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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 29
Anti-Semites
Resume Street
Brawls in N. Y.
Gov. Lehman Assails
Discrimination in
Defense
NEW YORK (JPS) — The
Hitler attempt to win American
public opinion by emphasis on the
"Christian crusade against Bol-
shevism" has proved abortive, to
judge by a series of news events
during the past week.
In Butte, Mont., Postmaster
General Frank C. Walker, a
Catholic, said to a nation-wide
NBC radio audience that "there
can be no peace" and "no secur-
ity by pact so long as Hitler and
his doctrines rule Germany." He
added that "a cyncism that would
condone world domination by Hit-
ler in order to overcome the doc-
trines of Communism is a cyni-
cism unworthy of respect. It is
indecent—it is un-Christian."
George Gallup, in a release
at Princeton, N. J., of his poll
results, declared that of those
queried 72 per cent of Amer-
icans were in favor of Russia's
winning the war against Ger-
many, while 4 per cent favor-
ed Germany. Opinion on this
subject was almost uniform
for both Catholics and Prot-
estants, with 6 per cent of the
former favoring Germany
while 3 per cent of the Prot-
estants did the same.
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In London, American Ambassa-
dor John G. Winant was reas-
suring his countrymen as to the
merit of Britain's cause by say-
ing that when the war is won the
United States and Great Britain
"will realize together a peace
based on social justice."
But German press and radio,
unheeding the evidences of Amer-
ica's support of Great Britain,
kept pounding away at the "Jew-
ish" and "Bolshevik" angles. Der
AngritT, Dr. Goebbels' paper, had
headlines charging that "Jews and
Bolsheviks want to extend the
war." Similar slogans filled the
other Nazi publications.
Ominous Note in N. Y.
But in New York, street meet-
ings urging extension of America's
aid to Britain were broken up.
In public advertisements, the
Fight for Freedom Committee ap-
pealed to Mayor LaGuardia to
halt the "Bundists and so-called
'Christian Fronters" from inter-
fering with their meetings. The
slogans shouted by the "gang of
fascist hoodlums" were said to
include: "Hitler is not so bad"
and "What's wrong with Wheel-
er?"
A new link in the chain of anti-
See DISCRIMINATION—Page 16
and The Legal Chronicle
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 18. 1941
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Yeas
A Russian Joke on
Hitler and the Bible
LONDON (JPS)—The Rus-
sians are telling a joke these
days about Hitler, standing at
the edge of the English Chan-
nel and bemoaning its width
and depth. One of his hench-
men reminds him that the Red
Sea was split in two by a
stick. Hitler summons a rabbi.
"Is it true that the Red
Sea was split in two by a
stick?" he asks.
"Yes," says the rabbi.
"How can one do it again?"
"That is easy," says the rab-
bi. "One only needs to have
the same stick."
"And where is it?"
"In the British Museum in
London."
Encyclopedia's
Fourth Volume
1 , 1 0 0 Authoritative
Articles in La test
10-Volume Work
NEW YORK. — Nearly 1,100
authoritative articles — embracing
Biblical and historical records,
special surveys of communal, or-
ganization, institutional and statis-
tical progress in Jewish life the
world over—are contained in the
fourth volume of the Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia, published
here, according to an announce-
ment by Rabbi Isaac Landman,
editor-in-chief of this 10-volume
work in English.
Louis Rittenberg is executive
and literary editor of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia.
The remaining six volumes are
scheduled to appear at approxi-
mately three-month intervals.
The fourth volume of the Uni-
versal Jewish Encyclopedia, al-
phabetically embraces subjects
from "Eduyoth," most provoca-
tive of the Mishnaic tractates, to
"Gnosticism," as a mystical teach-
ing in Judaism and Christianity
alike. The fourth volume is dedi-
cated to the memory of Rabbi
Isaac Leeser (1806-1868), "intrepid
and steadfast pathfinder in Amer-
ican Judaism, universal letters,
See ENCYCLOPEDIA—Page 8
Anna Oxenhandler
Resigns Education
Post at Beth El
Miss Anna Oxenhandler, as-
sistant educational director of
Temple Beth El, tendered her
resignation on Wednesday.
Miss Oxenhandler, who has
just completed 17 years of serv-
ice with the Temple, stated that
she had no immediate plans for
the future.
W. Frank I'syclioanalizes the Jew
An Interview
By LIBBY BENEDICT
Editor's Note: In a period when promotion of Pan-American
friendship is one of the American Government's most vital tasks,
Waldo Frank is generally regarded as the foremost Hispanic
student in the United States. Distinguished novelist, essayist, critic
and social economist, he is one of the Jews who have helped make
America great. This fall will see the publication of his new novel,
"Summer Never Ends". In this, one of his rare interviews, he
analyzes himself and his people.
"Every so often," says Waldo
Frank, "I write something that
makes Jews say: 'Waldo Frank
has come back to the fold.' The
truth is I've never been away
from it. If I am silent on the
matter for long periods of time,
it is because the situation is
too complex to talk or write
about glibly. I admit I have not
found my congregation, so to
sneak. I have not been able to
find a group of Jews with whom
I could have complete unity of
thought. But here again we
reach complexity."
It is hard, even for one who
has known Waldo Frank for a
long time, to transmit an im-
pression of what to Frank him-
self is a difficult undertaking.
During the course of the hot
summer evening as Waldo Frank
talked to me, I confessed to him
that some of what he wrote was
too metaphysical for my under-
standing. He had complimented
me by asking whether his work
meant anything to me. It does;
decidedly. Again and again the
metaphysical maze that confuses
me suddenly opens on a bright
pinnacle, around which the
variegated worries of the in-
dividual in relation to many of
See
WALDO FRANK—Page 13
to Palestine
Leaders Plan Plane
In Schumer's Honor Palestine Is
United Front
Jubilant Over
In U. S. Jewry
Syrian Peace
World Situation and
Palestine Concern
New York Parley
Jews Played Important
Part in British
Victory
NEW YORK.—(JPS)—A pri-
vately convened meeting under
the auspices of Sol Stroock, pres-
ident of the American Jewish
Committee, and Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, president of the
World Zionist Organization and
of the Jewish Agency, attend by
leading Zionist and non-Zionist
personalities, was held here at
the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for
the purpose of clearing the
ground for a united front to
deal with Jewish problems during
and after the war.
Among those present were
Henry Ittleson, New York, Jacob
Blaustein, Baltimore, Louis Kir-
stein, Boston, Morris Wolf, Phil-
adelphia, George Backer, Dr.
Solomon Lowenstein, Dr. Mau-
rice Hexter, Joseph Willen, all
of New York, associated with the
American Jewish Committee, and
for the Zionists, Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, Louis Lipsky, Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, Dr. Israel Gold-
stein, Dr. Nahum Goldmann and
Judge Morris Rothenberg.
The all-day meeting was said
to have been characterized by a
friendly attitude on both sides.
The only decisions reached were
for the appointment of two com-
mittees, one to deal with the
problem of Palestine and to be
named by Dr. Weizmann and
Mr. Stroock, the other to con-
cern itself with the Jewish prob-
lem elsewhere in the world and
to be named by Dr. Stephen
Wise and Mr. Stroock.
ACRE, Palestine (JPS-Palcor)
—Spontaneous demonstrations of
joy and relief throughout Pales-
tine were reported in this ancient
fortress city, the site of the his-
toric conclusion of the Syrian
armistice.
In the presence of leading jour-
nalists from throughout the
world, including the Palcor News
Agency's representatives Joseph
Gravitzky and Julian L. Meltzer,
the long-expected meeting between
the Allied commanders and the
representatives of the Vichy forces
took place in the military barracks
just outside Acre, in recent weeks
the Middle Eastern headquarters
of the Free French forces and
of the campaign against Syria.
A simple but impressive military
ceremony accompanied the dis.
cussions, notable for their cor-
diality, which led to the initial-
ing of the armistice and the com-
plete cessation of the hostilities
that had begun on June 8. Speak-
ing for Great Britain was Pal-
estine's General Officer Command-
ing, General Sir Henry Maitland
Wilson; for the Free French
forces, General Georges Catroux,
in charge of the campaign on
behalf of General Charles de Gaul-
le; for the Vichy contingent, Gen-
eral de Verdillac, personal repre-
sentative of Syria's High Com-
missioner and commander-in-chief,
General Henri Fernand Dentz.
Corrupting
U. S. Morale
Further Comments on
Albert Jay Nock
By MAURICE SAMUEL
Editor's Note: The author of
"The Great Hatred" and "You
Gentiles", the translator of
"The Nazarene" contributes
another of his incisive attacks
on those who clumsily try to
be "friends" of the Jewish
people. He deals with the ar-
ticle by Albert Jay Nock in
the July Atlantic Monthly in
which the Jews are called Ori-
entals who cannot become part
of America.
A month ago I permitted my-
self some mild comment on the
views which Alfred Jay Nock
expressed on the Jewish Prob-
lem in the Atlantic Monthly. I
was chiefly concerned then with
pointing out that the Atlantic
Monthly had done itself, Amer-
ica and the Jews an injustice in
opening a discussion on an an-
cient and tragic problem with a
contribution from a well-mean-
ing man of letters who confessed
that until two years ago he did
not know that anti-Semitism ex-
isted in America, and that since
he has merely picked up a little
information on a subject which
requires long and painstaking
study. I hoped that Mr. Nock's
second contribution would taper
off into a few harmless generali-
ties, and that the incident could
be ignored. It has, unfortunately,
turned out otherwise. It is im-
possible not to react to this sec-
ond article in a spirit of sharp-
est protest and warning.
Mr. Nock is well-meaning, of
course. Who is not? But he be-
gins his examination of the crux
of the problem with a statement
which, for sheer historical illit-
See SAMUEL—Page 16
HARRY SCHUMER
Harry Schumer, one of the
most prominent leaders in the
labor Zionist movement in De-
troit, was signally honored this
week when the Michigan Linen
Supply Board of Trade, of which
he is honorary president, pledged
a sum of $2,500 for the pur-
chase of a plane for the defense
of Palestine, in his honor.
Jews and non-Jews in the
Michigan Linen Supply associa-
tion united in the effort to raise
this sum among the members, as
a mark of appreciation for 20
years of service rendered by Mr.
Schumer to the organization, as
See SCHUMER—Page 9
-Release Jews
From Siberia
Jews' Share in Victory
Most of the prisoners now
freed were exiled for being al-
legedly non-productive elements—
that is, representatives of the
middle class, for which there is
no mom in the Soviet economy.
The rejoicing of the Yishuv
was twofold, for not only has the
direct danger of invasion, with
all its manifold complications, that
has been threatening Eretz Israel
these many months now been re-
moved, but it is also confidently
believed that the menace of air
attacks, which during the past
month have with disconcerting if
somewhat abortive regularity been
directed at Haifa and other key
points from Syrian territory, has
been considerably reduced.
The Yishuv feels that it has
had a particular share in the
winning of this battle—for it was
50 young Jews from the Northern
Galilee district who through their
first forage laid the ground-work
for the successful march into
Syria; and other young Pales-
tinian Jews, in undisclosed large
numbers, helped to bring this
phase of the fight against Nazidom
to its victorious conclusion. Life
in the small Jewish border set-
tlements, from which women and
See RUSSIA—Page 12
See WAR—Page 13
Conciliation Seen on
Jewish Question
and Zionism
LONDON (JPS) — Thousands
of Jews exiled to Siberia from
Galicia and the Baltic States have
been released by the Soviet Gov-
ernment, according to reports re-
ceived here.
Though the primary purpose of
the releases is to augment the
forces of manpower available for
the manufacture of armaments
for the war against Germany, a
gesture of conciliation to West-
ern European and American
Jewry is also seen in the move.
May
Favor Hebrew
New Pogroms Under Old Slogan
What Hakes Invasion Will Mean to 3,500,000 Jews
By ABRAHAM REVUSKY
Editor's Note: Every new advance of the Nazi divisions in
Russia is accompanied by accounts of the terror visited on the
Jewish population in the newly conquered territory. Abraham
Revusky, former Minister for Jewish Affairs in the Ukrainian
Government prior to its absorption in the Soviet Union and the
foremost Jewish expert in America on the Ukraine, here sounds
an ominous prophecy of what millions of Jews may expect from
the "holy crusade" which Hitler is launching in Russia.
In March, 1919, a month after
the great Proskurov pogrom, I
happened to be in that ill-fated
city. Twelve hundred Jews had
been killed there by the Cos-
sacks of Colonel Semessenko,
one of the underlings of the
Ukrainian leader Petliura. The
pogrom was one of the bloodiest
in the Ukraine. Only the bestial
massacre in Fastov in the sum-
mer of 1919, committed by the
White soldiers of Denikin, ex-
ceeded it in the number of vic-
tims.
I visited Proskurov several
weeks after my resignation from
the Ukrainian government of
that time. Originally consisting
of liberals and socialists, that
government—headed by Winnit-
chenko, a well-known writer who
was likewise a political leader
of his people— rapidly changed
its color after the Red Army,
sent by the Soviet Government
of Russia, marched into the
Ukraine. Deciding, after some
hesitation, to oppose the Bol-
sheviks with arms, it soon dis-
covered that the democratic ele-
ments of the country, even if
opposed to Soviet rule, were not
eager for a civil war.
A Tragic Choice
To conduct the war, the
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