A merica Jewish Periodical ( ' enter
October 4, 1940
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
and
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the Legal Chronicle
Greetings of the Season Extended by Mount Clemens, Wichigan
NEW DAY TO DAWN FOR HUMANITY
bility, in an insignificant meas-
ure, to find crevices of escape
the victims may find tem-
Louis Lipsky Writes a Brilliant Evaluation of where
porary shelter.
All Jewish overseas relief is a
Conditions Affecting the Ailing
program for finding havens of
World We Live In
refuge for the tens of thousands
B y LOUIS LIPSKY
—first of Germany, and in rapid
succession of Austria, Italy,
National Co-Chairman, United Palestine Appei
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark,
Former President, Zionist Organization of Amer4 a
Norway, Belgium, Holland,
(WRITTEN SPECIALLY FOR DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE)
France, now of Rumania and
What can be said of the ailing resistance. Either a straight-jack- Hungary.
It is an appalling
world we live in to serve as com- et or utter destruction will end sight, and more particularly so
fort on the High Holidays? It his struggle for power.
to the kinsmen of the hundreds
might be well to forego comment
The manoeuvers of the Sabot- of thousands who have been dis-
and let the ancient Service of
Prayer speak the common thought eurs of the world are on an placed and who are constantly
of all Jews. In the Books of amazing scale. They involve the forced to move from one haven
to another. It is a terrible re-
Worship are reflected what the encirclement of the globe, no less.
sponsibility for the remnant of
ancients had to say of the grief The master minds in Berlin find
Jews living in security to carry
and tragedy of life, and of their the map of Europe insufficient
alone, for it is upon their should-
for
the
planning
of
their
attacks.
faith in the Power that cleanses
ers that the whole responsibil-
They
use
the
globe,
turning
on
the world of sin, which sustained
a pivot, which marks all the ity tests. Whatever interest oth-
them in the Dark Ages that now
highways of land and sea and ers take in the Jewish tragedy
seem to have•come again. It might
air. No place is too remote for is incidental—kind words and
be useful for Sermon to give way their vision. They move from acts in passing. The old plans
to Prayer.
Norway down to the North Pole, of reconstruction and rehabilita-
The like of what we are wit- down to Alaska, to China, down tion of the Joint and the Oct
nessing was never seen as far to the Indian Ocean. They include have had to be discarded. The
back as remembrance goes. There the Americas—North and South. Hicem and the Hias and the Na-
are no records that reveal such These are not secret plans. What tional Refugee Service stand in
a desperate threat to the sta- is even more amazing is the fact the foreground with their pro-
bility of the world as is reflected that the book written by the grams of elementary succor. •
in the amazing attack that has Master Destroyer has been read
Even in Palestine, where the
transformed Europe into a sham- by millions in all languages, in
status of Jewish life remains as
bles, and free peoples into slaves all lands; and that, although the recognizable as it was before
of an insatiable despotism; that scheme of conquest is easy to
the war began, and where we
aims to destroy the intellectual follow, instead of a union against
stand shoulder to shoulder with
and spiritual bases of our lives the aggressor, one by one the the defenses of England, day by
and to substitute a way of smaller nations have been broken day it becomes harder to main-
thought that means reversion to and subjugated, and now only tain the program of building, the
an incredible barbarism.
England (and its Dominions) program of extension, and more
In the olden times they never stand ready to resist the Destroy- and more the basic problems
ceased to grope for the light, er; while the others still remain arising out of the coming of
to seek the better life. In this unconvinced. They open their refugees — their safety and im-
day, having seen the light, it is doors to spies and saboteurs, mediate living—take precedence
Proposed to extinguish it and their press and radio stations over all other tasks. We are
bring back darkness. The new are saturated with enemy propa- maintaining the Jewish National
Conqueror comes to achieve an ganda, and they talk of defense Home in the full knowledge that
end which cannot be formulated and preparation "when the time sooner or later it will be part of
in definite terms. He conquers comes"—each for itself—await- the terrain on which Nazi and
for the sake of domination, to ing the day of attack, and all the Fascist bombs will explode, and
work his will on an enslaved civ- while still doubting that such the things created with so much
ilization. His empire will have diabolism is possible, and all the labor and sacrifice will be devas-
no boundaries. He will be halted while wondering whether defense tated by the same powers that
by no inner compulsion or sens... will be really needed.
are now blasting in their fury
of justice or humanity. He can
the democratic life the English
be restricted only by the force
mople have maintained on their
In
this
world
we
Jews
con-
of arms and the power of moral
island for so many centuries.
tinue to be, as in the past, an
It is our good fortune that in
incident of the struggle—hard this struggle not only are we
LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSIiVU
substance that gets in the way. physically to be counted among
Certain aspects of the propa- the forces arrayed against Hit-
ganda of hate implicate Jews as ler — in the armies and navies
if they were the chief cause of and air fleets of every land in
the unrest that compels violence which we are loyal citizens—that
and destruction. But that is one we are everywhere among the
369 N. GRATIOT
of the many camouflages of the
victims of Nazi oppression—but
destroyers of the "falsities of that all our hopes and the con-
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liberty and equality." The Jew-
Mt. Clemens. Mich
ish participation, insofar as it firmation of our age-long faith
appears under its own banner, is are represented by the force dis-
largely passive defense. In fact, puting the progress of the Nazi
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes the greater part of Jewish life destroyers.
It is our duty to serve that
is now devoted not to the affir-
and
mation of rights, not to the filing cause without hesitation,
Whatever we can
of demands, not to the making generously.
of protests, but simply to the do, here in this land of liberty,
alleviation of a universal misery for the defense of the demo-
that depresses and absorbs every cracies and the defeat of Hitler,
Jewish heart. The Jews of every should be done not only individ-
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land, with the coming of the ually and as American citizens,
Scourge, must prepare for flight, but as Jews and collectively. It is
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and
all those not in flight find our primary duty as Americans
Mt. Clemens, Mich.
their only consolation the possi- and as Jews to serve that cause.
Here, there is no contradiction
in interest or loyalty. Our Amer-
SINCERE NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
ican and Jewish interests are one
unequivocal patriotism.
And what we are doing, or
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should do in greater measure, to
strengthen the Jewish National
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Home in Palestine is a direct
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contribution to the defense of
human freedom. Every refugee
settled in Palestine means that
TO
ALL!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
a liability becomes an esset for
democracy. The more Jews in
Palestine, the more defenders
of the Eastern Front of Eng-
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land. The stronger our econo-
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mic life in Palestine, the strong-
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organization in the Near East,
which is not only a defense of
Palestine but a preparation for
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
an advance against the Nazi
forces.
The successes of Nazi Germany
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are illusory; they are seeming
victories. There is no moral
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force behind them to retain loy-
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alty or maintain discipline. The
hidden recourses of the civilized
world cannot be destroyed by
bombing planes, but buried un-
SEASON'S GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO ALL!
der the physical ruin of the
world will rise again to confound
and destroy the Slave Empire
which Hitler aims to construct.
On the day his Empire callapses
—as it certainly will — our
G.
LONGSTAFF,
Managing
Director
THOMAS
faith in justice and morality
will be vindicated, and a new
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day will dawn not only for the
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Jewish people, but for humanity
at large.
EARL TAFT
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Best Wishes for a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
from
IVAN JOHNSON
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
NIACOMB COUNTY
Rosh
Hashonah
Greetings to All
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"BOB" HAVEL
Sheriff - Macomb County
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