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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32 :4-36:43.
Prophetical portion—Hos. 12 :13-14:10 ; or 11 :7-
12 :12 ; or Obad. 1:1-21.

DECEMBER 13, 1940

KISLEV 13, 5701

In a World at War

The Golden Rule Foundation has issued
a special pamphlet on "The Golden Rule
in a World at War", on the occasion of
its current appeal for gifts on Christmas
"from the children and adults of the
peace-blessed and prosperous Americas
for the war orphans and refugees of war-
torn Europe and Asia." The center-spread
of this brochure, emphasizing this appeal
for "food and friendship from the 21
prosperous, peace-blessed American Re-
publics," shows a map of the world. In
the center stands the Goddess of Peace-
Pan-America—in a setting of light and
sunshine, welcoming refugees, providing
its inhabitants with food and peace and
security. To the right of her are the Euro-
pean countries and Africa, enveloped in
darkness, affected by war; and to the left
of her are China, Japan, the U. S. S. R.,
similarly affected by bloodshed. The corn-
parative map is explained by the follow-
ing impressive figures:

1,673,103,260 people more than 80 per
cent of the world's population live under
flags of nations now involved in war.
887,865,471 of these people are citizens of
lands occupied, heavily bombarded or threat-
ened by invading armies and bombisig planes.
Many millions of children and other war
refugees will have neither Christmas cheer
nor adequate food this winter if the Golden
Rule fails in lands of peace and plenty.
258,480,498 highly favored citizens of the
21 American Republics, free from invasion,
custodians of enormous wealth, controlling
world markets, must share voluntarily now
or later involuntarily pay a far greater and
more tragic price.
Permanent world peace for our children
and children's children may depend as much
upon the life-giving bread of friendship sent
to starving orphans and refugees as upon
death-dealing bullets and bombs, breeding
bitterness and future wars.

Here is a touching picture of the world
and its suffering humanity. It is an illus-
trated contrast of the glory that is ours
on this free continent and the misery, that
is the lot of the rest of the world.
It is a picture with a lesson. America
must not only be kept free, but must help
the rest of the world to free itself. Pan-
America must not only guarantee sun-
shine and security and an abundance of
earthly goods for her peoples, but she
must also ward off the dark clouds that
threaten her from the right and the left.
Americans should rejoice in the peace
of this continent. Americans should aspire
to retain that peace and to assure con-
tinued security for the 258,480,498 highly
favored citizens of the 21 Republics by
helping make the rest of the world free.
The leaders of this continent, having
pledged cooperation and loyalty to the
end that this may be accomplished, must
be given the support that is due them
from their constituents. The gravest dan-
ger is threatened by those elements in our
midst who aim to undemrine that leader-
ship.

Madagascar and the Jews

Italian anti-Semites, in their latest at-
tempt to emulate Adolf Hitler's race theo-
ries, have revived the proposal for the
settlement of Jews in Madagascar. It will
be recalled that the Madagascar proposal
was first made by Poles who, before they
were themselves robbed of statehood,

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December 13, 1940

the Legal Chronicle

sought ways of "disposing" of Jews in
Poland.
From time to tme, Nazis as well as
Fascists speak of Madagascar as a place
for dumping Jews they wish to be rid of.
American anti-Semites, too, have made
much of the Madagascar "proposals" by
our enemies.
Since Madagascar is again in the lime-
light, it is well that Jews should know
the facts about this territory, in order not
to be misled by the "munificent" proposals
of Italians, Nazis or Poles. The London
Jewish Chronicle, in a recent issue, car-
ried the following significent article:

The German conquests in France have led
to an extensive agitation among Nazi circles
in favor of an official pronouncement that
France will be deprived of Madagascar, and
that this large African island will be set
aside as a reservation for Jews. Large num-
bers of Jews, say the Nazis, could be trans-
ported from Europe in the same way as
Jews were taken to Lublin. The island could
then become a penal settlement where Jews
would do forced labor under Nazi control.
Nazis and Fascists have long toyed with
the idea of sending Jews to Madagascar.
Perhaps there was something in the name
that caught their fancy. Some time ago, the
Polish government—those were pre-war days
—sent a commission to explore the possibili-
ties of dumping Poland's "surplus" Jews on
the island, but nothing came of their journey.
Experts who know the island well have de-
clared it totally unsuitable for European set-
tlement.
In 1938, an ex-Governor-General of Mada-
gascar, M. Marcel Olivier, in discussing the
Polish mission to the island, declared that
there were no prospects whatever of any set-
tlement of Europeans. As far back as 1926,
he added, the then Polish Ambassador in
Paris, Count Chlapowski, had discussed with
him the possibility of settling Polish emi-
grants, and he told the Ambassador that the
only European agriculturists who tried to set-
tle on the island were decimated by diseases
and that the same fate befell other colonists.
In 1927, a Japanese mission visited the
island to study the possibilities of settling
Japanese there, and came to the conclusion
that no such colonization was possible.
"Polish anti-Semites," commented M. Olivier
in 1938, "have been misled by the mirage
of Madagascar . . . If Poland interprets the
results of the mission in any positive sense,
then the French Government should out of
sheer charity bar the way to the Polish im-
migrants. Should the French Government not
do so, then it ought to insist that the immi-
grants bring their coffins with them."

There is nothing more criminal than
misleading Jews into trusting false pana-
ceas. The facts about Madagascar and
other undesirable centers that are offered
for the colonization of Jews should be
made widely known. There is no earthly
excuse for permitting anyone to jest with
the misery of Jews to the extent of offer-
ing them places of settlement which call
for cofilris as the first requisites.

Bible Popular in Germany

A report from the British and Foreign
Bible Society's central European agent in-
dicates that the circulation of the Bible
doubled in Germany during 1939 and
that nearly 300,000 copies were distrib-
uted in the Reich that year.
This is a good sign. It indicates that
the German people are not accepting the
Nazi Bible—"Mein Kampf"—except when
forced to do so.
The British and Foreign Bible Society's
report is interesting from another point
of view. In 1939, 11,763,666 Bibles were
distributed, marking an increase of 724,-
000 volumes. Of this number, Central
Europe alone took 800,000 copies, an in-
crease of 200,000 over 1938. Apparently
the people who are now suffering under
the heel of Nazism are returning to God.
This means that soon they will return to
justice.

The Late Dr. Bernard Revel

Orthodox Jewry loses a great leader in
the death of Dr. Bernard Revel, Dean of
Yeshiva College of New York.
He was a great scholar, a worthy ex-
ample to the students he prepared to be
teachers and Rabbis in Israel, a great
Jew and a great man.
It was due to his genius, that this or-
thodox college, recognized by the State
of New York, was organized. It made its
mark in the scholastic world under his
guidance. It proved a credit to orthodoxy.
Jewry mourns its loss. Because he was
a man of deep-rooted faith and loyalty,
his death is also a great loss to America.
May the memory of this saintly man
serve as a blessing to posterity.

• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

TRANS-ATLANTIC
GRAPEVINE

W it h assassinations of Nazi
leaders mounting up in Norway,
the Nazis are beginning to sus-
pect that the Nordics don't like
them, and are organizing special
storm troop units that are sup-
posed to persuade the Norwe-
gians that it's healthier to sup-
port Hitler . . . Among the in-
mates of French jails are Paul
Louis Weiler and Marcel Bloch,
two famous airplane designers
against whom the Vichy govern-
ment couldn't even trump
charges, but whom it placed un-
der "administrative internment"
to prevent their coming to Amer-
ica and giving our own plane in-
dustry the benefit of their ex-
perience . . . I t a 1 y, says the
grapevine, had three serious in-
ternal revolts to cope with last
month in addition to her Greek
troubles . . . Among the British
actions aiming to undermine Hit-
ler is the radio broadcasting of
the Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian,
Czech and Polish national an-
thems every night . .. Guest of
honor at a banquet given at
Vichy recently by French avia-
tors of both world wars was Jo-
seph Kessel, the famous novelist
. . . Kessel, who was one of
France's great aces of the first
war, recently was offered immu-
nity from the anti-Jewish legis-
lation of France—but refused
without thanks . . . "I need no
pardon", he told the official who
informed him that his case would
be considered exceptional.

YOU SHOULD KNOW

LEF, the new dateline now
making its appearance in the
Latin-American press, replacing
the Nazi-controlled Havas service
of France, stands for the British
Reuter news agency . . The
initials stand for Liberty, Equa-
lity, Fraternity.
Everybody knows that "Andre
Simone", the name signed to
"J'Accuse", that excellent ex-
pose of the events leading to the
fall of France' is a pseudonym,
but schools of thought on the
real identity of the author differ
. . . One group maintains that
he is Andre Maurois, who is sup-
posed to have combined his own
first name with that of his wife
. . . Pierre Lazareff, f a m o u s
French editor now in this coun-
try, maintains, however, that the
book was written by a German
Jew, Simon Katz, who had pre-
viously published, also anony-
mously, "The Brown Book of the
Hitler Terror", and, under the
name 0. K. Simon, a volume on
"The Nazi Conspiracy in Spain".
Don't be surprised if the Jew-
ish birth-rate in Palestine, which
has been lagging far behind that
of the Arabs, begins to raise
sharply . . . It's the Yishuv's way
of counteracting the anti-immi-
gration policy of the British ad-
ministration.

[FM'S OF FASCISM

FROM OCCUPIED FRANCE

French newspapers are having
their troubles keeping on the
right side of the Nazi authori-
ties . . . One recently was sus-
pended for reporting that Hitler
had slapped his thigh in laughter
over British efforts to fight him
—the idea being that so god-
like a being as Badolf would
never indulge in so human a
gesture . . . Another pap e r
laboring under the delusion that
its functions was to bring news,
described the removal of 1,400
carloads of machinery from
Lyons by the Nazis—and was
promptly- suppressed, although
the Nazi radio confirmed the
news by explaining to the French
the old maxim that to the vic-
tor belong the spoils . . . From
Paris comes the story of two
Nazi officers in a French cafe
who, seeing a couple of non-
Aryans seated nearby, sent over
the waiter to tell them to leave
the place . . . The non-Aryans
not only refused to go, but
shouted across the room their
private opinion of all Nazis , .
Whereupon the Germans, with
drawn pistols, strode over to the
non-Aryans' table and demanded
to see the offenders' papers . .
And one look was enough to
make the Nazis subside . . . For
the Jewish diners were members
of the Soviet Embassy staff.

JEWISH NEWS

Louis D. Brandeis' and Chaim
Weizmann's views on contempo-
rary Zionist problems and the
political attitude to be taken to-
ward England, are far apart .. .
Incidentally, when Weizmann
conies to this country, which will
be some time next month, he
will make an important an-
nouncement which may be even
more far-reaching in its conse-
quences than the publication of
the Balfour Declaration was in
1917.
Franz Werfel's speech at the
New York U. P. A. dinner last
week should be broadcast to the
four corners of this country . . .
If any one has any doubts as
to what the Jewish policy should
be at this time, let him read the
Austrian Jewish author's pro-
nunciamento.
If you're in New York during
the last two weeks of this month
be sure to drop in at the Society
for the Advancement of Judaism,
where Gertrude Samuel will be
giving the American public its
first opportunity to see her draw-
ings and water-colors of Pales-
tinian landscapes and types . .
Gertrude, you remember, is the
wife of Maurice Samuel, noted
lecturer and author of "The
Great Hatred" and many other
volumes.
The rumblings about a separa-
tion of the JDC and the UPA
for the next campaign are grow-
ing stronger . . . But we've be-
come used to these precludes to
joint action in the last few years.

by BRESSLER

