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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 2 5:1-2 6:2.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 3 2:6-2 7.
MAY 17, 1940
is as much a blunder as it is an affront
to the Jewish people. Perhaps the change
in the British cabinet will cause the
abandonment of the Chamberlain-Mac-
Donald policy. Churchill, Atlee and Sin-
clair are sympathetic to the Jewish cause
in Palestine, and they may be expected
to introduce fairer methods in dealing
with the nucleus that is building the Jew-
ish National Home.
IYAR 9, 5700
Nazis Convince the World
Adolf Hitler's regime has sought to
convince the world that Germany is om-
niscient and omnipotent; that the Nazis
are unconquerable ; that the democracies
are the world's worst criminals and that
the new German ideology will soon con-
quer the world.
The Nazis have finally succeeded in
convincing the world about one thing:
that they are mankind's menace and that
humanity will not be safe until Nazism
is completely uprooted.
There was a time when Nazi arguments
found ready ears. There were people who
believed some of the Goebbelsian propa-
ganda and doubted the principles of de-
mocracy. Fifth Columns grew up wher-
ever there were conflicts between the de-
mocracies and the totalitarians.
But the latest invasions are most con-
vincing. If it can be Denmark one day
and Norway the next; and if peaceful
peoples like the Belgians and the Dutch
can be selected as victims the following
month, why not believe that Hitler is in-
deed out to conquer the entire globe in
the course of a lifetime? And if food ra-
tions follow Hitler into Czechoslovakia,
Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Hol-
land, Luxemburg and Belgium, why not
believe that it will be France and Eng-
land and the western hemisphere next?
The latest invasions must have con-
vinced the world as to the true Hitlerian
tactics, and only those bordering on men-
tal incompetence can still have faith in
the word of a Nazi, or in any sort of an
assurance coming from the Third Reich.
Mankind's obligations are clear : Hitler-
ism must be completely uprooted. Only
then 'will humanity be safe—and the Ger-
man people freed from a nightmare.
A Twice-Honored Man
Dr. Louis Finkelstein was highly hon-
ored twice in one week. He was elevated
to the presidency of the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary of America and was desig-
nated by President Roosevelt to speak
for American Jewry in efforts of our Gov-
ernment to enlist the support of all reli-
gious groups for peace proposals. In both
instances, Rabbi Finkelsteiin succeeds the
late Dr. Cyrus Adler.
A young man—he will be 45 on June
14—Prof. Finkelstein, who ranks high as
a scholar, is destined to play an impor-
tant part in molding Jewish opinion in
this country and in training future leaders
for our people. He is in a pivotal position
to do great good. We wish him well in
his new position and pray that his efforts
be blessed with wisdom and success.
An Able Executive
Leaders of the Allied Jewish Campaign
have taken occasion to laud the efforts
of Isidore Sobeloff whose organizing
ability is responsible for the preparation
of the machinery for this year's great
drive.
It must be recognized that even if this
campaign should fall considerably short
of the assigned quota, that the accom-
plishments to-date already indicate a
great step forward. Last year's un-
precedented success is being exceeded
this year, and the extent of educational
work done in the course of the drive is
certainly comendable.
Mr. Sobeloff deserves felicitations on the
manner in which he has organized the
campaign machinery. He is also to be
commended for having selected an effici-
ent staff of co-workers who have assisted
him in making this year's achievements
possible.
A Prophecy on Hitler
D. S. Gillmor, president of the publish-
ing company that is issuing the new and
most attractive magazine, Friday, has
written an interesting prophecy on Adolf
Hitler. In an editorial in last week's issue
Mr. Gillmor says that "of all the writings
I have ever read concerning dictators,
the one most appropriate to Hitler is from
the Book of Job . . . I think of it as the
perfect challenge to Hitler and all his
evil works." The selections referred to
by Mr. Gillmor are:
CONFIDENTIAL.
• STRICTLY
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
THERE AND HERE
WEAKLY GIGGLE
We note that it's still Hitler
who decides who's an Aryan .. .
At least, that's the only explana-
tion we can find for his award-
ing the Knight's Cross of the
Iron Cross to Goering's genealog-
ically non-Aryan right-hand man,
General Erhardt Milch . . . If
it's any consolation to you, it
was Milch who directed the
operations of the Nazi air force
in Norway.
Those new immigration restric-
tions of the Phillipines are di-
rected not only against the Jap-
anese, as you've been reading,
but also against refugee Jews
and Spaniards, many of whom
have been trying to get into the
Islands.
Just to make the Czechs happy
the Nazis are planning to build
a new university at Prague in
the shape of a swastika.
A local gagman claims that
Hitler views Norway, home of
the purest of Nordics, as Ersatz
Israel . . . And in the next
breath asks whether, in the event
of war in the Near East, the
oil from the Haifa pipe-line will
be able to smooth the troubled
waters of the Mediterranean . . .
A Brodaway wag says that Hit-
ler's invasion of Holland is mo-
tivated by his desire for a sunken
living-room.
Credited to a Broadwayite is
a dream of that happy day when
Hitler, having lost the war, was
being tried before a jury com.
posed of representatives of the
opposed nations . . . The verdict
of guilty having been rendered,
the judge told the prisoner that
he personally would have to pay
for the damage caused by his
military and air forces . A s
might have been expected, Hitler
protested that he didn't have
anything to pay with, and that
even if he had he wouldn't pay
. . . "You can cut me to pieces
first!" he shrieked . . . "That's
all right," the British juror com-
mented, "as long as England gets
the lion's share . . We'll take
the biggest part of him—his
gall" . . . From overseas comes
another story, concerning Bad-
olf's visit to the Siegfried Line
. . After patting his soldiers
on the back for a few moments,
Hitler bade them good-bye . . .
"I'm going back home now," he
announced . . . And to a man the
soldiers shouted : "You lead,
Fuehrer, and we'll follow you."
"Knowest thou not this of old, since man
was placed upon earth, that the triumphing
of the wicked is short, and the joy of the
hypocrite but for a moment? Though his
excellency mount up to the heavens, and
his head reach unto the clouds; yet he shall
perish for ever like his own dung; they
which have seen him shall say, where is he?
"He shall fly away as a dream, and shall
not be found; yea, he shall be chased away
as a vision of the night. The eye also which
saw him shall see him no more; neither shall
his place any more behold him. His children
shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
shall restore their goods. His bones are full
of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down
with him in the dust. Though wickedness be
sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under
his tongue, though he spare it, and forsake
it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the
gall of asps within him.
"He bath swallowed down riches, and he
shall vomit them up again: God shall cast
them out of his belly. He shall suck the
poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay
him. He shall not see the rivers, the floods,
the brooks of honey and the butter. That
which he labored for shall he restore, and
shall not swallow it down: according to his
substance shall the restitution be, and he
shall not rejoice therein; because he hath
oppressed and bath forsaken the poor; be-
cause he bath violently taken away an house
which he builded not."
17, 1940
Mr. Gillmor predicts the downfall of
Hitler. He also predicts the downfall of
all who helped to make Hitler powerful.
Chamberlain and Daladier "did every-
thing they could to strengthen Hitler" in
the thirties, and it is to be assumed that
they, too, having no interest in democ-
racy," will also meet their doom. Friday's
publisher's conclusion is that "the war
must end in the defeat of those who make
war, in the defeat of the leaders of all
belligerents."
The quotation from the Book of Job is
very apt. Mr. Gillmor is on safe ground
with his prophecy—even though its reali-
zation may take longer than people hope.
The defeat of the false leaders of demo-
cratic peoples has come. For his part in
the dastardly Munich pact, Chamberlain
has already paid the price. There is re-
A "Jewish Unit" in the War
tribution for the misdeeds of false lea-
Palestine Jewry has offered great Brit- ders.
ain a force of 135,000 men and women
who have registered for service. Until
now, assistance from Jews has not been
THE JEWISH CALENDAR
accepted. Moshe Shertok, head of the
5700-1940
political department of the Jewish Agen-
Sunday, May 26
Lag B'Omer.
cy, correctly pointed out that Jews must
Friday, June 7
Rosh Chodesh Sivan
participate in this war against their arch-
Wednesday, June 12.13
Shevouth
Tuesday, July 23
enemy as a "Jewish unit", since demands
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Monday, August 5
Rosh Chodesh Al,
for just rights will be made by our people
Wednesday, September 4
Rosh Chodesh Ellul
as a national group.
5701 - 1940
Great Britain has also failed to take
Thursday, October 3
Rosh Hashonah
advantage of the offer of Palestine Jew-
Saturday, October 12
Yom Kippur
All holidays begin at sundown of the preceding
ish industrial and scientific resources for
secular day
a supply base in the Middle East. This
YOU SHOULD KNOW
When Rene Blum, brother of
the former French premier, left
New York on the camouflaged
Ile de France not long ago, as
one of the three passengers on
ABOUT PEOPLE
her dash through perilous seas,
he left with the purpose of his
The rumor hereabouts is that American visit unfulfilled . . .
the current exhibition of Sholem He had planned to arrange for
Asch's manuscripts at the Yale an American season for the f a-
University Library is a prelude mous Comedie Francaise, but
to his receiving an honorary de- found no takers.
gree from Old Eli's school.
Biggest thrill of the week f or
It seems we were somewhat Walter Winchell was to see the
behind the times when, a few term "Renovated", which he
columns ago, we told you of coined, quoted in the Law Jour-
Mrs. Paul Ehrlich, widow of the nal as part of a Brooklyn Su-
scientist, being rather badly off preme Court Justice's opinion in
. . . It's true that her plight had a divorce case . . . Coming on
been quite miserable, but in re- top of the revelation that the
cent months she has received Nazis regularly listen in on his
some thousands of dollars from broadcasts, this must be increas-
private donors as well as a fee ing W. W.'s headsize . . . His
from Warner Brothers, producers biggest scoop of the week, in-
of the Ehrlich film.
cidentally, was the news that the
Friedrich Wolf, anti-Nazi Ger- anti-British campaign of the
man writer whose "Sailors of Nazis in this country will set up
Catarro" and Professor Mam- a committee which will include
lock" were played on Broadway Jews too . • . Apparently all's
some years ago, is ill in a con- fair in hate and war.
It was Arthur Hays Sulzberger,
centration camp in France, and
the French government refuses publisher of the New York Times,
t; let him go, although, accord- who nixed the project of renting
ing to his friends, Wolf has a out space in the Times Annex to
visa for Mexico and his passage P. M., the new afternoon daily
money is ready to be paid the due in Manhattan next month
second he is given his permit to . . . So P. M. is taking space
elsewhere on Times Square, in
leave.
Francine Larrimore may get the Hillman Building, which bears
the leading role in the new Sin- the name of the publisher Pierre
clair Lewis' play, "Felicia Speak- van Paassen's "Days of Our
ing" . . . And the Twentieth Years" . . Which reminds us
Century-Fox film on Sergeant that the Palestine chapter of van
Sam Dreben, American Jewish Paassen's book is being brought
soldier who achieved fame in out as a separate volume by a
Mexico, may have John Garfield committee of Zionists, who want
to circulate it in large numbers.
as its star.
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