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Detroit Jewis h Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:1-18:32.
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 11:14-12:22.
TAMMUZ 2, 5701
JUNE 27, 1941
Russia in the War
and the
Legal Chronicle
June 27, 1941
• Heard in the Lobbies.'.
those that have joined in this effort. Local
organizations have also subscribed treas-
ury funds for this purpose. It is impor-
tant that this effort be enlarged and that
By DAVID DEUTSCH
still greater interest be shown in national
defense efforts and in the needs for pro-
• PERSONALIA
viding the government with the necessary • REFUGEE TALK
Watch the news dispatches for
funds for the protection of our liberties.
Is it true that one of the chief accounts of Dr. Leon Jona, now
During the summer months, parents tycoons of the National Refugee an officer in the Austrian.
should teach their children the value of Service was horrified when the Army on his way to Palestine i
for thl :
saving so that they may purchase Defense suggestion was made that his or- front. Appropriate place
ier, wo
h re-
ganization
had
a
responsibility
to
handsome,
husky
soldof
Stamps and making their own invest-
the Aus-
signed as president
lian and New Zealand Zionist
ments with the government. At the same protect Jewish refugees here in
rn
Federation to fight for deoe-
time, young and old should participate the event a was-time set-up made tra
camps for aliens a racy.
in this great effort to the maximum of internment
possibility? Is it true he said
Johan Smertenko, American
their ability.
such activity was "political" and
the concern of the body which adjutant for the late Jabotinsky
Save—and invest with the United States not
American Jews assume takes care who combined Revisionist prona•
Government. It is a patriotic act and a of all phases of refugee inter- ganda with publicity for Knopf,
est? Is it true that Eric War- has a book coming out on "Alex-
step towards defending our liberties.
Another Defense Group!
burg, stung by such stoniness, de- antle• Hamilton".
Herbert Kline, the M i d d 1 e
nounced this position and brought
about a reversal of the NRS Western Jewish boy who looks
policy? Is it true that the NRS like a Nazi and is one America's
has adopted a policy of calling greatest cameramen, is doubling
Jewish refugees here just "friend- in Hollywood between photog-
ly aliens?" raphy for MGM and correspond-
ence for PM, New York's hard-
hitting non-advertising sheet.
• JEWS DESPITE
Apparently we do not have enough
defense organizations. How else are we
to explain the fact that the Peretz Verein,
the union of Jewish writers, most of
THEMSELVES
whose members reside in New York,
• ODDS AND ENDS
has inaugurated a campaign for a $25,000
Don't listen to talk that Gen-
Cincinnati, birth-place of
defense fund to fight Communism?
eral Freyberg, New Zealand hero
A better example of disunity is yet to of Crete and other British tough American anti-Zionism, is ready-
is not Jewish. His coin- ing its hotels to receive the an-
be found. Instead of uniting all Jewish spots,
manding officers may not be an- nual Zionist convention in Sep-
forces, a group of intelligent men and xious to stress his origin, but tomboy. And the wheel will conic
women are adding to the organizational an unimpeachable source from full-turn when James G. Heller,
New Zealand insists that what- newly elected president of the
burdens.
ever the great soldier may be Central Conference of American
Who should know better than the Jew- now he started life a Jew . . . Rabbis, opens the proceedings
ish writers the need for deflating some Now that he's dead, it's revealed with a vehement Z• • -t . speech
groups and of combining others? Yet, that Lou Gehrig's father was to the undoubted horror of the
Jewish and his mother Catholic. late founder of the conference.
they set out to conduct a campaign of The disclosure came when some Sensing the biggest story of
their own and to make the defense job members of the family wanted a the year, Jewish Morning Journal
even more cumbersome than it is today Jewish buccal
a for the great ball executives are planning a nation-
wide survey of their own to check
player.
If
con-
If this keeps up, the public at large
on the referendum recently con-
will begin to believe that the only thing • • WARBURG ON
ducted by the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare Funds
that matters with some leaders is pros-
DEMOCRACY
on the subject of national budget-
tige, new jobs, a desire to "control," re-
Max Warburg , brother of the i ng.
fusal to give up selfish autonomy.
Cincinnati Welfare Fund had
m oe r a e' 1. ieelsi x htahvienak st tthhaet tfhaei a t e d e s t-
late
For these reasons, Temples have been
is. almost completed plans for one
great non-sectarian drive in the
destroyed, peoples have perished, nations idea how powerful Germany
That's what he told Moshe Smi- fall, to include all Jewish activi-
have suffered.
lansky, Palestine planter and a ties with U. S. 0., Red Cross and
Dictators need not explain anything,
else Josef Stalin would be in an awful
predicament while trying to wash away
the sins of fraternization with Adolf
("bloodthirsty guttersnipe") Hitler.
By the same token, the leftist elements
in this country who have been making
appearances on the same platforms with
anti-Semitic spokesmen for the Bund and
the Christian Front for the sake of up-
holding the hand of Stalin, must find
themselves in a sorry position.
But there is a common foe to be faced,
and the danger in which the entire world
finds itself must prove sufficient challenge
to overcome whatever prejudices exist,
and whatever differences there are on
the ideological front. Therefore the short-
comings of the normally dishonest ele-
ments will serve as their own indictment,
but they must not be permitted to serve
as a weapon in the hands of the Nazis to
superb short-story writer, when everything else. Wonder what
divide sentiments among liberty-loving
in the U. de-
S. FDR's recent letter frowning on
Smilansky
was last
Tel
Aviv daily,
Smilansky
Independence
Day
peoples, and thereby destroy the unity
ry, now
a
in
In his dia
w appearing
such mergers will do?
of the democracies.
Did you know that out of
Next Friday, on the occasion of Inde- sa cuipipboedrt a fcoornfaab toFagleetstNiNorearbluaragd's- 1,800.
Jews in Helsingfors, Fin-
The arch foe of the world is Hitlerism.
Day, free people should turn
land, 150 were in the Russo-
m antdo Finnish
This MUST and WILL be destroyed. Nei- aver in their minds the causes which led bAuoyl erica
u came
War? . . . And did you
-gica scahemliet.tle" You late
they religious nor economic sentiments o to the rise of the Fourth of July holiday somewhat
too early", the noted know that the only valuable Nazis
must be permitted to serve as elements andthe principles for which this day U. S. refugee said. When Smi- permit Jews of Prague to keep
of destruction in the hands of pro-Nazis a
lansky looked perplexed, Warburg is a wedding ring? . . . And did
went on: "You should have been You know that the Jews of Brus-
in America. Neither economic Bourbons stands.
The entire world is today experiencing heard in America long ago. We sels have not been molested but
nor Coughlinite bigots must be permitted
are to blame. Now it's that the Jews of Antwerp were
to inject doubt or suspicion or hatred in the challenge which came to a small ourselves
late. At the same time you evacuated and transported to
the hearts of Americans who are deter- group of Americans more than a century too
are too early. For who knows other provinces? Because that is
mined that Nazism must be uprooted. and a half ago to inaugurate a battle for what the end of the war will an invasion port?
Samuel Glasstone, Englishman
be?" When stubby, one-eyed Smi-
The signal for unity in the democracies freedom.
lansky replied: "But I am con- who taught physical chemistry at
Today,
free
institutions
are
again
chal-
was given by Winston Churchill last Sun-
vinced of the victory of the de- the University of London, is one
' •
day, in the brilliant address which con- lenged, the right to worship is being cur- mocracies", the former powerful of the beneficiaries of the rum
cluded with the following significant tailed, the liberties of human beings are •• German-Jewish banker 1 o o k e d now" talk flooding the country.
long and sadly at his interviewer He's been named by Princeton
being threatened.
words:
and said: "But I am not con- University Press as its scientific
The
physical
fireworks
of
the
Fourth
of
"The Russian danger is . . . our
vinced. To my great sorrow the editor.
-
July are being dimmed. It becomes nee democratic
Evtehry time you cough and take
I idea
e ra
ono G
de
have
w
se
f
danger and the danger of the United
con-
essary
once
again
to
call
upon
free
men
im mense power of
of
you are c'on-
States, just as the cause of any Rus-
f" Sidney
it y
eyo
to
g
g
ti
ni
course,
before
t
i
m
bu
e
s
r
o
many."
All
this,
or
to put into play their spiritual fireworks,
sian fighting for his hearth and home
D. 11.'s all-out defense pro- Baltimore Jewish leader. That is
to renew the challenge of the founders of F.
gram. if you remember to take "Rem".
is the cause of free men and free
this Republic that when it becomes neces-
people in every quarter of the globe.
sary to defend human liberties men ought
Let us learn the lessons already
to take up arms to battle for their rights.
Might Be Kinda Rough on Adolf Rat
taught by such cruel experience. Let
Medieval practices have been resurrected
By BRESSLER
us redouble our exertions and strike
in
European
countries,
and
Americans
are
with united strength while life and
again called upon to lead the way and to
power remains."
show the world the light in relation to the
These are the words that must be liberties of humanity.
spoken today by all faiths and all peoples
The challenge of Independence Day is
who value freedom. There is no other greater today than at an
any other time in
answer to Nazism, no matter how dis-
tasteful it is to call Josef Stalin a part- more than 150 years because mankind is
nor in a battle for liberty. being forced to revert to slavery after
having tasted freedom. Free men and
women are therefore obligated to fight
harder for their rights, to resist tyranny
For National Defense
more determinedly so that slavery may
Greater emphasis is being placed, as never again be visited upon the earth.
time goes one, on the importance of en-
larging the fund being raised for national
Statistical Facts
defense through the sale of National De-
fense Bonds and National Defense Stamps.
Palcor Agency brings interesting statis-
It is imperative that the American peo- tical facts from Palestine and Poland.
ple, composed of many elements who have
Jerusalem, the report states, has a popu-
come here to find peace, security and free- lation of 80,850 Jews, being approximate-
dom, should protect their rights and lib- ly 61 per cent of the total of 133,850.
erties by subscribing to this fund for
From Warsaw comes the news that
national defense in a measure unprece- 400,000 people inhabit the Nazi-formed
dented in the records of America's na- ghetto, among them being several thou-
tional action.
sand Catholice and Protestants.
A number of national Jewish organiza-
It is clear that Jewish communities in
tions have already shown the way for Palestine are growing, but it is equally as
participation in national 'defense efforts
that the medieval ghetto has been
by subscribing large sums from their clear
by the reactionary forces.
treasuries towards investment in govern- re-created
The
battle
for freedom is on. The Jew-
ment bonds. The Jewish National Work-
ers Alliance, the Independent Order Sons ish people has one of the most important
of Zion, the Free Sons of Israel are among -stakes in this fight for liberty.
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