A merica 9elysh Periodical &ter
April 4, 1941
JUDGE OF
TRAFFIC COURT
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
mands that as a people, as a race, Jewish Group Backs
we take up the challenge side by
Candidacy of Judge
side with the other threatened
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Peoples. Free French, Free Poles,
N e a 1 Fitzgerald
reconstruction of the Jewish Free Norwegians have constituted
homeland offers to world states- their recognized armies. Over and
Judge Neal Fitzgerald, re-
men a constructive solution com- above the forces which we Jews
mensurate with the unprecedent- supply, as citizens of our respec- cently appointed to the Common
ed problem of mass migration Live countries, we want to con- Pleas Court, is seeking to be
and mass colonization with which stitute a volunteer, recognized elected to fill out the remainder
the Jewish people will be con- military force -- the Jewish mili- of a term which expires Dec.
fronted at the end of the pres- tary force — for service against 31, 1943. Judge Fitzgerald was
the common enemy of mankind.
ent conflict.
It was our bitter privilege to be
Homelessness Problem
singled out by Hitler for the
More than 2,500 persons first and the most unrelenting
crowded into the Grand Ball- of his hatreds. It should be our
room of the Hotel Astor on March Privilege to give our answer in
26 to hear Dr. Weizmann's ad- the fullest measure wherever he
dress at a public reception in is to be encounterd on the field
his honor given under the aus- of battle."
pices of the United Palestine
Recently the Jewish Agency
Appeal, the central American
agency for the upbuilding and for Palestine, of which Dr. Weiz-
defense of the Jewish National mann is the president, made an
official offer to the British Gov-
Home in Palestine.
ernment to raise a Jewish mili-
Sounding the warning that tary force of more than 40,000
mass deportations and expulsions Palestinian Jews for the defense
of Jews are being used as wea- of the Jewish homeland and for
pons against democracy by the Britain. Prior to Dr. Weizmann's
Nazis, Dr. Weizmann said that departure for the United States,
"wherever a refugee problem can the world Jewish leader had a
be developed that situation will conference with Prime Minister
benefit the totalitarian forces. Winston Churchill. Dr. Weizmann
That is why the problem of Jew- did not say whether' the subject
ish homelessness becomes vitally of a distinctly Jewish fighting
bound up with the world prob- organization had been a part of
lem as a whole. That is why the his discussions with the British
task of rebuilding the Jewish Prime Minister.
National Home in Palestine be-
Dr. Weizmann expressed confi-
comes a responsibility of the en-
tire world. The Jew is being dence that the Jewish contribu-
used not only as a scapegoat but tion to the victory of democrcy JUDGE NEAL FITZGERALD
"will not escape the attention of
as a weapon as well.
"What has at long last been America's statesmen." Stressing born in Detroit, on May 2, 1905,
borne home to the great ma- the fart that the Battle of Bri- and has been a lifelong resident
jority of Jews and of democratic tain which is being waged in de- here. Was educated in the pub-
statesmen is, that the solution fense of the approaches to Am- lic schools, graduating from the
of the Jewish problem lies in erica, is not being fought only U. of D. High School. He at-
giving the Jewish people an op- on the Atlantic or over the cities tended Holy Cross College and
portunity to build a land of its of England, but that it is also studied law at Harvard Law
own. In the words of Lord Hali- being fought in the east. Dr. School and received his degree
fax uttered only yesterday: Weizmann emphasized that in in 1930.
Since that time until his ele-
'Every nation, great or small, will the east the Jewish homeland in
have its place and make its own Palestine stands as a bulwark vation to the bench, he engaged
on the road to the Suez Canal. in the practice of law and taught
contribution.' "
in the U. of D. Law School, as
Urges Establishment of Jewish
Restrictions of White Paper
legal instructor.
Military Force
Condemned
While Judge Fitzgerald is now
The world-renowned Jewish
Discussing the effects of the
leader who served as Director war on the progress of the re- the youngest of the Common
of the Chemical Laboratories of building of Palestine, Dr. Weiz- Pleas Judges, he has already re-
the British Admiralty in the first mann declared that the conflict ceived favorable endorsement
World War and has been en- has in no way abated Jewish from almost every attorney who
gaged in important chemical re- efforts there and that opportuni- has appeared before him. He has
search for the British Govern- ties for expansion still exist. displayed a temperament and
ment in the present conflict call- However, he observed that . it demeanor on the bench which
ed upon the British Government would be futile and unwise to lends itself to the calm and care-
to permit the Jews of Palestine deny that obstructive elements ful consideration of the matters
to establish a recognized Jewish still hamper the development of brought into his court.
Judge Fitzgerald has been
volunteer military force "for ser- the Jewish homeland. Asserting
vice against the common enemy that it was not his purpose to widely endorsed for his fitness
of mankind," on a basis of diminish by one iota his devotion and special commendation was
equality with the armies of the to the cause of England's vic- set for him by Joseph Budnitzky,
Saul R. Levin, Charles Rubiner,
Free French, Free Poles, Free tory, Dr. Weizmann nevertheless _
Norwegians and Free Czechs.
attacked the White Paper and yr. Maurice M. Silverman, Max
Dr. Weizmann pointed out that its restrictions on land sales and Chomsky, Isaac . Finkelstein, Nor-
B Levin, Sol
more than 8,000 Palestinian Jews Jewish immigration which he man Rom, Alvin B.
were enrolled in all branches of chacterized as "a heritage of the Slomovitz, Morris Malin and
the British Army and had fought past, habits out of the days when many others in Detroit's busi-
valiantly in Greece, in Egypt and England had not awakened either ness, professional, social and po-
in Libya. But he emphasized that to the danger which threatened litical life.
this was not enough and that or the opportunity which a vic-
the Jewish people have a special torious issue of the war would ergi es , awakens imagination and
place in the very forefront of afford." Dr. Weizmann vigorously initiative, taps new sources of vi-
the struggle against Hitlerism.
called for the removal of these
"We were the first to suffer obstacles in the path of the re- tality.
Jews Helping Solve Arab
the onslaught of the Nazi hordes. construction of the Jewish home-
Problem
As a people, as a race, we were land. "It is for England's sake
The Arab problem may be re-
the first victims of their organ- as much as for our own that
garded as the only difficulty in
ized brutalities; and honor de- we shall continue to press for the
program for the future de-
a modification of this situation," velopment of the Jewish home-
he declared. "These restrictions land, Dr. Weizmann said. In this
have no place in the present set-
, connection, the noted Jewish
up; they have still less plac
in leader recalled that in discus-
p e -
the plans for the future, which sions which he had with the late
must be geared to a total solu- King Feisal of Iraq more than
tion of the Jewish problem." He twenty years ago, the Arab lead-
observed that the White Paper er gave Dr. Weizmann oral and
was loot in keeping with the written assurance that "for a
spirit of this hour. liberated Arab people and a unit-
In discussing the post-war posi- ed Arab federation, the prospect
tion of the Jews, Dr. Weizmann of a Jewish homeland in Pales-
declared that the vision of a new tine offered nothing but good."
order of freedom and peace Dr. Weizmann emphasized that
would not be complete without it was only when the Arab-Jew-
Palestine as the groundwork for ish question was confined to the
a solution of the Jewish prob- limits of Palestine itself that
lem. Dr. Weizmann said that even the Jews encountered difficul-
the greatest enemies of the Jew- ties.
ish people cannot deny that the
Dr. Weizmann was introduced
Palestine experiment has been to the large assemblage of out-
a remarkable success. He attrib- standing civic, business and com-
uted the achievements in the re- munal figures at the reception
building of the ancient Jewish by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chair-
homeland to the fact that the man of the administrative corn-
practical appeal of Zionism sprang mittee of the United Palestine
from a great moral appeal. An- Appeal.
alyzing Zionist aspirations, he
Dr. Wise paid tribute to the
said: "The building of a Jewish statesmanship of Dr. Weizmann,
homeland calls for an organic declaring that American Jewry
transformation in the Jewish peo- must unite to give moral and
ple. It calls for a return to the material support for the rebuild-
land and to basic industries- ing of the Jewish National Home
privileges which have long been as the cornerstone for a new
denied us. Such a transforma- and happier future for the Jew-
tion is difficult for the individ- ish people everywhere.
ual, infinitely more difficult for
a mass of human beings. It is
Coming to Yale next fall, we
not enough to be poor, to be understand, is the scion of the
i persecuted, to be in want, in South African Schiesingers, the
ER Iorder to put forth a gigantic richest Jewish family of that
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effort. There must be something country, who some years ago spon-
1 deeply affirmative. There must sored a Cape Town to. London
I be something which releases en- flight. .
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