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Detroit Jewish chronicle

SECTION ONE

VOL. 43, NO. 23

Needy Jews in
Holland Aided
By Clergymen

Nazi Repression Also
Cements Friendship
of Serbs, Jews

STOCKHOLM (WNS)— Cler-
gymen in the Nazi-occupied Ne-
therlands have been appealing to
their congregations to contribute
foodstuffs and money to aid Jews
made penniless by the Nazi-im-
posed anti-Jewish laws, it was
reported here.
The "plot" on the part of the
Dutch clergymen to lessen the
plight of their Jewish neighbors
was uncovered by the pro-Nazi
newspaper, National Zeitung,
which is published in Amster-
dam.
Reporting a number of cases
where clergymen had secretly ap-
proached members of their con-
gregations for contributions of
food and money, which were
turned over to needy Jewish
families in the city, the Nazi
paper demanded that the Govern-
ment take vigorous steps against
"the enemies of the State."
Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi
Commissioner in Holland, recent-
ly issued decrees forbidding all
economic and social contacts be-
tween "Aryans" and Jews, and
threatened severe r e p r i s a l s
against Netherlanders who mani-
fested expressions of sympathy
or friendship towards Jews. The
decrees were issued after Nether-
landers staged several anti-Nazi
demonstrations in protest against
thc anti-Jewish regulations.

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Churchmen Told
To Combat Hate

MONTREAT, N. C. (Reli-
gious News Service)--Committee
reports describing war as the
despoiler of "every feature of
Christian civilization" and cau-
tioning the church "to keep
cool" when "all others are los-
ing, their heads in hysteria,"
were presented here before the
81st general assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the
U. S. (Southern).
The Committee on Social and
Moral Welfare reported that
"the Church must stand for
liberty of conscience during the
feverish days of preparing for

See CHURCHMAN—Page 8

Italy Renews
Drive on Jews

1,000 Arrested as Un-
desirables and as
British Agents

ZURICH (WNS)—The Italian
Government launched its new
anti-Jewish drive with the arrest
of 1,000 Italian Jews as "un-
desirables" and suspected British
agents, it was reliably reported
here. The Jews were rounded up
by Italian police and taken into
"protective custody."
Although police authorities re-
fused to divulge the identity of
the Jews seized in the country-
wide raids, it was believed that
many prominent Jewish leaders
were among them. The police an-
nounced that the Jews had been
sent to special internment camps
for an indefinite period.
Government spokesmen implied
that most of the arrested Jews
will be released providing they
can establish definitely that they
have visas and steamship trans-
Serb-Jewish Friendship
ISTANBUL (WNS) — Nazi portation to other countries.
acts of brutality against both
Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia
have brought together the two
peoples in an unbreakable friend-
ship which stands today as the
sole beacon of hope in a country

Palestine to Finance Its Own
Volunteer Military Force; Nazi
Appeal for Aid to Em-
igrate; 16 Anti-
Gun•Running to Arabs Reported
Semitic Laws

French Jewry's
Status Growing
Steadily Worse

Jewish Agency Makes Appeal for Adequate
Equipment; British Labor Urged to Demand
Change in Britain's Palestine Policy

VICHY (WNS)—Xavier Val-
lat, appointed recently by Mar-
shal Petain as Commissioner Gen-
eral for Jewish Questions in un-
occupied France, has reported
from France that after consulta-
An appeal by the Jewish Agency for Palestine for
tion with Nazi officials he has in
preparation 16 different laws equipment adequate to permit the Jews of Palestine
"for the solution of the Jewish to defend themselves and their homeland both against
problem."
the impending Nazi attack and against fanatical Arab
While Vallat, a pre-war reac- elements whom the Germans are freely supplying with
tionary and anti-Semite, (lid not guns and ammunition the while they use every propa-
disclose details of his contem-
gandist means to stir them up
plated anti-Jewish program, it
against their Jewish neighbors
was accepted here that the plan-
and against Britain was pub-
ned regulations will eliminate
lished in the New York Times.
French Jews from social, polit-
Telephoned to the Times by
ical, economic and cultural phases
its Ankara corespondent, the
of the country's national life.
appeal supplements other reports
Competent sources stated that
in the Times concerning the
Vallat's program will make it im-
rapidly deteriorating relations
possible for foreign Jews resid-
between Palestine and Syria,
ing in unoccupied France to earn
now officially termed enemy ter-
a livelihood or to move about
A rich program of folk humor ritory by the British Govern-
France. It was believed that ex-
emptions, if any, will be granted and folk music will be presented ment, and underlines the urgent
need of the Yishuv for permis-
only to Jewish war veterans.
this Sunday evening, June 8, as sion to add its waiting force of
To Block Bank Accounts
a memorial to the great Jewish almost 50,000 men to the 10,000
These same sources stated that
already serving with the British
Vallat's regulations will compel
forces.
all foreign Jews residing in
Need for Ammunition Great
France to move to certain desig-
nated areas. Confirmation of this
"German agents in Iraq, Syria
belief was furnished this week
and Palestine," the Times' story
when French police in various
says, "are smuggling arms to
parts of the country conducted
renegade Arab tribesmen in the
wholesale raids against foreign
desert and mountains of Pales-
Jews. Two hundred and fifty
tine, inflaming the Moslems for
foreign Jews were sent to speci-
war against the British and the
fied areas under police supervi-
virtually defenseless 5 0 0, 0 0 0
sion, while in Riviera 65 foreign
Jews in the Holy Land, accord-
Jews were rounded up and sent
ing to news received here from
to Le Vernet concentration camp.
the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.
Jewish circles were panic-
"Almost the entire Jewish
stricken at reports that Nazi oc-
population of Palestine — from
the teeming cities of Tel Aviv,
See FRANCE—Page 13
Haifa and Jerusalem to the iso-
lated agricultural communities—
faces the prospect of annihila-
tion at the hands of the Arabs

Sholem Aleiehem
Event on Sunday

Al Harris and Local
Humorists to Be
on Program

War Trophy: Blue-White Box of Tobruk

SHOLEM ALEICHEM

See FRIENDSHIP—Page 12

Jews Share in
English Glory

Play Decisive Role in
British Victory
in Ethiopia

KHARTOUM, Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan (WNS)—Jewish soldiers,
including a large contingent of
refugees from Nazi-dominated
Europe, played a decisive role
in the British rout of the Itali-
ans in Ethiopia, according to
British officers here.
British officers reported that
the fighting unit, which was given
the task of cleaning out the last
Italian centers of resistence, was
composed of 40 per cent Arabs
and the rest Jews. In addition
to the refugees, the unit re-
cruited Jews from Egypt, Cir-
cassia and Armenia.
The officers said that the men
were chosen for their tough fibre
and speed of movement to de-
moralize Italian lines of com-
munication. One of the officers
of the unit was a professor in
Cairo. The medical officer was
a noted Czech doctor who volun-
teered after escaping from a
Nazi concentration camp in
Prague.
The Jews and Arabs demon-
strated their military prowess on
a hill near Amba Alaji, where
they conducted a successful at-
tack which paved the way for the
surrender of the Duke of Aosta,
Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia. The
British commander paid tribute
to the harmony between the Jews
and Arabs.
Despite the fact that members
of the unit spoke in as many as
30 different languages, the offi-
cers said they had no difficulty
in giving orders.

A unique war trophy—a Blue
White Box of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund (above) upon which
the dateline "Tobruk, Feb. 23,
1941" is engraved—has recently
been brought to Jerusalem by
one of the 10,000 Jewish volun-
teers from Palestine now serv-
ing in General Wavel's Army of
the Nile.
Home for a brief leave from
the front in North Africa, a Jew-
ish sergeant came to the head-
quarters of the Jewish National
Fund in Jerusalem and, deliver-
ing the Blue White Box, full of
various coins, related: "My com-
rades and I were part of the
detachment which stormed an
Italian dugout 'Somewhere in
Libay' when we were first march-
ing toward Tobruk. After the
Italians had been disposed of or
captured, we found this Blue
White Box. Seeing this Blue
White symbol of the Jewish Na-

tional Home and of the Fund
which is engaged in reclaiming
its soil, we felt as if we touched
a clod of Eretz Israel's soil. Each
of us dropped into the box what-
ever money we happened to have
in our pockets. We felt that by
sending these contributions, we
are sending to Palestine Jewry
and to the Jewish National Fund
our fraternal greetings and ex-
pressing hope for victory. My
comrades asked me to deliver this
war trophy to you. Here it is!"
The sergeant gave a military
salute and left.
This news photo was sent by
air mail from Jerusalem to the
U. S. headquarters of the Jewish
National Fund, 41 E. 92nd St.,
New York City, which continues
its work for Palestine Land Re-
demption in war as in peace and
maintains contact with 100,000
American Jewish homes in which
Blue White Boxes are function-
ing.

humorist, Sholem Aleichem, under
the joint auspices of the Jewish
Community Council's Yiddish Cul-
ture Section and the Jewish Com-
munity Center. This Sholem
Aleichem memorial program will
be presented at 8:30 p. m., in the
auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, and will serve to
mark the 25th anniversary of
the death of Sholem Aleichem.
The program of readings, im-
personations and dramatizations
from the work of Sholem Aleich-
em will be presented under the
direction of Al Harris, best-
known interpreter and impersona-
tor of Sholem Aleichem, who has
come to Detroit especially to plan
and direct the program. Mr. Har-
ris has brought with him from
New York many of the stage
properties which were used in a
similar Sholem Aleichem memor-
ial program in New York under
Mr. Harris' direction a short time
sign.
In addition to Mr. Harris'
readings and impersonations,
there will be readings and
and interpretations of Sholem
Aleichem selections by such well-
known local humorists as Moishe
Dombery( Miss Rosenthal, young
Rubin Silver, and many others.
The program will be centered
around a central narrative and
evaluation of Sholem Aleichem's
life in which Aaron Rosenberg will
act as narrator. The musical pro-
gram will be furnished by the
Center Chamber Orchestra under
the direction of Julius Chajes,
eminent composer and pianist, and
at present director of music at the
Jewish Community Center. The
orchestra will play from the work
of three Jewish composers, Kou-
der, Fromm, and Chajes. There
will also be a program of vocal
music appropriate for the occa-
sion. There will be brief greet-
ings by a representative from
the Jewish Community Center and
a representative of the Yiddish

See HUMORISTS—Page 9

See PALESTINE—Page 16

Dies Soon After
Defense of Jews

Rep. Edelstein Chal-
lenged Rankin in U.
S. Congress

Shortly after he replied to
charges by Rep. John E. Ran-
kin of Mississippi that "a little
group of our international Jew-
ish brethren are still attempting
to harass the President of the
United States and the Congress
of the United States into plung-
ing us into the European war
unprepared," Rep. M. Michael
Edelstein of New York died of
a heart attack Wednesday, June
5, in the corridor outside the
House of Representatives cham-
ber. He was 53 years old.
Congressman Edelstein also
challenged anti-Semitic remarks
made in Congress on Wednesday,
May 28. During his brief mem-
bership in the House he has been
on guard against attacks on the
Jews.
Rep.
Rankin, debate with
whom preceded Congressman
Edelstein's death, recently as-
sumed the role of an anti-Semitic
orator in Congress. His first out-
burst, in which he used the argu-
ments of the anti-Semites, was
criticized in The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle on May 2, 1941, in an
editorial under the dealing "Et
Tu, Rankin!"
Rep. Edelstein was referred to
as "a martyr to a cause" by Con-
gressman Samuel Dickstein who
solemnly announced Rep. Edel-
stein's death to the House as
follows: "You have seen a mem-
ber begin the long journey right
on the floor of the House during
a debate in which a man sought
to protect his people, his integ-
rity and his Americanism. He
died a martyr to a cause."

