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CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

C ommentary •

Attitude of Scouts on Fascism

The democracies of the world have developed
a system of good will and brotherhood which is
reflected in many movements. Scouting is one of
them. It is inconceivable that a Boy Scout, for
example, should be a Storm Trooper. Neither is it
possible to believe that members of the Boy
or Girl Scouts will ever approve of the things that
were done in Germany. Nevertheless, the youth
in European countries have been subjected to
the danger of contamination by Fascism. There
is no longer anything resembling the Boy Scouts
in Germany. In England, there is danger of
Fascism influencing the Scouts, as is indicated
by the following letter from the Rt. Hon. Lord
Hampton, Chief Commissioner of the Boy Scout
Association of England, to the London Jewish
Chronicle, and the comment upon it:

Sir—The attention of my Association has
been drawn to the letter from Mr. A. Good-
man, in your issue of May 17, with regard to
"Fascists and Scouting."
I regret that the reply given to a Rover
Scout in the Scouter for August, 1939, is not
quite acurrate.
The policy of the Association with regard
to its members belonging to political parties
is quite clear. There is no objection to a
member of the movement belonging to any
particular r ecognized political party provided
I
t that
he accepts the Scout Promise and Scout
Law in their e ntirety. But should any organ-
ization, political or otherwise, embrace in its
code anything antagonistic to the Scout
Promise and Scout Law no member of such
organization could remain in, or become a
member of, the Boy Scouts Association.
I am, &c.,
HAMPTON.
The Boy Scouts Association,
25, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W.1.
In the letter published in The Jewish
1 Chronicle of May 17 (referred to by Lord
Hampton), Mr. A. Goodman, of Middles-
brough, wrote:
"In the monthly issue of the Scouter for
August, 1939, there appeared a letter from a
Rover Scout who also belongs to the B.U.F.
His Rover Leader had told him the member-
ship of the Scout movement was incompatible
with m embership of the B.U.F., and he
wanted to know if that was the official atti-
tude. The reply severely told the Rover
Leader off, saying that he had no business to
say what he did, and that although headquar-
ters did not altogether agree with the policy
of the B.U.F., a person who makes the Scout
Promise and accepts the Scout Laws can be-
long to both the B.U.F. and the Scout move-
ment." Mr. Goodman c ontinued: "The fourth
Scout Law says a Scout is a friend to all
and a brother to every other Scout no mat-
ter to what class or creed the other belongs.
1 therefore wrote to headquarters pointing
out that the B.U.F. were avowedly the ene-
mies of, among others, the Jews and that
therefore they CANNOT be TRUE 'friends'
and 'brothers' to Jewish members of the Scout
movement."
Mr. Goodman was unable to obtain a satis-
factory reply. Now, however, the statement
by Lord Hampton, Chief Commissioner of the
Boy Scouts Association, should make it per-
fectly clear that those belonging to any po-
litical organization whose policy involves en-
mity of any particular class or creed, mem-
bers of which arc Scouts, cannot "remain
in, or become a member of, the Boy Scouts
Association."

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By Philip

Slomovitz

Quixote fighting an invisible windmill—just for
the sake of a bit of publicity.
Under different conditions, Weisbrot's outburst
in the press would not deserve any attention
whatever. But his publicity-seeking stunt of last
week is not only embarrassing to Jews who are
today cooperating wholeheartedly with the British
in and out of Palestine but it is foreign to the
entire truth in the present situation. Therefore it
is incumbent upon us to inform the community
that the one non-cooperating element in Zionism
is the Revisionist New Zionist Organization. Its
members do not pay the Shekel, they do not
participate in work for Zionist national funds,
they seem to have mapped for themselves a
program of destructive criticsm.
There is fear in the heart of Weisbrot that
unless "the tremendous munition reserves use-
lessly stored in Palestine" are made available to
the Jews, they will fall into Hitler's hands. Here
you have a shadow-boxer advising a champ how
to conduct himself in the ring. Of course, we
would like to have greater concessions for Jews
in Palestine's military forces. But there have
been changes, and Jews are permitted to organ-
ize their forces in defense of the country. De-
structive criticism today gives the appearance
of boring from within—and there is as much
danger from a fifth column in our own ranks as
there is from without.
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It is clear from the issue discussed here that
there was real danger to the cause of true brother-
hood in England from the Fascist quarters which
have been, and perhaps still are, threatening the
basic principles of democracies.
There is excellent reason to feel thankful that
no such issues have arisen among the Scouts in
this country. But the experience in England should
teach Americans to be an guard. If ever the ugly
head of intolerance should be raised in an effort
to pollute the ranks of the great youth movement,
we shall all be obligated to strike it promptly and
as hard as possible. Under no circumstances must
the influence of Fascism, Communism or any
other intolerance movement be permitted to gain
headway.

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The Shadow-Boxing Revisionist

Aaron Weisbrot is the Detroit front for the
Revisionist Zionists who now prefer the name
New Zionist Organization. In fact, some say that
he is at least half the numerical force of this
organization in Detroit. But often he makes more
noise than all the 4,000 affiliated Zionists in
all of the part es functioning here as part of the
World Zionist Organization, under the aegis of
the World Zionist Congress. Weisbrot has just
emitted a cry for an army—and he did not go
for recruits among the Jews of Detroit but
sought publicity in the daily press.
You can't blame the News or Times for giving
space to Weisbrot's statement. How should our
non-Jewish friends know that a single person
poses for an entire organization and a great
idea? Perhaps the foreign news editors are ex-
pected to know that there is the nucleus for a
Jewish military force in Palestine functioning
under the guidance of the British authorities. But
there have been grievances against England, and
the Revisionists have once again capitalized upon
an issue in an effort to attract attention to their
name.
Aaron Weisbrot has been shadow-boxing with
himself for a long time. Now he has gone a
step further. He has assumed the role of a 1/on

Private Croll—Britain's Unusual Guest"

A recent issue of the London Jewish Chronicle
carried an interesting article, on its first page,
under the above heading. Because of the great
local interest in the activities of the popular
Mayor of Windsor who is now a Buck Private in
the forces of His Majesty's Government, we quote
the London Jewish Chronicle:

The Mt. Clemens Sisterhood
Joins Women's League
of United Synagogue

will have paid the Shekel every
year, including the inter-Con-
gress years, will be entitled to
vote in the elections to the next
World Zionist Congress.

The Women's League of the
United Synagogue of America,
of which Mrs. Samuel Spiegel is
national president, has added to
its ranks in the past three months
many groups, among them being
Senior Sisterhood Beth Tefilath
Moses of Mt. Clemens, Mich.
This brings the total of member
sisterhoods in the conservative
wing of American Judaism to
330 and represents a membership
of 175,000 women, throughout
the United States and Canada.

Shekel Campaign
To Close Oct. 27

The U. S. Central Shekel Board
issued a notice and urgent appeal
to all Zionist parties and groups
in the United States, as well as
to individuals, to make every ef-
fort to wind up the Shekel Cam-
paign with intensive, widespread
activity during the next two
weeks and to remit all monies
collected, together with the Shek-
el declarations, not later than
Oct. 27.
The board again called atten-
tion to the importance of Shekel
Registration this year, in view of
the resolution adopted at the 21st
World Zionist Congress, accord-
ing to which only those Jews who

"If Private David Arnold Croll, of the
Canadian regiment, the Essex Scottish, who
is now in England, ever happens to visit the
Thames-side town of Windsor, he is to be
welcomed by the Mayor as a guest of honor.
"For David Croll is Mayor of the sister-
town of Windsor, Ontario. He is also a K. C.,
Member of the Ontario Legislative Assembly,
and a former Ontarian Cabinet Minister—
the first Jew to occupy a Cabinet post in
Canada. At the end of last year he enlisted
as a private, and he arrived in England a
short time ago with his fellow soldiers.
"Mr. Croll was born in Moscow, Russia, in
19CO 3 and migrated to Canada with his fam-
ily at the age of six, settling in Windsor.
Earning his living as a newspaper boy and
shoeblack, he worked his way through college
and emerged with a law degree. He was
called to the Bar in 1925. Five years later,
at the age of thirty, he became Mayor of
Windsor, holding office for four years and re-
signing on his appointment as Ontarian Min-
ister of Public Welfare. In 1937 he resigned
his portfolio following a disagreement with
the Premier, Mr. Hepburn, over labor dis-
putes. A year later he again stood for the
Mayoralty, and despite fierce opposition, in
which Mr. Hepburn took part, he was re-
elected.
"There was a sequel to the Croll-Hepburn
conflict. When Mr. Croll appeared in uni-
form at the last session of the Legislature
before he left for camp, he was the hero of
the day, and complimentary addresses were
showered on him from all parts of the House.
And no-one was more profuse in his praise
than Provincial Prime Minister Mr. Hepburn.
"Mr. Croll, who received the King and
Queen when they visited Windsor last year,
is chairman of the trust fund formed by the
Canadian government to look after the in-
terests of the famous Dionne quintuplets."

Thus, the British Commonwealth of Nations,
through its press, honors an able and patriotic
man. David A. Croll's career is an emphatic re-
buke to all that may be said about Jewish patri-
otism by anti-Semites.
It is no wonder that there is a strong move-
ment on foot in Windsor to re-elect Mr. Croll
Mayor in absentia.

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This story of the rise of David A. Croll, and
of his patriotism in the anti-Hitler cause, is of
more than passing interest. The Montreal Gazette
i ecently published an editorial on "Two Mayors"
in which Mr. Croll's activities were contrasted
with those of the Montreal Mayor who interferred
with his government's defense efforts. This edi-
torial stated:

When, in the ouiet of the post-war days to
come, historians move soberly to the task of
recording Canada's contribution to the sal-
vation of our way of life, they will neces-
sarily set down the names of two mayors of
metropolitan centres.
One mayor, it will be written, renounced a
promising political career and joined the
Canadian Active Service Force as a buck
private because he found his duty to himself
and his duty to his country were impossible
of separation. He arrived in England on
Aug. 2, 1940, and together with the lowliest
of his constituents took his place in the line
of battle.
The other mayor, it will be written, made
a vain attempt to salvage a crumbling polit-
ical career on Aug. 2, 1940, by appealing to
the most selfish, least patriotic element in his
constituency to dissociate itself from the na-
tional war effort. And where he looked for
support he found only scorn because his con-
stituents could not find treason in their
hearts.
One mayor will do honor to a page of
Canadian history; the other will live only in
a shamefaced footnote. Their names are
David A. Croll of Windsor, Ontario—and
Camillien Houde, Commander of the British
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