DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Nuns. 4 :21-7 :89.
Prophetical portion—Judges 13:2-25.
JUNE 6, 1941
SIVAN 11, 5701
A Danger for Democracy
There is a new tendency in America
now. It is based on a plea not to argue
over certain issues that come up inter-
nally and to let well enough alone.
For instance, when an anti-Semitic
issue arises, when there are evidences of
discrimination in employment or in busi-
ness dealings involving prejudice against
Jews, we have heard Jews and Chris-
tians say, "The world situation is so bad,
and bigotry is spreading so rapidly, why
not forget about this incident and let well
enough alone?"
The President of the United States, in
his great address on May 27, provided
the answer when he said:
"Never in the history of the world
has a nation lost its democracy by a
successful struggle to defend its de-
mocracy."
Whenever you hear anyone ask you
to hush up an injustice, quote these
words by our President as an answer to
a policy of hush-hush.
Thumb back the pages of the previous
files of this paper and of declarations
made by liberals during the past ten
years, and you will find the consistent
adherence to the principle that no one
has ever lost his liberties by fighting for
them.
President Roosevelt referred in his ad-
dress to the "small group of sincere,
patriotic men and women whose real
passion for peace has shut their eyes
to the realities of international banditry
and to the need to resist it at all costs."
He said in speaking of this group: "I am
sure they are embarrassed by the sinister
support they are receiving from the
enemies of democracy in our midst—the
bundists, and fascists, and communists,
and every group devoted to bigotry and
racial and religious intolerance. It is no
mere coincidence that all the arguments
put forward by these enemies of democ-
racy—all their attempts to confuse and
divide our people and to destroy public
confidence in our Government—all their
defeatist forebodings that Britain and de-
mocracy are already beaten—all their
selfish promises that we can "do busi-
ness" with Hitler—all of these are but
echoes of the words that have been
poured out from the Axis bureaus of
propaganda. Those same words have
been used before in other countries—to
scare them, to divide them, to soften them
up. Invariably, those same words have
formed the advance guard of physical
attack."
The destructive groups enumerated by
the President are today serving as a
shield for anti-Semites. In view of the
national emergency and the tragic world
situation, we believe we are justified in
stating that anyone who gives comfort
to these destructive influences is a traitor
to democracy and to America.
We must not strengthen the hands of
these elements. We must not aid them by
keeping silent whenever and wherever
there is a manifestation of injustice. Our
duty is to speak up for democracy and
never to be silent when the rights of men
are threatened. Remember the words of
President Roosevelt:
"Never in the history of the world
has a nation lost its democracy by s
successful struggle to defend its de-
mocracy."
What About Palestine?
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, in his widely heralded address in
London last week, spoke of the estab-
lishment of a Federation of Arab States
after the war.
But there was not a word of assurance
in his entire address regarding the future
security of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine.
Therefore, it is well that Jews in Amer-
ica, together with our kinsmen in other
democratic countries, should demand
clarification of the Zionist position NOW.
We are debating over the defense of
Palestine. Jews are demanding the for-
mation of a special Jewish military unit
to fight on the side of Great Britain. (Is
it possible that refusal to grant permis-
sion for the formation of such a unit has
something to do with anti-Zionist senti-
ment in the British Cabinet? ) Jews in
this country are financing children's
homes in England. We have contributed
large sums for the purchase of mobile
kitchens to aid the war-stricken popula-
tion of London. But we are left out of con-
sideration when peace aims are discussed.
Bevin, Attlee, Greenwood, Churchill
himself, are known to be friends of the
Zionist cause. Is it possible that Anthony
Eden is an anti-Zionist, and that he is
serving as spokesman for the opponents
of the Jewish national ideal in Palestine?
A grave injustice is in the offing if this
is true, and it is important that Zionist
leadership assert itself in the present hour
of crisis. Even if Palestine should fall un-
der the heel of the Nazis, Zionist aspira-
tions will not die. The prayers of the
faithful Jews—"May we behold a return
unto Zion with mercy"—will continue in
spite of all interference and in defiance
of all difficulties on the road towards the
emancipation of the Jewish masses. The
sooner the British government is informed
of Jewish determination to work towards
the ultimate achievement of the ideal for
the establishment of a free Jewish com-
monwealth, the better for all concerned.
The Nazis are again at work in Pales-
tine. They are spreading anti-Jewish pro-
paganda not as a means of creating bet-
ter conditions for the Arabs but in order
to undermine the British cause. In the
long run, the Arabs will suffer as much as
any other element in the land. An honest
declaration is needed at this time. Pales-
tine will be secure only when Jews and
Arabs work harmoniously together; and
the position of the Jew will become a
positively creative one only upon the
establishment of a free and secure home
for the Jewish people. This must be made
one of the aims of the present war. Other-
wise, the Jewish wanderers on the face
of the globe, hundreds of thousands of
whom have only Palestine to hope for,
will become pariahs, a position in which
Nazism seeks to place our people.
It is not unfair to put the question to
British government today: Are you again
appeasing in Palestine? And if you are,
do you realize that the sad position you
are in today is directly due to a destruc-
tive policy of appeasement with the
wrong elements among the Arabs, dating
back to 1920?
This is a time for plain speaking. There
is ground for believing that Churchill and
the Labor members of his Cabinet are
friendlily inclined towards our people. Let
them translate their concern over the
status of the Jewish people by reaffirm-
ing the traditional position of England in
favor of the creation of a publicly secured
and legally assured Jewish homeland in
Palestine And let there be an end to
Munich tactics in Palestine as well as
throughout the world.
June 6, 1941
• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
NEWS COLUMN
TIDBITS
The rumors that Dr. Chaim
Weizmann intends to fly to Pal-
estine soon are unfounded . . .
The head of the Zionists will stay
on these shores the better part
of the summer
Typical of the British way of
muddling through is the latest
development in Eretz Israel . . .
Instead of giving arms to the
Jews of Palestine the British
have, for the first time in the
history of the Holy Land, plunked
down an income tax on them.
Look out for an interesting
series of articles in the New
York Post . . It will be by
George Backer, publisher of that
paper, and will give his impres-
sions of England, whence he is
expected to return this month...
We're all for the U. S. army get-
ting all the troopships it needs—
but it does seem a shame that
the S.S. Siboney had to be taken
from the Lisbon—New York run
for this purpose . . . The Si-
boney had been sold out for
months ahead, and thousands of
refugees who had held tickets
for this boat are now stranded
for additional months to come...
All of which greatly aggravates
the refugee situation in Portu-
gal, where thousands of Jews are
concentrated awaiting a chance
to escape from Europe.
Andre Maurois, nee Herzog,
whose properties in France have
been confiscated, for some rea-
son or other still enjoys visiting
the French Embassy at Washing-
ton . . . Is he expecting to be
offered "honorary Aryanism?"
An interesting sidelight on the
New York matrimonial market
was provided at the recent con-
vention of the shatchonim . ,
One in every 10 Gotham mar-
riages during the month of April
was the result of a shatchen's
efforts, it was revealed . . . We
don't quite see why Hedy La-
mares public should be so sur-
prised at the fact that she has
just patented an invention that
may prove of value in warfare...
After all, wasn't Iledy's first hus-
band, Fritz Mandl, then a mu-
nitions king? . . . Incidentally,
that new pipe which can be
cleaned with soap and water is
the invention of a lady by the
name of Mrs. Roberta Ruben ...
Now if somebody will only in-
vent an efficatious pipe of peace
. . . Talking of pipes reminds us
that Dr. Albert Einstein—at least
so the story goes—is so inveter-
ate a pipe smoker that when he
runs out of pipe tobacco he will
break up cigarettes or cigars for
the makings . . . Which is just
another way of saying that the
difference between pipe tobacco
and other forms of the smoker's
wood is merely relative ... Pure-
ly relative, too, is the bargain
being offered by a real estate
broker in behalf of the estate of
the late Max Annenberg, who
was the circulation manager of
the New York Daily News .
The item that is up for sale is
Annenberg's 500-acre Arizona
ranch, which once cost a quar-
ter of a million dollars, but which
will now be sold for a smaller
sum . . . Indicative of the grow-
ing tendency to seek temporary
escape from the world's troubles,
New York Jewish youth groups
will hold a convention the week-
end of June 27 at Andren's
Mountain House, Haines Falls,
N. Y., and have decided to bar
any speeches and resolutions ...
They will devote themselves en-
tirely to dancing, dining, divet-
digging and dunking in the lake
instead of debating, deliberating
and discussing . . . For two of
the boys the Mountain House
convention will be the last spree
for a long time; they report for
army induction two weeks later.
WEEKLY GIGGLE
Via the trans-Atlantic grape-
vine comes the story of the Lon-
don East End Jewish family who
came home after an air raid to
find their house in ruins . . .
The Nazi bombs had brought
milchig and fleishig foods and
dishes into a single treif mass,
so that practically nothing was
edible . . . Only a packet of tea
and a but slightly dented tea-pot
offered a ray of hope—but even
that ray vanished when it de-
veloped that the stove was so
completely wrecked that it was
quite impossible to boil up water
for the tea . . . Then it was that
one of the neighbors ran up to
the family and told them to get
away quickly, as a delayed in-
cendiary bomb had started burn-
ing in the back yard . . . At the
news the whitebearded old grand-
father of the family murmured a
brocha . . . "Now we'll be able
to make some tea," he joyfully
declared.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Soon to be drafted by Uncle
Sam is Gottfried Reinhardt, Hol-
lywood producer and son of the
famous director Max Reinhardt.
Oscar Serlin, producer of "Life
with Father," is now working on
a new project, which will dra-
matize the history of the Asso-
ciated Press.
THE RIGHT ROAD
Notable Days on Jewish Calendar
5701
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz - Wednesday
and Thurs-
day, June 25 & 26
Fast
of Tammuz -
- Sunday, July 13
- Friday, July 25
Tisha b'Ab
- Sunday, Aug. 3
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Rosh Chodesh Ellul - - - -
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Rosh Chodesh Ab -
Saturday and Sunday,
Aug. 23 & 24.
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044.407
Courtesy of The Synagorar
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Bernard SrgsT