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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1940-09-20

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

16

For a Modern
Hebrew and Jewish
Education . . .

Send Your Child to

Carmel
Hebrew
School

11845 LINWOOD AVE.
To. 5-5462
To. 8-3503

Free Transportation

Attempt to Evacuate Polish
Jewish Children to U. S.;
Dr. Frymer to Speak on
Thursday

In conjunction with the cam-
paign to evacuate children of
Polish Jewish refugees from
England into the United States
that has been undertaken through
the American Federation for Pol-
ish Jews (formerly the Federa-
tion of Polish Jews in America),
Dr. Frymer, special representa-
tive of the Federation, will ad-
dress the Detroit district on the
occasion of the installation of
the officers of the local district
to be held at Lachar's, on 12th
St., Thursday evening, Sept 26.

GREET YOUR FRIENDS ON THE NEW YEAR THROUGH
THE COLUMNS OF THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Your Rosh Hashonah greeting problem is solved by the convenient method offered you by
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle of wishing your relatives and friends a Happy New Year through
these columns.
This method avoids the danger of embarassment of forgetting anyone . . . When you
insert a Rosh Hashonah greeting in The Detroit Jewish Chronicle you cover the entire com-
munity . . . Also, you save time and money and are relieved of the effort of writing individual
cards.
The New Year greetings will be published in our Rosh Hashonah issue. The charge will be
$1 for each insertion. Telephone or mail your greeting at once to

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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September 20, 1940

(Continued from Page 1)

of a French Republic when the
Gestapo rules supreme in Paris,
Lille and Bordeaux?
However, your title is not the
important thing. You, M. Gas-
ton Henri-Haye, arrived in the
United States four days ago with
quite a sufficient load of prob-
lems, and I do not want to in-
crease them yet further by bur-
dening you with that one. There
are matters of greater weight
to which I would invite your at-
tention.
You come from a country, the
largest part of which is occupied
by barbaric hordes, — a coun-
try whose youth is in captivity,
whose soil is laid waste, and
whose people are now faced with
a winter of starvation. Starva-
tion in France! In God's fertile
and blessed land! A greater
tragedy could not have been
imagined.
Yet, it is in such moments of
historic catastrophe that the
greatness of a people and its
rulers stands revealed, and to our
deep sorrow, we are compelled
to say that the present Vichy
regime has failed to meet this
particular crisis. Some say that
the regime is fascist; others
claim that it is only transitional,
on the road of fascism. But
whatever the case, it is obvious
that it has very little to do with
the France that the world has
known during the last 150 years.
You, yourself, offer the example.
When newspapermen asked
you, immediately after your ar-
rival, why the Petain-Laval Gov-
ernment annulled the decree pro-
hibiting defamation against Jews,
your Excellency replied that
"The post-armistice repeal of the
French Law prohibiting publica-
tion of defamatory statements
about the Jews was merely to
cancel special privileges for the
Jewish population, as everybody
in France is on the same foot-
ing today," I am compelled to
tell you that every true friend
of France was deeply ashamed
after reading your statement.
Don't you really know that the
law in question was not at all a
special Jewish privilege? Don't
you know that in the decree of
April 25, 1939, there is no men-
tion of Jews? In the preamble
to the decree it is stated (I
quote verbatim) : "This decree
concerns defamation and public
insults against a group of people
belonging by their origin to a
specific race or religion, when
these acts aim to arouse hatred
amongst the citizens and resi-
dents." Jews are certainly includ-
ed among those who may not
be publicly insulted, but they are
not selected for special privilege.
The decree is designed equally
to protect Protestants, Catholics,
Mohammedans, Negroes, and all
other races and religions in the
French Empire.
And do you not know that
when the government of the for-
mer Republic issued this decree
it had no intention of according
special privileges to Jews but
had as its purpose the stopping
of poisonous and disruptive pro-
paganda with which the Nazis
were seeking to disrupt the Re-
public? The Nazis had been
trying for a number of years to
paralyze every resistance of the
French social organism so that
they should be able to conquer
a corpse, and to the profoundest
regret of civilized humanity, they
partly succeeded.
There is no decent man in the
entire world who does not sym-
pathize with France in her great
misfortune, but even in time of
misery a nation should be able
to retain its dignity. By the
words you have chosen to utter,
you have in no way elevated the
tragedy of France. Can you
imagine one of those great
Frenchmen who won the admira-

CADILLAC 1040

HOME RELIEF SOCIETY
WILL MEET ON MONDAY

The Home Relief Society will
meet on Monday, Sept. 23, at
1 p. m, at the home of Mrs.
Harry Dunitz, 17536 Parkside
Ave.
Mrs. Sam Arkin,
president,
urges that all members attend
this meetine... as matters of im-

Registrations for
Bnai Moshe Schools

Registration for Sunday School
classes in the Bnai Moshe religi-
ous school will take place Sun-
day, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept.
29, between 9:30 a. m. and 12:30
p. m. Classes will begin Sunday,
Sept. 29.
The Bnai Moshe Sisterhood will
hold installation of officers next
Tuesday evening, Sept. 24, at
8:30 o'clock. The officers who
will be installed are: Mrs. Harry
S. Greenbaum, president; Mrs.
Robert I. Middleman, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. Sam Simon, financial
secretary; Mrs. Alex Fisch, re-
cording secretary and Mrs. J.
Mathews, treasurer.
Refreshments will be served
following the meeting, Mrs. Sam
Rosenberg, outgoing president, re-
quests all members to attend.

BRANCH OF J.W.E.W.O.
PLANS DONOR EVENT

MRS. CHARLES HARRIS

portance will be discussed.
Mrs. Charles Harris, chair-
man of the dinner dance, to be
held at Hotel Statler Sunday
evening, Oct. 20, announces the
following as her officers. Mrs.
Rubin Allender, co-chairman;
Mrs. Ruth Metzger, treasurer;
Mrs. Charles Bassey, secretary;
Mrs. Joseph Jacobs, pledges;
Mrs. Sam Lucas, publicity.
Mrs. Samuel Kanners, chair-
man of the year book, has as
her officers: Mrs. Harry Wein-
garden, co-chairman, Mrs. Anna
Moss, secretary.
Mrs. David Roland, chairman
of memorials has Mrs. Harry
Meyers and Mrs. Nathan Greene
as her co-chairmen. The tele-
phone squad consists of Mrs. Abe
Sinaberg and Mrs. Arthur Gould.
The Wednesday Club made a
contribution in memory of B.
Fenian. Another contribution
in memory of A. Davis was given
by Mrs. F. Winston, Mrs. C. Sid-
der and Mrs. J. Immerman,

The North Woodward Branch
of the Jewish Women's European
Welfare Organization will meet
Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 12:30
o'clock, at the home of Mrs. S.
M. Shore, president, 18111 Muir.
land.
Plans are being formulated for
the eighth annual donor lunch-
eon scheduled for Jan. 7, at the
Shaarey Zedek. Mrs. A. Gleich-
er, TO. 5-5165, is general chair-
man, assisted by her co-chairmen,
Mrs. K. Rosenblatt and Mrs. D.
Rothman. Mrs. Anna Goldberg,
TO. 8-9032 is in charge of res-
ervations; Mrs. Elias Epps, UN.
2-7185, in charge of souvenir
booklet; for card parties call
Mrs. E. Weisman, TO. 6-2859. A
store is now available for rum-
maging. For dates call Mrs. J.

Bagdade, TO. 7-2199, Mrs. D.
Silverstein, TO. 6-3489, or Mrs.
For
S. M Shore, UN 1-0304.
general information call Mrs. A.
B. Knoppow, TY. 6-9553; secre-

tary.

The organization acknowledges
contributions to the Benjamin
Wisper Memorial Frower Fund:
Mrs, Wm. Fisher, in honor of
the marriage of her daughter;
Mrs. Alter Shrier, in honor of
her gandchild; Mrs. Morris His-
ner, in honor of marriage of her
son and daughter; Mrs, Abe-
shouse, guest of Mrs. Sonia Ep-
stein.

Reception Sunday for Can-
tor and Mrs. Schulsinger
at Cong. Emanuel
tion of humanity saying that one

may insult the Jews because
Jews are not entitled to privi-
leges? Can you see such words
on the lips of Charteaubriand,
Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, or Ana-
tole France?
Can you visualize a great
statesman of the Third Republic
disposing of the Herschl Grynsz-
pan case in the callous manner
of the Vichy regime? Would Cle-
menceau or Briand or Painleve
have surrendered this boy to the
executioner, however much the
executioner may have momentar-
ily had the upper hand? About
thirteen years ago, the boulevards
of Paris resounded to the echo
of "Schwarzbart acquitted," and
all Frenchmen applauded this
verdict. Now you have taken
Grynszpan, even before his trial,
dragged him out of prison and
thrown him mercilessly to his
and your murderers.
All this shows that you capi-
tulated to the enemy not only
in body but also in spirit, and the
grief is therefore a thousand
times greater. One of your most
distinguished writers, Georges
Duhamel, wrote not long ago:
"The most disturbing of these
humble allies, the most danger-
ous for peace, are the benevol-
ent helpers, the honest sympa-
thizers, those, for instance, who
in spite of the terrific lessons

William Sandler, president of
Congregation Beth Tefilo Eman-
uel,and Mrs. William Adelson,
president of the Emanuel Sister-
hood, announce a reception to
be held at the synagogue on
Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8:30 p.

in honor of Cantor and

Hyman Schulsinger.
An interesting program is be-
ing planned. Aaron Rosenberg
will present dramatic readings
which will be followed by mu-

sical selections.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sandler,
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Shevitz, Mr.
and Mrs Louis Kramer, Air. and

Mrs. Eli Lightstone, Mr. and Mrs.
Mandel Rosenzweig, Mr. and Mrs.
Morris Schneider, and Mr. and
Mrs. Eli Sachse, and NIr. and
Mrs. William Adelson will act on

the reception committee.

of facts, still good-naturedly ad-

mire Hitler for ideological rea-

sons, believing that they can
naively reconcile their taste for
the doctrines of the German lead-
er with their love for France.
From now on this is inconceiv -
able."
We assure you, your Excel-
cy, , h that
h t all those
1,
ci te the aV ichy regime wh --- o c(hrey
and only they, are the true lov-
ers of France.

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