December 4, 1936
PIE PEIROMIEWISII &MIMI
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
THEVETROITAWIMI etRONICL
The Tragedy of the Wanderer
Lights from
Shadowland
Few incidents in recent Jewish history
compare in their immense tragedy with
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Published Weekly by The Jewish amebae Pu ► diskiag Co, lee. the movement that was started by a group
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suited on some home problem?
'wt. of later"! to the Jewish people, but disclaims respeasi- compare with this projected march.
Parkyakarkus (Einstein of Bos-
siiity for ao Indorsement of the views expressed by the writers
Adding to the tragedy of the ill-fated ton) has a new idea for a theme
Sabbath Readings of the Law.
song for that prison football team
movement was the attack upon the march- on the Hudson River in New York
Pentateuchal portion.—Gen.. 37:1-40:23,
Prophetical portion.—Amos 2:6-3:8.
ing horde by Polish police who dispersed State: "Sing Sing, Baby, Sing
Law
Chanukah Readings of the
Sing."
Wednesday, Num. 7:1.17; Thursday, Num. them and prevented even the beginning
It is interesting to note that
7:18-29; Friday, 7:24-35.
of a realization of a dream to find a path Jerome Cowan, Broadway matinee
idol who is soon to make his film
Kislev 20, 5697 to the Jewish Homeland.
December 4, 1936
debut, has been, at various times
Coupled with this tragedy is the ill- in his life, a check-protector sales-
a floorwalker in a New York
advised movement started by Vladimir man,
A Weizmann Classic
department store, a soda-jerker,
a clerk in a United Cigar store
Jabotinsky
for
the
immigration
of
Jews
The recently published biography of
and an automobile salesman.
Sid Silvers, dropping his come-
Arthur James B a If our by his niece, from Poland. By encouraging an attitude
Blanche Dugdale, revives interest in the which permits anti-Semitic nations to state dian's mask, is reported to be writ-
ing a series of hair-raising dramas
famous story about the first meeting be- that Jews form the "excess" element in to be presented by the Amalgama-
tween Balfour and Dr. Chaim Weizmann. their population and by endorsing any and ted Barbers' Union.
It was following the defeat of Balfour in every effort for the emigration of such "ex- ' MAXIE ROSENBLOOM
I NED
the election of 1906 when he was visited
The former light heavyweight
by the young Russian Jewish professor cess" human material, we defeat our most boxing
champion and one of the
who asked him for a quarter of an hour's important purpose in our battle for free- most colorful boxers in the ring
interview, but remained for 75 minutes. dom and equality.
for many years, will appear in
Ours is a task to rebuild Palestine and Warner Bros.' "Trial Horse." This
The occasion was the offer of Yganda as
will be his first acting role in the
a haven of refuge for Jews and its refusal to settle there as many Jews as can pos- movies. June Travis, the Chicago
by the Zionists. Mrs. Dugdale quotes Dr. sibly be accommodated with an intention socialite daughter of the White
eventually of building up a secure and con- Sox ball team's chief executive,
Weizmann as follows:
has a leading part in
"I began;' says Dr. Weizmann, "to structive Jewish center. But such con- Grabiner,
this picture.
sweat blood to make my meaning clear structive effort in no sense relieves us of
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, fa-
through my English. At the end I said, responsibility to fight for equal rights as mous Viennese musical composer,
has started work on an original
'Mr. Balfour, if you were offered Paris citizens wherever Jews may reside.
for "Denton," the next film
The fact that young people-are com- score
instead of London, would you take it?'
spectacle Max Reinhardt is to pro-
He looked surprised: 'But London is our pelled to trek their way to Palestine with- duce. In film production circles,
ownl' I said, 'Jerusalem was our own out the permission of government and this is news of ranking importance
usually when a ocmposer
when London was a marsh.' He said, against every element of economic reason- because
is engaged to write a score for a
'That's true.' I did not see him again till ing is an indication of the existing tragedy picture he does it in a very short
which is sufficient to drive Jews to any time and not before filming of the
1916."
has actually begun, as is
Therein lies a great story, because out extremes in attempts to find secure homes. picture
the case with Korngold ... Opera
of it grew the British-Jewish friendship By the same method of lessening reason- lovers will be interested and ex-
which led up to the issuing of the Bal- ing power, some Jews attempt to deal with cited to learn that Korngold has
four Delcaration on Nov. 2, 1917. Dr. governments not on a basis of national completed a new opera, "Kath-
which will be produced at
Weizmann's retort to Balfour remains a respect but in a defeatist effort which erine,"
the Royale Opera House in Vienna
classic plea for the recognition of the gives consent to the anti-Semitic view tha soon, and in New York's Metro-
Jews are excess baggage and therefor e politan House next season.
Jews' rights to Palestine.
have no right to the privileges of citizen CANTOR'S NEXT PICTURE
A story dealing with the racing
ship in lands of their birth.
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Catholics and Nazis
A recent issue of the Michigan Catho-
lic carries an editorial tribute to "the new
German criminal code" which makes dis-
tribution, of propaganda in favor of birth
control a punishable act. This - editorial
refers to the Nazi code for providing pun-
ishment for "the public defamation of
marriage and motherhood" and declares:
"Some American papers exploiting di-
vorce scandals would soon cease with anti-
social practices if they were published in
Germany."
The glorification of these Nazi acts in
an editorial which was entitled "Nazis
Fight Race Suicide" is somewhat out of
place in view of the relentless persecutions
of Catholics as well as Jews and Protes-
tants by the Nazis. One good act by a
scoundrel in no sense absolves him of
guilt in all other crimes. Similarly, no
one ever thinks of lauding a bandit sim-
ply because he did one good deed. Even
if the Nazis do propagate a few laws which
in the eyes of some groups are beneficial,
they are in no way released from the guilt
of being the world's most dangerous po-
litical tyrants.
echo of the Political Campaign
It sounds unbelievable that Representa-
tive William Lemke of North Dakota, who
was Father Coughlin's candidate for the
presidency on the ticket of the Union for
Social Justice Party, should now appear
in the garb of an anti-Semite.
A report from Des Moines, Iowa, states
that Lemke resorted to the use of anti-
Semitic literature at the national conven-
ttion of the Farmers' Union. It is reported
that Congressman Lemke told his follow-
ers that "Jews control Washington" and
repeated the worn out charge that Roose-
velt's grandfather was a Rosenfield.
Especially disturbing is the reference in
this report to the effect that thousands of
anti-Semitic leaflets published by Robert
Edward Edmondson were distributed
among convention delegates. One of the
leaflets declared that "Bill Lemke saved
the farmers from the Jews."
If the report we have just. discussed is
true, then there is no evil without its sil-
ver lining. It is said that many progres-
sive delegates attending this convention
were enraged over the attempt to inject
anti-Semitic propaganda at its sessions and
they collected a great deal of the anti-
Semitic literature and destroyed it. Thus
is revealed the true spirit of democracy.
British Amends
High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wau-
chope of Palestine has approved, with the
consent of the British Colonial Office, an
expenditure by the government of Pales-
tine of $210,000 for Jewish education dur-
ing the next 12 months. This sum will be
an increase of $30,000 over that allocated
during the preceding year. It is stated in
the report informing us of this increased
appropriation that Sir Arthur's approval
of the new allocation came after he re-
jected the request of the treasury of the
Palestine government that the total be re-
duced by $15,000. Perhaps this is an in-
dication that High Commissioner Wan.
chope realizes the injustice of some of the
government . dealings,with the Jewish core
The Bible in Yiddish
A recent issue of the New York Times
carried an editorial under the title "The
Bible and Babel," in which it stated:
"Four hundred years have passed since
the publication of the Bible in Tyndale's
translation into English, but the transla-
tion into other languages still goes on in
many parts of the earth. The British and
Foreign Society, since its foundation in
1804, has issued nearly half a billion
(476,000,000) Bibles, Testaments and por-
tions of the Scriptures. The number of
languages into which the Scriptures have
been translated 'stands at 705,' accord-
ing to a recent report. And 'some portion
is published in a new language about
every five weeks' The printing of a por-
tion of one of the Gospels in a tribal
tongue vas, for example, going on in
Addis Ababa during the Halo-Abyssinian
War. And a translation was made last
year into the language of Moravian
gypsies. The Bible is the one book that
has overcome the confounding of tongues
at Babel."
This interesting editorial happened to
be published at the same time that the
Yehoash committee announced the com-
pletion of the translation of the Bible into
Yiddish from the text prepared by the
late poet, Yehoash (Sol Bloomgarden).
It appeared to us that it was more than
a coincidence because the Bible, which is
our prized possession, although it has
been translated into every spoken lan-
guage, never before had a complete liter-
ary text in Yiddish.
The appearance of the Bible in a per-
fect Yiddish translation from the pen of
.a poet as able as Yehoash is truly an
event of great importance for the world
Jewish community, and the celebration
of the "Siyum llatorah" ought to be an
event not only for the Yiddish speaking
group but for all Jews who appreciate the
importance of adding another translation
of the Bible, and this time in the language
spoken by the majority of Jews.
Germany's Man of Courage
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
A Study of Carl von Ossietzky, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
(Copyright. 1936. S. A. Y.
FROM THE ENEMY FRONT
By ESTELLE M. STERNBERGER
Executive Director of World Peacewsys
EDITOR'S NOTE: The award of the Nobel Peace Prise to Carl von Gasietlky, militant pad.
fist and uncompromising foe of everything represented by Nazism, Is one of the moat
staggering rebukes yet administered to Hitler's Reich. In this article Mrs. Stern.
berger, who knows Ossietsky personnally, gives us ■ timely portrait of Germany's
man of courage and analyses the significance of the honor that has come to him.
(r'opyriant. I SU. Seven Arts Future Syndh ate)
The furor aroused in Germany by the Nebel
Committee's award of the Peace Prize for 1935
to Carl von Ossietzky of that country is quite
understandable. Since 1933 Adolf Hitler has
maintained that the burden of his menages and
manoeuvres is peace. And still the Nobel Com-
mittee, meeting at Oslo, Norway, decided in
favor of a German citizen humbler in rank than
the Chancellor of the Third Reich—a citizen
whose home for these past four years has been
the equivalent of a jail under "protective" cus-
tody, where this German journalist hoe con-
tracted ■ tubercular condition.
Ossietzky's money prize is $39,303. If Ger-
many imposed no restrictions on him he could
go to Oslo to receive the award and collect this
rather sizable sum, and then settle somewhere
to regain his health. After that he could devote
his money to an underground campaign against
the Nazi regime.
That course of action is not in line with
Ossietzky's convictions. lie believes in fighting it
out in Germany, among the people over whose
future he is greatly concerned. He considers any
blasts at Germany from some foreign retreat as
futile. As Ossietzky himself put it: "A man
speaks with a hollow voice from across the
border."
Nothing that Chancellor Hitler or this latest
German Award recipient may do can undo the
historical significance of the Oslo Committee's
decision. Whether or not Ossietzky will ever have
the honor conferred upon him in Oslo by the
Nobel Committee, or even if he never secures the
money, the die has been cast. A powerful tribunal
has spoken. Its judgment is recorded and will
be recited anew with every annual announce-
ment of the Nobel awards.
Hitler has been credited with a diplomacy
that has kept various governments on a volcano
of bewilderment. The Nobel Committee pro-
ceeded to its decision without meditating on the
power of Hitler's airplanes and cannons. It
merely put to itself the question: "What is the
great need of the race today?" They answered
it by declaring: "Civilization needs a courageous
prophet of democracy."
season at Saratoga Springs, New
York State's famous horse race
track, has been selected as the first
motion picture which Eddie Can-
tor will make under his new long-
term contract with 20th Century-
Fox. The unproduced play, "Sara-
toga Chips," was written by Irv-
ing Caesar and Damon Runyon.
The screen rights,were obtained at His Award Is Indictment of Germany
Hitler could put chains around Ossietzky's
the highest price paid for an un-
produced play.
feet and isolate his body, but he could not in-
STUDIO NOTES
, tern his soul. Ossietzky's soul has crossed from
Vince Barnett, signed by Seth-
nick for a role in "A Star Is -Germany into virtually every land on the face
Born," is the most accomplished of this globe. No border patrols saw him. lie
"ribber" and practical joker in passed over their heads. His soul is daily en-
Hollywood, Barnett fractured an tertained by millions of men, women and youth
ankle last summer while playing
in a movie stars' baseball game of many tongues, for its speaks a universal lan-
for the benefit of a Los Angeles guage. People everywhere salute his example,
Jewish institution; and last week for it has been a life of courage in the cause of
another jinx pursued him and he
burned hie hands while trying to individual freedom.
Ossietzky hails from Hamburg, in which city
put out a fire in his car. But his
doctor says he will be fully re- he was born 38 years ago. When the World War
covered in time for the picture. was ended he was a young man ..of 20. Unlike
He has appeared in "Rift Ralf,"
"Black Fury" and "Down to the the youth who sought satisfaction and a cause
Sea," and in the recent Hollywood under the banner of the • Brown Shirts he threw
Bowl presentation of "Everyman," himself into the service of peace. As he per-
in which he made a marvelous ceived the psychology of revenge gaining ground
Satan.
William A. Wellman tells us in Germany he devoted himself to a psychology
that might heal the world's mental wounds. He
that next year he will be producer-
director for Paramount, to make faced the courts of Germany on several occasions
at least three pictures a year. lie before Hitler came into power. His journal
acts in some of his own pictures
openly announced that Germany was secretly re-
too.
Al Dubin, writer of "I'll Sing arming.
You a Thousand Love Songs," has
In March, 1933, with Hitler at the helm, he
only two more to go, having writ-
was again taken into custody as "an enemy of
ten 998 lyrics to date.
A Challenge to Peel's Commission
By JAMES I. ELLMANN
A bill calling for a sweeping
investigation of all phases of anti.
Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-Negro
and other subversive propaganda
has already been drawn by a
group of congressmen ... It will
be introduced during the second
or third week of the new Congress
. . . The bill is so all-inclusive
that it even provides for disclosure
ogfrotuhpes. names of people who have
contributed funds to subversive
Walter Kappe, editor of the
Deutacher Weckruf and Beobach-
ter, chief Nazi organ in this coun-
try,•has been recalled to Germany
. . . He's due to leave before
Christmas, ostensibly for a pow-
pow with Julius Streicher ... Ills
two predecessors as Nazis boson
here, Spanknoebel and Gissibl,
never came back after going to
Germany . . . A certain Carl
Mundt has been sent over here to
take Kappe's place.
The weekly outpourings of Rob-
ert Edward Edmondson, anti-
S e m i t i c pamphleteer, are no
longer being published, but so
many of them had been printed
that they are still in circulation.
Father Coughlin has been in
correspondence with Ra ymond
Healy, self-proclaimed American
Hitler.
Francis B. Gillchrist Is hard at
work trying to unite all anti-Jew-
ish groups In the East in behalf
of the Rev. Gerald Smith.
FOREIGN NEWS
Wonder whether Hitler likes
the non-Aryan company that his
London ambassador, Von Ribbon-
trop, is keeping '. . . Ribbentrop's
closest friend in England is the
pro-Nazi Lord Londonderry one
of whose daughters is married to
F. A. I. Munz, Jewish automobile
magnate, while another is the
wife of a son of the late Lord
Jessel . . . Another of Ribben-
trop's friends in England is Lord
Mount Temple whose wife was the
A Call to Heed Brave Men
daughter of the celebrated Jewish
As Jews we should be the first to greet the
banker, Sir Ernest Cassel.
Ossietzky award with heads bowed in solemn
Leslie Hore-Belisha, minister of
transport in the British cabinet,
reflection. What has happened to us in Germany
will happen to Jews wherever and whenever the acquired his peculiar name by
blending the Hore of his step-
conditions of Germany are repeated. The forces father and the Belisha of his
of reaction will always make us their scapegoats, mother . . . Hore-Belisha is the
youngest member of the cabinet
in the same way that Russian reactionaries poured
next to Malcolm MacDonald . . .
their murderous thoughts into the receptive
And with MacDonald he forms ■
minds of German Junkers and their philosophic bachelor minority among the
allies. Ossietzky's recognition should awaken us
King's ministers.
anew to the truth that democracies have not yet TID BITS
The eagle-eye of Dr. Jacob R.
been made safe in this world.
Marcus, Hebrew Union College
Fascism and dictatorships are not the pro• professor of history, has unearthed
documents showing the existence
ducts of diseased minds. They are eruptions on
the face of civilization that warn us that some- of a Jewish family by the name
of Goering in the German town
thing has gone wrong with the body of world of Eisenstadt during the late 18th
politics. The United States may blush histori-
and 19th centuries ... An Israel
cally in the coming decades if we waver for a Goering was among the Jewish
single day In our devotion to democracy. We community officials whose signa-
tures appear on a document deal-
may have many Ossietzkys to blot our record if ing with the honors due a Jewish
we ever eppeal to the Federal or State govern- community officer.
Ludwig .Lewisohn wants to sell
ment to crush the right Of peaceful petition by
his rare, old collection of Jewish
workers or citizens as our country passes antiques containing 125 pieces ...
through this period of transition, with hundr s They can be had for $7,500, which
of problems still unsolved. What Germany did is what they cost.
to Ossietzky can happen here, if we desert, even WITH OUR LEADERS
Stephen S. Wise told Chicago
for a day, the forces and principles of democracy.
Jewry a thing or two at that
Labor, private business enterprise, religion, American Jewish Congress confer-
education and science, as well as the Jew have ence when he revealed that the
Buffered in Germany. The Oslo committee has Windy City's Welfare Fund gives
325,000 to the American Jewish
echoed the better opinion of mankind that, what-
Committee and not one cent to the
ever the influences that fashioned Hitler, it pre- Coznigorneisssth,
are thankful they have
fers the ideas and ideals for which Carl von Os-
no supreme court to worry about
sietzky stands. The Nobel Committee has invited
in view of the imminent amend-
the better intellects of the world not to a Roman
ment of the constitution of the
holiday for exposing Nazism to the ridicule of
Zionist Organization of America.
A new Jewish who's who is in
the world, however much it deserves that treat-
the making.
ment. The Nobel Committee invites the govern-
The celebration of Louis Lips-
ments of the world to heed brave spokesmen like
ky's 60th birthday won the ap-
proval of Mrs. Lipsky, but for a
this German nobleman who bared himself to
strange reason ... It gave her an
civilization's tortures so that democracy might
excuse to insist on Lipsky's get-
win a new respect in the souls of all men.
ting some new clothes.
the state" and thrown into the concentration
camp at Spandau, near Berlin.
Ossietzky's award is an indictment of Ger-
many, but it is also an indictment of the world.
His outcry against militarism was an outcry
against the rising tide of armaments throughout
the world and not only against the growing mili-
tarism of Germany even before Hitler. Individ-
uals like Carl von Ossietzky are convinced that
nations can work together far more constructive-
ly than they do. They have learned the lesson
that the world has yet to learn from the conse-
quences of the World War: That the wars of
today are not making the world safe for.democ-
racy.
I hope the public will not applaud the Nobel
announcement as a slap in the face of Hitler. It
has a far deeper significance for all of us. Arms
are being too greatly relied upon, in and out of
Germany, as weapons of international justice.
It is far easier to set armies in motion than to
work out the political, social and economic ar-
rangements that give every nation and people
their "place in the sun." From all parts of the
earth one hears confirmation of the growing re-
alization that we must all get together to save
nations that are in an economic rut. There is
a sweeping tide of suggestions that President
Roosevelt is the man who could play a decisive
role in eliminating from the current generation's
credo that another world war Is "inevitable."
Lights on Chanukah
Nazi Influence in South America
By RABBI A. H. 1SRAELITAN
(Copyright. 1531.8. A. IV 5 )
The air is laden with plans— rightful nationalistic pride. There MOOZ-TZUR A NON-JEWISH
plans to improve relations between Is not, and there should never be, MELODY
Arabs and Jews; plans to set up a an intent to impair that pride. But
The familiar melody of
proper administrative machinery; nowhere are they suffering from
plans to hinder or stimulate the the excesses of anti-Mohammedan- "Mooz-Tzur," the well - known
growth of the land. All of these ism as we are from the excesses hymn that is sung after the
are, no doubt, instigated by the against us.
kindling of the lights, is not
arrival in Palestine of the Royal
Function for Good Neighbor
Jewish at all, as is commonly
Commission. Among many of these
Whatever the respective num-
plans some have more than a cas- bers of Jews or Arabs, they will supposed, but is really an adap-
ual interest. A bi-cameral legisla- evolve ways of living happily to- tation of an old German folk
ture guaranteeing equal communal gether. And the need for amity ex- song of the Middle Ages. This
rights has been suggested by Ber- tends beyond the borders of the German folk melody has also
nard A. Rosenblatt. Some control homeland. Syria, Egypt, Iraq,
along the same lines could be de- Mesopotamia and Arabia, with been utilized by the Christians.
duced from an interview by • re- some 16,000,000 people, are Pales- The famous Martin Luther, for
cent visitor in Palestine, Senator tine's natural neighbors and cos- example, utilized it for his Ger-
W. R. Austin of Vermont, with tomere. What we accomplish in
Bernard Joseph, solicitor of the agricultural, industrial and com- man chorals.
Jewish . Agency, Moshe Chertok mercial development must be THANK YOU, RABBI, FOR
and Dr. Arthur Ruppin. The l argely with relation to their DEFENDING US!
Propaganda in Poland as part of the Senator quotes these three as needs. We shall have to trade with
Levi Isaac of Berdichev, the
that: them not alone in incidents of com-
movement to compel the emigration of agreeing
famous 18th century Chasidic
"Numben seed not Mende* contra. merce, important as these are, but
Thetrol
con of • country to 'reared in every other concern of life— leader, who had a powerful
Jews in large numbers has hit a snag. M. thrush
the mac ► irsery of gmer•meet.
anmar to the problem I. Pemnenent cultural and social. A friendly
Grabski, former cabinet minister and long The
love for Israel, would defend
of tles two me la the rovers- basis once established, the quicker
a leader in the anti-Semitic party in Po- parity
went.
the special genius of each people the playing of cards on Chan-
matinee ea laterralional ender-
land, has made a most interesting state- tablet by
ukah nights. Jews play cards
Jun and Anster not to seek will emphasize the values they can
ment in which he attacked the policy of the control of the geremment, meant- best exchange.
during these evenings, he would
04 their wansbere: It mold be dome
But plans for common accord are gay, 'so that they can accus-
the present government which favors mass ime
by the Jewish Armes entering into
indeed scraps of paper. There is
of otoito to dominate.'
emigration of Jews. Grabski has pointed wolves
This new approach is the cul- no confidence in the good faith of tom themselves to staying up
out that even if 100,000 Jews leave Poland mination of the first step in the the planners. Suspicion bounds.
late, and thus be able to study
every year, this number will more than development of the Homeland. The Hence the imminent need for a great deal of Torah!
be increased by natural growth of the groundwork finished, we can look friendly statesmanship to allay BYRON SET TO THE TUNE
to see that future develcp- this mutual distrust. Hence the
Jewish population. The interesting por- about
meat may be carried on without need for an atmosphere in which OF MOOZ-TZUR
tion of Grabski's statement is his demand needless friction. There is raison- free and easy discussion between
One of the poems in Lord
that the government should strive to bet- derstanding between the Jew who both parties may become poesible. Byron's "Hebrew Melodies"—
has
written
and
made
history
here
Here
is
a
function
for
the
good
the
economic
condition
of
the
people
ter
his Arab cousin who, for 1500 neighbor. He is the moat impor- "On Jordan's Banks"—was set
at large in order to enable all minorities and
years, has made history equally tent person at such a crucial time. to the music of Mooz-Tzur by
to benefit from the improved status of the dear to himself. As a people we Where is the intermediary to be the great poet's close friend
should have liked to feel that there found? The answer is far more
country.
not•been even the merest sag- fundamental than the wisdom or Isaac Nathan.
This is, of course, the view that is being has
ration of technical encroachment workability of all the plans that A CHARMING TALE CONCERN.
held by Jews and liberal Poles alike. Un- through our efforts to build a home- are being toyed with
ING THE ORIGIN OF 'LATKES'
amnesties to Peel
fortunately, the government has been land. But this was not to be the
While pursuing the Syrians,
Earl Peel's Commission tells as
of history. Even in the
vacillating in its policy and has neither course
slightest do we as a people dislike that the "terms of reference are Judas Maccabees and his men
seriously attempted to suppress anti-Semit- to hurt Arab hopes or Arab pride. of the widest character and we in- stopped for food in a little
ism nor has it dared to approve publicly But we are in Palestine. We never tend to interpret them in a broad town. The good Jewish women
it. We want to live in amity and comprehensive manner." Not-
of continued Polish anti-Semitic outbursts. left
our neighbors and with the withstanding this all sorts of arm- of the place hastily prepared
A government that is so vacillating in with
world. We want them to live in pinions of the motives of the corn- pancakes for these brave sol-
.....:ifed
nolicy can not possibly be expected to have amity with us. We want to plan mission have aireadfibezn
and will continue from both sides. diers. Soon the men of Judas
re
an honest economic so- a better Joint future.
An Anti-Semite Sees the Light
Strictly
Confidential
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was written by a special
correspondent of the London Times and appear ed in a recent
issue of that publication. It presents an illuminating view of
the extent to which Nan influence has penetrated South Ameri.
can countries.
In Argentina there has been no
census since 1914, but the Ger-
mans are estimated to number be-
tween 60,000 and 100,000. Socially
the Germans are of a class su-
perior to the Italian, Spanish and
Polish immigrants. They do not
work as peons or ordinary labor-
ers. There Is • large sprinkling
of Germans in the upper and pro-
fessional classes, though the ma-
jority belong to the artisan class.
The Argentine Army is largely
German-trained, a number of Ar-
gentine military officers are at
present receiving instruction in
Germany, and Potsdam is the
spiritual home of many a South
American general. The late Cap-
thin Rohm, formerly head of Herr
Hitler's S. A., served some years
with the Bolivian Army.
Apart from their agricultural
colony of some 20,000 at Missiones,
the Germans are not purely im.
migrants or settlers. Many of them
expect to return one day to their
homeland. Nazification was a much
easier process than the corre-
sponding conversion of the Italians
to Fascism. The majority of the
Italian population of Argentina is
probably still anti-Fascist—even
since the imposition of sanctions
and the consequent powerful pa-
triotic appeal. The German com-
munity, except for the Jews, is al-
most solidly Nazi and Nazi festi-
vals in Argentina are always well
attended. The Germans were much
more methodical evangelists. Soon
after the Nazis took office in Ger-
many. German institutions in Ar-
gentina were "purged," largely
through the elimination of "non-
Aryans." There is no striking Ger-
man trade penetration in Argen-
tina, yet Germany and the United
States are regarded as the two
countries in the van of progress.
dislike of Russian Communism.
This has been tempered by keen
displeasure at the Nazi attitude
towards the Vatican and the Cath-
olic question. The Nazi conception
of a German church and the race
theory shocked devout Catholics in
Argentina. This makes Argentina
reactionary circles fonder of Ita-
lian Fascism. But the Communist
bogy is still uppermost and has not
been offset as in Europe by sus-
picions of a rearmed Germany. Dr.
Manuel Fresco, governor of
Buenos Aires Province, has re-
ferred to Signor Mussolini and
Beer Hitler as the "Saviors of
Europe." Dr. Fresco, while a
friend of the President of the
Republic, is very nearly Fascist
and already virtual dictator of
more than a quarter of the inhabi-
-ants of Argentina.
Argentine Felicia are
anti-Semitic, and profess to see in
Communism the hand of the Jews,
though anti-Semitism In Argentina
is of recent date. But the views
of Dr. Fresco are not those of the
President of the Republic, who in
his last message to Congress de-
clared his confidence in the demo-
cratic principles through which
Argentina had reached her pres-
ent position among the nations.
The larger parties of the opposi-
tion sympathize with the parlia-
mentary democracies of Europe
and oppose both Nazism and Fas-
cism. The country's choice between
Right and Left will determine the
increase or decline of German and
also of Italian political influence.
1,000,000 Germans in Brasil
The German population in Bra-
zil is probably not short of 1,000,-
000. German immigration does not
bulk large in the great stream of
immigrants, mainly from Italy,
Portugal, and Spain, yet Germans
Nearly a Fascist
easily head the list of all non-
The Argentina attitude towards Latin immigrants. Their social im-
the Fascist and Nazi regimes of portance has been orester than
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