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July 18, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
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Hitler's True Aims in Russia
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Those who were puzzled by Adolf Hitler's sud-
den about-face in his fraternizing with Josef
Stalin will find an answer to their perplexing
question in the following quotation from Hitler's
own words as recorded in Rauschning's "Hitler
Speaks":
"Perhaps I shall not be able to avoid an alli-
ance with Russia," said Hitler. "I shall keep
that as a trump card . . . but it will never stop
me from as firmly retracing my steps and attack-
ing Russia when my aims in the west have been
achieved.
"But for the time being we may retain the
doctrine that Bolshevism is our deadly enemy
. . . We alone can conquer the great continental
space and it will be done by us singly alone,
and not through peace with Moscow. We will
take this struggle upon us. It will open to us a
permanent door to world mastery.
"That does not mean that I shall refuse to
walk part of the road together with the Russians,
if that will help us. But it will only be in order
to return more swiftly to our true aims."
But the "faithfulness" of Nazi pact-making
remains a matter of outstanding example of be-
trayal of human trust. Here, for instance, are
the most significant statements on record of the
attitudes of Nazis towards Russia:
Before his departure from Moscow, Rib-
bentrop declared (Aug. 24, 1939): "The
Fuehrer and Stalin decided on friendship.
The non-aggression pact which Molotov and
I signed yesterday evening is the firm and
unalterable basis on which the two states
can build up close collaboration."
On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler, speaking in the
Reichstag, announced the conclusion of this
"pact which rules out forever any use of
violence" between Germany and Russia.
"Russia and Germany," he said, "fought
against one another in the World War. That
shall and will not happpen a second time."
Goering echoed these words a week later
(Sept. 9). The new understanding with
Russia, he averred, was' really a genuine
and deep one." "We are two great peoples
who want to be at peace with each other
and who have now established peace and
will keep peace."
Ten days passed, and then, at Danzig on
Sept. 19, Hitler once more asserted that
Germany "shall never go to war" with
Russia "because German aspirations are
limited. "All those assumptions of Germany's
aims in the direction of the Urals, Ukraine,
Rumania and so on," he repeated on Oct.
6, "are only an abortion of their (i. e., the
e m o cra c i es' ) morbid imaginations."
"Any territorial difference between the
two states," declared Ribbentrop on Oct. 14,
"are hereby excluded for all eternity."
Finally, on July 19, 1940, Hitler reiter-
ated the same familiar declaration. "Ger-
man-Russian relations have been finally set-
tled," he stated categorically. "Any hope
that new German-Russian tension may inter-
vene is infantile."
Your commentator presents these statements
merely as a matter of record, since all sensible
people have stopped marveling at Nazi lies. And
the record is intended as a warning for free
peoples not to be fooled by possible Nazi or
pro-Nazi peace-offers or behavio•-pledges.
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The Philosophy of Judge Keidan
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Jack Pickering's "Town Crier" column in a
recent issue of the Detroit Free Press carried
the following:
"Recipe for being satisfied: Judge Harry B.
Keidan, when he interviews a couple wanting a
divorce for no reason in particular, or has diffi-
culty in straightening out somebody called into
court says, "I want to see you in my office at
4 o'clock." Then he takes them to the window
and lets them watch the people who are leaving
the Goodwill Industries Building—men and
women in wheelchairs, on crutches, or tapping
along with white canes, and not complaining."
This is the simplest of Judge Keidan's "recipes"
that Pickering could have selected to prove his
point. Judge Keidan usually succeeds in his ef-
forts to patch up differences, to create harmony,
to arbitrate matters. He is a real philosopher,
and Will Rogers had nothing on him. He always
has a story to relate adaptable to the case he
handles. He does it with a sense of humor and
with sincerity that penetrates. He is indeed the
philosopher of the Wayne Bench.
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Those With Ideas Survive
A short time ago, Henry Montor, extremely
able executive director of the United Palestine
Appeal, delivered an address before the National
Conference of Jewish Social Welfare in Atlantic
City in which he made some pointed references
to Jewish leadership and in which he reached
the following conclusion:
"One thing is clear in Jewish history.
Those who have ideas on the Jewish future
outlive those who have no ideas but exist
for the moment and for themselves."
The record of Jewish community experiences
attests to the correctness of this statement.
He spoke of "partisanship" in Jewish life as
having "overtones of criticism", and posed the
question: "What is a pressure group?" To which
he provided the answer, that a pressure group
"may be a single man, exercising his power by
virtue of his wisdom, his influence or his means.
On the other hand, pressure group may be merely
a smear word to describe the advocates of an
idea seeking wider support and implementation.
It would seem to me that the Messianic goal
of the local community is not the attainment
and the Legal Chronicle
Zionist Program
Dingell Favors
A
Jewish
Army
On Altman's Hour
By Philip Slomovitz
Lauded for His Stand by Amer- To Start Saturday; Cayman and
merely of 'harmony', but the satisfaction of the
Quartet on Sunday Hour
ica n Friends of a Jewish
interests of the members of the community,
Palestine
A new weekly program, de-
whether those interests be local, national or over-
seas. Few will contend that the obese somnolence
Congressman John D. Dingell voted to Zionist activities, will
that comes from ideological lethargy is the Para- of Detroit has taken a strong be inaugurated this Saturday
disc to which local communities are seeking ad- stand in favor of a Jewish army night on Hyman Altman's Jewish
mission."
and addressed a public meeting of Hour on Station WJLB.
The first two weeks' programs
Well, Mr. Montor posed interesting questions. the American Friends of a Jewish
will be devoted to the labor Zion-
He asked: "For how long can Jews be expected Palestine, in New York, on June ist movement.
to contribute solely out of fear or out of sheer 25, where he expressed his views
Thereafter, the program will
generosity? Is it not the obligation of sound on the subject.
Willard G. Stanton, chairman be conducted by the Jewish Na-
planning to educate the community to an aware-
of the American Friends of a Jew- tional Fund Council of Detroit,
ness of Jewish life in all its implications?"
of which William Hordes is pres-
Therein lies the value of Mr. Montor's sound ish Palestine, in a letter to Con- ident.
for gressman Dingell, states:
argument: that there is need for education,
This Sunday noon, William
"We take the liberty to express
planning, for sound preparation for future action. our deepest gratitude for your Gayman and a quartet will ap-
"A time for choice is imminent for American kindness and your very enlighten- pear on Mr. Altman's Sunday
Jews," he warns us. "They must be prepared ing speech, delivered at the meet- hour on WJLB. They will sing
a group of popular Jewish songs.
to think in behalf of world Jewry or retreat ing on June 25.
in smugness to their own shells. It is hard to
"We beg to assure you that
conceive of realistic observers who envisage the the campaign for a Jewish army
evaporation of all Jewish problems with the de- which we started will go on des-
feat of Hitler. Millions of Jews will need to pite all the difficulties, until the
have their problems solved—as Jews. We can aim is achieved. It will certainly
doom them to the sterile, haunted, minority ex- not be exaggeration to state that
istence which they have known in Europe for when the history of the Jewish
centuries or we can help them readjust them- army will be written, your name
selves to a new world. The Zionist idea is basic- will be mentioned as one of the
ally the contention that Jews have a right to very few American statesmen who
live—even as Jews. Millions of Jews subscribe did not hesitate to take such a
to that idea. If a Welfare Fund is more than courageous and farsighted stand
a mechanical contrivance for people known as toward this problem.
Jews to display their humaneness does it not "We hope that you will con-
have an obligation to help its members under- tinue to help us in our fight to
be allowed to fight Hitler."
stand that basic problem?"
And he winds up with an important declara- Polish Government-in-Exile Aids
tion: "The future of the Welfare Funds is with
Refugees
the mass of Jews and not with a few isolated
LONDON.—(JPS)—Dr.
Ignacz
individuals."
This is realism. Either the mass of Jews has Schwarzbard, member represent-
ing Jewish interests in the Polish
a share in the future planning, or our entire
Government-in-Exile,
has report-
community program must suffer a setback.
ed here that through the inter-
Warnings like Mr. Montor's serve an important vention of his government more
purpose: they contribute towards sound planning, than 1,000 refugees in the Far
they cause people to think, they help create a East had succeeded in obtaining
better leadership, they help in the transformation visas for various American coun-
of American Israel into a thinking constituency. tries and would soon have been
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on their way to new homes, had
it not been for the sudden threat
The Priority of Palestine
The battle between the Zionist and anti-Zionist of military activity in Japan,
elements is being conducted primarily behind the which has closed the port of
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scenes, and few people really know how bitter Kobe.
the struggle is for supremacy in Jewish life.
What was once considered unity among the na-
tionalist and assimilationist ranks no longer exists.
Strife might still be avoided, except for
the fact that a group of men who have not
forgotten their dislike for Zionist ideology un-
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by struggle and suffering—then it is evident that
we must again return to fundamentals and begin
to teach our people the value of self-emancipa-
tion and the need of Jews becoming masters or
their own destiny in a place which they can can
their own.
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learn from the children of Germany. The English.
woman Madeline Kent, in her book "I Manic()
a German," tells of her experiences in German s
as a teacher of English to Jewish children. She;
describes the struggle between Zionist-minded
youth and their anti-Zionist parents, and she
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There were the human problems, of which
the most tragic was the division between
youth and age on the subject of Zionism.
Both sides claimed me as an ally, and, when I
insisted on remainin g strictly neutral, im-
plored me to act at least as a mediator.
"Please try to interest my daughter in
English life," a fond father would beg. "She
wants to train as a hospital nurse and go out
to Palestine, but she has been too delicately
brought up for that. She could not stand the
climate, the semi-Oriental conditions. It would
break my heart to see her go."
"Can't you make father understand," the
daughter would urge, "that 1 want to make
a life together with all my friends?"
"But it would be a very hard one," I would
point out. "And you know what a lazy little
devil you are."
"I should not be laz y in Palestine. There
would be something to work for. I know
exactly how it would be in England. Not as
bad as it is now in Germany, of course, but
like it used to be here. And that is not good
enough. We are finished with people who do
not reall y want us."
I gave private lessons to some half-dozen
boys and girls between 17 and 18 years old,
and this mood of proud withdrawal of ab-
normal sensitiveness was characteristic of
them all. They were all ardent Zionists, study-
ing Hebrew with fervor, and could only be
cajoled into applying themselves to English
by the reminder that in Palestine they would
need English as much as Hebrew. I soon came
to feel that whether the y ever went to Pales-
tine or not their Zionist ideals ought to be
encouraged as providin g their only interest
in life.
There is a touching lesson here. The words
of the little girl who believes that the England
which would be better than Germany "is not
good enough" are today in the hearts of millions.
"We are finished with people who do not really
want us." Is it possible that men and women in
positions of leadership continue to be blind to
reality and refuse to be moved by this touching
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