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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939

VOL. XL NO. 37

DRAMATIZE GIFTS Distinguished Committee SponsorsFEMIGRATION PLAN
OF JEWRY TO U. S. Mischa Elman Concert Here Feb. 8' OUTLOOK HOPEFUL,
IS BERLIN REPORT
ON RADIO SUNDAY

Judge Lewis Dies

Catholics, Protestants and Jews Co-operate in Effort to
Raise Funds for the Refugees from Germany;
Negotiations Continue as
Mrs. Edsel B. Ford Heads Committee
"Americans All' Program to
George Rublee Returns
Describe Contributions to
to Germany
The full strength of three great the chairmanship of Alfred E.
American Life
beliefs—Catholic, Protestant and Smith, former governor of New

AIMS ARE TO FOSTER
GOODWILL, TOLERANCE

Broadcast Is Sponsored by
United States Office
of Education

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Jewish—are being thrown into York. The committee is spon-
an effort to raise funds for Ger- sored by the American Commit- ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS
FLARE UP IN MEXICO
man refugees in a benefit con- tee for Christian German Refu-
cert at Orchestra Jlall, Feb. 8, gees, the Committee for Catholic
by the famous violinist, Mischa Refugees from Germany, and the
Nazi - Fascist Sympathizerii
Elman. A Detroit committee,
Are Blamed for the
headed by Mrs. Edsel B. Ford
Demonstrations
as honorary chairman. is at work,
canvassing the city to sell tick-
ets for the concert and raise
PARIS (WNS)—George Rub
funds to be divided equally
lee, American director of the In-
among the communicants of the
tergovernmental Committee fot
three faiths who are exiled from
Refugees, and his assistants, Rohr
the Nazi state.
ert T. Pell and Joseph Cotton,
Active co-chairmen represent-
returned to Berlin after reportin
ing the three groups are Mrs.
to the steering committee of t
Charles B. Warren, Miss Emma
Nj
main executive group on his c ootl
Butzel and Mrs. Charles T.
versations with Nazi officials Oa LATE JUDGE WM. M. LEWIS
Fisher, Jr. They have formed a
aiding
Jews
to
emigrate
from
the
Detroit committee which will aid
Zionists throughout the country
Reich. Discussions, interrupted by
in the sale of tickets and in other
the removal of Dr. Iljalmay are mourning the death of Judge
arrangements for the concert.
William
M. Lewis of Philadelphia
Schacht by the German govern•
One of 25 Concerts
ment as president of the Reich& who passed away at the age of 51
Elman, who is perhaps the
Monday
after a brief illness.
bank, will be resumed with Mint
world's foremost violinist, has do-
isterial Director Ilelmuth Wohl, Judge Lewis is well known in De-
nated his services to a National
that. Dr. Schacht's plan for fi. troit. Ile has relatives here and
Non-Sectarian Committee under
nancing the emigration of Ger. has spoken in Detroit before Zion-
man Jews by an international ist and Allied Jewish Campaign
loan to raise German exports was audiences.

The far-reaching contribution's
of Jewish immigrants from all
Parts of the world to the social,
cultural, economic and political
development of the United States
will be dramatized Sunday after-
noon, Feb. 6, over 98 stations of
Columbia Broadcasting System,
to an estimated audience of 8,-
500,000 listeners.
The nation - wide broadcast,
thirteenth in a series depicting
the role in American life of im-
migrant peoples and their descen-
dants, is sponsored by the U. S.
office of Education, Department of
the Interior, with the co-opera-
tion of the Service Bureau for
Intercultural Education, and oth-
er educational agencies. The pro-
gram may be heard at 2 p. m.
EST; 1 p. m. CT; 12 m. MT; 11
a. tn. PT. It will he heard in
Detroit on Station WJR.
Contributions of Jews
Beginning with the part played Appeals to Americans to
in the first voyage of Columbus
Maintain Principles
by men of Jewish birth, the broad-
of Liberty
cast will go on to dramatize the
landing of Jewish imimgrants at
New Amsterdam in 1654 when NEW YORK (Religious News
285 refugees driven from Brazil Service) — A plea to Americans
were finally allowed by Governor of every faith, race and origin,
Stuyvesant and the government at to unite in maintaining the prin.
Holland to make their home in the ciples of liberty guaranteed by
New World. the Constitution, was voiced by
The victims of persecution. President Roosevelt in a letter
much in the manner of English made public here by Dr. Everett
Puritans, Quakers and Catholics, R. Clinchy, director of the Na-
Jewish immigrants helped notably tional Conference of Christians
in the fight for American inde-
President Roosevelt, endorsing
pendence.
The career of patriot Haym the sixth annual observance of
Solomon who helped contribute Brotherhood Week. to be held
$400,000 to Washington's cause, Feb. 19-26, under the auspices
will be dramatized Sunday, as of the Conference, urged that
well as that of Uriah Levy, Com- members of different faiths and
modore in the U. S. Navy in the races "engage together in those
War of 1812. The broadcast will activities that reflect their com-
tell how thousands of privates and mon social aims."
The text of the President's let-
officers of Jewish faith fought
in thesCiril War, and of the many ter follows:
"The sixth observance of
American Jews decorated for val.
Brotherhood Day under the
or in the World War.

PRESIDENT URGES
FAITHS TO UNITE

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v In Michigan

Newspaper Printed

MISCHA ELMAN

American Jewish Joint Distribu-
tion Committee.
His concert in Detroit is one
of 25 which he is giving in as
many American cities on a tour
which will take him a total of
15,000 miles. The proceeds will
be divided equally among the
three sponsoring organizations,
united for one cause, to be used
for the aid of victims of Nazi
persecution.

BUDGET COMMITTEE Formal Discussions on
SELECTED FOR '39 Arab Jewish Relations
ALLIED CAMPAIGN

Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich and
Julian Krolik to Act
as Co-Chairmen

FIRST MEETING HEARS
WARBURG AND MONTOR

Three Major Groups to Con-
duct Studies for the •
Committee

Edward M. M. Warburg, son of
the late Felix M. Warburg, and
Henry Montor, executive vice-
chairman of the United Jewish
Appeal, ad-
ldressed the
1939 Detroit
Service Group
Budget C o m
mittee, at its
opening meet-
ing held Satu•-
d a y evening,
Jan. 28, at the
Hotel Statle•.
A s spokesmen
of the United
Mrs. Ehrlich
Jewish Appeal
for Refugees
and Overseas Needs, the unified
fund-raising organization for the
sidetracked.
Joint Distribution Committee, the
United Palestine Appeal and the
National Co-ordinating Commit-
tee
Fund, Mr. Warburg and Mr.
h n Dr, 114
o r e n with
lac conferred
Montor described the programs
for
math Wohlthat
and
requirements of these three
evacuation of Jews from Geri
organizations for the coming year
many. Sources close to Rublee
and requested inclusion for an
stated that the German Govern. Dr. Joachim Prinz to Ad- amount commensurate to their
'
ment had agreed to continue nego•
dress Public Rally
needs in the 1939 Allied Jewish
tiations where they had been in.
Campaign.
on Feb. 26
terrupted by the dismissal of Dri
Appointed by Simon Shetzer,
Schacht, and on the same basin
chairman
of the board of direc-
Simultaneous with e f f o r t s
It is believed that concessione
tors
of the Detroit Service Group,
given to Mr. Rublee would remain throughout the country to enroll
the fund-raising arm of the Jew-
intact, and a memorandum, ape. hunderds of thousands of Jews
cifying the points of agreement as sustaining members of the Am- ish Welfare Federation, Mrs. Jo-
that the committee had worked erican Jewish Congress, the De- seph II. Ehrlich and Julian II.
out for submission to Dr. Schacht, troit chapter of the Congress is Krolik are serving as co-chairmen
was being redrafted. The signifls launching a drive for 3,000 affili- of the 1939 budget committee,
with a steering committee headed
cance of this move led the Ruble* ates.
Preparations are now being by Fred M. Butzel. During the
committee to hope for the best,
Although the draft of the memo- made for the membership enroll- next few weeks, the budget com-
random was not revealed, it ment campaign by a committee mittee, made up of a cross-section
of Detroit Jewry, will conduct
was disclosed that Nazi officials which will include representatives hearings and weigh the petitions
cross-section of Jewish
seemed willing to make some fl. forming a
of all organizations requesting in-
life
in
Detroit.
nancial concession toward the eml•
The drive will start officially clusion in the 1939 Allied Jewish
gration of German Jews instead
of forcing them to leave penniless, with a public meeting at Central Campaign scheduled for the
It was also apparent that the High School on Sunday afternoon, spring.
Three Sub-Committees
Germans desire to work out sorry Feb. 26, with Dr. Joachim Prinz,
This year the budget commit ter
sis esiy plan I nstead of she Oss. eminent ! German -Jewish leader
has
been
divided into three major
ent hit and miss method of Jewish and brilliant orator, as principal
emigration. The final draft was speaker. Dr. Prinz formerly held groups: a local division, with Fred
M. Butzel as chairman; a national
expected to clear up the terms of a pulpit in Berlin and was coped- and regional division, headed by
the Nazi government's' negotia- ianY active in work among the Julian II. Krolik, and an overseas
tions with Mr. Rublee. Although Jewish youth in Germany.
A large number of pamphlets , division, headed by Mrs. Joseph
they have not abandoned any poll-
H. Ehrlich. Each major group
cies in this connection, the Ger- containing factual material to has been broken down into sub-
man Government has adopted a counteract anti-Semitic propagan
has been received by the De committees for the study of spe-
somewhat less bellicose tone in its emit
the American cific problems in the particular
chapter
ih the
th t emit t
dealings and negotiations with
Jewish Congress and will be dis- fields, such as civic-protective,
outside world, which makes con-
tributed widely among non-Jews. educational and research, recrea-
tinued negotiations easier.
It was reported that personal Many of the valuable pamphlets tional, resettlement work and fam-
in the public ily welfare, institutional care,
ace
are being
p laced
g P
(
assurances were given Mr. Rublee
inan Goering that Germany libraries as a means of dissemi- health, membership services, im-
by H a
was anxious to put Jewish emir nating truth and preventing libels PLEASE TURN TO EDITORIAL PAGE

BPAIIHNI-A.71,c_fasr.g.ttub. CONGRESS STARTS
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Consideration of Admission of io,000
Children in Palestine Deferred
by McDonald

SELECT JEWISH SPOKESMEN
TO JOIN IN CONFERENCES

Delegates Chosen by Palestine Assembly;
Chief Rabbis Are Included
Among Six Leaders

LONDON (WNS--Palcor Agency) — The formal
discussions of the Arab-Jewish conferences to be held here
will begin Tuesday, Feb. 7, Colonial Secretary Malcolm
McDonald told the House of Commons in answer to ques-
tions asked by Tom Williams, Laborite, and Goellrey
Mender, Liberal.
Discussions on procedure to be followed during the

ZIONISTS' PARLOR
MEETINGS FEB, lb

Membership Drive Contin-
ues; Press Appeal in Behalf
of Palestine Pavilion

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conference, he added, are already
arrived. There are a few still to
arrive, he stated; and among those
already present are the delegates
representing the Palestine Arabs,
those representing the Jewish
Agency for Palestine and those
representing the governments of
Egypt. Iraq, Saudi Arabia. Yemen
and Transjordan.
The question of representation
for the Arab National Defense
Party, headed by the Nashash-
ibis, Is still under consideration,
the Colonial Secretary stated, but
ho anticipated that this issue
would be settled and that all dele-
gates would be in London in time
for the first of the formal dis-
cussions next Tuesday. But when
Mr. Williams asked whether more
than one section of Palestine Arab
opinion would be represented In
the conversations, Mr. MacDonald
refused to add anything further
to his statement.

Strictly
Confidential

DOROTHY THOMPSON WARNS REFUGEE
ISSUE IS ERA'S CHRONIC DISEASE

EMINENT AUTHOR DENOUNCES
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FORGERY

THOMAS MANN TO LECTURE IN DETROIT

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Begin in London Feb. 7

Plans are being completed for
the next in the aeries of Zioniet
parlor meetings t6 be held on
Wednesday evening, Feb. 15.
The subject for discussion at
Was a Child Prodigy
these meetings will be: "The Phys-
Elman was born in Czarist Rus-
ical and Spiritual Possibilities in
sia and is now an American citi-
Palestine Today."
zen. When he was only three
These rallies will be held in
years old he betrayed an unusual
the homes of the following: Mr.
interest in the violin by dropping
and Mrs. James I. Ellmann, 55
his toys and lifting his small
Connecticut; Mr. and Mrs. Wil-
voice in song when his father
liam B. Isenberg, 2235 Edison
started to play. By the time he
Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph II.
was five his attempts to play his
0e-ter Being Restored
Ehrlich, 2455 Chicago Blvd.; Mr.
parent's instrument resulted in
The Colonial Secretary answer.
and Mrs. Arthur S. I'urdy. 631
the purchase of a small one for
Chicago Blvd.•, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph ed negatively when Mr. Mender
the boy. Soon after this he
Weisman,-.1470 W. Boaton Blvd.; asked whether-, there had been ,
Played at the home of the Coun-
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Q. Kesler, 1217 any further discussion of the ad-
tess Urosova who sensed the
mission into Palestine of the 10,-
Burlingame.
magic of his genius and procured
•
Under the co-chairmanship of 000 German-Jewish children for
a teacher for him.
Aaron Silberblatt and Charles whom homes have already been
At the age of 10 he met and
auspices of the National Con.
The Creed of Maimonide.
Lapides, the Zionist Organization found there.
played for the great musical fig-
Dramatizing the broad pano- ference of Christians and Jews
of Detroit is carrying on its drive
"Until all the representatives
ure
who
was
destined
to
play
an
during
the
week
of
Washing-
rama of nearly 300 years of Jew-
for new members. With more than have arrived," Mr. MacDonald in-
important part in his career: Leo-
ton's birthday. 1939, gives em-
ish participation in American life,
200
already
enrolled,
it
is
believed
pold
Auer.
Auer
complimented
sisted,
"it will be impossible to
the theme of Sunday's broadcast phasic to principles that are
that the membership locally will discuss major questions."
will be based on the creed of Mai- fundamental in the Am egican the child and later asked him to
soon
exceed
the
1,000
mark.
the St.. Petersburg Conservatory
way of life.
Reporting • on the situation in
monides: the greatest charity is
Abraham Cooper and James I. Palestine, he said that during the
of Music as the first student to
"Never has it been more es-
the prevention of poverty.
Ellman are co-chairmen of the past month further progress had
be admitted to Auer'a classes
The career of Samuel Gompers, sential that our people of
committee in charge of plans for been made toward the restoration
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE I)
first to organize American labor national origin, race or faith
local participation in the Pales- of order in that country. The con-
should proclaim those civic
and help foster goodwilll between
tine l'avilion. Local organiza- trol established by the military
ideals
that
they
hold
in
com-
capital and labor; the heroic work
tions are called upon to assume authorities, he declared, had made
of Dr. Joseph Goldberger in trac- mon and engage together in
responsibility for the distribution it increasingly difficult for large
ing the cause of pellagra; of Na- those activities that reflect their
gration on an orderly basis. Mr. from being spread. One of the
of membership certificates pro- bands of 'terrorists to co-operate
than Strauss who following the common social aims.
Rublee and his co.workers believe pamphlets which is receiving wide
ceeds of which will make possible with each other in their acts of
"Here in the United States,
death of his little daughter from
they have been able, as neutral circulation through the Congress
the completion of the Pavilion brigandage, and their activities
is "Benjamin Franklin Vindica-
contaminated milk devoted his life while maintaining the right to
observers,
to
make
German
au-
,
which is an important political were now being confined to {so
differ in our creeds, all groups
to making pasteurized milk avail-
thorities see the other side of the `ad''' which
disproves
the
libel
step in defense of Palestine as lated acts of terrorism.
must
unite
in
maintaining
for
able to the underprivileged.
Dr. Adler Presents His An- emigration problem as it affects ah oa tt. s B ee m n gsmmi . n Abraham prJeac La-
well as for the presentation of an
All these will be dramatized, as all. the liberties guaranteed by
countries
of
refuge.
It
was
t
anual
Report
to
American
outline of Jewish achievements Committee to Aid Discussions
from
Everywhere
Tidbits
the
American
Constitution
and
well as the role of Julius Rosen-
A committee representing Zion-
pointed out that these countries chover heads the committee in
for those who will attend the
Jewish Committee
weld in helping create 4,000 in cultivating that mutual re-
J.
BIRON
By
PHINEAS
must
be
given
time
to
absorb
ref-
charge
of
the
distribution
of
the
World's Fair in New York. Mem- ists and non-Zionists throughout
eo-opera•
Congress literature.
schools and 27 Y. M. C. A.'s for spect, friendship and
-
ogees slowly and to this point
bership certificates are available the world has been designated by
Negroes; the career of Oscar tion across dividing lines, which
a)
A plea for the strengthening Germany's agreement is essential.
e' ∎ ■■ 3,rlit Ur).
at the office of the Zionist Organ- the Je•eish Agency for Palestine
Hammerstein in music; the work will bind an together as a na-
RABBI FRAM TO SPEAK
ization of Detroit, Mrs. Albert to aid In the discussions In Lon-
of Jewish religious institutions in
Meanwhile the Jewish Neel,
of Emile Berliner, co-worker of Mon.
NAZI
STUFF
ON
"WHY
IS
JUDAISM
Feldstein, executive secretary, don devoted to the formulation of
richtenhlatt, only Jewish organ
"It is my hone that that oh- America as the best answer to the
Thomas Edison; Franz Boas; Jo-
If Hitler's radical advisers, to 1044 Penobscot Bldg., Cherry a future policy in Palestine, it
in
Germany,
published
under
PERSECUTED?"
FRIDAY
servance
of
Brotherhood
Day
seph Pulitzer . . . these, and the
false racial theories propagated
whom he has been listening of 6559.
&LAMM TURN TO LAST PA0111
the imprimateur of the Propa•
performances of many other Am- this year will advance these
in Germany and Italy was made
late, succeed in persuading him
panda Ministry, printed another
ideals."
"Why Is Judaism Persecuted?"
ITI`RN TO PWITORIAL ranit)
Sunday by Dr. Cyrus Adler of
appeal to Jews in the United will be the subject of Rabbi Leon to embark on a war, you can
bet your last shirt that there'll
Philadelphia in his presidential
St•tes to aid in the immigra-
Fram's sermon at the Sabbath
message at the Hotel Astor before
tion of refugees. Eve Services of Temple Beth El, be a civil uprising against the
the thirty-second annual meeting
It was reported that Germany Woodward and Gladstone Ayes., Nazis in Germany . . . Naziland
of the American Jewish Commit- has tightened its grip on the Friday night, Feb. 10, at 8 o'clock. may have an effective air force,
tee. Representation of over 300 has
property
of emigrating
Jews
and This sermon will be a sequel to but it's having its troubles in the
already
confiscated
a huge
war of the air waves . . . Not
communities throughout the
Fram's lecture
of the
the sub-
pre, only is the ambulent German
vious Sabbath
Eve on
Carl Van Doren Condemns the Lie That Great American country, affiliated with the Amer- amount in flight taxes. Jews are Rabbi
ican Jewish Committee, also now prohibited from taking any ject: "The Jewish Contribution anti-Fascist broadcasting station States World Is Becoming a Jungle In "Calling America"
Was an Anti-Semite in Biography; Proceeds
managing to penetrate into Ger-
Issue of Survey Graphic; Refugees an Asset,
heard the annual report of the object out of Germany in excess to Civilization."
man radio sets at frequent inter-
of German Edition for Refugees
Executive Committee presented of 150 marks.
Says Dorothy Canfield
These sermons are being given
vals, but German-language short-
by Morris D. Waldman, secretary.
Anti-Semitic Haraneues
in response to many requests ad-
Dr. Adler, who presided at the
An anti-Semitic attack in the dressed to the Rabbi, asking him wave broadcasts from the U. S.
A great biographer has raised in Vindicated" which was pub-
"Nationalism is turning the gests practical ways and means of
azi press was aimed at Bernard to solve the riddle of why the also are enabling the Germans to
his voice in defense of a great ished by the International Ben- meeting, was re-elected president Nazi
hear things Hitler would like to whole world back to jungle. The swiftly ameliorating the prob-
American in a very great biog- jamin Franklin Society. the of the Committee for the 10th Baruch and Senator Key Pittman, Jew must suffer for a faith and keep from their ears . . . In his four million refugees who have lems of both Jews and Chris-
raphy, and is now among the American Jewish Congress, Amer- successive year. Among those chairman of the Senate Foreign a history that have been so influ- efforts to reinstate himself Dr. been uprooted in recent years tians.
chief opponents of anti-Semitism ican Jewish Committee and Jew- elected to the Executive Commit- Relations Committee. The Boersen ential in the progress of man- Goebbels is readying ritual mur• should be recognized for what
"The German government has
tee is Henry Wineman of Detroit. Zeitung, organ of the armed kind.
ish Labor Committee.
in this country.
der propaganda . . . The Gestapo they are. They are an advancing been uniquely successful in pro-
The annual report reaffirmed forces, declared that Pittman, who
Traced to Nazis
Rabbi Fram is devoting the
Carl Van Doren has joined the
ducing an enforced emigration
crowd
shouting
a
great
warning:
mohel
a
got
hold
of
a
photo
of
More recently, it has been an- the American Jewish Committee's recently announced that "the peo- entire month of February to ser-
forces of truth and of democracy
"The jungle is growing up, while," states Miss Thompson, "at
preparing to perform his func-
in nailing the lie about one of nounced that the German trans- strong adherence to the principles ple of the United States do not mono that are answers to the tion—the boy was the child of a the jungle is burning!"
the same time, it systematically
like the Government of Germany," questions people are constantly
the most outrageous libels of lation of Mr. Van Doren's "Ben- of American democracy.
This is the warning with which poisons public opinion against
photographer, who couldn't re-
American Way of Life
is "lacking in judgment and man- asking him.
modern times—the so-called Ben- jamin Franklin" will be published
the emigrants, to make their re-
Dorothy
Thompson
steps
out
of
sist
the
temptation
of
making
Referring to those who persist ners."
Many Nazi newspapers
George Galvani and the Temple
jamin Franklin forgery which in the Netherlands and that all
permanent record of hs son's her column. "On the Record," habilitation elsewhere more diffi-
seeks to brand the great Ameri- the profits from this edition will in reiterating the "false charge, were especially vituperative in Choir, accompanied by Jason Tick- birth—and the picture is now to take part in "Calling Amer- cult.
can of Revolutionary days as an be turned over by the author to borrowed from the Nazi propa- their attacks on Baruch, who ac- ton, will render the traditional being published in the Reich with ica," a special number of Sur-
"The refugee problem ie eco-
the Joint Distribution Committee gandists, of a link between Jews cording to the news organs "in- music of the Sabbath Eve.
anti-Semite.
captions designed to arouse an- vey Graphic, published Feb. 1, nomic, financial, social and Po-
A social hour to which every
to aid German refugees. Of and Communism," the report said: duced Congress to appropriate
Diaproves F
in which 50 American foreign litical. It is not a Jewish prob-
other
"spontaneoua
outburst
of
"Your Committee, along with funds for the manufacture of one is welcome follows the sere-
In his very great biography of equal interest is the announce-
popular indignation" . . . Ger- c o r r espondents, newspapermen, lem at all, except as it is made •
ices.
1PLEAOE TURN TO PAGE 11
Benjamin Franklin. recently pub- ment made by his publishers, the other responsible Jewish organiz-
or ers are
man ac
factor
or y
e think- investigators and experts analyze so in men's minds."
lished by the Viking Press, now Viking Press, that they are in ations has on several occasions
Discussing ways and means of
ing back with longing to their the challenge to democracy which
ranked as one of the most signi- turn assigning their royalties exposed the falsity of this canard.
reaches over here from Nazi and assisting refugees. Miss Thomp- .
old
Jewish
bosses,
now
replaced
The
facts
are
accessible
to
all
who
from
the
German
language
rights
son
wrises: "In the ranks of the
ficant books published in many
by Aryans . . . Jewish bosses Fascist capitals.
years, Mr. Van Doren points out to the Joint Distribution Corn- seek the truth. As American
"The refugee problem is a refugees are the flower of the
weren't allowed to lower wages
citizens
we
reaffirm
our
faith
in
mittee.
that the words ascribed to the
even if business turned bad, but chronic disease of our era," German intelligentsia . . . The
Thus, while the anti-Semites the American way of life and de-
great American were not his. De-
no such restrictions hamper the writes Miss Thompson. "It can- suicide rate mounts. The amount
scribing the Continental Congress are continuing to spread the vic- nounce alike the attempted in- Citizens' Committee Organized to Welcome the Famous new Nazi owners . . . The story not be cured except as the of mental and physical anguish
Voluntary Exile Who Will Speak Here at
of 1775 he writes. "His (Frank- ious libel about a great Ameri- vasion of Nazi-Fascist and Com-
about Schmeling having become world's organism is restored to that has been willfully and abso-
lin's) important speeches have can, (former Judge II. W. Rog- munist propaganda in our coun-
Masonic Temple on March 11
persona non grata in Naziland is health . . . But the path to lutely senselessly created cannot
try."
ers
of
Tompkins
Corners.
N.
Y.,
been more accurately preserved
just a super-publicity stunt to every conceivable program is be comprehended."
Condemn. "Aryan" Theory
than those of any other dele- is one of the chief offenders in
Refugees Called an Asset
blocked by nationalism. Na-
Thomas Mann, author of the osophy and high literary merit. prepare the way for Max's re-
Dr. Adler, who is also president
gate;" and he adds: "Of course disseminating this libel), his emi-
"If we show the most ordinary
turn to the American ring and tionalism is being artificially
When
the
Nazi
regime
came
into
"Magic
Mountain,"
"Joseph
in
he did not make the speech nent biographer not only dis- of the Jewish Theological Semin-
stimulated
in
order
to
secure
a
good
sense, we can reap a rich
power, Mann discovered that al- to break the boycott against him.
against the Jews which was im- proves the forgery but also uses ary of New York and Dropsie Egypt," and "The Coming Vic-
greater part of the total prod- harvest which Europe has sown
tory of Democracy," winner of though he was "Aryan" and could FOREIGN FLASHES
pudently forged and maliciously part of the income from his book College of Philadelphia, declared
uct
which
internationals
have
and
cultivated."
says Dorothy
Nothing worth while will re-
the Nobel Prize for Literature in have kept on living securely in
ascribed to him in 1934." In an to help the unfortunate sufferers that there is no foundation what-
created. It makes no conceiv- Canfield. novelist and prominent
1929, acclaimed unanimously by his native Germany, he could not sult from the negotiations be-
soever
for
the
so-called
"Aryan"
from
Nazism
to
whose
destructive
citizen
of
New
England,
in an
appended note he states: "The
able sense; it is turning the
the literary world as "the great- endure the Nazi persecutions of tween the Nazi higher-ups and
;article on the refugee published
forged speech, called "Franklin's propaganda the libel against Ben- theory which is the basis "on
his fellow human beings. lie pre- the spokesmen for the refugees world into a jungle; and the
est
living
man
of
lettere,"
will
wheih
the
Jews
of
Germany
have
refugees are merely people fore- as part of the special issue of
Prophecy,' seems to have appear- jamin Franklin has since been
come to Detroit Saturday night, ferred not to live in a country in . . . It seems that Hitler doesn't
ed first in Liberation (Asheville) traced. The Voelkischer Beo- been ousted from their citizenship
ed to run away from one part Survey Graphic.
March 11, to lecture in the Ma- which brutality had become a really want to get rid of the
Miss Canfield asserts that refu-
Feb. 3, 1934; often reprinted. bachter, Goebbels' personal or- and deprived of all human rights."
of the jungle to another."
them
for
needs
Jews
.
.
.
lie
government
policy,
armament
the
Pointing out that the Nazis are sonic Temple Auditorium. His
gees are "not taking jobs away
Discussed by Charles A. Beard in gan, has printed it, and other
Suggests Relief Measures
coming to Detroit is being organ- exclusive pre-occupation of hu- strategic diplomatic reversal
Jewish Frontier for March, 1935, Ilitlerite periodicals have re- the real cause of world economic
After tracing the handling of from our own people." She cites,
stunts.
man
beings,
and
every
vehicle
of
depression, unrest and strife, the ized as a civic event. A Commit-
and by Julian P. Boyd in Penn- printed it.
It was very noble of the Coun- refugee problems from the Great "factual information about the
human freedom and agency of
Mr. Van Doren's "Benjamin report went on to review the six- tee of One Thousand citizens. led
War to the conquest of Austria kind of people the great majority
sylvania Magazine of History and
justice cruelly stamped out. He tess Haugwitz-Reventlow (Bar-
by
the
League
for
Human
Rights,
year
history
of
the
persecution
of
Biography, LXI (1937), 233-34." Franklin' is one of the truly
a with the partku ar reference to of the refugees are, and what-
is being organized to welcome him preferred exile to life under the bara Hutton to you) to donate
the work of the League of Na- already—they are doing for our
Since this was published Mr. great books of oar generation. It Jews in Germany.
thousand
pounds
to
the
British
Hitler regime no he lift his be-
"These events," it declared, to the city.
tions under the leadership of Dr. industrialized country, by their
an Doren has spoken and writ- is significant not only as biog-
The name of Thomas Mann has loved native land and became a fund for refugees from Naziland,
that
Fridtjof Nansen In coping with highly trained specialized skill
ten on numerous occasions in raphy, but also as history, as a "have proved to the world
become the symbol of devotion wanderer. Ile has lost his home, but we'd like it even better if
the "first enormous refugee prob- and knowledge of advanced pro-
condemnation of this forgery. lie work of great scholarship. No the crisis now facing the Jews is
she'd
arrange
to
have
the
Wool
to the cause of democracy and his property. his life savings. Un-
part
of
a
wider
crisis
a
but
one
who
is
interested
in
the
lem" created by the Russian cesses of manufacturing and busi-
participated with other outstand-
resistance to Fascism. Up to the der Hitler's orders. all the Ger- worth chain. source of her mil revolution and the Braeco-Tur- ness and ooening up of new Po•-
ing American historians and pub- great founders of this Reoubilc threatening Christians and Jews
lions,
cancel
their
contracts
with
year 1933, Mann lived a quiet man universities that had vied
alike.
Today
the
world
is
learn-
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in
the
history
of
the
United
kith wars, Miss Thompson sug-
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