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Dr. Wise's Leadership
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the
Zionist Organization of America, emerges
from the controversy over the Palestine
partition proposal as the unquestioned
leader of American Jewry. Those who
have followed the complete texts of his
addresses, as well as the events at the
.20th World Zionist Congress, where he
and Menahem Ussishkin were the leaders
of the opposition, will rejoice over the
magnificent stand he has taken in defense
of Jewish rights in the land that by tradi-
tion, and because of Jewish efforts in the
past 55 years, belongs to the Jewish
people.
More important than all the decisions
reached by the Congress is the emphatic
declaration made by Dr. Wise that he and
his followers remain an integral part of
the Zionist Organization, to fight within
the movement for the principles they be-
lieve to be right. In a similar spirit, the
State Zionist Party leaders informed Vlad-
imir Jabotinsky that they will remain a
part of the movement and will fight for
what they believe to be just within the
ranks of Zionism. This is much more than
discipline. It is evidence of responsibility
to the entire people, and is an indication
that when the Jewish state is established
the needs of the hour will also bring forth
the type of leadership that is needed to
direct the affairs of a Jewish government.
Future events may prove that Dr. Wise,
Mr. Ussishkin, Henrietta Szold, Mrs. David
de Sola Pool, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Prof.
Selig Brodetsky, Golda Myerson, the lead-
era of the Hashomer Hazair and the other
uncompromising opponents of partition
were wrong—although we continue to
agree with them that they were right in
the stand they took. But history- will honor
them for their devotion to the Jewish
cause and for the dignity and, courage
with which they carried on their battle
for the principles they espoused.
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Dreyfus and Significant Study of World's
the Box Office Problems of Immigration
By JOSEPH BRAININ
Noisi—This r eview of "The
Life of Emile Zola," wri tten by Joseph
Drainin retrieve. for this week Louis
lieliarsky's regular Hollywood column.
(Copyright, 1933, & A. P.
Prof. Maurice IL Davie's Book Is Most
Important Volume Written Thus Far
On This Subject
WORLD IMMIGRATION: With Special Reference to the
United 81•tes, By Maurice it, Davie. The Macmillan
Co. New fork (IL)
August 20, 1937
Strictly
Confidential
PURELY COMMENTARY
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
By PHINEAS Js BIRON
(PoityrIght. 193i, a. A. •.
IT'S A FACT
o.
The Great Betrayal
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who emerges from the
present Zionist struggle for justice in Palestine as
the unchallenged outstanding leader of American
Jewry and as one of the very ablest leaders in
world Jewry, first coined the phrase "The Great
Betrayal" with reference to Great Britain's failure
to live up to the terms embodied in the Mandate
r Palestine. It was used as the title for the book
which the late Jacob deflates collaborated with
Dr. Wise after the 1929 Palestine disturbances.
It has since been used widely to describe British
laxity in dealing with murderers in Palestine.
Unfortunately, there are guiltier betrayers than
even the British themselves—and England will, in
our opinion, be branded by the historian as having
committed a great wrong against the Jewish peo-
ple. The worst offender and betrayer is the Jew
himself. Had the Jewish people contributed of
their means within reason during the past 20
years, for the redemption of land in Palestine, to
become the inalienable property of the Jewish
people, under the terms of the Jewish National
Fund program, no one, not even Great Britain,
could have deprived us of that territory in the
course of mapping the boundary lines for a Jew-
ish state. But the Jewish people failed to live up
to its historic responsibility. A great hour found
a small people.
The Great Betrayal on the part of the Jewish
people has not ceased with the proposal by Great
Britain for the creation of a Jewish state in Pal-
estine, on what appears on the map of the vast
Arabian territory as space sufficient for a fly-
speck. Jews remain indifferent to the most im-
portant historic drama now being enacted for the
Jewish people. There is nothing in the history of
our people of the past 2,000 years to compare with
the present incidents which may change the entire
course of Jewish life throughout the world. But
Jews are indifferent. It is true that a great many
more discuss the Zionist developments, but too
many utilize the occasion for criticism rather than
for concern over what affects all Jewry.
We, ourselves, are the great betrayers of a
sacred trust. "The mountain of Judah was in la-
bor—and it gave birth to a mouse." The Lion
of Judah is still slumbering. Indifference to a
great ideal on the part of Jews has made them
their own worst enemies.
I would be happy if I were to receive a thousand
letters calling me a scoundrel for upbraiding Jews
in this fashion. But the experience of 20 years of
propagandizing for the Zionist cause convinces me
that I am right, and that there will not be even
50 letters of criticism. Such is the extent of ex-
isting indifference.'
To the cry "Perish Judaea" that is being
sounded in numerous countries of oppression we
have not yet responded with our own clarion call:
"Judaea, Awake!" It is time that we did.
•
The late Adolph S. Ochs, who
made the New York Times what it
Subscription, in Advance
$3 00 Per Year
is today, must be turning in his
Too bad that the story and screen
grave because of the insistent ru-
Prejudices against newcomers to this country
re Issure publication all correepondence and sows matter
play writers of "The Life of Emile
eat reach We oft. by Timidity "ening of each week.
mors that the Times is for sale
Zola" completely surrendered to have no prejudiced the minds of many people that The rumor is growing in volume
When mantas notice., kindly .• one mi. of the paper cols.
every immigrant coming to these shores has the
the
reluctance
of
Warner
Broth-
that
Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
major handicap of overcoming suspicions that are
Detroit Jewish Chronicle in•Ites eorrespong.. es tub-
Neu of Interest to the J•whh people, but ( 1 1•Irns
ers to call a spade a spade, The unwarranted. Interpretations placed upon immi- Ochs' son-in-law and successor as
Wily for a indonienient of the views stop
president
and publisher, would like
4 by the writer,
Dreyfus sequence, the piece de re- grants are often so fantastic that it is impossible
to retire ... Odd as that sounds
sistance of the Zola film, and un- for the well-informed to conceive that they are there is also the whisper that
Sabbath Readings of the Law
believed. Nevertheless, many historians have been
Pentateuchal Portion—Dent. 21:10-25:19.
questionably the dramatic high- affected by the views erroneously entertained by Henry Luce, who owns Fortune,
Prophetical Portion—Is. 64:1-10.
light of the life of the great the populace, with the result that very few clear Life and Time magazines, is the
French novelist and champion of pictures of immigration problems exist.
prospective purchaser 'Tis said
August 20, 1937
justice, emerges as a strained, un-
Elul 13, 5697
Maurice R. Davie, professor of sociology at Yale he has offered $50,000,000,
realistic hodge-podge in Paul University,
Governor Henry Horner of Illi-
by overcoming these prejudices and Jy
Muni's latest starring vehicle. Un-
nois, elected as a New Dealer, was
less you watch very closely or un- setting out to arrive at a true conception of im- just as hot against FDR's Supreme
less you have a previous knowledge migration issues, has rendered a service that will Court reform as Governor Lehman
of the famous Affaire Dreyfus, you be highly regarded by historians and sociologists . . , But Horner didn't write a
World Jewry is faced with the most
will never gather from the Holly- for generations to come. His "World Immigration" letter about it.
serious problem in more than 2,000 years
wood biography of Zola that Alfred is so significant a study and is so completely devoid
We don't like to trespass on the
Dreyfus was a Jew. Only for the of bias, that it at once assumes a place as the province bf our friend Lou Pekar-
of our history. Opponents of the Palestine
fleeting fraction of a second does very beat book thus far written on this subject.
sky,
our Hollywood colleague, but
partition plan agree with those who ad-
Dealing with the problem of immigration as a we can't
the word Jew appear in the idea-
resist telling you that
tiflcation card of Alfred Dreyfus world question — because he rightfully describes screenland is considering a film
vocate acceptance of Britain's proposal
every immigrant as being also an emigrant—Prof. based on the life of George Gera-
in
the
War
Office.
There
it
says:
that we are experiencing the most im-
Davie shows the effects of sociological uprooting win ... The idea is to use Gersh-
"Religion—Jew."
and transplanting of migrants. Placing emphasis win's music and to have the com-
portant occurrence since the Dispersion.
If not for Paul Muni the on the problem as it affects conditions in this poser's pals, George Kaufman and
For the first time since we lost our inde-
fil m would be mediocre. Zola
country, he calls the United States a laboratory Moss Hart, do the script . 'Tin
for experimenting with immigration.
was the great revolutionary of
pendence we are actually offered a state
also bruited that Hollywood may
his time. He was • rebel in the
Views Immigrant as Human Being
make a picture dealing with Haym
of our own. At last we shall have a place
field of letters and no less an
Prof. Davie's book is important because it rec- Salomon.
iconoclast when it came to so-
on earth where we shall be able to con-
ognizes the immigrant as a human being. His FANCY THAT
cial and political conventions.
references to numerous specific cases of immi-
Philip Diamond of the Univer-
tinue our constructive efforts freely and
His defense of Dreyfus split
grants of various nationalities is sympathetic and sity of Michigan, together with
the French people into two
with the dignity that befits a national en-
is marked by a deep understanding of their Prof. Walter A. Reichert of that
fervent suctions. till outcry
problems. The processes of assimilation and institution, co-authored an essay
tity. This is, indeed, a great epoch, and
against the judicial error of
Americanization are excellently analyzed. The included in a Jubilee volume issued
the present generation is privileged to ex-
the French court was • supreme
maps, statistical data, and other descriptive ma- in honor of the 76th birthday of
appeal against prejudice and
terial add to the importance of the volume as a Gerhardt Hauptmann. Somebody
perience the thrill of seeing history in the
intolerance. It is childish to ig-
great sociological study.
must have blundered there, for the
making.
nore the anti-Semitic under-
Not only does he belittle the claims of Aryans volume was published as part of
current
which
flowed
not
only
Because the present era is so important,
for supremacy, but he points out that the so- the nationwide celebration in Nazi.
under but on the surface of the
called "new immigrant" is not different from the land of the jubilee of the one and
our problem becomes More complicated,
Dreyfus case and threateniid
Immigrants
of the earlier colonization movement . ' only major light in modern German
and the responsibility is all the more seri-
to engulf the French Repub-
in this country. He shows how immigrants are literature who has not repudiated
lic in an unprecedented wave
ous. The question of accepting or rejecting
exploited and he credits them with the valuable the Na zis,
of anti-Semitism.
Saul Isr ael of Kansas City has
the proposal for the partition of Palestine
contributions they made in the development of this
discovered that the synagogue and
will be a subject for debate for many
If the story writers of the Zola country. The choice of material for the entire the whole Jewish district of Mex-
picture had any feeling for the book and the bibliography which serves as a guide ico City are situated on "Jesus
months to come. The final word has not
contemporary implications of the to literature about the various groups that make Maria" street. .. But a new syna-
yet been uttered. Even if we should all
Dreyfus drama they might have up this country further indicate the sympathetic gague is to be located on a street
disapprove of the arbitrary attitude adopt-
introduced a young, slender ma- and understanding attitude of the author.
Prof. Davie devotes an important section in nearby to avoid the jibing which
ed by the American non-Zionist members
correspondent of the
Mexican Jews have endured.
Is it possible that the youth of Germany estic-looking
cue Frem Presse, who, while coy- this book to the emigration of Jews from
of the Jewish Agency for Palestine that
The Ku Klux Klan is suing the
various
lands and to their amalgamation into
makers
of the film "The Black Le-
the Agency and not the World Zionist will swallow everything concocted for its enna
acing paper,
the Dreyfus
for which
his Vi- the American whole as citizens of this country.
created trial
history
Congress will have the final word on the "intellectual" meals by men like Streicher, promises to outlive the memory of e opens this nortion of his theme by gion" because the KKK's insignia
A Good Yarn
outlining the early history of the Jews in was used without permission . .
question of partition, the fact remains that Fink, Kerrl, Goebbels, Goering, Hitler Zola and Dreyfus. --
Believe it or not the Patent Bu-
But the Hollywood producers are America. Ile refers to the claims constantly re- reau actually granted a 14-year ing Dr. Sigmund Freud once paid the Jews a glow-
another Congress will have to act before himself and other Nazi fuehrers?
when he said that they know how to
The latest textbook prepared for the afraid of the word "Jew" and of peated that Columbus was a Jew, tells about the patent on the insignia, which does laugh tribute
the lasting decision is made. Besides, the
at themselves and how to find a humorous
any racial issue. Unlike the French early Jewish settlers and states that Jewish im-
angle even for their severest troubles. The fol-
statement made jointly by Felix M. War- youngsters of Germany raises this question and British motion picture indus- migration to the United States has gone through not expire until 1939,
NEW YORK
lowing story illustrates this compliment in excel-
burg, Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, Dr. Maur- anew, and a bewildered world must won- try, American film moguls are three phases: The settlement of the first Jewish THAT'S
In the heart of Gotham's gar- lent fashion, -
the Spanish settlers, beginning with 1664;
ice Karpf and Sol M. Stroock indicates der whether it is possible that maniacs will super-sensitive when it comes to groups,
ment
center,
where
you
can
hear
The story goes that one of our brethren was
the
German-Jewish
immigration
which
began
about
anti-Semitism, a recognized social
that many differences of opinion will have continue to try to outdo themselves in the disease
in a good portion of the 1816 and the enormous eastern European influx more Yiddish than English, an seen by a friend of his muttering to himself and
Irish
peddler
with
a
brogue
a
yard
to be ironed out, and that there is still a nonsense they teach the boys and girls world. The
at
the same time waving his right hand in a
which
began
in
1880.
French in their film
long hawks the Ten Commond- derogatory way. Asked to expalin his conversa-
danger of further rifts in Jewry over the who are unfortunately guided in their edu- "The Colon," and the British pro-
Intermarriage, Exploitation,
tion
with himself he said: "When I feel depressed
ments
inscribed
in
Hebrew
on
a
ducers, in their production of "Jew
proposal for the creation of a Jewish state. cation by Nazi bigots.
Name-Changing
tiny plaque ... You can find more I tell myself jokes." "But why do you gesticulate?"
In the popular "'topics of the Times" Suss," did not screen the real issue
In the course of their statement they said:
than
one
minyan
of
Jewish
actors
His
study
deals
with
the
language
question.
He
"Well,
when I am through telling myself a story
behind the veil of bombastic her.
day at St. Malachy's Catholic I tell myself that I have heard it before and know
"We believe that no lasting peace in column of the New York Times, the new manitarian slogans, as Warner outlines the immigration activities sponsored by any
church,
where
the
Rialto's
actors
an
even
better version of it."
ICA (Jewish Colonization Association) which
Palestine can be obtained until the parties hate manual is discussed by the editors Brothers have done in the Dreyfus the
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of the Zola film. This fal- was founded with funds left by Baron Maurice pause for meditation ... The Sal-
directly affected, namely the Arabs and who point out that an embarrassing situa- sequence
sification is the one all-Important de Hirsch, and he devotes apace to the trend of vation Army distributes kosher
Labor Zionists Must Explain
the Jews, have been given a full oppor- tion is created in the new book because it reason why the Zola picture just Jewish immigration to Palestine, in recent years. food to the Jewish poor for, Rosh
Labor Zionists and their friends will have to do
Jews and non-Jews alike will find interesting IIashonah and Passover ... Sub-
tunity to endeavor to arrive at a peaceful debunks the thesis that the early Germans falls short of real greatness.
lot of explaining to justify their stand in favor
were heroes and credits Jews with respon-
It is said that the portrayal of resumes of Jewish conditions and trends In Jewish way riders using the station at a
understanding. Of course, it is understood sibility
Street and Seventh Ave won- of Palestine's partition. Clarence K. Streit, eminent
for every major world occurrence. Zola will be Paul Muni's last Hol- life in the chapter dealing with the Jews. There 34th
der at the sign used by the Jew- New York Times correspondent, describing the
that such an agreement must meet with
performance. If so, the mo- are interesting references to the economic status
The writers state in this interesting dis- Ipsood
ish
halvah
peddler who makes his results of the vote at the World Zionist Congress,
and
trends
of
Jewish
settlers
in
this
country.
There
the approval of the Mandatory Power, cussion:
Lon pictures will lose the most ver-
satile character actor of our day. are references also to the political activities of the headquarters there. . It reads relates that Dr. Stephen S. Wise, in the course of
viz:—the British government.
"HCAE
cl."
. . A couple of his most brilliant address in opposition to the
If the good Herr Julius Streicher doesn't
Jews
in
America.
Muni's depiction of Zola is a cre-
"We cannot doubt that the British gov-
watch his step he may be putting notions into
Prof. Davie expresses the belief that the strong- months ago he offered his wares plan to subject Palestine to a surgical operation,
ative achievement. The former star
at
one
cent
EACH
the heads of little German boys and girls.
ernment, which has long been the pro-
of the Yiddish stage must have est Jewish movement in this country today "is dish sign , . , The through a Yid- turned to David Ben Gurion and asked him if he
sign indicates would have voted in favor of partition in 1935,
It is true that putting notions into little
spent many a night over the volum- the Conservative Reform, which favors adjustment he has learned English
tector of oppressed peoples and has been
but doesn't
heads Is something he loves next to eating
inous Zola literature, trying to find to the American environment, but stresses the yet know that English is written when there was not occasion for a defeatist atti-
in the forefront of nations seeking to estab-
tude because of the Arab terrorism. "Yes, with
Jews alive, but they may turn out to be the
value
of
maintaining
the
solidarity
of
the
Jewish
the man behind the author, and
from
left
to
right
...
Among
the enthusiasm," replied the labor leader. Writes
lish and protect the rights of minorities
wrong notions. The great and good Herr
building up a human being with community". Here it is, difficult to learn whether honored guests among the first-
Streicher
has
just
written
a
foreword
to
•
everywhere, will be pleased if an amicable
all his defects and good qualities. he means the Reform or the Conservative group nighters at New York's premiere Streit: "The word 'enthusiasm' caused such a bad
impression that when the chairman permitted him
textbook in Jew-baitin g for the use of teach-
Muni's Zola is human. He is not a in American Jewry.
agreement can be arrived at between rep-
Dealing with intermarriage, he states that "of of "The Life of Zola" was Her- (Ben Gurion) to explain after the vote he was
er.. by another great and good Nazi thinker
hero. He is a man of letters who
resentatives of the Jews and the Arabs.
man, the hat room attendant at
named Fritz Fink.
sometimes gets intoxicated with his the most important groups represented, the Jews the Cafe Royal, which is the sec- nearly howled down." Mr. Ben Gurion and his
The manual is designed to put the Jewish
"It is in the hope of furthering that
own words. He Is a modest man and Negroes are lowest, owing to distinctions of ond Avenue hangout of the Yid- followers will have to do a lot of explaining for
angle on any topic that may turn up in the
who does not for a moment ques- religion and color, the Italians are next, the Irish dish intelligensia He was there a long time to come.
cause that we are now about to embark
•
tion his right to immortality. lie is are higher than the Italians, and the northern, because Paul Muni, Joseph Schild-
classroom. If the subject is Roman history,
for Europe to confer with representatives
the teacher will show how the Jews brought
the personification of liberal northwestern, and some central European peoples firaut and Morris Carnovsky, all
Hanfataengl Learns About Friendship
of the thousands of Jews not represented. about the fall of Rome. In modern history it
France of the fin de siecle that did are highest."
Dr. Ernest F. S. (Putzy) Ilanfstaengl, appar-
alumni of the Yiddish Theater,
in the Zionist Congress who will come to
will be shown that "whatever revolution up-
not believe that the means just- Prof. Davie renders a service also by showing saw that he got tickets.
ently has learned something about friendship. An
fled the end, as beautiful as it may where there is exploitation of the immigrant in. YOU OUGHT TO
sets the established order, from the great
meet us from other lands. We shall strive
associate of his now reveals that he had to
be.
French Revolution down," the Jews have •
solving illegal marriages, land purchases, insurance KNOW THAT
escape from Germany because he spoke in un-
to arrive at a peaceful adjustment not
hand in it.
Produced by Jews, its leading frauds, in business and other abuses. The problem
If we are tobelieve Edward J. friendly terms of General Franco and dubbed the ,
only with non-Zionists but with Zionists
roles portrayed by Jewish stars, of immigrant adjustment is treated at length, and
But if it is true that the Jews are responsible
Nazi
Ambassador to England, Herr von Ribben-
as well, and then, with a united front, go
the Emile Zola picture might have the author makes an interesting study of the ques- Smythe, chairman of the National trop, "Brickendrop," maintaining that the latter
for the fall of Rome, what becomes of the
Conuatttee Against Communism,
been
a
significant
human
docu.
tion
of
immigrant
distribution.
The
practice
of
heroic
German
tribes?
Beneath
their
blows
forward to treat with representatives of
out of every 120 Americans is was dropping bricks at the wrong time. According
ment with far-reaching implica- changing names, the periodicals organized by im- one receipt
the mighty fabric of the C went down
the Arabs in a spirit of lasting peaceful
of some sort of anti- Se- to the latest revelation, "Putzy" was to have been
tions into the contemporary scene. migrants and other factors of immigrant life are in
in ruin, ■
as little boys and girls all over the
mitic
literature regularly . . given a "one-way ride" in a plane by the Hitler
understanding for the solution of our great
The tragedy is that while in life broadly discussed.
world have been taught for hundred. of
Smythe boasts that Fascism is on Elite Guards. Ile managed to escape. This ought
Zola fought against anti-Semitism
common problem, for the upbuilding of
Prof. Davie's book is without question one of the march in this country.
years. But the M . Streicher and Fink
to be a lesson for the Ilitlerite cohorts who may
and
intolerance,
the
Hollywood
the
most
important
research
documents
on
record.
now
say
that
Siegfried*.
kinsmen
from
the
Palestine and to avert the partition of
Fulvio Suvich, II Duce's envoy some day get dangerous notions into their heads
Zola primarily fights for the box- The reviewer recommends it very highly to his in Washington, must be in a tight to speak their minds freely. Apparently even the
German forests who overran the Roman em-
Palestine, a land too small to be so
pir e weren't no heroic after all. Rome ■ ctu•
office. readers.
spot to be a non-Aryan.
close, friends of Hitler are not safe in the Nazi
divided."
environment.
ally fell because it was 'stabbed in the back
The Battle Has Just Begun
n
- Is German Youth Gullible?
This is a significant declaration which
indicates that the powerful element whose
desire it is to achieve peace with the Arabs
and to avert partition is not prepared to
give up the fight. It is clear that the possi-
bilities for peace have not been exhausted,
and that they are to be resumed again for
the sake of keeping intact that sacred
heritage of the Jewish people.
We deny the implication that Jews
heretofore refrained from negotiating with
the Arabs, or that the British government
in any way facilitated such a peace move
(the contrary is true), but in principle we
accept the desirability for future peace
parleys with the Arabs.
It has been indicated in the past few
weeks that the so-called non-Zionist mem-
bers of the Jewish Agency for Palestine
will refuse to continue to cooperate with
the Zionists unless they are given equal
representation in the Agency. This de-
mand must not be the cause of further
dissention. A much more serious principle
is at stake, and only by avoiding the in-
jection of personality and other petty is-
sues will it be possible to reach a wise
agreement during the coming few months.
In the meantime it is clear that the
light against the partition of Palestine has
only just begun. England must see the in-
justice of her proposal, and the Arkbs
must realize that it is for the benefit of
both peoples that the Jews be given an
opportunity to settle not only in the ter-
ritory that is east of the Jordan but also
in Transjordania. If justice is to be done
by the Jews, even •B Ludendorff'. army was
stabbed in the back by the Jews and Social-
ists. Little German boys and girls may ihas
get it into their heads that their •ncestors
who conquered Rome were not • much better
lot than the crowd behind Foeh, Haig and
Pershing.
Similarly, the French Revolution may put
ideas into little Prussian beads. They will
read how Napoleo n tore Prussia into pieces,
and how the Prussian nation was restored by
men like Stein and H•rdenberg. They did it
chiefly by emancipating the Prussian serfs
and adopting other poor men's reforms sug•
nested by the French Revolution. But if the
Jews, by starting the French Revolution,
helped to emancipat e the Prussian serf and
th• small German burgher, it may induce
Herr Streicher'. little boys and girls to ask
embarrassingquestions.
Among adults there is already an aval-
anche of embarrassing questions, and very
few tourists return from Germany with a
good word for the Nazis. The whispers
within the Reich, the stories at the ex-
pense of the Nazis, the boycotting by Ger-
mans themselves of strictly Nazi institu-
tions, the startling failure of the so-called
Nazi "regenerate art" and the compara-
tive success of what has been termed the
"degenerate" art — these are proofs that
all is not well in the ranks of Hitler's co-
horts. Furthermore, not all that is German
outside of Germany is in any sense pro-
Nazi. The attitude of German newspap-
ers in this country, including the Hetroit
daily German paper, prove that the Hitler
regime is unpopular.
The serious question is whether the
youngsters of Germany will ever begin to
ask questions that will prove embarras-
to the Jewish people, and if the neglected sing to their dictators, or whether their
areas in and surrounding Palestine are to
be developed, then the Jews must be given
fame hand to build a state not within the
C onfines o f a crowded sardine box but in
, the • larger territory that has been
Wowed as sacred ground by our long
history.
minds will be completely poisoned by the
Nazi ideas. The answer to this question
will provide the answer also to the entire
moot question of whether it is possible
for a band of degenerates to poison the
entire world and to undermine the demo-
cratic ideal in government.
BECAUSE OF
BOOKS & AUTHORS 600,000
ARABS
and the Caspian Sea at a period
Dr. N. E. Aronstam's1 corresponding
to the eighth or
ry C. E., and he em-
Novel Is Off Press ninth century
While the Whrld Zionist Congress has
voted In (aloe of negotiationswhh the
British FolernMent, t00 J001011 A/0001
meetine now In Enrich Is debating the
principle of rdIrtillon. The
anther of
this article Is the publisher of IM N
rerr.bor... Paris, end
she frer-
pre-Hitler
mi..).
phasizes that the knowledge upon
which he bases his theme is col-
os. of
roborated by the historians Greets
Ilerral Joe...1w. or
and Schechter.
The story, which is credited in
— •
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8
"The Lost Nation" by Dr. Noah the preface to a man by the name
---
E. Aronatam ($1.) came off the of Lindner is told in the first Per-
No race has ever gained such
son. It relates how the narrator,
press this week and Is now avail- was lost at sea and found himself great political victories in so
able either from the author or his on an island when a storm dem.
publishers, Duo-Art Press, 1226 olished the vessel. He fell uncon- short • time as the Arab race
Michigan Theater Bldg., Detroit, scious and found himself in a tent during the past two decades.
Having written this novel • under the care of a veiled woman. From the ruins of the old
number of years ago, Dr. Aron- When he inquired where he was, Turkish Empire over half •
scam was impelled to revise it and the only information he was given
have it published when the Jewish in Arabic was: "Thou art amidst dozen independent Arab States
Telegraphic Agency issued a story the Chasers." He was refused have sprung—Yemen, Iraq,
on Nov. 23, 1932, revealing the dis- other information but was always Saudi Arabia, Tran.jordan, Sy-
covery of a Jewish colony in Africa guarded by the natives. When the roe, Lebanon and Egypt—co,
by M. Rene Leblond, French con- tribe broke camp, he was taken aria
g a combined territory
sul at Akka in Southern Morocco. along, but was refused information
larger than that of France and
A fascinating adventure, "The as to his fate.
Lost Nation" is an unusually well
Germany together and accom-
In the course of his travels he
written story. It corresponds in
modating almost thirty million
theme with the J. T. A. story experienced several adventures.
which is reprinted as an epilogue His beautiful hostess, who finally Arabs free to develop their in•
in Dr. Aronstam's book. The story appeared before him unveiled, ternsl national life as they
about the discovery of the Jewish again came to his rescue when he please. If ever a promise was
colony in Africa was first brought escaped and was threatened by a fulfilled it was that given by the
to light by Pierre Van Paassen in many-tentacled demon. He fell in British during the world war
■ despatch from Paris to the New love with this woman. But when
York Evening World. It related M. he told her that he traveled as an when, in July, 1915, Sir Henry
Leblond's experiences when he was explorer he was sentenced to die McMahon wrote to the Sherif
lost in the desert as ■ result of because of the aversion to English of Mecca that in the event of
plane trouble. During his stay with explorers who were believed by the
the natives he discovered that they natives to be searching for new an Allied victory independence
were ■ Semitic tribe, that they land to capture it. In the course would be granted to the greater
spoke an Arabic dialect which they of the trial he discovered that the part of the Arab province. of
wrote in Hebrew script and that Hebrew ritual was used, and the the Turkish Empire.
they adhered to Jewish ritual. thought dawned upon him that
This obviously left • small
In his preface to this novel, Dr. these people were Jews. He asked
Aronstarn states that he received for permission to utter his last part of these Arab provinces
valuable assistance from the Em- words and recited the "Shema." for which England and the Al-
Deasy of the U. S. S. II. which The discovery that he too was lies reserved the right of other
pl aced at his disposal historical a Jew eased his life and he was
data pertaining to the Chasers. Ile hailed by the tribe as the long- disposition. Actually this reser-
tells of the discovery of a people awaited messenger of Jewry to the Cation bas been applied to only
named the Chasers or Kusri who Chasers. Ile was given • place ■ tiny splinter of the territory
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"The Lost Nation" Is Fascinating
Story of • Tribe of Chasers
American Nazis' Private Army
From the Series "Heil Kuhn"
By JOSEPH F. DINNEEN
now serious Is the menav of the uniformed and trained private militia of the
American Noah? In this article the anthoe tileclosee and interpret• the
tree strength of "The Friends of the New Germany" In thiscountry. Be
presort the second and conclading article of M
ri by special coutlesr
Ma aerie.
of The American %Marin,
The Bund was originally or-
When Hitler came into power in
ganized as the Teutonia Society In
1923 by Fritz Gissibl, a Chicago 1933, Americans became suddenly
aware
of the existence of an or-
printing-press-man, newly arrived
from Germany. Gissibl, then a boy ganization and a problem. Teutonia
changed
its name to "The Friends
of twenty, was solicited for mem- of
New Germany," adopted the
bership in the Ku Klux Klan,
thought the idea of the Klan was Hitler program in its entirety, and
a good one, and adopted it for an elected Heinz Spanknobel leader.
all-German society with the same The organization immediately be-
a problem for government in-
anti-Jewish and anti-Negro com- came
vestigation.
mitments. Objection to Catholics
Nazi propaganda was being
was not then adopted, because
many of them were admitted to smuggled into this country and
membership.
generally circulated. Customs and
Teutonia was an obscure organ- immigration laws were being vio-
ization until 1932, when Adolf Hit- lated. The storm troops were in
ler was making his first bid for their infancy and members were
power in Germany. Teutonia outfitted in uniforms purchased at
promptly climbed upon the Hitler an army store in Chicago. Among
band wagon. Its 600 members, members of the storm troops were
mostly German, with some natural- members of state national guard
ized Americans, enrolled with Nazi organizations. In New York, the
headquarters in Germany as mem- president of The Sons of '76 (anti-
bers of the National Socialist La- Jewish, anti- Negro, anti-Catholic)
bor Party of Germany. Because the was at the same time a captain
Hitler program was anti-Jewish in New York's 71st Regiment, and,
and anti-Catholic, and Teutonia according to testimony before a
now embraced it, all of the dis- congressional committee, managed
credited and exposed apostles of to provide from • New York arm-
rifles with which the New York
hate in the United States were ory
Nazi outfit might drill.
magnetically drawn to it.
Spanknobel
was indicted for vio-
Membership in Teutonia spurted lation of federal
laws and fled to
immediately and amazingly. The
Germany,
and
inevitably all of the
first associated local was organized
in Detroit, and here Kuhn came Nazi activities came to • focus. Re-
Into the American Nazi picture as lations between the United States
the associate of Walter Ilentchel, and Germany were becoming more
and more strained, The American
first president of the'Detroit
A New York local was organised ambassador in Berlin conferred
with
Rudolph Hess, who, as Hit-
and the tide of the Nazi party rose
ler's chief deputy, holds somewhat
steadily.
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