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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Ire.

JACOB H. SCHAKNE

' Presidert

Entered as Secono.class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 26:3-27:34.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 166:19-17:14.

Lag b'Omer Ob

MAY 24, 1940

d on Suilday, May 26.

IYAR

16. 5700

British Labor and Palestine

The new British Colonial Secretary,
Lord Lloyd, was at one time a strong
adherent of the pro-Arab movement and
is now said to have been won over to
friendship for the Zionist cause. His en-
tire career as a colonial official presents
an enigma to Jews who are concerned
over the status of Palestine as a result of
the war. An encouraging factor in the
change in the Colonial Office is the fact
that the spokesman for the government
in Parliament will be James H. Hall, who
voted against the White Paper' and who
had proposed stoppage of "illegal" immi-
gration by encouraging "legal" immigra-
tion.
But most encouraging of all is th6
stand taken last week by the British La-
bor Party at its annual conference held at
Bournemouth, when a resolution was
adopted "reaffirming its traditional sup-
port of the re-establishment of the Jewish
National Home in Palestine:" The com-
plete resolution is a significant document,
since it reiterates the stand taken by
the British Labor Party against the restric-
tions incorporated in the White Paper.
Of great importance are the following
declarations appended to the Labor Par-
ty's resolution:
"This conference further declares
that no real peace settlement is pos-
sible wthout repairing the wrongs
done to the Jewish people. The new
international order after the war must
ensure for the Jews, along with other
minorities, effective international
guarantees for their civil, political
and economic equality and for their
national rights.
"This conference declares that the
Jewish people should be adequately
represented when the Peace Confer-
ence comes to consider the problems
affecting them."

A Distinguished Visitor

Few men in our time have gained the
distinction which goes with the name
Moshe Smilansky.
A brilliant novelist and story-teller, Mr.
Smilansky belongs also to that group of
pioneers who make history. For 50. years
a resident of Palestine, he has seen the
land develop from a dried-up desert into
a blossoming homeland for half a million
Jews. He has befriended the Arabs and
perhaps more than any other man has
negotiated with them in land purchases
made by Jews. As a result . of his dealings
with the Arabs and the part he has played
in the advancement of Jewish life in Pal-
estine, Mr. Smilansky's chronicled narra-
tives of Palestine's advancement represent
fascinating historical material that will
thrill Jews of future generations.
Mr. Smilansky comes here with an im-
portant message, and it will be a privilege
for those who will be in position to meet
with him to hear his attitude on existing
conditions. He is the combination of the
best in Jewish life,—being scholar, builder
of a new social and economic structure,
pioneer in Israel's .regeneration; leader in
the movement for the renationalization
of Jewry as a farming community. It is a
pleasure to welcome him to Detroit and
to wish him well on his present mission
to this country in behalf of the JeWish
National Fund.

Return Your Medals!

Since Charles Lindberg has come forth
with advice, on the 13th anniversary of
his solo flight to Paris, on defense needs
for this country, may we make. this sug-
gestion on the necessity for moral defense:
How about returning that medal you
received at the hands of Adolf Jlitler,
Lindy?
This applies also to Henry Ford and
to all others who accepted decorations
from the world's leading terrorist.

"There Are Faces at the Window"

Fannie Hurst, •eminent author, recently
delivered a touching address before the
NeW York section of the Women's Divi-
sion of the American Jewish Congress.
Later, the text of her address was trans-
formed into a brochure as an appeal in
behalf of the national United Jewish Ap-
peal, which includes overseas relief agen-
cies, Palestine reconstruction work and
refugee services in this country.
Miss Hurst spoke of faces at the win-
dow' of every American Jew, beckoning to
us for help. She asked a question and
suggested an answer:

"Suppose that suddenly the tremendous
trifles of your every-day living, the bright.
ness of your bay window, sunlight over a
park you love, vista of mountains in whose
shadow you were born, propinquity to a
quiet cemeter y where li e your beloved dead,
were all blacked-out ?
"Try, you in your homes that are still
secure,; you who are living with your secure
children, to visualize being cast adrift from
all this that is near and dear, into the icy
waters of tragedy.
"Then perhap s you will have at least some
faint inkling of the despair, the terror, the
nostalgia, the hunger and worse, that are
part of involuntary migration."

Such expressions of sympathy and con-
cern should give us courage in the pres-
ent tragic period in our history. It should
add to our faith that not all mankind has
Then Miss Hurst proposed a suggestion
lost its sense of decency and that there are
which
strong groups which are prepared to bat- Jew : challenges the concern of every
tle for justice and for the re-establishment
"Go home tonight, unlock your
of righteousness and fa i r dealing for all
front
door, feel the warmth flow over
peoples.
•
you, hear the feet of your children
running to meet you and make your
Welcoming the Farband
silent vow that you will help rehabili-
The,Jewish National Workers' Alliance
tate those whose homes have been
of America (Farband) 'comes to Detroit
swept out from under them on the
for' its 30th anniversary convention in a
high tides of hate.
most tragic period in the history of man-
"Remember, there, but for the
kind, and in an especially tragic time for
grace of God, might you be."
Jewry.
There must be thousands of Jews in
Many important problems will face the Detroit who have not as yet felt the pres-
sessions of the Farband. There are prob- sure of these faces at their windows. Also,
lems on the home front, in Europe, in there must be many hundreds among
Palestine. In all of these, the Farband is those who have already responded to this
deeply concerned. It is closely allied with pressure whose realization of the extent
the work for Palestine's reconstruction; of the tragedy is not sufficiently strong.
it strives to assist the liberal forces in this There is a campaign in progress. Some
country; it cooperates in relief and . con- have given what they should give, some
structive work in behalf of European have made sacrifices, there are many who
J ewry.
have not given enough, there is a group
- Prominent leaders will attend this con- that has not subscribed at all.
vention. The spokesmen for branches in
There are faces at the windows staring
hundreds of communities will convene for at those who have not given to the Allied
the deliberations here. All of American Jewish Campaign. These must make peace
Jewry will watch the Farband's conven- with their conscience. It is not too late
tion and will listen to its debates through to do so. It is time for increase< for hon-
the reports to be broadcast through the orable discharge of duty, for a human
press. May the deliberations of this con- response to a need that is unparalleled in
all history.
vention be crowned with success.

M

;40

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

Tidbits from Everywhere

B y PHINEAS J. BIRON

BEHIND THE BLITZKREIG .

THEY SAY

Confidential information gath-
ered by American military ob-
servers in Europe indicates that
the bigge:.! mistake Chamberlain
made in the last few months of
his premier-ship was the letting
out of Leslie Hore-Belisha from
the War Ministry . . . If the
army reforms Hore-Belisha ad-
vocated had been carried out the
British wouldn't have suffered
their fiasco in Norway and would
have been able to give effective
aid to Holland's army—which,
lacking that help, had to stop
fighting the Nazi invaders . . .
Incidentally;.. 'that- was a Leroic
•battle which the little Dutch
army, led by its Jewish command.
er-in-chief, General Henri Gerard
Winkelman, put up against the
mechanized and numerically vast-
ly, superior Nazi forces . . . An
indication of trouble for the
Balkans in the very near future
is seen in King Carol's precau,
tionary move in shipping off his
Jewish friend Magda Lupescu to
London . . . Rumor has it that
efforts are being made to find her
a refuge on this continent as
quickly as possible . . . Latest
story via the trans-Atlantic grape-
vine is that Italy's entry into
the war on the Nazi side would
start a disastrous civil conflict in
II Duce's country, a very large
proportion of the people, though
loyal supporters of the Fascist
regime, being thoroughly anti-
Nazi . . . If you still think that
the stories of Nazi espionage and
fifth columns on this continent
are exaggerated, and even the
experience of various European
ex-neutrals hasn't convinced you,
just remember that a recent
purge of Nazis in Ecuador left
that country with practically no
air force kmnng, the Dutch
Jews who are trying to escape
from Nazi-held Holland are 60
professors at famous Dutch uni-
versities
, krid among the
Austrian refugees caught in Hol-
land by the Blitzkreig is the
father of Luise Rainer.

Lady Wonder, the soothsii.:ing
mare of Richmond, who has een
getting a lot of publicity la. ely,
is reported to have anno , ,, t cel
that the war will last three years
and that England will em-rge
victorious . . . And Grant
who has just published a ' , )ok
on astrology, claims that li.iler
hasn't much longer to live iind
that Stalin, Mussolini and Fr Lilco
will eventually ally them,i Ives
with the democracies.
Pete GrOss, head of the liter-
ary department of the A. and S.
Lyons Agency, tells us that on
of his bosses had the bright idea
of bringing the ex-Kaiser, whose
Doorn home is now Nazi terri-
tory, to Hollywood to play him-
self in the Vincent Sheean "For-
eign Correspondent" picture.
If one of these days you see
a serial by Pierre van Paassen in
the Jewish Daily Forward you
will know that it is a special
Yiddish version of notes that
the author of "Days of Our
Years" has prepared for a book
. . . The hero of the serial, the
grandson of a wonder-rabbi, near-
ly supersedes Hitler as the dic-
tator of Germany.
Charlie Chaplin's "Dictator"
film will probably be delayed
sonic snore, for revamping to fit
the headlines . . . In the mean-
while, Charlie is keeping busy
writing his autobiography, his
main purpose being to discourage
publishers from putting out the
unauthorized version of his life
story that is being peddled
around.
Walter Winchell is enjoying
the opportunity of saying "I told
you so" to those editorial writers
who not long ago decried him
as an alarmist because of his
continual references to Nazi ac-
tivities in this country . . . The
insidiousness of these activities
has become so evident how that
Winchell's erstwhile critics are,
to use his phrase, echoing his
words and eating their own.

NAVAL • NOTES

ABOUT PEOPLE

Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taus-
sig, who recently startled the
nation by his statement that
war between the United States
and Japan is inevitable, is the
author of one of the Navy's fam-
ous phrases . . . It dates . from
the first world war, when he
brought an American squadron
over to Europe and on his arrival
was asked by British naval au-
thorities how soon he would be
ready to go into action . . . "Sir,
we are now ready!" is what the
Admiral said . . . Because of
his brilliant record in the service
he was in line for the job of
Commander of the U. S. Fleet
some years ago—but the powers
that be decided that in this day
and age it would be better not
to have a Jew in so prominent a
position.

A new foreign news servic, , ,
be called the Overseas Nt NV: ■
Agency, has been formed . . .
Herbert B. Swope of the de-
funct New York World and
George Backer of the very much
alive New York Post are its mov-
ing spirits.
"Eat and Grow Beautiful" is
the title of a new book, written
by Dr. Benjamin Gaylord Hau-
ser . . . In view of the fact that
one of his most fervent disciples
is Miss Greta Garbo, we'd advise
our feminine readers to have a
look-see . . . And we thought
you might like to know thatAr-
yan George Brent, whose real
name is Nolan, got his dramatic
start in this country in the role
of the Semitic hero in a road
company production of Abie's
Irish Rose".

M OLO d H

By BRESSLER

