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March 28, 1941

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Meeting under the challenge of
other interesting angle in the present situation. war conditions and closed aliyah
From London, the Associated Press reports the to Palestine, more than 200 mem-
When this war is over, and—we are confident following:
bers and delegates will attend the
—the democracies are victorious, the strongest
ninth national convention of the
Harold Nicolson, Parliamentary Secretary
elements against brutality and dictatorial rule
Hashomer Hatzair Organization
to the Ministry of Information, told a Lei-
will be the unquenchable sense of humor of the
convening in Detroit, April 15-
cester audience:
peoples whom the tyrants now seek to oppress.
20. The convention has been dedi-
"I had a great friend called Colonel Lind-
An excellent example of popular reaction to
cated to the world movement of
bergh.
oppression comes from Belgarde, Yugoslavia,
Hashomer Hatzair, Zionist youth
"Before the war he said to me: 'You are
movement, which in many Euro-
whose newspaper Pravda, which was considered
pean countries has been broken Ninth Grade to Take Charge of
a fine people but are getting soft.'
close to the government, has published a story,
and forced underground by the
Junior Congregation of
"After every raid now I have the great
in simple bedtime fashion, which created a stir
Nazi invasions.
Shaarey Zedek
pleasure of sending him a postcard saying:
among the Axis diplomats. It is believed that
The delegates from the 27
'Do you still think we are soft?'
only the delicacy of the political situations in
The regular Sabbath service of
branches of Hashomer Hatzair the .1 unior Congregation of
"He doesn't answer these postcards, but I
Yugoslavia, at the time the story was published
in the United States, Canada Shaarey Zedek will be held this
on March 18, prevented official protests. The
like sending them."
and Mexico, which is participat- Sabbath at 9:30 a. m. in the
Mr. Nicolson was Charles A. Lindbergh's
Yugoslavian story as published in the Pravda
ing for the first time, will meet Kate Frank Memorial Building.
landlord when the American flier resided
follows:
with the stirring example of the Members of the ninth grade will
in the ancient timbered house, Long Barn, at
In the forest one day the Wolf decided
heroism of the European move- preside. Joyce Pensler will re-
Sevenoaks, Kent.
things were all wrong in the animal world.
ment as a guide and inspira- view the Biblical portion and
Some smaller animals were getting more to
This message is addressed to Lindbergh as tion before them.
Marcia Tobin will summarize the
Hashomer Hatzair is a chalutz Prophetical selection. Miriam
eat than they deserved. The Lion was too
the chief offender in the democratic program to
completely master of the situation, so the
defeat totalitarianism. But there are others youth movement which trains Levin will lead the congregation
Wolf decided something had to be done
who can be added to the list to receive messages young Jews for settlement in the in the responsive reading of
about it—only those of Wolf blood should be
like Mr. •Nicolson's. Among them are a hand- pioneer collectives of Palestine. Ashray.
allowed to rule.
ful in the United States Congress, and most The names of Ein Hashophet and
The Wolf started out by gobbling up all the
conspicuous among the civilians in line for such Kfar Menachem, two of the kib-
butzim in Eretz Yisrael settled
Beetles in sight on the ground that they
proper advice is Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh.
by American chalutzim of the
lacked Wolf blood in their veins and were
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movement, have already gained
a nuisance, a nyway. Then he started swallow-
Rabbi Isaac Stollman's Book
wide distinction both in Pales-
ing a few smaller animals living near him.
tine
and America. The third and
The Lion paid no attention to their pleas
Detroiters who have had occasion to work with fourth kibbutzim in America
because he himself had eaten a few smaller
Rabbi Isaac Stollman and to collaborate with numbering over 350 members, are
animals in his day. But as the Wolf came
him in verious projects will be particularly in- now continuing their work in
nearer the Lion's den the Lion got nervous
terested in his new book, "Minchas Itzchok," the educational movement and
and announced that he would fight the Wolf
which contains commentaries on religious, na- in training. A new 200 acre
"to the last little animal."
tional and ethical Jewish problems. It is the farm in New Jersey has recently
Then the Hare, admiring the Wolf, said
second part of a similar work which he pub- been acquired to facilitate train-
he would like to become the Wolf's ally.
lished several years ago.
ing of these chalutzim.
"You arc a coward by nature," the Wolf
Rabbi Stollman, who has been ill for some
Highlighting the entire con
replied, "but if you disguise yourself I will
time, received his inspiration for the completion vention will be the publication
accept you."
of this book out of a desire to create a memorial on April 15 of a book, "Youth
The Hare agreed
for his wife, Shifrah, who passed away a year Amidst the Ruins," the simple
The Fox, allied with the Lion, at first pre-
ago. While in a hospital, and in his sick bed but moving story translated from
tends to fight the Wolf, but soon gave up be-
at home, Rabbi Stollman worked feverishly to the Hebrew, of the struggles and
cause he was old, worn-out and lazy. The
complete the book so that it should serve as a trials of Polish shomrim who
Hare in disguise entered the battle just as
memorial to his beloved wife on the first an- caught in the vortex of war and
it was ending, seizing the Fox's tail as a
niversary of her death. It is a beautiful tribute conquest carried on their daily
trophy. Then, swelling with pride, the Hare
which will receive the admiration of all who Zionist and chalutz tasks. The
began attacking the weakest animals—Birds,
learn the circumstances surrounding its appear- convention will pledge itself to a
program of aid and
Fish, Frogs.
ance. Surely, many in the community will secure maximum
assistance to the European move-
put when the Hare heard the Lion's roar
this book—especially those who are able to read
he started fleeing across the desert. No tone
its Hebrew text—as a mark of respect and ment.
In issuing the call to the con-
was able to catch him. Finally his disguise
admiration for the author whose scholarship is vention, the National Executive
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fell off and other animals realized that al-
a source of pride to the cultured elements in of Hashomer Hatzair declared :
LEADER is not just a cleaner
though he had taken on the teeth of a Pan-
Detroit.
—LEADER is a specialist in
• 1 "We meet in this, our ninth con-
ther he was no Panther, although he could
vention, at a time when we are
cleaning Rugs, Carpets and
run backwards like a Deer he was no Deer,
"The Cry of the Little Peoples"
Upholstered Furniture.
one of the few remaining free
although he wore the Eagle's feathers he was
branches of Ilashmer Hatzair in
In 1903, Richard LeGallienne wrote a poem, the world. The convention will
no Eagle.
LEADER
"The Cry of the Little Peoples." In this year pose before us the vital ques-
The Wolf finally told him:
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1941, his eminent daughter, Eva LeGallienne, re- tions of world Jewish survival,
"If only I had you as an enemy I could
prints it as originally written with an appended
quickly dispose of you, but inasmuch as you
note which reads in part:
are my ally I must protect you. The best
"Should father wish to bring it (the poem) =00=0'•0=0•-0=0=20 Q t
I can say for you is you at least have a
up
to date, all he would have to do, alas, is to O
good ally."
add to the tragic list—so prophetic, even to its
Ti- EDS ON 'S 0 O
This is one of the strongest weapons in the sequence—Norway, Holland, Belgium and France.
.•0.. present war. It is a sample of the jibes that
Knowing his gallant spirit and his sense of true
KOSHER
must eventually put an end to the rule of the values, I feel he would now end the Poem on a
Restaurant and Dining Room
beasts in civilized society. Humor, the ammuni- challenging note. "Our Poets have ever been our
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Catering to Bridge Parties and Banquets
tion of the masses, is not only deadly to the Prophets, and perhaps he will look once more
Frilate Dining Hoorn for Metes
enemy, but it also helps keep up the morale into the Future, and bring to us another vision ;
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Of the oppressed masses. With more weapons one in which the 'Iron World' no longer 'will
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of this sort, victory is in sight for democracy. crash on its iron way,' one in which 'the bee 0
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bolize, will ultimately triumph."
It is a glorious poem, Richard LeGallienne's
Nazi Goering's Aspirations
"The Cry of the Little People," and it begins
The New York Times recently published a high- with the lines:
ly interesting story about the Nazi Field Marshal
"The Cry of the Little Peoples
Goering, his aspirations and the atti-
went up to God in vain;
,ega Hermann
tude of the British. The story reads:
The Czech, and the Pole, and the Finn
and the Schleswig Dane.
Conviction was expressed in Nazi Germany
We ask but a little portion
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a year ago that if and when Hitler conquered
of the green ambitious earth;
Britain, Marshal Goering would lose his job
Only to sow and sing and reap
as heir presumptive of Der Fuehrer, and be-
in the land of our birth."
come King of England.
This great poem continues in this vein—and is
The reason for this potential royal eleva-
a passionate plea for justice for the "little
tion invited an alternative speculation: either
pe oples".
he had proved his right to it by his gift of
But there is something missing in Richard
admiration, or, Hitler wanted him out of the
LeGallienne's fine work. The people of the
way.
Prophets, with whom the Poets are compared by
It now appears, according to Der Angriff
his daughter, Eva LeGallienne, are missing from
of Berlin, that there is another reason: Her-
the picture. What is wrong? Are Jews entitled
mann Goering, like the late Henry Fielding
Wyandotte
'r. ";
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to "but a little portion of the green ambitious
(1707-1754), claims to be a Plantagenet—
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earth"; or is this reserved for their graves? Must
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name of the family that reigned in England
justice be limited, or is it to be all-inclusive?
from 1154 till 1485.
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"Should father wish to bring it up to date,"
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Fielding, the author of the immortal "Tom
Eva LeGallienne says about this poem, he would
Jones," claimed descent from the Denbighs,
add Norway, Holland, Belgium and France. The
a left-handed branch of the Plantagenets,
picture is thus left incomplete, and therefore not
but Goering claims direct rescent from Henry
altogether right. To be complete it must include
II (1154.1188), who instigated the murder of
the People of the Prophets.
Thomas a Beckett, Archbishop of Canter.
For the LeGalliennes, the Jews may be in-
bury, in 1770, and Henry the Lion Duke of
cluded among the Poles and the Danes and the
Bavaria and Saxony in the same century.
Dutch and the French. In truth, they are. But
It is a matter of authentic history that
this is not enough. Today there is a nucleus of
the legitimate male issue of the family be-
500,000 Jews in Palestine who call themselves
came extinct with the death of Count Geof-
a nationality in a Jewish Commonwealth. Also,
frey Plantagenet, in 1499, so the Goering
today there are millions of Jews who must go
escutcheon, like that of Fielding, should show
somewhere to choose a nationality, and a great
the bar sinister. But whether it does or not
portion of them is prepared to choose the Na-
We invite your mortgage business.
a London columnist writes:
tional Home which has eternally been referred
"General Goering underrates his pedigree.
It will receive our careful considera-
to by the People Israel as Eretz Israel—the
He is clearly a descendant of the Neander-
Land
of
Israel.
Also,
there
are
people
in
the
tion from inception to completion.
thal Man, and brings his manners and his
world who insist that Jews go, go, continue to
morals with him."
go somewhere. Thus, among all the Little Peoples,
the Jewish is the most homeless.
Here you have a great many sidelines on the
Richard LeGallienne would do well to add a
present situation—the aspirations of the be-
medaled Nazi warrior, some views about him in stanza or two to his great poem—and included
among the additions of Little Peoples who should
Germany, the reactions of the British whom
zion
he aspires to govern. Since the English have be given "a little portion of the green ambitious
been called soft, the present answers this brave earth" should be the Jewish people; and Eva
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people gives to Nazi threats serve to describe LeGallienne should rewrite her Note in the 1941
the true condition of the British Isles. Incident- edition of this poem so that Jews may be given
recognition as worthy of a place under the sun.
ally, the charge of "softness" brings us to an-

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the vitalization of Zionism as a
way of life for Jewry, and the
continuance of a chalutz youth
movement in America.
Our chaverim in Eretz and
war-torn Europe look to us. We
are confident that we, like they,
will meet, clarify and strengthen
ourselves to continue with re-
doubled efforts our struggle for
a free humanity and an eman-
cipated Jewish people in Eretz
Yisrael. This is our call and our
challenge!"

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Hashomer Conclave
By Philip Slomovitz Here on April 15-20

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