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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 13:1-15:41.
Prophetical portion—Joshua 2.
Readings of the Law for Rosh Chodesh Tammuz,
Wednesday and Thursday
Num. 28:1-15.
JUNE 20, 1941
SIVAN 25, 5701
Breaking Germany's Morale
The Nazis have been winning battles
based on morale. Theirs have been vic-
tories through propaganda. But the
wheels are beginning to turn in another
direction. The closing of German consul-
ates by President Roosevelt is a severe
blow to Nazi strength, since the order also
included the shutting of the German Li-
, brary of Information which has been is-
suing pro-Nazi literature in this country.
Apparently, the Facts in Review issue of
June 14, 1941, which reached us on the
day of President Roosevelt's order to close
the offices of this Nazi organ's publishers
—the German Library of Information—
will be the last of this publication.
But our' government must be on guard
also against the destructive influences of
misled Americans who, like the leaders
in the "America First Committee" move-
ment, are playing the hand of the Nazis.
The Coughlinites, the Christian Frontists
and their allied movements of people
forming the lunatic fringe remain a po-
tential danger to this country's demo-
cratic principles. The Nazi headquarters
for the destructive elements have been
shut, but their branch offices remain open.
We must remain on guard against them.
The entire crew of crack-pots must be
uprooted as a preliminary to the defeat
of the totalitarian elements who aim to
enslave the world under the banner of
Fascism.
Results of Indifference
Detroit had been assigned a quota of
$450,000 for the United Service Organi-
zations drive, in behalf of the six leading
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organi-
zations which care for the social needs of
the men in U. S. Army. But after a
month of campaigning, less than a fourth
of this was raised from among all ele-
ments in Detroit's population.
What a tragic commentary on the con-
cern the community at large is showing
towards such important causes in the pres-
ent hour of national emergency!
How is the indifference and unconcern
to be explained? What is the cause of the
don't-give-a-hang attitude of the people
of this great city? Why do many wealthy
men turn solicitors for the U.S.O. away
empty-handed?
Perhaps we are today reaping a poison-
ous harvest resulting from planting that
had been marked by lack of vision and
understanding of the mutual needs of all
faiths.
The U. S. 0. campaign offered an op-
portunity for Catholics, Jews and Protest-
ants to work harmoniously together in
a common cause. This cause is not a
success. Perhaps it is due to the fact that
the earlier inter-faith efforts have been
weak and emaciated, without substance
and content.
This is not a local problem. It is a
national issue. To this very day, some
Catholics oppose inter-faith cooperation
through the National Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews, and periodicals like the
Catholic weekly America often publish
communications from readers opposing
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish coopera-
tion. As long as such attitudes exist, how
are we to expect that the wider issue
will bring forth greater tolerance?
There is need for re-evaluation of our
problems on this score. Locally, the inter-
faith movement is marked by weak lead-
ership which has not succeeded in draw-
ing together the sincere elements among
all groups in our population who are
anxious to create genuine good-will
among all Americans, for the good of
America. If the weak-kneed stand in the
way of true accomplishment, then a more
courageaus group should take charge.
Surely, failure to solidify true brother-
hood must be deplored. It is time that an
aggressive stand were taken to inspire
the best elements in our population to
strive for the type of cooperation which
will make America the recipient of those
benefits which stem from unity of action
for the public good on the part of all
faiths.
Honors for Wedgwood
The Jewish Institute of Religion, of
which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is president,
awarded high honors to Col. Josiah
Wedgwood, Member of the British House
of Commons, by bestowing upon him the
degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters.
It is a highly deserved tribute. Col.
Wedgwood has consistently defended
Jewish rights—in England, in Poland, in
Palestine—during the past quarter of a
century. At the risk of making himself
unpopular with the governments in pow-
er, he has interceded in behalf of the
Jewish people by making interpolations
on the floor of the House of Commons, by
demanding that Britain live up to her
pledges to Jewry in Palestine, by protest-
ing against indignities hurled at Jews at
home or abroad, whether in Rumania or
Germany or Poland.
Col. Wedgwood has earned the grati-
tude of Israel, and the Jewish Institute of
Religion has interpreted the entire peo-
ple's mar kof respect by awarding a de-
gree to a great philo-Semite.
"Ham" Fish Should Explain
Reports of the America First Commit-
tee meeting held in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn,
are that Congressman Dewey Short picked
up the cry of the Build and the Christian
Front of "America for Americans," as
an excuse for alien-baiting, and that Rep.
Hamilton Fish spoke of the role of "inter-
national bankers" in dragging this coun-
try into the present war. It is reported
that this reference was greeted by the
Coughlinite audience with cries "The
Jews! The Jews!" According to the re-
port, Congressman Fish smiled at this
demonstration and continued: "We don't
want any alien philosophies in this coun-
try. This is a Christian American nation,
and we want to keep it both Christian and
American. America for the Americans—
that should be the cry of the America
First Committee.'
Rep. Fish owes an explanation for per-
mitting himself to be a weapon in the
hands of anti-Semites. Also, he should
explain why he has begun to use the
language of the bigots of this country
who, under the cloak of "Christian-Amer-
icanism," would not hesitate to import
pogrom-tactics to this country.
Congressman Fish was the co-author
with the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
of the Congressional Resolution giving
America's endorsement to the movement
for the establishment of the Jewish Na-
tional Home in Palestine. He has spoken
at meetings of protest against the perse-
cution of Jews. He has appeared at Jew-
ish gatherings avowing friendship for the
Jews. But when he appears at meetings
packed with Coughlinites and permits
them to shout blame at the Jews every
time they are able to pick up an anti-
Semitic slogan, he causes the undoing of
all the good he has ever done in behalf of
persecuted groups.
Rep. Hamilton Fish should explain.
Notable Days on Jewish Calendar
5701
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz - Wednesday and Thurs-
day, June 25 & 26
Fast of Tammuz - - - - Sunday, July 13
Rosh Chodesh Ab - - - - Friday, July 25
Tisha b'Ab - - - - Sunday, Aug. 3
Rosh Chodesh Ellul - - - - Saturday and Sunday,
Aug. 23 & 24.
June 20, 1941
.'.Heard in
the Lobbies:.
By DAVID DEUTSCH
DEFENSE SIIAKE-UP
conservatives make
When
changes, the creaking can be
heard for miles. Big news is the
internal shake-up within the
American Jewish Committee,
where all has not been as rosy
as the very prim letterhead
would indicate. Morris Waldman,
veteran secretary, has been bat-
tling the all-powerful Survey
Committee for loads of months.
He's won out and the group
which was compared to the Polit-
buro in its influence is to be
only a memory shortly. Sidney
Wallach, English-Jewish press
graduate, is to be named asso-
ciate secretary, and Harry
Schneiderman, diminutive, dark-
complected assistant secretary, is
to be secretary to the executive
committee. The complete reorgan-
ization of the extensive staff of
the most luxurious of the civic-
protective defense agencies will
result in the setting up of five
committees—on domestic affairs,
headed by wily Wallach; foreign
affairs, with experienced Wald-
man in charge; internal affairs,
still undetermined; public rela-
tions and research, bossed by
Schneiderman, and community or-
ganization, with baldish George
Ilexter doing the supervising.
PUT ON THE SPOTLIGHT
There's a Dies Committee job
awaiting the American Jewish
Congress or a similar body. To
ferret out the aid-to-Hitler boys
in the Social Service Employes
Union, who were the sensation of
the Atlantic City parley of so-
cial workers. Most of the mem-
bers of the Union in New York
are Jews and quite a few have
responsible posts in directing
Jewish social service activities.
Blow-up came at Atlantic City
in a definite split between Survey
Graphic and its competitor, Social
Work Today, Communist-slanted
organ. For the first time Chris-
tian liberals raised eyebrows
about the Jewish boys and girls
who denounce Roosevelt for aid-
to-Britain and demand "peace".
Philip Klein, instructor at the
New York School of Social Work,
who went along with the Stalin
boys, in a 1940 proclamation de-
manding "peace", led the revolt
in the union, but he didn't get
much support. . . . What say
Jewish social agencies in every
city in the country begin asking
how many of their executives are
sabotaging the national defense
effort? They might go down the
list of those who signed "The
Statement of Principles" of So-
cial Work Today in January,
1940, asking for "the mainte-
nance of peace". . . . Among the
signatories were Clarice Freud,
Jewish Social Service Bureau su-
pervisor of Pittsburgh, Alice
Liveright of Philadelphia, Harry
L. Lurie, executive director of
the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, Reuben Res-
nik of Dallas and quite a num-
ber of others, some of them ac-
tive in CIO and others buddies
of known CP members.
Remember the goat flying on
the ceiling with a tallith floating
near the ground? Sounds cock-
eyed, but so is the painting of
Marc Chagall. The Jewish sur-
realist, the Talmudist of the
palette, is on the waiting list in
France for passage to America.
Here's hoping his visa number is
preferred.
WHAT KIND OF
ORTHODOX?
Joe Schwartz, genial JDC ex-
ecutive, is telling this one of the
long-bearded, long-coated rabbi of
Brussels who wanted to get a
visa for Brazil and had no luck.
He heard about 2,000 visas of-
fered to the Holy See for Catho-
lic refugees. Joe was astounded
when the rabbi told him that he
had applied for one of the
coveted papers. "But how could
you, so obviously a Jew, ever ex-
pect to qualify for one of those
visas for Catholics?" Schwartz
asked the rov. The rabbi, bland-
ly unaware of the difficulties,
said that he had asked for an
application for a visa and filled
it out. "In the space where it
asks nationality, I said 'Polish,'"
he explained to the JDC worker.
"Where it says race, I put in
'Caucasian.' Where it asks occu-
pation, I wrote 'preacher.' And
in the space for religion, I put
in 'Orthodox'. Do they have to
know what kind of Orthodox?"
RABBINICAL CONFERENCE
OF THEIR OWN
The Bnai Brith can now form
an organization of rabbis of its
own. At the third biennial con-
ference of Hillel Foundation Di-
rectors held in Chicago, 42 rab-
bis showed up. Altogether there
are 55 of them holding down
Foundation and B. B. Council-
lor posts. Just another sympton
of B. B. growth since finger-
waving Henry Monsky put his
smile and his rich, resonant voice
at the disposal of the organiza-
tion. The - first conference of
Foundation Directors had seven
rabbinical attendants.
WEIZMANN IN HOLLYWOOD
Social lion of Hollywood this
month is goateed, dapper, Sven-
galian Chaim Weizmann, who had
them all eating from his hands
one night at the home of Harry
Warner, where Louis B. Mayer,
Walter Wanger, Lee Marcus and
the other film moguls sat with
mouths open as Weizmann ex-
pounded his plans for a post-was'
world. San Francisco too tipped
its hat to the Zionist leader when
exclusive Commonwealth Club,
luncheon hang-out for the Golden
City's Christian biggies, bid the
world Zioinst proxy to tell them
what's what among the Jews.
• STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL •
Tidbits from Everywhoro
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ABOUT PEOPLE
Ben Cohen, legal adviser to the
American Embassy at London,
wants to return to his post
rather than accept either the
Securities Exchange Commission
chairmanship or the Solicitor-
Generalship of the U. S. . . .
Which may mean that Morris
Ernst, who had been slated as
Cohen's successor at London, may
have a chance to become Solid-
tor-General.
Ben Hecht is aching to write
a comedy about some of our Jews
who are afraid to be Jewish.
Cartoonist Milt Gross feels that
now he has achieved the rank of
a true immortal . . . He's just
heard that the Nazis have burned
the "Nize Baby" sketches with
which he used to amuse us years
ago.
It looks as if major league
baseball would be losing another
of its Jewish stars soon to Uncle
Sam's league . . . This time it's
Morrie Arnovich, New York
Giants outfielder, whom the draft
board want to see.
Samuel De Caceres, brother-in-
law of Benedict Spinoza and an-
cestor of essayist Benjamin de
Casseres, was a most influential
poet and preacher, and the editor
of a Spanish edition of the Bible,
although he lived to be only 32
years old.
WAR ECHOES
Leslie Hore-Belisha, former
British Secretary of State for
War, is slated for a comeback
in the next reshuffling of the
Churchill government.
The best and most fearless ex-
pose on the Petain Government
in France is the series published
in the New York Herald-Tribune
by Henry Bernstein, famous
French Jewish dramatist in exile
here . . . Bernstein proves, with
quotations from the late Marshals
Jeffre and Foch and other lead-
ers of the Allied effort in World
War Number One that back in
1918 Petain was ready to sell
out Britain, and was prevented
only by Foch's taking over of the
command.
FILM NEWS
Columnist Jimmie Fidler wants
it known that he's not a Nazi
sympathizer or an admirer of
Hitler, and that his recent state-
ment that Hollywood would one
(lay make a hero of Adolf meant
simply that the Fuehrer would
some day be the central charac-
ter in a historical film.
An assignment in London for
New York's afternoon tabloid.
PM, may be screen writer Doro-
thy Parker's next job.