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 I 5702 -:- 1941 14 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-