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day . . . The other 100,000 are seems he doesn't like t o r very
all in the Nazi part of the land much . . . The same is,iie will
contain an inte
MAURICE M. SAFIR
i ng arti.
Coughlin's Pals
of liberty, equality and fratern- also
i about the Jewish rest
c.,e
wine mer .
ity
•
•
•
It
is
calculated
that
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
In November, 1938, the Rev. Charles E. 200,000 Jews remain in Hitler- Y chant Siecher, who at one time
Hitler-
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Coughlin was a hero in Berlin. Today, he land,
out of the original Jewish , was Joachim Ribbentrop',, boss.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only. iS a hero in Rome.
You may not know it, but
population of 600,000 back in
there was a time in Rihbentrop's
1 1, a Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondenc e on sub-
There is no mistaking Coughlin's 1933 . • . And the Jewish popu- life
when his social contacts were
lation
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
friends.
of Austria, which two almost exclusively Jewish •
years ago amounted to 180,000,
bility for an endcrsement of views expressed by the writers.
Roberto Farinacci, writing in the Fascist has been reduced to 50,000 . . .
newspaper Regime Fascista, said "Cough- The only factor which keeps WEEKLY GIGGLE
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Walter Winchell relays this
lin takes a firm stand against Jewish these 50,000 from starving is the
Pentateuchal portion — Deus. 26:1-29:8.
Jewish Distribution Committee. one, which a foreign correspond
democratic
propaganda
in
the
United
Prophetical portion—Is. 60.
. . . In German-occupied Poland ant told him . . . In a Czech
States. "
there are a million and a guar- city one night anti-Nazi leaflets
SEPTEMBER 20, 1940
ELLUL 17. 5700
That is, of course, correct. Coughlin ter Jews . . . Conditions there were found in the street
does not like democracy. Coughlin does are indescribably tragic, particu- The Nazi authorities , infuriated,
larly since the relief stations for sent orders to the Mayor to find
The Defeat of "Handsome Joe ), not like Jews because they stand for adults,
Which used to operate in the guilty wretches . • • The next
democracy.
The crushing defeat suffered at the
that territory, have been closed. day huge posters reproducin g the
There is no secret about Coughlin's . . . There are 6,000 refugees seditious " leaflets were hung
polls on Tuesday in the 18th New York
Congressional District by "Handsome Joe" friends. They are in Berlin and in Rome who already have their visas for in every square in town and in
America or Palestine, but who all the neighboring villages . . •
McWilliams is additional proof that the —and wherever there is reaction and can't
go because they lack the At the bottom of the posters
tyranny.
American way of life is here to stay, and
means for transportation . . . A were these words: "Have you
Farinacci wrote : "It is even said that refugee colony that is growing seen any of these leaflets? . .
that bigots are doomed at the hands of
a high prelate in the United States at- at an amazing rate is that of If so, please report to your near-
the electorate of this country.
In a sense, the failure of McWilliams tempted to muzzle him but Coughlin Shanghai, by the way . . . Al( est official This is ordered
this information we culled from by the German Occupation au-
to make the grade is a sequel to what hasn't surrendered." It is to the credit of an
i nteresting letter hich Mor- thorities" . . • This didn't make
the
Catholic
church
that
it
is
disowning
happened to two associates of the "Ghost
ris C. Tro p er, chai rm w an of the the Nazis happy, but it made
JDC's European activities, re- the Czechs feel a lot better .
of Royal Oak" in the Michigan Primaries this man who has disgraced his garb.
Father William C. Kernan of Scarsdale, cently sent to his chairman, Paul Their passive resistance to Nazi
on Sept. 10. The voters, once they are
rule is one of Hitler's headaches,
informed which candidates for office stand N. Y., was right when he said, at the Baerwald.
you'll be glad to know.
luncheon
of
the
Women's
Division
of
the
WAR
ECHOES
for the Nazi way and offer a threat to
Britain, we hear, is about to NEWS OF JEWS
our progressive system of government, are American Jewish Congress in Detroit on
Sept. 16, that "Coughlin is a renegade to see the light with regard to those All right, all right—so we
certain to repudiate the intolerant.
German nationals, who include were wrong . . . The Bniii Brith
McWilliams, w hose campaign was his religion and country."
many Jews, whom she has been headquarters in Washington are
marked by the worst type of anti-Semitic
treating as enemy aliens although definitely not being moved to
actually they are as anti-IIitler New York . . . It seems that the
rowdyism, got all that was coming to him
A Libelous Forgery
as any born Englishman . . . The constitution of the Order pro-
—in the courts, where he was hailed for
A few days ago, Rep. Samuel Dickstein story is that these refugees will hibits such a move • . . Still, we
disturbing the peace; at the hands of the delivered
the following brief address in soon be permitted to volunteer don't see why all the excite.
voters, who won't stand for rowdies; from the United States Congress:
for service as a special military ment . . . It isn't an insult to be
the public opinion of New York, which
unit against Hitler, and that the reported as wanting to move to
"Mr.
Speaker,
the
United
States
mails
oldest son of Sigmund Freud New York.
condemns the aspirations of a man who are being extensively used by some anti- will
be in charge of the group.
Italy is making a special ef-
claims to aspire to be the Hitler of Semitic groups in this country who are
A foreign correspondent who fort to terrorize Jewish commun-
America.
recently
came
home
from
Ger-
ities
in Palestine. All of which
circulating a document entitled 'Special
Remember: McWilliams was a candi- Notice
many insists that Hitler's popu- doesn't keep the line of Mimi.
To All Jews', in which they call larity with the German people grants waiting for visas to the
date in the district which includes York-
upon
all
Jews to refuse to take part in is on the wane . . . This tallies Homeland from lengthening day
ville, the hot-bed of Nazism in New York ; the military
service. I want my colleagues
Winchell's story that the by day . . . All of this makes
which simply goes to prove that not all and the country to know definitely that with
bombing of the Munich Rath- us think of the Zionist Emerg-
Germans are Nazis, and that the Hitler- this document is an outright forgery, and skeller, where Hitler almost got ency Committee, which Dr.
ites merely make the most noise.
what he deserves, was plotted not Chaim Weizmann set up on his
its purpose is to stir up anti-Jewish by the French or the British, last visit here . . . What, if any.
A lot of credit for exposing McWil- that
throughout this country. It is not but by Adloph's closest heilers. thing, is it doing?
liams should go to the Friends of Democ- hatred
even
a
piece of work. It bears the . . . In Washington, you'll like Once Max Reinhardt types an
racy, an organization which has acquired alleged clever
to know, usually well-informed actor he has to play that sort
signature
of 'Anti-Defamation circles
stature in this country as a result of the
declare that Hitler is ser- of character for a long time ...
B. B.' and then calls upon the iously ill.
That's what's happening to young
efforts of its very able director, the Rev. League,
of the letter to repudiate the
The rumor that Leslie Fiore- Sidney Lumet, whom Reinhardt
Dr. L. M. Birkhead, who is devoting him- recipient
letter itself. It urges Jews not to fight, Belisha is going to spill the "in- selected to play the youthful
self to the cause of democracy and against and
yet it urges the draft and the con- side story" of why he was de- Messiah type for "The Eternal
Nazi-Fascism after 35 years in the Uni-
posed from the British War Min- Road," and who's going to play
tinuance
of the war in the Jewish inter- istry
by Mr. Chamberlain are un- the young Jesus in Maxwell An-
tarian ministry. Dr. Birkhead did a splen- est.
founded . . . There is, however, derson's forthcoming play.
did job against the two bigots who were
other words, it has all the earmarks a strong likelihood that Hore- A "cute" bit of news is that
candidates in Michigan. In the campaign of "In
Belisha will accept an important concerning the cat belonging to
that
type of contradicton which Mr. post
under Winston Churchill.
against McWilliams he prepared an effec-
Libby Holivan's young son . .
Hitler
and
his
cohorts
have
made
familiar
You may soon read big head- Its name was Shirley Temple—
tive pamphlet, "The Case Against Joseph to the people of the United States, and
E. McWilliams," a copy of which went to the same type of reasoning which has be- lines about the arrest made by but when the youngster heard
at the Greenville Lake that Shirley is retiring from the
every registered Republican voter in the come familiar to Members of Congress G-men
Nazi camp, right next-door to movies he changed his pet's name
18th New York Congressional District. through publication in the Congressional exclusive Tuxedo Park. to Shirley Rosenbloom.

JACOB MARGOLIS
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

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Cable Address: Chronicle

September 20, 1940

holdings in the name of the Jewish people
510,000 dunams, or 37 per cent of the •
total owned by Jews individually and col-
Tidbits from Everywhere
lectively.
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Add to these figures the fact that 7,250
Jewish immigrants arrived in Palestine NEWS FOR YOU
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Thi ngs anwe didn't knowink about
during the first 10 months since the out-
The Jewish Digest, the new
refug
ees
which we thou
y
break of the war and you have an inter-
should know include the follow- magazine which will be out in
esting record of accomplishments that ing . . . Only 12,000
less than two weeks, will con.
tan an article on Magda L upe,.
would not be checked by totalitarian in- Jewish refugees remain Germa
in the ta
terference.
unoccupied portion of France to- . cu, written by her uncle . . . It

Publisher
Editor
Advertising Manager

Dr. Birkhead conducted a courageous
fight against "Handsome Joe" McWil-
liams, and he is to be congratulated on
the great victory for democracy and de-
cency in New York.

Record.
"I deem it my duty as a Member of
Congress to call it to your attention, and
denounce it as an out-and-outright asinine
and ridiculous forgery."
Nothing more need be said except to
Palestine's Progress
add that an awful outrage is being com-
A week's cables from Palestine reveals mitted by irresponsible anti-Semitic groups
incessant progress in efforts to strengthen in this country.
Congressman Dickstein did well to call
the foundation for the Jewish National
Home. The dangers threatened by attacks the attention of his fellow members in
from the totalitarian states have not Congress to this dastardly act. Whenever
slowed Jewish efforts. Hoping for the such an outrage is committed, the atten-
best, determined to battle on the side of tion of the American people, and espe-
England and refusing to stop activity even cially our legislators, should be called
in the most crucial hour in the history of to it.
mankind, Palestine Jewry has registered
to its credit, in recent months, the follow-
Decline in Number of Aliens
ing achievements:
An interesting estimate is reported by
Tel Aviv is now manufacturing a new the Alien Registration Division of the Im-
oil stove, a model perfected by A. Seelen- migration and Naturalization Service of
freund who was for many years engaged the Department of Justice, to the effect
in stove-making in Vienna, in pre-Nazi that there are today 3,595,338 aliens in
days.
this country as against 6,284,613 in 1930.
From Ramath Gan comes the report
This marked decline indicates that the
that the Assis orangeade and jam factory bogey of a menace from foreign elements
conducted by Bejerano Brothers, who are is not only exaggerated but is in great
also manufacturers of cigarettes, reeeived measure untrue. Nazism, fascism and com-
an order for 40,000 pounds' worth of munism are threats that emanate from
jams and apricot preserves, the largest natives and from people in high quarters
single order for produce on record in Pal- who must be watched, just as the treach-
estine.
erous elements in European lands should
Since "March 1, of this year, the Jewish have been watched in defense against the
National Fund has atquired an additional rise of the fifth colmunists who undermine
5,700 dunams of land, making the total existng governments.

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