signed the protest against the po-
groms that occurred in Czarist Russia in
1882, but he presided, on May 31, 1882,
at a protest meeting in Paris, and he was
joined by outstanding men of letters and
science, eminent statesmen and spokes-
men for the Catholic and Protestant
churches in condemning the outrages.
His passionate plea for justice, as em-
bAied in "Les Miserables," is merely an
indication of the attitude this great man
adopted towards all persecutions and op-
pressions.
Not only is it important that Jews
should recall his friendship on the occa-
sion of this anniversary, but it is fitting
that a French-Jewish writer, Pierre Paraf,
son-in-law of the late Zionist leader, Max
Nordau, should have written a new work
about Victor Hugo, published on the occa-
sion of the present anniversary.
Jewish history records with gratitude
Victor Hugo's friendship to our people
and the part he played in condemning
persecutions.

the Oriental Jewish ecculist, Lazarus Zam-
enhof. It found rapid dissemination through
international channels with the aid of Marx-
ist Socialist and liberal circles, all of which
were identified with world Jewry. Esperanto
is the hobby of a few ideologists and its value
as a vehicle of international commercial ex-
pression must also be denied."

It is difficult to find a term other than
"insanity" in explanation of the Nazi ways
and methods, Because Richard Strauss,
Germany's outstanding operatic composer,
secured the services of Stefan Zweig to
write the libretto for his "The Silent Worn-
an," he is removed from the presidency
of the Reich Musical Chamber. One after
another liberals and Jews are being de-
citizenized. Instance after instance can
be multiplied in proof of Germany losing
her reason under the rule of the Nazis.

"Romulus," writing to the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle from Berlin, reports the
formation of the Union of Brown Sisters.
The intention is to have these "sisters"
take the place of nuns in various hospitals
in Cologne, Aachen and Duesseldorf,
overwhelmingly Roman Catholic cities.
Thus Adolf Hitler is aiming to capture
every front—including the Catholic insti-
tutions. Perhaps the beginning of his end
is nearing with his greedy efforts to swal-
low up all in sight.

thoughtful handling.

As for Mr. Haim, probably few
people outside close circle in Te-
Unfortunately the lack of re- heran will ever a know
the real rea-
ligious leadership, or a dignified ts iocries.
for his miscarriage of jus-
and enlightened leadership, char-
acterises all the Jewish commun-
But there can be little doubt that
ities from the Red Sea to the Yel-
low Sea. Neither Iraq, with its if the Jewish community in that
90,000 Jews, nor Turkey, with its city had been free from internal
70,000, nor Persia, with its 60,- discord, and if it had ■ spiritual
000, has a rabbi or haham who head exercising authority and com-
combines the faculty of personal manding respect, such a terrible
leadership with Talmudic knowl- fate would not have overtaken •
edge,while the Jews of India and well-known public worker, who was
China (with the exception of Har- distinguished for his devotion to
bin, which has a purely Russo- the Jewish national ideal, and
Jewish community, and Shanghai) against whom no specific crime was
have no spiritual leader of any ever alleged.
The Jews is Shanghai
kind.
The absence of a competent ec-
It is encouraging that there are
clesiastical head, possessed of char- many enlightened Jews in vario us
acter as well as of learning, in- Oriental renters who fully realize
evitably exerts an adverse influence the evil that is being wrought in
not only upon the religious up- , their midst by the absence of qual-
bringing of the younger genera- ified religious leaders. That spir-
tion but also upon the morale of ited Shanghai journal, Israel's
the older. Only thus ran we ex- Messenger, has often contained
plain the pusillanimous action of such fearless expressions of self-
the Chief Rabbi of Constantinople criticism and confessions of help-
and of the "notables" of Turkish lessness as: "Eastern Jewries are
Jewry in officially renouncing som e dying of inanition for lack of re-
years ago the minorities rights i gious specialists to attend to their
that had been secured for them needs," and "the salvation of Cast-
in the Treaty of Lausanne, thus e en Jewry lies in the hands of
exposing their fellow•Jews to many I Vestern Jewry." What a cri du
disabilities or discriminating laws coeur echoes in the sentence: "They
that the Government, in its zeal Ii. e., certain Western rabbis)
for Turkification, might enact.
should save what they can save
Only thus ran we understand the f rom the fire that is now
raging
Ilerem—the ban of excommunica- a nd which bids fair to devour some
tion—pronounced in the synagogue
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Lack of Leadership

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"Shadchan Shaw"

Peace, Poverty and Progress

By ALFRED SEGAL

(comrIght, IBM S A FS)

By FANNY BRIN

Says George Bernard Shaw
in Liberty Magazine: "If I
were Hitler, I would make it a
crime, punishable like incest,
for a Jew or a Jewess to marry
anyone except a Christian. That
would improve the race."
Now let us suppose Shaw
really were Hitler and that I,
for example, were an eligible
young German Jew. Indeed,
Hitler Shaw had promulgated
his decree: Jews must marry
Christians and, to facilitate
that end, he himself would be
match-maker.

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Of Jr.611 Women.

He took up match-making
with the same assurance that
had marked all his other
meddling. Half his time was
given to the affairs of the
German state, half to the busi-
ness of marrying off German
Jews to German Aryans. For
he was having a great deal of
trouble with the Jews; they
were taking up as much of his
time as all the business of the
Reich consumed.

Before Mr. Shaw became
dictator of Germany, the mar-
riage of Jews and non-Jews

was a cause of great pain in
German - Jewish circles, The
children of Israel were dis-
persing in numbers among the

Aryans and there were melan-
choly prophets who said: "In
no long time there will be no
German Jewry at this rate."

This had gone so far that the
son of the chief rabbi had mar-
ried the daughter of the Baron
Niemand von Nimmergewesen-
war: an event that caused the
rabbi and the entire congrega-
tion to go into mourning for
seven days.

The swift assimilation was
decimating Jewish congrega-
tions of which Anshe Chesed
was already reduced to ■
a handful. This was going on
particularly among the doctors
and musicians; since by an ad-
vantageous marriage a doctor

might become a professor, •

musician • symphony conduc-
tor.
I myself had thought of mar-
riage with Olga, the daughter
of Graf Kuno von Rindfleisch,
who was ■ chamberlain in the
court of the old kaiser. I had
considered the advantages

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(Con,rIglot, 1135, liy the National Council or Jewish Women)

For women today, the great
issues are poverty and war. For as a means of obtaining security
and justice between nations. War
Jewish women there is another is a deeply entrenched institu-
equally important issue and that tion. Billions are spent on main-
is the adjustment of the Jew to taming its agencies. To millions
a changing and not always of people this seems the only
friendly world. way of obtaining security, Costly
As to the first of these prob. and deadly as war is, they
see no
le umust,, thwe om
ru
figehnt for social icbueltatrelry-
way but to pay the price. Un-
less they can be convinced that
concerned with the clearance of the Collective System which cen-
slums, the scourge of unemploy- tens around Geneva
and the
ment, child labor, the sufferings League of Nations
is a better way
of millions of people, not only to
insure
security
and
justice
be-
among who aldattolhts occ paamtin
among a tnhe tween nations, they will not give
upation and up their reliance on war. In a
face endless empty hours.
The world where armaments are in-
p
ems arising out of these creasing daily even among peace-
conditions are near to wo men,
I t is easier for them than for ful nations, and in which treaty
agreements are not always re-
men to realize that in an age spected, this is no easy task.
so absorbed in spectacular tech-
But it is just this transference
nical and mechanical inventions of faith from the war system to
and scientific discoveries, they the
System which must
must come closer to the needs of be Collective
accomplished, if we are to
people. Women are becoming save civilization as we
know it
much more realistic in their work. today. And
is thir task which
They are not as content as they the women of it our
generation who
used to be with speeches and
t hey have passed the stage of saw the war must undertake.
The;
Peace
Ballot
faith in resolutions, They are
The unofficial peace ballot
becoming aware of the legislative
which
has
been
taken
in England
and political technique they must
use if they are to carry out during the last six months shows
clearly
that
there
the
Collective
their programs for social amelio-
System is popularly understood
ration.
and sud.
orte
Of over 10,000.-
Peace vs. War
000 vote
pprs, 97 p er cen favored
t
A recent study of the work remaining in the League. Almost
of women's organizations shows 9,000,000 voted in favor of joint
the progress they are
making in economic action by the nations
the use of legislative and political against an aggressor nation in
technique. This is the great need the prevention of war.
in the work of women for social
It is most important that in
I betterment. They must become our country there shall be s
ncreasingly practical and realis- clearer and more general under.
tic
in their
if they wish standing of what the Collective
t o become
a work with
ow
neheom4ye
u a m tui os nt a understand
lawmakers r gr
eck
euop n.

t S hyaett ee m i t hie s ; t h W e e

realize the importance of legisla- upon joint action, in which all
tine and political action, the.; the nations mutually guarantee
will
become a decisive factor in b
the security of each, or each nes
atohcendrealt
realization
programs for on must rely upon its own
p r ogress .
strength against an aggressor
This same realistic approach and prepare
for such contingen-
is important in another field f ties
work in which women's organize-
In the event that we accept
Lions are showing an almost the philosophy that each nation
unanimous interest — the peace must rely
upon itself then we
movement. As long as women's must
resign ourselves to even
organizations
supported
v
a
g
u
e
more
frantic
preparations for
peace programs
with a general war; to vast air fleets, surprise
emotional appeal against the attacks with disease
germs and
cruelty and costliness of war, poison gas, and other dreaded in-
there could be no progress. The struments by which the nations
peace movement is not advanced will destroy each other. The al-
much by the people who hate tentative to that is the Collective
war and stop at that. It requires System which
rests on three
more than a realization that
war main props— consultation when
5 destructive, sickeningly costly,

futile and barbarous, and that there is a threat to the peace of
war-mongers profiteer from it. It the world; agreement as to the
aggressor, and agreement as to
s i s necessary to understand the the e t e , y epee.. o o
f hjloyi ntth eaect
wei ohn tthhee pne 0- -
ubstitute for war. It is not
Lions will take against such an
Cons
much war hatred that counts, as a

a

clear understanding

of what I gressive development of this tech-
we can rely on in place of war
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