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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:1-18:32.
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 11:14-12:22.

JUNI: 28, 1940

SIVAN 22, 5700

In the Hands of the Nazis

Herschel Grynszpan is now at the
"mercy" of the Nazis. The whereabouts of
Leon Blum, former Premier of France, are
unknown. The world's best minds are
trapped in Hitlerized France. People who
were once extremely wealthy are today
trekking the refugee road. Tragedy stalks
the highways of God's earth. It is no won-
der that men are beginning to despair.
Tragedy has been aggravated by treason
in the midst of the democracies. Only to
treason is ascribable the plight of the un-
fortunate youngster Herschel Grynszpan,
who could have been saved from the
clutches of the Nazis had he been tried
earlier by the French. The delay in legal
action against this boy is one of the most
distressing manifestations of the workings
of the Fifth Column.
The few remaining citadels of strength
for democracy must be protected. Are men
of vision planning for the future? What
is the program of action among people
who are concerned that a haven of hope
should be perpetuated on this continent?
Are we preparing to stave off disaster
here?
Clear thinking, practical planning, firm
action is necessary in this day of distress.
Men of vision must not fail us in this
hour of tragedy.

The Price of Liberty

Americans must be warned that liberty
is too precious to be bartered away for
false promises and dangerous ideologies.
"Nothing succeeds like success," we have
been told from time immemorial, and there
is danger that the military triumphs of the
Nazis might mislead well-meaning people
into believing that their successes also in-
dicate that there is justice in their posi-
tion. Therefore, let us look at the record
and begin to learn anew what Nazism
means, by examining the testimony of the
Nazis themselves.
For example, in January, 1936, there
was justification of the horrible torture
chambers instituted by the Nazis in the
following statement in the Frankischer
Tageszeitung: "ConcentratiOn camps are
no disgrace: on the contrary, they are
an ornament to Kultur. Here neglected
individuals are educated to real life with
the firmest kindness."
How are we to interpret "firmest kind-
ness"? Perhaps Dr. Robert Ley, leader of
the Nazi. Labor Front, can explain. Said
the Nazi Ley: "We begin with the child
as soon as he is three years old. As soon
as he begins to think, he gets a little flag
put into his hand, then follows the school,
the Hitler Jugend, the S. A., and mili-
tary training. We don't let him go ; and
when all this is past, then comes the Ar-
beitsfront and takes him up again and
doesn't let him go until the grave, whether
he likes it or not."
Perhaps a street scene will help ex-
plain "firmest kindness." A placard dang-
ling from the neck of a young girl being
dragged to prison by an S. S. guard in
Neruppin read : "I, lowest of creatures,
dared to remain seated while the Horst
Wessel song was being played. With this
I have insulted the martyrs of the na-
tional revolution."
Now, let us take you to a Nazi party
conference where there was a demand
to form National Socialist trade unions.
K. Heiden, in his biography of Hitler,
quotes Dr. Ley: "I don't know why you

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June 28, 1940

should be allowed to speak, Comrades.
You have utterly mistaken notions as to •
the purpose of these deliberations and
Tidbits from Everywhere
the tasks of the party conference. We are
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
not in a parliamentary talking shop with
its debating and votings and rules of pro- • WAR ECHOES
American countries should check
into the following story concern
cedure. You can't make decisions here.•
concern-
B e l ievers in the occult will be ing
Believers
a Caribbean republic that has
are here in order to hear the opinion happy
to learn that Nostradamus, lately
been much in the news a s
of the Fuehrer. I have told you what that the Jewish physician who nearly . haven for Jews in search of
four centuries ago foretold all a home . .. The story deals
is. You have now to conform with it!"
with
sorts of historic events that ac- a German-Jewish couple wh
There are some who wish to conform tually
came to pass, predicted managed
to salvage part of
here, too. Therefore they should be not only the rise of Hitler and their very eons
iid.eiimbTlehtlsfocrottuipnle,
taught the price of liberty. It is better to Mussolini, but their eventual de- so that they are
by no means s
be dead than to be a slave. It is better feat . . . It's a young general who destitute and would never IP .. s
li. i N heisr appearance
u
raue enear
NNht o hm e
cha rges
to undergo hardships than to lose hard- "ill
couple
Rho ne
obtai
ridblicolunhtai
i
won freedom. Liberty may be costly, but the seer picked as the man who mits
for ned Dominican I tn e nil l e ir. ,
it is worth whatever price we pay for it. will finish Hitler . . . Latest and because a rather long o waiting

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

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Presbyterian Action

Broadway appelation for Nazis period had to elapse before they
is "'Sons of blitzkreigs," famili- could enter that land they came
arly shortened to "sons of blitzes" to the U. S. on transit visas,
. . And in local fistic circles to await their turn .. A cou de
* the impression is that Hitler's of weeks ago, when . their
wait-
i ng. time was nearly up, they .
se
it
o's
from
now
on
because
well
i
war machine won't be doing so. visited the Dominican Consulate
y ou to complete the necessary for_
M usso lini
eslie . Howard' s son, middies and , .ot their
tn h at uLnd
k'
t 11 N
who is serving England as a stis . . . Everything seemed
;t
member of a mine-sweeper's crew, right until the Consul asked i ll
born during an air raid in whether these prospective immi-
Now grants were Jewish, and got an
first world war?
- the
`,
se the release of Char- A- affirmative
they prom i • se
answer
" I'm
lie Chaplin's "The Dictator" b by sorry," he then said, with . wh
. Meaning, appeared to be genuine re a a t
the end of August ...Meaning,
N g . ' ,
we hope, that by the time it'll o "but my country cannot admit
possible
to
laugh
at
a
'again b ue .itbpos
any more J
"Vs ' "
clear conscience? ' "
• YOU SHOULD KNOW

At its 152nd general assembly in Roch-
ester, N. Y., the Presbyterian Church,
U.S.A., pledged itself to "participate both
as individuals and collectively, in every
world effort to combat anti-Semitism" and
unanimous approval was given to an ex-
pression of "deep sympathy to our Jewish
neighbors in view of the desperate plight
and great suffering of so many Jews in
European countries who are the victims
of anti-Semitic persecution."
At the same time, the assembly voted
to support refugees and called upon the
HEAR YE
denomination "to uphold the American
With the Presidential campaign
tradition of sanctuary for the oppressed • It's beginning to look as if this approaching
Bernard G. Richards
and to help our uprooted brothers by Nv a I. won't end without the for- huts been drafted back to the Na.
veig
uito
l
in
L
muttioT
nbe
ofRanother
prayer and generous giving." In adopting
tional Democratic Committee ...
Revisionist
ir s
leader
its resolution the General Assembly de- MI i J a botienvsik s 'sand ' Britain's' He will probably again lead the
foreign language section of the
Glared "anew our determined allegiance Colonel J. H.
are plan- Democratic campaign . . . While
to the Christian principle that all men ning a revival of the unit they we ourself are among F. D. R.' s
are of one blood, all members of the led in Palestine in the last world admirers, we're by no means ad-
and hope to get Uncle Sam's vocating
that his
same family of God, and urge the church war,
opponents
permission to recruit in this should simply evaporate
and
to employ all its spiritual resources country . . . And one Joseph
hand him a precedent-breaking
against the unspeakable cruelty that flows Otmar Hefter, who heads what third
term on a silver platter
B t\bvee'rueelAnsot that allim
from race prejudices and antipathies. We he calls the Nai Juda Movement,
recognize that our common life has been is seeking. volunteers for „an prised at the
American-Jewish Border Regi- government official, whose name
enriched by contributions from not one ment
for the defense of America the saideituol job L oe f o diliI
.eaebtiicuhgt, anti-
as -
but many racial groups and express ap- and American Democracy " .
The
latest
proposal
for
the
crew-
Roosevelt
propaganda
in
these
predation for the part all have played in
of harmony at the Zionist United States.
the development of our American democ- tion
Convention, which opens this
racy. "
Clare Boothe, who has just re-
week-end, is the establishment
It is interesting to note also that this of a collegium that would include turned to our shores from the
zone, declares she no longer
convention at the same time adopted a Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Solo- war
likes the first act of her highly
mon
Goldman,
Louis
Lipsky,
E.
resolution by an overwhelming majority Kaufman and Dr. Israel Gold- successful "Margin for Error,"
giving strong support for the right of stein .. . Rabbis on the lookout because in that part of the play
the exercise of individual conscience in for good material for some pretty the Nazi villain of the piece is
alive . . . Broadway, inci-
time of war and for allowing ministers hot sermons are advised to watch still
dentally, is expecting a was play
for
Dr.
Emmanuel
Laske•'s
"Corn-
and church members to register with munity of the Future," which is from her for next season.
church authorities their position against being published next week . . . It • ABOUT PEOPLE
participation in war for religious reasons. contains a chapter on Jewish
These decisions indicate that men of leadership that will arouse a "Native Land" is the tentative
title for the documentary film
religion have not abandoned sacred prin- great deal of comment.
for which Mare Blitzstein will
ciples of right. That should give us cour- • THIS AND THAT
write the music . . . Its theme is
age to believe that the people in whose
The report is that the newly- civil liberties.
names they speak will also adhere to these formed "American Anti - Fifth- Alla Nazimova, who has a long
principles, and that the American ideals Column Committee" in New and glorious stage career behind
York's Yorkville section is spon- her, now can look forward to a
will be perpetuated.

■

A Dark Horse for Zionism

On the eve of the annual convention
of the Zionist Organization of America,
which takes place this week-end in Pitts-
burgh, it is advisable to begin to think in
terms of a "dark horse" for the presidency
of the movement. An issue that has as-
sumed unfortunate dimensions is threaten-
ing the peace of the movement. There is
a campaign of personalities in a time of
utter distress for Jewry and the world.
Perhaps a neutral person, an acceptable
"dark horse," will enable a group seeking
peace in the movement to gather all ele-
ments around one acceptable candidate,
and thus eliminate rancor.
Among the possible "dark horse" can-
didates whose names come to mind are
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland; Mau-
rice Levin of New York, prominent mer-
chant who has already rendered service
to the Zionist cause; Judge Louis E. Levin-
thal of Philadelphia ; Dr. Israel Goldstein
of New York and there are undoubtedly
others who are well qualified for this im-
portant post.
But perhaps the proposal for the for-
mation of a praesidium of five—Louis Lip-
sky, Dr. Solomon Goldman, Dr. Israel
Goldstein, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, E. I. Kauf-
mann — is the most practical solution
of all.

THE JEWISH CALENDAR

5700-1940
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
Tuesday, July 23
Rosh Chodesh Ab
Monday, August 5
Rosh Chodesh Ellul
... Wednesday, September 4
5701-1940
Rosh Hashanah
Thursday, October 3
Yom Kippur
Saturday, October 12
All holidays begin at sundown of the preceding
secular day

Hollywood comeback-with-a-bang..
The work she has been do-
ing in "Escape," her first movie
assignment since the talkies
came in, has the film executives
goggle-eyed with enthusiasm.
Garson Kanin, Hollywood's cur-
rent miracle man, claims that
the only reason why Samuel
Goldwyn hired him to direct pic-
tures in the first place is be-
cause Mr. G. thought he saw a
strong physical resemblance be-
tween Kanin and the late Irving
Thalberg..
Novelist Irving Fineman has
invaded a new field, that of col-
umning . . . It's in the Benning-
ton, Vermont, Banner that you
can read him.
A Shakespearean revival half-
promised for Broadway's next
season is "King Lear," with Paul
Muni in the title role.
If you ever observe a page-boy
in the New York NBC studios
who seems to know all about mu-
sic, the chances are he's a youth
whose papa also knows all about
• INVESTIGATION NEEDED music . . What we're trying to
tell you is that the son of Cleve-
Jewish relief organizations who land's symphony conductor Artur
are helping refugees from Hitler- Rodzinski works as a page-boy
ism to get into various Latin- with NBC.

sored by the Nazi Bund . . If
true, this means that the patri-
otic-sounding title is merely a
blind for a Fifth Column re-
cruiting office . . . Winchell, de-
bunking George Sylvester Vier-
eck's claim that he is not a Nazi
propagandist, recalls that in 1934
Viereck testified before a Con-
gressional Committee that he was
paid $500 a month by the German
Consul in New York for public
relations work . . . A new book
in the making is said to be an
expose on Hitler by none other
than Fritz Thyssen, the German
industrialist who no longer is on
good terms with the Fuehrer .. .
As one of those who helped bring
Badolf to power, Thyssen ought
to be able to tell an interesting
story . . . Did you know that
"'Pins and Needles," the Interna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union review which amused au-
diences for over two and a half
years with its lampooning of dic-
tators, had the longest run on rec-
ord for any musical show?

PLANTER OF SEEDS OF HATE