A mami( 'apish Periodical Center
May 16, 1941
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Americanism
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
MR. COUGHLIN
WAR
13
"TRY (
out war on Roosevelt, Jews and
Jewish democracies." The letters
were signed, "American Secret
(Continued from Pate One)
Continued from Page 1
By S. J. LEVE
Million Committee".
Directors of Bureau of Investi- the one about Lent. Mr. Cough- important role in Palestine's de-
Among the recipients of the
gation, Board of Wayne County lin's "Social Justice" had suggest- fense and the general war effort. violently anti-Jewish and pro-
Auditors
ed that the Jews would rob Chris- He reported to the meeting re- Nazi letters were Herman Hoff-
tians of the consolations of Lent. cent negotiations with the Pales- man, Grand Master of the Inde-
The Jew is an integral part of I replied that, on the contrary, tine government for an increase pendent Order Brith Abraham,
government of the people, by I would increase the days of Lent in the Jewish community's par- Senator Alben Barkley and a
for Mr. Coughlin's sake, that he
the people, and for the people. might have much more time for ticipation in the country's de- number of prominent statesmen
and newspaper men. One of the
FOR REAL
As such, he is first of all an penitence; to the end that when fense.
Heavy troop detachments have notes ended with the phrase:
American—a citizen of the glor- his time came he might be for- been placed on the Palestine-
"Hitlerism shall not perish from
ious democracy in which all races given and kissed by the gentle Syrian and Transjordan-Syrian
the earth but the Jews shall".
Jew,
Jesus,
at
the
gates
of
Para-
and creeds share equally the
borders as a precautionary Another frequently used slogan
blessings and responsibilities of dise: No; I would not take even measure against a Nazi attack
was "God bless Hitler Goddam
one
day
of
Lent
from
Christians.
liberty.
"VI
the Jews!"
A long, long Lent, I said, for through Vichy-ruled Syria.
The concentration of German
The contribution of the Jew penitence and for restitution by
An autopsy revealed that Dr.
The ONLY
"tourists" in Syria has led Brit- Simon died of a depressed frac-
to America has been considerable justice, charity and all kindness.
ish and Jewish leaders here to ture of the skull, which was the
in every walk of life. The Jew-
Mr. Coughlin's "Social Justice"
ish War Veterans of the United says: "If Mr. Segal were factual believe that Hitler is exerting result either of being struck in
States bear witness to his loyalty and fair to his readers he would pressure on the Vichy govern- the face or of being hit behind
—his passionate love of the land contact the Jewish magazines ment to permit passage of troops the ear with a blackjack or a
in which he lives. His achieve- which printed the articles advocat- through Syria for an attack on piece of covered pipe. Before
ments in civil life have enriched ing the abandonment of Lent by Palestine and the Suez Canal.
lapsing into a coma from which
Military observers held the he never emerged, Dr. Simon
the professional, the cultural, and Christians. But because he is not
view
that
Turkey
would
not
per-
the economic progress of the na- fair, because he never will be fair
KOPPITZ-MELCHERS, Inc.
mumbled, in German, to his
and because he belongs to a tribe mit Hitler to send his legions wife: "They beat me up on some
tion.
The Jew is not an interloper— who are notorious for the specimen across Turkish territory for his little dark street."
an outsider—in America. He is of presentation which character- drive to the Suez and discounted
Mrs. Irma Simon, the refugee
no more an immigrant than any izes Segal's article of April 4, he entirely chances of a successful journalist's wife, told police that
is
one
who
is
inviting
repercus-
Nazi-Italian
drive
across
Egypt.
other human being living under
her husband had no connection
the American flag. He has in sions which will fall upon the
with any political party and took
many cases been here since the heads of the said trible as surely Nazis Announce Strictest Appli- no part in any political party
cation of Nuremberg Laws in
country came into being—he is in America as they always have
and took no part in any political
Occupied France
activity. Dr. Simon, she said, de-
a vital part of the people of all elsewhere."
I
feel
deeply
pained
by
the
sting
racial origins, who make up the
VICHY. (WNS) —Nazi mili- voted all his time to musical re-
of
ingratitude.
I
wished
Mr.
search.
sum total of America's popula-
Coughlin a happy reception in tary authorities in occupied
Dr. Simon, a grandson of the
tion.
France
have
issued
a
blanket
Paradise after a long penitential
In the present hour of grave Lent, but in return his paper decree forbidding Jews to en- founder of the Frankfurter Zei-
danger to the nation and to the gives me dark warnings of dread- gage in any business or profes- tung, left Germany in 1934 and
entire world, the Jew is ready ful things to fall upon my head sion which would bring them came to the United States two
to defend every American insti- . . . "repercussions . . . as surely into contact with "Aryans". The years ago after staying in Eng-
tution and every religious creed in America as they always have new Nazi order puts into effect land, France and Palestine. While
the strictest application of the in Palestine, he helped Bronislaw
in which his fellow citizens be- elsewhere."
Huberman organize the Palestine
lieve. In defending the liberty
Collingwood at Third
Oh, I muse, he must mean that Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws.
It was learned that the French Symphony.
of his fellow men, he is defend- the same horrible afflictions will
Dr.
Simon
brought
his
wife
authorities
are
planning
the
ex-
I
to 4 room suites,
ing his own liberty. In defend- overtake Jews in America as in
furnished or unfurnished,
ing the religions of others, he Germany . . . concentration camps, pulsion of 30,000 foreign Jews and 8-year-old daughter, Josefa,
Hotel service optional,
is defending his own religion.
exile, pogroms, Gestapo, sudden residing in France. First to be to America in May, 1940. In
expelled will be the 125,000 Jews Washington, he lectured at the
dining room, garage in
In this hour of dire peril to death, denial of civil rights.
Washington
College
of Music
connection.
Yet, though I feel hurt by this living in around Paris, it was and was en gage d .
freedom, there is to be found
research
in the Jew those qualities of ingratitude, I am not frightened. reported. A usually well-informed
TOWNSEND 8-2680
source quoted Fernand de Brinon, work in music at the Library of
leadership and endurance that I have so much faith in America:
as Congress.
Vichy's
ambassador
to
Paris,
It
can
not
happen
here.
A
Cough-
are to be needed and badly need-
Many Jews Killed, 4 Synagogues
ed in the troublesome days that lin may mouth threats but he can- saying: "Under the reorganiza-
Destroyed in Fierce Raid on
lie ahead for every man, woman, not become a Goebbels; a Pelley tion of the new Europe, Jews
London
and child in America. His suffer- may put on a silver shirt but he must leave France. If they can-
LONDON.—(WNS)--Scores of
ings throughout the centuries can not become a Hitler. Not not, we may establishspecial
camps for them in their own Jews were killed and at least
have inured him to every con- bere•
My faith in America is sustain- districts." four synagogues, one of them
ceivable hardship; the bitter ex-
destroyed in one of the fiercest
periences he has undergone have ed by the record of American his-
taught him the wisdom upon tory: There was the time in the Free French Leaders Pledge very famous in England, were
Nazi air attacks on London, since
Equality for Jews
which his survival and the sur- 50's when bigots and political
vival of all democracy may well crooks did all they could to bring
LONDOON. (WNS)—A declar- the beginning of the war.
WINDOW SHADES
depend. down "repercussions" on the heads ation of principles pledging full
The headquarters of a Jewish
MADE TO ORDER
of Catholics. They were the Know- equality to Jews in post-war boys' clubs and of a Jewish news-
Working hand in hand with Nothing Party. On an anti-Catho-
paper were severely damaged.
Cleaned and Repaired
his Gentile brethren, standing lie platform (it called for the France and disavowing the anti- Whole blocks of homes in the
Jewish
laws
now
in
effect
in
LINOLEUM
shoulder to shoulder with them stripping of civil rights from
Jewish district of London were
in the battle against the false Catholics) they elected governors that country was made public burned to the ground.
Inlaid and Battleship
here
by
Maurice
de
Jean
and
philosophy and the might of to- and legislators, even attempted to
Report Nazis Will Draft 1,000,-
CARPETING
talitarianism, he is proving by carry the nation in a presidential Prof. Rene Cassin, leaders of
000 Polish Jews for Com-
Gen. Charles de Gaulle's Free
every patriotic action of his, the election.
Rugs and Furniture
pulsory Labor
But, at long last, in this de- French movement.
loyalty to democracy that this
STOCKHOLM. — (WNS) —
VENETIAN BLINDS
organization of Jewish War Vet- cent America the Know-Nothing
One million Jews, approximately
Departure
of
Diplomats
Will
Sig-
trans exemplifies in the highest Party became only a night-mare
Drapery Hardware
one-half of the Jewish popula-
nal Anti-Jewish Pogroms
rnmory of our history; Catholics
degree.
Oct Our Pdees and Save
tion
in
Nazi-occupied
Poland,
will
in Yugoslavia
He must remember, however, survived to become effective, re-
Free Estimates Furnished
GENEVA. (WNS) — The de- be drafted by Nazi authorities
that personal jealousy and per- spected citizens and civic leaders
8625 LINWOOD
there for complsory labor during
parture of foreign diplomats
sonal ambition must now be for- in every American community.
the summer months, according to
CALL
TYLER 5-1230
from
Yugoslavia
before
the
end
gotten. He must work with, and In the recent twenties the Ku
not against, his fellow Jew for Klux Klan lived a while and died of May in compliance with Nazi newspaper dispatches here.
the good of the nation and the and its i leaders were buried under requests will be the signal for a INIIIMMON ■ Mes ■ OOMINOMMI
P'
future welfare of all mankind. the "repercussions" they had pre- violent anti - Jewish campaign
He is not only a Jewish war Pared for Catholics and Jews throughout Serbia, Bosnia and
• •
Macedonia, according to neutral
veteran, he is, first of all an
It didn't happen here then under sources here.
American war veteran, and his
But we all like to
That the Jews in Yugoslavia
allegiance to his country is sec- . happen
the Ku here
Klux
Klan
and
it can't
dine out. Harry Bo-
Cocktails
Our
now
under
a Cough-
may expect more repressive ac-
esky's has a friend-
and
and only to his allegiance to lin
Delicious
ly atmosphere and
Fancy
the God of his fathers—the God
Delicatessen
A . 11 of this causes me to feel all tion was indicated in the mass
its food is cooked
Drinks
Delivered
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
the more that Mr. Coughlin needs arrest last week of thousands of
right.
Mother
will
prominent
Jews,
including
many
Mixed
FREE
America has become the mod- a long, long Lent for penitence—
appreciate
a
good
by
Anywhere-
ern Land of Promise—the land for having given falsehood and rabbis and leaders of Jewish
dinner
prepared
by
Experts
Anytime
to which his feet have been led penitence for having fomented communities. The Jews were
someone else.
by the same God that sent Moses hate and penitence for having per- charged with instigating anti-
and his people forth from Egypt, mitted threats to be spread against Nazi disturbances prior to the
and the rigors of a totalitarian fellowmen. When, after a long Nazi occupation of the country.
Jews are not permitted to shop
tyranny as oppressive to the Jew- Lent, he comes to Paradise for
ish soul as the unspeakable op- forgiveness, I shall be among the in the public markets before
pression of Hitler. first to welcome him, if I am 10:30 a. m., at which time the
The Jew, above all, the Jew- there. I shall take his hand and meagre stocks have been de-
12th and Hazelwood
Phone Trinity 2-9366
pleted. All Jewish-owned shops
ish War Veteran, must protect call him "father."
have been sealed by the Nazi
this Land of Promise, no mat-
authorities pending the appoint-
ter what the cost in suffering
and loss of life. He must protect Molly Segal Auxiliary of ment of "Aryan" managers.
it from the enemy without the
J.C.R.S. Plans for
Mystery Surrounds Murder of
gate, and from the enemy with-
$5 Luncheon
Dr. Simon; Police Probe
in. America is not threatened
Threatening Letters
with invasion—it is invaded. The
The Molly Segal Auxiliary of
WASHINGTON. (WNS)—Mvs-
foe is here among us, working
the Jewish Consumptive Relief
secretly against us, undermining Society of Denver, Colorado, is tery continued to surround the
now being sold and
murder of Dr. Heinrich Simon,
American institutions, promoting
making plans for its annual $5 German-Jewish refugee and for-
serviced by
racial intolerance, committing sa-
donor luncheon to be held June
botage, conspiring to overthrow 10, at Shaarey Zedek, at 12:30. mer editorial director of the
Frankfurter Zeitung, who died
the freedom so precious to Jew
The chairmen of the affair, Mrs. a few hours after he was bru-
and Gentile alike.
Schweizer and Mrs. Moss, state tally assaulted on a dark street
Laudable as the Americaniza-
tion work of the Jewish War that a rummage store is avail- near his home here.
able for those who wish to earn
While the Washington police
Veterans has been, the task has
their plates in this way. For admitted that they still were
just begun—is barely under way.
information call the president, without clues one week after the
From now on the Jewish War
Mrs. Friedman, To. 8-9421, or crime, the Dies Committee re-
Veteran must strive unceasingly
the ticket chairman, Mrs. Green- ferred its file of threatening let-
night and day to oppose with
ters to the capital's police in the
every means within his power field, To. 6-5895,
hope that the notes might shet
Inc.
the dangerous subversive forces
some light on the murder of the
that are being marshaled against
redouble his efforts to save for 61-year-old refugee.
12250 JOS. CAMPAU
democracy.
The letters, culled from the
Again, I repeat, the Jewish America and the world the lib-
TO. 8-9310
erty without which there is no files of the Dies Committee re-
war veteran and every Jew is
American
Way
of
Life
and
no
ports,
contained
such
phrases
as
called upon to forget personal
"massacre every Jew" and "All-
jealousy and ambition, and to Jewish Way of Life.
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