February 28, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end the Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •

Congress preparations for the peace
plans. But all Zionists must prepare for •
Tidbits from Everywhere
the great test and there must be no delay
By PHINEAS J. BI RON
in action. Other elements in Jewry must
join in these efforts before it is too late.
0 LIVE AND LEARN
WE'RE TELLING YOU
Perhaps we can learn now, 20 years too ❑
The Irish name of Cohan, as
To those who doubted the Nazi
late, the wisdom of the warnings that
has ever heard of
were made to Jewish leaders by Max affiliations of the late Senator everybody who knows
is of purely
Lundeen of Minnesota we recom- George
M.
Nordau during the last war.
,
Irish origin, and has
nothing to

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The Veterans' Party

Approximately 4,000 people attended
the patriotic military ball of the Jewish
War Veterans last Saturday night. The
to insure publication, all correspondence and news matter large outpouring of people—of all creeds
office by Tuesday evening of each week.
must reach this
side f the paper only. -attested to the enthusiastic endorsement
When mailing notices, in y use
given by these supporters to the veterans
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- program for the defense of American in-
!acts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
bility for an endorsement of views expressed by the writers. stitutions and the counteracting of subver-
- - — —
sive activities.
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
The Jewish War Veterans of the United
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 25:1-27 : 19
States
have acquired a position of impor-
Prophetical portion—I Kings 5:26-6:13
tance.
They can be a power for great
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FEBRUARY 28, 1941
good in the present crisis and if properly
harnessed their powers can help stem the
wave of reaction which is threatening
Opportunity for Federation
The Jewish Welfare Federazion of De- American shores. The encouragement
they received at the patriotic military ball
troit has to its credit one of the outsand- should serve to strengthen their hands for
welfare
activi-
ing achievements in social
its last fund-raising the advancement of their program.
ties in this country. In
effort, during the 1940 Allied Jewish
Campaign, approximately 20,000 contrib- Watch Hitler's Agents in U. S.
utors responded to the local appeal for
The Louisville Courier-Journal, which
more than 50 local, national and over- has recently been selected for high honors
seas causes. This number represents a for its liberal position on international
powerful factor for democratic commu- and domestic affairs, especially in its
treatment of the struggle for democracy
nity action.
How is such democratic force to be and the Negro question, has published an
utilized? Since the Federation is in itself editorial on "Hitler's Agents Are the Jew
not an actions body but a fund-raising Baiters", as follows:
and a fund-distributing agency, an oppor-
"For the Christian the challenge is clear-
tunity now presents itself for it to make
cut. The Jew can stand persecution; under
it he survives and strengthens. But you and
use of its democratic force through its
I cannot hate, for hate and intolerance are
large representation of participating con-
corroding poisons from which there is no
tributors. A referendum is about to be
survival. Civilization cannot persecute and
conducted on the question of adopting
survive. America c annot tolerate persecutions
the budgeting plan proposed by a ma-
and continue."
This e minently sound doctrine was enun-
jority vote of delegates to the recent As-
ciated
by Daniel A. Poling, international
sembly of the Council of Federations and
president of the Christian Endeavor, in one
Welfare Funds. By making it possible for
of the best statements that Americans have
these 20,000 contributors to vote on this
heard since the world moved into crisis. Dr.
Poling has been deluged by anti-Jewish
proposal, the democratic functions would
pamphlets from anonymous sources, and has
be put into play.
heard supposedly intelligent people repeat

Planning for the Peace

The late Max Nordau believed that the
aftermath of the last war should have
seen the solution to the Jewish problem
through mass settlement in Palestine. His
proposal to the World Zionist Organiza-
tion called for the completion of the entire
exodus in 10 years; for the transfer of
the first million Jews to Palestine during
the first year after the war ; and he insist-
ed that all plans for solving the Jewish
problem should be made during the war
so that actual work should start on the
morrow after the peace conference.
In this connection it is interesting to
note that Mrs. Edgar Dugdale, niece of
the late Lord Balfour, writing in the
London Zionist Review, expresses the fol-
lowing view which coincides with the
Nordau plan:

Many people feel that the time is not ripe
for considering "war aims" or "peace aims"
and there is still something to be said for
their point of view.
Zionists cannot afford to delay much long-
er making their special contribution to the
thinking which is going on. The League of
Nations Union has just published a most im-
portant statement on the aspects of world
settlement which specially interest them.
They have chosen the right moment when
opinion is still fluid. Zionists ought to lose
no time in following their e xample, for Zio m-
ists alone know how vital is the message
which only they can give. And the first in-
stalment of that message should run thus:
Never again must the Jewish future be
settled except in consultation with the Jewish
nation.

whispered rumors of Jewish m achinations in
this country. He sees in such manifestations
the seed of destruction, not for the Jews but
for America.
These rumors are rife all around us.
There is a particularly fantastic one which
has been repeated in certain Wall Street
quarters, to the effect that "all this aid-to-
England stuff has been developed and put
over by the Jews." The absurdity of such a
statement does not prevent its repetition by
people who call themselves educated and
intelligent.
The time has come when such rumors
have got to be s piked, for the sake of
American survival. We all should know
enough about Nazi methods by now to rec-
ognize that the first move in the Hitler
attack is the stirring up of hatred against
the Jews. The pattern has been followed with
perfect regularity in each and every one of
the conquered countries. Each in turn fell
for this old device. And yet with such an
example in front of them, many Americans
are falling for it all over again.
The simple fact is that any American
citizen who repeats ugly rumors about the
Jews is making himself an a gent of Adolf
Hitler. He may profess to hate Hitler as
much as the next man, but he is playing
Hitler's game just as effectively as if he
were receiving money from the Nazi propa-
ganda fund. Whatever his motives may be,
the result of his action is the same: he is
betraying his country.
Dr. Poling is right. There is no use minc-
ing words by talking about "race prejudice"
and "intolerance." It is Jew-baiting that is
our danger. It is Jew-baiting that is the clas-
sic Nazi formula for dividing a nation in
order to conquer it. We in America cannot
afford the luxury of condemning any group
of American citizens, when we need unity
as never before. Watch the man who talks
against the Jews. Whether he knows it or
not, he is Hitler's agent in America.

mend the March issue of Click
. . . Drew Pearson and Robert do with
the did
Jewish
name that
Cohen
. But
you know
the

Allen testify unequivocally that

woman to serve in the Senate
none other than George Sylvester of the Irish Free State, the

Viereck, paid Nazi agent in this Countess _of Desert, widow of
ore,IllonuoiwInh
IN
country, wrote the late Senator's Earl
Eal ofDesert, wOaCsonanw
Jewish communal worker in Eng-
anti-British speeches.

Some of the French Canadian and and Ireland. . • . Born Ellen
htl
Bischoffsheim, the daughter
o e in s Quebec still express their Odette
- of a Jewish banker, the Countess
pro-Hitler sympathies by enforc remined a Jewess all her life, and
ing a strict policy of accepting although her grave is beside that
a purely Gentile clientele only. of her husband, in a Christian
Walter Winchell is going trans- cemetery, the funeral services
Atlantic, what with the London held for her were according to
Daily Express making arrange- the Jewish ritual, in accordance
ments to print a column of his with her express wish . . . This
revelations once each week . . interesting item, and many more
We hope the Express brings to details on the Countess, are to
its readers his story about the be found in the newly published
showing of Charlie Chaplin's "The Volume Three of the Universal
Dictator" in Santiago, Chile .. . Jewish Encyclopedia . . . Other
The film, it seems, was shown informative bits that we've glean-
despite protests from the Nazi ed from this volume include the
embassy, and in the middle of a fact that back in 1697 the natur-
performance local Nazis dropped alization papers issued to one
some stench bombs in the crowded Simon Valentine at Charleston
e sce s nases described him as "an alien of Ye
tfteraiutuers, .bu. . eT
Jewish Nation" . . . That the
but nehe woman's w
of humor saved the day . . • reason why Luis de Torres, Jew-
"Heavens!" she shouted, "how ish member of Columbus' Amer-
these Nazis stink!" ica-discovering crew, was the first
white man to set foot on the New
❑ SOCIAL MERRY-GO-ROUND World was that Columbus, think-
ing he had reached the Orient,
The best place to meet celebrit- believed that De Torres' knowledge
ies is not one of the well-adver- of Hebrew, Chaldaic and Arabic
tised night clubs, but one of the would come in handy in nego-
private parties given by Alfred tiations with the inhabitants of
A. Strelsin, of Milwaukee and the land . . That in the 15th
New York .. Al Strelsin is the century a Jew, Guglielmo Ebreo
advertising genius who likes to de Pesaro, was the dancing mas-
help good causes in his spare ter at the court of Lorenzo de
time . . . Whenever Dr. Weizmann 'Medici, the Florentine prince .. .
calls for economic cooperation Al That the first person to use the
helps to mobilize the country's Yiddish word ganef in English
financial big shots • . . When literature was none other than
Reinhardt's "Eternal Road" need- Charles Dickens, who spelled it
ed something like $80,000 to as- "gonoph" . . . And that at the
sure its final production, Al sup- end of 1937 the Dominican Re-
plied it . . . And there are many public, much-discussed as a haven
writers who suddenly blossomed for persecuted Jews, had just
forth from obscurity with a suc- about 40 Jews in a total popu-
cessful book who owe the oppor- lation of 1,151,248.
tunity to write it to this same
Al, who nursed them along dur- ❑ ABOUT PEOPLE
ing stormy periods ... The other
Probably the finest tribute paid
day Al Strelsin threw a party
for Dorothy Thompson, the colum- the late Max Annenberg, circula-
nist who, as you know, is leaving tion manager of the New York
the Herald-Tribune Syndicate for Daily News (which has the larg-
the Bell Syndicate, and whose est circulation of any newspaper
stuff will soon be appearing in in this country), was that of
the New York Post .. . Dorothy Ed Sullivan, News columnist, who
is preparing to fly to England devoted an entire piece to touch-
for an observation tour of her ing personal reminiscences of An-
own . . It is said, incidentally. nenberg.
Promised for spring publica-
that Clare Boothe, who is still
fighting it out with Miss Thomp- tion is the autobiography of Kon-
son for the spotlight, is also con- rad Bercovici, the teller of gypsy
sidering a jaunt of that sort . . . tales . . . We wonder whether
But, t3 come back to Al Streslin's Konrad will tell about his liter-
party of the other day; we met ary beginnings in the Yiddish
there, among others, Ben Hecht, press.
Those who doubt Ben Hecht's
Leonard Lyons, Franklin P.
Adams, Fannie Hurst, David Sar- idealism should note that he is
notT, Ralph Ingersoll, Vincent writing his scintillating column
Sheean, Samuel Grafton, Harry in PM for a weekly salary of
Hershfield, Billy Rose, Jimmie $75 . . It costs him $150 a
Walker, Sidney Kingsley, Irving week to get the material for his
Berlin, and last, but by no means column . . . Ben can get $5,000
least, Harry Scherman, head of a week any time he cares to
the Book-of-the-Month Club. settle down in Hollywood.

At last, the truth has been spoken by
a great American newspaper. But what
is happening to the bulk of our papers?
Are they blind to reality, or are they
frightened by the noise made by the luna-
tic fringe?
We nominate the Louisville Courier-
Journal editorial for the Pulitzer Prize.
Comes.
Until now, only the World Jewish Con- And we hope other periodicals circulated
gress leadership has spoken in terms of among Christians will reprint the above
preparedness after the war, of mobilizing editorial so that the great American peo-
our forces for peace plans, of being on ple may read it and learn the true dan-
guard against lack of initiative in a time ger to democracy. Spike anti-Semitism
of crisis. Fortunately, Dr. Nahum Gold- (and that includes its prophets—Cough-
mann, outstanding leader of the Jewish lin, Pelley, Smythe, and their like), and
Agency for Palestine, is also the most you destroy the root of all evil that
prominent figure in the World -Jewish emanates from race hatred.

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The Rock of Our Salvation

There is justification, therefore, for
putting the question at this time to the
Zionist leaders as to their plans, whether
they are preparing for the test that will
come after the war, whether they are
organizing the necessary activities to pro-
tect the Jewish position when peace

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Courtesy of The Synagogue
Union of American Hebrew Congregations

Bernard Segal

