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ment's refusal to honor an Amer-
ican passport held by a citizen
of the Jewish persuasion. We
boast of being a grateful and
remembering people, but we will
not long be deserving of the
title if we lose our memory.
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of the Jews, constitute at once
a denial of our rights, and an
affront to the honor of the great
Republic. How to bring about
a public realization of the in-
jury and indignity that was in-
herent in this form of discrim-
ination, presented the gravest
ouestion which American Jewry
faced in many years, just as
the final disposition of the prob-
lem with the abrogation of the
treaty of 1932 on January 1,
1912 stood for the most drastic
action of an international char-
acter ever undertaken.
It was a long struggle to re-
move this hurtful and humiliat-
ing disability, a struggle that
began with a series of diplomatic
overtures extending over a dec-
ade, and which finally culminit,-
ed in public appeal and protest
that brought the effort to a head.
If the diplomats ultimately yield-
ed to the exigency of the hour
and accepted an open campaign
as alternative to defeat, it was
probably because they grew
weary of futile, unechoing en-
deavor. Still, it is possible that
they hoped for a more decorous
and restrained movement than
that which broke out in a thou-
sand mass-meetings throughout
the land.
But how shall one interpret,
if no one remembers, and so few

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JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

look back to the events of the he at once asked, "What has be-
day before yesterday. The dis- come of Henry Green?" The emi-
tinguished leaders in Israel, who neat American statesman had re-
undoubtedly rendered great serv- membered the obscure young
ices, did not ask Mr. McAdoo man from the East Side, but
to champion their cause. No, it the great men in Israel had for-
was an obscure East Side young gotten William G. McAdoo.
man, Henry Green, who brought
Another figure, a strange form
the head of the Hudson tubes out of the past who has just
and other distinguished Amer- been enveloped by the shadows.
leans into the picture.
Nicolas Titulesco touched the
Item from the American Jew- Jewish problem not from the side
ish Year Book of 1912-13:
of the defender, but from the
October 10 (1911 )
angle of apologist for one of the
"National Citizens" Committee oppressing nations. An exotic,
New York, to compel Russia to tall, bent and gnarled figure, with
cease discriminating against swarthy countenance of Mongol-
American passports held by Jews, ian cast, with flashing, penetrat-
elects officers: Andrew D. White, ing eyes, and vibrant in every
President ; William G. McAdoo, part of his being.
Ambassador from Roumania to
Chairman Executive Committee ;
Henry Green, General Director." the Court of St. James, he had
Item from the American Jew- come to the United States on it
special diplomatic mission. Lured
ish Year Book of 1912-13:
and captured by the American
December 6 (1911)
"Mass meeting, Carnegie Hall, Committee on Religious Rights
New York City, under auspices and Minorities, he was brought
of National Citizens' Committee, to a special dinner-meeting at
presided over by William G. Mc- the Yale Club, to discuss the
Adoo, Chairman Executive Corn- problem of minorities in Rou-
m ittee, addressed by Hon. An- mania, Jewish and Christian.
drew D. White, Senator James As part of the uncoveted invi-
A. O'Gorman (N.Y.), William tation, he was handed the day
Randolph Hearst, Bishop David before a copy of the book "Rou-
H. Greer, Governor Woodrow mania—Ten Years After," being
Wilson N. J.), Speaker Champ the report of the Committee's
Clark, Jacob G. Schurman (p res. delegation of eminent men who
ident, Cornell University), Con- had visited that land the year
Gressman N. E. Kendall ( Iowa), before and made a thorough
William Sulzer, Francis B. Har- study of conditions on the
rison, William M. Calder, Henry ground.
"That book, that book," moan-
M. Goldfogle (N.Y.), and ex-
Congressman William S. Bennett ed His Excellency, "I could not
and Herbert Parsons (N.Y.). sleep all night."
He sparred and parried with
Messages from Governor Judson
Harmon (Ohio), United States amazing skill and resourceful-
Senator Boies Penrose (Pa.), ness. As if caught in a lion's
and Congressmen James M. Cur- den, he resorted to every wile
ley (Mass.) and J. Charles Linth- and artifice of diplomacy to shield
icum (Md.). Resolutions adopt- himself and his country from the
his critics.
Never
ed urging abrogation of Treaty attacks
before, of
probably,
was an
out-
of 1832 with Russia."
Item from the American Jew- standing Roumanian statesman,
destined to be his country's Pre-
ish Year Book of 1912-13:
mie•, exposed to such an awk-
December 13, (1911)
ward and vulnerable position.
"House
of Representatives
There members
were—among
the few
adopts, by vote
of 301 to 1, the Jewish
of the Commit-

Sulzer
resolution
Res. tee—Louis Marshall, with sledge-
166), providing
for (H.
the J. termina-
hammer force and directness
tion
of the
Treaty of 1832
with
to the
solemn
treaties
and
Russia,
Representatives
Levy
and pointing
invoking
law, Judge
Julian
Goldfogle (N.Y.) in the chair." W. Mack, with his gentle but

(L. Napoleon Levy and Henry irresistably logical exposition of
M.
Goldfogle.)
international
agreements and ob-
The
diplomatic work
carried
on by our leaders of that time, ligations, and Dr. Stephen S.
embraced an extensive corre- Wise, with his moral indictment
spondence with the heads of our and humanitarian appeal. And
government, particularly with then, some twenty or more .
President Theodore Roosevelt. neat representatives of Christian
This was continued with Presi- organizations and American aca-
dent William Howard Taft, but demic life—among them mem-
the successor of "T.R.", though bets of the delegation to Rou-
m
. charging its govern-
a Unitarian, and liberal in mat- ania—a11
ters of inter-racial or inter-faith went with shameful treatment
relations, was peculiarly irrespon- of the non-official churches of
sive to the appeals of the spokes- the country. A certain savoir
men from the large central Jew- faire, and the general amenities
ish organizations, and one dole- of such a meeting, saved the
gation after another came away occasion from unseemly con-
from the White House discour- fl ict and bitterness, but with all
aged and disappointed. At the his grace and fine manners the
last of these meetings, President distinguished Ambassador could
Taft indicated clearly his unwill- not conceal his extreme discom-
ingness to risk certain of our fiture.
There was yet to come the
industrial and commercial inter-
eats in Russia by abrogating the closing incident of the dramatic
treaty with that country, express- conference. This took place on
ing the vague expectation that December 20, 1925, at the Lotus
some other remedy may ultimate- Club when Messrs. Marshall,
ly be found. It is said that as Mack and Wise, dealing speci-
the delegation was leaving the fically with the Jewish aspect of
White House, Mr. Jacob S. Schiff the situation, conferred with the
turned to Mr. Louis Marshall Ambassador a considerable length
and said, "Marshall, this means of time. The writer was not
a fight. Go right ahead, and I Present at this meeting, but
will back you up to the limit." knew from reports, of the alter-
It was after this that the pub- nate pressure and resistance by
lie agitation began, though, as I which it was characterized, clos-
indicated before, not as directly ing with amicable expressions of
or as vigorously as it may have esteem and assurances of earnest
been expected. In the interval, consideration. Subsequently, the
new elements came into the cam- document reciting the grievances
paign which almost precipitously of the Roumanian Jews, after-
forced the spread of the protest wards known as the Titulesco
movement throughout the coun- memorandum, was presented to
try. This led to action on the the Roumanian statesman, under
part of the House of Represen- the signatures of the three rep-
tatives. A hearing before the resentatives of organized Jewry.
Senate Committee on Foreign These discussions, like the re-
Relations so impressed the mem- port of the Christian delegation
bers that it was ready to recom- and the many years of interces-
mend to the Senate the adoption sion on the part of the Amer-
of the House resolution. This icon Committee, Etc., undoubt-
would have meant the abroga- edly sought to ease the burdens
tion of the treaty without any of discrimination under which
action on the part of the Execu- our people in that country were
tive branch of the government. laboring. Sonic years after his
When, however, Senator Henry visit to the United States, Nich-
Cabot Lodge (of course, the olas Titulesco rose to a position
father of the present Senator), of greater power, but whether as
informed the President that the Ambassador to England, or Pre-
Senate was ready to adopt the mier, he continued to play the
House resolution, Mr. Taft, act- role of moderator and concil-
ing within his own rights, took iator, endeavoring to recognize
steps to announce to the Russian the demands of a new age, and
government the abrogation of to avoid all extremesf
0
post-
the treaty as of December 21, tion. However, he was closer to
12'h the brink of the precipice than
II91 When
%
several years ago in he ever realized, and he passed
Washington, I reminded Senator from the scene with the pass-
McAdoo about the old fight to ing of the scene itself.
abrogate the treaty with Russia,
Other figures out of the past.

GIVE VITAMINS
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In the presence of several
hundred religious schools
throughout the city, a $1,200
gift of Vitamins was presented
for the use of children of Britain
at the Keren Ami Conference
held on Sunday afternoon, Mai
25th, 1941 at the Park Avenue
Synagogue, New York City. This
tummy wain cid ley tyd by the
Keren Aini a Jewish children's
fund operative in many Hebrew
eshools and Sunday schools in
A m erica. A coin millet , of Jew-
ish educators, principals and rab-
bis, with Dr. Ben M Edid in as
chairman, has been in charge of
raising contributions for this spe-
cial Keren Ami Vitamin Project
from pupils in Jewish relgous
schools throughout the country.
The amount donated by the
children will be supplemented by
an equal contribution from the
Esco Fund Committee, which
had given a large gift towards
the same purpose earlier in the
year.
This gift of Vitamins will be
shipped shortly to England
through the American Red Cross.

U. S. O.

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of the three religious groups.
In connection with U.S.O. Sab-
bath, families everywhere will
plan to entertain service men at
noon-day dinners after church.
This is being urged particularly
in communities near cantonments
and naval stations.
Many ministers have promised
to ask their parishioners to sup-
port the U.S.O. fund-raising cam-
paign, which will have started on
June 3. The drive is for $10,-
765,000 to finance the operation
of more than 360 clubhouses for
the spiritual guidance and I iesure
thn e activity of soldiers, sailors
and defense workers.
U.S.O. is composed of the
Young Men's Christian Associa-
tions, National Ca th olc Communi-
ty Service, Salvation Army,
Young Women's Christian Asso-
ciation, Jewish Welfare Board,
and National Travelers Aid Asso-
ciation.
A Rabbinical Committee of
eight is serving with Rabbi Is-
rael on the clergy advisory board.
They are Rabbi Samuel Golden-
son. Dr. Louis Finkelstein and
Rabbi Leo Jung, of New York
City; Rabbi Louis L. Mann, and
Rabbi Solomon Goldman, of Chi-
cago ; Rabbi Henry Berkowitz,
Portland, Ore.; Rabbi Jacob
Kohn, Los Angeles, and Rabbi II.
Raphael Gold, Dallas, Tex.

Henry W.

Newburger, the Lan-
celot of the old Kell illah, who at
the time of the celebrated Ros-
enthal murder case which made
Jewish leadership so nervous,
took up the task of combating
criminology on the East Side.
Some people thought the whole
scare was due to exaggeration
and there was conflict of opin-
ion, as well as controversy, which
has long been forgotten. The
obituaries said that Newburger
represented the Jewish Commun-
ity ( Kehillah ), an East Side or-
ganization. Imagine an East
Side organization with Jacob S.
Schiff, Nathan Bijur, Cyrus L.
Sultzberger, Louis Marshall, and
Adolf Lewisohn on the Executive
Committee ! How thickly and
thoroughly the passing of two
decades served to obscure the
significant and interesting events
of earlier years as for instance
the time when Eugene Meyer,
Jr. and the late Adolf Lewisohn
ran for delegates to the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress, and lost to
two young Zionists of the East
Side, who never bought any stock
or bonds, but knew how to sell

Shkolim.

Today the historian is the col,
umnist. The columnist says that
M. Henry Tores, the famous
French attorney, who has just
arrived in this country, was the
defender of Herschel Grynszpan.
Did not Tores at one time also
act as the advocate of a man
by the name of Shalom Schwartz-
bard?
Schwa rtzbard ? Schwartzbard ?
--to echo the exclamation of
Pilate in the celebrated story of
Anatole France—who was Schw-
artzbard ?

In the Middle Ages it was tip'
custom to bring little boys to
Hebrew schools for the first time
on Shevuoth, when they began
their Hebrew education.

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