1941
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Offi-
and The Legal Chronicle_
SECTION ONE
VOL. 43, NO. 32
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Evasive Answer
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Network Bans Swing
Version of "Eli, Eli"
NEW YORK. — Swing may
have captured all the classics
during the long war between
Ascap and the radio networks,
but syncopating Eli, Eli, He-
brew lament, is strictly for-
bidden by the Columbia Broad-
casting System, although other
stations in New York and else-
where have taken to the mod-
ern version.
CBS program directors, ex-
LONDON. — (JPS-Palcor) — plaining their refusal to carry
Question period in the House of the four-four arrangement of
Commons found Prime Minister the famous appeal to God for
Winston Churchill willing to in- his having forsaken the Jewish
dicate that the British Govern- people, said it was "too con-
ment still adheres to the policy troversial." The melody, with
of the Balfour Declaration but new lyrics by Leo Corday and
unwilling to give more than an arrangement by Leon Carr, is
oblique answer to the corollary entitled "Peace and Love for
question of whether the Govern- All," and subtitled "A Prayer
ment still insists on carrying out for Moderns". Despite the fact
the oppressive and oft-protested that it is a BMI tune, CBS,
terms of the Chamberlain White supporting BMI, will have
Paper.
nothing to do with Eli, Eli in
"There has been no change in swing.
policy on the part of the Gov-
ernment in regard to Palestine,"
Mr. Churchill declared when D.
L. Lipson, Jewish Conservative
Independent, asked him whether
"the Government still adhere to
A Christian Warning
the policy of the Balfour Dec-
laration of 1917 in the matter
to Jews
of establishing a national home
By L. M. BIRKHEAD
for the Jews in Palestine."
Keen Disappointment
in Jewish Press on
Palestine Stand
le en-
tr the
o an
Jew-
First thanking the Prime
Minister for his "welcome re-
ply", Mr. Lipson asked fur-
ther: "Will full account be
taken of that answer in any
discussions in Cairo?"
"Yes, certainly," Mr.
Churchill assured him.
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erald,
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But the Prime Minister's next
answer, in regard to the White
Paper policy, was neither as clear
nor as unequivocal.
"Does the Premier agree," he
was asked by Laborite M. P.
Price, "that the Government
stand by the principles laid down
in the White Paper?"
"I have said there has been
no change in policy regarding
Palestine," the Prime Minister
reiterated. "That policy has
bee n announced at various
times over a considerable num-
ber of years."
Since the policies announced
by successive governments have
not always been in agreement
with previous pronouncements—
as the tenets of the Chamberlain
White Paper are in contradiction
to certain terms of the Balfour
Declaration—this answer did not
completely satisfy the questioner.
No further elucidation w a s
forthcoming, however.
Jewish Press Critical
3
NEW YORK. — (JPS) — Dis-
appointment and dissatisfaction
at the failure of Prime Minister
Churchill to declare himself in
the House of Commons on the
White Paper policy in Palestine
which restricts immigration and
land sales are expressed in the
leading Yiddish newspapers.
Jacob Fishman, writing in the
Jewish Morning Journal, ob-
served that in evading a forth-
right statement on this crucial
question Mr. Churchill, who had
See CHURCHILL—Page 8
"Youth Ready
For an Army"
Weizmann Points to
Preparedness Spirit
in U. S.
NEW YORK (JPS) — There
are 9,100 "Hebrew residents" of
New York City worth $50,000
and up, as compared with 20,750
"Gentile residents" in the same
bracket, according to statistics cir-
culated by Boyd's City Dispatch,
an agency here which sells mail-
ing lists to mail order houses and
organizations.
Although no verification is pos-
sible, the manner in which Jewish
and Christian prospects are di-
vided on the "sucker lists" is
noteworthy.
The agency reports:
"9,100 Hebrew residents, New
York City, worth $50,000 up (20,-
750 Gentile residents) ;
"5,373 Hebrew residents, worth
$50,000 to $100,000;
"3,727 Hebrew residents, worth
$100,000 or over (6,481 Gentile
residents);
"5,392 Hebrew residents, Brook-
lyn, $50,000 or over (5,650 Gen-
tile residents);
"569 Hebrew residents, Nassau
County, $50,000 up;
"385 Hebrew millionaires, Great-
er New York."
10 Cents Single Copy;
CHICAGO. — (JPS) — The
Chicago Tribune, noted for its
isolationist stand, its continu-
ous campaign against immigra-
tion and refugees and its
conservative policy on domes-
tic and foreign issues, was
branded as fascist by a group
of speakers at a mass meeting
in Orchestra Hall here for the
special purpose of condemning
the city's only morning news-
paper.
Edmond Taylor, former Chi-
c a g o Tribune correspondent
abroad and author of "Strat-
egy of Terror", compared the
paper with Fascist publications
in France and Germany and
said that, like them, the
Tribune was creating a "psy-
chological wedge" between the
people, fostering disunity and
paving the way for "saving
the country" with a Hitler,
Franco, Petain—or Lindbergh.
Report Latin American
Resistance to Nazism
Stiffening
Canada's Jews
By M. Z. R. FRANK
Editor's Note: The author, an
editor of Canadian papers for
many years, has studied the
Jewish communities of the
Dominion at first hand. Fre-
quent contributor to important
publications, he is noted for the
factualness of his interpreta-
tions.
Editor's Note: In the past six
years L. M. Birkhead, formerly
Unitaria n Ministe r in Kansas
No country in the world re-
City, has achieved a n ation-wide
reputatio n for his active lead-
sembles the United States as
much as Canada does. Canadian
ership in the discovery and ex-
List Shows Recipients of $75,000 Jewry is almost a miniature
posure of anti-democratic forces
Up
replica of American Jewry and,
in America. From the day he
WASHINGTON (JPS) — The inmany ways, merely part of it.
came back from Germany in
1935 to warn America of the Treasury Department has issued Still, there are certain facts and
dangers of Hitlerism to his lat- a list of persons receiving $75,000 peculiarities about Canadian
est achievement in the issuance or more for personal services from Jewry worth noting.
of a pamphlet, "Ford Must corporations for the calendar year-- - The• study of similarities is in
Choose", by the Friends of De- 1939 including the following:
New York: American Tobacco itself of interest. Let us take a
mocracy which he heads, Dr.
Company,
Paul Hahn, $230,176; few simple facts. There are more
Birkhead has been a militant,
Celanese
Corporation
of America, Jews in the East of Canada than
unequivocatin g enemy of hypoc-
Dr. Camille Dreyfus, $111,574, in the West. About half of
ris y toward Jews.
Canada's Jewry live in the coun-
I am by profession a Christian
minister. Were it not for the
dangers that have stretched out
like so many tentacles from Ger-
many, threatening to encircle
and destroy the world, I should
still be preaching the Gospel
from a pulpit in Kansas City,
Missouri. But when I came back
from Germany in 1935 I brought
along a horrible vision of things
to come. I had seen displayed
before me the system of trans-
mission through which Nazi doc-
trines were being sent to certain
Dr. Henry Dreyfus, $111,573;
Columbia Broadcasting System,
William S. Paley, $204,270; Corn-
mercial Investment Trust, Arthur
0. Dietz, $91,360, Henry Ittle-
son, $100,080; Gimbel Brothers,
Bernard F. Gimbel, $75,600;
Hearst Magazines, Richard E.
Berlin, $101,847; R. H. Macy
& Co., Edwin I. Marks, $79,721,
Percy S. Straus, $100,179; Mar-
cus Loew Booking Company, Leo-
pold Friedman, $83,200, Charles
C. Moskowitz, $104,00; Philip
Morris & Co., A. E. Lyon, $77,-
500.
Paramount Pictures, Jack Benny,
try's largest eastern port, which
is also its largest city—Montreal.
The second-largest city in Can-
ada, Toronto, the largest Cana-
dian port on the Great Lakes,
contains the second-largest Jew-
ish community. Substitute New
York for Montreal, Chicago for
Toronto, and you have the situa-
tion in the United States.
The first Jews to arrive in
Canada were the Sephardic Jews,
the descendents of the Spanish
and Portuguese exiles. Later
came the German Jews, and still
later the Jews from Eastern
See BIRKHEAD—Page 13
See "SUCKER LIST"—Page 9
See CANADA—Page 12
Jewish Newspapers Under the Nazis
How Our People Are Saying It in Their Own Press While They Are
Controlled by Hitlerism in Nazi-Dominated Lands
NEW YORK (JPS)—In all of
Europe, where once a powerful
and stimulating Jewish press ex-
isted, there are now only four
publications which the Nazis per-
mit in as many different capitals.
From the first day that Hitler
came to power, it became evident
that an unshackled Jewish press,
despite restrictions, was a factor
that kept alive in Jews their dig-
nity and their solidarity. One by
one, the great dailies, weeklies
and monthlies were struck down.
Today, the four newspapers per-
mitted are the Gazeta Zydowska,
published in Cracow in Polish,
Informations Juives, issued in
Paris. Judisches Nachrichtenblatt,
a bilingual paper appearing in
Prague, and Judische Nachrich-
ten of Berlin.
If these papers exist, it is not
because of Nazi generosity but
due to the necessity of having an
organ through which Jews could
be kept advised of the ever-new
restrictions imposed on them. Re-
luctantly, the Germans ordered
the establiAment of four ersatz
newspapers.
LONDON. — (JPS-Palcor) —
The Jewish youth of America is
ready to respond to a Jewish
Army, Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
president of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, declared in an in-
terview with the Palcor News
Agency reviewing his impressions
Paradox in Languages
of a four months' stay in the
Despite the fact that the offi-
United States.
Saying that there has been a cial language of the Polish ghet-
"tremendous change" in the atti- tos is Yiddish and the rule is
carried out with ruthless con-
sistency, requiring the elimina-
See ARMY—Page 8
tion of all Polish signs and in-
scriptions in the ghetto, the Ga-
zeta Zydowska, is published in
the Polish language. No one has
yet explained this mystery of the
only paper for 2,100,000 Jews, a
large percentage of whom does
not know Polish, being in Polish
and not Yiddish.
It appears in Cracow and not
in Warsaw, which is the largest
Jewish community in Nazi-Poland.
The paradox is emphasized by the
fact that great numbers of Jews
have been deported from Cracow,
where there is a ghetto, and from
which the Nazis hope to expel all
Jews. The only explanation that
might be given for the appearance
of the paper in Cracow is that
the city houses the administra-
tion of the gouvernement general.
The paper carries a course in
Hebrew, and the Hebrew is trans-
lated into Polish and German
(but not Yiddish!).
Attitude on Zionism
The contents of the paper re-
flects this strange Nazi editorial
direction. The official Nazi doc-
trine is opposed to Zionism but
Gazeta Zydowska carries news and
frequent articles on Palestine.
Equally numerous are the articles
on the creat men of Israel of
all times and countries which must
indeed offer spiritual consolation
to a depressed people. Once again
there is a contrast, for the Po-
lish newspapers are not allowed
to carry articles extolling their
national heroes.
The paper, the only source of
news for Jews in all of Poland,
is made up of legislative and
ii
admnstrative
measures against
Jews; descriptions of life in the
ghetto and in the Jewish com-
munities; official military reports
of the Axis powers; information
and advertisements.
French Paper
$3.00 per Yeas
Camacho Voices
Sympathy with
Jewish People
Chicago Tribune Is
Attacked as Fascist
No Verification Avail-
able in Providing
"Sucker Groups"
Jews! Stop
Being Afraid!
nsend
ve in
fewish
This Paper Printed in Two Sections
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8. 1941
MEXICO CITY. — (JPS) —
Full sympathy with the millions
of Jews suffering totalitarian
persecutions and complete un-
derstanding of the justifiable
Jewish aims for a Jewish Na-
tional Home in Palestine were
expressed by President Avila
Camacho of Mexico to Dr. Na-
hum Goldmann, World Jewish
Congress leader, now on a visit
to this country. The president
asked Dr. Goldmann during a
lengthy interview to make his
views public.
Mr. Camacho expressed his
condemnation of the "brutal
persecution" of Jews in totali-
tarian lands. Praising the work
done by Jews in Palestine he
emphasized the need for the full
restoration to Jews in all lands
of the rights removed from them
by dictatorship.
No Problem in Mexico
To President Camacho, as well
as to Minister of the Interior
Mieuel Aleman and Foreign
Minister Ezequiel Badilla, whom
Dr. Goldmann also visited, the
World Jewish Congress leader
expressed satisfaction that in
Mexico there is no specific Jew-
ish problem and that the govern-
ment is liberal. From all of them
he had assurances that the lib-
eral policies of the Mexican Gov-
ernment would continue, and
that the same sympathy would
be shown to Jews in the battle
for their rights. Goldmann
thanked the Mexican leaders as
well for the support Mexican
delegates to the League of Na-
tions had always given the strug-
gle for Jewish rights at Geneva.
The government officials voiced
°Teat interest in the forthcoming
Inter-American Jewish Confer-
ence at Washington and said
they were glad to see that Mexi-
can Jews would take part in it.
Goldmann was accompanied
on his visits by Isidore Fabela,
permanent delegate from Mexico
to the League of Nations.
Resistance to Nazis
WASHINGTON. — (JPS) —
Recent actions of Latin-
American nations have shown a
growing willingness to follow the
lead of the United States in
countering Nazi propaganda and
the menace of German military
coups.
Most significant has been the
turn in Argentinian policy against
German - inspired organizations.
The latest Nazi group to feel
the nation's ban has been the
Superior Council of Argentine
Nationalism, on the principle
that it violates the constitution.
T h e sharp reply made by
Mexico to the note of the Ger-
man Ambassador asking Mexico
to protest against American black
See LATIN-AMERICA—Pa ge 16
Wheeler Denies
He Hates Jews
Jewish newspapers disappeared
in France with the Armistice of
June, 1941. The authorities used
a technique familiar to a certain
circle of Jews: it was better for
the Jews if no Jewish papers
would appear. That is still the
situation in "unoccupied" France.
But since April 19, 1911, the
Jews of Occupied France have
had "their" paper in the form
of a weekly published in Paris
under the authority of the Com-
mittee for the Co-ordination of
Jewish Charity Organizations, a
Nazi-created institution.
Information Juives is tabloid
size, averaging four pages. The
nature of the publication is evi-
dent from a box appearing as an
NEW YORK.—(JPS)—With a
slight variation of the "some of
my best friends" theme, Sena-
tor Burton K. Wheeler denied
that he was anti-Semitic in an
interview published in the Aug.
16 issue of Libel ty Magazine.
Frederick L. Collins, who put
the question to the isolationist
Senator regarding his recent at-
tacks on "international bankers",
See NEWSPAPERS—Page 16
See WHEELER—Page 9
He Says: "Me, Anti-
Semitic? That's
a Joke"