A merica ewish Periotilcal Carter
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 25
Organ of Polish
Anti-Semites in
Exile Re•Appears
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN. FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1941
Re-Elected Zionist
Council President
Hears Bigotry
Affects High
U. S. Quarters
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Yeas
Back F.D.R. to End
Job Discrimination
Jews Reduced by
France to Second
Rate Citizenship
Support of the President in
ending religious or racial
discrimination against workers,
not only in defense industries
but in every section of Ameri-
can business, was voiced by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews in a wire
K e n t Believes Anti- sent to the White House by Anti-Jewish Agitation
London News Chron-
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, press-
Nazi Lever in the
Semitism Influences
isle Sees End of
dent of the National Confer-
ence•
Middle East
President
Prejudice
The telegram was sent fol-
BALTIMORE (JPS) — Frank lowing announcement of a
VICHY. (JPS)—Xavier Vallat,
LONDON. (JPS)—The re-ap-
pearance of Jestem Poliakem, the
R. Kent, famous political ana- memorandum for William S. Commissioner for Jewish Ques-
lyst and New Deal critic, be- Knudsen and Sidney Hillman Lions in the Vichy government,
triti-Semitic paper published by
lieves that even President Roose- of the Office of Production
Polish exiles in London, shows
welt occasionally refrains from Management in which the has proved his aptness as a
defiance by the anti-Semitic
s
logical action because of "fear President declared that dis- Hitler pupil in introducing the
group of the new policy of the
of stimulating anti-Semitic feel- elimination against workers laws which now officially and
Government-in-Exile to fulfill the
ing in the country."
obligations of a democratic struc-
seeking
"solely
because defense
of race, jobs
religion
or definitely reduce the Jews of so-
ture.
In a column which appeared in national origin" is a "matter called "unoccupied" France to
T he Polish Government-in-Ex-
the Baltimore Sun several (lays of grave importance."
the status of second-class citi-
ile has undertaken a survey of
before the appointment of Jus-
zens, with virtually- till the oc-
the condition of Polish citizens
tice Harlan Fiske Stone to the
,cupational restrictions „•mposed
in Palestine, with the purpose of
position of Chief Justice of the
aiding those in need of pecuniary
in Nuremberg-ruled .: "occupied"
Supreme Court, Kent said that
.Fran Jews in. overseas. France
'te.
Polish Jews now
assistance.
though the ideal man for the
are
subject to the , shine isfstric-
•
refugees in France are receiving
honor was Stone, he did not ex-
lions and regulations7ns 'those on
the same aid as other Poles.
pest Roosevelt to appoint a man
LAWRENCE W. CROHN
More than a thousand Jews serv-
who was not a New Dealer.
To Address Bnai Brith the Continent. ' • ., • -'..? . • .:,
ing with the Polish army in Lawrence W. Crohn was re-
June -14 - is--now — . an
Case of Jerome Frank
Egypt were recently visited by elected president of the Zionist
District Conclave at date in Fren ch histor y, historic
for on
official Polish government repre- Council of Detroit at a meeting
After Stone, said Kent, Frank-
that Saturday the Journal Offi-
Mackinac Island
held on Tuesday evening. Other furter was the desirable can-
sentatives.
ciel published the decrees, effec-
officers were re-elected as fol- didate. "There has been criti-
tive
which, accord-
CHICAGO.
—
Expansion
of
ing immediately,
to Va,
lows: B. M. Laikin and Isaac cism of Mr. Frankfurter's al-
llat forbid to J ew's any
Special Ghetto Scrip
Rosenthal, vice presidents; Mrs. leged activity as a presidential Bnai Brith's aid to the national occupation "based on the idea
GENEVA. (.ITS) —A special Albert Feldstein and David Sher- adviser on matters not connect- defense program, broadening of of speculation and which if ex-
ehetto scrip has been released in aga, secretaries; Morris Lieber- ed with his position as a justice," its Americanism, youth welfare ercised . dishonestly permit peo-
Poland for use by Jews. It re- man, treasurer. wrote it
"but there has been and communal service activities plc to get rich quickly."
Places other money. The scrip
Reports of the past year's no question of the profundity and intensification of its war re-
Jews may not engage in bank-
is decorated with the Mogen work were submitted at this of his legal learning—nor of his lief and refugee aid projects are ni g d : a brnaroy kizalueii,balt?ecolutyrnalism,
n
c i e-
David and lettered in German meeting by the officers, and plans high character. In addition, he among the important questions io nra
s einsg
ad
and Yiddish. Non-Jews are not were discussed for future activi- is close to the President person- on the agenda of the 73rd annual
e n te vrep rri
ti
allowed to accept the money.
ties in behalf of Palestine's de- ally, a strong supporter of his convention of Bnai Brith's Dis- reiteitcheetnvotau ehtl bring ththeemub
p inntei
e: di-
In neighborhood
New Deal policies and the chief trict Grand Lodge No. 6, which IN
neighborhood Slovakia "Ar- fence and reconstruction.
who are caught faking
influflence on the court in up- will
be held Island,
at the Grand
Mackinac
Mich., Hotel,
from envisaged by Vichy, for all the
management of Jewish business
holding New D e a 1 policies.
p
houses in order to hel their "N.
Considering these things, Mr. July 4 to 7, according to a joint future no Jew may become an
by Philip
M. officer in the army, navy .or air
Jewish friends will be severely
Frankfurter would seem the announcement
force, an official of a public util-
Punished.
logical Roosevelt choice for Chief Klutznick of Omaha, district ity
t corporation, a cabinet minis-
For having sold woolen mate-
Justice. If he should pass over president, and Louis H. Harrison ter, a juryman in any tribunal,
vial to Jews who wanted to use Scores of Syrian Jews him, designating a younger and of ' Chicago, general convention a member of any elective assem-
it for their own clothing, two
inferior man, but one reason chairman, at district headquar- bly, an ambassador or a police
Poles from Sosnewitz were sen-
Arrested; Casualties could
be assigned—to-wit, fear ters here.
officer.
tenced to two years' imprison-
anti-Semitic feel-
of
stimulating
Governor M.
M D
D. Van Wagoner
in Tel Aviv
meat by a Nazi court. The news
ing in the country.
of Michigan will be the principal
has been broadcast throughout
This seems a peculiarly un- speaker at the opening session. Anti-Jewish Agitation Is Nazi
ANKARA (WNS) — French
Poland as a warning to other
Lever in Middle East
More than 700 delegates and
military authorities have ordered worthy thing for a President to
Poles not to deal with Jews.
NEW YORK. (Palcor)—Anti-
the arrest of hundreds of Jews consider. It is particularly un- guests representing 115 lodges
in Damascus and Beirut, it was worthy when the Nazi persecu- and over 26,000 members in the Jewish agitation is a principal
Sees End of Bias
reported here by the Rome radio, tion of the Jews is contrasted eight states of Illinois, Wiscon- weapon being used by the Nazis
LONDON. (WNS)—The influ- which said that the Jews were with our boast of freedom from sin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Michi- in winning Arabs to the pro-
ential London
News
which
waged a
bitter Chronicle,
campaign seized on charges of espionage. racial and religious prejudice. gan, Iowa, North and South Da- Axis powers, it is reported by
The mass arrests of Jews took Yet the fact is that in the past kota and four Canadian prov- the Associated Press in a dis-
against anti-Jewish manifests-
patch from Ankara.
See BNAI BRITH—Page 8
lions in the exiled Polish govern-
See BIGOTRY—Page 16
See PALESTINE—Page 13
The British are alleged by the
mint here, expressed the belief
Nazis to be preparing to open
that Polish government leaders
Syria and Iraq to Jewish coloni-
have conic to the realization that
zation. According to the AP
their anti-Semitism has harmed
story, the Nazis are hammering
the cause of a free Poland.
A Reply to Albert Jay Nock
away at the theme that "Jewish
The News Chronicle predicted
banking interests in New York
that the near future would see
By MAURICE SAMUEL
a guarantee from the
the end of anti-Semitism in the
At the head of Albert J. Nock's EDITOR'S NOTE: No man in education and collectivism in the British of a great Jewish home-
Polish government and applauded
the action of the Polish National article, "The Jewish Problem in - America is more qualified than United States; he has for many land in return for supporting
Maurice Samuel to reply to years, he tells us in the article, United States intervention in
backing
in
Premier America," in the June issue of
Council
Wladislaw Sikorski's pledge of 41-,
a
Albert Jay Nock, who in the "been watching economic theory the war."
—ere is an
thl y,
y, th
—on *hi
ti c Mon
the Atlan
Apparently the Nazis take it
June issue of the Atlantic in this country shift from style to
full equality to Jews. The Polish editorial note: "In this and sue-
M on thl y pre dict s that he will style." Ile was, in other words, for granted that the Arabs are
Premier, while in the United cessive issues the Atlantic will
live to see the Nuremberg laws in touch with American affairs, isolated from all the world and
States recently, assured Anted- open its columns to the discussion
enacted and vigorously prose- and with the temper of the are not familiar with the oppo-
can Jewish Congress leaders thatof a problem which is of the
cuted in the United States. Au- times. Yet he did not know of sition of such "Jewish bankers"
there would be no anti-Jewish utmost gravity. We have asked
discrimination in the new Poland. Mr. Nock to begin the inquiry,
thor of "You Gentiles," bril- the existence of the Jewish prob- as may exist to the establishment
liant analysis of the Christian lent here.
and we shall invite expressions
See NAZISM—Page '3
mind published long before
In the Sweet Auburn of his
of opinion from Jew and Gentile
any
one
else
had
examined
boyhood,
a
midwestern
town
alike, in the hope that a free
the subject in other than an which he does not name,
and forthright debate will reduce
apologetic way, writer of the found a highly satisfactory mo-
the pressure, now dangerously
recent polemical book "The dus vivendi between Jews and
high, i.nd leave us with a heal-
Hatred," Maurice Sam- Gentiles, and until two years ago,
Meyer E. Fichman of tiller understanding of the human Great
uel examines the foundations h e tells us, he would have
elements involved."
on which Albert Jay Nock thought that it still existed, there Receives Degree at
Welfare Board to
And elsewhere in the issue the
proposes to write about and and everywhere else in Amer-
editors of the Atlanic say: "Edi-
Commencement of
Be the Speaker
the Atlantic Monthly to publish k n.
for of the Freeman in its hey-
Seminary
the reasons for anti-Semitism
Characteristic Innocence
The biennial election of officers clay, biographer of Thomas Jef-
in America.
and members of the executive ferson and Francois Rabelais,
For all that, Mr. Nock's jus-
NEW YORK. — The Hon. Her
committee of Detroit's Jewish author of critical volumes deal-
tification for tackling the prob- bert H. Lehman, Governor of the
Community Council will be held ing with education and collec-
at the quarterly meeting of the tivism in the United States, Al- and justifies it by adding: "Up to lem is also that no one is going State of New York, received the
philosopher, a two years ago I had no idea beyond its local and temporary honorary degree of Doctor of
Council's delegates on Wednesday, beet J. Nock is a
June 25, at 6 :30 p. in., in the sceptic and a man of letters, who that such a problem existed." aspects to show in its entirety Laws before addressing the 54th
commencement exercises of the
auditorium of the Jewish Com- at our instigation opens the dis- What? Is this possible? Can in- what the Jewish problem it."
I wonder that it did not oc- Jewish Theological Seminary of
munity Center. Full committee re- cussion of a subject of vital formed and thinking Americans
ports covering a two year period, importance to every conscientious have been unaware that a Jew- cur to l%Ir. Nock to begin the in- America in New York City,
and the business meeting at which citizen—the Jewish Problem in ish problem existed in the United quiry with himself. For is not Sunday.
Speaking to some 2,000 alum-
States? True, Mr. Nock ple a d s this one of the essential aspects
the election will take place, will the United States."
he was abroad for many of the problem: that men of in- ni, students and guests in the
follow
follow a dinner at which Meyer
Something of a Mystery
E. Fichman, director of commun-
Now why the instigation was years; that he is a man of let- telligence, wide reading and pub- Seminary Quadrangle, Broadway
directed at Mr. Nock, and why ters, and not a publicist; that he lie texture should be unaware of and 122nd St., and wearing cap
ity organization
the National
Jewish
Welfare for
Board
of New Nir. Nock yielded to it, is some- broaches the subject because "to a phenomenon which is woven and gown, Governor Lehman de-
York, will be the guest speaker. thing of a mystery; for Mr. the best of my knowledge no one into the texture of the times, dared that the clouds were draw-
Mr. Fichman will speak on the Nock opens his first article with else is saying anything about it." in America as elsewhere; and ing closer to American shores
subject, "Community Councils in a disarming admission of inno- But he was author of the Free-
See LEHMAN—Page 12
See SAMUEL—Page 16
cence with regard to the subject, man; he has written books on
See COUNCIL—Page 8
.
Van Wagoner Is .
Parley Speaker
Y. Zionists"
Blamed for War
An American Innocent on littler Street
Annual Council
Meeting June 2.5
Lehman Given
Honorary LL. D.
fl f