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THE 'LEGAL CHRONICLE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1939
Father Coughlin Preaching JEWS HERE URGED
Hate, Geo. N. Shuster, Noted TO STAND BY ZION
IN PROCLAMATION
Catholic Publicist, Declares
LEHMAN SIGNS "ISM" BILLS
STRIKING SUBVERSIVE ACTION
.n mil-
/ fresh
:if In Michigan
Telephone
CADILLAC
Warns Catholics They, Too, Will Suffer
From Authoritarian Oppression
If Trend Should Grow
Plf'
Newspaper Printed
To Preside at Windsor
Reception to Royalty
Emergency Committee and
Shekel Board Call for
Unstinted Action
CAMPAIGN LEADERS Dr. Weizmann Warns Historical Process
ANALYZE RESULTS;
INCREASE SHOWN of Palestine's Redemption Will Not Be
3,000 Workers Thanked by
Fred M. Butzel and
Henry Wineman
'SHOW YOUR DEVOTION'
IS ZIONISTS' APPEAL
18,000 CONTRIBUTORS
ARE ALREADY LISTED
Registration of All Jews
Urged in Fight for
Jewish Palestine
Isidore Sobeloff and Esther
Prussian Lauded for
Their Activities
The Detroit Zionist Emergency
Committee and the local Shekel
Board have issued a proclamation
to Detroit Jewry urging unstinted
work for Palestine and the regis-
tration of all Jews for the re-
demption of the Jewish National
Home. Lawrence W. Crohn is
chairman of the Emergency Corn-
mittee and Joseph Haggai heads
pAyro. 4. CROf.L
the Shekel Board. Both groups
are composed of representatives
Mayor Croll of Windsor will be
of all Zionist societies in Detroit. the key man in the reception to
King George and Queen Elisa-
The proclamation follows:
beth when they make their ap-
A PROCLAMATION
pearance
in Windsor on Tuesday
JEWS OF DETROIT!
A British White Paper has re- evening. Mr. Croll will introduce
the
Royal
guests to the members
corded and the Parliament has
acceded to a decision to nullify of the Windsor Council and to
other
select
guests.
the Balfour Declaration. Let it
Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents
Abruptly Terminated by British Decree
Tells loo,000 at Opening of Jewish Palestine Pavilion That
Progress Will Go On; Mayor LaGuardia Calls Exhibit
Temple of Thanksgiving for Jewish Achievements
BRITISH PRESS POINTS TO SMALL MAJORITY
FOR WHITE PAPER AS GOVERNMENT'S DEFEAT
Expressing gratitude to mem-
bers of the local Jewish commu-
n ity whose high level of giving in
the Allied Jewish Campaign in-
Monsky
dicates not only a deep under-
standing of today's unprecedented
needs but a new concept of
philanthropy, Henry Wineman
and Fred M. Butzel, chairmen,
thanked Detroit Jewry for their
loyal support of the drive at the
closing campaign luncheon at the
WASHINGTON, D. C.—"Every Catholic with a brain
Stotler on Friday.
in his head realizes full well that if there is ever a trend
NEW YORK, (WNS)—More than 100,000 jammed the Court of Peace at the
"The army of 3,000 workers in
towards authoritarian oppression in this country, his head
the drive who gave so unselfishly New York World's Fair for the
dedication of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion and were
will be on the block along with the Jew's," George N.
of their time, as well as full stirred by words of Professor Albert
Einstein, Senator William H. King of Utah,
Shuster, noted Catholic publicist and authority on modern
measure of their substance, are Mayor LaGuardia and American
Zionist leaders. An address by Dr. Chaim Weizmann
German history, declares in a feature article in the June
to be warmly congratulated for
in
Paris
was
brought
to
the
listeners
their thorough canvass of the
by short-wave broadcast.
issue of the National Jewish•
be said forthwith that the English
The danger that threatens the place of refuge was
city," said Mr. Wineman. "Only
Monthly, published by Bnai Brith,
the mournful note in Dr.
Government never intended to
a few years ago the number of
out this week.
Albert Einstein's address as he
carry , out the terms of its con-
.
Detroit's contributors to the an-
Assailing Father Coughlin for
officially opened the building. "In
tttruwc it ti honti.hz , Je:esutorf.itilltye, weo vrldn.
nual campaign, was less than
his anti-Semitism, Mr. Shuster
Palestine a handful of people is
4,000 even though the commu-
points out in his article, "A
threatened by the political in-
•
downright anti-Jewishness, ■re
nity was nearly as large as it is
Catholic Discusses Jews", that
trigues
terms
descriptive
of
English
of-
of the Powers," he said.
today, and perhaps, more prosper-
•
-
radio priest's "historical informa- Tidbits from Everywhere
"Sheer mob violence would rob
ficialdom in Palestine. Lack of
ous. Contributors to the 1939 Fifteenth Century Refugee Children's Story Finds Echo it
tion is deplorably inaccurate,
of
Rabbi
of
Temple
Beth
El
achievements won at the
protection, "turning of the head"
drive number 18,000 and there
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
that he descends frequently to
in Present Tragedies; Lesson in History of
price of hard work and bitter sac-
from Arab terrorism. these are
■
Awarded Doctorate by
are several hundred still to be
the level of sheer calumny, and
rifice. It is exposed to constant
common knowledge to all who
(rotairight
1939.
It
A.
E.
His
Alma
Mater
reached.
It
is
a
fine
accomplish-
Regensburg-Augsburg
that he preaches a gospel of hate
8)
attack, and every one of its mem-
knew and saw. The old Imperial
ment to have awakened social
rather than the Gospel of Love."
bers is forced to fight for his very
game of pitting the two groups
consciousness in nearly five times
A former managing editor of The FROM THE ZIONIST FRONT
Dr.
Leo
M.
Franklin,
rabbi
.bf
against each other was and is
If ever there was truth in the manic countries and sent to dis- life, even over and above the
Commonweal, leading Catholic
Orchids to the leaders of the today the key to English policy. Temple Beth El, was awarded an as many—in one out of every
bitter
economic struggle for sur-
four Jews in Detroit."
contention that history repeats tent lands to find new hope and
weekly, Mr. Shuster voices the delegations that went to Washing.
vival."
In 1922 the Mandate was given honorary Doctor of Divinity de-
itself, it is to be found in the
hope that the gratitude of Amer- ton 10 days ago to mobilize their to England, who by force of arms gree by his alma mater, the He-
Mr. Butzel congratulated the tragic occurrences of our own secure homes finds its counterpart
Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
in history of the past. Today's
ican Jewry to the late Pope Pius Congressmen on behalf of Zionist took Palestine from the Turks. brew Union College of Cincinnati, chairmen of the various teams
And it is particularly true of events are repetitions of the stirred the multitude
XI for his stand against racism claims to Palestine . . . Phone From that moment English inter-
and divisions, their captains and time.
by calling
Jewish history.
the
pavilion a temple of
tragedies
of
the
middle
ages,
and
thanks-
"will lead to a firmer bond of calls from Congressmen kept the est alone dictated Palestine policy
workers on the percentage of in-
Even the tragic story of the more especially of the period of giving. "This is no exhibit, no
understanding between Jewry and State Department wires busy for —the terms of the Mandate not-
creases over 1938 gifts obtained
refugee
children,
who
have
been
a
couple
of
days
.
.
.
Swellest
the
Spanish
Inquisition,
The
only
advertisement,"
said
the
Mayor.
the Catholic group."
from each group of prospects.
withstanding.
"It is a token of gratitude from
"One of the moat surprising job of all was done by Elihu
"Such figures as the following, torn from their homes in Ger- difference is that the twentieth
Yet in spite of this wicked hick
It
Stone,
head
of
the
Massachusetts
century
tragedy
is
being
enacted
people who first gave the world
things in my experience," Mr.
prove that each worker was more
on a much vaster scale.
Newspaper r cooperation Palestine WAS
culture, a people who gave us the
Shuster writes, "is this: At a time Zionist delegation
than a solicitor," stated Mr.
built up. A historic page in Jew•
fundamentals of law and order,
when Communism seemed the reporters who attended the press ash Hi st ory has been recorded.
A
Butzel,
"he
was
a
salesman
for
15th
Century
Tale
a people who gave the world the
most deadly enemy of Nazism, conferences called by Dr. Solomon Four Hundred and Fifty Thou-
the 55 causes embodied in the
in Washington and Dr.
Especially timely in the pres- Ten Commandments. They are
American Jewry did not veer to- Goldman
drive!
Stephen S. Wise in New York sand fellow Jews now live there
ent period of refugee wanderings now grateful for a tiny piece of
wards Sovietism to even a frac- say that both Zionist leaders could —they speak a beautiful He-
Pre-Campaign Division
is the 16th century story about land in the world where their op-
tion of the extent some us had leach sonic of the biggest political brew--tlley till the soil—they
"Last Friday's report meeting
refugee children, recorded in "The pressed brothers may find ref-
predicted." Describing the ad- figures in the nation's Capital the sing new songs—they revive old
Showed.that Team -1, in the Pre-
Ship of Hope," just published by uge." The, Mayor
vancement of large sections of art of answering questions . . . forms—they think of them-
'declared world
Campaign Division, headed by Hits Archbishop - of'-Canter=
Society
contributions of the Jewish peo-
American Jewry from the New The reason why Dr. Weizmann selves as citizens of the new-
America,
ejriecwa,ishtrP
Abe Srere and Maurice .Arons-
anusbllaited
elltioby
n
bury
for
Protest
Against
N. ple could be found in all of the
York ghetto to success as "a went to Paris to make his broad- old Jewish Homeland. And they
Gerson
from
the
German
of
son had covered 100 or 99 per
Blood Libel
wonderful human epic", Mr. cast on the occasion of the dedica- defend themselves—their blood
exhibitions that typify the aims
Ruben Rothgiesser.
cent of their slips. These pros-
Shuster charges that anti-Sem-
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of the Fair, particularly in those
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pects had given $55,035 in 1938.
The
story
in
"The
Ship
ef
of science and medicine.
ites such as Father Coughlin and
In 1939 their pledges amounted
L 0 N DON. (Religious News Hope" is apparently based upon
others use such achievements to
to $85,880—a 56 per cent in- Se rvice)—A new "ritual murder an incident recorded in the me-
Praises Non-Violence
stir up the resentment of short-
diaeval
historic
writings
of
Sam-
a pe cial number" of the Stuermer,
"It would be a tragic anti-
sighted people.
cre "ase
ei 2, headed by Sidney J. ra bid anti-Semitic weekly pub- uel Usque, and relates the ex- climax if at this
Tim
most critical
The American Catholic realizes,
Allen and Nate S. Shapero had IS hed by Julius Streicher, in- periences of 'about 100 Jewish moment in Jewish history, Jewish
Mr. Shuster asserts, that Catho-
covered 101 or 78 per cent of c lu des an attack upon the Arch- boys, children of a Spanish-Jewish immigration to Palestine should
Facts and Figures
lics in Fascist countries are suf-
their slips which amounted to his hop of Canterbury for a pra- community, who were driven from be stopped or greatly curtailed
fering, despite their "Aryanism,"
$43,605 in 1938 and $70,901 in t es t he made in a letter in the their native city during the 15th and the obligation recognized in
NOIR: The subject of immigration Is being widely dime...red and,
but he is also aware "just as EDITOR'S
1939—a 62 per cent increase.
as Is true of nand man. theorizing, has been eubJeeted to misinforn tion
pre ss on the occasion of the first century persecutions. They found the Palestine mandate repu-
and et-inception,. atatildically false. In onler to prenent
thoroughly, that for his own well-
pitiable refuge near a city on the
III the American
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dialed," said Governor Lehman
the true picture of fuze. Immigration to this canary, the follow-
(TURN TO EDITORIAL PAGE)
being he must see to it that no
I oubile
ng tivtres, based OR etalistice checked by the Immigration and Naturali-
in a message read by Lieut. Gov .
zation Senior of the C. S. Deportment of labor, mere compiled by the
minority, above all not the Jewish
Charles A. Poletti..
Committee for CathoIle refugees from Germany, the Americnn U ittee
minority, is treated unfairly."
for Chrtalangiermon Refugees and the National Co-ordinating Committee
Senator King went further by
for Aid to Ilefogres and Emig/ante, ('owing from Berman.
DR. LEO M. FRANKLIN
declaring that "It is inconsistent
Lehman Shins "Isms" Bills
with
common conception of demo-
at the commencement exercises
ALBANY. — (WNS) — Strik-
cratic policy for Great Britain to
ing a dual liftw at subversive ac-
held last Saturday.
SIX YEARS OF IMMIGRATION TO U. S.
close the doors of Palestine to
tivities through two new laws, the
Preceding the actual award,
homeless, to reward Arab
State of New York closed its civil
Dr. Julian Morgenstern, presi-
(SINCE HITLER) Mr 1,1932 - JUHE 33,108
brigends and gangsters and at the
service and public school teach-
dent of Hebrew Union College,
tsaMIGRANIS AD/AISSOILI UNDER QUOTA LAW
name time to penalize the cou-
ing systems to those advocating
paid glowing tribute to Dr.
rageous Jewish pioneers who
violent overthrow of the Ameri-
Franklin's services to America
(PLEASE TURN TO PAGE S)
heroically defend not only Jew-
and to Jewry.
ish colonies but the entire coun-
The citation that accompanied
(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE)
the awarding of the honorary de-
gree states:
Points to Need for Courageous
Leadership; Urges Subordination
of Personalities to Causes
DR. L. M. FRANKLIN
GIVEN D.D. DEGREE
STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIALo
Jewish Efforts Lauded by President Roosevelt; New Brit-
ish Policy Held Violation of Treaty With U. S.; Con-
tinuance of Jewish Resistance Emphasized
History Repeats Itself
STUERMER ATTACKS
RELIGIOUS LEADER
Refugee Immigration
JEWS REJECT SUICIDE AS "THE WAY OUT"
NAME RABBI FRAM
BOYCOTT OFFICER
Elected Vice President of
Non-Sectarian Anti-
Nazi League
Ernst Toiler's Tragic End Creates Depressing Attitude, But
in No Way Shakes the Accepted Historic Determ-
ination to Pursue Life
Ank
IMMIGRANTS ACTUALLY ADMITTED
EACH SYM501 REPRESENTS 50,000 (MIGRANTS
TOTAL NET IMMIGRATION TO U. S.
mama atnatoic
NEW YORK—New officers of
FROM ALL COUNTRIES
the Non-Sectarian A n t i- Nazi
League, chosen to lead the organ-
ization for the year of 1939 were
announced at the league's offices
at 20 W. 47th St. They were
elected at the first meeting of
the new Board of Directors held
at the Astor Hotel, New York,
Tuesday evening, May 23.
The new chairman of the board
•
of directors is Prof. James H.
1938 )i
Alb
Sheldon of Boston University.
VIAl Cf
KM meson
Dr. Sheldon, who is a well-known
14.0Jc...8110N
liberal leader in academic fields,
EACH SYPAROt REPRESENTS 40.000 ImMIGRAMS
succeeds Dr. S. William Kalb,
Newark specialist.
maw RAM= SC
New vice presidents of the or-
ganization which advocates eco-
nomic pressure against the Nazi
regime are: Mayor Fiorella H. La
MIGRATION
Guardia of New York; Bishop
Francis J. McConnell, of New
TO AND FROM THE UNITED STATES
York; Dr. Harold Rypins of Al-
- SINCE HITLER'S ACCESSION TO POWER
bany, who is secretary of the New
York State Board of Medical Ex-
aminers; Rabbi Leon Fram, of
Detroit; Prof. Nelson H. Mead,
acting president of the College
of the City of New York; John
Frederick Lewis, Jr. prominent
liberal attorney of Philadelphia;
and retiring chairman of the
board of directors, Dr. Kalb.
Among the several names
added to the board of directors
for the coming year were: Miss
Toni Sender, a former member
4,003 MORE WI THE U.S.A. THAN ENTERED
of the Reichstag; Samuel S. Lei-
bowitz, famed attorney; Dr. Ger-
•••
EACH SYMBOL REPRESENTS 25,003 ALIENS
ald Machacek, one of the leaders
MURES FOR JULY 1,1932-JUNE AWLS
of the Czech cause in America;
• iCaAl PAU*. INC
Mme. Irene Harand, Austrian
leader against race hatred; Ger-
hart H. Seger, editor of the
Deutsche Volkszeitung and a for-
For the six and half year
Assuming an immigration this
mer deputy of the Reichsta—all period, July 1, 1932, through De-
of New York City: Joseph White, cember 30, 1938, there has been year from Germany, including
Austria,
of 27,370, the total allow-
of Boston; Mrs. Katherine Hay. an immigration to this country of
den Salter, Greenport, N. Y., only 65,404 Germans. (These able under quota regulations,
there
will
be in this country by
author; Rev. Donald G. Lothron. years include the entire period
of Boston; and Rev. Stephen M. sirce the advent of National So- June 30, 1939, less than 75,000
Germans
who
have come here in
James, Albany clergyman.
cialism in Germany.)
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r
s A M
"Leo M. Franklin, sole mem•
her of the class of 1892 of this
Hebrew Union College; during
47 years Rabbi solo but two
congregations; faithful servant
of God and Leader in Israel;
pioneer in the democratic re-
organization of the synagogue
and in the co-ordinatio n of
Jewish traditions with Ameri-
can life and ideals; dauntless
champion of Judaism and de-
fender of Israel; promoter of
understanding, good will and
fellowship among the creeds,
racial groups and economic and
social forces of. our nation;
alumni lecturer of the Hebrew
Union College in 1937; presi-
dent of Central Conference of
America n Rabbis 1919-21."
Dr. Franklin was awarded an
honorary doctorate by the Catho-
lic University of Detroit in 1921,
as a mark of recognition for his
fight against the parochial school
amendement and in defense of
religious liberty.
Pisgah to Elect
Officers Monday
Final nomination and election
of officers for the 1939-40 term
will feature the meeting of Bnai
Brith Pisgah Lodge No. 34, to he
held Monday, June 5, at 8:30
p. m., in the Maccabees Auditor-
ium.Three sets of nominations
already have been held, in Re.
cordance with the constitution of
the order and additional nomina-
tions may be made front the floor
at this meeting. Henry M. Abram-
ovitz is chairman of the nominat-
ing committee.
A report also will be given by
Ben Goldman on the semi-annual
meeting of the Michigan Bnai
Brith Council held in St. Joseph
on May 20 and 21, at which Sam-
uel W. Leib was re-elected vice-
president. The Detroit Bnai Brith
lodges had a delegation of 25 at
this meeting which was attended
by the representatives of all Final
Brith lodges in the state. Mr.
Leib presented the report of the
anti-dafamation committee and
Aaron Drooek acted as chairman
of the nominating committee for
the Council.
MME. HARAND HERE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Ernst Toiler's suicide by hang-
With the suicide of Ernst
burning eyes, • shock of black
ing is one of the major tragedies Toiler, one of the most bril•
hair and • passionately elo-
of our day. The death of this one fi•nt of the German exiles in
quent
mouth—could be seen
person, this great dramatist, this America, • ghastly fate over•
rising above the mob at
• every
fighter for freedom, this radical took another victim. There is
meeting. Toiler only had to
young man who suddenly began rejoicing in Nazi Berlin. What-
show
himself;
his
ardent
youth-
to recognize his people Israel ever the immediate reasons for
fulness carried everything be-
from whom he was estranged his •ct, which stands in contra•
fore
it.
And
what
he
had
to say
most of his life, is a symbol of diction to the fighting spirit
swept his audiences off their feet,
what is happening in a period in that survived years in prison,
for he proclaimed the breach
our history that threatens to the deeper tragedy is all
■ too
with the powers that were guil-
drag our civilization back into the obvious. One has only to con•
ty of the war and responsible
primeval jungle.
eider the inner strain which the
for the death of Kurt Eisner,
laical exile, looking at
• real-
In every respect, Toiler was
a wise and benevolent man.
symbolic of the struggle in which " , must live. In the last years
The tale of their sins was full.
• untiring
Jewish intellectuals and assimila- Er nst Toiler took an
and now the government of the
tionists were caught in the last pa rt in the struggle of the
people was to take their place
few decades. Although his an- Sp • nish people and was deeply
• nd inaugurate the rule of
so-
cestry was Jewish, he did not feel de p resse d by the democracies
cial justice, of progress and of
his Jewishness until the last few be tray•I of their republic. It
all-e m b r •c i n g comradeship
years of his life. Although his was for him the third defeat of
among men. 'How young he is!'
family had settled in the Prus- the idealism •nd enthusiasm
the crowd felt, 'how g
he
sian province of Posen in the days which drove him as a young
is—how good, and hew right'"
of Frederick the Great, he was soldier into th• German revo-
This boy later wrote "I WAS a
nevertheless turned out of his lution and. after he had served German." Here is what Erika and
Fatherland as a "stranger" when a long prison term for it, into Klaus Mann say about this book:
the terrible reaction had set in. the fight against Nazism. Ernst "It is a fine, sincere, powerful
Toiler endured more than many and informative book, the per-
Ernst Toiler's tragedy cul-
even attempt to face.
minated in his suicide. But it
sonal record a young German
—Editorial in the Nation,
began long before that time. It
Jew of exceptional ability. The
May 27, 1939.
did not necessarily begin with
story of his childhood in his east-
his imprisonment after the B••
ern home, where even then the
varies revolution. It commenced l ard
's "Fighting Years" (Har- children in the streets would call
when he decided that the title
court, Grace & Co.) and Erika 'Jew boy! Jew boy!' as the dark
of his autobiography should be:
curly head passed by, of life at
"I Was A German." There can and Klaus Mann's "Escape to the front during the war, of the
Life" (Houghton Mifflin Co.).
be no greater tragedy than the
Villard was in Munich on the years in Munich, of imprisonment
realization that one must for-
in the fortress, of the writer's
sake his homeland, must give day of the assassination of Kurt life in the German Republic, con-
up • heritage of s 1 rim' Eisner, the revolutionary pre- tains, without apparent intention,
orationsmust seek a new home mier in whose administration the history of Germany for the
Ernst To was a dominant fac-
and adopt anew langu•ge.
tor. Villard writes of having met last 40 years. Against this his-
Another element in Toiler's Toiler, "an eager, passionate torical background, 80 deeply
tragedy may be found in the rev- youth, outstanding in his desire shadowed, so stained with blood,
elation that among his possessions, to build the perfect State in Ba- the figure of the man who was a
discovered after his death, was varia, refusing at first to be stam- German stands out, slim but dis-
an American Express draft in- peded by the Communists but tinct."
dicating that he had recently sent later joining them."
The Manna might have added
$500 to a foundation In Palestine.
that Ernst Toiler did not realize
But the more revealing descrip- the significance of his tragedy un-
His tragedy was not that he was tion
of Toiler is to be found in
forced to find spiritual satisfac-
til it was too late; that he did not
tion and moral refuge In the the fascinating story by the feel the seriousners of the re-
Manna.
We
read
in
"Escape
to
ideals that emanate from Pales-
buffs "Jew boy! Jew Boy!" until
tine, but rather that he had found Life" how, during the Bavarian he could no longer solve his own
Revolution of November, 1919,
this escape too late.
Ernst Toiler, then a very young problem. Too late in life, be tried
"A• Eager, Passionate Youth" soldier, "won the hearts of the to solve it through the cheek he
sent to • Palestine foundation.
Two recent books make refer- people."
Sinclair Lewis was right when
ence to Ernst Toiler's idealism
"His Is • • de e w is, animated
and his activities in the Bavarian
face — the face of as ideal he said of Ernst Toiler, in his
tribute to the deceased author
revolution : Oswald Garrison Vil- young revolutionary. with
!Eminent Viennese Catholic
to Address Women's Divi-
sion of Jewish Congress
Plans have been completed for
Congress Day, fedturing Mme.
'Irene Harand as guest speaker
'at a meeting of the Women's
!Division of the American Jewish
!Congress, at the Detroit-Leland
!Hotel on Wednesday, June 7, at
2:15 p. m.
Mine. Harand will be honored
at a luncheon preceding the meet-
ing. Reservations for the luncheon
are being taken by Mrs. Irving
Dworman, Un. 3-3741, and Mrs.
William Roth, Un. 1-3156. At-
tendance at the luncheon is op-
tional. Members and friends of
the American Jewish Congress
are invited to attend the meeting
and take part in the activities
planned for Congress Day.
Mme. Harand, a Viennese
Catholic and a practical visionary,
long ago foresaw the rise of Hit-
ler to power and the execution
of his deadly theories and aims.
Her weekly magazine "Justice"
grew to an amazing circulation.
Sherealized andpointed out con-
tinually that anti-Semitism was •
stain upon Christianity; and that
although the Jew was the scape-
goat and first target, Hitler's
march topower would Inevitably
crush the Catholics and Protest-
ants as well. Thwarted and ridi-
culed by the smug and credulous,
threatened by Nazi sympathizers,
she still continued to work with
almost superhuman energy to de-
velop a sufficiently powerful uni-
fied public protest against the
rising tide of totalitarianism and
oppression. Mme. Iiarand'a book
—"His Battle"--m answer to
Hitler.—has been translated into
several languages and has been
widely circulated. In this country
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a lecture tour, she arm the
importance of Jewish malty, and
the vital necessity In this crisis,
of blotting out all petty differ.
ences and clan distinctions in
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