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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1941-09-19

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle:

SECTION TWO

VOL.

43, NO. 37

DETROIT,

STATE SECTION

10 Cents Single Copy: $3.00 per Yeas

MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941

A Happy New Year to All!

Roosevelt's
‘Right Arm"

311r. Paul Muni

,

By MELVIN SPIEGEL

A Sketch of Justice Samuel
Rosenman

Editor's Note: Though one of
the most important personali-
ties in4 America today, Judge
Samuel Irving Rosenman,
whom President Roosevelt once
called "my right arm," has
rarely been written up o r in-
terviewed. In an attempt to
pierce this reserve, this sketch
of his personality and his views
brings into sharper focus his
ideas of an outstanding Ameri-
can Jew.

The Cabinet was meeting. Sud-
denly the session was interrupted
as Miss Marguerite Le Hand, the
President's secretary, rushed into
the room and blurted out:
"I had to interrupt to tell you
this story: The son of Justice
Rosenman and his class in school
were going through a memory
test. The teacher asked each pu-
pil to recite his father's tele-
phone number. When she came
to young Rosenman he was si-
lent. 'What's the matter?' she
asked. 'I am sorry,' he said, 'but
my father's telephone number is
private and I can't give it to
you.'"
After that pause, the Cabinet
went back into session.
Rosenman the younger has in-
herited from his father a reserve
which has characterized the pub-
lic career of the man who today
is co-ordinating the defense ef-
forts of the country. Just be-
fore President Roosevelt left for
his conference with Prime Min-
ister Churchill, he turned over
to Judge Samuel I. Rosenman,
his trusted friend and adviser,
the job of clearing up the feud
between the OPM and the
OPACS. It was explicitly under-
stood that Rosenman was to be
boss of the defense effort, at
least until order could be re-
stored.

Editor's Note: Mr. Spiegel has

c:iose n as the outstanding char-

acter of stage and screen this

year, Mr. Paul Muni. This per-

sonal interview reveals the per-

sonalit y and aspirations of the

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5702 -:- 1941

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See MUNI—Page 6

Japan and
.
Bible

By LIEUTENANT A. W. SHEPHARD

A great part of the Army of

the Nile, which

is

defending the British Empire's lifeline in the Near East, is

composed of Australians and New Zealanders who came to

Palestine for supplementary training. Jewish Palestine immedi-

ately took the "Anzacs" to its heart. The author of this

article, a lieutenant in the first Australian Corps, describes

what he observed on a visit to Kiryath Anavim, one of the

agricultural settlements, and depicts his impressions of the

National Home at

through his brilliant

At the start of a pew year it
is with great pleasure that we
pick the outstanding stars of
stage and screen for the past
year.
For many years it has been
quite a task to find the out-
standing personality, and then
sometimes there have been more
than one in each field, but this
past year there has been only
one man outstanding in both
fields, stage and screen. He is
Muni Weisenfreud . . . a Jew
born in Vienna on September
22, 1897. There are not many
of you who know him by this
name but if we mention Paul
Muni, there will be no question
in your minds as to just whom
we are talking about.
Muni without question
has
made himself the outstanding
star of both stage and screen in
the past year. His moving pic-
tures are without question the
finest presented and his Broad-
way appearance in "Key Largo"
is another of his outstanding suc-
cesses.
Even though Paul was born
across the ocean he is a 100%
American and was educated in
American schools, but his school-
ing was often interrupted by
professional stage work. This
professional work started dur-
ing his eleventh year. He is one
of a theatrical and musical fam-
ily, his father and mother be-
ing actors and his two brothers
musicians.
Since his early childhood, his
ambition was to be a great figure
on the stage. His first opportun-
ity came when he was traveling
with his family. They were
about to open in a small town
and needed an actor to play an
old man's part. No actor was
availible. They searched through-
out the town but no actor could
be found. Paul said he could
play the part and was tried out.
He was so successful that he was
retained in that part from that
time on. This was the first of
many "old man" character roles
he has played.
The stage play, "We Ameri-

c

An Australian Looks at Palestine

Jewish

and devotion to the thea-

tre, has endeared himself to the

Aloof "Sammy the Rose"

Editor's Note:

who,

work

American public.

The public had heard vaguely
about Rosenman up until that
time. His name had usually ap-
peared on lists of White House
callers, and it was known that
whenever the President was to
make a speech the presence of
"Sammy the Rose" would mean
that F. D. R. had something par-
ticularly important to say and
wanted assistance in drafting it.
But there was something aloof
and retiring about the New York
Justice which reflected his na-
ture and his attitude toward
Jews in public life. Certainly it
was a shock to him to see Cough-

See ROSENMEN—Page

man

war and his

Under the auspices of the
Jerusalem Services Club, a party
of airmen and soldiers spent a
most interesting outing at the
Jewish agricultural settlement of
Kiryath Anavim. As a member
of that goodly company, I should
like to express my appreciation
of the trouble taken by those
who arranged and organized the
outing and of the great hospi-
tality meted out to us by the
settlement. So much interesting
information did I receive con-
cerning this particular aspect of
Jewish life that I (10, in a meas-
ure, feel qualified to impart

hopes

for its future.

sonic. of this newly acquired
knowledge to others, who are
interested in the affairs of this
country.
Approximately 30 of us crowd-
ed into a rather small bus and
proceeded to Kiryath Anavim
by the Jaffa Road, a road which
has felt the march of Roman
legions, witnessed the ideolog-
ical struggles of the Crusaders,
and which now links two modern
cities of this new 20th century
Palestine. Enroute we observed
ample evidence of modern Jewish

See PALESTINE—Page 16

"The Japanese have banned
the Bible in Korea, which Japan
conquered years ago. They be-
lieve it is dangerous for the
Koreans to read the history of
the Jews, and to learn how the
Jews fought against their ene-
mies and oppressors.
"I think the Japanese are
right. The history of the Jews
is dangerous to appressors. They
read of a people who have had
to endure misery and persecu-
tion, who have had to struggle
against innumerable enemies,
among whom were the most
powerful empires on earth, and—
"They are still here. More-
over, not all of them are in a
pitiable state. Here and there
some of them reach renowned
positions.
"The Japanese have cause to
be afraid."
--A Glantz, columnist in
The Day.

Mr. and Mrs. German Newcomer

A Good-Humored Glance at Refugees in America

By FRED BRAININ

Editor's Note: A former

Viennese poet tries to give you the
picture of the refugee in America as the refugee sees himself

and not as the sentimentalists portrary him—without helping
him any.

The German refugee in New
York, 1941—as the more sophis-
ticated New Yorker sees him—
is either a "Prussian-order-
praising dope" or, in the best
case, a "super-American idea-
man" who peddles dollar shirts.
Far from being impartial about
my brethren (being an Ansch-
luss, 1838, refugee myself), I
frankly admit that there are
singular refugee cases of both
extreme types running around
New York City 7.. and perhaps
elsewhere.
For instance, there is the
"Prussian-order-loving" type, the
fellow-newcomer from Madge-
burg, who allegedly put a nickel
into the slot not only at the
subway entrance but also at the

subway exit! Then there is the
story about the "promoter" type,
the fellow-newcomer from Ber-
lin who arrived a couple of days
befoke the New York World's
Fair closed. This fellow had the
biggest amusement park idea
that ever hit Billy Rose's town
—namely, that at a remote spot
on the fair grounds there should
be put up a life-size model of a
German concentration camp but
a genuine one, with all the ex-
pertly arranged "fun" and hor-
ror thrills an American should
never live to see. He talked to
one of the World's Fair guides
about the project, but that was
as far as Jle got. But I'm not SO

See BRAININ—Ptma 12-

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